just PUG things

Comics about a miqo'te's PUG adventures in Final Fantasy XIV. Updates on Sundays, 8am GMT+08. N'yans Yorha @ Coeurl | Toobie Yorha @ Ravana

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My memory is like a sieve.

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My memory is like a sieve.

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I showed you my ROCKet, please respond.

Today's cameo is Kumi Neko, the catte with the misfortune of being subject to this conversation. Thanks for letting me draw your character!

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8 years of Just PUG Things! What an incredible milestone!

It's been a long and strange journey in this world in which our productivity drives our perceived value to society. It's easy for that mode of thinking to taint our personal time.

On the internet especially, you'll always be exposed to people can do more, who can make bigger and better things. I find there's often complicated feelings about what art means, your own relationship with your art, and your own relationship with your artist peers. The feelings are sometimes quite ugly.

Social media numbers tell me that after 8 years, I'm worse off than when I first began.

But numbers are never the whole story.

After years and years of being disconnected with my artistic side, years of drawing this little comic has changed me. I find myself looking at things with fresh eyes and new perspectives. There is a kind of peace in looking at something and trying to work out how to capture just what is so captivating about the vision in front of me in my drawings. It's the season of Makuru here, our coldest and wettest months. When I look out the bus window everything is grey, sunlight struggling to penetrate through dense, dark clouds. The artificial lights of shop signs along the highway are sparks of bright colour dotted along an otherwise dull scene. As the season transforms into Djilba before transitioning into the bright and flowering Kambarang, these lights will seemingly fade into the background despite being exactly the same as before.

It's a mundane observation. And yet it's one that I couldn't have made years ago. There is a scene early in the manga/anime Blue Period by Tsubasa Yamaguchi where the protagonist, high-school student Yatora, makes a drawing of his mother in an attempt to convince her to let him pursue studying art instead of the safer, more financially secure degrees. And it's in this process of drawing his mother that he notices the roughness of her hands from doing the dishes in hot water, the muscles in her arms from lifting groceries, all her daily acts of love and care he hadn't noticed before. (Please read/watch Blue Period.)

8 years later, I think about how I've spent that time. Has my journey been good? Has it been worthwhile?

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Those orbs are scarier than the boss! ; w;

Today's cameo is Khyrios Va'neel, the catte getting chased down after N'yans kicked the bucket. Thanks for letting me draw your character!

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Those orbs are scarier than the boss! ; w;

Today's cameo is Khyrios Va'neel, the catte getting chased down after N'yans kicked the bucket. Thanks for letting me draw your character!

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Honestly I call this a win

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Shinryu Paradox: I showed you my hole, please respond.

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Eos is part of the boss mechanics now.

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Well I guess if they wanna do our jobs for us…

(I know Kardia is healing but lbr do you really think about it once it's set?)

Today's cameo is Samuel Buckford, my sage coheal. Thanks for letting me draw your character! ♥

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Okay but does Bakool Ja Ja count as one character or two?

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Sorry I keep raising people in bad places. It will happen again.

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For those at Fanfest Anaheim, I hope you have a great time!

Today's cameo is Nymeria Selarys, the elezen I probably shouldn't have tried to save… :') Thanks for letting me draw ya girl ♥

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For those at Fanfest Anaheim, I hope you have a great time!

Today's cameo is Nymeria Selarys, the elezen I probably shouldn't have tried to save… :') Thanks for letting me draw ya girl ♥

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Oops, sorry didn't see you there.

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Oops, sorry didn't see you there.

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advice that has literally saved and improved my life