Designated Healer

Katnip Forestsong on Faerie | Scholar main 25 y.o. Fanartist. she/her

[farrenphillipsart]

[yoildayday]

[thealphabard]

Him

[froggercube]

my bestie wuk lamat🏳️‍⚧️

[miitten]

Random Final Fantasy compilation doodle that crawled out of my brain?

I was listening to Type 0’s “We Have Arrived” all day (that game is too underrated) and was thinking how much of a shame it is to know it’ll never play at Distant Worlds.

[picaroroboto]

I'm kind of meh about the cyberpunk aesthetics and agree that we could use some more focus back on Tural, but from a narrative standpoint, I love Alexandria.

Dawntrail is a story about cultural connection and understanding, but for the first half, all the different groups you meet, the key aspects of their cultures are fun and interesting but harmless - the Pelupelu love of commerce, the Yok Huy views on death. (the Mamool Ja and their dependence on the Blessed Siblings is the exception). But the key points of Alexandrian culture, the dependence on Regulators, souls as a currency, and erasure of the dead, are antithetical to the way both Eorzean and real-life cultures do things. Making them even more controversial is their European-esque aesthetic, coupled with the fact that they plunked their dome down in the Fantasy Americas, leading to a resemblance to real-life colonialism. But this is complicated further by the fact that their home Shard is destroyed, making them both would-be colonizers and post-apocalyptic refugees at the same time. Even if we wanted to kick them out of Tural or something, we can't, because there's nowhere for them to go back to.

So the second half of Dawntrail and the patches is about learning to coexist with a culture that is vastly different. Its easy enough to accept another culture when they're represented by fun festivals and happy merchants and the like, but what about one where their core views clash with yours? Can you still accept them as neighbors then, or will you feel the need to draw a line in the sand?

When I see fans with strong reactions against Alexandria and its story, on one hand I find it kind of encouraging because it means people are being affected by the story - if you don't like the way Alexandria treats the dead than you probably get that grief and memory are key themes to FF14. On the other hand it has me a bit worried about how people in real-life would react to a culture that is actually different from their's in a way that can't be resolved easily.

[katnip-forestsong]

Wol, art trade with the wonderful @thealphabard. thank you so much for doing this with me. I appreciate you o7

Also ur bun boy is gorgeous 😍. He's very fun to draw

[thealphabard]

Welcome and well met, my brave little spark ✨️

🗣I LOVE DRAWING WOLS!! And doing new things! My half of an art trade with @katnip-forestsong 👀 thank you for allowing me to draw your absolutely BEAUTIFUL Fem Hroth

[katnip-forestsong]

This is so sweet!! 💕💓♥️ thank you so much she is perfect!

[gorematchala]

I have to do everything myself

[katnip-forestsong]

My angry lizaed husband <3

[smallest-turtle]

We are Feo Ul's blorbo from the source

[fraywols]

Bakool Ja Ja , Pride of Mamook

[battleonthebigbridge]

Ok I really like them :")

[katnip-forestsong]

Arcadion spoilers

Sorry Eutrope, I'm their older sister now :3

[knightfisherr]

A BAKED BEAN

[golbiey]

wuk lamat!! i love her

[katnip-forestsong]

Thanks Metem u know what we want