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@lainathiel
https://archiveofourown.org/works/89485811
Unexpected
Seboath encounters a familiar face when he arrives at Light's Hope Chapel with Arator and Alonsus Faol.
I was very surprised when we arrived at Light's Hope Chapel and found the death knights there. Since Caladiel is technically the Deathlord, that gave me an idea and here we are.
(Asked on 20 July): I know you’ve been outspokenly against congressional term limits, with very good reason. Term limits would increase corruption as politicians see the end of their careers and start voting favorably for the likely highest bidder. But now with Mitch McConnell hospitalized, and numerous senators & representatives aging poorly in Office, do you have any thoughts on how this issue could be mediated in the future, other than regular election cycles? The congressional nursing home is getting more and more pathetic with each passing year.
Term limits are a bad solution for gerontocracy, because a politician’s age is not always correlated with the time they’ve spent in office. Under term limits, a 35 year old can be ejected from Congress if they were really young when first elected, and an 80 year old could enter Congress by winning their first term.
A simple age limit (i.e. you cannot run for office after a certain age) is the most direct response to the problem you are describing, and I would be more in favor of that than term limits. However, even age limits are imperfect because different people age differently. No matter where you set the limit, there’s going to be some senile old people who are still young enough to run, and there’s going to be some lucid old people who are disqualified despite being capable of doing the job. This is a problem you’ll encounter for any type of policy restricting who can run for office: there’s going to be some unintended effects on the marginal cases.
A small yet easy change I want to see in this direction is to stop using seniority as a way of distributing power in Congress. Right now, important Congressional resources like committee positions are decided in part based on seniority— how long a member has been in office. This has the effect of empowering the old guard in both parties and disempowering newcomers. Like I said above, this isn’t perfectly correlated with age, but the general effect is still to reward older politicians and encourage them to stay in office longer. They can even use this as a weapon against young primary opponents: “if you vote me out and replace me with a newcomer, this district will lose access to all of the benefits that come from having a powerful senior member of congress!” Removing seniority privileges would be one simple way to stop encouraging 80-somethings to run for reelection without setting hard limits on who can and can’t run.
Reblog to heal the heart of the person you reblogged this from.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88055986/chapters/236172711
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The First is safe!
Covers the very last bit of the Shadowbringers quest.
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The Scions continue their pursuit of Emet-Selch.
Covers the second half of the quests in the Tempest.
This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.
OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.
And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88055986/chapters/235868876
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How do they help Yadanna now?
Covering the events right after defeating the last Lightwarden and into the Scions' trip to the Tempest.
this literally just reminded me to take my meds
Reblog this to remind your mutuals to take their meds
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88055986/chapters/235618556
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Time to deal with the sin eater in Kholusia.
Covers almost everything that happens in Kholusia and includes some things we hear about later.
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After the sin eaters attack Lakeland, Yadanna and the others head to Ahm Araeng to find the next Lightwarden.
Covers the events from the attack on Lakeland to the Scions returning from Ahm Araeng.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88055986/chapters/235273476
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Still in Rak'tika, helping Y'shtola.
Covers the second half of the quests in Rak'tika.
Pros: Wonderful friend. No comment, no nothing. All around, just a great person who has improved your life with their mere existence tremendously
Cons: You can only access them through the headache machine because they live 1 billion lightyears away
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88055986/chapters/235174301
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The Scions split up to make more efficient use of their time.
This covers some of what happens with G'raha while Yadanna and the others are busy chasing Lightwardens.
Not to start something during Disability Pride Month but I just saw someone vehemently reject Y'shtola's blindness as a disability because it's not really disabling her in any way (i.e. she can still see), but... she can't? Like, she asked Urianger to describe the night sky to her in that cutscene after you clear the Qitana Ravel because she can no longer see it for herself. I felt like that very clearly cemented how she might be able to see but it was more like seeing the aetheric outline or volume of things or whatever and not actual full normal vision.
I was really surprised to see the level of vehemence that person had about the topic, so now I'm wondering if it's a hotly contested topic in the FFXIV fandom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Y'Shtola has this thing my mom* calls Blind Without Correction
which is basically saying
she can get glasses (magic that allows her to read aether ink) but she's still blind
b/c if aether ink wasn't involved, she wouldn't be able to see
i guess the person of the post you're complaining about doesn't know anybody with Coke Bottle Lenses - which are Blind Without Correction a lot of the time.
they were thinking being Blind is only Blind WITH Correction which is somebody who can't see even with tools and such to help them.
Y'Shtola is blind by the way, she's just Blind Without Correction, meaning she can have tools which make it so she can See (which tbh isn't much, let's be real here)
*my mom got a master's degree in teaching vision impaired/blind children. these are the children that will go blind as they get older, or they don't have periphriel vision, or they have those thick coke bottle lenses. she taught them Braile, got them large mega watt lamps so they could read, they got the large print school books. But every single one of those children were Blind Without Correction
example of coke bottle lenses
So.. I'm writing a blind character in FFXIV, who learns to navigate with aether perception with help from Y'shtola. And I have opinions…
Aether perception isn't normal vision. If something is devoid of aether, they can't see it, such as shadows. Shadows have no aether, so can't be used for depth, distance, or volume, but Y'shtola and my boy don't need those cues because they're getting accurate 3D info from the aether.
Can you imagine how difficult that would be to translate when you're used to normal vision?! NOTHING looks the same, it would be sensory hell, completely messed up.. but… Y'shtola can see just fine, I guess, with her 'magical cure'.
She manages, and is independent. Her difficulties are generally only mentioned when something plot-wise changes to make her sight less effective, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't face daily challenges. She has had to relearn how to navigate her world! I have a close friend who is blind and helping me write an 'authentic' blind character (authentic in quotes as we're playing in a fantasy sandpit, rules bend, but still with respect for the challenges visually impaired people face).
In fairness I haven't seen the post rejecting Y'shtola's disability to comment on directly, but I have witnessed how blind people CAN be (varying degrees of) independent by paying extra attention to how they organise themselves (putting different bank notes in different parts of their wallets, committing routes to memory, counting steps between landmarks if they are able to, and so on) - massive, massive efforts just to give themselves a certain level of normality and independence. And appearing to be unaffected does not make it less of a disability.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88055986/chapters/234895056
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At least finding the Lightwarden in Il Mheg is easy.
Finishing the story in Il Mheg, it's slightly different, but not much.
Stay engaged.
Even though it's hard...stay engaged.
Keep fighting, keep resisting. It's only over when you give up.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88055986/chapters/234805381
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Lyna interrupts the meeting with news of a sin eater attack.
Time to put their theory to the proof.
I don't remember the exact quests, but from Holminster Switch and into Il Mheg we go!
