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FFXIV ultimate raider, writer, other stuff sometimes. battling a 20-year-long hyperfixation and losing

[laterna-oriolus]

about

keiji, they/them, 30. vaguely queer (genderfluid/acespec if it matters). was probably there when the scrolls were written. i’m probably not following you back if you’re under 25 it’s nothing personal

multifandom (currently genshin, tes, bg3, ffxiv) but i tend to really hyperfixate on one thing at a time. sometimes i draw (i will post this once in a blue moon). twice-ish per year i cosplay (i may become a sewing blog during those months). when i’m possessed enough i write (here’s my Ao3)

each of my fics written in 2025-onward have their own tags for sorting if you ever want to see The Process (current WIP: a faelight multi-chapter and a biiiig character study of Lohen and Theodore. If you’re looking for my other fics from 2025 they’re currently in private collection jail until I decide to re-release them)

if i’m not writing i’m probably raiding in ffxiv. flex player, multi-legend, here’s tomestone for the numbies. my tag for prog is #tetsu prog log, but if you wanna see me be a criminal check out #tetsu clipshow. my characters are Tetsuroko “Tetsu” Kuroaki and Ghiradel “Mr Caramell” Caramell. Currently reclearing TEA, prepping for UMAD with the static

[laterna-oriolus]

longest week of all time and I emerge, crawling on the ground and bloodied-

“so my fic has 2-3 more chapters planned now”

[laterna-oriolus]

got off work and just wanted to sleep but noooo i had to go to raid. at least bunny's a Perfect Legend now (somehow. we should not have cleared that pull tbh)

(not penta legend but some weird second thing that's quad+1 legend.... but both of my boys are Perfect Legends now)

[laterna-oriolus]

they don’t talk about how road construction outside your neighborhood closing off most of the exits to said neighborhood and changing the open exit randomly over several months is an incredibly effective deterrent for leaving your own house

[laterna-oriolus]

got hit with a stroke of genius with a theme for chapter names in this fic (not truly mixed metaphors but incorrect idioms that twist the meaning of the original, like "madness to his methods" instead of "method to his madness" because the character has a habit of getting close enough to what something is called but refusing to call it the Actual Name, like he says "jueyun peppers" instead of "jueyun chilies" even after he's made aware he's wrong) buuuuut...

fear it's not going to be noticed or it won't be understood what i'm doing with it lmaoo

[quantum-n]

[ivy-michaels]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[ivy-michaels]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[liopleurodean]

Also can I say: these kids don't know how to use *Windows*. they can barely figure out MacOS. Linux requires at least a basic understanding of how a computer is formatted and we're talking about how kids don't know that anymore. Chromebooks aren't computers, they're glorified tablets, and Linux is a terrible suggestion for someone who's only ever used a tablet.

[laterna-oriolus]

name change

crimsonwaltzz -> laterna-oriolus

(i wanna feel it out for a bit! might not be permanent!)

[queerofthedagger]

okay let's actually do this properly

Where do you write your fics/stories

Word

Google Docs

Scrivener

LibreOffice

Obsidian/Notion

ProtonDocs

Notes App

Directly into AO3

Ellipsus

Handwriting

Other (explain in tags?)

Voting ended onJul 28

[laterna-oriolus]

some fanfest thoughts before i go to bed because apparently the dev panel isn't going to show us anything about the evolved jobs (didn't they say at NA that they would show us more evolved combat at Berlin??? this is the scheduled time for that kind of showcase....)

so like.. all of the alliance raids except the endwalker series were references or outright collabs so the eva collab felt like a "aight sure yeah didn't see that coming but let's go" kind of move. totally fine, pretty hype

and like we all knew an ff7 collab was going to happen at some point, after the remake was finished, so it's not that surprising we're getting one

but after yoship said during dawntrail dev press that he wanted the side content like raids, trial series, and even alliance raids to tie into the main story and flesh out loose threads from the msq (and the arcadion and jeuno raids did that SUPER well!) it is a little disappointing to see that seemingly backtracked in favor of a full raid series collab? like idk i'm happy for the people who are excited and i'm sure it'll be fun to play because as long as they continue the trend of combat design from DT Evercold is going to be VERY fun, but i don't see how Literally Cloud Strife should be involved in the Evercold story to any similar degree that Arcadion tied in (and i'm just not a ff7 fan. i'm sorry but they announced it and i just went "oh. okay.") Especially with how the ff15 and ff16 collabs always feel like Noctis and Clive staring directly into the camera and saying "play my game now"

idk it's too early to make any assumptions because we don't know Anything meaningful about it yet but it's hard to not feel a little disappointed that the raid series is an outright Collab and not just Heavily Referencing like the other raid series' do. like yeah Omega was almost entirely made up of bosses from other ff games BUT there was an in-game lore reason for that and it wasn't just "we're going to do a bossrush from other ff games," it was an extraterrestrial robot from a dead star in our universe tearing a hole in reality to find the strongest being in the universe and was relevant to the DeepLore for a WHILE before the raid series

maybe i'm just spoiled bc pandaemonium and arcadion were so relevant for story so this is the first time in like 6 years we're getting something not entirely original to 14. but i still feel a little bit let down, idk

anyway i'm going to do something else now because like sound devs i really appreciate your work but we reeeeally thought this dev panel would be about the job updates

[laterna-oriolus]

so the au ra horns were low-key the most exciting part of that keynote huh-

[laterna-oriolus]

one more hour before the Berlin keynoteeee (my sleep schedule is Fucked again because yeah I’m going to watch it)

[tigerdrop]

if you dont decouple your drive to create from your desire for attention you will go insane. simple as. you will never feel satisfied b/c you will always want more and you will feel perpetually bitter that you did not get what you are “owed”

[sinsbymanka]

It’s an unpopular opinion but it is absolutely and completely true. I’ve never seen someone who creates for engagement happy with the engagement they get. I posit they can’t ever be happy that way because it will NEVER be enough

[thevikingwoman]

I agree with OP and Manka so very much.

You have to rest in your own desire to create.

But, because I see statements like this turn into a sort of general notion of “it’s bad to want validation or attention or engagement”, and to me, that’s not what this means.

It’s perfectly valid to want people to like and engage with what you create. In a general sense, when you create anything, you do it to share with other human beings. Art, craft, food, anything you create is a way to connect with others through our shared humanity.

And wanting someone to like you fanart or read your fanfic is part of that.

the words used by OP is decouple, and this is important. Nothing wrong wanting engagement. But it cannot be tightly coupled with the drive to create.

[laterna-oriolus]

I need to be folded in half but completely non-sexually I just know it’ll stretch my lower back exactly how I need it but I can’t get my legs up like that (and apply the needed pressure) by myself and touching my toes does not hit the same. but nooooo you can’t just ask people to fold you in half these days smh

[laterna-oriolus]

just burned like an hour and a half doing the genshin ship sorter thing and I was very brave and only removed like 10 things that made me literally say “get out of my SIGHT” but tbh pretty accurate ranking (is it obvious that Nod-Krai was full of gay ship cocaine)

the sorter

[svnnnne]

lightkeeper's oath 🌟

[laterna-oriolus]

name change

crimsonwaltzz -> laterna-oriolus

(i wanna feel it out for a bit! might not be permanent!)