ffxiv indie semi-selective rp blog. MINORS DNF/DNI. i have too many oc's and too many au's. most of my oc's have a wolverse and an adventurerverse. my 'main' universe i talk about a lot is a canon divergent/alternative retelling of canon i call 'aspects of azem', which follows an 8-wol full party who are all splintered shards of azem on hydaelyn. follows and interaction come from @sollunaastra. bsky.app/profile/mainscenario.quest
Properly omni-capped now. And no, me having BLU sitting at 70 because I hate it doesn't count as an uncapped class, it's a limited job and thus doesn't count because I say so. :>
i made a new non-wol oc to futz about with. she's very pretty, i might show some screenies later, if i can get some taken with how bad my pain is generally lately. :/
Another lovely summer is upon us, and that means it's time to celebrate with yet another xiv event!!
Since the plan is to stretch it throughout summer, I’m doing a longer “deadline” for each prompt + an opening and closing day. This way, we can star/end together but still have our own pace in betweens <3
MAKE SURE TO USE: #XIV HEATWAVE FESTIVAL
As always with my prompts: you will get a theme + a specific prompt + a quote. This time, since it's weekly prompts, you can use any of the 3 prompts any time during that week. Be it just one or multiple posts per week, mix and match some of them, skip others entirely - you do you!
— GUIDELINES:
this list is intended for every medium! I once again made sure to add quote prompts to make it easier for writers, but feel free to pick and choose whatever you want: gpose, art, gifs, writing, anything goes!
none of the prompts are mandatory, specially not this time. you have 3 prompts every week to use them as you please!
NSFT works are welcome. You know me by now and know some of those are purposefully suggestive, but feel free to go crazy with any of them! just remember to tag and label them accordingly to those who don't wish to see this type of content.
It starts in JULY, so we have a month to prepare + during the weeks.
Still, if you can't make it on those dates, trust me, there's no real deadline. This is intended for all summer but if you ever feel like following it later, feel free to join!!
Make sure to use and lurk the hashtag: #XIV HEATWAVE FESTIVAL to support your fellow creators and DRINK WATER!
— WRITTEN PROMPT LIST:
JULY 01: heatwave, melting, “it's too hot...”
JULY 02 - 05: water, swimming, “come on.”
JULY 06 - 12: fun, competition, “there are no rules.”
JULY 13 - 19: sunkissed, golden hour, “look at you.”
JULY 20 - 26: beach, bonfire, “don't touch that-”
JULY 27 - AUGUST 02: wander, drifting, “where are we/you?”
AUGUST 03 - 09: fresh, camping/hiking, “try some!”
AUGUST 10 - 16: sweat, bathing, “turn around.”
AUGUST 17 - 22: glow, stargazing, “what was that?”
I’m going to try to post to BSky as well as here in future! I’m also going to post anything more risqué I might do there as well, because tumblr these days is a puritan hellsite.
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This is mostly where I put the stuff Tumblr won't let me post. MINORS DNI/DNF, here there may be porn. Ask (nicely) for Di
Come join me! I definitely need to follow more people over there, so feel free to prod me if you want a follow and regularly post ffxiv content.
So this is a callout post. If you want to stop reading there that's cool, but I cannot let a raging misogynist, biphobe, transphobe, lesbophobe person parading as an upstanding queer artist keep getting platformed when he's said some heinous things, behaved terribly and begs for likes as if life is a popularity contest. Block me if you disagree but I'm writing this here as Tumblr is less ephemeral than other channels. Part of this post was originally posted here as a reply.
fragments/nights-at-crystarium/Jay have been posting misogynistic, biphobic, transphobic, lesbophobic, entitled comments and then claiming people are homophobic when they criticise him back. Please rethink if you want to keep supporting him.
A/N: warning this is a LONG POST and I have truncated it under the break. I have also added the most recent misogynistic rant at the top just below the biphobia.
Context: an anon send him a message about how Emet can only be gay, Japanese people don't understand queercoding and that people who ship femme character with him are delusional.
See here for why his Emet-Selch comment was biphobic at worst and misguided at best. (thank you @birues for bringing this to everyone's attention)
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Misogyny and Trans-exclusionary language
Jay HATES the idea that women want to share this space too. In addition to the Tumblr post above he posted this to his Patreon discord, which is not private as his patrons can access it. He laments that people make fem characters because it's default and he wishes they all would transition to men. He also jumps in to insult two artists with m/f Emet ships @nipuni and @ja-ck-du and calling their art hetslop:
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(continued with more of his terrible behaviour after the break)
Pattern of rancid behaviour over the years
Let's start with the laundry list of all the bad behaviour he's expressed through the YEARS. You can read this better on my reddit comment here which I posted in reply to a shill thread made by what most people agree as Jay's sockpuppet account on the ffxiv subreddit. All of these I had the displeasure of witnessing myself or have been corroborated by multiple people:
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Self-aggrandising behaviour
Here is Jay claiming that there aren't many queer creators in xiv which is INSANE because this is the queerest fandom I have ever seen. You can't sneeze without hitting a queer artist. He also calls himself a pillar of the community, which is HILARIOUS because I have never seen him uplift other creators. You can't be a pillar of the community if you don't engage with the community. Your sycophants don't count.
How can you victimise yourself to such a degree?
He also claimed that if he was a lesbian, all of these callout of his rancid behaviour won't happen, which is laughable because you ask any lesbian in this space what being femme entails, they'd tell you straight up that they have experienced misogyny, no less from people like you Jay.
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Entitlement
Jay being ungrateful that ONLY 25 people have shared his post, and then saying you deserve to not be helped when you need it unless you share his post because he's a poor comic artist earning $1.2k from patreon every month. Because not sharing a post from a popular artist is obviously equivalent to not helping someone in dire straits. If you have been around, you'd know that times are hard, especially when you're queer. He's wishing you ill for the offence of not pressing that repost button.
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Being ungrateful with a sprinkling of misogyny
Jay straight up insulting anon's wife because how dare she reads his comic when she hasn't played ShB because her mind would not comprehend the complexity of his plot. And this is AFTER he begs for followers, as he does with every single one of his goddamn post.
So which is it, are you going to appreciate people who read your comic or are you going to put up so many qualifiers you only deem them worthy of following you when they've ticked all of them?
Hey Jay, maybe you should connect to your readers in a genuine manner and not in bad faith where all you want is for them to stroke your ego whilst giving a facade of appreciation.
And maybe, just maybe, you should start uplifting your fellow queer creators before demanding everyone support you.
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If you've read this far, thank you. I hope if you have ever supported him in the past that you rethink if you want to still support him after this. I do not care how big his following is; I do care that mask off misogyny is being let loose in our space. It doesn't matter if you're queer or a woman, we should not sweep this under the rug especially during Pride Month.
As a queer trans man whose characters are ALL some variety of queer too, I can categorically say we are not a minority in the FFXIV spaces that I've ever been in, especially not on Tumblr.
Like, where has that guy been where everyone is cishet and also homophobic? Lmao. Sounds to me like he's shooting himself in the foot tbh.
Do you sometimes struggle in big or small ways in social online gaming worlds (such as FFXIV)?
I know you might be shy to respond to this (I'm shy, too!), but please tell me about your feelings or experiences!
Even if it's just something short (ie. I'm anxious to run roulettes, I nope out of art parties, I wish I knew how to make gaming friends, I'd like to RP but... etc.).
Let me know where you feel social anxiety or introversion causes you to not do all the things you wish you could do in your online game of choice.
And please share this!
I have a project in mind that I'd like to develop for shy and introverted gamers - I will share this as soon as I get things in place, but I'd like to understand folks better in the meantime!
Thanks for your time! I'm thinking about you, friend! ♫♩♪♫
Generally I suck at keeping/making initial contact with people due to memory issues.
More specific to gaming spaces and online spaces, I love roleplaying. It's my lifeblood, I've done it since I was 10 or 11, (thanks neopets forums and AIM chatrooms!) and I'd love to do more of it...
But I always feel like, with groups, I'm intruding on their fun. 1 on 1, I feel like my writing is nowhere near good enough to roll with other writers.
My anxiety weirdly doesn't affect me playing, as I'm confident in every job except a couple, though I've never really done anything but normal content and 24 man raids in XIV, so no savage or ex raids and trials for me, but I would LOVE to do those. I just lack the friends necessary to make a group.
I was a member of an FC once and had to quit cos my health was soooo bad back then. I'd love to find a friendly FC to host my main non-wol character and an alt maybe? But I struggle with making initial contact as I said. I can message first but then I get shy and end up just. Not replying. :(
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