Songbird of the Steppe

She's beauty, she's grace, she'll punch you in the face! This is my gaming sideblog for FFXIV with my rp character Namine Qalli. Check my main blog: https://shadowgirl-noa.tumblr.com/  my website: https://www.princessnoaillustrations.com/  or my twitter: https://twitter.com/PrincessNoamie ==============Commissions open at=============   https://www.princessnoaillustrations.com/comissions

[shavri-ffxiv]

Been putting together a desert wanderer kind of look. The red scarf feels very Shavri! Still sort of tweaking the reference sheet pngs. I'm missing her goggles, which she'd still have. They'd be useful in sandstorms and rain!

This is something I could see her totally wearing.

I'm going to brainstorm some actual shot ideas with this. Soon, soon... 👀

[manamothnoamie]

Love the outfit! What is it, out of curiosity 👀

[trysta-rider]

Estinien: ✅️

Meteor: ✅️

Alphinaud: ❌️ <slips on ice>

[butt-rice]

yeah, if you go digging on the special site, you can find the full version. posting it under the cut so people can avoid spoilers.

seems we'll be dealing with some force ghosts.

[voidsentprinces]

Bless this man.

[voidsentprinces]

[voidsentprinces]

[zenosgalvus]

Chat can we rejoin the stars?

[ryuucae]

Some recent character studies/doodles...I haven't drawn them in a long time, and I missed them

[maridiayachtclub]

holy shit, so if you try to call your retainer at the exact moment someone is buying something off them in the market boards, it gives you an error message about how the retainer cannot be recalled during a transaction, followed by this spooky-ass message about how "Your retainer did not respond." and then it just drops you out of the menu entirely. it's like... a tiny little bit scary. girl you always answer. did you get got by some kind of beastie or perhaps a ghoul

[voidsentprinces]

[warrior-of-fight-or-flight]

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIM

[ffxmtg]

Estinien Varlineau Illustrator: Yakotakos

[anneapocalypse]

Opinions on rez macros in FFXIV! (aka macros that drop a message in the chat that you are in the process of resurrecting a specific player, for the purpose of alerting other rezzers, or just expressing yourself.)

Do you like it when healers use rez macros, or not?

Please read all the options, and share in tags or replies why you picked your answer if you like.

Rez mancros: yay or nay?

Yay! (Healer main)

Yay! (Red Mage or Summoner main)

Yay! (Other)

Neutral. (Healer main)

Neutral. (Red Mage or Summoner main)

Neutral. (Other)

Nay. (Healer main)

Nay. (Red Mage or Summoner main)

Nay. (Other)

Voting ended onJul 8

[freakbeastcentral]

i am staunchly anti-the belief that g'raha gets flanderized and flattened post shb bc that is very much fandom perception muddying and overtaking canon BUT. i think he should have more opportunities to be a bitch again

[freakbeastcentral]

the completely undisguised irritation behind "to what do i owe the pleasure that is your extended stay". jonathan bailey please come back to us

[sylphchild]

i take my tomestone to ishgard and show it to a sickly brume child and i say theres this band called imagine dragons do u wanna listen and he stares shellshocked off into the distance and says i dont have to imagine them

[velnica]

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.

C/W: Biphobia, misogyny, transphobic language, lesbophobia, entitlement

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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.

[mrlarkstin]

To add onto this, there is so much, but Jay was known in the GW2 community and only left it because he couldn't make any money. At the time, FFXIV was still fairly small because we didn't get the influx of Covid Players, so with it was easy for a snake like him to sneak in and quickly gather a following.

He only ships with G'raha because he knew he was popular. He's not shipping with him because he likes him, he ships with him because he is profitable. Thats it. He has never played ShB in the 7 years since its been out, not even during the free log in events. Not even when the free trial was expanded. He has only watched streams and while that is fine- having given up on the base game and quit because you don't like women, don't like the people of Ala Mhigo, don't like anything- why are you still making a comic about a fucking game you don't even seem to like? Oh right, money.

This is a prominent theme with him. He isn't making his comic for the love of the game to share with everyone. He is making it entirely to make money.

I am sorry lmao but ShB was 7 years ago. How the FUCK do you still have a ShB ONLY comic going 7 years later? Bruh pretty sure Emet wants to rest and G'raha would like to stop being a crunchy cat boy.

[emeships]

#WhatDatMean

[frostglitch]

Let's take ibuprofen together

[anonymouscomrade]

>can’t use magic (no superpowers) >self-trained in the ways of stealth and martial arts >equipped with all kinds of tools and gadgets

Thancred is Eorzean Batman

[anonymouscomrade]

CONFIRMED

[limonnazul]

POV: you're a gridanian farmer at 3 AM

[hotshotriot]

its like strippers and the economy to me

[rhymingteelookatme]

#eorzean proverb: one scion is happenstance two is coincidence three is impending calamity

via @ofdarklands