This sprout is trying so hard @moogle-crossing - Tumblr Blog

No, I don’t take criticism (well)

With a special thanks to @silvernsteel and @battlehigh

Ysayle for the Berlin #FanfestWOLExchange! She'll be one of the random photocards you can get in each pack of the Giraffe Collection, alongside a bunch of other Elezen characters 💙

ageha-sds

Stormblood Week - Cirina Mol

local woman in eternal custody battle between man turning into corn cob and the gayest woman since gay came to gay town

henpepper

I made myself a namazu cuz I barely finished Stormblood and felt extreeeeme fomo about Dawn Trail ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

He's my precious bb, extra nakie (crispy) catfish.

(pls check out my twt and tiktok? ଘ(੭ˊ꒳ˋ)੭💌)

galacticsabc

extremely indulgent completely nonsensical crossover based on two of my interests.

(and an excuse to give Rocky a gun)

limonnazul

POV: you're a gridanian farmer at 3 AM

#cmon guys i just restocked that...

ali-dot-txt

yannow not to be a gridania defender or anything but it rubs me the wrong way when people are like "gridania is the only one of the arr city-states which never solved its very obvious social and organizational problems and thus it's the Evil Racist One that it's fine to hate" because like. you understand that that is fully a result of the plot giving literally nothing to gridania ever, right? you understand that gridania's internal politics are never ever given the attention that ul'dah and limsa get? you understand that huge portions of post-arr and post-heavensward and post-stormblood and post-shadowbringers are dedicated to limsa and ul'dah's social issues and npcs and their relationships to each other? you understand how kan-e-senna's second-in-command, who is literally gridania's equivalent of raubahn, does not have a fucking name?

you understand how the two scions you're introduced to in the gridania start are important for at most two expansions, one of which they barely appear in, before disappearing from the story forever aside from cameos? as opposed to the scions you meet in limsa and ul'dah, who remain important for the rest of the game up til today???

yeah, i would fucking love for the main story to start questioning gridania about its institutional racism and trying to fix it, because that would mean that the main story gave a single fuck about gridania. give us some duskwight and seeker main characters please. give us duskwight and seeker lore please. give us SOMETHING. you can't even learn how gridania's government works without reading side stories, which has led to this weird misconception that kan-e-senna is like, a fascist despot who used the calamity to consolidate power!!! Give Gridania ANYTHING!!!!!

shizucheese

The most infuriating part is that Gridania absolutely should have had more of a spotlight in Stormblood. It shares a border with Ala Mhigo. It shares history with Ala Mhigo. That history resulted in some people in Gridania not wanting to help liberate Ala Mhigo because they're still upset over them invading the Twelveswood and the Autumn War, but you wouldn't know that if you didn't do the SB BRD job quests. Also, the Elementals got severely weakened during the 7th Calamity, which is why we haven't really had to deal with much related to them in ARR, but I feel like people don't really take seriously exactly what the Gridnians are dealing with if they want to continue living in the Twelveswood and why they live the way they do.

I'd also love to have the story take us to a Duskwight settlement/ whatever remains of Gelmorra because like...the reality is that the origins of a lot of the issues they deal with in Gridania are sorta self inflicted. They don't live in caves and resort to banditry (hence the distrust in Duskwightes that Gridanians have) because they were ostracized and had no choice; when everyone else left Gelmorra to found Gridania, the ancestors of the Duskwights refused to leave and insisted on *continuing* to live in caves and refused to integrate into society, to the point where they'd rather resort to banditry rather than live in Gridania.

This is the context in which Valdeaulin (Gaius's duskwight companion) referred to the people of Gridania as "city dwellers" as a derogatory term in the Werlyt quests, which is the only glimps of that side of the dynamic that we really get.

But again, because Gridania gets so horribly shafted in MSQ, most people won't know any of this and because they only see the Gridanian side of things (which yes, is problematic; completely innocent people are being punished for the actions of their ancestors/ other people within their cultures which is completely wrong), and we never see the prejudice from duskwights that lead to that whole dynamic, and MSQ doesn't touch on the fact that in the past Ala Mhigo instigated a war with Gridania, and we never see what could happen if the Elementals really got pissed off at people, people just kinda see how the Gridanians treat Duskwights, Ala Mhigans, etc and brush them off as Evil Racists when the reality is way more nuanced than that.

Honestly I'm convinced someone on the writing team just really likes Ul'dah over the other two starting city states because like...even Limsa doesn't really get the spotlight shown on it in any meaningful way until post-Shadowbringers.

dualcastimpact

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)_/¯

graviton-lance

become her biggest fan now

radicrow

ishgardian public perception

necromosss

Shb. Burden of a secret + bonus

#the golden tear streaks are both beautiful and a very clever addition to light poisoning!

betterdiscothandead

Wait no i kinda love the dynamic of Alphinaud being really good at talking to people but not very good at reading their intentions, meanwhile Alisaie is standing there eye twitching and violently shaking because she knows your bullshit but theres only so many times you can be told that "threatening to crush someone's windpipe" wasnt appropriate.