Moonlit Daughters

Hub for all things Chippy! @moonlit-daughter FFXIV related blog

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I got a nice shot of L’vhar’s face last night.

She’s my most confident character and I love her for it. No room for doubt or fear - she has places to be, people to meet and a universe to mess around with.

Of all my characters, she’s the one who is going to have the most ‘fun’ on the First. She’s a relatively older woman, and her style of magick isn’t as popular as it once was. But on the First, she’s back to being strange and a bit frighting to a raft of new people.

She’s gonna *thrive*

[spotofmummery]

((Mogtomes are back! See event info here!

I guess I’m going to be running MSQ roulette quite a bit. So many great mounts! XD ))

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FFxivWrite2019

FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge SEPTEMBER 1st - 30th, 2019

Welcome to YEAR 3 of our annual FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge, folks!

In 2017 we saw 2,451 written pieces ranging from three-lined haikus to multi-paged stories. 2018 ramped up even more with 3,641 written pieces! 

We are a merry band of prolific writers, FFxiv RP community, and I couldn’t be prouder of our willingness to challenge ourselves creatively, using our RP craft as inspiration. Let’s see how we do in 2019!

Here’s the gist:

Runs from September 1st - 30th, 2019. During that timeframe:

Visit @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ once a day at 12:00pm (noon) PST for the prompt of the day. All prompts will be one word or brief phrase that you can interpret however you please.

You have 24 hours to write something for that prompt.

Submit the link to your entry post via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/EJV82Wh85BZpwaFa9  – Tumblr has been hiding @ mentions from my dash which means that I’m missing so many of your entries. :( Submitting a link to your post via this Form will ensure that everyone’s posts are seen and tracked! Please help me, haha. Tag @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ in your post, and use the hashtag #FFxivWrite2019.

There are no length or skill requirements (short & sweet is fine!).

There will be no 24-hour deadlines for the first week, September 1st - 7th.

Makeup/extra credit days every Sunday.

Every entry posted within its 24-hour deadline will count toward a participation prize raffle at the end.

You can join any time - late entries are welcome! They simply won’t count toward participation prizes - unless submitted on a makeup day.

If you’re an artist and you would like to volunteer to do a simple black & white illustration as a participation prize at the end of this challenge, please let me know!

RULES & MORE INFO below the cut~

Keep reading

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LAST-MINUTE RULE CHANGE: Please submit a link to your entries via this Google Form for all submissions moving forward:  https://forms.gle/EJV82Wh85BZpwaFa9

Friends, I’m so sorry that I’ve been missing so many of your posts! Tumblr has been absolutely terrible in regards to giving me visibility to the extent that it’s showing me only a fraction of the post that you’re @ mentioning me in. Between scrolling through my activity feed and going through your messages with links to missed posts, it’s got me spending roughly 2+ hours a day trying to make sure that I don’t miss anyone. That’s not manageable for me.

So! The new solution is to submit a link to each of your posts via the above Google Form moving forward. This will help me tremendously on the tracking side of things by a) making sure that I see everyone’s posts, and b) ensuring that I’m able to continue to run this challenge each year.

If you are still missing likes from me on posts, please submit those links via this Google Form as well and note that it was missed.

And as an added bonus, taking the tracking portion off of Tumblr means that folks can now post their entries on any platform of their choice, whether it be Tumblr, An Archive Of Our Own, WordPress, a Google Doc, from the RPC Forums - etc.! As long as you can provide a link that allows me to be able to view what you’ve written, you’re good and the post will be tracked.

The original Rules have been updated to reflect this change. Please help me spread the word! Reblog this Updated Rules post and I’ll give you one free pass on any late entry of your choosing, counting it toward the participation prize. Simply note that you’re using your free pass when you submit the link in the Google Form. 

THE TL;DR - 

1. Submit your post links via a Google Form from now on (link above).

2. Submit links to posts that are missing Likes from me via the Google Form as well.

3. You can now write your posts anywhere and it will count.

4. Reblog this Updated Rules post for a free pass on a late entry of your choosing.

The Rules have been updated to reflect the above. Skim them, please!

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L’vhar Elle

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#21: Crunch

She woke slowly. It was a sore process. It was so dark. There was a weird sound in the air. A strange, gasping, wheezing thin noise.

She tried to move, but found something was pinning her down. A lead weight against her chest.

She opened her mouth and it was instantly filled with dirt.

What? What is going on?

The first bubbles of panic were starting to rise up from her stomach.

It was hard to breathe. So dark she couldn’t be sure her eyes were open.

She had come to the Carteneau Plains with the Alliance... a jumble of memories...

Hard, dirty, thankless work. So far away from the endless moonlit skies of the deserts. Death and murder and death and slaughter and a gleeful joy in the horror of it all. Death and the glory of her strong body and sharp weapons ripping the enemy apart. Look away beautiful moonlit skies! Look away from what your daughter is doing to these wicked mortals!

Moonlit skies... moonlit... Moon...

Heaven’s keep me.

A moon had fallen. The world had churned and tumbled together.

Oh goddess help me. She was trapped. Trapped under a great pile of mud and bodies thrown up by the falling moon. The darkness pressing all around her were armoured, broken people. People she knew. People she didn’t. People she had wanted to kill. Now they were all crushing her. Filling her mouth with blood and slime.

Killing her.

The gasping, wheezing, thin noise came from her. Came from the bodies around her. Those still living. Desperately clinging on.

*Crunch*

A dreadful noise above her. A shift in the weight around her.

The crush increased painfully. Everyone cried out.

*Crunch*

Please, please I don’t want to die here. I’ll never hurt anyone again. Please save me.

*Crunch*

*Crunch*

A blinding shaft of light. The crunching sound of armour plates grinding together. Someone moving the bodies. Foul, smokey air filling her nose. It smelt so good.

Someone pulling her out of the mire. Cradled. Held. Saved.

Laughing and crying. Not caring about the hellish landscape around. I’m alive, I’m alive.

*Crunch*

A noise she never forgot. Could sometimes still hear it. Handing out spells. Chatting to family around the camp fires. Living free and happy under moonlit skies. Then from the darkness...

*Crunch*

And the thought this was all a fever dream. She was still under the bodies at Carteneau.

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Really want to make a new character just so I can experience Shadowbringers again.

Want to make a witchy-bitchy chaos magic Seeker, covered in sigils and piercings

[wholesome90stv]

Imagine showing only this clip to someone who has never seen the X-Files

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Laughing Flowers

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Character with a very different vibe for me.

Gentle, whimsical and confident

(I mean, still a catte - think they will be prized outta my cold dead hands)

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Saw @hingan-fox post up this doll maker!

Had to make grumpy mystical Soua!!

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She walked out of the woods as though nothing had happened.

She seemed as shy and withdrawn as ever.

Only.

There was something behind her eyes that wasn’t there before. An unkindness that didn’t suit her.

As though she had walked out of the woods... and something had followed.

[lemoncakedesign]

hey ffxiv peeps tell me your chocobo names i wanna know!!

mine is named haribou cause i love gummy bears haha

[stephenfairbrook]

Whisper!

I also give some of my other mounts unofficial names, like Sniffles the Goobue.

[nozomikei]

Byzantium! He's currently black as night!

[rhymingteelookatme]

Kuranosuke, because ‘Princess Jellyfish’ is a heckin good manga (that’s Ascella’s)

Agatsyng, because “amber song” is just pretty (Thosinund)

Percinet, after a fairy tale prince (Livorette)

Etienne, because it just sounds nice (Sélysette) 

[starswornoaths]

Serella's is Ullr, because he's a good hunter even if he's scared!

Uthengentle's is Noodle Soup, partially because it was funny but mostly because he's very warm and comforting to be around!

[castthemintotheabyss]

Branford. Which, shockingly, no one seems to notice is a FFVI reference.

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Ahlis’s is/was Banana (RIP Banana) but even when she ICly gets a new bird eventually I don’t wanna change their name lol.

Miraneev’s is Kumquat!

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Kukui!

I didn't know I would love ffxiv as much as I did by level 20, so I named by 'big squeaky chicken' after the candle nut that's important to me and my Hawaiian husband. He gave me a necklace of kukui nuts when we first met and they're more important to me than my wedding ring. To me, Kukui equates to love--which is why ICly Kukui is a big, pink, dingleberry dingus full of love! :D

[istolin]

OOC: Istolin’s chocobo is named Polaris! Aptly named for his snowy white coat and the fact that through thick and thin, he will always guide his master home safely.

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C’arta has Tekka and Ohka has Oolong!

Svea doesn’t yet have a chocobo

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Rua Lune has Cinnabun and Soua Moui has a chocobro names Dart.

What a lovely question to ask!

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it’s that time again

If your FF character was a boss in a FromSoft game, what Soulsborne: Shadows Die Twice boss theme would they have?

Bonus: What kind of mechanics would they have? What would their ultra dramatic From-brand stylized boss name & title be? Where would you fight them?

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Tagging: @gvnbreaker @wood-warder @chonkychungus @necrologos @tinolqa !!!!!!

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I found some old art of Skyrah and now I’m a bag of feels.

She was a fun and sweet character to RP, but appeared in my life when I had a lot of turmoil.

Only, that describes most of my adult life lolfuk

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My mood has been low this week and don’t know why. It’s sunny, I’m on holiday and yet I could cry if my pills let me

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Jeez-us I feel rancid sick this morning

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I don’t know why, but I’m so crazy stressed at the moment it’s stupid. It’s like day 4 of my break from work and I’m still a anxious stressy puddle of a woman.

I could scream if my meds let me