From Fulgent Flame, My Tangents Rise!

Trans (She/Her) | FFXIV alt, part time raider, fulltime larper | Opinions Merchant | "The Purrfect Legend, BTW" | Gposes, Writing, Analysis, Sillies

[myrilsoleil]

Hi. my name is ruby/ryne, i made up a catgirl named m'yril soleil, a mixed heritage miqo'te born and raised in doma, though her mother's side hails from corvos. she's also a phoenix, and maybe a little bit undead because of that. she's got a bunch of other quirky side characters too, and she's currently looking to train a new warrior of light.

i myself am a transgender woman, mixed arabic second generation immigrant, and i put a lot of my own experience and struggles into both my WoL's narrative and my own personal readings of FFXIV's narrative and story.

i'll probably have a carrd up soon with as comprehensive of lore as i can. but if anyone is looking to chat, i'm interested in just about everything xiv: writing, wolshipping, gposing, raiding, story analysis, fanart. i love everything about this game it's one of my favorite games ever. i'm also a big nerd for final fantasy in general, and i love MMOs, so expect a lot of analysis of FFXIV both as a final fantasy game and from a game design perspective.

I will admit i am looking for ffxiv oomfs... if anyone is interested in ffxiv fandom literally at all im gonna start just posting here instead of on other hellsites. some things to know about my blog and spoiler etiquette:

if something takes place in an environment or story scene or generally relates to a specific expac, i'll do my best to tag that so you can blacklist it at your own leisure. i'll try to block stuff as specifically as i can

i will probably not tag gameplay specific stuff like job skills, job changes, PLL content, etc outside of just "PLL / fanfest" tags

i will generally cordon off my ramblings about game design, fight design, raids, etc to "ruby's rambles". i will probably live blog and be fairly critical of ffxiv as a game but my criticism comes from a place of love. i liked dawntrail more than a lot of people did and i'm aware of that.

[myrilsoleil]

JUST WON THE BEST MEDIUM HOUSE IN SHIROGANE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[warrior-of-fight-or-flight]

Bigs her eyes at you . ?

[enkopan]

i keep getting his normal fight in the roulette, as if savage prog isnt enough

[myrilsoleil]

new ffxiv PLL is really crazy bc it’s a lot of good stuff and then beastmaster is a solo oriented job and we’re not getting blue mage content this expac. yoshida what kind of fucking crack are you smoking?

[myrilsoleil]

putting my thoughts down a little bit more because i'm kind of incoherent since i'm just now waking up for work: i'll obviously need to see more of beastmaster before i can fully comment on this but preliminary thoughts 1. it sounds more and more like squenix doesnt consider a pet job to be something they can make work within the standard format of fights that the game has stuck to since uh. really, stormblood? i dont really like that very much as someone who really is still praying for a summoner prework or like, dragoon to get some of its FFXI functionality someday. i think it kind of just bums me out at a baseline that something that almost every MMO has as playable standard classes or specs is relegated to being a solo gimmick game mode in FFXIV 2. i understand that they do not want to exclude solo players from playing ffxiv like i really do get it but i feel like prioritizing an update that, as theyve said, is designed to be able to be done entirely solo is just... like, weird? i love BLU because BLU was a big community event when it got updated, like suddenly you'd see PFs for weeks and weeks of like, all BLU trials, raids, dungeons, etc, and the experience of getting to participate in this big cooperative shitpost mode where you're putting together your fucked up yugioh deck of spells was really cool and fun, and there were also just some little quirks like the fact that some people had some ever so slight variations in their BLU setups... 3. only level 50... cannot stress enough what a bummer this is unless it's gonna get updated in intervals of like 20 at a time. i don't even think i necessarily needed more creatures but just spitballing, having it go from like, 50-100 and having 10 creatures in each expac with each expac having like a cool milestone creature (behemoth in ARR, maybe the kamuy of the nine tails for stormblood? etc). but oh my god the thought of a job that literally only exists in a realm reborn content for like, at least a year or two is rough.

[myrilsoleil]

overall my verdict on dawntrail is that i think the lack of communication from squenix just lead to a lot of mismanaged expectations, and while you could say, "oh that's the playerbase's fault," i really dont think so? squenix are shockingly hush-hush about a lot of things.

i dont think backloading this expac so hard + not really communicating about a lot of stuff was a good idea, and i think it's an unfortunate reality that i really just dont think squenix had their priorities straight this expansion.

i also think that's kind of fair because what we know about 8.0 is that it'll (hopefully) be much more ambitious in its design changes and how it releases and blocks out content - something they've kind of alluded to a lot is that their mindset has to change with the times, and i think for a game like this to stay healthy, it really does have to.

on a more positive note; i do think we're in for one hell of a fanfest though and i think 8.0 is going to bring a lot of positive changes in terms of the actual core gameplay and systems of ffxiv. story, i never had any doubts about but i really hope we don't get an expansion like this ever again. i think dawntrail and tural and alexandria's narrative was lovely, and i think the expac had a phenomenal launch that was bogged down by a lot of genuinely unfair culture war BS, but i think this is sort of just a "wait and see" moment where we're seeing the first step in something really really big.

it's just the waiting that kills ya i suppose

[dearestcherry]

the pâtisserie (details). ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

[myrilsoleil]

i really fuck with unleashed from ffxiv because i kind of like the idea of like. looking at the lyrics 90% of it is like, "yeah i know alexandria sucks. i know that this is hollow, vapid spectacle that will chew me up and spit me out. but i live for this. i want to fight so, so bad, because it might be the only thing i have that feels real." and like,

the thought ive been kind of having about howling blade, but more about the arcadion fighters in general is that it feels like that's the pipeline you go down where, say, in eorzea, these are the kind of young fighters that would have been what we call "adventurers." they've all got their own reasons to fight - fame, glory, wealth, or just because it feels right. the honor and the glory of it.

i guess in some ways i really love that arcadion feels like you're seeing a kind of weird mirror of a lot of what you've experienced on your journey, like the creature feature aspect of it reflecting monsters you've faced for sure but there's also these big ambitious personalities training and fighting every day. even the tyrant sorta feels like he's a reflection of the warrior of light as this cool grizzled old champion gladiator that's a master of arms. but he could never really use that to do good. there wasn't much of a fight left to fight on the ninth, so they made up new reasons to fight each other instead. idk, i think it's interesting.

[khartsie]

The Hermit for Hesthea, a wildfire druid!

This gave me a chance to rework the outfit a little bit from her original portrait, I think this one's ended up being one of my favorites

[myrilsoleil]

feel the need to post some of my favorite arts of my girl of all time from @matchaprince big cutieful tiger woman you will always be famous to me even if i change your design drastically every 6 months.....

[matchaprince]

queen sphene!

[emet-selch-is-bisexual]

Thank you so much to the ever lovely and talented @fluoxetinehcl for this amazing commission of sweet muse and flustered g'raha! I love it so so much!

[ellieandmiaandlily]

i was having the hardest damn time finding a way to make this glam work but then some fashion/glamour pixie whispered "cool redmage hat and cowboy boots" in my ear and like damn girrrrrrrrl

[valentein-voyager]

💜

[whymaige]

📢 Will the challenger fall prey to the cruel mistress?

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🦇🩸 VAMP FATALE 🩸🦇

-Sweet-toothed Sadist-

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🥊 "Will you cry out in pleasure, or pain?"

[myrilsoleil]

Got my last combat job up to 100, celebrating by putting Myril in this goofy ass job armor! I think she looks quite cute in it, wouldn't you agree?

[myrilsoleil]

DEATH AT 20,000 VOLTS !!!

[myrilsoleil]

new ffxiv PLL is really crazy bc it’s a lot of good stuff and then beastmaster is a solo oriented job and we’re not getting blue mage content this expac. yoshida what kind of fucking crack are you smoking?

[myrilsoleil]

putting my thoughts down a little bit more because i'm kind of incoherent since i'm just now waking up for work: i'll obviously need to see more of beastmaster before i can fully comment on this but preliminary thoughts 1. it sounds more and more like squenix doesnt consider a pet job to be something they can make work within the standard format of fights that the game has stuck to since uh. really, stormblood? i dont really like that very much as someone who really is still praying for a summoner prework or like, dragoon to get some of its FFXI functionality someday. i think it kind of just bums me out at a baseline that something that almost every MMO has as playable standard classes or specs is relegated to being a solo gimmick game mode in FFXIV 2. i understand that they do not want to exclude solo players from playing ffxiv like i really do get it but i feel like prioritizing an update that, as theyve said, is designed to be able to be done entirely solo is just... like, weird? i love BLU because BLU was a big community event when it got updated, like suddenly you'd see PFs for weeks and weeks of like, all BLU trials, raids, dungeons, etc, and the experience of getting to participate in this big cooperative shitpost mode where you're putting together your fucked up yugioh deck of spells was really cool and fun, and there were also just some little quirks like the fact that some people had some ever so slight variations in their BLU setups... 3. only level 50... cannot stress enough what a bummer this is unless it's gonna get updated in intervals of like 20 at a time. i don't even think i necessarily needed more creatures but just spitballing, having it go from like, 50-100 and having 10 creatures in each expac with each expac having like a cool milestone creature (behemoth in ARR, maybe the kamuy of the nine tails for stormblood? etc). but oh my god the thought of a job that literally only exists in a realm reborn content for like, at least a year or two is rough.