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me, 2 weeks into playing ffxiv: i dont respect any of these mfs whose names i cant even remember. i will probably uninstall later when i get bored

me, half a year into ffxiv: ok so the botanist questline in which the farmers at camp cloudtop get accused of heresy for infiltrating a non native crop into the country was PROBABLY a cover for house dzemael wanting to cause further stress on house haillenarte bc by destabilizing them, (the weakest link) this means house fortemps (powerhouse but kind of against the holy sees policies) will also be weakened by default. and fortemps controls the literal entry point to ishgard. its dangerous if they ever rebeled or revolted bc that can cut off ishgard from the rest of the continent. so it makes sense that the church would want them to have less influence or power overall, using house dzemael to do so bc we later know that house dzemael were the ones that tipped the fucking church abt the fucking vegetables. and house dzemael is the only house with active members that belong to the heaven's ward (grinnaux, violent guy whose murders were covered with coin & paulcrain, formerly of house fortemps. coincidentally the mfs who also arrest alphinaud and tataru of heresy)

undergroundwubwubmaster

Commission of Odette for @ahollowgrave !

#everything about this is so beautiful!!!!

ixxyart

Let's return to the way Etheirys once was, hundreds of millions of years past.

To a quiet and peaceful time, long before the light of mankind was kindled.

#7.5 spoilers

jlinebeck

↪️ This 👇is my 🤡 first 🥇time ⏰ so, please 🥺 take it easy! 🍳 ↩️

Quick 🏃 , now! Make your 🫵 🔨 peace 🙏 with death 💀 ! Because I'm 🤡 making 🔨 your 🔨 death 💀 with all these pieces 🧩 !

Hahaha 😝! Hook 🎣, line 🧵, and stinker 🫢!

Did you 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️think 🧠 you'd won 🏆? Oh, no 🚫 no 🙅‍♀️ no 🚷! We've 🤡 only just begun ⏱️!

Still alive 🤔 ? Unbelievable 😱 ! I 🤡 really must insist 😤 you 🫵 die 💀 !

Life... 🌱 dreams... 💭 hope... 😇 Where 🌐 do they come from 🤔 ? And where 🌐 do they go 🤠 ?

Such meaningless 🗑 things... Are mine 🤡 to destroy 😈!

#i love how those last voicelines are completely different if you do p1 right #he calls you a bastard

viiioca

i think everyone who is worried about their skill doing content in ff14 should watch an ultimate world race. if you have ever felt like shit for not immediately understanding a mechanic you've never seen before, you will be Spiritually Healed watching the absolute best players in the world spend multiple hours and 20 pulls just to make it 25 milliseconds further into a fight. you will watch people just completely fuck mechanics that they have successfully done 30 pulls in a row for no other reason than they're tired and their brain shidded. no matter what your skill ceiling is, the trajectory of gaining competence follows pretty much the same arc. be soothed

#everyone is shit at mechanics #the main metric for anyone to be able to do high level content is how much time they can put in #and a bit of patience #if you're willing and able to put those two things in i think anyone can do high end content

lilbittymonster's been awful to other people? They still seem so popular, I thought I'd just have to spend the rest of my time in fandom dodging them.

they are just a bit of an asshole and it made being in a small, closed group with them for a number of years very difficult.

i want to be clear, they've never done anything Problematic, these are grievances of a personal nature that I would have liked to have kept private – other than the fact that they have not, and continue to publicly vague post about us (and did so even when we were allegedly still their friend, too)

simply, it is rude and unpleasant and they see absolutely no fault with their behaviour. we're all just fed up - seems it's not just us either

#i could provide examples but the last thing i want this to be is a callout post #i'm not here saying people shouldn't follow them or engage with them #they've not Done anything #they are just a very difficult person #and i'm leaving it at that

abyssalmermaiden

Viola, very bisexual since the Third Astral Era

dapuritojo-potinija

also s/o to @lilbittymonster for lying about me on the internet again. i'd blame their reading comprehension since i have Literally Never Said anything to that effect but since they nuked the discord we were in i can't prove it.

let's give them some more validation okay

#not that us being able to see their posts ever stopped them from vaguing us anyway but there you go #kind of sucks that they just won't stop #and expect us all to take it silently #and look i dont want to start drama. none of us do. we're just tired man

galpalaven

anyway that xiv comic fragments' author is an out and proud biphobe so do not put his shit on my dash anymore thanks 🙏😊

birues

for those who want to know the url of the biphobe, it's @/nights-at-crystarium

after his blantant biphobia he has chosen to ignore people who have called him out and also has the audacity to act as a victim as if he is not the one who is outright hostile to bi folks. he also thinks if he grows big enough, his biphobia will be more acceptable.

mythandral

they're doubling down too, by the way

galpalaven

anyway that xiv comic fragments' author is an out and proud biphobe so do not put his shit on my dash anymore thanks 🙏😊

birues

for those who want to know the url of the biphobe, it's @/nights-at-crystarium

#let's not forget the take they were agreeing with was also kinda racist

hafrun

Wayward Daughter 🌕

not rbing the post because it makes me mad but have people never encountered a camp bisexual man before??

#did we not go over this already with a/starion

tritoch

one of the places I think the writing for FFXIV has generally missed an opportunity is to explore in more depth how krile feels about the events of stormblood and shadowbringers (edit: I meant endwalker) vis-a-vis zenos and the resonant experimentation.

like, stormblood is in part a story about the gendered impacts of imperialism, which is why two of its leads include a woman sold into marriage at a young age and later forced into sex work and a woman whose unflinching loyalty to empire explicitly does not shield her from misogyny. the scene where zenos grabs yotsuyu by the hair is just straightforwardly a scene of gendered violence to the greatest extent the animations and the mores of the writers allow. depending on your wol's gender stormblood is either the story of how zenos exploits and abuses three women (two of them textually colonial subjects) on his way to do the thing that really matters, fight a man or The Woman He Has Decided Is Exceptional. and the third of the women violently exploited in this way is krile!

like the violence zenos does to yotsuyu and fordola is desexualized to the extent images of gender-based violence can be desexualized under current conditions (and I think it could easily be argued that square-enix's decision to be like And It Wasn't Sexual in the stormblood side stories is kind of a cowardly ass-covering move), which imo is why it matters that the violence done to krile is explicitly to violate her bodily autonomy! human experimentation, particularly performed in the service of empire, is very obviously meant to be a vile and horrifying thing to contemplate! zenos in the text deploys the metaphor of animal butchery: "[S]ilence that mewling little piglet. I would not hear another sound pass her lips...until I strip the fat from her." we are very explicitly invoking ideas of dehumanization, of women as objects of consumption, etc. and this pretty shocking culmination of this theme in the stormblood main quest...doesn't really get paid off and 100% just turns into a genre power up for the endgame, and stormblood's themes about gendered violence don't get any payoff in the text until fordola and yotsuyu's patch stories.

even just in writing this I can actually sort of immediately see why they couldn't explore it. it's gonna be pretty important that krile not be read by the audience as a victim in relation to zenos if endwalker's finale hinges on her having the ultimate say-so on the mothercrystal-shinryu situation. If it's at all about krile as a victim of his violence, it can read really horrendously to have her deciding "yeah I believe in zenos enough for this" as a factor of the finale. and it's conceptually cool for her to have the decisionmaking power here at all, zenos involvement or no. I like the idea that she specifically gets to make a dramatic gamble here at the end. but the idea that it only works because they pretty explicitly overlook what he does to her is....pretty bad! and it's not like it removes these implications from the text! they don't get undone by ignoring them! there are perhaps drawbacks to trying to have a character pull double duty as the Existentialism Understander and the Avatar Of Imperial Violence And You Better Believe That Includes Gender And Race-based Violence

just a bummer to me that they seem generally disinterested in fleshing out krile's understanding of the hydaelyn and zodiark saga, which is pretty disappointing given she's literally getting possessed by hydaelyn and making that choice with the mothercrystal. would love to be proven wrong and for the next expansion to get much more interested in her!