spare the sympathy

general ffxiv screenshot & inspo blog for my various assortment of lizards and catfolk at home on the crystal datacenter! activity/follows comes from darktypes.

[poppi-fields]

want a quick, easy, convenient way to find my characters and their carrds? look no further!

                                       𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓮'𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓽 𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮!

not all the screenshots i post are of characters i currently RP, so if you don’t see somebody there, now you know why. otherwise, anybody on there is somebody i’d be willing to RP, either in-game or out. you can let me know here on tumblr, or contact me on discord! 👍

[airis-ray]

Bard, my beloved🥰🏹 (I think it would suit mch too)

[uldahstreetrat]

I always forget how hard it is to find black hairstyles for characters in xiv until I try to go looking for them and come back up with the same three I already had in my list orz

[tallbluelady]

mod list for black characters.

THE MOD LIST FOR BLACK CHARACTERS. MAINTAINED BY GOTHCARTEL ON BSKY. This is a fairly plain compendium for black-centric mods in the XI

I haven't gone over it myself, but someone is keeping a list of mods for black characters.

[uldahstreetrat]

THAT!! I was looking for that!! I thought I had bookmarked it but couldn't find it again!! thank you so much!!!!

[poppi-fields]

baby, it's cold outside. ☃

[poppi-fields]

[poppi-fields]

you walk along the edge of danger and it will change you. why would you let this voice set in your head? it is meant to destroy you. you summon storms, you play with nature; now watch it hurt you. why would you want to shape the world in your hands? you will never make it through.

[poppi-fields]

𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝙒𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝙀 𝘾𝙊𝙍𝙍𝙊𝘿𝙀 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝘼 𝘽𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙏 𝙄𝙉 𝙍𝙀𝙋𝙊𝙎𝙀

[superiorthaumaturge]

You think this is a GAME?? You think I spend over 2 hours on one shot trying to get the perfect pose, angle and lighting because I'm having FUN???

No.

[poppi-fields]

UPRIGHT: disaster, destruction, upheaval, trauma, sudden change, chaos REVERSED: averting disaster, delaying the inevitable, resisting change

[poppi-fields]

UPRIGHT: illusion, intuition, uncertainty, confusion, complexity, secrets, unconscious REVERSED: fear, deception, anxiety, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, clarity, understanding

[the-boundless-dark]

For absolutely no reason at all please reblog if you think grey or blue skinned Duskwight based characters can be Ishgardian.

[poppi-fields]

UPRIGHT: beginnings, freedom, innocence, originality, adventure, idealism, spontaneity REVERSED: reckless, careless, distracted, naive, foolish, gullible, stale, dull

[poppi-fields]

UPRIGHT: oppression, addiction, obsession, dependency, excess, powerlessness, limitations REVERSED: independence, freedom, revelation, release, reclaiming power, reclaiming control

[poppi-fields]

UPRIGHT: transformation, endings, change, transition, letting go, release REVERSED: fear of change, repeating negative patterns, resisting change, stagnancy, decay

[pointyhatspointyears]

Teary Eyes Posing Tutorial

So I've been desperate to replicate the teary eye effect we see in cutscenes (mostly Tataru unleashing her LB3 on WoLs) and all similar questions I've seen on the crime tool discords are met with the same "can't be done, photoshop it" line of answers if any. So if you have zero photoshopping skills like me and want a fix of that sweet angst, here's a quick way to fake it in-game directly while gposing:

(Requires very basic Anamnesis or Brio experience)

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(You might want this to be the last step after you're done posing your character, since you'll be dealing with a hand prop.)

Equip this prop to both your main and offhand, by typing in the numbers: 9072, 1, 1. and click below them to "show weapon."

2. Now since they're tiny little droplets, they'll be hard to see, so I suggest you click on the weapon bone in your preferred posing mode and scale them up to around 5. Raising the z value (3rd one) slightly higher makes the droplets rounder and easier to work with. And if the size doesn't change for some reason, try scaling the root or abdomen bone instead of the weapon bone.

3. Shove that thing up your eye (lovingly). It helps if you rotate each droplet sideways so that its shape matches that of your eye. (smaller tip toward your inner eye corner, large tip toward the outer corner)

4. Now the fun part! You can do this several ways: If you want the full-on LB3-level brimming-with-tears effect like Tataru's, just keep tweaking the scale of the droplet til it's about the size of your eye and position it just over the whole eye, tweaking and rotating until it fits perfectly inside your eyelids without clipping out, et voila.

The LB2 level: Another (more realistic?) way would be to lower the droplets to have them "well up" around your lower eyelids:

LB1 level: Or you can simply lay the droplets at their original size at the outer corners of your eyes for a "threatening to turn on the waterworks but can be assuaged with cake" effect

Bonus tips for extra realism:

- As with most other things, best to avoid symmetry

- Mix & match shapes & sizes

- The more dramatic your lighting the more dramatic they'll look

If you try this please show me. Angst gives me life thankyou.

[poppi-fields]

[poppi-fields]

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