Astraex «the "I Just Get These Headaches"»

20+ gender-chaotic eldritch abomination Your friendly neighborhood bun boi with a hyperfixation on crafting (reluctantly participatory in most everything else). Multi-fandom (FFXIV main blog) @raexbecrafting on Bluesky

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Phantom Obscurum: Casters

And last but not least, our glass cannons <3 (The egis are arguing about what to order for takeout while Carby murders them in its dreams for being too loud...)

Series: Tanks | Healers | Melee | Ranged | Casters

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Phantom Obscurum: Ranged

Time to run out of range of the healer(s)! Pew pew! Exactly two bnnuys were harmed in the making of these, but don't worry, they were Brio clones and therefore weren't real enough to feel any pain when I buried them twenty feet into the ground so I could JUST pose the weapon

Series: Tanks | Healers | Melee | Ranged | Casters

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Phantom Obscurum: Melee

Next up, melee relics! Floor tanks, pseudo-floor tanks, and generally stabby bitches out there, rise up! (ilu <3)

Series: Tanks | Healers | Melee | Ranged | Casters

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Phantom Obscurum: Healers

Continuing the series, here's the #2 crankiest healer in Eorzea (STOP EATING MECHANICS, THEY'RE ORANGE, NOT ORANGE-FLAVORED) flaunting his shinies

Series: Tanks | Healers | Melee | Ranged | Casters

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Phantom Obscurum: Tanks

Finished the Obscurum step of all of the current relic weapons on Friday (so... so many hunt trains...) with ten days to spare before 7.55 drops, so here's to the meatiest meat shields to ever meat shield until Evercold changes everything around... v.v

Series: Tanks | Healers | Melee | Ranged | Casters

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Sinus Ardorum, Phaenna, Oizys, & Auxesia

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What the hell is wrong with me.

(Everything. Everything is wrong with me.)

*I have managed to get Star Contributor before, usually unintentionally, but NEVER on launch day with 200+ other people doing the content. This is both thrilling and an indicator of how utterly feral and deranged I got when I saw the rainbow VFX on these tools.

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Mayqo'te - Day 20 - Reunion

Not all reunions are happy ones...

And sometimes, they're quite annoying. Especially when an insufferable viera is wondering aloud about when "Sunshine" was finally going to wake up from her "beauty sleep."

(Below is a response to this post.)

(Gotta thank Astraex for the inspiration! Especially the last ones XD)

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Prequel: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Alternate title: Bitch Got What Was Coming to Her for Touching the Ears™

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All-hearing, All-seeing

Author's note: 100% a crack fic (that blends WoL and player, plus game mechanics) inspired by a Discord exchange between friends from earlier today (included under the cut). Enjoy. And yes, I'm so omnicrafter-pilled that I can distinguish all the different sound effects of everything crafting- and gathering-related - including Rapid Synthesis failing - when someone else is doing it. My friends live in fear of my judgment. Word count: 530

It was a clear, sunny day on Oizys (not that there was much variation in the weather up there, anyway) and Fang was happily hammering away under the watchful eyes of the Loporrits, peaceful in his personal reassurance that a certain Viera was still suffering from intense space burnout and would not be going anywhere near a teleporter for at least another week or two. Plenty of time for him to catch up on datasets without any judgmental eyes burning into the back of his head as the sound of his materials cracking from the strain of his efforts filled the air, or a cry of “did I just hear you fail that?!” ringing out from across the base as he hastily swept the ruined contents of yet another cosmic crate under a nearby tarp, breaking his concentration and his will to live. Yes, there was no risk whatsoever of being observed by someone who would most definitely disown him as an apprentice (seriously, he’d been at this long enough, why hadn’t he been promoted to journeyman yet?!) if he saw the way the Hrothgar went about crafting.

However, as he zoned out half-watching his tool shift through a whole array of pretty colors, humming to the beat of his hammer, he failed to notice that the usual sensation of feeling a bit lighter on his feet on this planet was growing stronger and stronger until strobing red lights cut across his vision and a nearby Hyur started yelling about gravitational fluctations and weightlessness. He cursed to himself as he hastened to slap the finishing touches on the powersuit component in his hands, his hammer slipping in his rush and breaking the hydraulics line. As he stared down in consternation at the clear amber fluid now staining his shoes, a massive shadow fell across him, accompanied by the slow tapping of a gloved finger on a metal chassis.

“Fang.”

Sullen silence.

“Did I just watch you break a five-gold streak by using Rapid Synthesis in a macro?”

More silence, this time tinged with evasiveness, indignation, and a bit (okay, maybe a lot) of fear.

He heard a long-suffering sigh somewhere above his head. “We’ll discuss this later.” The gleaming black mech started to stomp away towards the east.

“Why are you even here?” was all he could muster up to mutter under his breath; trust the Viera to hear him perfectly fine all the same from twenty yalms away.

“Oh, I still have 25 drones out of my last stack of 75 left to send out,” came his blithe reply. “Won’t be able to use them on Auxesia, but I got tired of running around after 50 of them and figured I’d finish the rest later when I got bored.” He paused, and Fang could hear the smirk in his voice. “You should go to that red alert, you can at least make up the datasets you Rapid Synthi-failed yourself out of… apprentice. Ciao!”

Fang was going to need to seek out the most obscure, out-of-the-way hole on the planet to craft in from now on, and even then… that psychopath helped build this place, he’d still find him anyway.

Astraex/I can be quite insufferable about crafting, (un)fortunately. XD Discord conversation that sparked this crack featuring the hubby, @n3rd-qu33n-ffxiv:

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I am so very tired.

I really wish that dyeing the channel on the Crested DoH top that affects the feathers didn't just... ruin the texture so utterly, or I'd be making all my crafting/gathering gear match this palette swap reward for an absolute monster of a grind...

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Giant sparkly moon tryhard spotlight brought to you by insomnia and an unabated raging crafting obsession.

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real

[mintedwitcher]

read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.

our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

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Hell yeah, now I can focus on CE! (Unless the not-a-static needs a DPS sub, anyway…)

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Robo-bitch finally gave me her scythe. (She's still a bitch, though, having not dropped a single set of wings despite all of my not-a-static's blood sacrifices...)

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TIL you can climb up some of the mountains in Sinus Ardorum to put Etheirys behind you. (11.4, 13.4, you can walk most of the way up the spine of the mountain.)

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I'M FREE, I'M FREE

(until 7.3)

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Vierapril Day 30: Farewell/Future

Farewell: "But when will I see you again?" "Oh, never, never!" "Never?" "Well, maybe someday!" "When? Tomorrow?" "Oh, no!" (Seriously, though, if I didn't have to face the wrath of my not-a-static, I'd never leave the moon. >.>)

Future: "I wonder... how far we'll go." (Former depression) birb niece is going to get herself in some trouble in there.