I'm kind of mad that I dicked around and figured out how to render straight hair in a way I like on a doodle of urianger I did not plan on sharing bc I'm nervous but he looks cute... my blogs are supposed to be for archiving this stuff somewhere ... explodes
my favorite part about ultima thule is how unnecessary urianger's sacrifice was. everyone else was taken out of the story in a natural way: thancred being the last one standing and taking a swing, estinien telling a dragon it's being a little bitch, y'shtola defying the answers handed to her and striving to reach her own conclusions, g'raha seeing the opportunity for life and growth beyond the death of an empire, and the twins seeing a scared, pained child and making an effort to extend a hand to her knowing full well what the cost would be and how much it would hurt the person they care about the most. and then urianger, completely unprompted, said 'y'shtola, move thine ass over' and got turned into a beam of light. cinema
Thank you to everyone who could make it out to a walk this year, even if you could only attend one. We had an AMAZING turnout this year for each one, which blew me away. So please know you've all made this a year of walks to remember, and I am eternally grateful for your company.
We hope to see you all again next year, as well as any new faces who wish to join us! We'll be starting in February with ARR so people have time to get through new MSQ! The dates will be posted at the start of 2027!
In the meantime, enjoy Evercold!
Also, please remember to tag us if you post any screenshots! We love sharing them here after every walk!
The Dawntrail leg of the Walk @acrossetheirys happened last night, and was delightful as always. I got to spend time taking in the sights and chatting with friends old and new. Just look at this esteemed company!
Many more pictures ad thoughts under the keep reading. Grab a beverage, and let's go for a walk!
I neglected to get any shots of everyone gathering before setting out (oops!) because I was too busy saying hello, and sending out friend requests (Did you know that you are capped at sending 7 friend requests per day? I didn't until last night!).
Like we did on the rite of succession two years ago, we set forth from Tuliyollal. Though this time with a MUCH larger party of adventurers.
The first leg of the trip was plagued by rain, so not the best travel photo weather. Though I have to share this shot of @sisitosito's little straw hat poking out of her tank.
Sun! Flowers! Punutiy! The true Kozama'uka experience (minus all the stuff with reeds).
Onwards to the soaring vistas and towering stonework of Urqopacha
And what would a visit to Urqopacha be without partaking of the hospitality (and mezcal) of the Pelu Pelu. We also picked up a late addition to our party here! It seems The Tyrant was also out traveling Tural, and decided to join our merry band. Bunzo learned a lot about the culture of The Arcadion, Solution 9 training techniques, and which fighters are and are not (allegedly) being mind controlled by cats.
I unfortunately neglected to get any shots of Yak Tel (those dark roads are tricky to drive on, so I left photography up to @laliluluho.
Shaaloani was also distracting. Though mainly because Bunzo was reminiscing about his previous trip through the area where he and Erenville became a couple ❤.
A brief rest stop at camp kitty cat.
We picked up a hitchhiker. @not-eorzeas-finest's Giddion hopped in the Bunzomobile for the northern leg of the journey.
We also crossed paths with another pair of wanderers! Good old Alpha and Omega were also making their way through Shaaloani.
I think they're complaining about my driving. I don't know why. I barely hit anyone.
Howdy.
A smaller, bluer howdy.
I got some shots of Heritage Found, but they are so so dark. You will have to picture it for yourself. It was very gray and black with some purple. You understand. You've seen it.
Speaking of purple! It's everyone's favorite purple city.
A quick stop to cool off after a lot of walking.
And then off to soar through the skies of the saddest place on the Ninth. At least the lights are back on now.
And then we arrive back where this post began. Surrounded by wonderful friends. Tired, grinning from ear to ear, and slightly misty eyed knowing that I will have to wait until next year to do this all again.
Some closer shots of the big group before my sappy final thoughts.
The Stormblood walk 3 months ago was my first time really participating in the social aspects of FFXIV in a meaningful way.I cannot thank everyone who joined in on that walk, and all of the others since then, for making the experience so wonderful. XIV already meant a lot to me as a game and a story, but you all have made it so much more than that. It really is a community full of warm, welcoming, funny, creative people.
I look forward to joining you all next year, from A Realm Reborn all the way through Evercold. Nothing could keep me away.
YOU ARE NOT SEEING THE VISION ! we are talking about a man so desperate to please that his gagged sucking can be felt even through the silicone toy. bean flicking is easy, young man, strap-ons are harder.
you may be familiar with disney twisted wonderland, the gacha game in which various disney villains are used as direct inspiration for handsome anime boys. well that game was so successful that disney is trying to do it again but this time they're just animeboyifying whatever
here's mickey, goofy, donald, and chip & dale. yeah they turned mickey & friends into anime boys. they're an idol unit or something. they're technically not anime boy versions of the source characters, they have different names. mickey's guy is "Neo Michel". not michael, michel, like he's french. chip & dale are "Ruska Moncrief" and "Ranka Monk", they have different last names, they're not brothers anymore so that they can be yaoibait instead, anyways this post isn't actually about these guys I'm just setting the stage for the actual humanizations I wanted to show you
They also did monsters inc. And. Well it's obvious from the designs who mike and sully are. but you will also notice. the blonde one on the left. with glasses. monsters inc is kind of famously about just the two guys so they didn't really have a lot of other non-villain characters to take anime boys inspiration from, I guess, so, well,
Yeah it's her. they made an anime boy version of the mean receptionist slug. her name is roz btw, as all of boygachagame twitter has become extremely aware of in the past 3 days as we speculated prior to the release of the full image who tf the third guy was. the anime boy's name is "noah slugger". at this point no parody of the types of things gacha games will make gijinkas of will ever be able to live up to what disney is officially spending their own real money on designing
alexandria may be a techno-dystopian nightmare, but if all of this interdimensional nonsense leads to lyna being able to FaceTime her old man before the inevitable collapse of the shards then I think it'll all be worth it