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we are so ableist about memory. people with good memory take for granted the fact that they can recall as much as they can, and use that to taunt, guilt and threaten people with memory issues. many neurotypes and mental illnesses cause memory lapses. traumatic brain injuries can cause memory lapses. brain cancer can cause memory lapses.

even if your memory is good, it's not right to guilt someone because they can't remember something. trust me, people with memory problems are desperately trying to remember: it's just that we literally can't. it is a very literal "i can't remember".

#I have the worst memory of anyone I know #It sucks

okazaki-trash

🥹🫱🫱✨✨✨✨✨ For my boi ✨

#ryou bakura #amazing art #smooches #yugioh #wait this is so pretty #so many soft kisses #is this awakening new ships I havent thought of before?

Unpopular opinion, but assassinating Trump would not solve anything. It would make him a martyr for the MAGA, neo-natzis, and dangerous far-right extremists. We'd get another Jan 6th on our hands and this time they might win. Please stop trying to assasinate this guy, just put him in jail and create a law that says convicted persons cannot run for president.

#trump assassination attempt

boycritter

thinking about anastasia trusova paintings again

boycritter

CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

#anastasia trusova

mostfuckableffvillain

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #estinien varlineau #estinien wyrmblood #final fantasy 14 #ff14

ecosystem-administrator

Teleportation magic in FFXIV is actually the craziest thing

like, it's established so early on you don't have to think about it, and I expect the writers also didn't think too hard about it when they were first putting together the worldbuilding. but we teleport through the Lifestream. we dip in and out of the afterlife every time we go anywhere long-distance. and this is such a normal part of everyday life that major settlements basically all have giant crystals in the middle that are meant to facilitate this kind of travel.

and to be absolutely fair, in a world where the afterlife really was a place underground, we totally would build a subway system through it and put Hades in charge. it's not like it doesn't make sense, it's just. wild.

katarh-mest

FUN TELEPORT FACT TIME

Can only handle people. You can teleport yourself. But you can't teleport things that aren't actually yours. So like... your purse or your backpack can come along, but not the crate or oranges you want to sell in the next town over. Gotta take that on foot or by chocobo or cart.

(This is why the 77 caravans still make bunches of money.)

There is a hypothetical limit to the number of teleports a person can safely handle. (Back in 1.0 this was the "anima" system.) I assume that no person ever actually teleported themselves to death, though, so that's why they took away the limits in 2.0. I think it's implied that most people get pretty tired after teleporting, though, and perhaps there are some who cannot do it at all.

If you teleport together as a group only one person has to pay the teleport fee. GROUP DISCOUNT!

Teleport fees are automatically deducted from your gil balance in the game, but it's assumed you toss some coins at the guard after you arrive at your destination and they just didn't bother animating that because it'd be silly.

In 1.0 all the teleport crystals got destroyed by Dalamud causing the aether to go haywire. Most of them got eaten by voidsent, but Camp Revenent's Toll in Mor Dhona exploded into the hot radioactive mess that it still is today, and the site had to be abandoned.

Lord Lolorito personally paid for Sharlayan scholars to come by and build new aetherytes to replace the ones that got eaten by Atomos voidsent. Your teleport fees are going to him.

Because the new Scions of the Seventh Dawn refused to pledge their fealty to Lolorito, he put a statue of himself in Vesper Bay instead of an aetheryte. Giant middle finger to Minfilia.

As the warrior of light has proven, there isn't any hypothetical reason why someone can't just attune to aetherytes in other dimensions and use them to dimension hop. Or go to the moon. Or the end of the universe. (Guessing Y'shtola wasn't in her "real" body on the First so it doesn't count for her. And there's no aetherytes left on the 13th.)

Even Garleans, who can't use magic, were apparently able to use an aetheryte system, provided it had an artificial power source from cereuleum. That's wild!

cfs-melkire

Also, a reminder: attuned aetherytes act like giant magnets for teleportation. That's why modern teleportation is so safe and consistent: you approximate your destination and the attuned aetheryte does the rest of the job. Think of it like flicking a magnetic marble through the outer core of the planet in the direction you want: the attuned aetheryte yanks you back out. It does so because there's a resonance of sorts happening between the soul and the crystal.

This is also why teleportation to unattuned aetherytes is so dangerous and only recently becoming feasible (with major sideaffects) courtesy Sharlayan. It is also why instant teleportation without aetherytes, such as the Flow spell which Y'shtola uses, is so reckless that it is considered forbidden magic in modern times: you're not aiming for anything, you're just flicking the marble that is yourself into the aetherial sea on the prayer that you'll pop out somewhere, anywhere.

nights-at-crystarium

Sharlayan gets the credit for the modern transportation system, though no one really knows the true origin of aetherytes. Sometimes I wonder about the age after the Sundering and before the first Calamity, or was it later when the sundered people rediscovered the remnants of the ancient world, among them aetherytes, and how they relearned to use them. Would be a fun topic to dive in.

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #aetheryte #fascinating!

I used to be able to go to Pinterest to see neat housing and architectural layouts, or aesthetic flowers and color boards, recipes and food photos, and lovely artwork. Now, it's just all AI images. There's nothing but AI everywhere I search. It's upsetting. They're always slightly unsettling. They're not real. I don't like Pinterest anymore.

#pinterest #ai generated stuff sucks #just ranting #dont mind me

robynostornwyn

My version of the twins (once they are released from their purgatory of forever being teenagers). In my mind the story from ARR to now has taken some 8 years, so they are well into their twenties by now.

#this!#this is what i want!#alisaie leveilleur #alphinaud leveilleur #i love them your honor #ffxiv

I want to see Alphinaud and Alisaie get their elezen growth spurts someday. Like time is passing in the game, and they're probably 17/18 at this point, or close to it. So down the line, I really want to see them hit their 20s and shoot upward in height. Is it just me?

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #alphinaud leveilleur #alisaie leveilleur