Dreamt the new official pronouns for nonbinary people were la/he and FFXIV players lost their MINDS.
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The anthem of nonbinary FF14 players:

if i look back, i am lost
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Dreamt the new official pronouns for nonbinary people were la/he and FFXIV players lost their MINDS.
The reviews are IN!
The anthem of nonbinary FF14 players:
its like strippers and the economy to me
#eorzean proverb: one scion is happenstance two is coincidence three is impending calamity
via @ofdarklands
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)
i think my favorite ff14 narrative gimmick is that the savage raid unlocks are explicitly just the WOL having adhd daydreams about the cool shit they've done. the omega raids are even explicitly about cid trying to put on an ASMR tibetan meditation spotify playlist to calm them down but the WOL is unmedicated so it really only makes the problem worse
All of theseare great like
Wtf am I supposed to reblog?
This comic is genuinely how I remember which is which.
if youre having trouble remembering then use the classic "keep port(the wine) in your left hand so you can steer the ship with your right"
And if you’re out long enough that night falls and you need to remember which side of the ship the red and green navigation lights are on, you’ve got “There’s no red port left.”
Port has 4 letters, Left has 4 letters. Starboard has more than 4 letters, right has more than 4 letters. Easy way to remember
you think im gonna be able to count when im three sheets to the wind, cant steer straight and spill port all over my deck?
Which one's larboard again oh god
being so fr but the only reason why I even remember starboard is because ffxiv used "larboard/starboard" and I just remembered that larboard starts with L so it's left
They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.
the warrior of light as a game-breaking force of violence
there's a moment, relatively early in dawntrail, that establishes succinctly how out of place the warrior of light (as the savior of eorzea and main character of four successive final fantasy game plots) is in what is essentially the story of fresh new final fantasy protagonist wuk lamat. and it sets up quite nicely how the framework of fantasy video game conflict pulls the warrior of light forever towards violence as the expansion goes on.
spoilers through 7.0 follow
I’ve been redoing shadowbringers recently, and there’s something I want you to see.
I want you to look at this sandwich basket the exarch made for wol after returning from il mheg
looks delicious right ? now count each of them, if you count everything that makes 14 sandwiches
in this scene wol talks with ardbert (with the screen fading out), then goes to sleep. when they wake up we see that the whole basket is empty: this implies wol ate a basket of fourteen sandwiches in one sitting didn’t even put some on the side of later or anything do you know how hungry you’d have to be to eat fourteen sandwiches like that.
I've been leveling DRK and, encouraged by my bf, made a very stupid meme edit.
The thoughts for Retsarra have coalesced a little bit, at least enough for me to come up with a fic idea so I will attempt to express both my actual thoughts on his character in tandem with the fic idea because they're related. Idk I put characters in torture matrices to extract the Sauce from their characters for better understanding. Why am I like this
The tl;dr if you don't want to dive under the break for the full thoughts (which are a lot) is that Retsarra is a wild place to explore both political apathy fueled by late-stage capitalism and feelings of cultural estrangement, not to mention the isolation that a lot of bisexual people feel when they are misunderstood or rejected by both gay and straight people.
The fic is really just my WoL Shura'li having a conversation with him that compares their experiences and differing worldviews that goes wrong near the end because Shura'li is a blockhead who doesn't understand bisexuality. Shura'li cringe compilation. Retsarra cringe compilation. Everyone is kinda cringe, everyone has understandable reasons for being cringe. Life traumatizes people in different ways that brings them into conflict with each other. No one is wrong. No one is right.
I just went and looked at the official lyrics and I'm going to grab the writers and shake them why are we on the same wavelength with this soggy, soggy catboy
During one of the verses, there are essentially two trains of thought running in parallel. One is observing the comfortable sedation of the capitalist system and acknowledging that it's an attractive option. "Sweet, tender smiles on every empty face/Serene surrounds to keep them safe/Maybe I'll join them and shut my eyes" The other is his suppressed rage at the injustice slowly growing over time. "Someday soon my will is bound to break/All blind to the cage closing/How long can I stand to stay my blade?" And then the two coalesce at the end in agreement. "But how could my pride dare abide? (I can feel my rage growing)"
and it really helps contextualize his choice to actually oppose the system after the WoL beats his ass. He knows he needs to find a way to oppose it and dismantle it, he just needs an excuse to. And since people don't just change overnight, this same kind of conflict between finding this role that slowly kills you comfortable and opposing what you know to be bad for you will still be present in him
//there's no explicit spoilers but I'm gonna tag it as dawntrail spoilers anyways lol
I think it would be very funny and totally not sick and evil and twisted if, after finishing Dawntrail, you go back to Amaurot and it's just gone
//7.3 spoilers
is it a monkey's paw situation if they didn't do anything to Amaurot but Living Memory is now semi-back to normal lmao
The thoughts for Retsarra have coalesced a little bit, at least enough for me to come up with a fic idea so I will attempt to express both my actual thoughts on his character in tandem with the fic idea because they're related. Idk I put characters in torture matrices to extract the Sauce from their characters for better understanding. Why am I like this
The tl;dr if you don't want to dive under the break for the full thoughts (which are a lot) is that Retsarra is a wild place to explore both political apathy fueled by late-stage capitalism and feelings of cultural estrangement, not to mention the isolation that a lot of bisexual people feel when they are misunderstood or rejected by both gay and straight people.
The fic is really just my WoL Shura'li having a conversation with him that compares their experiences and differing worldviews that goes wrong near the end because Shura'li is a blockhead who doesn't understand bisexuality. Shura'li cringe compilation. Retsarra cringe compilation. Everyone is kinda cringe, everyone has understandable reasons for being cringe. Life traumatizes people in different ways that brings them into conflict with each other. No one is wrong. No one is right.
doing an apology video with genuine tears sobbing and wailing ripping my hair out and clawing at my face until i draw blood but i simply cannot describe what i did without laughing
I'm still organizing my thoughts on this so something more coherent will be coming later but Retsarra in the second tier of the Arcadion raids is making me lose my goddamn mind (spoilers below the cut)
like idk there's something about his intense desire for self-determination within the confines of a system that is actively killing him. Something something the problems with attempting to stir revolutionary sentiment in people under a system that comfortably kills you. Shura'li would be beefing with him so fucking hard.
Also bisexuality. Something with bisexuality idk look at these lyrics
Also also, and this is actually the main fucking point but I got too lost in the tragic yaoi sauce because that's like kryptonite for me but THIS MAN IS PROBABLY PART OF THE FIRST GENERATION BORN UNDER A SOCIETY THAT COLONIZED HIS PEOPLE. The experience obviously has gotta have tons different from the experience of a first generation child of immigrant parents but there are still definitely similarities and I Can See Them. Something about the tension between wanting to retain your ancestors' culture and being inevitably subsumed into the culture you were steeped in growing up. Something about always feeling like you're in between, never actually belonging anywhere because you aren't fully Turali or Alexandrian. Never actually finding acceptance anywhere because you aren't fully gay or straight Do You See My Vision
We stan a politically apathetic bisexual gay trucker catboy or something idk, he makes me feel insane there's like five different things I want to explore so in summary I'm just gonna list them out
Bisexual experience
Cultural estrangement experience (whether as the child of people who were colonized or people who immigrated to a different country)
How capitalist systems breed political apathy
The merits of finding agency within confines you cannot possibly hope to break because you simply do not have the power
Why The Fuck Doesn't Anything In Dawntrail Talk Explicitly About The Discrimination That Is Most Likely Happening To The Turali People Who Are Stuck In A Society Of Mostly White Hyurs That Colonized Them (I actually do need to confirm this but I swear I do not remember that many PoC there that weren't pretty clearly from Tural)
Okay but seriously why is it that like 90% of the fighters in the Arcadion have been Turali so far there's something there I just don't have a good handle on it. Something something exploitation and objectification of minority groups while simultaneously "elevating" them in order to hide the racism (see: "model minority" stereotypes about asian americans in the US)
It's like 1AM so apologies if this sounds like I'm doing this
ma they gave coke to my white mages
now we know why they call them 'white' mages
alchemists' guild in shambles as the healers figure out how to create stimulants from aether
the Snow White mages ..........
Limit Breaking. Bad
yeah that's how you're supposed to do it i'm pretty sure
"hey stop dying for a second i need to top up"
>ffxiv dev team saw the mixed response to Wuk Lamat and their takeaway was "we didn't do good enough of a job to show how great she is, we need to give her even more screentime so everyone will like her"
lmao