stardust and shorelines

gif by morrigan

[solar093-art]

his farewell smiles

[finishing-touch]

play persona right now

[knightfisherr]

for as much as I love and adore stories where the power of hope and friendship is a blinding wonderful light, full of happiness and ease and laughter, something hits different about the way hope, in ffxiv, looks like this

covered in blood and dirt and limping forward. It’s probably been said multiple times before but isn’t it a reassuring image to know that hope drags itself through the mud just as much as you do and keeps fighting when it can hardly stand. and amidst deepest despair, light everlasting

[the-sycophant]

[etroveria]

Virtu Aoidos set~ 🏹

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[stardustandshorelines]

Azem April 2024

Day 01: Introduction

This is Lacus, Hythlodaeus' sister and the infamous Fourteenth Seat of the Convocation and the source of Emet-Selch's headaches. She is a dear friend to all, including Venat herself.

[wisteriaphyte]

Azem April Day 1 - Introduction

In Pleiades, the Seven sisters, the traveler unveiled.

[ascalonsmercy]

the little one couldn't sleep last night, knowing their patrol would end in a bell or two

[okolnir]

The Final Day

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commission of saku's lovely azem :D

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[fheythfully]

3.9.24 “The Exhibit of Eorzea’s Warrior of Light”

[anneapocalypse]

The more I think about Urianger and Moenbryda and the more I dig into what little we have of their history in canon the more insane I feel about them. They have been friends since childhood and I cannot get over how messy that relationship must have been over the years. She was his only childhood friend. He deeply admires her work in aetherology. He told her an axe was unbecoming of a scholar. They were both disciples of Louisoix. Their mentor left for Eorzea with one of them and not the other and never even bothered to tell Moenbryda why, leaving her to deal with the vicious rumors about her former mentor alone. Urianger hated to see her hurt, but was so devoted to Louisoix that he went along with this and agreed that sure, Moenbryda needed to "find her own path" aka intuit why her mentor abandoned her and what he wanted her to learn from that by... magic, I guess. She flirts with him openly. He calls her immature. He panics when she hugs him in public. He calls her "my dearest" but only after she's dead. He lets her sacrifice herself, says she "fulfilled her destiny" and then lets the guilt over that choice spiral him deeper and deeper into a lonely and isolated hell of his own making. I love them and they make me want to chew the curtains.

[anneapocalypse]

Like the very first thing he does upon seeing her again after begging her to come is to needle her about her unreformed "youthful manner." Truly unhinged behavior. :P

Honestly his whole demeanor toward her, including the way he reacts when she hugs him, is giving me code-switching panic. Like when you introduce an old friend to a group that knows a very different side of you and you aren't sure how anyone is going to react and you suddenly don't know how to act in front of all of them together. Stop, I'm a weird old sorcerer here! No one can know I'm just a socially awkward 29-year-old with feelings!

[anneapocalypse]

If this is what they're like in their late 20s... I can hardly imagine what they were like as teenagers. Obviously they care deeply for each other and there must have been a real connection to make it stick all these years, but they are so different I can't imagine there weren't misunderstandings and hurt feelings and arguments where one or both of them went off and sulked until they got tired of it or lonely and then made up again like it never happened. I'm sure Urianger didn't always make being his friend easy; I also bet she pushed his limits sometimes, like I bet that remark about her "youthful manner" isn't coming from nowhere. Moenbryda seems like the type of person who was good at making friends and had a lot of them; I wonder if younger Urianger ever struggled with not having her full attention even as he'd rather die than admit he wanted it. Conversely I wonder how many times she tried to drag him out of his shell in ways he was simply not comfortable with. And yet, through it all, they must have reached a fundamental acceptance of one another, even as it's often tinged with fond exasperation.

[seventh-dawn]

glory is calling your name victory's for the brave resilient souls who persist

[goldfishu]

a solemn duty

[ishgard]

I'M COMING OUT OF MY CAGE AND I'VE BEEN DOING JUST FINE

the scene/imagery in my head for this is way above my skill/patience/time right now but I at least wanted to play with the idea and get it out, hopefully one day I can come back to it like I want but I think this is a satisfying enough 'first draft' X'D (there should be so, so, so much more blood and nudity)

in gbf aria is 'a piece of mana's dead soul that was cultivated by the otherworld to eventually take her place'. one of my early quotes that sort of set her vibe was something edgy like 'i'll rip you open, clean you out and wear you' more or less

this has actually translated kind of nicely to xiv: amon wanted to recreate the woman from his fragmented memories [mana in elpis] and managed to pluck a similar soul from the void to suit his purpose. aria is mana's 13th shard, and she would be more than happy to take mana's place :)c

[w-item]

today I learned what the elezen undergarments look like

[w-item]

master matoya

[w-item]

antecedent & oracle