✧ I have a lot of characters, who get varying amounts of attention, but Ahru is XIV Blorbo #1.
✧ I love NPCs and shipping with NPCs and you will find a lot of that here.
✧ You'll find a gratuitous amount of my gposes here. I'm just here to have fun and put my blorbos in situations.
✧ I also occasionally write fic, and expel ranting word walls about my characters if prompted. Sometimes even if I'm not. Beware.
✧ I reblog a lot. It's probably 99% strictly Final Fantasy XIV, with occasional memes that I relate to XIV or characters, and very occasional world news signal boosts. Most everything else goes to my sideblogs.
Heads up: I have a dedicated AU for Alphinaud that includes major spoilers for the latter half of 7.0. I mostly tag anything with blatant spoilers accordingly, but it's highly likely for something to slip through the cracks so please take that into account if you're not current on MSQ. If you're curious about it, you can find more information here.
General:
✧ 18+ - I'm an adult and I don't shy away from adult topics or subject matter, but more than that between all of the ship-squealing and keysmashing enthusiasm, I do appreciate a degree of maturity about fictional topics and won't engage with drama.
✧ NOT spoiler-free, but I do tag the latest expansion or patch spoilers
✧ I usually have an unmarked queue going when I'm asleep.
✧ Tags in general are pretty messy, it's a 10+ y/o old blog. I'm kind of working on it, but my sideblog @dravania is a lot more organized. However if you'd like something in particular tagged, please let me know and I would be happy to do that for you!
✧ You're responsible for your browsing experience and I am mine. I am anti-censorship, and capable of differentiating fiction from reality. If you have difficulty with any of that, please curate your space accordingly.
✧ I won't tolerate racism, misogyny, TERFs, or any other queerphobia. That said, I don't believe discussions around these topics fall under the scope of "drama", and that they need to be addressed within fandom when and where they arise.
✧ Fuck Generative AI. If you ever see me reblogging anything made by genAI please give me a gentle nudge!
✧ I don't strictly follow4follow, and I don't solely follow FFXIV-only blogs either
✧ WCIF-friendly, to the best of my abilities. If you see something I'm using, feel free to ask!
Interaction:
✧ Generally speaking, I don't RP, but I do love to interact and spitball ideas/scenarios for how our characters could be connected. That said, I don't typically lean towards romantic interests. Co-WoL's/Adventurers/etc. though is all fun!
✧ I don't use Mare, but if you want my characters .chara file to pose with (SFW) feel free to ask!!
✧ If you ever want to draw any of my characters just know I will compose ballads in your honor. It will add years to my life, and I will use them all in your service.
✧ I can be slow to respond at times, but feel free to toss me an ask or hit me up in DMs for... whatever! (Not you, solicitors!)
Something nobody told me about caffeine is that you can get withdrawal symptoms when you stop taking it
Like
I went from consuming NO caffeine, to slowly escalating to around 150-300mg of caffeine a day to keep up with sleep issues, to suddenly stopping cold turkey when I flew out to the middle of nowhere and couldn’t get more and it was straight up a solid 5-6 days of thinking I had the flu
Nausea, spins, major fatigue, and some seriously heinous headaches
It was so bad that after two weeks without I swore I’d never pick up an energy drink again and made an appointment with a doctor to fix my sleep issues
Like. Not to be all “oooooh your body is a temple” but if I knew quitting CAFFEINE had similar effects as running out of my prescription meds I might have been a bit more careful drinking it in the first place
I never saw people say stuff like this enough when I was a teenager, so I’m saying it now.
I’m in my mid-thirties and I have never had sex. I’ve thought about it and could have had one or two opportunities if I put in more effort, but I always decided against it because I just wasn’t into it at the time.
I can safely say that I do not feel I have missed out on anything. I was perfectly capable, by myself, of learning about my own body and boundaries without anyone else there to muddy the waters. The immense pressure that was there in my teens/twenties to Have Sex Just Do It is basically gone. I’m vibing. I’ve got my routine by myself in bed that I enjoy, and that’s enough for me.
And in the unlikely event that I ever decide to have sex with someone in the future, I don’t feel at all like I’m lacking some essential Knowledge or Skill that would “make it good” for someone else. I fully expect to ask my partner out loud what they like and to receive an answer clearly communicated and to relax and have fun. And if it’s a disappointing experience, I’m fine with that too. It is what it is.
Sex is just not that big of a deal. I suspected it as a teen, and I’m more sure of it now. It’s fine to have it or not have it. It’s whatever.
yeah a man bun is a fuckass hairstyle but Shane having longer hair because through the safety net of being loved by Ilya so completely he feels secure enough to start breaking away from the very rigid grip he had over himself to perform to the expectations of traditional hockey player masculinity at all times is important to me
