I haven't been terribly active lately, mostly because I've been busy doing stuff instead of posting about it or reading tumblr. I'm not sure anyone cares anyway? It feels sometimes like my online activities are just sort of shouting into the void, and my FC is.. some of my favorite people have left or are (I think) in the process of leaving and that makes me sad. It's sort of the story of online things, I guess. The life cycle of online groups.
Anyway, enough with the self-pity. This probably should be like 5 posts but oh well. Have a long rambling blog post about stuff I've been working on that makes me happy, if nothing else.
I got my amaro mount! It's a little sad that I've been playing since 2014 (off and on, but mostly on; though, granted, on many different alts) and only just now got everything to 80 on any one character, but I don't even care. He needs a name that isn't Seto Jr, but I'll figure out something.
I got the last two rare animals for my island! Twinklefleece and the alligator. Twinklefleece is both cute and horrifying, and unsurprisingly my partner loves him.
Very minor when it comes to the forbidden tooling really, except that faces are a little difficult, but I finally gave Mercutio his real scar instead of the drawn on line facepaint that I had been using. And added his Garlean eye so I can tell when a headgear will actually cover it or not. Thank you Penumbra for making it so I can do this without turning every face 7 Midlander into a Mercutio clone.
Worked on my G'raha/Aedan AU worldbuilding a lot and did.. way too many alterations of gear so they sort of fit what I imagined. I can't really draw, so I guess I use the game as my concept art engine~ It's conveniently teaching me a lot about Blender along the way.
I'm sort of afraid to talk about this AU because 1) it might suffer from "oc with identity theft" issues for Raha, 2) it causes.. many story issues for the main scenario (because Raha never goes to Sharlayan in it - see #1), and 3) I may have taken enough inspiration from Wakanda that it edges into ripping off territory.. It's not enough Wakanda to just like.. say it's a Wakanda AU, though. Where's the line? I don't know. Plus it's like.. 95% OCs. It will eventually make contact with the main cast (if I can work out or handwave the butterfly effect issues of no G'raha in the main game - all of Shadowbringers is a giant ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ right now), but for most of it, it's just Aedan and Raha and a bunch of people who aren't part of canon. It makes me happy though, so I guess that's enough for now.
Also many screenshots with poses that are varying levels of my work, though sadly I just noticed my favorite one is.. fucked in one very obvious place and I have no idea how I missed it, so I guess I'll have to redo it later. You can have this one instead (base poses def not mine): AU Aedan and Raha in their late teens (like 17-18). Raha's top mash-up is one of my alterations, for better or worse.
And, if you made it this far, here's AU Aedan's and Raha's first kiss as a treat. They're older here, like 21-22, have their older hairstyles, but their outfits haven't evolved yet. Yes, there's a reason for the flowers. :)
Bonus Raha on his tippytoes with his curly little tail.
Hi! Sorry for the inconvenience but, Male Viera mod is still up? The 'Keep Reading' link doesn't seem to lead anywhere. Still, loved all your content btw! Cheers.
I have no idea! It wasn’t my mod—I don’t actually do anything with mods at all—I simply shared that post at some point.
If a “Keep Reading” link doesn’t work, it tends to be because the original post has been deleted, and/or the blog URL changed and so has broken their prior links, thanks to how Tumblr works. I’d have to go back and look at that post to see what’s up.
For finding a particular mod, you want to go to the XIV Mod Archive (the url is the same as the title). I only ever use it for poses myself. Mods require TexTools; posing and using only in-game assets requires CMTool.
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As usual, when it comes to mods, keep in mind they are against Final Fantasy XIV’s Terms of Service (ToS) so are use at own risk. Do not talk about them in game at all, do not keep the watermark on modded screenshots (gshade and some other overlays have options to take screenshots that don’t add that in to begin with), do not tag or @ the official FFXIV accounts on social media when posting screenshots with modified content. Use caution when posting modded lewds in public places, that’s getting to be a point of contention for the dev team for legal and game ratings reasons in various regions and on different platforms, as well as people using mods to troll/harass other players—a huge no-no.
They’re willing to turn a blind eye to modding only so long as the community behaves reasonably and responsibly. Abuse the privilege, and they will remove the option from us entirely, such as when they changed raid markers and disabled the ability for those related mods to work.
(This is a general warning as we have a lot of newer players and folks getting interested in the tools)
