#huge beef

[ariaofsasha]

@isayoldbean inadvertently gave us the idea for a beefy minfilia today and we figured we'd also indulge posing her OC, Huge Beef, with her!

[isayoldbean]

roevember day 8: collection

truth be told, there are many things the adventurer known as huge beef collects--treasure, an instinct still subconsciously retained from her pirate days even if she has no memory of it; recipes, from her many years as an insatiable world-traveling gourmand; sexual conquests, for reasons we aren't paid enough to delve into. but if you were to ask her personally, she would tell you about her personal collection of largely homemade lures, meticulously researched to ensure any potential fish she comes across will find at least one that grabs their fancy.

after all, a master fisher must be prepared for any eventuality.

[selnyam]

Huge Beef got revenge from the snowball incident last Starlight RIP Flidais, you had it coming.

thanks to @isayoldbean for the idea and for Huge Beef!

[ebi-chi]

Congrats, Beef!

Congratulations are due for one Huge Beef! @isayoldbean A well deserved victory! It was a pretty close race the whole time. Be proud of your wondrous accomplishment!

Also Chuchu will 100% be taking you up on the piggy back rides.

A big thank you to @woltourney for holding the tourney! It was amazing to be able to see all of everyone's amazing characters and learn about them! I've even made some friends along the way :^) I also wanna say that I'm proud of Chuchu for making it to the finals! What a well loved little pink creature! I might start actually posting on @chuchuchura after seeing the support for her and how other WoL based blogs actually run and what they do content wise.

And, for one last time...

Thank you for the support!!!

[isayoldbean]

roevember day 6: threads

"the postmoogle keeps telling me to deliver this letter to somebody named 'pepe silvia', but it keeps getting returned! every time, 'pepe silvia'! the whole moogle letter box, 'pepe silvia!'"

i'm so sorry. i had a really nice idea for this prompt--something along the lines of 'the threads of memory that connect us all'--but once again i got hijacked by my brain's compulsive need to be stupid instead

[isayoldbean]

waiting for my static to get online. time to kill time by once again breaking out the exact same pose i always put her in

[isayoldbean]

roevember day 3: near miss

"aye, we found you washed up on the beach, we did. nasty head wound you got there. it's a miracle it didn't do you in! must have been a real near thing!"

in which a roegadyn woman wakes up in a small fishing cabin on an unfamiliar shore, with no knowledge of who she is or how she got there--or much of anything else, really, except for the fact that she should apparently be dead.

it's a lot to process.

[isayoldbean]

roevember day 30: haven

it might be somewhat surprising considering her widely publicized distaste for ishgard, but within a ward of the empyreum housing district there lies a mansion she considers a haven beyond all except perhaps the rising stones.

it all began shortly after her arrival in limsa. she had been chatting with a hrothgar man--a massive, hulking fellow with a face full of scars from his time on the bloodsands, yet with a mild mannered, nervous disposition, and an intriguing calico coloring--and he had invited her to check out the free company he had started for fellow adventurers that he had taken a liking to. not knowing anyone else except for baderon by this point, who surely wouldn't let her sleep behind the counter of the drowning wench no matter how charming she was, she had accepted.

at the time, they had been located in ul'dah, but after the reconstruction of the firmament at the end of the dragonsong war they had relocated to be of better use to the rebuilding work there, and their home away from home had quickly become one of the foremost jewels of the neighborhood.

a large, well-kept yard with plenty of outdoor accommodations for those looking to take in the crisp, coerthan mountain air...

a massive library and reading room, full of books that use words so complex that beef struggles to believe the author didn't just make them up...

and much to beef's great pleasure, a fully stocked kitchen and dining area--many a day and night have been spent with various members sharing a repast and trading stories of their latest adventures.

but despite all these features and more, if you asked beef, the true heart of this haven of hers was her fellow adventurers and comrades. though they all come from many backgrounds, a good many of them outcasts and all with their own special personality quirks, they had managed to come together and build something unbreakable and beautiful.

something between a gang and a family. part of her new ship's crew. she would do anything to protect them, and she'd like to think they'd do the same for her. some of them had lost everything they had known in order to walk this path, and she wanted to make sure none of them ever came to regret it, whether that be by fighting for them, or by sharing in the many joys life had to offer alongside them.

though she of course treasured the times spent with the scions, the days spent with her free company are some of the memories she holds closest to her heart. though many of the members who helped her through her darkest time--the ones present when she first joined, before she had gotten a handle on the grief and anger that dominated her in the wake of her amnesia--had either retired or moved on to other opportunities, those that came up behind them were just as beloved to her. they were all family.

while she was in tural, she received a message that her old friend who founded this place was going to retire from the adventuring life--the years he had spent on the bloodsands and later as an adventurer had taken their toll on his body, and he had decided it was time to hang it up if he wanted to get much older. he was placing control of the place into the hands of the rest of them along with his best wishes and a reminder of the values their company had been founded on.

from time to time beef finds herself staring at the emblem that had been installed at the top of the stairs in the central room during their relocation, a silent reminder of those values, boldly proclaiming its intent for all to see: for those who have no place else to go. be safe. we love you. together we will make it through.

the end of roevember has made me sappy as hell so i hope this isn't too cheesy... shout out to my fellow fc members who appeared in these shots and for allowing them to show up peeled in my vanilla client! (flidais oakclamber courtesy of @selnyam and beni hana courtesy of @bigshotmot. wenaria's and luna's players don't have tumblr but shout out to them as well!)

and as an aside, our fc flannel and satin is always recruiting, so if you're trans and have a character on malboro consider looking us up!

also rambling wrap-up comments about roevember under the cut!

wow. 27/30 for the month (and even then i took gposes for two of the days i missed i just never got around to writing anything up for them). i'm usually doing good to do like five days worth of posts so idk what came over me this year.

i'd really like to thank @robynostornwyn and @ravandfriendsxiv for running this event, as well as everyone who contributed prompts! i thought the prompts in particular were really chewy this year--gave us a lot of fun ways to interpret them that made me excited to see what everyone else would come up with. and also thank everyone so much for your encouragement and for your kind words! sometimes i'm bummed out about using vanilla gpose because i feel like i won't be able to make the poses in my head or make them look good or interesting, but everyone was so supportive! also i know a few times i posted something that i felt was kind of phoned-in just to be able to post one for the day, and even then people would be so nice about them in the tags, it really meant a lot.

this was also kind of a special year for me because, well. i've had writer's block for about 10 years now due to my anxeity medication, and i feel like doing roevember this year really broke something open for me for the first time in so, so long... none of it was quite up to my usual standards but some of it was pretty good, and honestly even just the fact that i'm writing again is reason enough to celebrate. i'm so excited to think i might be able to start writing regularly again!

i've also learned that for some reason i am very shy about reblogging other peoples' wols. i have no idea why because i know when people reblog mine i get all giddy and feel so so so good but for some reason i'm like 'no if i reblog their wol they will get mad and kill me with hammers.' ????? i know this is false and yet it persists. however! i really loved everyone's gposes and wols, i enjoyed learning about them all so much! and i hope that y'all will continue posting about them even though roevember is over so i can keep learning about them.

ty roegadyn nation i love you all!!! i hope we get to do this together again next year!