A Life in Fresh Ink Blurs Easily

FFXIV - Crystal - Mateus - A collection of screenshots, original characters, writing, and applause for other creations. {Anon: ON} (Main Icon by @dustedbooksandreadingnooks)

[thefreelanceangel]

Blog Guide for the Unwary

Individual Characters:   (I mean I have... a LOT of them but these are the main two.)

C'allie Kyho: a Seeker of the Sun raised tribal-style and believes every “nunh” is a failure, save her father C’kyho. Her life is full, due to her being polyamorous with four spouses and one boyfriend, and a “side piece,” as well as dealing with a growing collection of children and one fat fuck of a cat.   ~ Carrd, Tag

Annalei d’Latu: a Veena Viera psychopathic murderous bitchbunny extraordinare who lusts after magical mastery, blood, aether, and mint desserts. (Not necessarily in that order.) She’s viciously married, easily angered and quick to violence. So she’s quite the catch! ~  Carrd, Blog, Tag     --Seifer d’Latu (Anna’s IC husband, played by my OOC husband) 

Other Subjects: 

Pillowfort  (As Tumblr is a webbed site, I’m stashing most of the NSFW/Mature content there and working on cross-posting.)

Rogues’ Gallery Carrd    (Look, I make a lot of alts for Discord RP I might as well have a place to list them, right? This has the ones like Leti-Mao and Pythia and Ilya.)

Angel’s Warrior of Light AU  (I was fine not having a WoL until Endwalker punched me in the face, so now I have Meli Iliakos and her “Scions of the Seventh Noonish” adventuring friends who’ve been fighting alongside her and the ACTUAL Scions since their first encounter with Titan.)

Screenshots    (So, so many screenshots...)

Landscapes    (Eorzean scenery!)

Asks/Replies    (Both the prompt lists and the replies)

OOC Blather    (I promise no quality control for what is here)

Signal Boost    (Usually for others’ events)

I’m Angel! I play FFXIV (Mateus on the Crystal Data Center) and spend a good 90% of my time in the game stuck in GPose. I work graveyard shifts, so I’m not a member of any RP FCs (alas!) and honestly, in game RP is a thing of the past 99% of the time. I’m married to Seifer d’Latu’s player, spend most of my time consuming books, love horror movies and good stories. White AF (I glow in the dark) and bi and cis and gloriously middle-aged. I promise I only bite my husband, so feel free to wave at me if you see me in game (probably on Anna) or ping me if you just want someone to chat with!

Main Server Icon by @dustedbooksandreadingnooks​! 

[thefreelanceangel]

Oops, I got distracted from work by seeing the Eorzean Magazine Generator on my dash more than once, so I had to make one for Anna.

[thefreelanceangel]

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.” ― Ray Bradbury

[lovesick-onion]

For how long shall I continue on in this fashion, enduring this pain in my back?

[thefreelanceangel]

[glysreia]

"Zenos was too emotionally stunted to be a villain, that's why Emet is a well rounded well written villain"

THE FACT HE'S EMOTIONALLY STUNTED IS THE FLAVOUR!!!! YOU GUYS WILL ONLY LIKE VILLAINS IF THEY GO BY THE USUAL FORMULA OF SAD BACKSTORY LEADS TO EVIL DRAMATIC WORLD ENDING PLAN

I'm not here to bitch about Emet since I also like him and I like the way he was written and even how it makes you question yourself: if you too had to live while everyone you know and love had to die, would you not go to some great lengths of trying to bring them back IF YOU COULD? Would you not also be stuck in the past in some sort of melancholy and nostalgia and would you not also feel like every time you presently believe you're getting better, you're only proven wrong by your peers and find them lacking and imperfect, and then that plan of bringing everyone back starts ringing back into your ears?

Cool, cool, but Zenos having the also very human backstory of despite being born into the most privileged family and class of his country, ending up as an emotionless husk of a person because he was not even RAISED into an adult, he was merely allowed to exist only by Empire rules and FOR the Empire's goals, is apparently not enough and only gives him the "emotionally stunted" tag? That's the whole fucking point!!

The whole fucking point is nature vs nurture, the whole fucking point is showing that the Empire was so rotten from within it wouldn't even support its royal class, the whole fucking point is lack of any kind of human connection WILL bring you into this state. We've had this guy on and off for 2-3 expansions, reaching a boiling point in EW where he gets that one moment of epiphany, given to him by a teenage girl no less, where he turns around, thinks on it for a while, then COMES TO OUR RESCUE ACROSS TIME AND SPACE. He could very well let us die there since he himself talks about how much he doesn't like being alive. He even tells you you can walk away from him at the very end and that he won't force a fight on you anymore (not my fault that the game still pushes you to fight after cause duhh script).

But sure, he's emotionally stunted :( he doesn't qualify to be a villain. I guess only the guy who allowed 5000 years worth of nostalgia, melancholy and depression to make him attempt mass cross universe genocide gets to be a villain, oopsie.

[iron-sparrow]

week o1 // HEATWAVE

in my innocence I have endured trial by fire

heatwave festival // bsky

[iron-sparrow]

wip wednesday

oh, I have been perceived. Thank you for the tag, @zylphiacrowley 🪶 I've not been feeling especially creative lately, but I'll sometimes pop open my journal to some sketching.

I been slowly scratching away at this sparrow...

It's really just a sketch to get back into drawing birds.

As for who to tag, I nominate anyone who is reading these words right now. That's right. Get tagged. You've fallen for my trap card.

[thefreelanceangel]

WIP Wednesday (Posted... Thursday, Oops)

Tagged by @zylphiacrowley and OKAY, I'LL STRUGGLE.

Below is an excerpt from the novella (which is increasingly approaching actual novel length ><) that I've been throwing words at off and on for a while now.

@seasonsofloskival is my side blog for my quartet of novellas -- the second one, Under Spring Shadows, is about my precious baby Capricia getting the devotion her broken ass deserves.

Tagging: @ahollowgrave, @sasslett (I KNOW YOU WRITE), @riftdancing, @gatheredfates, @cerbaros, @feralkwe, and anyone else who wants to hit up the WIP Wednesday (even if you're late like I was :D :D :D)

[displaykitkats]

XIV HEATWAVE FESTIVAL | 7.01 - Heatwave

Dune Dweller

[zylphiacrowley]

Sometimes, all I think about is you Late nights in the middle of June Heat waves been fakin' me out Can't make you happier now

for @fourteenthz's Heatwave Festival prompt list! I hope it gives off very "graphic design is my passion" vibes lol. Anyway, I'm sure I won't be the only one to use this Glass Animal's song for it. :)

[skogsdotter-draws]

Trying to fill the void after UMAD

[iron-sparrow]

on those living in the land of the shadow of death ⸺⸺ a light has dawned

[ bsky ]

[iron-sparrow]

I WILL TRIUMPH // OR I WILL DIE

/ bsky

[julezen]

Elezen enjoyers, are you ready for the next #JULEZEN destination getaway? Join us for a bit of winter in July as we board the Evercold hypetrain~!

❯ HOW IT WORKS

Taking a page from @fourteenthz's book, activities will comprise of (1) a theme, (2) a specific prompt, and (3) a quote. All mediums are welcome. You may participate in any creative way you'd like, using any of the three prompts of the week(end). Be sure to use the #JULEZEN2026 tag when posting your works. You may also tag @JULEZEN directly.

❯ NO DEADLINES

The dates provide some structure but do not take them as firm deadlines. This is meant to be a fun way to celebrate elezen, not summer homework! Feel free to share your wonderful creations during the week, too! I am hoping this format will give participants more freedom and less pressure.

❯ MATURE CONTENT

NSFT works are okay, but please tag and label them as a courtesy. Untagged stuff might not be reshared/blogged!

❯ FULL PROMPT LIST

JULY 4 - JULY 5 Festival / celebrating together / "come on, it'll be fun" JULY 11 - JULY 12 River / ice swimming / "it's not that bad" JULY 18 - JULY 19 Ember / staying warm / "sit with me" JULY 25 - JULY 26 Aurora / forging ahead / "what will you wish for?"

bsky 🦋

[iron-sparrow]

what YOU can do to fight KOSA

KOSA, or the Kids Online Safety Act, is back after failing to pass last year. If history has taught us anything, blanket censorship poses a very real danger to marginalized peoples including the LGBTQ+ community. Because it's never about the kids.

The best time to fight was yesterday; the second best time to fight is right fucking now. So I've scrounged like a stressed-out raccoon in an unattended garbage bin to dig up a few resources you'll hopefully consider to be helpful.

🪶 Contacting your representative is probably the most obvious step. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has made this easy as shit with a webpage that will message your rep for you. The page provides a template you can use as-is or edit freely, and a short form asking for your name, address, and contact information.

Censorship Does Not Keep Kids Safe

KOSA is an alarming bill that would enable censorship and violate young people’s First Amendment right to freely access information. We must

Not that you can't also reach out directly, which I do encourage because the whole process is pretty routine. To find out who to contact, you can look up your House Rep on the official govt site.

🪶 Consider also signing other petitions and supporting organizations dedicated to fighting for a free and open internet.

In addition to the ACLU, I highly recommend Fight for the Future...

Fight for the Future

Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human his

... and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Defending your rights in the digital world

I've also seen the Stop KOSA petition floating around, if you'd like to throw your name into that hat as well.

Stay vigilant and keep fighting, internet enjoyers.

[thefreelanceangel]

And then Anna brought her new pet home after she'd done a little creative magic to make it match her aesthetic.

Seifer was less than thrilled. All of Anna's pets end up biting him at least once.

But who is going to say no to Anna when she spends an entire day breaking a dragon to her will?

Not even her long-suffering, exasperated husband.

Just give up, Seifer. You know it's not a battle you can win.