Turin's Journal

My FFXIV and WoW adventures as Turin Wallace (Human Dragoon), T'aladaen Cedarlore (Miqo'te Bard), Hadrimont Iseterre (Elezen Paladin), and others!

[landscape-lunacy]

Iceland - by Simona Buratti

[milamai]

Walls purposely revealed their weak points they were wise, they made them up supposedly gave power over them, but always in control hunting trojan horses, that wanted the castle to fall on a cold winter night, the enemy fired and missed, aimed like a fool, but never hit and the castle shined evermore (by Milamai)

[blackreigen-deactivated20190402]

me at 14: lmfaoooo all those “dont trust strangers on the internet” psa’s are sooooooo laaaaaame. like! i love talking to so many friends around the world about anime!!! i love rping!!!!!!!!!

me at 20: theres a deep and insidious culture within rp communities where the majority of folks who joined them as young teens were preyed on and abused by much older adults and i wish i had more guidance on how to avoid these situations as a child.

[lesvampires-deactivated20190127]

can i just

PSA for teens:

the people in your rp group are most likely older than you are. make sure that it is an established thing that you know their ages, or at least whether or not theyre 18+, AND that you’re a minor.

you do not have to give away any personal information that you don’t want to. the people you rp with might start to give out their names, where they live, and other personal details as you all get to know each other. if you’re pressured to giving out any personal info, you might want to reconsider your trust in them.

if it’s something impersonal like omegle where you’ll probably never talk to the other person again, be wary. you don’t know if that other person is 16 or 30. at some point probably ask out of character about their age, or just straight up say you’re a minor and see if they’re cool with it.

you do not have to rp sex scenes. especially with older people, and no matter what your IRL experience. i was pressured into smut rp when i was 15, with a person who was at least 21. i’d never even had my first kiss before at that point. don’t do it.

it’s okay to say no to scene ideas. no matter what they are, if you don’t want to do them then you don’t have to.

make sure that the people you rp with censor or tag explicit content. if they don’t, or if they make fun of you when you ask, that’s probably a big red flag.

PSA for adults:

censor your shit. everything from gore/violence to smut– if it would put the rating of a movie up to at least a PG-13, tag it. 

if you don’t want to rp with kids, find a group that’s 18+. there’s a bunch out there.

if you DO rp with kids, remember that they are just teenagers. 17 year olds now were born in the year 2000. 16 year olds are still in high school. they don’t have the life experiences you do, and you need to take that into account.

do not make fun of people who don’t want to do a scene. don’t pressure people, and take care with how you prompt someone who’s a minor. 

don’t rp sex scenes with minors. like. yall

if you see another adult pressuring a minor into doing smth, or if they’re just interacting with a minor in any weird way, privately message them and remind them. i was doing a smut scene with someone my age, and another rp partner seven years older than me was lurking in our private chatroom to watch it. nobody else said anything. don’t let that shit be normal.

i can’t think of more tips but tldr: communicate!!!!! keep each other safe!!!! god

[kilieit]

all of this

i really wish there was more precedence in the RP community for adult-only communities that aren’t centred on explicit content. i know my brother has been looking for a discord RP server for months now where children aren’t allowed to join, but there’s more to offer than just ERP, since ERP just happens not to appeal to him. he just has the perfectly normal adult want to be able to do his hobby without having to hang out with kids all the time.

on that note, something a bit harsher that i’d like to add for a slightly different subset of teens than the ones addressed above…

Adults refusing to roleplay with you on the grounds of your age isn’t a personal slight. adults and kids are different. our brains work differently. it’s perfectly normal for adults to want to roleplay only with other adults, regardless of the topic. it is not healthy or mature for you to begin verbally attacking an adult because they politely declined you for roleplay, for any reason, including that of your age. it’s natural for a rejection to be upsetting - cope with that upset by venting to your friends, not by attacking someone who’s perfectly within their rights.

Adult-only spaces aren’t cool clubs for you to sneak into. it’s not “18+ unless you’re really good at lying”. it’s not “we have to write 18+ because of the law but if you can keep it on the down low then it’s cool”. “18+ only” is a boundary set by the people in that space and by refusing to respect it, you’re only proving yourself to be too immature to participate. work harder on finding like-minded people your own age. they do exist.

Being chill with explicit content is NOT proof of how mature you are. it is proof that you are UNHEALTHY. it is not cool, it is not something to brag about, and it’s definitely not something that proves you’re more mature than your numerical age. don’t try to use R-rated movies you’ve watched or Explicit-rated fics you’ve read as “proof” that you should be allowed into 18+ spaces. any adult who isn’t a predator will see you doing that as a red flag that you are already at-risk and double down on excluding you: see my first point.

and some reality checks for adults…

If you find a minor has been lying about their age, you MUST change the way you treat them. “well, they’ve been fine up til now” is not an excuse. if you did adult-only things with them, then it is your responsibility to communicate to them that the way you treated them before was wrong on account of their real age, and that you simply had no way of knowing it at the time. communicating to them that they cannot and should not expect adults to treat them like another adult is vital to helping make sure that damage to them is minimised.

Kane touched on this, but I want to reiterate that you must not allow yourself to be a bystander. As a human being, you have a duty to your fellow humans to speak up when you see something that could easily result in something awful. If you see an adult behaving inappropriately towards a minor, call it out. Publically. Don’t give them the benefit of the doubt. Don’t give them space to triangulate. If you have a safeguarding concern about a minor, raise it with the moderators of whatever space you’re in - and if you happen to know an adult in their life, like a parent or older sibling, then raise it with them too. To be realistic, there’s nothing you can do to 100% prevent all abuse from happening around you. But there are steps you can take to reduce the likelihood that it’ll culminate in something horrible. So what you need to do is ask yourself: if this minor went on to suffer a real-life sexual assault as a direct result of the grooming I’m witnessing, would I be able to tell myself I’d done everything I reasonably could to prevent it? Other adults speaking up when they saw something saved the abuse I went through as a teen from being MUCH worse. You MUST remember that all abusers have the default standpoint of believing that everyone else would do what they’re doing, if they had the chance. Prove. Them. Wrong.

Sharing explicit content with someone when you have reasonable cause to believe they may be under the age of 18 is a REAL LIFE, ACTUAL CRIME. like, lose-your-job, go-to-gaol type crime. it is NOT “everyone does it”. it is NOT “technically illegal but morally OK”. Big time crime. And if nothing else about the consequences of doing so scares you - the psychological damage you inflict on the minor, the abuse from others that you’re priming them to, the future relationship problems they may suffer - then this should.

[pixalry]

World of Warcraft Illustrations - Created by Jorge Jacinto

[cirilafiona]

GWENT: The Witcher Card Game | Official Launch Trailer

[resonance-of-libra]

This is the Lucky Ace. Reblog to recieve a wad of cash that is oddly specific to your current needs.

[jukaidream]

I reblogged this shit two days ago y’all… what kinda sorcery is this. Oddly specific too …. I’ll take it tho 🤯

[thisisasinkingship]

I think I did it wrong

[comic-girl2234-deactivated20240]

Uh I reblogged this like 3 days ago and I start my new job on Monday??? Like idk how you accidentally find a job but I did.

[caprifreak]

I need to get paid asap so pls ace help

[caprifreak]

I GOT PAID I GOT PAID!!!!!! MUCH MORE THAN I EXPECTED AAAAAAAAAAAA THANK YOU ACE

[musinvenusian]

I legit have a specific amount i want in my head rn it better come true 😭

[riyerose]

I ALSO HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY I WOULD LIKE TO ACQUIRE, PLEASE HELP

[bluedogeyes]

I reblog this every time I see it. I just cant

[nikthestrange101]

THIS IS WHERE THE MEME CAME FROM

[jkl-fff]

Seriously, though, the French LOVED Edgar Allan Poe, thanks in particular to Jules Verne.

He even wrote a sequel to Poe’s only novel, and numerous essays about how great an author Poe was.

By all accounts, Poe (who lived a penniless life in the US) really *was* baffled by all of this.

[ladynorbert]

Reblogging because I never saw that part before!

[lunamagicablu]

[artofjosevega]

[geeksngamers]

Bounty Hunter - by Jose Vega

[cyrail]

Reblogged by Cyrail: Inspiring artworks that make your day better

[we-are-rogue]

Pirate by dongho Kang

[clovermemories]

Male idol group performing in Ul’dah, Balmung.

(Featuring Nonopi Nopi, Mistress Koko, and music from @tableclothxiv)

[mamezy]

Pharos Sirius：Siren

[14kuponuts]

From the Stormblood Artbook, this hottie Zenos yae Galvus

[andarion]

clearly the new emotes were meant for airship ground crews...

[turinwallace]

Just some pics from the last few days. Samurai has been turning out well!

[belpheailuros]

[bride-and-bride]

I think that… With Balmung reopening, it’s a good time to think seriously about all of us here continuing to support and bolster Mateus as it’s own rp server, rather than just ‘where u go bc Balmung is closed’.

I know a bunch of folk who returned, and many of them had the same situation… They left to play with someone else, that person later stopped playing, and they were left high and dry. I think that sort of thing is a fine reason to return, and those who do because of things like that were likely not major participators in Mateus’s scene.

But there’s still people on Mateus! It’s still a server with a pretty decent size rp community, and even with Balmung open I think we should encourage that. Suggest it to new players looking for homes! List it as an option! Even if it’s feel is different, there’s bound to be people who will find it more to their taste than a larger setting, and we shouldn’t just disregard it now that the BIG one is open, you know?