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ttenri

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lizzietheshortie

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working on some ffxiv blinkies because why not (and there's a stark lack in that department)

I will take requests, it just might take a bit to get to them lol

chib-g

The Seat of Sacrifice

aretarers

seriously do not fuck with final fantasy they will make you care about default brown haired white man you think it won't happen you say to yourself i will never care about default brown haired white man in fact i think he's kind of lame and then they hit you upside the head with shadowbringers and before you know it you're sitting there like i have to go to work ardbert give me strength we'll get through this together

overwithering

As much as I love Shadowbringers and Endwalker, it's so hard to read other people's posts about their love for it because, they always drag down the previous expansions.

Like, yes, SHB and EW are peak expansions that I personally don't think anything new will ever truly live up to, but. man. It's so disheartening to hear people talk so poorly about ARR through Stormblood. ARR is fantastic once you get past the initial introductory phase and if you are lucky to not have to rely on the world's worst EN localisation and does a masterful work of laying down the groundwork for the rest of the game.

I see so many posts where it's someone asking "hey! I've seen you talk about Shadowbringers a lot, is the game worth it?" and the answerer rightfully sings of the expansion's praise but then. Immediately goes into dragging the previous expansions like "the expansions are absolutely miserable to get through but you sadly have to play them in order to actually understand SHB's story" like!!! no!!! The expansions play off each other so well and even if there are certain stories that don't work as good, they are still good stories worth experiencing!!!

I also just think in general saying that the first three expansions—which at minimum takes about 300 hours if you're being thorough—are terrible while trying to convince someone to play the game is. a surefire way to make that person not play the game.

haunted-xander

Easily one of the best twins moments ever

jlinebeck

"The FF14 community is very welcoming and friendly especially to newcomers" and "The FF14 community has a massive problem with elitism, gatekeeping, and toxicity towards players especially minorities" are statements that are both true and we need to realise that, especially in regards to the latter.

Because the more we pretend that the latter statement isn't true, the worse things get.

Also gonna be real here, it feels like at times that the first statement gets pushed as a way to avoid having to deal with the second statement being a thing.

oyoshiart

i haven't had the inspiration to draw in ages, but some pride art felt appropriate given some recent events ^^

yyymmmrrr

finished endwalker. i am very normal about him

ffxmtg

Shinryu, Transcendent Rival Illustrator: Susumu Kuroi

hotshotriot

its like strippers and the economy to me

rhymingteelookatme

#eorzean proverb: one scion is happenstance two is coincidence three is impending calamity

via @ofdarklands

wolchefant

there are people on here who get thousands of notes on their fanart and headcanons of a game they publicly admit to not playing or understanding and really i just don't get that

wolchefant

so this was a broad statement with a few different people in mind but apparently something happened. ive been hating this dude for the love of the game i didn’t even know he was finally getting called out… anyway nights-at-crystarium is also the person who dismissed ala mhigans as “politically angry men in a cave” when he didn’t want to do their part of arr, so he’s always been racist and an idiot 👍

wolchefant

like on top of being a fucking moron who calls the scions a "cult" because they're friends who knew each other before the wol joins, he's just straight up racist

konnono

Big up to OP for this because while everyone and their mothers have been coming out of the woodwork about the shitty things the Fragments author has said and done, not a single one actually gave receipts on what exactly he said about the Ala Mhigans that was so shitty—and that's if they even mention it!

And to be clear, it IS shitty and there's a lot that can be said about the intersectionality between racism and dismissing an oppressed people driven out of their homeland and fighting for their right to live with dignity as "politically angry", and how in the Ala Mhigan Resistance's case it may very well be rooted in the player's own discrimination towards brown people...

...but for the most part I think this just shows how shallow and self-absorbed the Fragments author is—not just about engaging with the game's lore but just in general. The Ala Mhigans in Little Ala Mhigo mirror many different real-world refugee groups fleeing their war-torn homelands who struggle to adapt and assimilate in the countries that have given them refuge—countries whose cultures are so different and dissimilar to their own that they'd have to give up their cultural identity to be properly "accepted". If he's dismissing the Ala Mhigans in Little Ala Mhigo as "politically angry men", how does he view refugee groups in his country? How does he view a minority group (that he doesn't belong to) protesting for their civil rights? The answer is simple: he doesn't. He's never thought about it. He equates everything he doesn't care for with "politics (derogatory)", even when it involves fighting for the civil rights of an oppressed group.

If it's not about him, he doesn't care. Note how he says the Sylphs and the Little Ala Mhigo sections are important because "we get to prevent the primal summonings". It's important to him because it revolves around (his) WoL doing stuff and being cool, but he doesn't give a rat's arse about things that don't actually impact him or his WoL directly, such as the people who are affected by Laurentius' treachery or Wilred's well-meaning but foolhardy actions. He doesn't care about them, and to "personally dislike the politically angry men" shows how much he dislikes having to engage with things that do not relate to him and that he sees as disruptive to his nice little bubble of a life where the biggest struggle he has is not having enough eyes on his self-indulgent webcomic and being one of the precious few gay creators in the horrifically straight FFXIV fandom /s

And it's genuinely mirrored in the very thing that propelled him into this mess! He doesn't give a shit about biphobia, he doesn't give a shit about bisexuals constantly getting flack for not being queer enough for liking the opposite gender as well their own—all that matters to him is his struggles. He's the one being oppressed as a gay person. He's the one who has to see all these icky "straight" M/F ships. He's the one who has to deal with the indignity of seeing his favourite blorbo that he identifies so much with headcanoned by other people as anything other than gay. He wants to claim Emet-Selch as gay because Emet-Selch is so camp and flamboyant and theatrical that it's an affront to gay people to deny his stereotypical gayness, even though stereotypical determinism in 2026 is the opposite of queer progress. It's all about him and what he thinks being gay is, and fuck every other queer identity. Up yours, he's fighting for his.

What a horrendous little person. Hopefully this is the last time I reblog anything about him because I think we can establish by now that he's really just a shallow, self-absorbed and selfish little prick who refuses to take any warranted criticism into account, and the sooner he disappears into obscurity, the better.