I figured since I plan on being active a bit more to introduce myself and my character since its been like 8-9 years since i've been actively posting on tumblr? I was pretty active from 2012-2013ish till about 2017-2018ish in various fandoms. And I do mean active as opposed to like once every 3 months looking at some art and reblogging. It feels like a whole new platform since it's been so long despite knowing it hasn't really changed.
Hi! I'm Shay, and this is my FFXIV Character Mallory Daxter! I made her back in 2021 (January but i didnt start seriously playing until August that year.) as my first character to try it out when a bunch of my friends had started playing it. Started on PS4, and then I started modding back in 2023 when I got my Steam Deck.
I'll probably be posting her more then anything so I'd like to introduce her a bit more.
Disclaimer: I am a Wol-Haurchefant shipper (single ship) open to interacting with other WOLs and fellow Haurchefant shippers and overall just anyone in the community. I do want to denote because of previous issues I had in RP previously I will not be engaging with it, mostly just posting lore and maybe some writing if I feel comfortable enough. I love seeing other WOLs and their ships and stories and talking about them with others though!
Mallory is a Keeper of the Moon from the Black Shroud, She is a Scholar (I call her particular variety Faemancer though) as her main Job and Pictomancer as her Alt job in canon. Her partner is Haurchefant Greystone, and her favorite DOL job is Botanist. She is bubbly and hopeful, and while a powerful WOL it's not really a physical strength 1v1 kind of power. Her companion Fairy is a Fat Cat fairy, and her Companion Chocobo is a purple sweet boy named Pooki.
Songs I associate her with are specifically:
I have alot of AUs (Lightwarden AU, Titania AU, Retirement AU, ect.) and OCs also in my world making up my WOL-Party (Lalahee Lahee my Warrior Lalafell introduced in ARR, Aurelie Beatrix my Black Mage/Red Mage introduced in Heavensward, Akari Yasuko a Doman resistance informant/infiltration unit set in Kugane who leaves to help on the Ala Mhigan front during Stormblood after the story in Doma ends, Faustina Rem Sidus an ex Garlean Primus Pilus of Doma under Zenos who defects shortly after his plotline in Stormblood/Post Stormblood. Each filling a Role for Melee, Ranged, Magic dps tank, and Mallory being the Healer)
Also my "Ship baby" Iselle Greystone (Elezen/Miqo'te) Mallory's parents who are Gleaners Thya Dakonsa and Silvaire Valtin, Tyche (my Azem) and her companions (Circe, Nemesis, and Melinöe), and Shard Counterparts I'm working on (Currently only have Tsavorite done, my 9th Shard variant unfortunately not pictured as there is a picture limit as well)
I also have an OC x OC ship (Akari and Faustina) which is a bit angsty. I really look forward to posting my own stuff rather then reblogging exclusively though! I am excited to see other WOLs and OCs and enjoy in the story indulgence, and hopefully become more familar with others in the process. I do tend to use alot of pre-made poses and adjusting as needed as I'm not supppeeerrr good at posing yet but I am trying to familiarize myself better with the posing stuff :3 most of the really good stuff is Comms from my friends 🩷💚 do not be afraid to message me/ask if you want links to anything mods wise I am always open to sending unless it's a personal commission (my makeup for Mallory in particular and Haurchefants scar mod not pictured) and files themselves for discontinued mods that I had updated I can sent if need be too!
I also wanna give credit to my Homies for the gpose Comms used in the post! (Kyary for my Arcadion Opponent card, Ikumi Yamoshi for my Haurchefant and Mallory leaning on each other, and Alexia for my favorite joke gpose of Titania Mallory with Haurchefant in the background that shit had me dying she really said "Don't worry about him he's resting" I will probably post the actual Comm set I got with that later on bc it's part of the Titania AU)
It's a pleasure to be back on the platform officially.
sorry but someone assuming you have "left a fandom" when you don't post about it a lot anymore feels like bilbo coming home to the sackville bagginses having him presumed dead and selling all his stuff. girl i was just on a little quest????
I don't think Estinien ever worries about the WoL, not because he doesn't care, but because anything you do he just assumes you'll succeed, even if it shouldn't be possible. You brought Ishgard and dragons together, you and Alphinaud saved him from Nidhogg's eyes, and then you immediately freed two more countries, of course you're going to save this other world and bring the scions' souls home. He doesn't really understand it, but it sounds like you have it covered. The world is ending? Man it's a good thing we got you on our side. Fought a god of despair at the edge of the world? That's a Tuesday for you, right? The WoL is seemingly dying on the spaceship floor? Nah, watch this, they're gonna perk up in about ten minutes and give us each a high five. (Alisaie smacks him for saying this, but he's absolutely still right.)
Estinien may not be the smartest of the scions, but he is wise, and he may not fully understand what plot armor is, but he's definitely clocked that you got it.
#Everyone else is worried about the time your luck will finally run out#G'raha actually saw it in another world#Estienien is big brain and says when that happens we won't have to worry about it for long
I guess before I get too far ahead of myself, I should post about the Destiny Seekers (My WOL Party) and some of my other OCs technically outside of that realm.
In order of introduction:
Lalahee Lahee - A Realm Reborn
Aurelie Beatrix - Heavensward
Akari Yasuko - Stormblood
Faustina Rem Sidus - Stormblood (joins the team in Post patch)
Other notable characters in my universes so far:
Thya Dakonsa - Mallory's Mom
Silvaire Valtin - Mallory's Dad
Iselle Greystone - Mallory and Haurchefant's child
Tyche - Azem, Mallory's ancient
Agape - Haurchefant's ancient
Circe - Aurelie's ancient
Melinoë - Akari's ancient
Nemesis - Faustina's ancient
Tsavorite - Mallory's 9th reflection counterpart
Lightwarden Philautia - Mallory's Lightwarden form after being consumed by Light
Pooki - Mallory's Chocobo (not shown, will get pics of my precious boy later)
I will reblog this with each character and more about them as I go through. If you are curious about anything or anyone, please ask, it helps me figure more lore out so I'm always open to inquiries about my beloved storylines and characters. I am kinda new to openly sharing lore beyond the confines of my friend group so I hope that despite it being a little outlandish and all over the place, that it brings others some joy and inspiration to create as it does me when i see others constructed in depth stories and worlds inside the confines of the xiv universe. For now I'm going to compile all my gposes for each character up and maybe do one or so a day give or take?
Lalahee grew up in Limsa Lominsa, to a family of fishers knowing only days upon days on the open sea. She would meet her dearest companion Major General this way, a shark with little legs that followed her ship until it docked. She offered a fish to him from her catches and he proceeded to continue following her from that day on. As she grew up, with little change occuring in her life, her impatience for the monotony of everything grew. She was tired of the same places and same people and the same routes, she couldnt contain her frustration, and thus she decided to try her hand at the adventures guild "To live a little". They would only let her join if she learned some combat skills, so she had met with the Marauders guild leader and the Arcanist leader to try her hand at each. Her magic usage was choppy and unrefined as she couldnt control her temper enough to focus on her mistakes to correct them and so it wasn't a good fit. Her natural affinity for sudden fits of rage worked in her favor as a Marauder and she quickly learned the basics of combat. It. Felt. So. Amazing. The thrill and release of every frustration through combat truly left her at peace. She ran through her first dungeons with a measly group of fellow newbies and single handedly trampled every single enemy leaving a wake of destruction behind her. She had met Mallory this way, though she doesn't remember her. Mallory had a hard time learning offensive magic in her early days and was very unpredictable in dungeons as a result. The only lasting impression Lalahee had of her was she sure keeps tripping into traps and hazards alot. Some due to her casting and getting thrown back, some due to just pure inattention to her surroundings. Mallory was not very suited for aggressive magic types either and would not have left any lasting impressions until literally running into her at the marauders guild when Mallory had taken on her lessons as a Scholar, and came up to Lalahee who she remembered was a beast of a party member when she was trying to find someone suitable to go through Brayflox together to test out her new abilities. Lalahee couldn't place where she saw this cat from before but decided it would be interesting because she only wanted a solo adventurer so it would be a moment to wreck without worry of bystanders.
They got a little lost together when they entered the longstop. The moment Mallory tripped into the river she immediately clocked where she remembered her.
"AH thats right! You're the clumsy cat, you kept pressing the wrong buttons by tripping into them with your face, Wow im surprised you are still alive??? You gotta tell me your secrets sometime! Heheheh"
Mallory got incredibly embarassed and promised she would do much better now and be a bigger help now that she has learned more, she told her she already defeated Ifrit by herself so she is more then capable of combat now! "I just have an issue with rocks and most ledges and terrain changes... but its fine really!"
Of course Lalahee made sure to motion extra carefully for ledges as they made their way through, and Mallory kept her alive from the surprising number of poison creatures lurking as they helped clear Brayflox's longstop.
She made particular note of how unstable and potent Mallory's healing spells felt compared to healers shes had before. It was clear she was having a hard time controlling her Aether but she got it stable enough to comfortably channel it in easier spells but they felt almost explosive, which was perfect for Lalahee, that burst of life helped fuel her through. As they were helping clear, they talked about their journey so far, and how they came to be where they are. Mallory divulged very little from before her coming to Limsa on that boat but did share her purpose for coming to Limsa and what had happened since their first introduction.
They worked very well together, so Lalahee decided she would help her on her journey as she seemed to attract interesting experiences and it was exactly the kind of experiences Lalahee wanted to go through. She has been with her ever since, even the adventuring party member of hers joining her in Shadowbringers. She managed to out of sheer spite and power scale up the cliffsides in Kholusia to help protect the dwarven folk in those lands. The ladder not working was irrelevant to her desire to be on the top.
She is rowdy and loud and here to live her life to the fullest without regret, she wants to have a higher purpose then fishing her days away in mild mediocrity.
Fun facts: her name was decided because the "Do you know Lahee?" Soken performance lives rent free in my head so naturally when I would make a lalafell, it was going to include that, none of my friends recommended any better names so alas she was born. Also her archetype is quite literally little girl big axe. Shes my "meme" character and the last character I finished developing i wanna say its been uh about 4 months but actually technically she was the first one I started making because I had always thought if I was gonna make an adventuring party like my friends with their support characters they made, that I wanted a Lalafell Warrior specifically. It was bc of this concept that I decided to have a Character for each Role (Tank,Magic,Ranged,Melee, with Mallory filling the Healer role with a variety of races suiting that role and i wanted to focus on making characters that represented each expansion, i had thought the Lalafell would be someone she met in Shadowbringers instead and brought them back but then i realized i had mallory soloing with npcs for the entirety of ARR, I also decided because of that specific fact that I wanted the story despite Mallory being "the" Warrior of Light, that she was only able to make it that far with cooperation. I also almost forgot to mention, she is the only of my Main Party that does not have an Ancient, I had some issues trying to conceptualize and decided my current Ancient characters were more then enough
Any questions about her or her lore please Ask away i would love to do a bit more exploration on her as a character since I havent done alot of gposes with her yet.
⋆˙⟡ She confesses her feelings during an argument because she gets too angry to keep pretending she doesn’t care.
⋆˙⟡ He almost tells her he loves her, but stops himself and says something stupid instead, and she spends the rest of the night trying to figure out what he meant.
⋆˙⟡ She leaves him a letter confessing everything, then immediately regrets it and tries to get it back before he reads it.
⋆˙⟡ He confesses while half-asleep, thinking it’s a dream, and she has to act normal the next morning while quietly losing her mind.
⋆˙⟡ She blurts out “because I love you” in the middle of explaining why she saved him, and then both of them just freeze.
⋆˙⟡ He confesses after thinking she’s about to leave forever, because panic finally beats pride.
⋆˙⟡ She has rehearsed the confession perfectly, but when the moment comes, she forgets every word and just says his name.
⋆˙⟡ He tells her he loves her in another language because he assumes she won’t understand, but she does.
⋆˙⟡ She confesses indirectly by saying, “I don’t know who I am when you’re gone,” and he understands immediately.
⋆˙⟡ He tries to confess casually and fails so badly that she starts laughing, which somehow makes the moment more honest.
every time they show a new ffxiv meteor render for an expansion where they sculpted him even hotter, i come closer to understanding haurchefant and zenos. i, too, would take an easily avoidable giant spear to the heart so i can die in his arms or bring about the end of the world so i can slip into his dms
"...Don't look at me like that, Alisaie. We all knew it was always going to fall to me." - Ophelia Hoshi (She/Her, They/Them)
Steppe born, Ala Mhigan raised, and Eorzean reborn, Ophelia Hoshi is the youngest of the Warriors of Light, both preceding and following the Seventh Umbral Calamity. A life of struggle and loss created a hero of stalwart convictions—even when those convictions were selfish or destructive.
Leaving their journey to the edge of existence, they vacated their role as Warrior of Light to return to being a nameless adventurer. At their fancy, they would find whomever was in need and provide their aid, on their terms and nobody else's.
Age: 15 (1.2/2.0) — 23 (8.0)
Height: ~4'10 (ARR-ShB), ~5'0.5" (After 5.0)
Jobs: CNJ -> DRG -> DRK -> "RPR" -> BRD -> RDM
More in depth history!
Ophelia was born Okimi of the Orl, not long before the Orl first started the migration to Eorzea. With many having children too young to survive the trip, many stayed behind until they could follow their kin. At the age of five, she would join the remnants of her tribe in the journey, ultimately becoming orphaned at the hand of the Empire.
She would be rescued by an Ala Mhigan adventurer named Aevetr Hoshi, himself able to trace lineage across all three of the great continents. The then six year old Okimi could provide no name for him, thus he named her after his late grandmother.
Unable to take her through the occupied Ala Mhigo alone, he would raise her as his own for the next few years in the mountains.
In the years that followed, their number would be reinforced thrice over. First by M'inwa Tia, a former revolutionary, second by Nanayumu Yumu, the self proclaimed master and scion of Black Magic, and finally by Lunaille Jandelaine, an actual master of White Magic.
Ophelia was, functionally, their squire and assistant; an assistant who routinely followed them into dangerous places and situations to not be left behind despite all their best efforts to prevent her from doing so. This habit never ended, even as the moon fell and Aevetr did everything in his power to get Ophelia the chance for a quiet, peaceful life in Sharlayan.
Their final memory of the Calamity is of Aevetr. Specifically, of him using his body and the force of his being to be their shield for the brief moments before they could be teleported away. He did not survive.
While the rest emerged relatively unscathed, if scattered to the four winds, Ophelia did not. Never intended to be present, they were lost in the Lifestream without a destination, scooped up by Hydaelyn and kept safe from both time and being washed clean by the Lifestream's influence. There they waited for five years, until the time was right for them to be dropped in the right place at the right time. A youth without memory and devoid of purpose, ripe to be molded into the hero that the world would need.
I guess before I get too far ahead of myself, I should post about the Destiny Seekers (My WOL Party) and some of my other OCs technically outside of that realm.
In order of introduction:
Lalahee Lahee - A Realm Reborn
Aurelie Beatrix - Heavensward
Akari Yasuko - Stormblood
Faustina Rem Sidus - Stormblood (joins the team in Post patch)
Other notable characters in my universes so far:
Thya Dakonsa - Mallory's Mom
Silvaire Valtin - Mallory's Dad
Iselle Greystone - Mallory and Haurchefant's child
Tyche - Azem, Mallory's ancient
Agape - Haurchefant's ancient
Circe - Aurelie's ancient
Melinoë - Akari's ancient
Nemesis - Faustina's ancient
Tsavorite - Mallory's 9th reflection counterpart
Lightwarden Philautia - Mallory's Lightwarden form after being consumed by Light
Pooki - Mallory's Chocobo (not shown, will get pics of my precious boy later)
I will reblog this with each character and more about them as I go through. If you are curious about anything or anyone, please ask, it helps me figure more lore out so I'm always open to inquiries about my beloved storylines and characters. I am kinda new to openly sharing lore beyond the confines of my friend group so I hope that despite it being a little outlandish and all over the place, that it brings others some joy and inspiration to create as it does me when i see others constructed in depth stories and worlds inside the confines of the xiv universe. For now I'm going to compile all my gposes for each character up and maybe do one or so a day give or take?
So they're revamping Chocobo Companions, but keeping the existing Ranks in place. Sounds like a great time to rank up your Chocobo if you haven't already. And to do that you'll need Thavnairian Onions. You can get a couple from quests in game, but mostly you wind up having to buy them, and they are expensive as hell because they're so obnoxious to grow.
I'm going to bet that the demand is about to spike WAY higher than the supply, so if you want to grow them yourself to either sell or use, here's the simplest Thavnairian Onion Gardening Guide I could manage. Sorry it's still pretty involved, but once you have the materials together and understand what to do with them the most burdensome thing about it is the time commitment.
Detailed instructions under the cut
Here's what you'll need. It looks like a lot, but of the various options available these are the ones I personally found to be the least stressful to assemble.
THE ABILITY TO LOG IN AT LEAST EVERY 24 HOURS: If you do not water your plants once a day, many of them will die. If you're planting in a Free Company garden you can enlist other members to help. If you're planting in a personal house garden, I believe you can designate someone else a tenant of your house and let them also help? You can't over-water but you can under-water, so the more the merrier.
A HOUSE (FREE COMPANY OR PERSONAL): This can only be done in outdoor gardening plots, which is why Onions are a perk a lot of FCs provide to members. If the only garden you have available is outside a Free Company House, an officer may need to set permissions to give you access to it.
DELUXE GARDEN PATCH (AS MANY AS POSSIBLE): These are the garden plots with 8 spots for seeds/soil, and a scarecrow in the middle. Honestly I'm not sure why they even sell the two smaller size of garden plots, I've never seen anyone use them. Anyway… 2-3 Deluxe Garden Plots make this process easier because you'll usually want to be growing 2-3 different sets of stuff at a time, but if you've only got access to 1 you can still grow Thavnairian Onions, it'll just take longer obviously and you'll have to remember to alternate what you plant each time. A Small House can have 1 Deluxe Garden Patch, a Medium House can have 2, and a Large House can have 3.
FISH MEAL: And a ton of it. Basically any time you're near your garden, go by and sprinkle fish meal on all the seeds. You can sprinkle 1 per real world hour on each seed, and they cut down the time the seed needs to grow (I'm not sure precisely how much, the formula seems to be contentious in the gardening community). Is this 100% necessary? No, you can do without Fish Meal entirely if you want. But the grow times on these seeds are all pretty long, and anything you can do to speed them up will both increase your yield over time and reduce the risk of your seeds drying out if you miss a watering cycle. And honestly, this stuff is cheap enough that it's a very easy call to use it whenever you get the chance. Fish Meal can be bought from housing merchants in every housing district for 21 gil each, or a level 5+ Culinarian can craft 12 of them from 3 Lominsan Anchovies and 1 Fire Shard. And Lominsan Anchovies can be bought for 7 gil each from Holasfhis (Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks X:10.3, Y:13.6) or from the Material Suppliers you can place inside houses (last item under Cooking Ingredients). Or you can fish them yourself from the dock right by the Fishing Guild in Limsa Lominsa, if you're determined to be as cheap as possible about this.
GRADE 3 THANALAN TOPSOIL: You'll need 8 of these per Deluxe Garden Patch you want to fill up. These improve the chance of the seeds that grow in them producing crossbreed seeds, but they still don't guarantee anything. You can acquire Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil from a Mining node that appears at 5AM Eorzea Time in Western La Noscea in the Hammerlea area (roughly X:18, Y:28), but you can only gather one per spawn of that node. However, once you gather them, if you have a Retainer whose job is set to Miner and is at least level 50 with gear that raises their Gathering score to 149 or higher, you can send them out to gather one Thanalan Topsoil per hour for 2 Ventures. And you can also trade Thanalan Topsoil them from Bertana in Idyllshire (X:5.9, Y:5.2) for one Unidentifiable Ore each. There are a ton of different ways to get Unidentifiable Ores, look it up! The most common is to just buy them for 150 Tomestones of Poetics each from another NPC in the same building as Bertana.
POTTING SOIL: You'll need some of the basic crappy potting soil to optimize your crossbreeding chances, roughly 1 for every 8 Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil. I'll explain why in a bit. You can just buy these from Material Suppliers/Apartment Merchants in every Housing District for 120 gil each.
MIRROR APPLE SEEDS: You will want 4-5x of these per Deluxe Garden Plot you want to fill. You can get these as a level 42+ Botanist in Coerthas Central Highlands, from the trees immediately to the West of Camp Dragonhead. Being level 55+ for Luck of the Pioneer makes this much easier, as the seeds are usually Hidden, even for max-level Botanists in good gear. You may also want to go and collect your daily Map first, so that you can guarantee that hitting Luck of the Pioneer will make a seed appear instead of a Map that you don't want. Then once you've gathered these at least once, you can send a Botanist Retainer to get another one once per hour. Why do you want 4-5? I'll explain under the crossbreeding section, it'll be up to you to decide if you want to throw away 1 Mirror Apple Seed per plot or one of the other two types of seeds you're pairing it with.
KRAKKA ROOT SEEDS: You'll want 4-5x of these per Deluxe Garden Plot you want to fill. You'll want them in half your available plots usually, or to alternate them if you've got an odd number of plots. You can buy these for 3,480 gil each from the Material Suppliers in the Housing Zones, or from Tanie in New Gridania (X:11.0, Y:11.1). That's a lot of gil when you add up how many you'll eventually go through, so maybe check the market board too. But honestly it's way more likely that people are trying to flip these at a premium than that someone had a bunch of extra to sell at a loss.
OLD WORLD FIG SEEDS: You'll also want 4-5x of these per Delux Garden Plot you want to fill. The other half of your plots that aren't half-full of Krakka Root Seeds will be half-full of Old World Fig Seeds. In either case the other half will be the Mirror Apple Seeds. Old World Fig Seeds can be found from a timed Botany node in The Dravanian Forelands that's available from 2AM-4AM or 2PM-4PM. You can gather at least 8 per spawn of this node, and with Botanist tricks can get as many as 36 pretty easily, so these will probably be among the more abundant ingredients you'll have.
Ok, got all the stuff together? Here's what to do with it!
You're trying to generate Thavnairian Onion Seeds, which only result from successful crossbreeding of other seeds that themselves only emerge from successful crossbreeding. So you want to use your Mirror Apple Seeds and Krakka Root Seeds to crossbreed Curiel Root Seeds, and then use your Mirror Apple Seeds and Old world Fig Seeds to generate Royal Kukuru Seeds. And once you've done that you can use your Curiel Root Seeds and Royal Kukuru Seeds to generate Thavnairian Onion Seeds, which you can either sell or grow.
But how does crossbreeding seeds work?
Basically you want to plant your seeds in alternating patterns so that each seed is next to a different type of seed, and you'll want to use Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil because it boosts the chances of crossbreeding. Crossbreeding chance is determined at the moment you plant the seeds, so every seed but the first one you plant has a crossbreeding chance based on its neighbor. That's why you plant that first seed using the cheap Potting Soil - the first seed's crossbreed chance will always be zero because it has no neighbors yet, so a Thanalan Topsoil would be wasted on it. Then after you plant the other seven seeds you can dig up the first seed and re-plant another one using the Grade 3 Thanalan Soil, so that now every planted seed has a chance to generate crossbreed seeds.
Once you've planted using that pattern, visit to sprinkle Fish Meal as often as possible (but no more than once per real world hour) and to water the plants at least every 24 hours (and ideally sooner, you don't want to risk cutting it too close).
When you've used this planting pattern to generate at least 4-5 Curiel Root Seeds and 4-5 Royal Kukuru Seeds, you'll want to use the exact same pattern to crossbreed those with each other and generate Thavnairian Onion Seeds. This is where having 3 Garden Plots becomes really ideal, so you can have one plot generating Curiel Root Seeds, one plot generating Royal Kukuru Seeds, and one plot crossbreeding them into Thavnairian Onion Seeds. But realistically even with that setup you'll often have times where the RNG doesn't like you and you don't have enough of either type of tier-2 seed to start making Onion seeds, so don't worry too much if your garden is too small to fully optimize like that.
Thavnairian Onion Seeds have some pretty good crossbreeding potential too, so you may want to put them in a garden outdoors. But you can only get one onion per seed, so fancy soils don't really matter for them unless you're crossbreeding them, and you may decide to plant them indoors so that one or two onion seeds don't disrupt a whole garden plot from generating more onion seeds. That's all a bit beyond the scope of what I want to go into here though, so if you really want to go crazy with more crossbreeding once you've got your onion seeds, you'll have to look it up yourselves.
Hopefully this all makes sense, feel free to hit me up with any questions!
You are allowed to play the game as much or as little as you like & still be apart of the community when announcements happen.
Yoshi P promotes taking breaks, to play other games as well as just doing whatever you want. Don't let people make you feel like you cannot participate in discussions about the upcoming expac just bc you might not be as active in game rn.
Haven't played the game much recently bc:
• You’ve been busy playing other games.
• Your life has just been busy.
• You just haven’t been feeling it lately?
• Some other random reason.
All are perfectly OK! Taking a break is a good thing and you can still take up space!
