Yaz's FFXIV blog @yazffxiv - Tumblr Blog

nubosita

2nd attack! 🎨🥊 This is Arkhail for ~runarkrun

I wanted to do some different kinds of attacks this year, what will I do next?

misedejem

They work very hard at the Bureau of the Architect

lambylingames

trying to get back into the ffxiv mood...... so i drew some wolships for me and my friends :3c!!

chraustinjesse

Revenge on Astel!

Xladyminax on artfight

deathflare

hackerman

snowfredel-ffxiv

Speed challenge OC commission for Syllvernight

via >> VGen 💚

bitcrushblues

a small serotonin boost for your day

howdyfriend

what drugs did they put in ffxiv to make you so obsessed with your WoL. Im utterly insane about her

figurecollection

G'raha Tia Nendoroid by Good Smile Company, from Final Fantasy XIV

clarissadixonsart

I hate how some hats hide miqo'te ears...🥺

If I'm ever wearing a hat that removes the ears, this is what I really imagine is going on. #ffxiv #ffxivart #art #wol #miqo'te

amrv-5

Does anyone know what to do about the temperature and also the prices

dualcastimpact

Not to start something during Disability Pride Month but I just saw someone vehemently reject Y'shtola's blindness as a disability because it's not really disabling her in any way (i.e. she can still see), but... she can't? Like, she asked Urianger to describe the night sky to her in that cutscene after you clear the Qitana Ravel because she can no longer see it for herself. I felt like that very clearly cemented how she might be able to see but it was more like seeing the aetheric outline or volume of things or whatever and not actual full normal vision.

I was really surprised to see the level of vehemence that person had about the topic, so now I'm wondering if it's a hotly contested topic in the FFXIV fandom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

actualanxiousswampwitch

Y'Shtola has this thing my mom* calls Blind Without Correction

which is basically saying

she can get glasses (magic that allows her to read aether ink) but she's still blind

b/c if aether ink wasn't involved, she wouldn't be able to see

i guess the person of the post you're complaining about doesn't know anybody with Coke Bottle Lenses - which are Blind Without Correction a lot of the time.

they were thinking being Blind is only Blind WITH Correction which is somebody who can't see even with tools and such to help them.

Y'Shtola is blind by the way, she's just Blind Without Correction, meaning she can have tools which make it so she can See (which tbh isn't much, let's be real here)

*my mom got a master's degree in teaching vision impaired/blind children. these are the children that will go blind as they get older, or they don't have periphriel vision, or they have those thick coke bottle lenses. she taught them Braile, got them large mega watt lamps so they could read, they got the large print school books. But every single one of those children were Blind Without Correction

example of coke bottle lenses

alixennial

So.. I'm writing a blind character in FFXIV, who learns to navigate with aether perception with help from Y'shtola. And I have opinions…

Aether perception isn't normal vision. If something is devoid of aether, they can't see it, such as shadows. Shadows have no aether, so can't be used for depth, distance, or volume, but Y'shtola and my boy don't need those cues because they're getting accurate 3D info from the aether.

Can you imagine how difficult that would be to translate when you're used to normal vision?! NOTHING looks the same, it would be sensory hell, completely messed up.. but… Y'shtola can see just fine, I guess, with her 'magical cure'.

She manages, and is independent. Her difficulties are generally only mentioned when something plot-wise changes to make her sight less effective, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't face daily challenges. She has had to relearn how to navigate her world! I have a close friend who is blind and helping me write an 'authentic' blind character (authentic in quotes as we're playing in a fantasy sandpit, rules bend, but still with respect for the challenges visually impaired people face).

In fairness I haven't seen the post rejecting Y'shtola's disability to comment on directly, but I have witnessed how blind people CAN be (varying degrees of) independent by paying extra attention to how they organise themselves (putting different bank notes in different parts of their wallets, committing routes to memory, counting steps between landmarks if they are able to, and so on) - massive, massive efforts just to give themselves a certain level of normality and independence. And appearing to be unaffected does not make it less of a disability.

toadeyes-miqote

No share taco?

I think G'raha is upset that Hylnyan didn't bring back some of the Neotaco.

cactusringed

But seriously though. Learning to draw fat people will make you a much better artist. Understanding how skin and fat behaves and folds in certain poses, and being able to adapt complex poses to fit a fat body (as usually references are with thin models) will help you TREMENDOUSLY. Drawing fat being properly affected by gravity will aid you in ALL figure drawing in the future. Like if you have any sort of interest in drawing humanoid figures (AND furries) you really ought to learn how to draw fat of all kind.

screamingvikings

Shoutout to the that time alphinaud attended 3 memorial services for the fallen back to back to back and felt the need to lean over to the exact same total stranger at every single one to explain how the guy giving the speech was a little bitch.