FFXIV Magnai

Magnai for the FFXIV playing card deck today.
Just one card remaining!
#FFXIV

Simon has left the band and whats worse Alvin said our band is called Alvin and the Chipmunk now. like im just a thing

I have been slaying the spire tyvm
Got insanely lucky with this run.
After like 50 runs dying to A9 its kinda crazy to clear A10 in one go haha
Tear Asunder my beloved

Every couple months or so, I see people asking where to find the video of Cid in Orbonne Monastery saying "CUM"

I'm the one who made it, I still have it, and I'm posting it yet again so you can enjoy it :v

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

tysm for making the weapon!! my boi's pre-colonial visayan/mactan warrior glam now looks complete 🙏✨

ah who am I kidding i coloured him in

OP in question here! Direct link to source:
www.tumblr.com/cfs-melkire/...

More importantly, however, I found myself asking, “Where is the samovar?” I could see the cup and pot on the table. I could see the kettle on the stove. Two screenshots follow, with the first showing a cup and pot on the table, the second of the kettle on the stove. And that’s when it clicked: the Middle East, Iran/Persia specifically, would not have had samovars at the time that this “ancient folklore” takes place. We only got them fairly recently, within the past few hundred years, from Russia. Square Enix paid enough attention to realize that there shouldn’t be a samovar here.

Truly, they paid a good deal of attention throughout. The bazaar which you pass through? Carpets and rugs. Carpets and rugs galore. We’re not done with carpets yet. Thankfully, none of these fly. I cannot stress enough just how much my family loves carpets, and all of the Iranians and Iranian-Americans with whom I’m familiar love carpets. A screenshot of the party running through the Bountiful Bazaar area, where an NPC near to the camera says "Oh my! This is quite the lovely color!" while our friend Y'nazqha's speech bubble reads "I've never seen such elaborate weaving!" Flyover text says "What awaits at road's end?" in italics. The area's flyover text indicates "Bountiful Bazaar" and there are rugs hanging all around. We’ll touch more on aesthetic as we go, but it’s time to discuss another important area in which the team paid attention to detail: language.

Farsi, Also Known as Persian As it so happened, the first run I experienced with strangers took us down the bazaar and to the Anchorite at Corvos. This is a coastal beach section, and I’m not in a position to comment on the aesthetics here, having never had the opportunity to visit Iran; may I do so within my lifetime, inshallah! What surprised me, however, was the name of the final boss awaiting us at the end of that route. A screenshot is shown of the Darya the Sea-Maid boss fight, with her introduction text reading "SHATTERING SIREN" followed by "DARYA THE SEA-MAID" while showing her face. Darya the Sea-Maid is presented as a mermaid with fairy-like wings, which is delightful enough on its own… but darya is Farsi for “ocean,” and Farsi itself is a very poetic language. “Ocean, the Maid of the Sea” might sound repetitive to Western ears, but Darya khedmatkar-i darya has a certain charm to it that I cannot stop thinking about. It’s lovely, truly. Darya being a siren and being so focused on song & dance is also a delight, because song and prayer and our voices and our movement are so important in Iranian and Persian culture (I list both because there is a difference, we won’t get into it here; may Iranians not of Persian background forgive me this trespass). We live, enthusiastically, and we enjoy and celebrate living.

A screenshot of Darya's dialog in the chat box reads "Come, join us. Lend your voice to our chorus! Let our song ring ever louder!" A second screenshot of her speech bubble saying "Dance with me. Let the beat of our hearts guide our steps." with a second saying "Let us shout our prayers to the heavens, and they may be answered." While we’re here, Darya also touches on faith and on fate. Something to keep in mind for later. Another screenshot from the chat box from Darya reading "You can but walk the path fate sets before you." Finishing that first run was important, because Nazqha herself points out that the fiction we’re exploring is not at all a one-to-one representation of true history: A textbox from Y'nazqha states "That was quite the singular experience, wasn't it? I'm aware some parts were embellished for the sake of the story, but to experience Corvos as it once was... Truly, 'twas a treasure unto itself." We’re not done, not by a long shot. Watch this post for more, because I’ve hit the 30-image limit on this post and there’s so much more to cover. Reblogs appreciated, of course, but I do recommend holding them until I’ve gotten through everything. Please do note that I won’t be reblogging or responding to any comments or tags or notes or reblogs until I’m completely finished, which may take several more posts.

The samovar mentioned here is a neat lil doodad, came from Russia but spread all the way out to central/south Asia and out west as well! I had NO IDEA they came from Russia originally!! Kudos to SE in this case! ^^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samovar

sketches 🙂

Today is my birthday! 🥳
Thank you all so much for your support and kindness! You truly inspire me, and thanks to you I feel confident in my art.
I’d really appreciate your likes and reposts! ♥️✨

Now that they gave full glam freedom I think the next jobs should break the traditional convention in attire. So maybe some sort of mage knight tank, and then a heavy giant canonneer phys ranged or like MonHun Heavy Bowgun

#dancae more to bite...

폭군씨 낙서 '~'

the speedrunning community was as toxic and as much of a boys club (if not more) as many others not too long ago, and the transition to it being a more queer-positive and inclusive event wasn't inevitable. GDQ's shift has been really meaningful and it's a lesson for what a lot of other spaces can be

awoo

a close up of a girl 's face with a bunny behind her ALT: a close up of a girl 's face with a bunny behind her

btw can we get more ffxiv gifs like these

little bday gift for my bestie @warunyan.bsky.social 😗🌶️

First post, yeehaw. #FFXIV #FFXIV

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또르르르~솨아~!

first time i draw Canach and its this lol
#gw2

The way they showed each other's views 💙

#gpose #gposers #wolmeric #unkanmeric #aymeric #aymericdeborel #au_ra #raen #thavnair

painting of a mordrem Mabaki, sitting on a golden throne, surrounded by thorny vines and thistles

had this one in the queue for a while~
@mabaki.bsky.social's Mordrem!Mabaki💚
#GuildWars2 #Sylvari

painted sketch of renee lying on some thing blending in the background, she looks rather bored

trying to get back to digital art again, and designed new watermark in postal stamp style

Amazing pin-up comm of Altira I got from @wicksandwheat.bsky.social did an incredible job as always, I am so in love with how this came out!!

ardbert from ffxiv

reposting these ardberts too wth

MATRON'S TEATS

marill in an idyllic field of flowers to lower your cortisol levels