Red Mage's Ballads

My birthday's coming up again, and I thought I'd make another request! If you've got a AU for your XIV characters, I'd love to see a photo of it!(open to everyone, vanilla gposers and screenshot mods alike!)

Starting on my birthday (7/7/2026) and going for the rest of the month of July, screenshot something in your AU (characters, a scene, whatever you can) and post it up with the tag #ffxiv-au! I'd love to see what everyone else has!

"I told you we should have turned left at Alexandria!"

Never Gets Easier

(Heartache prompt) - on Ao3 as well.

Edmont had found himself walking the city often; sometimes with Artoirel, discussing matters his son wished advice on. Sometimes with Ser Aymeric, if only to ensure the young Lord Speaker did not spend all his time in his office. Rarely with Commander Lucia, who could also use time for herself more often.

But mostly, he walked alone, through the Pillars, and sometimes into Foundation, depending on the whims of his restless feet and wandering mind. This evening was one of his lonelier walks, as the skies turned crimson and gold, passing clouds and the islands far overhead casting shadows over the streets before the last light faded. It had been a beautiful day, and promised to be an equally lovely evening.

He was having difficulty appreciating the fine weather, or the happy chatter and laughter, the bantering and debating, of seminarians as they scattered out of Saint Endalim’s Scholasticate with the tolling of cathedral bells.

Tomorrow would have been Haurchefant’s nameday.

"Hmph. I see what's going on here."

"Oh, you're in for it now!"

"Who am I talking to?"

However.

im invested with where we are going next with the lizards :0

also a solid handful of panels that are so pretty and so full of detail and whoa, ynow?

Hello Tumblr! 

@jubs here, today, to tell you about a feature we're building: Comments by author!

Comments (or replies) have been around for a while, but they have always been tucked away from your regular feed, and so we're working on a few ways to integrate them into the rest of our experience.

Soon, blogs will have a Comments tab alongside Posts, Likes, and Following. There, you will be able to see posts other people have been commenting on, and, more importantly, find your own comments! This was not possible before, except through notifications if someone engaged with your comment.

We're also working on a way to surface posts commented on by people you follow in your feeds. You will be able to find those in the For You tab, and later, alongside chronological posts in the Following tab.

So, how do you identify those posts in the feeds? 

Replied posts will show a small preview right there in your dashboard, before you click anything. 

@jubs again!

First of all, thank you all for the feedback in the original post!

Today, we're launching the new "Comments" tab for Blog pages, and we'll be testing a For You recommendation based on comments from people you follow. The posts will have a preview of the reply, so you know why you're seeing that post.

You will be able to control the new tab visibility, and whether we should include your comments in your follower's feeds, through a new setting:

The toggle can be found on https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/YOUR_BLOG or in the General Settings > Replies section, on Mobile. If you have already disabled the "Share posts you like" setting, the setting will default to disabled.

The new tab is only available on Web and iOS (44.8+) for now, but the toggle is available to everyone (including on Android), so you can control what other people see on your blogs, even if you don't have the new feature yet. Don't worry, we have plans to implement the tab and posts on Android, soon!

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We want to later include these replied posts to the Following feed as well, and we're planning on adapting the current "Include posts liked by the blogs you follow" toggle to also consider comments, in case you don't want to see shared comments from people you follow.

I'm an artist and medical student, and I use art to help me pay some bills.

I built a free, helpful tool because to help prevent other talented creatives from undercharging, as I really see this a lot online.

It's a calculator with a built in reality check

Input your survival costs and expenses

True billable hours

Get the rate you actually need to charge to hit a 20% (or whatever you choose) profit margin.

It generates the rate, a template negotiation email + final invoice.

Plan to keep this tool free, ad-free, and open to everyone.

🔗 Check your math: fairpaycalc.artres.xyz

If the "Thriving Rate" calculation empowers you to double your quote on your next job, please consider hitting the "Buy me a coffee"button. It keeps the server running and the code flowing <3

This is for every artist I've ever gotten a comm from