The Super Gegenji Brothers Super Show

Kindness does not require passivity or social grace. Kind characters can stick to their guns and stand up for what they believe in. They can yell and scream and curse. Kind characters can be angry and disappointed when others do not show them the same compassion they show others. Kind characters can be tactless, oblivious. They may be rough around the edges (but have a heart of gold).

Kind characters often value justice and strive to stay connected to their humanity, even when the things they must do threaten to strip it away from them. Kind characters sometimes have to make difficult choices. Sometimes, kind characters even behave in a way that is unkind.

Kindness is complex, and it’s only a single solitairy characteristic that contributes to a character’s personality. While it can absolutely present as soft-spoken, honest, and open-hearted (my personal FAVE), it certainly doesn’t have to be.

FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge SEPTEMBER 1st - 30th, 2021

Welcome to YEAR 5 of our annual FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge, folks!

In 2017 we saw 2,451 written pieces ranging from three-lined haikus to multi-paged stories. 2018 saw 3,641 written pieces, and 2019 ramped up even more with 6,543 written pieces counted. And last year, in 2020, we had 8,757 total counted entries!

That means that in 4 years you’ve collectively written 21,392 pieces for this challenge!! That’s frickin’ amazing!

Here’s the gist:

Runs from September 1st - 30th, 2021. During that time frame:

Visit sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ once a day at 12:00pm (noon) PDT for the prompt of the day. Convert to your timezone accordingly. All prompts will be one word or brief phrase that you can interpret however you please.

You have 24 hours to write something for that prompt.

Submit the link to your entry post via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/zPdHWtwwhdzvTD82A

There are no length or skill requirements (short & sweet is fine!).

There will be no 24-hour deadlines for the first week, September 1st - 7th.

Makeup/extra credit days every Sunday.

Every entry posted within its 24-hour deadline will count toward a participation prize raffle at the end.

You can join any time with any prompt #! There’s no need for latecomers to start with prompt #1. Picking up with the most recent prompt is A OK.

If you’re an artist and you would like to volunteer to do a simple black & white illustration as a participation prize at the end of this challenge, you can volunteer here!

RULES & MORE INFO can be found here: https://ffxiv-write.carrd.co/

(( banner art by @dantinmikannes ))

A Very Important Message from Soken & Yoshi-P (FFXIV Fan Fest 2021)

... Jokes aside, I was thinking/hoping that the Namingways/Hummingways would be one of the new Endwalker beast tribes when we learned we were going to the moon - and with all the FF4 aesthetics and references. I’m surprisingly happy that I was on the mark for this one!

Also, very glad I was on the mark when I figured Yoshi P and then would use the “loophole” that Male Viera and Female Hrothgar technically aren’t new races - it’s just finishing two incomplete races. I’m sure folks are a bit sad we got one and not both together, but getting one with a promise that the other is coming is still great to hear.

That said, I’m certainly not any sort of oracle. I was very much stuck on Necromancer being the new melee job. Even with the idea of it wearing the Dragoon-style heavy armor. Figured that it’d temporarily raise the dead or have an ashkin partner that was more support than pet (due to the statement against more pet-type regular classes a while back), which isn’t too far removed from what we actually got but... there were definitely some people who were way closer on the mark with that one.

I has got me wondering if I should throw out some of my other predictions I’ve made for Endwalker, though. See what else I might be foreseeing correctly (or comically of the mark on). Things like...

Well, let’s put these under spoilers... just in case.