finaling my fantasy. fourteen

ffxiv added a new trans pride colored mech mount soooo. see y'all in a few weeks.

we like to meme about his height, but if Exarch was as tall as any other guy, just a default man in a hood, his badassery would've felt less special as well. but no, he drops the sickest lines like "i'm the adjudicator of the sacred history with which you dared trifle" while being SO TINY. microscopic. and it only adds to his aura imo

people have said it before but if you read a lot of historical literature you do begin to just sort of think in that style of language. I’ll put down the 18th century journal I’m reading and have to resist the urge to send academic emails with every Noun capitalized and punctuated only by the profuse Usage of the Em-Dash — it is a deceptively challenging Instinct to resist, & worse is that Instinct when spelling certain Words to utilize what would, some Centuries prior, be an appropriate Spelling, excepting that my Correspondence occurs in the Twenty-First Century, where Men are inflexible and uncreative in their Methods, & this Propensity of mine would appear only foolish & incorrect, instead of suggesting what it in actuality reflects, which is that I am simply an Incorrigible Nerd — O! the Woes of modern Sociability! Why should I be compelled to conform to these d——d modern Conventions! Is it not enough to be unabashedly and impudently Autistic?

I think Momodi is the Adventurer's Guild representative who gives sprouts The Talk, like, period care on the road, where to get or make potions that slow or stop your flow, emergency morning after potions, etc. She will sit them down and talk in a no-nonsense way and give you business cards for her alchemist guild friends and her chosen merchants for various products and set you up for a life where you don't have any disasters of any sort mid-lengthy-quest-chain.

i've been thinking about this for so long and i'm glad to say i came to the same conclusions 🤝 i think miounne would also help but she'd be more concerned about pain control than total birth control and stopping your period and such. more like "you are entitled to proper rest and medical care on the job! take it easy! handle your body on its own timeframe! men don't get to tell you when to take a break!" which 1) very nice and valid but 2) irma completely disregarded (she has a JOB to do) before, and with great relief, buying a lifetime subscription to Complete Period Stop 3000 at momodi's trusted alchemist contact (30% discount upon presenting your guild membership card). she doesn't know it also acts as birth control though (because she doesnt even consider the possibility of it being a thing she could go through)

Yes! Exactly why I discounted her :') She'd be really nice to go to if you felt like shit, but she'd feed you up iron rich food and give you a hot water bottle, and send you away with vitamin pills because she was worried about you getting faint in combat, which are all very nice, but for the adventurer on the go who doesn't want to think about it, a bi-weekly potion with guaranteed alchemical Effects is a little easier to manage XD

Truly I adore everything that happened with Alisaie. I adore that she didn’t get any off screen positive character development I adore that in all reality she got worse. I love that she keeps fighting to feel useful and it gets thrown in her face that she’s not to the point it’s brutal and unfair to watch. I love how almost every time she tries to form connections with people something terrible happens if she doesn’t start developing an inferiority complex about it. I love that we barely got to know the girl she had been so close to in all the misery bc she suffered a horrific fate to the awful things Alisaie swore to kill. I love that it made Alisaie fall to her knees and sob because god knows she couldn’t push on through that. She’s losing and losing and losing. And brother she’s getting up to lose some more because one day it might mean something.

Okay now that the spoiler embargo is over, the best thing about the patch was how clearly down horrendous Jullus is and how completely oblivious Zero is to it. He makes her a fresh hot meal and presents it to us blushing about it and she's like oh thanks I'll share with Golbez, he hasn't been eating people lately so he probably needs it. Our autistic lesbian icon

zenos in edw appropriating an art that has historically been used by the commonfolk of garlemald to combat tyranny and corruption and utilizing it to terrorize them and destabilize their lives is a really good tie-in to what was going on with his bastardized samurai thing in stb

in my mind it also ties into phlegethon (i think?) being originally a revolutionary hero & major threat to the allagan empire before being cloned/mindbroken (forget which) and used as a defense system for the highest spheres of allagan power... empires appropriating the tools and arts of resistance and incorporating them into their own systems both to strengthen their own power and to demoralize their subjugated masses

we joke about the cubus in amaurot but honestly if a new yorker made a simulacrum of new york 10,000 years in the future and someone was like "why are there fucking rats" they Would react like that one tweet

zenos in edw appropriating an art that has historically been used by the commonfolk of garlemald to combat tyranny and corruption and utilizing it to terrorize them and destabilize their lives is a really good tie-in to what was going on with his bastardized samurai thing in stb

in my mind it also ties into phlegethon (i think?) being originally a revolutionary hero & major threat to the allagan empire before being cloned/mindbroken (forget which) and used as a defense system for the highest spheres of allagan power... empires appropriating the tools and arts of resistance and incorporating them into their own systems both to strengthen their own power and to demoralize their subjugated masses