pray, return to the waking sands

As always with my prompts: you will get a theme + a specific prompt + a quote. This time, since it's weekly prompts, you can use any of the 3 prompts any time during that week. Be it just one or multiple posts per week, mix and match some of them, skip others entirely - you do you!

— GUIDELINES:

this list is intended for every medium! I once again made sure to add quote prompts to make it easier for writers, but feel free to pick and choose whatever you want: gpose, art, gifs, writing, anything goes!

none of the prompts are mandatory, specially not this time. you have 3 prompts every week to use them as you please!

NSFT works are welcome. You know me by now and know some of those are purposefully suggestive, but feel free to go crazy with any of them! just remember to tag and label them accordingly to those who don't wish to see this type of content.

It starts in JULY, so we have a month to prepare + during the weeks.

Still, if you can't make it on those dates, trust me, there's no real deadline. This is intended for all summer but if you ever feel like following it later, feel free to join!!

Make sure to use and lurk the hashtag: #XIV HEATWAVE FESTIVAL to support your fellow creators and DRINK WATER!

— WRITTEN PROMPT LIST:

JULY 01: heatwave, melting, “it's too hot...”

JULY 02 - 05: water, swimming, “come on.”

JULY 06 - 12: fun, competition, “there are no rules.”

JULY 13 - 19: sunkissed, golden hour, “look at you.”

JULY 20 - 26: beach, bonfire, “don't touch that-”

JULY 27 - AUGUST 02: wander, drifting, “where are we/you?”

AUGUST 03 - 09: fresh, camping/hiking, “try some!”

AUGUST 10 - 16: sweat, bathing, “turn around.”

AUGUST 17 - 22: glow, stargazing, “what was that?”

Pattern of rancid behaviour over the years

Let's start with the laundry list of all the bad behaviour he's expressed through the YEARS. You can read this better on my reddit comment here which I posted in reply to a shill thread made by what most people agree as Jay's sockpuppet account on the ffxiv subreddit. All of these I had the displeasure of witnessing myself or have been corroborated by multiple people:

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Self-aggrandising behaviour

Here is Jay claiming that there aren't many queer creators in xiv which is INSANE because this is the queerest fandom I have ever seen. You can't sneeze without hitting a queer artist. He also calls himself a pillar of the community, which is HILARIOUS because I have never seen him uplift other creators. You can't be a pillar of the community if you don't engage with the community. Your sycophants don't count.

How can you victimise yourself to such a degree?

He also claimed that if he was a lesbian, all of these callout of his rancid behaviour won't happen, which is laughable because you ask any lesbian in this space what being femme entails, they'd tell you straight up that they have experienced misogyny, no less from people like you Jay.

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Entitlement

Jay being ungrateful that ONLY 25 people have shared his post, and then saying you deserve to not be helped when you need it unless you share his post because he's a poor comic artist earning $1.2k from patreon every month. Because not sharing a post from a popular artist is obviously equivalent to not helping someone in dire straits. If you have been around, you'd know that times are hard, especially when you're queer. He's wishing you ill for the offence of not pressing that repost button.

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Being ungrateful with a sprinkling of misogyny

Jay straight up insulting anon's wife because how dare she reads his comic when she hasn't played ShB because her mind would not comprehend the complexity of his plot. And this is AFTER he begs for followers, as he does with every single one of his goddamn post.

So which is it, are you going to appreciate people who read your comic or are you going to put up so many qualifiers you only deem them worthy of following you when they've ticked all of them?

Hey Jay, maybe you should connect to your readers in a genuine manner and not in bad faith where all you want is for them to stroke your ego whilst giving a facade of appreciation.

And maybe, just maybe, you should start uplifting your fellow queer creators before demanding everyone support you.

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Event runs May 5 - Jun 2. Post using tags #ffxivvanilla26 or #vanillagpose26

PROMPTS

Portrait

Action

Pastel

Dark

Bright

Rest

Landscape

FAQ

Is this only for people who never use mods? No, not at all! This is open to everyone to use only vanilla, even if you normally enjoy using other tools

Do I have to do all the prompts? No, you can do those you want to!

Why a whole month? I suck at doing challenges that are one day/prompt, so this is for me and any fellow slowpokes

Can I use any post processing tools, such as photoshop? I think this goes against the spirit of the challenge, which is to highlight the built in tools

Can I enhance my gposes with AI? NOPE