greet the brand new day

Jo March, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

My feed is feeling a little inactive, these days, since a lot of us are over giving BlueSky a shot, including myself. Who's still out here on Tumblr? I'm cool with: - FFXIV OCs - FFXIV OC writing - FFXIV canon lore sharers - Vanilla glamour, vanilla mash-up glamour, light fine-tuning mods, custom posing, scenery highlights, action scenes in SFW screenshots (Occasional tagged/opt-in soft NSFW okay too) - Heavy RP-focused groups and locales - Friendly comments and messages contact - Casual and normal difficulty level FFXIV game content buddies

Amelie's eyes take on a sparkle not at all unlike the snowflakes that fall through the Shroud's canopy and into the Starlight Stalls' clearing to mark the time of year. For a moment, she's somewhere else. Some-when-else.

An ungloved hand -- perhaps not her most pragmatic moment, going ungloved in the snow -- reaches out to catch a few of those snowflakes on the tips of fingers that are as long and as elegant as one might expect an Elezen noblewoman's to be, despite that they're somehow also as honest as anyone's that have ever worked the earth. She watches the crystalline precipitation collect, shimmer, and melt upon her skin.

Her enchantment is by some few degrees muted when a familiar voice reaches her delicately tipped ears from some yalms ahead of her. Still, the Starlight sparkle is fixed in her icy irises, and there's a pleasant rose flush in her ivory cheeks that's equal parts the weather and the festivities. The aesthete in her begs her not to pull her hand in from her collection of melting snowflakes just yet. It takes her a few long-legged strides' worth of closing the space between she and the entourage she lingers behind to find the will.

Alternatively titled: I Suck At Social Media, Sorry, It Will Almost Certainly Happen Again

It's been months since I've logged into Tumblr and had a good look around. I see that some of you have been busy with FFXIV Write and /gpose-ing your hearts out. Good for you. I'm enjoying all of your doodles and musings while having a cup of chamomile tea by my living room fireplace.

Things are looking different -- in a good way -- for me on the FFXIV and RP fronts, these days. I've moved to Mateus on the Crystal data center and I'm comfortable there. The friends I surround myself with, now, are good for me. I tried to main something I've never mained before, for a while, and while it ended up not resonating with me super well, the experience taught me that it really is best to just do what calls to you. In that spirit, I'm giving up trying to write anything that doesn't come from a place that's authentically within my boring little Venn diagram of interests. Please allow me to introduce you to:

Lady Amèlie de Chastelaine

My new and, I hope, long-term main character. Amèlie is a working noble whose family has a manor house in Ishgard and farm holdings in Coerthas. Some of the characters who inspired her for me are Konstantine and Kitty Levin from Anna Karenina, Josephine March from Little Women, and Eloise Bridgerton from Bridgerton. I'll be focusing a lot of my RP attention and energy on establishing her through the end of the year. Character profile coming soon!

Other places you can find me:

Discord: partofeverything

BlueSky: partofeverything

The Crystal Archives: Amelie Chastelaine