Stars and Words

what's your favourite kitchen appliance?

do you have a collection of anything?

what's the best job you've ever had?

what's the worst job you've ever had?

what's your favourite piece of furniture and where did you get it?

what's your go-to recipe when you want to make something that requires minimal effort?

are you married or do you intend to get married?

do you have kids? do you want them?

are you on good terms with your parents?

do you have siblings? do you hang out with them?

do you vote?

what's the biggest purchase you've ever made?

what are your hobbies?

what's a hobby you'd like to get into?

do you collect anything?

how long have you known your oldest friend?

are you a member of any clubs or associations?

have you ever changed fields in your career or education?

how many wisdom teeth do you have and have you had any removed?

what's your favourite beverage?

do you have any living grandparents?

do you have nieces/nephews/godchildren/other kids in your life that aren't yours?

what's the coolest place you've visited?

what's your most recent degree and has it been useful to you?

would you rather own a dishwasher or a laundry machine if you could only have one or the other?

do you make a list before going to the grocery store or just wing it?

what's your favourite household chore?

what chore do you hate the most?

do you have houseplants and how are you at keeping them alive?

highlights include:

killing the lights and fucking booking it when you defeat him, and then just straight up deserting the garlean army with absolutely no remorse or hesitation

leaving the praetorium and almost immediately posting up under a streetlight in a stupid outfit in revenant's toll like some kind of clown hooker, waiting to direct wol to the crystal tower questline JUST so he could involve himself, too

showing up in the middle of a major city not even slightly in disguise to walk up to a meeting of world leaders and say "now it's clear the problem you're having is that you haven't involved MEEEEEE"

accepting wearing an ironworks uniform but dying it red because #aesthetics

magical girl armor transformation

bonus: cid keeping his sunglasses and then just silently handing them back afterward as if they do this all the fucking time

getting attacked and injured but just refusing to tell anyone about it until he literally collapsed

sneaking out of the infirmary but not before forging cid's signature on his expense report

telling his fellow garleans that if all they were gonna do is whine and refuse any solutions to their problems they could just fucking die for all he cares

Y'all are so depressing.

FFVII shit has been in the game for years. The goddamn DPS Limit Breaks use the Buster Sword, White Mage LB3 uses fucking Aerith's staff and pose. Fenrir has long been the chosen mode of transportation for new expansions because it offers a speed boost before you unlock faster mount speed. All the minions.

FFXIII, XV, and XVI all had crossover events.

NieR had a raid that was stupidly popular. Evangelion is going to be stupidly popular.

And now XIV is just promoting the Rebirth series because of timing, and they have the ability to make it a Raid that always exists instead of a once-in-a-blue-moon event with rewards.

"I prefer raids tied to the lore like Crystal Tower" which was lifted, along with many of the relevant NPCs (including ones simply named in the distant past) from FF3. Just like how Eden was heavily influenced by FF8, even if it neither were blatantly called a collaboration or crossover and were built to be part of the FF14 setting and story.

(I stopped entertaining speculation when pre-Endwalker was a lot of "because the moon is a major factor they're going to be repeating the plot of FF4" which was very untrue, though there's plenty of FF4 influence in earlier expacs, EW, and EW's void arc patch story.)

The collabs are hit or miss for sure (I still think NieR ended the story poorly; I have pals who loved Ivalice cuz of their affection for Tactics and/or FF12, while others couldn't stand its wordiness; I think Vana'diel's done a decent job of grounding the problem in 14's world while giving homages to 11), but 1 that's often subjective, and 2 the original raids are also hit or miss (Myths of the Realm had no real bite to it and skimmed past what potential it did have; I enjoyed the heck out of Arcadion's wrestling soap opera story).

FF14 is the theme park love letter to the rest of the series. It's got references galore, and like all other FFs, reuses character names, concepts, and other material that is in common with prior FFs. Sometimes they're just more blatant about it, like when it lets them work with another team who's sharing some of the development load.

This is about timing, and marketing for both games, and was frankly inevitable since the moment FF7 Remake was first announced, regardless of how well or badly internet armchair theorists think the game is doing.

Legolas: The heck was that?

Aragorn: He said good morning.

Legolas: He did?

Frodo: I thought you would… understand that?

Legolas: I’ve never heard someone speak like that before…it was strange, and stilted, and you used full words the whole time.

Aragorn: Elves may sound fancy to us, Frodo, but they speak slang, and almost exclusively in metaphors.

Frodo: Oh.

Legolas: Aragorn has described it as ‘a monstrosity of a language’.

Gimli: Dwarves have a better language.

Legolas: You do.

Gimli: Ha! You admit- wait, you admit it?

Legolas: Elves curse by using the names of trees. Tree names! You have actually cusses. Do you know what I would give to cuss, just once in my life, Gimli? Do you know what I would give to tell someone to f- f- f- I can’t even say it.

Gimli: You can’t say fuck?

Legolas: …I have an idea.

-

Legolas: The-

Gimli: Fuck.

Legolas: -are you talking about?

Boromir: Why did we let the dwarf start swearing for the elf?

I'll be there when the world stops turning In the end I want to be standing at the beginning with you

I had a brainworm and had to draw..... ;w; i love one cat boy

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

like, what other song can make that claim?

The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing

So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do

The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)

How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”