#mun rantings

If the clipping is happening out of view

Then clipping doesn't exist.

This is the same for crunchy limbs, crunchy elbows, weirdly posed cloth, etc.

Clipping happens. Clipping in gpose is an unavoidable thing. The sooner you accept clipping happens, the happier you will be trying to gpose.

Yes I know it's not easy to accept. Esp if you're very hard-wired to correct any errors, or if you're a perfectionist (like me).

But I promise you, eventually you just stop caring about it.

You know for all the writing I do for Ellie in the background and in discord, I should realistically do gposes around them and maybe post my writings here.

Problem is I'm not confident and everyone's advice of "just post it" can only take me so far when I am extremely self-conscious about my writing. The only comfort I get posting my writing is on Ao3 cuz I don't post my XIV writing there and I make zero connection of my identity there on any social media (so I have complete anonymity).

And then there's just the sheer fact that Ellie is every lore elitist's nightmare.

The reactions I get from people when I talk to them privately about Ellie's story is both entertaining and kind of sad. Like... yes I gpose her a lot and don't post about her story but I'm constantly being told to "not tell too much" about my character because it "ruins the mystery" so I don't really say much (plus I get more and more demoralized when I talk about her history openly because IMMEDIATELY I am met with eyerolls and people calling her cringe)

And then when I tell people about her, who ask anyways, they all go surprise pikachu face when they hear she has ACTUAL lore like...

Is it really that hard to believe I actually write her as a character and not just show her titties off on twitter?

I dunno y'all I'm tired and tbh the past few days have been hell on me mentally and I am just

I mod my characters to suit not only my personal aesthetic choices, but as a means of exploring different concepts; I enjoy designing characters and writing stories, and experimenting with character concepts via XIV + modding is a good outlet for me to do so since I do it as a hobby.

Seeing as this is the 8th or 9th anonymous I got in the past two weeks about how heavily I mod my characters, and I am actually genuinely starting to get genuinely irritated, I am going to have to tap the not so magical sign again:

Curate your space instead of policing mine.

"Why did you move to the quiet channel?"

I don't know

Maybe it's because I'm fucking sick of being talked over by three people who can't get their shit together and move to THEIR OWN FUCKING CALL while they're night club FC venue crawling while I'm trying to do content with people and not fucking die in the process?

Maybe because I am sick of not being able to get a single god damn word in because someone doesn't have a fucking off button?

And if I ask someone to chill, maybe give some other folks a moment to speak because they've been trying to for the past 20 minutes, I'M the bad guy?

"Join VC" they said, "It'll be fine" they said.

"Let's just do a private call, it'll be easier and we won't have to worry about people distracting us." I said, but no.