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happy starlight everyone! ⭐

i was struggling with what drip to wear for this season since i haven't done anything the past 2 years (holy shit it'll be 3 years in february since i first started playing ffxiv) so whatever it was had to be PERFECT. at first i was gonna go with something involving the starlight tunic but then i saw a random glam with the skallic cap and i was like: HOLY SHIT THE NUTCRACKER. so nutcracker!gravy and rat king!aymeric it was TEEHEE

also had to do something gooby af and came across this fucking gem, so yoU KNOW I HAD TO DO IT TO EM

I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING AT HER FACE SHE'S SO SAD LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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not pictured: tataru commenting gravy's IP address LMAOOOOOO

inspired by @johnnylandslide's post, i just HAD to do the "cover them up slut" meme TEEHEE

am slowly trying to get myself out of this gpose funk but holidays do be kicking my ass; at least i'll have a full two-week vacation for christmas which god mY BODY IS SO READY FOR SOBSOBSOB

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emmanellain: gods you two are annoying >:^(

don't get him wrong, emm's happy for his sister but he can't help but feel grossed out when she's constantly snogging the lord speaker (that and emmanellain's just mad his pirate wife isn't there for him to makeout with 😔)

my gooby aah thought it was just regular maintenance last night, but @johnnylandslide kindly informed me that it was indeed another patch update, so i scrambled to make a last minute screenie and came up with this LMAO. based off this image here:

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brio is back and instead of making a normal ass gpose of something cute like gravy and aymeric hugging since he's returned from the war, i make this shit instead LMAO

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i realized that i never really learned how vanilla!gpose before, so have my sad attempt from the other night SOB

waiting patiently for my wife to come back from the war 😩 also gravy without her tiddy freckles has been a jumpscare every time i log on LMAO

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howdy doody!

finally decided that the last day to get a sketch will be TOMORROW, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15! so if y'all wanted to get a free sketch of your WoL/FFXIV OC, check out this post on bsky!

howdy friends, i'm offering FREE SKETCHES on 🦋bluesky!

i was scrolling on bsky yesterday during lunch and saw a user make a post about offering free doodles of people's wols during these trying times in the US to help spread some positivity. i was so moved by their post that i decided to jump on board to do the same cause we can all use a little pick me up after these past few days

this is only available through 🦋bluesky and those in the united states affected by the thing that happened a few days ago, so if you have an account there and would like a free sketch of your wol/ffxiv oc, then read below the break to see how to get one! 🤠

how to get a free sketch:

applies to only folks in the united states

reply to this post with reference image(s) of your WoL/OC

it's not required, but a brief description of your character is appreciated! (name, personality, likes, class, etc)

repost not needed but welcomed

open to non-followers

i have the cut-off date as November 11, but i more than likely will extend it to give folks who view this post here time to share their character, as well as me just wanting to reach as many people as possible to spread some positivity!

things are pretty scary in the us right now, but i hope that i can at least make someone smile with a silly sketch of their WoL

stay safe y'all and i hope to see y'alls characters over on bsky! 💛

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howdy friends, i'm offering FREE SKETCHES on 🦋bluesky!

i was scrolling on bsky yesterday during lunch and saw a user make a post about offering free doodles of people's wols during these trying times in the US to help spread some positivity. i was so moved by their post that i decided to jump on board to do the same cause we can all use a little pick me up after these past few days

this is only available through 🦋bluesky and those in the united states affected by the thing that happened a few days ago, so if you have an account there and would like a free sketch of your wol/ffxiv oc, then read below the break to see how to get one! 🤠

how to get a free sketch:

applies to only folks in the united states

reply to this post with reference image(s) of your WoL/OC

it's not required, but a brief description of your character is appreciated! (name, personality, likes, class, etc)

repost not needed but welcomed

open to non-followers

i have the cut-off date as November 11, but i more than likely will extend it to give folks who view this post here time to share their character, as well as me just wanting to reach as many people as possible to spread some positivity!

things are pretty scary in the us right now, but i hope that i can at least make someone smile with a silly sketch of their WoL

stay safe y'all and i hope to see y'alls characters over on bsky! 💛

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behold, the stupidest BEST FUCKING THING I'VE EVER MADE

shoutout to @johnnylandslide for telling me about chroma key in reshade!!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!! 👻🦇🕸️🧟🧛

i was really going for those old romance paperback novel covers look here and of course had to make aymeric be the faint-hearted damsel UwU it should be criminal for a man to look that fucking good in a dress fffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

y'all be safe and have fun! 🤠

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Queen Bee: We were completely sold out that night and actually had to turn away guests. Mayhap we should seek out hiring dwarves as entertainers...

tata young's "sexy naughty bitchy" came on when i was heading home from work last week and i had the idea of "LMAO it'd be funny to have ffxiv npcs dancing to this. huh i wonder who'd best fit--HOLLUP" and this was born. you can't tell me that tataru wouldn't bust it down to this LMAOOOOOOOO

featuring @johnnylandslide, tataru taru's boutique's #1 employee! thank you again for letting me use your bones to make this gooby aah gpose, homie!!! 🤠

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i've been busy testing m0dz n shit and haven't had time to do any new gposes, so have some goobers that snuck away from ishgard to go to radz-at-han for a lil getaway that i did a few months back UwU

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Unexpected Blessings pt. 2 (final)

here's the finale of this post, introducing arch train, gravy and aymeric's son! i was inspired by this comic and have been wanting to do something for months, now it's finally done and out!!!

after finding him not only alone but also not breathing, gravy and aymeric rushed him to the nearest chirurgeon and nursed him back to health. at first they thought about taking him to the orphanage, but it was already at max capacity (and seeing as he was an au ra, they knew there were folks who viewed them as draconic beasts), gravy and aymeric fostered him but eventually adopted little arch

i plan to make a better intro post just for arch, but for now, i'd like to introduce y'all to Haurchefant "Arch" de Borel Train! 🤠

transcript below the break!

TRANSCRIPT

Panel 1: [MANY YEARS LATER…]

Bandit Leader: Alright, lady. We’ll make this easy for you…

Panel 3: Bandit Leader: Your gil or your life.

Panel 4: Gravy Train: Oh no! Someone call a chirurgeon!

Panel 5: Gravy Train: But not fer me.

Panel 6: Bandit Leader: What? What are you on about, grann–

Panel 8: [A FEW MOMENTS LATER…]

Gravy Train: Thank ya fer savin’ me back there, sweetheart!

Arch Train: Mom, we both know damn good and well that you were never in any danger. If anything, I saved those assholes from you.

Panel 9: Gravy Train: Whaaat, I can’t brag ‘bout my son savin’ his ol’ mama? Tell ya what, to show my thanks, how’s’bout I make yer favorite fer supper tonight: chicken fried steak an’ some pecan pie?

Arch Train: You drive a hard bargain, mom.

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FFxivWrite2024 Participation Prize

OHOHOHOHOHOH, YOU THOUGHT I WOULD ONLY POST ONCE TODAY, BUT HERE'S A SECOND ONE HONHONHONHON

featuring my art on this blog for the first time! this is a FFxivWrite2024 Participation Prize for chellice ravenstrom in the annual FFXIV Write event!!!! major thanks to @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for organizing the whole shinding!! :^D

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Unexpected Blessings pt. 1

gravy: hey so i found this really weird lookin' dog--

i've mulled around the idea of aymeric and gravy having a kid, and i like the idea of them adopting (at least) one! of course it's gotta be under tragic circumstances cause plot but hey WHY THE FUCK NOT, WE OUT HERE PLAYING DOLLS FRFR (speaking of, i've been talking with @johnnylandslide and dawg's been one hell of a hype man on pushing me to expand on gravy and aymeric's story, and to start working on my fanfic again! you da bomb, mane!)

was originally going to make this into one long ass set, but once i got to 13 panels i was like aw hell naw i'm not stitching this shit together again like the lala!aymeric one, so TUNE IN NEXT TIME TO SEE WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENS FROM HERE YEEHAW

transcript is below the break!

TRANSCRIPT

Panel 1: [DURING A SEARCH AND RESCUE AT A VILLAGE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF COERTHAS…]

Panel 2: OFFSCREEN: WAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Gravy Train: Huh? The hell was that?!

Panel 3: <Did that noise come from in there?>

Panel 4: Gravy Train: Hello? Anyone in here? Don’t think ya can pull a fast one–we got this place surrounded.

Panel 5: OFFSCREEN: GUWAAAAHHHH

Panel 6: <It came from behind those straw bales. Fuck, PLEASE nothin’ jumpscare me…>

Panel 7: *SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE*

Panel 8: Gravy Train: Ugghh, why the hell do I gotta be so damned SHORT–

Panel 9: Gravy Train: What in the–!?

Panel 10: OFFSCREEN: AYMERRIIICCCC!!!!!

Aymeric: Gravy?! Gravy, where are you?!

Panel 11: Aymeric: Darling, are you hurt–wait, is that a–?

Panel 12: Sugar, I-I don’t think he’s breathin’.Panel 13: TO BE CONTINUED…

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i wanted to recreate that skeleton holding guns meme and was like "hollup, gravy wouldn't be tweaking over guns ALONE--" and this was born LMAO

artoirel was happy when gravy first announced that she had taken an interest in becoming a machinist, though little did he know that his sister and his boyfriend would eventually terrorize all of coerthas with their hair-brained designs and bullfuckery

aymeric 100000% supports gravy's shenanigans, much to artoirel's dismay UwU

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Panel 2: Artoirel: By the Fury, Ishgard is doomed.

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🤠CHARACTER INFO TIME BABEEEYYYY💛

after spending way too damned long on this, i'm finally making a post talking a bit about my wol, Gravy Train! shit is bound to change, so i'll do my best to keep this updated!

GRAVY TRAIN

Age: 29

Pronouns: she/her

Height: Pre-isekai: 5’1” | After isekai: 2’10” (or whatever the min height for lalas is)

Race: Pre-isekai: human | After isekai: plainsfolk lalafell

Sexuality: Pan

Appearance: People normally describe Gravy using the three S’s: short, stocky, and silly. She’s considered short for a lalafell but makes up for it with her loud personality and humor. She has lightly tanned skin with freckles and a constant redness across her nose and cheeks. She keeps her hair short to avoid messing with it during battle or when she’s crafting. It’s mostly black with white ends. Golden eyes, small mouth, oddly shark-like teeth. Likes to dress in a yellow cowboy outfit.

Class(es): Originally learned to wield a lance but then fell in love with the battle axe and GUNS (Stephanivien is happy to have someone to bounce ideas off of, especially given what she knows from her time in our world). She loves crafting and also started taking archery lessons from Aymeric!

Personality: Goofy and a lil’ dumb UwU

Before getting isekai’d: Mostly the same as after she gets truck kun’d though at much lesser degree, but was also very anxious. A lot more introverted and spent most of her free time alone in her apartment.

After isekai: Became very extroverted, loves being around people though still values her alone time. Loud and boisterous, much more daring and adventurous than previous life, but still knows when to reel it in and be serious when needed. 

History: Gravy Train, previously *redacted*, was isekai’d into the video game FFXIV after getting hit by a large work truck. She woke up as her character Gravy Train in Gridania at the beginning of A Realm Reborn. At first she was confident that she could easily get by but quickly learned that actually handling weapons and making gil was much harder than in the game. She struggled and had the most difficult time adjusting to her new life from being in a completely foreign body and universe, to not being able to read the language very well, customs and so forth, but eventually she was able to make ends meet and became a familiar face in Gridania.

Slowly she noticed that sequences from the main story were unfolding. At first she resisted the pull of involving herself and was content with living a simple life helping Mother Miounne at the adventurer’s guild, but at her boss’s encouragement Gravy joined the Lancer’s Guild and began her life as the Warrior of Light.

She tried to prevent or change certain things from happening, most notably Haurchefant’s death, but was ultimately unable to do so. She fell into a deep depression and had an existential crisis, asking if she was living in a simulation and if anyone had free will in this world, if any of it was really real. She learned to bottle up her trauma and “moved on”, though this ended up coming back to bite her after arriving from the First with the Scions and she had a mental breakdown.

She was sent to Ishgard where Lord Edmont volunteered to house her as she recovered, and she grew even closer to the Fortemps and Aymeric, who made frequent visits despite his workload as Lord Speaker (deepening her feelings for him). Months later during Starlight Celebration, Edmont, Artoirel, and Emmanellain all gifted Gravy with adoption papers to officially make her a part of their family to which she tearfully accepted, finally feeling the void in her heart begin to mend. When Gravy was finally deemed mentally sound again, she joined the Scions right as the tempering spires began to appear all over the star.

After the events of Endwalker, Gravy wanted to have a break for a while and actually do mundane shit. She permanently moved to Ishgard to be with her adoptive family, and eventually confessed her feelings to Aymeric who felt the same way. They get married and divide their time between Ishgard, adventuring, and just enjoying the presence of one another.

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i once again was doing more housing bullshit, this time redoing my fc room into a saloon for rp!gravy LMAO

took two days to design which was ass but i'm extremely proud of myself since i didn't use someone else's makeplace design as a base like i did for my apartment!

it was really challenging trying to make a western style saloon (i took SO many screenshots and notes of the bar in shaaloani and combined it with refs from red dead 2 and IRL western saloons) but i'm really happy with how this turned out! woulda added some tankards but at 400k a pop my broke ass couldn't afford it SOB

really hoping we get some shaaloani housing items at some point cause some swinging doors, a dart board, playing cards, and stag head mount would be fuckin DOPE

also finally made gravy a nice portrait, now wITH HER FANGIES YEEEEHHAAAAAWWWWWW

if y'all'd like to check it out and are on mateus, head over to the mist, ward 21 plot 1! we're "the hunter's dream" 🤠