#Updated!!

[starres-stuff]

Last Updated June 24th 2024

Hello everyone please call me Star! I am:

35+ | Genderfluid | She/They Pronouns. Please!

Married | Bisexual | From the North-East US

This is my FFXIV Hub Blog where you will find things associated with but not limited to:

My OCs/My Friends OCs

My GPOSE Work/Other's GPOSE Work

My FFXIV Writes Stories/Other's FFXIV Writes Stories

Macro Dancing Performances/ How to Guides

Art, lots and lots of it, I like to promote artists when I can!

Wol Questions of the Day Answers

FFXIV Event Announcements

A Link to my OC Hub Carrd

A Link to my GPOSE Portfolio, I do commissions!

Links to my IC Character Inspiration Blogs

Anything Else FFXIV that I find!

A way to get in touch with me

My Main FFXIV OCs

Dimitri Jienuex

Dimitri is Viviane's brother who was raised in Old Sharlayan his common themes are: Being an occult investigator working for the Adders, Painting, Old Books and Maps, Performing when the mood strikes, Learning about the Shroud, and exploring life outside of Sharlayan.

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Carrd

Dimitri is looking to:

Make friends he can hang out with!

Take on cases dealing with cults, ritual magic, malfunctioning relics and artifacts, and missing persons (always open to your ideas as well!)

Hear the news from Old Sharlyan! (is your character Sharlyan he would love to meet them. Pre-arranged hooks possible!)

Baroness Viviane Jienuex -Vimaroix

A runaway Ishgardian Noble ends up in the Shroud where they meet the loves of their life and come to understand what life is all about. Their most common themes are: Life as a Performer, Adventuring, Owning a Bakery, Tarot Reading, Nymeia Worship, and Slice of Life-Family Themes.

Carrd

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Viviane is looking to:

Meet other Nobles from Ishgard as well as other lands.

Network with other performers (duets and group numbers welcome)

Do Tarot Card Readings for the Community at Large

Visit Bakeries, Cafes, and restaurants to expand her knowledge.

Doctor Xixa Loonsi

A once Conjury student and Hearer from Stillglade Fane tells the Padjal where they can shove their rules and laws then embarks out on her own to have the life that she dreamed of. Her most common themes are: Conjury The Elements, Medicine (high interest in odd illnesses with no known cure), Medicinal Herbs, Medicine Making (Alchemy), Shroud Politics, Magic Lessons, and Menphina Worship.

Carrd

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Xixa is looking to:

Meet others from the Shroud

Make Professional Connections with other Doctors

See new Patients with odd illnesses

Have open discussions with like minds

Feel free to look me up on Twitter and Blue Sky as well. Thank You for reading!!

[madame-mozart]

My Child Lebensborn got updated!!

I noticed my MCL posts (specifically here, here, and here, as well as on my OC x Canon sideblog) are gaining traction once again, so I felt like I’d make yet another MCL post just letting y’all in the fandom know (if you haven’t already) that the game came out with a remastered update sometime in late June/early July! I didn’t end up playing it until now, so I thought I’d share what’s been added with you!

The UI got updated! Also, it might be just me, but it looks like you earn more money at work?? I counted +70 coins earned after each shift, though I’m not sure if that was the same before the remaster?

When you go to the study (the place where you’re able to read mail, look at your photo album, journal, and (spoiler) the papers you get from Klaus/Karin’s aunt, the photo album has been updated with a feature that lets you “star” your favorite pictures! These pictures will then be hung up on the wall! When you first start the game, you can only hang one picture up, but I think by the end of it, you’re able to hang four pictures.

The newspapers you read after you collect them in the mail will be stored in that little box on the table, and eventually they will look “crumpled”. You can then click/tap on them to use as crafting materials! You’re able to make little paper boats, swords, and other things for your child.

There are new little “dream” images that float up when you read your child bedtime stories! I think there was only the castle before the remaster, but now there’s a troll with a little bird and a few other cute things!

This isn’t as “OMG WOW AMAZING” as the other things that got added in the remaster, but you can see the backpack you bought for the child at the beginning of the game (if you did buy one, that is. You’re a cruel parent if you didn’t lmao) just next to their wardrobe. There might be a few other small aesthetic changes like this that I didn’t catch, but I don’t know.

There are new cute hairstyles you can collect for your child (I think brushing his/her hair in the bathroom doesn’t cost time units anymore??)! These particular ones above are my favorites on Karin. :) I believe you can get them by crafting.

Speaking of crafting, you can also make little figures using pinecones you find in the woods (these will be placed on the shelf next to the lamp in the study)!

This is probably my favorite thing that got added with the remaster. YOU CAN FIND CUTE ANIMALS IN THE FOREST!! I’m not sure if there are more beyond the squirrel, ducks, and the fox, but you’re able to save these moments in your photo album. :) I also found out that you can collect flowers from the forest and display them in your album too!

There are maybe a few other things that I missed, but the point is, there are now lots of new activities to do and things to collect with your child. It’s all so adorable!! Nothing has changed story-wise, though, so yeah. Hope you all enjoy the new update like I did!

[seancamerons]

If there's nothing missing in my life, why do these tears come at night?

lmk what you think!

[problematicfavecompetition]

Problematic Fave Competition Round 1B

The reviews are in!

Himiko Toga: bi-con <3333

Rio Ranger: emotionless characters slap!

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Aight more Roxy conflicts

Next up is communication!

She was programmed with the same language processors the others have. She can speak and understand various different languages with English being the primary one. This is all well and good but to make her more Dog™ they also programmed in a dog specific language which is where the problems come into play as this is included in all the other dog programming and not just added to the base language processor.

This means she has two separate language processors running at the same time with two very different defaults. One with an English default, and the other with a dog language default. Not ideal!

The dog language is very heavy on the body language. It’s where the tail wags, the ear flicks and the teeth baring all come from, but it’s also where you get things like barks, howls and growls. This all mixes with the other languages she knows and well. It doesn’t mix all that well, mostly because no one thought to make them actually compatible. This is a problem she has to learn to navigate herself, finding a middle ground for the two different languages and doing it before they throw her to the kids for her debut. Yup, they had a time limit on this. Either she starts making sense quick or she’s in deep shit. As such, her initial few weeks of life are a mad sprint to give herself a crash course in communication in order to figure out how to merge these two languages in a way that everyone else understands because to her she makes perfect sense.

Hah and people wonder why she has anger issues lmao

Anyway, this situation links nicely with another one. She’s programmed to not be very emotional but her dog side is programmed the opposite. Well, due to how she communicates normally, her emotions are actually on display an awful lot, just not in a way most understand unless they really know her. She displays her emotions physically via dog body language and specific tones in dog noises. This comes really easily and naturally for her as the dog side of her language processors is very emotions based, but on the flip side, these same language processors make actually talking about her feelings really difficult.

Basically, when she’s upset, it’s much easier to show it and express it with the Dog Language, rather than the Human Languages she knows. Which makes it really hard to talk to people, especially when she’s programmed to not be very emotional.

Now, her being able to express emotions in anyway is great, right? Even if people don’t understand her? Nope.

Wolves howl for fun a lot. They howl to communicate, to lead missing members back to the pack, just for fun, to warn of dangers, etc. Well that’s not ideal when no one else speaks wolf. Roxy can howl for help and no one will come because they just assume she’s fucking around again and vice versa until they put the effort in to learn the nuances in it. Can you imagine how hard that must have been the first time she needed help, called for it and nobody came? Like, ouch that must have hurt. She’s probably learnt from that not to howl when she needs help even though she wants to because she knows it won’t work, or she learnt to only howl when she’s in trouble which is just depressing. Howling is fun and now she doesn’t want to anymore in case something happens and nobody comes :(

It’s not like anyone understands her for ages anyway. Not until she figures out how to get around the language barriers. They at least know she’s trying but half an English sentence and a bark isn’t going to be easy to understand. Once she wraps her head around it all? Once she’s able to have an easier conversation with everyone? Yeah, she’s probably still not talking about this to anyone. Why would she? They wouldn’t get it.

Except… DJ Music Man does.

Think about it! The person that she’s going to struggle to communicate with the most is going to be Monty, Sunny and Moon because their teeth are always on display, which is an aggressive signal for a dog. DJ Music Man? He communicates with musical notes and sign language. So sounds with no words and a big range of tones, and parts of the body. The two things that Roxy communicates best with. Yeah, Roxy has the ability to speak and understand English but she excels in the more canine aspects of that communication because of how strongly it correlates to her emotions. Thus, DJ Music Man would have the easiest time talking to her because well… he doesn’t rely on spoken words either. His music is so much clearer to her than it might be for the others, the nuance in her howls is more obvious to him than the others. They actually have a solid base on which to talk to each other whereas for Roxy, what she’s trying to say often gets lost in translation.

She gets better of course. She gets good enough that the problem pretty much gets solved. The conflict in the coding is still there though so on particularly stressful days or when she’s just really tired or the emotions are too strong or whatever, she flip-flops. Which means a very tired Roxy is more likely to growl and make sad little puppy dog whines than a wide awake Roxy. A very upset Roxy is gonna be full of sad dog noises between the crying and doubly struggle to get her words out. A hyper Roxy is going to be all full of tail wags and happy little barks and awoos. It’s all about her emotions! The stronger they are, the stronger the Dogisms!

So the problem never really goes away completely, but it’s a hell of a lot more manageable after a while of working on it. And also, the others think it’s absolutely adorable sometimes. They’re aware that if they say so they will lose their arm but still. Roxy making those weird half bark half howl noises is just too funny sometimes.

And you know what? Wolves have special howls for those they really care for. Roxy has one for each of them and they all know their special howl before anything else. It’s like a mark of friendship from her! Once they’re close enough, if she needs them, she’ll give them a soft little howl specifically for them and they love it. Chica has something similar as well so as soon as one gets a special coo or howl, the other one gets one too. It’s a really sweet system they’ve got here and it’s really handy if Roxy needs someone urgently from across the Plex. Sure, she could use the internal messaging system but where’s the fun in that?

Anyway, yeah. This conflict has it’s ups and downs. The isolation of not being able to get her voice heard, the frustration that comes with not being understood, having to give herself a crash course in communication before her debut so she doesn’t get into trouble but a very quick friendship with DJ and the Minis, special howls for everyone, and everyone being able to tell when she’s happy through the tail wags.

Okay, yeah, the downs are pretty big and awful but at least there’s a few ups, right?

[basilly]

𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒

≡ 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓: yandere, angst, mafia, gore, nsfw, dark themes, suicide, abuse, etc.

≡ 𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐃

≡ '𝐗' 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘

≡ 𝐈 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆:

suga, kageyama, tsukishima, yamaguchi, oikawa, kuroo, bokuto, akaashi, kita, suna, osamu, atsumu, kenma, sakusa, & iwaizumi

≡ 𝐈 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐒

≡ 𝐃𝐍𝐈 𝐈𝐅:

homophobic, trump supporter, entitled, annoying, @mitzimania , under 14 & over 30, racist, & transphobic

[cipher-fresh]

I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

[sayruq]

Happy Pride Month

[rainn-dropz-world]

OG: https://earthliberationstudio.com/shop/reclaim-revolutionary-queerness/ !!!!!

[czerwonywilk]

a great change and a great way to execute the idea

[buryymeinblack]

THis news is better than gay sex

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[imperatoralicia]

I get a lot of entertainment thinking about how containers are used in video games sometimes.

[planetary]

[wild-moss-art]

This is why I read the reddit comments