#but the hw is due tomorrow

[wolfythewitch]

Sketches for today + redraws! (60/100)

[bold-embrace]

Kind of a redraw of that one manga panel. You know the one

[ayv-art]

Hetaween day 2: Werewolves! (plus a Vampire), featuring Nyo!America and Nyo!England @hetaween-event

[scelister]

wip!! yes its ifrit and yeah i might as well just normalize posting my sketches instead of just final products

I wanna give myself a laidback posting procedure hehe

[send-me-a-puffalope]

Two seconds away from making an unwise financial decision and commissioning someone to draw Vanessa in The Dress™️

[mysticalmusicwhispers]

happy cny / happy lny to everyone who celebrates 新年快乐 龙年大吉 恭喜发财 红包拿来 SDJFKJSKFJ eat good food you guys, & have a prosperous and kind year of the dragon <3

[ghost-clowns]

Working on something related to my favorite episode!

[ra-vio]

semester is almost over. im dying

[madamairlock]

I may have completely zoned out during my lecture thinking about the new au and looking at new popsockets (the bat is so cute okay????)

#oops

[saintvampy]

yooo guys what if i do homework for a couple hours and then have a big smoke and then tumblr for a while

[ramblings-of-lola]

I am so overwhelmed

[gayvampyr]

it’s been such a long and terrible week

[nabaath-areng]

I feel so strange thinking about how I considered myself "new" in FFXIV for the longest time, as when I started playing there were so many legacy players around. I saw their mounts and their titles, I talked to them, played with them, and to me they were the experienced ones teaching me how to play my first MMO. For years I considered myself a newbie.

And then, just the other day, I see in the chat of an FC I was invited to on an alt, people talking about having played for a long time, and their longest playing member having been around for 5 years. It hit me just how long of a time that is, and how much longer passed before I'd even realized it.

I ask others if they remember various things from the past, and I can count on one hand the amount of people I meet in recent years who do. So many things I still consider new and flashy, like Gpose and job gauges for instance, have now been in the game far longer than they have not. It's a strange situation caused by me losing about a decade's worth of memories and life (due to mental health issues that practically broke me) as well as the normal feeling ot time passing without me really thinking about it. Less and less did I see the legacy titles and mounts, but I didn't pay much heed. Until one day I suddenly stop and look around, realizing that I haven't seen any legacy players at all for a while. I'm certain they're out there, but most likely not in the same sheer abundance as before.

It's a bit similar to real life, where my home was once just an old, secluded village that have now become geographically closer to the city without ever moving. Where the others I used to surround myself with have all moved on in slow trickles over the years, and where I cannot expect everyone to remember the same things that I do. So many new people everywhere, some that cause lines in the grocery store that can afford to keep running after all these years, and some that fail to load in on my weak little laptop's screen.

It's like I have two homes mirroring each other, and obviously that means I age in both of them. I bought this game as a gift for myself on my 18th birthday... and here I am 10 years later, turning 28 today, and realizing that I'm still here in both places despite everything. Waiting for another expansion all over again, just like when I was staying alive just because I wanted to play Heavensward so bad.

I can't even begin to count just how many people I've known and interacted with throughout the years in this game. There are memories that my years of paranoia and psychosis stole from me (something which I only shook off the last remnants of half a year ago), of people who I know were important to me but who I'm also unable recall much about beyond their names, which is something which fills me with both deep shame and sorrow. Some I remain in touch with to this day, and some I am mutuals with on various sites, even if we don't chat regularly anymore.

There's a lot that I don't remember, or that I even memorized in the first place. Things have changed time and again for both better and worse. But FFXIV has remained a constant throughout it all, even when I've been unsubbed due to lack of a PC and just on a general break.

I don't know what my point is with all of this really, but I guess I just really wanted to get it off my chest. It's not all sunshine and rainbows these days either, but my mental health is better than it's ever been, I have a partner and friends and family who all mean the world to me, and even though some things will forever be less than ideal, I am so so so happy that I didn't give up. Staying alive really was the best decision I ever made ❤️

[hectorthedoggo]

chat i need your opinion.

i literally have written that man. once. so uh. it won't be my best work I am the es milgram expert and I have written other character's POVs 3 times. but uh yes or no?

[theworldiswhispering]

Time to write a midterm paper in three hours!!

[send-me-a-puffalope]

if one more teacher assigned an assignment this week, i'm going to lose it