#dawnmoon

[commanderfloppy]

WOoooo art party stuff done early! I stuck to loose sketches that I did during the party so I didn't kill my hand (and then let myself slap some color on em as a treat)

Don't know who everyone belongs to but I'll tag the ones I do know!

Daphne- @creativebrainrot

Yoonsu - @commander-gloryforge

Soleil - @bonethot

(In the corner)

Marwyd - @kralkatorrik

If you do know who the rest of these lovely characters belong to feel free to tag em!

[likemesomesalads]

So I did a screencap redraw from Heartsteel-Paranoia, with Alyx (1st pic redhead) @commanderfloppy's Tori (1st pic brown/white haired baddie) @little-leaf-man's Amos and @legavo's Ian

More might be coming. I might be a little obsessed with the song :3

Commissions open.

Bonus Amos and Ian variations under the cut

[commanderfloppy]

Ahhhldlfjfjf this is so pretty I have been looking at it so much!

You drew them so well! Also you went back and found that one lingerie I drew her in oh my gosh!

[voidsentprinces]

As much as I enjoy the English expansion names, I like the titles they give expansions in Japanese:

Eorzea Reborn, Ishgard of the Azure Sky, Liberators of the Crimson Lotus, Jet Black Villains, Dawnmoon Finale, and Gilded Legacy (so far)

[brit-no]

I realised I forgot to post my art from this months art party.

Io Rumenhide - @tlethanslol

Tori Dawnmoon - @commanderfloppy

Qirri Tinkerfist - @ratasum

Timanni - @goosemander

[goosemander]

Second Screenshot Dump: Norn and Humans

left to right: Arbera Wolfewood, Kenegalle, Soleil Beaumont, Sefa Adivar, Tori Dawnmoon, Ardashir el Amin, Ginger AKA Michael

[commanderfloppy]

Luckily Tori is very versed in a pros and cons of kissing charr <3

Tori 4 with Confetti? I think confetti deserves some kiss as a treat :)

@commanderfloppy

She does! however, there is the price of a face-ful of fur :p

[tequatls-favorite-spoon]

a couple of my screenshots from the na [vs] art party! brief descriptions, character names, and @‘s underneath the cut! all the names are from left to right. also, there are quite a few folks whose names or tumblrs i didn't catch, so please let me know so i can edit that info in!

the first two pictures are of the lovely tea party that was happening off to one side

pictured: Maliac (@sunsrefuge), Li Ryujin (@myolta), Damaris Shadepaw (@forbiddenredjollyrancher), Nepolia Sweetchill (@matcha-bnuuy), Jayrim Beastcharmer (me lol), Harukehn (@harukehn), Heulwin (@dalennaugw)

the third picture is of the happy couple and the next is me getting a reference picture while the wedding/vow renewal happens in the background

pictured: Lucretia Emberhound (i don’t know their tumblr), Stiùbhart (i also don’t know their tumblr), Tori Dawnmoon (@commanderfloppy), Keeper Vezz (@ratasum), Arcanist Rissia (@wall-legion), i think the charr in the back is Valkyri Bones (@commanderthalys), Scáthach Searlait (@orriannotrisen), Nepolia Sweetchill again, Jayrim again, Oakey Doki (@ecunderbase), A Bunch Of Bananas (@matsuriwolf)

next we’ve got some folks looking cozy by the tea party, and the largest charr i’ve ever seen

pictured: Jayrim once more, Wicker Weremane (also matsuriwolf), Vesnia Swiftreign (also sunsrefuge), Courtier Anella (@desertshrub), Damaris Shadepaw again

last row has another character who was really tall, and then a brief glimpse of the fun conversations that were happening the whole time, featuring the asura fam and the restaurant (i believe it had a name? i only remember someone saying that it couldn’t be mcdonald’s, for legal reasons)

pictured: Ellika Morgasdottir (@pinecone-enthusiast), Karlija Sootback (another unknown tumblr), Li Ryujin, Jayrim, Damaris Shadepaw, Harukehn and Heulwin again, Pyromancer Kudo (@catmanderratmander), a tiny lil Tryllwenn (@sylvaridreams), Tori Dawnmoon, Rissia and Vezz again, and a bunch of people in the back that i don’t know

[guenthergroup]

Very early start this morning thinking about a work project and just getting up and starting it. But I got treated to this full moon dawn very early, and then later Mount Rainier in full splendor. . . *** #earlystart #moonrise #dawnmoon #mtrainier #rainier #workingfromhomelife #pnwlifestyle #seattlelove (at Beautiful West Seattle) https://www.instagram.com/p/COLI4S6gJy6/?igshid=d3wmcashs5mr

[commanderfloppy]

What? Me drawing a trending thing WHILE it is trending and not 2 months later???

When you're in the Whispers and have to snoop around in the places of higher ups, getting arrested is par for the course.

Tybalt is not looking forward to having to get bailed out by the Preceptors, Tori is used to this.

[commanderfloppy]

Yesss YES the Toris are kissing!

Also I love your Tori too! Very cute! (And grungly)

For mistletoe can I get a 4, 5 or 8 from my Tori to your Tori? :3

Insert ‘same name, trans’ handshake meme

@commanderfloppy

Omg same name, trans 🤝

Love your tori they’re so cute

[hnskp-meng-17]

5:15 am IST

[connyjasper]

I get up early in the morning every day. Morning is when I am most clear and energetic. Today, I arose to this wonderful view outside of my home. Always be open to the magic of the universe.

[i-mybrunettelady]

Nyra’s thoughts on Tori? (My Ebonhawke born chaotic engineer, who’s currently dating a charr (Tybalt))

@commanderfloppy

Ascalonian asks yes yes yes

Nyra on Tori

"I've been banging the drum of humans and charr can indeed fall in love for a few years now and hearing that in another reality, an Ascalonian (from Ebonhawke no less) is dating a charr really warms my heart. Besides, Tybalt makes good gear and I see him all the time in Renira's office (they're partner agents, if I'm not mixing the titles up) so to work for years with someone like her really fosters admiration for him. I'm happy one of us managed to get over the culturally ingrained fear and dislike of the charr to an extend of dating one. Beware of Separatists for that, Tori, that's my only piece of advice."

Okay she's very hyped he's dating Tybalt because as she mentions here, she's been a vocal supporter of human/charr unions in any way and this just proves her point. She'd love to meet them one day and discuss in greater detail how that came to be (if Tori is comfortable with it) because she still wouldn't say she'd date a charr (which is partially her preference towards humanoid races, and partially still unlearned bias she has to work through) and she'd like tips, basically :>

[baidar-oroq]

Okay since this refuses to die, despite me being off the cuff as hell about it:

The Japanese name for Stormblood, properly, is "Liberators of the Crimson Lotus." It fits in the colors of the day scheme of the rest of the expansion names, as sunset; Heavensward is "Blue Heavens of Ishgard", Shadowbringers is "Jet Black Villains" and Endwalker is "Dawnmoon Finale." (For the sake of completion, ARR is "Reborn Eorzea") Blue for day, Crimson for sunset, black for night, dawn (white) for dawn. I'm not sure if that was an actual plan or just happened that way, but there's a noticeable scheme in there.

So as you can see, the basic intent of the EN versions is to, well, reach a single word title. Along the way, they hinted at the color scheme names with heavens for blue, blood for red, and shadows for black. Only Endwalker abandons the scheme in the end. I am guessing that Stormblood came about because "what the fuck is a crimson lotus" is the first question anyone asked, and the lyrics to the one boss theme bangs on about storms of blood, hey, stormblood, okay, that works.

Saying that Stormblood failed to deliver on a promised storm of blood is silly because "Liberators of the Crimson Lotus" didn't, and trying to say the others are okay because they link up thematically where SB doesn't is a pretty wild misreading of Stormblood, which is a story about war as seen from both sides, and how in the end, everyone sheds blood, turning the ground crimson.

Just a little hard to show that in a rated T for teen game.

And I'm still a killjoy.

It's fucking bullshit there's not a single rain of blood during Stormblood. That means Stormblood is the only ffxiv release that lies to you.

Like. Final Fantasy XIV Online. Sure was an online game. Sucked shit so they nuked it. So then comes Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. The game was rebuilt that realm sure was reborn. Both in the meta and also in the text.

Now Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. There's like two floating continents we go to the alliance raids were about sky pirates litcherally the expansion that added flight as a mechanic. We sure fucking went Heavensward.

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. Your quest is literally shadowbringing. You banish the eternal light and bring back the night. Technically you're the only one really shadowbringing but your friends are helping so they're shadowbringers too.

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. Hey remember that quest. Yeah that quest. At the literal end of the expansion. Where you're forced to walk. Not run. Not fly. You HAVE to walk to the end. You get a status called endwalker. The quest you get after that is the final quest. Endwalker. They were not fucking subtle about that.

So i find that it's total BULLSHIT that Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood only has a metaphorical storm of fucking blood. "Ooooh a war is kinda like a storm of blood shed" don't come to me with that crap. You're the people who made the flight expansion be named "expansion where you literally go to the sky". Was it too much trouble have ONE scene with red rain? At least a little river of blood? I thought you guys were professionals but apparently i'm dealing with the fucking syrcus CIRCUS here. Unbelievable...

[thervnaways]

( ready, set, @dawnmoons! )

              “hah! funny-- that’s funny.” it wasn’t. but she was trying to be nice. unfortunately, nana was only a good liar to children (and even then, she didn’t have the heart to do it). “i’d laugh more if my throat didn’t hurt.”