#ffxiv fish sandwich

[tuskhogg]

I've been in a very "DRAW CUTE COUPLE LOVE THINGS NOW." mood lately, this has not quenched my craving, but. it was nice.

[the-unending-journey]

Get to know me

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The last song you listened to: God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash. Been trying to write a blurb for Kiyo's AU where she goes down the path of Reaper and this song gives me the vibe for it

Currently Reading: I don't even remember the last time I legit sat down and actually read something. These days it's just fanfics jkdllshg

Last Movie: Once again, I don't remember the last time I actually sat and watched a movie, so hell if I remember what the last one was

What are you wearing right now: Tanktop and lounge pants. This is typically what I wear for sleeping in and when I'm just lazing around the house

How tall are you: ...5'4". And that's 162.56 cm for you metric folks

Piercings: Just the typical ear ones

Tattoos: None, but I hope to get over my fear and get a few someday...

Glasses? Contacts? I wear glasses. The thought of putting ANYTHING in my eyes makes me want to shrivel up and die

Last drink: The new "Transformation" flavored Coke because it's not bad. It's coconut and strawberry I think???

Last show: I just finished Trigun Stampede and I highly recommend it! And this is coming from a big fan of the '98 series

Last thing you ate: Spicy tuna fish sandwich... last night. It's like noon here now, I need food mvdjls

Favourite colour: I like a lot of colors, but I always find myself gravitating towards varying shades of purple. And black of course. But I can also appreciate pastels too

Current obsession: Well if this blog is anything to go by... you know what it is lmao That and the new Trigun series reawakened the dormant fan in me once again

Unrelated Obsession: I'm a huge, HUGE Transformers fan, so don't ask me anything about the franchise unless you want me to turn into an unskippable cutscene. Also my OC's, but that's always gonna be a thing with me. Oh and Elder Scrolls as well

Any pets: Yep, got two very loveable and sweet rescue dogs. My big boy Rhett is a Staffy (American Staffordshire Terrier) and my little girl Izzy is a Pit and Lab mix. Fun fact - they both came from the same rescue, but Izzy was a special case. The lady that ran the place asked mom and I if we wanted to help her get these puppies these people were trying to get rid of, and that's how we ended up fostering (and failing since we adopted) Izzy. Her and her siblings were only 5 weeks old, so we've had her since she was literally a baby

Do you have a crush on anyone: Yeah my girlfriend and the many, many fictional characters I love

Favourite fictional character: God there's so many to just pick a favorite, and that's not even getting into the franchises I love. If we're talking specifically FFXIV? Aymeric and Haurchefant for sure, plus all the Scions. Sadu, Cirina, Lucia, Maxima, even Magnai... I could go on

Though looking through my folder of art and pictures I like to save... it seems to be Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun lmao

Tagging: I'm bad at this. If you see this, do it!

[moeblob]

I love my idiot bard, her name is Tuna King.

[glutenfreeeorzea]

New Recipe, Kupo! Deviled Eggs

A Message from Moglyn

Sorry for the delay, kupo! The starlight season in Eorzea has kept my pom moving! However, I did have a chance to make my way to the kitchens of the Forgotten Knight, to help create one of their lovely Coerthan appetizer dishes; deviled eggs!

These are hard-boiled eggs that are stuffed with an absolutely delicious mixture of mayonnaise, mustard, fish paste (optional!) and egg yolks! Definitely a dish to whet your appetite for the main course. I topped mine with some chopped chives for a little burst of flavor.

You can find this recipe on Page 45 of The Ultimate FFXIV Cookbook!

A Review:

Tastiness: Extra delicious!

Ease Of Making: Very Easy! All you need is a pot, a bowl, and a serving dish outside of the ingredients.

Substitutions Needed to Make It Gluten Free: None! This dish is already naturally gluten-free, making it easy to enjoy.

More pictures of preparation below the cut! I’ll be back soon with another recipe, and have a Happy Starlight, kupo!

Hard boil those eggs for around 7 minutes, kupo!

Peeling the eggs! My paws aren’t the best at it. Older eggs are easier to peel!

The ingredients I used to make the filling! I didn’t have any fish paste and didn’t want to bother the very busy looking chef...

If you don’t have a piping bag, you can use a sandwich bag instead! Tie it off and snip a tiny hole in the tip and you’ll be filling away, kupo!

[yuri-cocaine]

ffxiv write prompt 3: scale

In which molting season is upon Yun yet again.

“Oi, madam. Ye can’t be doing that here. Hey.”

The world’s most tired-looking Yellowjacket tried to get Yun’s attention for the third time. She rubbed her back against a streetlamp in Hawker’s Alley, desperate to relieve itching. Molting this month was a bigger pain than usual, as she had broken her last back scratcher on her scales. Every Xaela prided themselves on having tough scales, but Yun didn’t realize just how worn down her scratcher was. The itchiness was all-consuming.

The Roegadyn officer sighed and rubbed his temple. Captain Khatayin of the Maelstrom hunter-scholars was a bit infamous for being...interesting. Normally with problematic folks, he’d just grab them and haul ‘em away, but he didn’t dare try that with Khatayin. He was looking forward to a future with all his fingers intact, thank you very much.

“Captain, please,” he tried once more. “This is a shoppin’ area. Mebbe you can do your, uh, itchin’ elsewhere? Like down at Fisherman’s Bottom, there’s plenty o’ scales all over the ground there, on account o’ the fishin’.”

Yun finally stopped, and fixed the Yellowjacket officer with a hundred-kilowatt laser green stare. He gulped and stepped back a few paces. A sheen of cold sweat ran down his forehead. He felt like an Ishgardian dragoon being stared down by a great wyrm. No, he was more like a moogle being stared down by a great wyrm, and if she didn't stop looking at him soon, he was going to burst into tears or run away or something.

“Fine,” said Yun after a full minute of making the officer wither. She pulled her coat back on and leaped over the railing to the wharves below.

The Yellowjacket groaned with relief and fished out a handkerchief to dab away the sweating. Captain Khatayin left a sizable pile of dark blue scales at the base of the streetlamp. He was about to find a Qiqirn to go sweep them up when a grubby little Hyuran man darted out of the shadows and scooped up every last scale into a burlap sack. The Yellowjacket recognized a rat when he saw one, and he snatched up the man by the collar before he could speed away.

“I’m not doing nuffink illegal,” said the Hyur. “So’s you can let me go, Yellowbelly.”

“Uh-huh, and I’m a Lalafell,” said the Yellowjacket. “Let me see what you have in that sack.”

“No! The boss said to not let nobody touch the goods afore him!”

“Boss?”

“Cap’n Gap-toothed Eddard of the Squawkin’ Seagulls! He’ll have ye tossed to the fishbacks if--”

“Never heard of him. Now give that sack here.”

Being three times the pirate’s size, the Yellowjacket officer effortlessly grabbed the burlap sack and took a look. Inside, he found nothing but dark blue scales.

“Wh--ooh, ye filthy bilge rat. Followin’ a lady and collecting her shed scales! Why, this is as bad as the Admiral’s bathwater incident!” The officer wrinkled his nose in disgust. “Yer comin’ with me. Oughta book ye in for nasty behavior.”

“No, ye’ve got it all wrong!” said the pirate. “Alright, so mebbe the cap’n has a commissioned oil painting of Lady Yun by his bedside, but that’s not the point! Auri scales, especially Xaela scales, are unmatched in hardness and durability! They’re as good as dragon scales for armor platin’ and weapon forgin’! And she’s just moltin’ them all over the place! This is--this is recyclin’!”

“So ye admit to stalking her then, eh?”

“No--!”

“Please,” said a third voice. “If you wish to keep the scales, then by all means, do so.”

The Yellowjacket and the pirate whirled around. There was Yun, holding a newly-purchased back scratcher that looked more like a crowbar than anything. She was smiling, but the light in her eyes glinted dangerously.

“In exchange for my scales and to forgive your questionable behavior, you will tell your seagull captain to treat me to dinner for the rest of this moon,” said Yun. “Otherwise, he will find himself with a bedside visitor that greatly resembles the lady in his commissioned painting, but the nature of this visit will be...unpleasant.”

Her voice was sharper than a dagger’s point. The luckless pirate deflated.

“Yes, my lady,” he whimpered, and then he scuttled off.

The Yellowjacket decided to treat his own wife to a candlelight dinner that evening after a pay raise for his work in dealing with Captain Khatayin’s eccentricities, and the table across from him sat Yun with a stack of Bismarck finger sandwiches the size of Sohm Al. Waiting on her was the most miserable pirate captain in existence, but he was indeed wearing a shiny new armored coat plated with dark blue scales.

[kunstpause-archive]

About - Cassia Hawke (FFXIV)

{𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑠}

Name: Cassia Hawke de Fortemps

Alias: Archmage, Honeybee, Azem, several nicknames from her theater time.

Gender: female

Age: 27 in ARR, 32 in ShB.

Species: Hyur (Highlander)

Zodiac: aquarius / aries / cancer / capricorn / gemini / leo / libra / pisces / sagittarius / scorpio / taurus / virgo / unknown 

Abilities/Talents: Dancing, Acting, Diplomacy, Magic, Ranged Weapons,Playing Instruments, her own special brand of ‘diplomacy’, Botany, has become strangely enamoured by fishing for some reason, chocobo racing, 

(Her main canon jobs she started out with were Black Mage, Summoner, and Scholar. (She knew Dancer before even coming to Eorzea) She learned Machinist, Astrologian and Dark Knight during her time in Ishgard and later learns the basics of Monk from Lyse.

But in general Cassia is a person that wants to do everything all the time, so she takes care to learn as much as she can from nearly everyone around her and dabbles a bit in a lot of other jobs. She is an Omnicrafter and Gatherer, technically, but her true proficiency lies in Alchemy, Leatherworking and Weaving.)

{𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙}

Alignment: lawful / neutral / chaotic / good / neutral / evil / true (with some chaotic parts)

Religion: Used to be Andrastian, turned away from all Religion for a while, later found a special kinship with the disciples of Nald’thal

Sins: envy / greed / gluttony / lust / pride / sloth / wrath

Virtues: charity / chastity / diligence / humility / justice / kindness / patience

Languages: Common tongue (both from her homeworld and on the Source), Garlean, Ishgardian, she has taken great care during her Black Mage training to learn tha basics of the languages of the Amalj'aa, the Ixal and the Kobolds.

Family: She only has two living relatives at the start of ARR, her twin Adriene and her cousin Lay. Cassia considers their tight night adventurer group of 5 (adding Saran and Nayan) family though. She marries Haurchefant during the Dragonsong War and they have a daughter, Bethany. She has sibling-like affection for Alphinaud and Alisae.

Friends: Lyse is a very close friend before it turns into a relationship later in Stormblood. Leveva and Kyukuho are close friends as well, as are Y'Mhitra, Cocobusi and his brothers and Kazagg Chah. Urianger is another one of the people she has had a years long tight-knit friendship with first that evolved into a romantic relationship later on. Out of her family-group the one who gets her most next to Adriene is Saran due to their shared past. Nayan and her are most alike and have a special bond.

Sexual Orientation: heterosexual / bi-/pansexual / homosexual / demisexual / asexual / unsure / other (polyamorous)

Relationship status: single / dating / married / widowed / open relationship / divorced / not ready for dating

Libido: sex god / very high / high / average / low / very low / non-existent

{𝑃ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙}

Build: twig / bony / slender / average / athletic / curvy / chubby / obese

Hair: white / blonde / brunette / red / black / other

Eyes: brown / blue / green / black / other (gold)

Skin: pale / fair / olive / light brown / brown / very brown / other

Height: under 3 foot (90cm) / 3-4 foot (90-122cm) / 4-5 foot (122-153cm) / 5-6 foot (153-183cm) (1,73m) / 6-7 foot (183-213cm) / above 7 foot (over 213cm)

Weight: under 100 pounds (50kg) / 100-150 pounds (50-75kg) / 150-200 pounds (75-100kg) / 200-250 pounds (100-125kg) / above 250 pounds (125kg)

Scars: Several faint and faded scars on her back and the back of her thighs that are barely visible, a larger one on her left hand between her thumb and index finger

Facial Features: Her jaw is more squared than her twin sister’s - one of the very few differences between them, her eyes stand out with their lighter tone against her darker skin, she has freckles around her nose and on her cheeks. She has a slightly wider mouth and nose than her twin. 

Tattoos: None, Cassia has several body piercings though. Both her nipples are pierced and she has a VCH piercing.

{𝐶ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒}

Dogs or Cats?

Birds or Hamsters?

Snakes or Spiders?

Red or Blue?

Yellow or Green?

Black or AND White!

Coffee or Tea?

Ice Cream or Cake? Neither

Fruits or Vegetables?

Sandwich or Soup?

Magic or Melee?

Sword or Bow?

Summer or Winter?

Spring or Autumn?

The Past or The Future? again, both. They go together and can not be separated for her.

thank you @elfyourmother and @elveny for tagging me

tagging forth @thegolli @tishinada @captainderyn @wardenari @curiousthimble @ashalle-art @exposed-whimsy @allycryz @dismalzelenka @another-rogue-trevelyan @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold @dalish-rogue @zuendwinkel @okami-zero @jentrevellan @a-shakespearean-in-paris @hollyand-writes @charlatron @lavellanvibes @blarfkey @kemvee @noire-pandora @hobo-apostate @midnightprelude @queen-kass-the-writer @enigmalea @coffeebirdafterdark @alamhigyoooo​

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[dragons-bones]

FFXIV Write Entry #8: They Grow Up So Fast

Prompt: clamor | Master Post | On AO3

Spoilers for Ehll Tou’s Custom Deliveries!

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Aymeric jumped in alarm, looking up from his paperwork when the doors to his Congregation office crashed open. Nearly every item in the room shook.

Synnove stood in the doorway, chest heaving, eyes red and bloodshot, her usual crafting attire askew and her braids disheveled. Her lower lip wobbled and tears filled her eyes as her expression crumbled.

Aymeric was up and out of his chair so fast it nearly toppled over, rounding his desk and practically dashing towards his lady to gather her up in his arms. Synnove was not a woman who regularly gave into strong emotion, and seeing her like this… He said a silent prayer to the Fury for the foresight of shucking his formal armor earlier as Synnove mashed her face into his shoulder and bawled.

He rubbed her back soothingly, crooning wordlessly into her ear, and rocked them back and forth, desperately attempting to get his love to calm down enough to draw a full breath. Once her sobs finally began to taper off, he said, “Synnove, what’s wrong? What happened?” He managed to keep his voice steady, thank the Fury, as his own panic would be useless.

His ladylove sniffed, hard, and though her voice came out muffled and hiccupping, she managed to finally wail, “She got BIG!”

Aymeric blinked, his mind screeching to a halt. Blinked again. Blinked a third time, attempting to process Synnove’s statement.

Unbidden, his mouth twitched, and he fought down the absolutely inappropriate urge to giggle. His shoulders shook, just once, and he ducked his head to press his face into Synnove’s hair before a snicker could escape him.

Of course. Synnove wasn’t one for such excessive displays of emotion, unless she was so overwhelmed it bubbled over beyond her control… And in such cases, it was usually due to some overwhelming positive emotion. For negative emotions, she usually turned quiet and withdrawn, except in rare instances. Thankfully, with a declaration like that, this wasn’t one of those rare cases.

In fact, he had rather a hunch about whom his lady was talking.

“Do you mean Ehll Tou?” he said.

“YES!” she wailed again. “Hautdilong came by and said it had been days since Ehll Tou had gone to the Churning Mists to share her sandwiches with her friends and she should have been back and he was worried and I was worried and so I went to Zenith to find her and deliver the hammer Arvide made for her and one of her friends said she wasn’t ready to be seen and—”

Aymeric ran a firm hand up and down her spine and murmured, “Sweetheart, breathe.”

Synnove sucked in a deep breath and let it out again, shakily. “—and I gave the hammer to Ehll Tou’s friend to deliver but I wasn’t going to leave until I saw Ehll Tou myself and then Arvide and Haudtilong arrived and then Ehll Tou finally came and she was BI-I-I-I-I-I-G.” The last word came out as one of those heaving, hiccupping sobs, drawing it out to multiple syllables.

He fished a handkerchief from his pocket and pulled away just enough to offer it to his lady. “Blow,” he said, fond.

She accepted the handkerchief and obediently blew her nose, balling the cloth up in her hand after she was finished. Another sniff and she wiped at her eyes.

“Now,” Aymeric said, “what precisely do you mean by she was ‘big?’”

Synnove’s lip wobbled again, but she held onto her composure—barely. “She grew up,” she said, voice watery.

Aymeric blinked.

“It’s—it’s how dragons mature,” Synnove said. “Apparently it’s one big change and its affected by both internal and external factors. ‘Sometimes it’s dramatic,’ Ehll Tou said to us.” She sniffled. “And—and she also said hers was fostered b-by learning how to craft, by ‘peace and fellowship’ and not warped by the needs of a war of vengeance.”

Aymeric had the peculiar situation of experiencing the world tilting even as he knew he was still upright as he just stared at Synnove, mouth going dry.

Synnove didn’t seem to notice that she—and Ehll Tou herself, with her freely given explanation—was effectively rewriting all the knowledge Ishgard had of dragons as she continued in a babble, “She’s not as large as Vidofnir or Vedrfolnir…maybe about the size of aevis?” His lady had begun to fret with her hands and he reached out to grasp them in his own, stilling them before she fell into the old habit of picking at her nails. “And—Aymeric, she has hands. Well, not as a man would know them, she still has three fingers as she did when she was a dragonet, but one is as dexterous as a thumb and she can do such fine work with them, as well as any master craftsperson! HANDS!”

And she devolved into more sobbing again, tucking herself close to soak his shirt anew with her tears. He wrapped his arms around her again, rocking her to soothe her and propping his chin on her head as he did. He smiled and said wonderingly, “All reasons to be overwhelmed, I’m sure. But what specifically as you so out of sorts, my love?”

“I’m s-s-so proud of her!” Synnove wailed. “She’s so excited to continue forges ties between man and dragon by creating things and teaching her fellows and she grew up and I’m so proud of her!”

Aymeric didn’t bother to hide his quiet laugh and kissed her hair. He was absolutely going to have to give in to her requests that Ehll Tou come to dinner, though perhaps it would need to be a luncheon held in the garden…

A knock came at the window, and Aymeric jerked his head up in surprise, whipping his head around in the direction of the sound. Synnove hadn’t heard, as her face was still buried in his shoulder.

A dragon peered in through the panes, her brilliant ruby face framed by cream spines. She smiled, huge and toothy, her equally huge brown eyes sparkling, and she waved at him. A pair fo black horns curved up from her head, and carefully pinned in place to the bottom of the left horn was a jaunty, feathered, familiar hat.

Aymeric stared, but lifted one hand to wave back.

Ehll Tou’s growling purr of a laugh was just barely audible over Synnove’s hiccups, and then with a flap of her wings she was pushing away and wheeling back towards the Firmament, a whooping Hautdilong on her back.

[ungrateful-cyborg-moved]

{𝓑𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓼}

Name: Skaar Lhatyn

Alias: N/A

Gender: Male

Age: Early 40s

Species: Highlander

Zodiac: aquarius / aries / cancer / capricorn / gemini / leo / libra / pisces / sagittarius / scorpio / taurus / virgo / unknown

Abilities/Talents: martial arts (he’s a monk), fishing, cooking, leading

{𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵}

Alignment: lawful / neutral / chaotic / good / neutral / evil / true

Religion: The Twelve, Rhalgr as his patron deity

Sins: envy / greed / gluttony / lust / pride / sloth / wrath

Virtues: charity / chastity / diligence / humility / justice / kindness / patience

Languages: Common, Thieves' cant, old Ala Mhigan

Family: his parents are merchants converted as pirates then once again as merchants but frankly the difference has never been obvious. Two older sisters working with them. An uncle who’s also his old mentor. One cousin in the Resistance. And of course, his adoptive son @inah-ffxiv and his husband @ffxiv-cyan

Friends: A bunch

Sexual Orientation: heterosexual / bisexual / homosexual / demisexual  / asexual / unsure / other

Relationship status: single / dating / married / widowed / open relationship / divorced / not ready for dating

Libido: sex god / very high / high / average / low / very low / non-existent

{𝓟𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵}

Build: twig / bony / slender / average / athletic / curvy / chubby / obese

Hair: white / blonde / brunette / red / black / other

Eyes: brown / blue (left) / green / black / other (white/dead, right)

Skin: pale / fair / olive / light brown / brown / very brown / other

Height: under 3 foot / 3-4 foot / 4-5 foot / 5-6 foot / 6-7 foot / above 7 foot

Weight: under 100 pounds / 100-150 pounds / 150-200 pounds / 200-250 pounds / above 250 pounds

Scars: Too many to count. The most visible and one of the few with a history worth remembering is on his right eye and fairly recent (following the liberation of Ala Mhigo)

Facial Features: shaved eyebrows, otherwise nothing special

Tattoos: on his face

{𝓒𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓼𝓮}

Dogs or Cats?

Birds or Hamsters?

Snakes or Spiders?

Red or Blue?

Yellow or Green?

Black or White?

Coffee or Tea?

Ice Cream or Cake?

Fruits or Vegetables?

Sandwich or Soup?

Magic or Melee?

Sword or Bow?

Summer or Winter?

Spring or Autumn?

The Past or The Future?

Tagged by: @tea-and-conspiracy​ (ty!) Tagging whoever needs the excuse

[thiaffxiv]

Food and Drink for Sale

Welcome to our guildhall! Here’s our food and drink for sale.

To-Go Food:

Meals: - Salmon Muffin - Finger Sandwich - Rabbit Pie - Warrior’s Stew - Priestly Omelet - Smoked Chicken - Liver-Cheese Sandwich - Battered Fish* - Salt Cod Puffs - Cornbread - Knight’s Bread - Ishgardian Muffin - Baguette

Drinks: - Mineral Water - Chamomile Tea - Hot Chocolate - Heavenly Eggnog

Alcohol: - Heavenly Eggnog - Mors - Mulled Tea - Spiced Cider

Desserts: - Bubble Chocolate - Pearl Chocolate - Caramels - Apple Strudel

Specials: - Moon-View Special (Hot Chocolate or Eggnog + 3 Pearl Chocolate) - Adventurer’s To-Go (Warrior’s Stew, 3 Jerked Beef, and a bread of choice.) - Tavern Special (Spiced Cider + Salt Cod Puffs or Battered Fish)

Sit-Down Food:

Meal Sets: - Simple Meal Set (Egg, Rice, Meat, & Salad) - Gourmet Lunch (Meat, Toast, & Salad) - Gourmet Supper (Meat, Bread, Soup, & Salad) - Oasis Breakfast (Coffee/Tea & Sides) - Riviera Lunch (Sandwich, Toast, & Pasta) - Riviera Supper (Varied Meats & Coffee) - Alpine Breakfast (Toast, Egg, Salad, & Soup) - Alpine Supper Set (Meat, Soup, Bread, & Tea) - High House Supper Set  (Meat, Salad, Pasta, Tea, & Tart) - Hot Pot Supper (Noodles, Soup, Veggies, Meat) - Fondue Set (Fondue & Sides, feeds several.)

Tea Sets: - Glade Tea Set (Tea & Biscuits) - Afternoon Tea Set (Tea, Soup, & Snacks) - House Borel Tea Set (Tea & Tart) - Royal Dowager Tea Set (Tea)

Meals: - Fluffy Pancakes - Riviera Breakfast (Egg) - Simple Cereal - Full-sized Sandwich - Burrito Lunch - Giant Beaver Burger (Feeds several, or one.) - Grilled Corn - Shakshouka Bowl - Deviled Egg Salad - Curry & Rice Plate - Oden Bowl - Udon Bowl

Drinks: - Fresh-poured Coffee - Milk - Water (Unlimited)

Alcohol: - Chilled Red - Pale Ale - Honey Mead

Desserts: - Dragonstar Dessert (Special Sohm Al Tarts) - Assorted Cookies - Large Rolanberry Tart (Feeds several.)

(( “To-Go Food” means standard FFXIV items that are traded to you. “Sit-Down Food” are housing items that’ll be placed down for you. ))

(( *Not able to be High Quality for reasons unknown to me. ))

[mathemagiks]

WT of FFXIV: Picnic

Written for @wondroustailsofffxiv

Othard proved to be beautiful, and in between the help he and Zel were providing to the Kojin, she had suggested lunch out on the higher cliffs of the Isle of Bekko. Their shelled friends were all too happy to oblige, recommending no shortage of picked snacks and dried fish for their luncheon. Thankfully, Zel seemed to have lunch packed already.

“So with Orrin’s help, I’ve got some steamed buns,” she was saying, looking through the lunch basket and X’raehl and Ehn spread out the blanket. “I’ve also got spring rolls, fried dumplings, some rice and sauces... oh, and little finger sandwiches!”

“Orrin definitely helped with that amount of food,” Ehn murmured, to which X’raehl burst into a laugh.

“Oh hush! There’s three of us, it’s going to be a lot of food!” Still, Zel was grinning as she plunked herself onto the blanket, patting either side for the other two to join her.

“Orrin feeds small armies, Moonbeam,” X’raehl mused, reaching over for the basket. “At least we won’t go hungry.”

He rummaged through the basket to start pulling out foods, laying them out before the trio for them to start picking from. Ehn reached for one of the sandwiches, sniffing at it curiously as Zel plucked one of the steam buns up. 

“Is this...?” Ehn took a bite, ears perking up at the taste “... banana?”

“Yeah!” she chirruped through full cheeks. “Pe’huh’ bu’hhr a’ banah’nah!”

“Moonbeam, your accent’s getting thick there,” X’raehl teased, giving her a grin before taking up one of the sandwiches as well. “This one’s turkey.”

“You have to have a variety! Raha taught us that.”

She paused in her chewing to find both of the men staring at her, eyes wide in surprise. “What?” she questioned, head tilting. “Do you not remember the sandwiches?”

“No... no, I remember them...” Ehn cleared his throat a bit, shaking off a thought before continuing. “I was just thinking about how he’d explode if he heard you call him that.”

[cosplayinamerica]

Korpokkur from Final Fantasy // Cosplayer : Owlbum2

I've gone to AWA for many years and have only really done very small cosplays. I wanted to do something big this year to prove to myself that I am up for the challenge! I knew I wanted to do something FFXIV related cause it's brought me so much joy. Korpokkur in the game has always been special for me. When I first joined FFXIV, all my friends were miles away from me in experience. They were all waiting on the new expansion to come out while I just continued to truck along in a Realm Reborn. My friends had always helped me when I needed them for a dungeon or a trail but once I got to level 60 in Heavensward, finally catching up with everyone else, it felt like I was apart of the gang. The first dungeon we did as a group as equals was Saint Mocianne's Arboretum where the sweet Korpokkur found it's home as an enemy/minion drop. I always found them adorable and when I think of the dungeon they came from, I think of the togetherness I had with my good friends. So all in all, I wanted to do a special cosplay this time around that would bring joy to myself and others that saw it.

Lots of foam and hot glue sticks! I cute and hot glued foam together as sphere like as possible. I cut out holes for my head, legs and arms then started hot gluing the green faux fur onto the foam. I used soft Styrofoam for the eyes and the water droplet (which sadly didn't get many pictures of due to being on top of the leaf). The lips, I used super lightweight modeling clay. The hat was a whole thing though. I had to rethink it about 4 times before I got it right. I brainstormed with my mom who does a lot of house building and she thought of the genius idea of making the hat out of chicken wire for the stability of the stem and leaf. We were fighting with gravity the whole way but we got it all together with a good bit of fishing line and thick wire that was attached to the leaf to the cone hat. The steam was part of a pool noodle and the leaf, which was most of the weight, was made of yoga mat parts sandwiching keenly placed chicken wire for shaping the leaf properly. With all the weight, I ended up needing to apply a chin strap for the hat to stay on my head! I covered up all of the chicken wire with the fur and leftover foam that I had to give it that good round shape I was hoping for. The rest was basically dying tights and painting shoes to all green.

In all honesty, this was the best experience I had ever had in cosplay with congoers. So many people just enthused by the cosplay regardless of either knowing or not knowing what it was, it was a joy! Anyone that came up to me that knew what I was and cosplaying as a Warrior of Light gave me happiness to take a good picture with them hugging me! I figured there would be a lot of people who wouldn't recognize me in which I had gotten pikimin and Legend of Zelda creature which I totally get why! But an interaction I don't think would have ever happened if I hadn't of cosplayed a Korpokkur.

I was at the Final Fantasy group photoshoot and they had called for FFXI cosplayers. There was a father that came up with his child who was cosplaying from the game. The only cosplayer that was cosplaying from that game. The child seemed to be a bit upset during pictures but after they were done they came over to where I was located to the side where the mother was located as well. They were trying their best to make their child happy and saw me in a bunch of fluff. They told their child to pet the fur but the kid seemed a little frightened. The dad told me to do peek a boo which I agreed to. I dipped down in my costume to form Korpokkur and popped out to show my face in excitement! It brought joy to the kid indeed! I did this for a bit til the child was full of glee! Essentially used as a jack in the box, I was happy to do the task to make a kid smile! Warmed my heart to have a FFXI and FFXIV moment as well.

I remember being in high school wanting to see pictures of my favorite Kingdom Hearts characters and found myself enthralled that there were actual people dressed up as my favorite characters! How can you do that? When do people do that? Where do I sign up? I eventually got myself a Deviantart and started making friends who did a lot of cosplay. They started talking about how they were going to an anime convention called Mtac and wondered if I would be going. I figured this was my chance. Chance to cosplay! My mom was basically the maker of it all, she made my Organization Cloak and I bought a wig to color it with gray hair color spray. The wig looked REAL bad. I eventually bought a black wig to cosplay the new at the time character Xion. It was so much fun and really got me into the world of cosplay. Make/buy the cosplay for yourself. In my younger years after a while into cosplaying, I felt like my self-worth was measured by the pictures, accuracy, or the people you tried your darnedest to make friends with. You are making this cosplay cause you want to dress up as that character regardless of what you see online. I went into making Korpokkur knowing that none of my friends knew who the character was and cosplayed FFXIV when I knew not a lot of people would really know much about the game. I did the cosplay cause I knew in my heart that I would have a blast in it regardless.

Have fun! Be silly! Make/buy it cause it'll bring you personal joy!

[alannah-corvaine]

alannah; neverending survey

BASICS.

FULL NAME: Alannah Ailíse Caireann Corvaine Outway

NICKNAME: Little Bird (Faron only) 

AGE:  almost 23

BIRTHDAY:   10/16

ETHNIC GROUP: Midlander Hyur

NATIONALITY: Thanalanian

LANGUAGE/S: Common, a hodgepodge of things she's picked up from books

SEXUAL ORIENTATION : Demisexual

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION : Biromantic

RELATIONSHIP STATUS:  Married (verse dependent)

HOME TOWN / AREA:  Drybone, Eastern Thanalan

CURRENT HOME:  The Grey Fleet, Lower LaNoscea

PROFESSION: Professional White Mage™, Healer, Purifier

PHYSICAL.

HAIR: Rich, dark brown with white streaks extending from her roots (magical scars)

EYES: Sea Green

FACE: Slightly angular, but still has baby fat

LIPS: Full, pouty, usually covered in neutral tone gloss

COMPLEXION: Sickly pale

BLEMISHES:  Birthmark under her left eye, constant red splotchy patches due to allergies

SCARS:  The white in her hair, a mark between her shoulderblades where she was kicked by an aldgoat as a child

TATTOOS: Flowery vines crawling up the left side of her ribcage (permanent), stabilizing arcanima symbols all over her arms (temporary, reapplied daily)

HEIGHT:  5′2″

WEIGHT: 135 ponze

BUILD:  Petite 

FEATURES:  Extremely striking eyes, more girlish than womanly facial structure

ALLERGIES:  Severe pollen and pet allergies, mildly allergic to some foods and perfumes

USUAL HAIR STYLE:  Worn long, down to her hips. Either in a sidebraid, high ponytail with various small braids, or loose

USUAL FACE LOOK :  Lost in thought

USUAL CLOTHING:  Loose, flowing, bohemian style. Lots of white, lots of bangles, delicate necklaces and rings. Sometimes hair ornaments. Barefoot or sandals, doesn't believe in socks. While "working" she prefers trenchcoats open at the waist, shorts, and knee-high boots.

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR/S: Failure, guns, the excited laugh her daughter makes when she's found something "interesting"

ASPIRATION/S:  To be a powerful mage, fix her borked aether, and to be a better mother to her daughter than Christaine was to her

POSITIVE TRAITS: Insatiably curious, focused, dedicated, protective, kind, funny, generous

NEGATIVE TRAITS: Emotionally distant, petty, wrathful, impulsive, reckless, gets lost in her own head and forgets to come back out

TEMPERAMENT:   Melancholic

SOUL TYPE/S:  Artisan

ANIMALS:  --

VICE HABIT/S: Swearing, letting her temper get the best of her, alcohol (very rarely, because it ends badly)

FAITH: Hail Hydra Hydaelyn

GHOSTS?: ...verse dependent (lol)

AFTERLIFE?: Not so much an afterlife as much as being recycled by the Lifestream.

REINCARNATION?:  Yes

POLITICAL ALIGNMENT: I mean...she might be a bit of an ecoterrorist?

EDUCATION LEVEL:  Self taught through an ungodly amount of reading

FAMILY.

FATHER : Aedan Corvaine

MOTHER :  Christaine Harlow Corvaine (deceased)

SIBLINGS : Faron, Ean, Davon, Brennan

EXTENDED FAMILY: Nine Outway (husband), Aislinn Outway (daughter), Moira Corvaine (aunt), Fayre Harlow (maternal grandmother), Fasshon Fuqushon (step-grandfather), Veronique Corvaine (sister-in-law), Isobel Corvaine (niece), Octavia Outway (sister-in-law)

NAME MEANING/S: You know, I spent hours looking up names with fitting means for Alannah’s family members way back when, but I am absolutely too lazy to go find them again

HISTORICAL CONNECTION?: None.

FAVORITES.

BOOK:  Technical studies on the properties and workings of aether, historical volumes, adventure and fantasy stories, and sometimes a romance novel

DEITY: Hail Hydra Hydaelyn

HOLIDAY:  Starlight

MONTH: July

SEASON:  Summer

PLACE: La Noscea

WEATHER: Snow

SOUND / S: The almost electric hum of magic, the sound that Nine makes when she scratches his head

SCENT / S:  White musk, fresh bread baking, old books, lemongrass

TASTE / S:  Wine, dandelion tea, almond cream croissants

FEEL / S:  Being magically powerful, sleeping on fresh sheets, wearing her husband’s shirts, snuggling with her daughter

ANIMAL / S:  Fish, since they’re the only thing that doesn’t maker her sneeze

NUMBER: 9 (lol)

COLORS: White, black, any pastel or sherbet colors

EXTRA.

TALENTS: Retaining large amounts of information. magical aptitude (even if she has to fight her unstable aether for it), large scale destruction, cooking exactly one meal, tripping on flat surfaces, the ability to braid anything

BAD AT:  Wielding any kind of melee weapon, seeing without her glasses, remembering where she put her glasses, keeping up a conversation without getting lost in her thoughts, public speaking, remembering to drink her tea before it gets cold

TURN ONS: Patience, humor, calloused hands, empathy, confidence, kindness

TURN OFFS: Arrogance, cruelty, smarminess, apathy, insensitivity

HOBBIES: Researching, reading, sketching, playing the harp, traveling/seeing new places, teaching her daughter how to human, using her husband as a nap pillow

TROPES: (oh god there are so many, these are just a few) Caged Bird Metaphor, Grass is Greener, Kitsch Collection, Misery Builds Character, Now Let Me Carry You, #1 Dime, Wake-up Call, Grew a Spine, Rage Breaking Point, Big Screwed Up Family, Black Sheep

QUOTES :  “my bitterness was sometimes rest and sometimes ecstacy grace or rage, always the two opposites ready to annihilate each other and to rise from the ruins of the vanquished.”

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 : If you could write your character your way in their own movie,  what would it be called, what style would it be filmed in, and what would it be about?          

A1 :  Listen, I shamelessly love YA dystopian fiction, so it would be something in that vein, where Alannah is OP as fuck running around and blowing shit up as the young heroine main focus. Also there’s all of the romance tropes (sandwiched between developmental angst, of course), because I like them, and nobody’s allowed to bitch about it.

Q2 :  What would their soundtrack/score sound like?          

A2 :  It would be scored by a collaboration of Two Steps From Hell, Hans Zimmer, Jeremy Soule, and Zack Hemsey, and my ears would orgasm.

Q3 :  Why did you start writing this character?          

A3 : I don’t like doing the whole “my character is just me or an extension of me” thing, it just never feels right. I also can’t just look at the avatar I’m using and see nothing but pixels and just “play the game.” She has to have a personality, a backstory, a reason for what she’s doing. Also it’s a great creative outlet for me because I love coming up with stories in my head as I go. And thus Alannah was born from the soup of inspiration made up of many various characters I’ve loved over the years.

Q4 :   What first attracted you to this character?          

A4 : She was supposed to be something new, a kind of character that I’ve never written before. All of my female characters end up badass, overpowered, and full of personal angst, because that’s just my thing. And yeah, Alannah’s reached that point, but the point is I tried.

Q5 :  Describe the biggest thing you dislike about your muse.

A5 : I feel like I can never get her voice right, she always just ends up sounding like me.

Q6 :  What do you have in common with your muse?          

A6 :   The longer she’s around, the more of my traits she absorbs by osmosis. At this point she shares like 80% of my personality and traits and is completely unrecognizable from my original concept for her.

Q7 :   How does your muse feel about you?          

A7 :   I am a generous god.

Q8 :  What characters does your muse have interesting interactions with ?        

A8 :   My favorite thing to explore, if it isn’t grossly obvious, is her different relationships with each of her siblings, probably because I have none. 

Q9 :  What gives you inspiration to write your muse ?        

A9 : Mostly music and books, sometimes games. I have so many AUs for Alannah. Actually writing things, however, is another matter entirely.

Q10 : How long did this take you to complete ?          

A10 : I had it done by the end of the work day after working on it between things I had to do, but then SOMEBODY tumblr drafts had to blow it up so I had to start over from the halfway point. I am not amused.

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[gentlekami]

🌼 character interview: kikyo

— what did you have for breakfast?

She became bashful suddenly and motioned to the empty bowl of rice and the plate where she had consumed fish this morning. The bones were indication enough, along with the few pieces of rice at the bottom of her ceramic bowl.

— what can you cook perfectly?

Light filled her eyes and suddenly she gathered an Eorzean cookbook. After a flipping through a few marked pages, she finally revealed one that had a picture of a grilled cheese sandwich! She mastered it! Out of the many dishes to be proud of -- she chose this.

— if you could choose a pet, what would it be?

Kikyo suddenly shows one of her pieces of origami, an owl she created. An owl was nocturnal, it could keep watch as she slept, and kept -- things away. After all, it was a symbol of luck. 

— how is your relationship with your parents?

Pain came to her suddenly and water filled the basin of her eye; she withdrew from answering, their deaths was something still fresh in her heart. But there was love there, as she forced a smile, amid the threat of tears.

— what is your favorite read?

Kikyo signals with her hands the word ‘everything’ with a bright smile upon her lips.

— do you put both socks on first, or one sock, one shoe?

She points to one sock, and then one shoe. One at a time.

— do you fold your clothes before bed?

Shuffling quietly before her futon, stacked with folded silks, she bows her head and smiles. It was not only her own clothes, but the laundry she cleaned for the family that day.

— how do you feel about marriage?

There is hesitance in her smile and her eyes are directed elsewhere whilst she communicated with her hands, ‘A dream, not meant for one like me.’

— who was the last person you crushed on?

There was no one. And she simply stared forth in slight confusion.

— what does your dream home look like? and where would it be?

Her eyes turned to one of the books, something illustrated with watercolor and inks. It was quaint, surrounded by blooms and a small pond with a bridge. It was grandiose by any means, cozy, comfortable. Delicate fingers brushed over the painting before a gentle expression painted her visage.

— what’s your worst habit?

Slender fingers found the purchase of her hanfu; her thoughts of self-worth were intrusive, something she fell back on when he reminded her of what she was. Her fingers began to speak on her behalf.

[ “Listening to the demons in my mind.” ] 

And in her life.

— what do you do for a living and how do you feel about your job?

Cradling her wicker basket of flowers, Kikyo wears her smile as genuine as possible, to her this brought joy, offering something so fragile, so delicate, to lighten someone’s day. Yes, the job was not going to get her rich, but she was rich off the happiness they give to her in return.

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[honoura]

Prompt #18: Self-Control

FFXIV 30 Day Writing Challenge Prompt #18: Self-Control

Limsa Lominsa Roughly 4 years ago

It all started with the egg sandwich. It was probably one of the humbler things on the Bismarck’s menu honestly. Rye bread, a couple of dodo eggs, goat cheese, a dash of black pepper, a half-order would cost you 10 gil but for 18 you’d get the whole thing. 

Which, in Honoura’s case, was a sandwich that a roegadyn could hold in one hand easily, but looked about the size of her entire face when she held it up. They were an all day menu item, and while some mornings she opted for a breakfast of a croissant with fresh ham instead, the egg sandwich was a favorite at dinner. It wasn’t expensive, it was warm, and it was filling. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d consistently gone to bed with a full stomach.  The revelation was shorter lived than she liked -- the Bismarck never ran out of ingredients for sandwiches, but her wallet got lighter with every trip. A monthly stipend had seemed like so much money. It’s fine, I’ll be better next month, she thought confidently. This was just a novelty! She’d get tired of it and then stop visiting near as much. She had this. Totally.

Or so she thought until she found the battered fish with salt and vinegar chips. Followed by the oysters on a half shell with a hot sauce whose name she never remembered but the burning sensation with the brine was a very vivid recollection. 

By then it was almost winter, and a seasonal toasted cheese sandwich with tomato basil soup, sometimes with a slice of pineapple ponzecake. She tried the La Noscean toast once or twice, and found it wanting. Her mother’s variation with a Gridanian walnut bread tasted better, not that she’d ever breathe a word of that to any proper islander.

It was a case of food poisoning from too many cakes at Heavensturn, followed by a week of recovery, that said maybe, just maybe, she’d give self-control an honest go in the new year.

[grumpy-limsan-customs-cat]

Seven Things

(Got tagged by @irielbell-ffxiv​ !)

Seven items your character would have in their pockets at all times:

Notebook and a Spare Notebook, just in case.

Some blank sheets of paper, just in case.

Pencils.

Some sticks of charcoal, carefully wrapped, JUST IN CASE.

A half-eaten sandwich, wrapped but forever lost.

A tiny bottle of copper ink and a quill, ju---you know the drill.

A Random Fishing Tackle(tm).

What’s in yours?

SHOW ME YOUR POCKETS: @maybeimawhale @meandering-mind @chxsingthemoon @vexredain @minquisitor @ceremiescorner and anyone else!

[divine-ruin]

Short Character Profile:  Iria Nicholaides

▌ NAME: Iria Nicholaides ▌ HEIGHT: 5′ flat ▌ SPECIES: Midlander Hyur ▌ GENDER: Female ▌ NATIONALITY: Lominsan ▌ NAMEDAY: 19th Sun of the Second Astral Moon ▌ GUARDIAN: Thaliak the Scholar ▌ RESIDENCE: Lavender Beds (FC House) ▌ MARITAL STATUS: Single and looking ▌ ALIGNMENT: Lawful/Neutral Good ▌ DRINK: TEA!  Favors floral/berry flavors ▌ FOOD: Seafood (some fish, but favors shellfish) ▌ SNACKS: sandwiches or pastries that pair well with tea ▌ PET: Little bluebird named Dia ▌ COLOR: Aquas (ocean tones), deep reds, purple hues

▌ FLOWER: Blue/Purple Cherry Blossoms

▌ SEXUALITY: Heterosexual ▌ BODY TYPE: Skinny with slight muscle (ballet body) ▌ EYE COLOR: Ocean Azure/Aqua ▌ HAIR COLOR: Red with Ocean Blue highlights

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