#i just basically made her not nakey lols

[sevarix-blogs]

decided to reclass everyone this run bc why not. anyway now lae'zel is a monk. idk how to play monk i just thought she'd be cool as a monk. i read 'does more damage without armor' and so she's running around nakey. and then i got this robe thing that increases her dex so she's not nakey anymore. and then i got these gloves that do fire damage when she punches stuff with her fists. and we were fighting these enemies with a bunch of flammable stuff everywhere and every time she punched an enemy there was an explosion with fire lol

in other reclassing. i made gale a sourcerer. idk it feels basically the same as wizard but with more rules. w/e he still casts spells i guess. wyll is a fighter. karlach is a paladin. shadowheart is still a cleric but she's a different kind of cleric. idk might change her too later. astarion is a warlock. anyway withers is getting rich from all the class changes

[jeonqkooks]

i remembered the existence of obs and read it again a few weeks ago, i finally reached chapter 7.5 and MY GOD

wow

one thing that i found myself thinking about a lot is that "their" fight (=her opening up) was while they were both basically naked (i think JK was? lol) idk, for me that made everything so much more vulnerable, so much more open and deep

made me relate to the second part of down bad by taylor swift

CALM DOWN I WENT TO RESEARCH THE LYRICS TO PUT HERE AND I'M JUST LIKE MY GOD IT'S LITERALLY THEM😭😭😭 just listen

okay YES jk was basically nakey the entire time 🤣 i had to make her at least put on underwear bc she was trying to leave and also if they were both naked it would’ve looked too funny in my head lmao

THE LYRICS REALLY ARE ABOUT THEM 😭 if i get to hear this live next week when i see tswift i will be thinking about you and this ask for the entire duration of the song. but yeah i’m glad that it made the scene more immersive for you! she was already putting a lot on the line just having that conversation with him, and to also be in a physically vulnerable state def makes it harder too 😔

[harryhandstan]

lindseyyyyyy

SUPER BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🧁🧁🧁🧁🧁😽😽🥳🥳🥳🥳

(im sorry that was super late)

its crazy how fast a year goes by. i hope youre doing better now after the accident :(( what happened?? you dont have to answer if u dont want to ofc!!

i honestly have no words. im sorry you had to go through all that :(( i wish i could take away the pain ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

i am soooo happy and excited for you! you and your family deserve to live a peaceful life!! i honestly have no idea what its like in georgia but i hope you find somewhere safe!! maybe you could try to find a remote job if you wanted to stay in the area?? and honestly f*** your dad. you don’t deserve any kind of negativity im so proud of u for sticking up for yourself and your family!

ive got one year left!!! and it’s finally over!! school’s been ehh. its still difficult for me to make new friends but i’ll get over it. i got nosebleeds to see taylor 😭😭 but its still better than nothing & thank u!!

PLEASE tell me about stevie nicks and your roadtrip!! i cant wait to hear about it

im soooo proud of u!! im always here for u and im always wishing you the best! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷youuuu

-🧸

ahh thank you baby!!! no it's okay I didn't make a big deal about my birthday this year so it's fine 😊 it was the day after we got back from our road trip and I stayed with my sister for a few days and just hung out with her! she got me some cute lil harry coded fruit hair clips and made me dinner and we had cake and ice cream and watched a movie with her roommate!

oh no I don't mind saying what happened! I honestly thought I had already said, I'm sorry! my mom and I were leaving to go grocery shopping and I got kicked by a horse. I am doing better I've made a TON of progress but still feel like I have a long way to go. like doing simple things still takes a lot of my energy sometimes! like I said I was supposed to start a new job working at a daycare as a lead teacher and I think I'm gonna have to give that up now, because I can't imagine being able to work a full shift doing something like that 😔 which just kind of makes me feel lost rn as to what to do for income because I so had my heart set on working there!

thank you thank you for all the love, I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes as I type this because it means so much coming from you! you'll never know how much I appreciate it ❤ it was honestly one of the most insane experiences I've ever had to go through, but as horrific as it was I feel like it's helped me appreciate life a lot more than I did before and realize the impact I have on people and how important I am to them! like my little brother said he cried when he found out and he's just not someone who shows his emotions a lot so it made me very 🥺🥺

I'm so sooooo excited for a new place like I'm already looking at things for my room and I'm looking forward to being able to put up so many harry related things and the big nakey™ poster that all the other harries have and like I said just a nice, clean, peaceful place I can heal and grow in!! and honestly we're in an area of GA that's superrr rural there's literally nothing here lol. I think we're gonna try to get an apartment in the same place where my little sister lives though so that would be perfect! I already feel at home there when I stay and it's a good little area. I probably will have to end up either getting back into selling crafty things or a remote job until I can build up my stamina again to be able to do more and get an in-person job!

yeah fuck phil all my homies hate phil!! he's done nothing but cause us trauma and stress and we'll all be better off away from him. thank you for your pride in me!!! it's never been easy for me to speak up for myself so I'm surprised I've been able to so much with him. he and I had a confrontation in 2021 where he just flat out asked me what was wrong and why I was upset with him and when I told him he basically gaslit me and in the end when I was standing in front of him crying after pouring my heart out, I was told “it’s been that way for a long time, you just need to get over it 🤷🏼‍♂️” so that’s what I’m gonna do, move out and get over it!!

ahhhh only a year left that’s amazing!! my heart is so full of pride for you I know how much hard work it takes to do that and it’s not easy. I hope you treat yourself when it’s all over to a big fat gift or some other sort of treat!! you deserve it 🫶🏻 and nosebleeds for taylor is okay!! I went to see her on the Red tour and we were in nosebleeds and it was still an amazing show. be careful and have a great time!

seeing stevie live was magical like I cannot even describe the good energy I felt while being there ✨ it was my first big outing after my accident and we had seats so I was able to sit down when I needed to (which was a lot more than I wanted to but it’s okay).

our road trip was only a few hours away but it was to see my little brother who we hadn’t see since december of 2021! we spent 4 days there and didn’t get to do a lot, but it was still great to visit him and his girlfriend. we hung out by the pool, ate at some cute little restaurants, saw the new little mermaid movie, and did some shopping 😊

again I’ll never be able to thank you enough for your pride in me!! I’m always here if you need me or whenever you wanna stop by to hear me ramble lol

all my love to you!!! 🩷🩵🩷🩵

[ovcii]

okay,,,,hear me out: what if othinus wore something slightly more time period accurate and something with slightly more 'god of war' vibes?

[lix-ables]

did u ever like read a certain story that made you like 'woah this is just wOw' or like 'omg this was unexpected?'. Not necessarily skz related but i stumbled upon a certain book/series a few years ago somehow it popped up in my head when i was reading one of ur stories, it was about sleeping beauty but it ended or rather continued in a very erotic and surprising case lol. I forgot the person who made it tho all i remember is that sleeping beauty basically became a sub and the prince was well very dom in nature to the point that beauty had to walk around nakey as he sees that her beauty should not be hidden as he says 😳 i guess u can say that series/books gave me a sexual awakening AHAHAHAHHAHAHSS but mostly in understanding i guess lol i dont even know what im saying anymore 😅

On another note, thank u for ur stories! They make my day much better, whether its irl or not. you and other ppl whether stays or multis that have been taking ur time to make these stories here in blr~

💖

- 🍫 anon

(🍫 = chan's chocolate bars [as felix said/described channie's abs during their recent con]) 🤭

hii darling, omg yes i think i've had that experience before, defo not while reading something written for skz, when do i find something though, omg you can expect me to reblog the shit outta it. but i read this one series, (rather two) called the briar u series and the off campus series, and it just idk blew my mind? coz i didn't know/think it would be like that? im rereading it again bc a) im bored and b) im just 😩😩 with it. but i totally get you !! and omg please the series you read is making me go 😩👁️😳🤯 all in one emotion rn and thank you !! it really means a lot that they make your day ‹3 and oooo yes welcome to my tiny crazy fam heh

[nakey-cats-take-bathsss]

Tag Game! Tagged by one of my faves, the ever lovely @stealing-jasons-job

1. Why did you choose your url?

My username is so weird lol I get asked this all the time and I wish I had a better answer but I literally just love videos of those hairless cats taking baths. I also think the word nakey is really funny which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about me. I didn't plan on posting fic when I came up with this name and now I'm too attached to it to change it to something practical or more poetic.

2. Any side blogs?

None currently but there are some old ones lingering around...

Somewhere out in the universe is a hipster blog filled with poetry and short stories about boys who didn't like me back in high school but it is long lost and I have no idea what it is called. It is probably a repurposed to scam people into clicking RayBand Sunglasses links by now. There's also a really really old Dramione fic blog running around somewhere that I used when I wrote in the Harry Potter fandom.

No need to talk about my "fitness" blog that was basically thinly veiled orthorexia

3. How long have you been on tumblr?

I think since just before the height of the popularity so like 2010? I fell out of it with everyone else and was really pleasantly surprised to find that people are still hanging around here when I came back two years ago haha

4. Do you have a queue tag?

No. I'm highly impulsive and a terrible planner. If you see posts on here, I am here haha I don't have that kind of foresight.

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place?

Honestly I have no idea, I was having a tough time and wanted to write and the rest of this has just been a really happy accident.

6. Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

It's real cute isn't it?! It's so hard to find aesthetic faceless pics with brown skin so I had to take the opportunity. It's just so vibey, isn't it?

7. Why did you choose your header?

Yellow is such a joyful color!

8. What’s your post with the most notes?

I'm not very tech savvy I have no clue how to figure this out? It's probably a moodboard of some kind! I'm not big on text posts haha

9. How many mutuals do you have?

I have literally no clue. But I have made sooooo many truly incredible friends on here. I'm infinitely grateful for all of them. Y'all have become such a genuine source of joy and support in my life, I truly cannot express how much you mean to me.

10. How many followers do you have?

982 and I suspect a significant percent of those are porn link accounts and spam because at least one of those follows me a day. Idk what the point of follower counts on here is, but I love all of you, even the Pornbots. This account is also super old so some of them might be dead blogs too.

11. How many people do you follow?

589

and none of you are pornbots and I love y'all even more.

12. Have you ever made a shit post?

I've made crackposts?

13. How often do you use tumblr a day?

I notoriously hate my phone and I have this app that lets you grow a tree if you don't use your screen. It's very cute, I grew 5 peach trees today. But long story short, it's not super often, maybe once a day. I try to check notifications every day though because I do absolutely love interacting with y'all.

14. Did you ever have a fight/argument with another blog?

Hahahah I wish I was bold enough to do this because I've been tempted to do it more times than I can count but conflict makes me squirm and also cry. I do get intensely annoyed when I see tone-deaf discourse about mixed race people though so I'll always go to bat for that one.

I did lose my shit one time and tagged something as "nakeycats has fucking snapped" which haunts me in my tags to this day and makes me laugh now.

15. How do you feel about the ‘you need to reblog’ posts?

I get it. I mean, I'm not one to tell people what to do and I don't always love the tone it takes on but the general sentiment of it isn't unfounded. There has been a general shift away from reblogging even though it's the only way content gets traction on this site. From a content creation standpoint it's disheartening to put work out there and know that nobody is seeing it. So much love and work goes into writing and it really does suck sometimes. That said, people are going to do what they're going to do, it's not going to stop me from putting work out there.

16. Do you like tag games?

I adore tag games! I love everything about them! Every time I get tagged in one it's like "me? really?" and then I consider us to be besties haha.

17. Do you like ask games?

I really like them and I used to love doing them when we did BWC! Some of the games get hard to keep track of now but this was such a good way to meet people and I'm grateful for it. That said, I LOVE ASKS. If you ever need to vent or rant or tell a joke or chat or practice your emoji usage HMU I'm always down.

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

Is Tumblr famous still a thing? I would probably just tag my friends in this since they're all famous to me and I'm convinced a lot of them will be famous one day for writing or creating in some way ( @stealing-jasons-job and @queenemori specific point to you in particular)

I will give a special shout-out to @burninghoneyatdusk because I was a massive fan of her writing and then we became mutuals and I was like "omg!! the author of this fic love! A star is following me back!" haha so that was a fun moment when I was first dipping my toes in the fandom and it did feel like someone famous followed me. Also she is rad and very humble considering how talented she is.

19. Do you have a crush on a mutual?

I can't even bring myself to have a crush on someone in real life.

Plenty of friend crushes though.

20. No-pressure tags:

@elora-lane . @natassakar . @ninappon . @burninghoneyatdusk . @obviesbellarke . @queenemori . @franklyineedcoffee . @carrieeve . @infp-with-all-the-feelings and anyone else who wants to do it

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

Time for episode 5 of The Witcher!! I’m just realizing I haven’t been paying attention to episode titles so far, but does anyone ever does when marathoning things on Netflix? So this one is called Bottles Appetites, sounds interesting enough, let’s do this.

Caw caw motherfucker.

I don’t know what this is but seems gross.

Yeah. Gross. Nakey Dude reminds me, somehow, of Hannibal and the Gorgon in Supernatural. Yeah, whatever.

Nooo Mousesack! This is really mean. Bad guys taking the identity of a dear one to trick a protagonist is a very frustrating plot, like, not in a bad way, but in a scream at your screen way, right?

Yennefer desperately wants something, which I suppose is what she sacrificed, because of course it is. It’s all about the babies~

Now she’s working as a Mage Sexologist but not paying taxes...? Okay...? You gotta do what you gotta do in this economy, I suppose.

Ciri is allowed to stay but she has to choose whether to stay or do what she was supposed to do i.e. search for Geralt, because destinyyy~~. Speaking of whom, he is suffering from insomnia and doing what people do when they suffer from insomnia, i.e. searching for a djinn to ask for some rest, as one does. It does not go well, shockingly.

Jaskier gets Magical Asthma which seems unpleasant. I get the plot needs to happen, but I like when he’s talking, and Magical Asthma doesn’t allow him to talk, and it’s a shame. Btw I’m not gonna write a note about how I love him every time he’s on screen because it would get annoying, but, hey, you just know that.

The town has a general doctor but he needs a specialist, which the town doesn’t have so they have to go somewhere else to find one. Who says fantasy isn’t relatable?

Yeah, no, the mage is there but it’s Complicated(TM). Of course.

Now Yennefer is working as a dominatrix? What the hell is happening. She looks great in that outfit but I’m a bit confused, but maybe that’s the whole point, she’s just leading a confusing life.

Which, apparently, is exactly the point. Tissaia pays a visit and says Yennefer is being pure chaos right now, and Magic Cops have been leaving her be so far because she has been acting discreetly and not done damages, but now she’s acting no longer discreetly and she’ll get herself in trouble.

Also apparently Yennefer turns down a teacher’s position at Feminist Hogwarts because she wants more--she wants everything--and every teacher in the audience slowly nods with understanding. Yeah, I know that’s not how I was supposed to read the scene but I think anyone who’s experienced teaching would jump to being a chaotic magical dominatrix if ever given the chance, so.

Geralt needs to pay a fee to see the specialist, that’s just how it works Geralt, don’t make that face. ...okay I want to get access to specialists’ offices for free by using violence too 🥺

I don’t understand what is happening but neither do they, so, okay.

Oh, they’re finally meeting. I don’t know how I expected them to meet, but this probably wasn’t it, or maybe I should have. Anyway, the specialist is Yennefer who is still working as Mage Sexologist and now is holding an orgy at the major’s house, which, okay, creativity is the only key to success in this economy. 

I should probably comment on the whole want-need theme of this episode but it feels kind of redundant when you have been in the Supernatural fandom for years. I mean, these are watching notes, not meta, so I’ll just yell THIS EPISODE IS ABOUT DESIRES AND NEEDS to the winds. Which is kinda a theme since the beginning but this episode is like YOOO.

Yennefer makes him tight leather clothing for very important mage business, I suppose. I love how everyone tries to get him to perform hygiene on himself.

Well he’s been sleeping now. Mm, not in a good way.

This episode is so weird lol.

Oh, Geralt is the one the djinn attached itself to, of course! I think I suspected it at the beginning then forgot about it.

Yennefer isn’t making healthy life choices, which isn’t surprising anyone, but still.

And the stylized uterus and ovaries drawn on her belly disappear, another failed attempt.

Well they have weird foreplay but as long as everyone’s happy, great.

Fake Mousesack gets Ciri to go with him, and Dara goes with them too... aaand episode’s over.

It feels I haven’t made many comments on the episode but the episode was already wild enough that it didn’t really require much commenting??

Basically Geralt needs a nap, Yennefer is having a post-university crisis and making unhealthy life choices instead of choosing to work in academia, Jaskier gets Magical Asthma and encounters the intricacies of the healthcare system, this is all very relatable, damn!

I think the episode could have been executed a bit differently because it felt kind of hollow, the previous ones were very intense while this one felt just kind of weird (alright not really the issue) and lacking a spark somehow (that’s more of the issue), or maybe I’m the one who needs a nap. It kinda felt like it needed to bring the characters from point A to point B of the story and it did but a bit mechanically? I mean, I still enjoyed the wild ride but if I need to nit-pick... like, the episode’s concept had potential that it didn’t really explore as it could have.

Next episode is probably going to be an emotionally devastating bloodbath, uh.

[tumblunni]

Also it still makes me Super Sad to know they were at one point considering giving Viera a similar remake to the Mithra and having them be a both genders race with like.. actual normal people and it being the player’s choice if you wanted to wear sexy armour or not. Seriously i hate ‘they are sexy race’ as a concept for a ‘culture’, it’s like finding the planet of everyone has the same job in some star wars thing, except the creepy version...

Tho also these more ‘sexy race’ designs for them still work MILES better than FF12 when they have sexualized dudes too! Apparantly this concept evolved into (ugh) the Au’Ra, so you can kinda see here how they decided to go ‘nah, extra buff power fantasy dudes and even more over the top fanservice women that also look 12′ instead of like.. fanservice kind of muscly man, at least... :( srsly he looks like that sexy armour guy they censored in that spinoff game or that sexy armour they censored for Ringabel yet nobody seemed to care and instead whined about 1 singular additional belt being added on the sexy costume for girls T_T why do the worst of the worst internet douchebros always throw a fit at the slightest bit of equal ass for all??

wow this ended up going into a big ol lol image heavy post so lets have a cut!

also this sexualized lady armour at least has a different and visually interesting design, and they were thinking of more hairstyles too! like the FF12 viera were even more bad for how they all looked like the same person in 1-3 minor variants of the same xenomorph lookin metal thong atrocity. (and like.. one robe model for npcs that somehow managed to still sexualize a robe?? wtf?? leav whit mag alon)

Another beta viera design that just appeals to me a lot, somehow! I think its the interesting idea of having a fully furred head and then just a quiff of human hair on the top, it feels more like an actual animal man instead of a human in cosplay. Same for the idea of them having big black cute button eyes!

Also look at these other really cool designs for different beast races, even stuff thats not based on anything we’ve ever seen before It’s hard to believe that the Au’ra were even conceived as a ‘beast race’ concept, like holy fuck it should be illegal to throw out 47 Actual Designs and just go with Human Again But More Fanservice...

also they made this april fools thing as a fake Au’Ra reveal and like... it doesnt say much good about your designers when this could legit pass as real like the joke here is apaprantly just that Sexy Bangaa looks ugly, not that having a race with a monsterish man and a sexy lady is a dumb idea, cos they just went ahead and did it anyway...

the au’ra concept art shows pretty much EXACTLY the same ‘sexy bangaa’ principle and I’m glad they at least fuckin toned it down to the man having AN ACTUAL HUMAN FACE, even if its also a lazy fuckin design change. i’d be so fuckin mad if we got a legit cool only-nonhumanoid-race-in-the-game and it was men only!

also like Wow, I am actually getting excited about just the same super tiny demure unfitting lady to a massive man except Less Sexualized And More Magical/Ethereal ...unless that isnt meant to be a dragon familiar but actually another design for the men or something, that’d be going WAY too far! XD

Hello Welcome To Bottom Of The Barrel With Bunni, wouldnt it have been nice if the weird succubus-y ladies like.. looked in their 20s or something i am actually advocating for big fanservice titties cos it would be 99% less disturbing than the same damn camera angles on a ‘childish’ design... also seriously 99% normal fanservice lady with bigass actual monster horns on top would be better than same thing sans the horns

oh sorry they do have ‘horns’ but they look like fuckin this

and i fuckin can’t even.. i jsut fuckin... they don’t even let us have THE MOST BASIC TINY BEASTIE THINGS! why does it bug me so much that male au ra get to have black schelera along with the black horns like even this super minimal actual dragon trait isn’t allowed?? even when removing it makes no sense?? even when its supposed to be a nationality indicator in-universe cos you put a really nice amount of worldbuilding into each ‘race’ having actually two races of sun and moon based designs. which are EXACTLY THE FUCKIN SAME FOR FEMALE AU’RA, seriously why not just make horn colour an option in the editor then... actually is this a thing that has ever existed in any real world country, is there a place where men have [visual trait] and women don’t? I mean aside from like.. cultural or religious outfits, where only one gender’s is different to the west but its not like the west is default anyway lol. But seriously imagine EYE COLOUR! Imagine if blue eyes only happened to american men and like.. american women couldn’t have blonde hair and all looked identical to.. I dunno.. west indian women. Just a whole country where dudes have all the abstract concept of ‘race’ and the women don’t. That’s how nonsense it seems when you make a fantasy species where only the women look human!

tho also i’m still pissed off too that the human nationality thing actually comes with a different body build (FOR DUDES AT LEAST) and different hairstyles and starting outfit, instead of only a colour change. it stands out a lot that they only did this for their first attempt at the concept. also it makes male au-ra make even less sense cos you can already have a muscle human and an even more muscle human who has a dumb ogre face and also elf men are muscular somehow and you kinda only have miquote if you wanna be a skinny dude.. or even just an average dude...

also it kinda sucks that you can’t turn off or choose anything about the weirdly complicated scale patterns on their neck and upper arms only. like why is that even there except to be like ‘hey we did the bare minimum to be considered a dragon’...

ALSO LIKE EVEN MORE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL I would have STILL been happier if we got this fuckin terrible fanservice lady design but she at least had ears and claws as well as we-say-its-horns-but-it-looks-like-cute-hair-decs. like seriously throw me a fuckin bone here, give them SOMETHING to justify the ‘beast race’ category... also did i mention that its really fuckin stupid how they did the worldbuilding too? these guys are meant to be nomads and warriors yet the women look like this. its just.. never explained. its just that all the Lore applies to the dudes and the women are just for ~cyooooot anime girl who does the stubborn kiddy pose with her tits hanging out~ (SERIOUSLY THEIR ANIMATION SET IS REALLY CHILDLIKE AND ITS SO CREEPY! theyre like the sex appeal of miquote with the lalafell animations...)

seriously holy shit looking at this pic makes them it look like dads taking their daughters to soccer practise like seriously fuckin christ

and ALSO on top of fuckin everything else we get to see they even had designs for the same creepy loli fanservice ladies but if they had Some Sort Of Actual Unique Features and Cool Aesthetic Choice like wtf you even abanded like 40 cool horn designs and just gave them plain gross triangles in only one of two colour choices... T_T also like.. that loli lady at least gets to wear an actual gothic lolita fashion style, and i love the aesthetic of armor plates hanging as accessories on a non armour outfit. Do they jingle like windchimes? or does this mean Au’ra were meant to be fully scaled below the neck, so this kinda IS a skimpy outfit but you cant tell? XD

Also l kinda like this aesthetic of this other equally lame and super humanoid design with overly sexualized females. Like i dunno if this is just shading but if they actually had this colourscheme it would be super distinctive! And it reminds me of amarant’s trance form, The Amazing Battle Banana Hammock. Even if it also suffers from the same problem of technically showing a man in a skimpy costume but like his design is supposed to be monsterous and badass instead so it still doesnt deliver the same as the female equivelant. The top left version could kinda be a fanservice guy but like.. only if he was naked like that? like drawing someone in a style that’s supermodel body shape and has giant boob outlines and super sexualized poses and doesn’t look monsterous despite being a monster and ET CETERA, that’s what we mean about a character design being sexualized rather than just sexy. If you put some pants to cover this guy’s impressive bulge then he’d just be another scary boss guy. I mean Ifrit is a nearly naked guy with horns in every damn game but he’s very VERY rarely sexualized! The FFXV version is like the first damn time, except when we had a female version of him. It sucks cos ifreeta has a pretty damn cool design but still its really weird how she’s so much more humanoid and has attention drawn to her having boobs in a way they never did with ifrit’s constantly-on-display pecs and loincloth... Man why is it so hard to explain these weird nuances of how people draw ‘topless monster’ characters like this? its like they go out of their way to try and backpedal on the fact they made a topless guy. he can show more skin but its supposed to be less appealing by the artist, thus its less offensive cos it isnt boxing a character into this one sexualized role while the plot says ‘no, they’re a monster, honest!’ YKNOW?? god am i making ANY sense here? XD

nakey man, not meant to be arousing to audience

nakey lady, suddenly just because she’s ‘the lady version’ she looks like this

the same nakey man, redesigned, this time indeed meant to be just as sexy

and like it sucks that there aren’t many good examples of nakey ladies who ARENT meant to be arousing in this series cos I mean that lady ifrit design is so much more sexualized despite being in a chibi art style game for kids?? this was really not the right time or place!

Also it sucks that ‘is nakey’ is a common trait of monster man characters, because well there’s been an established history of dudes being topless and you’re not meant to be aroused. So then whenever they try and make ‘monster man race’ they go for a topless dude and are like ‘then the woman needs to be topless too!’ except the only way they can draw them is sexy??? except its like a false premise to begin with, you can totally make a beast race that isn’t topless, you guys! or even a beast race that isn’t buff, so you don’t need to be all ‘what’s the female equivelant of buff? oh yeah, sexy!’. or, yknow, just draw a buff woman. it could work... or like just have neither and make a beast creature that’s supposed to be cute or mysterious or comical or whatever.

completely random moment of interjection to say that nu mou are pretty neat

Actually, FFTA’s version of the ivalice races was pretty good about this, aside from the dumb thing of ‘theyre all male except viera, and just coincidentally viera are the only humanoid and sexualized race’. (Tho it was funny that somehow they accidentally made all humans male only too??)

Also another reason the Au’ra’s version of fanservice bothers me more than the simple option to wear a bikini as both genders for every other race: like none of them are DESIGNED FROM THE GROUND UP to be ‘they are all biologically born in an idealized supermodel shape and also look twenty years younger than they really are and also all culturally do j-pop poses for fuckin everything’. Even if you picked the sexy catgirls and catboys race you can choose to play a perfectly covered up version of either. And none of their animation sets or voice lines were inherantly fanservicey. Thats kinda what bugs me more than the Au’ra’s designs, its that they’re all ~uguuu senpai~ anime fanservice lady poses and squeaky voices even if you make their design not sexualized in the customizer. Even tho like.. at least a character in full armour doing j-pop poses is kinda funny/cute, so that’s one consolation. But couldnt you have just made them simple emotes for all the characters instead? I WANNA SEE IDOL ROEGADYN OMG :D

ANYWAY UHH BACK ON TOPIC

we almost got a dreadlocks hairstyle? That looks cool

ok.. okay.. I’m done Okay I’m Done sorry i just saw these concept art pics and got really fuckin wistful for what we could have had...

[nakey-cats-take-bathsss]

Three things I want to know about you: 1. What's your name (or nickname/pseudonym 2. What is your dream job? 3. What got you into writing?

Ahh hi!! Hmm these are all really good questions, they really made me think!

1. What’s my name?

My name is Leah! Well, it’s actually my middle name but it’s what most people in my life call me! A few people on here have nicknamed me Nakey which is the single funniest thing to ever happen to me and I love it so you can always call me that too.

2. What is my dream job?

This is a tough question. I’d love to write rom-com novels starring WOC. I’m a big fan of mindy kailing and she has this great essay in one of her books about how rom-coms and their protagonists always seem to be white and non-white girls deserve to have aspirational love stories too! Writing a cheesy romantic book with a Latina as the main character is a big goal of mine. This was basically just a really long winded way of saying I would write fiction. I would also probably live in a van and camp in the national parks full time since my job would basically only involve a google doc.

3. How did I get into writing?

Ive always been a little too chatty for my own good, classic ADHD and major bossy syndrome lol. After a while, I realized that writing down my thoughts and sharing it was a way to get all my ideas out of my head haha. I was big into journaling from a really young age and it sort of organically shifted into writing fanfic. I think fanfic gets a lot of flack undeservingly, it’s a great way to learn and express yourself creatively and I owe a lot to it as a craft because it taught me a lot about what it means to build a story. I’ve always used my writing as a way to reflect on events in my own life or thoughts that I have, it’s kind of my own personal form of therapy!