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One Word Drive: Flood

gods i hope this works, anyway this is for the FFIXIV One Word Drive organized by Sea/gatheredfates (forgive me im unsure how to tag u my good friend)! I may be late, idk, and I really did just throw all of this together despite the idea existing in my head for way longer. It's probably not that great, and I'll get a post eventually detailing a lot more about what I'm doing with Lucio, so forgive me if it doesn't make sense. I take stuff and my brain runs with it. Idk how to format stuff on Tumblr and make it all pretty either ;-; - - - One Word Drive | Flood | WoL Lucio Dossantos -

The Light of the First is….everywhere. An almost imperceptible low drone seems to surround Lúcio at all times. He was sure the others didn’t notice, but he had always had more sensitive ears than most. It sounded….like a deep choir, he thinks as he walks alongside Alisaie. He would have thought Light would have sounded like a choir, like from Ishgard. But there was something….wrong about it. A distinctly inhuman edge to it, something cold and unyielding. It was like the world itself cried out for balance. How could the Warrior of Light refuse? “Here….this is the Flood.” Alisaie stops at the edge of the cliff, and Lúcio looks up, up to the giant crystallized wall of pure Light. It had been a wave of pure energy, with stone buildings caught up like they weighed nothing more than paper. He swallows at the mere thought of that, rubbing at the magical tattoo on his throat. The tattoo had been a gift from his father, a former bard and leader of a revolution. He called it the power of the voice, and with it, Lúcio’s voice became a weapon, to inspire and harm in equal measure. He focuses on the hum of Light, and inhales, drawing Alisae’s attention. He sings a note of pure turquoise to the Light’s pure white. The wall begins to glow and from the nearest point to Lúcio, Light flows toward his glowing turquoise tattoo. “Lúcio…?” Alisaie watches as the Light touches him. The drone that was faint to him before grows louder, and less like a voice. It isn’t a note, but a sound that is slowly overtaking his senses. He can feel ice on and in his throat, though his voice remains constant, his head stretched up high. If he could just… “LÚCIO! What are you doing?!” Alisaie yells at him, and he snaps his jaw shut, ending the song. Instantly, the connection fades, and the wall dims. He blinks, looks at her in alarm, and then coughs sheepishly. “What was that? Are you okay?” “Yes, yes….sorry, I don’t know what came over me…” “Don’t do that again. I’m not going to lose you now. Come on, let’s go.” She starts again toward the Inn, and he follows, eyes to the red sand in front of him as he rubs his tattoo. Lúcio knows she’s more concerned than mad, and it is comforting to hear her yell at him. He’d missed it, admittedly. With no song being sung, his tattoo fades to a slight gray, tinged by the Light. His throat still feels a little cold, but the heat of this desert would warm it in no time. The balance here was skewed, and he knew that he would have to bring it back in harmony, with his friends by his side again. Together.

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My own personal tumblr tips below

Getting weird asks? Turn of anonymous asks, people won’t send you near as much weird stuff if they can’t hide (anon hate is a thing here, it happens mainly with blogs with a lot of followers, and that stops mainly when anon is off)

On the other side, hey! Don’t send weird asks! Be nice to people, please!

Neil Gaiman has had an account here forever, he answers his inbox, he’s quite nice to people, be nice to him, don’t be weird.

April fools is really fun here, log in on April 1st! It’s different every year

Don’t buy a blog theme, look up one you like, plenty of sites have them. Some tumblr blogs have them! Googling “tumblr theme” gets you where you wanna go

In your blog customization settings, it lets you add pages and links! On mobile, though, you can’t see these, so linking them in your bio as well helps more people see the links

The post limit is 200 or 250 a day, usually I never reach it but the site doesn’t really tell you, just doesn’t let you post after that

Queue is your friend!! You can schedule posts, schedule what time you want your posts to happen (i.e. posting 3 times a day at prime time or 50 posts a day all day, etc) and it lets you batch upload art without spamming or it getting lost in a sea of your own posts, xkit has an extension that lets you auto tag your queued posts, some people have cutesy pun ones, mine is just the letter #q

Readmore is good! The text limit is Not Twitter, you can post fics here if you want without adding screenshots! You can add a setting wheres you can have long posts shortened (other people have to have this enabled for it to shorten your post), but it’s common courtesy to put fics in readmores after, like, a paragraph or so, or a description

Please use tags! And filtering! Under Settings > general > content you see, you can block key words and tags. Tags have to be Exact! Keywords should filter any post with that word or phrase, so when tagging your own content warnings, please don’t use // at the end, it makes it harder for people to filter!

Ex: #tw: blood// #blood/// #blood tw// #bl0od/

Ex: #blood / #tw blood / #blood tw

And if you don’t want to see certain content, varying what you put in filtering helps. Because some people just tag the tw and some people add tw before or after, helps to add variation so nothing slips through!

First 5 tags are what show up in the search, feel free to talk in the tags! But have the first few tags what u actually want people to look up to find your post!

AN IMPORTANT NOTE: unless this changed and I wasn’t aware, I’m pretty sure if you have a link AT ALL in your post, it gets hidden from the tag search. Still shows up on your blog but the audience is not as wide— you can reblog your own post again and add links after the original post, or ask in the post to check the notes for the link. Shadowbanning accounts isn’t a thing here but posts can get shadowbanned kinda

Also adding “mutual aid” or “donations” to a help post shadow bans it, please don’t do that when making or reblogging a help post

You can go through tags! So you can make tags for your art, comics, characters, etc and sort them that way on your own blog, it’s super helpful! No like, idk, twitter collection needed

My talking tags are #amber talks for examples and my art is #my art, I can go through all of these whenever I want!

Give yourself an icon, and post like, something, anything. A lot of people (myself included) scope out new followers to make sure they’re not bots, and if I see an empty blog and no icon, I usually block, on the other side, if YOU see this, probably block

Block porn bots. They follow you to make their accounts seem more legitimate; following real users makes their accounts not look as botty, and might attract other bots to your blog as well, and speaking of them, don’t click their links lol, they’re either viruses, scams, or phishing scams, in general be careful of links, especially if it has an offer or it’s from someone you don’t know asking you to “test out their game”. You can get hacked and then your post will spit out spam for a while and possibly deleted from staff. Even if it’s from someone you know, check to make sure their account wasn’t hacked, especially if it’s an offer or deal or Raycon Sunglasses

Lots of people have main blogs and art blogs, but some people post art on main, or you can have an art blog and always reblog your art to your art blog/main blog; double dipping isn’t discouraged

You can reblog something as many times as you want, there’s no “you’ve tweeted this before” alert, old posts make the rounds again and you can reblog your art for morning or afternoon crowds so more of your followers see it, self reblogs are common!

Adding more tips as I think of them!