#lynxden

[johnnylandslide]

HELLO JOHNNY barges into your asks!! I have some questions for you! 🦁

Were they each other's first anything (kiss, relationship, etc.)?

What is their height difference? Age difference? Do either matter to them?

Lynx, hi! You sure got here quick!

For the first one, they don't actually have that many physical firsts that they share with each other, considering that they got together in their mid-twenties and both had prior relationship experience. Johnny and Minfilia dated for a few months in post-ARR, and Tataru has had a couple flings during her travels.

If we count emotional firsts though, they definitely have a couple! Tataru has never been so invested in a relationship before, and Johnny has never been as open with anyone as he is with her. And they are each other's first successful long-term relationship, and they also got married for thr first time to each other!

As for the second question, their height gap is 3 feet on the dot! With Johnny at 5'11" and Tataru at 2'11", that puts him at just over twice her height. They do very much enjoy their size difference! Tataru likes riding on his shoulder since it makes her feel like a rich lady and prevents her from getting swept up in crowds. When she was a girl, she frequently would see Nanamo and Raubahn and imagine her future dream husband as a tall, strong knight like that.

Johnny doesn't get Lalafell-induced cute agression as much as some people (a necessary quality to actually have a serious relationship with one), but he definitely does find her height cute. He likes how when they hug, he can practically envelop her like a dragon curled around its treasure. He does his best to never leave things out of her reach, and only teases her about her height on very rare occasions.

For their age difference, they're the polar opposite! Tataru is just 14 days older. They were both born under the sign of Nald'Thal, the patron god of both merchants and black mages. They usually celebrate their namedays together, and it's a great excuse for a summer get-together for the Scions.

Thanks for the questions!! Ask games are so much fun.

[lilbittymonster]

NAURR i am sorry Kitali 😭 please pass her my apologies hfjfhf

LMAO that's what I figured happened. You definitely got some of the letters correct though!

[isayoldbean]

Hello hello! I have an assumption about Huge Beef: she likes to arm wrestle >;3

you would be correct!

[onwesterlywinds]

hi Livvy! I'm here from the ffxivwrite post you made! First off, congratulations for finishing it this year! 30 prompts is no joke haha. I'd like to send you something I'm extremely proud of! Prior to this xivwrite, I hadn't written for myself in 4 years. I got 23 prompts done before the deadline, and ambitions of finishing the prompts out to turn the series into a physical book, courtesy of a friend.

archiveofourown.org/works/58873828 This one is Day 10: Stable! I'm also really proud of Day 3: Tempest, which sets up the relationship between Solveig, colonialism and the Doman refugees we meet in Stormblood, and Vira as an infant. (Never mentioned but implied: Solveig is part of the lion dance association, which is her way of keeping the refugees' traditions alive as atonement for her past as a Garlean conscript.)

Oh my gosh, this is so sweet!!! I absolutely feel the love in it, in everything from Solveig's practice of her craft to the growth of the kid she takes under her wing. 😭✨

Thank you so much for sending this through - and congrats to you as well for writing for yourself again! I really hope the book idea goes through!!!

[toadmancer]

THANKS FOR GENDER FEELGOOD

HAPPY GENDER BEEEEAAAAAM

[iron-sparrow]

祝您 ⸺ wishing you ⸺ 新年快樂 a Happy New Year in good health 身体健康 and prosperity year after year 年年有餘 ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.

ft. @lynxden

Lunar New Year is upon us, and while I currently live in a place that does not give us weeks of PTO to celebrate accordingly, I've been eating pineapple cakes and sticky rice cakes for well over a week now. Yum. (Mooncakes are notably not consumed on LNY but during the Mid-Autumn Festival.)

I've not been feeling especially celebratory. Between the fires in my backyard and the current admin holding my passport hostage, the start of the solar calendar year has sent me spiraling into survival mode almost immediately. I am doing my best to draw from the well of my support systems, from kindred spirits to a very good (and expensive) therapist I've finally reached out to again.

Lunar New Year. Spring Festival. Chinese New Year. Whatever you and yours call it, the holiday is meant to be a hopeful time, when we anticipate the eventual transition from winter to spring. I will give hope where I'm able, and I will persist. I hope you will also hold onto yours and persist.

I am determined to hold hands with my anger, and to continue knowing it. We will go into the New Year together as allies. Still, I want to offer you this famous poem about hope, written by historical figure Yu Qian.

《除夜太原寒甚》 寄語天涯客，輕寒底用愁。 春風來不遠，只在屋東頭。

"An Extremely Cold Night in Taiyuan on New Year’s Eve" Please tell the friends living afar, the weather is chilly but no need to worry. The spring wind is arriving and quite close to us, touching the eastern end of our house.

[oneiroy]

Then vs Now

tagged by @ubejamjar, @elliewiltarwyn and @verysmallcyborg, ty!

tagging @greenshi @lynxden @sealrock @chadhunkler @robynostornwyn and @sleepymoonlady

February 2022, when i was still playing on ps4..!

and a few weeks ago! censored bc i want to show off her body but without blasting everyone with tits vfhsdbkvsdfjk

i don't think it's radical change but just getting closer and closer to what i wanted for her :)

not gonna lie back when i was still going through the story and playin on ps4 ryss wasn't developped as a character at all ahahah! it took some time before i wrote some sort of backstory and character elements for her...

her body & c+ evolved a bit overtime and i'm sooooo happy with the progression!! going from vanilla thin to strong but thin to strong and wide with belly fat!!!

her skins got lots of detailing. scars and body hair, but also sun marks that are frankly almost never visible post shaders LOL

facial hair :)

got a few different haircuts.. i miss shorter hair on her but idk there's something about the meteor dt hair that's just so charming!

anyways she gives me gender envy and i love she :)

[pointyhatspointyears]

A peaceful day at father Haru's bonsai nursery, for @lynxden For the wonderful stories you tell, the music you share & the love you spread <3 Thanks for letting me play with the family I love them so much ;^;

[sketchy-nick]

Lionhearts, Together!

( @lynxden 's characters 💕)

[ubejamjar]

Then vs. Now - 2023 vs. 2024

Tagged by @lilbittymonster, thank you my friend ❤

Tagging (with much affection): @elliewiltarwyn @primamchorus @angelinecarax @aislingsurrow @viiioca @lynxden @oneiroy @amalthea-felsblood

Here's a screenshot I took on the very first day I loaded up the game and one I took just now!

Stressed, depressed, but still smilin'! Changes below the cut ❤

Hair- changed to darker blue because I liked it more; I add/remove the lavender highlights depending on the hairstyle. Stopped choosing hair that obscured her facial scales because I'm confident in drawing them now :D

Eyes-went from gold to pale-almost-white yellow courtesy of light corruption!

Presentation- started to lean into her being more masc than fem, though I still switch between both.

Body- C+ to make her more mid-sized. Still constantly making little adjustments, but I'm very happy with where she is right now.

It has been very fun changing her around both vanilla and crime brulée to reflect how time passes or she changes.

[shroudkeeper]

Then & Now!

Thank you kindly for the tag: @archaiclumina, @lynxden and @floweramongstthecold 🍄‍🟫

Rivienne is my original lady from this blog, so I had to dig back into the archives and find the first photos I had taken of her. This dates back to July of 2014; we didn't have any good lighting except that you used from the environment or had to depend on the sun/moon minion.

The first picture was from July 2014, and the last one in this set is from December 2015, when I started messing around with editing my photos.

Several years later, she has evolved and changed appearance slightly, going from wildwood to duskwight, thus reflecting the appearance I wished her to have.

She has been a warrior of light, faced morality checks, has found redemption, and finally retired into the woods. However, one thing that has not changed is that Rivienne retains the inspiration I pulled from the Noldor a decade ago.

Tagging: @airis-ray | @chadhunkler | @cosmicharm | @adellennehocoleux | @allyennah | @thefreelanceangel | @punchelf | @avampyone | @zeloinator - and of course if you have not done it, consider yourself tagged by me!

[angelinecarax]

Nameday gift from @lynxden - a memory of lightwaves ✨✨

thank you thank you thank you thank you

[nerimaemae]

Then vs Now - Galatariel edition!

Thank you so much @lynxden for tagging me!! <3

Ok first, I can't really talk about my gal separately from my Gpose journey, so for that I'm sorry!

When I first started the game, I went straight to Miqo (it was also free trial, but never noticed the viera lol)

I stayed as this Miqo for a month only (whole March 2023). Was also my first time trying out the Gpose thing for real. God the ammount of pics I took that month.. Also, I hadn't discovered Reshade/Gshade yet!

After that 1st month of gameplay, I got my lvl 50 fantasia, gone Viera and never looked back! Those here are the exact first and second pics I took of her as a bun.

The mount pic was a lil too ambicious, it was only a month since I started gposing, barely knew anything, everything I did on Anamnesis fucked up all the poses.. and I also stared messing with Reshade.. but I also felt REALLY happy with the progress with gposing within that month!!

I even did a comparison at that time lol I was amazed bcs the first time I entered Gpose, I just wanted a gear ref pic and it was all so complicated. I accidentally hid the interface, didn't knew How to bring It back and I force closed the game /nice/

For around 6 months, I took sooo many pics! It helped me a lot with some "head issues" I deal with. Drawing has been my main hobbie since I was a kid, was in college for the same area, did a lot of freelance work, It was always good. But for years I've dealt with BD episodes, at least 3 depressive ones for year, and everytime I stopped drawing and had to get the skills back, was like this for ~8 years. Gpose helped me as a creative outlet a lot. Because it'll be around a 1 and half years that I don't draw anymore.

So yeah, my life is kinda depressed as shit and that's why I love doing those happy things \o/

When DT arrived I was like NOOooooOoo bcs those new face bones made me feel the same thing I felt the first time l opened this thing. Decided I wouldn't open It again. It didn't worked for more than a half day. Then I took that as a challenge lol and it's been REALLY fun!!!

This year, with the attention my pics got somehow, I was able to connect with so many amazing people on the community, and I loved to share any kind of knowledge and learn even more from others 🙌

Hope you all have a nice New Year's Eve and even better 2025! Luv you all ❤️

[nabaath-areng]

Then and now: Ieeha

I don't know how this meme is supposed to go but I was tagged by @lynxden so I'll just briefly go through Ieeha from start to finish <3

Starting with 2014:

I bought this game as a birthday present for myself, I had NO idea what it was about and had never played any MMO before, but I was well into FF as a franchise and my friend who was too told me "Imagine FF... but with your own character...", and that was all I needed to jump in LOL.

It's funny looking back because the character I originally made had a different name, and I made him because I wanted a basic and bland, short gridanian lancer. The most unremarkable dude you could possibly imagine...

And then I unlocked dragoon. Which is decidedly NOT unremarkable and bland. Which led me to explore other jobs in just a few months, leading me to leveling White Mage and then Scholar, which remain my go-to, most played jobs to this very day.

"But how did that become Ieeha later" you may ask... well, it was a gradual process of going from his original character aesthetic to one that begins to resemble the Ieeha I know now.

Frankly what held me back a lot in the design department was the gender lock on gear, which lead me to frequently fantasia him to various female race variants of himself´:

(I'm also including these because there was no Gpose. The sheer effort I put in constantly to time weather, time of day for lighting, cooldown for skills etc....... lets get you to bed grandpa etc)

2024:

I revamped him (lore, name, background etc) in 2021, and then with Dawntrail his old face didn't resemble him anymore and I had to change it. Some tweaking was done but I can confidently say that I'm happier with him than ever and I'm sorry but I'm going to keep gushing about it <333

I never really had OCs before him, so in a sense he's my ever first one, which gives him a special place in my heart. It's taken so long to get here in terms of allowing myself to love him as much as I truly do and not feel weighed down by other people's opinions, and it's really improved my relationship to my creative ideas as well.

[ahollowgrave]

Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

][Tagged by:][ @verysmallcyborg @cosmicharm @chadhunkler and @thefreelanceangel <3 Thank you all!!!!

][ Tagging: ][ @punchelf @allyennah @hazelkjt @lynxden @reconditerune & You! (:

Three Ships I Like: - Gideon/Harrow (obvi) - Glinda/Elphaba (orz) - Fornax/Ryss (heeeh) First Ship Ever: ... it was self insert ship with Hiei and Kurama from YuYu Hakusho.

Last Song You Heard: A alt-country cover of Dirty Little Secret by MackMartin. From a release radar! It is doing things to my brain.

Favorite Childhood Book: The whole Tortallan universe from Tamora Pierce. Devoured every book of hers I could as a child!! Currently Reading: What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher! Anything by T. Kingfisher is worth reading but especially her horror retellings.

Currently Watching: My husband and I are caught up on Abbot Elementary so we've switched over to Creature Commandos right now!

Currently Consuming: A cold, crispy pop. As a treat!

Currently Craving: The chicken katsu and sushi we'll be ordering for dinner.

[sailor-artemis]

Then and Now

↑ Then (June 2019) / Now (November 2024) ↓

Tagged by the ever-talented @iron-sparrow! I'll tag @zylphiacrowley @this-is-ris @wildstar25 @e-nishka-aosh @archaiclumina @sealrock @lynxden and also if you see this and you GPose, consider yourself tagged!

It's such a wild comparison, 5 years ago to today. I was... A very different person in a lot of ways when I started playing XIV, and both my WoL and my posing ability reflect those changes. I've transitioned, I've changed my name, I've grown out my hair, I've gotten married and immigrated across the continent, I've found my creative stride again after the burnout of college and the pandemic. I've found circles of friends that support my work and are somehow as obsessed with my OCs as I am with theirs, I've discovered a whole new side to Tumblr and XIV that lets me see how creative the community can be, and it's been such a net positive on my life. I know I sound like a broken record, but if you've made a pose, made art, wrote a fic, made a meme, liked or reblogged or shared something cool you saw in the community, offered resources, time or financial support to an artist, thank you. It's folks like that that make this community worth being in and that's made it such a force for good in my life. Love you all and happy early new year!