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[wintrii-shadows]

so that's all the kandi I have right now that's for me in no particular order. um. i'm sane what do you mean

the zoidberg one was bc my brother said it'd be funny to show to my science teacher so hehe seven eleven is one of my nicknames now the green w is for weezer and is part of a friendship bracelet set I have with three others the stars on the very right,, two of those are for charlie and niffty :3 got some kin bracelets n stuff in there too nuzi and dizzy bracelets + stars

OH MY GOD I FORGOT TWO OF THE BRACELETS. welp too bad I guess..

[venti-tangents]

I was gonna save this for a more general hc post, but the new card trailer has me ferrel.

Now that we have a larger collection of spicy, intimate scenes with Rafayel, I’ve started to notice a bit of a pattern with how they play out.

He lures his MC in, usually using himself as bait—testing their limits, sometimes acting innocent or helpless; generally goading them on, inviting them tease him. And tease him is what they do, taking great joy in doing so because his reactions are so cute. He melts so easily in the hands of his beloved…yet he pounces right when they least expect it. I think he enjoys the feeling of “turning the tables” on his lover, so to speak.

It’s almost cunning the way he seduces the MC, which is probably why they call him a fox in the trailer (I’ll come back to this if I’m wrong).

[myreia]

✦ F F X I V L E V E L 9 0

—compendium

[lovebugdotcom]

Wibble doodles ft. Gangle

[stanfordpinesenbyhusband]

Ford: compliments xavier in anyway

Xavier:

Pro.shippers/com.shippers DNI please

[alexxmason]

You and me been findin' each other for so long And the feeling that I feel for you is more than strong, girl

Grateful to have the chance to commission @quiddling for this soft and amazing piece of my brain bugs 💕🥹❤️🥺 they look so wonderful, sweet, lovely and I can’t stop loving and looking at this!! Highly recommend, and such a wonderful artist to work with! 💕

[astral-express-family]

okay related to my last post 👀

[gayathreya]

[neriyon]

🎁

What is something Maito keeps like: a souvenir, a keepsake, or a family heirloom; that means a lot to her? Why is it so important to her?

Ohhh, it's been a while since I last even thought about Maito's lore uihfeiuehf.

I could see her having some keepsakes her younger siblings gave her before she set off on a boat to Eorzea. Maybe some simple bead bracelet, or like, a stick figure drawing of their family? Or even some of the letters they sent her during her travels. Those were her only real connection home while on unfamiliar continent, so obiviously very dear to her (even if she'd never admit it out loud).

Other keepsakes from other's I could see her keeping would be something from Naho or Scions. Maybe a staff commissioned by the Scions as a thank-you for all the trouble she went through for them. For Naho I think it'd again be something really simple, like a pretty, colorful ribbon she felt like would brighten this mostly black wearing auri up (dubbed goth by your catgirl bestie lol).

[windupnamazu]

i can't sit idly (no, i can't move at all)

ffxivwrite2023 #15: portentous of or like a portent: a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.  

Lunya/G'raha. Pastoral AU. 582wc. ⮞ Some people hear a scream in the middle of the night and close their curtains. G'raha runs toward it.

The moon hung full over Corvos that night, drenching the summer meadows and their sprawling patches of daffodils in silver light and casting long, deep shadows where it could not reach.

G'raha fiddled with the latch of his hut, uncertain why he was so on edge. It wasn't his first summer in the pastures and it would not be his last for many more years to come, and with experience came a quiet sort of calm that eluded him this time when it had never before. Out in the field his flock was quiet as they slept under the watchful eye of his loyal sheepdog, Lyna, and the only sound was the gentle whistle of the wind through the ash trees.

Before he could fasten the lock and retire to bed to shove the strange anxiety hanging at the back of his mind away, a scream broke the peace of the night.

Immediately he was back out the door, crook in hand and barking a command for Lyna to keep watch. He tore through the thicket, lantern swinging as he tumbled down the slope towards Elftrudis's pastures with a healing spell already on his tongue.

He found her on the ground, panicked but otherwise unharmed as her own guardian dog circled her flock, hackles raised. In the pale moonlight that drifted between the trees into her section of the meadows there laid a giant direwolf, its hulking body split in twain, and standing above it…

A woman—one he'd met once before in these very same meadows. Lalafellin, possessed of moon-white hair in silken plaits and eyes of twilight flecked with crystal, skin brown as sugar and dotted with white freckles like the myriad stars overhead, impossibly beautiful in a way that made her seem not of this world. She stood over the corpse of the wolf five times her size as it bled out into the soil, cradling a lamb in one arm and in the other the arm of a scythe as tall as she was, formed of aetherial light rather than steel and dripping ichor. Two hounds flanked her on either side; the first a mutt that was nearly invisible in the dark with its pitch black fur and the second an Ala Mhigan hound with golden fur and piercing blue eyes.

When last he saw her, the very first time, she was a traveler who misheard his kulning cry as one in need of help and came wandering from the treeline like one of his flock at sundown. She warned him the pastures were dangerous at night and he laughed it off, having spent more than half his lifetime slogging through the wetlands in the pitch dark. Back then, she seemed eccentric but no more than he was and he found himself charmed by her open-bite smile and the wit with which she bantered with him until he had to return to his hut. At worst, she was a little misinformed but clearly well-intentioned. But before there weren't wolves of this size. Before, she hadn't had the scythe.

"What are you, Lunya?" he wondered, mouth dry.

"Me?" the girl asked with a voice like bells, luminous and intensely strange beneath the moonlight. She smiled toothily at him; her canines were sharp, fanglike. A bracing wind tore through the meadow and rattled the daffodils at their feet, sending her braids rippling in waves that revealed a pair of wolf tooth earrings hanging from her softly pointed ears. "I'm an omen."

[stickthisbig]

Back on my bullshit

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

OC name meanings

Thanks for the tag @elveny!

Rules: Search and post the meaning of your OC’s name (if you made their name up or they go by a nickname, post an explanation of how it came to you)! bonus if you can find something for their last name too.

Maybe talking about my OCs will get me to write? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ophelia (Ophelie) Lydia Asherson:

She goes by “Ophelie” in the text but her given name is actually Ophelia, because her dad is a professor of western literature and also a nerd. According to google, Ophelia is a Greek girl's name meaning "help," "aid," or "advantage.” didn’t know it had greek origins, but that makes sense. In a more meta sense it was chosen because of its connection to Shakespeare (talked about in text actually.) her looks have changed over the long, long years, but her name has always been Ophelie.

I like the idea that she starts to go by the French variation of her name as a slight way to protest her namesake’s fate. Lydia also has greek origins, but notably it’s a common name in Hawaii because that was the queen of Hawaii’s English name. And it’s Oph’s mother’s name.

Rowan Kosta Hartley:

Rowan is Irish for “red-haired” and is also the name of a tree. I always liked this name and thought it sounded masculine and weighty. I also like the “earthy” connection to the name. Kosta (or Kostas) comes from the Greek meaning "steady or stable" which is actually perfect for him. Canonically he's named after the father he never met--which was actually "Kostas." he spoke little English however and the intricacies of Greek male naming conventions were lost in translation, so his mother just refers to him as "Kosta."

"Hartley" is a stage name (his mother's now his) and it doesn't have any interesting meanings, but I do like the fact that "heart" is literally in the name, fitting. It was also the actress Vivien Leigh's real last name, and the two are based off of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

these names flew into my head 11 years ago, and at this point in my life they're about as normal to me as my own name or my best friend's name. Ophelie was actually conceived as French (and it was actuallly Ophelie,) but here we are.

tagging @thevikingwoman @myreia @fiannans @alyssalenko and anyone else!

[twofacedtrickery]

💭 A post-defection memory for Min!

({visible to @earth-b0y})

You chew your lip in thought. Part of you is convinced it won't be that different, even now, months after you fully left your post. You wonder, idly, if that would be better or worse than the reality that nothing would be the same for you, ever again.

You speak to a grinning woman in a hushed tone, she seems overjoyed that you are there, though why she would be so happy is lost on you at the moment. You won't learn about that for another several years. She talks about plans your new cohort have been discussing, plans you'd been avoiding learning about directly, because, despite it all, you still aren't sure you belong here.

It would take another few months and change for you to feel at ease, at least with the man who would become your partner, which would serve as all the reassurance you need. It doesn't matter now, though, because right now you are talking to Madhavan about his plans, not him, himself.

Madhavan smiles wider, somehow, and tells you how useful you can be, and you nod. She's not here for the same purpose as you are, you realize as she rambles, but that seems okay, right now.

[lovebugdotcom]

The comfort character ever.

[stanfordpinesenbyhusband]

I started playing cookie run recently and I really like the dad detective cookie lol

Also side note this is more so a rough draft design for my s/i so yeah :P

(s/i is transmasc non-binary and uses They/He/She pronouns)

Picrew Link

Pro.ship/com.ship/neutral dni

[an-asuryampasya]

reading up on energetically modified cements and just