#swinging cloud

[paloma-ascends-into-hellfire]

it's 2:50 am and I'm watching ride the cyclone as my best friend lays next to me watching swinging space age bachelor man going "I hope I'm hallucinating from sleep deprivation right now"

ah, to be a theatre kid.

[voiddrawss]

Wip

Waaa figured I needed to upload something.

[scoutingthetrooper]

[losingmymarbelles]

ride the cyclone but the choreography involves circus skills. do u see my vision.

[oldinterneticons]

[downfalldestiny]

Beauty 🌅 !.

[sunnysorcerer]

Cloud is the best video game protagonist because he is everything all at once. Shy and awkward boy? Yes. Complete goofball? Also yes. Unhinged, on the verge of a mental breakdown? Yes, that too.

[koifsssh]

i'd like to think Rainy has a solar system to swing through...

One of Rainy & Maverick's shows together involves a love story between two wanderers... (however, due to... maverick going off script, it's now between a wanderer and a star)

so the dialogue is between the two specifically! though, maverick is going off script...

(not that the audience knows that, of course...)

the dialogue for the star & wanderer in the image! ->

"I am not as graceful as you think... nor am I any star... besides, how do you know I'm not a blackhole instead? Anyone can be blinded by such a light, you should be careful to not be consumed, like a moth to a flame." "Oh, dear star... the flames do not scare me, nor does that light of yours. Being consumed by it... is something I dream of each night."

(their other pieces of dialogue drives me up the wall, truthfully.)

he has a separate outfit for it! he has multiple actually... i should draw them all...

Oh man... im back in my clownery phase... oh dear...

ah well, the point is to have fun no? at the very least Rainy gets to be silly, that was simply the goal, i think!

some extras as well! haha!

[ the big whiteboard drawing was a collab with @thatthirstyweirdo ! she was the inspiration for the first drawing actually, do give her some love when you have the chance! ]

[biff-adventurer]

fuck lore strictness. seriously.

i don't care if you're a spongebob squarepants oc adapted for xiv. that's way more interesting and endearing to me than a character pretending to belong 100% to the game. fan content will never be canon and that kind of authenticity is both pretentious and impossible. unless you're part of the actual writing team, your work will always be fannish. and fan content is only at its best when it interprets, creates or transforms its source material. that is how art is actually made. by pushing boundaries and commenting on the themes at play.

plausibility and its degrees are there to let people in. i don't care whether they want to opt into the world of that character or not. "it's too much of a stretch" is not the fucking same thing as looking down on people for being cringe. but it's often used as a cover for judgment and elitism, and that's literally the opposite of what the ffxiv team is about.

yoshi p said, if you believe it can happen, it can happen.

square enix is a company that wants to sell a game. if the demand in the fandom is strong enough, or even if their own rules get in the way of telling a profitably interesting story, they will even change the lore or disregard it altogether. that's what leads to inconsistencies. and, honestly, consistency is not necessary to understand the themes of the story. if you want to make it happen, you can interpret as you please.

obviously, media literacy is at an all time low. some people break the lore without even thinking about whether or not it's even the same game anymore, or if they'll find any partners to be compatible with them based on how much they deviate. there are people, in the same vein, who literally say, "if it does not exist in the game, there is no basis for this idea and we will reject it." that kind of conservative nonsense is full of pretension and repression. both directions lead you into nonsense and, depending on the person's biases, move them to write stories riddled with unintentional bigotry.

i used to think my meteor survivor one punch man himbo would be seen as the lowest of the low. nope. people i know, thoughtful people, enthusiastic people, have been treated like shit because of this attitude of elitism. yeah, yeah, it's nothing new, but it fucking sucks. we're all playing dollies. most people prefer the playing part of roleplaying without actually behaving as writers. but the ones who delude themselves into thinking they are good writers, then go on to treat others like they are less than, is fucking ridiculous.

anyway, i'd much rather play with foster's home for imaginary friends adopted for xiv than pretend to an imaginary standard unrooted in compassion or the spirit of real creativity.

[cryptid-stimming]

Sloth Demon Stimboard (with clouds, bunnies, plushies & macarons) for Anon

x x x / x x x / x x x

[Image description: a 9 gif stimboard; from left to right.

First line: A gif panning over a stretch sky ceiling depicting a blue sky with clouds. A gif of a white rabbit laying on a blue mat with it's nose twitching as it turns it's head. And a gif of a hand reaching down and taking hold of a blue macaron in their fingers, turning it on it's side and then lifting it out of frame.

Second line: A gif of someone holding a plush toy bunny with a bow around it's neck and lifting it's plush paw to make it wave. A gif of a cosplayer with their back turned to the camera as they bounce on their feet, they are wearing a robotic devil/tiefling tail that swishes back and forth with their movements. And a gif of a mini Cinnamoroll plush charm being held on a chain as it swings slightly, a garden in the background.

Third line: A gif of buttercream being piped onto a blue macaron half with a piping bag, macarons can be seen in the background. A gif of a white rabbit pushing a small ball with it's nose while on a blue mat. And a timelapse gif of clouds moving across a blue sky.

End of image description.]

[ca-d]

sunrise 🧡

[justarandombrit]

So I had a dream I went to see RTC live, but I only remember what Sugar Cloud was like.

More info in the tags ↓

[webbydoo]

Tree swing

[teddy-bear-naps-and-random-snaps]

[ladyelainehilfur]

every time I watch a spiderman movie, especially spiderverse, I end it feeling the grief of not having spider powers and knowing I'll never be able to swing between skyscrapers, or to punch through walls, or to use spider sense and sense other spideys the way Peter sensed Miles

[withgreatpowercomesmyfuckingdick]

has anyone done a frankenstein au with sephiroth as frankenstein’s monster and cloud being someone to take him in and teach him the world and genuinely sympathize due to being ostracized from society for some reason or another? because it would slap and if someone else doesn’t do it then one day i fucking will