#the waking sands

[sirensongsea]

pray_return_to_the_waking_sands.mp4

[fourfoldfires]

pray return.

[dawntrailing]

Day 1 #FebHyurary Welcome

[travelling-hydaelyn]

Lahabrea possessed Thancred before this questline even started which means these are back to back Laha interactions. Here is how he greets the WoL in the Waking Sands immediately after his Disney villain introduction.

Meanwhile in Minfilia's solar:

presumably he took a brief break from running Alphinaud's errands to go dramatically laugh at the WoL

[khaopybara]

alley rose by conan gray for @mbjw!

you wrapped your fingers around my neck and pulled me into your desperate breath the way you kissed me hot and fast i knew it'd be the last

(hey juls, i hope you liked it. thank you for trusting me to make this and for encouraging me. you're great!)

[starcurtain]

Just caught up with Natlan's archon quest and lord help me, I have a burning need to see Alhaitham and Ororon interact.

I truly feel that they would vibe perfectly. Not in a ship way, but like, in the way of Kaveh quietly wailing: "For archons' sake, he's brought another tacky thing into the house. Traveler, please do something; they've been staring eye to eye over the coffee table for like an hour now but haven't said a single word. I don't know what to do. Send help."

[jacksjoke]

[funguslesbian]

If I have to see one more person talk shit about the Irish language I'm going to lose it. If I have to see one more person call the Irish language Gaelic I am going to lost it. If I have to see one more person make fun of the name Siobhán specifically I am going to lose it.

[graha-stan-account]

I kinda love it. 👀

If you love it too, it's on the shop: CranberryBoss

There's also a sticker.

[bird-inacage]

Only Friends Episode 1 | Ray being an Adorable Pest

"How did you manage to live this long?" - Sand

I WANNA KEEP HIM IN MY POCKET. HE IS SO FRIGGIN ADORABLE. Ray is every bit the feral disaster I was expecting him to be. He be acting like a feisty gremlin but really he's just one big giant baby.

[fozzieosbourne]

POCKET SAND!

Don’t know if anyone has made this joke yet but idc 😂😂😂

[sirensongsea]

The Waking Sands - Where Everybody Knows Your Name

[astrology-bf]

"What do they say about me in Garlemald?" “Some say that you’re an eikon.” “Oh? Of which god?” “Your death deity.” “Nald’thal, hm? High praise, if a bit blasphemous. And summoned by the Sultanate, no doubt. Why him, specifically?” “They say you raise the dead to eat the living, and burn your enemies alive in hellsfire. Some even, uh…” “Hm? Go on.” “...Some frighten their children with you. 'Behave yourself, or Kaleid the Black will come devour you in the night’. That manner of thing.” "..."

(x)

[fatedroses]

dont know what possessed me to draw an au where lucius lives, mostly by making a deal with golbez (as a deal of basically sustaining him through the illness he gets and helping him deal with the damage after in exchange for helping him look for a way to help the 13th from the sources side), but here we are.

[thefinalwitness]

have you seen. she.

[elliewiltarwyn]

FFXIV Write 2024 | #16: Third-rate

Word Count: 443

Fifth Astral Moon, 25th Sun, 0 7AE

Lily’s alive. Thank the Twelve, she’s alive.

Yugiri found her under a curiously-small amount of guard while scouting out Halatali in search of Raubahn, and managed to spirit her away ere anyone’s notice fell upon them. I felt myself sinking into the chair when Honoroit burst into the room to inform us that they were on their way to Fortemps Manor - Mia flat out fell to her knees and exhaled the biggest sigh of relief I’ve ever heard.

She arrived propped up by Haurchefant, shivering and unable to stand on her own. Count Edmont promises he’ll call upon Ishgard’s finest chirurgeons to help her, but in the meantime I’m doing my best. She’s in a rough state…to put it lightly. She’s half-emaciated and she struggles to hold on to anything, her muscles too weak to make a firm grasp. From what little she’s been able to speak of, she was chained up within her cell and essentially left to rot, only fed enough gruel to survive…

I already wanted to go ballistic and rampage through the Brass Blades and any other Syndicate cronies who dared stand between me and Lolorito… and seeing what they did to Lily in their captivity has only inflamed that desire.

But they’re at least a clear, tangible target in the real world. The other subject Lily was able to speak of is far more difficult to fight.

“I’m sorry,” she keeps saying, staring at me unblinkingly every time, her eyes large and displaying a window into the sheer torrents of pain she’s in. “I declared that I’d protect you, the same way you’ve protected me all this time…but I couldn’t. I barely even delayed them - I couldn’t save you or Mia or Minfilia or anyone else. In the end, I was the useless one - the hanger-on - the worthless, third-rate Warrior of Light who doesn't even deserve the title.”

I immediately protested, told her in no uncertain terms that she isn’t remotely worthless. That if Mia and I are allegedly so vital to the realm as the Warriors of Light, then she is too. I might have actually grown a little frustrated with her: “I’ve been telling you since the beginning, and I’ll keep telling you as many times as is necessary, you’re worth the effort.”

I’ve always doubted that she believed me whenever I told her such before; I’m just about certain that she doesn’t now. I don’t blame her for it, given what she’s been through—what we’ve all been through—but…gods. None of us deserved this. I think Lily deserved it the least of us all.