#windupsanson

[mimble-sparklepudding]

I just wanted to thank you for being such a nice person in the community

Thank you that is very kind of you to say. I was having one of my "oh god why am I so annoying and awful" days, so it's quite nice to have some counter-evidence!

I enjoy your blog very much and I think of you anytime I see anything related to Sanson and Guydelot :)

[ink-long-dry]

Bless your Foulques au! That was perfect. Perfect poses too.

Your oc is awesome too.

OH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I'm so glad that you liked it and my boy!!!

[autumnslance]

More Teleportation: Anima Mechanics

@windupsanson asked on the teleport post:

#what Anima mechanics of 1.0?????

Some of the 1.0 players may want to chime in on anything I get wrong or miss.

@mirkemenagerie as usual is a good place to find lore and references, and in a 2011 forum post by Community Rep Camate, we have this for 1.0 lore:

Why doesn’t everyone use aetherytes? To traverse the Lifestream safely with Teleport and Return requires a great deal of spiritual energy, known as anima. While many individuals, such as adventurers, possess the fortitude to endure such travel, some individuals do not. What’s more, even if one has the ability to use aetherytes, the frequency with which one can do so varies. In essence, for some, the recast time for these spells can be far longer than for an adventurer. As a result, only a fraction of the populace can utilize aetherial travel habitually, which is why chocobos, airships, and other forms of transportation still play a major role in Eorzea.

Today we use gil for teleportation; the network was damaged significantly in the Calamity, and the guards by every aetheryte are actually collecting the fee to use it so the city-states can recoup the cost of rebuilding, and then continued maintenance.

But in 1.0, they used the Anima system, and you can see it noted in the chatlogs in some of the 1.0 videos from that time when players are teleporting for quests.

Anima was a magic resource players had, in a finite amount, and that replenished very slowly. There was an anima cost to teleport wherever one needed to go, and it was possible to run out of anima if you bounced around too much.

This is why alternative methods of travel, such as chocobo porters, airships, and ferries exist. They were carried over to 2.0 as cheaper/free alternate methods of travel if one is low on gil.

Anima is still mentioned by some characters now and then, as the specific ability to focus one's aether to be able to teleport:

Nicia: “As Return merely involves allowing the body to be drawn back to the strongest aetherial beacon - one’s home point - it is fairly easy to execute and requires very little spiritual exertion. Usually, a few moments of rest is all that is needed before it is safe to attempt another jump. Teleportation, on the other hand, comes with a greater price. A great deal of spiritual energy known as ‘anima’ is required to fight the natural flow of the Lifestream and guide one’s body and soul to a comparatively weak aetherial beacon. If one’s body lacks sufficient anima, teleporting to a location may prove impossible. Luckily for most of us, anima is restored quickly and should not prohibit regular travel.

And

Ludovraint: “Through meditation, you can further attune yourself to an aetheryte crystal, reducing the amount of anima required to travel to that location. Setting ‘favored’ destinations in this manner can be especially beneficial when your adventuring requires traveling to the same location multiple times. We do, however, ask that all adventurers pay a small fee of 500 gil before meditating. These proceeds help to fund camp upkeep and pay the salaries of the men and women who patrol the area.”

Even in Stormblood:

Alphinaud: “Alisaie and I have been hard at work attempting to restore the aetheryte here to its former glory…and I am pleased to inform you that we succeeded! Suffice it to say, it should prove a boon for travel─well, for those replete with anima like you, at least…”

And

Alphinaud: “This aetheryte is perhaps the most strategically important landmark here, as it can serve as a gateway for attuned troops with sufficient anima. Such tactics are not without their risks, however… Were the imperials to discover that the aetheryte was being used in such a fashion, they might turn their artillery upon us─destroying the beacon and the better part of the district, at the cost of countless civilian lives…”

Anima is now treated as more of a synonym for aether and its uses (as well as the HW relic weapon and minion, and not to mention a certain primal in EW). It's possible, in my opinion, that the Watsonian lore reason for the change could be that the Seventh Umbral Calamity made anima use easier, to where it's less of a concern or at least no different than other uses of one's aetheric abilities. Given what we know of the Rejoinings, I think it makes some degree of sense.

The Doylist reasoning, of course, is it's a depreciated mechanic that was removed for ease of development and play, a gil sink being far more reasonable and simpler than yet another resource with a singular function.

I also tend to headcanon most people actually have to use the aetherytes to move to and fro, and teleporting from a random field location can be harder/take more anima. Hence us seeing our comrades walk away instead of a teleport animation, or Ysayle actually walking up and using the aethryte in Snowcloak while destroying the beacon on the other end (to avoid the situation Alphinaud describes with the Doman aetherytes during the rebellions there).

Though we do of course see some folks teleport directly; a retainer will when helping them out to unlock your own retainer ventures, and of course Lamitt leads the entire squad of Warriors of Darkness out of Ravana's arena; a feat that had to take a LOT of anima, but as a magic-using Warrior of Light, she has plenty.

Anyway, that's what I know and can find quickly about the use of anima and teleportation, and how it was eased off to make teleportation more convenient in the game's relaunch.

[space-diablo]

what sky are you?

Tagged by @sjofn-lofnsdottr Thanks =3

(So it's for ffxiv right?)

So for Flo got stormy sky you don't shy away from expressing yourself. your emotions can be unpredictable, but you try not to stifle them. you're passionate to a fault. you are fiercely loyal and won't hesitate to defend and protect the people and things you care about. but you can be impatient at times - with yourself and with others. sometimes you turn to "easier" emotions like anger when you don't know how to handle things like guilt, grief, or helplessness

Well, It fits...

Don't know who to tag as always so... @alyxmoonstrike @zephyrfog @laladventures @namiargentum @jmadreugimal @kodai-tsuki @windupsanson

No pressure of course =3

UPD: I AM SO SORRY I FORGOT THE LINK!

[kepesktribe]

WIP Tag Game

Make a new post and post your latest line from your WIP & tag as many people as there are words.

(I don't have a current wip because I been just bouncing it around in my head, but I do have my latest rp on discord... which is still going so I am counting it.)

"She couldn't resist a small snicker at the memories."

Tagged by: @spotofmummery

Tagging with no obligation to do it unless you want to: @windupsanson @wtf-amiru @necromeowncy @nights-at-crystarium @aroseyetbloomedwrites @littlestcreampuff @mythandral @elveny @mirrim-the-moonfaerie

[wine-dark-soup]

@windupsanson we are holding hands

[elizabethrobertajones]

15 questions/Get to know me!

1. Are you named after anyone?

I'm named after both my grandmas :D My brother is not because in the same pattern he'd be Wally John and my parents recognised you don't do that to a kid

2. When was the last time you cried?

I'm a tough nut to crack tbh. I can't remember the order but last month the only 2 times I cried was 1: bitterly at the new David Attenborough program in the final episode because he filmed it before ALL THE GANNETS DIED OF BIRD FLU, LIKE, ALL OF THEM and that was unbearable. And 2: my mum and I saw Good streamed by the National Theatre in cinemas and the ending got me. Still viscerally haunts me actually. Which I guess it was supposed to do.

3. Do you have kids?

Only a Grogu toy and no plan to upgrade unless someone buys me the expensive animatronic baby :P

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Constantly IRL, I try and temper it online and use :P if I think I'm remotely in the ballpark of being read wrong if you take me seriously. (Unless you want to actually buy me a Grogu in which case I am not joking at all.)

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

None since school, where I was in no teams and only did PE very lacklustre-ly so I don't think that counts.

6. What’s the first thing you notice about other people?

vibes (like, their mood, aesthetic, how much they want to interact, what they're trying to convey about themselves, etc - I think I'm quite observant because if I check back in with others they often haven't seen as much as I did so I try not to be weird about it and never like, Sherlock Holmes people because that's extremely rude, but I think it's my writer eyes from having been writing and people watching for characters all my life :P)

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings, I am extremely soppy. Although I don't think all storytelling is boxed into "scary movie" or "happy ending" so I'm treating this like we're in Blockbuster and the two DVDs we are debating are a horror movie and a rom com or other genre with a guaranteed happy to ironic-happy ending simply by its cover and not anything more complicated XD

8. Any special talents?

Writing B)

9. Where were you born?

Swindon, UK (they haven't let me back in since)

10. What are your hobbies?

Knitting, sewing, gaming, watching TV with my family :')

11. Do you have any pets?

Alas no. See above, Grogu toy. I don't know if he counts as baby or pet.

12. How tall are you?

5'4"

13. Fave subject in school?

Philosophy, Science

14. Dream job?

Productive writer in a cottagecore writer aesthetic post with all the books and plants and nooks in a window and vellum notebooks, all that stuff.

15. Eye colour?

Grey!

Tagged by: @draculas-husband

Tagging: @windupsanson @cyborgthepoet @emcapi-ffxiv @blorbos-of-the-7th-dawn idk, anyone who wants to do it can say I sent them :P

[notazem]

I saw @sasslett and others do this uquiz and decided to take it for my wol too.

What does your heart look like?

the results were… 🫠

I’ll tag a few people: @tempestarrowhead @moon-keepers @cloudofdarkness @windupsanson @draconian-empress and anyone else who wants to!

[sezja]

I think perhaps @windupsanson and I are too much on the same wavelength.

[velnica]

I posted 519 times in 2022

That's 519 more posts than 2021!

37 posts created (7%)

482 posts reblogged (93%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@sezja

@moonymango

@ultimablades

@windupsanson

@traveleorzea

I tagged 503 of my posts in 2022

Only 3% of my posts had no tags

#queue - 117 posts

#guydelot thildonnet - 83 posts

#sanson smyth - 80 posts

#not my art - 66 posts

#guydesan - 58 posts

#lmao - 53 posts

#ffxiv - 49 posts

#fic: singing along to the start of forever - 34 posts

#bard boys - 27 posts

#haurchefant greystone - 18 posts

Longest Tag: 96 characters

#but they gravitate towards each other like there's this great force of the universe calling them

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Singing Along Ch 6 - I wish I may, I wish I might

Fandom: FFXIV Ship: Sanson/Guydelot Tags: Modern AU/University, Falling in Love, Meet Cute Rating: Explicit (later chapters)

Inviting Guydelot over for Starlight had been done on a whim, and Sanson could never have anticipated the ease in which his roommate slipped into his life. His family, of course, was not helping matters in the slightest.

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12 notes - Posted December 9, 2022

#4

Singing Along Ch 4 - You Set My Soul Alight

Fandom: FFXIV

Ship: Sanson/Guydelot

Tags: Modern AU/University, Falling in Love, Meet Cute (emphasis on cute)

Rating: Explicit (later chapters)

Dragged literally out of his bed, Guydelot steeled himself for their Starlight trip. There was no harm in indulging his roommate's whim once in a while, right? Starlight cheer and all that.

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14 notes - Posted November 15, 2022

#3

Singing Along Ch 5 - Slow, how you wanted it to be

Fandom: FFXIV Ship: Sanson/Guydelot Tags: Modern AU/University, Falling in Love, Meet Cute (emphasis on cute) Rating: Explicit (later chapters)

Sanson roped Guydelot into cleaning the house in preparation for the Starlight feast tomorrow, revealing maybe more than both of them ever expected.

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14 notes - Posted December 6, 2022

#2

Dango (Sanson/Guydelot)

A friend of mine (@naoha-niilo) wanted to see Sanson in a hakama so this photo was born! Gods these two are so cute lol

More format & different shader after the break.

Shader: Glace Melty Natural (edited)

Landscape format and also in Glace Melty Wisteria which is slightly more purple and dramatic.

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18 notes - Posted November 30, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I mean...

37 notes - Posted November 21, 2022

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[mimble-sparklepudding]

A very Happy Starlight Celebration to all the various OC couples and shipped couples and OCs shipped with canon characters!

It's not something I tend to focus on personally, but I really enjoy learning more about other people's characters and their relationships, whether tragic, romantic, spicy or wholesome.

Oh and I say "couples", but obviously this also applies to all the lovely group marriages, polycules and other variations in terms of number, gender and species (and height in some cases).

(Special mention to @furys-mercy for taking the time to explain to me what a polycule actually was!)

If love, sex and the various permutations to be found therein are something you like to read about I can recommend some FFXIV blogs...

@kissstealkai - Aymeric and OC

@hywl - Estinien and OC (and impressive chest hair)

@minilborel Aymeric and OC

@spotofmummery Amon and Scylla (but clones, it's complicated)

@scholarlostintime /@loldragoon-ffxiv OC and OC (and carbuncles and small children)

@nights-at-crystarium G'raha and OC

@amarestellas Pipin and OC

@pinxli OC and OC (plus supporting cast)

@miqomischief / @kskellington Four OC polycule marriage by two amazing writers.

@blucifer08 Elidibus and OC (more angst than you can shake a tragic narrative at)

@windup-dragoon Hien and OC

@talion-graves OC and sometimes other OC, but so so pretty...

@furys-mercy Multiple OC polycule

@avettabendrot Haurchefant and OC (and many baked goods)

@meepsthemiqo OC with different ships - Asahi, Emmanellain and others!

@superiorthaumaturge OC and OC (with current pirate AU shenanigans)

@firelightmuse G'raha and OC & Aymeric and other OC (two for the price of one)

@lunaria-de-borel Aymeric and OC (and angst, also potato-based dishes)

@windupsanson Sanson and Guydelot

@draculas-husband Count Edmont and OC (it's dadtastic)

@healersadjust G'raha and OC (with nice gposing)

@lizzy-of-the-dotharl-tribe OC and Sadu

@yloiseconeillants sometimes OC and Artoirel (and his critiques of her decorating choices)

@umbralaether G'raha and OC (with much beautiful Gpose and art)

Apologies to anyone I left out, this is just a quick list I dashed off.

This is one of my favourite Christmas Adverts and it reminds me a bit, in the best possible way, of the happiness people find in shipping and the happiness that brings me in turn.

Have a very Shippy Starlight Celebration!

[finallyfancy14]

I posted 294 times in 2022

That's 18 more posts than 2021!

133 posts created (45%)

161 posts reblogged (55%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@sarenraegalpaladin

@ffxiv-auras

@blackrose-xivss

@plupatredis

@windupsanson

I tagged 135 of my posts in 2022

#yomuk - 123 posts

#ffxiv screenshots - 100 posts

#ff14 - 93 posts

#xaela - 63 posts

#au ra - 52 posts

#ffxiv - 44 posts

#wolgraha - 35 posts

#ffixv - 31 posts

#haurchefant - 15 posts

#g'raha tia - 14 posts

Longest Tag: 76 characters

#the first shot is an old one and now i can see all the mistakes in it reeeee

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

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#4

"Robot frogs?! That's it, I'm asking the Forum for a vacation!"

56 notes - Posted February 4, 2022

#3

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94 notes - Posted October 10, 2022

#2

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150 notes - Posted January 29, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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315 notes - Posted October 11, 2022

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[elektroyu]

Ich habe 170 Mal im Jahr 2022 etwas gepostet

96 Einträge erstellt (56%)

74 Einträge gerebloggt (44%)

Blogs, die ich am häufigsten gerebloggt habe:

@elektroyu

@eskiworks

@sky-yote

@dennydraws

@windupsanson

Ich habe 165 meiner Einträge im Jahr 2022 getaggt

Nur 3% meiner Einträge hatten keine Tags

#reblog – 57 Einträge

#random stuff – 53 Einträge

#digital – 27 Einträge

#pet portrait – 20 Einträge

#wip – 17 Einträge

#artist resources – 10 Einträge

#beautiful – 9 Einträge

#writing – 8 Einträge

#sketch – 7 Einträge

#cat – 7 Einträge

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#i seriously can't comprehend why*any*one would ever choose the incomprehensible mess that the back office is now over what they had before

Meine Top-Einträge im Jahr 2022:

#5

A little sketch for @wyrd66 for her birthday yesterday! It's inspired by this sketch of a Pilasira lady, which when I saw it back then made me think of her turning her head and looking straight on at the viewer. I gave her a smile because of the happy occasion. :) Paski heads are so difficult to draw, though (especially in weird angles, and as usual I'm making life miserable for myself by chosing weird angles haha), maybe I need to do some more sketching to get a better feel for them ^^; Anyway, I reeeeaaaaally wanted to draw something for your this year and of course it had to be a Paski. :) So again, happy (belated) birthday! I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday! <3

23 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 11. September 2022

#4

Played around with it some more over the weekend and arrived at this in the end. I'll try at least one other thing with this (probably not going to upload tho), but I'm calling this finished now. For real this time 😛 And it does print nicely! Even with my old photo printer, so it should work fine.

Interesting was how much of an impact those little sparkles have, although I really tried to keep them as subtle as I can.

32 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 5. September 2022

#3

Quick post before lunch! The Sammy and Bats piece is finished!!

59 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 4. Dezember 2022

#2

(whispers to self)

maybe writing dumb shit that doesn't make sense but is good for my lonely little heart is actually a great idea? nobody except for myself needs to read it and it's still a productive way to spend my time even though nobody else gets to read it. it doesn't need to have a proper plot, it doesn't need to have proper worldbuilding, not even proper characters or character development. it only needs to feel good!

(end of whisper to self)

61 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 14. Juni 2022

Meine #1 des Jahres 2022

Finished Bats! Which makes this thing a little less than halfway done if I stick to my original plan. :)

90 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 30. März 2022

Hol dir deinen Tumblr-Jahresrückblick 2022 →

[blunt-force-therapy]

Also really important comment by @windupsanson

PSA

[kepesktribe]

For the couple post

Where is their relationship lacking? What could they do to improve it?

Ohhh this is a good one! Thank you. @windupsanson

What they lack is communication and driving force. They need to be kicked in their rumps, a forceful push as it were.

Aruktai and Otome are a couple that just... are. They cuddle. They show simple displays of affection. But they don't... define themselves as a relationship? I mean, they technically haven't fully kissed yet. The most probably Aruk giving Otome a kiss on the forehead.

Oh, no doubt they are dating. They never vocalize they are, though. Not even to each other. They got together because Otome confessed her love in a most hilarious way to him even though he already knew she liked him. He just never realized she couldn't tell his own love until that moment. They had a good long talk after about for how long or how dumb they were about how they went about this. But that just about it.

They need to talk more to each other instead of just letting be in the moment. They need to actually work on their relationship. A thing that came about with how 'let things blossom in time' kind of attitude Aruk takes and the fear Otome has of getting close to someone only to lose them. Like her parents.

So yeah, their relationship is... interesting. Hopefully this explains it well enough.

[sezja]

#Wait so Marty is Sanson stepbrother? I just noticed #imagine if there was a weird families gathering we just have to clear some Redbellies names #I’m full of questions #I love all three Marty Tsihm and Domitien #Cillien #another oc #is he a good guy? father? leader? despite the crimes #Cillien Grandeterre #nice last name for a duskie I have a Terrechant #does that mean Domitien Grandeterre? #any mother for Dom?

@windupsanson

I'm not sure where the stepbrother idea is coming from, but Marty would be Sanson's brother-in-law, once Sanson and Guydelot get married! Half-brother-in-law, anyway, but I think Marty and Guydelot settle comfortably into "Sure, we're brothers. Why not?" They're both chill dudes.

Cillien is a pretty good guy, despite the poaching; though Marty was kind of sold into indentured servitude to him, he's always treated him more or less like a son - particularly when Marty turned out to be so good with Dom. He's a good leader for his little faction of the Redbellies; he's respected and well-liked, which is, frankly, probably the only reason he got away with bringing a Wildwood into their midst.

I also have Amianne Grandeterre in Sanson's bard unit! She's very distantly related - as noted in the fic, the Grandeterre family is huge. I doubt they know each other.

Domitien Grandettere, yep! And he does have a mother, referenced briefly in this ficlet, though I haven't settled on a name for her yet.