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thecottageinthedark · 11 months ago

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Finally got to Shadowbringers on ffxiv and I both hate and love the Crystarium. Hate it because i keep getting lost, the map is NO help. Love it because that aesthetic though.

I got spoiled by accident on the Exarch's identity long ago and I must say, I never thought he'd be such a dedicated student of the Arts and Crafts movement but I'm sure not complaining...

#tbh i feel like there's a fic waiting to be written about The Founding And Building Of The Crystarium #with focus on the Exarch getting *really into* crafting and design #something about Doing Art to cope with shit #and Fuck You Allag We Are Using Your Shit For *Good*#and the philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement that it isn’t enough for something to be practical #it also should be beautiful #because sure you could live in a house with plain white walls and no decorations #but would you want to? would it make you feel good? would it feel like home?#the crystarium is a last bastion of holdout in an apocalypse #it would be understandable if it was bare and unornamented #if everything got condensed down to Survival #but that's not how the exarch works. this is a place for *hope*#give us bread but give us roses #ffxiv #ffxiv shadowbringers #the crystarium #the crystal exarch

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