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yeah, they’re sold in sheet sets, but no i dont use em with a duvet. i use just a duvet in the spring/fall, a duvet and a warm blanket in the winter (order depends on how cold i am), and just a top sheet when its hot af in the summer and im melting under a duvet

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do you usually use a top sheet? (a thin flat sheet underneath a duvet, separating the person from it) (curious because it seems common in australia and europe but nonexistent in the usa)

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Some carbies, probably plotting trouble.

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not at all serious science poll I’m just curious:

when did you start getting really attached to your WoL? when did it click for you? when did you “fall in love” if you ever did? when did the WoL’s actions and place in the narrative really start to become interesting to you?

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i play on controller too and tbh my biggest two annoyances are placing field effects (i use macros in raiding bc the cursor’s too slow) and hiding the cursor/having to send it all the way around the ui to get to the quest list.

as for this, i actually some advice!

for typing, yeah the only thing to be done is getting an external keyboard

resizing menus can be done by pressing in the sticks. i think it might be r3 specifically but tbh im usually hitting this by mistake and then having to cycle all the way around the sizing options to get back to the size it was

for targetting! if youve already messed around with the tab-targetting settings (cone vs ignore depth) and target filters (party/enemies/npcs/other), there’s nothing more to be done for an enemy not in your combat list or a player not in your party or alliance. but you can scroll your enemy list by holding l1 and using up and down on the dpad. and l1 + left and right on the dpad scroll through your alliances (and i think explicitly skip your party). i use this when im healing in alliance raids and an alliance needs some res help.

the thing they dont tell you about playing ffxiv ok controller is that it rocks! until it doesnt!

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omg this is so amazing. the use of color??? and the smooth animations?? and just the whole convo btwn the papys is just👩‍���👌

@dreamsy990 come look

HI I'M NOT DEAD

I DID A THING

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Pushing my ART is a giant scary spider agenda

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WOW

YOU JUST WENT AND SHARED MY NAME LORE AND THEN HAD THE AUDACITY TO TAG ME

anyways yeah im named after this card

its my fave card in kaijudo i love the art the effects the lore implications of the quote

as for fyre instead of fire, i think it just sounds neat

also this is razorkinder if anyone’s curious

get exposed nerd

Tag game🎉

Tag your moots and ask them where they got the idea for their tumblr accounts name!

For my name it was a nickname I was giving back in middleschool! One of our teacher had a system where we worked with 'wifi' eachtime we talked in class we lost a bar of the "wifi" (was a weird joke and we never held count on that) All the kids usually joked if they needed 'wifi' , they would borrow mine if they wanted to talk more. (I was incredibly shy in middle school, I only talked to like 3 people at school;^;)

They called me Ms. Wifi because of that. I just thought it would be funny if I put 'miss' instead of 'ms' because of my terrible actual wifi connection I have at home lol.

That's my story! Now moots, only if you guys want to, tell us your story.

Tags-> @slipping-lately @firequeenofficial @noagskryf @twinklstarrrr @halfbakedspuds @polterwasteist @rokushi-san @mygedagtes +anyone that sees this and wants to do this as well

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messing w my murderbot design (i just changed its haircut)

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heads up: this post is about the wrap-up quest chain for completing all the dawntrail role quests that just came out. heavy spoilers below

(the non spoiler summary is imo this quest chain was well-written and i want to dissect it)

okay so actually this post is a scatterbrained apyaahi analysis and appreciation post bc she kills it.

she’s iconic, she’s charismatic, and she’s a self-indulgent hedonist.

she’s costumes herself in activist causes but doesn’t actually care about them.

she has enough conviction in her beliefs that she recognizes the wol on-sight (bc yeah obviously) and uses the opportunity to make a genuine appeal to her cause.

and she’s convincing.

especially in her scene prior to her arrest, she mentions several societal ills that we’ve seen first-hand: ie uldahn merchants crushing the poor, the gridania racism issue towards duskwright and keeper of the moon (you can make an argument that this is actually just xenophobia, but that doesnt dismiss the issue), and, despite what i said earlier, i think on the surface she genuinely believes these are issues and genuinely believes that if everyone was “free” they would go away. but i dont think she really cares about the people who are oppressed, just how dissolving the societies will increase her own “freedom”

tepeke remarks in some optional dialogue about how “freedom that hurts others isnt freedom at all” and i almost wish something approaching this had come up in a discussion with her because yes!!! exactly!! that’s what makes her a villain!! girlie was in the middle of springing a bunch of mold monsters in a crowded major city in an attempt to overthrow the government. she didnt care that her lackeys were trying to start a war or poison la noscea’s water supply, because they were being “free”. hedonism trumps all, even other lives.

its kinda like a funhouse mirror of the start of arr, down to the dialogue choices you have when asked “why do you want to topple the nations of the world” being the exact same as when brennan asks you “why do you want to be an adventurer”. (sidenote: her calling the wol a lapdog gave me flashbacks to the “weapon of light” era of arr. dont know if that was intentional or a side-effect of me recently thinking abt arr for unrelated reasons)

i think my favorite part abt apyaahi is that she has the potential to evolve into a genuine activist. she’s already really close—she’s relatively well-versed on activist issues the world over, she’s good at rallying people to her support, she’s willing to labor for her causes while also understanding how to delegate responsibilities. she just needs that push to start caring about the consequences her actions will have on other people.

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I'll be interested to see what further developments happen in the patches with Alexandria, but so far I think Wuk Lamat is handling the situation very delicately, and very smartly.

Alexandria is, undeniably, an invading force in Xak Tural. It's a foreign nation that has moved onto Turali land and claimed that land and its people under its own sovereignty, with the intent to harvest a resource from it at the direct expense of its people. This is, obviously, wrong, and needs an answer.

Wuk Lamat as the Vow of Resolve has, with the help of her allies, already achieved something pretty significant and challenging here: she has defeated the invading government (Sphene and Zoraal Ja) without directly declaring war on Alexandria's people (most of whom probably had little to no say in the invasion). Her diplomacy during her initial introduction to Alexandria has probably gone a long way here; she has not given the people any more reason than absolutely necessary to believe she is a threat to them.

Declaring the very young Gulool Ja Alexandria's new king feels undeniably weird in more ways than one, but I think that politically it's probably the smartest thing Wuk Lamat could have done.

Her goal, as it's always been, is to maintain peace for her people. A good number of her people are now directly entangled with Alexandria. A rebellion against Tuliyollal rule by the Alexandrians is a direct threat to her people, particularly the ones living in Heritage Found. Even with Sphene gone, Alexandria is still possessed of substantial military power and weapons technology that could conceivably be commandeered either by existing military personnel (because even an army of robots requires some level of manpower to maintain) or by a civilian militia were one to arise. Bottom line: even with the head cut off, Alexandria still poses a threat to the safety and sovereignty of Tuliyollal. And even if the Dawnservants could be reasonably certain their own forces could overpower the Alexandrians--which they conceivably could based on sheer numbers--there would still be a bunch of their own people caught in the crossfire.

Furthermore, the defeat of Sphene and the shutting down of Living Memory means that the end of regulators and spare souls is coming. (The new raid series suggests too that the Warrior of Light may have a hand in ending the use of souls.) This is going to be highly disruptive to the Alexandrian way of life, and probably really fucking scary to a people who have become reliant on this technology. There are bound to be objections. While it's unclear to me at this time how many people knew what Sphene was actually doing, it's not inconceivable that more could find out, and that someone might seek to put her plans in motion once again in order to preserve the soul economy.

This is, in short, a pretty precarious situation politically, and a lesser Dawnservant would already be looking at a city teetering on the edge of revolt.

So, how do we convince the Alexandrians we aren't a threat to them in the short term, while we figure out how we're going to handle this in the long term?

Well, a good first step is probably to give them their king. Alexandria is, at least in name, a monarchy. By the rules of that system, Gulool Ja is a rightful heir to the throne. By allowing him to claim that birthright, you make a show of respecting Alexandrian "sovereignty." You also declare him family--he's your nephew, after all. Now you have a familial connection, the stuff of which royal alliances are made. And of course, the new king is just a child. He's going to need advisors, a regent, and a lot of guidance. You can have a hand in that.

Sure, the Alexandrians are going to notice your influence over their ruler and might still have feelings about that. It's not a perfect solution. But by the same token, snatching their one living heir away from them and openly declaring them under your rule now is probably going to go over a lot worse.

Like I think the game kind of downplays this being a calculated choice, especially since Wuk Lamat doesn't come across as a calculating person. But if we were to observe this scenario in any other fantasy setting... that's how you install a puppet king. I don't especially like to use that term in this case, because I think Wuk Lamat genuinely cares about her nephew and isn't simply using him to maintain power. Nonetheless, it is an undeniably political move, and one that benefits Tuliyollal.

It's likely the Alexandrian people are here to stay--thanks to the dimensional compression, they're in the unique situation where the land they live on is both theirs and not theirs, and that is a problem, but forced relocation also isn't a great solution.

Judging by Wuk Lamat's goals, ethos and the example of her father, I think her hope is probably to bring Alexandria under the banner of Tuliyollal without having to shed blood for it, not least the blood of her own people who would be caught in the crossfire. She understands now that sometimes there's no more room for diplomacy and you have to fight your enemies head on, but if there's a chance she can do this peacefully, through diplomacy, then she's going to try, because that's who she is. She also probably understands that most Alexandrians had no choice in this, and a show of good faith might go a long way toward earning their trust as they adapt to the loss of their queen and the changes that will inevitably follow.

It's a bad situation without a doubt, and one that's already been very destructive to the people of Xak Tural. Gulool Ja Ja sought to unite rather than to conquer. I think Wuk Lamat's hope is to do the same, for the practical purpose of limiting further damage as much as possible.

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Thinking about the conversation with Venat where she asks if our journey was good and if it was worthwhile. I think a part some people overlooked is that she's asking us, like. "Hi, you are both the beginning and end of this decision that you're telling me that I make. In the end: was it worth it?"

Of course she's also asking us, adventurer to adventurer, Azem to Azem, did you enjoy the journey? But she's also asking us, I think, whether or not this decision she's about to make will be a good one

And we don't answer her.

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omg new blanket to make

(also @dreamsy990 look at these blankets)

Everyone look at the cat blanket I made like .. 3 years ago

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yea tho Hythlo’s decided to be the sidekick b/c he finds it funny, while G’raha’s out here too busy dealing w/ survivor’s guilt and self-worth issues to notice he’s cool enough to not be a sidekick

G'raha "Biggest Imposter Syndrome since Hythlodaeus" Tia over there doing the impossible and literally becoming the beacon of hope looked towards for generations in the First when things get tough is just over there watching us like, "If only I could be so grossly incandescent."

Istg!!!!!!

Also, also, he's a white mage, a black mage, AND a paladin? Does he need physical weapons to tank with? NO OFC NOT, HE'LL JUST MAGIC SOME INTO EXISTENCE AND THEY WORK JUST AS WELL!

His soul is just as dense as ours due to the exarch merge, making him sorta kinda eight times rejoined? Just like us? He's a "WoL" of his own making. Hydaelyn may not have personally smoochied him on the forehead like she did us, but she didn't need to. Raha badassed his way to becoming our equal.

And don't even get me STARTED on Mr. "I'm occasionally useful" Hythlodaeus I WILL SCREAM

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Persona 5 x Kingdom Hearts (old work 2019)

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i think he does this sometimes