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Baby Zenos sketch

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Ok here's Estinien

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Etheirys! (as of Endwalker.)

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req'd by @ghostchilismoothie

flag.........

text: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a ffxiv reference

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One of my favorite details about Warrior of Light is how side character will see us fight a Primal and be both awe struck and terrified of us. Like they can't tell which one of us is the real monster out there on the battlefield. The Warrior of Light keeps Lolorito up at night, the Holy See would rather open its gate to the exiled Scions than to spurn the Warrior of Light, better to keep them clearly in direct line of vision and then send them out on a suicide mission to parley with Dragons than let them stay cooped up in Ishgard and constantly a threat, Ysayle is genuinely at lost for words after we fight Ravana saying she hasn't seen us fight like that since she and her fought and despite just being defeated by Ravana, she seems more afraid of us than she is of still being in ambush distance of the One Mind, Elidibus doesn't truly comprehend our power and after we activate the Crystal of Azem, he genuinely falters and asks who we are, Thordan sees us as a terror beyond terrors, his death not being a peaceful one as we are warped from his perspective, Fandaniel chooses Zenos and us to antagonize genuinely because we are literally the only thing on Eitheirys that could guarantee that Zodiark was vanquished and the Final Days unleashed, Ryne is drawn to us for a reason beyond any sense she knows at first much like her she can sense the powerful light like that of Warden and needs to know more of it, and the only ones who outgambit us (Ilberd, Fandaniel, Emet-Selch and Zenos) are not in their right mind to begin with in dealing with us. And then again, all they can really do is STALL us as we are a single person siege engine cutting through waves of soldiers, the Garleans despise us and yet also respect us for what we did in the Praetorium, Zenos is truly in awe of us and calls us Champion of the Savages in reverence. Very few who meet us at first are gladened by our arrival, some are genuinely nervous and unsure when they meet us for the first time. If they do not hear tales of our gentler side from those who know us best.

The Warrior of Light is a beacon of hope but also a power not to be trifled with lightly and its kind of amazing how they write us.

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I drew something for myself in between commissions, it's been a while. x_x

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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

#I picked laundry #but veggie drawer and refilling mug were both contenders #I just hate doing laundry so much #it would have the biggest impact on my quality of life and mental health

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The 24 man experience.

#Oh my god #WHMs today do not know the pain #but I remember #oh boy do I remember #I was a bard too and I always used mana song when needed #honestly

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smolder

A commissioned digital piece of my FFXIV OC, Lanceloux de Marcellus, by the talented Fitria Desmarini

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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Because I was inspired by the last post I figured I'd put my money where my mouth is.

All these screenshots are vanilla and took a lot of time messing with the in-game lighting engine and filter system to take. I am very prideful about my screenshots because I put so much time, effort, and care into taking them.

#hero pictures #other characters are here too #Hoshi is the femra in purple #my friend Nox and my alt Sorocan are in there #also my FC mates are in one of the fireworks shots

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looking for fellow vanilla ffxiv enjoyers just because i feel lame about my preference to not mod the game at all. i know this applies to console players by default, but i more specifically mean you're on pc and could, but have zero interest. you're just cool with how the game is by default.

#I take pride in my friends asking me which shaders I use for my gposes #only to tell them I don't mod and all my pics are vanilla #I understand why people do it #but I prefer to play the game unmodded

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get this piece of shit debuff OFF OF ME i have hunts to get to

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✨ It's bed time

Recent estimeric skeb-comm

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.