consider: tali'sa au mordern au where they met working in stem (geologist and biologist) and are stem/nerd girlfriends and their love language is ranting about their field to each other
idk if i got it right, but this jumped OUT of me
and thank you so so so much for the brain worms, this will eat me, thank you 😭💕
(kai'sa getting full sleeves of tats has always been a thought in my head to parallel their LoR appearance)
Haven't drawn anything in a bit while, but here we go! A digitalised Kaliyah art for my bestie @specialfunworld, because it's going to be Kali's birthday soon! 🤍💙 c:
ON THIS DAY (January 6th, 2021) information hits the community that someone was working on an Aaliyah film.
There were some confusion if this was another Aaliyah biopic, or a film of a separate character who was simply an Aaliyah fan.
The original flyer would display a title "Untold: Back & Forth The Aaliyah Story" following a IMDB official page that would share a list of everyone playing Aaliyah's peers and family (including someone playing Aaliyah herself).
After some outrage (not very much, simply because most of Aaliyah's fans weren't aware of this project), the team working on this would remove the flyer and display a newer flyer which had removed Aaliyah's name altogether and a description of the film being about a young girl learning about Aaliyah and her life.
The film dropped August 25, 2021 in homage to Aaliyah.
They know they coulda atleast gave our drumroll baby a lil' throwaway name. Like, "Hit it, Khadijah!" Or whatever. 🙃
Sidenote: Interesting that mama and (Khadijah) have on one, but lil' mama with the afro puffs don't. I suppose it's choice based and (Kaliyah) was like, "No thanks, Mum!"
Yes. I just made up names for them just now. No thanks to them down at the Hilda factory. 😅
A brief pause from Lavender posting to share pictures of my WoL Kaliyah (the au ra) and her girlfriend, Alexia, on vacation in Sharlayan. I loaf them so much. <3
I saw this going around on Twitter, and I thought it would be SO much fun to do! I actually started playing FFXIV last January, so it was literally my first year of gpose! And MAN I learned so much!
(Full versions and fun facts about the pictures under the cut!)
January: One of my first ever Gpose pictures! I really did not understand what I was doing... it took me FOREVER to learn you could center the camera, and I definitely didn't know about filters yet (in game or otherwise). My friends and I had just founded our free company and the Halloween event was going on so... we had to go make clowns of ourselves. :o)
February: This was one of the first pictures I was really REALLY proud of! We didn't know explorer's mode was a thing (...actually, I'm not sure if you can explorer's mode Brayflox Longstop anyway), so my partner and I unsynched the dungeon so we could take pictures by the waterfall! I learned how to angle shots at this point and I... definitely overused it lol.
March: I think it was around this time that I started playing with lighting more. I remember reading a guide that talked about using lighting to enhance the environment (like, using a lightsource a similar color to the water) which I think I used here. I remember being REALLY obsessed with this picture for forever! (ALSO... this is still Kaliyah's swimsuit glam, lol.)
April: Kaliyah's Easter glam! I think I took this one while waiting for a wedding to start. I really love how pretty the chapel area of this game is! I LOVE how colorful this picture is (I was, and very much still am, obsessed with high saturation in images lol). Bright 4 was my favorite in-game filter for a VERY long time.
May: Talk about an image that went out of my comfort zone! I remember running Dusk Vigil for the first time (we were unsynched) and just having my breath taken away by the lighting in this room. I used one of the lower saturation in-game filters, not entirely sure which one... I just really like how cold and spooky this picture feels!
June: This is, legitimately, still one of my favorite pictures I've ever taken! And the best part is: this picture is entirely vanilla -- no mods, custom poses, or even Anamnesis to change the time! I just caught the perfect sunset moment in Kugane to show off my new ninja glam.
July: The month where EVERYTHING changed! XD I discovered GShade and taught myself how to use Anamnesis for custom poses. And of COURSE the first thing I had to do was make me and my partner's character's smooch (or, well... embrace. I wouldn't be confident enough at posing to do smooches for a little while lol. Posing is hard at first!).
August: *disgusting sobbing* I love the Flower Menagerie so much!! And I really wanted to do a picture of Kaliyah and Alexia laying in a flower field. I love how they're so pale in contrast to the flowers, and I wish I could say it was an intentional choice but... nah. Happy accident. ^^
September: I surprisingly didn't do a lot of Gpose in September! I think I was really busy that month or something. But one of my favorite pictures to come out of it was this shot I did for Kaliyah's updated ninja glam (and hair cut!). I wanted to try to make something really graphical and color pop-y... not sure how well I pulled it off, though!
October: ...on the other hand, October was a month FULL of gpose! I decided to do the Glamtober challenge and I had SO much fun and learned so much in the month I did it. This prompt, Lightwarden, is my favorite one by far. I really want to do another month long challenge like Glamtober in the future!
November: November was a really hard month to pick my favorite shot from, since I had a lot of really good ones that month (at some point, I'll have to share some), but I do really like this one from an impromptu shoot I did in The Grand Cosmos. Any time there's an area with a light purple color theme, I'm legally obligated to pose Lavender there. XD
December: Call it a recency bias, but I really like the last picture of the year I did! Not only was it fun to style Lavender in a glam outfit, but I had a lot of fun figuring out the trick with the firework (that is, the Lavender at the front of the screen is a carbuncle, and the real Lavender shot off the firework at the back of the screen lol). I'd like to try to do more shots with weird, complicated set ups in the future! They're neat!
And that's all my favorite pictures for the year!! I love seeing how much my style has grown and changed and I look forward to another year of gpose in the future! :D