#nuclearanomaly

[blackestnight]

🌸 I wanna see Misty

she is lording over her domain

#ask #ask meme #nuclearanomaly #misty tag #BEHOLD: my child #the light of my life and song of my soul #she doesn't like cameras so it took some convincing to get her to look at me

[dragons-bones]

I know nothing about baseball. What got you into it and how long have you been following it?

Literally my whole life!

I am Bostonian, I make no bones about it. Not every Bostonian is steeped in the cult that is the First Church of New England Baseball AKA The Boston Red Sox, but the Red Sox pervade the city in a way that none of our local sports team do; they are one of the oldest teams in the whole of the majors, and their ballpark the oldest active. And my dad is a baseball fan, so literally there was a baseball game on TV or playing over the radio long before I can remember. Baseball lurks in the corners of my whole dang life.

I can't say what got me into it; certainly I know people who were born and raised in Boston with baseball fans for parents who did not turn into a rabid cultist like myself. There's a slow, methodical rhythm to the game (although recent rule changes have eaten into this a bit); basketball and hockey are fast-fast-fast, and American football is, in my mind, a drag of chessboard setup interspersed with frantic plays lasting only seconds. Watching a game at home can be boring, but a good combination of play-by-play announce and color commentary (the latter usually by a retired player) can make even the dullest game more entertaining, and Jerry Remy was the Sox color commentator before I was born; that man's voice was an indelible part of my childhood. And going to Fenway itself? Man, there's something magical about that place, the history sunk into every piece of wood and concrete, one hundred and eleven years of watching our home team win and lose and lose and lose and lose and win it all.

There's also the hilarity of being able to wax poetic about the sport in regards to nostalgic summer childhoods and underdogs coming out on top and then making a complete one eighty to have an argument at full volume with your dad about player statistics in such excruciating detail you could fool someone into thinking you're math majors.

To be honest, I think what it all boils down to is: baseball is in my bones. Fandoms may come and go, but baseball is forever.

#nuclearanomaly #dt answers things #i have no idea if i actually answered your question #this is like one of those things that is so fundamental to my existence that trying to break it down just causes a mental blue screen

[impossible-rat-babies]

canon eyrie glams 1/?? feat. a realm reborn & patches inspired by these really cool graphics by nuclearanomaly

#ffxiv #oc: eyrie kisne #myedit #there's also LORE #it was fun figuring out the different sorts of vibes for eyrie across ARR #cotton tabard my beloved of a baby glam #im poking at making ones for the rest of the expansions which considering eyrie's different jobs is gonna be Something #but im very fond of all of these looks ngl they feel very special to their journey

[karoiseka]

Battle Partners

Happy Birthday @nuclearanomaly !! ^_^ Hope you're having a great day!!

#ffxiv #nini #estinien #nini x estinien #I hope I got the right outfit for the right dungeon. ;-) #<3 #Happy Birthday!!

[foewreckem]

apparently 3/9 is thancred day in parts of the internet so i'm aiming apollo's prophecy dodgeball @nuclearanomaly

#doodles #it's her fault i know it's thancred day so it's only fair #this was a lot of fun but his anime boy hair is a menace #wolcred #....i swear it is

[zodiac-rave]

all my tarnished knows is eat hot chip and cast comet azur. please understand. (w/the suffering of @nuclearanomaly)

#ninira had to explain the button combo for two-handing a weapon over voice i had not done it in 90 hours of game #my stuff #elden ring

[windupnamazu]

aspect mastery! 🔥🧊 — happy birthday @nuclearanomaly!!!

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #lalafell #ninira #sketchbook #JAYNE DAY JAYNE DAYYYYYYY!!!!!! #one of my most creative and talented friends!! ilu!!!!! #wishing you a great birthday and a fantastic year to come!! you deserve it!!!! 💖💖💖

[aethernoise]

@nuclearanomaly asked👻 to see them looking or acting in a scary or intimidating manner.

Boo!!!

#just black mage things #emmer screens #emmer edits #alyx and aymeric #aymeric de borel #alyx #sohr khai #i'll tag it #wolmeric #bc let's be honest here #we know what they don't know #also i am so deeply amused by this #my husband asked me what i was laughing at #'i am doing very silly things' #he seemed satisfied with that answer #anyway yay again for sohr khai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kukurubean]

OBJECTION feat. @nuclearanomaly, @zenathered, and @karoiseka!

#THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME DO THIS #I KNOW I AM /A LOT/ RN #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ace attorney #mypost #mycosplay

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

thank you for the tag @merrigelblogs! 

1. Are you named after anyone? - I am not! At least not that I know of. Thankfully, while I don’t particularly love my full name, it can at least be shortened to a decidedly less feminine form, which is a massive blessing.

2. When was the last time you cried? - Legit this morning, I watched a proposal video that was v sweet and I got weepy about it. I’m a Pisces, it’s basically my day job 

3. Do you have kids? - No, I gotta be like WAY more on top of my own shit before I can think about being responsible for another human being like that!

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot? - Y...yes.... but I work hard to only use it to highlight the ridiculousness of a situation rather than to belittle what someone has said

5. What is the first thing you notice about a person? - Clothing, mostly! I am that person who is out in a crowded area and tries to read what everyone’s graphic tee says, in case it’s something I recognize. I like to know where I can connect with people!

6. What’s your eye color? - Green/grey-ish! 

7. Scary movie or happy ending? - Both?? Can I say both?? I like watching horror and I like watching comfort movies. It really just depends on the movie!

8. Any special talents? - I can quote the Sonic the Hedgehog OVA almost word for word because my sister and I watched it so often as kids. (So....no LMAO)

9. Where were you born? - Oklahoma! And then we immediately moved away and I never ever went back LMAO

10. What are your hobbies? - Recently? Reading (lots of SF/F), writing, playing FFXIV and d&d and a smattering of a few other video games, and generally being a menace to people online!

11. Do you have any pets? - I do! Two black cats named Gizmo and Kitkat, and a dog that some family friends found wandering around in the woods outside of their house! Her name is Beau. :> Here’s a picture of her begrudgingly sharing a bed with Gizmo. (Kitkat is not there because the only person in the whole wide world she likes enough to cuddle with is me.)

12. What sports do you/have you played? - Once upon a time, I played soccer, but that’s pretty much the only thing I ever did long term. Most of my free time in school was dedicated to marching band, which technically isn’t a sport, but demands your attention like one. (I played trombone!)

13. How tall are you? - 5′9″!

14. Favo(u)rite subject in school? - English was and will always be my favorite subject, but I DID rather enjoy my anthropology classes in college! Shoulda done more of those back then, they were delightful.

15. Dream Job? - I don’t think it’s really viable as an option for me, but I’d love to work for a literary agent. I just wanna hype people’s work up as a career, and help them navigate the process of getting it out in the world! I think it’d be neat. :>

Bonus: any significance to your blog's name - my nickname in college was Frenchy, and I have had a particular fascination with different kinds of sea-related things quite literally my entire life. also, nothing else I tried was available

Tagging @phoenix-failing, @blujayonthewing, @urdnotgrunt, @ghilegab​, @nuclearanomaly​ and anyone else who feels keen to waste some time! Only if you’re feeling up to it, naturally :3

#about me #hush frenchy #i stayed home because i felt Like Crap today so this was a nice distraction!! thank you!!

[burndrawsss]

Drew a Nini enjoying some cake for @nuclearanomaly ‘s birthday yesterday! 🍰

#ffxiv #ff14 #lalafell #Nini time! #this was a fun warm up #actually got me in the mood to draw #<3 #burns art tag

[syngigeim]

I posted 324 times in 2022

78 posts created (24%)

246 posts reblogged (76%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@autumnslance

@aethernoise

@nuclearanomaly

@storms-path

@cheshirepirouette

I tagged 298 of my posts in 2022

Only 8% of my posts had no tags

#warrior of light - 46 posts

#syngigeim usynlonwyn - 37 posts

#alisaie leveilleur - 24 posts

#venat - 23 posts

#alphinaud leveilleur - 22 posts

#thancred waters - 21 posts

#urianger augurelt - 19 posts

#estinien wyrmblood - 18 posts

#g'raha tia - 16 posts

#hydaelyn - 16 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#lovely spot and just hearing that region theme as i stepped out into stormblood proper is something i'll keep with me as a favorite memory

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Day 1 - Cross

Syngigeim couldn’t help it. Tears began to trickle down her cheeks. She closed her eyes and tilted her head up, hoping to stem the flow just a little. She was alone. Everyone close to her giving themselves up to make a path for her. Or else an infinitesimal distance away back home.

She opened her eyes and glanced forward ahead at the lonely world, a fragment of one that Meteion found...and at the glimmering bridge ahead.

Her path was clear.

Shadows began to form around her. Were they the spirits of those lost? Or something more? It was along her way forward and so she strode towards it. She thought of this lost world. Where all life was gone without a trace. Meteion said she found nothing and yet-

If you need a push, I’ll be right there behind you.

Syngigeim stopped. And laughed. She smiled, pressing her hand up against her heart, where she could feel a warmth blossom. Of course it was him. She set forth again, her stride steady.

Do not despair. You are not without allies.

Of course, she thought. She turned her thoughts towards those back home, awaiting her return. And there was still hope, was there not? By the matter that she still drew breath, that before her was that bridge, the breeze upon the wind, they weren’t fully gone. Not yet.

What we have sown in blood, we have reaped in suffering, and it can not go on.

Syngigeim’s smile faded but she kept her pace steady. She fought and struggled and in the process, hurt others. Taken lives. Bloodstained were her hands...but she still had to try.

Upon the souls of they who have sacrificed themselves to pave the way for peace, we will never abandon our cause.

She had to try. To struggle. To believe in that brighter future. For those who we’ve lost. For those we can yet save. For everyone else who was struggling at the very same moment.

While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.

It always felt a little silly when it was presented in stories such as these. For what can a person do on their own? Walk on, her mind countered. Walk on and keep moving. For their sake.

Such victories are rarely won without sacrifice. But the prize is worth the price.

Syngigeim took a breath. Sacrifice. She wanted to stop. Wanted to stop and break into tears anew. She focused instead on the next spirit ahead of her, of the bridge she was coming up upon.

And we for our part are glad indeed to be able to welcome friends both old and new…

New. New friends. As of this point, she could only envision a faceless mass in front of her, in shadow. What would they be like? What were they doing at this moment? She reached the bridge of light.

Save your tears for the morrow. You may be sure we will have ample cause to shed them, be they for joy or for despair.

She gave a short snort at that. It was a little late for that but perhaps when this was over when journey’s end came, she could finally allow herself to feel it in full. “That she may find happiness at journey’s end…” she whispered.

From tragedy and sacrifice, we rise to greet a new dawn.

This place was a place where worlds ended. But she suddenly thought of the fact that day and night still came over those planets. The universe was destined to have all light vanish one day...but what caused life in the first place then? Questions yet unsolved.

A future shaped by the choices we made, in ways we could have never forseen.

Who would have thought that a search for a friend would end up to all of this? Lost, struggling in the dephs of despair, her mind countered. He’s still fighting, she counter-thought. Still fighting. Move on.

Yet miracles do happen. So let us pray, and will our friends home.

She gazed ahead. She was near the end of the bridge. There was a way to do just that...at the risk of undoing all of the protection she had.

I won’t stop praying until I know they’re safe.

Still, she’d find some way shouldn’t she? For amidst all of this loss, she kept a kernal of hope in her heart. The warmth she kept alive in her chest.

Strong art thou, mortal.

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#4

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#3

Friendly reminder that airships exist and can be way cheeper than teleporting. This is from a teleport from Limsa Lomina versus taking the airship from it.

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#2

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My #1 post of 2022

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #so I should do more cool photosets in trust trials GOT IT!

[karoiseka]

I'm not talented enough to add the pineapple drinks, but I missed them too, and wanted to see them hanging out together. ^_^

Spontaneous gposing thanks to an off-hand comment on that other site over six hours ago. <3 @nuclearanomaly and @kukurubean

#ffxiv #gpose #nini #rothe #spontaneous silliness when I should be in bed #but I had to #<3 #just the thought of them hanging out on an island together just relaxing made me so happy.

[foewreckem]

✨happy birthday @nuclearanomaly !! ✨

frieren is the most ninira-coded of all time, she's even purple

#this is reference to the OP i have watched one entire episode #doodles #my canvas size choice was unfortunate but i couldn't bring myself to crop it

[zodiac-rave]

happy birthday to @nuclearanomaly !! I love this art she did of bloodnini so I wanted to make it wiggle

#wigglewiggle #my stuff

[windupnamazu]

real winners quit!

ffxivwrite2022 #03: temper a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm.

alphinaud & lunya, with alisaie. appearances and mentions of other scions + @fistsoflightning's zaya, @verbroil's rjoli, @nuclearanomaly's ninira, and @whitherliliesbloom's illya. mmo gamer au. 1120wc. ⮞ "so," alphinaud said thinly as alisaie once again dropped an aoe on him, "this is the fabled tilted towers."

"Congratulations, little man," was the first thing Alphinaud heard as he joined the one other person sitting in the FC's voice chat. Lunya's smug grin was audible in each word. "You've been chosen for «SCION»'s P5S blind prog tonight! And by tonight, I mean in 30 minutes."

"As a healer," Alphinaud sighed.

"As a healer!" Lunya cheerily confirmed. "How was class?"

Exhausting. Why did the new Savage tier have to drop in the middle of the school week anyway, and on the day he had lab with his professor from hell? Why did he even choose general zoology as an elective course anyway when he was a med student?! His only answer for Lunya was a long groan that got her cooing sympathetically.

The idea of raid night wasn't all that promising either—Alphinaud loved his FC. He really did. They had a great dynamic and ran every content available in their favourite MMORPG and even grouped up to play games outside of it. But the Scions of the Seventh Dawn was also comprised mostly of players with the full capability to be hardcore but fucked around so much in prog that they were ultimately a casual group. Depending on who else Lunya pulled for prog this night was either going to be smooth or traumatic.

"Let's see… we've got me and Raha, of course." A no-brainer. The FC's favourite and-they-were-roommates! came as a pair more often than not these days, especially since it was Lunya who introduced G'raha to the game. "Raha's running Paladin so I'm getting Thancred to MT."

Oh, thank goodness, Alphinaud heard G'raha say somewhere else in the room through Lunya's mic, causing Lunya to giggle.

"Urianger and Rjoli are on a date so your co-healer's gonna be Shtola today."

Y'shtola started maining Black Mage during the last expac after a seven year streak of playing White Mage and White Mage only, but he hadn't realized she was keeping WHM geared up too. Skeptical, Alphinaud asked, "Really? What's her ilevel?"

"600. Good luck."

The night was getting more and more stressful by the minute.

Alphinaud breathed in deeply. "Okay. Who's the magic DPS?"

"Thaaaaaaat would be Alisaie."

Oh, gods have mercy.

Strictly speaking, it wasn't mandatory to invite him and his sister to everything together—they were twins, but their own separate people. It mostly happened because their schedules lined up so they were online at the same time, save for days Alisaie had fencing practice or Alphinaud had debate club. He didn't have an issue with it, seriously, because just like he loved his FC, Alphinaud loved his sister. He really, truly did. Really!

"Why not Liya?" Alphinaud asked a little desperately. "Or Ninira?"

"Uh, Kaye's static already scooped up Liya," Lunya said, her tone clearly suggesting she was thinking I thought you knew this? Fake Illya stan. "And Estinien invited Nini but she ate too many boozy chocolates at Book Club today and is suuuuuuuuper messed up right now. In the drunk way. So she's napping it off."

"I… didn't think it was possible to consume the amount of those things you'd need to get drunk before you got sick from the chocolate."

"I thought so too, but, well, it's Ninira," Lunya could only say fondly, if not a little disturbedly. "Anyway, our melee DPS for the night are Estinien and Zaya. You're welcome."

Estinien, Thancred, Y'shtola.... They were all good at keeping things in line, though Thancred was prone to getting swept up in Zaya's shenanigans (generally involving trying to squeeze as much uptime for them as they could), and Lunya's gremlinbility skyrocketed when her pseudo-sibling was around. G'raha was normally composed but everyone knew that if Lunya told him to jump into the death wall at 0.5% enrage he would do it. But while prone to silliness, Lunya loved the thrill of winning more than anyone else and knew how to behave herself during Savage raids.

No. The issue was ultimately going to be Alisaie. Alisaie, who Fantasia'd into a Galka just so she could block his view of his significantly shorter Hume so he couldn't see if he was properly in the safe spot for the last part of last expansion's EX3. Alisaie, who thought Estinien wasn't cool. Alisaie, who stole his pants drop for giggles two raid tiers ago when she already had hers. Alisaie, who caused more wipes than she saved. Alisaie, who used her RDM LB3 specifically to maul the whole party during Storm's Crown just last week.

Alphinaud rubbed his temples.

Girl Power, Alisaie's Galka, sprinted towards his body as the others scrambled across the arena in a blind attempt to survive Devour, sliding right on top of him and immediately leaning back on an invisible wall.

Using the emote was an innocuous action, but Alphinaud knew she had taken a ride through the dark side lately. Paywalled assets stolen from other games, "upscaled" textures run through waifu2x, the modifying of the dev team's hard work and the stomping on other's loving character designs, running illegal plugins that would give her an advantage over others… No, he knew what she was doing.

"Alisaie," Alphinaud said, hand trembling around his gamer mouse. "Please stop Fortnite dancing on my corpse."

"Oops." She was not one bit sorry even as the Proto-Carbuncle took a loving bite out of her head and she joined him on the floor. "I meant to hit Verraise."

"Wait, wait, wait," Lunya cut in, surprisingly not yet dead as she just barely En Avant'd out of the last AoE. "Me too!"

To Alphinaud's horror, her Tarutaru sprinted over to both dead bodies on the floor and leaned against an invisible wall as she stood on them. Zaya wheezed a breathy chuckle.

"Mitigate," Y'shtola intoned over the chaos, not that it would matter with no shields and her piddly i600 heals. Thancred and G'raha overlapped Reprisals.

RAGEQUITTING IS CRINGE, Alphinaud reminded himself. ESTINIEN WOULD NEVER RAGEQUIT. This was a lie, of course, because Estinien did in fact ragequit from E8S one time when Ysayle refused to stop spinning the boss and he kept dropping his combos from missing positionals. He still hadn't forgiven her for it to this day, though they changed the positional requirement with the current expansion.

If it sucks, hit da bricks, Estinien advised Alphinaud after everyone left so they could pick him up again and reinstance. Or at least, he thought that's what Estinien said, but it was hard to tell at the time because Estinien's cat Orn Khai had crawled into his lap and started screaming for dinner as he was saying it.

Alphinaud opened the Duty menu, and just this once, he allowed his cursor to drift to the Abandon Duty button.

#ffxiv #ffxivwrite #ffxivwrite2022 #alphinaud leveilleur #alisaie leveilleur #oc: lunya #tales from the warriors of light #thank you polly babycorn corn for coming with me to p5n so i could make. that. #gamer au tag goes here #*