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#that's if my hw doesn't exhaust me

femmesandhoney · 17 days

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Hey I hope this isn't too annoying of an ask, but literally how are you so happy at college? You're like the student I want to be, you're always posting on here about your classes and you're so engaged and seem so into it. Every semester for me is just another couple months of the time passing and panicking. I'm either completely paralyzed in bed or I'm crying in bed. Like, how do you seem so good at this?

it's not all sunshine and rainbows believe me. even my best friend has told me i come off as someone who "has it all figured out", but i often do not feel the same lol, i miss assignments, i stress out and procrastinate until the last minute, i get drained from all the work mentally and physically. all the regular college shit. outside of that tho, i legitimately love learning and interacting with others who are interested in what i like and who i can learn from. that's usually what keeps me happy! i love the people i meet in my classes, i like group discussions, i like being introduced to new things, i love my profs and take all the classes i can with them. generally, im just friendly w people in my classes and that makes me enjoy going to them, and i take classes i enjoy, and if they're reqs i don't care for, i always try to take something out of the experience.

some people do not find learning for the sake of learning fun, but i do, which makes even the roughest days okay, but that doesn't mean the tedious and demanding aspects of college curricula do not wear me down too. i decided to wait to go to grad school bc im exhausted! i am tired and need a break from always having another damn assignment to do and another article to read 😭 those things are taxing, and i already have bad self discipline habits, so you can imagine i often make stuff harder for myself than they need to be. the only reason i get good grades is bc im smart and have a relatively easy time understanding the subjects i study. if i take anything outside my favorite academic areas, like say the natural resources class i took a few years ago, that shit had me crying every damn day lmao.

so yeah, i just enjoy learning for learning sake, but also i like academia and going thru the motions of a classroom experience is fun to me for all the reasons i listed, including the fact i want to be a college professor and just enjoy that atmosphere a lot. i would wager if you're constantly frustrated by your college experience, maybe analyze a bit deeper on what you most dislike? is it specific profs, the people in ur classes, the subject material itself? if theres anything you can try and control to make it more agreeable for you, always take the opportunity, tho ik its not always possible. im lucky that all my areas of study have naturally wonderful people drawn to them (especially the international studies students!), but ik some majors can draw less nice people sometimes :( which can make ur experience harder than it should be. or some people legitimately do not enjoy the institutions that are schools and what they traditionally demand from a person, which is completely understandable. my best friend didn't go to college bc she barely graduated high school bc she hated attending and never turned in her hw. some people just do not thrive in such strict school environments for many reasons. but whatever your case is, i hope you have easier semesters in the future if you continue, no one should ever be so stressed from a class that they cry over it. i think thats a failure of a class and a professor when that occurs, and a sign of a bad class/prof rather than a bad student.

#im writing this at 2am i hope its not typo ridden

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diaphanouso · 17 days

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creepy horse farm story

CREEPY HORSE FARM STORY

Thanks for the ask!

So, this one is still a seedling and not very developed, but it's one I'd love to finish at some point! It came out of a(n optional) hw assignment for a horror writing class I took last year, and the prompt was "a character realizes a certain place isn’t what it appears to be". Note: there is NO animal harm in this story.

I started a very rough outline about a character and their garrulous friend doing farm work for an elderly couple through a summer job program (it's set sometime pre-cellphone ubiquity). They were told that they had to arrive before sunset or the couple wouldn't be able to receive them. So they get to the farm late afternoon and meet the couple, who are warm, welcoming, and totally normal.

The farmer tells the MC and friend that in their downtime they're free to roam the property. There are only two restrictions: 1) the old barn is off-limits, and 2) they mustn't leave the house when night comes. The farmer vaguely attributes it to safety reasons, but something about how the quality of his voice changes unsettles the MC. The farmer suddenly smiles brightly and tells them they'll be too worn out at the end of their workday to have any interest in wandering.

Anyway, they start working and things are fine. The MC and friend ask about noises coming from the barn -- not distressed noises, but more so just animalistic sounds that "sound like questions" and are "layered with whispers". They hear something like the clop-clop of horse hooves, but to the MC, it sounds so much bigger than what the barn can contain -- the MC feels it vibrating in their bones. They bring it up later but the farmer gives a weak explanation and just reminds them to stay away from the barn.

One day the friend goes out wandering on their own and doesn't return before nightfall. The MC starts to really worry when the couple are more tense about this than one would expect. During supper, there's the sound of someone trying to open the (locked) front door -- it's the friend, and the couple stops the MC from letting them in. Now the MC's really weirded out, but the noise from outside stops.

Later that night, the MC waits for the couple to go to sleep and attempts to sneak out of the house to find the friend, but the doors are padlocked from the inside, too.

Next morning, the friend's eating breakfast in the kitchen, and everyone but the MC is acting as if last night didn't happen. But when MC and friend have a moment alone while working, the friend confides in them that they went to the old barn to find somewhere to sleep, but heard disturbing sounds from inside: “Something, or some things, whinnying, but it sounded like no horse I ever heard.”

More weird things happen, and the MC and friend aren't able to leave because [legit but also kinda sus reasons], so they try to find out what's going on, etc.

That's all I've got so far -- haven't dug into character motivations, what's behind the mystery, etc. other than vaguely creepy equine vibes, lol. I ended up being too exhausted to actually finish this hw assignment, then I never went back to it 😅 But this was so fun to think about again! Thank you for encouraging me to revisit it ❤️

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amememightywarrior · 1 year

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Mom's Adventures in Eorzea, Part 2

OH MY GOD THE DRAFT DIDN'T SAVE i have to do this AGAIN anyway here we go

Dec 26, 2021

Off we go! Heavensward!! (mom winced at the singer in the trailer)

But first we tested my rez macro She promptly used it before I could use self-destruct so I ended up having to explain swiftcast belatedly to her. HOWEVER! it works!!

Mom looking at Artoirel and Emmanellain: "...and other son and daughter?" me: "...they're both sons" Damn you MSQ, why don't you have more female elezen

All righty just told her the manservant was gonna show her around so I'm not going to take her anywhere XD She thinks Tataru is extra excited about visiting the clothes market so she can find more things to dye pink

on Elaisse: "She's the first one who actually looks old!" (She doesn't think Edmont looks his age)

She thought the jester hat she got sounded cool! But then she put it on! and now her head piece is once again hidden. In selecting which brother to help first: "Which one is the jerk? I wanna smack him." So she's going with Artoirel XD

*sarcastically* "I bet he's very popular"

"I don't need a chocobo! I have a SNOWMAN!"

Me: Oh yeah you can't fly in these zones, you have to collect aether currents now Mom: D:<

if you're on goblin and you see two snowmen bouncing across coerthas that's probably us

on Deepeyes: "That red thing is its eye?!"

"All this nice peaceful music when you're killing things is jarring..."

"This duty is all about getting lost in a blizzard" "Oh great"

*gets ambushed in the house basement* "WHOA!"

Iceheart says "We can do naught else, for we are as one" So...does she think herself tempered by Shiva? Hmm

Artoirel: Pity Iceheart escaped but blah blah Mom: She didn't escape though? We just let her walk away... Me: ...yeeeeup.

After Artoirel admits his fault I asked my mom if that was good for smacking him and she said yes

All righty, Emmanellain's task will have to wait til tomorrow!

The casting robe she got was black and grey so we ended up going to the inn room and messing with her glam before we stopped for the day XD

Dec 27, 2021

Mom: "Okay I'm out of bed (in game), all rested up! Let's kill some stuff!"

*reading Emmanellain talking about being trueborn* "They're both assholes."

Chew time

as we run past a lalafell's chocobo: "It's like a giant chicken!"

My mom is carefully running around the chocobo because she doesn't want to step on it

The struggle of targeting a quest spot with controller when you're in the middle of a FATE with lots of targets

just a couple of snowmen bouncing around sea of clouds

*After waking Emmanellain* "Oh...well, that backfired on her."

She's very invested in how the gear looks

Honoroit: Lord Emmanellain has been gone an awfully long time. Mom: He's probably drowned in two inches of water.

she asked me if his rock was gonna be bad and if we were gonna see a temper tantrum just before this

Emmanellain: NORTHOTA I'M OVER HERE Mom: Thanks for ruining my sneak attack

Mom: How does Haurchefant know this is happening? He wasn't even here... Me: You'll find out

*Bismarck appears* "........all righty then."

She's pleased to see Cid XD

*Haurchefant leaps aboard the airship* "Showoff!"

*after the umpteenth attack by a gaelicat* "Seriously, everything attacks you here!!"

*After Laniaitte shoots Emmanellain down yet again* "Hah! She's mean :D"

she's disappointed we missed edmont smacking emmanellain

THE FURY HAS SPOKEN HW members slapped down by a couple of book-wielding nerds

yaaaay HW flying unlocked

"I didn't realize my blue was the same as their blue, I'm gonna have to change!" (She used Royal Blue for her chest piece)

I forgot how deep Zephirin's voice was, goddamn

Me: Now we get to go to Limsa! Mom: So I can teleport? Me: Yep, and you won't get arrested on sight! Mom: *dryly* That's good to know.

Sleeping during gaming time is just so exhausting

"Who's Lolorito?" "Mask, white moustache, shows up in ominous cutscenes with lightning flashing in the background as he appears to be the mastermind..." "Oh."

Had to stop and stare at someone with the Adamantoise mount as it spun wildly midair with fire coming out

Picking a different color for her robe so we avoid fashion faux pas for the rest of Heavensward Aaaand we're done til her next weekend!

Jan 1, 2021

Snack time as we work through heavensward

"Oh yeah you can use the left side (of the cross hotbar) so you can hit as many as possible" "GOOD"

And now it is belly rub time

After getting the quest to question various convictors: "And now I get to talk to all these people who won't tell me anything useful AGAIN."

"Ah yes we finish celebrating year of the ox and now we get to go kill one." *after seeing a woolly yak* "...bighorn sheep...?"

Ysayle: *prepares to monologue* Mom: *turns to me* "Are we about to find out we're helping MORE bad guys?"

can't wait to reveal to my mom that hraesvelgr is just a depressing old fart

Estinien whips out the eye and my mom goes: "That's really small, considering the dragons we've seen..."

All right, she elected to do all the aether current quests to unlock flying first since we're here XD Which means DUSK VIGIL

Freebird: Coerthas Western Highlands obtained!

my favorite part of SMN is when ifrit just hares off to parts unknown and unsummons itself

Mom: "Holy rainbow!" Me: "Yep. Throw it on and see what it looks like!" Mom: "OH MY GOD I LOOK LIKE A PIRATE I LOVE IT"

Estinien: WATCH YOURSELF DRAGON OR I'LL GOUGE OUT ONE OF YOURS Mom: Oh that's helpful

Vidofnir: THOU ART IMAGINE THYSELF EQUAL TO THE TASK Mom: Oh please! Primals are just another notch on my belt!

She discovered her wind-up Onion Knight, declared she wanted it, saw it run with its crazy little legs going...it's her new favorite. And just now she saw its little sword hacking motion and cackled.

Jan 2, 2021

we're back on our nonsense again

Mom: *puts on holy rainbow pants and studies her toon* I can live with that. Me: *laughing* Mom: There's NO TELLING what it could've looked like!! The jester skirt still haunts me!

Estinien: *talks* Mom: He just needs to be slapped.

Mom: "I've really got a swagger with this outfit!"

as the gnath summon ravana: Is it like a giant bug? as ravana appears: Good heavens.

on Ravana: "He's being very polite, he could've just chopped her up while she was summoning Shiva"

when the song kicks in on second part of ravana fight: "HE SINGS???" Apparently she found it very distracting XD

dps in sohm al giving us smn tips...thank you very much XD

She loves her wind-up Onion Knight and stopped doing MSQ to watch him wave his little sword

All righty, we stopped just before the churning mists moogles got to start annoying us but she already views Moglin's 'Trials of Trustworthiness' with much dubiousness.

Jan 3, 2021

I made the Trials of Trustworthiness easier by flying my mom everywhere because FUCK MOOGLES

Estinien is now 'The person most likely to get me in trouble', according to her

I discovered the zurvan weapons and showed them to her and now both of us want zurvan weapons because SHINY LIGHT TRAILS

Me: Kan-E-Senna is just explaining that Estinien is very angsty and will probably be a problem Mom: ... Me: ...like he wasn't a problem already. Mom: I was gonna say

a wild hraesvelgr appears

mom after the big reveal about the nature of primals and Ysayle collapses: uh oh

after hraesvelgr flaps away: well that was productive (the revelations have blown her mind)

Estinien: I shall be surprised if my armor is not stained crimson ere this conflict is ended Mom, dramatically: "My armor cleaning bill is going to be through the roof!"

a brief pitstop to touch up the glam and we are on our way once more

Mom: There she is. *to Meriel's back* You are in SUCH deep doo-doo.

Sultana awakened and Braves disbanded...that's all til next weekend.

Jan 9, 2021

It's the weekend, you know what time it is... SHENANIGANS WITH MOM

The Aery unlocked~

Hey, there are Allagan ruins in here...

@nofearsnolimits requesting explanation

"Now he's all covered in blood!" "So if Nidhogg is dead, what use are the eyes?" "Ooo I got 3 crystals back now"

me: HE'S GOT TWO EYES mom: ...did he give one back or something??

"I'd be afraid to make any sudden movements in that outfit" *referring to Haldrath's dragoon armor*

*After getting the other eyeball* "Where am I supposed to put this? I have no pouches!" me: "You have plenty of pouches, just none big enough." Mom: "NEITHER DOES [Estinien]! HE HAS TO PUT THEM UP HIS BUTT!"

after estinien yells at ysayle: "he deserved to be doused in dragon blood...just saying."

As Ysayle is stopping the heretics: "She's yelling at like 6 people." Me: "Yeah, well...budget."

suggestions along the lines of hosing Estinien down have been made

I like Edmont looking away to the floor when Lucia says "Even the holiest among us are not immune to temptation"

Dawn in the Brume as we once again run to rescue Tataru

All righty, stopped just before we get into the fight with Charibert, that'll all be tomorrow... the Vault is coming...

Jan 10, 2021

Will my mom get to the vault today? stay tuned to this thread and find out

*Charibert arrives* "Who's he??" "One of the Heavens' Ward, twelve knights who protect the archbishop." "Ohh so he was one of the ones around that table." she remembers :O

Lucia: "ENOUGH!" Mom: "Too little too late."

She just started A Knight's Calling ;_;

she's excited to be going above ground instead of through someone's basement torture chamber

just reviewed how to rez on SMN while we wait for a friend to get out of a dungeon

she managed to rez someone but then I let both dps die RIP she called Charibert a bad penny XD

here it is. the cutscene.

"That's too bad... :( they don't resurrect him or anything?" "no" "I'm sorry you had to watch that again, then"

One of her observations as Edmont is clearly grieving: "In contrast to the bastard archbishop and his son" (in terms of emotion/relationship)

update: she is willing to throw the archbishop in the garbage where he belongs

Now she's trying to figure out what he's up to... XD

PRIMALSSSSSS anyway we're pausing MSQ to do our job quests because we're both missing some skills cough cough

"Why is this person standing on the rock with a red dress and bunny ears" "some people wanna be admired" *later* "okay go to drybone..." "I wanna stand on the rock with bunny girl here!" *the player changes glams and waves* "some people play this game for very different reasons"

"DOG YOU SMELL SO BAD" the time for Brie to be bathed approaches...

we've been doing our job quests separately, my mom has gotten much better at navigating on her own :D

Aaaand done for the day~

Got some new skills that I do not know how to use but tool tips say they're all AoEs so I put them in the right spot on her hotbar...

Jan 16, 2021

Been playing with my mom but nothing too exciting other than Bismarck eating an island and me figuring out how dreadwyrm trance works so my mom can beat up the striking dummy

"So the whale...just ate the key." "Yep."

Brie started wagging her tail in her sleep

limitless blue...

queued up and ready to gooooo

Bismarck down! Mom: "Soooo where's the key" Me: "You'll find out"

Archbishop: "I see you have what we want" *looks at key* Mom: "QUICK, SWALLOW IT"

"Now I'm gonna spend a ton of time getting it back, aren't I."

Mom: So where is MY team...Cid and everyone and the ship Me: They're towing the island Mom: UGH

"With my outfit Alphinaud looks like a mini-me!"

This is what she's currently in, btw

upon seeing the airship: "...that's big. Is that gonna get us to Azys Lla?" Me: "Nope"

Done for the day, tomorrow...more HW!

Jan 17, 2021

mom and i back on our bullshit again

She said the sea of clouds makes her palms sweat because she's afraid she'll fall off, so I had her try to run off an edge to reassure her

Edmont says Tataru is super excited, mom says, "I can't even imagine Tataru more excited than she usually is, squeaking like a mouse..."

mom deeply confused by Urianger putting goggles over his goggles

me: *starts doing moonlift dance* mom: you're very distracting me: THAT'S THE POINT

Mom about Y'shtola in the lifestream: So she's broken up in little particles like Willy Wonka?

"Wrapped her up like an egg roll" "We call that a purrito" "A phhh--hahaha"

"Were her eyes always that color...?" "Nope." "Ah, okay."

Mom, about the Idyllshire goblins: Have we seen these before...

"They all look the same under those masks don't they" "we don't know" *later* "And now he (brayflox) is taking all the credit" "she" "...she. You can't tell!" "Sure you can!" "..." and so I explained goblin naming conventions to her

I think my mom likes Matoya

Gubal unlocked, gonna save that for tomorrow!

"You were right, it does get a lot more interesting! It just takes a while to get there."

Jan 18, 2021

Hey. Guess what time it is. That's RIGHT it's GAME TIME WITH MOM

Review of Gubal: Sliding around on ice was lots of fun! the orbs exploding and stopping the summoning was NOT fun XD

"So if I jump off the bridge I would die?" "Yes (when something's chasing you" "Ugggghhh so many ruuuules"

Me as Matoya translates the tome: That's what you call google translate...GUBAL translate! HAHAHAHA Mom: hah. hah. hah. *eyeroll*

Alphinaud: THE EYE!! Mom: Yeah you gotta wrestle it from whatshisname Me: I think we can just ask him

Matoya: Shtola, when did the light fade from your eyes? Mom: I was waiting for someone to notice her eyes were all weird.

Brie cam

Verdict on Estinien after he bitches at Y'shtola: "He's still a jerk."

Ysayle just appeared! "Oh, how fortuitous!"

She kinda jerked back when Ysayle died, I don't think she expected that. No comment otherwise. Anyway, we're in Azys Lla!

We're trying out Titan-egi but I guess it likes desummoning itself???

Estinien: Wait...something's afoot. *garlean theme starts playing* Mom: Garleans are everywhere!

I wonder if the garleans are confused by the snowmen bouncing past

We're at the 2 hour mark but this is a really exciting part of the story so we're trying to make it to the dungeon before we stop

All righty, stopped just before the final HW dungeon~

Jan 23, 2021

THE END OF HEAVENSWARD (base), AS DESCRIBED BY MY MOM: a thread

I showed her the shoebill minion and she was entertained

I got some volunteers but while we wait my mom decided to start chatting up the nodes and accidentally picked up a quest so she's off getting lost in Azys Lla

*while getting into the black hole for universal manipulation*: this doesn't seem great...? me: it protects you from worse

*suspiciously* "...who's in the box?" (it's haldrath)

Thordan attains primalhood: "...we didn't want that to happen, right?" Me: "Nope" Mom: "Welp"

me: wait time, 9 minutes mom: D:<

Mom: Do we have to kill him multiple times? Me: Nope. Mom: Good. ...I'll take that eyeball, thanks.

*Estinien gets the other eyeball* Mom: Is he going to turn evil?

she has just dubbed him Zombie Estinien

"Ohh so there's a warrior of darkness to my warrior of lightness..." *camera zooms out* "I was being facetious when I said he was on the moon!"

Heavensward base complete~

we had a nice lengthy bike ride before this and now we're both starting to feel sleepy so I'm telling my mom to wake up during cutscenes XD then Aymeric closed his eyes and she said "See? Now HE'S falling asleep!" and I said "He's being SOMBER"

Got all the overworld aether currents in the forelands and will get the quests so she can fly there tomorrow. Also got her some boots from Hismena. Slowly but surely...!!

we both got up and groaned at our stiff legs RIP

Jan 24, 2021

Okay mom is doing forelands aether current quests and then we'll be back to MSQ

*watches her get lost around the Forelands*

it's just her yelling "Up! Up!" while trying to climb a cliff with her snowman

me: *flies past* mom: I SEE YOU >:( taunting me

just two snowmen bouncing across the forelands

Krile: Looks like someone grew an ilm or two in my absence...or are those lifts in your boots? Mom: ouch

*watches mom get lost in the hinterlands* this is very relaxing

Krile just said she has the Blessing of Light as well as the Echo...?? hmm I forgot that..

She laughed at Y'shtola going "IS IT NOW" when Alphinaud started talking about her showing up naked from the Lifestream

she's dying at the nutkin hiding thancred's nether region

'Good thing it's got a big fluffy tail'

mom: Did Thancred lose an eye? me: we're not sure honestly, most think he had an injury but then later he was using it to attract the ladies mom: oh...

Mom, about Alphinaud: Does his sister ever show up? Me: Oh yeah. You'll like her. Mom: Is she snarky? Me: Yeeeeup, she knows just how to get to Alphinaud. Mom: Well, twins, right? Me: Yep Mom: *nods*

me as they find the guy setting fires: They've located the criminal!! mom: Yep. Northota, sit on him! That'll teach 'em.

mom said all this stuff about people trying to preserve the old order sounded aaaawwwwfffully familiar, btw can't wait to get her into SHB, vauthry will make her blow a gasket

hah at aymeric at 0/100 vitality just curing himself furiously, refusing to die

as priest pushes maelie off the vault wall: well, *he's* evil.

Mom after Aymeric and co arrive downstairs: Wait, what did they do with the nutjob? Me: Oh they arrested him Mom: They should've just pushed him off the railing. Told the dragon 'let this one fall'.

you can tell where my vindictive streak comes from

Okay, that's it for this play session! Once we get to the end of post-HW we'll be going back to finish off Hildibrand and other optional/side content XD

Jan 30, 2021

It's THE WEEKEND time for MORE MOM PLAYS FFXIV

"I forgot what we were doing??" the crazy catholic dude shoved a kid off a bridge and now we're working on a peace conference

hearing honoroit speak is gonna make me sad though :( RIP Archie

Emmanellain stalks out of the manor in silence, mom says, "What was THAT all about?"

Urianger speaks to Elidibus, mom says "...I thought he was a good guy?? No? Clearly not."

Yda and Papalymo show up! Me: Hey, we found them! Mom: Yep Me: She lost her mask somewhere so they aren't showing her face... Mom: ...because we're not supposed to know what she looks like? Me: NOPE. They'll zoom in on her boobs instead! Mom: I noticed that, yes.

The big reveal with Yda/Lyse would've been way better if they'd incorporated Yda's real face into like...flashbacks or something.

Mom, about Hoary Boulder: I'm sorry, he's just weird. Me: gasp Mom: *imitates his roegadyn psych emote* Me: He's flexing! Mom: Ohh, right. You just can't see it under all that armor.

We exhausted Brie with a 3.7 mile bike ride before this and I made her dig a bit so she is extra tired today

walking into the Seventh Heaven: ah the bar with the Peanuts music me: it's the bar music from FF7! mom: I'm telling you this sounds just like the Peanuts music!

*looking at the rewards for this quest* Me: fish or cookie? mom: cookie, steamed fish sounds gross... me: it's a steamed staff mom: that's worse me: ...which is also a fish mom: ...

Oh boy my favorite HW dungeon the Antitower is coming up...

She enjoyed the dungeon XD Calcabrina reaction: Oh THEY aren't creepy at all, jeez me: You can get them as a minion-- Mom: NO I don't want that following me

for those wondering, she wasn't into David Bowie so she did not recognize the Ziggy Stardust reference, RIP

Mom: Looks like we're not getting Minfilia back? Me: Nope, looks like she's been turned into a MEAT PUPPET Mom: Ah

She summoned the poro roggo minion and was overjoyed to see that it hops XD

Aymeric: A drink! Mom: Is he asking me on a date? Me: Maybe Mom: What happens with the male WoL? Me: Same thing. Everyone wants in the WoL's pants, doesn't matter their gender! Mom: That's awesome.

heavy sighs at emmanellain, 'looks like I'm babysitting again'

"Yeeeeah I've just been poisoned, pretty sure."

Northota started passing out and my mom just turned and gave me a knowing look. "First time I've ever eaten or drunk anything in this place, of COURSE"

she's just skipping past the barmaid's tirade ahahaha

Emmanellain: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE Mom: You told him to do it

Mom just referred to the punch Thancred laid on Emmanellain as 'The Consequences'

Got the Hinterlands world aether currents and quit for the day, time to stretch

Jan 31, 2021

AND NOW for game time with mom fun fact about my mom she is one of the few cool boomers

Mom: Soooo they're trying to...fight another enemy now? Me: They're trying to unite via a common enemy...so yes, more fighting, for that is the Ishgard way Aymeric: HOW ABOUT A GRAND MELEE Mom: Oh good, pretend fighting is just as good as real fighting.

on Emmanellain: "He started out as a brat, still a brat."

"Maybe his tiny manservant will help him change--" *cue me explaining some of their backstory and elezen puberty*

Aymeric: *starts talking about WoL for grand melee* me: WHO could he could be talking about mom: I don't know, the tall broad in front of him?

they should've had the grand melee take place in the lightfeather proving grounds, just sayin

I think she is enjoying being a caster in chainmail SE ALL CLASS FORTEMPS GLAMOUR WHEN

"Um, I have the tether...what does that mean" *fade to black* "DID WE FAIL"

aymeric just got fuckin yeeted by raubahn, never gets old

me: have fun, be ready to dodge mom: oh god

mom: is that the end of the duty? me: yep mom: *immediately has peanut m&ms to celebrate*

Nidstinien: NEVERRRRR Mom: there's always one...

mom's just like O_O at nidstinien right now

Mom: So we gotta kill Nidhogg? Me: Yep...again. Mom: Only he's bigger and badder than before? Me: Yeah he's got TWO eyeballs now! Mom: Oh boy

Mom on Vidofnir: Oh good that dragon's not dead!

Alphinaud plops drinks on table mom: The LAST time I drank out of a cup.......

Mom: The voice acting has really gotten a lot better Me: You enjoy the performances? Mom: Yes, especially Aymeric. His voice isn't pretty but just the phrasing Me: *eyebrow waggle* Ohhhh?? You thought he was snooty when you first heard him Mom: he WAS snooty...he's gotten better.

being a left-handed person, my mom is delighted to see SMN is also left-handed (via victory stance)

vidofnir is like '?'

CAN MY MOM FIGURE OUT THE MOOGLE'S NAME STAY TUNED

she picked the correct answer

yay we have conquered sohr kai

Fighting Nidhogg will have to happen next weekend. There will be chaos >:D

Feb 6, 2021

TIME FOR MOM SHENANIGANS

Alphinaud: if only we knew when nidhogg would strike me: IF ONLY THERE WERE A SIGN *screeching in the distance* mom: is that not a good enough sign

final steps of faith death awaits us, friends are all busy...sorry to my cohealer in advance, whoever you are

mom: Eugh! When did he give away his eye?!

waits for future cohealer to queue up...

that was 3 vets and 5 newbies who all ran away with the stack marker

Alphinaud: Estinien!! Mom: Estinien! Someone take that eyeball away from him!

Mom: *as Estinien starts resisting* is that Estinien Estinien: THIS IS NOT YOUR HAND, WYRM Mom: the ultimate dual personality disorder WoL and Alphinaud: *go for the eyes* Mom: That's right! Go for those eyeballs!

Mom: And that's Nidhogg...going...? Me: To dragon heaven! They come from space, after all

Mom: So those eyeballs are just dead balls now right Me: nah they're still full of aether Aymeric: CAST THEM INTO THE ABYSS Mom: *watches them plummet* ...only for them to return later?

we have concluded that Estinien probably weighs about 250-300 lbs with all his armor

Mom: Give Hraesvelgr his eyeball back! Hraesvelgr: *flies off* Mom: He's leaving without it?!

mom just shaking her head at emmanellain and laughing as honoroit explains what actually happened

she thinks estinien is very pretty

Brie check (this was a video of Brie staring fixedly at mom's hand as she picked up popcorn)

Mom: So he just took flowers and walked off into the sunset? Me: That's what he does, yup

on the PLD of darkness: "pretty evil grin there"

Me: Recognize that outfit? Mom: Yep! Alphinaud! Me: No! Mom: WHAT Me: That's his twin sister! Mom: Oh. Well, at least I recognize the outfit!

on the dinner: *dryly* "That's not stiff at all."

*WoL stares at manservant pouring* mom: is he gonna try to poison him??

Aymeric: So what do you want for yourself Mom: ...to not be poisoned. Manservant: PRAY FORGIVE THE INTERRUPTION Mom: We'll never find out what I want.

WoL and Aymeric leave Mom: So...I wasn't poisoned? Me: Nope Mom: suspicious.

Xelphatol cleared!

Tataru: Try on the new outfit I made you! Mom: *suspicious and hostile* WHO IS SHE TALKING TO Me: Alisaie! Mom: *relaxes* oh okay

That's all for today - that was a lot of cutscenes XD One more dungeon before we hit the end of the free trial and go back to Hildibrand. Yay!

Feb 7, 2021

reminding my mom that urianger is a POTENTIAL EVIL DOER she just sighed heavily

me: Alisaie is INTIMIDATING Urianger! mom: yes, from his waist

Mom: Alphinaud NEVER glared like that! Me: Alisaie is VERY different

Oh we're at the part where we meet Ga Bu

brie trying to chew while on the couch, mom has vetoed this plan

it occurs to me that alisaie's teleporting ability is the most powerful because she just teleported the entire party while half of us had aggro

mom: titan...is he the one who kept shoving me off the edge me: yep mom: UHGHHGHGHG

report-- gravity: 3 WoL: 0 3 dps fell off XD one of which was my mom, another of which was a dps CERTAIN he was out, and a third of which was a RDM who backflipped off

Alisaie: Maybe you could tell me about some of your adventures in Ishgard Mom: But I only nod! *dialog choices pop up* Mom: oh, there I am

Mom: "Old friends"? me: who do you know who talks like that Mom: ..........the guy who the girl was suspicious of... me: Urianger. Mom: yes me: We've never seen him with his hood off though! Mom: Who knew he had grey hair...

Urianger: *DRAMATIC SPEECH* Mom: Is he feeling guilty? Me: Yep

Mom: Sooo he wants them to kill the WoL??? Me: He wants them to meet up Mom: So they can combine and become the warrior of grey...

my mom always makes resigned noises when told to gather information because it's usually bad info from idiot townspeople XD

Papalymo and Yda spotted!

she's in disguise

Mom: A trap! Of course.

Alphi: CARBUNCLE DEFEND ME Mom: OH Carbuncle: *catches arrow in mouth* Mom: Nice catch!

Urianger tears off mask Me: Oh no he's pretty--but with questionable taste in facial hair Mom: yeah that's terrible...he looks like wolfman or something...

trying to target alisaie's blade of light when literally everyone decides to stand around her fighting while you're on controller is a new hell, my mom has found

Urianger: Quickly! Invoke the power of your crystal! Mom: ...and what will that do...? Me: :)

Minfilia: *gives WoL Tupsimati* Mom: I'll put it in my pocket with everything else

and now with my mom left in a haze of confusion over yda's reaction to gundobald, we leave the rest of the story for next weekend

Feb 13, 2021

MOM GAME TIME MOM GAME TIME We parked her outside the Rising Stones last time for fear of being caught in another long cutscene. Turns out we were right XD

Mom: "WHAT BATTLE???" (as fake griffin talks to real griffin)

Mom: Are those the dragon eyeballs? Yes, they are. Me: What a surprise! Mom: Quite the gift. Good luck controlling them!

Brie being absolutely incorrigible about the popcorn moving past her nose

Mom, when Tataru corners her with some other people: new characters? Me: no, you're being AMBUSHED! YOU ALWAYS KNEW SHE WAS EVIL Mom: ...oh! She's got a new outfit for me, doesn't she!! Me: *cackling* Mom: They got the big guy to hold me down, huh.

tension in the scene where m'naago appears ruined by the fact that we're trying to order take out for dinner right now

ordering food never sounded so ominous, it's just the suspenseful BGM going on the entire time

PLOT TWIST you can choose which sauce you want!! DETERMINE YOUR FATE, BECOME WHAT YOU MUST

Mom: Who is this? Me: A new person!

Mom after hearing Papalymo's ominous narration: Is he about to become a traitor?? Me: *shrug* Mom: He's got that stick, too! Me: What's he gonna do!!

someone playing a polka in gridania right now

mom, seeing me on ixion mount: *sigh* I want ooooone...

Mom, about Yugiri hiding behind trees: Kinda creepy Me: Well, she's a ninja Mom: Ohhh, so force of habit...though she's not very good since [Aymeric] spotted her! Me: She wasn't TRYING D:

We are on Griffin, Griffin on the Wall for anyone wanting to see how close we are to SB 6 more quests before she gets blocked in MSQ!

Baelsar's Wall conquered Mom, after some careful explanation about the betrayal: Soooo the Griffin is just killing everyone.

Mom: THE EYES

Mom: That was a great splat noise

me: This is the song they played just before the calamity mom: it's very pretty considering what's going on me: yeeeeah after a while you start to associate it with ominous things...

told my mom to pick the second option...papalymo blasted her back onto the ship and she just said 'oh'

OMG our power just went out

Papalymo’s spell was too powerful. Also took our neighbor’s power

Welp we will continue our adventure tomorrow I guess. The whole area went down and it’s 2 degrees outside

Time to gather around the fire

The power has returned and i no longer feel like a pioneer

Was gonna make ashcakes or somethin oh well

me earlier: what if power went out at the restaurant we ordered from!!!! restaurant on our receipt when it arrived a few minutes late: our power went out!

Feb 14, 2021

Back to mom game time! Upon login, she was taken back into the cutscene the power outage interrupted...

If the power goes out again i will have to declare this cutscene cursed

Mom picked the option to try to stay again because she wants Papalymo to blast her back onto the ship

Mom: So that leaves a mystery as to what happened to Papalymo? Me: Well, if you've seen the previous time that was cast, Louisoix dies after casting it... Mom: Ahh, and that was apparent from the conversation... Me: Yep. Yda knew too, so that's why Thancred had to drag her off

achievement: School's Out Forever mom: =_=

Gosetsu: *appears* Mom: Okay, very Japanese... Gosetsu: *takes off hat* Mom: Whoa!

Gosetsu: *psychs up* Mom: Is that his way of overcoming his he-- Gosetsu: *falls over* Mom: Or not. Good thing no one was in front of him.

I forgot Nero did in fact have a voice actor XD

Me: So, got a good impression of Alisaie yet? Mom: Yeees...she's got claws. Big ones.

Mom's roegadame is taller than Nero by a head but she said "He should be more afraid of the little one (Alisaie) than me"

Gosetsu: BY YOUR LEAVE Mom: Ah, he's recovered.

Tataru gave my mom her outfit and she was like "D: OH! ...somebody stole my skirt!"

bit too difficult to ground target on controller for mom so I ended up doing the middle section of the solo duty for her with the red baron XD

Mom as they activate Omega: Releasing the Death Star!

Mom as they trade blows: Holy Harry Potter! (it reminds her of dumbledore and voldemort fighting in the ministry)

Mom as shinryu and omega blast off in different directions: That went well. Me: Would you say it was a tie Mom: Looked like it

Usually when something funny happens that they will immediately explain in the next two speech bubbles my mom will instantly stop in confusion and ask me what is going on and I have to be like 'You'll see'

ex: Yda's tattoo disappearing just now

We're on the Far Edge of Fate!! Last quest!!

Mom has passed judgment on Zenos. His helmet is creepy. His hair sticking out from under the armor is weird.

MOVING ON!!! to Hildibrand!!

I won't go into detail but suffice to say she laughs every time Hildy pops up on screen to pose XD

can't wait til she meets godbert

Me: We have to track down this dangerous goldsmith! Mom: ohhh I can see this is going to be silly

Hildy: I...I MUST DANCE! Mom: What?!

Mom: At least he has underwear on Me: Only because they have to preserve their rating.

Mom: OH he used his whole name!!

She believes Godbert explains Hildibrand a LOT

Mom: Hildibrand HAS figured out it's Greg, right? Me: Nope. Mom: ...oh my god.

Battle on the Big Bridge UNLOCKED time to queue and see if my mom gets turned into a toad

update: Me and my mom got turned into toads so it was just us screaming and running in circles

#ffxiv #momventures in eorzea #ameme's mom plays #mom plays ffxiv heavensward #ffxiv heavensward

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autumnslance · 2 years

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I noticed you doing character bingos again! I’d like to see one for Zenos if possible. I had fun with him in Stormblood, but found that joy to drowned with how he was handled in Endwalker. By the end I just wanted to be done with that monster. If the game had let me walk away without fighting him, like he suggested, I would have.

Wild, we're about the opposite; I disliked Zenos a great deal in Stormblood--he was bloody useless and an annoyance out of nowhere--while I feel they finally figured him out and mostly hit their stride with him in Endwalker, as he gave up pretending to care about military and political matters and became the wandering blood knight he actually is.

Almost got a bingo, but let's be real; I always have too much to say about major characters.

I also won't say anything negative about folks' WoLships, which are by far the most popular Zenos pairing; folks have their fun and they're welcome to it. But fandom is a good chunk of the issue with Zenos. One either loves him or hates him, and both sides tend to take it to extremes and flanderize / mischaracterize the man rather than dealing with the canon portrayal.

In my opinion, he's not that deep. Yes I have read "The Hunt Begins" thank you I own a copy of Chronicles of Light. It told us nothing new about his history and personality, just gave us a glimpse of where he started to find his focus, exactly as the title tells us. The thing is, Zenos doesn't have to be "deep" (whatever one means by that) to be compelling and do his job as a character in the story. Given his straightforward viewpoints, especially in EW as he gives an answer to Hermes' questions, Zenos himself might scoff at the need to find hidden depth of meaning to his personality and existence.

I've also said somewhere, probably my other big Zenos write-up, that he's not quite tragic, though there's tragedy all around and through him. He chooses to not deal with it in any fashion, a creature of the present entirely.

I think he needed a better introduction, seeded over the HW patches, even just in discussion and rumors if we still didn't see him until that patch 3.55 shot. I think he should have done something in StB other than be a "lose the fight the right way" plot checkpoint and just handing Doma and Ala Mhigo back to the heroes without having to really work for them.

I really think a massive part of the dissatisfaction many folks have with StB's story is that the victories are hollow after so much misery in those lands, who are then each shorted due to sharing the expansion. And a lot of that comes down to the misuse of Zenos, whose attributes are mostly told to us as he sleeps on the throne and bullies his underlings. For a supposedly brilliant man, we never see it in his military strategies, and he's played handily by Fandaniel, who knew just how to pull Zenos's strings.

So yeah. I was ready to be done with him in EW; "In From the Cold" is horrifying but I see it more as Fandaniel's scheme that Zenos goes all into. My WoL stopped caring about Zenos the moment trial 1 ended and Fandaniel's scheme became clear. I eye rolled whenever Zenos came back onscreen, though I think the scene in Garlemald with Jullus and Alisaie were good for him and lead directly into the finale.

I know what I just wrote and that I checked "too much screentime" but honestly he got a shade too little in EW. I DID dread/expect some kinda 11th hour teamup, though the "how" made me laugh incredulously. It worked in its weird way.

The final fight he still didn't understand my WoL but she was done and wanted to make sure it was finally over and he wouldn't darken her door or threaten anyone again. The solo duel is not unknown in other FF games, and I rather enjoyed it and the final punch-out at the end as they exhausted themselves entirely.

Mileage varies, depending on one's WoL, feelings on Zenos, and on that tropey duel of mirrored characters. I've also already spoken to the gripes about him being truly gone per Word of God and while one can do whatever one wants in fanfic, there's a lot of reason it does, in fact, work to leave his corpse at the edge of the universe and I'm OK with it. His part in the story, and how that affects Assumed Default Warrior of Light's self-understanding, is complete.

Like the Ascians, he's done. Interested to see what's up with his Avatar, since we also got nothing on his being a Reaper (could have used more on that too!!) as we move into the 6.x patches and build up of the next arc.

#Final Fantasy XIV #Lyn Prompts #character bingo #memes #character analysis #Endwalker #6.0 spoilers #Zenos Galvus

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Sorry, but this thought wouldn't leave me alone. What if the same the characters from Hyrule Warriors definitive edition from Warriors game, came through the time portal to assist the team? Like what if wind was cornered and nobody couldn't reach him in time and fricking Tetra comes guns ablaze, and Darunia and Ruto covering for an exhausted Time. That would be bonkers. Again sorry for this little rant, I hope you have a great day

So, I've been thinking about this since I got it, since this is a cool thought, and then I was considering more scenarios and such.

Upon writing this out I actually went into more detail about each situation, so I'm adding a cut.

So, Tetra showing up to save Wind is great if just only for the mental image of her immediately turning to him and telling him to get up since he was capable of helping her save him. He has questions, but you know what Tetra has a point. They both end up shouting questions at each other later on, I imagine. Neither has proper answers for the other.

The note of an exhausted Time actually amused me because, we're not at that part yet. That part technically isn't even in the main fic (though it does show up in a different thing). But, that does kinda happen. Regardless, I feel like Time's response to Darunia and Ruto showing up would be some variation of 'This may as well happen. Adult life is already so goddessdamn weird, may as well,'. Ruto and Darunia of course are slightly more thrown by things, not that Time is particularly helpful at the moment. Or ever. He's not helpful when he rests up either, he just hopes someone else will handle this particular issue. Fortunately someone does.

Sky would probably hug Fi. Once they're out of combat, of course, he's not going to put both of them in more danger. But like, that's his friend and he missed her. Fi of course doesn't really react much beyond a 'Hello Master Link,' because emotions are still new to her in that era. She lets him hug her though, and I imagine she'd be awful fond. Emotions may be new, but she does have them.

And then I remembered that Midna was in Hyrule Warriors, and the mental image of the entire battle grinding to a halt around them as Twi absolutely lit into her about that stunt with the mirror took over my mind for a bit. I'm making the executive call that this is true form Midna and not imp Midna because the idea of 5'10 Twilight shouting at the top of his lungs at 7'9 Midna is more amusing to me. You have this very tall, very powerful Twili Queen being chewed out by someone two feet shorter than her for leaving without even committing to a proper goodbye. Like when you come home after you go on a trip for a day and your dog is furious at you when you get back. That wasn't supposed to be a wolf pun, but I mean...

Of course once I got past the Midna reunion, I remembered Agitha is also in this game. So please also imagine Twi running after her and worried about her safety and then having to deal with the fact that she can summon giant bugs and thus doesn't need to be protected as much as he thought she did. Midna, of course, is laughing at him.

Also Ravio is here now, and Legend has to deal with that. He is unable to protect everyone from Ravio's scams, and so he's putting his focus on people like Silent, and Purah, and Robbie, all of whom are too curious for their own good and so might fall for the scam exclusively to get their hands on Ravio's goods.

And then on the note of these extra characters, Marin is also in HW. So, there's also that Legend has to deal with. His dead girlfriend is not dead. This causes him equal amounts of joy and distress, and I'm not sure how well he'd handle that. Not well, I would guess.

And now I'm realizing 3/4 of the namesakes for the Divine Beasts would be here now since Medli is also in HW. So once the shock wears off I want Ruto hugging Mipha and Sidon. I don't know where conversation goes from there, but hugs. Also, Darunia and Daruk would get along great. They'd be fast friends. Also I picture Medli as being still pretty small, since she's on the younger side, so Revali just looking down at this little harp-playing rito girl. They are so different with such different values, that interaction would be interesting if nothing else. (Especially with very defensive Wind there too.)

Of course then there's the fact every single one of these characters know Warriors too, and he'd have to explain why that is. And then the rest of the Heroes reacting about how he never told them he knew their friends. Which could quite easily transition into Silent eagerly grilling all of them for details on their lives and eras because information. I think Midna would vocalize that she thinks Silent is cute.

I don't think I'd ever be able to manage writing this out, because that is way too many characters to keep track of, but the scene where Twi is yelling at Midna is so clear in my head I might have to write it just to get it out of my head. Don't hold your breath though.

#atta answers #joker-japan #a change in fate #i spent a lot of time actually considering this concept #specifically the metal image of twi yelling at midna while midna just stands there #she lets him yell and then when he takes a breath asks 'are you done now? can we move on?'#which naturally leads to more yelling #also imagine that ruto is pretty big at this point considering how old time is #like. she's not huge yet like she'll end up but she's still Big #zora royalty is always big and ruto is going to end up queen at some point #so i imagine the hug with sidon and mipha isn't as awkward as it could be #meanwhile of course wind and tetra are probably doing something ill-advisable #so in short: chaos. this would result in chaos #gods i'm never going to stop thinking about twi yelling at midna am i

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the-yearning-astronaut · 2 years

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I desperately need to work on hw and work stuff and I'm packed and ready to go but I'm soooo tired rn. If I nap now I probably won't go out later but I *need* to but I just don't have the motivation.

How am I supposed to have the motivation to do work for a class that I can't even attend because of COVID and a refusal to provide proper accommodations? And the thing is, I have to pass this class to graduate!! It's an absolute joke! And I've been advocating for myself since the beginning of the semester and I'm just so fucking done with it. I'm so done. I'm tired and the constant email writing is exhausting and I'm supposed to somehow teach myself the material for this class without a reading schedule or anything else and I really just want to scream.

I've already dropped all the extra classes that I don't need to graduate and I've stopped even trying to do any of the other extra curriculars. I was excited for this semester because i was going to have enjoyable, low-key classes for the first time since starting this program but nooooo. We just had to go back to normal! And stop caring about COVID! And removing all accommodations that were making it possible for me to pass my classes!

I worked my fucking ass off to pass my program's hardest required courses while handling fibromyalgia and other chronic pain, severe fatigue, a broken foot, living in a constant state of panic, and having to find an entire new way of doing my coursework in addition to Fuck knows how many other challenges. And I did. My lowest grade this entire fucking pandemic was a B in Quantum Mechanics. But now I'm barely holding on to a fucking C- in a class that should have been a comparative breeze and it's pissing me the fuck off and idk what my rights are here and no I don't have the fucking energy to go researching it all. But I'm 2% away from not having a passing grade and if this is the class that prevents me from graduating in may I don't know what I'm going to do.

And yes I've already spoken with the center for disability and access on campus. Yes I've already discussed my accommodations. Yes I've spoken with someone that works in the office of the dean of students along with my academic advisor and the associate chair of my goddamn department. The most that's come out of it is that my professor is now posting his lecture notes online (they're useless to me because they come without context) and making announcements through our course page. Oh, and he actually responds to my emails now. Only took the first 4 weeks of class to get that to happen. And because my state is beyond fucked up he technically doesn't have to do any more than that. No one can make him provide me with anything else. He gets a pat on the back for doing the absolute bare minimum and I'm entirely fucked over because I can't pass a class when idek what I'm supposed to be reading from the goddamn text book.

#fox thoughts #sorry ive just been #so fucking frustrated #and im at a loss #and if this class prevents me from graduating and getting this fucking degree im gonna absolutely lose my goddamn shit #i didn't intend on going off like that but i guess i needed to #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #fibromyalgia #disability accommodations #disability #adhd #autism #depression #anxiety #ableism #im so fucking exhausted #tbd #long post

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keepingthehopealive · 3 years

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I want to do more of a proper update/journal dump but am too exhausted about to not be able to be coherent due to sleeping meds so instead here is a photo dump of E, my newest foster pup. He will be here months as he goes through HW treatment that is going to be quite hard for him. The situation angers me and breaks my heart, but I'm trying to channel all that into spoiling him with love and affection....including being a bad foster mom and letting him sleep with me some nights because he deserves it and will very soon be pretty much on crate rest. I am anxious and overwhelmed with all I've gotten myself into, but glad to be here for him through it and love on him lots and lots with toys and attention, affection and lots of snuggles. I hope he doesn't suffer too much for the treatment and that he continues to have a joy and vest for life before hes able to get adopted

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respheal · 3 years

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I've had this brainworm of a short ffxiv fic stuck in my head for a while and I'm just gonna dump the rough thoughts/outline here and maybe if I get through my NG+ far enough that I can remember HW better I'll actually write it but I have FEELS okay?

Fic opens with the Eden crew (Fiona (WoL), Ryne, Thancred, Urianger, and Gaia) after the battle with the Idol of Darkness. Urianger reminds the group they need to summon a primal of ice, and the WoL dissociates hard. As Fiona was the only one present to actually encounter the primal, Thancred asks Fiona to describe Shiva. Fiona, falteringly, describes how That Went Down. How a mortal woman summoned her vision of the saint into her own body.

Once, to defeat the Warrior of Light.

Once, to save her.

Although Fiona is barely there mentally, she can't help but notice Urianger's measured gaze directed towards her sword--a sword forever coated in a layer of ice.

---

Scene changes to key Heavensward stuff that I need to review, but it all leads up to the battle for Azys Lla--to Ysayle's final moments, falling from the heavens in a shower of ice crystals.

---

Scene changes to Amaurot (5.3), chasing Elidibus after he took Y'sthola captive. Elidibus transforms the Amaurotine shades into Fiona's memories--Baderon, Miounne, Momodi. Fiona's heart sinks as she realizes what Elidibus intends. "You're killing my friends. Know what it feels like for your friends to die."

Fiona pushes through, ever dreading seeing that face again, not knowing if she'll be able to stand when it comes. She sees Haurchefant and, although her heart stings, most of her memories of the man are happy. Her only regret is not being strong enough to save him, to not need his protection. But nothing was left unsaid. Not like--

And then she's there, standing before a great white dragon, her snow-white hair drifting in the ethereal undersea breeze. She doesn't notice the Warrior of Light enter the plaza. Her hands trace the lines on Hraesvelgr's wrinkled face.

Fiona's hand tightens around the hilt of her ice-sheathed sword. Blessedly, Elidibus doesn't seem intent on replaying all of Fiona's battles.

Or, perhaps, the emotional battle is enough.

"You've made your point, Elidibus," Fiona growls as she turns the corner, the Fortemps shield weighing heavily in her hand. Do you think I don't know what it is to feel loss?

After defeating Elidibus, Fiona breaks. Y'shtola, returned from Elibibus's captivity, finds the Warrior of Light hammering her fist on the marbled floor.

"I was right there. I could have saved her! I should have jumped! I could have saved her!"

That good bye, forever left unsaid.

Scene cuts to the past, to Fiona fighting a summoned Shiva--not Ysayle's, but one made purely of aether and prayer. A few heretics couldn't let the war end and Drillemont requests the Warrior of Light's aid once again. But how many times must they summon the primal saint?

How many times must Fiona kill her?

Fiona and Shiva fight, again and again and again and again.

Finally, as Fiona succumbs to her mountain of injuries and exhaustion from the repeated battles, Shiva lifts her chin with a boot. "You're mistaken. The one summoning me is you."

In blind grief and rage, Fiona stabs Shiva through the heart. Ice from the primal's heart flashes up the blade to coat it permanently.

The summonings cease.

---

Y'sthola tries to help, but her magic can only heal physical wounds. She's never been one for comfort, nor is Fiona adept at receiving it. But their mission calls, and resolve acts as a sufficient bandage. The sun seeker goes to retrieve her research from the Anyder, leaving Fiona to find her own way back through Amaurot.

Following crystalline breadcrumbs, she finds Hythlodaeus. Although identical to the rest of the ghostly Amaurotines and no less gentle, a roguish aura separates the phantasm from the rest. "So, how fare you of late? You are feuding with Elidibus this time, I believe?"

Fiona nods. Words fail her now, like they often did at the start of her adventure. There's no Scion here to save her from her muteness, to speak for her where a nod fails to suffice.

Hythlodaeus, mercifully, seems to understand and shrugs idly. "I shall refrain from passing comment on your struggle. It is not my place to do so, long-departed as I am." His usually-playful tone turns thoughtful. "But if I may give voice to a personal desire...I would rather you lived."

Fiona looks up at the towering Amaurotine in voiceless despair. A bruise fills her entire chest, deeper than any magic can penetrate. Although bested in combat, Elidibus did more damage than any summoned god.

How could she continue like this?

"If you do not, how will you keep your promise to Emet-Selch? The promise to remember?"

The crystalline memories in her hands tinkle as Fiona adjusts her hands. Hythlodaeus notices and, in a voice both empathetic and subtly joking, says, "It must weigh heavy, the burden of all those memories."

---

Back in Eden, the summoning begins. Against Thancred's extensive protests, Ryne volunteered to be a vessel for Shiva in the hopes of training Eden to foster aether as a caretaker rather than a miser.

At the chosen battlefield, Ryne takes that pose without being told--an arm extended to the heavens, one arm lightly bracing the other--as if Shiva herself guides her.

Once more time, the Warrior of Light fights Shiva. Her heart still aching, the voice from the past echoing loud like a drum--a slave to her fate, doomed to fight Shiva again and again and again and again.

Losing control, Ryne encases Fiona and herself in ice-like crystals. Gaia jumps into the fray in a wild fury, breaking Fiona and Ryne out of their crystal prisons with her hammer. Although she initially struggles to stand, Gaia's words push Fiona forward: "I want to see what tomorrow will bring!"

With Gaia's help, Fiona subdues Shiva. Ryne releases Eden's horded aether in a burst of light and ice crystals. Returned to her normal form, Ryne falls to her knees and Gaia rushes to support her.

"What happened to Shiva? Is she still in control?" Gaia asks, her voice coming in a panicked rush.

"No, she's gone. But, Gaia..."

"What?"

"That hammer... It matches your dress."

Gaia blinks, and withdraws with a harrumph. "I see you're back to your normal idiotic self."

Ryne seems to not hear as she picks one of the shattered ice crystals off the ground. "Look... Isn't it pretty? Maybe we could take it with us?"

"Erm... Ice tends to melt, you know."

Ryne glances over her shoulder, to Fiona bracing herself against her sword. The permanent frost sparkles with a new glow, as if infused with light. "Not this sort," Ryne says with a smile.

#ffxiv #5.3 spoilers #fic outline #wol x ysayle #eden: refulgence #*pours a cup of hot chocolate*#emphasis that this is a rough outline and not complete by any means #this is just stuff I'm throwin down while I'm doing maintenance at work #Ryne and Gaia's budding relationship warms my lil queer heart

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gianelson · 6 years

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30 Days of Bangel

Tumblr screwed up my post!!...I had waaay more GIFs and stuff but only the 3 came out...I couldn't retrieve my real post no matter hw much I tried!!...GRRRR!!... It's 2 freaking AM here and I'm sooo freaking exhausted and @mrsgordo84 convinced me to sleep but I just can't so here I am redoing Day 2...

**cracks knuckles and breathes deeply**

Let's do this!..or shall I say Let's RE-do this!..Day 2 - Most heart-melting/romantic Bangel scene(The Real One)...Oh god!!!...How in the world am I ever going to choose!!!...

Every.single.moment.they have together is romantic!!...even when they fight/argue it's heart-melting cause it stems from their undying love for the other..very seldom it is about ego or proving the other right..

We get moments like these..

He pulls away,hating that he's a monster,not wanting to taint this pure,innocent righteous girl but she tells him she doesn't notice...all she sees is him...Beyond the demon,beyond the monster, beyond the vampire..her love is unconditional..she loves all of him..

Here he reciprocates...he doesn't love her cause she's the slayer or his savior or cause she's strong..even if she was a normal girl,he'll love her just the same...just as much..just as deep..

And then we see moments like this..

Where their gazes are not just filled with love..but their eyes communicate 'you're the most precious thing in the world to me'...and that smile...it shows they are truly each other's happiness...

Even the less happy scenes oozes romance and just melts your heart..

**squeels**FOREHEAD KISSSSSS!!**squeels**

Risking his own life just so he can save hers...

After spending 100 years in hell, he's devoid of emotions,unable to respond to touch or reason and yet,she is the one thing he remembers..her name was the first word he utters..

And that hug...it was sooo telling...he was exhausted..he was confused..he was hurt and when he saw her,he let go...relieved...she's here...his comfort...his solace..he's home...

Her expression differs yet somehow the emotions similar..she's initially guarded..doesn't understand..probably not believing it's real...she spent months trying to cope with his absence but when he calls for her,she breaks down..and yet there was relief...He's home.

There's probably soo much he wished he could have said but for a man of so few words and of the 17th century who's also an impressive linguist,here he struggles with words..

He is not afraid of a lot of things but that uncertain,shaky and crack in his voice is evidence of his fear...He was afraid....so afraid to lose her..

But he needed to know so he uses her language, speak in her tongue, colloquial terms he's unfamiliar with because he had to ask...is she still his?...little did he know that he need not worry...she will always be his...

Oh god!!...I'll go on forever!!...Somebody stop me!!!!

I don't know how y'all gonna do it cause I certainly can't!..

I know you said moment but I cheated a little cause just can't choose!!...

So I will settle with Bangel epitomizes romantic and heart-melting..

#bangel #buffy x angel #30daysofbangel #only 30 days??!#30 days of bangel #they define romance #how can you give us the beautiful love of bangel and not have them end up together #i want a love like theirs #i want bangel back so bad i wanna cry #bangel appreciation #bangel is endgame #bangel is forever #bangel is always

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atzuums · 6 years

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Stuck in Love

Plot: daniel is your next door neighbor

Word Count: 821

Genre: fluff??

You groan loudly into your pillow, tightening it around your head to muffle the loud guitar playing from next door. You let out a loud yell, hoping that he hears you and stops. It's 3am for goodness sake.

A few time you actually resulted in going over to his apartment, but he he never answers the door. To be truthful he his amazing at playing the guitar but he always plays it at ungodly hours of the night.

Eventually you sit up restlessly in your bed. His loud strumming suddenly stops for the first time tonight. You sigh in content and lean your head against the wall. You close you eyes tightly, trying to relax.

Through the wall you hear a light humming, angelic almost. It kind of pulled at your heart strings.

What surprises you the most is that he begins singing. You have lived next to him for nearly 3 years and not once had you heard him sing.

His voice is so beautiful, but the lyrics are what catch your attention.

"Consuming all the air inside my lungs, Ripping all the skin from off my bones."

The lyrics seem so meaningful. You can clearly hear the emotion in his voice. You press your ear closer to the wall to hear him clearer.

Eventually the song ends and there is complete silence. You get comfortable in your bed and begin to fall asleep again. Unbeknownst to you Daniel on the other side of the wall is leaning against the wall that separates you two.

He places his hand on the wall and closes his eyes.

"I wish you knew how much you mean to me."

For the next few days you stay up late listening to him through the wall, pouring his heart out through his music.

His music, the lyrics, his voice. A few of the songs he sings multiple times so you eventually learn the lyrics and you quietly sing along.

On a Thursday night you rush home, it's late, close to 4 am. You were out all night with you friends and you didn't want to miss his nightly "concert".

Once you get home you rush into your room. Unfortunately theres no singing, no guitar playing, nothing.

You plop down in your bed sadly. It's become a comfort to hear him sing before you go to sleep. You basically need to hear him sing to go to sleep.

The next morning you wake up exhausted because of the lack of sleep. You lazily go through your morning routine and you head out the door to go to work.

Your head snaps to the left as you hear someone leaving the apartment next to yours. Your nerves kick in as you see its Daniel. You quietly rush into the elevator, trying to get away from him as quick as possible.

Unfortunately Daniel quietly slips into the same elevator as you. You awkwardly stare at the floor to avoid eye contact.

Meanwhile Daniel is trying his absolute hardest to keep his heart from exploding because of how hards its beating against his chest. He wants to speak to you so bad, but you make him so nervous.

His attention is quickly drawn from you as the elevator begins to shake until it completely stops, but the doors don't open either.

"Do you know what's happening?" You quietly whisper. You mentally face palm yourself. Of course he doesn't know what's happening, he's in here with you. Daniel can feel the butterflies in his stomach as he hears your voice for the first time.

"No." He replies, not looking at you.

Daniel is silently trying to work up the courage to actually talk to you, maybe even confess. He knows that if hw doesn't say anything thing now he probably never will.

"I have a confession to make." You both surprisingly say at the same exact time.

"You can go first." He politely says.

"I listen to you sing every night. I've actually grown quite attached to your voice, I actually need to hear your voice to be able to sleep. Your voice is so beautiful and your songs really touch my heart." You quickly say. You try to catch your breath.

Daniel doesn't say anything for a few, which kind of worries you. 'Oh god he thinks I'm a creep.' You think. Before you can apologize he speaks up.

"That's a relief because most of those song are written about you. I know that sound creepy seeing as we've never even talked to each other, but I see you everyday in the lobby downstairs and it was kind of love at first sight. You've been the inspiration for my music for the last two years. Im...Im in love with you." He says, the whole time keeping eye contact with you.

Honestly you can't take it anymore. You pull him by his shirt and crash your lips into his.

#daniel sharman #daniel sharman x reader #kiit-sxnewritings

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