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♥️ Hot Stuff —

The Spice

#gposers #gpose #EorzeaPhotos #miqote #keeper of the moon #TrixiTricks #cheesed #miette #liability #anno_xiv #roseberry #kispar #hex lye #studionox #jupiposes #LeafLights #biscuitstudios #screenshots #valentione's set 2024 #♡ nostalgic melancholy

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♥️ Hot Stuff —

The Spice

#gposers #gpose #EorzeaPhotos #miqote #keeper of the moon #TrixiTricks #cheesed #miette #liability #anno_xiv #roseberry #kispar #hex lye #studionox #jupiposes #LeafLights #biscuitstudios #screenshots #valentione's set 2024 #♡ nostalgic melancholy

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💗Sweet Heart —

The sugar

#gposers #gpose #EorzeaPhotos #miqote #keeper of the moon #TrixiTricks #roseberry #alee #prayer #hex lye #studionox #jupiposes #chaeposes #LeafLights #biscuitstudios #screenshots #valentione's set 2024 #♡ nostalgic melancholy

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:) A little something I've been working on coming 2024.

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UUUuuuUuuuhh. In the wake of Tumblr having it's regular fit™, I thought I might try to do a little outreach post!

Hello, my name is Sea, and I am looking for more xiv blogs to follow! I'm a roleplayer with far too many ocs, but I write and gpose on occasion, and run a question drive for people to participate in! I love meeting and engaging with new people, even if my timezone hates me. I also have a bluesky if you have one, too!

I'm not picky about blogs I follow as long as you're xiv adjacent, but I tend to more readily follow roleplay, writing and gpose blogs. If that's something you're interested in, please give this a like and/or reblog and I'll check out your blog! Thanks for reading! ♥

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Me and the boys pulling up to AFK in limsa

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Something I have such a hard time with is deciding interesting or relevant personal Hooks & Rumors. This desire to reach out! And connect! And provide story bits! . . .But a deep fear of being mocked or found to be not interesting. Haven't quite figured out how to overcome that one but it is big sadge.

#biscuitrambles

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See you tonight!

#ffxiv #crystal data center #crystal events #balmung events #balmung rp

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The Annual All Saints' Wake Pubcrawl

Who: You, your boo, and some spooks!

When: October 28th, 2023 at 7pm eastern.

Where: Starting up at the Gates of Nald in Ul'dah, then on to the crawl!

Wear: Tis the season to be spooky, so dress up accordingly in your best All Saints' Wake apparel.

Why: Because this is our 10th year!

What: -C-rescent Entertainment and friends are gathering everyone together to crawl there way across Aldenard, going from bar to bar, having a blast!

🍻 MASTERLINK 🎃

((Crescent club nights are meant to be a joyous occasion, and we understand if everything gets to be a bit much. Slipping out to somewhere quiet and returning is absolutely fine! Given the current atmosphere surrounding ‘clubs’, we’d also like to specify that while we do have a DJ providing optional music, our events are RP events, not twitch-streamed influencer parties.))

★ We’d adore your help in spreading the word, thank you! ★

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Since Endwalker is there still no way to cast black magic without a soul stone? Argument with a friend. Sadu and Y'shtola seem to be able to use black magic without one?

I'll answer both since I talk about this on discord a lot, so I'd like to talk about it here too.

First, to quickly clear up a small misconception, neither Y'shtola nor Sadu are Black Mages. Y'shtola is a thaumaturge and Sadu is a practitioner of a type of magic unique to the Xaela tribes of the Steppe. The game mechanically treats them like BLMs sometimes, but that's game limitations not so much in line with their lore.

Y'shtola: “I never did tell you why I chose to take up thaumaturgy, did I? As you will no doubt have noticed, life here in the First can be exceedingly unforgiving. Brutal, in a word. I had not long been in Norvrandt when I realized my mastery of conjuring magicks would not suffice to protect the people. 'Twas a struggle at first to embrace the change, but I confess the path of the thaumaturge suits me rather well... Lest you worry, I’ve not forgotten my healing spells. Be it restoration or destruction, this sorceress can command whatever magicks the situation requires.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea II - Eldritch Secrets of the Au Ra: “Among the Xaela of the Azim Steppe, there is a multitude of tribes who have preserved the ways of ancient magicks. In typical Xaela fashion, the manner of their teaching, not to mention the content of the lesson itself, varies wildly from tribe to tribe. There are shamans who claim to hear the voice of the gods themselves, while yet others boast the ability to see into the future. Whilst research into these magicks of eld has progressed but little, a respected aetherologist has documented instances of other phenomenon - blasts of fire, curative touches, and the like - which prove the Xaela capable of casting the equivalent of most rudimentary spells. Distinct amongst their knowledge, however, is a rite wherein pattern engraved into specially prepared stone result in a biddable golem. These stone faces, or ‘khun chuluu’ in the Xaela’s native tongue, can serve as a focus which amplifies arcane energies, enabling the manifestation of falling comets and other such spells of devastation and ruin.”

To quickly answer the second question: Yes, there are many disciplines of magic which utilize external aether: Black Magic and White Magic, Blue Magic, Conjury, Astromancy, and Geomancy.

You can learn more about how all of the magic classes work, here! You can learn more about the history of Black Mage, here! There's even a section about BLMs in the modern day at the bottom.

Soul Crystals & Roleplay

tl;dr - Can I RP a job without a soul crystal? Absolutely! *But, there's no need to do so unless not having a soul crystal is somehow important narratively to your character.

More in depth talk below the cut!

No soul crystal should be more difficult to obtain than it is for your character to learn about that job's existence.

In every job quest scenario, the WoL bumblefucks their way into obtaining a soul crystal almost immediately in the first quest. There's not an instance where they don't. And detractors will likely say: "Yeah but they're the WoL! They're special!" Sure, but in none of those aforementioned questlines does the WoL get handed a soul crystal because they're the WoL. Circumstances just happens. And they can for your characters just as easily too.

I've noticed a lot of people in the community seem to think these soul crystals are rare or nigh-unobtainable (I can only assume it has to do with the half-dozen Job Tier Lists floating around that I just cannot in good conscience recommend), but that just isn't the case. Soul crystals have been in use for at least the last 6,000 years. Nearly every known civilization on Hydaelyn has made and used soul crystals. Even in the modern day, it is known how to craft new, blank ones. It's never imparted how to us, the players, but its known how in universe. Both Stephanivien (MCH) and Martyn (BLU) mass produce blank ones, two characters from wildly different economic means.

Here's a few suggestions you can tailor to yours or any character:

Passed down as a family heirloom. Maybe for generations, waiting for the right person to come along.

It belonged to your character's parent and they gave it to your character (like Alphinaud).

Bought it on the black market.

Looted off a corpse (on the battlefield, in the belly of a beast you killed, in the slums, on the front doorstep of the Supreme Sacred Tribunal of Halonic Inquisitory Doctrine...).

Pickpocketed off of an adventurer.

Found in a river / dumpster / attic / treasure chest / dungeon crawl / new FC house.

Won as a prize from a tournament or RP event!

From an RP partner who is also that job. If they teach you about the job also just have them give you a soul crystal too.

Make an RP event out of it! Do a dungeon crawl (say U'Ghamaro) and at the end find a soul crystal (on a dead padjal far from home).

Make a blank soul crystal! It may not contain knowledge of past wielders, but it will satisfy that "requires soul crystal" requirement.

Or, you can ignore all of that and just not have one if you really don't want one. There's no real reason not to have one, unless your not having one is part of some specific narrative, but that option is on the table for you.

Doesn't this job say I need one or else I'll explode!? (No.) There are some job quests that will say a soul crystal is required. (SMN, AST, etc) Or in many cases, that soul crystals have a secondary function that serves the wielder in some way (this makes sense because these jobs were invented with soul crystal use in mind). Like a SCH faerie's memories being stored inside the crystal, or a MCH's aetherotransformer being powered by your soul crystal, etc.

You can choose to ignore that, of course, but there's no real need to. You can just say you have a soul crystal. As a given. You can just do that! No explanation needed.

So what does a soul crystal actually do for you? It's a means of learning an art which no longer has any living practitioners. Or just any practitioners in your part of the world. It teaches you through the memories of past practitioners, helping your own journey. Sometimes it aids you in performing that art.

Some might see this as a short cut or speedrunning the process of learning these jobs. But I feel like it must be said that you, the roleplayer, ultimately and always have control on how fast your character learns something. Instead, ask how quick of a learner is your character? How gifted are they with magic? Are they a neophyte caster? Then having a black magic soul crystal probably won't do much for them, if anything. What's their access to education, books, research materials, tutors, foci and other materials necessary to preform the job in question? All of these things can drastically affect how quickly your character learns a new skill. And they're all under your control! Whether you choose to learn a job like black mage from a soul crystal, a tutor, or from ancient tomes sealed away in a forbidden library you ultimately decide how fast and how well your character learns or masters something.

Aren't soul crystals SUPER rare? Not as much as people seem to think they are. Miqo'te and Viera are "rare" in Eorzean lore, but we ignore that don't we. So why do we fanatically gatekeep a soul crystal's rarity? Sure, Samurai might be hard to come by in Eorzea, but if your character is from Far Eastern Doma or Hingashi they and their crystals are likely a dime-a-dozen.

Where could I find a black mage soul crystal? Where couldn't you? Mhach was a nation full of black magic practitioners. Shatotto, the first BLM, its inventor, had a soul crystal. It's safe to assume they (successive black mages) all or most all did. Why wouldn't they? We've established they're simple to mass produce. They conquered a good portion of Eorzea, and waged war on the places they hadn't conquered. Mhachi survivors fled to Gyr Abania where they lived and continued to speak Mhachi until the 10th century 6AE. Mhachi descendants wandered the southern half of Eorzea for nigh 700 years before founding Belah'dia keeping Mhachi traditions like their magic and forehead gems alive. There's a lot of fertile ground in the lore for creative ideas, don't be too afraid of community stigmas to try.

I don't like the idea that people should be gatekept from roleplaying what they want because someone deemed a bit of crystal hard to get in a Final Fantasy game. By all means, roleplay jobs as having the gravitas and obscurity their lore suggests, but "rarity" is subjective and a fake community construct that has little bearing on one's roleplay.

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All Saints' Wake Begins October 27

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Long Post & Thoughts —

This is not a political statement, not talking about abusers, and not talking about toxic positivity— y'all should probably know my stance on much of that by this point.

I do think every so often we need to be reminded that a fixation on the negative creates more negative. I recently watched a community discord server go from a positive-centric environment to being led down a negative-centric environment. I think it's really quite easy for people to fall into the "trap" of venting about horsecat girls online without. . . remembering to check themselves.

We see this complaint in a lot of ways, usually with that vibe of, "Go play something else, then," but I do find there are "gateway drugs" into getting fixated on negativity. Some of them include:

Talking about mods being too XYZ

Talking about someone's level of fantasy in a final fantasy game being "wrong"

Complaining there's not enough XYZ in roleplay

Complaining there's too much XYZ in roleplay

I promise you this community is exceptionally large and if you make a genuine effort to be directed that you will find communities interested in telling the types of stories you want to be involved in. I also think this community could be a lot better about being upfront and communicative about what kind of roleplay they actually are and are not interested in.

I shouldn't have to bend over backwards and become a pretzel to find out you don't want to do something, like, roleplay on the moon. Feasible in lore but not your cup of tea? Totally okay! But, put it on your carrd, put it on your LFRP, communicate somewhere that you don't want a particular flavour of this world (and put what you DO want, too!). Don't get mad at people when they want to go RP on the moon and that's a boundary you never set.

That's kind of a dramatic example but the same goes for whether or not you have a preference for low or high fantasy, what kind of tek you do or don't want to be around, what kind of magick you do or don't want to be around (never gonna let Mirke live down the good ol' white mage days). Don't like certain mods being used? Maybe don't RP with the person who finds that fashion choice interesting for their character.

But I think. . . going into voice channels, or public spaces of 100+ people, and saying it's "wrong" to like high fantasy, it's "wrong" to like a certain fashion, it's "wrong" to think cameras do/don't exist, it's "wrong" to roleplay on the moon— is factually incorrect at best and elitist at worst. Know your own limits. Set them in your personal spaces. Set them when you go into communities and are looking for things. But, maybe check yourself on if you're icking someone's yum for no reason.

Especially because as someone looking in, it's actually really sad to see us get a bad rep for being "negative"-centric in 14, when in actuality we can have these really positive spaces that end up getting drowned out by a few voices too loud and too unchecked.

#biscuitrambles

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𝚂𝚃𝙰𝙽𝙳𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚁𝙾𝙾𝙼 𝙾𝙽𝙻𝚈 @ 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙀𝙇 𝘾𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙊

We're all treats no tricks this month as we bring you another installment of Standing Room Only! Perfect for the start of your All Saintly Celebration pregame!

｢ WHEN ｣ — SUNDAY, OCT 22ND | doors open 8PM ET ｢ WHERE ｣ — BALMUNG, MIST W7—P15 ｢ MORE INFO ｣ — wine-xiv.crd.co/#events

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Looking For FFXIV Blogs

Happy 10th Anniversary Everyone!!

Things have been a little slow here on Tumblr since "The Great Cleansing", but sin is back!! And with Twitter ever declining, it seems a lot of you are finally returning! And of course, there's a whole bunch of brand new faces too!!

So, be you sprout of veteran, feel free to throw a follow!! \o/

(my likes and follows show as @kikisqueaks)

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A Cactuar Garden

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I'm just gonna. . .

#ffxiv #ff14 #loporrit #loporrits #biscuitrambles #— i could be working on any of my actual projects #but here the fuck we are