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Apollo@aftermagi.bsky.social · 47m ago

it is never too late to start reading exquisitus dolor ❤️ archiveofourown.org/works/607904...

There is… hope, there. Naked longing for something. His vision? His ambition? It scares her. She cannot draw away. There is nothing in the world but this man sitting before her, on the cusp of revelation. “I dream of gleaming streets, spires reaching into the very heavens,” Galvus begins, faraway yearning writ on his face. “I spoke to you of power to seize what we needed, you answered by assuring me you wanted to be without fear. But living, truly living? It requires more than that.” When she does not answer, for she stands there mute, entranced, Galvus opens his golden eyes fully again: “Great towers made of glass, steel and stone, taller than the very mountains, with the sun at its zenith crowning the city in liquid gold. People gathered beneath in harmony, working towards shared goals for the benefit of the many. Sights, sounds, smells far beyond your imagination.” “So vivid,” Heliodora murmurs. “I could reach out and place my hand on the stone.” “Do you want to live, Decurio? You have sworn to ally with me, and will be rewarded accordingly. But there could be much more for you. You could do more… Be more than a vulgar pawn at my disposal.” Heliodora looks down at his hand over her own, at the crystal inside the radiotelegraph.
Solaire (🔮🐏 pondering my shorb)@solairelunaire.bsky.social · 8h ago

a question for readers/writers in the xiv fandom to celebrate fanfiction writers appreciation day and the fics we love 🎉 readers: quote with your favorite fic or writer and share some emoji spam/words of love for their writing! writers: share a fave fic of yours! #wolqotd #ffxivwriters

romi-os.@heavereia.bsky.social · 24h ago

Nai and Emet-Selch for @emetwol.etheirys.social's dear friend, sheeshiki. 💙 Thank you for commissioning me for your friend's special day! Have a beautiful birthday, and may his pepper of kisses always follow you and Nai. Nai is sheeshiki's dear WOL and Emet-Selch is from FFXIV.

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Solaire (🔮🐏 pondering my shorb)@solairelunaire.bsky.social · 2mo ago

a great dissection of why a lot of fandom drama doesn't only boil down to "these people are thinking too much about [insert series here] and need to touch grass." there's another layer to the way folks get obsessed (for parasocial/self-important rewriting/clout reasons, etc) that gets glossed over

by asneakyfox on tumblr: one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction. which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following: what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon) what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts.