i haven't posted much lately, so have this .... it was meant to be just a basic sketch of him with a ponytail but i got bored + messed with gradient maps and stuff too
cheembs xiv
@asterposting.bsky.social
mostly oc posting but mods & art sometimes i have one million diseases ♡ banner by https://thornguts.bsky.social
fuck this fucking fucking fuck fuck BLOOD EVERYWHERE
i think i need to take another break or something idk even putting the slightest amount of pressure on myself rn feels like way too much. but i'd rather feel useless than feel stressed out of my mind
i think i just need to accept that it's never going to be a "good" time for me to take c*mm*ssions. it hasn't been a good time for fucking Anything in the past 10 years of my life lol i just need to do it, and accept that there's going to be a lot of delays and a long turnaround time
i really need to get out there and try socialising with people more, huh
one day i'd love to have a game that truly explores the struggle of being gay/bi in a time/place that is hostile towards it. i understand that such a thing is difficult to do with tact, but there's so much untapped potential for a good story w this
people r too afraid of letting their villains live to give a real meaningful redemption arc, and too afraid of killing their "good guy" characters to make the story have real impact and stakes
something about a man smoking a cigarette feels very homoerotic idk don't ask me questions
i wish rendering blood in large amounts wasn't annoying because damn i wanna gpose aster covered in it
aster is 21 in arr and 30 by the end of dawntrail. all of my wols follow this same timeline but they have different starting ages i have a note with all of this so i can keep track of it
#wolqotd | flipping through that list of ffxiv NPC ages got me thinking: how old is your wol/oc in ARR? (and, bonus for those of us who hc the MSQ taking place over a variable # of years: how old is your oc by DT?)
i'm not liking alexius's hair so much anymore so i'm doing a different thing
i was thinking about alexius and it brought to mind this image lol this all collapses after endwalker, of course
i was messing around w masks last night and managed to make the garlean 3rd eye look much more pearly. it's really cool how much you can do w the mask. it was mostly just fucking around with the channels until i got something nice looking
i think i slept in and missed the summer of blood thing which is honestly probably a good thing for me bc now i don't have to decide if i want to mute every related term and hide from it or go there and probably give myself a panic attack doing so
wol aster has a sort of difficult to define, vaguely british accent, though notably rhotic with some RP influence. his original accent has been diluted & changed by travelling for half his life au aster is a lot more distinctly west country/irish sounding though, a bit "rougher" overall
#Wolquestion #WolQuoted is your WoLs accent British? Like the rest of the scions?
💭 very composed and serious men getting uncharacteristically flustered when prodded about their repressed homosexuality
dawntrail's environments/areas are gorgeous and tural's worldbuilding was pretty good. also shaaloani's night theme is one of my favourite songs in the game. that's pretty much the only positive things i have to say about it dfnbjdshnjks
#wolqotd #ffxivqotd Because I'm a firm believer in "even things you dislike have some good things about them", what's something you appreciate about your least favorite expansion? (Hard mode: if it's DT, the answer can't be Arcadion related)
also i'm being inspired. this is just like garlemald to me. i love garlemald. more garlemald
i started playing disco elysium last night and i guess i was thinking about it when i went to sleep because i had the weirdest fucking dreams
i started playing disco elysium last night and i guess i was thinking about it when i went to sleep because i had the weirdest fucking dreams
there's a lot of things but probably the biggest one is the time bubble. like there is absolutely no fucking way that all happens in less than a year. the current timeline spans over about a decade from arr to evercold, and i use this timeline for all my wols & ocs
#wolqotd | #wolquestion Is there anything that has been stated to be canon that you refuse to accept as canon because of how it'd affect your WoL?