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@clarystella.bsky.social

🔞 she/her. tired fandom old. jrpg addict.

Yokai watch event guide I happened to save two years ago omg- Reminder that you can unequip the watch when on the weapon stage!! That way you aren’t getting coins you don’t need for the minions.

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you ever find some easily missable incidental dialogue in ffxiv that makes you a little bit insane? like how someone (with the echo) showed up in the bozja region during the fourth astral era and started using allagan techniques to extract and alter painful memories

Tell me about the seers.During: Where Eagles Nest
Scant though they are, the records we have uncovered thus far suggest the practices of seers date back as far as the Fourth Astral Era.

The region was plagued with all manner of natural disasters in those days, inciting great unrest not only amongst the Bozjans, but neighboring nations as well.

It was during these tumultuous times seers first appeared. In fact, I have reason to believe they possessed the Echo.

Using a crystal focus, they were able to delve into the minds of the downcast and the heartsick, seeking out their darkest memories and altering them to ease the peoples' burdens.
Perhaps they saw the altering of minds as a necessity for their survival, but we must consider the ethical implications of such methods in this day and age. I have no doubt my betters in Sharlayan would consider it to be reprehensible.Tell me about the crystal focus.During: Where Eagles Nest
My initial analysis of the crystals suggests they are man-made. Nothing in my data can prove the materials are unique to this region, which leads me to believe the Bozjans─or rather, the seers─created them.

However, given the intricate lattices found in these crystals, it seems highly improbable that the Bozjans could have produced them, considering the methods available to them in the Fourth Astral Era.

In fact, on closer inspection, it became clear that its structure is quite similar to that found in Allagan constructs.

Which then begs the question: who were the seers, and whence did they come? This is but a working theory, but I suspect their roots can be traced back to the Allagans themselves─perhaps survivors of the Fourth Umbral Calamity who wished to atone for the sins of their forebears.

They came to these lands seeking a means to help the Bozjans, and in doing so created these crystal foci.
...Ahem. As I said, 'tis but a working theory. Though I understand if it sounds more like a flight of fancy.

Noise. Pollution. The Ozone Layer. Acid Rain. AIDS treatment. Cancer cures. Crime rates. Child abductions. As much as we consume doom and gloom in our media, humans are very, very good at solving problems when we want to. We just have to want to.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

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@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026

okay so i'm reading this book about soulmates fated to kill each other and i am so frustrated at every single choice made in the framing of it, especially now that the why has finally been revealed

After a year and a half I finally finished this painting of Zenos and Fandaniel. In a way this became something like my Mona Lisa, it went through so many scale changes, composition edits, this work is a Frankenstein of its former self. Fitting considering the subject matter I suppose.

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