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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon

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Rain'li: Healer, chirurgeon, and Sharlayan runaway • he/him • 🏳️‍⚧️ Myself: 30+, queer, and trying my best. They/he. Lore, gpose, apparently writing now • Some NSFW AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Healstick

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🌙Moonbeam🌙 @7.5@unassumingvenusaur.bsky.social · last mo.

And here is Chapter 4. This is a bit shorter than the last chapter, some interstitial setup for the intended conclusion of Chapter 5. Sahri is successfully wrapping up all their loose ends except one, conspicuously Leih Aliapoh-shaped knot hanging overhead... archiveofourown.org/works/794592...

Shaking her head, Sahri does not look Lukah's way. "It… It is only…" Yet her ability to vocalize flees her, a specter of memory stealing away her tongue. Memories of her time with Leih and the sentiments they leave lingering in their wake. Memories of a sunny day in the Shroud, sweat dripping down Sahri's brow and upon her grinning face. Of an afternoon for joint training turned hunting game, a rematch for their impromptu competition on the day they met. The glimmer of pride upon Leih's face when Sahri edges out a victory, a late afternoon meal shared while pressed closely together beneath the trunk of a tree. Laughter and delight shared in a conversation winding between fanciful and ribald and everything in between, cut short only by the rising of Menphina overhead. Then come the farewells, the touches and glances lingering between them far longer than ought those of friends…
🌙Moonbeam🌙 @7.5@unassumingvenusaur.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Greenbliss T, Kan-E-Senna & WoL, Leih Aliapoh/WoL archiveofourown.org/works/794592... This fic will see Sahri to the end of the Gridania starter story & continue my retools of the archer and lancer quests. Ch 1 out now, about Kan-E meeting Sahri as a child and their reunion! #SRCU #ffxivwrites

The energies of life, they move about Sahri with reverence, distinction. Unlike a padjal, but certainly not common in any sense. There is something about her…something truly peculiar. 'Is this girl a Hearer, like her guardian?' she asks the elementals. The wind stirs, a whispering chorus floating to her ears. 'She belongs not to us,' the elementals tell her. 'She belongs to the crystals. We dare not interfere.' 'She belongs to the crystals? What do you mean?' Kan-E presses, frowning. Her question lingers in silence, longer than the last. Eventually, though, the whispers return. 'The crystals,' they sing. 'The mother of all. The life which pulses far beneath the soil. This girl is chosen. Her destiny etched on the flow of time. She is the balance, and we dare not interfere.'
Shotbuns @ Knightgirl Brainrot🔞@shotbuns.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hey followers! I’m putting out a call. I am currently working on putting together a primer on the discipline of Arcanima in FFXIV, a guide for lorehounds and roleplayers. I’m already using Mirke’s Menagerie and the Encyclopedia Eorzea to pull from. Does anyone have any other resources?

Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon@healstick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A close tie between Painted Skies and Drowning in the Horizon. Both pieces have such a sense of place that fit their environments extremely well and highlight both the vastness and grandeur of their respective locales and the lives of the people that call it home.

GigaGuess@gigaguess.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#ffxiv players: we all know the obvious popular songs…Answers, Close in the Distance, etc. What songs do you love that people might not recognize by title alone?

Jenn Odd@jentranslations.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More and more I see people say "it's ONLY used for translation" when it comes to genAI in games. As if the act of writing into another language is not worth respecting. As if people in other countries (both gamers and workers) don't matter at all. Translation IS writing. Translation IS art.

nate @ dawntrail@landstremble.etheirys.social · 4mo ago

HEY FRIENDS! your local pagan here to add into this! Because fuck white supremacists and fuck Nazis! WATCH OUT FOR THESE THINGS!! I will transcribe the info in a thread below when I am at my PC but tl:dr; Fuck Odinists and Folkish! It's Allfather not some-father!!

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pudgy puk@pudgypuk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

speaking of dodging white supremacist garbage in norse-studying areas of the internet, a little tip: u see the words “odinist” or “folkish” on any webbed site, u turn around and walk away, because that’s a fucking nazi.

The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Bearji@bearji.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Been thinking about the use of imagination in video games lately, or how I feel there are few and increasingly fewer games that ask the player to use their imagination to engage with them. This post Kazuya Niinou wrote to accompany Etrian Odyssey often comes to mind so I decided to remake it.

How to use your imagination When your party stays at the Inn overnight, what do they eat? If you ever catch yourself wondering that then you know you’ve formed an attachment to your characters. With Etrian Odyssey’s characters, you only give them a name and a portrait, so no matter how you think of the character it’s technically just your imagination. But even in that case, without your imagination, the character is nothing. For example, a landsknecht who uses an axe might eat his meat with his bare hands and no utensils, but one who wields a sword might prefer a knife and fork at dinner. You might think differently, but... if you can imagine small details like that, you might find that you enjoy this kind of RPG even more. The essense is an RPG is using numbers to make calculated decisions, but if you invest those “numbers” with your own feelings, you can spice up the game little. Think about this: In your party of five, three characters are dead. Two of them are alive, but they only have a couple of HP left and no TP. They’re certain to die in their next turn, giving you a game over. Number-wise, those characters are useless, but how do you imagine they feel about that? What kind of people are those 2 characters who are about to die? Try to imagine things like that in the brief time before your game ends. Are they a landsknecht and a ronin, who’ll die facing the enemy and laughing? Is it a protector, ordering the weak medic to run with his last breath? The game over screen looks the same every time, but in your imagination, it could play out very differently. The game itself isn’t that big of a thing; what you imagine for yourself is much more fun. We hope that the player uses this game as a tool, to create dramatic and fun situations in your own minds. —Kazuya Niinou
Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon@healstick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I was wearing my new hearing aids last night under my headset when I arrived in Rak'tika on my Shadowbringers replay, and I don't think I had ever really noticed before what a richly layered track Civilizations is. I always liked it, but holy shit? It's not just lahee, y'all. I was missing so much.