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wounds given & wounds sustained

#ouuuuhhh #garrus <3 #mass effect

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@kicktwine's DRK Alisaie art has sent my brain into overdrive and inspired me to do my own take on the idea so have a few rough gposes

consider this a teaser for a future project :)

(credits under cut)

poses modified from: https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/48642 and https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/87810

Shader is the OMGEorzea preset

Made using Ktisis and Glamourer

#love to see her!!! #that wine red in the armour yeyeyeyeyeye #ff14 #ff14 heavensward

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Been playing a lot of ff14 lately and dark knights a perfect class

#poor poor sid.... rip #jdfhsjhdfjshhjfdshjfds #ff14 #ff14 heavensward

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Falin's retreat was SO PRETTY!

#me seeing 1k dunmeshi posts a day from various ppl i follow: aight seems neat i spose #me seeing this gif specifically after being slowcooked on dunmeshi lore: OKAY. MAYBE I WILL. WATCH THE THING. #dungeon meshi #(i make no promises on actually following through on this but the chances of it happening *did* shoot up significantly ngl) #im just like. watching this on loop.

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Irrefutable proof.

#i dont even have context for this yet but HOOOOOO ***COLOURS**** #i fucking love me some neon high contrast and killer vibes #ff14 #ff14 endwalker

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i know they're basically just funky armadillo's but these are probably some of my favourite monster designs in the whole game tbh. im just so pleased every time i see them. Friend Shaped.

(they're named Camilla and Antoinette III btw. the latter would have been named Lady Antoinette Marceilla Comtomnette the III, last of her name, but alas. character limits.)

#please imagine this like hallima is excitedly showing you pictures of his pets #like an overenthusiastic cat dad #flight's making things again #stop talking to yourself flight #flight's WoL tag #ff14

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an unmatched feeling actually

#fr tho that's a rush like no other #like. me???? i had tangible effect on your life?????? introduced you to a thing that (hopefully) brought joy????????? #its very !!!! #unsorted

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I love how when kh3 came out people were complaining about Aqua just standing there as the heartless tornado comes to sweep her away and people were scoffing at the idea that it was intended to show ptsd from her time in the RoD like Nomura is incapable of showing characters having trauma responses? And then Remind came out and was like um yeah she does in fact have ptsd from her time in the RoD.

#honestly seeing peoples reactions to the whole end of kh3 (pacing and other legit critisisms aside) really taught me one thing #and it's that people with no experiance w mental illness have zero idea what it looks like if it's not explicitely spelled out for them #and like. that does make sense! why would you know something you just dont know about #but it really threw it into stark contrast for me; that the things that were stunningly obvious to me- #-flew entirely under the radar for a lot of people #idk i have nothing thoughtful to add it's just an observation i had #kingdom hearts

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MA’AM ?????

#this is definitely one of the clearer manifestations of kairi's fear and trauma and mAN #i wish it was explored more #like that's a fucked up thing to say and she knows it #but fear makes us do stupid things and she's scared as hell for all that she hides it behind a smile and a giggle #kingdom hearts

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Imagine being Yozora and one day you just wake up and you’re some guy’s DeviantArt lovechild OC. That would be wild-

(Said “guy” being Tetsuya Nomura)

Credit + Individual drawings below

(Disclaimer: The character, Soku, is not mine, and the reference I used to draw her was by xxpunkgrlxx on DeviantArt. I just thought I should give credit, as it felt wrong not to, but I’m also very sorry if this was something you wanted to bury forever. I do love the paopu hair clip a lot, though, and the outfit as a whole is a very cute and well thought out combination!)

Soku:

Yozora:

We should bring back the “Xx_username_xX” thing with names, it was cool af-

#most of kh's popular fanfic/art/theory inversions tend to be a little closer to the source material #(namine being a deconstruction of the SI oc goes on adventures with sora post kh1) #(xion being a deconstruction of SI oc joins the organization post kh2) #there's probably more but those are the two biggest i think about a lot #(also im not saying these are deliberately created as reactions to fan content) #(it would not surprise me in the slightest if nomura just operates on a similar wavelength as many of his creative fans) #(but with decades of aditional experiance as a professional writer and a penchant for creating Mysteries) #ANYWAY tangent aside the soriku fanchild/yozora is at least a decade further apart than the other examples so i think that's kind of funny #kingdom hearts

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welp i finished the nier raid.

#the second to last quest being named 'it takes a village' fucking GETS me dude #cause you go into it like 'ah yes. it takes a village to raise a child. realising the errors of their ways they will band together- #'-to support konogg now that he's essentially alone in the world' #but NO. #it takes a village to raise a child. it also takes a village to kill ones spirit. #either through direct consequence or complete inaction #im gonna chew on the walls. #stop talking to yourself flight #ff14 #ff14 shadowbringers

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it's probably rude af at best to pick up a lallafel without permission

but ngl when konogg started crying i really wanted to pick him up

#also he's just a kid #they both are #they needed to be taken down a peg but man. this was five pegs too many #kingdom hearts #stop talking to yourself flight #ff14 #ff14 shadowbringers

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I find it interesting how Roxas is often described as the “angry one” or “short-tempered one” when compared to Sora or Ventus, mostly because I always felt Sora and Ven have a shorter fuse than Roxas.

The association between Roxas and anger is understandable, because many of Roxas’ most poignant moments in the series happen when he is very (and understandably) angry, but I also feel like it’s a disservice to his character to only reduce him to his anger, especially when it’s far from who he is in normal circumstances.

For example, during Days, many Organization members treat him poorly and insult him to his face and, for the most part, Roxas doesn’t react at all. In Halloween Town, Lock, Shock, and Barrel throw bombs in his face multiple times before Roxas finally snaps at them. He senses that many people around him are keeping things from him, but it takes him months before he confronts someone about it. That’s far from someone I’d consider short-tempered or easy to anger.

The only situation I can think of when we see him get upset quickly is if anyone does or says something bad to Xion and, even then, the most of his reaction is verbally snapping at Saix to make him stop disrespecting her. In Axel’s case (when Roxas is upset with him for attacking Xion), Roxas doesn’t confront him at all, he just avoids him altogether. Also, I think it’s important to note that every moment in which Roxas is very angry happens when his entire life is falling apart, which is a situation in which, I believe, everyone would be upset.

Roxas seems the kind of person who bottles everything up without much reaction until it becomes too much and he explodes, and that’s when he has a hard time controlling his anger/emotions. Having spent most of his life in the organization probably plays a part in it as, every time he brings up any emotion, his feelings are invalidated and suppressed. That’s not an environment that gave him the tools to process strong emotions in a healthy way.

Let’s compare that to Ventus. Ven is the definition of short-tempered in BBS. He’s ready to throw hands with Vanitas the moment he says something remotely bad about Terra, which was minutes after he met him for the first time. He fought the dwarves without a second thought just because they refused to talk with him. His first reaction when he becomes small and is trapped in a mousetrap is to shout. These are just some examples from the top of my head, but it’s clear Ven has a shorter fuse than Roxas.

Ventus usually expresses how he feels in any given situation and has a short fuse. On the flip side, he doesn’t seem to hold on to these feelings at all. He externalises them the moment he feels them, but then he lets it go and it doesn’t bother him anymore. Out of the three of them, Ventus seems the most open about his emotions and, from what I remember, when he opens up about feeling a certain way with his friends, his feelings are usually not invalidated nor brushed aside. In UX, Ventus seems calmer and doesn’t have much anger in him, but he’s still open to expressing his feelings of low self-worth and sadness with the other union leaders.

Sora, I think he falls in the middle? He seems to have a shorter temper compared to Roxas, which was especially clear in KH2, where he snaps at the Organization multiple times, but he also bottles up his emotions more than Ven, especially around his friends. This happens mostly with his sadness, which he always tries to hide or brush aside, but in KH3 we can also see, for example, how much he’s bothered by everyone constantly bringing up him not passing the Mark of Mastery, even if he tries not to show it.

I think Sora feels like he should always be happy for his friends’ sake, and even during the rare moments when he tries to express his sadness, his feelings are not truly welcomed (“No frowning. No sad faces. This boat runs on happy faces”), so he just tries to brush it off as a joke. He’s loud in expressing any kind of positive emotion, and he openly expresses his anger against his enemies (and to his friends too, sometimes), but he also doesn’t hold on to that anger and is pretty forgiving. However, he usually bottles up his sadness, low self-esteem and other negative feelings, and then explodes when he can’t hold it together any longer (like it happened at the Keyblade Graveyard when he thought all his friends were gone forever).

#oh hey this is timely i was just talking about the guy who was hassling me about roxas' characterisation in stand au #he's legit a sunshine boy under normal circumstances its just when he's pushed too far he explodes with FORCE #as seen at the end of 358/kh2. and honestly who wouldn't after all that? #but he's not going to stay on the roaring rampage of revenge for the rest of his life thats not how he rolls #let the boy have nuance. he may never *like* riku but he's capable of being cordial once he understands the whats and why's #prev tags are so correct tbh: roxas has a slow cooker temper. hard to set off but impossible to stop #whereas ven has firework temper- easy to set off but just as easily sloughs away #kingdom hearts

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#i was just thinking the other day that maybe i could start unlocking my ao3 fics #since the broseph who was hassling me about roxas' characterisation years ago has probably long since moved on #but i guess not #shoutout to ao3 for actually trying to figure out how to fix the problem genuinely #which is more than can be said for tumblr lol #unsorted #fandom bullshit

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#i have literally no idea how popular any given band is bc i have completely divorced myself from the general public #but in terms of bands i like that i have never heard or seen anyone else mention in any context #i like Austra for their edge vibe. its too bad they werent around when i was a teenager bc i would have been OBSESSED #'The Noise' is definitely my favourite. for that 'i am mentally ill and i cannot fucking SLEEP' frustration vibe #Poppy is another fave. much more pop than Austra but in like. a 99 red balloons kind of way. (does that reference date me? it might) #'Am I A Girl' for the 'society's model of gender fucking sucks' nonbinary vibes #(and by vibes i mean its explicitely nonbinary and so is Poppy as far as i know) #Chic Chick and Girls in Bikini's for things that will get stuck on repeat in your head for weeks on end #Time is Up and Hard Feelings for Apocalypse Robots :) #unsorted #music

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staring at the last two raids on my ff14 to-do list and going 'but what if they're hard tho?'

#i mean. they will be. #it's more he fear.png that i load in and realise the brain fog is too strong for that today #the fact that i managed to get through all the other (non-extreme) raids doesnt appear to matter to brain #i heard that pandaemonium was super hard and now im Intimidated #the puppets bunker i havent done mostly because every time i load up the duty finder the est. wait time is like half an hour #and the chances of me putting down the game to briefly do something else only to give myself a heart attack from the PING is too high #stop talking to yourself flight

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I too am not immune to a Dark Knight Alisaie AU (by @kicktwine & @fourteenthz )

( And thank you to @erichthoniosgf for the helpful guide to how to get NPC appearance! )

#NICE NICE #the red eyes on aliFray yes good #ff14