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Minotaur cmmission

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#ffxiv #dragon eye because i SWEAR fornax is a drg magnet. they get it so much in raids/special shb boss fates #(even if there's like a sam or other drg in the group) #serotinin hearing the sound cue and being like OH? IS FOR ME? THE MCH?

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art energy/motivation finally returned to me and thank god bc i can't recall when i last drew fornax that wasn't just a headshot or bust :'D

they're very shaped in the full view. Very Shaped (but i'm especially excited with how their big yuri claws are turning out). woe, messy sketch wip be upon ye

#me: fornax's fangs are big but they don't poke out of their mouth. me: so anyways. teef poking out a bit #i am very inconsistent about tiny details like that when i draw them BUT i think it's fun to exaggerate such things even just a bit!!!!!!

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i wanted to draw falin again after yesterday's ep 😭

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #blood #heehooooo

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Had a very silly thought which started as “how would Fornax feel if there was a mammet made in their likeness” and evolved into “Grand Company Eorzea has created Wind-Up Fornax’s as a mascot to encourage people to run frontlines” 🫢

i think about a miniscule fornax very often (tho still BIG in terms of being mammet sized), they'd be flattered if anything! especially if it happens to have their itty bitty horns and comically large tail

a wind-up fornax being a mascot for frontlines tho...... now THAT'S a delightful thought >:3c

they don the seal rock coat and has two modes: one being mch and having a tiny gun, and the other is just them putting their fists up and doing occasional tail whip animations, sometimes having a "battle cry" of sorts..... 10/10 mini fornax is an itty bitty bloodthirsty cheerleader that channels her energy into others, and will hide in your pocket in the battlefield and give you early warnings that the team is at risk/about to be pinched (she VERY frantically yells "DO NOT FALL FOR THE SAM-IN-GUARD IN THE MIDDLE OF A CROWD BAIT, LEST YOU WANT TO EXPLODE")

#asks #fornax #TY FOR THE ASK HEHE #i think everyone who finds frontlines daunting and/or wants to get some of its rewards should have a fornax on their team #they're simultaneously very evil but also very helpful with general survivability tips. they like when company enjoys pvp with her!!

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#it's tied between big cat and an alligator #(i still have the alligator ehehe)

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if I could hold you for a minute darling, I'd go through it again ♪

feat. @ahollowgrave

Including the full-body version also, because I went through the trouble of posing their legs. Wanted to make sure they fit together perfectly.

#ffxiv #OUHHHGH I LOVE THIS!!!!!! #tender and intimate....... me when them........ the HANDS!!! EXPRESSIONS!!! #love the leg over odette detail juuust within the shot heehe

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the biggest lesson you can ever learn about ffxiv is that stormblood is actually kinda fire when you don't have a bitch in your ear telling you it's bad. the second biggest lesson you can learn about ffxiv is what a prime number is

#ffxiv #so true tho. i ALMOST took the cutscene skipper route just bc other friends whined about it and misunderstood a lot of story points #(especially the azim steppe and naadam. lol) #but no i played through it and was like oh this ain't ANYTHING like they complained about #but that's ppl who skip cutscenes for you!

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why are french people rude?

Ah well, the safest explanation when an entire country’s people are stereotyped as rude is that they have their own culture with different criteria for politeness than the ones you are used to. It’s probably easier for Americans to forget this than for the rest of the world, because they consume less foreign media than the rest of us (from literature in translation to foreign films) and are less exposed to aspects of foreign cultures that could inform them about different norms of politeness (online interactions happen in their own language and follow their own (anglo) social codes.) With this insular worldview it’s easy to take it for granted that American good manners are universal. They are not!

A very common gripe against American tourists in Paris is that they talk so loudly in public spaces, which is definitely rude here but I assume that in the US, people just have a different threshold for what constitutes ‘loud’ (I wonder if it is due to being used to having more space than Europeans). I also remember a discussion I had with one of my translation professors about the American concept of ‘active listening’ and how negatively it is perceived in France. It may be that in the US it is polite to make ‘listening noises’ at regular intervals while someone is speaking to you, ‘uh huh’, ‘right’, ‘yeah’, ‘really?’, and that you would perceive someone who just stands there silently as disinterested or thinking about something else. In France it is more polite to shut up and listen (with the occasional nod or ‘mmh’) and it’s rather seen as annoying and rude to make a bunch of useless noise while someone is speaking.

There are of course countless examples like that. The infamous rude waiters in Parisian cafés probably seem a lot more rude and cold to people who have a different food culture… People from other cultures might consider a waiter terrible at his job if he doesn’t frequently check on them to make sure they don’t wait for anything, but the idea that a meal is a pleasant experience rather than just a way to feed yourself (esp when eating out) means we like having time to chat and just enjoy our table for a while, so we don’t mind as much waiting to order or for the next course. French people would typically hate if an overzealous waiter took the initiative to bring the note once we’re done with our meal so we don’t have to wait for it, as it would be interpreted as “you’re done, now get out of my restaurant.”

The level of formality required to be seen as polite is quite high in France, which might contribute to French people being seen as rude by people with a more casual culture. To continue with waiters, even in casual cafés they will address clients with the formal you and conversely, and won’t pretend to be your friend (the fact that we don’t have the American tip culture also means they don’t feel the need to ingratiate themselves to you.) I remember being alarmed when a waitress in New York introduced herself and asked how I was doing. “She’s giving me her first name? What… am I supposed to with it? Use it?” It gave me some insight on why Americans might consider French waiters rude or sullen! It might also be more accepted outside of France to customise your dish—my brother worked as a waiter and often had to say “That won’t be possible” about alterations to a dish that he knew wouldn’t fly with the chef, to foreign tourists who were stunned and angry to hear that, and probably brought home a negative opinion of French waiters. In France where the sentiment in most restaurants is more “respect the chef’s skill” than “the customer is king”, people are more likely to be apologetic if they ask for alterations (beyond basic stuff) as you can quickly be seen as rude, even by the people you are eating with. 

And I remember reading on a website for learning English that the polite answer to “How are you?” is “I’m fine, thank you!” because it’s rude to burden someone you aren’t close to with your problems. In my corner of the French countryside the polite thing to do is to complain about some minor trouble, because saying everything is going great is perceived negatively, as boasting, and also as a standoffish reply that kind of shuts down the conversation, while grumbling about some problem everyone can relate to will keep it going. (French people love grumbling as a positive bonding activity!)

Basically, before you settle on the conclusion that people from a different place are collectively rude, consider that if you travel there and scrupulously follow your own culture’s social code of good manners, you might be completely unaware that you are being perceived as obnoxious, rude or unfriendly yourself simply because your behaviour clashes with what is expected by locals.

#long post #this is v fascinating to me (along w/ linguistics)

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Btw when someone says "don't talk to me like that, I don't know you" the normal thing to do is apologize for the perceived overfamiliarity and correct the behavior. Just in case anyone was wondering

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Cuddling. don’t mind the claws of the beast

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I forgot I had this outfit until DSR Prog last night, really happy I found it again

#ffxiv #ME WHEN HAZEL!!! (500 heart emojis) #what a very good fit tho ehehe

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Not nothing, but rather a beginning 🍎

#ffxiv

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sometimes i think about what lightwarden fornax's boss theme would be, and honestly. it's GOTTA be a mix of:

visage of oryx (all of this song is good, BUT the best and important part for their "theme" insp starts at the time linked) and the first disciple

something that builds in suspense, and has a lot of eerie, yet angelic-like choirs :)

#'they're both from destiny' listen destiny has SO MUCH good bangers ok. listen........ #and the 'darkness' part of their design draws insp from the taken [enemy faction]

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and if life repeated a thousand times / still you, you, and again, you

#ffxiv #GHOSTS!!!!! ANOTHER INCREDIBLE PIECE WAUGH #ouhhhgh the vibes..... IMMACULATE #the poetry...MY HEART!!! I CARE THEM #also really love how you draw things like flowers and grass #i'm eating the lineart while i'm here

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"no spam liking" stfu that's how i know my mutuals are alive smh

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i'm convinced that fornax doesn't receive creepy ass whispers in-game calling them shit like "mommy" or the Usual unfortunate things that fellow femroes get, because of wearing the seal rock coat and also having the battleforged title on. and probably looking too masc as well LMAO

(then again i don't hang out in populated spaces too much. but still. it's funny—to me—to imagine that she's offputting to most because of looking like a frontlines main. which IS true anyways)

#i use ptom for curiosity sake when people target me #and one time there was a guy that had 'tamer of femroes ;)' in the search comment. he stopped next to and targeted me. then ran off #mayhaps i narrowly avoided a weird whisper for having 'butch lesbian au roe' in my search lmfao #but hey at least any occasional tells i DO get are always really nice! or someone being like 'I RECOGNIZE YOU'