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@aspiringway.bsky.social
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Big FFXIV fan with interests in videogames and anime. I write fanfic on AO3. Most proud of my Levinwood longfic (Kan-E-Senna!). He/him, 30s. AO3 (Stories): archiveofourown.org/users/Aspiringw… Ko-fi (Tipping): ko-fi.com/aspiringway

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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very happy to have finished participating in the FFxivWrite event for the first time, but also, dang am I tired of rapid-firing bits every day. I know I could've just written small things or worked on the same fic, incorporating the prompts, but this time I did how I wanted to: whatever came to mind
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If I repost any gorgeous xiv art lately, it's either Levinwood-intersecting (hurray for Leih and Kan-E and Raya-O), or Arcadion, or Wuk Lamat and/or Erenville 🙌 Getting fed well
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deku ⛼ 7.4 spoilers @dekuscrublord.etheirys.social · 30/09/2026
day 2: arr a simple shot of leih aliapoh, one of my favorite job quest npcs #xivwomenweek #gpose
a simple waist-up shot of leih aliapoh in the Shroud. she is aiming her bow towards the camera at a presumed threat. her expression is a mix of concentration and determination.
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love this! Also, as usual, I must clap while hollering "Levinwood-adjacent!"
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Arc @aerheart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#WoLcadionWeek2026 Day 7: Free Day "You've fixed your last match, Prez!" (Thank you for the show! I'll take it from here; you can rest easy.) "This ends now, Unenhanced Champion!" (Thank you for taking care of them while I could not. May your future hold drama, gripping trials, and fulfillment!)
Johnny in the final battle against the Arcadion President. As the Lindwurm casts Idyllic Dream, a vision of the President's human form in a group hug with all of the Arcadion fighters is superimposed behind the battlefield. The Lindwurm offers its heart.
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amazing - and Levinwood adjacent <3
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Arc @aerheart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#WoLcadionWeek2026 Day 6: Recovery "It's so bright... I never thought that I'd actually... You know." "I'm glad you're here, sis. You can't look directly at the sun like that, though! It'll hurt your eyes; it's like a laser. I went to Tuliyollal once while you were away, and Johnny showed me..."
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Had to cut some ideas from FFxivWrite's Day 22's submission to meet the deadline (even then, I was so late that I had to submit a file on my drive instead of uploading to AO3). That just means I can do a chapter 2 (and 3?) of that story with the cut ideas. Day 23's Prompt even works for it too.
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Think I'm doing more Fordola/Lyse for Day 21 of FFXIV Write '26. Though, it might just be Fordola & Arenvald talking about what happened on my first fic. I realized while drafting this one that on my previous fic, I placed it around Stormblood patches yet had Arenvald on a wheelchair. 🤦‍♂️
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jude paw picture diary 🔜 TFCON ORLANDO @judepaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
bonus: wuk lamat's big day #judepawgpose
Wuk Lamat and her dad at the Gold SaucerWuk Lamat and her dad at an arcadeWuk Lamat and her dad fishingWuk Lamat and her dad being cute
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Crow Dalov-AAH 😱 🏳️‍🌈 GATEway FATE Crafting @crowdalova.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (2024)
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Torn between my prior decision of sticking to a drabble for today's prompt to keep a lighter load on my schedule, or giving in to the temptation of writing something Tyrant-based. Maybe I'll do both....
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Luckyia @luckyiamelkor.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
heading home #FFXIV #ff14 -Erenville -Cahciua
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Inspired by @eemamminy.bsky.social 's "Homo homini lupus est", a collection of Fordola/Lyse drabbles that have hit my feelings over and over. Please give it a look: archiveofourown.org/works/91843876
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Homo homini lupus est - Chapter 1 - eemamminy - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Inspired by @unabashedlyrose.bsky.social 's "Bearing Witness to the World" - vignettes from her WoL's perspective, delivered as radio broadcasts. They're delightful, please check them out: archiveofourown.org/works/916838...
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Bearing Witness to the World - Chapter 1 - cylite - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wanted to write about the father/son relationship between Otis and Gulool Ja. Along the way an unrelated ship sprung up naturally. The blind Shetona in Heritage Found, Taapu, and the phytologist Yyopya - they felt like they could be paired up sweetly. archiveofourown.org/works/922016...
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Ito 🌸 @berryzawa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ala mhigo.
This picture depicts  serveral characters:

In the background from left to right (Fordola, a Hyuran woman, & Ilberd, a Hyuran man). In the center right side, standing on a plattform that is hugged by a blue snake, a three people:

From left to right - Raubahn (a Hyuran man, left), Layla (a Hyuran woman, center) and Lyse (a Hyuran woman, right). 

On the top left corner of this picture is a branch with red flowers in full bloom.
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kachi @ START RUNNING, SEPHIROTH .ᐟ.ᐟ 🇵🇷 @aster.etheirys.social · 11/09/2026
"Either way, those memories were hers again. She was hers again." #shale #cahciua
Shale slowly opening her eyes as she recalls the last memories of Cahciua taken away from her by the regulators of Alexandria.Cahciua (Shetona woman with black hair and gold highlights) and Shale (elezen woman) riding atop the last rroneek (buffalo) under the Alexandrian dome through the wilds of Heritage Found, formerly known as Yyasulani.Shale opening her eyes, the world now in brighter colors as if the sun's rays were illuminating it. She has tears in her eyes and a small, grief-ladened smile on her face as she remembers Cahciua as she was.
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now to write something mean for Prompt 16 that already made me tear up just thinking about it 😅
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm not immune to sweet art (nor to great official short stories), so I was really hung up on Shale/Cahciua for a bit. Just had to let it simmer in the back of my mind...
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FRED ALERT 🚨 ‼️ @roefizzlebeef.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
if any of you have ever found this spreadsheet floating around in the wild in your rp/writing communities: hi yes I made that!!! moblin and loosefrox vocab updates coming soon I promise ✌😔 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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FFXIV - gobbiespeak spreadlist for uplander learnytimes - by @roefizzlebeef
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🪐Monsieur_Legris🪐 @legrisofchaos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#FFXIV
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Levinwood adjacent 😊💚
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oh... TIL CidNero Week 2026 is a thing... and I just happened to include them in the short I submitted for FFXIV Write today. Well. Time to redo a skeet or whatever they're called.
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Chai @milkychai.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
[EMERGENCY CMMS] We’re still $700 off from catching up with rent and I need to get the payment in today or else we’ll be evicted- 2 character sketchpages are being lowered to $100 and $80 for single characters I’ll be taking a max of 9 slots for work to start in October!
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cass 🌈🌼✨ comms open @eemamminy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Okay it's been a year since dawntrail released, I'm finally drawing him #ffxivart #otisvelona
Digital artwork of Otis Velona from FFXIV Dawntrail. He is shown in both his endless and physical forms, portraits of both versions of him side by side. The endless Otis is smiling and lifting his head, his eyes squinting in his smile.
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
*Reviews the titles of my previous short fics and Levinwood chapter starts* I really cannot shut up about dreams, huh.
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eriyu @eriyu.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
since the topic of organizing and protecting fandom resources has come up on my tl a couple times, here's a reminder that should anything ever happen to the site, xiv.quest is archived and fully functional on the wayback machine 👍
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Final Fantasy XIV: Game Script
Game script for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
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Solaire 🔜 GATEway FATE 🐏 @solairelunaire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the top merriam-webster lookups right now...this is the power of ffxivwrite LMAO
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Not sure how I'm going to manage drafting, editing, titling, summarizing, tagging and submitting every day for the #FFxivWrite challenge but I guess there's only one way to find out...
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'll be taking part in the #FFxivWrite2026 challenge for the first time this year! I'll use this as a thread to link together all of the texts I finish for it, and they'll be posted on AO3 too (unless they're super short).
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New Chapter Published! Levinwood, Chapter 28 (Epilogue!): Atonement and Recordatio archiveofourown.org/works/833610...
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Levinwood - Chapter 28 - Aspiringway - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New Chapter Teaser - Epilogue! Levinwood, Ch. 28: Atonement and Recordatio Next to the zelkova sapling, two Nymeian lilies had been planted in the dirt.
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Rooster @rooster907.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sometimes writing is like having an enormous lake in your head, and you want to get it out of your head and into a proper place for a lake so other people can cone and go swimming and ride jetskis and stuff,  except all you have to move the lake is a teaspoon. So you're just sitting there frantically flinging water out of the lake with your teaspoon and telling people "Guys, this lake is going ro be so cool when its done" but it will never be done. There is so much lake
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New Chapter Published! Levinwood, Chapter 27 (Final!): Visit, Therapy and Life archiveofourown.org/works/833610...
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Levinwood - Chapter 27 - Aspiringway - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New Chapter Teaser - Finale! Levinwood, Ch. 27: Visit, Therapy and Life A small glass vase with water sat in front of the resting place, and it was there that Miounne inserted a handful of white Nymeian lilies.
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New Chapter Published! Levinwood, Chapter 26: Rounds and Convalescence archiveofourown.org/works/833610...
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Levinwood - Chapter 26 - Aspiringway - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New Chapter Teaser! Levinwood, Ch. 26: Rounds and Convalescence ‘Horns!’ Gatty threw both arms up, achieving the same angle as her own Padjali horns. Alaqa grabbed one of her thick, scaly Au Ra horns, putting on an amused smile that said: Horns. Oriane nodded. ‘Horns.’
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Still working on wrapping up the last few chapters of Levinwood... but I've already got some ideas for the next fics I'd like to write. Short ones, this time - one with Zero and Golbez, and one with Merlwyb.
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New Chapter Published! Levinwood, Chapter 25: Repose and Smile archiveofourown.org/works/833610...
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Levinwood - Chapter 25 - Aspiringway - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New Chapter Teaser! Levinwood, Chapter 25: Repose and Smile ‘The girl has my sympathy,’ Lewin added briskly, ‘but we can’t bring back the dead. This isn’t a funeral, it’s clean-up. We can do goodbyes later.’
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New Chapter Published! Levinwood, Chapter 24: Omni archiveofourown.org/works/833610...
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Levinwood - Chapter 24 - Aspiringway - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New Chapter Teaser! Levinwood, Chapter 24: Omni Too many questions waited inside Trovaxia. They started with the lightest one: ‘Since when is Kortexia called the “High Sylph”?’
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
New Chapter Published! Levinwood, Chapter 23: Lodestar and Nola archiveofourown.org/works/833610...
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New Chapter Teaser! Levinwood, Chapter 23: Lodestar and Nola They could rot, for all she cared. The black hilt of a blacker sword beckoned her, many voices as one.
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New Chapter Published! Levinwood, Chapter 22: Vacuum and Terminus archiveofourown.org/works/833610...
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Levinwood - Chapter 22 - Aspiringway - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New Chapter Teaser! Levinwood, Chapter 22: Vacuum and Terminus It’s our turn now, Oriane thought as she sensed the flock thinning in the skies, and the voidsent regrouping.
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
New Chapter Published! Levinwood, Chapter 21: Thundershower and Knell archiveofourown.org/works/833610...
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Levinwood - Chapter 21 - Aspiringway - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New Chapter Teaser! Levinwood, Chapter 21: Thundershower and Knell ‘The voidsent tarry, and we will not cower! We hit the nearest Atomos gate, then retreat here on my signal!’
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Aspiringway @aspiringway.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New Chapter Published! Levinwood, Chapter 20: Smoke and Subterfuge archiveofourown.org/works/833610...
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Levinwood - Chapter 20 - Aspiringway - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]
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