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🌙Moonbeam🌙 @7.5 @unassumingvenusaur.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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…

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Ser Shotbuns, Lady Knight @shotbuns.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Doing more roleplay of late, some of that involves slow-walking or just existing in those ARR and Heavensward zones and enjoying the ambiance and it's genuinely magical. We've seen it for years so it's easy to be sorta desensitized, but this game is genuinely, truly beautiful.

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basch @captainbasch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Alisaie Leveilleur | Scion of the Seventh Dawn ____________ The red twin! #ffxivart

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Ser Shotbuns, Lady Knight @shotbuns.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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?

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LEON 💥 @howlingbite.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

being obsessed with your friends oc is the best ever. its like loving canon characters but you have a direct line to the author.

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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.

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surfaçage @surfacage.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

nice simulacrum bro

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Today, I learned that my partners had been conspiring together to get me an upgraded PC - something I have needed for a good while, but had to put off to pay for my hearing aids instead. I am verklempt. I feel lucky and so loved.

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Bina @binart.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

>:3 Bloody G'raha... BLOODY G'RAHA WOOOOO!!!

POV ur someone who just tried attacking the WoL and G'raha beat ur ass and now has his staff pointed at ur throat nyehehehe

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Aside from the obvious applications of healing magic for a good ol' "you're done when I say you're done," I like to think that somanoutics has the potential for some very targeted pain play.

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Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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.

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My first published fic from a few months back has reached an important milestone.

a screenshot from Ao3 that reads "Kudos: 69"

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I don’t know what’s going on but I had THREE cases of shingles at work today. Tell your eligible family members to get their shongles shit.

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Zin! @ GwF prep! @disesteem.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Gonna pipe up again that if you went to FanFest and want more of that gathering of community, or you couldn’t attend and feel FOMO about it, please consider attending GATEway FATE in October! gatewayfate.carrd.co

gatewayfate.carrd.co

GATEway FATE

An unofficial FFXIV meet-up, convention style event!

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Shisui Glam Enjoyer | Carbuncle Connsoisseur @st4rd1ver.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The idea that the WoL is a god killing invasive species is funnier if you play as a Miqo'te or Hrothgar. Like yes, my cat roams outdoors and sometimes brings me dead Gods as a gift and likely fucked up the local ecosystem

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nate @psychra.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Alright friends and folks, as requested a thread on various "Norse" symbols (and other potential misrepresentations), with a focus on where they are from and if they were co-opted. First! The Valknut.

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nate @psychra.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

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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Low Country Matt @lowcountrymatt.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is from a panel on writing lyrics for game music. In an official Square Enix panel

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!

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Leanne 📚🎬☕️ @nerdygirl89.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🫶🏻 happy saturday nerds 🫶🏻

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B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Roll out the ship manifestos and dust off your "hear me out"s: Rarepair Week is back for its fourth year! As with previous years, you have a choice of two words for each day. Pick whichever one speaks to you more, or do both if you feel so moved! #XIVRarepairWeek #XIVRarepairWeek2026

$FFXIV Rarepair Week 2026 June 8 - June 14 Day 1: Forge / Temper Day 2: Decay / Bloom Day 3: Reflection / Refraction Day 4: Denial / Indulgence Day 5: Mentor / Sprout Day 6: Mirth / Reverence Day 7: Free day OR Choose an unused prompt from a previous day #XIVRarepairWeek #XIVRarepairWeek2026$

FAQ/Guidelines

What can I make?
Whatever your creativity desires, as long as it came from your amazing human mind! (Generative AI use can get fucked, though.)

What counts as a rarepair?
Your guess is as good as mine. Follow your heart, I'm not your dad.

OC/NPC? NPC/NPC?
Both. Both is good.

Polyships?
HECK YES. "Rarepair" is the common term, but you are absolutely not limited to monogamous couples. (Polyships are sort of rare by default in most fandoms, after all.)

NSFW?
Bring it on. Please be courteous and tag NSFW works as needed!

Lastly, and more importantly: DO NOT USE THE EVENT TAG TO HARRASS PEOPLE
Sometimes a ship is a rarepair because of its transgressive nature. If you see something you don’t like, block or mute as needed and move on.

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Bearji @bearji.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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

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toasted @imtoast.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

my favorite lizard pairing #ff14 #ffxiv

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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.

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Am I making hyper-specific memes just for myself to cope with my feelings about getting my first pair of hearing aids tomorrow? Yes.

Kermit the frog as Bob Cratchet in the Muppet Christmas Carol singing One More Sleep 'til Christmas, except Christmas is covered up with he words "hearing aids"

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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

happy #transdayofvisibility 🏳️‍⚧️ my name is mimi and i'm a disabled gay trans male artist who loves my silly guys. i draw trans men in a 'nontraditional' manner because it gives me gender euphoria to be seen and desirable the way i am. 💖 my kofi if you'd like to send tips! ko-fi.com/heirakka

Digital art of my trans male ex-prince character kneeling and gently kissing the hand of his younger pre-transition princess self. Behind them is an ornate background frame with a sun setting behind the ex-prince's head.

Digital art of my prince and knight characters Mattias and Emil as children shy about being next to each other. Mattias has very long hair and is wearing a princess gown. He is pre transition.

Emil his knight is still taller and shyly looking at Mattias from the corner of his eye.

Art of a no-op trans man, Mat, and his cis male knight, Emil, standing shirtless embracing and staring into each other's eyes in a dark inn room. Emil looks a bit somber as he stares down and right through Mat because Mat has amnesia but would lay with Emil anyway. Mat doesn't remember their past relationship and Emil's sacrifice.

Portrait art of my trans male prince character Mattias facing his back to the viewer and looking over his shoulder with an elegant and calm expression. He has a unicorn horn and his hair is a lot longer than usual. He is wearing elegant shiny earrings and glitter under his eyes. Behind Mattias is the silhouette of a castle with a moon and stars pattern over it.

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Florists in Gridania:

A tweet from @_sashayed:

florist informed my mom the chapel we're doing our tiny ceremony in is full of ghosts.. my mom was like "oh! ok! wil they...will they enjoy the wedding?" and the florist said confidently "oh, YES."

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[Derogatory] @pioyua.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

[been in the expac for practically 5 minutes] when does he go freakmode im sick of waiting

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Ama @ama-aarts.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

#marchofxiv Lyse 🧡

Sketch illustration of Lyse Hext, posing as if ready to fight. She looks at the viewer confidently, smiling.

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. Here's new patterns for my carbon fiber foldable walking sticks!! Each pattern needs to sell at least 50 each to make them a reality!! Or else I'll have to refund them. Please support! Store: Bibipins.com

Moon Bunny, Froggy and Mushroom walking sticks.

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♰ Gabe ♰ [ ADOPT OPEN 👀] @ghastlygabo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🩸 Im a transmasc latino artist with a love of horror, and queerness that I explore in my work. 🖤🦇 As a fulltime starving artist, any and all support directly helps to keep a roof over my head and a pen in my hands. 🙏💞 →🩸 linktr.ee/Ghastlygabo → ☕ ko-fi.com/ghastlygabo →🔶 patreon.com/ghastlygabo

A collection of pieces made by me, the artist Gabe, depicting red scenes of grief, rage, sorrow, isolation and more.

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Earlier in his adventuring days, Rain'li was in a relationship with Tahla Molkoh, a sidequest NPC from Stormblood aether current unlocks and, later, the Ananta quests. I've written two fics about the two of them so far! archiveofourown.org/works/75044226 archiveofourown.org/works/76435216

archiveofourown.org

At Fair Moon's Rise - Healstick - Final Fantasy XIV [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Banging my drum about LRP. Go read some excellent Gridania worldbuilding and one of my favorite depictions of Foulques.

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🌙Moonbeam🌙 @7.5 @unassumingvenusaur.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Finally got a new chapter for this out, mainly focusing on the day of Greenbliss itself, the reappearance of Foulques and the setup for the rest of Sahri's journey. I did a lot of research for this one to try to flesh out the Greenbliss holiday, hope you enjoy! archiveofourown.org/works/794592...

'Tis the season of Greenbliss, after all, a reminder that living within the Black Shroud is more than misery. It is a blessing born of love, of customs which all denizens of the Twelveswoods may find meaning in. Unlike many aspects of Gridania, this unity is more than words. Though mainly guided by the Hearers and elementals, some traditions hail back to Gelmorra, both the descendants who originally settled the land and those who later came to be known as the Duskwight. Even Keeper traditions have found their ways into the festivals, particularly through dance and the playing of fiddles typically used in the miqo'tes' worship of Menphina. A glimpse of Gridania as it could be, one day to forget the strife underlying the Twelveswood's peaceful exterior.

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Soren V 🏔️ 7.56 POSTING @sorensplorin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

When I was a newbie healer, I queued into Aurum and said “I’ve never healed here, please bear with me” And the tank simply said “I’ve never known fear” and did the cleanest run I’ve ever seen It was magical. I miss your tanky cradle arms, stranger

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I suppose an upside is that the type of hearing loss I have is referred to as "cookie bite" hearing loss, because on an audiogram it looks like someone took a bite out of where the mid-range frequency hearing is supposed to be. So at least I have a type with a cute name?

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Found out definitively today that I have moderate hearing loss. While I'm processing what this means for me, if you wanted to send your WoLs and/or your pets that would be nice. Or even some words of wisdom if (ONLY if) you should happen to have relevant lived experience.

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B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It's here! It's here! Presenting version 1.0 of "The food and drink of Hydaelyn and beyon", a culinary compendium of FFXIV's food- and drink-related lore, to use, elaborate on, or ignore as you please. I can't wait to see what you all do with this. Happy cooking!

docs.google.com

The food and drink of Hydaelyn and beyond

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Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon @healstick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I've been slowly working my way through Shadowbringers again and I just reached the explanation of the Minfilias. And because I had somewhat recently rewatched Buffy, I couldn't help but think about how similar the Slayers and the Minfilias are. Young women destined to fight - and die.

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Alexa @butcherbirds.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Celestial opposition 💫 #FFXIV

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This zine was born out of the desire to fight queer art censorship. We even got a Kickstarter warning that exposed breasts (non-sexual, same you’d see in any art museum!) makes our project ‘at risk adult content.’ It’s so important that we fund so we can keep creating uncensored print projects!

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Koukouvayia @koukouvayia.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

you have to #art #ffxiv

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a bunny of countless treasures @quad-weave.etheirys.social · 08/03/2026

And here is B'alith's pack so you can find even more great writers to read, follow, and support! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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