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Opteekaal

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Unfortunately, I like to draw 30↑ • eng/esp • 🇵🇷 • fub free • free 🇵🇸 • 🚫 NO AI • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️LGTBQI+ • FFXIV mostly

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✨Lady J✨ @itsladyj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
vi. Stay With Me | #Erenweek2026 | 3.2k words ↬ Like his heart carries with it the chaos of a brewing maelstrom, thunderous and deafening, entirely at odds with her near cloudless, boundless sky. He shouldn't feel so. Conflicted by this.  He was the one saying goodbye.
#Erenweek | #Erenweek2026 | #wolerenville | #ffxivfanfic | #xivfanfic | #ffxivwriters | #erenwol

Erenville reaches out to grab her hand. Reaches out to press his lips to her knuckles. To draw his lips against her skin. Suddenly desperate and reckless and wanting, as his voice rasps something low— "Tell me to stay." He tells her. Demands of her. Begs and pleads with every ilm of his being, with a need that goes beyond the very boundary of his heart—because tonight feels like a finality. An ending. A goodbye. The kind that would sooner shatter ones heart if forced to do it again too soon. 

He could not force it to. He couldn't. 

And he hears—feels—the way her breath catches, the way her body goes still in surprise. 

He forges on regardless. 

"Tell me to stay, and I will." He says again, his words near babbling; breathless even, spoken with a flood of emotion that he knows is quite beyond him to control— "Tell me... tell me you'll miss me, and you'll hate to see me go. That my absence will hurt you, that it will break us both, and I will bound myself to you and never leave. I won't."
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This was such a lovely read and the flower you chose was PERFECT! I kept looking at the com and imagining it moving with your written words. Just lovely! 🥰💖💖
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Marie @mmariesr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alisaie
Illustration of Alisaie from ff14.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is amazing LOL! A better pair I've never seen
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Moen ✍️ FFxivWrite Host! @moen-moen-ffxiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Limited Edition #FFxivWrite Hard Enamel Pin is now available to preorder!! 📯✨ Available internationally 🌏 Preorders will close on October 18th! At which point this pin will no longer be available for sale $20 in my shop: Wily Words wilywords.shop
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I really couldn't have gotten this far without you! 😭💖 Our daily meet ups have been so good and I am enjoying your stories so much! Thank you for helping keep me motivated and just being so much fun! 🫶💗
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I re-read this one twice because I loved it so much! It's so full of yearning and desperation that I absolutely love and adore! 🥰💖💖💖💖 Guy who got a sip and is forever thirsty is a good topic and you did an awesome job showing just the tip of the iceberg of his love for her. ❤️‍🔥
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also apologies for not responding to comments lately or anything. I am very much out of spoons and the ones I have I want to spend on encouraging the person who is helping me do Erenweek. I am still reading and appreciating them. 🫶💖
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No drawing for today. The sketch was too ambitious for me to make it in time plus I was super tired today. And then I wanted to watch the rest of Goodbye Lara with Evie. It's really good! 😭💖 I'm going to come back to it later but for now I'll work on tomorrows drawing instead. Sorry!
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✨Lady J✨ @itsladyj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
v. Blossom | #Erenweek2026 | 3.1k words ↬ A flower as a confession. A flower as a thank you. A flower as a blessing. And then, there is the one he holds in his hand. Because for her, he holds a single bloom.
#Erenweek | #Erenweek2026 | #wolerenville #ffxivfanfic #xivfanfic #ffxivwriters | #erenwol

"Oh." She says, and her voice carries on the wind. "There you are." She whispers, like she'd been waiting for him forever. 

And there are no words—no words at all—to impress upon her about how beautiful she'd been during her performance, or how captured he'd been by her presence. Not a hope in the seven hells to deny how he was feeling either, for all that he was sure it must have been writ clear across his face.

And he'd been better at it before. Before her. Better at playing at indifference, even though all he's often wanted was her attention all along. 

He knows he must share her.

Knows she is not his alone, for all that she still remains so private with her time. With her energy. With whom she shares her affections. 

But Erenville has her attention now, and he will be loathe to lose it again.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Came here to comment as well that I was gnawing at my hands at the end there! LOL! I loved it and just 🤝🤝🤝🤝 Same hat same hat! ALSO! We need to dunk him in water more. 🥰💖
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Moen ✍️ FFxivWrite Host! @moen-moen-ffxiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One week left to volunteer as an artist for #FFxivWrite2026! The artist volunteer sign-up form closes after October 1st 🎃 More info here: ffxiv-write.carrd.co#volunteer
ffxiv-write.carrd.co
FFxivWrite
Annual 30 Day Writing Challenge for the FFxiv community.
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♔ELIAS♔ @atelierapricity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[ 05 ] Blossom "Fuss all you want bro, you can't deny you're the better choice to model for Noi's fashion atelier." - X'atsiel, on escaping modelling duties and delegating it to his bestriend #Erenweek #Erenweek2026 #FFXIV #FFXIVART #Viera #Erenville #art #apricityart
The image is an original illustration of Erenville from Final Fantasy XIV, wearing an original design. Inspired by Art Nouveau pieces. 


Below, on the middle, is my watermark and the texts that reads "Atelier Apricity" and "Erenville".
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Day o5: Blossom #Erenweek2026 #Erenweek
Drawing of Erenville playfully biting my Warrior of Light's, Dahlia, check while holding his face. Dahlia is shocked by the action but isn't really resisting. There is a pair of Zinnia's being held in the foreground a flower that bunnies are fond to eat.
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✨Lady J✨ @itsladyj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
iv. Longing | #Erenweek2026 | 1.7k words ↬ —And he wonders if that's how he's supposed to feel. If it's normal for one to yearn for her the way he does. He's still trying so hard to understand that.
#Erenweek | #Erenweek2026 | #wolerenville #ffxivfanfic #xivfanfic #ffxivwriters | #erenwol

As Erenville will sooner admit, with a certainty that prompted no question, that Jazzele, of all people, was categorically beautiful on a good day. Whether she was enveloped by the hues of broad and brilliant daylight, or when she was clad in the dull shadows of the most poorly lit alleys.

She was beautiful fresh out of bed with mussed hair and kiss-swollen lips. Beautiful when she was trudging through mud and chasing after an evasive wild hippo.

She was beautiful when she glowed with the strength of her fiercest convictions. Beautiful even when she was blood drenched and entangled with death, with the hush of a subtle darkness sweeping across her skin. 

Jazzele was—is—entirely too beautiful.

But here and now—she all but gleams with the light of something outright incandescent.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Day o4: Longing #Erenweek2026 #Erenweek
Drawing of Erenville staring at my Warrior of Light, Dahlia who is holding a fish up but the focus is on Erenville. It's Ner La Dor, the fish that is. LMAO
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Day o3: Refuge #Erenweek2026 #Erenweek
Drawing of Erenville wet and staring at the viewer while underneath a large banana leaf which is being lifted up by said viewer to get a better look at him.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
LMAO it really do! I've been telling my group every week that I'm quitting healing in EC because of this fight.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is why I never believe that man 😔
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we finally broke the curse last night. this fight is so tiring 😭
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✨Lady J✨ @itsladyj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
iii. Refuge | #Erenweek2026 | 2.7k words | moderately explicit ↬ —he shouldn't. He shouldn't. It was not the time, not the place, and he allows her enough of her indulgences as it is.  Temptress, indeed. And how could he say no?
#Erenweek | #Erenweek2026 | #wolerenville #ffxivfanfic #xivfanfic #ffxivwriters | #erenwol

"Hmm." She hums lowly into the silence, her voice near soundless as she finishes the rest of the snip. "And you dare call me a tease."

"Hah." He huffs in short laughter as he leans in, nuzzling himself lightly against the soft tufts at the base of her ears, still refusing to pull away. "That you of all people should say that. I daresay there's a fair difference in intent between me and you."

A fair difference indeed, for how insistently she manages to tempt him, with her hush of low whispers and ever sinful attentions. Her fingers so often trailing delicately against his skin, yet her body always dancing just steps out of reach when he begins to want.

There is a difference there, yes. Surely there must be. 

He would not mull over the specifications of it now.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
😭😭💗💖 So beautiful and so sad! I love how they both are here and just how gut punching it is! Thanks for stabbing me in the heart! 😔❤️‍🩹
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Day o2: Quiet #Erenweek2026 #Erenweek
Drawing of my Warrior of Light, Dahlia, sleeping in the crook of Erenville's neck and chest who is sleeping.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Embargo's over but I'm not gonna talk about MSQ other than I liked it. Many good things to look forward to.
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✨Lady J✨ @itsladyj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ii. Quiet | #Erenweek2026 | 2.1k words ↬ ( one need only look at the shattered remnants of Yyasulani, to know that things altogether would and had been irrevocably changed, without question. )
And Jazzele... Jazzele, for all of her soft touch and even softer words, is almost afraid to ask. What it is that he's discovered. What it is that he knows. Because surely there must be some certainty to it, yes? Some confidence towards this answer that he's found. That he's been trying to unearth since the beginning. Since that horrible dome first made itself reality, cutting off the outside world—only to fuse itself to his village, shattering the familiarity of home and remaking it into something utterly unnatural altogether.

She is certain then, that whatever it is that she feels at this moment—cannot even remotely begin to compare to whatever horror it is that is screaming relentless inside of him. Whatever nightmare terror it is that is rapidly building weight, compounding itself into an amalgam of reality that bears too much truth—so much so that it will be near impossible to deny. 

#Erenweek | #Erenweek2026 | #wolerenville #ffxivfanfic #xivfanfic #ffxivwriters #erenwol #erenville
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Day o1: Our Journey #Erenweek2026 #Erenweek
Drawing of my Warrior of Light, Dahlia, dragging a reluctant Erenville behind him.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He has smaller vacation days afterwards but 😭 they still make me cry! I am hopeful to catch him in one of them 💪🎣
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am vaporizing them in my mind. I am gluing them together. I am putting them in the pear wiggler. An amazing entry and I can't wait to read more!! I am so happy we get to do this together J! 🥹💗
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✨Lady J✨ @itsladyj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
☀️ towards dawn. ↬ f!viera wol / erenville | drabble collection ↬ the start of this journey, he will insist, had meant only to be for wuk lamat. not even halfway through the end of it, and somehow it changes him too. #Erenweek | #ladyjwrites
#Erenweek | #Erenweek2026 |#wolerenville

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The promise of home—she thinks—looks good on him.

a journey that spanned the length and breadth of an entire continent; across the makings of another shard, and then some.

it takes just that long for them to figure their hearts out.

a drabble collection for erenville week 2026.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2 windows for that darn croc and not even a nibble. Now I must wait 26 days for another chance 😭
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ME that's also me!! They really do make a delicious little snack!
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ty for the well wishes but I'm not really sick I was just making a poor ref to I Think I Hauve Covid meme LOL Still thank you! 💖
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
*sobs in a corner* I'm not actually sick I was making a poor ref to the meme I Think I Hauve Covid still thank you regardless. 💖💖 You need to make one of Val and G'raha so they can walk around your desktop LOL!
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I made more aaargggh 🥹💖
my desktop buddies consisting of Dahlia, the Exarch, G'raha Tia, and Lei Lei
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have covid They're little desktop buddies made from the Character House Demo on Steam. x.com/CharacterHou...
screen shot of G'raha and Dahlia made from the character desktop demo Character House.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I forgot about having to level all 50 beasts to lvl 25. So now I am semi free! Still have to do the 3rd degree boards but for now I can take a small break.
gpose of my character dahlia sporting the achievement beast master weapons for leveling all 50 beasts to level 25 in the crucible.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love he
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congrats!!! 🎉🎉
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I AM FINALLY FREE! Master Board 2 is so hard *sobs* but finally all legendary ranks and I can finally tackle the 3rd degrees and shelf this class. #op_gpose
Gpose of my beast master glam holding the legendary rank on all boards achievement weapons and lvl 25 wespe.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Finally after so many windows and 1 slip the Great Ball of Lightning is in my pockets! 😭🎉
Screenshot of catching the legendary fish The Great Ball of Lightning from FFXIV
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is not a MSQ spoiler this is just how Evie and I do MSQ where it takes all day for no reason at all. NONE. We never get distracted or yapp for hours or break for lunch AND dinner.
screenshot of a discord DM of me and Evie telling my sister that we were 1.5 hrs and and "doing" the msq. We went to mor dhona and took screenshots with G'raha then left.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a fast and messy redraw of the meme because of something that happened in umad. Apparently there are times when the confused person finishes their arrow trip and they walk towards the sleeping person. So when our VPR stood before me swords out, stanced up it felt like this. LMAO
Quick and messy redraw of the Dio walking toward Jojo meme but it's a catgirl vpr walkings towards a whm lala. The background is supposed to reflect the UMAD p1 arena and the cat girl has the confused debuff while the lala has the sleep debuff.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Triple Threat obtained! These were shark infested waters today. LOL Only 2 more left to go!
Screenshot of catching the legendary big fish Triple Threat from the game FF14
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
After failing every other fishing window that was open this guy was a 1st cast catch. LMAO There goes all my luck for the month. Also yes I am currently a lala LOL
Screenshot of me catching the legendary big fish Ner Lar Dor from ff14
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B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#FFXIVWrite2026 is about a week away! (I know, I know, me too.) If you're thinking about participating, here are some thoughts on what I've learned about how to set myself up for success as I get ready for my fourth year. Free advice, worth what you paid, etc. I believe in you. We've got this. 🖤
Kit’s FFXIV Write advice & cheerleading!

Take as much friction out of the getting-started process as you can. Set up a folder in your writing software of choice and stick some blank docs in there so you can just hit the ground running when the day’s word drops.

Write when there’s time, not when there’s inspiration.

Lots of us have more ideas than we have drafts. This is a perfect time to see if a day’s word moves you to flesh out one of those plot bunnies a little more.

Related to the above: embrace the joys of in media res. Write the bits of the scene you have a vision for and worry about the rest later.

If you’re someone who’s motivated by goals and metrics, set up a tracker in whatever way works for you. I like to set a secret word count goal for myself that I don’t tell anyone about until the month is over.

Experiment! This is a great opportunity to try writing in a different tense, or for an NPC you haven’t written before, or play around with different formats like epistolary or poetry. This is supposed to be fun, so take the opportunity to play!

It’s okay if you skip or miss a day (or two, or ten). Seriously. I promise. You can make it up later if it’s really going to bother you, but try not to let it derail you.

Embrace the messy first draft. It doesn’t have to be complete, it doesn’t have to be good, it just has to be words.

Take breaks. Be kind to your wrists. HAVE FUN.
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I caught the cutest pancake today! Because you can mooch chain the flawless saucer (another stingray) I was calling it pancake stacking. I guess that worked and the pancake stacks attracted both the Moonmarking (5 stacks tall) and the Skyfrond (2 stacks tall)
Screenshot of me catching skyfrond the heart shaped pancake from the mmo ff14
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Moen ✍️ FFxivWrite Host! @moen-moen-ffxiv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#FFxivWrite2026 Begins on September 1st! ✍️ This year we celebrate 10 years of the 30-day FFxiv Writing Challenge, going strong! More info can be found on tumblr, where it all began~
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FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge SEPTEMBER 1st - 30th, 2026
Welcome to YEAR 10 of our annual FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge! With nearly 61,000 recorded entries since we began, we have a lot to celebrate for this milestone! Including... A new rule! A more...
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
7.5 Legendary Fish Log It's that time again. I watched someone else in a 5 deep Ttokatoa Mooch chain before catching it right near window end. I have never felt more fear for another person. Anubi, if you are out there I am so glad you caught it! 🎉 #op_gpose
Screen shot of me catching the Dawn Trail legendary big fish rroneek bichir from ff14Screenshot of text chat showing the struggle of Anubis to catch the legendary fish.
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YMI ☄️ @ymi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Shop's back open! 🎉 Everything's on preorder at the moment until September 18th, with preorders being shipped around october - early november! 😌 etsy.com/shop/oYMIo
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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I never reposted this but since it's Big Boob day well... Lei Lei and her Lei Lei's
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