Oh, The Sun Has Come To Kiss My Face And Tell Me I'm The Chosen One

Oh, the sun has come to kiss my face and tell me I'm the chosen one🌼

Being Titania's current favorite can give you a bit of an ego, turns out

I could fix him. I could make him worse. Good for you. I could gently take the weapon out of his shaking, blood-soaked hand and hold him until he finally believes that he doesn't have to be defined by all the ways the world has hurt him. Then we could ruin the lives of everyone who has ever treated him like he's a monster who doesn't deserve love.

Let go or be dragged 🥀

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A little love letter to one of my favorite expansions! Shadowbringers is such a tumultuous time for Xel'ia, and it's when she's at her most vulnerable and most volatile. The light poisoning certainly doesn't help.

I wanted this piece to capture that. The presence of both Emet's and the Exarch's hands on Xel'ia feel oppressive and overwhelming. But where Emet's seem to be focused on pulling Xel'ia down, the Exarch's are trying to lift her up -- and if you look closely, you can see that he's trying to also keep Emet's leylines from tightening around her neck.

Xel's attitude towards the Exarch was not the greatest towards the beginning of the expansion, but I love that he was trying *so hard* to do the right thing -- she just couldn't see it at the time. Thankfully, she softens up over time towards him, seeing the necessity and good intentions of his actions, even when misguided.

scourge ☀

My aasimar wizard, Quil! We're fast approaching the end of our Frostmaiden campaign and I'm having a lot of feelings about them 🥺

hey so guy who can't stop designing outfits (me) is back and made more Ishgard outfits for Earley, fancy ones this time

my least favorite character in ff14 is the ishgardian rock salt tooltip

1.) it's always correct to disrespect item descriptions you don't like, especially if they only exist in english

2.) *pinches nose, extremely a nerd voice* it's been established in-game that ishgard is culturally distinct from coerthas and that a defining feature of ishgardian cuisine vs. coerthan cuisine is how extensively spiced and seasoned it is (whereas coerthan food is noted to be blander and probably derived from gridanian cuisine, and ishgardians dont appreciate coerthan food and vice versa). that motherfucking food is seasoned!!!! get that shitty rock off the table!!!!!!!!!!!!

3.) since ishgardian food is well-seasoned already, if the salt rock exists it should only be as an incredibly funny secret insult. if you lick the rock you're telling the host that you think that he is shit and his food is bland (like a coerthan, god forbid, or even worse, a gridanian). the rock should only exist as a catalyst for 3 to 7 generations-long ishgardian blood feuds. i want to see people getting knifed at the table for daring to lick the rock. i want to see families get ruined. make the salt rock political