Estinien “Wyrmblood” Varlineau. And Orn Khai (the baby dragon.)
After YEARS of failed attempts, I finally managed a decent portrait of my favorite grumpy jumpy! What if his super-neat glowy Nidhogg scars had been permanent? *__*
Brand new art prints now available in my Etsy Shop! <3
For this week’s video, I sat down for another chilled out sketchbook session ☕✏️ This time around I wanted to catch y’all up on what I’ve been up to lately, draw some Arcane fanart, AND make a special introduction…! 👀🦝🍂
genuinely concerned about how little queer history thats getting through to the younger members of the community. literally saw teenagers talking about how talking about pronouns wasn’t a thing until 2020??? horrifying to think that they seem to insist queer culture didn’t exist until they found it.
the fucking attack helicopter joke has been around since 2014!! leslie feinberg was born in 1949 and ze used ze/hir pronouns and obviously made comics about hir and hir communities identity and life! phalloplasty was first described in 1938!! christine jorgensen had surgery in the 50s to transition and published her biography in the 60s! even in the 1800s writers were talking about the need for *gender neutral* pronouns in both fiction and nonfiction!
yes, social media has let trans and queer people spread more knowledge about pronouns and identity, but acting like none of it even existed till the 2010s or even sooner is… concerning.
our older generations died, but that doesn’t mean the knowledge has to die too! do not ignore and diminish the people before you.
“His first day was on location with Kylie Minogue, but all eyes, even Kylie’s, were on Bernard. He’d turned up with a suitcase full of props, just in case, including a rubber chicken. And what an actor. Oh, really though, what a wonderful actor. We once took him to the TV Choice Awards and sent him up on his own to collect the award, and the entire room stood up and cheered him. That’s a lovely memory. He’d phone up and say, ‘I’ve got an idea! What if I attack a Dalek with a paintball gun?!’ Okay, Bernard, in it went! He loved Gill with all his heart; he mentioned her in every conversation we ever had. A love story for the ages. I’m so lucky to have known him. Thanks for everything, my old soldier. A legend has left the world.” — Russell T. Davies
BERNARD JOSEPH CRIBBINS, OBE (29th December 1928—28th July 2022)
For those who follow me for non-FFXIV reasons, I bring a crumb of internet drama to your door:
As with a lot of MMOs, roleplaying is a big thing. A BIG thing. Another big thing is the modding scene, so you can get your character looking just how you like. Squeenix does not best love mods, but it’s broadly a don’t-ask-don’t-tell situation: as long as your mods don’t give you an unfair advantage and you don’t rub them in anyone’s face, they’ll look the other way
Guess what’s the explicit direct polar opposite of not rubbing it in anyone’s face
Buying four entire billboards in a major US city about it
A roleplay group bought out multiple billboards to advertise an event, and used both a modded screenshot (edit: that apparently uses a datamined unreleased outfit holy shit) and the official game logo on it
This Has Gone Well For Them and last I heard people had been banned temporarily over it pending more severe action, the modding scene is having very real fears that Squeenix will crack down on mod use over it, and apparently the organizers are pitching a hissy on their discord
No one is happy
Apparently there is a standoff happening outside the group’s house where people are camped out on magitek armor using the missile emotes
tldr list of what’s known thus far for those that don’t wanna scroll thru all the rb’s, from the top…
guild house is decorated / set up to be a nightclub + erp venue in-game > publicised erp is against game TOS because potential to expose minors to pornographic content etc.
some attendees and/or staff use mods > against TOS
game producer basically says “i can’t stop you from doing it so don’t let me see it and you’re fine” otherwise they get banned faster than they can blink… well now everyone can see it in 2987341987236401923641px
some saying staff are paid real money for working there + real money for erp > against TOS for rmt (real-money trading)
ran a twitch stream donation saying it was for the trevor project + made thousands of $$$$$
there is ONE receipt which has surfaced (that i have seen) that says a donation to TTP was made for $230 … nowhere near the amount of $$ made during the stream
handful of staff of the rp venue report having no idea where the money went, i.e. “it was just gone one day”
rented billboards (at least two, at least one of which is digital) for at least $1,200/month. probably more in the ballpark of $12,000. bc that’s a number that was circulating (esp in the discord where staff were ragging on people telling them “bad idea” because “you’re just jealous you can’t afford this kind of thing”)
(sus yet over that missing money and expensive advert? ‘cause that’s fraud if it’s a 1:1 flow of money buckos!!!)
on the billboard…
a character in a datamined outfit for the 2022 summer event (obviously against TOS)
a character with a facial mod (against TOS)
square enix watermark (copyright infringement)
final fantasy xiv logo, implicating the game is complicit in the event or otherwise sponsoring/promoting it (copyright infringement, misinformation)
website address (taken down ~4 hour (or less) after the internet became Aware of this)
discord server + user name(s)
staff totally on board with this brainiac idea were 100% certain they wouldn’t get in trouble for anything / continue to state they’ve done nothing wrong
one of the characters featured on the billboard has already been temp banned with possibility of permaban as of the evening of july 5
SE lawyers woke up and found out they’d have the easiest day of their lives
and some fun tidbits…
obviously, people started joining the discord to rubberneck… in light of this, a staff member installed an emote that was a fake trojan – ultimately harmless but drives antivirus NUTS
threatened to report anyone reacting to posts with clown / skull / nerdface emoji to “local authorities and have you arrested” … for discord emotes. lmfao. that’s where that copypasta comes from.
Hey! Update on this! She’s doing MUCH better and I actually saw her live at PAX East this year (2022) - she gave a talk at a panel and answered questions and she was doing great, and she was telling us how she’s slowly relearned everything she forgot. Just to alleviate the worries I see in the notes 💖
We are extremely saddened to learn of the passing of Bernard Cribbins. Known best to Doctor Who fans as the Doctor’s friend and Donna’s grandad Wilfred Mott, Bernard leaves behind a long legacy in film and TV. — Bernard Joseph Cribbins (29 December 1928 – 28 July 2022)
Trying to get people to understand that when I say “girl what” or “girl help” I am using girl in the exact same way I use dude. No gender just vibes. I said “girl just move” about Batman the other day
Like obviously if anybody is uncomfortable with being called girl or dude or king or any other traditionally gendered words I absolutely will not refer to them that way but. Girl is not referring to a woman inherently girl is like a brother to me
Sup the name is Sora, just a random Cosplayer, Gamer, Artist, and all around Anime/Tv show watcher.
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