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Eiserne Drossel

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Bothered, unhinged, gloomy, not in my lane. Definitely not Tira, promise. || FFXIV enjoyer ||OC & Fordola posting mostly Read my Fordola book: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38599308/chapters/96489459 pfp🎨: @kuroiitulip.bsky.social

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 19d

Rules of Nature - A Final Fantasy XIV Fic ft. Fordola
(🎨: @kuroiitulip.bsky.social)
[Fordola rem Lupis] [Fordola x WoL] [Canon Compliant] [Original Characters] [Slow Burn] [Plot Heavy] [Endwalker Spoilers]
#FFXIV #fanfiction #Fordola
385,444 Words
Available Now!
archiveofourown.org/works/38599308…

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 1d

Real recognize real. (No hate to anyone who does, I just find it INCREDIBLY boring to immediately attach her to the nearest dude in her lore sphere. Granted I WoLship her to a male WoL so I guess I’m not exactly “inspired” either lmao)

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 1d

As long as we don’t ship her with Arenvald. On that hill I will die.

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 1d

I won’t because that would be disingenuous, I just find it fascinating how (outside of the purely porny content), Fordola is rarely hetshipped. Perhaps I’m the boring one after all! I don’t mind at all because more Fordola content is good. Keep it coming folks.

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 1d

The funny bit about my book is that I think the F/M tag (and it starring Fordola) immediately turns people away lol 🥴 Maybe I should remove that tag and see what happens.

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 2d

🍂

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 3d

Shame the BSM 100 top isn’t crafted because it’s about to be EVERYWHERE and flood the zone with even more tourist crafters lol

Neo-Ishgard aiming stonks on the rise.

FINAL FANTASY XIV @en.finalfantasyxiv.com · 3d

Fashion enjoyers, this one is for you!

From Patch 7.4 onward, you'll be able to equip any glamours regardless of your class/job! ✨

Mix and match your favorite outfits and slay on the battlefield! 💅

A Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing an Au Ra dark knight wielding a great sword while dressed in white mage artifact armor.

A Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing a Hrothgar pictomancer wielding a paintbrush while wearing paladin artifact armor.

A Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing an Elezen dragoon wielding a lance while wearing fisher attire.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 3d

8, unfortunately lol
Never got into 7 (or any of them really tbh) but 8 seemed pretty saucy.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 3d

It isn’t behaving yay Unreal. Ah well.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 4d

Might make the mistake of getting into Tekken for a while if I can get it to behave on my PC.

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 4d

Might make the mistake of getting into Tekken for a while if I can get it to behave on my PC.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 5d

Seeing people fall out of love with FFXIV in real time is very sad, and while I understand that keeping the drumbeat steady after Endwalker is inherently tough, and maybe DT is a bit of a mixed reception, if they immediately fold on this narrative and go right back to sad Ascians I will be bummed.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 6d

tl;dr these are MY toys and I DON’T want to share blahblahblah

Back to our regularly scheduled ~not writing my book~ 🫠

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 6d

I suppose this is why I like niche characters - it feels safe to play around with them without having to see John Q Public weigh in a lot.

As someone whose favorite character of all time is Cloud Strife, perhaps I learned a lesson over the years of seeing him get disparaged in the limelight lol

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 6d

This happens with Fordola too. I can’t bring myself to engage with the small fandom (lovely folk) she has very much because seeing people interpret her differently than me feels weird and I don’t enjoy it. Tira and Fordola are super precious to me as they are to me. Selfish, I know.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 6d

Whatever algo change they did on twitter has been rather accurate in suddenly curating a lot of SCVII and Tira-specific talk over there, but I somehow feel even worse about it because seeing MANY people’s takes and interpretations is uh... My comfort character being perceived makes me ill.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 6d

I’m willing to go through the trauma of a Tira redesign being possibly bad just to see her again 🥹

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 6d

SoulCalibur VI is 90% off on Steam. Please go buy it. We deserve a SCVII 🙏

Reposted by Eiserne Drossel

DawnCatte @dawncatte.bsky.social · 9d

A.B.A & Squigly crossover ❤️
#GGST #Skullgirls #ABA #Squigly

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 15d

Plotting this out. Fitting each character into an arcana is actually very fun.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · Sep 17

Thinking of doing a tarot card series for characters from the book. We’ll see.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 16d

Adventurer Plate! wow, so different lol

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 19d

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 19d

Showing my age here lol
Anyway, sad about a dumb video game.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 19d

And it’s funny, Endwalker was the poison pill for my friend, which I suppose is apt. Now we’re both just in this thing as a compulsion. The love is gone and I don’t have the energy to engage with RP (or others at all, really) and BARELY my own writing like I did when I was younger that kept XI alive

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 19d

I’ll take 10 more years of sad Ascians and lame ass Scions if it means there’s a handful of people “on” and not parked on some other server. I miss when this thing felt like a place to go more than something to do. It was the bar from Cheers.
Now it’s an empty mall.

Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 19d

Was reminiscing with a friend about XIV and the “good old days” of Stormblood. Concluded that logging in to an empty house on a vacant street & an empty friends list of 30+ Days since last login perhaps leaves a more sour taste in my mouth about this expansion than anything the story tried to do.

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Eiserne Drossel @eiserne.bsky.social · 20d

I hate to poopoo something from frame 1, Gamer™️ style, but in the fighting game renaissance, SE decides to drag out Dissidia’s corpse once again to chase Genshittification trends instead of just making a proper 1v1 fighting game? Hate to see it.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 20d

DISSIDIA DUELLUM FINAL FANTASY | Announcement Trailer (Mobile 2026, Android Closed Beta Test until Oct 28) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLM7...

www.square-enix.com/ddff/en/

A new DISSIDIA story unfolds in modern Tokyo, where legendary FINAL FANTASY warriors assemble to save the world from destruction.