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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 3h

It's a women-developed game, and the love interests have specific sweet, supportive interactions that occur when your period is near and during your period. There's also an in-game, in-world article about menstruation that is legitimately educational & covers in-world accommodations like period PTO.

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Fruity Snacks🎣🔜GATEway FATE @fisherfruity.bsky.social · 4h

*UPDATE: It has been confirmed that March 31, 2023 Fishcord member Bikonito got a double sea butterfly window. This would make my first instance on Nov 20, 2024 the know 2nd, but this remains the first and so far only known video recording of it happening.

Fruity Snacks🎣🔜GATEway FATE @fisherfruity.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the Double Sea Butterfly window from yesterday.

After chatting with other fishers, we've decided it is likely that my 2 Double Sea Butterfly windows are likely the 1st and 2nd documented times in #FFXIV it has happened due to the nature of the fisher kit and gear.

▶️ youtu.be/Ijg-wCeua3A

The Double Sea Butterfly window (again)

YouTube video by Fruity Snacks

youtu.be

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Atelier Bubble Tea @atelierbubbletea.bsky.social · 1d

If you've tuned into any of @fisherfruity.bsky.social's streams, you may notice he's got a totally fin-tastic aquatic theme, courtesy of us here at ABT! The brief was to have colourful storybook quality to it and Fruity allowed us to shitpost with the text bubbles, which is always fun.

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TavernCatRecords @taverncatrecords.bsky.social · 1d

Also putting this down here just to people to remember

These are no VGen exclusive!

If you want to hit me up in DM's about commissions and talk about budget I'm more than willing to do it that way they use VGen!

Again thank you even if you're considering commissioning me! 🙏

a cat is playing with an apple laptop on a table

ALT: a cat is playing with an apple laptop on a table

media.tenor.com

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 1d

A moment for the Fish-tory books!

Fruity Snacks🎣🔜GATEway FATE @fisherfruity.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the Double Sea Butterfly window from yesterday.

After chatting with other fishers, we've decided it is likely that my 2 Double Sea Butterfly windows are likely the 1st and 2nd documented times in #FFXIV it has happened due to the nature of the fisher kit and gear.

▶️ youtu.be/Ijg-wCeua3A

The Double Sea Butterfly window (again)

YouTube video by Fruity Snacks

youtu.be

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Fruity Snacks🎣🔜GATEway FATE @fisherfruity.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the Double Sea Butterfly window from yesterday.

After chatting with other fishers, we've decided it is likely that my 2 Double Sea Butterfly windows are likely the 1st and 2nd documented times in #FFXIV it has happened due to the nature of the fisher kit and gear.

▶️ youtu.be/Ijg-wCeua3A

The Double Sea Butterfly window (again)

YouTube video by Fruity Snacks

youtu.be

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Fruity Snacks🎣🔜GATEway FATE @fisherfruity.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, it took ~93 more windows, and another 231 intuitions.

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Fruity Snacks🎣🔜GATEway FATE @fisherfruity.bsky.social · 2d

I FINALLY GOT A DOUBLE SEA BUTTERFLY CATCH ON CAMERA.

IT TOOK NEARLY 70 MORE WINDOWS.

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 1d

I love how shocked they are--like they went into a bathroom then were accidentally isekai'd somewhere else as they walked back out

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 1d

Okay I didn't think this comic could get any prettier but the motion in this video is GORGEOUS.

✧✦✧read my comic✧✦✧ @fragments.gay · 1d

every recent comic update got jailed on twt, it seems like i have to make videos from here on. here's the first thing in the new format, it'd mean a lot if you helped rt this to get the numbers going: x.com/ffxiv_fragme...

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✧✦✧read my comic✧✦✧ @fragments.gay · 1d

every recent comic update got jailed on twt, it seems like i have to make videos from here on. here's the first thing in the new format, it'd mean a lot if you helped rt this to get the numbers going: x.com/ffxiv_fragme...

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TavernCatRecords @taverncatrecords.bsky.social · 1d

My queue has opened up a lot more and I have a little more than a month to get around $1200-$1500 (I'm starting to remember that there are a lot of bills I gotta pay at the end of the year)

So please any and all work will be appreciated! 🙏

TavernCatRecords @taverncatrecords.bsky.social · Jun 20

I now am taking commissions through VGen! I'll still be offering services through DM's on here though!

A huge thanks to @itssopanda.bsky.social for giving me a code to get my foot in the door in there!

vgen.co/TavernCatRec...

TavernCatRecords (@TavernCatRecords)

Check out TavernCatRecords's commissions and portfolio! | Musician/Composer/Trumpet player/Vocalist 10+ years of songwriting/composing experience ...

vgen.co

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✧✦✧read my comic✧✦✧ @fragments.gay · 2d

✧✦✧ "Fragments" - episode 75 ✧✦✧
Behold the power of the acorn of eld.
#emetselch #wolemet

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✧✦✧read my comic✧✦✧ @fragments.gay · 3d

you’re only allowed to rt this today, do your worst
#grahatia

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 2d

Sadly--pumpkins don't last like they used to. Already in rapid decomposition just a couple of days later 😭

MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 5d

Still trying to get brave enough to post my LADS writing, but in the meantime, here's my pumpkin carving instead! Please enjoy the whole Onychinus family in doodle-form for Halloween:

#LoveAndDeepspace #LADS #Sylus

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Eorzean Museum Network @eorzeanmuseums.bsky.social · 3d

Dawn’s Break is currently relocating and undergoing renovations to serve you better. Keep an eye out for our grand reopening!

eorzeanmuseumnetwork.crd.co#dawnsbreak

Eorzean Museum Network

The Eorzean Museum Network is a cooperative network of free, player-run, cultural venues in Final Fantasy XIV.

eorzeanmuseumnetwork.crd.co

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 3d

I struggle with this so much. It also manifests in a frustrating concept that whether or not people like me is determined by how useful I am to them, which has sucked even more as chronic illness has worn down my body and forced me to rely on others more. The ole "I'm either useful or a burden". 🙃

InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 11d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 3d

This is still primarily my Final Fantasy 14 account, but I am trying to connect a little more with fellow LADS folks in the community, so I will do my best to tag and keyword so that my posts can be found or hidden according to your preferences 💜

MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 3d

As much as I like writing Sylus/MC fanfic, I really enjoy any opportunity to include Luke and Kieran. They are the second set of twins in a video game that I've adopted and I want so many good things for these boys. This is a bit of a sad-ish moment though:

#LoveAndDeepspace #LADS #Sylus

Excerpt from a fanfic written on Ellipsus:

He'd even almost laughed when they'd told him that they wanted to serve him so they could stay close and see if anyone out there is actually strong enough to kill him. Over the next two years, Sylus had accepted them as his hands and taught them so many things--weaponscraft, demolitions, interrogation techniques...but also driving, motorcycle repair, shaving, videogaming, music appreciation--

"Hey." Luke quietly interrupts their reverie as the sun starts to dip lower in the sky. "Do you think she could do it? Kill him, I mean."

Kieran frowns. "You know...she gets stronger every time we see her. I think she could, maybe. If not now, then someday."

Luke sighs, unusually somber. "Honestly, even if she can, I kinda hope she won't."

"Yeah. Me too."

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 3d

As much as I like writing Sylus/MC fanfic, I really enjoy any opportunity to include Luke and Kieran. They are the second set of twins in a video game that I've adopted and I want so many good things for these boys. This is a bit of a sad-ish moment though:

#LoveAndDeepspace #LADS #Sylus

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Fruity Snacks🎣🔜GATEway FATE @fisherfruity.bsky.social · 5d

🔍The 3rd Annual #FFXIV Fishcord Fishing Derby!

From Nov 7 -> 17th, join other fishers in completing the community fishing log during the Fishcord Fishing Derby! This year is a little twist on the original derby, and all are welcomed to participate!

More info in the Fishcord!

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 5d

Still trying to get brave enough to post my LADS writing, but in the meantime, here's my pumpkin carving instead! Please enjoy the whole Onychinus family in doodle-form for Halloween:

#LoveAndDeepspace #LADS #Sylus

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 5d

💜 How do I find the friendliness, supportive vibes, and lack of shame that I see in my feed from the XIV community but for LADS? Admittedly, I'm still so new coming back into writing that I barely know how to respond to a writing challenge, let alone make one of my own.

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 5d

I encountered this as a viewer on another channel's short and I couldn't find anything on my end to change the language to "The Original Effing Video" so I was just stuck with some dead robot voicing the entirety of a clip where the original voice acting was the entire point of the short.

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Kageyama Satsuki @kagesatsuki.com · 6d

For everyone who clamoured about how they only accepted submissions on the hellsite before, the contest is now open to @bsky.app entries too! :o Thank you @en.finalfantasyxiv.com

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MelodicCerulean | Packing for GATEwayFATE @melodiccerulean.etheirys.social · 5d

I have also transcribed it here since none of the posts so far seem to have Alt Text: write.ellipsus.com/edit/8364800...

In the Beginning, Beyond the End | Ellipsus

The new Tale featuring Crystal Exarch, Feo Ul, and Lyna.

write.ellipsus.com

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