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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers!

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 25d

(Hi, I'm Diana. I RP several characters in #FFXIV. My main is a snarky, Geordie-Slang speaking, genderfluid Drow (yes, Drow) named Sha'dow Weaver. They're a Storm Captain with the Maelstrom, AGGRESSIVELY polyamorous, afflicted with the Spellplague AND Aether Sickness, and main RDM/MCH/DRK.⤵️

Sha'dow, a genderfluid Drow with charcoal skin and windswept looking white shoulder length hair parted on the left, white goatee and mustache trimmed in the Van Dyke style. They have a blind right eye with a white tattoo looking scar running over it, and a gray left eye. They're wearing purple earrings, a gold monocle, a black dinner jacket, lilac cardigan, and black button up shirt. They're in a Limsa Lominsan room, their hands in a heart-shape in front of them, actual pink hearts radiating out from them. You can see a bed and a writing desk behind them, as well as an entire wall made out of windows

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 8h

(Yeah. Basically, Sha'dow is the character I slip into whenever I'm trying a new thing since I'm most comfortable with them. Then if I end up sticking with the thing, whatever that is gets rolled into their canon lore, and that train just keeps on a-rollin'!)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 9h

(That is fair. Sha'dow absolutely cold-cocked right hooked the man, laid him out flat at the Lotus Stand (I was disowned IRL), so there ain't no way they're ever gonna be on good terms. But I 100% stand behind your right to, as the youts say, "get it!")

Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 12h

(Why does #FarCryNewDawn suck so bad? Like seriously, I wanna know. #FarCry5 at least had a fun gameplay loop, even if the ending was kind of ass (OK, OK! It's been called "the worst ending in video game history" by MORE than one game news outlet). New Dawn didn't even have THAT. It was a SLOG.)

Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 14h

(Happy to be of service!)

Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 14h

(Oh I know you didn't, I'm just saying that's the reason I can't with her.😅

And you right, SE needs to stop teasing us with them, AND WITH THE TWO PIRATES WHOS NAMES I'M NOT EVEN GONNA TRY AND TYPE RIGHT NOW.)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 15h

(Okay. Just making sure on that. I 100% support your right to ship that! I just can't get behind anything Geva because... I just... Geva... She's SO freakin' toxic.🤣

I will consider Tataru and Wedge on Piles of Money. I bet he feeds her grapes like all the ancient Greek and Roman goddesses!🥰)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 16h

(Grail would sacrifice the WORLD to save SHADOWHEART. TF you talkin' 'bout? "There is no world without her light. There is no life without her laugh."

Grail's a druid. She'd 100% do something like in this Reddit Comment)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 16h

(Do you mean Geva? I don't remember Geveva...
I support Big Rose and Lyngsath!
Also could 100% see the dynamic switch on Sadu/Cirina.
Lamaty'i/Sphene is one of my OTPs!
It's okay you ship Tataru/Wedge, I ship Tataru/piles of money.🤣)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 16h

(So many things. My WoL is basically the pinnacle of Humanoid Form. Meanwhile, I'm a hopeless lump of flesh.😅)

Noah Nonsense (Only Mammets) @onlymammets.etheirys.social · 17h

HEY! So I nearly burned down my kitchen because I fucking forgot that water explodes in oil.

Is there anything your WoL/OC can do that you are ABSOLUTELY hopeless at?

Me? It's cooking with goddamn common sense.

#wolqotd

Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 16h

(<3 No problem! Truly, your gposes (and blender renders) are absolutely some of (if not) the best I've ever clapped eyes on!🥰)

Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 18h

It's your right to write it. But it's my right to avoid it. And call it out as what it is.

And boy howdy, I damn sure will.

(no, this isn't directed at any story I've SEEN, but more a commentary on some discourse that has been brought up recently in the community and what is/is not acceptable🧵)

Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 18h

You do you, Johnny, but we don't stan that shit in this house. I'm not gonna read your fic where you take a canonically trans character and make 'em cis cause "well, they'd be 'cured' of that in this universe."

Fuck outta here with that transphobic BS.

Write what you want. But bigotry is bigotry.⤵️

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 18h

You wanna write some genderbent mpreg slash pwp Clippy smut? You do you, boo!

#FanFiction is a creative outlet!

But understand this: Inasmuch as you have the right to WRITE what you want, I got the right to READ what I want.

Moreover, queer erasure-even in fanfic-is still queer erasure.⤵️

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 18h

(As a #FanFiction writer, I truly believe in "Write What You Want." Like, genuinely. Write WHATEVER you want. No holds barred. You wanna write some disgusting, absolutely taboo smut with the worst kind of shit in it? Go for it. You wanna write some horribly graphic gory murder stories? Write it.⤵️

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 18h

(Oh he already knows. I've had occasion to mention it a few times on posts he's made in the past--up to and including getting to tell him how Fallout: New Vegas literally (and I do mean LITEREALLY) saved my life. I just feel very awkward tagging people as big named as him😅)

Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 21h

(It is not something I do often, to be sure!)

Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 21h

(I... To quote one of my partners:

"lp;asdifjhapsodfihbansdf"

All I can say, really.🥰)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 21h

dev, and I doubt a fan tagging him would make his day. But he literally changed the course of my life, and is the reason I got into game development, why I'm as into video games AND WRITING as I am. So out of the entire list, I'd say he probably inspires me the most. GO FOLLOW jesawyer!🥰🧵)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 21h

even helped develop entire concepts of lore for things.

@vuldak.bsky.social is the unsung hero who beta reads everything I write, RPs with me to keep Sha'dow's character IN character, and without whom, honestly, Sha'dow wouldn't exist as they do today.

And I'd tag Josh Sawyer, but he's a pro game⤵️

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 21h

(A Few:
@qara-ocs.bsky.social, of course. Absolutely stunning work that just makes me wish my gposes were so much better.

@burgiethewriter.bsky.social's writing has driven me to make my own prose less cheeks.

@silverhorn.moe doesn't just inspire me, but acts as a soundingboard for ideas and⤵️

Trazellie Ellie @trazwieb.bsky.social · 23h

Sort of a niche question, but I'm feeling oddly emotional and want to spread positivity for once today-

#wolqotd | #wolquestion

This is towards the players who create art (GPose, writing, drawing, etc.):

Do you have any specific creators that inspire you? Shout them out and spread the love. 💙💖

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 21h

(I genuinely do not know how to respond to this. I am both humbled and honored in equal parts, and left without words. Genuinely.

And to even be included in the same BREATH as Conna and St4rd1ver, two people who... GIANTS in the community.

No words but humbled and honored. Thank you. Truly.)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 21h

(This is great! "You've got guts... Too bad I gotta put my fist through 'em!" had me in stitches. A lot of those lines are very, VERY Playa/Boss from Saints Row coded (or ya know, Johnny Gat coded), and I am HERE for it!)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 21h

(It wasn't a random choice, mind. Canonically speaking, my WoL is a planeswalker, and one of the planes they were on was Earth during the events of Saints Row!🥰 So, canonically, not only is this their voice claim, they're the Boss of the Third Street Saints!)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 21h

(As someone who's had severe pneumonia (my lungs, to this DAY, have not recovered), that stuff ain't no joke. Even with MODERN medicine. I lost about 5-10% of my lung capacity because of it, and there's just no getting that back-and that was a KNOCKON effect because of what was REALLY ailing me!😬)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.3 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 1d

("Mir's p cute.*" fixed it for ya.🤭)

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