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Questionable Wit

@valdiis / valdiis.tumblr.com

Questionable wit and personal musings from the 42 year-old writer behind several elezen and lizard people on Mateus and Balmung-Crystal in Final Fantasy XIV. This is a Choose Your Own Pronoun game.

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FFXIV Blogroll

Now that I’ve repurposed one of my prior blogs from WoW to fit my FFXIV character, I’d like to take a brief moment to point out all of my FFXIV blogs for those who might be interested. They are very minimally active, so you shouldn’t get much spam or anything.

@nightingale-company​ - This is a catch-all blog for my FC! It’s a spot to collect all their stories and art and things. We haven’t used it in a hot minute though.

@sword-and-surfboard​ - Aeluan Hoshinata, my lawful good sweetheart of an Au Ra. Sometimes he’s a paladin (thus the blog name) and sometimes he’s a dark knight (because I love how they play), but he’s always, always a knight in shining armor.

@vythanis​ - Vy’thanis Lusignon, a happy-go-lucky Duskwight Elezen with a secret. His bright smiles and friendly demeanor conceal more than one dangerous fact. Often seen in Ul’dah, he’s a master in the Miners’ Guild.

@starsworn​ - Daephrin Astramente, a sky pirate and scoundrel with a heart of gold. An Ishgardian Elezen by birth, he shuns his upbringing and sails the skies in search of Allagan plunder. (You will also find his little brother, Onaerion Astramente, on this blog. I never meant for Rion to become his own character, but here he is.)

And of course, there’s always this main blog which covers all of them plus Zheyn’a Lihuel, Lhys Ondhe, Mathaes Silverton, L’coreus Tia, Tziska Ayers, and Kazuya Ryouichi. However, this blog is a primarily OOC one and often contains whatever random shitposting I found funny that day. Beware.

If tumblr goes kablooey, I do have a mostly ignored bsky account under this same name. Won't find me on Xitter though. I can also be reached via Discord. Not that I think anyone around here actually will need to find me should tumblr disappear.

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Reblogged tevruden

you know what. I love you guys. it would make my day if you reblogged or commented with your favourite part of today. it can be ANYTHING. snack was yummy, saw a weird bird, anything at all. it does you so much good to be concious of the good things that happen to you. one good thing GO!

Since it's still quite early in the morning, nothing cool has happened today - but yesterday was my mom's 70th birthday and I think it's important to be conscious of how nice it is to have a cool mom still around. (She served in the military as a counter-intelligence agent, a legal secretary for years, then as a bouncer - in her 50s - at a BDSM club where they all called her 'Granny Goth' because she would knit - a bat shawl for me - at the door. She's radically liberal, unfailingly kind, smart as a whip, and absolutely deaf as a post. I love her so much.)

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What's your alarm tone, ring tone, and text tone?

If my phone made a sound at me now, I'd smash it with a hammer. (Can you imagine? We're from the generation that spent money on ringtones!)

That said, my ring tone is the theme from Indiana Jones. The text tone is the Mario coin sound. The alarm is chosen from among the phone's defaults. I only hear these when I'm in the car and my phone starts ringing through the speaker.

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I've been feeling like a piece of shit since yesterday, send me pics of your cats if you want.... I need them......

First up, the orange is Leland. Leland would eat anything, including: dried pasta, hops, and oven mitts.

The tabby is An Lad, a rescue who went from grumpy, violent kitty to complete lovebug in two years. He likes to sit on keyboards.

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me, every single time i see people (especially women) talking about the divine feminine energy, or the sacredness of the womb or whatever it is now:

[image description: a two-panel photo of a person dialling a number and then placing the phone to their ear. the contact is saved as ‘Ursula K. Le Guin’ /end ID]

context is this quote by her:

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
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Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

Sometimes little pleasures in life are loadbearing. Whenever someone is like "If you'd just give up tea and coffee and sugar and--" im like I'll stop you right there. Because if you finish that sentence i am going to kill everyone in this building and then myself. If i have to face the horrors of the world without my little jar of caramel flavoured instant coffee i am going to go full American Psycho. Believe it or not, my main priority in life is not to have perfect teeth or be an Olympic athlete or look like a supermodel, but to actually enjoy living, because I spent far too long not doing that and it royally sucked. And boy, some people don't like hearing that. Particularly dentists

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Finally done with this Cm 💜✨ Thank you so much for trusting me with ur oc and for commissioning me, this was super fun tp paint . I loved how I got to play with the bg so thanks for letting me doing so XD love the red moon theme! This is probably one of the most fun comms I've painted so far 😆

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