🍂 Blanket Season portrait sketches, part three: the conclusion!
Thank you everyone who participated and cheered me on, I had lots of fun :D
For debaucheriss, midnitebreak, Anton, oneesan, @fredrickdavis, @daysbeforedawn, @fuu9266, and peachiessx
Good morning, friends!! String of Time Chapter 2 is up! :’D It took way longer than expected since going back to work left me with so little free time all over again … _(:,3」∠)_ I definitely need longer personal deadline for chapter 3 if I want to sneak more FF14 time among Tumblr shenanigans. /weeps/ Thank you so much for the interest! I hope you enjoy this chapter and the story so far! ^o^9 Likes and reblogs are appreciated! 🙏
[1. Ring] - @castingdebauchery’s Laira Helthrorne with a ring of thorns
Inktober card 01/31 ♪
☆My star child by @britishmuffin
She did an amazing job and I am do grateful for it! Thank you so much for lovely work again!
oh to have a bodyguard who calls me “my lady” and blushes when I say something sly
Hi, it’s muffin!! Do you still enjoy that artwork I made for you? Would you like a signed print of it? Then read on 👀
I finally have a printer again after many years without and HECK I forgot how convenient they are. I also sprung for one that prints photos beautifully and it’s got me wondering if offering prints might be something of interest to you guys?
I did a test run with patrons last week and got some pretty positive feedback!
So from now onwards I’d like to open up print orders, where I print off and sign physical copies of any commissions I’ve done for you already that you’d like me to send to you—since I know many of my followers here are also past customers!
I sourced some gorgeous photographic paper and printed off a couple test orders for friends and they came out super sharp and pretty!! (although they can be a little prone to fingerprints, best to frame them!) Just an idea really, and something I’ve wanted to try for a long time! I’d absolutely love to do more for you guys if I can, so if this is something you think you might be interested in, you can fill out this order form right here with all the shipping costs, and I’ll be in touch to invoice you via PayPal. It’s the best I can do until I get a storenvy set up!
That’s all, thank you! 🎉🎉🎉
When writing couples, I like to use the Kiss Rule:
damn tho
Everyone is nervous and intimidated by each other
And honestly, its kinda adorable.
I ♥ you guys
Third and final part of the Patreon Valentines YCH batch that I may have forgotten to post due to a combo of late payments and summer workload - BUT thank you so much everyone, I had a blast with these!!
Characters belong to: Rhiann, @castingdebauchery and Erin, @captainkelpar, @ahlis-xiv, tetrodoxin, @alpestris-flowers, @crimson-sunrise-ffxiv and @umbralsound-xiv
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Just a little list of what players can and should expect and prepare for when Shadowbringers goes into early access next week, followed by official launch shortly after, from someone who has survived many, many launch days for expansion packs.
In no particular order, here is a bundle of some helpful tips and reminders:
-Clean your inventory and retainers out: Do this and do this soon. New quests means new rewards and randomly obtained items dropped from monsters. If you do not have the bagspace now, you will definitely not have the bagspace when ShB drops! Don’t be caught with full bags!
-Turn off shout, yell and titles: Sometimes people want to avoid all things spoiler related, no matter how mild or vague the spoiler might be. So just to be safe, make sure you turn off Shout and Yell, and turn off Titles! Last time a spoiler title got through for the MSQ, it’s been changed since then, but just in case! This is a reminder to do that before servers go down for maintenance!
-Blacklist ShB stuff on social media: People are gonna wanna scream about spoilers on their social media, and it’s their right to do so! It’s their little corner of the internet! But to protect yourself, be sure to blacklist appropriately and, if you have to, temporarily avoid those who do not tag! You can always refollow after you’ve caught up! :D
-Get some IRL stuff done before launch: During the day servers are down for maintenance, get your house chores done! Do your laundry, clean those dishes, take all the trash out, buy some good quick snacks and tidy up your space. Make sure everything is clean, ready and set for extended periods of gameplay so you can play mostly uninterrupted. Bonus points if you prep throughout the week leading up!
-Take plenty of AFK breaks: Ensure to drink plenty of water, get plenty of sleep, shower and just take time away from the computer to walk (Please take care of family and pets too!). Don’t play the game without breaks. I know those queue times are gonna be rough, but playing without pause is really bad for your health, trust me. Look up Final Fantasy XI “Pandemonium Warden” and read about that 18 hour boss without breaks. Nasty stuff.
-Expect big queues upon logging in, especially during zero hour: No matter the data center you play on, expansion packs will bring a lot of new players and returning players. And people will likely server jump to avoid queues and fill up servers that are currently empty. Just have patience, make sure you have something to do while waiting(download a phone game or work on some art, ect), the queues will pass and things will settle. They always do. :]
-If we have the AFK campers like Stormblood: Calmly bring the issue up to the dev team on the forum so they can engage the daily server reset again. Though I’m sure they’ll be expecting it again, but just incase, don’t panic! We’ve survived this before. :D
-Expect the inevitable DDOS: Someone out there is going to see the FFXIV community excited for a good time and will want to ruin it, I’ve seen it happen with MMOs and any new online games (Even Overwatch got hit on launch day). If the servers start crashing a lot out of no where, assume it’s the DDOSers at their nonsense again and be patient, the dev team will be working around the clock to get servers up and stablized.
-Have a lil bit of patience and make alternate plans for in-game: Early Access and Launch week for any game is rough, so try to be patient. Queues will be long, servers will be shaky, DDOSing will be happening, loads of players will be fighting the same quest mobs, worlds will be clogged. Just be as patient as you can, things will smooth out gradually and all will be well. If you plan to do MSQ and its a chaos zone, make sure you have a fallback plan to do something else in-game while you wait for things to calm down!
-There will be bugs: Unfortunately that’s just how these things are. You’re probably going to hit a quest or a dungeon that will be bugged to heckity that the dev-team didn’t find in their testing, or it didn’t happen until the servers went live. Bugs are sneaky lil shits that will show up in the least expected of places, so be sure to report them and know that the dev team will be on it as fast as they can. Most importantly, be kind: The rush to end-game always gets pretty intense, especially with all the multitude of problems that come when the game launches. So be sure to be kind to one another, especially to our new players, who will be very confused and fumbling around trying to make sense of our crazy, content-packed game. ;w;
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If anyone else can think of anything more to add, please do!
“why are you crying, Warrior of Light?"
"with all the tank skills being more or less similar and streamlined, will tank playstyle identity cease to exist?”
Good Morning friends! Shadowbringers is in just 10 days, or less even! Me and my FC thought to do a little gathering to send off Stormblood and welcome Shadowbringers! And we’d like to invite you all to hang out with us for a bit!
What to expect!
Depending on how many show up we plan to visit some locations across the Stormblood maps and finally end by Crystal Tower where again, depending on the guests attending we may run World of Darkness unsynced! Edgy glams preferred!
See you on Saturday! Ready your Edgy Glams, potential Warriors of Darkness!
Gift art from the waifu!
