NAME: Laurel/ Arty

PRONOUNS: She/her

BIRTHDAY: 18th May

SEXUALITY: Panromantic Demisexual

NATIONALITY: Australian

ALIGNMENT: Neutral good, sometimes dips into chaotic good

PETS: Kenobi (Ginger short-hair cat) & Heidi (Black medium-hair cat)

PROFESSION: Admin/ receptionist (community mental health)

SONG: Never Gonna Give you Up - Rick Astley

{ABOUT ME…}

Laurel/ Arty ✧ 31 ✧ ♀ ✧ ♉

Hullo and welcome! Thanks for checking out my blog- this is the space for me to do a bit of out of character rambling!

Feel free to call me either Laurel or Arty- I respond to both and am unbuttered if you refer to me as one over the other. I’m a hobbyist gamer, artist, writer and roleplayer, and I love plants, raccoons, and snuggling up inside during a thunderstorm.

I’m a neurodivergent woman with two chronic, invisible illnesses which can sometimes knock me around a bit- as they say, hot girls have stomach issues! Alongside this, I’m an out and proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community and am passionate about disability advocacy and mental & sexual health.

I’m pretty open-minded when it comes to things, and am not into yucking others’ yums; I also follow the mantra of “be curious, not judgemental”.

Some of my creative endeavors can be found using the below links! I’ve sporadically posted my writing and art across my blogs, and more recently have begun using Anamnesis for posing in my FFXIV screenshots!

✧ My Wrinting ✧ My Art (main blog) ✧ My Gposes ✧

Last, but not least- I’m a member of the Onion Party, a rag-tag group of Aussie gamers who run Let’s Play content. We’re like a static, but with lower standards! I’ve been co-healing in FFXIV with this crew since ~2018ish and our runs are always full of chaos, laughter and positivity.

Links to the Onion Party content can be found here: Twitch ✧ YouTube ✧ Discord ✧

{MY FFXIV JOURNEY SO FAR…}

I predominantly play FFXIV on Elemental DC/ Tonberry server as Kupa Kipi, though I have a handful of alts on Tonberry as well! I’ve also previously been on Balmung as C'arta Eztli.

My journey in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn began back in June 2014, though I took a break and started fresh in January 2015.

Since then, I’ve grown a lot both within and outside of the game; I’ve taken up running a Free Company (Nomad Moogles, «NoM») on Tonberry server, and have dived into the roleplaying scene in FFXIV.

This blog was my main gateway into the FFXIV RP scene and has been up and running since 2015.

{BLOGROLL…}

✧ laurel-resting is my main blog; I like, reply and ask from this blog. It’s full of memes, cute animals, and things that make me happy. My previous username for this account was evergreen-symphony.

✧ This blog was initially called arty-and-the-tapir when I started blogging; it was later renamed to rainforest-cat and then changed once more to what it is today.

✧Previously, each character I roleplay had their own dedicated blog- this quickly became unmanageable and I amalgamated them into this one blog in mid-2024.

✧ The tools I use for gposing include Anamnesis, Ktisis and Photoshop 2023. I also use Reshade and have lightly modded my game to better reflect how I visualize each of my characters.

                                                          ✧ Updated 21/10/2024 ✧