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Let me guess, you take it black

@once-a-polecat / once-a-polecat.tumblr.com

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About Me

  • I am over 40. This is not an admission of wrongdoing, it's a warning sign over the door. Please don't follow me if you're underaged.
  • I am genderfluid, bi and queer. I am a gymrat. I drink protein shakes and use "dude" as a gender neutral term of affection.
  • This blog is currently infected with Locked Tomb brainrot. If you don't want to see such content, please blacklist "The Locked Tomb," I do tag fairly rigorously.
  • Next up on the brainrot train: The triumphant return of the Mad Max cinematic universe.
  • Non-fandom things I love: Circus, fiber arts, native plants, cats, fragrance geekery. Probably some other things I'm forgetting about.
  • I write stuff sometimes. Maybe you'll see me link to my writing every now and then.

Cranky librarian ferret PFP courtesy of @magpiecrown (source, used with permission)

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Reblogged emcapi
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fuckmaster-unlimited asked:

losing my mind over the tags i knew literally nothing about this game up until basically Right Now and you’re blowing my mind a little . huh

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emcapi-gaming answered:

oh my god i get to do the thing.

additional fun facts about FFXIV:

  • the original game came out in 2010 and it was complete dogshit. SO dogshit that Yoshi-P came in as the new director with a plan to try and rescue it and he and his team rebuilt the game from scratch in... I can't remember if it was 1 year or 2 years, but it was a timeframe that by all reasonable estimates should have been impossible to redo An Entire Fucking MMORPG. And they did this WHILE making quality of life patches to the original game.
  • the original servers getting shut down was integrated in the lore of both the original (1.0) game and the new (2.0) game as THE FUCKING MOON GETTING DROPPED ON THE PLANET. AND BLOWING UP. RELEASING THE GIANT DRAGON-GOD IMPRISONED INSIDE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS WHO PROCEEDED TO DEVASTATE THE REALM.
  • the new game has now been running for 12 years, outpaced WoW in popularity (not sure if that's still the case but I'm pretty sure it was winning for a while there), now has 5 expansions on top of the original base game, and I was barely exaggerating on those plot points. (i admit the lesbians in question are not canon (yet) alas. although we also have other lesbians who are only subtext in the sense that they do not kiss or say i love you on screen. they literally have a giant gay rainbow crystal show up at the end of their questline it's NOT SUBTLE.) this game is off the fucking wall and pretty much everyone agrees that if you make it all the way into Shadowbringers it rewires your brain.
  • it's also Blorbo Generator 90000 because if you make a character and get all the way through MSQ (Main Scenario Quest) with them they will probably live rent free in your brain forever. many such cases. i got so obsessed with mine that she single-handedly made FFXIV my only main hyperfixation/special interest that has held that title twice because i was like 'oh shit i forgot how cool my girl is aaaaaaaaaand we are back to ffxiv 24/7 hours in my brain again okay cool.'
  • also there are so many cool story characters that you are very likely to end up with at least 1 special little guy[gender neutral].
  • honestly worth getting the free trial because there's probably hundreds of hours of gameplay just in the level 1-70 MSQ alone, not even including side content. the base game starts a little slow but it's all good. that's ur little guy's origin story :)

hope this helps :)

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#should i do this?
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Reblogged hatsinspace
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what a good morning!! im gonna draw a dog!!

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puddletumbles

apRIL FOOLS I DREW TWO DOGS THEY’RE BEST FRIENDS

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thebloggerskaramazov

the only good april fool’s joke

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kodas

it’s been 8 years and!! I’m so glad this is still making people happy!! (also i’m here now!!)

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my legacy :) ruff will be immortal

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10 years on and still my favorite post on this godforsaken site.

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Reblogged sammeh
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Seen someone say “I can’t die, I got graves to dance on that hasn’t been dug yet.” And honestly, that goes hard. We need to keep that energy.

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Reblogged hatsinspace
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you know you're good at your job when every single person tells you "thank god you're back"

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Boss makes a dollar You make a dime You read unsanitary pirate slash On company time

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Look if you read fanfic on the clock and everyone is still relieved that you're back you must just be that got-dang good at your job

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Fam, some jobs are like being a firefighter. 90% of the time you're not doing anything that important, but by golly, when they need you, they need you.

Some jobs, you can fuck around for six hours a day, but you know what you're doing so well that the work you do in two hours would take somebody else ten.

Some jobs, you spend those two hours preventing other people from making mistakes that would take 100 hours to fix if you weren't there to steer them right.

So don't buy into the idea that if you're not working 480 minutes a day, you're not doing enough to get paid a day's wages. That's the capitalism talking.

You're a better employee when you keep your morale up, and sometimes you do that by reading fanfiction on the clock in between putting out your little fires.

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Reblogged emcapi
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Harrowhark but she's Blood of Eden and her name is Spooky Scary Skeletons Send Shivers Down Your Spine. Is this anything.

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The people have SPOKEN and they are CORRECT

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Full name: It Harrows Me With Fear And Wonder Hark The Harald Angels Sing Spooky Scary Skeletons Send Shivers Down Your Spine

Since BoE names are never just a singular reference.

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Reblogged dragkingandreweldritch
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Mmmm medication :) I love you medication. Modern medicine makes my life so much better. "Ohh you're so young maybe you'll want to taper off..." no thank you, I will keep taking the pills that resolve my symptoms :) thank you pharmacology I love you

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