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► You are the warmth of a light that never fades.

@thefrostflower / thefrostflower.tumblr.com

You are the opening of the suite, the beginnings everyone awaits, the soft hum of the violins tuning as it grows louder and louder till the lights come on.
You are the excitement one feels knowing they have this world to themselves, and the love one feels knowing there cannot be an end.
You are the comfort of the unknown instead of the fear, and the happiness you hold, though it may fade, will always return to you. You are the beauty most lack, and the originality everyone strives for.

time for an UPDATED introduction post, since i still have new followers!

so hello friends, I’m Frost, or Frosty, take your pick. i’m an asexual, aromantic non-binary, and i prefer they/them pronouns. this is actually my personal blog, and i have no game/character-specific blogs, but i love MMORPGs, so that just tends to be what i post a lot about, aside from general posts or other games

to make it obvious, i am not an XIV content blog. this is legitimately my personal blog. if you don't plan on interacting with me even a little bit (such as just slapping a like on a reblog every now and then), please don't follow me

currently, my main game is FFXIV, with WoW and SWTOR on the side. but i’ve also played GW2, RIFT, and RO, though i’ve largely quit those ones (but i still love my toons and those worlds, so feel free to engage me on them as well). in XIV i tend to be a midcore casual player, while in WoW and SWTOR i’m just straight up casual, but i don’t like Toxic Casuals who love shitting on raiders, so miss me with that, please

i’m also an avid roleplayer and have been for 20+ years now, first getting my start on old school Pokemon message boards in the late 1990s. i’m also a HUGE fan of RPing outside of game, such as forums, discord, tumblr, etc, especially since i work full time and play multiple games, so feel free to give me a poke about that too. i really can only do one-shots in-game. i’m open to both platonic RP and romance RP, but i’m not interested in M/F ships or polyam/multishipping ships

my FFXIV character list can be found here, and contains most of the toons i care about and/or can remember, and one day? i’ll work on getting character lists for WoW and SWTOR? all my characters have tags, though, so at the very least you can look through those if you’re interested

anyway, that’s me, welcome and enjoy your stay

you can also find me on pillowfort @ thefrostflower!

THERE ARE (WoW) THE WAR WITHIN AND (FFXIV) DAWNTRAIL SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT

sylvanas was a solid and perfectly legible character for maybe a decade of content before ascending to her true & most noble purpose: pissing off every WoW fan. Not sure if she’s gay/bi/ally

wait this is crazy. you guys got the one-in-every-fandom theoretical DIY f/f pairing to the top? with 200 works on both the most popular m/m ship AND the respectably boring canon one? OK it may not be my favorite hentai of pennywise but i'm filled with respect and awe. Godspeed. keep plowing that zombie.

Your both awesome

okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.

I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.

so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.

Hell yeah

Can I start another reblog game? I'm gonna start another reblog game.

Share the most recent image of your OC! It doesn't matter what medium, just show me your character! Bonus points if you introduce them to the class.

I have several but for now I'll pick Stefan. (The bunnies are getting enough screen time with Vierapril. So have one of my elves.)

Stefan is one half of a set of twins. (His sister insists she's the older one.) Where as his sister is a healer, he's more of a battle mage. His specialty is in acranemia but he does know black magic and more recently pictomancy. He has a goal of learning all the different types of battle magic in time. Very much a book worm with a special interest in the War of the Magi. His hobby is alchemy in which he works on making his own medicines and trying to make them taste good.

He's very much gay and one of Sahji's partners. He will call Ronove a partner but they're more of battle partners than anything else. (Neither is in anyways interested in the other.) Other notable companions are his carbuncles and Fai (what looks to be a chocobo chick in a dragon costume but is a magical familiar). The carbuncles names are Esper (Ruby), Sol (Topaz), and Stella (Emerald) with Esper being the most commonly spotted at his side.

He is still often staying with the Blue Moon Troupe out in Thavnair for his own well being. He's actually making some efforts to improve himself and his life before he ends up dead early. Though he claims Ely is trying to murder him with her training methods.

shot on the left is technically not the LATEST latest, but it IS the latest that features ONLY him. while shot on the right is the true latest latest

anyway, this is Dominik bas Dekah, formerly the heir to a prominent military family in Garlemald. While one side of his family was aristocratic and could trace their bloodline back several centuries in Garlemald's history, the other side of his family were foreign aan from conquered provinces in Ilsabard, and it certainly caused quite a scandal in polite society when his nobleborn father married his "savage" "slave stock" other father.

However, it's from that side of his family that Dominik gets his most iconic skill: his ability to subjugate ghosts/spirits and exploit them for their power. While initially inherited, Dominik further honed the ability into the formidable power it is today at his Ilsabardian grandmother's elbow. All in secret, of course, as House Dekah had sworn off the use of magic generations ago in order to better conform into the Pureblood-dominated society of Garlemald.

Dominik, however, did not give a single flying fuck about this rule, and only craved power, and the ability to enslave ghosts/spirits to his will was too tempting to pass up. This proved to be detrimental, as shortly before the fall of Garlemald, he was quietly investigated by one of the Emperor's pet reapers; an attack dog by the name of Daine (that other white-haired fuckboy). Eventually Dominik was deemed an enemy of the state for his ghost-eating powers, and was assassinated by Daine for it, which is its own messy and complicated story as they were kinda in a situationship because they're both awful, horrible people. However, sometime during EW's Garlemald arc, Dominik wound up being revived back to life by his ghosts (VERY much like how the Alexandrians use souls to cheat death), and he's been trying to cope with that ever since, as his body no longer feels like his anymore

bonus since i JUST took these shots:

Ser Adélei de Saivatoix, an Ishgardian doctor and a field medic for the Knights Hospitalier, whose passion is medical alchemy. The eldest son of an ambitious middleborn family, which has doomed him from the start, as his parents will stop at nothing -- including abuse and control -- in order to marry him off to a nice girl of noble blood in order to finally make House Saivatoix a true highborn family. To them, he's a bargaining chip in a generations-long gambit to climb Ishgard's social hierarchy, and they WILL clip his wings and lock him away in a cage in service to it, just as what was done to them.

There's just one problem: Adélei is Gay Gay Homosexual Gay, and is adamantly against 'living a lie' for the rest of his life, not even as a lavender marriage (not to mention, there's very few noble families willing to marry a daughter off to a man who's known to have no interest in women). Thus he has spent most of his life at odds with his own family, weathering years of abuse and manipulation and ostracization. He resents his family -- his father especially -- and yet loves them too, and he hates that he loves them, and it's once again a very messy situation with no clear cut emotions, no Black and White.

Luckily, he has managed to stubbornly stick to his morals, even going so far as to run away to the frontlines of the Dragonsong War in his 20s to get out from under his family's thumb. He longs to spread his wings and fly away, but he's currently too scared to make that first leap into the unknown

my main takeaway from that post is that the "asexuals should be put in meat grinders" crowd didn't actually go away they just got quieter

it really is crazy how hearing the word "aphobia" makes the compassion just immediately drain out of people like a plug got pulled in the soles of their feet. ace people can talk about our experiences with ostracisation and medicalisation and corrective rape and abusive relationships and assault and conversion therapy and familial rejection and societal pressure and self-hatred and loneliness and erasure and lack of representation, and everyone agrees that those things are bad. but the second the word "aphobia" is mentioned people are instantly just falling over themselves in their desperation to Commit To The Bit

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nflstreet-deactivated20180710

Hooters is just an extremely American take on a maid cafe if you think about it

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witch-with-a-dick

your not wrong but you shouldnt say it

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mister-apology

This is incorrect. Hooters was founded in 1983, and the first permanent maid cafe, Cure Maid Cafe, was established in 2001. Maid cafe’s are an extremely Japanese take on Hooters.

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yourtongzhihazel

France: hundreds of years with baguette -- DID NOT INVENT BANH MI

Vietnam: less than 100 years with baguette -- INVENTED BANH MI

ANOTHER WIN FOR VIETNAM‼️‼️‼️‼️

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

Reminder: you can't be the whole wall against stopping fascism by yourself. Nobody can. But you damn sure can be a brick.

There's a lot of good comments and tags in the notes, but this one is very important, I feel like it deserves some emphasis.

Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can't stop it. And you can't stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.

You need to remember the next part: you don't have to stop it by yourself.

You're not alone. Take care of your community and let your community take care of you. Supporting each other is so vital.

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