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Aerik
@botanistroegadyn.bsky.social
FFXIV 1.0 Veteran. 🏳️‍🌈. White. 40. He/him. Video games, social justice, and queer things. Unapologetic Stormblood Fan. No Minors.
— Aerik Tirel on Mateus —
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Patch 1.23 (Approx. Jul 2012) -> Patch 7.15 (December 2024)

Over a decade with him and he still means the world to me.
Forcing people to engage and be aggressive in PVP in FF14 is legitimately the right move for the health of the content, thank you Yoshi-P.
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
They didn’t even COMMISSION / HIRE him to do the song.

He just talked to JC Miller about it, wrote the song, and randomly sent it to Soken going “just use this in the game somewhere if you want!”

Which is WILD. Soken said they had to scramble to discuss with management what to do about it.
December 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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ok thanks i guess
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
One more debt fully paid off!!!

That leaves me with 3 left I believe.

I’m getting really close to finally having everything settled! The remaining three are the BIG ones that are going to take a year or so to finally get handled if I keep making only the minimum payments.
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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“Fuck ICE! Fuck Trump! Free Palestine! Pay Artists!”

“Oh… wait, what? Change my streaming platform? Take all of an hour to cancel Spotify and transfer my playlists? Oh no no no no no. That requires a minimal amount of effort on my part. I’m good!”
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I got me a house!
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM
- Literally nearly every "all races mod" not including Roegadyn of either gender.

- 99% of mods that DO exist for Roegadyn or Hrothgar being nothing but sexualized outfits and fetishwear rather than interesting or cool pieces of fashionable clothing.
Crossposting this here, I'd like to see bsky users opinions too
December 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What flavor is your character?
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Took part in a thing where we took another person's OC and redid them in our own style.
I got the honour of working on @laddingtongaz.bsky.social
#gpose #roegadyn
November 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Some friends and I did a fun little exercise where we traded OCs and everyone got to re-interpret that person's OC in their style.

Here's my version of @frostedbiticles.bsky.social 's Demi!

#Roegadyn // #GPOSE // #Roevember2025
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Did a fun thing with friends where we redesigned their OCs as if they were ours!

Here's my version of @gigaguess.bsky.social

#Roegadyn | #GPOSE
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Also I fully blame beatmania IIDX for me knowing the term "Setsugekka" well before it was added to FFXIV as a skill name lmao
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Just realizing that I'm coming up on nearly 25 years of being a rhythm game fan (at the end of December of this year, specifically). The BEMANI series is where I got my start and continues to remain my favorite series of rhythm games.
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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the comic of mine that has ranked number one in people screaming at me incoherently

#art
November 18, 2024 at 2:39 AM
I still think its lazy and rather insulting that the dev team refuses to give new Jobs weapons for Ultimate raids that came out before they existed.

Like what if I want to run UCoB on Gunbreaker and want to get a weapon to show off on my GNB?
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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October 24, 2024 at 7:38 PM
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Rewatching Sailor Moon Cosmos and I'm really glad that the Precure animation team that worked on it got a chance to really be imaginative when it came to Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon's transformation.

Its completely new, rather than a throwback and it looks REALLY cool.
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Day Twenty-Eight: Season

Some friendships last a season. Some, a lifetime.

#RoevemberXIV | #GPOSE
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just a reminder that the real reason Shadowbringers is as good as it is, is due to the fact that it sought to cash in on the 150+ hours of storytelling prior to it that existed from ARR through Stormblood.

It could never be a stand alone game because the emotional payoff wouldn’t be there.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The way some folks don’t understand that their insufferable need to be morally superior or correct in every situation and their desire to “correct behaviors” of the people around them is the reason no one likes them.

And I’m not talking about bigotry, this is about stupid shit that doesn’t matter.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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everyone playing where winds meet did you know that its FULL OF GENERATIVE AI? why are you playing it!
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Basically dead fucking last - 365/366. Great. My birthday has been on the last page for like three years now. I’m so tired.

Please I need a fucking break.
the japanese luck calendar is out, how lucky is your 2026 based on your birthday? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Uhhhh but its WARcraft not PEACEcraft!"

Bro its a franchise from nineteen ninety fucking four.

Things have changed in 30 years and I don't think its bad writing for them to adapt their storytelling focus alongside that.
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM