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Elezen enthusiast 🦋 Multi-OC 🦋 she/her 🦋 NA / EU DC 🦋 RP 🦋 Gpose 🦋 savage Addict 🦋 main blm/healer🦋 no minors 🔞! (nsfw/sfw)
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faemage.bsky.social
‘How does savage go?’
January 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
faemage.bsky.social
Omg today was one of the hardest prog days ever… starting at 11.30 am with prog, with only 5 min breaks in between until now without any food x.x

_But_ the brothers are finally down 🥹 onto m11s tomorrow!
January 8, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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demoniofleurs.bsky.social
I stumbled upon a thread on the FFXIV subreddit that I encourage everyone who is frustrated with the DDoS’ to read, as it goes over why this is a complicated issue with no real easy solution

www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comm...
Title: Irrational Attackers and you: A (potential) explanation for why you keep getting 90k'd Is this actually a DDOS? Or does SE just have bad servers? There is no reason to believe it is anything other than a ddos attack In the last few weeks FFXIV has been kicking people off NA servers with 90k errors, this is confined to NA, and even if there have been some on EU/OCE/JP, it is orders of magnitude less common. There is no logical reason to assume the server software is different in each region, and since it it possible for both JP and NA to visit OCE, that is vanishingly unlikely. Earlier today, when world first racers were getting 90k's they tried to data center travel to Materia to raid. The 90k errors then stopped on NA, and started on OCE. Once they gave up and returned to NA, so did the 90k's. This is as close to evidence of a ddos attack as anyone who doesnt work for square enix can get. That also means it is provider agnostic, as NTT America does not operate in Australia. So that's the "how", now for the "why" In threat modeling, there are two kinds of attackers, rational, and irrational. Rational attackers are great (well, in terms of prevention), they are easy to understand, and can even be worked with at times, they are typically limited to actual hacking/unauthorized access attacks, but a rational attacker ddos could be "im ddosing you, pay me 3 million in bitcoin and I will stop" This isnt very likely, as typically those demands are public to put pressure on the target company, but it is possible if they just sent SE the ransom directly... but again, unlikely. An irrational attacker is FAR more likely, this doesnt mean somebody who is completely insane and has no reason, but someone who cannot be negotiated with, they just want to break things. If a rational attacker is a burglar breaking into your home, an irrational one is a drunk teenager trying to throw a rock through your attic window. In this case, I think its pretty clear whats going on. It is someone (or a group) that does not care about money, with no public ransom, and enough resources to repeatedly crash isp nodes (often multiple at a time) they are burning money to bring servers down for no gain. They are also willing to risk felony cybercrime charges (which this definitely counts as). Now the big question, how do you stop an irrational attacker? You dont. You hope they get bored or lose interest. There are some over very high profile mmo ddos incidents, with the most recent famous one being the WoW hardcore classic streamer guild "OnlyFangs" Whenever they pulled a raid boss, the wow servers went down, it was 100% predictable, there were no exceptions. This wasnt because their guild was specifically cursed and making the servers crash, there was just.... a guy(s) who wanted their characters dead. This only stopped after the streamers decided to stop playing hardcore, because it was hurting the game for everyone. Possible culprits Literally anyone with money, I suspect based on timing its someone who really wants NA to lose the world race? but it could also just be someone who wants to hurt FFXIV's reputation, and messing up the world race is the easiest way to do it But why is it only ffxiv? It isnt, its just that taking down any game costs a lot of money, so its very rare, even if you are just running a server for a few friends, you could be ddosed, it would just cost them far more to kill the server than it costs you to run it. There are obviously DDOS solutions, but they really only work for website, and the solution for something that needs server connection is an active and ongoing problem, its (part of) why so many competetive games switched to peer-to-peer hosting, if you kill the host it only affects that one game, not the entire server. Some more recent examples of non-ffxiv games taken down by ddos Albion online, basically unplayable for several weeks in early summer last year after a mass ban of rmt accounts World of warcraft earlier this week, im not sure why, but blizzard publicly acknowledged the cause on the launcher League of legends also earlier this week, actually no clue on this one either edit: they forgot to renew client license, they did get hit with one ~3 months ago though that also took down steam None of this is confirmed, I am just a third party with no insights into SE internals, using my experience with devops and cybersecurity to put pieces together
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 AM
faemage.bsky.social
Got m9s down on patch day but now I’m struggling in pf in m10s 😭
Snaking is the adds phase in m6s all over again… people just not getting it 🥹
January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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velnica.me
The Grand Champion 🔥

#GPOSE
An Elezen man with dusky skin and short grey hair tied in a ponytail leaning against a table. He is wearing a sleeveless robe adorned with metallic embroidery with open chest, and his left hand is reaching to pull one side of it away, intending to expose his chest. He is smirking at the camera.
December 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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itmetch.bsky.social
1984 type shit at fanfest
an edit of cosplay guidelines for the 2026 final fantasy xiv fan festival including a fabricated bulletpoint "Red Hot and Deep Blue cosplayers are forbidden from referring to themselves as "The Blowjob Brothers".
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
faemage.bsky.social
Omg ;3; this hair looks so good on Elezen too!
Can’t decide which I like more 🥹

#elezen #GPOSERS
December 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
faemage.bsky.social
Loving the glam restriction removal so much ♥️

#ffxiv #GPOSERS #ffxivsnaps #elezen #gpose
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
faemage.bsky.social
I also got the princess treatment ♥️ the new hair and dress is so pretty and I was super excited because it was an early Christmas gift ~

#elezen #ffxiv #ffxivsnaps #GPOSER
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
faemage.bsky.social
Anyone said hyur? ♥️
December 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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femroe.bsky.social
Alternative horns #ffxiv
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
faemage.bsky.social
My very first achievement was on the 30th of December 2013 🤭 I got a ps3 as a gift for Christmas and I bought a new tv to be able to play and I was so excited when I was able to start playing
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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cerisexiv.bsky.social
Dreamer

#gposers #EorzeaPhotos #StelleCrownFlourish
August 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
faemage.bsky.social
My first Deep dungeon ever cleared ❤️ PT was very fun to do, the fights were fun to prog and currently I’m blind progging Q40 currently 🤭 might stream it a bit during the week ♥️
November 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
faemage.bsky.social
A bit of experimenting with shaders ♥️

#GPOSERS #Elezen #Duskwight #Elezenhour
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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obscurum.bsky.social
www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/146747 • #luciliasmods
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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koremeadows.bsky.social
Gleymdu mér aldrei þó ég héðan flýg
Gleymdu mér aldrei, elskan mín

#VioletArrow • #Elegyworks • #HexMods • #ffxivgpose • #GPOSERS
“Never forget me even if I run away. Never forget me my love"
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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crybabytuesday.bsky.social
all day everyday
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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saturdae.bsky.social
Crawling out of the void for a new top for F Midlander based bodies on my Trello (Pinned). This is a top. You will need(?) pants. Previews in the Void because honestly, this skirt is huge (on purpose). Dye previews included below.
trello.com/c/SjOEziPh/4... #daemods
September 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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suwisuwii.bsky.social
Ascension
Portrait of Astarion wearing a crown made of blood, that is dropping through his hair down his face. Tags: #BG3 #BG3Art #AscendedAstarion
September 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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faemage.bsky.social
Cheeky little girl got a new fit ♥️

#GPOSERS #miqote #ReShade #aleemods #moonkeeper
September 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
faemage.bsky.social
Cheeky little girl got a new fit ♥️

#GPOSERS #miqote #ReShade #aleemods #moonkeeper
September 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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makomage.bsky.social
yotsuyu goe brutus #ffxiv
a red and black illustration of yotsuyu sitting in front of a red moon surrounded by spider lily flowers
September 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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aetherologie.etheirys.social
' — i move slowly
in the haze of people
pulsing like the sun... '

🦉🪽 #aetherspun | #daemods
July 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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faemage.bsky.social
Dancing Flower 🌹 ~
(I’m really happy with this screenshot 🥰)

#elezen #gposers #reshade #duskwight
September 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM