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Angel
@lycaelus.bsky.social
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♥ #ffxiv player and vtuber fan
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"Seeds know no borders; they will sprout wheresoever the earth embraces them. May they provide for your children and theirs after them for a thousand years to come."
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duskenvow.etheirys.social
【 Weapon 】

#duskknight #birbseeds #gpose #gposers
January 9, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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comeuppance.bsky.social
Yotsuyu is one of the most compelling villains in the game and she's also one of the most deeply, painfully human villains in the game and many people refuse to engage with her beyond a vague "she deserved better" or her surface-level cruelty and sex appeal.

(You better read this whole thread)
hyodachi.bsky.social Kabuto, pondering the 2026 orb. @hyodachi.bsky.social · Nov 16
XIV community, talk to me.

I have something simple and easy. I wanna know your unfiltered thoughts about your favorite character(s). Let your favoritism unleash.

#wolqotd #xivqotd
January 8, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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ciphox.bsky.social
two rough colored digital sketches arranged vertically top sketch: imitating the look of a romance anime screenshot, minfilia smiles at a bashful wol. closed captions read: - I will be making you mine! - M.. my lady antecedent... bottom sketch: both minfilia and wol in miner gear in a mine. minfilia is still smiling. wol looks unimpressed. a speech bubble for wol reads: Girl what the Hell
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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aburagura.bsky.social
#oc　#illustration
scapegoat
January 2, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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coolcola.bsky.social
Moom on vacation
#drawMEI
January 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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vimimi.bsky.social
🀄Wahoo! Fish Mahjong!
I designed a full set of Riichi Mahjong tiles with a fish theme for @jazzyplz.com Look forward to seeing them as real tiles!!
#vgencomm #ffxivart #ffxiv
January 8, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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black-ham.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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clockworkcanine.bsky.social
We quote this moment from frontlines from about a year ago so much
January 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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jelmul.bsky.social
🦊 l Fugue

#HonkaiStarRail #hsr
January 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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qiinamii.bsky.social
permanent tail #honkaistarrail #hsr
January 7, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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rene0elric.bsky.social
#wip
January 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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brotherminggames.bsky.social
The entire collection all in a single image

Really grateful to have been able to help bring these to life

Artists: @hellyonwhite.bsky.social @tecchen.bsky.social AnthonyKaen @redbeersake.bsky.social hideout_hide @kkaags.bsky.social @chaosringen.bsky.social @konburice.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 8:53 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
lycaelus.bsky.social
love when the gang opens up wordle on discord and we can all watch each other struggle and hate on the current word
wordle 1662 watch out
January 7, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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artctrlcee.bsky.social
Heavy is the crown (1/2)

#ffxivart #arcadion #7.4spoilers
January 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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tirabeesu.bsky.social
due to the success of metem saying just whatever during arcadion and lumulls very relatable telling the boss to STOP DOING THAT in doomtrain, i would like to posit more raids with eccentric lalafells yelling at us over intercoms
January 6, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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nyansarts.bsky.social
Snakes are so 2025. It's year of the horse now!
(Please show me your favourite meme boards!)

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#ffxiv #ffxivart #ffxivcomic #dawntrail
January 4, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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derytatith.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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tokiwomi.bsky.social
全員集合…長かった
#十二神宗教画チャレンジ
December 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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emissary.bsky.social
first moonship art of 2026 comes from the lovely @wawatiku.bsky.social 🥰

here's to these two sustaining my mental health and having fun au adventures in the back of my brain as we continue the ffxiv story into the next year and beyond ❤️ #🥮
art by wawa-san, featuring my wol daughter and elidibus/themis to pray at a shrine in kugane. they're both wearing kimono.
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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December 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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ritualgoth.bsky.social
I think a lot of people's understanding of the XIV subraces suffers from the fact that 99.9999% of players don't realize some of the subrace distinctions are explicitly Eorzea only.
December 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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As this cycle comes to a close, what sort of year was 2025 for you?  

Share your precious memories with us to live on in history. 💛
An illustration showing notable characters from Dawntrail. From the left: Calyx Sphene as Queen of Alexandria; Sphene in casual attire, and the Warrior of Light.
December 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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hotatenouniyaki.bsky.social
この兄妹めちゃ好きだったの絵
December 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM