Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

so no, i am not interested in any more garlean characters! i am full up thank you.

if your character starts drunkenly shouting about how garlemald is totes the best in the middle of limsa fucking lominsa, i am going to assume you're a troll, and not roleplay with you lol

quite frankly, i sure don't, because i know how it usually goes. somebody says they're down for 'realistic rp with consequences' right up until they ACTUALLY GET THE CONSEQUENCES - and then they point at you as the biggest monster on the planet.

they want to inflict consequences on others in RP, not actually receive any, and god help you if you give them some.

and it gets triple fucking boring when the big secret is also one that catches other roleplayers in a situation where they are unable to act accordingly

like, if you want to play the fallout, it COULD get interesting.

but nobody wants to rain on someone's good time OOCly. very few will step up and attempt to, say, arrest/detain an enemy soldier, much less react with perhaps IC ire and violence.

also you know what's true about a character with a Big Secret that then just flies it openly???

IT'S BORING

SUPER
FUCKING
BORING

THERE'S NO WHIFF OF MYSTERY, THERE'S NO STORY NEEDING TO BE TOLD, THERE'S NO SETUP YEARNING FOR PUNCHLINE

now revealing the secret and then continuing on? THAT is good rp. but having it be out there and doing nothing with it? b o r i n g

like, nero tol scaeva has made himself invaluable and he's the jerkass that is like. the unfortunate pet mascot of the ironworks. he followed jessie home and now cid can't get rid of him.

Very Few Roleplay Characters Can Achieve That Level Of Untouchability Without Being Immediately Overpowered

the thing about having characters with a secret That Big is that you have to play it.... AS A SECRET

it is not a good and fun time to walk around eorzea with your garlean third eye hanging out

just ask arenvald

or lucia

or fuckin cid! he's a respected, well-known, loyal to eorzea defector! AND HE STILL WEARS HIS FUCKIN GOGGLES.

the only character who lets it all hang out is nero And He's Just Like That

i have not yet met a character that was a believable and interesting to roleplay and abiding of the spirit of good rp garlean defector

i maybe saw one off in the distance but the vast majority bank on putting other rpers in a catch-22 situation where their characters cannot react in-character because of out-of-character reasons, and though some end up here unintentionally, it inevitably gets obnoxious

one face mask later, i am AMAZED this is typed anywhere NEAR correctly

good: skincare fancy mask time yay

bad: i wear glasses and i can't see shit. i have no idea if this is typed accurately. it's literally a line of greyish blur on white. so uhhh yes.

i mean i could scrape off the bits from my nosepads but this one is a bubbly clay mask and let's not put that on lenses

also i hope at the end of this patch the setup for the next ffxiv xpack is just "krile, alisaie and WoL set off on a rad road trip to save everyone and swap embarrassing stories about alphinaud"

catching up on story quests and honestly

If They Hurt Alisaie

I'm Going To Set The Entirety Of Eorzea On Fire

that is my DAUGHTER

an excuse to give alisaie and alphinaud new models that make them not look like they are both twelve.

i know! i know! the timeline! and elezen aging with 'second puberty' and whatnot! but oh my god i'm still so creeped out when people get shippy with them

anyway tldr yet again is, cis dudes wanting to come play with makeup = cool! great! makeup should have no gender!

cis dudes using this as just another sphere in which men MUST be better at it than women, and talking down to women, while often sneering that women had no idea what they were doing until HE arrived and helped ALL THESE POOR PITIFUL STUPID LADIES:

flames

flames, on the side of my face,

however that is the sort of dude who thinks their sexuality is always a perfect defense against any misogyny (or often racism, etc. too!)

and still *treats women's bodies like currency they have power over* instead of women having agency themselves

it's just... so fucking pervasive in the Online Booty Gooroos, and i'm done with it

ngl i'm kinda over a certain type of - inevitably white, middle-upper-class - cis gay dude who thinks that not only "oh but honey i'm gay, i think vaginas are sOOOOOOOO GROSS lol" means they get to come be in women-centric spaces, but that they do femininity better than women because of it

it's just... same shit... different package.......

every time i hear james charles's rallying cry of SISTERS~~~~~~~ my blood pressure spikes a bit to be quite honest

please stop co-opting female solidarity, cis gay dudes

if you're trans that is great! if you're enby that is great! but you're fuckin cis please stop. this is not your clubhouse. we built it to get away from cis dudes. pls.

sometimes i just remember that one survey they did of british scientists talking about religion/spirituality and how so many of them volunteered "and by the way, Richard Dawkins is a fucken asshole and i hate him" when they in no way had asked about him or mentioned his name

it's just. the irl occurrence of that one line from portal. "the results say you're a terrible person. we weren't even testing for that"

i didn't remember that today my massage appointment is an hour and a half later than usual and it means i get to slowly meander through my lunch instead of being on the go hooray