Lightingway 🌱 6.1

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Oc shitpost and first-timer MSQ livetweet (Currently: SIDE CONTENT INDULGENCE) #CallineMachineGoBrrr drawing Calline is my character’s name, not mine. I am eternally workshopping my pen name. Please be an adult 🔞 FUB free

hinageshi wearing a veil AND flower crown to her wedding, which my coworkers described as "too much" when our boss did it in 2018.
crop zoom of tankin's face eyes bugged out like ohhhhh shitttttt.
Tankin: Well, you see, this ring is used in the Ceremony of Eternal Bonding, and... I was hoping you might join me in a recreation of the ceremony.
Hinageshi: Proposal...? I'm not sure I follow. And may I ask why you have that ring?
Tankin: Our...next venture...?
Hinageshi: You did know that my parents are both botanists, yes? They were recently introduced to a potential financial supporter who also wished to know more of my research interests.
tankin looking to the sky for a god that will not save him, holding a hugeass engagement ring.
Georjeaux: There are those, of course, who believe Estinien to be the most powerful. You've firsthand knowledge, so what say you? Or perhaps you think yourself the strongest of them?
Georjeaux: I am preparing for my next debate: who among the Scions can deal the most fearsome blow. It should come as no surprise that I am arguing for my alumna Alisaie.
Tankin: Language has evolved to convey our emotions so accurately and with such colorful prose, yet we still rely upon tokens for the truly momentous occasions. A curious quirk of our culture, you might say.
Tankin: I was hoping she would accompany me on my next venture─research of a, uh...a ceremony of sorts... I say research, but it's more of a...um...
Tankin: I'm afraid so. Yet the fact remains that culture can only survive and thrive through the people who share in it. Any knowledge we might feasibly preserve now is no different from the myriad tomes collecting dust in the halls of the Studium.
Tankin: The true goal was to determine what cultures were worthy of preservation, and how said preservation might be accomplished.
Tankin: My apologies for keeping this from you, but my research had an ulterior motive. It was, in fact, part of a contingency plan devised by the Forum. That plan being mass exodus to another star.
photo of woman eating something from spoon, as seen in well-known tumblr post that was like, a photo of a dwarf hamster in a spoon followed by this followed by i think matthew mcconaghy yelling. nope i just looked it up it was aaron paul screaming. let this alt text be a testament to my lack of knowledge of actors.
Tonberry followed you. Follow back?
allie very sad.
Eager Support Unit: Several units have already been deployed to lend aid to operations. Is your current request in regards to waitstaff or patron insufficiencies? <whirr> Retracting previous query in interest of efficiency. This unit will offer its services as needed to simulate the appearance of a successful small business.
What will you say? Count this unit in! I swore I'd never go back to retail...
N-7000: This unit proposes a temporary retreat to A-4 Research to discuss future salads, and salad-adjacent matters.
trees.
salad.
Defiant Fighter: I struggle to understand why you have ushered us back into existence in this fashion. The wheel of time does not turn in reverse...
Namingway: How I wish that the Voyagers were still here, that they might tell us not only their chosen nomenclature, but how it felt upon their tongues and in their hearts.
Namingway: Their idle midair posture rather calls to mind an earth sprite prior to its awakening.
Namingway: Some have proposed using gravitational magicks to resolve the imbalance, but the finer points of this plan have yet to materialize.
Namingway: Behold the crooked cedar, warped by gravity right down to the roots. Namingway: Evidently the anomalies fluctuate faintly. Hence, some branches are forced to grow toward the nearest sphere, while others are free to seek the sun. Namingway: A few saplings will be exported to Etheirys to observe their growth under normal conditions. I expect they'll go straight up!
Namingway: “Etheirys” isn't gone, no matter how time has changed the face of it. Yet many of you have never known any home but “Hydaelyn.” Neither truth makes the other less true.
Namingway: We believe that many Voyagers once made their homes here. Namingway: Quite literally, as each domicile appears to have been carved out of a single native boulder by arcane means. Thus, I call them rockhollow homes! Namingway: Though they lie empty now, they still have much to tell us of their inhabitants...who may have been no taller than the people of Etheirys!
Namingway: Do you recall the lampmelt marble we utilized on Phaenna? This new stone is in a similar vein─heh─but it was developed by our team expressly for Terra Firma! Namingway: It began with a question: why does much of the skyborne rock merely float in place? There had to be a natural counterbalance at play...and so we started digging. Namingway: The ore we found below can be used to shield against forces both gravitational and magnetic, so we ground it down to make the marble you see in the panels just there.
A drawing of Ruby Carmine, a hyur with bluish-black hair and outfit carrying alpha the chocobo. It’s made of a mix of alcohol marker, colored pencil, and acrylic paint marker.
Shirazade: Hello, stranger. You a challenger too? Seems House Sener's deigned to open up part of their treasure vault in an effort to lift spirits in the city.
Radiant Host Captain: As you may have observed, that young woman believes that her ring was stolen by that─er, uncouth young man who just walked away. She has no physical evidence...and yet, I cannot help but believe that she is telling the truth.
"Antagonistic Au Ra" a dude with face 3 horns.
Estinien: Vrtra is warming to his role as satrap. Clearly all those years behind the curtain were not spent napping.
Estinien: Dragon and man, side by side in pursuit of a brighter morrow. I'm reminded of Ishgard.
an au ra who admittedly looks very little like emi, but has white scales and black hair in a side ponytail.
two uniformed radiant guardsmans' weapons circled. I think Nahbdeen has the Augmented Radiant's set and the other guy has the Palaka set.
Vrtra: Now, such an influential policy is deserving of a worthy name...
What will you say? Taxes. Levy them on trade profits in exchange for your investment. It takes a village... Idyllshire's orphanage was funded through trade in highly coveted goods...
Vrtra: Firstly, the treasure shall be sold for more convenient currency, thence invested into the trading port of Yedlihmad. Our merchants must have their operations restored, their ships rebuilt. Commerce must flow once more!
a collection of vrtra's attendants wearing the more masculine thavnairian set introduced in heavensward, dyed i think deepwood green.
Vrtra: In better times, I would leave such a task to our capable Ahewann, gods rest his soul.
Varshahn: We must identify any obstacles to the flow of trade so we may begin working to remove them. Tell me, what did you learn in Akyaali and Yedlihmad?
Varshahn: Our nation is small and isolated, its prosperity dependent on a steady stream of exports...
Estinien: 'Twould seem my stint on Vrtra's back did not go unnoticed.
Guild Staff: If Khalzahl and his consortium were still with us, I'm sure he'd have found a way to turn our fortunes around. Now that was a man who got things done, gods rest his soul.
What will you say? Stealing? At that price, you're the only thief around here. Still not turning a profit these days? I am... not Estinien.
Khanga: Have you not a delivery to make?
Matsya: Well, I suppose Khalzahl's loss hit us the hardest.
Maru: Tell me, Callinectes─you're from Eorzea, ain't you?
Daily Quests Today's Remaining Allowances: 12 Deal by the Docks Do It for the Vine Missing Rider Small Talk Nothing
gpose of calline triumphant next to a shrine in the sky
a frankly embarrassing red mage job gauge with 74 white magic 33 black magic
Throne of Water: Bah, let her come! I will drown the world and watch this fleshling gasp for breath in her final moments!
Estinien: Callinectes and I are in this together. I will follow her example.
Varshahn: Then think of your employment as recompense. Serve me as guest advisors, and I will consider the broken constructs paid for in full.
What will you say? Of course. Anything to make up for the constructs we broke...
Estinien: I hope you enjoyed the expedition, at least. Otherwise it was a heavy purse to pay for a treasure map leading to a treasure we couldn't keep.