welcome to my journal. though, with how i plan to use it, you might think of it more akin to a blog. basically, this is just my blabbering corner. long-form or short-form. probably mostly short-form. but not always.
THE BODY GOT HERE TODAY (5 whole days early according to the og expected date!) so now they are officially Alive. like frankenstein's monster. but make it sly's freak. #myfreak
theoretically, i technically knew the size of this body. in practice i saw how small the shipping box was in the mailbox and thought 'omg.' then i got it inside and opened it and went 'omg!!!' it is SO adorably small i can't get over it. i can't wait to learn how to make them clothes!!
the nendo parts arrived today!!!
they're a little bit heavier than i thought they'd be ngl LOL. but they do feel soo nice. now just to wait for the body.. < guy who is definitely not vibrating hard enough to shift tectonic plates
after years of watching from the sidelines, i finally took the first step to customizing a doll of my own; buying the cheapest parts i could find, a cute body, and nothing in particular in mind for their design other than i want them to be a little FREAK.
since this is, like i said, my first proper foray into doll customization, i didn't want to go in with the most perfect, expensive pieces and the idea that i'd be recreating a beloved oc of mine 1-to-1. because if i did that, i would agonize over them being perfect, or NOT perfect, and likely not ever actually finish the doll.
so! no thoughts. head empty. no perfectionism. only little FREAK.
OH and i also got my second lobes redone today LOL. got so excited thinking about the freak i almost forgot
it's been a busy just-over-a-week; i found a prompt list on bluesky that someone made for this year's mayqo'te, and after giving it a lookover and mulling on it for a bit, i decided to try tackling it as my first ever month-long gpose event. i've done a week-long event before, focused on rarepairs, but i dare say 7 days is a far cry from 31. though, that being said, to be fair i most likely won't end up actually doing 31 gposes, as there's a handful of prompts that i have ZERO ideas for even after desperately thinking on them. like not even the faintest. and since i also want to try my hand at junelezen and auraugust, i think i'll be better off not trying to push it and instead considering it saved energy for those months. so, unless i'm suddenly struck with some more genius, i currently only have 4 gposes left to do. i wasn't kidding when i said i've been busy! i haven't gposed this much in a hot minute. it feels good to stretch my creative muscles, and it makes me even more excited to have the opportunity to take a ton of pics of Auv and Althuli too. i just.. really hope that the prompts for the next months aren't put up too last minute. i like having the time to chew on & then create the gposes, and being in a rush to do things like that 'on time' just stresses me out. i'm feeling good creatively, but not SO good that i can come up with a solid idea, execute it, then do all the post-processing on the days as they go by. i think trying to do it that way would actually run me into the ground LOL.
i...didn't expect to be making this post so quickly after the last one! although, i guess, technically, it's been manymany months in-game. which would've also been manymany months irl if i'd had the desire to do this back then. i wonder if things would have played out the same in real time?
it is a mystery. 👻
anyways, my quest to complete the art section of the museum ended.. i think the next day after i posted LOL. it was a painting that had eluded me for ages, even back then; the birth of venus. it was a nice one to end on.
then, as i mentioned before, it was on to the last critters i hadn't caught yet. i was an adamant hunter from the start, so i didn't have many left.
the tarantula took me about an hour and a half total, i think. i initially tried just running around my island, but quickly figured that clearing out a mystery tour island and hunting there instead would probably be better. it definitely feels like it was, at least.
the stringfish was literally my first catch of the day. i had heard about people using dozens of bait before they finally got one. i was stunned.
lastly, the giraffe stag took me about.. four hours total i think? i did most of the hunting on my island since i have a nice amount of palm trees, but the thought of all the spawns getting hogged by who knows how many non-beetle bugs eventually led to me clearing out yet another mystery tour island and putting down extra palm trees. got a ton of other beetles in the process, but it did eventually show up after about an hour.
and with that...the museum is finally complete.
now the only thing left to really do is spruce up my island. which WILL take much longer than this did, so there won't be a post a week from now saying 'my island is officially perfect now, kthxbye' like i basically did with this one lol.
also, on a not-really-related-but-kind-of-similar note, the temperature in my area has gotten to a point where all kinds of little fellas are finally coming up out of the woodwork...i'm so excited to get back out there and take more photos. this year i really want to try out one of those fan jackets and see if i can go out to parks and walk around without worrying about overheating.
got the most random urge to hop back on my ACNH island and finish up things i didn't manage to when i stopped playing a few years ago. mostly completing the museum, but also decorating the barren spots on my island, and getting the last villager photo i needed.
which i actually did a couple days ago! love that little rocker mouse.
i've also made good progress on the art section of the museum. i stopped playing sometime around june 2023, so that's where i picked back up from; since i'm only checking for when Redd's at the island (and a weekly check at Harv's place) i've been going through the days pretty quick, and i'm now in august. just three more paintings to go! and then i'll be focusing on the last few critters i need.
after deliberating on how exactly i would do it for a while, i took Auv's old ponytail mashup and revitalized it with the help of meshes put together by people that know what they're doing waaay more than i do.
and it looks SO. DAMN GOOD. i love it so much i'm so excited to do gposes with her.
..but it does hurt that the reference pic i used for inspiration seems to have been wiped off the face of the earth. i even caught myself wondering if i should save it the last time i looked it up, but didn't. 😔 rip you gave me a most beautiful vision for my girlie.
i finally got around to sculpting the girls' and Kihceh's noses in blender, rather than stretching C+s limits, and they came out so goodddd.. my pookiepoobs..
i have to admit i'm especially pleased with how the girls' noses turned out. just using C+ to stretch the nostrils wider kind of gave the look i wanted, but it could never achieve the specific roundedness that i was envisioning, not to mention the incredibly finicky 'flat but has a little hump' shape for their bridges. now they're perfect and i love them so much <3
went to a craft store to get parts to fix up a really old, beloved necklace i have (some of the metal pieces were tarnished beyond saving) and, of course, saw some extra bits and bobs while i was there that i couldn't pass up.
like this precious little moth pendant! which i decided to put on this choker that i'd been meaning to replace the original pendant on, at least for the time being.
can't find spiked chokers made to resemble anti-wolf collars so i'm sitting here contemplating just straight up buying* a collar meant for actual livestock guardian dogs from an unsuspecting etsy metalsmith. *unfortunately only in theory rn. it is rightfully very expensive and i already spent a good chunk on those earrings. bookmarking it tho ☝️
unintentional back to back posts because we decided this on a whim literally last night, but i got my left helix repierced today \o/ here's to hoping it doesn't get any blisters or bumps on it this time.. everyone cross your fingers for me pretty pls.
chipped away at a couple more xiv edits inbetween speedrunning MSQ for my Lan alt;
i revisited my wolfezen furred ears concept(and executed them much better than before, if i may say so myself),
and i gave Yone custom scales,
and on a non-ffxiv note, i was finally able to buy a stunning pair of earrings that i'd been wanting for a while now, and they should hopefully be here in a couple of weeks! they're going to match so well with my insect boots, i'm really excited for them.
it feels like it's been so much longer than three weeks since i last posted. feels more like an age.
anyways, i've been feeling better these past few days, so i thought now would be a good time to finally post an update here. after i remind myself of what all i've done that i haven't posted..
it's mostly xiv stuff tbh. lots of little personal tweaks, here and there, but i've also been looking into and learning a lot of new things that i've immediately put to use.
i gave Landenel some more scruff like i had been thinking about,
i gave Asteria custom facial and surface piercings, complete with shiny DT metal materials(not shown here but i promise they have it now lol). i also converted most of their main outfit to have DT materials,
and i finally figured out where the non-human textures are and put Alqadan-Vathuli's mom ingame.
i also took a pretty big plunge into custom hair; i'd been meaning to finish Natiene's redesign for a while, but couldn't because i couldn't ever find a hair that fit what i had in mind for her endgame look. so with the help of this guide i learned how to make it myself.
of course, being my first ever attempt at something like this, i'm sure there's flaws and little hangups that people who know what they're doing can see from a mile away. but noone else was going to do it, because mindreading is not a power in this reality. and damn it all if my girl wasn't going to have her cute little braids. it took me around 4-5 days total from start to finish.
with that finally being all done, i took a break from the blender mines to create yet another OC that had been brewing in the back of my mind for, technically, a very long time. she just ended up taking a detour from her initial concept.
this is Yone, runaway heir to an underwater civilization similar to Sui-no-Sato. i'm still working on the meat of his backstory, but tldr he's going to end up as Estinien's giant sea snake wife. i'd always found Estinien intriguing, to the point that Yone's initial concept i mentioned was also meant to end up with him, but none of my previous xiv OCs wound up being romantically compatible with him, except for i guess Kihceh but it was more of a 'what if things had been different' scenario with them, not actual canon. so now Yone is here.
OH i almost forgot, i also turned Kihceh into a baby kittycat to accompany my Lan alt on his adventures. technically still a wip but it's close enough to being done that i haven't felt particularly rushed to put the finishing touches on it yet.
i'd been meaning to make another post on here for the past couple of weeks. unfortunately yesterday was a long day. i'm not going to feel like posting much of anything anywhere for probably a while. sorry. if you have a pet, give them some extra love for me. maybe a little treat. remind yourself to not take them for granted.
I MEANT TO MAKE THIS POST WAY EARLIER BUT I GOT DISTRACTED. OOPS. I GOT TWO SHINY BUGGIES A FEW DAYS AGO
and i got a xiv sub as an early xmas gift so unts will most likely be put on hold for a little bit. unless i happen to REALLY get the itch again.
got two shiny kitties yesterday and today. first one spawned in like under five minutes, second one took a lil bit longer LOL. first fella got evolved.
(i know the compression borks the quality just enough to muddle the colors, i swear they're shiny 😭)
i got the gleebydeeby kitty cat \o/
and i gotta say, as much as i still like and miss the warmer, more lime-y green from the 2D games, the way the alien green looks in this game's lighting isn't half bad at all.
it's been a hot minute; sorry about that. i've been kindof low energy these past few weeks. trying to work myself out of it.
first, i've done quite a bit more shiny hunting. actually a lot more than i realized since my last post. which i did NOT mean to do lol i would've liked to have made entries about them sooner, but, oh well.
side note, that pyroar outbreak only spawned at night. and i didn't have anything else to do so i had to just. sit there and wait. which was. frustrating. but we persevere.
and i still have an espeon hunt that's been on pause for almost two weeks now that i would really like to get back to. maybe tomorrow? i hope so. we'll see.
i also did some more work on my other xiv OCs; my summoner viera that i hadn't been able to get fully attached to until now, and my xivilai lady.
i still need to come up with a good name for him, but i'm soo much more in love with his design now after some more tweaking. i got him proper bunny feets, got him fixed up with custom textures, and a whole new face basically. it's very full moon-shaped and cutieful. the only other thing i can think to do is maaaybe custom makeup? but that can be figured out later.
(it's actually been so long that i've made some small edits to his body hair since these pics were taken LOL. still very close though.)
as for my giant lion woman, she now has a name; Atsacath! once again, fantasy name generators dot com saves my life. i should really add it to my links page actually now that i think about it.
anyways, she's also gotten some tweaks here and there, particularly with her proportions and face, with more tweaks to her textures planned. but for the most part she was already pretty solid.
and, i can't lie, guys...i've been feeling that bone-deep itch for skyrim again. only time will tell if i actually get the will to boot it up....
had a good hunting day today 👍
there was also a poochyena outbreak, but it was in the middle of that apple orchard in kitakami, and visibility was TERRIBLE. so i decided to just wait for a better outbreak spot to hunt for it.
next day edit: soon after posting this i let the demons win the thought of '...well, just one more hunt wouldn't hurt, right? get a lil headstart for tomorrow maybe?' except by sheer luck i ended up getting two more shinies before the AM. so uhm. oops but also not oops?
vibeo game checkpoint 🚨
i've just about finished scarlet now; i only have the ace tournament left to do. and mochi mayhem i guess, though i'm not sure if i'll be able to do the mystery gift thing...i'll have to check and see. i've had a fairly good time with it, but i say that having not had to pay my own money for it, so. grain of salt and all that.
in the meantime, i've been doing some more hunting. i've gotten a noibat and happiny from outbreaks...
...as well as three(!!) random spawns that i only just so happened to notice while i was in the middle of something else.
i didn't get out of battle pics of either of the deerling because they caught me by such surprise. and while i did catch the first one, the second one was ultimately lost to a sparkling power reload while i was hunting chanseys. i still can't believe it.
...and it's a shame because i still have to shiny hunt for deerling. because i prefer it as shiny in its winter form. 😭
i also finally got the will to actualize my xiv au Prompto and Ignis ingame. i plan on making Noctis and Gladiolus too, but for right now i just had an itch for making those two in particular do yaoiful things with gpose so they were expedited.
i'd say they came out decently close to their xv models, given that c+ can only do so much by itself. Ignis's eye shape, in particular, still pisses me off just a little bit after futzing around with it for an age and a half, but it's good enough.
saw what looked to be beautiful insect patterned boots but when i zoomed in on them, it was extremely obvious that the art was generated. so now i'm sitting here trying to figure out how difficult it would be to buy plain boots and just scrawl that shit on myself
ever since i woke up this morning, my lower left back has been killing. me. non. stop. there's no position i can get into where it doesn't hurt at least a little bit, and in the past couple of hours it's started really noticably shooting down my leg as well. no idea if it's a pinched nerve or what but i can barely stand straight. i'm not even in my late 20s yet can i get a fucking break puhleaseee (i don't expect it to last long, definitely not up until then, but i still plan on asking my doc about it when i next see her. i've had consistent problems with my lower spine for a few years now and i really don't think it's just coincidental anymore.)
ok so scarlet has been fairly fun. i've beaten all the gyms and titans, and just have the last team star boss left. thinking i'll continue and hopefully finish the titan questline first.
and, on top of all that, i found out about the outbreak shiny hunting method the other day and have already found success twice since! not to mention the completely random one i found just a few hours into my playthrough.
the random skiddo...
...and the jumpluff and cryogonal outbreaks! the jumpluff was me just testing out the method since i happened to run into the outbreak on my way to do a quest, and the cryogonal was a bit more purposeful, being one of my favorite shinies. though it was pure luck that it happened to be an outbreak today; i haven't been using sandwich powers to skew chances or anything like that yet.
also, a bit of lore since the last time i even mentioned it was on tumblr years ago and it's very relevant; i bred over a hundred shinies on my Y save back in the day. i LOVE shiny hunting & collecting. as you might've already guessed i prefer the masuda method, since it tends to be the most painless in my experience, but since i'm not exactly able to do that in scarlet i figured i would try out non-breeding methods for the first time. and it's been pretty nice so far! the hunts fuel me. i'm excited to do more.
all that to say that i'll be adding a pokemon tag now LOL.
with ZAs release piquing my curiosity, i finally got around to setting things up so that i could try out SV; specifically, scarlet. now i know it sounds a bit backwards to have a new game catch my attention...and then turn around and play an older entry. granted, i will be trying ZA out too, just not right now. but because i hadn't played a pokemon game since SuMo, i wanted something inbetween to re-familiarize myself with. first impressions so far have been...ok enough. the graphics were admittedly jarring, in a 'i was expecting things to look a bit better' sort of way, but i've already gotten over it. also the choice to IMMEDIATELY give a random child a legendary was. Interesting. that said i've already become attached to the dog and will not be returning it. i've named it Sushi.
my helix has officially, properly entered the relentlessly itchy stage of healing. mods hep (but like don't actually because this is actually a really good sign that things are proceeding apace when my first attempt never got to this point)
got a sudden burst of drawing energy and started pecking at my imperial statuette base again.. REALLY hoping that i'm able to get the process for my name change started before the end of the year so i can start making at least some money. i'm so beyond sick and tired of feeling financially stuck like this.
woke up dizzy as fuck for some reason ꩜꩜_꩜꩜ really hope it eases off by the time i get on the treadmill later
helix piercing round two is a go 👍 the spot is healed up pretty decently at this point, but i didn't want to risk making it angry again by piercing near it so i decided to restart on my other ear this time around. pls cross your fingers for me i really want to make them work. like i said, i will just use fake jewelry if push comes to shove, but if i CAN make them work, then i'd prefer they be real yknow. even if it means some of them are real but then the others are fake LOL.
quick little mod shenanigans checkpoint!
to start off, i finally took that elezen Keeper of the Entwined Serpents and basically made him into my OC; i gave him a name, a basic backstory, and a teeny makeover.
he is now Ceirault Rohepeois, second partner to Kihceh. i've actually been chewing on the idea of them getting into a relationship for a while now, i just hadn't ever taken that first step into realizing it. his bodyguard duties keep them apart much more often than Landenel's, and although they show interest in each other pretty early on they don't manage to make things official until post-EW.
however, with another partner, that means—
that there's now three elfcat kittens in Kihceh's future!
i still haven't decided on a name for him yet. all i've got figured out is that he's a quiet lil shyguy and he's the youngest of the three. doing his textures was a good bit of fun, too.
and then, lastly and most recently(literally today LOL), i FINALLY fixed the bones in that bubble ponytail mashup i made for Auvanne. and futzed with the scaling for it while i was at it.
not conveyable in a still image, obviously, but her bangs have physics! and i feel way more comfortable doing gposes of her now that i can move them.
although, with so many xiv related things out of the way now...i think i'm feeling an itch for some vintaging.
been heavily considering giving Satoru angel bites... i think it would be very moe of him
i forgot that the last trial didn't have duty support .
BUT. i finally got through it today (i had to spend a couple days leveling WAR first because the only thing i WON'T tank is dps queues. gag) and have now, officially, trailed the dawn.
next up for me is unlocking society quests, then once that's done i'll start tackling the patches. there's only one trial among them that doesn't have duty support, but from what i remember it isn't a terribly complicated fight, so it hopefully shouldn't be too much of a hump to get over.
i made a new main tank glam for the boy! as nice as my previous glams for WAR were, i wasn't ever 100% satisfied with them because i looove me a slutty tank outfit and. erm. suffice it to say there are very few options to make that kind of look happen on masc models. so i decided to just take matters into my own hands and edited one of my fav gear pieces; the lunar envoy legs.
tbh i wish i did it sooner LOL. both of my other WAR glams were made on a 'i guess this'll work' basis because there is almost NO revealing tank gear(which, again, is a problem only for masc models). this mashup is exactly what i'd always been wanting. the weights on the little metal pieces on the front aren't the greatest, as you can see, but it's only because of the scaling edits i made to the skirt bones so that it didn't clip into his legs, so i'm not gonna bother messing with them much more.
dawntrail went on sale a few days ago—something i'd been waiting for ever since its release, since i can't reasonably justify spending full price on non-indie games to myself anymore. not to mention that recently announced monster hunter collab with the seikret mount, which i will not be missing out on. but that does mean that i'll need to focus pretty heavily on speedrunning MSQ.
which is something that i was going to do anyways when the time came, mind, as i've already watched three different people play through it already. i just want to make absolutely sure that i'll be caught up by the time i need to be.
i've already spent the past few days rocketing through endwalker patches, which was definitely. something. considering the gauntlet of non-duty support trials. i'm still not comfortable doing dungeons with other people after all this time, and i don't know if i ever truly will be with my anxiety. but i got through them all without making a fool of myself, which i consider a win.
i was also properly introduced to Rubicante and have been stroking his bald head deviously ever since. i made this before i knew Golbez's whole situation but the sentiment still stands.
anyways, considering EVERY dungeon from here on out has duty support, i'm confident that i'll be able to breeze through it in less than a month's time; patches included. it's a bit exciting to think that i'll be caught up on content for the first time ever soon.
for ages now i've been thinking about making a xivilai-type beast out of the fem hrothgar model, and recently i was able to realize the idea. she doesn't have a name yet, but she exists! and she looks pretty good already, if i may say so myself.
it's a shame hrothgar textures rely so heavily on alpha channel bullshittery, because gimp really does not like it when i try to make edits around it, and i don't have much of a say in the matter when it's the only art program i have that can even access channels in the first place. depending on how easy it is to fix, i might just do some brute forcing because i so badly want to make her look cooler. OTL
MEAN TO HIM???
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literally just a little guy and you're being MEAN TO HIM. ON HIS BIRTHDAY
had to take my helix piercing out to let it go ahead and heal up. a blood blister had formed on it very shortly after i got it, and even after all this time it never cleared up. it went down several times, but would always just get angry and inflamed again days later no matter how clean i kept the area or how gentle i was with it. really bummed out that my first try ended so poorly, but i plan to get my other ear done once the blister goes away (so that my body doesn't have to work overtime healing both spots) to see if it has the same reaction or not. because while i would love to have actual piercings done, if it turns out that my body simply will not let me have my cartilage pierced without problems, then i have absolutely zero shame in just sticking fake hoops on the tops of my ears. i don't particularly care how i get the double helixes; just as long as i have the look, then i'm golden. i'm not risking an ER visit for an infection or severe scarring when fake jewelry exists.
THERE ARE SO MANY GREEN JUNE BEETLES OUTSIDE. A HUNDRED MILLION GREEN JUNE BEETLES
let it be known that when vintage story 1.21 stable releases, none of you better need to use me as an emergency contact bcoz i will NOT be answering i will be vintaging. i've been itching to get my claws back into it recently, but i don't want to risk breaking my world with potential bugs with unstable versions. especially since i play with mods. i've been trying to distract myself with a bit of cobblemon in the meantime, since i've had a vague taste for pokemon but not pokemon-pokemon, but i don't think it's working as well as i would like it to. minecraft just hasn't scratched an itch for me in quite a few years now, unfortunately. around the time mojang was acquired by microsoft actually. funny that.
i think i hauve covid
(maybe going to be public? the original has a lot of toggles and i am afrightened by the thought of replicating them.. maybe though)
i drew a little pixel black mage soul crystal in my colors yesterday, complete with a white bar 'shing!' shining animation, but. i have no idea where i'm gonna put it/what i'm gonna do with it LOL. i could put it in graphics, but it's not really something that i want to give the impression of being a free decoration for anyone to use, considering how extremely specific to me it is. i can imagine it fitting well on a final fantasy shrine page, but i don't have any inspiration or drive to make a ff shrine, and i feel like shrines are something that you make because you're REALLY passionate and you REALLY want to gush about something. i like ff, especially xiv, but i just can't think of anything in particular that i would want to talk about. hmmm, maybe i'll end up squeezing some free space into the intro section for it. i'm just super pleased with it.
i stepped outside earlier today to get feel for things vis-a-vis the dreaded temperature, and even though the humidity is the lowest it's been for like a week it's still so. fucking. HOT. i didn't even go out from under our rooved deck and i couldn't stand to be out for longer than five minutes max. the heat itself is just so suffocating. HOWEVER! it was ultimately a very good decision, because in the first thirty seconds of looking around, i spotted a Little Guy! (read: a moth) i haven't identified it just yet, i'll be working on that once i comb through the pics i took for the best ones. it was a tiny little brown fella with symmetric, darker marks on its wings, and charmingly red eyes. i'm excited to find out who they are. <3 also, it's been personally bothering me so i wanted to mention; a big part of the reason that i haven't been using this journal space as much as i used to is because i made an account on bluesky, and fell back into my old tumblr habits of using it like a journal instead. i've come to find that i don't like it nearly as much as using my own site so expect me to be back around here more often again lol.
don't think i've forgotten about my want for a wildlife photography section on here at some point. 🫵 i've been going over my best photos and working on identifying everything over the past couple of days; i'd really like to have the page layout designed soon too. i think i've got a pretty decent general idea for how i want it to look. just a matter of putting it into code and refining it from there. i also want to go out and get more photos of more lil guys but it's been 90+ F all last week AND it's supposed to stay that hot for the entirety of this week too. it's killing meeee i want to take pictures of bugs and birds and things... ANDD i want to go to the museum again to check out the conservatory that just opened up, and maybe see if they've gotten any new critters in the arthropod zoo. but mainly the conservatory bcoz it's only open for a few months. but it's hard to do anyyy of these things when the sun is BOILING me ALIVE the second i step outside >>_<< i hate climate change so much bro get me out of here.
right; got some time to sit down and talk about my latest* xiv edits!
*some of which were done several weeks ago at this point. ahem. but that's neither here nor there.
anyways, i was finally able to get some real work done on Auv. in theory her edits weren't anything too grand—and in practice, her eyes weren't difficult at all, and i needed to do them anyways for all elezen npcs—but in my perfectionism, i discovered that the mole face options don't seem to have an (easy) way to alter the color, AND that apparently you can't just.. import two different skeleton pieces into one fbx file and have them automatically work. which really is a shame.
so i ended up just doing a custom facepaint to mimic her white moles, and the bubble ponytail hair i mashed-up for her currently has no bones for her bangs...which isn't great......but i found an absolutely gorgeous hair for her for a 'loose/ponytail down' look, and i love it so much i'll probably use it more often than my mash-up LOL.
i also had to just go ahead and make a skin texture for her in order to 1. get her body hair color remotely close to her actual hair color, and 2. make it so that it still shows even on vanilla gear. because holy SHIT that annoyed me SOOO much. i still hate the fact that basically all fem npcs don't have body hair because i'll be damned if i spend an entire year combing through mod pages downloading upscales for every. single. thing.
as for Alqadan-Vathuli, she's gotten a few minor touch ups since i last showed a pic of her, mostly with her nose and eyes, but the biggest change is i finally fixed up her textures like i'd been meaning to! i still want to plan out some scars for her, but that's stuff that can happen later. i alsoalso got new hair for her that makes me so crazyyy..
and of course, last but not least, i bit the bullet and decided to set Kihceh up with a new, permanent hair. i love Becky, but the amount of polygons on that mfer... i couldn't deal with it anymore. i wanted to put hats on my cat.
....i may also be in the process of switching them over to tbse fluff but you didn't hear that from me.
i finally got one out of four of the helix piercings i've been wanting for years today!! i've been sleeping on my right side more often recently, so i opted to start on the left ear in order to avoid irritating it. since this is my first cartilage piercing, i only had the one done; depending on how my body reacts, i might get both done at once on my other ear if the swelling + healing process isn't too rough. i also haven't forgotten about making an update on my modding ventures since the last one, i just haven't had the time to sit down and take pics. but i'll do that later. i was too excited about my piercing to wait until then lol.
THE MUSEUM TRIP FINALLY HAPPENED !!! and it was so cool!! i've never experienced Parking In Downtown before though, which. wasn't as cool. but anyways
they had so many amazing mounts and specimens in there, and although the living conservatory unfortunately wasn't open yet they had a few other live critters in small enclosures here and there. including a hellbender in the 'mountains' area!
but, as cool as all of those things were, they still paled in comparison to being able to be in the same room as their acrocanthosaurus skeleton.
i cannot begin to describe just how incredible it is in person. none of the pictures online prepared me for its sheer size. it's fucking MASSIVE. and you might say, 'well it was one of the largest known theropods, of course it was massive.' and i knew that too. but it still didn't stop me from gasping out loud when i walked into the room. i'm thankful that i was able to see it at least once.
and even then, that was just the exploration center; we barely even saw what the research center had to offer. my mother seems receptive to the idea of going back when the conservatory opens in a few months, so maybe we'll be able to explore the other building a bit more then, too. though i wouldn't even be opposed to walking around the exploration center a bit more slowly, since there were a lot of little info panels that i didn't get to read.
oh, and i also got a few little treats from the gift shop! i'll be honest, i was hoping for more dinosaur plushies that wasn't just super colorful chibi-types, and while they had a couple outside that category, they were the more mainstream guys that i'm not terribly interested in. they did have a little sauropod that was like a skeleton on a space 'background' though, which was pretty cute.
in the end, i just picked up the smaller acro figure they had and some tumbled gemstones. they actually had a nice little selection going on in that regard.
it's been a busy time for Video Game Modifications!
before i drifted away from skyrim again, i made use of racemenu's face sculpting and proteus' NPC editing to finally give Onmund the mixed nord-orc appearance i'd been imagining for years now;
vaguely inspired by that one Onmund edit on the nexus; mostly with the lightning warpaint. it was too cute an idea to pass up.
somewhere along the way of doing this and picking up a few more QoL mods i hadn't noticed before, however, somehow i ended up with the black face vampire bug. oops?
after MUCH trial and error, i found that downloading a facegen reloader mod fixed it where all of the supposed specifically-for-black-face-bug mods couldn't. it was also made to not mess with proteus edits, which is extremely helpful, as i was worried it would undo Onmund's custom face sculpt with every load-in. i am pleased to report that it does not.
but now being a bit burned out on skyrim from all the modding shenanigans, i turned to ol' reliable; ffxiv.
without having to worry about dailies, constantly sending my retainers out, checking my things on the marketboard, or even any kind of time limit, i am completely free to do whatever the hell i want.
to start off, i finally upscaled some hand gear that i'd been meaning to do for Kihceh, and then i revisited some older upscales with newfound knowledge. unfortunately, i'm still totally clueless on how weights even function, so i haven't been able to mess with chest and leg pieces as much as i'd like.
i then revisited the edits i made for peets and talons to make them smaller, so as to not mess up my characters' heights, and smoothened out the vertices i had to move up. with my limited knowledge, they're about as good as they're gonna get now.
after that, i puttered around aimlessly for a bit, tweaking various pieces of gear here and there as i went.
and then i looked at Kihceh. my darling Kihceh. who i'd told myself didn't need anymore edits.
and i looked at textools. and textools looked at me. and Kihceh looked at me with his new eye textures.
technically, his eyes have been catlike like this since his initial redesign, i'd just never thought to edit them until now. while i was already messing with him, i checked out those fuzzy peets textures, and they ended up looking good enough not only to keep, but to also apply to his mithra coat(with lower opacity).
furry boy is now, officially, Properly Furry.
and hopefully won't need anymore edits. hopefully.
next up, i think it's about time Auvanne got some tlc.
i was supposed to make some more progress on Raaj's new SE save today(yes i caved), instead i spent ALLLL DAYYY browsing nexus for a nice house bcoz none of the vanilla houses really suited him. i got to page 50 before i found ONE(1) that i even remotely liked after several tests. at least i finally have one for him & am guaranteed to play unimpeded tomorrow. i GUESS < impatient
realized, by absolute chance, that our local museum has a skeleton cast of one of my all-time favorite dinosaurs on display, and immediately ran to ask my mother when would potentially be a good time for a little day-trip into the city because holy shit. holy shit. of all the places in the world. i think the next closest museum with a cast is almost an entire day's worth of driving away. this one's basically right next door to us. it's been there for almost a decade now and i didn't know until today. HOLY SHIT. so uhm other than that, not a lot has been going on. i still haven't started on the other ps2 games, and while i have made something with the clay it is very rough, and currently headless. i'm still deliberating on how i want to continue work on it; if at all, even, or if i should wet it and scrap it for something more polished, now that i have better ideas of how to go about things like structure and stability. but then, how do i polish skills if i never actually finish anything? the reality of 'experience' is a cruel mistress. i also installed vroid studio and played in it for a few hours, though i would like to spend more time with it at some point. sorry i'm still thinking about the museum trip. it should be happening in the next few weeks. i haven't been to a place like that since i went to an aquarium when i was like eight. my bones are vibrating in my flesh like a great many bees.
FINALLY made a breakthrough in one of the edits i wanted for Alqadan-Vathuli; sharp teeth! i originally took the mesh from everyone bites, deleted everything but the important bits, then took the scaleless sculpt and deleted the vanilla teeth, and put them together IN BLENDER. < this distinction is important... for some reason however, when i would load in the model, tex tools warned me that the vertex channel for one of the meshes was all black and that it could cause problems. and it did, in the form of the eyes going all black. shocker. so i scratched my head until it bled trying to figure out why the hell this was happening; it happened with the vanilla mesh, it happened with the mesh from everyone bites, and nothing in particular seemed to indicate that i was messing with something i shouldn't and thus causing this issue. so i said to myself, ok. i have one last trick up my sleeve that also miraculously solved an inexplicable problem with ANOTHER mod that i was fiddling with for Kihceh. i'll take a toothless mesh from the scaleless mod, then take just the teeth meshes from everyone bites. and then. i'll merge the fbx files. in TEX TOOLS. because that distinction matters. APPARENTLY. so anyways now Alqadan-Vathuli has her fangies and i have one less thing to get myself worked up over. (i'll be honest i've just been running around as her with glamourer for a little bit. i can't stop staring at her i love herr)
finally sat down and decided to work on Alqadan-Vathuli. for wayyy too long i've been struggling to really picture her in my mind's eye, and admittedly most of it was due to the fact that her in-game appearance was essentially a shitty 'genderbent' version of her. i really don't like how tiny and 'waifish' the fem model is compared to the masc model, so my hand was kind of forced towards masc so that she could have the figure and height i wanted. trying to take screenshots of more than just her face never felt quite right, because she only barely looked like how i wanted her to look.
no more, i decided! i love her concept far too much to let her just sit in the background. so, yesterday i spent some spare time making adjustments, and i'm happy to say that she already looks so much better, even if there's still a few details here and there that i'd like to fiddle with.
first things first was to get her body shape into, well, shape! i took tbse non-op and ftm and smashed them together, then wrapped the vanilla small clothes around them because iiii do not jive with tbse's or bibo's edited underwear LOL. the super modern styles just look too goofy to me i'm sorry. i used c+ to add a few finishing touches, then her general frame was basically finished.
then it was on to her tail. i knew i wanted it to be feathered, but after my searches for something already-made left me empty handed, i made my own attempt to fix Meteion's tail to the vanilla tail—which ended...not great. in the end, i took polypody and just decided i would pretend that those spines are feathers instead. ideally i'd like to play with its textures to give them a proper, feathery look.
i also knew i wanted her horns to be shaped more similarly to an ixals. thankfully, the archaeodemon horns were pretty damn close to what i had in mind; i only had to scale them to be a bit thinner, then they were perfect. unfortunately, i couldn't get them on the head model with new textures, so i just settled for putting them on her hair and using its pre-existing horn texture. i'd really like to revisit the head model and see if i can't figure out how to get it working, though.
after that, i was getting tired of trying to deal with textures not working for seemingly no real reason, so i just started looking for simpler things to help tie her overall look together. i got griffes as a stand-in for her talon-like nails, dragonborn to give her more scale coverage, a scaleless head sculpt to get rid of the patch on her chin, and finally did my best to make her facial features speak of her heritage; at first i couldn't really envision an 'elegant' way to give her an ixali face without just basically sticking their beak-mouths on an otherwise normal human face(mostly i couldn't wrap my head around how that would even work) so i had to really sit and consider how i wanted to go about it, because i didn't want her to just have a completely normal human face, either.
that was when i remembered wind waker's rito, and how perfectly their nose-beak design would fit her. i would still really like to put an actual beak mesh on her head model, but until i decide where i'll be getting said mesh from in the frist place, i've made do with c+. definitely not 100% happy with it, but it'll do for now.
next, i think i'll dedicate some time to her body textures; i need to give her a good dusting of red dirt and clay, maybe some scars here and there, and there's also still the situation of her tail 'feathers' that i need to address. i also have dreams of giving her more ixal-like feet and adding feathers to the back of her thighs and elbows, but i have....NO idea how i would even BEGIN to do that. those might just have to be art-only features for a while yet.
while i still hold that gating 'side content' progress behind a dungeon with no duty support is a wicked and evil punishment upon which there are no grounds for, it is always such a pleasant surprise when a dungeon run goes off without a hitch. and now i get to level my gatherers at a not-snails pace! it was also my first time tanking a dungeon for real people since Flash was removed. i was terrified that i wouldn't use the 'right' mitigations at the 'right' time, but i guess i wasn't too terrible because i didn't die. more anxiety inducing, but much less queue time...you win some you lose some, and all that.
endwalker is finally, officially Completed™
(yes, i went WAR for the Zenos fight. i refused to deal with his shit on BLM LOL)
it was fun! i had only been vaguely spoiled about what happens, so even with that knowledge there were a few things here and there that surprised me, especially towards the end. it's given me some good stuff to chew on irt Kihceh's version of the story.
and with that, i am FREEEEE of msq. at least until dawntrail eventually goes on sale for like, half off or something. or if it's been long enough i'll probably cave and just go for it at 30% off.
"but Chris, wait, what about the patch quests—"
shhh we don't need to talk about those right now. look at this hippo
i was gifted money for an xiv sub for xmas, and since i wasn't using my own money(which is limited/can't currently be made back) i don't feel compelled to minmax my time playing, which means i've been able to just fuck around and do whatever i want without my brain yelling at me that i'm wasting time!! it's been very nice.
i've spent a decent amount of time refining Kihceh's mods, as well as getting some new ones that i discovered since i last played. in that time someone also finally figured out how to get a dying-with-hair body hair mod for fem models! which was, of course, an instant grab. i'd been sorely missing the 6.0 mod that did that. i've been meaning to dig into its files and see how they managed to do it; i tried to figure it out myself, but could never get it working. i'm curious if it ended up being some trick with the alpha layer after all...
going back to 'Ceh, i specifically fixed up his ear textures that had been bothering me for ages and finally learned how to edit eyebrows to give him his kitty brows;
i've also been personally upscaling the gear i use for him, which feels SO NICE to finally understand how to actually do. i'd tried to mess with it before but there's sooo little 'base' knowledge about this shit that i kept messing things up and had no idea what to do to fix my issues. it's ridiculous.
but, now that i know the ~arcane secrets~, i have unlimited power....
i alsoalso finally sat my ass down and started going through my gathering log to fill in all the missed items. i started slacking sometime around mid-heavensward, but i did gather a few things throughout stormblood, so there isn't too much backtracking going on. mostly just a lot of waiting around for timed nodes.
slash me deliberates over the infinity gauntlet(real no fake) what if i...made Mitch fatter.... what if..... i gave him long hair........ *eyes glow with inconceivable power
this afternoon, i finally bit the bullet and went through the hassle of updating skyrim, and subsequently the mods i was using for Reel-Ka's save. ....it actually wasn't as much work as i thought it was going to be after that last big update that they shat out at the start of this year, ppl gave me the impression that EVERY SINGLE MOD EVER would have to be updated or else it would be infinite crashes. in the end, all i needed to update to get my game working again was unofficial patches, animation controllers, npc editors, and a couple of utility mods that make other mods work. and even before that, with just skse, the game didn't even crash; the only hiccup was what seems to be a pretty common result of broken mods, which is not being able to move your character. back in the day i would've been forced to do a full reinstall because the game was so fragile. seems like SE is a bit more stable than i was giving it credit for. anyways, originally i was fixing it for when i inevitably get the itch to play again, and having to do it in offline mode w/o steam logging my hours annoyed me. but now idk if i'll continue Reel-Ka's save, or remake Raaj for a third time....
my sperm donor isn't going to be at the house today which meant i was able to make (late) breakfast for the first time in like two months!
yes, i'm aware packaged ramen isn't the healthiest thing ever in the history of food, i also don't like how much salt is in it, yadayadayada. even so i think we'd both agree that it's better than literally nothing but half a bag of potato chips. yes?
anywayyys. i like to poach two of the fattest eggs available in the fridge with the noodles, usually only for around 30 secs so the yolks are still fairly liquidy; it makes the broth soooo yummy and creamy. then i add seasoning in the way of the flavoured packet(usually shrimp or chicken), a healthy sprinkling of pepper, and lastly an even healthier dusting of garlic powder. compared to what i usually eat it's a nice, filling little meal, with very minimal clean up. i wish i was able to make it more often.
my fucking power supply in my pc kicked it this morning 😭 i'm just thankful that nothing else got caught in the crossfire of it failing, idk if i would've had the money for the new power supply AND other parts.. but now i'm worried if they'll start going due to age soon too... i guess tbf that power supply had been put through the ringer in particular; i only recently had a ceiling fan installed in my room to keep things cool, and the cables on it were so big that i wasn't really able to clean its space out like i would've wanted to, so it was probably staying pretty warm if not hot most of the time, since i use my pc daily for several hours. i might not always be running an intensive game or other program, but i know i do it often enough to wear something like that down eventually. well. here's hoping i won't encounter anymore problems with it for atleast a while. my everything hurts from stress OTL
i still haven't made anything with the clay, or started on a new game after finishing the last one ::'] i keep finding myself distracted by a hundred million other, littler things. (like going back to an old OC and spending an entire afternoon solidifying the colors and patterns in his design >>_>>;) in an attempt to tackle at least one of these issues, i'm going to a craft store in a few days to get some paint and tools, so that i no longer have an excuse to not make something. i might even stop by a hardware store on the way to go ahead and get a varnish, as well, just to give me even less excuses in the future. and if i STILL don't do anything with the clay in the next few weeks, after all of that, then i will be playing one of the remaining ps2 games. if i'm not using my hands to fiddle with clay then they can hold a damn controller damn it !!
i officially have both the clay and work table; the clay was, thankfully, at the craft store we went to, but we ended up having to order the table online. now to.... figure out what i want to make first...... i also got a ps2 emulator set up a couple days ago, which has been an absolute blast. the last time i installed one was almost a full decade ago now, on some shitty(affectionate) little laptop that could barely run roms higher than approximately 3fps. suffice it to say my gaming pc has been handling them a lot better. i've already played through one childhood fav and am currently agonizing over which of the others to tackle next. i don't have enough hands for all of the things i want to do OTL
going to go get my hair chopped off in a few days after wayyyyy too fucking long, BUT the actually exciting part is that while we're in town we're going to see if we can't find a nice, simple table that will fit in front of my window so that i can FINALLY START MAKING THINGS WITH CLAY AAAAAAA. i've been fiending for a setup for MONTHS and it's finally happening. i have like a morbillion little trinkets that i wanna make. A
finally working on the absol shrine and i really want to show off the merch i've acquired over the years, but i can't figure out a way to do it that isn't super awkward and mechanical-looking..
i need to show you all this animal i discovered while working on another little coding pet project.
see this fella? this is a Breton! what a chunky fella. a lovely fella.
so they're probably around pony-ish size, right? the proportions look about pony-ish. maybe on the larger end of the spectrum, but still shorter than a horse. right?
WRONG.
these aren't just big boys, they're BIG-big boys. proper drafts! there were also many pictures of them pulling carriages and farming equipment. just big old upscaled-pony looking guys.
what a wonderful world we live in.
finally took the plunge and bought wing upgrade potions for my only winged horse, both for the quest and so that i would be able to travel the map easier. i really would've preferred waiting to use them on a horse that i liked better, but, oh well. choosy beggars and all that.
as i mentioned though, having a fully upgraded flyer means i can zip over to certain spawn areas much more quickly, and i decided i would officially start my hunt for a prettier winged horse. i'd been meaning to get a nice bisorse, so i figured i might as well make it winged while i was at it.
unfortunately, it doesn't look like there's a way to select specific servers, so i'm having to leave and rejoin the world over and over in the hopes that i get a server i haven't checked yet. the bisorses only have one area that they spawn in, and while they spawn in decent numbers, the wing mutation is rare enough that i've been clumsily server hopping for a few hours now.
so far i've come across three, one of which was a tempting enough candidate that i caught him;
and while he is VERY cute, not only was i hoping for one with longhorns but i also feel like i have enough dun-colored horses as it is...hmmm. he's a suitable enough choice if i end up going for many more hours without finding any more interesting ones, at least.
EDIT: i KNEW i remembered there being a way to select servers, it's just browser-only for.. some reason. well either way it makes this a LOT easier LOL.
i have done nothing but play horse game for three days.
these are two of my favorites; their names are Kettu and Jewel, respectively.
originally, i wanted to name Kettu 'Vulpes' instead, but it wouldn't let me for some reason? i knew roblox's word filter was weird but i didn't think it was THIS bad. what do they think i'm trying to say instead? fucking vulva or some shit?? whatever
anyways, horse life is fun enough i think. i've mostly just been perusing the current wild spawns for ones that look interesting and training up my favs' stats, which hasn't gotten too mind-numbing yet thanks to the halloween event going on. i'm also apparently pretty decent at the racing minigame? which was a surprise.
i will say that a lot of the 'cooler' items are gated behind robux purchases, which, while lame, was 100% expected. pretty much the only way to get super extravagant-looking horses is either spending a fuckton buying from another player or spending irl money. luckily, i am very easy to please, so i haven't had to worry about sweating to grind out the standard currency in order to afford something nice; i like my plain old ponies just fine thankyou. < i say, riding atop my literal ghost horse (< she doesn't count she's my special princess)
chat i might have to break back into my roblox account < found a horsie game on tere
specifically i'm talking about horse life; it isn't realistic by any means, but it's colorful and nice and the models look great. it also doesn't seem to be very p2w/p2p which is soooo appealing. i mena i'm sure they've got special things you can buy with robux, but from what i've seen it's not a case of 'oh you want to do literally anything other than walk around? Give Us Twenty Real Life American Dollars Please'. it just seems very lax in general.
and while i'm on this subject.. i really wish there was an even slightly larger market for horse-related games that weren't aimed towards specifically 7-12 year old girls. grown-ass adults like horses! and they like games! and i, at least, would really like more games about horses! training up your guys and entering them in races and other competitions are just fun mechanics, and that's not even getting into the concept of playing around with genetics and breeding.
idkkkk.... i just wish that i had something other than still-in-progress games, or games from the early 2000's. OR games that just straight up suck so much ass that they aren't even worth it.
i feel like it's something that's part of a larger problem, though; a vast majority of people that play games are only interested in games about Humans and Human-Centric Stories. they don't want to deal with the mechanics of caring for any kind of pet, much less actually play as an animal. they want to shoot things, or complete puzzles, or walk through a story. none of which is bad by itself, obviously. but if it isn't About Humans, then they don't care.
and, imo, that mindset has led to a point where i—and i wouldn't be surprised to not be alone in this—am bored of like 98% of video games that have come out in recent memory. they're all the same Human Stories and Human Gameplay rehashed over and over again. noone's trying anything new. and it's all so boring.
...this was supposed to just be me vibrating over a cool game i found LOL. anyways i hope i had the sense to write down my password so that i don't have to go on an email goose chase
gotta be said, still VERY funny to me that all throughout the story basically every character is like 'oooh, aaah, the all-powerful ~warrior of light~...destroyer of gods...killer of a thousand armies...ohh' and then you look at Kihceh and they're the most stereotypical 'squishy glass-cannon mage' you've ever seen in your entire loife. it's like looking at a tiny baby kitten and skirting around the edge of the room to avoid it lest it tear you asunder i mean, don't get me wrong, they ARE magically powerful, but the second they're cornered into melee they're pretty fucked bcoz they just don't have that kind of physical strength going on. they are a beloved little mama's boy that did basic chores and never needed to gain much extra muscle during their day-to-day. they aren't helpless by any means, but, still. textbook definition of Squishy Mage.
thinking about 'Kihceh's' Azem (not in the sense that they share a soul, but just that she's the Azem in his story) and her relationship with the other ancients.... her name is Electryone, after the minor greek goddess of sunrises and waking sense, and she's Hades's daughter. haven't decided if i wanna go the biological or adopted route yet but either works tbh. anyways it's very much a story of 'child loves parent while little but as they age they quickly become disillusioned with their ideals.' and since i'm keeping the fact that she takes up the seat of Azem, i'm thinking the new parental figure she attaches herself to is none other than Venat. and just. the idea that, at some point, there's definitely a big confrontation between her and him where she vocally chooses Venat over him, probably stomping away/out of the room with a hatred in her voice that he's never heard before. not being able to accept that his own child would dismiss him so venomously. of course he can try to get her back under his thumb all he likes, but at this point in their relationship she'd very much be an adult, so like. what could he even do. ground her?? i have to lol. he can't even deny her a seat on the convocation because she's too obvious a choice. and the whole time, from then until the final days, Hades has to see her looking at Venat with the same adoration that she once looked at him with. probably even starts calling her 'mom' eventually. and you knowwww it eats him up inside. which is where his reaction to Kihceh during ShB comes from; while he isn't actually her sundered soul, after all of the thousands of years that have passed, none of the remaining ancients are exactly uhh.... all there anymore. the color of their souls is unfortunately similar enough that they just kinda assume. and so, in his fatherly rage, Hades punishes 'her,' even subconsciously; even as he denies that that's really 'her' soul. in the furthest depths of his mind, he thinks to himself that, maybe, just maybe, if he shows 'her' how bad things can really be in this broken world, if he can help 'her' remember how things used to be, then maybe... she'll come back to him. maybe they can be a family again. of course, regardless of Kihceh being a shard or not, that isn't what happens.
ohhhh the graphics update was so kind to Hermes. i had always been really confused that his eyes were described as 'light green' when they were obviously more of a blueish color in every picture i saw of him.
but look at this! such a soft, lovely green! they suit his character much better imo. while the bright aquamarine made for an interesting contrast in his overall design, it made him seem a bit too...cold, if that makes sense, when he's meant to be initially shown as someone with a sensitive, caring heart. i guess you could say that the old color was more representative of his underlying dark feelings, but, idk. clearly he wasn't always like that, so i don't think that it ultimately fits as well as the updated color.
i am also, admittedly, incredibly biased. <3 green one of da best colors 4ever. peace & luv.
got to the dark inside last night. it was pretty late, so i decided to wait until today to tackle it; and i'm glad i did, because i had a barely minute-and-a-half queue time and a very smooth fight. at one point i managed to miss standing in an aoe after a rotate by what must've been a singular pixel, which put my heart in my throat for just a second, but i made it out unscathed in the end. since i reached 90 on WAR with Khloe's help the other day, though, i now have the task of getting PLD up to speed so that i don't waste all that tasty msq experience. and if i end up reaching max on that, too, thennn.. it's gonna be a pretty even toss up between BLM and SMN. BLM will always be the favorite child, but also SMN is so much easier to manage during fights LOL... it might come down to what the rest of the dungeons are like. we'll see.
i've been working on omnicraft leveling for about a month and a half now, after..... way too long, tbh.
anyways, here's the fruits of my labour! everything except GSM and WVR was done these past few weeks via the Firmament, after which i decided to pivot to society quests bcoz the higher level Firmament recipes were getting a bit rich for my blood.
can't wait to unlock the EW societies so i can continue to 90 nn_nn
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