Ruckus Fiddlesticks

The most creative thing to come out of Paparva’s mouth is a ruthless read on her least favorite people. Somebody should teach this girl to drop a diss track.

Usually she reserves most of her lushly lyrical half-sung sweetness for lovers’ pillowtalk, but participation in a community poetry club has reinforced for her that this is a cultural form mayhaps worth developing, lest it be lost.

Avenrhi can sing, usually leading working songs amidst a casual sailor’s chorus that’s gradually adapted their crew’s sea shanties to fieldwork call & response. Curiously, she carries the cadence of old Gelmorran prosody with her, as naturally as if it was her mothertongue.

Ruckus is a comic storyteller and his stories usually carry the witty Plainsfolk charm of rhythm rhyme & repetition. He’s a decent social dancer at parties, for what he lacks in technical form, for his willingness to have fun with it. Wouldn’t know a choreography if it bit him.

This is why Navyrs gotta perform at poetry night

I'm so excited to hear about them!

That doubleletter postmoogle was LADEN.

Kasha. Nutbake. Almonds. Gridanian Walnuts. Azeyma Roses. Ginger. Cumin. Fennel. Fermented Butter. Palm Sugar. Aldgoat Milk.

Sometimes I think about the craziest things I've done as a form of roleplaying and I think the inventory deconstructed item bomb of handmixed Panjiri for Ruckus's old man investor's granddaughter who'd recently given birth was one of them.

I love that everybody cheers on each other’s silly little bits here, that there can be deep and touching things happening right next to casual brunch and fish sales & sentient slime/jars/voidsent named EggCream, found family stories alongside Pye’s yikesiest food experiments & Bek’s sales pitches.

Farmer's Attic A carrd for Farmer's Attic, a FFXIV venue

farmersattic.carrd.co

Please drop in on your next free weekend, whether you’re an active rper, someone who’s ever been mildly curious about Ffxiv roleplaying, or if you’ve been out of the scene for awhile and just wanna scoot back in easy and feel right back at home

I feel very soft about RPing at Farmer’s Attic on an average day, but when very longstanding friends of the attic turn up right alongside a batch of regulars and new folks having a fun time, I’m like man this really is the most magical way to spend my Sunday market morning.

Finally Fantasy vicarious trauma processing time on the 3 malm way to the next house call, cane keeping steady rhythm as it pierces through the Shroud leaf litter.

Sometimes love is clawing up out of bed in house clogs to see your girlfriend in the second week of Halone’s moon on the banks of Rootslake then crashing out for three days because that was way more than her body was ready to have done.

In *love*, she is a singing sweet wistful songs tenderly through her workday while daydreaming of basking in her lover's company, bringing little gifts, slipping into lyric prosody at a moment's notice, craving every kind of soft & tender contact- hand in hand with summer night florals & fireflies

Currently, she's got a paramour that's determined to break cycle. They have some deepening and honesty and relational challenges yet to do, and Avenrhi's got decisions ahead of her. (This is such deeply fun Sapphic stuff to lap up like candy to me, you guys.)

But she's also carried on a string of very passionate, sensual, playful, intimate and wholehearted seasonal romances. They have a tendency to fall apart or part ways with fatalistic sweetness, when they run into conflict with her downswing depression & other modes of being.

She commodifies herself in very practical, survivalist, assertive but transactional hookups. This also lends itself to some difficulties (as well as boons!) with working reputation, but also in making long term romantic committments.

She's been in the bisexual bottom bin of an offscreen toxic heirarchical triad situationship for almost 2 decades; a major part of her story arc revolves around making the gradual choice to liberate herself from self-destructive cycles. Abusive relationships are is not always easy to decouple from.

Avenrhi's got a lot going on, and I wanted to write a fem character who has a varied range of romantic and sexual experiences that are often messy and cyclical, but open ended for growth and other player characters to engage with.

Even then, teasing it mercilessly out of him is a good way to make him very blushy but not a good way to actually get him to initiate. Physical romance has to come from a place of relaxed mutual care and love that is not feeling too pressured or hyperaware of the world's perception.

Ruckus was raised to be kind of overly concerned with Lalafellin respectability, so he's reserved about giving public credence to anything going on under his belt, and doesn't come on strong with sexual attraction until he's very very sure that's what his other partner is looking for.

But he also has an independant/wandering streak and doesn't like romance that makes him feel tied down to long term committment, or when a partner's intentionally trying to stir jealousy in him. The concept of soulmates sort of scares him. He's never had romantic feelings emerge out of antagonism.

It varies so much character to character-
Ruckus has had romances that have both been immediate connection on sight and crush confessions that have caught him off guard. He is sincere and doting, silly yet tender in love, likes honest communication, fun and reciprocity.

Waugh, the flatcar!!
HIT IT HARDEERRRR

Meanwhile I turn the Just Kidding long skirted modesty that is the sauciness of Avenrhi's split drawers over and over on my mind rotisserie. (I've considered real world dollars for the Ovelia set JUST for the bottoms.)

One must bully the elf at every conscious opportunity

Eheheheheheh I love mandragora chaos

Oh dear for Felix, tho. Oh dear

That’s genius, actually. Good job .