With the ending of the Grand Festival, splat3 is functionally over. It fell short of 2 for me, but they went out with a bang. The grand festival felt like a culmination of everything they've been building to since splat1. It's exactly what I love about these games turned to 11
I'm not a world first raider, I'm a small time player in a small DC who's only been raiding for 1 expansion, and I've already seen some real shit. It's rampant and unavoidable, at every level.
I have a lot of thoughts about the current FFXIV raiding drama but I'm gonna say this is why I'm consistently terrified to go looking for groups and leave it at that
This applies to so many things, being trans, ADHD, autism, plurality, plenty more that are still in that valley and I just don't know about. These things aren't and have never been rare, widespread information about them just didn't exist (usually due to oppression)