Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal

FFXIV screenshots & nattering(6.4 spoilers)
Ardbert❤️
Dual mains: A Gridanian Catboy and an intensely Ala Mhigan Ala Mhigan

Also LotRO sometimes
(male, 30s)

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With another flood of folks leaving Tweetums for the ol' Tumbly Bumbly, here's mine if you want to follow me.
You can expect silly memes, cats, dead stuff, and, of course, my WoLs and other characters (who are often cats and/or dead)

https://t.co/IZSEXbnTcL

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@Mouselimon0 @Gnoc290438 @hannahwithfur Millennials are the age you think boomers are.

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@heatedrivalryai No matter your actual intentions, this list of fics is just going to function as a hitlist for the worst of the trolls.

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@heatedrivalryai Heated Rivalry is an unusual fandom. It's gigantic, brand new, and full of newbies to fandom itself.

I would hesitate to extrapolate any issues or trends in that fandom to fandom as a whole.

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@TeniVinicio @fabrimoreg @weplash Don't need to be! You just need to find the source of the actual images online
https://t.co/RRlk6pyuHV

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@fabrimoreg @weplash Here is the actual source of the images
https://t.co/RRlk6pyuHV

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@cuickvi @weplash Nope! These are telescope photos that the photographer enhanced
https://t.co/RRlk6pyuHV

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@theotherwolfinu @wwxwashere Updated fics are a better representation of fanfic activity during a time frame, but it's a less stable number for anyone who wants to replicate in the future.
Many of those fics that were last updated in 2025 will be updated again in 2026 and the number will shrink over time

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@theotherwolfinu @wwxwashere This sounds like it might be an updated_by vs created_by difference

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The Herald of Spring from @staroverlordao3 's jellyfish ofc

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@Gifflarareyum @machinejinx Hawt

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：Ardbert Hylfyst

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@lillithson @purity_culture This is the post that started it all, if you want to dig into the history a bit :)
https://t.co/FZ9fl3zMoV

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@purity_culture Another interesting thing. Here's the femslash tag:
https://t.co/C1XChnWCll

Note that original work is the top "fandom" and OFC/OFC is the top ship. There's plenty of femslash on AO3, one and a half million works, but it might not be where people are looking for it.

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@lillithson @purity_culture Gay Stargate Atlantis fics. The SPN came after :P

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@cplteddybear @purity_culture As someone who tends to go for secondary characters, rarepairs, and unusual tropes and tags, I have a lot of sympathy for femslash shippers.
It's *annoying* when the thing you like is a tiny drop in a sea of stuff you don't care about. My annoyance is not a political problem

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@sanctumoftanya @purity_culture I keep hearing from people who stopped writing femslash or are afraid to post their femslash because the same people demanding more of it will harass anyone who writes it imperfectly or not to their own taste

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@pengui_macar0ni @purity_culture Why would it be misogynistic for a woman to enjoy reading about characters that she can imagine herself as?

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@purity_culture Skyrim is a tiny fandom comparitively, but large ones like BG3 follow the exact same trends. Everyone loves making their own female characters

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@purity_culture All the video games I've done stats dives for have had a popular female character that flips the "het wins" stat.
The top ship in the Skyrim tag is actually f/f, Player character/female NPC, with a bunch of F!OC/M!NPC ships under that.
And here're the top three characters