Ardra

you know I did a sort of respost last time, so here's something fresh.

It rings hollow when you demonise a system you have actively been benefitting from using the language of detractors.

Even more so when major labels are cutting deals with companies like Suno. How will you create and engage communities when this shit is infesting the industry from the top?

"People are gaming the system by flooding streaming services with AI slop"

YES. LIKE YOU.

The amount of curated garbage and fake artists running rampant are a result OF YOU.

From $11B in 2025 Payouts to What We're Building for Artists in 2026 – Spotify for Artists A message from Charlie Hellman, Spotify's Head of Music.

Music industry rant.

Honestly, the nerve to talk about royalty generation and artist protections from AI slop when you are the platform that was promoting, creating, and playlisting it.

artists.spotify.com/blog/what-we...

couple of older outtakes to enjoy

couple of older outtakes to enjoy

alt close up version. slight change in wardrobe

alt close up version. slight change in wardrobe

It is a large bike...

care to take a ride?

care to take a ride?

you know I did a sort of respost last time, so here's something fresh.

Sure thats like 90% of my posts anyway

Sure thats like 90% of my posts anyway

Intro Post/Lore Thread

- Name: Ardra
- Age: 36
- Origin: Thavnair
- Combat: Barefist/Twinblade (MNK/VPR)
- Crafting/Gathering: Alchemist/Culinarian/Botanist

- The Arcadion has felt like a second home to him, as he felt less judged on his appearance by the fighters. Post 7.4, he would return when available to coach and cheer on the fighters.

- 6.0 played out quite differently as he was already familiar with the exposition for Thavnair. He knew Nidhana and Ahewann through each of his fathers, so he would not have stood around like cutscene WoL whilst they were in danger. Needless to say, those arcs were pretty traumatic for him.

- Dislikes Sharlyan's scholarly practices for how insular it can be. Often a point of contention with the Scions. Softened after 6.0.

- Does not use the word 'dynamis', except with ancients, as he was familiar with akasha as a concept before, and had theorised that he could manipulate it sometimes.

- On the physical side, he mainly studied martial arts. He weapon focus was a lathi (which later translated to the twinblade), and he excelled at bare-handed.

- Parts of the training bear similarities to dance training, so he picked bits of that up but never leaned into it.

- One father was an alchemist, the other in the Radiant Host, so he took up professions relating to both.

- On the alchemy side, he dabbles in research but has a real passion for incense and perfumery. Consequently, he also makes his own tea blends and a mean spice mix.

- The circumstances of his birth are highly unusual, as it was part of an experiment in alchemy. Suffice to say, he was raise by two fathers with a different ethereal catalyst.

- This was arkasodaran in nature, which led to the tusks. Just don't ask him about his trunk.

Intro Post/Lore Thread

- Name: Ardra
- Age: 36
- Origin: Thavnair
- Combat: Barefist/Twinblade (MNK/VPR)
- Crafting/Gathering: Alchemist/Culinarian/Botanist

cheeky close up. nothing else different

cheeky close up. nothing else different

wait, you guys study in here?

what are pictures for if not to thirst over?

orcology!

wait, you guys study in here?

if you go down to the public baths at the right time you might be lucky enough to get the full view