kiting around 🔙 GATEway FATE 402

I have plenty of pictures from the St Louis Zoo, gateway arch, Oklahoma City Zoo, and the OKC Museum of Osteology to share and sorting through to pick the highlights will be a task in itself 😅

(on a side note, the Osteology museum was playing Final Fantasy music which had me do a double take LOL)

Made it back home last night after spending a few days doing touristy stuff after GWF and otherwise making the 10-hour drive back home to Texas! First roadtrip I’ve done in a long time and though I’m flattened at the moment, I’ve forgotten how much I used to love scenic drives.

📢 LIVESTREAM TONIGHT!

#FFXIV stream with Fishing! Mahjong! And talking about @gatewayfate.bsky.social now that my voice is back.

Starting around ~7pm EDT

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(Random picture from one of my GwF Panels)

another thing that's fun about this is estinien's trust npc is programmed to get hit by a mechanic the first time but he won't get hit the second time it happens - it's how he "learns" 🥹 also! i think people forget the AOE telegraphs and cast bars we as the players see are explained as the echo!

the Caduceus plush looks at an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake at the St Louis Zoo

snake to snake communication

I absolutely will try to table again next year, but even if not I will still be 100% returning as an attendee!

Waking up super exhausted the day after GATEway FATE, but it was so, so worth it and I couldn’t be happier. Getting to reconnect with so many people I hadn’t seen in a long time, and seeing others in person whom I’ve only interacted in game and/or thru socmed until now was an immense joy 💕

Fashionably late, but these guys are on the assignment!

Thank you for organizing another awesome aquarium outing, and again for stopping by my humble little table for some big fishing!

a digital painting of a coho salmon on a sidewalk. It is wearing a spiked collar and leash.

Something’s wrong with my dog I think it’s gay #art

I’ll check my table tomorrow, I just have alarm bells ringing in my head right now

Proto-Carbuncle has a very appropriate green glowstick

now it’s serious

Proto-Carbuncle plush intently gazes at the Astrologian’s Fortune cocktail

taking a sip at the dance party with Proto

we’re clubbing

*vendor frantically replaces 2 of the charms with a different fish when it starts raining outside, but only because it's after 1pm and before 2pm*

🤣🤣🤣

May be a few minutes late to my table as I wasn’t keen on lugging valuables around with me, but I promise the fishing shall commence after the fish watching

See y’all in the artist alley (after the FSH aquarium trip)!

lfg ovni

lowkey bummed none of my furnishing entries made the cut but at least I hope one of them sent a message that we need
some new goddamn tank trimming sets

Okami

KAIN HIGHWIND FF4 K. H. 4

it all comes full circle

Baby Griffin to brighten your day :D

#dragonage #berensart2025

*UPDATE: It has been confirmed that March 31, 2023 Fishcord member Bikonito got a double sea butterfly window. This would make my first instance on Nov 20, 2024 the know 2nd, but this remains the first and so far only known video recording of it happening.

i’m on a second playthrough with an alt and jfc, even as an endwalker enjoyer the loporrit section is still as insufferable as it was the first time.

This art is a year or two now but I'm still really proud of it. Pigeons!! I sell these lil guys as prints https://www.lackofa.com/shop

My sales inventory will be somewhat modest due to numerous factors (burnout, tech issues, and being my first out-of-state con on top of my first artist alley in 5 years), but the FSH gacha is my big pride and joy of what I have to offer and I feel like as long as I bring it there, I’ll be at peace

I’m so grateful to see such an overwhelming response to my little FSH pond! It took a few weeks of trial and error, and there’s still some room for improvement next time I bring it to a con, but damn I’m so proud of it and I hope people have as much fun playing with it as I had making it 💕

Thank YOU for such a fun and creative idea!! ☺️ We have lots of passionate fishers in the Final Fantasy XIV community so this concept fits right in!

Video for demonstration!

Credit for this brilliant idea goes to @harukaillustration.bsky.social! Ever since I first saw it, I knew it would make for a perfect adaptation for my collection of FFXIV FSH charms 💙