arby k @arborwin@mastodon.art

If you're trapped inside needing something to do, you can try reading my webcomic, Grayling. It's a weird comic for weirdos, but you might just be one of those weirdos.

It's about depressed abusive gods with mental illnesses trying to overcome their problems so they can start treating themselves and their world right. You can read it for free on its website https://graylingcomic.net/ or its mirror on Comicfury http://grayling.thecomicseries.com/

i wish i had more time to play ffxiv 😒

just filled out my two wives' marriage certificate :3 good day

anything worth keeping

working on the comic again today on my day off ^^

comic progress shots from lately

the WOL and the scions have to mash up against each other and the world so many times and screw up **so much** just to get where they're at where their decisions have any value ... like I think it really digs in that this stuff is hard and a big problem just going in is assuming it SHOULD be easy

that giving Meteion those horrible instructions was a bad idea.

Like w so many of the ruined civilizations....they were all imperialistic, fatalistic, and striving for different types of perfection in the pursuit of happiness. The exclusion of spontaneity, and the utter devaluing of suffering as something that's just part of the world, results in a world that is entirely constructed of worthless & unnecessary pain/suffering.

in the end with the overall themes I think they were pointing out that like ... you can't just do this stuff alone, you need to get others to help. A big issue with the Ancients in general was that they were OP. I wonder what would have happened if Hermes had tried to convince other Ancients of his ideas instead of just flying off the handle by himself ? He didn't *need* to, because he had the ability, but would have like. Mixed things up enough maybe someone could have predicted

Hermes took his horror at death to mean that like, there was a flaw in the way the Ancients were going about things, and he was right about that ... but that doesn't make Hermes an authority who could just step around all the rules and do what he wanted and have it turn out perfect lol

He just begat cruelty in a different context with a different motivation.

I was kind of worried they were saying that Hermes was incapable of doing better than the context he grew up in but

With Hermes and the whole Meteion thing... I'm really intrigued they made the big conflict over a soft-hearted person making naive mistakes. Like... it was reasonable for him to WANT to work around the censorship of his betters in that context, because they were being violent sociopathic dicks, but on the other hand...what he ended up doing to Meteion was no better than that

The Thancred/Urianger stuff was just phenomenal...

one of the only things I want to complain about is not getting to spend enough time with our friends in the First, like Gaia. I know she's optional but c'mon ... but that's just nitpicks. It's a huge game and they already had a lot on their plate lol

I finished Endwalker last night uwu it was great and very gay

Loved Emet and H-dog making a comeback to be boyfriends and demonstrate that Emet was indeed a Sephiroth type the whole time, the intellectual type, you know, has silver hair but talks a lot. As opposed to Zenos who is just literally a Sephiroth and beefs it beautifully at the end

I can't believe all the Urianger content...I can't believe how good Thancred has been the past 2 expansions.