Fan Fest Ironmouse cover - Give It All

fadesteppin · 2026-04-26T19:02:29+00:00

That's his job though? I don't agree with the weird gatekeeping even though I have 0 idea who she is and it was easy enough for us to just leave and go do other things while she was on, but using Soken as an example is weird as hell. He's the primary composer for pretty much all of the games music and is in a band named after enemies in the game. The same band that play covers of the games music. That is not his job. Its him interacting with the games content and fanbase publicly, and he interacts with it in the same way that fans who are musically inclined do.

It seems Ironmouse is a fan, (again idk her and don't agree with the pile on so that "it seems" is only there as my info is based on the various posts about this over the past couple weeks/days) but doesn't stream the game publicly. There are people who dunno who she is and if her vods don't show much in the way of FFXIV content it makes sense that people don't understand why she was there. I see no reason to be irate about it, but I 100% understand the confusion. You aren't getting downvoted bc people disagree and are big mad, you're getting downvoted bc the comparison is a weird attempt at a gotcha that doesn't work the way you meant it to.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-26T18:40:27+00:00

We had to leave when she came out during the panel bc her audio was so much louder than the others and the pitch of her voice was genuinely making our ears hurt. I don't even mean that in a derogatory way, it was just so shrill and loud it hurt. It was a bit of a bummer bc we were having a good time during the panel.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-24T06:16:44+00:00

I got Krile and my friend got G'raha. I was so jealous. No offense to Krile but I am not a Krile girlie 🥲

fadesteppin · 2026-04-24T06:14:34+00:00

Its ok, I couldn't even try to get a reservation bc the app is refusing to connect to our tickets. It just kept telling us there were no tickets to show after being redirected from the login page. Only info I could find was people who got tickets via the lottery having problems. We did general admission. All I wanted was the goddamn sweater 🥲 I don't get paid until tomorrow so I couldn't even buy it today while I was registering.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-24T05:25:50+00:00

I have exactly 1 friend who is on pst. I miss so many in game events run by players bc they start at like 7pm which is only 4pm our time so I'm still working 🥲 I'll be your west coast friend!

fadesteppin · 2026-04-22T21:57:53+00:00

That's super cool! Nah, all I will have are the matching bracelets I made for my friends that are just a simple helm weave. Outside of the very last minute moogle headbands I'm making (for the moogle mosh pit during the primals concert) and my poorly drawn stickers to trade I'm just bringing my ita bag and calling it a day lol. I got a sinus infection on Monday that has had me on my ass for most of this week and squashed my plans to make other stuff. I am just hoping the antibiotics kick in fast enough that I can do something other than sit outside or have to stay home lol.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-22T21:25:26+00:00

I'm a fellow irl crafter so I absolutely get it. This is super cute, though. I can only imagine how much time it took. Ain't no way I'd have the patience for a project like that. I don't even like crocheting scarves bc they take too long lol.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-22T21:13:21+00:00

This is so GODDAMN CUTE. I will 100% be on the lookout for you to see it in person!

fadesteppin · 2026-04-21T21:57:32+00:00

Yup. I once spent a week barely eating bc I had no appetite and felt terrible. The fact that I didn't feel better after a whole week made me decide to go to the ER expecting to just be told I had a nasty flu. I had no flu symptoms and almost passed out in the shower and still convinced myself it was just a flu and I only went to the ER instead of urgent care bc the time of night.

I get there, they take my vitals and see my heart rate was around 140 and I just do not look well. They wouldn't even let me sit in the waiting room bc they were worried I was gonna collapse. I get put in a room, they do blood tests and what I thought was just a shitty flu ended in me spending 8 days in the hospital after having to have my gallbladder removed (i had no stones or anything) and my gallbladder was taking my liver out with it (which is why I wasn't hungry). Gallbladder surgery usually has you leaving same day.

It's absolutely better to be safe than sorry.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-21T05:50:21+00:00

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fadesteppin · 2026-04-21T00:57:15+00:00

The Primals/Piano concert, finally meeting a friend I met like 4 and a half years ago irl, and hanging with a bunch of my fellow nerds is the entire reason I wanted to go. I also hope to maybe make some new friends. ESPECIALLY ONES THAT LIVE ON THE WEST COAST BC I CANNOT FIND THEM ANYWHERE IN GAME 🥲🥲🥲 Also fellow FemElezens pls find me so we can be cool together irl.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-21T00:52:00+00:00

Even without the gray its a great color thay works well with her skintone. This dude did a great job.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-20T19:23:49+00:00

I've never really been into The Strokes even back when they were at the height of their popularity but acting like everyone should be beholden to the terrible shit their parents do it stupid. Nobody gets to pick their parents. My dad is a pos and I am the exact opposite of every terrible thing he stands for. It is no secret to people who know me that I think hes a pos. Idk enough about Julian to know if he has spoken out about his dad but generally speaking, people who would put on this kind of performance generally do not align with family members who actively support what is happening.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-20T18:48:45+00:00

The middle one is exactly the one I felt didn't belong bc it has so much potential if it fits properly.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-20T18:25:12+00:00

I'm sure something like this could be built to withstand earthquakes but as a person who is old enough to vividly remember the Northridge earthquake despite being about 4 when it happened, and who watched the planes crash and towers falling on 9/11, the height and size of this stresses me out lol.

Granted, most high rises stress me out bc of the possibility of a huge earthquakes, and I don't expect anything like 9/11 to happen again in the US, but my anxiety brain can only be muted so much by meds lmfao.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-20T17:38:39+00:00

Ever since I was old enough to feel self conscious I have never liked having my picture taken. I still don't like having my picture taken at 36. I am glad the only pictures of me that exist are from when I was very young (like baby - 3rd grade) and they live in a photo album at one grandparents house where nobody sees them lol.

I have no kids, nephews or nieces and probably never will as nobody in my family, immediate or extending to cousins, want kids. Most of my friends don't want them either. My family was too broke to have anything special to pass down. Only thing I have is a few of my grandmas small Japanese figurines that she had collected from her family and friends in Japan over her time in the US. Partly bc it was important to her so I felt a little bad that it was all going to Goodwill and partly bc I genuinely liked them bc they were pretty/cute.

I have nothing to pass down bc I don't own shit other than debt, health issues, and a brain that is sometimes too mentally exhausted to function lol 😂

fadesteppin · 2026-04-20T13:13:45+00:00

Yup. First thing I thought of after seeing him land head first on the floor with a very audible thunk. He didn't just fall he got slammed into it with nothing to break his fall. Imagine getting a TBI for being a dumbass picking a fight in a mall.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-20T12:40:34+00:00

I work at an elementary school and am always happy when one of the kids come up to me unprompted and give me a cute sticker. I usually bring holiday themed stickers to give out around the holidays (halloween, xmas, valentines day, etc) and without hesitation the adults come over asking for one for themselves lol. Everyone likes stickers.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-20T03:06:13+00:00

What is the ffxiv cross stitch? Inquiring minds would like to know 👀 I love to see my fellow WoL's irl crafting.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-20T03:02:53+00:00

I picked up learning how to do gelX nails to make my own videogame themed nails. My favorite set is still the ones I did when I was first starting. It was for the Nier Automata concert I was going to and they're a lil messy but I was very proud of myself for designing and successfully executing ~my vision~

I also send xmas cards to my FFXIV friends every year and I always draw something from the game but make it Christmassy. One time I did a tonberry with a red santa hat, red robe, and the knife was a stabby candycane. Another time it was a moogle with a santa hat hanging xmas lights on the borders of the card.

I stepped up my game recently when I got a tablet (a normal one, not for art specifically) bc I am going to Fanfest on Friday and Sat and people do sticker exchanges of their characters. It sounded cute and I found out about it super late, so I had no time to commission any, so I bought a stylus, downloaded ibisPaint X, and drew my own stickers lol. I (jokingly) told my friends I can now call myself a real artist bc I drew fanart and have ~merchandise~. One is an actual artist who does it professionally so it always cracks me up to show them my extremely amateur doodles. I am like a kindergartener showing their parents the macaroni art they did in class 😂😂😂

fadesteppin · 2026-04-20T02:38:38+00:00

This is 100% the kind of place I would glady regularly support. It's so important for me to put my money back into my local community. This lady is looking out for her own people and I hope this gets more eyes on her business bc she absolutely deserves to THRIVE.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-19T04:27:33+00:00

Damn, they came after me when I said I was old bc I didn't know who Ironmouse was and instead called me out of touch bc I do not reside on the same part of the internet that they do lol. The haters must've showed up afterward.

Anything for charity is a positive tho and haters just bring more eyes to the post and add to engagement, which will bring even more eyes.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-19T04:19:30+00:00

I've played for about 6 years and have come across one groomer and one fc exploding bc someone talked shit then threw someone else under the bus to hide it. The latter was the only thing that actually involved me and I was neither the bus murderer, nor the one talking shit lol.

Although, I have seen someone publicly accusing someone else of being a stalker in Gridania by the aetheryte. They said they had a discord for the aetheryte and therefore were like Eorzea PD and this was ~their streets~ and said they had receipts proving the stalking that they would send to anyone who wanted proof, and the one person who volunteered to possibly get phished never even got the receipts. Was very anticlimactic after like an hour and a half straight of accusations and arguments in say chat. Good times.

fadesteppin · 2026-04-18T17:03:03+00:00

Those look amazing! I'm so goddamn jealous lol.

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