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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • There are a lot of places in the US where ideas from the 1800s are still prevalent, because they’re so lacking in diversity that there is no one to point out the crimes.

    Growing up in rural northern Michigan, I wasn’t allowed to take the class our drama teacher taught about making costumes because I was a boy. That same drama department, for a production of West Side Story, got spray tans for all the kids playing Puerto Rican characters. They’re still known as one of the best drama programs in the area.







  • My favorite way to prep for an expansion is try to get as immersed as I can ahead of it.

    The first thing I always do is choose the class I’m going to play for the next expansion, with an RP reason, and then make a glam for it. I chose MCH this time, on the reasoning that, after Endwalker, the WoL finally had downtime, but they’re still the chaos gremlin that carries an entire house in their backpack, so I thought they’d probably use that time to do a deep dive into something scholarly for the first time. For my character, I decided she wanted to figure out exactly how much aether she can channel at once, and what better way to do that than by blasting it out of a gun?

    With my lore established, I made a couple glams to fit it, and what we’ll be doing. The first is the culmination of her downtime activities, a complex outfit with a lot of magitek involved, which definitely stands out from a crowd.

    The second is a more low-key glam for going to the new world for the first time, with unobtrusive elements of weird tech. The Scaevan earring is one of my favorite glam items. I love having my Bluetooth earpiece.

    I also did a new housing build for my character in an Empyreum apartment, meant to look like a secret workshop in the Brume, where she did all her tinkering.