[FFXIV Fic] Gentle Dark, Chapter 14: That the Brightest Light Might Shine
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anneapocalypse
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Rating: Mature
Archive Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Urianger Augurelt/Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn, Urianger Augurelt & Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn, Ardbert & Urianger Augurelt, Unrealized Ardbert/Urianger Augurelt, Pre-Urianger Augurelt/Warrior of Light
Characters: Urianger Augurelt, Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn, Ardbert Hylfyst, Elidibus, Unukalhai, Tataru Taru, Minfilia Warde, Warrior of Light, Dewlala Dewla, Y'shtola Rhul, Yugiri Mistwalker, Thancred Waters, J'Rhoomale, Blanhaerz, Lamimi, Naillebert, Haneko Burneko
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Angst, Religion, Isolation, Loneliness, Patch 3.4: Soul Surrender Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV), Elezen Warrior of Light, Female Warrior of Light, Canon-Typical Violence, Guilt, Emotional Repression, Child Neglect, Childhood Memories, Unresolved Sexual Tension
Series: With Lilies and With Laurel
Length: 88,715 / 92,000
Chapter: 14/15
Summary:
Heartbroken after the loss of his dearest companion, Urianger labors to save two worlds in which he has never felt more alone.
Notes:
If you're new here, please start with Chapter 1!
Final Fantasy XIV is owned by Square Enix. This is a non-commercial work of fanfiction.
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[FFXIV] My first (and probably only) completed ARR relic weapon.
May. 19th, 2026 12:15 pmanneapocalypseFor the uninitiated, relic weapons in Final Fantasy XIV are special weapons for each expansion. They have multiple stages with different appearances, with the final stage being best-in-slot for the expansion and featuring some cool visual effects in its design (with different appearances at different stages that can also be pretty cool). As they are meant to be a time-filling activity in between game updates, they usually require a long grind of various tasks to complete. A Realm Reborn, the base game, is notorious for having the longest and most tedious grinds.
After stalling out for a while on the books step (if you know, you know), I plunged back into my ARR relic grind this past week and was surprised to discover I was closer to the end than I had realized! So I dug in, and ended up completing the rest of my weapon grind in a few days.
FIC: The Salvage Yard (#96 Cheers) [Trixie Belden Mysteries/The Three Investigators]
May. 18th, 2026 07:27 ambrumeier posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
ficlet_zoneAuthor:
brumeierChallenge(s): #96 Cheers - The Spy Who Came In for a Cold One
Fandom(s): Trixie Belden Mysteries/The Three Investigators
Series: Rocky Beach 1975
Pairing(s): Trixie Belden/Jupiter Jones
Wordcount: 11,272
Warning(s): Jones family feels, criminals, theft, blackmail, swordplay
Summary: Jupiter Jones works out of his bar, The Salvage Yard, gathering and selling information thanks to a network of informants. When he's approached by a budding journalist named Trixie Belden for help on a case which involves a movie mogul, valuable artwork, and an old foe, he'll find himself out of his comfort zone in a variety of ways.
New Music Monday - 18 May 2026
May. 18th, 2026 08:40 pmparadisedinermod posting in paradisedinerTaeyang - Live Fast Die Slow
Taeyong - WYLD
Itzy - Motto
Zerobaseone - Top 5
Jay Park and Longshot - Yeah! Yeah!
I.O.I - Suddenly
Xikers - OKay
Yoon Sanha - IDK Me
Bibi - Bumpa
Shownu x Hyungwon - Do You Love Me
Hyojung - 나의 작은 청춘에게
Le Sserafim - Boompala
Ahn Hyoseop x Khalid - Something Special
Taemin - Permission
Peniel - IDKI
New MVs are also added to an ongoing Youtube playlist.
Last week's MVs: 11 May
Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.
book meme!
May. 17th, 2026 01:10 pmbluedreamingI saw this little meme via chestnut_pod and thought it looked really fun!
- Take five books off your bookshelf. (I tried to take a book from each of my sections, whether formal or informal (old & not yet catalogued, new arrival, reading pile, etc.).)
- Book #1 -- first sentence: "[The daily quest has arrived.]" --Solo Leveling: The Novel Omnibus written by Chugong, translated by Hye Young Im and J. Torres.
- Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty: "Ares Feng is an extremist whose early life experiences have made him reclusive, moody, and distrustful of everyone." --The Defectives: Book II written by Priest, translated by Xiaou and Mu
- Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred: "Then, suddenly, right in the middle of it all, they stop with the banter and the whole gang looks at me." --The Glister written by John Burnside
- Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty: "Even he didn't know why he'd come here, after all this time." --Hell is Dark with No Flowers: The Snake-Eating Inn written by Yoru Michio, translated by Taylor Engel
- Book #5 -- final sentence of the book: "And the Kel stood still only for a moment more, then walked faster and faster to meet them, with the kel'anth and Duncan far in the lead." --The Faded Sun Trilogy (Omnibus) written by C.J. Cherryh
- Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
[The daily quest has arrived.] Ares Feng is an extremist whose early life experiences have made him reclusive, moody, and distrustful of everyone. Then, suddenly, right in the middle of it all, they stop with the banter and the whole gang looks at me. Even he didn't know why he'd come here, after all this time. And the Kel stood still only for a moment more, then walked faster and faster to meet them, with the kel'anth and Duncan far in the lead.
The use of the first person in only one of them is a little jarring when it goes back to third, but it's the tone shift that's more curious I think: the first three are very "close" while the last two are more removed. Nothing much has happened, but it's kind of interesting!
Challenge 98: Reverse Fandom: iZombie
May. 15th, 2026 07:10 pmbadly_knitted posting in ficlet_zoneThis month's challenge is:
Click on the challenge, pick any episode title, or more than one, as inspiration, and start writing!
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