Show your Miqo'te !!

[Seisha]

duty finder dancing



new glamour!!

[Cromi_Jobly]

Logged onto my alt after ignoring her to do raids.

[xLucia]

My time in Ul'dah, which also reminds my a lot of Rabanastre!

Omg you're right it actually does kinda look like Rabanastre now that you mention it :O Now I feel like playing FF12 T.T

[Ruri]

new glamour!!

These are very nice

Been going crazy making crafting AFs for myself last few days...

I really need to work on Crafter AF gear.. It all looks sweet. Nice pics

[Ageofwar]

duty finder dancing



new glamour!!

Very nice set of screenshot Good Job!!! keep it up


Was running a little low on Gil, so i had a grand idea.

there is no pictures below in this post:-

Sorry it took so long but I decided to take a little time to read over what people have said and to sleep on it

I wasn't going to make an issue of this but since it's been brought up already I'll just give my opinion on it. I wasn't ever posting a lot of pictures in here but I'm definitely turned away by Ageofwar all over you, you all over Ageofwar, Ageofwar all over this other girl, pictures of Ageofwar all over afk Ruri, 100000 pictures of Ruri's face, etc. It isn't that i don't think you're cute - you are! But holy moly when page after page is full of that, it's not even a thread I like looking in anymore..

Kind of an issue when two people are in diffrent time zones real life time zones to make some really interesting screenshots hard to do hence the reason why it looks like one of us is afk, mind you i'm not saying its imposible.

I got 2 sets of pictures i haven't posted yet and now your are not going to see and i'm sure i could have come up with a story to go with them.

ok Ruri's catkini shoot might have been a little too much but everyone has diffrent tatses i kinda liked them

My bronze lake i've been holding on to for a good week and was not planning on posting but it seemed fitting at the time

alot of what i do is in the name of fun, this is the one of very few thread that frequcatly comes up on page 1 of new posts that don't seem to be bitch threads or unreasonalble suggestions i know it don't show but i actully enjoy this thread.

i think secrently you enjoy our antics together you just want us to take it to the next level (Eternal bond - lol, give us a little time) you wouldn't be the 1st and you will not be the last

Feels like I'm browsing through your personal instagram..

lol... The flrting in our personal Instagram accounts is worse than in the forums and i tend to post more frequantly on instagram than here in the forum

if anyone is interesting my account is ageofwar666, i'll let Ruri give you her's (or you can find it in my account)

You pick on me?

Well... I... SHOULD CRUSH YOU FOR THINKING SUCH LUDICROUS THINGS!

hmmm... thank you? i think? it seems you have taken things in good humor (the way it should have been taken)

Age I would have never met you if it weren't for your "antics" in this thread lol. Keep being yourself <3

oh yes i remember (well the page number at least)

Sitting on my favorite staircase afk spot:

hmmm Hello!! kitty, where have you been hiding?

hmmm tell me about it (^pull from page 170) made a curde remark about one of your posts, i was expecting that you would ignore, OH boy i was wrong and well the rest is history

He picks on everyone but PROBABLY in just a teasing way hehe.
At least your not on our server you'd be prone to butt slaps during dungeon runs!

So true, I macro'ed the whole butt slap (/slap motion, /em slaps <t>'s butt) odd thing since the antics between Me and Ruri started in full swing i've stopped using that macro in dungeons

I hope we can get passed all this bitching and get this thread back to what is important "show you miqo'te"

well this is me retreating back into the shadows from which i came from

posting from time to time (don't worry if you are still interested in my picts you can follow me on instagram)

[Zomkei]

I really enjoy the way the lighting is in the Lavender Beds...



Also once upon a time I was a female Miqo'te for a short bit... (During FCOB times) Sometimes I think of going back.

Guys guys guys
come on now
We don't need fighting, we need:

I have no idea what is going on since there is a lot of pages I missed but I'm all for naked cat boys!

[Alahra]

I was at the post-cap most of the day yesterday so I couldn't really interject my two cents. I've gotten tired of the overall thread lately as the posts have become kind of spammy and, indeed, cliquish. Much of the thread is a handful of posters having a conversation through screenshots, and given how quickly the thread moves as a result, it is very easy for screenshots with actual content (new glamours, interesting angles, lighting, get-togethers, new entries to the thread, etc.) to get pushed down and ultimately drowned out. A lot of these regular posts are also, essentially, repetitive, covering the same basic things over and over (and indeed, some of the screenshots themselves are repeats). I have on occasion gotten "conversational" as well, and it's okay to a degree, but when it's becoming a large part of the thread, that's a bit extreme.

There are individuals out there in the world who, in social environments, will tend to shy away if a few central voices drown out the rest of the conversation. No one was trying to do anything like that on purpose, but inadvertently created an environment where quieter voices could have felt intimidated to a degree that made them feel unable to contribute themselves.

I'm typically one of those types myself. Personally, I've pretty much stopped looking at screenshots in a screenshot thread because the thread moves so quickly and is full of so much repetitive content that it's faster to skim through to clear the posts out of my "new posts" list and then post whatever screenshot I had in mind to post. That was the only way I could really feel comfortable posting—by ignoring everyone else because the signal to noise ratio had gotten too out of balance by focusing on a small group of regular posters who spend most of their daily posts on this thread. I like to post elsewhere on the boards, and it's honestly frustrating at time how fast the thread moves because I try to put lot of thought into posting and try to curate the shots I do put up, only to have them more than likely lost in the sheer volume of posts that go on. I can't compete with that volume of posting and also engage in discussions about the game elsewhere on the boards at all, so I've largely disengaged from the thread.

But ultimately, I've been posting the glamour shots for my own benefit more than anything—I take pride in them, and having somewhere to pin them was still enough for me, so I hadn't particularly said anything. However, I also don't fault Coratanni/Whiskers from actually saying something.

What I do fault, though, were replies that came off as dismissive and show (perhaps inadvertently, I will admit) a startling lack of willingness to engage with and understand someone else, such as these:

Nah, don't sweat it, just retaliate with more pics of your own.

Post a picture, or two, or three and then voila, they are involved in the "Show you Miqo'te" thread.

If you want to be involved just start posting and chating.

The thing is that it's not always easy for people to just post (or speak up, in non-forum situations). Everyone has different levels of extroversion and introversion and different levels of comfort in social situations. Sometimes even speaking up to say "Hey, it feels hard to speak up here" can be a tough thing to do for some folks (myself included—though I'm personally much better in digital spaces, I hide in corners in public gatherings in "meatspace" rather often). Simply being told "Just post!" isn't really helpful: often the best sort of response to things like this is more direct encouragement (something like "But I love your pictures!" for the thread at hand, as an example).

Some of the responses even came across a little mean-spirited or flippant, suggesting that there shouldn't have been a "problem" at all, again displaying a general lack of empathy and understanding:

Rather than whine, why not do something positive an post your own pictures?

Sorry, I absolutely don't get what the supposed problem is.

Thanks guys I'm glad no one else feels like we were trying to take over or anything.. still not sure what the big deal was. But lets move on

well I don't know who those people are but it seems this thread still has plenty of awesome people posting almost daily. So sorry for losing people?

Why would I feel terrible because a few people out of thousand don't want to post because of me?

Other posts came across as a bit antagonistic, like this one:

Because someone lacked the confidence to post their own contribution, abnd blamed an easy target (prominant posters are easy targets) for making them feel that way.

A request that others perhaps leave room for others to contribute is not blaming anyone, and ultimately attacking a person's character in response to that request (timidly worded though it may have been) shows the person giving response again refusing to attempt to understand another human being. Not everyone is a confident, social butterfly, and you know nothing of their life circumstances that might have kept them from being so, let alone genetics and any number of environmental factors. Nobody in this thread should be trotting around on such a high horse like that. Compassion towards others goes a long way.

So after all the dismissive, blunt posts refusing to try to understand where someone was coming from, I'm not surprised people feel like the thread has gotten cliquish or that Ruri has a bit of a fanclub. Other promiment posters rushed to her defense almost immediately, despite Ruri's initial response which actually tried to engage with the concern. Ageofwar didn't really come across as defensive or dismissive as the conversation progressed (for which I have to give a /thumbsup).

What all this has shown me is that I don't want to participate in this thread anymore. I dislike people who don't attempt to understand others, who tend to dismiss those with differing viewpoints and concerns in a self-centered, bullyish manner, and it seems some of the most frequent posters here fit that bill. So this will be my last post here.

I just felt that it was unfair for everyone to dogpile on Whiskers the way they did, and I've been reading through the responses seething with frustration because I couldn't speak up against it due to the posting limit. By the time I'm able to post this, most folks will probably have moved on, but I believe it needs to be said anyway.

[Ageofwar]

a lot of insightful stuff

I, for one will take your comments into consideration moving forward

Let's move on and get back to the fun :-D

I've gotten tired of the overall thread lately as the posts have become kind of spammy and, indeed, cliquish. Much of the thread is a handful of posters having a conversation through screenshots

I would like to apologies for my part in this, i was just going with the flow

There are individuals out there in the world who, in social environments, will tend to shy away if a few central voices drown out the rest of the conversation. No one was trying to do anything like that on purpose, but inadvertently created an environment where quieter voices could have felt intimidated to a degree that made them feel unable to contribute themselves.

The thing is that it's not always easy for people to just post (or speak up, in non-forum situations). Everyone has different levels of extroversion and introversion and different levels of comfort in social situations. Sometimes even speaking up to say "Hey, it feels hard to speak up here" can be a tough thing to do for some folks (myself included—though I'm personally much better in digital spaces, I hide in corners in public gatherings in "meatspace" rather often). Simply being told "Just post!" isn't really helpful: often the best sort of response to things like this is more direct encouragement (something like "But I love your pictures!" for the thread at hand, as an example).

it will be hard to understand this but in real life I'm quite a shy person, I really have a hard time in social situations, but hiding behind the mask that is "Age ofWar" (sorry Ruri, one mask you are not going to have a look behind any time soon) a lot of my shyness just goes away.

up until I made quite a ballsy comment toward Ruri because of one of her screenshot i liked i only posted her once in a blue moon and only pictures of one of my retainers I like to dress up

I've been posting the glamour shots for my own benefit more than anything—I take pride in them, and having somewhere to pin them was still enough for me, so I hadn't particularly said anything.

Please DON'T stop posting, I, for one enjoy everyone's pictures

[AstralKaos]

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I absolutely get the complaint once the actual complaint was posted, really I do, what I didn't get was what they posted. Hence why I posted (and if it didn't come off as actually being confused, then sorry) what I did saying I didn't get it, and if it wasn't viewed as an actual suggestion (it was) then I can nderstand. It's one thing to say "hey, guys can you maybe hold back on all the pictures, it's turning into a personal chat room between you all" which would've been fine, but what was posted wasn't as such and one part was essentially "so and so says" and to finish it up once it all was understood to come out and call every one of those in this "clique" a bunch of fanged fan club members... if what I posted was seen as antagonistic then sorry, but in my view I wasn't hostile until they posted that outlandish and unnecessary reply.

Oh, and for the record I have crippling social anxiety outside of the game, I'm the straight opposite of a social butterfly, in fact one of the main reasons I play this game (aside from liking it, obviously) is because it's actually helped/helping me overcome parts of that, even if it's digital it is interaction and social activity.

Sorry for my part in this spam and "clique" stuff, it wasn't my intention and didn't realize that it was an issue for some.

[Ruri]

I feel sick for the way I came off, I just get defensive when I don't understand what I did wrong. I understand now. I want to personally apologize to everyone I possibly upset. Cortinni / Whispering I really like you as a friend and sorry it all came to this.

I just wanted to have fun but it got carried away. I can't apologize for what others said but I hope they understand as well now. I will be taking a break from here to let things get back to normal.

Please don't leave here because of me.