Rain'li, Contrarian Chirurgeon
@healstick.bsky.social
Rain'li:
Healer, chirurgeon, and Sharlayan runaway • he/him • 🏳️⚧️
Myself:
Old, queer, and trying my best to leave the small parts of the world that I pass through better than I found them. They/them.
Lore, gposes and general chatter • Some NSFW
Healer, chirurgeon, and Sharlayan runaway • he/him • 🏳️⚧️
Myself:
Old, queer, and trying my best to leave the small parts of the world that I pass through better than I found them. They/them.
Lore, gposes and general chatter • Some NSFW
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Rain'li
FFXIV character profile
rainli.carrd.co
Finally made a carrd - this is still a work in progress, but I'm pleased with how it's coming together so far and I really appreciate everyone who encouraged me to try it.
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poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
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Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --
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I've also made all of the linearts free to download (tho tips are very appreciated!) as transparent pngs for various personal usage (yes like getting it tattooed lol)
ko-fi.com/s/2e76352d92
Please be cool and not redistribute/resell these as your own!
[Repost are 💕!] #FFXIV
ko-fi.com/s/2e76352d92
Please be cool and not redistribute/resell these as your own!
[Repost are 💕!] #FFXIV
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I've also made all of the linearts free to download (tho tips are very appreciated!) as transparent pngs for various personal usage (yes like getting it tattooed lol)
ko-fi.com/s/2e76352d92
Please be cool and not redistribute/resell these as your own!
[Repost are 💕!] #FFXIV
ko-fi.com/s/2e76352d92
Please be cool and not redistribute/resell these as your own!
[Repost are 💕!] #FFXIV
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So I figured I'd share the bath house build! I did this like...a year or two ago? I tried to cross reference it with images of different hammams (primarily ones from Iran and Turkey). I also tried to account for both the Gyr Abanian Architecture in game, as well as what furnishing I had available.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
So I figured I'd share the bath house build! I did this like...a year or two ago? I tried to cross reference it with images of different hammams (primarily ones from Iran and Turkey). I also tried to account for both the Gyr Abanian Architecture in game, as well as what furnishing I had available.
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Didn't get fastest tickets? Go to GATEway FATE. When I say GATEway FATE is one of, if not the, best con I've ever been to, that's after 23 years of attending and staffing conventions. This is such an awesome event, and they care immensely about the event and the attendees.
Third time's the /charm! Pardon our Firmament dust as we get the website updated for year 3.0 happening on October 17 & 18, 2026 back at the St. Charles Convention Center! As mentioned prior, we'll be using only the lower level this time as we find our break even point. More news to come!
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Didn't get fastest tickets? Go to GATEway FATE. When I say GATEway FATE is one of, if not the, best con I've ever been to, that's after 23 years of attending and staffing conventions. This is such an awesome event, and they care immensely about the event and the attendees.
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Third time's the /charm! Pardon our Firmament dust as we get the website updated for year 3.0 happening on October 17 & 18, 2026 back at the St. Charles Convention Center! As mentioned prior, we'll be using only the lower level this time as we find our break even point. More news to come!
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Third time's the /charm! Pardon our Firmament dust as we get the website updated for year 3.0 happening on October 17 & 18, 2026 back at the St. Charles Convention Center! As mentioned prior, we'll be using only the lower level this time as we find our break even point. More news to come!
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I don't think I've come across a poem that taps into my ethos when it comes to navigating queer community within the context of a hostile world as much as "We Have Enough Dead Friends" by Lena Oleanderson.
I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.
I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I don't think I've come across a poem that taps into my ethos when it comes to navigating queer community within the context of a hostile world as much as "We Have Enough Dead Friends" by Lena Oleanderson.
I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.
I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.
I'm thinking about ARR tonight, in particular Father Iliud, Sister Eluned, and The Church of Saint Adama Landama and the time the WoL spends in their care. You claim sanctuary there and they offer you both refuge and guidance in the wake of an incredibly traumatic event.
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I'm thinking about ARR tonight, in particular Father Iliud, Sister Eluned, and The Church of Saint Adama Landama and the time the WoL spends in their care. You claim sanctuary there and they offer you both refuge and guidance in the wake of an incredibly traumatic event.
The first examples that came to mind are interesting because they are two very different parts of him. I consider both to be fully and equally him at his core, though.
* Gardening
* When someone he would consider to be under his care in an official sense comes under threat
* Gardening
* When someone he would consider to be under his care in an official sense comes under threat
#wolqotd since I mentioned it and now I’m curious: how would someone really get to “see” your wol/oc in a way that shows who they are at their core? Is it an activity? A location? Interaction with a kind of person?
Additionally: How do they feel about being seen? Do they avoid it or hope for it?
Additionally: How do they feel about being seen? Do they avoid it or hope for it?
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The first examples that came to mind are interesting because they are two very different parts of him. I consider both to be fully and equally him at his core, though.
* Gardening
* When someone he would consider to be under his care in an official sense comes under threat
* Gardening
* When someone he would consider to be under his care in an official sense comes under threat
Rain'li has never been able to fully be comfortable in the dark and will avoid it whenever possible, to the point where he will never go anywhere without a portable light source of some sort on his person.
#wolqotd
What is your WOL/OC's biggest mundane fear?
I am not talking about something grandiose like "Fear of letting down my friends down" or "fear of hurting the innocent"
but instead stuff like "I am scared of snakes" or "Thunderstorms freak me the fuck out!"
What is your WOL/OC's biggest mundane fear?
I am not talking about something grandiose like "Fear of letting down my friends down" or "fear of hurting the innocent"
but instead stuff like "I am scared of snakes" or "Thunderstorms freak me the fuck out!"
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Rain'li has never been able to fully be comfortable in the dark and will avoid it whenever possible, to the point where he will never go anywhere without a portable light source of some sort on his person.
I may have recreated Rain'li in Spirit City so he can hang out while I'm writing. (If you haven't tried Spirit City, I have found it to be a wonderful tool for focus!)
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I may have recreated Rain'li in Spirit City so he can hang out while I'm writing. (If you haven't tried Spirit City, I have found it to be a wonderful tool for focus!)
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Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
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this is genuinely a really insightful thesis that asks a lot of complex questions btw do not look at this paper and just go 'lmfao ffxiv erp'. everyone should give this a read imo, it has the whimsy to make jokes but deserves to be taken seriously too
I AM LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS FFXIV ERP MASTER'S THESIS
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
this is genuinely a really insightful thesis that asks a lot of complex questions btw do not look at this paper and just go 'lmfao ffxiv erp'. everyone should give this a read imo, it has the whimsy to make jokes but deserves to be taken seriously too
I haven't fully read the thesis going around yet, but what I *have* read already has me feeling a lot of feelings about my own experiences being trans masculine and writing and playing an OC who is a trans man.
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I haven't fully read the thesis going around yet, but what I *have* read already has me feeling a lot of feelings about my own experiences being trans masculine and writing and playing an OC who is a trans man.
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oh I guess I should qrt this. hi I wrote this! please be normal to me.
this thesis is less about ffxiv and more in that ffxiv and ERP are a mode through which (my) gender and sexuality are negotiated, and how fan studies/games studies/trans studies doesn't "see" or think about ppl like me (yet)
this thesis is less about ffxiv and more in that ffxiv and ERP are a mode through which (my) gender and sexuality are negotiated, and how fan studies/games studies/trans studies doesn't "see" or think about ppl like me (yet)
I AM LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS FFXIV ERP MASTER'S THESIS
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
oh I guess I should qrt this. hi I wrote this! please be normal to me.
this thesis is less about ffxiv and more in that ffxiv and ERP are a mode through which (my) gender and sexuality are negotiated, and how fan studies/games studies/trans studies doesn't "see" or think about ppl like me (yet)
this thesis is less about ffxiv and more in that ffxiv and ERP are a mode through which (my) gender and sexuality are negotiated, and how fan studies/games studies/trans studies doesn't "see" or think about ppl like me (yet)
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learning someone from my alma mater wrote their master thesis on being a transmasc ERPer in FFXIV and this might be the best thing ive ever read in my life (im literally only 6 pages into it)
#ffxiv
#ffxiv
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
learning someone from my alma mater wrote their master thesis on being a transmasc ERPer in FFXIV and this might be the best thing ive ever read in my life (im literally only 6 pages into it)
#ffxiv
#ffxiv
I'm back to considering this. If I can get around to finishing the build I would love to host some relaxed time for body doubling for any creatives, students, or folks working from home.
Gods help me, I'm thinking about making an RP venue to hang out in while writing and studying. Because nothing is ever open before 5pm and I gotta be the change.
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm back to considering this. If I can get around to finishing the build I would love to host some relaxed time for body doubling for any creatives, students, or folks working from home.
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Was it really a defeat?
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Was it really a defeat?
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i'm tired of being silent: haurchefant is not a golden retriever he's a german shepherd that guy killed three people at the ripe age of like 13 there was a hatred in his heart that he chose to be better than he is the product of an environment that was cold and cruel to him and he chose to be kind
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
i'm tired of being silent: haurchefant is not a golden retriever he's a german shepherd that guy killed three people at the ripe age of like 13 there was a hatred in his heart that he chose to be better than he is the product of an environment that was cold and cruel to him and he chose to be kind
I am covering someone else's position at the clinic all week, which means earlier mornings, later nights, and a more physical workload. Today was only Monday and my body already feels like it's falling apart. I have a feeling I'll be embodying this all week.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I am covering someone else's position at the clinic all week, which means earlier mornings, later nights, and a more physical workload. Today was only Monday and my body already feels like it's falling apart. I have a feeling I'll be embodying this all week.
I haven't tried my hand at posing any kisses yet (it looks hard!), but I love seeing my timeline full of them.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I haven't tried my hand at posing any kisses yet (it looks hard!), but I love seeing my timeline full of them.
I truly believe that close platonic relationships deserve just as much consideration and attention as romantic ones - and to that end, I really need to do more poses with the Sage NPCs (not you Guildivain).
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I truly believe that close platonic relationships deserve just as much consideration and attention as romantic ones - and to that end, I really need to do more poses with the Sage NPCs (not you Guildivain).
I rotate Loifa, Mahaud, and Ancel in my head every time I hear this song.
Up the Wolves
YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I rotate Loifa, Mahaud, and Ancel in my head every time I hear this song.
Realized today that I am running short on time to get this season's PVP rewards. I don't want to, but my desire for at least that emote is currently outweighing that.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Realized today that I am running short on time to get this season's PVP rewards. I don't want to, but my desire for at least that emote is currently outweighing that.