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Imagine it:

It's an ungodly early hour, the sun has yet to so much as consider looking your way, this is very much so still the domain of the moon and her stars. Very little could move you from the deathly sleep you're in, and to your utter, exhausted dismay, one of those few things comes for you.

A tiny little hand at your elbow, hot breath on your cheek as a part of your awareness still tries to dance in obliviousness as a small voice reacts to your waking. "I threw up," the little voice says.

You (as all those in this situation are wont to do) sigh and do your best to drag yourself out of bed. Limbs protest, but up you get anyway. You turn on the light, knowing the little one needs you to help clean up.

Except, it's not your fucking kid, it's just this guy:

Imagine it. Imagine that was you. This is what you sign up for if you give the Rieklings Thirsk Mead Hall. And that's the best case scenario, because the same exact shit happens to you if you give the mead hall to Bujold the Unworthy, but you can't even convince yourself it's fine when it's a full grown Nord waking you up at ass-o'clock to get you to help clean up vomit.

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Good trope: Character yelling, "It's not what it looks like!" while doing exactly what it looks like.

Great trope: Character yelling, "It's not what it looks like!" while doing something so unfathomable that the person who interrupted them can't even begin to attempt to figure out what the hell it is they're seeing.

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April 25, 2024 - Vvardenfell/Morag Tong questline attire.

This is Drathal Malos. My Nerevarine doesn't do the Morag Tong questline, so this lad here does it instead.

May 6, 2024 - Morag Tong Grandmaster/Tribunal DLC attire.

After letting Eno Hlaalu retire and fulfilling some grandmaster writs, the Nerevarine hires Malos to help her track down the Dark Brotherhood after they keep interrupting her sleep.

August 8, 2024 - face reference. Without his hair, it makes his thick eyebrows looks absolutely massive lol

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to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator

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Hi, I not sure if you have answered that before, but I really love your fanfic "Binds of Civility" and wanted to know if you will continue with the story?

P.S.: sorry for any mistakes, English isn't my first language, I'm just curious because I really love that fic. Have a great day!

Thanks for the ask. Yes, I do plan to continue. I have to admit I have been very distracted from actually writing this year. But I never stop thinking about the fic or that extended world.

Mark Twain once ended a very silly story with a declaration of

The truth is, I have got my hero (or heroine) into such a particularly close place, that I do not see how I am ever going to get him (or her) out of it again–and therefore I will wash my hands of the whole business, and leave that person to get out the best way that offers–or else stay there. I thought it was going to be easy enough to straighten out that little difficulty, but it looks different now.

And while I don't have the exact same issues regarding my fic, I feel it. While the fates of some ofthe most central characters: Cecilia and Junius Varo, Elenwen, and Ulfric Stormcloak are fixed, I do keep going back and forth on what will eventually happen to a bunch of the supporting cast. Since they are all at each other's throats in a civil war with *counts* seven fic-relevant factions, some people have to die. I am steeling myself to be ruthless.

And to be honest I didn't expect to end up liking Ondolemar, Thongvor, Madanach, and Delphine so much. Someone(s) has to lose in that tangle even though they would also make a great Reach sitcom cast. ;)

Anyway, I do have an outline, the story is in the home stretch and I hope to post a new chapter in November. In the meantime, Id love to answer any questions you and others have about the story and characters.

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you’ve been a very bad romaence partner riz gukgak

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Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

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was reading a romance/erotica novel a friend loaned me and in the middle of the book the main character is chopping vegetables to prep for a whole dinner party with her friends and the love interest shows up and they hook up & his hands go everywhere you’d expect them to and then afterward while she’s still catching her breath on the floor he’s like “I’ll finish this for you 😏” and he PICKS UP THE VEGGIES and knife with his UNWASHED HANDS and starts prepping. I was floored. I couldn’t finish the book. call me what you will. weak perhaps. but i say to you we need editors with a food handlers certificates. we need line cook beta readers that’s what I believe

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The Horror That Is Bloodskal Barrow

Niente de Nada — 02/24/2022Teldryn Sero just died to a gate

[9:03 PM]Reloading but honestly

[9:03 PM]How?

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[9:05 PM]Walked into a gate FIVE TIMES IN A ROW

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[9:09 PM]Not dead yet

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[9:11 PM]Omg he made it through

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flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me

like, they all mean really generic things like “love” or “forever” or “i’m sorry” 

i thought you could combine flowers

like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they’d understand “the rebel leader is dead, rendezvous at the docks at 8, bring the dog, you will need lighter fluid and  a large tomato”

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Just posted a new chapter of a fic I haven't updated for three years. It's a series of short vignettes throughout this OC's formative years.

4E 112: Evermore, High Rock: A baby girl is born to a Breton spellsword and her Thalmor lover. Young Curinwe is going to have quite a life.

Chapter Thirteen: Seven-year-old Curinwe tries to figure out the Thalmor.

(A series of moments that make up the life of the Imperial Battlemage, Curinwe Varo. Stands alone, but is a prequel to my big Skyrim fic, "The Bonds of Civility". )

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really loving how most daedra are shown in Skyrim. Meridia, otherworldly and disembodied, the Breaker of Dawn and portrayed as light. Azura, beautiful and regal with a statue of stone. Nocturnal, mysterious and dark with a murder of crows. Hermaeus Mora, methodical and drawling to denote his constant knowledge and schemes for secrets.

And then there’s Clavicus Vile, Daedric Prince of power and bargains, who sounds like a cockney catcaller and has a dog who is literally half of his full power. Dude is a hillbilly

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Tada! Dye-painted wool felt cape, part of my emperor moth comission.