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Hey, here's a guar dancing a little jig for whoever needs it.

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morrowind is a fantastic game about the nature of free will and choice and how much that matters when your fate has already been predetermined by forces outside of your control. it haunts you with the question of how much you matter as an individual compared to the person you once were, a person you might not even remember being. if everyone sees you as someone else, does the you that you knew even exist? its also a game where you have to stop every five minutes to go "ohhhhh scib" as you pass a scrib

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TES WIP WEDNESDAY

Tagged by a whole bunch of folks, and tagging a whole bunch of folks in return as well! (Does anyone know if tags work if you put them beneath a cut, btw?) I've really enjoyed seeing all of your work today already and I'll get around to reblogging and fully reading and admiring it tomorrow <3 I'm always super happy to be tagged so I can easily find the posts in my @-mentions ^^

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I've been tinkering with my writing, so have some art for this week! Been setting up some ideas for what the ref sheet will look like, and detailed the base-pose Veryn with just breeches. I've also been thickening some of the lines on the armoured gear to bring 'em up a bit closer in line with the Telvanni armour (not pictured yet).

I also wanted to redraw my old discord emote I made of Veryn peeking and it kinda. maybe. ended up as me painting a lot on top of it. God, painting and drawing faces is so hard. Things end up easily lopsided/assymetrical for me and I only notice it way, way too late. Also need to push those shadows more - even though it feels like I'm using a fairly large range already, it still feels fairly flat.

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TES WIP WEDNESDAY

Tagged by a whole bunch of folks, and tagging a whole bunch of folks in return as well! Honestly I have no idea when this becomes too much or if I'm breaking Tumblr-Etiquette 😅but I love seeing what everyone is up to and reblogging your work too!! @thequeenofthewinter @truth-01001001-liar @pocket-vvardvark @illumiera @unknownhomosapien @kat-tail @nyarevar @changelingsandothernonsense @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @oblivions-dawn @scorchedcandy @saltymaplesyrup @dirty-bosmer @ladytanithia @thenotebookwizard @sulphuricgrin @umbracirrus @skyrim-forever @hircines-hunter @friend-of-giants @labskeever @heavy-metal-dick @sanzas-reverie @theoneandonlysemla @yansurnummu @scholarlyhermit @linwelinwrites @sylvienerevarine @kookaburra1701 @elavoria @wispstalk @stormbeyondreality @ansu-gurleht @madam-whim @gilgamish @ggghoulish @graveofcalaxes @nuwanders @captain-of-silvenar @pyre-of-pages @guardianlizard @lobu-inu @fangsandsoftgrass @rustyram035 @lathez @babyblueetbaemonster @unironicallytes

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I got some more work done on Veryn's outfits - this time it's the Telvanni Armour / Dust Adept look to travel the Ashlands, featuring a Dreugh Skull. I also did some writing, which you can see below the cut! Can't believe it's almost a year since I last updated my fic, but I've had a hard time getting words on paper. Real Life and Miniche get in the way, and I've arrived at a series of chapters that are going to be this Big Centerpoint of the fic - and I want to really do them well. (and I ran into someone bookmarking my fic, only to see multiple occasions of really similar sentences to mine in their work, which was kinda demotivating too ;.;). But. Hopefully. We're back, baby.

Veryn remained with the guar, the animals loosely tethered and grazing on what dried grasses had survived the cold. Leaning against Sharn, he squinted at Caius setting up a tripod, topped with a gleaming brass instrument. Even from a distance, the man looked intimidating, cloaked in red, clad in decorated Legionnaire’s plate. “Do you hate him?” His spine stiffened at Sharn’s question, vertebrae locking together like a Skyrim shield wall. “It’s that obvious, huh?” Nerves crawled like spiders through his mouth, desperate for a release, and he laughed wryly. “I don’t know if I hate him. What he did, what he’s doing? How can I forget that the Blades are using me as their sacrificial pawn? How can I forgive Caius for lying to me about my own death? And yet if I don’t do anything, if the Empire doesn’t — what if Dagoth Ur wins? What if the voice in my head — ” He broke off abrubtly and gestured around him. “What if all of Morrowind becomes like this or worse? Endless rock and ash, choked by poison weeds. What if Cyrodiil becomes his twisted garden? All of Tamriel?” His answer was a gaze of worry, of uncertainty - a gaze that told him Sharn did not know what the future held either. “And must you carry that weight on your own?” “I don’t know, alright?” He raised his voice, the aching pulse in his temples overriding clarity of thought, frustration and anger threatening to spill out in a torrent of tears and rage. Stomach roiling, Veryn clenched his teeth and eyes, clawing at his mind to gain back a semblance of control. Not here, not now, not in Mamaea, where he couldn’t tell whether the heartbeat in his ears was his own. Sharns hands found his shoulders, her voice found his ears; but he couldn’t quite tell what she was saying over the ring of anxiety until her tone changed and her words stilled. “Ryn,” she said, her voice full of alarm. “I’m fairly sure I’m sensing some magic out here, and it’s not yours.” His stomach stopped squirming and dropped down like lead as a screaming sense of warning jolted through his veins and dragged him back to the present. He cast out his magic hyperagonally, reaching out to the ambient magicka that surrounded them, searching it without rhyme or reason, trying to find patterns in that sea of near-primordial chaos. Usually he was good at this. Usually, he saw patterns where there might be none at all. Today though — “I sense nothing. But if you do, then — ” A corpse from an era long-gone. “Necromancy.” Sharn realised it at the same time he did, wide, panicked eyes meeting the lenses of his dust-mask. “Run!” A creak escaped from the ground, a grinding, grating sound, as if some long-shut door had been opened, some rusty, stilled joint started moving again. Little clouds of dust began to leap towards the sky, growing larger with groan from below. His boots dragged through the ashen dust, solid ground becoming looser and looser with each step he took. Sharn cursed, sinking in to her ankles, the earth caving in below her steps. He stumbled next, their footing disintegrating faster than they could run. Out of the depths echoed a snap, sharp and sudden, followed by another; by a third one, the squealing movement of ancient bones beneath their feet, splintering and fracturing from the pressure of soil and dust. Mamaea awakened, a giant unable to bear its own weight, a skeleton collapsing into itself, a gaping mouth to the abyss, jagged ribs jutting out like teeth. “Hold on!” Veryn yelled, barely audible through the dust blasting his mask. Grasping Sharn’s arm, he drew on his magic without care, lifting up the both of them in flight. A brief distance was all he needed, a few more paces, and they’d make it to more solid rock. Caius must be out there somewhere, obscured by the same storm that proved his undoing. The wind screeched and howled and hummed, resonating with the beat of a thousand scarab wings. It ripped at his clothes and armour and tore at Sharns limbs, wresting them off balance. His magic fizzled, unable to keep two people airborne for long, leaving him only one way. Down.

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this hasn't made it into anything i've written yet but dunmeri sign language is colloquially called "spidertalk" and is learned by almost everyone

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come play blorbos with me

we can do tghis. our touy

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Dunmer children wearing spiky vests for cliff racers like the spiky armor you put on chihuahuas as an anti-hawk measure

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WIP WHENEVAH

tagged by; @stellarsightz thank you bestieee

I HAVE AN ACTUAL WIP THIS TIME

that I haven't touched since laying flats like a week ago leave me alone

wip snow elf forgotten vale sage I'm working on name Eerithyr <3

that's all I have for now lol <3333

Tagging; @tiredela @scorchedcandy @weirdisme @timetravellingpenguin @lil-biscuits ... pluto already tagged most of my moots LMAO <3 OH and tagging anyone else who wants to join ofc!

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TES WIP WEDNESDAY

It is wednesday my guys, gals and non-binary pals! Tagged by @hircines-hunter @sanzas-reverie @labskeever @skyrim-forever @truth-01001001-liar @graveofcalaxes @yansurnummu

And because I love seeing what everyone is up to and I like tagging folks: @thequeenofthewinter @truth-01001001-liar @pocket-vvardvark @illumiera @unknownhomosapien @kat-tail @nyarevar @changelingsandothernonsense @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @oblivions-dawn @scorchedcandy @saltymaplesyrup @dirty-bosmer @ladytanithia @thenotebookwizard @tonakuma @sulphuricgrin @umbracirrus @skyrim-forever @hircines-hunter @friend-of-giants @labskeever @heavy-metal-dick @sanzas-reverie @theoneandonlysemla @yansurnummu @orbitalmirror @scholarlyhermit @linwelinwrites @sylvienerevarine @kookaburra1701 @elavoria @wispstalk @stormbeyondreality @ansu-gurleht @madam-whim @gilgamish @ggghoulish @graveofcalaxes @nuwanders @captain-of-silvenar

More TES WIP Wednesday folks join the tag- let me know if I forgot anyone else! If you want to get on or off Ms. Moriche’s Wild Ride, please tag me or DM me and I’ll make a note and add or remove you!

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I managed to get up to doing art this week again! I'd love to get a proper reference sheet done for Veryn before the TES Gala commences, so that's part of what I started working on! First time I've used the Clip Studio 3-d model as a base.

Going from sketch to lines to WIP colour. I'm not 100% sold on the lines yet - I feel like I should add more weight to 'em at points? They don't quite feel right yet.

And as a bonus, sketches for three more outfits: Veryn newly arrived in Morrowind, Veryn traveling the ashlands in chitin armour and a dust mask, Veryn as Nerevarine wearing fancier clothes, and Veryn wearing full on noble Telvanni ceremonial regalia.

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WIP Wednesday!

It is wednesday my guys, gals and non-binary pals! Thank you everyone for the well-wishes last week <3 It's good to be back!! Tagged by @gilgamish, @madam-whim, @dirty-bosmer, @changelingsandothernonsense, @theoneandonlysemla, @ladytanithia

And because I love seeing what everyone is up to and I like tagging folks: @thequeenofthewinter @truth-01001001-liar @pocket-vvardvark @illumiera @unknownhomosapien @kat-tail @nyarevar @changelingsandothernonsense @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @oblivions-dawn @scorchedcandy @saltymaplesyrup @dirty-bosmer @ladytanithia @thenotebookwizard @tonakuma @sulphuricgrin @umbracirrus @skyrim-forever @hircines-hunter @friend-of-giants @labskeever @heavy-metal-dick @sanza-17 @theoneandonlysemla @yansurnummu @orbitalmirror @scholarlyhermit @linwelinwrites @sylvienerevarine @kookaburra1701 @elavoria @wispstalk @stormbeyondreality

Added a bunch of TES WIP Wednesday folks - let me know if I forgot anyone else! If you want to get on or off Ms. Moriche’s Wild Ride, please tag me or DM me and I’ll make a note and add or remove you!

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No writing today, but I did do my first drawing in Clip Studio Paint this week for an ask game! Some of the gear Veryn acquires throughout Fear in a Handful of Dust: a chitin Zainab bracelet to mark him a trader; a chitin earring to mark him a Clanfriend of the Urshilaku. The ring of Moon-and-Star. A mages staff made of mycelial wood; and Keening.

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you and your dreadful little polycule haven't seen the last of me

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WIP WEDNESDAY

It is wednesday my guys, gals and non-binary pals! I have been away for like two months - life decided to throw me a couple of curveballs shaped like a wisdom tooth infection and then sequential influenza for my toddler, myself and my husband. Just didn't have the energy to do much or keep up with Tumblr ;.; Tagged by @nuwanders @saltymaplesyrup @truth-01001001-liar @ladytanithia

And because I love seeing what everyone is up to and I like tagging folks: @thequeenofthewinter @truth-01001001-liar @pocket-vvardvark @illumiera @dei2dei @tafferling @unknownhomosapien @kat-tail @nyarevar @changelingsandothernonsense @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @oblivions-dawn @scorchedcandy @saltymaplesyrup @dirty-bosmer @ladytanithia @thenotebookwizard @tonakuma @sulphuricgrin @umbracirrus @skyrim-forever @hircines-hunter

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For today I have a half-finished drawing I worked on a bit in the past month - it's Veryn in the world of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (a roguelike zombie simulation/survivor game). Wearing Motorcycle Armour, Moll-E webbing Belt, Chitin Greaves over Leather Pants, Chitin Boots, Chitin Helmet, and holding a Wood Axe. On the ground's his Moll-E Backpack.

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Gay elves for Heart’s Day

Crumb belongs to @sssfrs

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Gay elves for Heart’s Day

Crumb belongs to @sssfrs

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Morrowind Aesthetic Moodboards

Vivec, Almalexia, Sotha Sil, Dagoth Ur, and Nerevar

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I got bored so I painted nyx hound with 20 dwemer forks @lathez

Okay i actually have to go to work now bye guys

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Now the ash dances with the snow....

Lil winter dragon stickers ♡