#Im really on a side quest here from the original post yikes

[bitchslapblastoids]

Nooooooooooooooooo

I feel like there’s always this gentle tentative awe in Dan’s eyes hiding right at the edge of his gaze in these very early videos, especially whenever Phil is just being silly with him. I know we’ve learned dan was “posh and confident,” but I think it also took some time for it all to fully set in - that he’d actually met a person who accepted him wholly and would give him back as much as he gave. And he’s a little scared to fully believe it because of…..all the reasons. But he really really wants to so he keeps being brave and perpetually delighted and a little shellshocked

"that week in december"

[blookmallow]

so it turns out windhelm is not a very friendly place at all 

i read something about dark elves living in windhelm in one of my books, and also heard it was the stormcloak capital so i made my way there to see if i could learn anything about that 

i very quickly learned it is Not actually a good place to be a dark elf at all

why can i even say this lmao. “yes, you should definitely be racist toward me. i dont belong here” 

how fucking rude do you gotta be to say this to my face fuck you

me: [minding my own business]

this random fuck: hello I love racism 

i didnt even pick a fight with him he just walked up and started threatening me so we ended up getting into a tavern brawl (and everyone else in the room was just like YEAH GET HIM lmao) 

i completely smashed him and hes scared of me now but still continues wandering around being racist and awful. i REALLY want to kill him lmao but i dont think hes. killable. i gave a valiant effort but he just gets staggered for a minute and wont die even if i just walk up to him and take a sword to his face (i got very frustrated and was reloading from saves just trying to see if it was Possible to kill him) (i thought maybe my arrows just werent doing enough damage or something bc i was trying to stealth kill him so i could get away with it but. nah he just doesnt die) 

why the fuck is this guy of all people immortal. is it because they anticipated players wanting to kill him and were like “fuck you” 

had a very surreal moment in candlehearth hall; heard the voice of a woman singing (the only female bard I had ever seen at this point didn’t sing, just played music, so I hadn’t heard this before) 

she had a very pretty voice but i couldn’t figure out where it was coming from, and she was singing a song about the Dragonborn 

so it was just. this weird moment of “who is this woman she sounds beautiful but where is she!!” “wait she’s singing about me” 

i found her eventually and managed to accidentally time it perfectly so that her song about the arrival of the Dragonborn ended the moment i walked up to her. it was a very strange experience 

she also sings a song in praise of Ulfric and the stormcloaks, which is oddly the exact same song I’ve heard other bards singing in praise of the empire calling for Ulfric’s death, with the words slightly changed

which could just be lazy writing, but to me it seems to imply that either the original song was written by the rebels and later appropriated by the empire, or that the original was written by the empire to spread negative impressions of the stormcloaks but was then reclaimed by them as a kind of “the empire’s propaganda is our battle cry now” defiance and im not sure which one i like better (and have no idea which one it actually is) (or. if it’s just laziness lmao) 

h....hm. thats. terrifying,

im dying though bc years ago i found this one audio post of someone doing a kermit imitation and saying the dark brotherhood oath with stabbing noises in the background and like. i didnt know what it Was i just thought it was hilarious 

so my only context for that oath is “dark kermit” and i was not prepared to run into the actual thing in its original context i still read it in that kermit voice i hate this :’  ) 

EXCUSE ME THERE IS A CHILD SLEEPING ON THE STONE IN THE SNOW THIS IS NOT OKAY ?? ? ?? 

I THOUGHT SHE WAS FUCKING DEAD

oh no here we go again

i know i probably shouldn’t impulsively adopt the first two orphaned children i find but. she’s gonna fucking die out here WHY DOESNT ANYONE DO ANYTHING. WHY WONT THE INNKEEPER LET HER STAY THERE OR SOMETHING

shes selling flowers to try to stay alive and i dont need them but i bought All of them

hmm

ah. i see 

im guessing this is probably like. a mystery shack tourist thing where its just an empty book and he tells everyone the Book Of Fate story and just watches them freak out when they see that its blank for them im laughing

this little museum is so good 

i forget what started me on the quest originally but people were talking about how this house was Cursed and you should Never Go There so naturally i picked the lock and snuck in, immediately overhearing This going on, but thATS A CHILD’S VOICE WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING IN HERE 

OH this is bad. this is so bad what the fuck what the fuck 

KID WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING 

ALSO WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET THIS STUFF

i guess the bEST case scenario is he stole it from a grave, 

so hes an orphan who got sent to an orphanage that turned out to be run by, he claims, an evil woman he hates so fucking much he tried to summon the dark brotherhood to kill her 

i found him first and played along with it so now he thinks im a dark brotherhood assassin. im gonna go check it out and see what the fuck is going on later 

yikes,

aventus, a kid who now owns a home because his parents are both dead, was sent to an orphanage to be cared for because the jarl couldn’t allow him to live there alone unsupervised, yet sofie is out there starving in the cold trying to sleep on the stone streets and selling flowers to stay alive and he doesnt do a goddamn fuckin thing for her. explain this 

i still dont totally get the politics of this land but i dont think i trust ulfric at all actually 

and this city is the first time ive encountered people being actively racist and hostile toward me for being a dark elf, so like, even though my first impulse was to side with the stormcloaks (bc Rebels Fighting The Tyranny Of The Government, the imperials tried to execute me and several of them without a trial or explanation, religious persecution, ) i dont think i like them either