#greybeard

[connortheconceded]

Soul Seeking Sword

Tesfest24 day 1 ~~Breath or Forbidden

Years after A'tor's final battle at the Summit of Apocrypha he receded in a snowy corner of Skyrim to fully embrace the way of the voice. only speaking when some adventure thought they were good enough to take down a living legend and experiencing the new shout made in his solitude...

@tes-summer-fest

[thatoneshadyshop]

Studying the Way of the Voice can be very fus-trating.

[potter-solomons]

[johnnypsycho]

[oldpunksgoodstyle]

Matt Freeman (Operation Ivy)

[broadwaychoppers]

[onenakedfarmer]

BRIAN ALDISS Greybeard

Perhaps that had been one of the ineradicable faults of mankind - for even a convinced atheist had to admit there were faults - that it was never content with a thing as a thing; it had to turn things into symbols of other things. A rainbow was never only a rainbow; a storm was a sign of celestial anger; and even from the puddingy earth came forth dark chthonian gods.

What did it all mean? What an agnostic believed and what the willowy parson believed were not only irreconcilable systems of thought: they were equally valid systems of thought because, somewhere along the evolutionary line, man, developing this habit of thinking of symbols, had provided himself with more alternatives than he could manage. Animals moved in no such channel of imagination - they copulated and they ate; but the the saint, bread was a symbol of life, as the phallus was to the pagan. The animals themselves were pressed into symbolic service - and not only in the medieval bestiaries, by any means.

Such a usage was a distortion, although man seemed unable to ratiocinate without it. That had been the trouble right from the beginning. Perhaps it had even been the beginning, back among the first men that man could never get clearly defined (for the early men, being also symbols, had to be either lumbering brutes, or timid noble savages, or to undergo some other interpretation). Perhaps the first fire, the first tool, the first wheel, the first carving in a limestone cave, had each possessed a symbolic rather than a practical value, had each been pressed to serve distortion rather than reality.

It was a sort of madness that had driven man from his humble sites on the edges of woods into towns and cities, into arts and wars, into religious crusades, into martyrdom and prostitution, into dyspepsia and fasting, into love and hatred, into this present cul-de-sac; it had all come about in pursuit of symbols. In the beginning was the symbol, and darkness was over the face of the Earth.

[skyrim-forever]

Cunk on Nirn Part 2: High Hrothgar

[speakertoyesterday]

Dog in elk

There are apparently halloween pumpkins commemorating the funniest thing on the internet ever.

[mazurga]

High Hrothgar

[feykrorovaan]

Some of you have never climbed the 7,000 steps to get to High Hrothgar and it shows.

[peco5bi11]

it’s a lost art, looking at someone’s opinion on the internet and simply going “hmph, dumbass” and moving on with your day.

When you have an entire rant typed up and then decide to delete it without saving instead of posting it.

[johnnypsycho]

[zivvis]

cursed with a legacy he doesn’t want and isn’t ready for

[crow-caller]

Im done with my lightlark 3 text! I've been very unwell but hope to film soon, bc the goal is to be out by xmas!

In the meantime I've been thinking about how much Lightlark does not like women (who aren't isla). There are three kinds of women in lightlark:

Higher or equal status to Isla, AKA "evil bitches who betray": Cleo, Aurora/Celeste, Lark, Poppy and Terra. That snake who eats babies goes here.

Lesser status to Isla, AKA "worships her as a literal savior": Maren, Ella, Sairsha. Maren and Sairsha also betray her somewhat while still worshipping her, they are also the only Normal People with vague social reform goals (who look to Isla to lead them)

Slightly lower but near status to Isla AKA "Non threatening and efficient support": Enya (lesbian), Astria (Cousin), Wren (old). The oracles go here (trapped in ice to disperse plot mcguffins).

There aren't any other women in lightlark beyond isla's dead mom (willimgly died, to benefit isla) and violet (nothing known beyond hooking up with Aurora’s BF and prompting her evil turn)

[theanoninyourinbox]

No thoughts only Skyrim WC AU

mmmm brainworm time

i shall inflict it upon thee