#if you notice a pattern no you don't

[mellowscrolls]

Tell me about your ocs I'm trying to dig around to find them for specific questions but it's not working, so give me a frame of reference so I can start firing my asks :p

Okay so RN I have three total TES ocs (some people have gotten fired for not being interesting enough since 2022, so if you see other oc tags those are old and defunct)

Here they are:

Aldercaine, who I ship with Meridia, who can be found with the tag "oc: aldercaine". She is my nord/reachman LDB and has been with me the longest, along with a couple false starts on AO3.

Ensosin, a snow elf dragon priest turned LDB from a separate canon to Aldercaine who I ship with Miraak. She was wives with a fan dragon of mine at one point. She's been a big source of inspiration for dragon priest headcanons that you might have seen!

and Heracles who works within @ego-osbourne's Salt In The Wound, an extension of The Dez Illusion. He's a side character imperial who is an alteration/transmutation specialist, Meridia worshiper, and total Macho Dork. I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to elaborate past that so I won't.

Hopefully that's a good jumping off point! my askbox is pretty bare so feel free to go hog wild

[jeschalynn]

Tagged by @onyourowndaisymae~

🔖 Open tag!

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

[murderspice]

aaa games: we have some of the most CUTTING EDGE character customization options for you!! you can't make them fat tho, only cause we'd have to design more clothing models and adjust the animation for them and we just don't have the resources for that haha you understand right. that's totally the only reason we don't let you do that. anyways which of these 6 cocks would you like your character to have

[heich0e]

tobio gets horny after a win btw

[bitchthefuck1]

It's always so funny to me when people call Kaz a serial killer or a murderer bc like. boy do I have news for you about the other crows.

[brionysea]

mike's gonna get blamed for something that's not his fault again just you watch. he's gonna say something well meaning but clunky and lucas (recently traumatised and grieving someone who's not dead) is gonna pick a fight with him like he always does whenever Something Happens or mike's gonna try and help with the plans and dustin (recently traumatised, grieving someone who is dead) who got forced into mike's role of Plan Guy and was really stressed and now slightly territorial over it is gonna say something like "how would you know? you weren't even THERE" and all of a sudden it's mike's fault that the apocalypse is upon them because he dared to go on holiday (during which he got shot at and watched someone die and buried their body but we're ignoring his trauma today as usual) for a week when he didn't know anything was going to happen

[m-for-now]

I love it so so so so much when a character is like the Smart One in the group, who is always the one who remembers the details, analyzes every piece of informationen, makes the plans and is always the first one to understand or notice something. And then I love it when that same character is so incredibly oblivious to one thing. (Especially people being nice in any way.)

[pestilentbrood]

speaking of divorce can I interest anyone in some awful old men

[qcomicsy]

Writing Bruce feels like herding a wild cat to a door with a broom but the door it's a metaphor of 'not being an asshole'.

Me, trying to write Bruce being emotionally open and mature: He would not fucking say that.

[discjude]

whatever afterlife exists in SGE must be the funniest shit ever imagine being some Jaunt Jolie peasant who gets a little too in the way of the Snake and dying only to see The Literal School Master cheering the Snake on. Imagine dying of like cholera or something and taking a little Ghost Vacation to Camelot and seeing the King of Camelot - who's dead, apparently - beating the shit out of some random other boy with weird eyes. imagine how flesh and blood went down. Do you think they all had popcorn for that

[fisheito]

Eiden was fully stuffed like the snake toy in R5. We finally got stomach bulging. I knew big boy Yakumo could do it.

wait what?! is. was? tHAT the "thing" for R5? i .. i was n't even looking there i have to go back and check!!!!!!!

[tearlessrain]

I love "mysteries" and "conspiracy theories" that have really obvious explanations. because like due to the fact that I enjoy the Watcher channel I get constant recommendations for other, worse mystery/ghost/conspiracy youtubers, and sometimes it will be something like "why do so many people go missing in alaska?? conspiracy explained!!" and I'm like. well first of all alaska is both a popular vacation destination and a fuck off huge expanse of wilderness that's very cold and hard to navigate and full of bears. but no you're right it's probably cults or aliens or something.

[moe-broey]

Textpost redraw that only works in a modern setting, so. I gave them silly outfits (and a little bit of lore!)

Some zoom ins on the illusts!

And Lore

Moe is like. A SHUT-IN shut-in. So in any modern setting that isn't "Hey wanna visit my hometown for a sec (events so far have followed canon at least loosely)", it would have to meet Alfonse under Extremely Specific Circumstances.

And finally! Textpost under cut!

[hypocriticaltypwriter]

TAG GAME!

Most TOXIC kin?

Oh! Uh.... That's a hard one I'd say...

Uhm.... I.... A... B... All.... All of them

[diamondcitydarlin]

antis yelling 'dni dni dni!!' in the tags of things they claim to hate really reminds me of people who like fake grievous injuries after confronting and harassing someone minding their own business in a public space, like those videos of Karens being insufferable and then falling on the ground and yelling that their victim of harassment punched them or something lol, in fact sometimes I suspect they do it for the sole purpose of trying get someone to actually interact directly with them so they can continue the victim complex and justification of these people = bad. bc whenever I see this happening it's pretty much never sparked by, like, a 'proshipper' instigating or something, they just pop up in the tags apropos of nothing (or sometimes bc the source material has begun to contradict them) to try to start shit, but ofc in an 'innocent' way like 'I JUST DON'T WANT THOSE NASTY DISGUSTING SHIPPERS HARASSING ME ANYMORE THEY'RE SO GROSS AND UGLY EW -posts in ship tag or doesn't censor ship word so it shows up in tag-'. like is that not bait?? is that not an attempt to set someone up to look like the 'bad guy'?? 'DNI' my ass, they absolutely want those shippers to get upset and 'interact' with them lol