#im so normal about tes

[electoons]

I love the college of winterhold. everyone there is casually deranged and there's like an alarming number of students and staff who threaten you immediately when they meet you. it's always one of the first questlines I do. which makes it even funnier when you get made the arch-mage of the college. I'm level 12 and got through this questline knowing exactly 3 spells. what do you mean you want me to lead the college. this school CANNOT be an accredited institution

[falmerbrook]

Been feeling down and having artblock so I wanted to draw something colorful and silly to try to get out of it

So have some My Little Morrowind: Friendship Betrayal is Magic

(and Sheo-Discord for funsies)

[abstractredd]

writing a tes fic and having to deep dive into the lore to make it accurate be like

[childabortionservices]

my dragon priest oc with his 'friend' volokaaz.

deinmaar and volokaaz resting beside eachother in a field of tansies and other flowers.

[art-o-gant]

what the fuck is the janissary motif doing in the new puppetshades. genuinely i. i've not stopped thinking about this. can anybody hear me

[beckiboos]

*Right Taliesin, it's now or never*

Taliesin- Can't sleep? Or are we enjoying the view?

Calliope- Hmm..? No. Not really, too cloudy tonight. I thought I should come out here and keep watch, I've been struggling getting to sleep since... well. You know

Taliesin- Yes.. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. Can we talk? Umm.. Away from the cliff ledge? Watching you there is making me very nervous

Calliope- Ok... not like there's anything to see out here anyway

Calliope- So

Taliesin- So

...

Calliope- I'm so sorry about Rulindil. I don't know if he was a friend of yours or something more... but I am sorry I hurt you by killing him

Taliesin- Don't be. We lovers when I first came to Skyrim 3 years ago but he neither a friend nor was their great affection between us. He was quite the sadistic bastard really and the world is better off without him

Calliope- But? You've been so-

Taliesin- Rulindil... Rulindil was a high ranking Thalmor agent, my superior officer. The altmer are not incredibly romantic or affectionate people as you probably guessed. We still have needs though and most of us have some kind of arrangement with our colleagues to keep us entertained. He and I had such an arrangement for a brief time. He had picked me out nearly as soon as I left the dock to seduce. I'm not picky and spent the night with him. He bores of his bedfellows quickly however and when the boat came in with fresh recruits he moved onto his next toy and I moved onto other arrangements.

It was a while before I learned the true extent of his role with the Thalmor. He speciality was 'acquiring information' by any means necessary. He took a great deal of pride and pleasure in his work. At the time I deemed his actions an necessary evil and I certainly didn't envy him his job. But I never liked his methods. I don't have a taste for torture and luckily he preferred brute force rather than magic to get the job done so I didn't have to work with him much. I didn't take part but I knew what was going on. We all did. Just tried to ignore the screaming the best we could

Calliope- That's not your fault Tally-

Taliesin- No, but I was a part of it. Calliope you got caught. You PROMISED me. I wasn't there and you were caught. Do you know what would have happened to you if hadn't of killed Rulindil? Because I do. You've seen the scars on Kaidan's back. Trust me those soldiers had NOTHING on Rulindil. He would have tortured you until you were barely recognisable and only stop once you had told him every single thing he wanted to know 3 times over, all the while begging for death. What's more the last thing you would have seen would have been MY people. MY former colleagues, MY former lover taunting and beating you, if you were lucky, before your corpse would have been tossed into a cave for a trolls dinner

Taliesin- Calliope when you told me about Rulindil I wasn't just upset for him. I was shocked by it of course it was someone I knew someone I- regardless I was suddenly faced with the fact that I could have lost you. By the very people and ideals I used to follow and respect. These past few months... You have become quite a dear... friend to me. I guess I didn't know how much I cared until that moment. I don't get close to many people Calliope, me and you, this little gang, we have become closer than I ever was with anyone at the Thalmor... and yet I still care about what happened to Rulindil. I didn't handle the situation well. For what it's worth, I am sorry for snapping at you in Solitude. Forgive this grumpy old altmer?

Calliope- *chuckles* Forgiven but only if you forgive me too. I'm sorry for solitude too I may have gone a TEENY, tiny bit over the top there

Taliesin- A tiny bit?

Calliope- Ok a bit more than tiny. Friends?

Taliesin- ...Friends

Calliope- Good. I'm glad we're sorted this out Tally. I didn't like bickering with you. I missed this. Us

Taliesin- I missed us too

end of part 1. Look this post is already waaaaay too long. But I wanted to make some headcannons about Rulindil (sorry @dynamite124if you have anything planned for him) and why Tally was so upset and they really needed this talk. AND NO KISS. Sorry I take my slow burns very seriously

[plutoprophecy]

for your consideration as the CEO of fraela. I just had silverhand frea appear in my mind and I'm going insane about it

Yeah. Fuck. I'm right there with you

Does the silver hand operate in solstheim too?? Or do you think frea would create something similar to it? Or join a pre-existing equivalent ?

Given how much the skaal fear and hate werewolves, i don't think it would be that much of a stretch to imagine that there would be some sort of a werewolf hunting organisation in solstheim 🤔

In my mind, frea is kind, determined and would do anything to protect her people but i dont think she'd be as... passionate about killing werewolves as the silver hand in skyrim does ? She's not in it to sate some weird desire to kill and maim, she's not in it to "purify" or rid the world of all lycanthropes... The skaal believe that all life is sacred, so i feel like frea would maybe feel the same way about werewolves too ? She knows that they're their enemies or at least someone incredibly dangerous and thus a threat to her village, but she recognises they're people too. It's kind of uhhh. She will not go out of her way to kill a lycanthrope, but she will not hesitate to dispatch them as quickly as possible if they prove to be a threat.

FUCK. No you know what. She's a shaman isn't she??? She's good at fighting, but she's been training her whole life to take her father's place as the village's shaman, so I don't think she would join a werewolf hunting squad, because that means she couldn't stay in the village and protect it. She would probably make and enchant weapons for the hunters to use ? Or maybe put wards around their village and/or create talismans for the other skaal to use (like a mummified wolf paw).

But fuck man. Silver hand frea hits so much harder. Ouuugh the angst...

[whumpy-wyrms]

oh my god i just spent the last hour reading the entirety of tllr chapter 14 out loud to myself to find errors (which is something i literally NEVER do. idk what possessed me but it helped) and i just realized my WINDOW was open and my neighbors who had been outside the ENTIRE TIME could HEAR EVERYTHING I WAS SAYYYING. and i was also talking in super loud and obnoxious british/southern accents as well. ur welcome neighbors for that free entertainment

[brainworm-blitz]

I cannot wait for Elder Scrolls 6 to drop I'm gonna be fucking *insufferable* for the rest of my life. You can't run from me forever, Todd. You have to answer for your crimes one day, Todd. I'm waiting, Todd.

[thebanneredmareinn]

guys i have fish tanks 🥺

i'm gonna fill em up and then just spend forever looking at them and listening to the soundtrack forever

[madderruz]

I really appreciate people who write big long analysis posts about media because 1) I have a very bad sense of memory and a weird way of ingesting media so even if it's a concept I understood subconsciously while I was watching/reading, having another person put it into words helps me remember and gives me a deeper appreciation and 2) anyone who writes analysis posts is already 10 times more articulate than I am

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

the writing fanfic to "huh? this doesn't seem like how romance is normally written" to "am i somewhere on the aro spectrum" to "oh god the reason i dont identify w the generic aro label is bc i need a microlabel" to "fuck i need to rewrite this whole fic" pipeline

[abstractredd]

he is half of my soul as the poets say

[widevibratobitch]

havent heard her sing the 'dignare domine' part today and i realise i may have gotten addicted to it throughout the last few days. im having withdrawal symptoms and apparently a real actual crush on this woman lord help me jesus h christ im in trouble haha

[charliebug3]

I'm currently going absolutely ballistic over silly elder scrolls lore characters and the impossible conundrum of What To Do When Killing A Tyrant Will Send The World Back To The Worst It Could Possibly Be and just. Girl help! I just

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Meanwhile the elder scrolls 1 arena is like "hehe things are a bit messy so they call the world the arena because everyone's fighting!! Teehee!" And then every character who's lived through the Interregnum is just standing there frothing at the mouth

"Oh no! There's a Tharn taking over things!" Babe that was like a yearly occurrence back in the 2E 380s

[bunny-banana]

ja ću se šlogirati KO to meni ostavlja komentar ispod ff koju sam započela prije 5 godina 😭