#topical thursday

[monorayjak]

Schedule Minor Alteration

After some thinking, I decided that I’m going to make a small change to the schedule: Magic Mondays – Remains the same. Off-Topic Tuesday – Remains the same. Worldbuilding Wednesday – Instead of having a “major post” each Wednesday, I’ve decided instead to have a “Building Nelvauris” release each week. Topical Thursday – This will largely remain the same as it is, that meaning a day off. I’m…

[uncanny-tranny]

Alright, today is Transsexual Thursday; put in the reblogs, tags, or on anon the things you have loved about your transness/transition/presentation/anything related to being trans! We can never have too much positivity about the joy of creation 💛

[stormbros]

How am I supposed to act like I'm fine when Dorian "Orym's my moral compass" Storm got snapped at for speaking up and immediately shut down and checked out of the conversation

[silverware-is-interesting]

i walked past this store in a mall today called fossil that had like. watches n jewlery n purses or something and i thought of. fossil objectified so i drew that.

idk how this kinda looks decent tbh this is only like my 3rd time drawing them. like, its not great, but you can tell it's her, so, i call that pretty good :P

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

okay, if i... if i chop you up in a brain tumbler, and the only thing that comes out, that's left of you, is your eyeball, you'r- you're probably dead! (/ref)

[falmerbrook]

wait could i ask you to tell me about what exactly is going on with bosmer gender roles? i’m so curious about that

Gladly, yes!

So they don't seem to be purposefully portrayed as having distinct gender roles, but I think there's some interesting things going on in their lore to make it seem like they would.

Firstly, there's the Silvenar and Green Lady. They are mean to represent the Bosmer not only as intermediaries on a political/diplomatic level, but also represent their characteristics, needs, and values ("legally, physically, and emotionally" according to UESP). The Silvenar represents their spirituality, and is deeply attuned and empathetic to the needs and voice of the Bosmer. He's the more diplomatic of the two. The main origin story of the pair puts him as someone who saw past the "primal" state of the Bosmer, and currently represents the more "civilized" side of them. Meanwhile, the Green Lady represents their primal origin, strength, and physicality. Many of her other titles portray her as a hunter.

It's interesting how it seems that the Green Lady is always a woman, while the Silvenar can be either gender (and whichever gender they are is mean to be the one that best represents the Bosmer at that time). A not insignificant detail though is that we have only ever heard of male Silvenars, and discussions of the Silvenar even in a vague nonspecific sense tend to gender them as male by default. This way of portraying them and their origin story to me makes it feel like the writers, while indirectly acknowledging that they could be a wlw couple, see them more as a straight couple representing the average couple by default.

Anyway, it would make sense to me that the Silvenar and Green Lady could easily represent the sort of roles expected from each gender. Perhaps men are seen as the more empathetic and spiritual gender while woman are seen as the more aggressive and strong gender. Perhaps women are more commonly hunters or breadwinners (meatwinners?). The Silvenar being able to be male or female adds another layer to this. Perhaps the traits that the Silvenar embodies are traditionally expected in both genders, while the traits the Green lady embodies are expected more exclusively in women. I'm speculating here, but I don't think it's much of a stretch.

In general, however, the Bosmer seem a lot more chill about basically everything compared to most of the other cultures we see in this universe, so if gender roles are present, they probably aren't as extreme or as enforced as we see in many cultures in the real world. While there are implication of misogyny in some of the other cultures of Tamriel, I can't remember seeing any example in the Bosmer.

Next, there's the whole thing with Bosmer men being shorter than women (on average), which in universe doesn't seem to ever be brought up as something the Bosmer care about or that might impact the way they view men vs women (although maybe women being larger would associate them more with strength? I haven't seen anything to suggest this yet though), but acknowledging that this is a fictional society being crafted by people who live in our society, where men being short is considered emasculating (to some), and the way Bosmer men tend to be characterized as somewhat dorky, Bosmer men are overall portrayed in a less masculine way (by irl standards). Certain parts of the fandom have certainly picked up on this implication, and it implies that the expectations of how men act might be different for them.

Finally, on some more minor notes, this book from ESO claims that "the clan lines[...] are matrilineal in nature". They seem to make a distinction from tribe and clans in this text so I'm not exactly sure what they are referring to, but it's something. Additionally, Y'ffre, the central figure of the Bosmeri religion, is in one book about Bosmer myth referred to as "she", while the other depictions of her in other pantheons always use "he". I'm referencing the citations on UESP for this, and there are two citations where "she" is used, one inaccessible so I don't know the context, and the other the Bosmer myth about the Ooze, so I'm choosing to interpret this as a Bosmer exclusive thing. Make of that what you will.

Thank you for the ask, anon, and giving me a chance to yap!!

[justwhumpythings]

8 years to the day since I joined tumblr/whumpblr 😊

[slightlytoastedbagel]

oughhhjfhfifje it's been a long day

[mermen]

decided to take the day off class tomorrow and im gonna spend all day studying for my electrical exam next week :) maybe i do have confidence in myself. maybe i can pass this exam

[melloneah]

2 days till my final exam rant in tags sorry i gotta let it spill somewhere 😭

[theargonianvampire]

People on this website especially will claim to be ‘soooo autistic’ and then proceed to get mad at and shun other people for not picking up on some cryptic ass social cue or rule that makes no goddamn sense in the first place

[autopsytableromance]

Somebody please shoot me with a real gun if I don’t work on my damn speech tomorrow

[kath-artic]

i think i changed someone's life today

[uncanny-tranny]

This week for Transsexual Thursday, my top surgery is being covered in-network by my insurance!!!

YES! 🎉🎉

[lillazyboithings]

The Father (periodic table), The Son (laboratory seat work about hybridization of carbon), and the Holy Spirit (multiple chemistry notebooks and papers spread out on my desk)

Truly a magical first week of classes

[sluttywonwoo]

the joutfits (jean outfits) are horrific but