Good trope: Character yelling, "It's not what it looks like!" while doing exactly what it looks like.
Great trope: Character yelling, "It's not what it looks like!" while doing something so unfathomable that the person who interrupted them can't even begin to attempt to figure out what the hell it is they're seeing.
April 25, 2024 - Vvardenfell/Morag Tong questline attire.
This is Drathal Malos. My Nerevarine doesn't do the Morag Tong questline, so this lad here does it instead.
May 6, 2024 - Morag Tong Grandmaster/Tribunal DLC attire.
After letting Eno Hlaalu retire and fulfilling some grandmaster writs, the Nerevarine hires Malos to help her track down the Dark Brotherhood after they keep interrupting her sleep.
August 8, 2024 - face reference. Without his hair, it makes his thick eyebrows looks absolutely massive lol
to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator
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This is still one of the top posts to come out of covid
Hi, I not sure if you have answered that before, but I really love your fanfic "Binds of Civility" and wanted to know if you will continue with the story?
P.S.: sorry for any mistakes, English isn't my first language, I'm just curious because I really love that fic. Have a great day!
Thanks for the ask. Yes, I do plan to continue. I have to admit I have been very distracted from actually writing this year. But I never stop thinking about the fic or that extended world.
Mark Twain once ended a very silly story with a declaration of
The truth is, I have got my hero (or heroine) into such a particularly close place, that I do not see how I am ever going to get him (or her) out of it again–and therefore I will wash my hands of the whole business, and leave that person to get out the best way that offers–or else stay there. I thought it was going to be easy enough to straighten out that little difficulty, but it looks different now.
And while I don't have the exact same issues regarding my fic, I feel it. While the fates of some ofthe most central characters: Cecilia and Junius Varo, Elenwen, and Ulfric Stormcloak are fixed, I do keep going back and forth on what will eventually happen to a bunch of the supporting cast. Since they are all at each other's throats in a civil war with *counts* seven fic-relevant factions, some people have to die. I am steeling myself to be ruthless.
And to be honest I didn't expect to end up liking Ondolemar, Thongvor, Madanach, and Delphine so much. Someone(s) has to lose in that tangle even though they would also make a great Reach sitcom cast. ;)
Anyway, I do have an outline, the story is in the home stretch and I hope to post a new chapter in November. In the meantime, Id love to answer any questions you and others have about the story and characters.
you’ve been a very bad romaence partner riz gukgak
None of those things have anything to do with each other
vice news writers have not been to college
Me either, but I still know how to write an article
Reading comprehension quiz
1. Why has the author chosen to contrast these two ideas in one sentence? What is the effect this contrast has to the reader?
2. Can we determine the authors opinion on Zuckerberg from the work? What impression of Zukerberg is this work meant to evoke?
Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.
Reveal of Welsh postdoc and rugby lad Dr Howell Jenkins (27) perennially one of the funniest things tumblr users can discover in fiction.
It’s unclear whether he finished his PhD or is still a grad student in the process of slithering out of his actual viva.
Here is Calcifer’s “silly saucepan song” that he sings to himself, which Howl sings when drunk (and Sophie doesn’t understand.) It’s a Welsh rugby song.
@spaghetti-trek I love that this jumped out and BIT you!!’
Diana Wynne Jones sort of explains herself here with enough detail that you know it’s Sosban Fach:
Here’s where Sophie and Michael perceive Howl speaking Welsh, and Sophie rather perceptively recognises that it’s the same language as he and Calcifer drunkenly sing in:
That demonstrates rather good language skills on Sophie’s part, especially since over the course of the book she memorises and sings Sosban Fach without knowing what it means. In the same paragraph we also see Howl has no idea what Sophie’s last name is (she has lived with him. For months.) and also learn that he can have two conversations at once and speak Welsh and English simultaneously while doing so
was reading a romance/erotica novel a friend loaned me and in the middle of the book the main character is chopping vegetables to prep for a whole dinner party with her friends and the love interest shows up and they hook up & his hands go everywhere you’d expect them to and then afterward while she’s still catching her breath on the floor he’s like “I’ll finish this for you 😏” and he PICKS UP THE VEGGIES and knife with his UNWASHED HANDS and starts prepping. I was floored. I couldn’t finish the book. call me what you will. weak perhaps. but i say to you we need editors with a food handlers certificates. we need line cook beta readers that’s what I believe
i did read on to the next scene and they were serving their friends the salad and i felt like i was watching hannibal. i was like no!!!!! don’t eat it!!!!!!!!!!!
flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me
like, they all mean really generic things like “love” or “forever” or “i’m sorry”
i thought you could combine flowers
like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they’d understand “the rebel leader is dead, rendezvous at the docks at 8, bring the dog, you will need lighter fluid and a large tomato”
I really hope no one’s answered this for you yet, I saw this and got so excited that my obscure knowledge base might come into use. I had to stretch a few flowers so to speak but Victorian flower language allows for alteration in meaning depending on colour, fruit, flower, bud, steam, leaves and thorns, so I didn’t feel I was too far out of line. This message would work best as two bouquets bound together. First red Nasturtium with no leaves (red denotes a leader, the nasturtium a patriot) mixed with white or red Mask Flowers (rebellion, red if you want to emphasize fighting, white martyrdom) around Cypress (death). Then Chick weed (rendezvous) and Blue Convolvulus (night) surrounded by eight White Popular Leaves (symbolises the time: eight), Yellow Iris (flame, and a flower that grows by rivers) and Yellow Prarie Dock Flowers (this was closest I could find to docks)and one large Tomato Leaf, all bound in Dogwood Bark. Dogwood represents deceit, but as far as I could find the bark wasn’t used symbolically, and as you referred to the dog instead of a dog, I thought it was likely the pun should be a dead giveaway.
So there’s your rebel message!
This is amazing.
#thank you flower arranging side of tumblr
oh my gods. this is like some Lemony Snicket shit. make this a fucking VFD code. victorian floral dialogue. it totally works
Just posted a new chapter of a fic I haven't updated for three years. It's a series of short vignettes throughout this OC's formative years.
4E 112: Evermore, High Rock: A baby girl is born to a Breton spellsword and her Thalmor lover. Young Curinwe is going to have quite a life.
Chapter Thirteen: Seven-year-old Curinwe tries to figure out the Thalmor.
(A series of moments that make up the life of the Imperial Battlemage, Curinwe Varo. Stands alone, but is a prequel to my big Skyrim fic, "The Bonds of Civility". )
really loving how most daedra are shown in Skyrim. Meridia, otherworldly and disembodied, the Breaker of Dawn and portrayed as light. Azura, beautiful and regal with a statue of stone. Nocturnal, mysterious and dark with a murder of crows. Hermaeus Mora, methodical and drawling to denote his constant knowledge and schemes for secrets.
And then there’s Clavicus Vile, Daedric Prince of power and bargains, who sounds like a cockney catcaller and has a dog who is literally half of his full power. Dude is a hillbilly
I hate mermaid knees so much. Everyone who wants to draw a mermaid needs to look at this and use their brain for a second to think about the bone structure before drawing anything. THINK OF THE BONES, PLEASE. *loud sobbing*
Mermaids don't exist. You can literally draw them however you want.
This "logic" attempted in the illustration assumes certain biological requirements (here: mermaids are fish who have fish tails) that aren't actually requirements, because you can base this totally fictional thing on literally anything (like for example: mermaids are mammals that have fused humanoid limbs as a tail).
You could base the "tail" on a fish, you could base it on actual sea mammals like sea lions or dolphins, you can base it on a snake, you can make it boneless like a slug or jellyfish, octopus, you could even base it on an additional set of arms or a mechanical turbine if you feel extra freaky. Because mermaids don't exist.
I really really dislike this wannabe smartypants attitude some artists present on socials, in which the topic is entirely fictional and subjective, 'cuz a lot of more inexperienced folks will take that pet peeve as "oh no now I will never attempt this again because it is considered cringe in the popular artist space!".
Yes, basing fantasy on real things is cool, and in its own way very creative, but you really limit yourself, if are too scared to jump outside the norm. It is fantastical. It is not supposed to be entirely realistic. It is a good thing to study the world around you and base your art on it, but you should not take an artist's pet peeve seriously because at the end of the day, it is completely meaningless.
Tada! Dye-painted wool felt cape, part of my emperor moth comission.
other tes fans around me at any given time: so here's all the reasons why this particular elder scrolls game sucks and my preferred elder scrolls game is good. i have a long detailed list of reasons as to why Game 1 sucks and Game 2 is good. don't talk to me about Game 1 or I will derail every discussion about how you are dumb for liking it.
me, a silly little guy: oh boy i get to be in tamriel in this game :) i am having so much fun :) this is so great :)
