#idk what tags to use..

[theconfusedcottage]

Testing,,, testing!

Hellooo? Is this thing working?

Dun dun dun!! Welcome to our silly little intro post :3!!

We're the Confused Cottage, a traumagenic system! And this blog is basically just silly little rants and lots of reblogs of things we like because y not ^^

Ooh and we'll also do xeno coining and agere stuff and stim boards :D

About us >:3

We're a self-diagnosed system with a kinda small headcount!!

We do have littles/pets in our system and a caregiver too! Which is super cool, and fictives too :D

We are bodily 14 (atm atleast) and are Autistic too :}

Oh and we really like hatsune miku !!

We'll probably make a post abt frequent fronters but thats for another day because i have no motivation!!

About our blog!

We'll post:

Agere moodboards/other agere things

Probably lots of random reblogs >:3

Stimboards ragghhh

Random things to do with our hyperfixations

Xenos!! (including things we've coined!)

Silly little rants

Possibly rentry graphics/templates

DNI!!

DNI if you are/support/tolerate p3d0philia, z00philia, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, Islamophobic etc., misogynic, support endos/endogenic systems, racist, sexist, ableist, discrimination (or anything similar), invalidate pronouns/genders/identity, s3xualise stuff, if your over 25, dd/lg, nsfw, ab/dl, ageplay + any other variations, if your blog isnt safe for children and any other basic DNI stuff that we may have missed!

Logging off...bye bye!!

[guiiay]

jinx and isha visit a walmart

[angelsaxis]

Planet fitness is offering free showers, wifi, and charging stations to first responders and residents in the LA area who've been affected by the fires btw.

[grlify]

a girl whose love language is physical touch is also a girl who hates people touching her

[sparklejumpropequeen1949]

This or nothing

[hinamie]

subject, specimen, spectacle;

should i say that you're dead?

[lazylittledragon]

the real reason gale proposes so quickly

[shepscapades]

I have been obsessed lately with @galaxystt incredible new animatic, When I Die, and there are about a million frames I wanted to redraw in my style, but this one got to me first >:]

[thimblings]

the kiss but make it spite x lucanis

[getvalentined]

Thinking a lot recently about the constant comparison of Oblivion to Skyrim, particularly claims that Oblivion is superior in every way strictly by virtue of quest length and the greater grandiosity of the organizations in Oblivion, and I think there's been a fundamental misunderstanding of what's actually going on with Tamriel during the time period of Skyrim. Even though it's like...one of the core concepts of the main storyline.

Putting most of this under a cut for length, but I just...I think people misunderstand what's going on here. This is not a "One Game Good Other Game Bad" post, it's an analysis of a major, key difference in story basis between the two that I think gets lost in the (frankly asinine) argument about which is superior.

See, everything in Skyrim sucks. Every organization you can align yourself with is falling apart. Literally every single one.

That's the point.

To summarize:

The Companions (equivalent to the Fighters' Guild) are about a dozen strong, literally cursed, and their most beloved leader gets murdered very early in the storyline.

The College of Winterhold (equivalent to the Mages' Guild, not to the Arcane University) has seemingly only been saved from collapsing into the sea because a master of Restoration fused himself with the structure itself when the Sea of Ghosts tried to tear it down a little under a century ago and his presence is constantly physically "healing" the foundation.

The Thieves' Guild has lost the favor of every possible patron deity, having been outright cursed by Nocturnal after one of her Nightingales murdered another and stole the gift she offers her champion, while the boon that the organization's founder claimed from her in ages past (the cowl) is missing.

The Dark Brotherhood has been all but completely dismantled, the Night Mother's tomb in Bravil having been raided and struggling to persist without a Listener for over a decade; the bodies of the Night Mother's children have been lost and she's essentially being smuggled from region to region in an attempt to find a safe place to continue operations.

The Empire itself has been kneecapped, forced into a traumatic treaty by a fascist regime determined to strike the beliefs and culture of anyone not Altmer off the face of the planet; the Thalmor have gone so far as to torture and radicalize the figurehead leader of the Nords in order to use their own nationalism and superiority against the Empire, sparking a civil war that will further weaken the Empire and allow the Aldmerri Dominion to destroy it wholecloth.

This extends out into the rest of the world, too! We have confirmed existence of Hist-deaf Argonians. The Dunmer are floundering to recover after the quadruple-whammy that is the fall of the Triumverate, the destruction of Vivec City when Baar Dau finally made impact, the Red Year, and the Argonian uprising. The Bosmer are literally endangered due to habitat loss following a super-isolationist cultural shift due to wars with the Khajiit and Altmer. The Void Nights were devastating to Khajiit culture and population in ways that have yet to be fully explained.

The world is falling apart. Everything is dying.

And then Alduin shows up.

We all kind of talk about Alduin carrying on as World-Eater through the course of the Skyrim storyline like it's him being a piece of shit, since he'd started it ages ago and was just displaced in time to land on the Last Dragonborn's head in the Fourth Era, but I don't think that's the case.

Based on the state of things, I think Alduin arrived right on time. I think it's the end of the world. The only reason he "should" be stopped is because the Last Dragonborn has the capacity to stop the world from ending in a more down-to-earth sense than just defeating Alduin: they can't save everyone, but they can "fix" every single organization that's holding "the world" together.

They can align with the Imperials and keep the civil war from further crippling them, keeping the Empire from being too weak to push back against the Aldmerri Dominion.

They can save the College of Winterhold, the only group in the right place at the right time to stop the Eye of Magnus from opening, and in doing so make sure that the Psijics are able to put it somewhere nobody else can find it.

They can lead the Companions, cure the curse for those members who don't want to run with Hircine after death, which bolsters their spirits enough to keep doing what they can even when everyone else is trying to kill each other. A single neutral martial force in the middle of a civil war.

They can regain Nocturnal's trust for the Thieves' Guild, restore the Nightingales, and in doing so they can return the luck that was stolen from them as punishment for Mercer Frey's transgression. They can even reclaim the Crown of Barenziah and award the guild with a paragon to increase their newly-regained luck.

They can hear the Night Mother, becoming Listener for the Dark Brotherhood to restore the balancing force of Sithis in the world, purify the most broken Sanctuary the Brotherhood has ever had, and finish a story set into motion way back in the Third Era—Emperor Titus Mede II is murdered under the order of a Motierre, a descendant of a mark the Brotherhood specifically kept from dying during the Oblivion Crisis.

The Last Dragonborn can't do anything outside Skyrim—there's nothing they can do for the Argonians or the Bosmer or the Khajiit, and they can only do very little for the Dunmer via work in Solstheim—but they can work with every single guild or guild-adjacent group, strengthening the Empire to stand against the biggest threat to Tamrielic culture since the First Era, and in doing so they can make it so the world isn't ready for Alduin to eat it.

The Hero of Kvatch exists when Tamriel, and presumably Nirn as a whole is in the prime of its life, that's what makes the Oblivion Crisis such a big deal. This is a world that isn't ready to give up, it still has the strength to fight, it just needs someone standing at the head to direct it. The Last Dragonborn comes into the story when everything is falling apart and nothing really feels worthwhile, when it's hard to see why the world is worth saving. They have the chance to prove that there's still some life left here, that the world isn't too far gone to save—Alduin arrived right on time, it's the Last Dragonborn's job to change that.

I can see how coming from Oblivion to Skyrim would feel disappointing and hollow, but I'm pretty sure that's literally the point of the story.

Oblivion tells you the world is worth saving because it's got so much left to live for, even with the odds stacked so high against it. Skyrim asks you whether a world that's dying is still a world worth saving, and it's up to you to prove that it is.

[yeniika]

my fav mcr album<3

[daughter-heir]

wheel of time is the gay fantasy show everyone has been waiting for so why aren’t all of you watching it!!!!why eat scraps (one queer character, non canon ships) when you can dine like kings (multiple canon queer couples, polyamory, homophobia not existing in universe, gay showrunner dedicated to representation, etc). take my hand. walk with me

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

So done with all the defeatism nonsense. Life keeps going. My girlfriend has her first job interview later this morning. I’ve got to fold my laundry. My friends and I have a d&d session later this week. We’re still going. You’ll keep going. I’ll drag your asses into the future kicking and screaming because they want you to lay down and die. And I’ll be damned if any of us do what they want.

[yuukirita]

He's doing hand talk :'D Cute and Sad.

[grlify]

[boringa55binch]

Penelope~

first sketches of EPIC Penelope in not-so-historically-accurate clothes (aka i just made them purely based on vibes)