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When I lived here six years ago, I made a bunch of creepy yarn dolls and hung them in this pine. Now I'm moving back to the same spot, and there's one left and she's growing lichen

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i love when fantasy novels are about 35 year olds…why is everyone in books 20 or 16 all the time

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I lied, I got on a new web site. letterboxd.com/terminatrix

idk how credible this latest panic about Tumblrs demise is, it's far from the first I've seen. I'm not gonna make a bluesky or whatever. I'm 35 years old I ain't getting on any new web sites. but u can have my discord if u want it's taxfraud69

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any criticism that could be lobbed at TES fans is also broadly applicable to the fanbase of any other nerd shit out there. I guess I prefer that the company I keep is unremarkable. at least we aren't known for doxxing people or some shit ykwim

The Most Annoying Fandom poll blog is a good follow when it's active, because it puts things into perspective. for all that certain ppl on here have annoyed me, elder scrolls bloggers are a relatively chill bunch. meanwhile 911 fans are out there behaving like absolute animals. I have never met one single human being irl who watches that show, and yet....? it's pandemonium out there, apparently.

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The Most Annoying Fandom poll blog is a good follow when it's active, because it puts things into perspective. for all that certain ppl on here have annoyed me, elder scrolls bloggers are a relatively chill bunch. meanwhile 911 fans are out there behaving like absolute animals. I have never met one single human being irl who watches that show, and yet....? it's pandemonium out there, apparently.

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tagged by the magical @druidx to share 4 non-selfie photos from my camera roll. so here's three from my ill-fated journey and one from home

(left -> right)

1. edge of a cornfield in Nebraska

2. a hole in Bryce Canyon, which is a must-see destination for hole aficionados

3. "Peter the Cat as seen by his enemies," from a dressing room in LA

4. a sign that always makes me laugh on the way to one of my usual haunts

tagging back: @dirty-bosmer @nuwanders @ervona @jiubilant

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warmup

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Surrender is not realistic, it is evasion. Silence is no cleaner than trying. Defending Palestine has an impact, even if it is not complete. And someone who feels despair is not always closer to reality—sometimes closer to comfort

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I think I have to change Sanshen's name bc it scans very similarly to 'Serana' when reading fast 🙄 usually I catch this type of thing before I become attached to a name...

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The true size of Windhelm.

Recreated by L.Torres (Lion Towers3d) in Unreal Engine 5.

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day 1 of having an oc: i think shes gonna be an elf!

day 600: ive been pondering the elfs miscarriage

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average fandom criticism post on here

op: hey maybe rethink the implications of using this specific trope in this way

person who has never held their tongue once in their life: are you calling me, personally, bigoted? no. fuck this. fuck you. nothing matters except vibes because we're all horny rats in a dumpster. you didnt even read the 13th chapter of my longfic where blorbo gets fucked in the ass and youre calling ME a misogynist?! fuck this hellsite and its purity culture

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randomly remembered how on deviantart in the aughts using images as references was treated as an actual cardinal sin. if a pose in something you had drawn by hand was 1:1 with an existing photo or another piece of art, it was considered the same as stealing. there were artists who sincerely insisted that references could only be used for practice and that if you wanted to draw something for the purpose of posting online you would need to have studied anatomy and color theory to the point where you could just Produce that thing from your mind with maybe the help of some general reference photos at best as reminders of what that thing looked like. insane amount of rigor to demand from a userbase of largely casual hobbyists. no wonder ms paint emo furry art is the only thing people remember fondly from that era.

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"with this remake project, now your favourite game from 15 years ago with strong art direction and style can look like an unreal engine asset flip with ray traced lighting"

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Mourner's Solace Inn

An oasis of comfort in the heart of Necrom

Starters

Magma Salmon Hot Pâté

Oven-baked Telvanni Peninsula salmon pâté, served with smoked hackle-lo crisps

Scrib Bacon and Scuttle Dip

Made with locally-raised kwama scribs, served with saltrice flatbread

Hackle-lo Salad

With fire blossom and gold kanet petals, scrib jerky, and comberry balsamic dressing

Grazing Platter

Scrib jerky, guar sausage, nix-ox meatballs, scuttle dip three ways, ash yam hummus, pickled comberries, wickwheat flatbread, saltrice grissini, hackle-lo crisps

Mains

Deadrock Lobster

Tender Telvanni Peninsula Deadrock Lobster tail and claws bathed in spiced scuttle grease, served with ash yam matchstick fries

Seared Lion's Mane Steak

Slab of locally-grown giant lion's mane mushroom, seasoned to perfection and grilled. Served with grilled vegetables and your choice of brown gravy, blue-mold scuttle, or peppercorn and comberry sauce

Telvanni Five-Mushroom Soup

A Peninsula classic! Oyster, enoki, chanterelle, shiitake, and lion's mane mushrooms in a gently spiced guar milk soup. Served with wickwheat flatbread

Three-Scuttle Bread Boat

Three types of scuttle encased in soft saltrice bread, topped with a cliff racer or kwama egg (limited availability, please check with your waitstaff)

Dessert

Comberry Brandy Soufflé

Kwama egg soufflé doused in comberry brandy and flambéed at your table. Please allow 30 minutes!

Fetcherfly Honey Cake

A big slice of rich and spicy fetcherfly honey cake, topped with whipped honey scuttle butter

Seasonal Petit Fours

A selection of freshly-baked Dunmeri treats of the day

Ash yam crème brûlée

Our rich and creamy signature crème brûlée, made with organic ash yams, kwama egg, and guar cream

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opening up the fandom tag only to see art of the characters being drawn with washboard abs

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I would be remiss not to mention that fandom people were the *only* other ones on here who were fired up over FOSTA/SESTA. and I confess I found it annoying at the time bc they were all like "Gdrive might delete my smutty fanfic!" while sex workers were dealing with blatant and violent unpersoning. But they weren't wrong about where this was always headed

This payment processor kerfuffle is weird to watch bc it's old news to me but everyone is just now freaking out about it since it finally came for their indie games or whatever. FOSTA/SESTA was enacted back in 2018 when I was actively doing sex work, and the payment processors were dumping our platforms left and right. All of a sudden the platforms faced civil liability for sex trafficking, so the credit card companies got gun shy.

This was pretty life-ruining for ppl like me who relied on sex work for income and had no other alternatives. Frankly triggering to even talk about so I won't get into it unless someone asks, but bc I was doing a lot of sex work activism at the time, I witnessed some pretty harrowing consequences. We were all screaming about this bill when it was introduced but no one gave a fuck except for fellow sex workers, and it passed with bipartisan support bc what kind of monster would support sex trafficking?!

Anyway this is all to say that it's not wrong or trivial to be upset about what happened with itch and steam, but sex workers were canaries in the coal mine and true to the metaphor, some of them are dead now. If this current censorship news bothers you (and it should) I would implore you to pay closer attention to the people who exist on the criminalized fringes of society bc we did everything we could to warn you all, but we were considered acceptable casualties or unworthy of attention. And FOSTA/SESTA was just a notable bill in a line of legislation that got us here. This was years in the making but no one paid attention until it came for their treats and that makes me really sad