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This makes me wonder how “guar” is actually pronounced in Dunmeri. I’m thinking the “g” is like a guttural “h” sound, like the “ch” in Hebrew but deeper in the throat, and then maybe you have to roll the “r” in a specific way.

But still, bro. Isn’t Tiber Septim like, able to use the Voice? If he can speak Dragon don’t you think he’d be able to say a word that Dunmer children probably learn as toddlers?

Did You Know: Tiber Septim developed a fondness for guar during one of his tours of Morrowind? However, he struggled with the correct pronunciation of "Guar", and instead took to calling them "tigers"—another animal he was fond of from the storybooks of his youth.

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rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3

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40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back. 

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I'm not the first to point it out but fire lord ozai really had just a comically short reign. He fumbled it so badly. Imagine. You get the throne. You tell your gay son to go find a mythical hero who doesn't exist anymore so he'll stop embarrassing you & he really thinks he's gonna do it. Lol. Time to keep this war going for another hundred years. In the time it takes to crack your knuckles the fuckhead actually did it. But then he makes friends with the mythical hero who doesn't exist. And you're like hey wait. Stop that. You've already fumbled it unbelievably badly. Fucked it up on a scale most rulers could only dream of. You get pacifism blasted straight to hell. Your gay ass son is the new king. What the fuck. And then you like die in prison and nobody cares

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Today I was trying to chat up this girl standing with her friend at a lesbian bar and said “oh are you two together?” meaning were you friends before being next to each other at this bar and one turns to the other and goes with all the venom of a black mamba snake “I don’t know Cara, are we?” and I was like you know what? not my table

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As a teacher I can tell you that it sometimes feels like every kid has ADHD to some extent nowadays. But really, they’re all just under/overstimulated constantly. It breaks my heart.

My random unsubstantiated hypothesis of the day: the popularity of "stim" videos, fidget toys, and other things like that is a warning sign that something's Deeply Wrong with our world.

Don't freak out. I am autistic. These things are not bad. However, can we just...take a second to notice how weird it is that there are entire social media accounts full of 10-second videos of things making crunching noises, people squishing slime in their hands, and objects clacking together, and that enjoying them is mainstream and normal?

It seems that nowadays, almost everyone exhibits sensory-seeking behavior, when just a decade ago, the idea of anyone having "sensory needs" was mostly obscure. It is a mainstream Thing to "crave" certain textures or repetitive sounds.

What's even weirder, is that it's not just that "stim" content is mainstream; the way everything on the internet is filmed seems to look more like "stim" content. TikToks frequently have a sensory-detail-oriented style that is highly unusual in older online content, honing in on the tactile, visual and auditory characteristics of whatever it's showing, whether that's an eye shadow palette or a cabin in a forest.

When an "influencer" markets their makeup brand, they film videos that almost...highlight that it's a physical substance that can be smudged and smeared around. Online models don't just wear clothes they're advertising, they run their hands over them and make the fabric swish and ripple.

I think this can be seen as a symptom of something wrong with the physical world we live in. I think that almost everyone is chronically understimulated.

Spending time alone in the forest has convinced me of this. The sensory world of a forest is not only much richer than any indoor environment, it is abundant with the sorts of sensations that people seem to "crave" chronically, and the more I've noticed and specifically focused on this, the more I've noticed that the "modern" human's surroundings are incredibly flat in what they offer to the senses.

First of all, forests are constantly permeated with a very soft wash of background noise that is now often absent in the indoor world. The sound of wind through trees has a physiological effect you can FEEL. It's always been a Thing that people are relaxed by white noise, which leads to us being put at ease by the ambient hum of air conditioning units, refrigerators and fans. But now, technology has become much more silent, and it's not at all out of place to hypothesize that environments without "ambient" white noise are detrimental to us.

Furthermore, a forest's ambience is full of rhythmic and melodic elements, whereas "indoor" sounds are often harsh, flat and irregular.

Secondly: the crunch. This is actually one of the most notably missing aspects of the indoor sensory world. Humans, when given access to crunchable things, will crunch them. And in a forest, crunchy things are everywhere. Bark, twigs and dry leaves have crisp and brittle qualities that only a few man-made objects have, and they are different with every type of plant and tree.

Most humans aren't in a lot of contact with things that are "destroyable" either, things you can toy with and tear to little bits in your hands. I think virtually everyone has restlessly torn up a scrap of paper or split a blade of grass with their thumbnail; it's a cliche. And since fidget toys in classrooms are becoming a subject of debate, I think it pays to remember that the vast majority of your ancestors learned everything they knew with a thousand "fidget toys" within arm's reach.

And there is of course mud, and clay, and dirt, and wet sand. I'm 100% serious, squishing mud and clay is vital to the human brain. Why do you think Play-Doh is such a staple elementary school toy. Why do you think mud is the universal cliche thing kids play in for fun. It's such a common "stim" category for a reason.

I could go on and on. It's insane how unstimulating most environments humans spend time in are. And this definitely contributes to ecological illiteracy, because people aren't prepared to comprehend how detailed the natural world is. There are dozens of species of fireflies in the United States, and thousands of species of moths. If you don't put herbicides on your lawn, there are likely at least 20 species of plant in a single square meter of it. I've counted at least 15 species of grass alone in my yard.

Would it be overreach to suggest that some vital perceptive abilities are just not fully developing in today's human? Like. I had to TEACH myself to be able, literally able, to perceive details of living things that were below a certain size, even though my eyes could detect those details, because I just wasn't accustomed to paying attention to things that small. I think something...happens when almost all the objects you interact with daily are human-made.

The people that think ADHD is caused by kids' brains being exposed to "too much stuff" by Electronic Devices...do not go outside, because spending a few minutes in a natural environment has more stimuli in it than a few hours of That Damn Phone.

A patch of tree bark the size of my phone's screen has more going on than my phone can display. When you start photographing lots of living organisms, you run into the strange and brain-shifting reality that your electronic device literally cannot create and store images big enough to show everything you, in real life, may notice about that organism.

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Me trying to figure out what the “Res” part of “Resdayn” is for weeks… and then realizing that “Morrowind” must just be a Cyrodillic translation of “Resdayn”, and thus “res” has to be “wind”!

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Not only does Addhiranirr have the most adorable dialogue, I find it so cunty that Dagoth Ur bought up the entire smuggling industry and has more money than he knows what to do with 💅

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the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura

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tiktok is so funny a video will say "tell me your most unhinged fave fanfic tags in the comments" and ppl will be like "omg dont hate me but....dacryphilia 🫣" girl first of all men crying gets everyone hard Second of all

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girl…….

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I’m drawing it 👀👀👀

(I haven’t been on tumblr since they banned porn so where the fuck do I post my porn now)

Voryn and Vivec’s whole dynamic is them trying to out-brat each other in front of an oblivious Nerevar

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we used to turn the tv on and just watch whatever was on there

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Okay honestly we don’t fucking talk about the Falmer enough when we bring up the Dwemer and Chimer.

My main questions:

1) Were the Skyrim Dwemer and the Vvardenfell Dwemer actually the same race, or were the Vvardenfell Dwemer a Chimer offshoot? If the Falmer were only being enslaved in Skyrim, did the Vvardenfell dwarves have any knowledge of it?

(Where did the Dwemer come from, anyway? Were they also Aldmer, or did they branch off from the original Elnofey?)

2) We know the Falmer were one of the first civilizations to flourish on Tamriel and perhaps the first major civilization in Skyrim. Did Veloth and the exodus ever come into contact with them as they crossed through Skyrim into Morrowind for the first time?

3) The genocide of the Falmer happened after the era of High Velothi culture; did the Chimer know anything about what happened to the Falmer? Did they lend them military support during their wars with the Nords, especially on Solstheim? Did they ever offer them refuge when they were fleeing?

To the Chimer, using the souls of Mer to power their machines would have been necromancy in the highest order, a sin of the most despicable kind. They never would have let it stand. Is it possible that this was one of the things that led to the War of the First Council?

I have SO many feelings about the Falmer and so many questions about why the Dwemer were the only ones to take them in. Might have to incorporate it into fic.