#Rambles Into the Void

[fullmoonfireball]

yknow i cant really laugh at cartoons for having comically gross/weird fast food restaurant names bc fatburger is just. a thing that exists

[cutthroat-crimson]

Just a reminder that if your pfp is a character or some kind of animal, That is now my mental image of you

[staring-at-a-blank-pagee]

hey guys do you think that when whoever controls the shadow voids in eow stuck legend in there, they thought that they needed to keep the hero occupied so that he couldn't try to escape? do you think that they created a fake scenario for him to keep him from ruining their plans?

do you think it was a nice dream?

do you think that legend believed it was real?

[elandrawssometimes]

People arguing about if zelink is canon as if albw didn't confirm it in 2013

[oliviartist]

I’m not wrong

[emsterrxo]

I can feel it coming, the emptiness taking over, that void demanding it’s due.

[neurodivergenttales]

Always torn between relapse and recovery

Never fully committed to either

[holdinbacksecrets]

update: i’m losing my mind

i need a bf

how to get a bf?

why can’t one just come into my life out of no where and make the first move? drop out of the sky… land at my front door… only want me… etc

i’m not getting on those apps. they highlight my horrors

i’m 24 years old. i’m over this shit (just not over it enough to Try. Very. Hard. lol)

can’t believe people i went to hs with are married. sick

this is the aftermath of reading too many haechan blurbs

i’m also sleep deprived

[kind-of-a-shitty-wizard]

hiii i got a little insane over haskills characterization in the other elder scrolls games / material. teehee rambling abt these ^ quotes under the cut (long). also im not that serious abt any of this tbh im just glad haskill appeared in any other elder scrolls material at all LOL

OKAY. okay. about these quotes. idk why other TES media does this, but in these quotes from elder scrolls legends + the interview with haskill it seems like the writers are pushing to give the impression that haskill slightly resents or is even indifferent to his position / the isles / sheogorath ?? (unless haskill is being a little bit more flippant or hyperbolic than usual...?) which is characterization that is NOT what i got from playing oblivion at all skdskdjfn

like... when i played oblivion i thought it was very clear that haskill prefers to be in the isles, serving sheogorath, more than anywhere else. (<- i think this is actually the reason he's technically "mad" even tho he seems sane outwardly. if you enjoy being among madmen it probably means you're mad yourself ykwim). i think haskill does like the isles, his ass is just reserved abt it, like he is about everything... yknow just like jeeves, whose character he's been compared to lmao:)

i think unfortunately some writers take his annoyance with the player and his slight second thoughts about sheogorath's plan in oblivion, and mistakenly assume that he's just annoyed at his whole position. haskill does have his moments of exasperation, but the thing is it's usually only exasperation and it never verges into anger or bitterness or resentment like the top quotes seem to indicate. for example, haskill says this abt his idea of you mantling sheo / the clowns debacle:

^ This quote is a good reference point for haskill's view on sheo bc its pretty much the most critical-of-sheogorath quote from oblivion i can recall, and it tells us a lot of things. in this quote he expresses some exasperation about the clown idea (because he's a prissy bitch who doesn't want to get his outfit dirty /affectionate) and shows some apprehension about one of his lord's ideas (because it involves you, and haskill doesnt like you). but these 2 points he has beef with aren't really reflective of sheo himself but of other issues - ie he doesn't directly question sheogorath. and IN THE END Haskill defers to sheo's judgement because haskill trusts him and values sheo's ideas. in all of his oblivion dialogue, this is the most critical toward sheogorath he gets, and he never outright insults or shows resentment toward him or the isles like in the above quotes bc his loyalty to sheogorath eclipses it

on the contrary (and i dont know why the writers for non-oblivion elder scrolls content dont seem to see this??), theres so much evidence that haskill actually does, you know,,, enjoy being in the isles. here are just some snippets i can think of:

"the isles are hardly a place for anyone, really" <- i BEG to differ, Haskill likes it here, he likes listening to prisoners being tortured in xedillian, he likes wearing his ridiculous frilly high collar outfit emblematic of the fashions of the isles, he doesn't care about morality and it suits him just fine that it doesn't matter here!! (the end quote might be him being a little facetious about relmyna but to be honest i wouldn't be surprised if he thought decency and morality WERE provincial notions because he certainly has no problem killing people lmao). and again, to enjoy doing these things / being around madmen probably says something abt haskill being mad himself. lol

not to mention he likes a bit of joking around. which i imagine sheo does a whole lot. when YOU rib him a little he says this:

his derision in the first bit i think indicates, "i cant believe you would joke around at a time like this," and the upturning of the "very good" i think indicates, "it was a good joke / maybe they could mantle sheo after all". he's not all dour - he appreciates a good joke, especially from (someone who's about to become) his Lord!!

and going a little deeper into haskill actually liking the isles... haskill clearly holds what sheogorath and the isles represent (chaos, free will, individuality) very highly. a good example of this is when you ask him about dyus, and he gives this snarky reply:

^ he says this with such VITRIOL its so funny :p and the amount of disdain in this line indicates (to me) a real conviction in his belief in the free will, chaos etc that sheogorath represents.

this is why i dont think this quote makes sense. "i cant remember why i put up with [sheogorath]" <- haskill wouldnt say this bc he understands fully why he puts up w sheogorath, and his own convictions in sheo that lead him to keep doing it, and even if this quote is him being hyperbolic, i dont think he'd joke about his faith in sheogorath like that because, yk, one of his characteristics is that he's extremely loyal, and moreover he never said anything to this effect in oblivion sdkjskdjs

him having a strong belief in what sheogorath / the isles represent is also evidenced by the language haskill uses when talking about sheo. whenever haskill mentions him, there is an element of poetry and respect to his words that shows that haskill thinks about him highly at the very least:

^ haskill constantly stresses sheogorath's intrinsic unknowableness and power and unique wisdom in a way that feels very respectful. saying "to attempt to fathom [sheogorath's will] is a foolish endeavor" shows that he knows there are unexplainable aspects to sheogorath that he takes note of, respects, and knowingly keeps his distance from... he gets sheogorath and reveres him (at least more than most others or the HoK). in these quotes especially, it feels a bit like hes trying to illustrate how impressive sheogorath is to the HoK, hyping up his boyfriend if you would. who said that. and combined with this respect is (i believe!!!!) a deep care. he is invested in the isles and sheo and wants to help them out of more than just duty. he gets fearful and even loses his composure at some points in the story when sheo/the isles are threatened which i think indicates that he deeply cares for them both!!:

i think this is a care that, combined with the respect he has for sheo, makes it really unlikely for him to get more than exasperated with his behavior and verge into resentfulness. i dont think anyone truly understands sheogorath, not even haskill, but haskill respects sheo as a god, and also gets him in a more familiar/personal way i think - like the way that a cat owner loves their cat but gets exasperated with it when it gets its head stuck in a tissue box. he doesn't angry or anything because he understands that it's the cat's nature to get stuck in the tissue box / sheo's nature to be wild and unpredictable and messy. (the difference being that sheogorath is an all-powerful god cat..... do u see my vision???)

anyway this got crazy long JHDSHFSD... to finish i wanted to look at this extra bit of characterization i found that was wild to me:

^ like. i truly dont get where they got THIS characterization LMAO sheo constantly calls haskill faithful and smart and knowledgeable in oblivion, he practically begs you to summon haskill for help, hyping up his boyfriend so to speak, they care for each other your honor so of COURSE sheo trusts haskill to do his job. what are the legends writers doing in there!!

ANYWAY dear god this got long im going to bed <3

[void-husbandry-official]

Unlike other pets, black cats are unique in their ability to get along well with voids and other astral beings.

Many cats and dogs will find a void off-putting, be alarmed by it, or mistake it for a new toy to be attacked.

Black cats, however, recognize voids as fellow cats, as they are partially void themselves, and as such make fantastic companions for your voids. Especially if you’re a busy individual with pets left at home alone

[fullmoonfireball]

Don't forget to take your medication this Moss Monday!

[epic-mick]

Just been thinking about this great Duo that never got to live.

The tale of the Turtle and Hare vibe…

If Oswald gets his show back or even a new one, I want his pal to return

Storyboard by

Chris H

[staring-at-a-blank-pagee]

thinking about wild getting portaled away from the chain for totk and coming back instantly (in the eyes of the chain at least), adventure complete, because hylia can mess with the flow of time to make it seem like he was only gone for a couple seconds.

thinking about the portal to eow showing up and legend going inside. the chain waits for a few minutes but the portal doesn't appear immediately again like it did for wild.

thinking about the shadow-rift-thing that legend is in during eow being out of the scope of hylia's power therefore the chain has to wait the whole time while fable does eow to get legend back

THINKING ABOUT THE CHAIN ASSUMING THAT LEGEND IS DEAD AND MOURNING HIM BECAUSE HIS PORTAL DIDNT SHOW UP AGAIN AND STEADILY LOSING HOPE AS TIME CONTINUES TO PASS AND HE DOESNT SHOW UP

[elandrawssometimes]

My GF thought Ganondorf was just some big sexy evil guy and went into the cutscenes not expecting him to actually be scary and that's the funniest shit to me

[oliviartist]

you know how when someone hates on Islam it’s called islamophobia / islamophobic

and when someone hates on Jews it’s call antisemitism / antisemitic

and when someone makes fun of Hindus is Hinduphobia / hinduphobic You know how Christians don’t have a word in English like that for us so I propose

antichristianic

STAY WITH ME PLEASE IM SERIOUS

it can be used in the same context as the ones above yes it only has one word but I think we could still make it work ( if you want to suggest something else I’m not gonna stop you)

[flickafire]

oh how I miss the barnaby that looked like he has wanted to kill himself since he was 12