#ruralvampires

[bastianhallix]

hi yes ok so there has been a LOT of tes discourse that i had no idea abt????? i really want to be caught up. could u pls link me rundown posts or summarize it? i am very confused,, specifically abt lorkon, suraru, the ancano thing?? and the meridia thing,,, thank u in advance. yall deserve a break and a good nap.

oooook so i wasn't directly involved in the drama (for the most part) but from what i understand about lorkon:

- subaru (the creator of lorkon) was a racist transphobe (despite being trans herself) and would defend michael kirkbride and jeremy soule

- tesblr made so many memes about lorkon that she canceled it a week after it was announced

- she also canceled it because she was gonna invite some special guests (the elder memes, alchemy's writer) but they dipped when they heard about her bullshit

- now subaru's salty over spending $1,500 on lorkon and is either sending anon hate or getting other people to send anon hate to people who were openly against lorkon. which is especially concerning because they're sending rape threats to MINORS

- edit: so apparently it's "suraru" and not "subaru" but whatever

you can get more info from @partyatsanguines's "lore con" tag. they also have evidence that shows subaru being racist and transphobic.

and for the ancano discourse which is completely unrelated:

- tumblr user letheane was making a lot of posts that were attacking this one fanfic writer who shipped her khajiit oc with ancano from skyrim. everyone on tesblr collectively decided that ancano was a furry and started shipping him with khajiit ocs just to spite letheane.

- letheane recently apologized for harrassing said fanfic writer and has since deleted all of their negative posts, so hopefully THAT discourse has died down by now.

- edit: i would like to note that letheane also wrote a bunch of posts about elven superiority which were kinda disturbing, and she also had a khajiit oc that she compared to hitler :/

AND the meridia thing (that i was ACTUALLY part of lmao):

- back in december, tumblr user mount-kilkreath (now deactivated) accused a bunch of tesblr users of being misogynistic bc of how widespread meridia hate was. he even vagued this blog which i was sorta happy about for a few days.

- so for a while, there was a bunch of discourse over whether meridia was ""good"" or whatever. a bunch of people (myself included) got really annoyed because!!! there's so many other reasons why someone would dislike meridia (like darien, umaril the unfeathered, etc.). it's not always just misogyny when people are critical of a character who happens to be female.

- since then i've kinda mellowed my opinion on meridia because seeing her name everywhere on tesblr was exhausting, so i'm not really the Big Meridia Hater that i once was. i still don't like her but i think her lore is neat lol

- a couple days ago someone brought it back, but it wasn't really discourse, it was more like a late response. i think at this point the meridia discourse has died out, so that's not much of an issue anymore (hopefully).