You do know how to whistle, don’t you, hero?
FUN FACT, Emet-Selch’s “you just put your lips together and blow” line in rak’tika is just more proof he’s a theater nerd who is really bad at flirting. it’s a (previously) very famous line from a 1944 movie called “To Have and Have Not.”
The line is at about 2:48 in the video below, but i guarantee he memorized the whole thing. this entire scene is a powerhouse of flirtation and Lauren Bacall’s in-control delivery is 100% what that asshole is trying to project. Emet-Selch spent literal centuries practicing fantasy-Lauren Bacall lines at a mirror just to recite them at you eventually.
“You don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. [...] You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips together, and blow.”
most players just think ‘wow he’s weird’ which, while right and true, makes me kinda sad on behalf of the writers/localization team/etc. This was a spectacular choice, and it’s even better because most players have no idea what he’s referencing - just like your WoL in canon! but yes. emet-selch is weird and atrocious at sincere flirting, but by god, he’s trying.
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The crowd (@pinanolada) has requested the limbus dregs! Ask, and they shall receive it.
Woe, mirror Ryoshu be upon ye.
I don't like this snagharpoon Ishy design much though. Is there a harpoon apparel and something that looks like her headband in FR? Without it she does not give off Ishmael vibes.
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fine, fine, i'll make an azem that's very Clearly just varha in a different font so that her reincarnated self can continue the established tradition of waging psychological warfare on hades for sport.
bonus:
they're dating and also bullying him.
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it really is funny though how quick alien conspiracy theories and new age stuff start delving into race science though. i guess its the tendency for people who believe in made up social structures to also really want some kind of magical thing that proves their specialness to everyone else. like even if they dont believe in aliens being progenitors of the white race or whatever theyll find some other thing like “aliens are racist and only like white people bc theyre smarter” or some shit. its like a whole Thing
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joltik located in corner of room. how did you get here young man
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Okay, incoherent Skyrim ramble time.
But the fact, that Dovahkiin is low-key forced to be enrolled into the College of Winterhold to get the Elder Scroll in the main quest is hilarious to me in the context of Elanor (for more context on who Elanor is, refer HERE. In short - a dragonborn altmer-shaped disaster).
Because while it might be more reasonable and expected for her to try and force her way in somehow or circumvent this part of the quest entirely, I am not here to be reasonable, I am here to get as much quips and lols out of the story as possible, so it is far funnier if she just... enrolls there. Or, speaking more honestly, annoys her way into getting enrolled.
After being tossed at Faralda by her dremora, of course. The only reasonable way for Val to put Elanor down after lugging her across the entire hold, through snow, bears, more snow and more bears. What is with all these bears as of late.
And honestly Elanor tagging along for the entirety of the College questline would be freaking hilarious. To me. So many possibilities. To lick the big forbidden orb, to get turned into a chicken, to blow something up (just like the good old time back on Summerset). Of course the classic show of “people in the backround being genuinely uneasy about Elanor being Elanor, because Elanor is not okay, now ft. College trio and Tolfdir”.
And bullying (affectionately, but violently) Ancano, of course. The main attraction. Honestly while College Trio does the most work in the questline these two could really just try to murder one another in the background in increasingly creative and unhinged ways, it would be entirely in character and give everyone else a good ten minutes of freedom from snooty advisor and his dumbass colleague.
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