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Except you’re not “just some guy”. Uriel Septim directly calls you - not Martin, you - a Hero.

“In your face I behold the sun’s companion” (or perhaps, the *son’s* companion).

“You are the one from my dreams.”

“The gods placed you here so that we may meet.”

“You are our only hope to stem the blood tide.”

“This burden is now yours alone. You hold our future in your hands.”

Uriel is explicit in the fact that you are the hero who will save Tamriel. The Nerevarine is less prophesied than this, and they have a whole prophesy named after them!

something fantastic about the opening of oblivion where the emperor asserts the hok's position within a prophecy and we assume its for us. we're the main character, of course, why wouldnt we be this legendary figure like the nerevarine was

and then jauffre immediately informs us upon meeting him that the emperor's son was hidden away at the moment of his birth. the implication that maybe two or three decades ago the emperor knew of the prophecy and acted decades ahead to ensure it's fulfilment through martin. and then you travel to kvatch, and its destroyed because of martin, who is the last of the dynasty, who dagon has been hunting all along. not you, but him, and then you realise that martin has always been the prophesied one, the legendary figure touched by the gods - and you were just the Guy in the cell afterall

Born and raised in Manitoba and can confirm we are just diet everything else

Flat, but not as good at it as Saskatchewan

Conservative hell hole, but a more shallow hole than Alberta

Somewhat French, but not that French outside of a few towns

this guy gets it

kill yourself, cracker 🙄

Me: maybe perhaps people shouldn’t live under dictatorships

tumblr:

one day late, happy birthday!!!!!

BC: hippie liberals and trees

Alberta: the Texas of Canada

Saskatchewan: flat and covered in wheat

Ontario: government

Quebec: French

Newfoundland and Labrador: funny accents

The Maritimes: The Maritimes

Manitoba: ?????

every province has an identity except Manitoba I think

like actually what goes on there. I can’t think of a single thing.

every province has an identity except Manitoba I think

like actually what goes on there. I can’t think of a single thing.

Why dis🧒 look so mad?🤔🤔🤔

(I'm ready to draw af fanart forever)

modern artists are really out here going “what if I made something that was boring and pointless?”

Plastic Chair in Wood by Maarten Baas (2008)

BOOM SHAKALAKAAAAA YES GOD YES GODDD

she is literally suffering while serving the cuntiest boyfriend realness. the BOXERS????? this is my boyfriend.

Did you read your own article? It literally says that the Canada IS prosecuting them.

But I suppose it’s too much to expect a fascist to be honest. That’s on me, sorry.

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/human-rights-abuses-by-canadian-owned-mining-operations-abroad

None of this disqualifies Canada from being perfect?

These aren’t the actions of the nation of Canada. These are the actions of private companies. They simply are not relevant to the discussion.

If I, a citizen of Canada, brutally murder my neighbours, that does not make the government of Canada murderers, now does it?

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/human-rights-abuses-by-canadian-owned-mining-operations-abroad

None of this disqualifies Canada from being perfect?

These aren’t the actions of the nation of Canada. These are the actions of private companies. They simply are not relevant to the discussion.

If I, a citizen of Canada, brutally murder my neighbours, that does not make the government of Canada murderers, now does it?

DO NOT get Daggerfall on GOG!!!

The GOG version comes pre-packaged with a bunch of (uncredited) fan-made mods! Most of which aren’t updated on that version for the newest DFUnity version, even though newer versions of them do exist on nexus! Also I’m 98% certain that one of the mods it comes with is a graphics mod that used ai to upscale the textures!

You can get download base-game Daggerfall just how Bethesda intended it on the UESP for 100% free.

Okay so what you want to do is go download Daggerfall from GOG. It's free and it's an absolutely massive open world RPG that is still unmatched in sheer scope by the later Elder Scrolls games. Now, remember where you installed that game so you'll know where to find it.

Then what you'll want to do is head on over to the Daggerfall Workshop to download Daggerfall Unity. Daggerfall Unity is a port of Daggerfall into the Unity engine which already incorporates some basic quality of life upgrades (like WASD + mouse gameplay, fixing bugs, allowing you to turn off the game's awful "hold down the mouse button and drag the cursor around to simulate swinging" combat system for more sensible click-based combat, you can find this setting in the game's Options menu) but now you also have access to an absolutely massive modding scene. If you want you can pick up some mods that make the game "prettier" but like the game is already beautiful as is

DAGGERFALL SKELETON ATTACK

could i request a boyre dino themed little nat moodboard?:3

Little!Nat Moodboard

op, when you applied to university, were you disappointed that they didn’t have you go in seven potentially deadly quests instead of writing an essay? just asking.

Oblivion Mage Guild: You want to join our guild? Okay, I want you to go all of the 7 mage guilds in all of Cyrodill and get a letter of recommendation from them.

Skyrim Mage Guild, when they see the player cast a dollar store spell at their front gate:

guys help I thought this meant like. walked around.

pls reblog <33

I don’t think I have, actually. I went and read the whole thing, and her main idea is people “misusing the word technology”. That’s literally what she says two paragraphs before the above excerpt -

“But [the word technology] is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources. This is not an acceptable use of the word.”

That is precisely the sentiment I was responding to - the idea that our modern use of the word “technology” is somehow wrong or misinformed. But it’s not. It has simply progressed as our society has progressed.

She goes on to write that “Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality…” and no, it isn’t. Perhaps it was, centuries ago. But within the modern societal consciousness, that is not what technology means. The meaning has changed. It’s just like how you wouldn’t describe, say, a fantasy magic system as “weird” because “weird” doesn’t have any relation to magic in the modern parlance. But it did - in Shakespeare’s day, that was the word’s primary meaning - magic, power, the occult, fate, witchcraft - though he would have spelled it “weyard”.

The most ridiculous thing is that this is all written in response a review of one of her books, in which the reviewer is very clearly using “technology” in the modern sense. But she still pedantically insists that, actually, his review is incorrect because… she’s working with a completely different definition of the word than everyone else on the planet.

And on a side note, fuck this whole… essay? I hate it. ‘Not an acceptable use of the word’ my ass. That’s the kind of linguistic arch-conservativism that creates institutions like the Académie Française.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

cant stop thinking about the yellowjackets cgs still being just teenagers . like yes, they take amazing care of the little’s but it takes the combined forces of Nat, Tai and Laura Lee to try and make a bottle for Lottie the first time. And little!van whining and rolling around because they are SO bored but Mama can’t play right now because she’s doing homework. Nat and Jackie are deep into a gossip session about someone from school who had a go at Lottie in the hallway and Lottie’s just sitting on Nat’s lap with her fingers in her mouth completely unaware of what they are talking about. Shauna, who is usually the go to for English assignments, being regressed and now they’re all just making up their essays and it’s not going to end well.

surprise! The meaning of words changes as society advances. Five hundred years ago, a “factory” was a warehouse where traders would store their goods in a foreign country. Two thousand years ago, a “factorium” was an oil press.

“Technology” was once a created product. Now, it’s something specifically technical, running on electricity with wires and screens and making beeps and boops. That’s the way of the world, the way language functions and has always functioned.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

Vancouver mentioned !!!!

aquarium advertisments say stuiff like discover the longtooth grouper this friday

this was the “proof” they claimed to have btw. like. you keep using that word I do not think it means what you think it means.

It's hilarious how you didn't respond to my ask, showing literal PROOF South Korea was a fascist dictatorship in its inception. Instead you claim the DPRK was somehow the fascist one

Look up Ilminism and Syngman Rhee :)

babe I went to bed I was going to respond in the morning. are you so obsessed with me that you can’t wait eight hours. (also you did not provide proof bbygirl. you just said it was true. that’s not proof. (although it doesn’t really matter because you weren’t making a super outlandish claim. Rhee’s dictatorship is established historical fact))

Trust me. I know about Rhee. I will be the first to point out that there was little to no difference between the South and the North during the Korean War. The difference is that the South reformed into a free Republic. The North did not. Had we not defended the South, it would have been absorbed and the whole peninsula would have stayed under dictatorial rule to this day.

Don’t believe me? Let’s look at another divided Cold War country where the UN was not quite as successful - Vietnam. Both sides of the Vietnam War were pretty brutal dictatorships (I would even argue that the South was worse.) And Vietnam remains under a one-party dictatorship to this day. Had the South remained free, I have no doubt that it would have reformed eventually, just as South Korea did, and by defending them we gave them that chance.

There is also such a thing as duty and right action. North Korea was the unlawful aggressor. Should we have simply sat back and appeased Kim Il-Sung as we did Hitler? I’m sure that no one would object to the West coming to Austria’s defence in 1938, even though Kurt von Schuschnigg’s government was effectively fascist. Or Poland - the Sanation Government of the Second Polish Republic was extremely autocratic. But when it was invaded by Germany and Russia, it was only right that we defended it.

Fascism cannot be defeated by sitting around twiddling our thumbs and waiting for the right nation to defend. Optics are and should be a non-consideration. The war is out there and we must fight it.

It's hilarious how you didn't respond to my ask, showing literal PROOF South Korea was a fascist dictatorship in its inception. Instead you claim the DPRK was somehow the fascist one

Look up Ilminism and Syngman Rhee :)

babe I went to bed I was going to respond in the morning. are you so obsessed with me that you can’t wait eight hours. (also you did not provide proof bbygirl. you just said it was true. that’s not proof. (although it doesn’t really matter because you weren’t making a super outlandish claim. Rhee’s dictatorship is established historical fact))

Trust me. I know about Rhee. I will be the first to point out that there was little to no difference between the South and the North during the Korean War. The difference is that the South reformed into a free Republic. The North did not. Had we not defended the South, it would have been absorbed and the whole peninsula would have stayed under dictatorial rule to this day.

Don’t believe me? Let’s look at another divided Cold War country where the UN was not quite as successful - Vietnam. Both sides of the Vietnam War were pretty brutal dictatorships (I would even argue that the South was worse.) And Vietnam remains under a one-party dictatorship to this day. Had the South remained free, I have no doubt that it would have reformed eventually, just as South Korea did, and by defending them we gave them that chance.

There is also such a thing as duty and right action. North Korea was the unlawful aggressor. Should we have simply sat back and appeased Kim Il-Sung as we did Hitler? I’m sure that no one would object to the West coming to Austria’s defence in 1938, even though Kurt von Schuschnigg’s government was effectively fascist. Or Poland - the Sanation Government of the Second Polish Republic was extremely autocratic. But when it was invaded by Germany and Russia, it was only right that we defended it.

Fascism cannot be defeated by sitting around twiddling our thumbs and waiting for the right nation to defend. Optics are and should be a non-consideration. The war is out there and we must fight it.

You're really not beating the orientalist allegations. Tell me some more about how backwards and repressive the east is and how the west needs to civilize us. Maybe the east would be less homophobic if the west stopped painting Lockheed fucking Martin as progressive! (sincerely a bi girl)

alright 🤷

“The east” (by which I have to assume you mean NK and China. unless you mean Russia in which case. Bbygirl. Russia is European) is backwards and repressive and the west absolutely should impose western liberal democracy on its autocracies, by force if necessary. It worked in Japan. It worked in Korea. It worked in Taiwan. All three of those states are progressive, free, and prosperous.

I’m willing to accept the label of “orientalist” because I know what it really means - I’ve criticized your favourite pet autocracy. It’s the same thing that Imperial Japan used in its propaganda back in the 40s - “we’re fighting for the freedom of colonized peoples and you western democracies are a bunch of racists because you’re trying to stop us”.

You’re spreading fascist propaganda too.

Little!Lottie Moodboard

Playing in the forest with her stuffies || thank you @nimeowna for the prompt <3

this is so me fr fr

Little!Nat Moodboard

Bedtime || Thank you @nimeowna for the prompt !!

Little!Nat Moodboard

Bedtime || Thank you @nimeowna for the prompt !!

Закройте рот ты сука

Translation: “Shut your mouth you bitch”

I’d be careful if I were you, anon. Considering it’s illegal to acknowledge the existence of queer people in Russia, I’d recommend you get off the gay website immediately.

America killed 20-25% of North Koreans and destroyed 85% of their infrastructure, so how about you shut your mouth on how they should feel when the US is still performing military exercises on the land AMERICA is occupying

By “land America is occupying”, I assume you mean military bases. America does not occupy its bases. The states they’re on lease the land in exchange for military protection. It is a free transaction conducted between sovereign states. South Korea does, I assure you, want the Americans there.

North Korea brought their destruction upon themselves. It was entirely Kim Il-Sung’s idea to attack an ally of the foremost world power. Anyone would have told him it was a bad idea. But he fucked around and found out anyways.

I feel no remorse over the actions of my nation or those of the Americans in the Korean War. The destruction of fascism requires excessive force. No one complained when Britain bombed Dresden.

woke up to a lot of anon hate today (which, by the way, is a fundamentally cowardly way to argue online. if you want to spit in my face at least have the decency to show yours.) I assume most of it was spurred by my rather uncharitable response to a Russia simp.

let me make one thing absolutely clear. if you have any positive feeling at all towards modern Russia, you are not welcome here. The Russian state is fundamentally and unimpeachably evil. It is a reactionary and autocratic nation ruled by the union of fascists, oligarchs, and the Church. Nothing of it is good. Nothing is redeemable. If a just god existed, Russia would burn forever in hellfire.

Are you stupid? Or are all Americans just as allergic to critical thought as you? You don’t think it’s at all weird that you unquestioningly believe everything that western news outlets tell you about countries they have a vested interest in lying about? Jesus fucking Christ I assumed you all had evolved at least past blatant McCarthyism and had at least developed better state propaganda to demonize “second and third world” countries, but apparently you didn’t have to: your citizens are functionally illiterate and incapable of meaningful intellectual thought or basic interaction with the rest of the world. Also you do not know what facism is fundamentally. Maybe stop skimming wiki and Reddit for your education and pick up a book. Hope this helps! Your tax dollars fund the murder and rape of civilians around the world so you can drink your non union coffee and live comfortably without fear of being bombed💗💗💗

not an American bby ✌️ try again

tumblr is a really special kind of place where you can find people complaining about how ‘The West’ is transphobic and reactionary and evil and then praising Russia and North Korea in the same sentence