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they should make a church where you just go have wine and dont have to sit through the boring god stuff

that outfit is how they tell you a guy in a movie is a creep

it’s crazy that people make fun of the right for engaging in conspiracy theories, then turn around and write shit like “the government is EVIL and trying to hurt YOU PERSONALLY with EVERYTHING THEY DO”

Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc

kitten

Random thoughts about worms

Eschew useless lesbianism in favor of productive and efficient lesbianism

they already have that it’s called the dalai lama

why don’t they make a baby pope.

you need to develop obsessions with strange niche content

SO REAL !!!

ugh i’m gonna put my head in the oven i want to have a baby so so so so so so bad

agh I love girls

A collection of my wenclair detective au drawings.

I think you’re misunderstanding - mantling is not the end-point of the Six Walking Ways. It *is* one of the Six Walking Ways -

1. Anumidium

2. The Psyjic Endeavour

3. The Prolix Tower

4. CHIM

5. The Enantiomorph, or Mantling

6. The Scarab that transforms into the New Man

All of them lead to apotheosis in their own different way.

Anumidium is what both Voryn Dagoth and Mannimarco used to become gods - the influence of the Numidium and the Heart (or the Mantella, a convincing facsimile) can raise a mortal to godhood.

The Endeavour is the Walking Way that Boethiah taught Veloth. It is centred around the journey and trials of a Hero (as in, a player character). This was the way that Nerevar attained. I think Sermon 16 illustrated it best - Vivec tells Nerevar to “Reach Heaven by Violence,” or, CHIM - but Nerevar is a Hero, so instead he goes to Masser and kills “parliament of craters” there, and tries to break into Magnus’ library behind the sun. He literally turns it into a quest to commit violence in the heavens.

The Prolix Tower requires the bending of the Earthbones via Tones - shouting, tonal architecture, etc. As the Earthbones dictate the laws of the universe, you’re literally rewriting those laws to make yourself a god. This is *probably* what happened to the Dwemer.

CHIM is “reaching heaven by violence”, which I translate as “becoming a god by loving the violent” - that’s what the Pomegranate Banquet is about, Vivec loving the god of rape and destruction. The end goal of CHIM is simultaneously comprehending the full scope of existence and your insignificant place in it, and yet continuing to protest your own significance. Looking the godhead in the eye and saying “yes, I am real.” Obviously this is what Vivec did, and personally I believe that Reman Cyrodiil also achieved CHIM, but that’s a personal theory.

The Enantiomorph - and I’m just going to copy the UESP for this one - is “an existence wherein two individuals, due to a catalyst coveted by both, become parts of a merged dichotomy, and thus are metaphysically interchangeable.” Translated into English, that means the creation of two beings who are so similar that the universe has no choice but to consider them the same - which is exactly what the HoK did to take the role of Sheogorath. *Walk like them until they must walk like you*.

As far as I can tell we know next to nothing about the Scarab. If we dig into Kirkbride’s extracanonical stuff, we can find “The Nu-Mantia Intercept.” Nu-Mantia… New Man… it don’t think it’s a stretch. From there, we can assume that things like Nu-Hatta and Nu-Cyrod are also related to the Scarab - and if that’s true, from what we see of Nu-Cyrod in PGE3, the Scarab might have apocalyptic connotations.

Anyway. I got a *bit* carried away there, but to summarize - the Six Walking Ways, of which mantling is *one*, all lead to apotheosis, or godhood.

It’s my opinion that Ayem and Seht did not achieve any of the walking ways. Instead, they created a facsimile of godhood by stealing the power of the heart, a god. In much the same way, I believe, mages such as pre-Warp Mannimarco, Divyath Fyr, or Zurin Arctus can reach a godlike state by stealing the power of another god, this time Magnus. Vivec is the only one who actually went further and achieved proper godhood, which is why he/she is still alive in the Fifth Era to marry Jubal lun-Sul at the end of c0da.

The ending of the words is AlmSiVi

Mantling

My favorite concept in all of the Elder Scrolls' lore is Mantling.

Mantling, poetically described as "walk like them, until they must walk like you" is, in my opinion, the coolest method of achieving apotheosis I've ever seen in fiction.

The concept that acting like someone/something and BEING that someone or something is just so filed with irony and cool possibilities.

Did Martin embody Akatosh enough to summon him, or to BECOME him?

Does the HoK embody Sheogorath, or are they Sheogorath?

"My first question is: Are you really Nerevar reborn?"

Are you? Is the Nerevarine truly, really, the embodiment or reincarnation of Nerevar? I often RP as such, that my beastfolk, Imperial guild member, outlander N'wah truly is Nerevar. Serves the racist, xenophobic Dunmer right that their Messiah is all that they hate.

But on a more lore-brained, and less commonly discussed level, does it matter?

Prophecy is all about the will of mortals anyway. The failed incarnates claim that the fact that they failed means the prophecy is more believable, but it seems that prophecy is more often a mix of vague, mystical mumbo-jumbo with a helping of Determined mortal will. So being the prophesized savior or not is less important than having the capacity to fulfill the duties imposed on the savior.

So, what other examples of Mantling do I especially enjoy?

Well, surely the many Shezarrines are a fan favorite. Pelinal and Arctus or Talos or Ysimir or all three.

Micheal Kirkbride seems to favor Cyrus, who mantled the HoonDing, together with Crown Prince A'tor.

Then, if we bring in other, unconfirmed cases, the Ruddy Man seems to allow others who wear him to Mantle some form of Dreugh-based interpretation of Molag Bal.

And then, the most controversial of my takes: the Tribunal are mantling the Three Good Daedra.

Vivec claims to have achieved CHIM, but how this was done is shrouded in mystery. Certainly, the use of Kagrenac's tools on the Heart of Lorkhan seems to have been a factor. Understanding, however, that CHIM is merely one of the Six Walking Ways, all used to achieve Apotheosis, or Mantling, there must be a "them" to walk like.

So the Tribunal almost certainly mantle their own Anticipation, without fully attaining their powers, and thus replacing them, as the HoK does, nor disappearing in the process, as Martin did.

Their wish was to remain closer to mortality, and to their beloved people.

The ending of the words is ALMSIVI

i never draw animals but this is actually super cute (this was for and courtesy to my bestie @culpeppercheckers721)

behold. nick carraway as a pigeon.

O’ captain,

My captain

I have been waiting all year to post this.

this is…. clearly fake.

please tag your most obscure blorbo

May? Don’t you mean Prairial?

would you do the ice bucket challenge to raise funds for the Republic

Ice is a limited resource during the warmer months, citizen. Surely you don't suggest I cover myself in ice during the winter? I mean, I once walked under the rain for two hours to cool off after a particularly excruciating meeting with the generals in Thuin, but it was in late May.

tankie is like. exactly the wrong insult for a Robespierre fan.

Tankies were (originally) British communists who supported the Soviet Union, specifically, that state’s authoritarian measures to crush the Hungarian Revolution, but also authoritarian communists in general.

Robespierre and all the Jacobins were liberals. They were capitalists. They were Republicans (in the proper French sense, not the bastardized American understanding). Everything about the Soviet Union - a collectivized, autocratic, fascist state - was directly antithetical to everything the French Revolution believed in.

Learning about the French Revolution is hilarious as fuck, why are people idolizing Robespierre? Spoiler alert but he got his head cut off the same as everyone else, so not really seeing the vision.

(also holy shit King Louis the 16th was stupid as fuck, most incompetent man ever in a leadership role)

gotta love the genre of activism where indigenous people can only be respected if we make them out as some kind of übermensch

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all the people criticizing Vance for “not being a good enough catholic” need to get a fucking grip. there are SO MANY THING to criticize Vance and every member of that administration for which aren’t “he’s not good at being a cult member”

bro is a cube

OMG ITS THE HIGHWAYMAN KHAJIIT

“you shouldn’t celebrate billionaires. You should celebrate fascist instead”

what a choice

btw the katy perry/bezos' girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again

so the monarch is allowed to use we/us pronouns but when I want to use she/her British people get mad? what’s up with that? :/

Jesus Christ. It’s not even a full new game. They just updated the textures, engine, etc.

People. do NOT pay sixty bucks for this garbage.

It's live. 50 USD, or 60 for some Deluxe Edition.

two sentence horror

“Let it be recorded in 2E 565 that all the trolls fucked”

Bro I just wanted to figure out my OCs timeline

idk when this was written but it really illustrates well everything I hate about modern poetry.

first off. it’s prose. they’ve written prose and are trying to pass it off as poetry by adding a few line breaks. no, Mr. Sullivan. It’s not enjambment. It’s bad.

second. because it is prose there no music to it. no beauty. it’s just a straight sentence. nothing flows, nothing rhymes, there’s no beat or metre. poetry is supposed to be sung, to be performed in bombastic verses. If you read this out to a crowd, it would stir no hearts. send no thrills down spines.

third. the title also being the first line of the poem. this isn’t a genuine criticism but it’s a recent trend that annoys me to no end nonetheless.

fourth. the subject matter is dull. to me poetry should never be or deal in the mundane. it should speak to greater forces, grander actions. gods. spirits. war. revolution. patria. love. death. not a conversation with a gas station cashier. I am not excited or enchanted by this. my soul is not stirred. i’m just bored. mundanity is the eternal enemy of beauty and art.

so true and real bestie ❤️

I’m sorry but you could not convince me to ship any straight pairing on Yellowjackets. I came here for the femslash and I’m sticking with that

every jackieshauna fic is like this I swear