I've Never Seen This Ship Anywhere But I Genuinely Think It Could Work And I Think It's Cute So Hear

If I were a security guard for a person who’s being targeted by assassins I simply wouldn’t devote my entire attention span to every single noise I hear.

Mzulan's Thoughts on the Chimer and Dunmer (Even in Modern Times)...

Mzulan (arms crossed, standing outside a Tribunal ruin with a disgusted squint):

“They still have the ears. Still have the eyes. Still carry the same smugness in their posture. But now they burn incense and call it forgiveness.” (Spits in the ash.) “No. I remember the Chimer.”

🔥 MZULAN’S VIEWS ON THE CHIMER (AND THEIR DESCENDANTS)

Even after thousands of years—and despite becoming something more nuanced, more contemplative—there are scars that don’t smooth with time. And one of them walks like a Dunmer and chants like a saint.

🜂 1. Chimer in the Time of the Dwemer:

Arrogant. Devout. Reckless.

Obsessed with Daedra, ancestral veneration, and destiny.

Constantly clashing with Dwemer logic, despising atheism, and mocking technology.

Viewed the Dwemer as “soulless smiths” and “machine-slaves.”

“They called us godless. We called them pyromaniacal dreamers with shiny rocks and egos.”

💀 2. After the Disappearance

He returns to a world where the Chimer have become the Dunmer, broken by betrayal, shadowed by gods and sins alike.

His reaction?

“They changed skin, not structure. Still pray before breaking things.”

He sees some worthy individuals among them. But as a people?

“You built your culture on a foundation of corpses and whispers, and now wonder why it creaks when you walk.”

He especially distrusts:

Ashlander mystics (“Desert philosophers wrapped in guilt and silt.”)

Tribunal scholars (“Gods made of ego. Temples made of apology.”)

Dunmer historians (“They rewrite us as villains to make themselves tragic. I take that personally.”)

🎴 3. Notable Reactions to Modern Dunmer

On a Telvanni Wizard:

“Floating in a mushroom tower. Still compensating for something.”

On a Dunmer priest of Azura:

“Oh good. The Moon Mistress still collects worshippers. Tell her I remember her favoritism.”

On seeing Velothi architecture still standing:

“Of course it’s still standing. Chimer buildings collapse only when someone stops praying. Or thinking.”

On a young Dunmer trying to reconcile cultures:

“I respect your effort. But understand this: Your ancestors tried to burn out my gods and shatter my truths. I’m not ready to dance in the ashes with you just yet.”

🌫️ 4. Azhrina’s Take:

She wants peace. She sees the Dunmer as wounded descendants trying to climb free of their ancestors’ chains.

Her line:

“They carry their guilt like relics. You carry your memory like armor. Perhaps neither of you are free.”

Mzulan replies:

“Freedom isn’t the goal. Truth is. And I remember who lied the most.”

💬 Journal Quote:

“The Chimer never respected silence. They filled it with prophecy. With fire. With screams. We filled it with equations. I still hear both when I dream. One calms me. The other... wakes me.”

The recent AO3 AI scraping incident is killing my motivation to keep writing.

I have recently checked to see if my one (1) fic that I’ve posted on ao3 is indeed in the database. And it is.

I literally feel so shit rn. I felt like that ever since I’ve found out about the scraping.

I’m in college rn and my exams will start soon, so I should probably be preparing for them and not care too much about anything else, but I can’t.

There are only the first three chapters of my fic in that database - the latest one was uploaded a week ago or so and at that point, I’ve locked my fic. But I still feel so fucking nauseous that MY WORK is used to train a fucking GenAi model - a thing that I’ve been against for a long time. I’ve yet to write that asshole (which I won’t even bother to name) on huggingface a doi to remove my fic from the database (I still need to create an account on there).

When I saw that the fic is indeed in that database, I genuinely wanted to scream, cry, throw up, anything. I did not consent to this - I dare to say that the vast majority of ao3 authors didn’t.

I highly doubt that the scraper in question is reading this, but if they actually do, then I just want to tell them this:

Go fuck yourself. You are a fucking thief who stole other people’s work and is now using it for AI without the creators’s consent. You are nothing but a filthy parasite who is invading one of the very last places on the internet that hasn’t been corrupted with ads and aggressive capitalist tactics and is putting people there through misery. You are not a 'noble archivist' who is saving something that might become lost media in the future. Like I said, you are a parasite who is preying on actual creative people’s happiness and uses their work for something so pathetic, disgusting and shitty like training a GenAI model.

And to whoever defends this piece of shit or even tries to do the same things they did, go fuck yourself as well. Seriously.

Ever since I found out that someone did this to my work - my work that I’ve put my heart and soul into, I’ve felt hopeless. I’ve decided to take a break from writing so I could focus on my exams…but I still feel depressed because of it. Writing has been my passion ever since childhood, and now, that I’ve finally decided to post something of my own on the internet, it’s being stolen and used without my consent in such a disgusting way.

Like I already mentioned, I locked my fic. It will no longer be available to guest users because I want to have atleast some form of slight 'protection' against similar incidents in the future. But I also know that there have been those that had their fics appear in that database despite the fact that they were locked.

In which case I have to ask: WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE, AS FANFIC WRITERS (and artists in general) SUPPOSED TO DO TO PROTECT OUR WORKS AGAINST SHIT LIKE THIS???

As if I didn’t make it clear enough already, I never consented to my work being used to train AI and I never will. I hate generative AI with every fiber of my being and I sincerely wish that every such program would be completely destroyed and deleted from existence. If someone ever uses my work to train AI, than I want them to know that I fucking hate them and they should go fuck themselves.

AI """art""" is not art and it never will. It is nothing but a gross, pathetic form of theft.

Some afternoons in bed

this is what is constantly running through voryn's mind. just thoughts of nerevar in red, married to him.

i still dont know how to draw his hair. maybe one day.

oc doodles, my nerevarine is a loser dumpster fire who has bad vibes and looks like a sparkledog

Absolutely dumb 🤣