[alhavaradawnstar]

oriel | they/it/ven | 19

general fandom blog (currently TES, FNaF, splatoon). main blog @gryphonsoup. DMs, tags, asks open.

TES BDS microsoft boycott info + discussion: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 microsoft currently owns bethesda by way of zenimax. ideally, do not give them your money until they withdraw support. people are dying.

[a-driftamongopenstars]

the horror of being "god's favourite princess". literally one of my favourite horror themes. the god loves you and it's so scary.

it will always choose you. you cannot die. you'll always come back because it loves you so much. you are its right and left hand, its eternal weapon. it will drown you in its light. light as horror. darkness as horror. what if it thinks you are its best friend.

you are god's favourite princess and it's terrifying.

[monnyfer]

“Win a date with Martin Septim?” oh they KNOW🤨

[alhavaradawnstar]

In the lab cooking up girlthur propaganda. And giving her cunty outfits

[anistarrose]

hyperfixating on a fictional woman who went underdeveloped in canon is literally FUN and the 80-90% of fandom people who only do the same for background character men have no idea of the degree to which they are fucking missing out

[anistarrose]

no tumblr i have faith that this post will be found by the enlightened 10-20 percent

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[anistarrose]

hour 1 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: idk it would've been nice if she had more screentime

hour 100 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: ok but despite having only eight lines of dialogue she is literally THE most interesting nuanced and tragic character in the entire series and these writers had no idea what they even had. how is no one else seeing this it's literally so objectively obvious

[thehandymaaan]

[logan-supernova]

I love you Elder Scrolls mutuals

I love you Elder Scrolls shitposter

I love you Elder Scrolls artist

I love you Elder Scrolls fanfic writer

I love you Elder Scrolls tumblr fandom

[storm-of-the-swarm]

Having a really long-term hyperfixation that has since faded is terrifying yes but it's also so embarrassing. Hi I used to think about Scrimblo Splungus 25/7. Yeah, for 2 years straight. Nah, I don't think about them anymore except for with a vague sense of melancholy as I recall how they used to make me feel. Anyways this new one, Blimpkins McGee? I'm gonna think about them forever and the cycle will NOT repeat in 2 years. Trust me guys.

[dibellas-moth]

i alluded to making this post in my previous odette drawing, and after a few days of work: I AM HERE TO PRESENT MY SNOW ELF AND FALMER DESIGNS IN QUITE A LONG POST🎉

so, let's begin!

i want to first make note: a few of my choices are not accurate to reality and actual physiological climatic adaptations. some of these were aesthetic choices, and my justification for them is that this is a race of fantasy elves who probably also have some kind of natural, magical resistance to the cold. ㄟ( ▔, ▔ )ㄏ

Snow Elves

Their heat is kept internally. This means their blood vessels are naturally quite constricted, making their skin cold to the touch but everything internally VERY warm. It helps when they're in very cold environments, as it doesn't feel as extreme!

-> related: their pinkened cheeks and noses are still from their faces warming and the blood vessels dilating, they just have a lower threshold of what is considered 'warm' for them.

Skin tones aren't exactly stark white. They tend to have slightly blue to purple toned skin, since it reflects light the same way snow does--think the colour of shadows in snowy landscapes! there's not a lot of variation in my examples here, mainly because of my painting process for them with watercolours, as i build up opacity and a lot of different layers and other tones. and i dont know how to translate that into digital colour palettes, but i basically use one of these as the base and add layers to build up the colour

Facial Features:

Their eyes are adapted to seeing very well in bright conditions (meaning: no snow blindness or transitional squinting when going from indoors to brightly lit outdoors). This comes with the adverse effect of night blindness/very poor dark vision.

-> related: long eyelashes and monolids + epicanthic folds

-> eye colours range from white/grey, very light blue, purple (dark and light), red/pink (yes i know light eye colours tend to see worse in bright conditions, and better in dark conditions)

Thinner lips

Narrow noses with slightly flatter nosebridges

Ears are downturned and covered in fluff to keep them warm. They're also incredibly sensitive to sound, and are able to hear even the quietest of animals. (i thought i had a specific drawing of this but i. don't. you'll see what i mean later, though!)

Physique:

Important things to note right off the bat!

My Snow Elves have long legs and short torsos, this is to help them traverse through tall snowdrifts

They either have plantigrade or half-digitigrade legs (which i'm not great at drawing), BOTH with paws/toe beans and both covered in the same downy fluff(fur?) as their ears, up the entire leg. i kinda drew them...bald there. honestly just imagine those toes bigger as well, i made them a lil teeny

-> related: they have wide feet/paws to disperse their weight on ice/harder packed snowbanks to not fall through. sort of like snow shoes.

They have wide/broad ribcages

They have long tails with a long hair tuft at the end. This tuft brushes the ground, sweeping side to side as they walk to cover their tracks. It also helps with balance.

They generally tend to have thicker, longer body hair, though it thins during the summer months. Hair type is most commonly wavy, but ranges between 1B - 2B

This is a sketch/concept art of what the average Snow Elf in my design looks like:

Falmer

The Falmer aren't too different from the Snow Elves!

They still have internal heat, and are cold to the touch.

Their skin still reflects light, giving blue to purple hues of the skin, with the addition of more pink/warm tones.

They still have thin lips

They still have very sensitive ears/hearing

They still have a wide/broad ribcage

They still have long legs and short torsos

They still have a long tail with a tuft at the end

But! There are a few key differences:

They are now fully digitigrade, and no longer have paws/toe beans but regular toes.

Their hair is very sparse and thin, including their tail tuft. Hair also doesn't grow very long.

Now this is where we get into the fun part! Instead of the completely nonexistent noses in the game, mine have what is called a nose-leaf!

They have very limited vision, their eyes now very small or, in some cases, seemingly no eyes at all (because they are so small, they're completely covered by a layer of skin. they're still there, of course! but they can't exactly see out of them). Those just with small eyes can mainly see changes in light and things with high enough contrast, though still blurry.

Because of this, they use echolocation (or perhaps even a form of tonal magic!) to get around. This is where the nose-leaf comes in--they're used to modify and direct sound during echolocation! (if you're interested in learning more about it: here's a link to the nose-leaf wikipedia page. super interesting!!) They also have long, wide ears.

And finally, here is a sketch/concept art of what the average Falmer in my design looks like:

looking at it now, the tail is a bit long...

NOW, you might have noticed the tattoos on both of them. BUT I HAVE TOO MANY PHOTOS ALREADY AND THIS POST WOULD BE FAR TOO LONG--i mean, i haven't even gotten to clothing (a project i've been working on for over a year already) or art motifs or jewellery or beauty standards....!! there's so much i could talk about with my dear snelves and falmer, and maybe i'll do a part 2! but we'll end things here for now :>

thank you for reading, if you made it this far. i put a lot of thought into their designs and had a lot of fun researching for them :)

[jumbofakielf]

ok. this might be controversial but: Paarthurnaax is not as good as people think he is and the glazing is actually insane. he's a very well written character! but the lengths people go for him, despite having very little in-game content and interactions, are crazy. I genuinely saw someone say that he's a better character than VIVEC.

I'm tired of the same fucking "Delphine want me kill party snacks, Delphine bitch!!!" memes the fandom keeps regurgitating because of this damn dragon that I'd honestly go even as far as to say I dislike him. I don't utterly loathe him, but I can't look at him and not see the martyr that a fandom made just to hate on a mildly annoying woman.

[alhavaradawnstar]

How it feels to be the only skyrim fan with a genuine hatred for paarthurnax

[dibellas-moth]

Delphine hate is crazy because what do you mean this random woman gets more hate than the guy who committed war crimes against an indigenous group and whose city is racially segregated (i’m talking about ulfric)

[dibellas-moth]

okay i feel the need to clarify:

when i talk about delphine hate, i don’t mean the people who say “i don’t like her” i’m talking about the very violent and misogynistic hate. (granted i do think that a fair amount of hate for her is kind of rooted in misogyny anyways, lowkey people would not be this weird about her if she was a man but i don’t think we’re ready for that conversation)

dislike her all you want, but the way people will fantasize IN REBLOGS about wanting to kill her and commit insanely violent acts against A FICTIONAL WOMAN who asked you to do one thing is fucking crazy 😭 some of you act like she personally killed paarthurnax and then told you to spit on his grave instead of just having an opinion you disagree with and being written poorly.

[ratajota]

the hands of change

[molags-balls]

[mothermara]

Collectively theres a lot of native coding throughout the elder scrolls bc of racist not-thought-out writing and everytime I'm like damnnn I guess I'm cousins with the orcs and also the sea giants and the reachfolk and the ashlanders and the

[mothermara]

mi famiglia or whatever

[mothermara]

It is kinda funny as fuck that like, the complicated pantheon series gives you the option to be like wahhh i dort getit :[[[ whaddyoumean :[ about the allmaker (most straightforward deity)

[postal420]

thinking abt how bethesda games had the worst possible situation regarding character of colour skintones for the longest time

[postal420]

from oblivion to fo3/nv they had black ppl out here regularly looking green and decomposed