Ask me about the Reachmen, Please. @corviride - Tumblr Blog

"But we don't blame the river for these things. That's just life on the Karth."

Dia duit and Ey swayel! I hear it's the norm on this website to make a post introducing yourself so people can know if you're the kind of person they wanna interact with? Ech, I'm bad at introductions. My name is Aurelia, I am a transgender lesbian from British Columbia, Canada, I am a student of Irish and Halq'emeyelem, and I'm learning how to swing a sword good. I post about Reachmen from the Elder Scrolls, and not really much else. Go play Fragments of the Past, go read Aad Semblio Impera (Hello, Maple!), and always remember that the people in power have more reason to lie than they have to tell the truth. Oh I'm also writing a Skyrim fic -- P'raps you all will get to read it one day, but you will definitely get to hear about it. I stumbled dick first into naming the main character, Daighre, the same thing as an in-game NPC -- I swear I did it by accident from altering Deire. Hóyòwèlh and Slán Go Fóill!

#aurelia(not from elden ring)#skyrim #reachfolk #introduction post #tesblr #the elder scrolls #skyrim fanfiction

sentient-tent

This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes

sentient-tent

reblog to feed her notes

elodieunderglass

How is she doing this

wizardarchetypes

i was like 'it's weird the way everyone is doing free pr for the catholic church rn just bc the pr for the new pope has already been that good' and someone was like 'wait? why don't you like the pope? did something happen?' i feel insane i'm not exaggerating i didn't even know what to say?? 'did something happen?' yes the last 2 thousand years of global history, and no, going back 2,000 years in catholic history is not dramatic because it's remained consistently that bad throughout and in fact i do think the church should answer for every single century of its sins while all of its assets are returned to the people from which they were stolen and its global power is dissolved.

chorusys

the sweetest girls in all of existence are made to think they're horrifying monsters, it's so fucked.

chorusys

NO ACTUALLY THIS POST IS ABOUT REAL LIFE TRANS WOMEN

no-bones-disease

In honour of Truth and Reconciliation Day, let me speak my truth as an indigenous man.

I do not forgive you, Canada.

I do not forgive you for cutting the tongues from the mouths of our children, and in turn their children, and their children. "Give me back my tongue you piece of shit!" I scream in a voice like yours, as thousands of others scream with me, "You stole it from me, give it back!"

But you mark a day on the calendar a holiday, as if that will fix anything you've done. Generations of abuse. Generations of silence.

I cannot speak the language that flows through my veins. The language of my ancestors. I and many others have been robbed of that, as well as our traditions, our ancestral lands.

I do not forgive you. Not because I am bitter at a pain long since passed, but because this country continues to perpetuate the harm of my people. Our reservations don't have clean water, our rights to our land is not respected. You pollute our streams and cut our trees for money and greed and yet ask for forgiveness and expect it to be dropped at your feet like everything else this earth has.

I refuse to forgive. I refuse to reconcile without truth. The truth that my people's suffering, that you caused, is just a big PR stunt to you.

You don't care. You never did. Not about us.

(And since someone asked, non natives are okay to reblog, in fact I encourage it! It's extra important for non native folk to know our history and our ongoing struggle with the government. Listen and learn my friends)

fanficmemes

Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldn’t even care about

mikkeneko

i know fandom history that even I don’t care about

antlershade

well, i know about lump fish

cyber-seagull404

Good to see we’re all on the same page

storyweavingspider

Wait I thought when ppl said "racist phase" they meant "time when I hadn't deconstructed racist societal beliefs" phase what do you mean these people were ACTUALLY going out there and being racist like on purpose 😭

Baby I’m so sorry but a LOT of white people had periods of time as kids or even early adults where they regularly regurgitated slurs and direct racism and performed cruelty on racialized people. It can legitimately anywhere from “saying slurs on COD at 12” to “putting various unsanitary and hard to remove things into Black classmates hair” to “excluded racialized kids around them because they were yucky/etc.” to “assaulting racialized people around them” to “spent time on /b/ and gained standard 4chan racism brainworms”

You also straight-up can’t guess what it’ll be until they mention it or it jumps out. As an example, back in montana there was a white woman in my local kink community who was generally SO fucking sweet, kind, and caring to everyone around her, including me. One day she posted this on Facebook out of literal nowhere:

And doubled down after I called her on it.

Please understand that “hasn’t deconstructed racist social beliefs” means “can and will use racism when useful or they think they’re safe to, or will engage in white solidarity”

If they haven’t actually put in the work to destroy the white supremacy they’ve been internalizing from society their whole life, this can be basically any white person, at any time, no matter how they’ve behaved previously and how much you think they’d never do something like that.

The racist phases are real, and often haven’t had the work done to truly end either.

a-dinosaur-a-day

me, whispering: portraying nonavian dinosaurs as living/thriving in tropical rainforest environments like those of today is just straight up racism other people: what me, still whispering: modern tropical rainforests are one of the most recently evolved ecosystems, only truly appearing in the early Paleogene, after all nonavian dinosaurs went extinct. They did not live in them, and if they were brought back into the modern day, they would not thrive in them. the only reason we associate tropical rainforests with primitiveness is because POC live there, and the associated narratives around jungles and savagery. that's it. that's the whole thing.

my-dailydreams

#Venomous Demesne type beat.

corviride

people will see a transfem vent post using the rhetorical language of Monstrosity to talk about how people like her are mistreated sexually

and be like "yeah, and the monsters probably aren't even women!"

and like. yeah sure. you know that the monsters are fake right? you know they're being used as a tool of rhetoric here, right? we're not talking about actually fucking monsters when we say "maybe the monster doesn't want to top". you know that, right?

corviride

I wonder why you would be compelled to say, on a post about a dehumanised group, treated like Monsters meant to penetrate That it's okay for them to bottom, but not for them to be women.

people will see a transfem vent post using the rhetorical language of Monstrosity to talk about how people like her are mistreated sexually

and be like "yeah, and the monsters probably aren't even women!"

thefuzzydave

The Headlines of 2020

#important to note: Subway bread has 3 grams of sugar. most loaves will have three grams of sugar. it's fuckin bread.

anthropologist-on-the-loose

It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

mudaship3

So we know land back is Indigenous sovereignty Native agency and Indigenous stewardship yes. Land back is them respecting treaties they promised to respect ages ago but didn’t. Land back is them respecting the agreements they made with sovereign nations but broke instead. Land back is us going back to our ancestral lands. Land back is referring to Indigenous land by native names not colonizer ones. Land back isn’t a ethostate or deporting people Or whatever fever dream settlers have that’s cuz of settler colonizer projection and guilt.

“If you're American, you've almost certainly heard about how Indigenous reservations were and are located on whatever land the US doesn't want anyway. That they're just a way to whisk away undesirables until the land becomes useful to the US. That's the two-state solution.”

Two state solution is living side by side with people that tried to exterminate you with land theft genocide ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism When we say land back We mean all land stolen by settler colonizers Not just half of it to appease colonizers or respectability politics

“it’s worth mentioning that the proposal of a “two-state solution” is exactly what was offered to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas by European settler colonizers as a peaceful way to coexist.”

Land back. Indigenous 🪶 agency, sovereignty, and stewardship. All land back. Turtle Island, Hawaiʻi, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Sisam Moshir (Ainu term for mainland Japan), Ryukyu/Luchu (Okinawa), Samoa, Guahan (Guam), Papua, Éire(Ireland), Alba (Scotland), Borikén (Puerto Rico), Maohi Nui (French Polynesia of Tahiti Bora Bora and Marquesan Islands,) Aotearoa (New Zealand), Palestine Etc. Etc. End to all settler states.

houndmother

once you start learning about indigenous history. you cant help but want to abolish the nation of canada.

houndmother

NOT that the usa is any better. im just specifically reading abt the Métis, Inuit, and first nations peoples rn

coto524

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

saethwr-blog

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

coto524

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

coto524

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

voynichs

obsessed with the fact that the welcome to night vale guy thinks he invented "welcome to [blank]" and gets really indignant and thinks other people who use that phrase ripped him off. its amazing. its a level of confident i aspire to be.