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[donemer]

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she/they || 20s || eastern european artist with a persistent TES addiction

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[changelingsandothernonsense]

... I'm doing something *shh*

[changelingsandothernonsense]

Fuck it, lets shove Maera in there too. Have Joshi's mum not long before Joshi's born. Yay.

[chippypiper]

humiliating cruelty

things that didnt happen, credits to Project Tamriel (Tamriel Rebuilt) team for bonewalker Nerevar's design and quest

[cresu]

Wip-Wednesday

Ty for the tag @sulphuricgrin @umbracirrus @blue-dartwing @donemer @chiqita @friend-of-giants ♡

Here I thought I was gonna skip WW this week but, here we are again ahah. Finally getting a ref-sheet started for Shiala.

First time me actually thinking the scar-placement on her chest properly, it might still change. Looking forward crashing out while trying to figure what she will wear.

I wasn't planning on sharing any writing either but thanks to @helloskitty99 I dug out something I recently wrote about the Yngvild-sidequest, so here you go a snip from that!

Words: 400ish

The cold breeze of the Pale beats Shiala’s cheeks without mercy when she finally arrives to Dawnstar. It was foolish to think she’d have the means to just go straight to Yngvild, the size of that tomb was ridiculous — she could still see it from the edge of Dawnstar. What on Nirn did nords compensate for back in the day? Stepping inside the Windpeak Inn brings back strange memories. She remembers vividly being covered in gore after killing a dragon and listening the local whisper in terror until she finally managed to get changed. Other half of the crowd desperately surrounding Erandur, begging for his help with their nightmares. That’s how they met, not knowing some time later their acquaintance nearly lead to his death. The messy, passionate months after feel more like a hazy dream now. Sometimes she thinks perhaps so much of was exactly that — a dream. The miasma messing up with her head. His head, when she caused him to relapse. What a mess it all was. The innkeeper recognizes her. He smiles, though behind his facade there's still the same apathy as she remembered— a mark that Vaermina left in his poor face, not physically, but the mental drain that all left in him still shows. “Good to see you,” Thoring says to her, but she doubts he means it, ‘what can I get for you?” Shiala’s purse jingles out of her little pocket as she lays it on the counter. “If I could get a room for tonight, and perhaps something to eat.” “Seeing your old friend?” He asks with a yawn. “No,” she pauses, hoping she won't end up bumping up to Erandur this time. “Can you tell me anything about Yngvild?” His right eye twitches. It makes Shiala chuckle a little, thinking the man already regrets saying that it was nice to see her — because was it really, knowing Shiala always gets herself involved with the town's problems, even with the once not needing for attention of the Dragonborn. “Many strange things happening lately. First the nightmares, then the Black Door, women going missing.. ” Missing women? Shiala senses his nervousness and the volume of his voice lowering. “Sounds more for a reason to pry further. What's so strange about it then? There's some kind of master wizard, no?” “Aye. There’s some unsettling rumors going on about that place.” Thoring serves himself a drink, too, drinking ale straight from the bottle. “Necromancy.”

Passing tag along, no pressure just patting you all on the head and running awayy ♡ @hircines-hunter @heavy-metal-dick @neloths-tea @honeybeebunny111 @runathequiet @sugarysins @skyrim-forever @skyrimhusbandmaterial @flycasual @theflowergrrl @thegrunkiest @ashblind @silly-little-diary @theoneandonlysemla @dirty-bosmer @juliette-has-a-pencil @oblivions-dawn @logan-supernova @dark-brotherhoe @truth-01001001-liar @darkcimba @nerevarbean @solar-nightengale @kauchenoe @peacefulcat @helloskitty99 @luciolafantastic and YOU 🫵 who I probably forgot to tag ♡ Also if you don't like being tagged just let me know, I'm being brave and tagging some new people this week hehe

[honeybeebunny111]

WIP Wednesday 💖💖

WOW so I posted a lot of wips so I don’t think I even have the most!? 💀 BUT I remembered I have hundreds upon thousands and thousands of words written never seen or shared so I’m gonna put some of that here!

Thank you to these lovely people for tagging me:

@sulphuricgrin @chiqita @donemer @cresu @chronicgirlfailure

The urge to obsess over Azarain continues….. SO most of this is related to him and Adrianna >:3 (LDB OC Kayla’s parents)

Of course more under the cut!

(Word count: 660):

(For context, this takes place sometime after Azarain and Adrianna have already met (Kayla's parents). Essentially, they first meet when Azarain got injured on a Dark Brotherhood contract mission and Adrianna found him wounded, helped heal him, and get him to the temple of Mara she works at. It doesn't take long after that for both to be smitten with one another but there is certainly some barriers to their shared attraction)

“You! Why are you back here?! You’re lucky enough I haven’t run off to the guards and told them about your occupation!” Adrianna interrogates in a hushed tone, pulling Azarain through the doorframe and shutting it behind her.

“I am lucky! I’m not denying that. Although if you turned me in, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation and I think you’d miss my pretty face,” Azarain casually replies with a grin. Adrianna rolls her eyes and attempts to keep herself busy with organizing different potions and medicinal supplies scattered around the surfaces of the room. It was already tough enough for her to be working at the temple today, the last thing she needed was that smug-albeit handsome- man around here again distracting her. He had already managed to occupy her thoughts enough already, more than she'd ever wish to admit.

“You really shouldn’t be here you know, I actually have things to do right now- I’m working,” Adrianna scoffs reminding him, and perhaps herself too, of her duties at the temple.

“Ahh you’re right I shouldn’t be. That’s why I figured I should ask to take you somewhere else,” Azarain sighs leaning against the wall watching her busy herself with tidying and grinning to himself. Azarain found she was all too easy to tease and even prettier when she was flustered like that.

“What?!” she yelps nearly knocking a jar of herbs over as she stands to face him again.

“Humor me, I’ll take you out on a date and if it’s the absolute worst date you’ve been on, you can turn me into the guards,” Azarain offers a little too cheerfully and casually.

“Is this a joke?! Are you crazy?!!” Adrianna stammers unsure whether she should be freaking out over his date invite or the suggestion of his own potential imprisonment and death. Someone being in the Dark Brotherhood was pretty much frowned upon well, everywhere. She knew that for him to be discovered like that would almost undeniably lead to his execution.

“Crazy for you, yes. What do you say? Tomorrow before noon I’ll meet you here-“

“Here?!”

“Okay I’ll meet you…….by the old Bridge Inn near the bookstore and we’ll have a picnic! I’ll bring food, basket, everything. A proper date, a real one. What do you say?” he beams with a hopeful smile. Adrianna looks at him entirely stunned, confused, and peeved but undeniably intrigued by this entire insane situation.

“Why? Why would you offer to let me turn you in? You know what they do to people in…..who do your type of work right?” she questions lowering her voice, eyes glancing around as if anyone else was in the room with them.

“To earn your trust and prove how I feel. I’m not a gambler, but I’d like to think the odds of the latter being the outcome are slim. So, what do you say princess? Is it a date?” he answers casually moving off the wall and stepping closer towards her with his hand held out to her. Adrianna looks between his extended hand and the hopeful but almost smug smile on his face a few times before letting out a small sigh and shaking his hand.

“Very well then Azarain. I’ll meet you by the inn tomorrow," she replies trying to compose her tone and keep a straight face.

"Wonderful, I'll be looking forward to it. I'll see you then Adrianna," he comments back, playfully mimicking her almost cold guarded tone before pressing his lips to her hand that he held before swiftly seeing himself out the door.

"Hey! Don't just go out the-ugh!" Adrianna hollers after him but remains where she stands and crosses her arms. Maybe it was a good thing after all they didn't have as many priests and priestess available at Mara's temple today, otherwise they'd probably interrogate her for the blush on her cheeks and if anyone saw that tall Dunmer man stop by.

Bonus meme: Kayla’s mom:

And other Azarain meme lol:

Tagging these people below! As always no pressure to post and if I forgot to tag you it isn’t intentional and feel free to share and tag me in your post! ❤️

@changelingsandothernonsense @nerevarbean @donemer @knifecalledlust @lambasi @tobianidiot @scribeofskyrim @blue-dartwing @heyhoneyfox @runathequiet @juliette-has-a-pencil @theflowergrrl @hircines-hunter @kauchenoe @fakerubberman @xiscariotx @anilliscarts @sassybakalesbian @dibellas-moth @skyrimhusbandmaterial @saddowthehodgeheg @monsonata

AND YOU READING IF YOU WANT :3 🫵💖

[theflowergrrl]

WIP Wednesday!

Thank you so much for the tags <3! @honeybeebunny111 @cresu @donemer @friend-of-giants @blue-dartwing

I was thinking about skipping this week, but gonna post my doodles anyway!

I did a slight study in portraits, I suppose, though I should have done more of the full front face perspective, but I chickened out since I still struggle with Loomis.

These three ladies are as follows: Freya's Breton mother (suddenly can't remember her name now! DAMN IT!), Freya in the middle, and my Bosmer Lyra on the end. I tried to draw her antlers ;____;

I tried to make Freya resemble her mother, but I think I made the noses too different.

At work today, I was bored and decided to draw some plants, but Skyrim plants. I got inspiration from @skyrimhusbandmaterial, who once drew a wonderful Nirnroot picture. I need to reblog it!

I thought it funny if Freya tried to keep track of certain alchemical ingredients, and if she did, what would she write down for each one?

So this may become a series, idk yet.

No pressure tags <3 @scribeofskyrim @sassybakalesbian @dark-brotherhoe @life-dairy @cursedsilver @neloths-tea @runathequiet @dragonhold @knifecalledlust @monsonata @laedbunny @darkcimba @juliette-has-a-pencil @flycasual @changelingsandothernonsense @hircines-hunter @nerevarbean @orca-water-ghoul @dirty-bosmer @sunlightpassingthroughthewater @aspendruid @anilliscarts and you! If you want to! 🫵🫵🫵🫵

My usual disclaimer: if I tagged you and you don't wish to be tagged, please let me know! Also, if you want to be tagged, you can always tag me back, regardless! <3

My blog has only been quiet because I have been on ESO so much. But I love posting and boosting others' art!

Below the cut is a funny glitch I managed to screen-record on Sunday in ESO, along with a peek at a new custom armor I somehow acquired.

Dark Seducer Armor <3

Small edit: Going to hopefully up my game with this!

[flycasual]

WIP not-Wednesday

cause I keep MISSING wednesday somehow but thank you @theflowergrrl @cresu @donemer and @sulphuricgrin for the tags!!

almost done with the lines on this!

GTA Thelial is Coming Along TM

as are these art fights

tags for next week when I undoubtedly miss Wednesday again: @sunlightpassingthroughthewater @nerevarbean @dirty-bosmer @pocket-vvardvark @squidvetica @zunaofelinhir @changelingsandothernonsense @eatthatsweetroll @heavy-metal-dick @knifecalledlust @alandrosul @hircines-hunter @lambasi

[dirty-bosmer]

Nix Hound

He wants to know if you have games on your phone

[caz-the-yarncromancer]

[changelingsandothernonsense]

Some recent Joshi line arts from just before and during the Dragon Crisis.

The answer is that he's fucking about, he's always fucking about.

[cresu]

Character trivia - Shiala

I've not been tagged to this by anyone directly, but I wanted to do this anyway, since it seemed like a fun way to try and finally have an introduction for Shiala. And I need to talk about her more, spill some of that tea

Name: Shiala Rilvayn

Age: 37

Born: 17th of Second Seed (The Shadow)

Occupation: Thief, Assassin (Nightblade)

Background: Shiala is a half-dunmer, half-nord. She was born in New Balmora, raised by her mother Faenre, the Exalted Master of the Morag Tong and the Champion of Mephala. She wasn’t a planned child by Faenre by any means, but a result by a writ Faenre got too attached to. Because of this, Shiala and her mother’s relationship has never been a very loving one. Shiala has an older half-brother who still lives in Balmora.

She also has blood-relations to Queen Barenziah and therefore, Karliah.

As a child she got heavily influenced by Mephala (similar manner we see Nelkir being affected in Skyrim) and was pretty much her personal plaything (manipulated Shiala to meddle with politicians, planting false evidence and killing in Her name) and even though Shiala has no interest of becoming a new Champion for her, Mephala has a certain interest in her, due to the circumstances of her being born from a writ. I call her a writ-spawn in few occasions. She’s not the only one of her kind, of course.

Notable relationships:

Brynjolf: A thief with nimble fingers and a silver tongue meets an old assassin who’s versed in illusion and manipulation? What could possibly go wrong. Neither of them trust each other and their motives as they meet. It’s a complicated road of deception, suspicion and attachment-issues on both sides in a world that doesn’t seem to want them to even be together. They’ll get there, one day, but at what cost? :)

Erandur: Shiala’s previous relationship before Brynjolf. Passionate, but messy. Wrong place at the wrong time-kind. While Erandur was in the path of redemption and wanted to help her, Shiala wasn't willing to accept it and dug herself deeper into the growing lust for power and to seek revenge the death of someone dear to her.

Aranea Ienith: Becomes one of Shiala’s best friends after she helps her to restore Azura’s star.

Glover Mallory: A father Shiala never had after she moves to Solstheim. When Shiala wants to become something else than a weapon to be used by others, Glover is there for her more than her mother is. He teaches her almost everything to know about being a thief. I adore their relationship so much. They first meet after Glover gets caught trying to steal Faenre's Ebony Blade as a last hanging job for a client of high status. She lets it happen, believing this is her Mistress' will and lets Glover live.

Faenre Rilvayn: Shiala’s mother. Owner of the Ebony Blade before it found its way to Irileth in Whiterun. Wanted Shiala to become her successor and let Mephala manipulate Shiala without intervening. When Shiala found out about it, she began to distant herself from her and everything related to Morag Tong and Mephala.

Karliah Indoril: They bond after all the Nightingale-stuff comes around and also learn that they are related to each other. (Not that closely, but close enough)

Strengths:

Manipulation, she can be very convincing.

Related to above, she is a master of illusion-magic

Very good at killing (thanks Mephala)

Pickpocketing

The ability to remain unseen

Weaknesses:

Reckless, a little arrogant. Thinks herself invisible at times.

Lockpicking (lmao)

Lust for power that has blinded her more than once. Dragonblood making her unstable yay

Substance-abuse

Never thinks she’s good/strong enough.

No interest in:

Fame, would rather have people believe the Dragonborn is dead

What strangers think of her

The civil war and politics of Skyrim, yet keeps getting dragged into it against her will.

No concept of:

The limits of her own body, tends to push herself too hard

Character:

Appears cold at first, has a bit of a resting bitch-face going on. Enjoys making people squirm with her humour. She is not ashamed of getting a bit flirty.

In battle:

Agile, bit of a glass-cannon. Kill it before it kills you-attitude. Uses two daggers, and sometimes Chillrend as a main weapon — prefers daggers though most of the time. Uses illusion magic to confuse/fear enemies and rally allies, if she isn’t fighting alone. Prefers close combat overall but isn’t too shabby with a bow. Has a natural talent for murder and has Mephala’s favour from birth, which gives her an advantage of finding weak points of her enemies. (It has a visual form much like a Dragon Aspect, stay tuned for me drawing it one day)

Distinguishing marks:

Hermaeus Mora’s spread corruption on her hands, appears as black, dipped in ink-like fingertips.

Small scars here and there on her body but the most visible will be the stab wound on her chest from Mercer’s blade, that had complications while it was healing. Sometimes she uses glamour/illusion magic or gloves to cover herself while in public.

She also has purple eyes which is a little unusual for a dunmer.

Trivia:

Suffers from memory loss thanks to meddling a little bit too close with Hermaeus Mora, struggles to remember some people from her past as well (biggest being Amelith, her past lover)

She used to be awful at picking locks — and still isn’t the greatest and often depends on illusion/alteration magic to work on her favour. (Glover used to craft her enchanted picks to make her life easier)

Her favourite drink is Velvet LeChance

Loves to smoke Sleeping Tree

Used to prank Talvas a lot in the past which gave her a nickname of “Trickster of Telvanni”, which Neloth called her once and it stuck afterwards.

Is afraid of spiders, ironically enough considered she’s supposedly Mephala’s love-child

She is a Champion of Hermaeous Mora and Boethiah, but doesn’t exactly worship any Daedric Prince. She will, however exchange favours for their blessings without much of a second thought, mainly Hermaeus Mora, Nocturnal, Boethiah. Has helped Azura with her Star and restored Mehrune's Razor.

Unfortunately I don't have a ref-sheet for Shiala to show off for this (Maybe I'll finally get to it tonight) so here enjoy one of the portraits I made of her as at least some sort of a picture haha

Passing the tag along @sulphuricgrin @umbracirrus @hircines-hunter @heavy-metal-dick @friend-of-giants @neloths-tea @chiqita @skyrimhusbandmaterial @skyrim-forever @theoneandonlysemla @runathequiet @solar-nightengale @blue-dartwing @dirty-bosmer @juliette-has-a-pencil @kauchenoe @peacefulcat @luciolafantastic @helloskitty99 @goodwounded @honeybeebunny111 @nerevarbean @donemer @theflowergrrl @oblivions-dawn @silly-little-diary @sugarysins but no pressure! ♡ ALSO YOU whom I've forgotten to tag 🫵because I love to see some good OC-yap from all my beloved mutuals!! And sorry If you're already done one haha

[baantjer]

an old man with a suspiciously erotic body

[lambasi]

[donemer]

⚠️ WIP Wednesday! 🚧

Birthday edition hehe— survived my first quarter of a century!

First of all, thank you all who tagged me in the previous weeks!^^ I haven’t done a WIP Wednesday in a hot minute (and was rather inactive on tumblr, sorry about that too!) sooo im hopping in to show some stuff i was working on as of late:3

Aside from Artfight stuff (which i will be posting at the end of July – feel free to share the attacks i made for you or use it as you please in the meantime!:3), i have been sketching my beloved ocs again – aka my fav rat Narusur getting his tattoos done + a sketch of Sen

Im also planning to do some short-comic-type-of-things featuring my ocs, mostly because im enjoying drawing way too much than actually writing them:D I’m currently quite meh about doing fic-stuff, so i have another outlet to share some story snippets this way:3

At the moment i’m focusing on Salyn’s storyline among the Morag Tong:

Tagging some of mutuals, no pressure as usual!^^

@nerevarbean @monsonata @honeybeebunny111 @changelingsandothernonsense @bosmerblood @flycasual @theflowergrrl @skyrimhusbandmaterial @hircines-hunter @scribeofskyrim @blue-dartwing @cresu @snowy-weather @knifecalledlust @beastboost @juliette-has-a-pencil @tobianidiot @truth-01001001-liar and anyone else who would like to participate!:3

[nerevarbean]

new* OC alert

Lilliah Darvel-Theman, born at Tel Uvirith in late 3E 431. Daughter of Edd & Dorisa. Delivered by Bravoyn & his apprentice Serila. In her childhood she experiences frequent and significant upheaval from the oblivion crisis, red year, and the accession war, but is largely protected from it by the loving & supportive household she is born into. Beyond her parents, Bravoyn is her no. 1 favourite person and he adores her just as much.

[flycasual]

Only art fight attack I've had time to finish so far, @artsykip-arts 's Faelyn!

[nerevarbean]

Bravoyn doodle from the work desk

[truth-01001001-liar]

ok so I've got Bee-vehk, Dagoth worm, and sotha scrib. alas.. im blanking on good puns for ayem.

[truth-01001001-liar]

oh wait

[truth-01001001-liar]

Nere-guar and Alit-lexia?