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Wait…. 😳 there’s a way out?

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Fuuuuuuck me. It’s through? And that’s the only way? Fuuuuuuuck dude

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How I sleep not participating in artfight this year: snork mimimimi snork mimimimimi

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More Mara fits I'm working on :3

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Mara priestess clothes wip 😗

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You know, considering how eerie and alien Elder Scrolls designs used to get, I wonder if anyone's done something with that when it comes to depicting the Divines.

Something I think about is how the Aedra are depicted as human and the Daedra have a little more variation but it's usually either "vaguely human" or "pretty generic looking monster". It's not bad, I just think it could be more interesting.

Take Mara for example. She's the goddess of marriage, love, and fertility yes, but she's also steeped beliefs that she is the mother of creation itself. So yes, a human depiction of her makes a lot of sense, especially wrt the people of Tamriel who probably want to see themselves a little in the gods.

But just imagine for a second:

As the goddess of something as human as love and companionship, I'm sure she'd look pretty human yeah. But as the mother of creation - something so distant, so all encompassing - she could also look much more alien and primal.

I imagine she could be bound by knots of visceral rope, to represent her connection to marriage and also her apparent refusal to exercise her immense power, or more simply her being bound to the world itself as an Aedroth.

Perhaps as well her very hands are permanently clasped to her forearms, only leaving that position if she ever had to intervene for any reason.

She's this titanic woman, who you can see yourself in because of her closeness to mortalkind. Yet also - because she birthed creation - you cannot help but see entire universes reflected in her eyes.

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oh Jesus I'm coming up on 3000. half of them are bots but goddamn. fuck

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and where are they when my posts flop

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oh Jesus I'm coming up on 3000. half of them are bots but goddamn. fuck

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me at my last job: my pronouns are he/him

what people actually used: she/they

me at my current job: my pronouns are they/them

what people actually use: he/she

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it's like watching cis people do a whole gender gymnastics routine only to consistently beef the landing and fall on their ass

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me at my last job: my pronouns are he/him

what people actually used: she/they

me at my current job: my pronouns are they/them

what people actually use: he/she

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Dawnguard summer? Then Dragonborn Fall?

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Vivec; The God who Disappeared

“For I am an atlas of smoke . . .

. . . Seek me without effort for I take many shapes.”

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Yo, The Elder Scrolls lore has me in a chokehold rn??? So, have this Vivec!!!

If you like reading about the elven gods, Vivec’s sermons are insane? The depth of TES lore blows me away every single time, man.

Also, shoutout to fan author @thana-topsy for not only getting me thoroughly obsessed with Vivec AND Teldryn — but for also writing one of the most beautiful TES fan-works I’ve had the pleasure of reading. <3

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