Talk Skyrim to Me

Info: Soro, He/She/They. Adult. I operate solely on mobile, so sorry for any outdated/janky browser coding.

[carolsturka]

how it feels to talk about anything at all

[vamplire]

i love you gothic literature. i love you doomed romance. i love you ghosts and decay. i love you vampires and blood. i love you manors and crypts. i love you cemeteries and haunts. i love you unsettling themes. i love you cynicism of the human experience. i love you monsters unaware of their horrors until confronted with them.

[canonkiller]

what grief is laid bare at your own empty grave?

thinking about hydras and regrets

[cracklewink]

origin story

[valentineveils]

anyways , i implore everyone to check out obsidian's non fallout games cus they're genuinely so good . pillars of eternity , poe: deadfiee , avowed , the outer worlds , the outer worlds 2 , tyranny , grounded i could literally go on . they shine immensely when working on their own ips and it's so fucking bleak how they're being turned into a bethesda work horse

[fakelawyerbug]

I've seen a bunch of "fandom etiquette" posts on my dash today and I'm going to say something that is maybe going to be unpopular but;

The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.

And I am not going to mince words here:

A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.

That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.

"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.

So much of "fandom etiquette" seems to be about insulating creatives from Feeling Bad and hostility to any kind of negative feedback is a pretty big contributor to why bigotry festers in these spaces.

[iridescentoracle]

#imo the potluck analogy applies- it would be rude to critique someone's icing technique at a potluck bc it wasn't as good as at the bakery #but if they had decorated their cupcakes w hate symbols it wouldn't be rude to tell them that's gross and gtfo #in fact it would be inappropriate to NOT say anything in that situation #or to complain that another guest who did point it out was 'ruining everyone's potluck' #and pointing out racism in fan works is 100% the second thing not the first! (via destructions-daughter)

[swamp-spirit]

There's also a tendency to conflate anyone who critiques general trends with bad faith randos. Like, there is fandom behavior that is 100% racist and should be talked about, but there are also trends of racist/sexist/ableist preferences.

If I say "I am uncomfortable with fandom's tendency to write trans men as feminine and submissive" I do not mean "I think every person who writes feminine submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I don't even mean "any cis-person who writes feminine or submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I mean "I would like writers to seriously think about why this is so common, why they write that, and if it fairly and genuinely engages with what it means to be a trans man, or if they just think it's hot when submissive people have vaginas and didn't want to write omegaverse of m/f".

Similarly, when people say "fandom is systemically less interested in black characters, less willing to give flat black characters rich fanon than flat white characters, and less interested in black characters in ships", the response is not to explain why you, personally, just happen to like popular white guy in that fanon. Your job is to look at yourself and ask if you tend to "just happen to be more interested" in the popular white guy across fandoms, be honest, and start unpacking that. Sometimes it's easier to love the flat character who's already getting 10,000 fics with headcanons and art and meta.

If somebody says "I wish there were more gluten free options at the potluck. I hate always showing up and not finding anything I can eat*", they are not asking you to throw your cake in the trash and weep. They do not want to hear your long speech about how actually this is your grandmother's recipe, and you've tried it with rice flour actually, but it just didn't work. You think about what you can do, and you listen to how they feel.

*The metaphor here not being that you can't read fic that isn't "good rep". The metaphor here is that it can be isolating to be in spaces where nobody is trying to make sure people like you are welcome.

[lavenderpanic]

sometimes i get sad about the fact that the fandom is so wrapped up in made-up drama with no basis in reality and discourse about fanon that there is almost NO conversation about the ACTUAL political parts of the pitt. so much criticism and no actual discussion of the pitt’s points about ice, about misdiagnosis of women and poc, about the fucked up insurance systems in the us, about deportations, about child abuse, about mental health, about suicide, about addiction, about federal funding cuts towards programs that benefit people of color, LIKE. you wanna talk about the pitt’s politics but instead of talking about ANY of that you wanna make shit up instead oh okay

[dickgraysonmyrobin]

the lack of reaction about readcomiconline's death is the true indicator of how many people just do not read comics but participate in the comics fandom

[dickgraysonmyrobin]

who let this guy in here

[21anon12]

You know what? I'm gonna take this as an opportunity to ramble about piracy.

"Piracy is bad, yada yada."

Alright. We can agree on that.

But—and I'm sorry if this comes across as offensive—that position often comes from a place of privilege.

And not just economic privilege.

I live in a country where American comics are not always easy to find, and in many cases they're never translated or published at all.

Just to be clear, I'm not talking about some mythical "third-world country". I'm talking about a perfectly ordinary European country where the comics I like simply aren't considered profitable enough to distribute.

I remember digging through obscure websites back in 2006 just to get a glimpse of The New Teen Titans. It was a nightmare, but somehow I managed to read the whole thing anyway.

It took me seven years to get a legally published copy of Blackest Night: Titans. SEVEN. Thank God for piracy, because it gave me immediate access. Otherwise I would have been the only idiot trying to discuss Black Lanterns in 2016.

Why? Because Titans comics are considered niche here. Shops don't stock them. Publishers often don't translate them. And when they do, sometimes the translation is... let's politely call it "creative". (I'm still trying to recover from the translated version of Last Will and Testaments...) You wait years, pay more, and occasionally get a worse product. Wonderful.

The only reason Blackest Night: Titans was eventually published here, as far as I can tell, is that Blackest Night was such a massive crossover event that leaving out an entire tie-in would have created a noticeable hole in the collection.

And don't even get me started on the Wolfman/Pérez era. That only became legally accessible here in the 2010s.

So yes, this might come as a shock to some people, but piracy is not always about being cheap.

Sometimes it's about access—because access is not distributed equally.

If a comic is unavailable in your language, unavailable in your country, unavailable digitally, unavailable physically, and unavailable second-hand at anything resembling a reasonable price, then "just buy it" stops being a solution and starts being nothing more than a slogan.

And for many international readers, piracy is the reason they became comic fans in the first place.

Peace out and read comics.

If you can, buy them, too.

[imsorrybruce]

I will even go so far as to say that no, piracy is not, in fact, a bad thing. Lets consider who uses it:

1) people who are not financially capable of buying a piece of media. They wouldn't be paying anyway (though often times, when these people get financially stable enough to afford it they will buy the pieces of media that they pirated before and liked)

2) people who do not have access to the media due to living in a region where that media is not distributed. Think people in Europe who do not have any comics shops nearby, people in countries like Russia with heavy censorship of queer media. These people wouldn't be paying anyway

3) people who are after media that is no longer destributed, think games by companies that since stopped existing, tv shows that were deemed unpopular and canceled, obscure cartoons. These people wouldn't be paying anyway

4) people who are always trying to get something without paying/paying as little as possible. Chances are, they wouldn't be paying anyway

5) people who want to check out the media before deciding if they want to spend the money on it or not. They most likely will not pay for the media if they can't find a free sample

So what do we see? Most people who do this would not be paying anyway. Companies are not losing consumers to piracy, because most of the pirates weren't people who would be able to buy their product to begin with, or wouldn't be interested in buying it.

Moreover, piracy helps save media. There are countless shows and games and movies that would be lost media if not for piracy. For example, one of my favorite games since childhood: Paraworld. It came out in 2006. The dev company stopped existing in 2014. It's not on Steam, or other such platforms. You can only buy it second-hand, on disks, and there aren't lots of offers. The only reason I still have access to it, is piracy.

So yeah, piracy is not bad. It helps us preserve media and avoid censorship. Everyone say thank you to piracy

[whatsupspaceman]

“most of the original animation team reunited for this 10 year special” oh i’m sure. (<-coping)

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[rummigumi]

Can more Batfam and Batkid fans actually, like, realize that there's more to racism than overt racism? Ignoring the ways stereotypes and 'I don't see color' language can perpetrate racism and 'we're just having fun, it's not that serious' is veiled 'the Woke are ruining our fun and jokes' allows racism to fester and fandom to feel unsafe for fans of color

[sweeetestcurse]

Scenery in Dragon Age: The Veilguard 21/??

[writingdose]

genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using ai because of witch hunt and proper grammar/structure in their works must be what being a woman in the 1600s who is wrongly accused of being a witch because she can read and is intelligent feels like

[sardonyxlestrange]

Some last minute birthday pictures. I’m soo not used to being in front of a legitimate camera lol, I’ve gotten used to phone cameras.

I hope the nervous awkwardness isn’t apparent in my face😬

[deltaomicronfive]

Most people on this website are literally this image

[2mercia2furious]

u.s. folks: your digital life is about to be radically altered if these laws are enacted.

platforms and tech companies have been taking significant steps over the past few years to comply in advance.

one thing is clear: OS-level verification and app-level autosurveillance capabilities that use facial scanning and deep metadata analysis are fundamentally incompatible with a free internet.

make your calls and emails as soon as possible.

Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package includes a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, combined with a collection of other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Instead of debating any of these proposals on their merits, lawmakers are attempting to move them all at once under an ultra-expedited process. 

The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online

Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation p