#testalk

[tes-trash-blog]

So Gelebor has belief there are other Snow Elf groups in hiding if not Skyrim, then other areas of Tamriel. Part of me is hopeful this is true because I would love for that to be a possibility but what is your opinion on this? I love your Snow Elf/Falmer lord btw <3

I've touched on this a bit in a previous writing (x) and I know other users have as well but I can't quite find those posts right now.

BUT! Yes, I am of the persuasion that non-corrupt Falmer survive in small groups as late as the 4th Era. On a meta level, I guess you can say it's so then people can make as many Snowy Folks as they want to without worry of breaking canon or Tumblr user tes-trash-blog's idea of canon. Even if (for some reason) someone's deferring to my scribbled notes, there's plenty of wiggle room for why a group of Falmer wouldn't even be in Skyrim during the genocide: "We were beseeching the Maormer for aid", "We were expelled for Daedra worship thousands of years ago and now we roam as nomads", "We jumped into a Phynastic weaving and have been chilling in there for the past 4,000 years", "We chanted the Holysong so precisely we literally sang ourselves into the future", "We escaped to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: SPAAACE"

The list goes on, and is open for anyone else to contribute to. This is a universe where alien trees wage war against nth-dimensional Vaguely-Dragon-Shapes using math and you can turn into a baby by walking backwards.

Still speaking in the meta, in my opinion, the way canon treats the extinction of the Snow Elves, which is to say "justified and good until the Dwarves corrupted them that part is sad :(" is bad writing at best and shouldn't be taken at face value.

As far as the established canon, (and this is a painful opinion, even for me) I hope the Elder Scrolls series never touches another living Snow Elf, and remain effectively extinct in-game. The writers already did them dirty, and it would take a level of finesse that Emil Pagliarulo simply does not have to rectify it.

In short: Fanfic? YES! In-game? Maybe if they got better writers i would be happy to throw my language notes at them and have done so before, but at present, Gelebor's enough thanks.

[myrcella]

'#RAAAAAA PEOPLE HATE ALMALEXIA SO MUCH DESPITE THE FACT SOTHA SIL AND VIVEC ARE JUST AS ENTWINED IN NEREVAR'S FOUL MURDER AS SHE IS' BUT NOW SHE FUCKING SAID IT ALL!!!!!! BUT NOW IT HAS BEEN SAID!!!!!

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT PISSE SME THE FUCCK OFF that post made me remember how many threads there are about almalexia “lel she’s a bitch for what she did to nerevar” and then any vivec thread is like “wow king” and sotha sil gets excused constantly because he’s Actually Guilty thousands of years later. (and i stan sotha sil, you know)

i love all of the tribunal, but they were ~all implicit~ just say you hate women and go x

like please read this thread?

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/3m0dwy/i_have_heard_that_almalexia_was_the_most_evil_or/

all of it is worded in such a way that makes me want to go feral. people have implanted the thought in fandom consciousness that almalexia is the worst of them all. what the fuck

[clannfearrunt]

I'm doing the skooma cat quest in Elsweyr right now and I. There is a Dark Seducer being terrorized by a deer. Just absolutely cowering in fear while a fucking deer circles him. I'd love to help the poor dude but both the deer and Seducer are hostile and I don't want to fight the Seducer

[tes-trash-blog]

But like. As for the Skyrim civil war, reasons not to join the stormcloaks would be that they're a white fascist's wet dream and the nords have oppressed and are oppressing other races as well. But then again, the imperials are roman empire fanboys' wet dream and have been literally subjugating other races to their rule since the beginning of the series. I don't really have a point TES is actually just a racism pie in which the crust is racism and the filling is also racism

Skyrim is fascinating to me because it goes out of the way to paint the paramilitary white supremacists as “the good guys”. I have a Whole Other Essay that goes more in depth about the very specific time when Skyrim was developed and how it kinda reflected the upheaval going on the US, and another half-baked one in my head about Bethesda’s usage of the Roman Empire motif in its games (The Empire in TES is.. well, it’s no Caesar’s Legion!)

But I’m also not sure what else we can expect from a series where the writers are.. well, not exactly diverse in physical description or interests. I’d love to ask any TES writer what their favorite books and history subjects are, and see how many of them don’t mention a bestselling fantasy series or some kind of global conflict.

[myrcella]

the nerevarine having wet dreams about dagoth ur all the time is canon thanks todd

[myrcella]

i love the elder scrolls because absolutely bonkers batshit twatting crazy stuff happens every day and the citizens of tamriel just tolerate it. oh did you hear last week? our village was manipulated by sheogorath and everyone tried to kill then eat each other, yeah it was banter tbh x

[myrcella]

dwemer ruins names are the funniest shit in tes. Nerevarine, please go to the ruins of Nchuahaalalradkakdyanahwhdqttahh and retrieve the Ularrnhanhtouyajjfkghh Sphere for me, you can’t miss it, it’s just across from the Monument of Nhuhchahfnelfhoaaajenrn not to be confused with Nchuahaalalraduufnhjkhaqe

[myrcella]

the elder scrolls for your fandom post ☺️

thank uuu dzeni ♥

The first character I first fell in love with: martin septim, goodnight sweet emperor princeThe character I never expected to love as much as I do now: DAGOTH URRRRR after learning his lore properly. he’s so tragical and this is actually better than the beatles’ entire discography:

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: cicero?The character I love that everyone else hates: fandom hates almalexia because she’s a ~crazy woman~ feels like, so i am compelled to love her x100000. mather morrowind, ayem <3The character I used to love but don’t any longer: -The character I would totally smooch: everyone knows you and i are already sotha sil’s sugar babies.................and who can top the clockwork city...The character I’d want to be like: bro i want to be fucking sheogorath aside from the turning into jyggalag situation every era. cheeeeeeeeessssseeeeeeThe character I’d slap: delphine. no bitch, i will not fucking kill paarthurax, i will never, get ur stank pussy out of here xA pairing that I love: i love almalexia x vivec omg there’s like 0 content for morrowind in general tho so this is like a needle in the haystack fic-wise or anything 3A pairing that I despise: ulfric x being alive :’)