#word wall

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Word Wall

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Art by Adam Adamowicz

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Word wall to your mama.

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𝔸 𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕝 ℙ𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕖

a Skyrim journey, 76/?

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Happy 10th anniversary, Skyrim! Thank you for the hours upon hours of enjoyment you’ve given us. <3

I felt the view of the word wall in Bleak Falls was a fitting tribute, especially since I seem to take a screenshot of it every single time I go through there.

[please click to embiggen!]

[poor-boy-orpheus]

People are too hard on classic books. I feel like lately a lot of my friends, acquaintances, and just strangers online have been talking about how overrated classics are, how it’s just pretentious academic wanna’bes who read them to look smart, how they’re just white people opining about the difficulties of being rich and powerful, etc.

But like?? 

Idk man that’s not what I’m getting when I read them? 

Crime and Punishment is a psychological thriller where a man’s guilty conscience destroys him from the inside. 

Frankenstein is about what it means to be a human, generational trauma that goes back to the dawn of man, not fitting into society around you, and the dangers of trying to play god.

Moby-Dick is about how bitterness destroys who you are and how man trying to overpower nature will lose every time.

War and Peace is about grappling with a sense that nothing around you means anything and that we're all just entertaining ourselves to death to try and hide from the terrifying concept of being vulnerable to one another.

Jane Austen's entire canon is about challenging what it means to be a woman and how romance is treated by society.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is about hypocrisy in our laws, our churches, and our greater society as a whole.

The Iliad is an incredible story about what men treasure and what they'll do to protect it - but also what happens when they lose sight of what's important - and then the Odyssey follows that up with a story about heroes and how unheroic they can be.

I can go on for a long time but,,,I love classic literature? I know this particular list skewed male and white/european and it's just off the top of my head by like,,,,,,please don't give up on the classics just because they're older or dense or even just because they're not your thing. I promise you there are stories worth telling within them.

also I do want to include a caveat that I totally understand that not every book is for every one and that's okay! I didn't like Don Quixote at all and only read half of it, I think Jane Eyre is bizarre and The Great Gatsby has poor dialogue. I don't think you have to love everything or pretend to care for works that don't speak to you. But please! just don't give up on it wholesale just yet. These books are important and genuinely beautiful works.