hainab stole my pants!

Early 30s | Queer | he/him | I do art and write sometimes. I love ESO & Ithelia

[yansurnummu]

oh shit I guess we're doing pinned posts now

hi I'm Rory/Yans and I don't know what video games are

AO3 // Pillowfort (18+)

Gardening & woodworking sideblog: @garryoakenthusiast

Discord: yansurnummu

ESO: Yansurnummu (PC-NA/Xbox)

I mostly post about Elder Scrolls with a focus on ESO but sometimes throw in other stuff for flavour. This usually includes Critical Role, Baldur's Gate, Destiny, cool art I like, and probably others once in a while. I occasionally post nsfw art & fic that will be tagged #yans after dark.

Tags:

my art

my writing

my smutty art & writing tag

music recs

Fic Archive:

ESO:

To the Horrors I've Known and Loved (2023 - Ongoing)

Like Winter (2022 - Ongoing)

A Variation of the Truth (Completed; 2022)

Oblivion:

The Blood of the Coven (Completed; 2016)

Destiny 2:

Destiny Oneshots Collection (2018 - 2021)

My ESO OCs:

Dralvayn "Drals" Arano (he/him)

Dunmer // Arcanist

My cranky old wizard. To the Horrors I've Known and Loved is his story, where he gets put through the horrors and learns the power of friendship.

He's gay/demisexual but he doesn't discover that until partway through the fic, and even then he has a ways to go before he allows himself nice things. He becomes hopelessly in love with Azandar, and later on has a bit of a thing with Zerith-var. He starts out kind of an asshole but he will get better. Probably. He's my little chew toy :)

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Asha-ammu Kaushad (they/them)

Dunmer (Ashlander) // Nightblade // Vampire

Asha is my precious little princess who I would die for. Like Winter is sort of a character study, following the progression of their relationship with Donobhan, and told from his point of view.

They're nonbinary & transfem, and very shy and a little awkward. They love fungi & dwemer architecture.

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Donobhan Ravenfriend (he/him)

Reachman // Warden

Don is my sweet boy. He was originally of the Spiritblood clan but left when he couldn't go through with the Vateshran's Rites. He loves nature and has a lot of wisdom about the ways of the world & life & death but is also kind of an orange cat and sometimes his head is empty. His best friend is his guardian wolf, Calahan.

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Sadryn Favel (he/him?)

Dunmer // Warden // Werewolf

Sadryn is a hot bisexual mess whose favourite pastime is being a public nuisance. He's like 22 and will never die. He has a twin sister, Serysi, who belongs to @tilliphont. She's a grumpy butch and the two of them would die for each other but will probably kill each other first before that happens. The two of them were born to a Telvanni family that expected a lot from them and they ran away from that bad situation at some point. They also have a pet bear named Sujamma.

If he stopped for longer than 2 seconds to look inwards he would probably have a weird gender but alas he is going 5000mph and has a substance abuse problem so we may never know. He's got a big ol crush on Ember but she thinks he's stinky.

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Auredil (he/him)

Altmer // Templar // Vestige

Auredil is my canon Vestige and gay disaster. A Variation of the Truth is sort of a tragedy that alternates between his point of view (past) and Lindir's point of view (present). Auredil was once a captain in Queen Ayrenn's navy (First Auridon Marines) where he fell in love with Prince Naemon and he and Kinlady Estre became good friends. After the events of Auridon, Naemon shuts Auredil out which drives him to make a pact with Meridia while in a bad mental state, thus being granted his Templar abilities and the rest of the main quest being set in motion.

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Lilanwe (she/her)

Altmer // Necromancer

Lily is trans & bisexual and could be a villain if she was just like 12% more evil. But instead she chose to be niceys and is just kind of a little morally dubious sometimes.

She was once a promising mage and scholar who, after her brother Auredil's disappearance, fell in with the wrong crowd and turned to necromancy and the Worm Cult. They meet again on opposite sides of the conflict, and Auredil convinces her to leave the cult behind and help him fix everything. She has a penchant for being headstrong and righteous, and after the Planemeld and Auredil's (supposed) death, she goes on a revenge quest to eradicate the remains of the Worm Cult. As a treat.

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Coralantar (he/they)

Maormer // Sorcerer

Coral was a powerful storm witch who joined up with the Sea Vipers when he was young and wanted to get away from Pyandonea, but quickly recognised the atrocities the raiders were committing. After meeting Auredil in Khenarthi's Roost, he turns on the Vipers from the shadows and eventually works with the Eyes of the Queen as a spy. The Desert is a Memory of the Ocean is sort of an unfinished sequel/spinoff of Auredil's fic, in which Coralantar and @tilliphont's Galen find themselves lost in Elsweyr in the aftermath of defeating Molag Bal and have to work together to piece together what happened.

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[yansurnummu]

it's so funny to me that the paralives town is supposed to be based in canada like. yeah I can tell

[yansurnummu]

here's paralives drals. she has -1$ and sleeps on the beach and eats poisonous mushrooms

[yansurnummu]

happy pride, those old wizards are trans!!

[randumbkatt]

went to the dentist today, they told me im gonna die in 3 hours

[yansurnummu]

okayyy fine I'm gonna try paralives

[tanlorin]

Chibi comms by @xanthouransong!!

[intyaliel]

WIP Wednesday

Some more Baurus and Arri shenanigans in the Imperial City before chapter 8 is cleaned up and ready to post (hopefully this weekend)!

gently tagging @illumiera @pinessydr @labskeever @chiqita @elavoria @sulphuricgrin @silly-little-diary @hircines-hunter and @yansurnummu

As always, please let me know if you don't want to be tagged by me!

“Baurus? Some help over here?” Arri called but a moment later, though she kept her voice down so the patrons upstairs would not come running. This here would be a nuisance to explain to Luther already, who would then have to alert the city guard once Baurus and Arri were in the clear. Enough of a mess as it was, Baurus supposed, without any additional witnesses. Not that the agent had left them with much of a choice. Leaving his hiding spot, he walked over to the Imperial, who was doing her best to not get blood on her borrowed clothes, looking around for some fabric to wipe her dagger on and eventually settling on the agent’s trousers. Baurus still didn’t know where she’d hidden that blade, and decided he didn’t want to know anyway; best not to ask her about it. “How did I hear him, but not you?” he wondered instead, because he was certain he had only heard one person coming down the stairs instead of two, and while he was not interested in finding out where she’d learned certain things, he did have an interest in how they were done. He was sure that this information would be of help to him in the future, and it was a lesson learned – his ears could betray him at any time. “I move very quietly,” Arri shrugged, and the Blade raised an eyebrow at her, which was only met with a groan. “Fine. I matched my steps to his, copied his movements as far as I was able, drew my dagger at the same time he did his. And it helped that he wasn’t exactly an experienced assassin. One of those would have noticed me right away, would’ve known to look in the shadows.” She nodded at the would-be murderer’s blade now lying uselessly on the floor. “Biggest part is still moving quietly, and reading the other person’s movements, though. Not something you Blades are trained in, huh?” “Not as such, no,” Baurus admitted. “The latter part, yes, that is something every fighter needs. The former, not as much. Some of us are, when there is a need for us to work undercover. I was … not meant for it. But desperate times call for desperate measures, right?” “Fair. Just do me a favor and try not to apply what I tell you when you’re back in your clunky armor. Anyway, Breton bookworm here’s not going to tail anyone ever again.” “He wasn’t much better at espionage than me, after all,” Baurus said, “or I would likely not have noticed him as quickly. But if I see a man sitting in a corner for three nights in a row, pretending to read a book but barely even turning any pages, even I get my suspicions.” “Must’ve been one of their low-level men,” Arri sighed. “Bit worrying how he was so ready to murder someone when he’s just a nobody. Have you learned anything of note while you’ve been here? You’ve not left the city, I take it?” Baurus shook his head. “No. The assassins who killed the Emperor were part of a Daedric cult called the Mythic Dawn. Apparently worship Mehrunes Dagon, but something tells me you already knew.” “Hard not to, given your future Emperor made me run halfway across the Deadlands to close the gate the cult set up in Kvatch before he saw fit to let me drag his royal behind back to Jauffre. There’s only so much lava and brimstone you can walk past before you take a hint.”

[enchantedbook]

"Cat Fancy" by Edward Gorey

[yansurnummu]

also shoutout to krita for being the first program with a pencil-textured brush I actually find tolerable to use

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[yansurnummu]

happy pride, those old wizards are trans!!

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[knightstellar]

It was dead quiet all around, and the only thing I could hear was the drum of my racing heart, echoing through every part of my body. Through the night and above the dwindling canopies of the pines, I saw through their gaps a vibrant green comet fleeting North— illuminating my path ahead like a miracle flare.Guiding me out of my grave, this comet called to me. It said “We are not finished yet. Seek your fate, for it lies with me.”

Ohh my god bruh they can’t go ANYWHERE without each other !!!

Notoriously awesome and fashionable butch Cephele successfully enters the @tes-gala and it just so happens she brought her daedric wife with her

This Hermaeus Mora design is made by @mjrdm !!! Follow her!!!!!

So let’s break it down,

Cephele/THE LORD: I did immediately know what direction I wanted to go in with Cephele. Being a butch lesbian, I felt that a sign with masculine connotation was appropriate to give her— doubly so given that it’s also her birthsign. Specifically, I needed to take this in a direction that highlighted her heroic, almost legendary kingly presence. Deciding to include a simple crown and sheathed sword was a dead giveaway, and the armour came later— much to the dismay of my patience, energy, and wrists. I kept the earthy green palette I normally draw her in, I don’t think I could make her work in much else. The really fun details were incorporating septims into her jewellery and dragon language into her scabbard. Both were chosen to represent that old, old lineage of great power and regal nature. In fact, if you know your dragon language, you’ll notice that when read vertically, the letters spell out “Fin Drog” which straight up translates to “The Lord”. The mapping of the constellation itself is also the hilt of her sword.

Hermaeus Mora/THE RITUAL: This was much tougher to approach. While my back and my legs and my hands were screaming out in agony halfway through tackling this, I knew I definitely wanted to draw Hermaeus alongside Cephele. Because what’s the point of drawing your LDB as the lord if you don’t draw HER lord to go with her, right? Originally I did want to stick to a blue/indigo and gold palette only, but it felt far too weird to stray from the dark inky black and greens, so I opted to keep them relevant somehow. Plus, I was not confident at all that I could pull off eliminating their usual colours entirely. The sign itself was a bit of a puzzle too. I thought at first that perhaps the lover or the lady sign would be a good pick to match Cephele, but after properly researching each signs relevance and attributes, the ritual was a clear winner. Some small clues are left in their jewellery. Earrings of Masser and Secunda to reflect how abilities of the ritual are said to be affected by the aspects of the celestial bodies, and seven green gems present in both their necklace and their hair to represent the seven green beads used in Breton Druidic practices. The importance of different celestial bodies in the rituals impact is also why all constellations are present on Mora. Finally, another easy addition was using the Aurbic eye-esque shape of the ritual sign as the monocle.

[entryn17]

drawing is all sbout becoming good at illustrating one character at 3/4 angle and nothing else no backgrounds no props no furniture no money no job no future

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[gunsandfireandshit]

COME THE FUCK ON!

[ggghoulish]

another teeny tiny water color 🌜🌞