You're Really Not Beating The Orientalist Allegations. Tell Me Some More About How Backwards And Repressive

I believe that Kirkbride’s original idea for the Bosmer (as he outlined in the concept art you’re referencing (no, I don’t know why it’s a nexus link, that’s the only place I could find the version with his notes))

https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/110/images/105701/105701-1606858796-124772823.png

was the male and female bosmer represented two different sides of our fairy myths. The women are the ethereally beautiful, good (or at least noble), fae (descended from the gods of Celtic myth); Titania, the Tuatha de Danann, the Leannán Sídhe (Tolkien’s elves also are a deliberate reference to these fae) - while the men are the little, sometimes evil, or at least trickster, fairies that we find more in medieval stories; Puck, the Fomorians, coblynau, pixies, boggarts, kobolds, etc.

to put it another way: the women are goddesscore and the men are rodentpilled

Also, for what it’s worth, Kirkbride wrote that the men have “lost their power of glamour”, so it could be that women are also ugly, they just use magic to conceal their appearance. Which is also very fae.

You know what bugs me? Bosmer males. Look, idk how ESO does things, but from Morrowind to Oblivion they seem to be the butt of a joke that just says, aren't short men with squeaky voices funny and juvenile and stupid and ripe for mockery? (Fargoth, Gaenir, Glarthir, The Adoring Fan. I don't remember any Bosmer in Skyrim, but then I haven't played Skyrim since like 2015.) Plus there's that old lore about how the Bosmeri women are hot and the men are not, and frankly, fuck that. Where the short king Bosmer at? (Please share any cool Bosmeri male OCs with me.)

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Bedtime || Thank you @nimeowna for the prompt !!

i never draw animals but this is actually super cute (this was for and courtesy to my bestie @culpeppercheckers721)

behold. nick carraway as a pigeon.

> be me

> Markarth guard

> kissing my husband in the middle of our shift

> stranger walks up

> husbands head snaps to them

> “I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow to the knee”

> stranger walks away without speaking

Ummm am I interrupting something...?

I found this screenshot I took a while ago and i had to do something about it

sworn by oath, Indoril endures, despise everyone hating us apparently…

thank you to anonymous for the suggestion! please note hlaalu, mora, dagoth, sotha, and dwemer were not included due to no longer holding the position.

awesome trans woman 😃😃😃

religious 😔😔

Fucking wild to be teaching about Rosa Parks at the same time as a trans woman in Florida does an act of civil disobedience to use a women's restroom in the state capitol

“Your ship is bad and evil and you’re illiterate and my ship is perfect and good.”

I swear this shit is so goofy. actual five year old “my dad could beat up your dad” behaviour

can we talk about how lottienats disregard travnat/ mistynat/travis/misty as characters for their ship? they're insanely important to nat. and disregarding them means disregarding nat's development, drives, and ideals. they literally changed nat's perspective and character. like do you even care about lottienat as characters? and the whole 'i hate men so i'll ignore him and misty's a freak so i'll ignore her' like way to strip natalie of possibly the narratively two most important people to her

and i fear lottienats have a super surface level understanding be another thing is like. whether you like travnat/travis or not he's important for her characters development and drive for her entire life. there's a reason why travis haunts her story, whether you like him or not you gotta understand why he's fundamental for her character

not a fan of this guy personally. he looked better in Morrowind. something about the legs.

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3D render for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Kevin Yan

why is this so real.

fuck autism pity because why does thinking abt the futurama singing mothers day card make me cry

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