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Art for the Elder Scrolls Displate merchandise

*Artist Unknown* If anyone knows the artist, comment below!

#nice art #the Elder Scrolls

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I've started a little "head cannon collection" on my website. A lot of these will only have been seen scattered around on my blog before, so if you were distraught because you'd lost track of Sakuya's balancing-knives-on-Meiling's-nose record, now you know where to find them.

#headcanons #project news

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~Some Vampire Survivors Headcanons: Expansion Pack Edition~

Menya Moonspell is keen on Glamorous Lady Activities such as playing the erhu, dancing (although she's been finding it harder in her old age), wearing make-up, and flirting or being smug while fluttering a fan. Miang is somewhat embarrassed and somewhat in awe of her.

Babi-Onna often comes around to have tea with Menya and laugh about current events behind fancy embroidered fans. They keep buying new fans and finding excuses to show them off to each other. It's fandemonium.

Syuuto is Menya's granddaughter and a distant cousin of Miang. The black sheep of the Moonspell dynasty, he was exiled long ago for putting his feet on the sofa.

Menya feared the worst when Syuuto was seen hanging around with a teenage girl, but it turned out he was teaching her archery. He's actually a very caring older-brother figure when you get to know him, and wouldn't dream of doing anything inappropriate, aside from putting his feet on the furniture.

Miang has an impressive appetite, and once ate a whole Sammy the Caterpillar. The only things bigger than her appetite are her ponytail and her fighting spirit. Miang can make a big deal out of anything, including tying her shoelaces or making dinner.

"Shut your eight mouths, Orochimario! Do you think I don't know that there's pain in this world?! I've felt the pain of a hundred defeats, but I've grown stronger, and I won't be defeated by a jar of kimchi! Grandmother, Cousin Syuuto, even you... You're all depending on me to make something delicious for dinner! For that reason, until the day I twist open this stupid lid... Or the day I perish... I... I will never give up!!! AAAAAARGH!!!!!" --Miang Moonspell, shortly before Menya threw a pepper mill at her and phoned for a pizza

Orochimario glued the jar of kimchi closed as a practical joke. He also has a brother called Orochiryuiji who is much nicer.

Eleanor Uziron is curious about everything and can't bear to leave a stone unturned. Since she was a small child, she loved going for walks in the forest, peering under mushrooms and admiring the snails, and not much has changed. One of her lifelong dreams is to dissect a dragon and find out where the fire is stored.

Maruto Cuts is a cheerful, boisterous chap for whom life is one grand adventure. He has been known, without really thinking about it, to tuck Keitha and Eleanor under his arms and just drag them off to a newfound dungeon, or anime convention, or football match. Eleanor is usually happy enough. Keitha, not so much. One of Maruto's lifelong dreams is to tame a dragon and ride it.

Keitha Muort sleeps on a mattress full of €100 notes. Her hobbies are haggling with shopkeepers, loosing poisoned arrows from the shadows, having one-night stands with elves and lying to the guards, both in real life and in Skyrim. One of her lifelong dreams is to sell a dragon to Eleanor or Maruto, depending on how alive the poor creature is at the time.

Rottin'ghoul moved out of Abyss Foscari because one of the Fomorians kept eating her packed lunches.

#Vampire Survivors #headcanons

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heather’s thoughts are my favorite part of this game

#Silent Hill #nice art #Heather Mason

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“Salvage” created for Critical Chips 2, published/edited by Zainab Akhtar~

#nice comics

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#important stuff

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I was captivated by the idea that Spot was originally Tasha's cat (because we know she had an orange cat in the past, and we don't know where Spot came from so it's a logical conclusion), so I drew this. But I put Tasha in the newer uniform to imply that she doesn't die because canon is what I make of it and in MY mind Data, Tasha, and Spot get to live long lives full of joy and whimsy.

#Star Trek #nice art #Tasha Yar #Data the Android #Spot the Cat

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#Star Trek #nice art #Tasha Yar #Data the Android

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happy cirno day!

i hope you have an ice day!

#Touhou #nice art #Cirno #in socks

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i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

#useful things

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Some Vampire Survivors' characters!

#Vampire Survivors #nice art #Christine Davain #Poppea Peccorina #Giovanna Grana #Gatti Amari

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My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.

#important stuff #it's that time of the afternoon when I reblog stuff about tolerance and the plural society from turbobyakuren

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“I’m ok with X topic being written abt as long as the narrative doesn’t condone it” u need 2 b spoonfed the conclusion that bad stuff is bad? u can’t come 2 it on ur own? are u serious.

#important stuff

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

#important stuff

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~Some Vampire Survivors Headcanons~

The coffin ladies (Pugnala Provola, Giovanna Grana, Concetta Caciotta and Poppea Peccorina) always use each other's full names.

Arca and Porta Ladonna have plenty of loud, melodramatic arguments about ethics, philosophy, and whether Fallout: New Vegas really is the best one. (It probably is, but holding it so zealously on a pedestal doesn't help any- all right, never mind.) Lama tries to be a peacemaker between her siblings, but has sadly got in the habit of pleading "both sides" all the bloody time.

As well as being a religious father, Dommario is the dad-igious father of Antonio, Imelda, Gennaro and Pasqualina. They don't know it, though. Back when they were young, Dommario had the bright idea of sacrificing Imelda to the queen of the vampires. Zi'Assunta kicked him unforgettably hard in the nads and took their children far away.

Dommario is ashamed of his past, and the things he did back when he had faith in the Most Holy Order. He hopes Sister Clerici never finds out.

Thanks to his knife-related skills, Gennaro Belpaese is quite a good chef. He isn't so good with spoons, though, which means Pasqualina does the better soup.

Pugnala Provola has quite a prim-sounding British accent. Apart from that, she's an unstoppable bundle of energy who loves to explore and fight and climb trees and wrestle and eat tiramisu. Her second-favourite guitarist is Hermann Li. Her favourite guitarist is Concetta Caciotta.

Poe Ratcho is a law unto himself. He just comes and goes wherever and whenever he feels like it, sometimes inviting himself round for dinner, sometimes wandering into sites of ancient evil and turning them into sites of contemporary garlic.

Giovanna Grana would like people to think she lives in a little cottage full of cats and mushrooms, but in actual fact her home is a council flat up in Verona. It's full of cats, and books, and a Nintendo Wii, and hundreds of board games which she'd love to play with her friends any time they fancy. Annnnny time. Please?

And mushrooms, because the cats can't be bothered to clean up while Giovanna travels for months at a time.

To get enough food for four hungry children, Zi'Assunta quickly developed a good eye for a bargain, and learned to be Utterly Shameless when asking for discounts. In fact, one of the main reasons she encouraged them to follow in her footsteps as a vampire hunter was the free chicken.

#Vampire Survivors #headcanons

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A wild Alfhild Battle-Born goes to work.

She didn't want to miss Brown Short-Sleeved Tunic Hoeing and Letter Delivery Time.

#the Elder Scrolls #Skyrim #fun with pixels #gaming

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The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

#important stuff