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"Chorrol"

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Art/design by R Todd Broadwater and Matt Carofano

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avaris doodles... alivestyle n vampstyle. guys when they refuse to feed for decades: why do i feel like shit

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That viral video from last month of a giraffe pushing a tortoise was interesting to me because I saw it on French & Spanish corners of the internet and everyone was referring to the animals in the video as 'she' since giraffe & tortoise are feminine words, meanwhile on the English-speaking internet I saw a minority of people referring to them as 'it' or 'they', an overwhelming majority using masculine words, and almost no one use 'she'

Similarly romance language speakers humanised these animals using women's names while English speakers used men's names:

And of course it would have been different had the giraffe been an elephant (masculine word) but yeah I find it interesting that when it comes to personifying animals and things, speakers of gendered languages will go 50% masculine 50% feminine due to grammatical gender, while speakers of a non-gendered language with a neutral pronoun will go like 80% masculine 18% neutral 2% feminine.

It must feel weird to learn a gendered language and have to accept that a door is 'she', but it also feels weird to learn a non-gendered language like English and then scroll down hundreds of comments under an animal video and all the animals are 'he'. I'm reminded of a cartoon I saw on tumblr once with a speaking lightbulb, and all the comments referred to it as 'he' and a 'guy' (in french & spanish, people would call it she.) I wonder how it affects the way you frame the world in your mind? you ask a French kid to personify a spoon or a mouse or a raindrop, it's going to be a female character by default. I feel like that's something English speakers rarely consider—that compared to languages that are 'visibly', officially gendered in a 50/50 way, English is less neutral, and more masculine-gendered. When anglophones learn about grammatical gender they tend to react like "why is a chair a 'she' that's absurd?", but when the context calls for it they'll call a lightbulb 'he' without thinking about it

#:O very interesting

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yeah “i can teach you” is kind and gentle and warm and comforting. it’s also hot. right

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Sketch of my altmer templar on ESO.

His name is Olanaro and he is a good boy :D

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THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM - Kagrenzel

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she's the queen

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Dremora-markynaz from Firefiends Clan

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a couple of elder scrolls oblivion wrtfke webb and the other two are the same age and i think the game is a bit more complex than v b

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i picked up skyrim again and im going to dinner at a place called 'bloodchill cavarn' haha what nice people to invite a complete stranger :)

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everyone hate my loquacious swag. its always "why did you make this sentence so long" and "why do you use so many commas and em dashes" and never "how did you come up with run on sentence" or "writing that run on sentence looked fun"

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Sorry to bring this up but I wish a certain writer at Bethesda would retire from the company or at least stop pointlessly trying to create terrible new lore via social media that retroactively ruins characters

#I'm working with someone like that please send help

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I like mushrooms…

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my tes ocs, parents of the nerevarine. i love them sm

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High Elves and Imperials: Fund extremely expensive space programs that they ultimately have to abandon.

Khajiit: Just move the moons and walk to them.