Call me a blunt the way I should be passed around by a bunch of alternative women
addendum: I was just looking through Vivec’s dialogue again and they LITERALLY say
“In the past, the Tribunal made seasonal campaigns to Red Mountain. We slew Dagoth Ur and his kin, though the Heart always revived them in time. Later, when we realized we couldn't destroy them, we created the Ghostfence to contain the threat. These solutions were effective until Dagoth Ur ambushed us and captured Sunder and Keening. Since that time, our fortunes have waned as his increased”
so uh, all my theorizing was kind of for nothing. He literally says that they killed Dagoth Ur multiple times. Hope that helps!
Hey!! Your reply to my (dagoth ur propaganda) post interested me, i haven't seen in TES lore that Dagoth Ur would have returned many times (i tried searching for that info at one point, it would've been useful in a story i was writing at the time) so i'm curious if i overlooked some detail?? 👀👀
so most of that was “devout tribunal worshipper larp”
but there’s definitely evidence for OTHER members of House Dagoth returning after they were killed. If you manage to talk to Ascended Sleepers, you can ask them about “understand nothing” and they say:
“You think what you do has meaning? You slay me and I am dead? It is just dream and waking, over and over, one appearance after another, nothing real…”
which I’ve always taken to mean that you can kill them, but they are revived by the heart. we can also tie this to Lord Vivec’s dialogue when you ask him about “to be a god”. She replies:
“…It is a bit like being at once awake and asleep. Awake, I am here with you, thinking and talking. Asleep, I am very, very busy. Perhaps for other gods, the completely immortal ones, it is only like that being asleep. Out of time. Me, I exist at once inside of time and outside of it.
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It's nice never being dead, too. When I die in the world of time, then I'm completely asleep. I'm very much aware that all I have to do is choose to wake. And I'm alive again…”
So I take that to mean that those connected to the Heart of Lorkhan are functionally immortal, returning to life some time after their supposed death, just like the Ascended Sleeper said. The *dream* that the Sleeper mentions is death. *Waking* is being alive again. For what it’s worth, Vivec calls the followers of Dagoth Ur “heartwights,” meaning they definitely have some connection to the Heart, even if they aren’t on the same level as the Three.
There’s also Dagoth Ur’s famous line, “I’m a god! How can you kill a god?”, which comes right after you beat him in the outer chamber, then walk into the Heart Chamber and he’s right there again. I’ve always taken this as “we kill him in the outer chamber and then he revives inside.”
So I definitely think Dagoth Ur *could* come back to life, if killed. Did he? Probably. We know that the Three made yearly pilgrimages to the Heart to replenish their power. We also know that Vivec defeated Dagoth Ur at least once in open battle. I think it’s likely that the Three would have fought and beaten him at least a few times.
Закройте рот ты сука
Translation: “Shut your mouth you bitch”
I’d be careful if I were you, anon. Considering it’s illegal to acknowledge the existence of queer people in Russia, I’d recommend you get off the gay website immediately.
no I actually hate kids.
you don't "hate kids," you hate being forced into a caretaking role.
you don't "hate kids," you hate censorship passed off as family values.
you don't "hate kids," you hate the constrictiveness of the nuclear family.
you don't "hate kids," you're just not used to occupying fully age diverse spaces so you're not used to the noise or the many different kinds of needs.
you don't "hate kids," most public spaces just aren't built for kids, and so the few kids you see are always uncomfortable and distressed.
you don't "hate kids," you hate the intense social rules assigned to kids and anyone who interacts with kids.
You don't "hate kids," you hate how society reproduces its most restrictive elements and how kids are powerless to resist it.
little!jackie , cg!nat | part of my post-rescue nyc au that i still need to find a name for tw: panic attacks/ptsd flashbacks word count: 597 tag list: @faireyhouses @yjdrabbles123
The lock on the bedroom window breaks.
Jackie notices on a Friday afternoon when she can’t get it to close right. She spends fifteen minutes trying to slam it shut before giving up and telling Nat.
Nat says she’ll fix it on Sunday - her day off.
But then Nat gets called in to work on Sunday and forgets about it. And so does Jackie. She forgets until the summer air is replaced with an autumn breeze and the rain leaves a puddle on the floor. She forgets until she’s wiping up the moisture and in that moment, Jackie means to bring it up, she really does. But when she walks into the living room, Nat is learning chords on her new electric guitar (the one she saved up all summer to buy) and Jackie’s too entranced by the sight of her to ruin the moment.
So she forgets again.
She forgets until it’s three in the morning and it isn’t just an autumn breeze or spotty puddle. She forgets until she’s waking up to whistling wind entrapping her in its harsh embrace. The feeling of ice prickling into her skin and seeping into her pores with a daunting whisper in her ear, telling her not to worry - she’ll be warm soon.
Jackie’s arm flails frantically beside her - the motion repeated until new hands are placed on her forearm. Warm hands. Nat’s hands.
“Jackie.” Nat’s voice is soft yet cut with panic. “Jackie - it’s okay, you’re okay.”
But it isn’t okay and neither is she.
Because she can’t remember how to breathe and the ice rushing through her veins no longer feels like a memory. It’s the furthest from okay that Jackie’s been since that night (or maybe it isn’t. Maybe it isn’t by a long shot but does it even matter? It feels that way.) when Jackie was actually freezing to death.
She should have died then.
That was what all the doctors said; her survival was nothing short of a miracle.
Now, as Jackie gasps for the air she can’t quite catch - she has no doubt in her mind that they were correct. She can feel the walls around her closing in and the oxygen that should be in surplus supply growing thin. It feels like she really is dying. Like her heart could burst right out of her chest. Like—
“Jackie.”
Jackie turns to Nat, her eyes wide and frantic.
“Breathe with me, okay?”
Jackie nods. She lets Nat set a hand on her chest the way she always does when she has these… these episodes. She watches her take big dramatic breaths - counting the seconds on the inhales and exhales so Jackie will know exactly how to follow along. She watches until she must be doing it too because now, her lungs are expanding properly and her pounding heart no longer feels like it’s on the brink of exploding.
“I’m gonna shut the window, okay?” Nat says. “I’m gonna be right back.”
Jackie nods once more. But when Nat pulls away - she can’t help the whimper that escapes her. It’s panicked and shrill and-
Oh.
Nat’s sitting with her again. She’s wrapping another blanket around Jackie’s shoulders, telling her it’ll help with the shivering, and that the room should warm up soon.
Jackie isn’t sure if she believes her. She isn’t sure if she wants the warmth - not if it means what the lingering whispers implied. But she trusts Nat. She trusts her more than she’s ever known how to trust anyone.
“I’m right here,” Nat says. “And I’m not going anywhere. I promise.”
Happy two year anniversary to whatever the fuck this was
kitten
America killed 20-25% of North Koreans and destroyed 85% of their infrastructure, so how about you shut your mouth on how they should feel when the US is still performing military exercises on the land AMERICA is occupying
By “land America is occupying”, I assume you mean military bases. America does not occupy its bases. The states they’re on lease the land in exchange for military protection. It is a free transaction conducted between sovereign states. South Korea does, I assure you, want the Americans there.
North Korea brought their destruction upon themselves. It was entirely Kim Il-Sung’s idea to attack an ally of the foremost world power. Anyone would have told him it was a bad idea. But he fucked around and found out anyways.
I feel no remorse over the actions of my nation or those of the Americans in the Korean War. The destruction of fascism requires excessive force. No one complained when Britain bombed Dresden.
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this is like. demonstrably false. tribal hunter-gatherer societies objectively had more leisure time than civilized ones. when our ancestors settled in the Fertile Crescent, they didn’t do so because it was easier.
the promise of civilization is food security. farming is objectively more work - but it’s certain that you will get food at the end.
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tankie is like. exactly the wrong insult for a Robespierre fan.
Tankies were (originally) British communists who supported the Soviet Union, specifically, that state’s authoritarian measures to crush the Hungarian Revolution, but also authoritarian communists in general.
Robespierre and all the Jacobins were liberals. They were capitalists. They were Republicans (in the proper French sense, not the bastardized American understanding). Everything about the Soviet Union - a collectivized, autocratic, fascist state - was directly antithetical to everything the French Revolution believed in.
Learning about the French Revolution is hilarious as fuck, why are people idolizing Robespierre? Spoiler alert but he got his head cut off the same as everyone else, so not really seeing the vision.
(also holy shit King Louis the 16th was stupid as fuck, most incompetent man ever in a leadership role)
Montagnard, Liberal, Radical, transfem. Autocrats of all stripes are not welcome here, be you fascist, communist, or monarchist. Current obsessions:YellowjacketsYes MinisterTESThe French RevolutionPoetry
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