Except you’re not “just some guy”. Uriel Septim directly calls you - not Martin, you - a Hero.
“In your face I behold the sun’s companion” (or perhaps, the *son’s* companion).
“You are the one from my dreams.”
“The gods placed you here so that we may meet.”
“You are our only hope to stem the blood tide.”
“This burden is now yours alone. You hold our future in your hands.”
Uriel is explicit in the fact that you are the hero who will save Tamriel. The Nerevarine is less prophesied than this, and they have a whole prophesy named after them!
something fantastic about the opening of oblivion where the emperor asserts the hok's position within a prophecy and we assume its for us. we're the main character, of course, why wouldnt we be this legendary figure like the nerevarine was
and then jauffre immediately informs us upon meeting him that the emperor's son was hidden away at the moment of his birth. the implication that maybe two or three decades ago the emperor knew of the prophecy and acted decades ahead to ensure it's fulfilment through martin. and then you travel to kvatch, and its destroyed because of martin, who is the last of the dynasty, who dagon has been hunting all along. not you, but him, and then you realise that martin has always been the prophesied one, the legendary figure touched by the gods - and you were just the Guy in the cell afterall
Caesar was notably not corrupt, actually. His big thing was purging corruption from the Roman republic. You know who was corrupt? The Optimates - the old school conservative senators (like Brutus, Cassius, Decimus, Trebonius… all the big names in the conspiracy) who were perfectly happy getting rich off the system and were threatened by Caesar’s progressive policies.
get your history facts right, kids.
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I love Bernard he’s such a little dweeb. was watching the writing on the wall today and jim said something like “we’ve got it in the bag, this will really rock the boat” and you can just hear the RAGE in Bernard’s voice, like he’s gritting his teeth, when he says “you don’t put boats in bags”. adore this man.
could i request a boyre dino themed little nat moodboard?:3
Little!Nat Moodboard
This is heresy and I refuse to stand for it.
The tribunal did defeat Dagoth Ur. Many, many, times. The problem is that he always came back. He also was certainly not alone - he had the full force of the 6th House behind him.
The Three could have destroyed Dagoth Ur after the first time. The problem is that would have destroyed them too, because their power came from the exact same source. Because he couldn’t be killed, then, he grew in power and the Three grew weaker until they really couldn’t kill him.
Even when he captured Sunder and Keening, it was by ambush, not in open combat, and only against Ayem and Seht. When Vehk showed up, he drove Dagoth away and saved the other Tribunes.
Dagoth was not a genius or a god. He was a madman and a traitor who brute-forced a situation in which he held all the cards. Remember, only the Three are worthy of worship. The Sharmat is false. To follow the Devil of Dagoth means only death.
i've said it before and i'll say it again, do you ever think about how dagoth ur managed to hold the red mountain for hundreds & hundreds of years? it was 3vs1, talk about fake ass tribunal gods. or alternatively dagoth was so competent with his godhood and warfare that the tribunal just couldn't secure access to the heart no matter what even though they desperately needed to replenish their powers yearly. whichever it was, almsivi were so scared that all they could do effectively was to scribble booklets of how he's the satan. it's pretty clear who's actually worth the worship here tbh
how did jackie feel about zayn leaving one direction
Jackie would LOVE 1D: they're like...the ideal. Boys who EVERYONE agrees are Attractive (so its not weird for her to like them! It's in face a mark of how Normal she is!) and who lots of very cool, normal people are obsessed by! So it's not weird if she talks about them- it's not like when she's telling people about SF storylines or womens soccer, it's not boring or lame, it's Cool! And their songs are happy and bouncy and cheerful and she just Does Not Get why Van and Shauna make faces when she plays their songs over and over in the car. (Gen and Lottie also quite like 1D. Mel and Tai don't really have any strong opinions on them. Mari LOVES them too but doesnt want people to know how much because caring that much about a boyband is both not Cool and also she knows Shauna will tease her a LOT. Nat doesn't think boybands should be allowed- they are literally A Product that was created from a tv show ffs. They just perform whats written for them, dress as theyre told, make money off kids too young to know better. That goes against everything that music stands for. Like if they were an independent group that made the same music- meh not her taste but fine. But they're literally a PRODUCT, even THEY dont care about the music they make! *sees Jackie come into the room and shuts up immediately bc she knows jackie loves them and the only thing worse than corporate bullshit bands is spoiling something that someone loves so wholeheartedly. And no she absolutely wasn't absent mindedly humming/bobbing along to Story of my life when she was in the kitchen making dinner, stfu Van, stop laughing-)
All that to say, Jackie gets really upset when Zayn leaves because that's a Change. What if the band isnt cool anymore and people dont want to let her talk about them? What will she listen to now there wont be new songs? What if she forgets he's not a member and people laugh? What if- She basically gets kind of sad and mildly panicky over it but Nat knows its more about the change and the sadness that one of her safe socially accepted interests is now Different. It's ok, she gets over it- the other YJs treat Jackie, Gen and Mari to a night eating snacks and watching all their videos and stuff together and even Van and Shauna are sweet about it and that helps.
(Side note: Lottie likes the music but is, as with lots of things, not that bothered about little details like band lore or like knowing the band members names. When Jackie tells her Zayn is leaving, she asks who Zayn is and then shrugs and says maybe they'll just get a new guy who looks a bit like him to be Zayn, right? Like when your goldfish dies and your nanny gets you a new one that looks just like it so you don't cry because there's a Very Important Dinner Party and if you;re throwing a fit, it'll get ruined? Nat is like dying laughing inside as she patiently explains that like no, boyband members arent the same as goldfish. Why not? Well theyre not scaly, they dont swim.... No Lot, I dont know if the band members can swim. I guess they can. Anyway- (I love the idea that Lottie is just very much totally on her own plane of thought and reasoning. And she can keep going with her questions and theories for AGES and sometimes she genuionly believes it, sometimes shes messing with you a bit but only she ever knows which....)
Jim Hacker: You mean to tell me that when the chips are down, you’re on my side, not Humphrey’s?
Bernard Woolley: Minister, it’s my job to see that the chips stay up.
This is revisionist history. Communism destroyed itself. Stalin did not need outside help to murder seven million people for the crime of wanting freedom from the Russian boot.
love when tumblr leftists are so desperate to lick autocrat’s boots that they just. outright lie. saw someone today claiming that homosexuality was never illegal in either the USSR or the DDR (that statement is demonstrably false, if you didn’t know)
it makes my job as an evil liberal painting socialists as insane freedom-hating authoritarians so simple. getting my CIA paycheck will be easy this month :)
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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