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sketches from the last few weeks

hmmmmmm…

Big yawn

Hmmmmmmmmmm....

Nordic bather's towel best costume in eso

#darra salvi #teldryn sero #skyrim #Nsft #nothing explicit so fine the spicy can go on main #sketch #Spicy tag #nudity #Sketch dump

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It's been 3 years of Teldryn and TES brain... hopefully more good years of artistic growth still to come :) Redraw of old art from April 2021.

(i gave up on the pants this year, this drawing has been taking too long)

he was never meant to have all these affiliations originaly lol i just didn't know what i was doing when i borrowed thana-topsy and honeyginsen's tattoo designs

#teldryn sero #skyrim #tes art #drawing #dunmer

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escaped from leg hell after two hours

(i want to finish more art but work is HECTIC i have time to draw but only enough energy and brain to sketch)

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hmmmm...🫦

Full at @spicymudcrab or failing that, here

#Next week reblog #hid this after i first posted it because too many things happened on the same day. But here we goooo

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Mr. Morrowind in the Skyrim Fine Hat

based on Luigi Serena's Autoritratto

under no certain circumstances would he make this face on his own, but he might be persuaded if badgered enough.

#tes art #teldryn sero #skyrim #drawing #dunmer #master study #they had a similar nose so i thought. why not. #also o3o

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Happy birthday, @thetinyshiloh!!!! Your friendship has helped me through many tough times and brightened many good times even more :'D Also you draw fantastically, say very smart things, and are a delight to be around, and I wish you all the good things this year!!

#Waaaauuu ily shiloh always wishing you da best #drawing #tes art #skyrim #skyrim oc

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we’re not done yet

dragon for the dragonborn!!

nyehehehe the fish weapons are everything i wanted and more

Happy Jester's day/Fool's day :D

Bataqq is in the Jester personality for the season and it is unnerving to randomly hear his booming laugh

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nyehehehe the fish weapons are everything i wanted and more

Happy Jester's day/Fool's day :D

Bataqq is in the Jester personality for the season and it is unnerving to randomly hear his booming laugh

#so many events at once lol #eso screenshots #eso #elder scrolls online #darra salvi #bataqq #khajiit #dunmer

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sorry it’s one of those days where i post a bajillion things while the filter is off or these will be banished to drafts indefinitely

#Choi tweets

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Last year I told a family member "I have no interest in appearing feminine." (in case you didn’t notice because you've been ignoring every bit of evidence for the past 25 years) (I might not be as "pretty" but I feel more beautiful in my own skin than I have ever felt.) (Imagine how much energy I would save and how good our relationship could have been if I could have just existed as I am!)

Here's to showing up for myself and people around me, taking up the space that was never given to me, and making no more compromises for how I want to be perceived.

(Choi, she/her, cis gender-nonconforming for as long as I can remember but only came around to it over the last year. Happy transgender & gnc day of visibility.)

#Personal post

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Happy Easter/Jesus Christ Superstar annual fever.

#jesus chris superstar #No one did it better than Carl Anderson Judas dripping in white fringe descending from the heavens on his gleaming cross #Drawing #musical I love for entirely secular reasons #I pretend post-1973 iterations do not exist

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ichthyologists in 1938:

#It's springtime rakenrol let's go

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hmmmm...🫦

Full at @spicymudcrab or failing that, here

#skyrim #darra salvi #teldryn sero #dunmer #drawing #Nsft #spicy tag

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lovely commission from a long while back of Darra from @beidak-art :D :D :D

#I might have forgotten to post this earlier i'm so sorry i really do love it though #darra salvi #skyrim #tes art #for me

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delightful commission I got a while back from one of my favorite artists, @grozat!!! Thank you so much :D :D

#darra salvi #skyrim #tes art #dunmer #for me

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Do you have an image of Teldryn’s many handed spider tattoo on its own? I love your tattoo designs for him but that one's definitely my favourite

I don’t use the exact image out of respect to the artist (as it’s also not official art, it’s from a fellow fan) but the shapes and the hands are the same.

Thank you for the lovely question :D

#asks #skyrim asks

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Happy TES 30th! I will share a drawing soon but for now, I have questions.

One day, while bothering mudcrabs for alchemy writs in ESO I thought "wait I had this guy with chili garlic sauce what's he doing in Skyrim" and have not looked back since.

I'm sure someone has already explored crab biology in TES but I constantly wonder why the dominant crab of Skyrim and the whole of Tamriel is the humble mudcrab, beloved Southeast Asian food mascot, alimango of mangroves in warm Indo-Pacific waters. In general, these are crabs belonging to the Scylla genus, with Scylla serrata in the picture beside an ESO mudcrab.

(Picture: Pincer, Old Salty, and the Mudcrab guardian spirit, some of Skyrim's named mudcrabs. Images from UESP)

I don't know what's going on with Old Salty's shell, but there was a still a deliberate choice to include a mudcrab with big claws, small legs, and a wide, domed shell in both Skyrim and ESO. I suspect the mudcrab holds some semi-terrestrial charm along with the impressive claws that leggy crabs don’t really have, and I am tickled at the abundant SEasian representation in TES. I am also delighted that, like my family members around a crab, the citizens of Skyrim are able to devour abundant mouthfuls of meat from mudcrab claws.

Do you see your local crab in Tamriel? Feel free to share crab and mudcrab thoughts! Happy TES day!

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Addendum: I am not a crab expert and do not know what Oblivion's and Morrowind's mudcrabs are. These are entirely different genera of crab. I suspect Oblivion's is some pelagic crab and Morrowind's is some box crab (Calappa) with the claws oriented strangely.

(id: Oblivion mudcrab, Morrowind mudcrab)

Crabs also get very diverse with the special crabs, including Clatterclaw, Titanclaw, and other named crab bosses. Also, there can be no discussion of crabs without Skar. RIP Skar, you are an icon and I have no idea what you are supposed to be.

(id: Skar in ESO, Skar in Morrowind)

#Tes 30th #mudcrab #crab #scylla #scylla serrata #skyrim #morrowind #eso #elder scrolls online #oblivion #Elder scrolls