I wanna change this but idk what to

let us not forget how bad annette also wants that cookie

United Front: Breasts Without the Airbrush

The shocking thing about Laura Dodsworth’s pictures of 100 women’s breasts isn’t the flesh on show, or the many shapes and sizes, but the realisation that images of unairbrushed, non-uniform breasts seem to be so rare. “We see images of breasts everywhere,” says the 41-year-old photographer, “but they’re unreal. They create an unflattering comparison but also an unobtainable ideal. I wanted to rehumanise women through honest photography.”

feeling totally normal and cool about them

The mages guild steward in Balmora is sending you to execute gang hits on competition and personal vendettas on past colleagues. The steward in Ald-Ruhn is paying you to steal from the guild and shake down less respected stewards (read: racialized). There's two argonians in the whole guild, and one is stuck in a Telvanni dominated backwater with limited resources and no backing for his genuinely admirable research. The guildmaster is an idiot who was promoted out of Cyrodiil out of convenience to get him out of his superior's hair.

The fighters guild is similarly fucked up, because Eydis Fire-Eye and Sjoring Hard-Heart are in the pocket of the Camonna Tong and are having you do extortions, racketeering, and straight up gang hits on thieves guild members or their associates, random civilian business owners, and great house agents. The former guildmaster is acting as a double agent against the corrupt current guildmaster to help you usurp his authority once you prove you're honorable enough not to do extra-judicial murder for the man.

And like this is obviously The Point to some degree, the imperial guilds are corrupt and incompetent because they're disconnected from the heart of the empire and are left too much to their own devices in a nation that is fraught with conflicting political forces with heavy amounts of money being traded between large numbers of hands. But this isn't like, a direct line of dialogue that someone just says to you. If this were a weaker written game someone would just lay out the Moral Of The Story. To some extent it makes the whole of the game stronger that you're shown the corruption and inefficiency and allowed to conclude personally that oh shit the empire is really not a stabilizing force in this region and a lot of what it imports is graft and vice while purporting to bring peace and culture and democracy wait sorry this is Cyrodiil not the United States.