excuse the gloom but none may know of this meeting

tiredela -> gothryd tiredela is my art blog now :3

I'm begging ppl to start experimenting with how elves look in tes. I'm begging ppl to start experimenting with unique and noneurocentric features in general.

On one hand I understand the aversion to learning how to draw those weird TES elf facial shapes, but then when people opt for more human-looking elves, why is it always the white supermodel face? I mean this in the sense that I'm especially disturbed by the mass whitewashing of dunmer, and, I don't know how to put this more nicely - if it's not the skin that gets lightened, I've seen quite a lot of dark elves that look like blackface. I know people aren't (hopefully) doing it on purpose, but you really should look out for it? I've been thinking about this for a long time and I know I'll make someone angry for saying it but honestly who cares at this point, if we want to combat the racism in fandom (which I know TES in its own worldbuilding perpetuates) we have to start pointing this out at the very least. Is your dark elf too dark for you? If so, why?

Since I noticed a bit of a domino effect - Just to be clear, my point in this wasn't to shame someone for their style, for drawing human-looking elves, or for designing mixed OCs (I love to see it all, actually!) and I don't know how that happened but I apologize if it came off that way to someone. I'm not keen on starting drama or discourse here, so if anyone is upset by anything I say, please reach out to me directly. I know misunderstandings happen, and I don't bite. The point here was to simply encourage people to examine their eurocentric biases when designing characters, and I think it's very important to discuss since the fandom at large is predominantly white. Make whatever you want forever but it won't hurt you to introspect every now and then and move forward accordingly. You'll be fine if you can stay humble and honest. I'm also gently asserting that I'm not apologizing for pointing out racism.

I don't intend to join any discourse or keep it going but I wanna say that I'm unsure why asking someone to examine their racial biases would make people so upset? There wasn't a single direct attack in your post on art styles, mixed race characters, etc. and at that point it honestly just seems like a projection. It is 100% okay to call out racism or bigotry in fandom spaces and people need to learn how to take a damn critique rather than transform it into personal criticism.

i bet miraak wouldn't have been half so cranky if herma-mora had let him have an ipod