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ANNOUNCEMENTS: UPDATED 12/16/2017

Happy Holidays, fellow Kinkmemers! I have returned and have no reasonable excuse for my absence except LIFE. I will be working on updating the archives. If anyone sees anything amiss, please let me know.

I am also hoping to find another Mod and an Archivist.

The more dedicated people we have in this Meme the less chance of it dying. I admit that being the sole keeper of the Meme is not great for the fandom. If something were to happen to me, for good, this place would go the way of the Fallout Kink Meme. Let's not let that happen! If anyone would be interested in Modding/Archiving, please drop me a line. Thanks! <3

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From: (Anonymous)

Wow a!a. This is very well written and painful and a pretty accurate fleshing out of what's implied in the game, I think. I especially love the first part. But you know what the best/worst/most brilliant thing is? You gave Elenwen one of Ulfric's lines. Every time he shouts "You call yourself a warrior?" my heart is going to shatter now. That's heartbreaking beyond words, that she carved that into him so brutally that he spits it back at people when he's fighting. I can't wait to see what you do with the last part.

From: (Anonymous)

Thank you so much OP! And I'm so glad someone caught that. That was one of those lines that I was afraid would lose all of its punch if I tried to draw attention to it. But I really wanted it in there, because in many ways I think that's Ulfric in a nutshell: the fact that he's internalized what happened to him, and made it a weapon. They say the qualities you most despise in others are the ones you're afraid are true of yourself, and he's no exception. He loathes the Empire for capitulating to the Thalmor, but no more than he loathes himself for capitulating to Elenwen; he sees the White-Gold Concordat as a betrayal of Talos and of all those soldiers who died in his arms on foreign soil - and in the darkest corner of his heart he believes it's his fault, because he broke under torture and betrayed information. But he projects all that rage and guilt outward onto the Empire, and thus you have the Skyrim Civil War. :( Bethesda deserves a medal for how well they managed to paint that particular psychological portrait without ever spelling it out.