joke [IDEA] Butt flutes

Hermaeus Moron · March 21, 2023

My taste in mods is much like my taste in Rule 34: if I can't get off to it, I can appreciate it if it makes me laugh, and if I can do both, so much the better. My favorite classes of mods are joke mods and the kind of mods most people come to LL for, in that order. It is with this predilection towards silliness in mind that my muse nudged me today.

While browsing YouTube, I saw a thumbnail for a video showing a montage of AI-generated art in the style of Heironymus Bosch. This, in turn, stimulated something in my memory, namely this:

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For those who don't know, the Hell portion of Bosch's famous triptych painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, contains (among other things) multiple sinners with musical instruments up their butts, and one sinner in particular who is having a music sheet tattooed on their buttocks by a demon. A few years back, someone actually transposed those notes and found they play an actual song. (Mad respect to Heironymus for working such fine detail into his magnum opus.)

I can no longer recall my exact thought processes at the time, but I saw significant mod potential for this. My time on this site has left me aware of certain mods that predispose themselves to this imagery, both in terms of naught insertion of musical instruments (e.g. Immersive Plugs) and flatulence (Devious Butt). What if bards played flutes by shoving them up their asses?

Here's the general outline I have thus far:

Likely LL mod tie-ins: Devious Butt, Immersive Plugs
Causes bards to do you know what (possibly a cover of Bosch's original butt song)
Possible quests, either a modification to the vanilla Bard's College questline or new addition to Devious Butt
Would also suggest use of bagpipes (another common element in Bosch's more surreal paintings), but cannot find any extant Skyrim mods or meshes for bagpipes.

As I have zero experience with modding, I offer this brainfart here for feedback. This idea free for anyone with the skill and wherewithall to do something with it.

Edit: Did a search for flute and bagpipe models earlier, genuinely surprised there aren't any on the Nexus already. Anyway, here's what I found:

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Bagpipe hammer: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/scottish-squeaky-hammer-4c8fd4ab67364951b1079dc2489d478e

Bagpipe goose (possible NPC/merchant like the owls in VIGILANT and GLENMORIL?): https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/bagpipe-goose-b7232a5bca214d0d889d907859083a72

Maori nose flutes: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/maori-nguru-nose-flute-a0a7d67b45a4488584d8e410bbaa3d65

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/gourd-maori-nguru-nose-flute-79152b81cd184431abd1c77f3296870d

Pokeflute: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/pokeflauta-7e464462d6fd463e860f91f70db01848

Panpipes: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/zelda-spirit-flute-9ba664e2efe54d3298a92d6c4ba1a576

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/panpipes-free-download-5836cfe3f6384d349fd00692ab491c01

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/zpona-panpipe-zampona-730811e3c39c494c8ab067967380a0dc

Wooden flutes: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/flute-of-the-andes-quena-tarka-c8e4a403658049d5baae37685a18b557

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/quena-77b2a379da794750b395eb9a16ea8de8