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hi! i write short stories set in tamriel. you can find them listed in chronological order here

about this blog

microfiction and short stories

check out my gf's writing and worldbuilding at @zurin

info re: the bds movement's boycott of microsoft gaming products and services

there are coworkers on this earth whose existence suspends disbelief

well four times a day i take a pill the size of a boulder and this will necessarily continue until a wizard cures my corprus but in the meantime these creatures i live with keep sticking their heads into my glass of water

jiubilant

six times a day

#thread of prophecy severed &c

well four times a day i take a pill the size of a boulder and this will necessarily continue until a wizard cures my corprus but in the meantime these creatures i live with keep sticking their heads into my glass of water

waving hi to the elder kings dev who put in 'sien' as an akaviri name

tastesoftamriel

Weekly update!

Hi everyone, hope your week is going well! Just a few bits I wanted to share before yall go along your merry little way...

Firstly, my pronouns are now They/Them! It took a while to come out of the closet but here I am! My OC (Talviel's) pronouns are still She/Her. It would mean a lot if messages intended for me directly were addressed to They/Them.

Second, in case you missed it, I am indefinitely donating 25% of every 2nd edition cookbook sale to the UN Global Emergency Fund. The book starts at £15 and is also pay-what-you-want, so for example if you pay £25, I will match that 15%. You can purchase the PDF here to support a good cause (and me, who lost their job to AI and can no longer afford to look after Skooma the cat yippee).

Lastly, there will also be a cheeky flash sale on the book next week to celebrate Tumblr's favourite holiday (you know what I'm on about)! While the book will be at a reduced price then, any sales of £15+ will still go towards charity during this period.

Aaaand off the top of my head, that's it for now!

Stay safe, eat well, be kind. ~Tal

wispstalk

political correctness out of control. war on saturalia. fishmonger wished me "happy midwinter" etc etc

schoolhater

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

sothasil

The Beyond Skyrim: Iliac Bay project is looking for volunteer voice actors for its Abecean Isles region! Find below a link to their explanatory document with all the information you need to know before applying.

Beyond Skyrim: Iliac Bay VA Auditions This casting is unpaid. Overview: Beyond Skyrim: Iliac Bay is a fan-made mod for The Elder Scrolls V:S

If anyone reading this matches the required skillset, this is a great opportunity to participate in a large, intricate modding project.

Beyond Skyrim is both open to beginners and with a high quality standard, and represents a solid way to get a first experience working in video game creation, with many of our members later becoming professionals using their work done on the teams as part of their portfolio.

sothasil

Iliac Bay is still looking for voice actors! Finding actors for female Redguard characters is an ongoing struggle and it's one of the few remaining things standing between them and a released mod right now.

This is likely the final voice acting call for the regions they've been working on. Find more details on the characters they need voiced in this Reddit post. And have some relevant screenshots too :)

saw a post about how tes iii's implication that the empire was crumbling didn't have much followthrough and while i get the case being made the cyrod empire did fall for awhile there. our 200ish-year-old elven characters got to point and laugh

'magicians-practicians' has a fun ring to it. that's going to get stuck in my head for seven years

corneliaaspen

I'll be real I'm trying to think of one more post to get to three just so I don't look like a bot in mouseover preview

#given that these are all textile enchanters i'm apprehensive.

corneliaaspen

I have a book you can purchase!

I have been leery of advertising on tumblr because I think if you post a trope map here they throw you in the stockades. Or maybe that was 2024. At any rate, y'all get the back cover copy instead of the charming graphic I made for my eleven-follower bluesky account.

Three work shirts, a towel, a tunic. Niselt, an enchanter of linen, works alongside potters, grocers, and fellow magicians practicians in the eastern neighborhoods of the bustling city-state of Gan Ostric. Niselt has been able to earn a living and help her mother and aunt on the city outskirts, but now she stands to lose her workshop unless she can protect her fragile good fortune by finding twelve jobs before the month is through. A fistful of jewels, a shimmer of magic, a rain-slicked city night. Thief, a thief, takes pride in her somewhat-lucrative trade and the love interests she finds on the wrong side of the law, who only occasionally steal her pants. But as Gan Ostric hosts a delegation from counterpart city Gan Eigric, it’s Thief’s goody-two-shoes friend Niselt who may have found a dangerous romance…and an even more dangerous secret. Some piecework, a tapestry, a cloak for the only solar magus on the Assembly of Magicians Practicians. When Niselt picks up a job doing piecework for the palace, a discovery about the fabric’s thread count turns to a mystery that collides with her uneasy knowledge of the darkness faced by friends in the city and beyond. The people who can help Niselt save her city and herself might be the magicians practicians that a good enchanter isn’t supposed to know—and the stranger that a good daughter of Gan Ostric isn’t supposed to love.

So what's in the book? Disabled characters (main protagonist has ADHD; others are d/Deaf, autism, PTSD, DeafBlind, blind, facial differences, pain). Bi stuff, gay stuff, aromantic stuff (only in one chapter, but I personally am fond of the aromantic butch knight who is not a knight). Trans stuff if you know what you're looking at. Historical textiles. Characters figuratively from different genres (noir, country song, Arthurian lady...) Problematized magic system. Wizard fight.

you can sample Chapters 1-7 here FREE 🪡

and buy the book on my site or Barnes & Noble for the low low price of $3, or $8 for the version with bonus backmatter. I have a foreboding financial deadline coming up (yes, that means I wrote a book about a financial deadline and then got hit with one), so indie authors (me) appreciate your support :^)

#<3 check out this project by a pal (i'm a chapter in and loving the magic system!)