#morvith

[nicolodigenovas]

Question about YouTuber Nicky: does he read historical novels? If yes, what happens when he comes across really obvious "the author did not do research even on Wikipedia" "was the editor sleeping on the job" historical blunders? (Like potatoes in Medieval Ireland or tomatoes in the Roman empire)

Hiiii, I’m getting so slow at answering asks, sorry it took so long🥰

Nicky loves history and historical novels. To be honest, I think he would read both the trashy novels with historical inaccuracies and books that seriously dive in a certain historical period. when he reviews books he tries to alternate between light reads and heavier themes. I imagine him reviewing a terrible book about ancient Rome, reading at loud the worst part as Yusuf laughs hysterically in the background (‘Joe, the main character still has to bone the consul. This is nothing.’) He’s never offensive to the author, but he does point out the inaccuracies. (‘Do you think we should research what they used as lube in this period?’ ‘I know they didn’t use that’)

Nicky did not study history in this AU, so he also uses those books as an excuse to do research. Him and Joe research topics like the history of tomatoes or “What was considered edgy clothes in Victorian London” as a way to “elevate” the most stupid reviews. But they definitely make videos where Nicky loses it because a “serious” novel (a novel that is supposed to be written well by an author with a huge reach) is clearly just... cultural appropriation and 0 research. He has no kindness for those kinds of books. do i have examples in mind? Yes i have

In these videos Joe is more active than in cooking videos, he is better than Nicky at articulating why a certain aspect of a book works or not. (Also, sometimes it’s not really Nicky’s place to always talk about certain issues.) Finally, Joe has the best reading voice, when they talk about poetry he is the one who reads, with Nicky dying and saying things like: “Oh, it’s better when you read it.” “Read another one, just one more.” “I just love your voice. You read better than me.”

[lozheadcanonsandmore]

Every time Link has a near-death experience, Death has a near-Link experience. 

DEATH: OH. YOU AGAIN. I DON’T SUPPOSE YOU’LL COME QUIETLY THIS TIME? 

Link: Not a chance. Still haven’t saved the Princess. Also, I’ve got a fairy. 

DEATH: WELL, THEN, DON’T LET ME DETAIN YOU. 

(later)

Link: Bloody stupid trap... Oh. Hey there. 

DEATH: DON’T MIND ME. I BROUGHT A BOOK. 

Link: ...good idea. 

[nicolodigenovas]

🐝 + "honey, please don't kill me..."

Nicky smiled, there was a sharp quality in him now that Yusuf knew he was the criminal/supervillain/masked assassin he’d tried to hunt down for months. Everything in Nicky seemed transformed under a new light, like his abilities with knives when he cooked, his laugh, his cold and calm stare when they watched the news together. Of course Nicky wasn’t bothered by the news: he was in them.

“Will do you what’s right, my love?” Nicky’s lips were close to his. It was intoxicating, the wrong kind of temptation. Yusuf thought that Nicky probably saw him differently too, now, now that both of their masks had fallen and all their secrets were unveiled under a full moon. There was a hint of sadness, of cruel taunting, in his husband’s eyes.

“You killed people,” Yusuf said, pain was threatening to tear him apart. Nicky was under him, a bruise on his cheek, blood trickling down like red tears on his forehead, where Yusuf had hit him brutally, without knowing... but would it have been any different?

“I killed those who sent me to fight a war and called it holy,” Nicky replied, unflinching under Yusuf’s betrayed gaze. “They sent me to kill, they used me. The blood of my hands is also theirs.”

Yusuf closed his eyes a moment. Nicky had almost stabbed him in the shoulder, the blade had left a huge gash, he was hurting everywhere. The sound of the police sirens felt like the music for a funeral.

“I didn’t want you to know.”

Yusuf looked at Nicky: his Nicky, but also the man on the roof, the assassin, the thief, the man he looked for when he patrolled at night.

“I didn’t want you to know either,” Yusuf confessed.

Nicky laughed, a broken sound.

“I should have known,” he laughed again, blood stained his teeth, and Yusuf felt the tears, knowing whatever they had was lost. “It had to be you. The saviour of the city, the golden knight. The honorable vigilante.”

He was looking at Yusuf like he was trying to frame a memory in his head. “I knew I never deserved you, but neither does this city.”

Yusuf couldn’t help but kiss him, before they took Nicky away. Nicky’s last words to him would stay in his head and heart for years. That broken Ti amo, those final secrets laid bare.

(2k celebration! Send me 🐝 + a line for a fic and I’ll write the next 5)

[nicolodigenovas]

Una volta sono riuscita a rovinare la pastina in brodo, conta?

Ruining pastina (very little pasta) in the broth is truly a feat of distaster, but I once set fire to potatoes I just had to boil, so who am I to judge (seriously; those potatoes looked like coal at the end)

Rating: It’s the Italian dumb gene, nothing to worry about / Eresia, rogo!!!

[nicolodigenovas]

🕊

MORVIIIIITH. I am writing in English so people can know how wonderful you are, but it is so refreshing to speak with you in Italian (not only for the language, it’s just different)! You are very kind and I appreciate your messages and support, please write that fic you told me about so I can say I knew about it from the start and scream. baci<3<3

(I bow to the spaghettiisnotpasta general from afar.)

[nicolodigenovas]

I have a recipe of baked pasta with fish (cod) - there's Parmesan cheese on it. Not only that, I make it pretty often because it's good.

Parmesan on fish is a huge crime, for those who don’t know. I am also guilty of it because I like tuna & parmesan together, but in my defence parmesan is that good. Parmesan flows in my veins. We’ll probably go to pasta hell, just a circle above the ketchup pasta people 😔

rating: mama we’re all going to hell as Gerard Way once said / eresia, rogo!!

[nicolodigenovas]

I've got a different kind of pasta horror for you: la pastina per bambini! (small pasta for children being weaned). First, the sabbiolina - it's called "sand" for a freaking reason: no matter how small the holes in your colander/strainer/scolapasta, quella bastarda is smaller. And gets everywhere. All pastina gets everywhere, really, it's a pain to clean up and EVEN THE WASHING MACHINE CAN'T GET RID OF IT. Seriously. You'll do a laundry load and still find it stuck on clothes.

I GOT FLASHBACKS. My little sister eating pastina and somehow the box spilling pastina everywhere. Too bad it isn’t a crime. I remember trying that thing and being disgusted but I was also 6 and stupid

[nicolodigenovas]

(scrivo in Inglese così non devi tradurre) I'm weaning my son and apparently I ought to change my diet to lasagne for lunch every day. Seriously: can be made in advance, good when re-heated, easy to divide in to portions beforehand, and, once I've cut them into pieces, easy to eat with one hand while trying to feed passato di verdura to the kid with the other. On the one hand - lasagne every day, yum. On the other hand - lasagne every day, I can't afford to replace my whole wardrobe.

(grazie) To me lasagne every day is like having turning every day into a very eventful holiday: it sounds amazing in theory but it’s a bit expensive, tiresome (I mean it takes a while to make lasagne properly), and it certainly hides some drawbacks (like the wardrobe problem). I am for ‘lasagne are for special occasions’, a bit like with tortellini.