#ratwhisperer

[hollowtones]

petra how is it going...

hello my friend ale :) i am doing ok. i just ate some “RIGATONI” for my dinner & today i saw some pretty little wildflowers AND a small rabbit. hope you are having a wonderful day today and i hope the days ahead are kind to you

[chameleonspell]

2,3,4,5!

2. what fics (that are currently updating) are your favorites in the fandom you’re in

“Currently updating” is the hard part here. So many here I could list that I can’t really call that any more!

I’m loving @tintael‘s Daedric Alphabet: from Ayem to Zyr, which is a charming and deceptively subtle little fic of connected scraps that you don’t always see quite what it’s up to… until it suddenly hits you right in the feels. Tintael’s Great Fic Opus is only available in Russian, so I cling to whatever I can get in English. (If they’re this good in their non-native language, I dread to think how good their first-language writing is!)

@tippetarius‘s The White Phial is a wonderful ride of snarky mages, academic angst and magical mishaps. Fantastic dialogue and consistently entertaining, an update is always a pure pleasure to read.

@sunderlorn has been writing beautiful, sharp, wistful, visceral prose poetry about Dunmer since he was in the cradle probably, and is, like… offensively good at it. Words are his life, and it shows - as does the encyclopaedic knowledge of history and cultural research that goes into his headcanons about Tamriel. You should just read everything on his AO3 (see you in… ten years?) just so you can appreciate the glory of his current work, which collides the protagonists of two earlier stories, gentle Ashlander ghost-herd Tammunei and prickly murderhobo Simra, into a drama-filled road-trip that no one’s gonna escape from unscathed.

3. name 3 underrated fic authors in your fandom

No idea if they’re on tumblr, but I read mercurybard’s Dak and Jiub fics years and years ago, and fell in love. They made me want to tell stories in Morrowind. But no one else but me seems to remember them!

A Scattering of Spoons by Alpherae is billed as a writing exercise: 100x100-word glimpses from three lives, three women trapped in the Shivering Isles. It’s amazing. A huge emotional punch, expertly crafted out of dozens of shimmering, glinting fragments.

@emblazonet writes everything from gritty Vivec murder mystery smut to poignant family dramas playing out on desolate beaches. And it’s all so good! More people should read them!

4. what’s a fic that changed the way you write?

Agh. I don’t know? I remember reading @sunderlorn’s Ghostline and just being so amazed by the quality, the level of literary seriousness that was so clearly being given to this fic, as a work of art. I can’t claim the quality rubbed off on me, but it definitely inspired me to make a real effort in my writing, to make it as good as I could get it, at the time. To not be afraid of trying to do that.

Another one that comes to mine is the (tragically not currently online!!!) A Life of Strife and Struggle by alexgaretti, an absolute genius of a writer, please read everything else they have on AO3. Their glorious epic of the rise and fall (and rise and fall and rise and…) of the Ayleid King Laloriaran Dynar showed me not only that you absolutely can marry hilarious with heartcrushing and get away with it, but also that it’s fine to have horrible upcoming events be really obvious. You can lean in to a tragic structure, and rather than spoil the plot, the sense of obvious-to-everyone-but-the-protagonist impending doom can actually really work! (*goes back and adds even more foreboding metaphors to romantic scenes*)

5. what’s a fic that changed the way you see a certain character?

TES isn’t great for characters a lot of the time, so often, the most compelling characters are the OCs. Still, I’m a great fan of taking minor characters and giving them life, backstories, relationships. So I enjoyed this little fic about how Sugar-Lips Habasi and New-Shoes Bragor might have met, as background to the ingame Morrowind quest. Minor characters deserve love too!

[quantumcola]

@ratwhisperer replied to your post “I mean i know little about the lore except what i can piece together...”

my hot take regarding deep lore... not worth it, the earthly cultural lore is much more awesome than the dumbass things about the universe being a dream and such. i suggest playing morrowind if you havent

thing is i cant entirely comprehend even the casual lore. mostly because i dont really understand the timeline and all that historical stuff. also i have that idiotic need to know Everything yknow. i try not to bother but then i dont understand something and it makes me extremely confused and upset

[gringoslur]

anons en tungler: si no me mostrás tu árbol genealógico y tus análisis de ADN junto a tu carta astral para que Yo juzgue si sos lo suficiente Latinx Real™ no podés hablar absolutamente sobre tu país natal o la cultura e historia en la que naciste y te formaste

JAJAJAJAJAJA en serio, son %100 así. Amewo apenas sé quienes son mis abuelos, no me jodas. Están acostumbrados a clasificar quien es latine y quien no, o que porcentaje de latine sos. No entienden que me chupa un huevo su opinión, no me voy a sentir insegura de algo que sé que soy??

[sparkamidstsnow]

9, 21, 24!

9. Best month for you this year?

november!

21. What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year?

i guess there’s a bunch of new flowers in my room otherwise it’s literally all the same :/

24. Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions?

i didn’t but i wrote down my wishes to ded moroz as a wussian twadition and well. i asked for a gf and Where Is She? i’m a new year atheist now

[kittoforos]

literature & music!

literature: a book that changed you forever

this time i’m gonna go with Doctor Zhivago by B. L. Pasternak. the first russian novel i ever read :’) and last weekend i was at his dacha in Peredelkino and they had me read a section of it aloud for their video project, which felt like some kind of culmination of like, my whole life so far. also i’m stressed because my section is right after the poet Dmitri Bykov’s but they said my accent is cute so

music: the most beautiful lyric you can think of

the first lines that came to mind (there is so much beauty in the world!):

in english: “thrushes bleating battle with the wrens disrupts my reverie again…” from “June Hymn” by the Decemberists

in russian: “кони мечтают о быстрых санях, надоела телега/поле о чистых простых простынях снега” from “Осень” by Александр Башлачев

(…i have pretty consistent lyrical tastes tbh)

[calebwittebane]

if you can stand manga, you could skip to jojo part 6 which is basically prison lesbians with superpowers and the villain is a priest whos gay for dio, literally

:O might try it then...

[grandenchanterfiona]

a Yiddish course is also in development for Dduolingo! Thought I should let you know. and also, are you going to try out Spanish? :D

I want to try it, but not at the same time as spanish. They’re too similar and I’d get very confused, and I’m already at a level four in French