#et-ada

[iamnotshazam]

Dipping my toes into Elder Scrolls lore for the first time: we know about Meridia and the Magna-Ge, yeah, but I feel like Azura has - or had - something to do with Akatosh/Auri-El.

He's literally Time incarnate. Azura gives prophecies. She's also Lady of Dawn and Dusk, and her symbols are a moon and star. The star - and her literal Star item - has pointed rays that could just as easily be a sun design. The Snow Elves worshipped Auri-El in Skyrim with a heavy sun theme. In Morrowind, the Nine Divines are implied to be cool with her major goals at that point, or at least cool with the idea of a Nerevarine enough to show up in person (?) along the way in side quests.

Then I just looked up her role in the Khajiit religion, in which she literally has Auri-El's role cutting the heart from Lorkhan.

Does anyone know . . . what her deal is?

[stormbeyondreality]

Ebonsong Lore of the Day - Day 25

Kyne-Tava is possibly the most-feared of the Hearth Gods, considering how temperamental her domains of sea and sky can be atop of how she is invoked as both Kyne and Khenarthi for carrying souls to the afterlife. Many Reachfolk and similar cultures draw parallels between her and Hircine, as they both oversee and are of the wild.

Taglist: @oblivions-dawn, @singleteapot, @fallen-chances

[carbone14]

Ada Forman - The Nautch Dancer - 1920's

Photo de Maurice Goldberg

[reborn-from-your-ashes]

1️⃣7️⃣🏆

[falmerbrook]

Regarding the reblog about Azura/Ithelia: this book doesn't have direct references regarding either of them, but it does depict trapping of Meridia in the Void and just some of the language used makes me go 👀

And it's also a khajiiti myth, and I love khajiiti mythology

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:The_Bladesongs_of_Boethra

Wow yeah, you weren't kidding. The whole prism of light and mirror imagery does make sense with Meridia's whole thing with light, but also with the direction they seem to be going with Ithelia's motifs the amount of references to mirror shards is interesting. Idk when this book was released so I don't know if that would be a purposeful reference or not though

Also, unrelated, but I dig this part of that book a lot

[midflame]

y'all...i hope i can make it out alive for this sem

[zyafics]

RED FERRARI CHASE | 02

MAIN | MASTERLIST | IRL & Social Media AU

Pairing — F1 Driver!Rafe x High School Sweetheart!(F)Reader

Summary — Before Rafe became one of the best drivers on the grid, he was yours. However, when his popularity skyrocketed, he became one of the most eligible bachelors in F1, leaving you behind to indulge in the notoriety of the sport. Yet, years have passed, and he hasn’t stopped thinking about you: his first love, his high school sweetheart, the only person to believe in him. When new management takes over his team, he’s afraid their new strategy could undermine his role in the cutthroat league. But in an unexpected twist of fate, Rafe discovers you returning to the circuit as part of the new leadership—now, with a ring on your finger. Engaged to his boss.

Content — formula one au

Zya's Notes — shoutout to adri (of @inthelibrarybtw) for helping me with all my graphics, with the f1 information, and everything in-between. i cannot express how much love i have for u <3

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[mostly-mundane-atla]

Inupiaq Books

This post was inspired by learning about and daydreaming about visiting Birchbark Books, a Native-owned bookstore in Minneapolis, so there will be some links to buy the books they have on this list.

Starting Things Off with Two Inupiaq Poets

Joan Naviyuk Kane, whose available collections include:

Hyperboreal

Black Milk Carbon

The Cormorant Hunter's Wife

She also wrote Dark Traffic, but this site doesn't seem to carry any copies

Dg Nanouk Okpik, whose available collections include

Blood Snow

Corpse Whale

Fictionalized Accounts of Historical Events

A Line of Driftwood: the Ada Blackjack Story by Diane Glancy, also available at Birchwood Books, is a fictionalized account of Ada Blackjack's experience surviving the explorers she was working with on Wrangel Island, based on historical records and Blackjack's own diary.

Goodbye, My Island by Rie Muñoz is a historical fiction aimed at younger readers with little knowledge of the Inupiat about a little girl living on King Island. Reads a lot like an American Girl book in case anyone wants to relive that nostalgia

Blessing's Bead by Debby Dahl Edwardson is a Young Adult historical fiction novel about hardships faced by two generations of girls in the same family, 70 years apart. One reviewer pointed out that the second part of the book, set in the 1980s, is written in Village English, so that might be a new experience for some of you

Photography

Menadelook: and Inupiaq Teacher's Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932 edited by Eileen Norbert is, exactly as the title suggests, a collection of documentary photographs depicting village life in early 20th century Alaska.

Nuvuk, the Northernmost: Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska by David James Inulak Lume is another collection of documentary photographs published in 2013, with a focus on the wildlife and negative effects of climate change

Guidebooks (i only found one specifically Inupiaq)

Plants That We Eat/Nauriat Niģiñaqtuat: from the Traditional Wisdom of Iñupiat Elders of Northwest Alaska by Anore Jones is a guide to Alaskan vegetation that in Inupiat have subsisted on for generations upon generations with info on how to identify them and how they were traditionally used.

Anthropology

Kuuvangmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century by Douglas B. Anderson et al details traditional lifestyles and subsistance customs of the Kobuk River Inupiat

Life at the Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact by Douglas D. Anderson and Wanni W. Anderson: a multidisciplinary study of a specific Kobuk River group, the Amilgaqtau Yaagmiut, at the very beginning of European and Asian trade.

Upside Down: Seasons Among the Nunamiut by Margaret B. Blackman is a collection of essays reflecting on almost 20 years of anthropological fieldwork focused on the Nunamiut of Anuktuvuk Pass: the traditional culture and the adaption to new technology.

Nonfiction

Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement by Dan O'Neill is about Project Chariot. In an attempt to find peaceful uses of wartime technology, Edward Teller planned to drop six nukes on the Inupiaq village of Point Hope, officially to build a harbor but it can't be ignored that the US government wanted to know the effects radiation had on humans and animals. The scope is wider than the Inupiat people involved and their resistance to the project, but as it is no small part of this lesser discussed moment of history, it only feels right to include this

Fifty Miles From Tomorrow: a Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by William L. Iģģiaģruk Hensley is an autobiography following the author's tradition upbringing, pursuit of an education, and his part in the Alaska Native Settlement Claims Act, where he and other Alaska Native activists had to teach themselves United States Law to best lobby the government for land and financial compensation as reparations for colonization.

Sadie Bower Neakok: An Iñupiaq Woman by Margaret B. Blackman is a biography of the titular Sadie Bower Neakok, a beloved public figure of Utqiagvik, former Barrow. Neakok grew up one of ten children of an Inupiaq woman named Asianggataq, and the first white settler to live in Utqiagvik/Barrow, Charles Bower. She used the out-of-state college education she received to aid her community as a teacher, a wellfare worker, and advocate who won the right for Native languages to be used in court when defendants couldn't speak English, and more.

Folktales and Oral Histories

Folktales of the Riverine and Costal Iñupiat/Unipchallu Uqaqtuallu Kuungmiuñļu Taģiuģmiuñļu edited by Wanni W. Anderson and Ruth Tatqaviñ Sampson, transcribed by Angeline Ipiiļik Newlin and translated by Michael Qakiq Atorak is a collection of eleven Inupiaq folktales in English and the original Inupiaq.

The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Iñupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska by Wanni W. Anderson is a collection of Kobuk River Inupiaq folktales and oral histories collected from Inupiat storytellers and accompanied by Anderson's own essays explaining cultural context. Unlike the other two collections of traditional stories mentioned on this list, this one is only written in English.

Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit/King Island Tales: Eskimo Historu and Legends from Bering Strait compiled and edited by Lawrence D. Kaplan, collected by Gertrude Analoak, Margaret Seeganna, and Mary Alexander, and translated and transcribed by Gertrude Analoak and Margaret Seeganna is another collection of folktales and oral history. Focusing on the Ugiuvangmiut, this one also contains introductions to provide cultural context and stories written in both english and the original Inupiaq.

The Winter Walk by Loretta Outwater Cox is an oral history about a pregnant widow journeying home with her two children having to survive the harsh winter the entire way. This is often recommended with a similar book detailing Athabascan survival called Two Old Women.

Dictionaries and Language Books

Iñupiat Eskimo Dictionary by Donald H. Webster and Wilfred Zibell, with illustrations by Thelma A. Webster, is an older Inupiaq to English dictionary. It predates the standardization of Inupiaq spelling, uses some outdated and even offensive language that was considered correct at the time of its publication, and the free pdf provided by UAF seems to be missing some pages. In spite of this it is still a useful resource. The words are organized by subject matter rather than alphabetically, each entry indicating if it's specific to any one dialect, and the illustrations are quite charming.

Let's Learn Eskimo by Donald H. Webster with illustrations by Thelma A. Webster makes a great companion to the Iñupiat Eskimo Dictionary, going over grammar and sentence structure rather than translations. The tables of pronouns are especially helpful in my opinion.

Ilisaqativut.org also has some helpful tools and materials and recommendations for learning the Inupiat language with links to buy physical books, download free pdfs, and look through searchable online versions

[the-skooma-den]

I think the Tamriel equivalent to "Jesus fucking christ" is "Et fucking Ada"

[dealwithgod]

Leonard Trawick, Severed Parts / Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by C. F. MacIntyre, from Duino Elegies; “The Second Elegy,” / Cerith Wyn Evans, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, 1999 / Ada Limón, Lucky Wreck / Maayan Sophia Weisstub, The Bed, 2022 / Letter from Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne, November [17?] 1851 / The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945-1959

[nekohime19]

Mini Mac # 40 : fireball bath time

Savage doens't like baths, 😔

Macaque was cleaning Savage, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say he was trying to clean her. The lil wiggling worm wouldn't stop squirming around. She twisted herself in every way to escape his claws, sometimes even pawing at his hands in the vain of hope of deterring him. Macaque wasn't deterred. She was covered in mud and it would dry if he didn't clean her soon. How did she get this dirty? He honestly didn't know. He turned away for one minute and the next thing he knew his daughter's bright fur was covered in mud. She was always quite difficult when it was bath time. She preferred grooming. But grooming could only get you so far when your whole body was covered in mud. 

“Come on, firecracker. Be nice to dad, okay?” Cooed Macaque as he tried to lower his daughter into the bowl filled with fresh water drawn from a nearby river. Savage pouted (her expression very similar to Rumble's) and splashed Macaque. The black-furred monkey brushed his wet air away and frowned at his giggling fireball. “Yes, this is so funny, splashing dad is funny isn't it?” Savage chuckled, her laughter echoing all around them like the sound of a chime. 

“Adaaaa, aaal et.” Babbled Savage as she reached towards Macaque with her chubby lil paws. Recently, she started to babble a lot. Macaque was hoping she would say her first word soon. The black-furred monkey nodded, acting like he understood his daughter langage perfectly. 

“Ada al et, indeed.” Nodded Macaque. He battled with his daughter for a few more hours. Once she was finally clean, he put her in the crib with her slumbering brother. Rumble was curled around his doll, his face pressed against the silk blanket. Macaque brushed away the fur falling on the cub's forehead and kissed his head. Savage crawled towards her brother and curled around him. She liked to do that to latch on his warmth. Macaque found the sight unbearably cute. 

“You managed to clean the lil monster?” Asked Bajie as he sat near the fire camp. Macaque hummed and looked up from the crib. 

“Yeah, she's finally mudless. And all her fights made her tired.” Sighed Macaque as he rubbed his shoulders, being bent all the time to clean Savage made his back wince a little. 

“I swear your brat can teleport. That or she's very fast.” Snorted the pig, Macaque couldn’ t agree more. 

“What are you stirring tonight?” Asked the black-furred monkey, it smelled quite good, Bajie definitely improved since his first try. 

“Plums stew and Ao Lie stop eating grass before dinner!” The dragon-horse looked up from the batch of grass he was munching on, he did that a lot in his horse form. 

“But I'm hungry.” Sighed the dragon-horse. 

“You wait a few minutes, you glutton.” Huffed Bajie. 

“Put something warm on your back, it helps a lot.” Advised Sanzang as he turned towards Macaque. 

“Yeah, thanks kiddo. Any news of Wujing and Wukong?”Asked Macaque. 

“They're still patrolling for demons ahead. They'll come back after a bit.” Answered the monk, he then added more nervously : “I hope…”

Macaque snorted at the monk's nervosity, some things never changed. He then turned towards the crib at the sound of a sleepy mrrps. Rumble eyes were half-open, he was trying to push away his sister who was latching on him like an octopus. Macaque chuckled and went to aid him. Savage tended to squeeze the life out of her brother sometimes. 

After dinner, Macaque curled next to the crib and fell asleep. He woke up some hours once Wujing and Wukong came back. 

“You're back?” Mumbled Macaque as he rubbed his eyes. He saw out of the corner of his eyes Wujing preparing himself to sleep. Wukong laid next to Macaque and the crib and sighed, he looked quite upset. “Everything is okay?” Asked Macaque, a bit worried. 

“I… We’re approaching a demonic city…” Mumbled Wukong. 

“Oh we gotta avoid it then.” Replied the black-furred monkey. 

“It's ruled by Azure, Peng and Yellow-Tusk. Heaven is not gonna leave them alone, Mac… I…” Wukong didn't need to say more. Macaque sat up and opened his arms, the great sage shrinked and scrambled in the other monkey's arms, hugging him tightly. 

“It'll be okay.” Mumbled Macaque as he petted Wukong's head. 

“I hope so.” Mumbled the great sage. 

“Wanna know what Savage did today?” Asked Macaque in hope of making the other monkey smile. 

Wukong snorted and put his snout in the black-furred monkey shoulder. “What did the lil fireball do?”

“She splashed me. Bath time is a true battlefield I tell you.”

Wukong chuckled at that, his eyes creaking in amusement. But there was still worry lingering on his face.

+ cut scenes

Macaque : alright Sav, I'm just gonna put your brother in the crib then I'll be back to you, stay put, okay? 😌

Savage : 😊

Macaque *after putting Rumble in the crib and turning back to Savage* : Alright I'm done- what the-🤨

Savage *covered in mud* : 😊

 

Rumble *being held by Savage in the crib* : Dad! Help me! She's trying to kill me! 😭

Savage : warm fuzzy brother plushie 🥰

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[banggyu0308]

Welcome To...

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[stormbeyondreality]

Ebonsong Lore of the Day - Day 26

Many of the Et-Ada do not make the distinction between themselves that mortals do. The difference between Aedra and Daedra to them is negligible, and certainly not something to fight each other about. When they do come into conflict, it has more to do with their individual domains and personalities rather than something so basic. Several of the Daedric Princes are included in the - by mortal terms - polycule populated by most of the Aedra, which notably excludes Talos.

There are groupings that are a lot more common than others.

Taglist: @oblivions-dawn, @singleteapot, @fallen-chances

[huzunbey]

Dünyada ve ahirette mülk sahibi olmak istiyorsan kendini bütün varlığınla Allah'a ada. O zaman hem kendin, hem de başkaları üzerinde yönetici ve lider olursun. Ben sana öğüt verdim, öğüdümü kabul et. Sana doğruları söyledim, beni tasdik et.

(Şeyh Abdülkadir Geylani kudduse sirruhu)

[reborn-from-your-ashes]

finalists 🤩

[aisakalegacy]

Printemps 1939, Hylewood, Canada

Chère Noé,

Toutes mes félicitations à Antoine et Aurore pour la naissance de leurs jumeaux, ainsi qu’à Jean-François pour son mariage. Est-ce en prévision de la démission de Mlle Yvain que vous avez changé les filles d’école ? Vous aviez donc si peur que sa remplaçante ne lui arrive pas à la cheville ? 

Je suis absolument navré pour Rose, mais je m’étonne. Pourquoi tient-elle autant Paris en horreur ? Ses tremblements étaient l’occasion parfaite pour qu’elle prenne sa retraite, non ? Après tout, elle n’est plus toute jeune, elle doit avoir des ressources de côté, elle a travaillé toute sa vie… Je pense qu’on peut dire qu’elle l’a méritée. Et puis, elle y vit depuis longtemps. Qu’est-ce qui l’a poussée à revenir à Champs-les-Sims ?

Quelques brèves nouvelles. Les affaires vont bien, cela fait un an que les touristes sont revenus comme avant la crise. Une ligne ferry quotidienne a été mise en place entre Gananoque et Hylewood, cela représente un contrat considérable. Et j’ai donc le plaisir de t’adresser, avec cette lettre, mon tout dernier paiement ! Merci encore, Noé, pour ta patience. Grâce à toi, ma famille est à l’abri du besoin, les affaires tournent, je fais un métier qui me plait et qui me laisse assez de temps libre pour ma femme, ma fille, ma guitare et mes poissons.

Depuis l’année dernière, Gizelle passait de plus en plus de temps chez Agathon à Kingston. C’est au point où j’ai dû le persuader de ne pas lui demander de payer un loyer… Franchement, tu te rends compte ? À sa propre sœur… Bref, elle fréquentait des fêtes, elle était toujours aussi maigre mais pas plus qu’avant, et au moins, elle avait l’air heureuse, donc nous aussi. Elle nous a annoncé un beau jour qu’elle était fiancée. Lola et Layla, qui avaient prévu de faire une cérémonie commune, ont simplement décidé d’intégrer Gizelle à leurs projets. Cela signifie que toutes mes sœurs sont désormais mariées. 

L’heureux élu est Marius Rumédier, le fils de la cousine Ada avec qui tu t’entendais bien. C’est un beau parti, puisque c’est le cadet du propriétaire actuel des entreprises Rumédier. Il n’est pas étudiant ou quoi que ce soit, c’est un désœuvré de dix-neuf ans qui vit des rentes de sa famille et qui passe sa vie dans les soirées mondaines, les concerts et les expositions. On ne le voit pas souvent à Hylewood, il préfère la ville à la tranquillité insulaire, ce qui fait que je ne le connais pas très bien et que je n’ai pas grand chose à t’en dire. Agathon le croise de temps en temps au théâtre, toujours au bras d’une nouvelle femme à l’entendre. Mais bon, vu l’habitude que mon frère a d’exagérer, je ne l’ai pas vraiment pris au sérieux. En plus, s’il a décidé d’épouser ma sœur, c’est bien qu’il a décidé de se ranger, non ? Je trouve qu’il a beaucoup d’esprit.

Je te joins leur photo de mariage. Tu vas voir, c’est quelque chose. Heureusement qu’Eugénie n’est plus là pour la voir, elle n’aurait pas manqué de lâcher une remarque sarcastique ! Layla et Lola font les épaisses ; elles en sont si satisfaites qu’elles ont refusé qu’on reprenne un nouveau cliché… malgré que ce pauvre Ives a réalisé qu’il avait une tâche sur son costume au moment où la photo était faite… Fabien, Gizelle et son mari sont les seuls qui ont l’air à peu près normaux.

Le fait est que la maison parait bien vide. Agathon est là en milieu de semaine quand il ne travaille pas. Le reste du temps, ce n’est plus que ma femme, ma fille et moi. Toutes ces chambres vident me foutent un cafard solide… Mais bon, toute la famille se retrouve le dimanche chez Marie pour le dîner. On se voit donc encore tous régulièrement, et puis l’île n’est pas très grande, on finit toujours pas s’y croiser. Les filles ont arrêté de travailler en se mariant : Layla est femme de médecin, Lola femme de l’héritier d’un industriel, elles n’en ont donc pas vraiment besoin. Gizelle a quitté son emploi à l’épicerie pour pouvoir suivre son mari dans ses soirées à Kingston, mais entre nous, je ne suis pas convaincu que ce soit une bonne idée… Ça me parait important qu’elle puisse garder une indépendance financière et d’autre part, travailler l’occupe. Je crains que rester seule toute la journée avec la cousine Ada l’encourage dans ses travers. Je suppose que c’est hors de ma portée, maintenant…

Je t’embrasse affectueusement.

Lucien Le Bris

P. S. : Je sais que tu as bien fini par recevoir la correspondance de Lola puisqu’elle a eu le temps de te répondre au moins six fois depuis ma dernière réponse... J’espère que tu ne m’en veux pas trop !