Elliott Dunstan

Ishvalan Conlang Running Glossary

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:28:31 GMT

Self-ref only

Mehweinu (MEH-WEI*-NU) - washbasin, sink (fem)
Imwana (IM-WA*-NA) - the state of holiness/sacredness/purity (masc)
Imwan' (IM*-WAN') - the chosen people, Ishvalans (masc)
Mawan' (MA*-WAN') - cleanliness, holiness, purity (fem)
Khamwehn' (KH-AM*-WEH-N') - contamination, uncleanness (masc)
Khaiwoni (KHAI-WO*-NI) - contaminated person (depends on person being referred to; default masc)
Khamwana (KHAM-WA*-NA) - the state of contamination or uncleanness (masc)
Khamuhwin (KHA-MUH-WI-N') - rot, decay, physical dirt, mold on food (fem)
Mawinai (MA-WI*-NAI) - to clean, to purify
Khawinai (KHA*-WI-NAI) - to contaminate, to make unclean

Nevatai (NE*-VA-TAI) - to pray
Navat' (NA*-VA-T') - temple (fem)
Khanuvet' (KHA*-NU-VE-T') - heretic (masc)
Khanehvitai (KHA-NEH*-VI-TAI) - to dishonour/disrepect
Khanevitai (KHA-NE-VI*-TAI) - to desecrate
Invata (IN-VA*-TA) - holy ground (masc)
Anvat' (AN*-VA-T') - honoured/respected
Khanvat' (KH-AN*-VA-T') - dishonoured/disrepected
Anvehtai (AN-VEH*-TAI) - to honour/respect, to show honour/respect
Neveitu (NE-VEI*-TU) - statue, icon (masc)

Ishvala (ISH-VA*-LA) - the name of God, God (masc; can be fem)
Ishval (ISH*-VA-L') - country, our country (fem)
Sheveilu (SHE-VEI*-LU) - house, home, physical house (fem)
Khashval (KHA*-SH-VA-L') - stranger, a thing that is a strange, a place that is strange (masc)
Ashval' (ASH*-VAL') - known being, known thing (masc)
Shavulai (SHA-VU*-LAI) to return home, to do homecoming, to do pilgrimage
Ashevelai (A-SHE*-VE-LAI) - to invite
Khashavulai (KHA-SHA*-VU-LAI) - to estrange/make distant/make self distant (immediately reflexive)
Shavelai (SHA-VE*-LAI) - to spell, to write

DEFINITE ARTICLE: sho-/shoh-/shoi-/shai-/shei-/sha-

shev - in, within, into
kish - outside, out
nav - above
kanav - below, under
nget - to, unto
angat - from
asza - after
nur - between
uner - apart

vocative marker: Vuh
imperative marker: nakab

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HOTP Chapter 44: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 01:11:54 GMT

Hero of the People (131589 words) by rokosourobouros
Chapters: 44/50
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Envy/Pride (Selim Bradley), Greed/Lust (Fullmetal Alchemist), Greed/Sheska, Rosé Thomas/Sloth (Trisha Elric), Envy & Wrath, Envy & Greed & Lust (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Characters: Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist), Lust (Fullmetal Alchemist), Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist), Wrath (Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)), Pride (Selim Bradley)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Canon, Alternate Universe - Character Swap, Queer Themes, Queer Gen, Canon Rewrite, Canon Blending, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Trans Male Character, Non-binary character, Fuhrer Roy Mustang, Angst and Feels, Body Horror, Team as Family, Male-Female Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Psychological Horror, Aromantic, Gender Dysphoria, Character Death, Female Character of Color, Bisexual Female Character, Companionable Snark, Polyamory, Sibling Incest, (Not depicted as a good or awesome thing), Complicated Relationships, background royai
Summary:

After the transmutation that dooms his brother to a life as a living doll and rips away two of his limbs, William Elric joins the military to find what he needs. But between the mysterious homunculi, his sultry, sarcastic commanding officer Solaris and nasty comments on his miniskirts, Will might find his journey tougher than he bargained for. Multiple character-switch AU! [Homunculi from both canons switched with main heroes.]

CHAPTER 44: the Lab 5 arc has officially begun! TIME FOR SHENANIGANS. :D

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HOTP - Lab 5

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:45:03 GMT

So, my main longfic that I update is Hero of the People, a roleswap AU with the homunculi in the place of the heroes. It's been going for , and somehow, amazingly...

I've finally made it to Lab 5.

I'm SO INTIMIDATED, OH MY GOD. in both canons this is like, such an important point in the story, and I need to NAIL it for the rest of the story to work at all. But also, very very very excited. All the pieces are coming together..... *evil chuckling*

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Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:49:12 GMT

Sugar and Spice: 100 Edvy Themes (2845 words) by rokosourobouros
Chapters: 2/100
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edward Elric/Envy
Characters: Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist), Edward Elric
Additional Tags: One Shot Collection, Fluff and Humor, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Edward Elric Swears, various AUs and various prompts, something for everyone! except people who hate edvy idk you probably won't have a great time
Summary:

100 oneshots for my one true pairing - Edward and Envy!

The oneshots will range all over - 2003, Brotherhood, AU, hateshipping, cute fluff, crack, and the rating may go up for a few smutty chapters but we'll see. Starting at T for now.

All the standards apply - don't like, don't read, reviews are appreciated, beware the tags per chapter, etc. Attempting to update this daily during the pandemic because i am BORED.

Two chapters of this up so far, and hoping to do one per day while I can! I missed this ship. It feels like home.

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Mon, 13 Apr 2020 03:28:28 GMT

Getting back into FMA fandom hardcore, so gonna try post my fic updates here from now on. I don't know how to find people on this site, unfortunately, so Idk. Will shout into void and attempt.

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Trope Bingo Card

Sat, 15 Feb 2020 18:24:01 GMT

SECRET IDENTITIES	AU: HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGE	AU: FUSION	LANGUAGE / TRANSLATION	EPISTOLARY
IN VINO VERITAS / DRUNK FIC	AU: FAIRY TALE / MYTH	ACCIDENTAL HERO	HANDCUFFED / BOUND TOGETHER	AU: MUNDANE
RITES OF PASSAGE / COMING OF AGE	CHARACTER IN DISTRESS	FREE SPACE	AU: PIRATES	AU: FANTASY
CURTAIN FIC	AU: APOCALYPSE	ROLE REVERSAL	AU: CRIME	TORTURE / INTERROGATION
ROAD TRIP	CROSSOVER	AU: ROYALTY / ARISTOCRACY / FEUDAL	TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TO LIVE	IMMORTALITY / REINCARNATION

This? This is going to be FUN.

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Mon, 10 Feb 2020 23:03:18 GMT

if anybody who follows me here is into FMA 2003, I made a comm over at fullmetalalchemist2003 to appreciate and love it more uwu
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imagine it will be pretty tiny

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The Witcher In A Nutshell - Episode 1: The End's Beginning; OR, The Director Yeets A Renfri

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 03:07:32 GMT

Anybody but me remember this from Livejournal? I found my own attempt at one from when i was 14 and while the emo jokes and transphobia didn't age well, the format.... is fun. Cringe culture is dead and I need a way to unwind. Spoilerrrrs AHOY!

TW: For all the same stuff as Witcher, but also, there's some joking about rape later in the post. Not the Mean kind of rape joke - just about rape backstories.

( Read more... )

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Thu, 30 Jan 2020 04:37:46 GMT

looks left,,,,

looks right,,,,

would people be interested in a villains big bang??

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About Me

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:42:39 GMT

Hi all! I'm Elliott, but you can also call me Sulfur, Baki or Otter. This is not my first Dreamwidth account (I used to be over at sulfuriclights, but I forgot the password and then remembered it again and then needed a change- oh, whatever.)

I'm not gonna be super formal with this, but a few things to know.

WHO I AM:

Trans, loud, blunt, writer, editor, book reviewer. Incorrigible, very bad sense of humour, occasionally super intense and working on that. Likes a lot of things, particularly things that enjoy being weird *and* don't take themselves too seriously. Don't have time for useless or mean people.

WHAT I LIKE:

Homestuck, FMA, ATLA, various books including Secret History, Wilder Girls, Doomspell Trilogy, etc., Disney and Dreamworks movies, fantasy and science fiction, ownvoices and diverse literature, horror, the places where horror intrudes into other things and goes 'boo', collecting shiny big anthologies of short stories

WHAT I DON'T LIKE:

anything that ends with -ism or -phobia, or things that pretend they're totally not that while Definitely being that. gatekeeping is way out. lack of nuance. bad writing. "leftist" politics that leave out disabled people. the MOTHERFUCKING. LRT.

(P.S. If you're curious about my username, look up Roko's Basilisk and the Ourobouros symbol.

...I'm really, really nerdy, okay?)

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Sat, 25 Jan 2020 04:27:54 GMT

Notes on the books I read recently so I don't forget when I actually get to the reviews:

Aru Shah and the End of Time was really fun! It was pretty kiddish, but that was what I liked about it - it really didn't take itself too seriously, and it actually felt modern. I find that sometimes middle grade gets stuck in a mythical nineties-ish past, where the writers don't know how to contend with modern technology. Aru Shah doesn't do too much with social media, but it also actually feels like it has modern 12-13 year olds in it. It's also hilariously feminist in the sense that it isn't trying to Do Anything Grand with being about girls. It's just fun! Especially every time Aru's like "it's HEROINE." Particularly love: Mini being mixed Filipino and Indian. (I did get a little mixed up at first, because the Pandavas are not part of Hindu mythology I know, but as Chokshi explains - Hindu mythology is MASSIVE.)

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky is a little more somber although it definitely has its silly moments. It's impossible to make a book about the demons of slavery and cotton silly and light in tone, and the scope is epic-fantasy level. In particular, I love the blending of the New-World and Old-World gods, and their enmity towards each other - not to mention the monsters themselves. Brrr. I always think I'm nowhere near Black enough for this stuff to affect me this deeply, but every now and again...

Hollow Girl was my most intense recent read. I was warned several times and well ahead of time that it featured a sexual assault, but I still tensed up waiting for it, and I had to wait a good 24 hours before reading the chapter that involved it. The horror is pretty great, and I love that it's a revenge story - the character who didn't work for me mostly was Drina, actually. The mother twist didn't really seem that necessary and kind of seemed to bank on 'getting old is scary and sad'.

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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:06:29 GMT

i have a lot of feelings about witcher but mostly I hate that nobody wants to actually like.... think about yennefer's arc beyond 'rawr they did sexist thing'
i mean. it literally. comes up that women are "seen as vessels"
do you think maybe the show's trying to Do Something Here
anyway I would die for Yennefer of Vengerberg

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