#askradish

Anyway, I have to ask because The Lagoon has been haunting my every waking moment lately, where do you get your horror inspiration from? Like the merperson and it's mimicking is sooo Magnus Archives 'can I have a cigarette' coded but that's probably just me projecting. The voice you use for the horror and the tension is really unique and captivating and I just desperately need to know where you got it from.

no he's my puppet! you'll have to pry his cold lifeless body from my sweaty little hands!

i read a lot of sff, gothic lit and some dark academia, was a fan of supernatural for a long long time, and i looove old gods of appalachia (it's distributed by rusty quill also, but i've not gotten around to magnus archives). i also played call of cthulhu for a while in my mid-twenties... i guess all of those blend together in my appreciation of the ooky spooky :)

i also try to match the structure of my writing to the atmosphere, eg longer run-on sentences for aldo's spiralling in chapter 9 to evoke a sense of breathlessness, and short snappy paragraphs and sentences and less humour for more action and thrill focused scenes to mimic a pounding heart. i think that contributes to the voices of different styles of scenes...

Your characterization of both Aldo and Goffredo is fantastic as well, I love how they aren't exactly friends but aren't enemies anymore, what an akward situation to be. Truly their dynamic is most interesting, I'm at the edge of my seat whenever they discuss or at the end of each case when they share strangely intimate moments.

I'm very excited to see in which direction you'll take the story, I'm sure it will exceed my expectations, as usual! But please take your time, rest well and be kind to yourself in the process!! I - and everyone else - will wait patiently! Sending you lots of love and admiration from Brazil! ❤

P.s.: Do you have any book recs? I love your repertoire and your writing, it really shows how skilled you are. I've been meaning to read Dante Alighieri for some time, maybe this will finally convice me to gather my courage and try.

Take care!

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hi there, bestie! thank you so much for your sweet message, i'm so happy to hear my story hits the spot for you 🤭

tbh the bible verses require a lot of research, because with that book there's always something different than you expect behind the words (and i'm sure i've gotten things wrong before) but it's also very fun and i often end up reading a whole chapter or three (you know how some people have yearly goal of reading the whole bible? yeah i might accomplish that--just out of order lol)

bellesco is soo fun to play around with, it's so awkward and angsty and i love their worstie dynamic... when castellitto said there was an angry sensuality to tedesco? i felt that... deeply (maybe a little too deeply 👀)

awh thank you so much for the well wishes! my recent break has really helped my mental energy and i'm trying to take things slowly rn--but it's also very fulfilling to finish each part!

sending lots of love to brazil! 💚💛💙

p. s. oh wow reading recs... depends what you're looking for i guess? i read mostly speculative fiction, but let's see what i can come up with!

cannot shower you the correct amount of praise for how MASTERFULLY written this fic is

haha that's a perfect description actually!

although lately it's getting more serious sorry 😔

thank you so much!! 💖

oh my, there's so many to choose from! but here are some of my personal favourite fics/series/authors (in no particular order):

machiavelli's room by harpernovakaine

Did you know it could be così? by Moonfishgirl

Crown Of Thorns by @rodamned

Labor omnia vincit by rodamned

Eros (ἔρως) by rodamned

Algo, Bellini by @incurablenecromantic

italian lessons by fuckityfardisgetinthetardis

veniat ad me et bibat by @kalincka

Enjoy the Silence by @yuhlena

So Pure In Thought by yuhlena

PLEASE keep an eye on the tags! most of these are explicit and/or violent and/or dddne!

out of the hundreds of fics i've read these have, for one reason or other, touched my soul in a way i find hard to describe.

Also I wanted to ask if I could base a pen & paper character of your tedesco? :3 I wanted to play a conservative priest at first but that would clash with the mages in our group (since priests in the world of this pen and pager game apparently HATE magic but we need it to get through the adventures) aaaand while reading your story I was like "wait what if my character doesn't hate magic but just hyperfocuses on demons? What if I make him an exorcist?" So yeah tldr for that but I hope you'll have an amazing day and good vibes all around!!

tysm 🫶

i replied to your ao3 comment before, but just in case this is relevant to anyone else, i'll answer it here, too.

of course! feel free to use anything from my story for your own creative hobbies. and also: i don't own tedesco and i don't own the magic cleric trope.

what i'd like to add though is, that tedesco only accepts his powers, because 1) he can use them to fight (in his mind) greater evils 2) if the powers are in his hands, they aren't in someone else's who might misuse them 3) he is pragmatic enough to use whatever is at his disposal to fight for what he believes in

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR MENTIONING MARCHIGIANO DIALECT, I GO A BIT INSANE WHEN MY REGION IS MENTIONED. <3

thank you so much!! 💓

i'm not italian, but from somewhere else in europe (english bilingual, although i do still make mistakes) and my italian is quite rusty tbh.. but i do do a lot of research, so i'm glad it's paying off! receiving a compliment from someone from the region is just making me tear up 😭

i wanted a case somewhere rural and easily reachable by car and through ann radcliffe i just fell in love with the apennines. in The Italian they travel from naples to the adriatic, and my descriptions of the landscape in exorcist ch. 3 are very inspired by her!

my second theory is there will be more ongoing debate about how they'll handle dealing with creatures going forward, where bellini will keep arguing in favor of trying to understand them and tedesco will be like "no, let's just kill em all" and tedesco will be made to eat his words in some way. also i noticed a throughline with that mysterious circle symbol, and it never being revealed who created that mermaid. i have no idea where that's headed yet and i massively look forward to finding out (1/2)

omg hiiii! 💖

i love reading theories although I might have to rafo (read and find out) a few of them if i plan to touch on anything in the future or haven't fully decided on some of the lore. all in all you're reaaallly in depth with these and that's so cool!!

let's see...

spoilers for exorciat of venice ch. 1-10