Dictionary of my Heart

Hi, putting this here for a bit more context than the summary blurbs of lits allow.

So most of these chapters are pretty short. majority range from 100 to <1k. but there's a few between 1k-2k intermixed. Though I try to make all of the chapters operate as oneshots (as in, there's not a 2 or 2+ chapter arc with any of these, but some chapters may reference earlier chapters/events.

The chapters are meant to be read in order, and all happen chronologically in this order, more or less. (Except Tejak, which takes place after Ketet. its the only one I placed out of order for narrative purposes. also because it was the first thing I wrote for this and it just felt right.)

**these chapters don't reflect EVERY stormspeak word Amek has told Aug ever jsyk. I'm cherry-picking words/scenes for narrative purposes. Especially since the latter half of this lit starts time jumping like years ahead instead of days/weeks/months like the earlier chapters.

oh yeah also, you absolutely don't need these to read/understand/enjoy this literature, but here's the pages for storm speak language cipher and grammar rules

^^^ that's all the essential info. More me rambling on my thoughts below. VVV

This is a bit of an experimental piece, and the most... multichapter thing I've written recently (things I've written of this length bfr had much less chapters I mean haha). I would like to say the disjointed energy of it was on purpose, and it partly was, me trying to reflection August+Amek's confusion and struggle with this all. However, this was ALSO written off and on over a period of maybe 5 months, so good deal of disjointedness can be attributed to that I believe. I've gone back and revised older things ofc but also lol. The thing that ties all these chapters together is just Amek telling Aug a stormspeak word tbh. tho I tried to add some overarching narrative a lil bit I'm not sure how successful I was lmao. I had never intended for this to be an entire 16k.

also frankly some chaps r a little less polished than I want bc I just wanna be done with it now eeeugughgh. it's fine.

I've also started to realize I'm disliking writing amek+aug as much as I enjoy writing Hyun (and her circle), which I THINK I've identified to be a result of... most of my current aug+amek fics being just 1-on-1 horrific angst sadness convos between the both of them LOL...... which this lit definitely does have, but I've also tried to insert some happy times + other char cameos here and there to mix it up. Moreso towards the end of the lit, bc that's when I had this realization haha. The first half of the lit is mostly a bit depressing/bleak on purpose bc like... that is kinda the place aug+amek are in unfortunately

I also could have and probably should have inserted more scenes with Garv + july + june in this. but I'll be so real I'm tired of writing this thing and I wanted to get it done bfr I go on field camp in the summer ...........  also the constraint of this lit being 'amek tells aug a stormspeak word every chapter' severely limited the kinda scenes I was able to write tbh. Like I gotta emphasize brutus + july only appear/speak in one chapter (javyyerak and kheekjak respectively), and September is in like uuum . 3 chapters I think lol (koryerm, avkretymet, ketet). And garv in 2 (koryerm, kemerkykhov)