Plea to the Moon-Mother is about a small group of queer people living in a world that melts Siberian folklore into the choking mundanity of surviving deep in Russia's periphery.
— Thalber Mitaclau, my friend
I was inspired by Pact by John C. McCrae (aka Wildbow). I wish it did some things differently and I have issues with McCrae as an author, but there are valuable concepts in the story. I am therefore writing an adaptation.
In Berkeley and in Western Siberia live both people I care about and people who have killed people I care about. So I still visit these places and people in my nightmares, because I haven’t forgiven them, and haven’t forgiven myself. There are worlds of tragedy there that I have experienced that I haven’t properly been able to express in any other way. So, I am expressing them here. Plea to the Moon-Mother is set in a blend of Berkeley and Salekhard: Keleykh. The similarities go beyond both being located inside oceanic bays, and I hold that there is deep irony in placing Berkeley in Russia. But I’d rather my story speak for itself in that respect.
Plea to the Moon-Mother is supposed to be both scarier and happier than Pact. Only time will tell if I accomplished that.
CONTENT WARNINGS
- Suicide
- Self-harm
- Transphobia
- Abusive parenting
- Cults
- Not having a safe place to live
- Seeing loved ones die
- Mentions and often portrayals of numerous illnesses of various kinds, including e.g. AIDS, chronic pain, cancer, generalized anxiety disorder