#words for snow

[cynosurus]

Swedish word of the day:

kramsnö

literally "hugging snow", snow that is adhesive enough that you can form snowballs, snowmen etc from it

krama = hug, but also squeeze or press together

[thicc-astronaut]

Seeing people online get mad about “why are there over 100 genders now!!??” makes me think about how people say “The Eskimos have over fifty words for snow” but actually there’s only one word for “snow” but they add descriptors to it in a way that made a European linguist think they were using different vocabulary words

[goodnightmari]

I did not know they were stackable ?????????

[tulunnguaq]

Revised paper submitted by Benjamin Lee Whorf:

“Did you know the Italians have 200 different words for pasta?”

[demaparbat-hp]

*pats Zuko's head* This bad boy can fit so many near-death experiences.

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Read For the Spirits Chapter VIII here!

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

The first real conversation Katniss has with Peeta is when he tells her that he wants to die as himself, that he doesn't want the games to change him into something he's not, and that he wants to keep his identity and prove he's more than just a piece in their games because that's the only thing he has left to care about.

The first time we see Lucy Gray she sings a song that basically says that nothing they could take from her was worth keeping. "Can't take my past. Can't take my history... You can't take my charm. You can't take my health."

The capitol has taken everything from them both, but at the same time, they could never take away who they are.

They are both likeable charismatic and funny, with the kindest hearts, and incredibly loyal to the people they care about.

At the same time, everything they do before the games, and during is calculated. Lucy Gray singing a love song and winning the hearts of the capitol. Peeta confesses he's in love with his district partner, therefore cementing her identity as desirable. Both of them know how to sway people with words, how to charm people, and how to manipulate crowds. Neither of them has any problem doing so to keep themselves, and the people they love safe.

Lucy Gray's song The Old Therebefore, about learning how to love and live her life to the fullest before death, a final and calculated stroke in a last-ditch effort to save herself from the arena. This evokes enough emotion in the watchers to get them to rise to their feet and plead for her life alongside Snow.

Snow, watching the 74th and preparing for the 75th Hunger Games sees Lucy Gray in Katniss. A young girl, from the 12th district. Unafraid at the reaping. Selling a false love story, manipulating a boy who loves her in order to get out and supporting the revolution with the mockingjay as her symbol.

He threatens her family to get her to sell that she and Peeta are in love, to prevent the revolution, because obviously, she's pretending. He's had experience with a girl just like her before. He has no doubt that she has the acting ability to sell this story because clearly, she manipulated the first Hunger Games in her favor, the same way Lucy Gray manipulated him.

Watching the interviews for the 75th Hunger Games he realizes-

Katniss is just an impulsive girl, in a Mockingjay dress she didn't know about, made by someone who supports the revolution.

Peeta is a boy who has the ability to move people with just his words. He made Katniss desirable, he was the one who sold the love story, and he was the one to make their romance seem real. Katniss only started the revolution because she would rather risk dying with him than live without him. A concept President Snow was completely unfamiliar with. And it is with all these realizations crashing around him Peeta drops the baby bomb. He knows the baby's not real, and so does Snow. But it evokes enough emotion in the watchers to get them to rise to their feet and plead for the lives of the tributes.

Is it Lucy Gray or Peeta?

By the time Snow realizes he's made a mistake, it's too late.

Peeta is still charming and manipulating the capitol. Katniss is in love.

He goes up against a kindhearted boy expecting to beat Sejanus again, only to find out that it's Lucy Gray he's fighting; knowing he will never be able to escape their ghosts.

-from a conversation i had with @grandtyphoonpoetry breaking down every character in the hunger games.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

would you please do a word list inspired by winter? eg hoarfrost, etc

Words Related to Winter

Apricity - the warmth of the sun in winter

Blizzard - a long heavy snowstorm

Brumation - a state or condition of sluggishness, inactivity, or torpor exhibited by reptiles (such as snakes or lizards) during winter or extended periods of low temperature

Evergreen - having leaves that stay green through more than one growing season

Frigid - freezing cold

Hiemal - of or relating to winter

Hoarfrost - frost (i.e., the process of freezing)

Icicle - a hanging piece of ice formed from dripping water as it freezes

Oversnow - obsolete: to cover with or as if with snow; used for transport or travel over snow

Psychrophilic - thriving at a relatively low temperature

Sitzmark - a depression left in the snow by a skier falling backward

Skijoring - a winter sport in which a person wearing skis is drawn over snow or ice by a horse or vehicle

Sleet - frozen or partly frozen rain

Snowberry - any of several white-berried shrubs

Snowbird - any of several birds seen chiefly in winter; one who travels to warm climes for the winter

Snowbound - shut in or blockaded by snow

Snowbridge - a bridge of snow across a crevasse in a glacier

Snowmelt - runoff produced by melting snow

Snowscape - a landscape covered with snow

Snowslide - an avalanche of snow

Snowthrown - of a tree: bent or broken by the weight of snow

Snow-white - white as snow

Squall - a sudden violent wind often with rain or snow

Subnivean - situated or occurring under the snow

Toboggan - a long light sled made without runners and curved up at the front

Source ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ Autumn ⚜ Spring ⚜ Summer ⚜ Word List: Winter

Hope this helps with your writing!

[shisasan]

Angela Carter, The bloody chamber, and other stories

[doydoune]

Hazakura Temple, February

[mapsontheweb]

How to say "Snow" in your own language?

by lingu.world/instagram

[midoristeashop]

Long car trips mean hunch over my ipad and film dumb stupid videos in restaurants at 11pm 😍 (future me screw u idk if it’s shaky also do not perceive me)

(That one vine)

Also have the things

[hrrystylesbookclub]

i don’t just want a book about each hunger games, i want to know the entire history of panem: the fall of north america and how it became panem, how long they existed as a capitol and thirteen districts, what led to the dark days, how panem changed in the time between the 10th and 74th games, if they have contact with other countries, what happened to the other countries, how far into the future this is

the brilliance of suzanne collins is that she created such a rich world where i’m genuinely interested in any sort of story set within panem, not just in context of the games but their entire history books

[overclassy]

[thoughtkick]

If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lay with me and just forget the world?

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

[amber-laughs]

“Jon hated having guards trailing after him everywhere he went. It made him feel like a mother duck leading a procession of ducklings.” A Dance with Dragons - Jon I

quack quack

[taigarrryen]

Before it kills you

@birrdies your mczu stuff is making me sick