Words, please.

[icedark_elf]

Okay, I need words, everyone. Lots and lots of words. About 30 sets of five. >.> If you want. Words are good, as I need the for ficness. What me turn insane.

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[liandra-m.livejournal.com]

Words hunh?

Psyche
Frost
Listen
Arigato
Sense

[forgottenlover.livejournal.com]

Yammer, Entreat, Rich, Lies, Intention

Tears, Rainbow, Eyes, Feathers, Murky

[forgottenlover.livejournal.com]

Crystals, Hard, Lavender, Soft, Wish

Burns, Dark, Invention, Balance, Momentum

[forgottenlover.livejournal.com]

Intensity, Denial, Envision, Lost, Pleading

Firstborn, Beauty, Whim, Time, Fear

[forgottenlover.livejournal.com]

Noble, Leather, Pristine, Jagged, Wounds

Whimpers, Quiet, Wishes, Need, Vicious

[forgottenlover.livejournal.com]

Melodic, Pantomime, Blood, Ripped, Cub

Canteen, Dragon, Goddess, Chair, Canvas

[forgottenlover.livejournal.com]

Pressure, Rage, Shimmer, Gossamer, Mirage

Notes, Technology, Bird, Ditz, Klutz

[forgottenlover.livejournal.com]

Abandoned, Loved, Twisted, Controlled, Marionette

Blind, Mute, Deaf, Focus, Bruised

[forgottenlover.livejournal.com]

Demon, Inconsequence, Breathless, Empathy, Cruelty

Watching, Cracks, Distance, Magic, Addition

[ambreyedkiller.livejournal.com]

Burrito
Wutai
Demons
Hot
Sauce

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

....(snerk) I can see all FIVE of these going in the same restaurant-fic... ^___^

[liandra-m.livejournal.com]

and more: Tongue, Sweat, Thrum, Urge, Doubled

Keen, Howl, Crackle, Live, Wait

[fireworks-lee.livejournal.com]

chains, gauge, badge, dark, fast

death, fear, cry, tail, eat

[hagane-no.livejournal.com]

Unrequited, Dim, Impulse, Regret, Comfort

Weakness, Hunger, Desire, Stumble, Truth

Fear, Shine, Test, Grey, Sweet

Chocolate, Coffee, Alcohol, Cookie Dough, Soup

Strangle, Heartbeat, Water, Secret, Need

[mirroredsakura.livejournal.com]

Despise, Envision, Purr, Recline, Plummet

[yuenoclow.livejournal.com]

Hmm, words...

Fruit, color, cold, feather, steam

Tickle, smile, hands, myth, faith

Pain, wonder, ribbon, night, rain

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

Just to be weird, my five favorite Japanese words for FFVII-inspiring:

Kenage 健気
Amayadori 雨宿り
Nureru 濡れる (yes, the one with THOSE implications)
Utsusemi 空蝉 (and this one has even MORE implications really...)
Suou 蘇芳

I could practically do a dissertation on each of 'em, but do you want me to or do you want me to let you pry 'em out?

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

I beg for meanings, please. *grins* And I wrote chibi Zack with ducklings. *points to previous entry on journal and runs off for anime club*

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

I kinda was hoping you might want to ferret 'em out because they've all got associations for me and because they're such nuanced words I can't help bringing my associations with, but here you go...

Kenage's what I decided to rename Zack in an AUfic a while back -- it's one of the least single-word-translatable but most generally Zacklike words out there: "brave, gallant, courageous, manly, heroic, praiseworthy, industrious, pure, lovable" according to one dictionary. Someone suggested some time that Zack ought to be an adjective; in Japanese, I think he already is. And I'm SO letting my biases through too much (smacking self to try to stop that).

Okay. More neutral descriptions.

Amayadori is "taking shelter from the rain" -- seems like it usually comes up in the context of being caught out in a sudden rainstorm unprepared and hiding under a big tree, or some other nearby, somewhat improvisational but welcome shelter. (Smacking hand to stop self from going on about what that one conjures up for me. I can do this, really...)

Literally "nureru" is "get wet", but it comes up in contexts ranging from "getting soaked in rain/sea/storm" to "face wet with tears" to a lyrical reference to sex. Tidal waves have got associations with climaxes, and nureru gets associated with getting deeply involved/overwhelmed on the way to one's tidal wave...

Utsusemi is the late-summer version of the samurai associations with sakura in spring -- it's the word for cicadas or a cast-off cicada shell, with implications about how fleeting and ephemeral the period in late summer when you hear the cicadas sing before they molt is, and the cast-off shell is a reminder of mortality and the coming autumn. It's also got associations with "the real world" being less graceful than the sakura-world of spring, and with "a man of the world" who takes moments when he can get them and then flies off.

Suou is a tree, a color, a method of representing elegance in Heian clothing selection, and another heavily connotative image. The tree is called the Judas tree in English because of its association with the red-brown color of dried blood; I'm not sure whether the betrayal aspect comes through as strongly in the Japanese connotations of the tree as it does in English, but the dried blood associations are there. But it's also a traditional set of color-matching in the robes you wear for winter, a range of reds and browns leading to a cold white outer layer. (Stopping self from associating too much AGAIN...)

Anyway, does that help?

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

Very much so. I -hate- looking stuff like that up online, as there are so many crap sites out there that it's hard to know when something is right. I do appreciate the definitions, and hope when I use them that it comes out all right.

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

South, West, Wheel, Center, Lotus

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

Pride, need, seastorm, hateful, musical

Courage, rubber, llama, mirror, candle

Heyo, feathers, stable, rend, saxophone, trespassing

[twins-randomity.livejournal.com]

Circadian, Mistral, Susurration, Byzantine, Corona

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I raided my playlist (which is currently Apocalyptica) for all but one of these:

shaft, path, aprehension, mountain, refuse.

resist, education, resurrection, conclusion, misconstruction.

[gaelbrady.livejournal.com]

tears, sunset, duck, pizza, stairs

chocolate, wings, sheets, light, fire

[lady-kareth.livejournal.com]

Deft
Fluid (adj.)
Crush
Amalgamate
Whisper

[pegunicent.livejournal.com]

Helios, Hyperbole, Histrionic, Hieroglyph, Hemosphere

[willowwarrior.livejournal.com]

Pain, dark, rope, life, holy

time, noise, blood, hope, death

can't, please, iridescent, lost, candle

moist, slow, hate, dream, warm

Hmm...that enough words for ya? ::giggle:: Can't wait to see what you come up with!

[renquestor.livejournal.com]

Fire, Life, Eyes, Energy, Death

[insane-n-evil.livejournal.com]

Lightbulb
Pencil
Radio
Rainbow
Tree

[languidly.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm assuming you didn't receive my email that long while ago o.O The whole drabble/ficlet-wallpaper exchange mahoo.

Lessee . . .


High-heels, storm, assault, fire, injury.

Ya kno, ZackxCloud preferably, but whatever you can come up with will be luv