Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Some Fun English Words

Yes these are real words in the English language & they are glorious.

Defenestration: the action of throwing someone out a window

Over-morrow: The day after tomorrow

Ere-yesterday: The day before yesterday 

Rhotacism: Excessive use of the letter R

Lingible: Meant to be licked

Whip-jack: a beggar, specifically one who is pretending to be shipwrecked

Yerd: to beat an object with a stick

Roddikin: The fourth stomach of a cow or deer

Balbriggan: a type of cotton, most often used in underwear

Cornobble: To slap or beat another person with a fish

Aposiopesis: A sudden breaking off in the middle of a sentence, as if from inability or unwillingness to proceed.

Kerflooey: to cease functioning, especially suddenly or completely

Aeonien: eternal or everlasting

Ludic: playful, in an aimless way

Hebetude: The state of being dull; lethargy

Unputdownable: So interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading (I swear I'm not making these up)

Stelliferous: having or abounding with stars

Fugacious: Fleeting; transitory

Bibliotaph: A person who caches or hoards books

Those are just a few words I thought were kind of fun, I have a dictionary app that gives a word a day & some of them are featured here. Most of these probably haven't been used in a very long time but they're still fun to look at. :D

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Murderous Water Horses (In Addition This Is A Post About My Love of Maggie Stiefvater)

So the very first book I read by the amazing author Maggie Stiefvater was The Scorpio Races. The book was recommended to me by my little sister, who somewhat shares my love of all things fantastical & well-written.
The Scorpio Races is very well-written, set in Thisby, a town that runs mostly on fishing we get to know two very different characters. Sean Kendrick, a quiet stable boy who takes care of horses & Kate "Puck" Connolly, a fisherman's daughter who is outspoken but also polite...to a point.
Thisby has an interesting tradition. The first of November marks the start of the Scorpio Races, a race of death, survival, & possibly lots of money- if you win.
The Scorpio Races are all about capturing or buying one of the capall uisce (copple ooshka) & racing it along the beach against the water horses to win. The problem lies in the capall uisce being murderous horses that come from the sea, they drink blood & kill cattle every November when they rise from the sea. If you can train them & ride them you can enter the Races.
Sean Kendrick has been a part of the Races since he was ten & his father died racing a red capall uisce he had caught. Since then Sean raced Corr, the very same horse, in every race along the sea's edge. & in every race he has won as the other horses hear the call of the sea & long to race into it, dragging their riders down with them, but Sean Kendrick is as much a part of the races & Corr as they are of him.
Puck Connolly is different, as a girl she's automatically discouraged from participating the races, but her house will be sold if she doesn't do something. She enlists Sean's help & with her small pony Dove enters the races as the first girl & the first with a horse that isn't one of the capall uisce.
It's definitely a book I recommend reading & remains of my favorites. Although I may be biased as I have a love of Maggie Stiefvaters' work & continue to be on the edge of my seat as I enter into a world she's created.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Post 1

This is the first time I've made a blog that's not tumblr & I honestly have no idea what I'm doing.

Mikeala & Yuichiro Hyakuya
from Owari no Seraph
I watch Anime but also Dan & Phil (danisnotonfire & AmazingPhil) & crime shows on TV. I read all the books.
Here is a video where Dan falls off his chair.