#halloween vocab

[radioactivepeasant]

Halloween Fic: Prologue

(This angsty little bit actually happens month before the story itself, but it's very important worldbuilding for the story. When the whole thing is done, it'll be published on AO3 as a two-chapter whole)

"This one's temperature is too high."

Damas frowned down at the pallet beside the vast Precursor statue that loomed over the dais. The survivor he'd tracked the beacon to that morning in the desert lay there, unresponsive to the whispered chanting and cooling packs of the monks. He'd been shocked to discover that what he'd taken for a young soldier was barely more than a child under the sweat and grime embedded in his pores. By the size of the bones standing out just a little too visibly against the Unclaimed's skin, and the teeth they could count, Brother Rhys reckoned the boy could be no more than three and a half lustrums: seventeen at the oldest.

Seventeen was just barely old enough for the Trials, and that was just the high estimate of the stranger's age. That complicated the usual procedures of dealing with newcomers to Spargus. If he survived -- and at the moment it wasn't looking terribly likely -- and it turned out he was younger than seventeen, some kind of arrangement would have to be made for a child-Unclaimed.

"Do you not have cooling packs?" Damas asked, gesturing to the boy and the two animals that had been found with him.

"They are inadequate, my lord," Rhys answered. "Our supplies were greatly depleted after a failed expedition of several acolytes to the Great Volcano."

Was that all? The king of the Wastelanders turned away with a dismissive gesture.

"Then keep his body submerged until his core temperature stabilizes. I have questions for this one."

Silence followed the command. When Damas turned, the monks were watching him with conflicted expressions. He frowned and paced to the edge of the dais.

"Well?" he demanded.

Another monk, lower in rank than Brother Rhys, made a pacifying gesture and said apologetically, "We cannot, my lord. It is improper."

The king curled his lip at them. "Oh? Tell me, when did it become improper to render aid to a child?"

Rhys raised a hand, silently forbidding his companion from speaking further. He bowed his head.

"He is an Unclaimed, sire. Only those who brought the Unclaimed into your city may give them the rites of Water and First Breath, by law."

His meaning was clear: if Damas wanted to this one to live, he had to deal with it himself.

But there was a problem.

The monks would not treat submersion as an emergency medical treatment. They were rigid and uncompromising in the arena of new citizens. No matter what Damas said, if the Unclaimed was submerged, even to lower his temperature, they would record it as the rite of First Breath. But the rite of First Breath was reserved for those who had earned their first amulet in the Arena; those who understood the laws of Spargus and chose to stay, sponsored by their Finders, would use the ritual to move from Unclaimed to Foundling in the city census, gaining the same legal status as any child born within the walls.

This Unclaimed would die long before he had the chance to test his mettle in the ring if his temperature was not brought down, and soon. But without that amulet, if he were to step out of line later, he would not be the only one held accountable.

Damas took one last look at the limp form, and -- with a fairly imprecatory prayer under his breath to the Six Patrons of eco -- he made up his mind.

The king tossed aside his staff with an echoing clash of metal against stone. The monks twitched, and the guards at the lift jumped. Damas ignored them. He stormed down the steps of the dais and grabbed the skinny boy's arm. For a moment, he was thrown off by the texture of scars swirling across the skin like silvery fractals. More questions without answers. He shook away his curiosity and dragged the Unclaimed from the pallet and down to the edge of the pools. The orange creature raised its head and let out a choked cry -- it likely thought he was going to harm its human.

This wasn't going to help its opinion.

Damas stepped down into the water and hauled the Unclaimed bodily in after him. Frustration boiled under his skin, making his movements rough and brusque as he pushed the boy down under the surface and held him there.

The Six were mocking him.

You couldn't handle a toddler. Try again, maybe you can keep track of one big enough to protect himself? Try try again, Damas. Try and fail again.

The frustration bubbled up into his throat and tasted of bitterness.

He hadn’t asked for this.

He didn't want another child. He wanted his son. He wanted Mar.

But he knew in his heart that he was far too stubborn to let this one die.

One of the newer guards watched, and realized soon enough that the boy was awake, yet he did not struggle.

"This one is too weak, sire," he sneered, looking down with contempt, "Let the waters claim him."

And perhaps it would have been the merciful thing to do.

But Damas hated being told what to do.

And Damas had always been the kind of man who refused to admit defeat.

The boy's body would realize it needed air soon enough, surely. Any moment now.

Usually candidates are fully lucid during this rite for a reason....

Two seconds passed. Then five. Nine. At eleven seconds, the boy's eyelids twitched like he was going to open them. Good.

"Push," Damas whispered, stubbornly willing him to fight, "Push, whelp."

The Unclaimed's body tensed as if in response and one hand slowly, ever so slowly, rose to break the surface as if he'd just realized he was underwater. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open -- horribly, familiarly blue -- and his fingers snatched at whatever he could reach, clawing weakly at Damas’s arm.

It was enough.

Damas yanked him up out of the water by the collar of his mutilated tunic and the boy coughed out a mouthful of water. There would be no going back after this. The second they'd entered the water, the Unclaimed -- the Foundling's -- fate was bound irrevocably to Damas’s.

Grimly, and as quickly as was socially acceptable, Damas recited the words that would make the ritual binding -- and would add one more duty to his endless litany of tasks.

"Take your first breath, child of the wastes. By this birth and the hands that bore you, you belong to the people of Spargus."

"To the king of Spargus," the second monk softly corrected him, cutting off the rest of the words traditionally spoken as the young man sucked in a desperate gasp of air. "It is you who has chosen to forego the First Trial to give him his birth-by-water early. His fate is solely in your hands, my lord."

Damas snarled softly. "There was no need for it to be so," he reproached.

Emotionlessly, he hauled the Foundling from the pools and dropped him back onto the pallet.

"Heal him."

"Of course, my lord," the monk murmured. "As he is now part of your household, do you consent to the use of city eco to treat your Foundling?"

"Don't call him that." Damas turned away to retrieve his staff.

"It is what he is," Rhys observed placidly. "As you are his Finder-"

"I didn't ask to find the whelp," Damas hissed, "None of you were going to give him his rites!"

He marched past his throne, towards the exit of the chamber, stonefaced.

"Put him back in the water until one of you returns with the eco. Inform me if he recovers."

Between the monks, Jak lay on the pallet and stared at the ceiling with wide, glassy eyes.

If anyone had been paying attention, they would have seen his pupils dilate unnaturally wide.

#fic prompts #writing prompts #jak and daxter #jus sanguinis fic #dadmas #king damas #jak and daxter au #worldbuilding #i needed to post this one first so the vocab in Jus Sanguinis with foundlings and finders will make sense #but also this scene actually ends up being very important later #reluctant dad Damas #he warms up to Jak when Jak disregards age restrictions and enters the Arena anyway #the guard guy and some like-minded Wastelanders comment sometimes that Jak is too weak to be a Wastelander. that he's better off a servant #Damas and Jak bond out of spite for those people tbh #until the Arena Incident. Then things get a little tense. And then the main story happens. #halloween fic

[prepolyglot]

Halloween French Vocab

langblr reactivation challenge | week 1, day 4

Halloween | Halloween (f)

trick or treat! | des bonbons ou un sort!

candy | bonbons (m.pl)

costume | costume (m)

mask | masque (m)

decoration | décoration (f)

pumpkin | citrouille (f)

jack-o-lantern | citrouille d’Halloween (f)

moon | lune (f)

haunted house | maison hantée (f)

cemetery | cimetière (m)

nightmare | cauchemar (m)

scary | effrayant

black cat | chat noir (m)

spider | araignée (f)

spiderweb | toile d’araignée (f)

supernatural | surnaturel(le)

werewolf | loup-garou (m)

ghost | fantôme (m)

ghoul | goule (f)

demon | démon (m)

monster | monstre (m)

Please let me know if there are any mistakes or better translations!

I was also reminded of a song my teacher showed my class in high school:

#french #french vocab #langblr #langblr reactivation challenge #i HAD to do a halloween vocab #also this is a little late because i was busy today

[orientalismx]

Trick or treat

不給糖，就搗蛋 | bù gěi táng, jiù dǎo dàn

为庆祝万圣节的来临，小孩会装扮成各种可爱的鬼怪向逐家逐户地敲门，要求获得糖果，否则就会捣蛋。而同时传说这一晚，各种鬼怪也会装扮成小孩混入群众之中一起庆祝万圣节的来临，而人类为了让鬼怪更融洽才装扮成各种鬼怪。  

To celebrate the advent of Halloween, children will dress up as all kinds of cute ghosts and knock on doors from house to house, asking for candy, or they will trick or treat. At the same time, it is said that this night, all kinds of ghosts will dress up as children to join the crowd to celebrate the coming of Halloween together, and humans dress up as various ghosts in order to make the ghosts more harmonious.

#happy halloween #halloween #trick or treat #不給糖就搗蛋 #china #chinese #learn chinese #learn mandarin #mandarin #langblr #learn languages #chinese langblr #chinese halloween #chinese vocab #chinese words #chinese texts #hsk #学习汉语 #学习普通话 #中国 #orientalismx

[polyglot-thought]

[Japanese→English] @unico_uniuni 6:00 AM October 11th 2023 Post - Color Coded Translation

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! 🎃👻🍂🧛🏻🦇🕷🕸

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うにの儀式です。

うにのぎしきです。

Uni’s ritual.

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「何の儀式かは内緒です」

なんのぎしきかはないしょです

“What kind of ritual it is, is a secret.”

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#ミヌエット

#Minuet (a cat breed)

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#猫好きさんとつながりたい

ねこすきさんとつながりたい

#I Want To Connect With People Who Like Cats

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#にゃんすたぐらむ

#Nyanstagram

or

#Meowstagram

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#猫写真

ねこしゃしん

#Cat photo

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#一眼レフのある生活

いちがんレフのあるせいかつ

#Life with a single-lens reflex camera

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#くつしたねこ

#Cats Who Have Shoes

or

#Cats With Boots

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Please correct me if I made a mistake

Created October 2023

#color coded translation #japanese vocab #learn japanese #learning japanese #japanese language #japanese lesson #japanese #日本語 #日本語の練習 #study japanese #uni #cat #halloween #halloween vocabulary #cat meme

[goodplan-ipromise]

#japanese #learning japanese #langblog #japanese vocab #japan #anime #langblr #tumblr language #manga #japanese vocabulary #Halloween

[frenchlitclub]

fantôme

/FenTohm/

(masc. "un/le" 🔹pl. fantômes)

-> ghost

#halloween season #langblr #french #french langblr #french learning #french language #studyblr #french vocab #langblog #french vocabulary #french words

[gettingready2read]

Where's My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimi, illustrated by John Manders

This book is one of my most favorite read-alouds for Halloween storytimes. The illustrations are beautiful and Little Baby Mummy is an endearing and adorable main character.

The book offers many different talking points- your child can use their narrative skills to guess what will happen next, as well as reviewing their background knowledge about each of the characters we meet in the book.

As you read the book together, you can also point out the new and fun vocabulary, such as “gargled,” “glug,” and “glob,” just to name a few.

Extend the book with the Toilet Paper Mummy Wrap game!

It's best to do this game with at least 4 players in teams of 2, if not more. However, it can just be a fun activity with a child or parent where the parent or child is the mummy. You can also wrap dolls instead of people.

The idea is that each team gets a roll of toilet paper and the first team to wrap their mummy and use up their toilet paper wins. We recommend not covering the nose or mouth too much.

#halloween #halloween books #where's my mummy #carolyn crimi #john manders #background knowledge #narrative skills #vocab builder #playing #talking #reading #early literacy #kids books #ecrr extension activities

[dawn-in-neocity]

“best friend” (™️) nct dream

(that is your man, you’re just in denial)

mark

y’all are only missing the relationship title at this point. you’re always the first to hear his new music. he values your opinion so much. loves lending you hoodies and jackets because when you return them they smell like you. tells you how cute you are 100 times a day. boops your nose and pinches your chin. sends you 360s of his fresh haircuts. shows up to all your events (sports, work events, art, fundraisers, anything you do). makes pinky promises with you.

renjun

you two slowly move into more than friends territory. brings you flowers “for your room”. picks up your vocab without realizing it. reserves his gentlest speaking voice for you only. listens intently to anything and everything you have to say. you two do road-trips and mini getaways all the time. vents to you. creates the perfect bite from his meal for you to try whenever you’re eating together. forehead kisses!!! will be the one to initiate the “what are we” conversation.

jeno

he’s simply your jeno and you do not wish to elaborate. his arm is always draped over the back of your seat. you’re together so often that his friends are confused when you’re NOT at his place. slips up and calls you babe (and keeps at it since you don’t seem to mind). you two are always in a corner laughing it UP about something. y’all dressed up as harley quinn and the joker for halloween. ALWAYS ties your shoelaces for you no matter where you are.

haechan

that’s just your bf i hate to break it to you. posts soft launch-esque pics of you two on his story. everyone thinks you’re dating. teases you by poking his finger into your side. why are you standing so close to each other? his hair is touching your forehead? move? plays with your fingers. named the stuffed animal you won him and now deems it your love child. places your legs on top of his when you sit beside each other. texts you “this made me think of you” at least 4x a week.

jaemin

he would marry you tomorrow if you agreed. makes it clear that it’s you or no one else for him. greets you with a veryyy friendly kiss on the cheek. 0 chill when it comes to pda. got you a really nice gift for valentine’s day. tells you he’s in love with you daily, just in other words. spam comments on your posts. SO flirty. blows kisses and winks at you type of flirty. STARES; like heart shaped pupils, dopey smile staring. “it’s late, you should just sleep over :)”.

chenle

has known you forever and has basically been your bf forever. regularly texts your mother. brings you to all his family events. affectionately bites you. holds your face in his hands and squishes your cheeks together. casually drops the most heartwarming compliments ever. never corrects people when they refer to you as his s/o. places your hand on his arm when you guys walk together. gets close to your face and pulls away when you’re about to kiss. dies when you do it back.

jisung

you two have never been just friends tbh. will bail on plans just to stay in and watch netflix with you. calls you a version/nickname of your name only he uses. asks you for head scratches when he’s tired. picks up on your moods so easily like how??? actively keeps up with all your school/work tea. always brings you a little treat when he comes to see you. forgets you’re meant to be low-key when he drinks and gets very… loving. y’all are always falling asleep on facetime.

#nct #nct imagines #nct dream #nct fluff #nct scenarios #nct fic #nct dream fluff #nct x reader #nct dream timestamps #nct dream x reader #nct dream headcanons #nct headcanons #mark #renjun #jeno #haechan #jaemin #chenle #jisung

[dauntlessdiva]

I'd Know Those Doe Eyes Anywhere

For @steddieholidaydrabbles warm up prompt: High School/College AU

Rating: G

CWs: Implied/Referenced Transphobia

Tags: College au, Trans Steve Harrington, Coming Out, First Kiss, Bisexual Eddie Munson, Halloween Parties

~♡~

Stevie had taken a few necessary years between high school graduation to finally starting her college education.

She used that time to save up some money through her minimum wage customer service jobs that she worked alongside her best friend and platonic soulmate, Robin Buckley.

With the money she squirrelled away in a savings account combined with the trust left to her by her grandparents, she finally moved out of Hawkins and into a small apartment in Indianapolis. With Robin as her roommate, obviously.

Now out from under her parents' thumbs, away from the watchful gaze that followed her everywhere in places where everyone knew each other, Stevie felt free to finally be herself in the anonymity of the big city.

And now that she'd fully made the social transition, and with her physical transition was under way, she felt that it was finally time to return to the world of academia. For better or for worse.

What she was not expecting was to run into an all too familiar face. Stevie couldn't recall exactly when Eddie Munson finally graduated from Hawkins High, but clearly he must have, or he wouldn't be squinting at her from the back of the class every Monday morning.

It would unnerve her if she thought he recognized her, but between the 'hot girl makeover' (Robin's words) and the fact that she'd changed her last name to her grandmother's name, she was fairly confident that he didn't know who Stevie Evelyn Marie even was.

Eddie didn't know what it was about that Stevie girl in his English class, but he showed up to his classes on Monday more often than any others before 12pm through the rest of the week.

Regardless of what was nagging at the back of his mind about her, Stevie was pretty. He still tended to lean more towards men than women, but he had eyes, and Stevie was easy to look at. She was shy and soft spoken, but she seemed to know the curriculum well and answered every question asked of her thoroughly and thoughtfully, but worded it in a way that even the dumbest of jocks could understand.

The thought of jocks had Steve Harrington coming to mind, and holy shit that's what it was! She looked like the spitting image of King Steve. If The Hair was a girl, he'd be Stevie Marie. But what if? No, it couldn't be. Unless? Steve did, famously, skip town with Robin Buckley of all people, and has yet to make a reappearance. Was this why? Not that he could blame them for leaving either way, Hawkins was a hell hole that he'd been more than happy to leave in his rear view.

Stevie hadn't planned on coming to the campus halloween, but now that she was here, she didn't want to be anywhere else. With Robin as her plus one, she felt confident enough to flirt with a few of her classmates, even going so far as to wink when she'd made eye contact with Eddie from across the room.

The next moment he was standing beside her, and just like that they were laughing and chatting like old school friends catching up and talking with a familiarity hitherto unknown (yes, hitherto, Stevie knew her vocab words).

So of course with everything going so well, Stevie's brain had to betray her. She could see Eddie lean in to kiss her and before she could think about it she was pushing him away with a muttered 'sorry' and rushing off to the nearest bathroom.

"Stevie? Are you in there?" Eddie called out before cautiously stepping into the communal bathroom. "Stevie, if this is about what I think it is, then you should know that I don't care what gender you are." Oh god, Eddie knew! How did he know? He knew he should've picked a different first name, damn Robin for reassuring him that Stevie was fine. "But if this is about something else then you need to tell me, okay? I can't fix it if I don't know what I did wrong."

That finally broke through the panic spiral. "Re-really?" She spoke hesitantly, unlocking the door and poking her head out from the stall she'd run to. Eddie's worried face greeted her in the main area of the bathroom near the sinks. "D'you really mean it? About the-" she paused to take a breath- "the gender thing?"

Eddie's face softened instantly, cautiously walking forwards as he spoke, "yeah, baby. I'd know those doe eyes anywhere, on the face of the sporty boy who made me face my own bisexuality, or the kindest and most well spoken young woman in the whole damn college."

"You recognized me by my eyes?" Stevie asked, leaning in to the touch as Eddie's hands came out to hold her face.

"How else would I recognize such beauty, darling?" He asked, a kind smile gracing his face. Stevie wanted to kiss that sweet smile right off his handsome face, and before she knew what she was doing, she'd pulled him in to do just that.

"Finally!" Robin called out, startling the pair out of their kiss, both turning to look at her before they all burst out in laughter.

Yeah, Stevie was glad she decided to wait a while before entering college.

#steddieholidaydrabbles #college au #stranger things fanfic #steddie fanfic #trans steve harrington #my writing #shut up mars

[jimmy-dipthong]

This ことラボ video had a great example of a translation which shows (imo) how input/immersion gets you so much further than rote learning grammar and vocab. Consider this sentence:

“What are you going as?”

I imagine if a Japanese learner who learns primarily from textbooks or classrooms was talking to a Japanese-native friend about a halloween party and tried to say this sentence in Japanese, they’d probably say something like:

何として行くの？❌

The words in this sentence are simple, as is the grammar. The 「～として = as~」 grammar pattern seems to fit here. However, as the video says, this sounds weird in Japanese and the hearer probably won’t understand what the speaker meant - a better way to get across what you’re trying to ask would be:

何の仮装して行くの？✅

To translate this back to english literally: “What costume are you going to put on before you go?”. Unfortunately, no amount of studying grammar patterns and vocab would help you come up with this easy-to-understand sentence instead of the other weird sentence.

To use a cooking metaphor, the vocab you know is kinda like the ingredients you have available in your kitchen. The grammar you know is like generic cooking skills (dicing, sauteing, marinating, steaming - stuff you do to the ingredients). These things are important to be good at cooking, but if they’re all you have, you won’t be able to make a delicious meal (native-like sentence) on the spot. You need enough experience with lots of recipes (sentences spoken by native speakers) to be able to improvise and make your own.

Without enough experience with other recipes, you won’t know which type of cut or cooking method to use on which ingredients, or even which ingredients go well together in the first place.

The only way to know the common and most easy-to-understand way of saying something is by actively reading+listening to hours and hours and hours of content in your target language. The only way to know that you shouldn’t use として in the above translation is by seeing native Japanese speakers not use it hundreds of times in similar situations, enough for you to realise you shouldn’t use it here either.

#langblr #japanese #language acquisition #language learning #japanese language #language #learning japanese #translation #jimmy blogthong #Youtube

[crunchchute]

Hey! Welcome to my (mostly) art blog. You can refer to me as Crunch here. Enjoy your stay!

🎨 Art info - using my art as your pfp, banner, edits, etc. is OK with credit! Reposting my art is OK only in places where i DON'T have an account, with credit, with the exception of pinterest (i have an acc there but it's OK to repost there with proper credit/link to og post) and i don't mind RP accounts etc. if credited properly. Don't crop out my tag from images or edit them out (exception is a cropped pfp). I don't do requests all the time, only if i make a post about it :] art comms normally closed but i occassionaly make an exception or offer a couple slots.

💚 My main favs change every couple of months, but FNAF and Dynasty Warriors are fandoms i've been in the longest, since 2014, so i always tend to come back to them :] I also enjoy Sonic (specifically non-game media) and have a lovehate relationship with Gorillaz (i just like the art, Murdoc and the music rn). Also got into Sam & Max.

💜 General likes are anything halloween-y, animals, birds and insects; emo, scene, visual kei and dark style of clothing and hair, cute and goofy plushies, and if i ever start talking about cooking or food, Run. I love drawing, sewing, crafting, p much anything creative. I collect furbies, they're my favs :]

❌️ I do not want any terfs and hate towards trans people here, hate towards furries, therians, otherkins, hate towards things people consider "cringe" and i dont answer any weirdos. I don't like bringing heavy topics here unless it's very serious. I have a "live and let live" approach to things, so unless you're doing something actually harmful and/or illegal, i tend to not judge or care. Be nice.

🖤 This is a lgbt safe space. I'm transmasc. He/they prns are interchangeable, it pronoun is okay (think of me as a little bug or a small monkey like my fursona is). I also consider myself unlabeled, but looking into the demi and ficto labels...

‼️ Being overly familiar with me is mostly okay UNLESS it comes off as rude (like calling me "little bro", "bitch", etc. or talking to me as if we were year long friends when you're a total stranger, messaging me for the first time, non-follower etc.) Again, be nice. I sometimes use some tone tags.

👽 English is my learned language so sorry if my vocab is lacking. Sorry if i come off as too serious or deadpan, i have a hard time expressing excitement most of the time. Also everything i post is not super serious, im just a pro hater and gotta meet my quota from time to time 😈 /j and when i theorize it's all just for fun! That's what it should be about!

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[warblercore]

let me project my 'star wars liker' tendencies onto blaine for a minute

- he begs tina to dress up as leia and he dresses up as luke one halloween because they're the space twins and tina is like a sister to him so he's like!!!! and she agrees but ONLY if she can be goth leia (I kinda wanna draw this wait...)

- he rewatches the star wars special of the muppets show every time he's in a sad mood or has a difficult day because it's both of his comfort media all in one :o

- his fanfic is so well researched and he has the star wars vocab all written up in a dictionary so he doesn't accidentally include real world words; coffee is caf, glass is transparisteel etc etc

- he ships luke x wedge

- he runs a successful star wars fan blog on tumblr; kurt follows it and likes all of his posts bc he's a supportive boyfriend, even though he doesn't really get star wars

- he has a collection of lightsabers and keeps them on display at ALL TIMES!!

- he is the only defender of the sims 4: journey to batuu (I've never played that pack I just think blaine would refuse to hate it)

#if ur gonna say something like 'kurt would NOT let blaine display lightsabers in their house!!!' i am gonna firmly disagree!!! #blaine has his hobbies and interests and kurt supports them!! #they have an office room that has kurts old playbills hung on one side of the wall #and blaines ligtsabers and signed comics on the other #warblerlore #blaine #add this to the list of posts with a target audience of. literally just me #thanks #goth leia is basically sith leia but with a tina twist it makes sense in my mind

[mondlylanguages]

Boo! 👻 Let's get ready for Halloween with some spooky vocab essentials in French. 🎃 🧟

#mondly #MondlybyPearson #languages #languagelearning #learnonline #learnlanguages #french #learnfrench #frenchlesson #frenchapp #frenchforbeginners #frenchlanguage #frenchteacher #frenchclass #frenchlearning #frenchonline #learningfrench #didyouknow #spooktober #spooktober2023 #october #halloween2022 #ghost

[polyglot-thought]

[Mandarin→English] @jamesiscurlytoo October 27th 2023 Instagram Post — Color Coded Translation

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

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這是我15歲的兒子今年萬聖節的裝扮

这是我15岁的儿子今年万圣节的装扮

zhè shì wǒ shí wǔ suì de ér zǐ jīn nián wàn shèng jié de zhuāng bàn

This is my 15-year-old son’s Halloween costume this year

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你可能會想問：「他扮的是什麼角色？」

你可能会想问：“他扮的是什么角色？”

nǐ kě néng huì xiǎng wèn ： tā bàn de shì shén me jiǎo sè

You might want to ask: “What character is he dressed up as?”

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他是神盾局的特務，他沒有去挨戶要糖果

他是神盾局的特務，他沒有去挨戶要糖果

tā shì shén dùn jú de tè wù ， tā méi yǒu qù āi hù yào táng guǒ

He's a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and he doesn't go house to house asking for candy

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而是發給每個扮成漫威角色的小朋友一張卡片

而是发给每个扮成漫威角色的小朋友一张卡片

ér shì fā gěi měi gè bàn chéng màn wēi jiǎo sè de xiǎo péng yǒu yī zhāng kǎ piàn

Rather he distributes cards to every kid dressed up as a powerful character.

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問他們有沒有興趣成為復仉者的一員

问他们有没有兴趣成为复仉者的一员

wèn tā mén yǒu méi yǒu xīng qù chéng wéi fù zhǎng zhě de yī yuán

Asking them if they have an interest in becoming an Avenger.

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Please correct me if I made a mistake

Translated October 31st 2023

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HD'S K-POP BOOK CLUB HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE: BOOK 1 Review and Korean Vocab Study!

BOOK: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

AUTHOR: Oscar Wilde

PAGES: 271

FORMAT: Paperback

PROMPT: ENHYPEN ‘Bite Me’: Read a Gothic Classic

RATING OF BOOK: 5/5

SONG MATCH: 5/5 Yes this song totally matches the vibe of Dorian Gray!

POINTS TALLY: 15

TRANSLATION VOCAB STUDY:

I looked for Korean vocabulary that matched the themes and topics found in The Picture of Dorian Gray:

🎃 도덕 ethics/ morals

🎃 도덕상의 죄인 a sinner

🎃 도덕상의 문제 a moral question

🎃부도덕하다 immoral/ unethical

🎃부도덕 immoral/ bad morals

🎃 미술 art

🎃문학 literature

🎃 고전문학 classical literature

🎃 죄악 sin

🎃 영혼 the soul

🎃사악하다 evil

🎃 그리스신화 Greek Mythology

🎃 아름다움 beauty

🎃이기적 self- centred

🎃 그림 a painting/ sketch/ drawing

🎃그림을 그리다 to paint a picture

🎃상류 사회 high society/ the upper class

🎃허영심 vanity

SYNOPSIS:

Wilde’s novel explores the concepts of what it means to stay young and beautiful in societies eyes and if it truly means you have to sell your soul in order to stay popular and relevant. Artist’s muse Dorian Gray may have had his portrait captured and drawn in paints but it is his soul that is slowly drawn and dragged into depravity by the high society and unsavoury characters that he mixes with in his quest to stay young. Horrified with the prospect of growing old, and in his eyes ugly and loosing his precious footing in society, Dorian vows to sell his soul. Wishing for his newly painted portrait to grow old and bare the marks of his sins in order for him to stay looking youthful, Dorian’s slow decent into hell begins.

My thoughts on the book:

Oooh what an excellent book to start the challenge on! It’s so twisted and sinister! Even though this book was written in the 1890’s, I still feel that a lot of the subject material is relevant today. Wilde discusses morality and what parts of a person’s soul they are willing to sell in order to stay relevant. Is a person willing to trample over people in order to climb the social ladder, are they able to philosophize away evils as just because a Greek tragedy makes a good and poetic story to tell? Is fine art tinged with grubby secrets and lies? However from reading this novel, you can see how society and outdated ways of thinking has changed drastically. There were a few points in the book that had me cringing from the language use and ways that Wilde described characters in his book. Overall I do think this is a good Gothic novel that is not superficial in it’s horror but digs deeper into the questions of real human morality.

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