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Mansi_Gu
Apr '24

I don't know if this counts, but I used the word "cafuné", which means:

"scratching someone's head with your fingertips, popularly considered a gesture of care and affection. Typically, cafuné is an affection made between people with some level of fraternal intimacy, usually between family members, couples or close friends."

It's a word with such deep meaning and I couldn't find an english word that had the same impact as "cafuné" in my mother language (portuguese) hehe~ I also recently discovered that there's a band called Cafuné - which sang the music "Tek it" - and they named it because they liked the word :blush:

I used the word in this fuzzy chapter :heart::

Leyelle
Apr '24

it's probably similar to the word 'caress,' but not quite the same, since that usually means to stroke someone or something out of care or affection. you could caress someones head, face etc.

Pirateboy
Apr '24

"Salvation" not an unusual word I would definitely not something you see often in novels and comics. The word basically means - the saving of human beings from sin and its consequences. I don't know how to add my novel here so I will just write the title "Star of Salvation"

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Leyelle
May '24

bile:
this isn't the weirdest word in the world, but I do wonder how many stories other than mine find occasion to use it.
Bile is a bitter liquid that aids in digestion.
It's supposed to stay inside your body. In my chapter, it's not doing that.

I feel like Adam and Eve must have - trying to ignore the sound of our parents downstairs in the living room asking where we are - if we’ve come home from school yet-

I almost shut the bathroom door, leaving my foot in the space between the door and its frame - whispering harshly for all my panic-

“Wash your face.”

Riley obeys. Plunging his hands into the ice cold water vomiting from the sink, he wipes the last delicate dribbles of golden bile from his lower lip, and I shove the door open again with a violence that makes it slam against the wall behind it - leaving a dent like a pitted scar-

“Now hurry up and get to your room and your homework before they come up here.”

This he does too, without a word, and I pretend not to notice the smudging in his eyeliner - hoping mom and dad won’t notice either.

this is available for free for everyone to read on my Patreon public posts

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Leyelle
Jun '24

I love plants, so I mentioned Mozambique Ebony when describing the female lead of my new novel "A Dozen Morning Glories" in it's crossover chapter with "Damsel in the Red Dress." Ebony is a very expensive wood noted for its pure black color, that is almost identical to the complexion of Essence, my new FL.

This is her story:

This is the crossover chapter where she's described by my other FL, Alicia:

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flutewarbler
Jun '24

I mix a lot of different cultural elements to create my own version of an elven world. Mostly, I borrow from Native American and Irish cultures (the two just connect in my mind for some reason). There are a lot of Irish words in my story, and the one you'd probably see most is: Síocháin

Síocháin means "peace," and the elves of Lyfay use it as a greeting in a similar way to "salam" or "shalom."

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Leyelle
Jun '24

that's really rare i'm pretty sure, or uncommon in most fiction anyway

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SwordSong
Aug '24

"From time immemorial", meaning from a far distant past. It's basically a shorter way of saying "for as long as anyone could remember".

In the context of the chapter, it's describing what should be a terrible news, but because it's been so ingrained to the main character's daily life that he no longer considers it a big deal, and puts it on the same level of urgency as his other, more mundane assignments.