[community profile] allbingo untranslatable words bingo

this will probably be mostly furibe (maurice nee makube/fritz) but we'll see what happens!

quick note: makube is technically from hellsing but he is for all intents and purposes a blank slate so. he's my oc maurice now and identifying him as makube hellsing on ao3 is simply a concession. if it's not set in the hellsing canon then i won't call him makube.
 
Abbiocco (Italian): drowsiness from eating a big meal.Tampo (Filipino): A slang term for withdrawing affection from a person when one’s feelings have been hurt; a non-confrontational and nonverbal form of receding to signify upset.Dépaysement (French): The feeling that comes from not being in one’s home country; being a foreigner.
Culaccino (Italian): The mark left on a table by a moist glass.Wabi-Sabi (Japanese): Finding beauty in imperfections.L’appel du vide (French): Literally translated to “the call of the void”; contextually used to describe the instinctive urge to jump from high places.
Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan): The wordless look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to do so; a non-verbal exchange shared by two people who each know that the other understands and agrees with what is being expressed.Akihi (Hawaiian): When you ask someone for directions then walk off and immediately forget what they said.Viraha (Hindi): Realizing you love someone only after you’re separated.
 

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it looks like the last post on here was in 2017 - i went on a long hiatus but started really writing again in 2021. my focus has mostly been on hellsing, though i'm getting back into writing for ygo as well ([community profile] sakuraexchange here i come).

i've also been working on original fiction again and enjoying it a lot! check out [personal profile] knifeorchid's Like It Or Not zine and my piece in it, "you'll see him again".

selected fanfiction highlights from 2021:

- love is as strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave

the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. (song of songs 8:6)

the evolution of enrico maxwell's relationship with alexander anderson and the many ways they do not understand each other.

a series on ao3 with a variety of ratings for individual works; loosely set in the same timeline and arranged in rough chronological order, but can be read however you like.


- ecclesiastes 5:2

written as part of tempural/skumsuck's artcade exchange. this trade with another participant was the beginning of a wonderful creative relationship that is ongoing, and it's the early stages of my rescuing an extremely underwritten canon character and transforming him into my OC.

rated explicit, and mind the tags - graphic violence, homophobic slurs, gory sex.... ever wondered what it'd be like to combine vivisection and masturbation? here you go