#inukugi

These are the brilliant and lovely pieces I have discovered in the years I have fallen into the fandom side of the internet.

꧁Fanfictions꧂

Attack on Titan

EreHisu

LeviHan

Avatar the Last Air Bender

Aang and Azula

BNHA

BakuMomo

TodoJirou

TodoTsuyu

DC

Batfam

Cassandra Cain

Clark/Bruce

Damian Wayne

Jason Todd

Tim Drake

Death Note

LMisa

Game of Thrones

Arya Stark

Genshin Impact

HuXiao

FlinsBina

KazuEi

XingTao

Almona

WrioFuri

BaiTao

Haikyuu!!

OiKage

Harry Potter

Luna Lovegood

Jujutsu Kaisen

InuKugi | NobaToge

ItaFushiKugi

ItaKugi

GojoHime

Maki Zenin

Nobara Kugisaki

Kaiju No. 8

HoshiMina

Mina/Kafka/Soshiro

Law School

Magic Kaito

Akako Koizumi

AkaKuba

Marvel

Peter Parker in Gotham

Spiderman

Venom/Eddie/Anne/Dan

Miraculous Ladybug

Lukadrinette

Naruto

SasuHina

One Piece

Chopper and Law

Nico Robin

Robin and Law

Puss in Boots

Puss and Death

Who Made Me a Princess

Jennette [Margarita] de Alger Obelia

True Beauty

JunJin

꧁Manhwas/Webtoons꧂

❧Fantasy Manhwa Recommendations☙

❧Romance Manhwa Recommendations☙

❧Sports Manhwa Recommendations☙

❧InuKugi | NobaToge (Jujutsu Kaisen)☙

Maimed by [desidera] Trigger warnings, Major Character Injury, PTSD

"They say she sleeps at night, that unforgiving eye closed in a mockery of rest, and it’s the only way he can bear to look at her face.

His gelid grip on the doorframe, and the freezing chill of cold fear in the nape of his neck. Wavering, afraid of what he is going to see, on the threshold that cuts her off from the rest of the world, turning her into a severed piece of humanity, a severed piece of their past -

It is amazing when you learn a word in another language that teaches you a different way of examining some small part of the world, isn't it? I ran across an intriguing term when looking up different words with the kanji 犬, for "dog", in them (which I was doing just to see the kind of differences you could expect as to where the on-yomi versus kun-yomi readings would be used. I'm rusty with my Japanese, as I've said before, so I decided to see if I could improve it the hard way: by semi-osmosis, rather than entirely looking it up first. Hey, it's how we learn this stuff the first time, right?)  Cough.  Anyway. So, in the process of looking up said words with 犬 in them on Jisho, I ran across some fun terms (including the fact that the Japanese for a canine tooth is...also literally "dogtooth", and then there's kenba, "dog(s) [and] horse(s)", which can mean "one's humble self" apparently. Heh.). One of the more intriguing ones, though, was inukugi (kanji: 犬釘), which Jisho defines it as "spike, dog nail". Naturally, my first reaction was: "wait, like the nails on a dog, or...just...hardware?" Stupid homonyms! Well, the "easy" way to settle that question would be to look up the kanji I didn't know in the word: 釘  Once again, one of the meanings given was "nail", but both of the other meanings ("peg", "tack") still seemed to refer to hardware. But Japanese is one of those languages that can be really weird and have not only sound-alike words but literally use the exact same kanji for vastly different things, or things that mean vastly different things if you put them next to certain other kanji (especially if on its own, it's a pretty basic concept, like "moon" or "sun" . Oh dear god especially "sun".). English isn't too terribly different in that respect I guess, considering that the whole confusion I had was over a word that can mean both something you apply a hammer to, and something you really don't want to apply a hammer to. But Japanese takes it to sort of Olympian heights, to the extent that if you don't know several thousand characters, you're not reading at a high school level.  So, obviously, I decided I needed some context, and clicked for the listing of "words containing" the kanji 釘.  Low and behold... all 34 of them were hardware-related.  And then, of course...that mystery word, "dog nail".  So, I gave up and just Googled 犬釘.  The results, of course, were in Japanese, but the first listing was for a Wikipedia page. Granted...in Japanese. But it helpfully includes a reference to "rail spike" in partial English, and plus, the option to view the article in English leads straight to the article "Railroad spike". Boom! That solved the mystery of what kind of spike...but it didn't solve the mystery of why it is called "dog-spike" in the first place. So, since my Japanese skills are utterly horribad, I took a gamble on Google's offer to translate the page to English for me. Behold! The relevant portion of the original text:

犬釘（いぬくぎ）とは、鉄道のレールを枕木に固定する締結装置の一種で、鉄道の黎明期から長きに渡って使われている、専用の「釘」である。英語の名称はRailroad Spike（レイルロードスパイク）、またはRail Spike（レイルスパイク）、あるいは、単にSpikeと略されることもある。

呼称の由来は、釘頭部のレールまたはプレートを押さえる部分が犬の鼻を、釘を引き抜くための両側の突起が同じく垂れた耳を連想させることから。 And, after Google Translate is through, the resulting gloriously mangled mess, which - if you pay attention - actually solves the mystery:

Inukugi and (Inukugi), railway of rail and sleepers a type of fastening device that secures the, has been used over a long time since the dawn of the railway, dedicated to " nailis ". English Railroad Spike (Railroad is the name of the spike or Rail Spike), or (rail spike), and may also be abbreviated as simply Spike.

The origin of the designation, part for pressing the plate rails or nail head dog of nose projection of both sides to pull out the nail hanging same, the ear because it is reminiscent of. Or, if you look at one of the pictures...