#kiiruna

     (she was drifting again)

     with a glance throughout the crowd, chloe let go of the door and walked inside. while there were eyes resting on her, the girl’s gaze were solely on the bar. that’s were the goods were. something warm, something nice. a cup of joe seemed like a far fetched salvation by now, her steps hasty but calm as she came to --- shift her gaze.

     ‘and that’s when’ --- laughter.

     as soon as she had started walking, she came to halt again, a waitress cussing under her breath as chloe stopped in both’s tracks. words went by her, a firm gaze lingering on the sight of a slender body leaning over a table down the room. legs were crossed, foot dangling, a dog resting beneath the end as its owner talked and laughed. sweet tunes mixed in with the music around the customers of the bar, all chatter falling on deaf ears as chloe’s direction changed. a turn of her feet began to bring her away from the bar and down the open room instead; anxiety, confusion, joy. there were few people in the world that held the ability of stirring chloe price’s heart up. her dad was one, the sole beacon in her life. her mother, the second, someone who had become the cliff and foundation beneath her. and then there was ---

     “ brooke,” she called out, voice gentle yet excited. beneath her chest pounded her heart, the hands by her side fidgeting with fingers. tips caressed each other, pinched and tugged as means of keeping her heart and mind in chess. third. brooke. the one that got away; “ --- it’s... do --- fuck...” 

     what was she even doing? words! “ hey. long time no see?”

(   ✿   ) IT’S NOT SHOCKING TO KNOW THAT HE ENJOYS FLOWERS. In fact, his entire body is littered with depictions of them. Perhaps he is SOMETHING LIKE a walking cliche who wears his heart ‘pon his sleeve, but the flora catches his eye the moment the two decide to sit and talk whilst out together. Their time is casual and what Yūji wants from him, he wishes not to assume anything-- but he endlessly enjoys the company, but ESPECIALLY, he enjoys him. But what he will focus on is their time together in that moment and the butterflies he feels swirling his stomach as he shares a far too close smile, tucking ANOTHER wildflower into loose strands held together by a hair tie.

He seems happy with the arrangement and nods to himself as if making a SILENT AGREEMENT to leave them be-- before jade fall back onto a smiling face. “A waste?” The tattooist echos, fingers reaching up to fix any wild brunet strands. 

I looked up Kiruna Sedai as a character and omg, its even worse than i imagned hearing used as a person name

Kiruna, well known iron mining town on the swedish side of sapmi, were the miners literally dug to deep so that the entire city must be moved

Now personfied by pretty anime boi

I.... Amazing

( “if i run into them downtown”, that’s how one knows u live in a small place )

the history of the name of the city of Kiruna, which is a several language story. Kiruna is named after the Mountain were much of the iron ore it mines is located.

The mountain name was the Northern Saami Girronvárri ("ptarmigan mountain". The name references the many of the bird species ptarmigans used to live there once upon a time. Before the mining). The finnish speakers, who were a significant portion of the miners, finnishized that northern saami name to Kiirunavaara.

várri/vaara both translates to mountain, so when it was time to name the mining town, which mined the iron of Girronvárri and Luossavárri (which in its turn was finnishized to Lousavaara. It translated to "salmon mountain". Which referencing once upon time it was a good location to fish salmon)

Anyway! When it was time to name the mining city in the early 20th century, they snipped of the Mountain part of the finnishized name.

So Kiiruna. Then it was decided, that to be able to market this city in sweden, the finnish name, which was already a finnishsation of a north saami name should swedishfied, because they already on a roll here

So Kiiruna became Kiruna because "they believed not swedish speakers could say Kiiruna"

(= read: "we are colonial mine owners, and who live in the early 20th century sweden, were swedes were in a nationalist fever, so we want to make the uralic origin of the name more low key, by spelling it according to swedish ortoghrapy. Because if you spell something Kiruna, swedish ortoghrapy already says it shall have a long i.)

Anyway, that was a story of swedish colonalism in sapmi, told via a long story of the history of a cities name.

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