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Tina Carter posted this Scientific American article, about "lexical elaboration" and the number of Inuktitut words for snow, to the Fraser/Kowalski Facebook group with a link. Turns out, while there may not be 100, or 40, words for snow in Inuktitut - there are still a lot!

The original post may be to a private group so I've linked to each item separately.

Anyway, "lexical elaboration" is fascinating... And also totally makes sense. Plus, the Inuit aren't the only ones to have multiple words for snow in their language... We (in American English) have a few, too, which I've certainly heard not just from weather forecasters on local Chicago news, but also among just regular people (and I use many of them myself): snow, sleet/"freezing rain", flurries, snowflake, snowsquall, blizzard, etc.

Like, if it's snowing but only slowly, lightly, and almost lazily (whether big fluffy flakes, or wispy, tiny flakes), the word we (and TV meteorologists) use is "flurries."

Example:

Person 1 [looking out window at work]: Hey, it's snowing out!

Person 2: Oh no! Rush hour traffic will be horrible!

Person 1: Nah, it's just flurries - they don't stick; it'll be okay.

Katy Penland posted her Finch app finch dressed as Fraser (with Dief) in the Due South! Facebook group, also here:

Finch dressed as Fraser (with Dief)

Sorry this is late... Joannie Currie posted this (link to original post) on the Due South! Facebook group Feb 23, when the Toronto Maple Leafs played the Chicago Blackhawks, with the following text:

"That magical juncture where due SOUTH meets reality Today, the Leafs play the Hawks, in the city they call Chicago The first hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens was Nov 12, 1931 between the Leafs and the Hawks (2-1, Hawks) The last game at MLG was Feb 13, 1999, Leafs vs Hawks (6-2, Hawks) The Leafs have not been sucking this season and this is the year they will win the Stanley (Raymond Kowalski) Cup Leafs rule!! Sorry, I"m sure the Hawks are a perfectly lovely team too 💖 (photo has Maple Leaf Gardesn in the background, Toronto)

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as a reminder of that hilarious scene where Ray and a Leafs fan have the following exchange:

Kowalski: "Leafs suck."

Ticket seller: "Leafs rule."

Kowalski: "Hawks rule."

Ticket seller: "Hawks suck."

Kowalski: "You suck."

Fraser: "You are bilingual, Ray."

Saw this otpin-arts fanart on Tumblr (original link) - just delightful! - with the following text referring to Fraser's brown uniform: "Ray gets distracted by the brown uniform.

So far I only saw it once in S3. And me and some folks over on discord really appreciate the brown uniform so this popped into my mind."

I reblogged it there, but wanted to share it here too!

Today (Feb. 11) is Leslie Nielsen's birthday. Among his many dramatic and comedic film and TV roles, he played Sgt. Frobisher in multiple due South episodes. Sadly, he passed away in 2010.





Photos courtesy of screen shots from due South HD on YouTube (episode Call Of The Wild 2)

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Reccing this "Barrett's Privateers" epistolary Yuletide fic:

"God Damned Them All"? Documenting the Loss of the Privateer Antelope (1674 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Barrett's Privateers (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Elcid Barrett, Narrator (Barrett's Privateers)
Summary:

A grim narrative of fraud, deception, false advertising, murders, robberies, puttings in fear and operating without a Board of Trade Certificate.

I saw the song "Barrett's Privateers" listed as a fandom during Yuletide signups - but you never know until the Yuletide collection opens, if a particular fandom was matched on...

So when I went through the Yuletide collection after it opened, and found this fic, I thought I should share it with dS fen!

More GIFs to illustrate my fascination and headcanon!


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This is why the perfect, polite, well-mannered Thank-you-kindly canon Fraser of dS feels… a bit “off,” to me. There is anger in Fraser. He has the clear potential to do bad things to bad people (who, let’s face it, completely deserve it, plus more).

I love this Fraser. This is my head-canon Fraser. He has suffered loss after loss (shall we talk about his ACE score? it would be kind of high, don’t you think?), starting very young. He appears fine on the surface, but let’s not forget that (absurd) psychological test with the Rorschach images in S3 episode Strange Bedfellows. He is not okay. He’s not fine. His psychological state is eventually deemed “acceptable” in that ep - but, c'mon: “acceptable” is not exactly well-adjusted or healthy. “Acceptable” is like getting a C on a paper when you should have gotten an A or at least a B.

And ftr, of course he is not okay! That’s completely understandable given his history: an adult man who lost his mother at age 6, was subsequently abandoned by his grief-stricken father (a child does not understand why a parent leaves/is gone - only that they left), whose entire life is uprooted to move to live with his grandparents (and let’s just point out that his grandmother’s ghost slaps Fraser, Sr - who is himself a ghost - in Letting Go! if you presume that, like most grandparents, she mellowed with age, and that is the mellower version of her - what was she like with child!Fraser??)… the constant moving/losing friends/having to make new friends/being the new kid because they were mobile librarians…

That is all canon. But there is never any canonical mention of therapy or counseling, which a kid with such a background (or his adult self) would surely need to process the many traumatic changes he experienced at such a young age, and develop some healthy coping mechanisms (because the ones you sort of fall into as a child - I certainly wouldn’t call it “choosing” when as a kid, all you’re trying to do is find a way to cope that WORKS - aren’t usually the healthiest in a set of circumstances this bad.

Then, in his early adulthood and RCMP career… the Victoria thing happens. Of course Fraser is not okay. (And that is okay.) How on earth could he be?

from yesterday's Tumblr posts - It's all part of her plan...
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So I posted on Tumblr about Frannie for ds30below week 2 - characters:

I love Francesca. I love how Ramona Milano plays her. All the many changing facial expressions. The way she wears her heart on her sleeve. You would never not know where you stand with Frannie.

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Those screen caps are from the Pilot.