It's very simple and very intense.

War is often not as personal as rape. In rape, a person is doing something to you which you must survive. In war, it's like... a situation. It's not that the enemy has anything against you as a person. It's not really one on one anymore. It's more just a circumstance than an event. So, it's not as bad to be a victim…

Is that yours? Is it a tattoo? It's amazing.

There's a real dearth of characters on any show that aren't fully able-bodied and hollywood-sexy. Comic FTW... :)

Sadly, she probably can convince some women of this.

I gave mine nipples with a blue ink pen. They're *important* and they were *missing*.

I'm not the one who asked that... :)

I'm totally gonna steal that line someday.... but there will never be a better subject to use it on than this.

Battlefield was longer. There's more of it to hate.

Equivalent Exchange!

And when she is invariably decapitated, you can use her as a handy how-to on fixing things with superglue and a pen.

The handwriting alone... Any one of us who thinks, "Oh hey, I'm literate, I'd do just fine in the past! I'd be better off than most folks!" has never seen what truly literate people were like back then. It was something folks devoted their lives to. Gah. I'm gonna go burn my pens and spill my ink in humiliation now.

This comment is astonishingly geeky and awesome. I know very little about the specifics of the pens I use; Mostly I use skillcraft for my ballpoints and a mish-mash of whatever the art store had in stock for my calligraphy. Which barely comes close to what those kids did writing on these maps.

Amateur Cartographers, unite! :) Although most of my practical cartographic skills come from repeatedly sketching the town I lived in with the locations of yard sales I wanted to go to...

As a hearing person who had deaf friends as kids, I'm excited too. It's *nice* to see something expanding the same old fantasy tropes into something that touches my reality more closely. It's kind of funny - Even in a genre as noted for exploring new worlds and differences as fantasy and sci-fi, most writers don't…

I remember this from Clan of the Cave Bear. That, and the explicit prehistoric sex.

Sort of puts it in perspective. "All these lands are yours, humanity, save the north of England. Seek no dominion there."

Life composed of dark matter! 'splains ghosts.

Now I'm not saying this is what it is, but the first bit by the trees *looks* like a bit of foam lit up by the sunlight falling off a thermal and then riding it back up. Since it glows the same color as the sun when it's below the treeline and turns to a dark shadow when it gets up into the light.

.....aaaaand a new conspiracy theory is born.