I read Vorkosigan Saga (or at least the books that are translated to my language so far) about every year. It's funny, geninely well-written and has much empathy.

Somebody on tumblr made the pattern for it, here

Ooh. Chilling.

Oh god, the text in Cyrillic. It nearly broke my brain with its wrongness.

Isn't it originally a haiku? I remember reading it in a book about Japanese poetry. The author had a sorrowful life and was remembering his dead wife.

Isn't it polite to warn for extremely damn disturbing if you link that manga? Or anything by Junji Ito, ar as I've heard?

I've heard that flushing tampons will screw up *something* without exceptions. If it's not your own pipes then it will eventually be grates where they treat the water to release it in the wild. If I weigh my own discomfort while wrapping a used tampon in toilet paper against the worker's who will have to collect a…

Fuck the White House! Correspondents, dinner?

It feels really stalkery. Really damn stalkery.

I've lived my whole life in a mid-sized city (about half a million people). When I first got to ass end of nowhere and saw the Milky Way, I stood there staring at the sky for what may have well been fifteen minutes or so. And it was only a faint band of light, nothing spectacular, since the ass end of nowhere wasn't…

You're non-gray to me.

I'd say it's somewhere between average and quite hard. The sounds are a bit different, but the grammar is hellish.

I thought one was supposed to mash first name with first name and surname with surname, not mix them.

It's okay. My first thought was 'welp, I was aaaalmost able to do that stuff when I took figure skating lessons at 11. Apparently I was already aged out of that too...'

"A pencil sharpener that has sharpened many pencils is a good sharpener. A pencil that has been sharpened by many sharpeners is not a good pencil any more."

Wikipedia says that bagpipes may have originated in Middle East. They're pretty common in Europe, apparently. I'm Estonian and they're totally part of our folk music tradition.

Holy. Hells.

Absolutely. Most of my pronounciations are probably very strange to English speakers. KEHR-say for Cersei and KUH-teh-lin for Catelyn.

I'd say the full map of Arda is very much not legit. First of all, Beleriand (sank in the end of First Age) was west of Middle Earth as depicted in LOTR, not north-west. The westernmost coastal mountains in the LOTR map were the easternmost mountain range in the Silmarillion map. Numenor looks strange. It was supposed…

I second this. Estonian only has "ta". Somehow we all know who is a man and who is a woman.