I loved that book as well! I honestly don’t remember any real magic going on, and especially no “chosen one” plot with special powers (there was a cool horse, though). I war pretty obsessed with medieval literature at the time, and as far as I remember, it was very much written in that vein. I also don’t remember that…

I finished it maybe two years ago, and while there are still parts I really like, the ending annoyed me. It felt... mean-spirited, somehow.

On the contrary, constipation and colics are life-threatening for horses (they can’t vomit*), so your poopy-horse should be fine.

Apparently Kinja does not support subtitles on videos (at least that's what I read on Kotaku when one writer tried to add them). So some videos actually do have subtitles, but only if you view them outside these sites on youtube.

I actually have a story, and this year I might not be too late.

Congratulations! Great to hear everything went well. Enjoy your Xtra-large baby!

Sadly, adding contact info in the application might not work. I used the German version of care.com, and they automatically replaced phone numbers or mail addresses with xs when somebody send them to you. They really don't want you to move outside their service.

As a German, sorry to inform you that there is not word for that :( “Erregungsdemut” would mean something more like “The humility of arousal”, which is pretty funny as well.

Hah, Mafia sounds about right. The history (and present) of the Oktoberfest would really be worth an article on its own. A lot of drama and scheming there, as it is a million euro business.

I would go crazy if I couldn’t use my phone while breastfeeding ;) You spend so much time breastfeeding, no way I will spend it lovingly gazing at my little weirdo. Small babies fall into what one midwife called a “milk coma” anyway, so they won’t even notice.

Oh, best of luck for your birth! I hope everything will go great and baby will shoot out as fast as my second one, which took only about an hour of painful contractions. I also missed the last three weeks with both my kids.

They seem to know that here as well, but they just sit in the middle of the path like they own the place. I’ve never seen Canada geese or barnacle geese attack anyone, so I don’t mind them. Nile geese are more aggressive and chase people away, because they are super territorial (going so far as killing other water…

Thanks! I knew there was a special word for it, but I couldn't remember. 

I’m always a bit confused when I read about aggressive Canada geese. They spend a long period of the year here in Germany. The parks are full of them. But they are very... mellow? I’ve never seen them show any sign of aggression, even though they breed here and have chicks (or whatever a baby goose is called). All…

I lived in Chongqing for some time, which claims to be the mothertown of Sichuan-style hotpot. The story is that poor dock workers pooled their food into a big pot to make something like a communal soup.

I still think the game looks interesting, but both the Bridge Baby and the Mama trailer make me a bit wary. I’m guessing they will look at the horrible idea of lugging the preemie baby of a comatose mother around as equipment, but who knows.

To the first letter writer: do NOT try for kids. No, no, no. Children are great and everything, but they put immense stress on a relationship. Even functioning relationships can start to crack under constant sleep deprivation, little time for yourself, seemingly endless colds, screaming babies, and toddler tantrums.…

I can forgive a lot about the haha-genderqueer presentation because I unironically love that song. I can see myself in many situations dancing around singing “fucking bullshit, fucking bullshit”. Because it often is fucking bullshit.

I used a silk-cotton wrap, a Mei Tai carrier, and a Manduca carrier with the first kid, and I wouldn’t recommend any of them. The wrapping cloth always took me a long time to wrap, even though the experts assured me that it would be super quick once I got used to it.

Well, here in Germany, a teenager scared his friends with a clown mask and, because that was apparently not stupid enough, a hammer, and was promptly stabbed for his efforts.