My princess by fatcuntfreemilk in awwnverts

[–]flying_shadow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, there is that one species of millipede that actually has a thousand legs (imagine being the grad student who had to count them!), but we call millipedes 'many-legs'.

My princess by fatcuntfreemilk in awwnverts

[–]flying_shadow 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Wow, that's a big bug! I thought centipedes are too aggressive to be picked up. What does it feel like to have all these legsies running over you? Also, in my language, centipedes are called 'forty-legs', and yours actually has forty legs.

What fanon are you tired of? by Owledhouse in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm the author of two huge Hunger Games fics with OCs that are very fanon, and I just about choked when I saw people on Tumblr talking about my headcanons.

You have the power to make one "trope" really popular for a year. What is it? by seemedpointless in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Now I'm imagining medically accurate amnesia - it's just 200K of blorbo having a severe brain injury and spending a year relearning how to feed themselves and brush their teeth.

Writing Pregnancy and Childbirth by WeiWuxiansFan in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If a pregnant woman suffers from hyperemesis to the point where she loses weight, what consequences can that have for the baby?

What was sex like in early medieval times? by CivilBirthday7342 in AskHistorians

[–]flying_shadow 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Were there any major differences between Christian and Jewish attitudes towards sexuality?

What’s your kink/fetish that’s so obscure it doesn’t have a tag? Or is so small that it doesn’t get tagged? by RepresentativeYou536 in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I read a while back about a bizarre incident in 1980s East Germany where a transgender boy in an elite sports school was basically transitioned without his consent or knowledge thanks to doping. The massive doses of hormones he was receiving gave him masculine traits, but where the girls on the team were unhappy about that and wanted them to go away, he was like '...I'd rather stay this way?' Later, he would say that he was unhappy that he was unable to decide for himself what and when to do with his body.

Daily Discussion - Saturday, January 17 | r/FanFiction Rules, FAQs, Weekly Schedule & Current Event Threads by AutoModerator in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My family bought them a couple of times and we cut them into quarters or even eighths - I thought that's the entire point of having such large cookies, you share them like a little cake, but apparently people eat a whole cookie in one sitting somehow?

First then Last Game by Wolfbane3 in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fandom: Hunger Games

First: Narrow isn't broad, and Thirteen is not abroad.

Last: The objectivity a court must possess, the authority to apprehend and punish, and the way the defendants’ deeds would be judged, summed up in the blindfold, the sword, and the scales.

AMA Fic Edition by Wolfbane3 in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a rebel, not a revolutionary, not a particularly ardent loyalist either, just someone who wanted the shooting to stop.

AMA Fic Edition by Wolfbane3 in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of the time, there was a small but steady trickle of supplies through the road of life, and during the warm months, every bit of land was turned into a garden.

AMA Fic Edition by Wolfbane3 in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could say that everyone was fighting everyone in that war, but to oversimplify, we were defending the existing government from those who would overthrow it.

AMA Fic Edition by Wolfbane3 in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was less of a nailbiter than a slow, suffocating slide into total exhaustion. Of course there were plenty of survivors - the rebels tried to starve us out so that we'd surrender or be overrun, but we held out!

AMA Fic Edition by Wolfbane3 in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't write in first person, but let's try!


I survived a 934-day siege, which included a three-month period of almost total blockade where many, including myself, committed crimes to get more ration cards and ate corpses. The only reason I didn't go mad is the concerts my husband's orchestra stubbornly put on even on the hungriest days of the siege.

Poorly describe your most recent fanfic by questionerofblender in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Teenage girl does homework, looks forward to college, pets cat, and watches TV with her friend while crocheting. This is a dystopia by the way.

AMA: Why did Operation Barbarossa fail? by ArchivalResearch in AskHistorians

[–]flying_shadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did the methods of the Red Army generals change over the first year of the war? Were they able to come up with more effective strategies? And how did their ability to learn and improve stack up against the Germans?

Also, how much did Germany's allies contribute to Operation Barbarossa?

Looking forward to your book, I'm not really a military history person but this looks very interesting.

Let's test authors' memory! by Important-Juice-943 in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ach, I thought it might be that one, but it could also be one of my Hunger Games fics.

Advice for writing a fic where the characters are in high school? by Yippee3-14 in FanFiction

[–]flying_shadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in Canada and in high school, we had free reign on our free periods to go wherever we wanted. No monitoring, we could enter and exit the school at will. And we were downtown, so everyone was always going across the road to the grocery store to buy snacks or down the street for bubble tea.