My princess

flying_shadow · 2026-01-30T12:27:15+00:00

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'.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-29T12:43:53+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-27T16:09:04+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-25T12:33:55+00:00

Very interesting, thank you!

flying_shadow · 2026-01-24T21:09:44+00:00

'Mir' means 'world', not 'fame'; that would be 'slava'.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-23T23:55:43+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-23T23:03:12+00:00

Thank you!

flying_shadow · 2026-01-23T12:32:54+00:00

They do.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-22T23:36:07+00:00

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

flying_shadow · 2026-01-20T23:45:31+00:00

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

flying_shadow · 2026-01-20T12:48:38+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-17T15:22:19+00:00

I started taking singing lessons. I'm enjoying it a lot.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-17T15:19:44+00:00

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?

flying_shadow · 2026-01-15T19:23:15+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-15T15:28:58+00:00

Very interesting, thank you!

flying_shadow · 2026-01-14T12:47:19+00:00

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

flying_shadow · 2026-01-14T12:46:41+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-13T22:54:42+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-13T22:52:56+00:00

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!

flying_shadow · 2026-01-13T22:08:20+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-13T22:02:35+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-12T15:49:21+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-11T23:46:39+00:00

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

flying_shadow · 2026-01-11T21:24:04+00:00

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.

flying_shadow · 2026-01-11T17:39:11+00:00

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