"Though various “refutations” have appeared, fans of the gambit always find ways to keep Black alive (or so they claim), until gambit debunkers come up with new ways to kill it. Then Latvian aficionados fix it again, the debunkers kill it, and…well, it's a never-ending cycle."


W*ndigo.


Cool mornings that abruptly shift into burning fury, as if an apparatus took out.


ruck bulbous · Icarus skua
Ubar fulcrum · slag obolus
solids build as hiss · acrid caulk
brings lull aslant · isthmus skirl gunk


How to Cook...


"It is noteworthy that exonyms have developed only for those places that are of especial significance for speakers of the language in question."


Markov's variant of a Good Book. (via M*tafilt*r)


On my victrola- Sapodilla Punch