Mostly About The Vorkosigans

And at this particular Emperor's Birthday, will the Vors of Barrayar be dining on pizza, mac and cheese, dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets, and an ice cream cake?

One of the most 'teenage boy' things Ivan does in Warrior's Apprentice is when he starts saying something offensive about Miles' disability, realises what he's saying, and pivots to say something offensive about psychological disability instead.

*guy reading a critically acclaimed award winning series voice* does anybody know these books are literally good

two chapters in and miles is already getting himself hurt doing something incredibly stupid and barrayaran illegal, making beautiful women mad at him, and failing to "particularly relate" to the concept of enough. oh baby we are so back

sorry duv but also. "sugar-plum-fairy-soldier-buffoons" is going right up there with "miles thinks he's a knight-errant"

okay can i be honest the religion thing in the vorkosigan books is kind of pissing me orf rn. why do miles and aral both say "my god" randomly like one time each when we get like explicit confirmation of aral being an atheist and no other dialogue about miles's personal beliefs but the assumption that like most barrayarans he's not religious? what on earth kind of weird space christianity exists on beta that. Beta. and how common is it?? HOW THE FUCK DID TIME OF ISOLATION BARRAYAR MAINTAIN A FEUDAL SYSTEM WITHOUT THE PRESSURE VALVE OF THE CHURCH AND FOR THAT MATTER HOW DID THEY RECORD HISTORY.

miles vorkosigan is unintentionally possibly barrayar's worst matchmaker. 100% success rate at getting the girl... engaged to someone else. guaranteed to piss you off.

"the gallbladder of the imperium"

The wild thing about Miles not knowing that Aral is bi is that it gets referenced. In front of Miles. In multiple books. And he just... never connects the dots. Miles even references the possibility of Aral being gay himself in The Vor Game and still doesn't get it. In Mountains of Mourning he hears the rumour of "you're disabled because your dad had sex with too many men" and instead of thinking "maybe my dad had sex with men" his thought in response is "huh. weird rumour. Anyway."

Miles the oblivious! TBF, few people really want to contemplate their parents' sex lives. And he truly is just a bit too Barrayaran.