We Are Adventurers

i just met an actual wizard on the train and im grieving because i know i’ll never meet anyone that cool for the rest of my life

you really gotta give him credit: not a lot of guys look as much like Adrian Tchaikovsky, preeminent science fiction author of the decade, as Adrian Tchaikovsky looks like Adrian Tchaikovsky

Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.

Think about it this way, would you be comfortable referring to a character as the fuhrer without taking account for the Nazi implications? If the answer is no, why are you okay with using the term grand wizard without thinking about the KKK implications

I'm surprised the knight kink crowd hasn't picked up on the fact that historical knights had a habit of capturing each other for ransom. What do you mean you don't see the sexual tension in rivals seeking each other out in battle or through ambush, deliberately avoiding harming their target so they may be taken back to the attacker's castle, either held as a prisoner or as a honored "guest" as the case may be, until they are redeemed by their friends and allies?

@tenderheartedbrat

enemies to lovers arc where a knight takes a rival prisoner and then the captive's awful relatives just don't pay the ransom.

Oh, they're good relatives and stall paying just enough to see if a couple weeks as a guest in Lord Wilmore's castle is enough for young Darrel to get to first base