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...It likewise opens doors for redemption arcs, and not everyone feels comfortable with the idea an abusive person can get redemption. Which is a rotten shame, there's so much story potential and angst to explore.

@pretty-prince-lulu Horde of puppe trying to get the sleeping spot just right. (It's the wizard's pillow, you know it is.)

Over half the joy of writing knights is showing how positively awful their lives are because duty comes before all. Go on, send your son to war because you're too old to pick up your shield, and explain to your wife why the bright-eyed boy she raised won't be coming home.

I don’t like knights in the “glorifying a military police force as symbols of power, wealth, and tradition” way. I like knights in the “cult of chivalry and psychological fallout of raising sons to die like their fathers for a king they’ll never meet” way but also in a “swords and armor symbolic of the heaviness and impermanence of manhood” way.

Few things make me leave an establishment as quickly as this.

What a lovely bunch of doofs, I love horses.