Oh, I thought of something. Numinatus!

Bigger inside joke than the moon colony at this point.

You know make it "summarise Elder Scrolls metaphysics in a single sentence" instead. Any more than that would be too offensive to a writer's ingenuity.

Well I'm proud of myself for getting through 36 Lessons without removing a body part in frustration this time, and in a daredevil follow up, I looked up "Vehkship" on TIL, and now I'm back to self-hatred.

By the way Lady N, is your avatar an evil squirrel or a Dunmer squirrel?

Evil. The full title is "evil, blue colored, red eyed, squirrel messiah of a fictional video game world"

Is it bad that your title inspired me and reminded me of the prophet of Landfall? I'm sure it's just the fatigue setting in, but I feel like I have to write something akin to that now.

Bigger on the inside has been a saying since the Big Bang. S'no joke.

@Chaplain: A pen they don't make anymore and some paper, which I think they still make, let me check. And then: draw, no pencil, just draw. Cover up any mistakes with a swirl or other contraband. If it svcks, don't throw it away just yet. Unless it totally svcks. In that particular case, set in on fire so that no one will ever, ever know. But I digress: take the non-total svcks out in the morning, look over and see what you see. Maybe it'll go back on the good pile. Maybe it's a fire hazard. Point is, at some point, you and your pen aren't bound. Except for the part where they don't make the pen no more.

[censored], you asked me to put a name to it. Okay: "pretend".

As they lead me away in cuffs, I'll tell them the name of the dog who told me to burn things.

Interesting thought though. But I think it'll take me awhile to get a look reminiscent of "Vivec vs. City-Face." Is Vehk smiling in that picture? I always thought he was smiling and tickling the sky.

*addendum*

Bigger on the inside? A Doctor Who joke?

It's rare that a statement inspires a question to which the answer was already provided in the statement.Although actually, it's a Terry Pratchett joke. Or is it a Douglas Adams joke? Whatever it is, it's not British.

This hurt my brain.

How was the answer provided? I didn't get the joke to begin with.

Not British? Both Adams and Pratchett were Brits. Maybe you could just explain the joke.

"I need a word for a rhyming couplet forged from Zeno's Arrow. Also, this is not a gun, but a staple remover. It looks ferocious."

I agree with you on the title, but otherwise I'm amazed by your innocence. I mean, even normal fantasy novels are rarely more than three sentences away from being bdsn stuff anyway. How often do mucsle-bound heroes get tied up by vile sorceresses? How often is mind control used? Hell, even just the basic "I'll hit you with this stick while you hit me with that other stick" fundamental of fantasy is just this side of bdsn.
*is now going to read that*

Not often enough.

1. Numinatus!
2. Mountain Farting Contest
3. Secrets of the Hurling Disk
4. Trading of friendship bracelets
5. Lunch

Well I'm no stranger to shirtless leather harnesses and cleavage fantasy *cues to his collection of Robert E. Howard*, but bdsn seems a bit... eh specific if not awkward to read as well.

Yeah, Fantasy and six(uality) have been close buddies since... pretty much Earthsea. Is it that difficult to leap to bdsn?

The difference between the hero's love interest being hoisted over a burning pit of doom and bdsn is the presence of clothing. (and how she's hanging)

If I had MK tied to a chair I would make him tell me a story of how The Nerevarine finished the final prophecy of The Seven Visions

It just bugs me he never finished the last one, he did not have one destiny, he did not speak law for Veloth's people, and he did not name them great.

I need a story for how he somehow does it, it bugs me so much.

I've only read the first Earthsea book. The second one bored me nearly immediately. It depends what kind of sixuality you're talking about though. I always associated sixually charged fantasy with the Hyborian Age (Conan) stories. Those things describe people in loincloths and leather harnesses or... nothing at all. It was bdsn...ish, but no torture or anything. At least not sadistic torture.

bdsn ain't all whips and leather. Of course, in Goodkind, http://tabrettbethell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/67567474ytggr445634.jpg.

Good to have you back.

Oh my. They made a movie of it?

But I could talk about my objections to bdsn all day, but the last time I did that I offended a great many people, so for once I'll hold my tongue.

TV series, and it was actually pretty awesome. In a silly, doesn't take itself too seriously sort of way. Very little like the books.

Sometimes I really do appreciate how lightly moderated this forum is.

I'm merely saying that sixuality has been a topic of exploration in fantasy since the '70's, and seeing as we've got books that deal with http://media.us.macmillan.com/jackets/500H/9780765356130.jpg, http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KSVNQWJ3L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg, http://suvudu.com/files/suvudumedia/bonedollstwin.jpg, and even http://olvasonaplo.freeblog.hu/files/2011/01/foolserrand.jpg (to a small degree, I did have to reach on that last one), is it that hard to not include bdsn?

Heck, if you believe MK, the Reman dynasty is filled with Cow lovers.

Sword of Truth never seemed all that heavy on the bdsn themes to me, really. There's certainly a lot more sixual abuse, vanilla romance, unrealistic fighting, and moral/political wrangling than there is bdsn, by far. Could have used more bdsn and less [censored], in my view, though of course the latter is infinitely less objectionable to a lot of, uh, people.

The series is fun though, in a slightly embarassing and extremely camp sort of way.


On topic: I'd have MK tell me all about Vivec in great detail.