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It’s explained early in this thread. Much Romantasy, such as Fourth Wing, is sexually explicit/pornographic. This is classed as “spicy”...

You completely misunderstand what “cosy” means. It doesn’t mean nothing happens. It just means the threat/sex is presented in a PG...

Other way around: Anglo-Saxon had a very robust gender system like other Geemanic languages including gendered articles let alone...

It’s a lot easier to role play something without resorting to rules if you have personal experience to draw upon. That’s why it’s so...

Not really. Classic crime fiction is more of a literary puzzle to be solved by the reader. As such it isn’t really about crime or...

Cosy fantasy is very definitely not the same meaning as cosy Romantasy. But even cosy fantasy is not necessarily low stakes. It’s just...

That’s incorrect in the context of Romantasy. “Cosy” is simply used as an antonym of “spicy”, which means sexually...

Interesting. You still occasionally hear “thee” and “thy” used in Yorkshire dialect. Most famously in the lyrics of On Ilkley Moor...

But that doesn’t make other languages “prehistoric”. English is only a few hundred years old. There are elves older than English (which...

The issue with pronouns, particularly in languages like French or Spanish, is the grammar requires you to convey information about...

So, you are saying that you think a typical D&D game is full of explicit sex? Because that’s not my experience playing with adults. I’ve...

Because those are artificial things designed to put humans in boxes. I generally prefer to keep people out of boxes as much as possible...

This is the nub of the issue. Some players also may or may not want those things. The DM’s role is different to the players’ role, but...

While Shakespeare is a particularly important example, given his influence on modern English, we can definitely say goes back even...