Fun with Tropes

[writerkit]

The impetus for it in the fic I was reading is actually quite tragic, but on an abstract level I'm really amused by the notion of the birds and bees talk being bad enough but much worse than that is when every single adult in your life, apparently without having consulted each other, separately sits down to have a brutal heart-to-heart about the dangers of magical oaths.

(Without providing any of the context for why they felt this was necessary--it was hellish and none of them like to talk about it--so from his perspective it just looks like everyone is really weirdly emphatic about this subject.)

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[jducoeur]

Reminds me of the real-life SCA trope where scads of people start individually asking about what, in a perfect world, you would like in a Peerage ceremony...