Shané Oosthuizen

phalanx yeah it's like a detective detective protective military formation from like greek and roman times whether in like this block deimos there is a greek god who is the son of aries god of war and aphrodite and they're like the kind of war so anyway that was my theory it all connects that's so smart can we contact the authors and see if this was intentional you're like are we the only people to realize this

I wonder where they've gotten that from.

It's tickling the Percy Jackson part of the brain.

Oh, the Percy Jackson part of the brain.

Yeah, I wonder if the wolf thing, it ties in, but I wonder is it like the fantasy equivalent of like the hand flex, like the Darcy hand flex?

If it's like she walks past and he like goes.

I love that.

Yes.

And it is actually you could kind of make a bit of an argument that it is a little bit toxic because I feel like if you're thinking Akatar as well, there's that whole mate scent and it's like you can like my scent is entwined with hers now.

Like we're marked.

Ownership.

But then also all of the fantasy tropes that we love as well, or most of them I would say, there's always a kind of you're mine scene, which is also that possessiveness, which I know does make me sometimes think, should I be enjoying this as much as I am?

And they're like, how did you know?

That's creepy if you do.

Like that's, I'm sorry.

Every man that I know, like, I mean, my partner, I had to explain to him the whole, you know, difficulty of shopping for dresses.

If you are, you know, have a certain figure, it's not even to do with size.

It's kind of like everyone has different body shapes.

Oh,

But another classic, it's probably slightly more than a microtrope, maybe not quite a macrotrope.