A sweet ass, kick ass fantasy series, writen by Joel Rosenberg. The first book, The Sleeping Dragon, starts it off. Any fantasy fan should read it, it rules.
Damn, I can't believe that he died. But, hell, Walter's still around in Guardians of the Flame, so it won't be as bad.
Commonly referred to as the "fag hag," a "Keeper of the Flame" is a heterosexual female who likes to surround herself with the company of one or more gay men.
Jenny watched all the seasons of Queer as Folk with Adam last night. She's such a keeper of the flame.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”