Another journal

We keep a family discord server, in which I may be related by blood to only one person but these folks are all family. It’s a very “yes and” place, because we stay silly. Think of dozens of group chats all woven together. Anyway, because we’re of An Age, almost everyone is also on other servers and forums and there can be cross-pollination of bullshittery. In this case, “How many alliterative variants of ‘sword and sorcery’ can we come up with?” Like, “Might and Magic” is already a known one. We got most of the way through the alphabet and I was like, “I have to preserve this list.” Because, like so many things nowadays, it’s just what we own (blogs etc) that are better archives. Anyway!! Credit goes to my beloved people, I think everyone pitched in here.

The key is format: [physical] and [arcane]. Shout out to Merriam Webster’s thesaurus.

• Adventure and Arcana (alt: Archery and Abjuration)
• Brawn and Bewitchery
• Conflict and Conjuring (alt: Claymores and Centaurs)
• Damage and Deviltry
• Epees and Enchantments
• Fisticuffs and Flimflammery
• Grappling and Glamour
• Hullabaloos and Hexes
• Imbroglios and Illusions
• Jousts and Jinxes
• Knockouts and Kismet (alt: Knaves and Kisses, haha)
• Luchadors and Liches
• Might and Magic
• Nunchaku and Necromancy
• Oppugning and Omens
• Punches and Potions (alt: Punches and Paradoxes, Pugilism and Prestidigitation)
• Quests and Quagmires
• Ruffians and Reanimators
• Sword and Sorcery (the original, the glorious)
• Taekwondo and Transmogrification (alt: Thrones and Thrashings)
• Uppercuts and Uncanniness
• Vendettas and Vivisection (alt: Vexations and Vortexes)
• Weapons and Warlocking (alt: War and Witches, Warlords and Wyrms)
• X-Rays and Xanadu (though, the Xanadu gun is an early black powder weapon, so one could play with that)
• Y… well. Amazing how few useful for this words there are, but I did re-learn about yo-yos.
• Zombies and Zephyrs

Those last three feel a bit specious but, overall, I think not too bad! What a team we all make. Also, apparently in the server this mind exercise first came up in, somebody tracked down an RPG called Bunnies & Burrows, which was inspired by the novel Watership Down. This was a fun game! Big recommend you give it a crack.