Naomi Novik's "Deadly Education" (aka the Scholomance Series) is 110% how I'd expect a magical school CfB to look like.

There's also "The Library at Hellebore" by Cassandra Khaw, but that's a bit closer to just an Apocalypse Keys playset/prebuilt setting.

It's been on my mind.

The quote came from this article. It's a really sad look at people who, look, I'm glad they found each other.

Well. At least it wasn't a long long day.

I was in that game with Mads! Aside from being a thoughtful game, the pastoral way the text is written is just...choice.

It was also a bit of a unique class in that it was more "conversational". The professor had his thoughts and ideas, but sent us out to find answers and had us bring them back for discussion (as opposed to a lecture-based class where we're expected to just accept the prof's words as gospel)

The Tarzan novel (1914) was required reading, as it served as a sort of "culture guide" for what was expected of men-in-western-society, and our starting off point.

We ultimately went through WWII and into the James Bond/commercialization era.

The History of Masculinity is one I keep coming back to. Prof took a lot of time in the first class to separate "manliness" from "masculinity" before starting, essentially, in WWI when enlisted men and officers essentially shared the same space for the first time.

The art would have to be standout, but I've done it before.

Heck, I have a pdf of the Symbaroum art book despite not owning the game itself, or having played it.

"Tom Cruise is helping-"

Lemme stop you there. As someone who loves the OG Top Gun a more-than-ordinary amount, Tom Cruise has nothing to do with why.