#sufficiently advanced Magic

[fluffelhighwind]

Diversity win! The goddess who made deadly tests for kids might be sapphic!

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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[b-chrno]

Thinking about Corin as transmasc bc of course I am. And like. It works. All his issues(tm) line up very well with being trans.

But also there’s no way Magnus Cadence would allow/accept a trans kid. Like. Even if those who take after Wyd are like. Commonly accepted. Magnus is the kind of bitch that would be an asshole about it.

[yukihind]

Drew Samantha because I couldn't sleep

[querade]

Guess who found a new comfort character!

[quietwingsinthesky]

tshot tshot tshot yayyy yipppeeeee i love putting magic liquids into my body that make me Boy

[jumpfalls]

THE ISEKAI DOCTOR Any sufficiently advanced medical science is indistinguishable from magic ★ Chapter 32

[citrinemystic]

Paraphrase of psalm 3:7: rise up, o God, for you do bitchslap my enemies, and knock their fucking teeth out.

[blujayonthewing]

the thing that's weird about dnd gnomes is that they're described as rare and secretive, their communities hidden and disguised from outsiders as a form of defense

and the thing is that's all well and good, except that even by RAW dnd tends to operate on a lot of 'it's basically like now with a ye olde hat, don't worry about it too much' basis wrt to the production and distribution and availability of goods and materials, and the thing about THAT is that I'm actually usually fine with handwaving Fantasy Globalization for the sake of ease-of-use as a ttrpg backdrop EXCEPT that it's hard, at least for someone like me, to handwave past something like 'if these villages are hidden and secret then where are they getting all their stuff'

[curiousmagpie]

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea that electricity and similar things studied by science is magic.

[rosecolouredheart]

how did you like skypiea? it’s one of my favorite arcs and i always love seeing how other people feel about it after they read or watch it for the first time

I think it was a lot of fun!! I liked so many aspects/character moments of it that if I started to list them I would probably write 2/3rds of all the plot points. Obviously (vague) spoilers from here;

but I especially loved Robin getting her anthropology/archeology moment and Chopper protecting the ship, as well as the importance of verth to both sides and that conflict, and the "Sky Warfare" as a concept.

I think Dials are ridiculous, having basically magic seashells that can do anything but each one does only one specific thing and construction density clouds that are carved into whatever is. Certainly a thing that Oda did. But the idea that people would use these things meant to be helpful tools and make devastating and, to the uninitiated, unfathomable attacks/weaponry with them is so True about the way stuff gets used. There's lots of good social/political commentary going on while the going merry crew members are so wonderfully concerned about one another being okay and Luffy is stuck in a snake.

Also dog knocking itself out on command was funny.

[immawraffle]

“Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic” -> “any sufficiently understood magic is indistinguishable from science”

[jumpfalls]

THE ISEKAI DOCTOR Any sufficiently advanced medical science is indistinguishable from magic ★ Chapter 4

[citrinemystic]

I'm not saying that anointing my hands with road opener oil when getting ready to go out has solved all of my problems. I am saying that confirmation bias can feel pretty sweet when you get nothing but green lights on the way to your destination.

[am8ryllis]

> In the beginning was the Sand.

>

> And in the sand there lies the bones of a fab. And within the fab there lies an alien. An angel. Our sweet alien angel that sleeps through the long night. When it wakes up it will bathe in an acid strong enough to kill a man. It will stare at its own reflection in floating droplets of liquid metal. In the shadows of a purple sun it spits blood thick with silicon onto the desert that shifts with the unreality of Sora sand.