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I really wish we could've had like. Adult drakon with a gun. But not just him older, the DRAGON VERSION OF HIM.

You look at him thinking he's gonna tear your guts out or spit fire but he pulls out a GUN

Still obsessed with the fact they really gave 14 year old drakon a gun

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Miss Talking About Magi?

The David’s Barbeque Party discord is hosting a Magi read along over the next six months! Each week, we’ll aim to get through 15 chapters of content and discuss our observations on the discord (will reblog this post with a link). Stay tuned for more details!!!!

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Honestly, I feel like we need to talk about the Magi omakes more, because they are truly a gift unto us all:

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I find it really cute that how Rurumu treats Ja'far in Sinbad no Bouken,

ends up being how Ja'far treats the other generals in Magi…

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i love to heal my heart and cope whenever i’m sad with thoughts of post-finale sinbad. it helps. in general because i love him

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My Mythology Teacher: Does anyone know any names of the 72 demons-

Me, a Magi Fan:

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I draw him from Magi

I wanna watch this anime

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I often think that this is the reason why he hates destiny. Just. Imagine. He had absolutely everything to have a perfect life without any troubles and grow up healthy both mentally and physically.

And then some random people kidnap and raise him to be some kind of supreme priest, fucking up his mental health and his morals and values. And this ? This was probably his destiny. No wonder why he hates it. It was written that he wouldn't have a good life.

Do you ever get mad because Judar, by all rights, should have had a perfectly normal life?  

He was born to a simple, normal family; would have been possessed of only simple, normal ambitions, should have grown up to be a farm boy or run a little shop in town or something.  Maybe he had a couple little siblings, had a crush on someone when he was 12 and tried to impress them with amateur magic.  

Of all the characters in Magi, he had no royal family members, no parents dead in war, no questionable circumstances of birth.  He’s really the most normal magi, at least before al thamen.  He hasn’t extended his life for hundreds of years, is not trapped in a cycle of rebirth, and was not entrusted to the creator of the entire dimension by his dying parents as a fetus.    

He should have at least gotten through childhood before he started feeling like he should do other things as a magi.  

But no.  

Someone had to come in and slaughter his family and screw him up before he even got to be anything other than a small hairy bean.

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Sinja for @woolastuff ! I hope you like it :)

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i got a proper display tablet and these are the sketches i drew to practice~

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Only Kou headcanons babeyyyyy

Kouen headcanons ? LET'S GO

- First of all, this man is bisexual. He's not especially vocal about it but if you ask him he definitely won't deny it.

- He is VERY protective of his brothers. He's often a bit rough on them and isn't afraid of shaking them up if necessary, but that's mainly because he wants to be sure that they can be okay without him.

- He can and will beat the shit out of you if you're ableist towards his brothers. Yes he gently mocks Kouha for his mental disabilities and asks Koumei to move his ass whenever he falls asleep in reunions but he's the only one who can do that.

- He's deeply interested in anthropology. He loves his country the best, but he enjoys seeing how other cultures work.

- After the end of the manga, he quickly understood that he didn't have a place in politics or at least not officially, so he decided to become an historian instead ! He bugs Aladdin every twelve seconds to check for facts about alma torran and shakes him like a bottle of fruit juice if he doesn't answer.

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As a writer, I kinda wish we could go back to the old magi fandom where people would post about their headcanons and ideas about characters.

I'm a very active writer and I've been in love with all of magi, even the smallest background characters.

So please, if you want some serotonin and a bunch of headcanons or my thoughts on specific subjects, my askbox is open

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Non Magicians in Magnostadt : an analysis over the possibilities of an analogy.

I love Magi, it’s probably my favorite piece of fiction of all times. But most importantly, I love analysing stuff. And for a while, I wondered what are the non Magicians of the Magnostadt kingdom supposed to represent ? And after thinking about it for a while, I think I finally got an answer so … Strap in !!(Please do be aware that this text will talk in depth about discrimination, if this subject is triggering to you I’d advise you to stop here !)

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Magi event week 2: Unusual pair/group

Didn't really know who to draw for this prompt, but then I stumbled across this scene with Morgiana and Toto and thought it would be nice to see them interact more 😚. They kinda give me early Arba and Sheba vibes owo!

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You’ve lost sight of yourself.

The magi ending without fail makes me want to go back to the days in which everything was simple, back in Sinbad no Bouken…But even there are subtle clues that elude to Sinbad turning out this way…I always end up feeling bad for Ja’far in both series endings….

My first real real attempt at a comic, was fun and i hope to do more

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This is probably the greatest shitpost I’ve made in my life—

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Non Magicians in Magnostadt : an analysis over the possibilities of an analogy.

I love Magi, it's probably my favorite piece of fiction of all times. But most importantly, I love analysing stuff. And for a while, I wondered what are the non Magicians of the Magnostadt kingdom supposed to represent ? And after thinking about it for a while, I think I finally got an answer so ... Strap in !!(Please do be aware that this text will talk in depth about discrimination, if this subject is triggering to you I'd advise you to stop here !)

For obvious reasons, the first thought I had was that the non Magicians were supposed to represent Jews. Magi is heavily based on both Judaism and Islamic ideas and having almost a whole population being put in a specific district can be easily linked to a real event event. But thinking about it, something felt heavily wrong. The people that were discriminated against clearly weren't supposed to be Jewish. No, everything pointed to the magicians being the ones that were Jewish instead. I'm not an expert when it comes to Jewish tradition and beliefs, but I did my research. Non Magicians are often called Goi by Mogamett. Goi is a Jewish term that is used to describe non Jewish people. And when you dug a little deeper, you can also see that Jewish people are supposed to be people closer to their god, like magicians would be since they are directly linked to the world's magic sources. I could also argue that Mogamett's does ressemble cliché representations of Jewish people, especially with the nose. Does that mean that the Jewish were represented as the oppressor and the other people as the oppressed ? I don't know. I wouldn't be able to decide if that's the case at all, especially since in other languages, Goi has been Translated to Kaffir, which is meant to describe the people who aren't Muslims. It's overall very confusing. But still, what I could see is that the people who were oppressed weren't meant to represent Jewish people. Obviously, I quickly took a look at the biggest oppressed groups there are in the world. So I thought about Sexism, Racism and LGBTphobia. Sexism didn't seem to be it at all. Women are shown to have high positions in Magnostadt's society. We see it with Myers who is a highly respected teacher or obviously Yamuraiha that is treated as one of the best Magicians ever. So it couldn't be it. Racism seemed ... Off. One of the points of Aladdin's fear of discrimination is that these people are all of the same when it comes to their appearance. It was the point of the new world that Ugo created, all creatures became the same race to avoid discrimination. And with all of that, we have Sphintus who's at the very least Arabic. As for homophobia I couldn't see a link at all. It's not like they weren't able to have children together, they did have kids. It's not that they were hated for something they love and that they could just hide it, they weren't able to do something and that's all. It couldn't be that either.   But then, it clicked. The main point of this discrimination was because people weren't abled to do something. They were disabled. It wasn't even a metaphor. They literally were disabled. And now, here comes the part with explanations and details to better understand this theory, coming with an introduction to the world disabled, because I do believe that it is interesting to have a clear difference with a disability and a handicap. A handicap means that you are facing a disadvantage due to a problem. For exemple, if you start a race with a 20 pounds chain on your  foot, you will be handicapped compared to others in the race. A disability means something you can't do. Therefore, depending on the context, someone that is handicapped can be or not be disabled. Let's say a part of a human population grows wings. If they keep evolving in our actual society they will be advantaged yes, but no one will be unable to do their normal tasks. However if the world starts to be built around these people with wings, creating places that only them can access by flying for exemple, everyone who doesn't have wings will be considered disabled. Because they're unable to do the same. Now with that exemple, replace wings with magic and you get exactly what Magnostadt's society is. It is exclusively built for people who are born magicians. Normal human beings cannot function in it properly. And what do you do when someone can't function properly ? You start discriminating them. Mogamett truly believed that the non magicians weren't as useful as other humans were, so he built a society for the to be put in a position of weakness. Some people can work on the surface, yes. But it's because they're rich or they have talent like artists or crafters. You can see disabled people working in an every day life, but most often people are surprised. As for the poor people ? Well they're put in their little spaces of life to rot. The people born in the 5th district pretty much never see the outside world and to be fair, disabled people don't either. They're meant to stay at home, because things aren't meant for us outside. From now on, I'm gonna talk about disability using my own experiences. It's probably gonna be a bit raw, but I think parallels will be easier to make. The thing that I thought the most about is the "you should be grateful" part. It's really interesting and is a very manipulative technique to make sure people are under your control. The people in the 5th district are given food and water and don't have to work. Most of them could probably work if they were given the opportunity to with the proper help to make the job accessible. But no, they're trapped in their place with no possibility to actually work for the society. They've been forced into this district because they were mistreated into poverty without the opportunity of getting out of it, and now that they're stuck in this situation, they're meant to be grateful. Because they're provided the food and sleep they need that they didn't have before when it's basic human rights. And the fact is, they've been in such an horrible situation before that they'd rather accept being treated like animals than being mistreated even more. And that's exactly what happens when handicapped people ask for financial help. We might get 1000$ a month if we're lucky, but it's still not enough. And people tell us that we're ungrateful because we want an actual liveable wage. We don't think that giving us absolutely nothing is a good either. We want to be treated as human beings. Yet we should still be oh so grateful because we're getting all of this without work. I could work if the world did a little effort. But it does. And it also comes back to the hymn beings statement. Because that's also a very interesting thing : they're not seen as human beings. Mogamett sees non magicians as animals. Different people as seen as different animals, for exemple Marga was a kitten to the man's eyes. But her being cute didn't mean he respected her. And it's not rare to see disabled people as less valuable. That was insanely obvious during the COVID-19 crisis. People kept talking about disabled people as a necessary sacrifice for other people's well being. Because to them, a human life is important. But a "lower" human life isn't as important as being able to get McDonald's. Non Magicians are more than likely to be killed if they are ill or can no longer provide enough magical ressources to the city. Since they were born into poverty and unable to get out of this place, they will most likely die at a rather young age or if they catch an illness. It's not their choice to die, the government literally kills them if they're not enough. There isn't much an equivalent in our modern society for the government killing people directly, however this method did remind me of some atrocious things that are currently done to disabled people in countries like Canada. When you're disabled, you have to pay for medication. A lot. And if you're poor, you're likely to go in dept very quickly. And for that, the government came with a solution : assisted suicide. You can either choose to die slowly and painfully, or the government can give you the medication to kill yourself. All of that because you can't pay your medication and therefore you're not useful enough to society anymore. Non Magicians in the 5th district aren't just seen as a source of magical income for the rest of society. They're seen as people you can utilise and milk of their energy until their death. And with all of these arguments, I believe that the whole Magnostadt arc's treatment of non Magicians was a direct reference of disabled people.