I think Riz can actually use magic and the magical gear is all bells and whistles. In a party of so many casters, literally ALL of them have magic now, I think he feels a lot more disconnected from the 'magic' then the rest of them, where it feels very connected to things like faith and art and being the oracle.
Magic is just something he does, he uses, like he uses his sword and his gun and his hands, it's a tool, it's a method to getting a job done, but thinking "I can spellcast" while everyone has this Big Reason for being able to do it is difficult, illogical, so it's easier to conceptualize it as ACTUALLY a tool, a bracer and a necktie and glasses and beaded bracelets, and not just verbal, somatic, material.
When he casts compelled duel on Kalina, he explicitly uses Nothing to do it, he says he calls upon his connection to Kalina since his birth but that still inherently is magic, he casts a magic spell with nothing but pure will, and it works! There is never a question about it working! Both because the items are inherently flavoring, they don't, on paper, actually exist, and because Riz has magic.
I don't think this is something that'd ever really come up or be canonized, as it just seems to be an off-topic thing for Riz's arc right now, but I think the idea adds to Riz's personality, and it the natural, funny conclusion to "I HAVE to wear it, it's just so practical."
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RECIPIES!!!!
from Alice Archives - Green Book
1. BY PETER: foil-baked fish and mushrooms
Ingredients (2 servings)
Fish fillet - 2 pieces
Onion - half
Shiitake mushrooms - 2 of them
Enoki mushroom - 1
Shimeji mushrooms - 1 pack
Butter - about 10g
Soy sauce/Ponzu sauce - An Appropriate Amount
Salt - a little
Pepper - a little
Slice the onion thinly. Cut the mushrooms into bite-sized pieces.
Spread out the aluminum foil and spread the onions across it. Put the fish and mushrooms and butter on top of it. Wrap the foil.
Put about 100cc of water in a frying pan. When steam comes out, put the wrapped foil in the frying pan and put the lid on.
Steam for 5-10 minutes on medium heat.
Add salt and pepper to taste, put on soy sauce or ponzu sauce, and its done!
2. BY BLOOD: tea scones
Ingredients (makes 8 scones):
Cake flour - 200g
Baking powder - 1 tablespoon
Butter 70g
Black tea leaves (earl grey, darjeeling) - 1-2 tablespoons or 1-2 teabags
Milk - 100cc
Egg - 1
Sugar - 1-2 tablespoons
Salt - a little
Mix the cake flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Mix thoroughly.
If the tea leaves are too big, crush it finely. mix with the mixture from 1
Mix the butter, egg, and milk. Little by little combine it with the mixture from step 2. Mix lightly, dont overmix!
Wrap in plastic wrap and let rest in the fridge for about 1 hour.
Roll out about 1-2cm thick. Cut to a suitable size or use a cookie cutter.
Put in the oven on 180C for about 10-20 minutes, watching it.
Put on as much jam, cream, and other toppings as you like.
3. BY JULIUS: COFFEE SCONES
Ingredients (Makes 8 scones):
Cake flour - 200g
Baking powder - 1 tablespoon
butter - 70g
milk - about 80cc
coffee - about 20cc
sugar 1-2 tablespoons
chocolate chips- 50g
salt - a little
Mix the cake flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Mix thoroughly.
Mix the milk and the coffee, then mix that with the mixture from step 1.
Mix what you have from step 2 with the butter. Add chocolate chips. Dont overmix, mix it lightly.
Wrap in plastic wrap and let rest in the fridge for about 1 hour.
Roll out about 1-2cm thick. Cut to a suitable size or use a cookie cutter.
Put in the oven on 180C for about 10-20 minutes, watching it. Your bittersweet coffee scones are ready!
4. BY ACE: Rabbit Stew
Ingredients (2 servings):
Meat of a white rabbit similar to Mister Peter - 1/2 rabbit
Carrots - 2
White mushrooms - 10
Onion - 1
Dried herbs (bay leaf, basil, rosemary, thyme, etc) - a little
Parsley - 2 tablespoons
Salt - a little
Garlic - 1 piece
Red wine - 2 cups
Olive oil - a little
Pepper - a little
Honey - half a tablespoon
Cut the rabbit into easy to eat pieces, submerging it in red wine. Let it rest in the fridge for 1 hour.
Julienne the carrots. Cut the onion, mushrooms, and garlic into thin slices. Dice the parsley.
Put the olive oil in a pan and fry the rabbit until brown. Add and saute the onion halfway through
Add the red wine, carrots, mushrooms, garlic, and dried herbs to the pot from step 3. add salt and pepper and stew on low heat for an hour.
When the meat and vegetables are tender, put them on a plate and sprinkle with parsley.
Add honey to the juice left in the pot and heat for 1-2 minutes
Put on the sauce from 6 and it's ready!
5. BY BORIS: Herb Grilled Salmon
Ingredients (2 servings):
salmon - 2 slices
panko crumbs - 1 cup
pepper - a little
olive oil - 2 tablespoons
dried herbs (bay leaf, basil, rosemary, thyme, etc) - a little
Pat the salmon dry, and sprinkle on the pepper and herbs. If the salmon is raw, sprinkle on salt, too.
Mix the panko crumbs and herbs. Put one teaspoon of the olive oil into your mixture to moisten it.
Coat the salmon in the panko crumbs from step two.
Heat up olive oil in a frying pan, then cook on medium heat until golden-brown on both sides.
It's recommended to put on as much lemon juice as you'd like. Enjoy!
6. BY PIERCE: Cheese In Blue Cheese
Ingredients (2 servings)
Your preferred cheese - 1 block
Sauce:
Blue cheese - 50 g
Milk - 100cc
Fresh cream (low-fat) - 100cc
Pepper - just a bit
Mix blue cheese, milk and fresh cream on your stove. melt blue cheese while stirring
Add cheese and simmer. It will be ready in a reasonable amount of time!
*If you're a person who ISN'T Pierce, it's recommended to put the cheese sauce on spaghetti or gnocchi.
ORIGINALS:
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2023: A year in review
I was tagged by the bestie @seokmingming <3
rules: link your favourite and/or most popular post from each month this year (it's totally fine to skip months!) and tag some CCs you love!
I only started creating in Nov 2023 for dramas so this should be easy lol but if you want to see what I made pre Nov then I have done one for my kpop blog too <33
Nov favourite: Wei Wuxian name meaning edit ⚔️✨ actually I change my mind and it’s this one -> untamed as lotus’s 🪷💜
Nov most popular: Li Susu + Tan Tainjin sun moon edit ☀️🌔
Dec favourite: colours of the untamed (locations ver.) 🎨🗡️
Dec most popular: Word of Honor WKX running up that hill edit 🌄💚
also I like this one because it was my first edit for dramas :') -> untamed wuji lyrics edit ♪❤️
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I will be tagging -> @fydramas, @krystaljungs, @dengswei, @pondsphuwin, @minnarr, @khaotunqs and anyone else who wants to do it <33 (of course no pressure)
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