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Merlin getting his magic back has affected my disabled heart so profoundly that I must write another meta on magic being a disability parallel.
#being forced to hide who you are to appease others#people wanting to force you into hiding themselves#for you to shut up and go away and/or take their bullying#expecting you to let them persecute you and kill you willingly#yeah#i'm crying#like... oh. maybe i AM magic. maybe it WAS inside me all along. maybe i CAN find myself again.#in a different way but... maybe we can all find ourselves again#find our magic again#and learn to embrace it#bbc merlin
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you are pitting Jesus and Santa Claus against each other. I am acknowledging Santa as both a mythic symbol of Christ and a cultural legend based upon a real man whose faithfulness to Christ was used by God to grant common grace not just to the people of Myra but throughout the entire world. we are not the same.
#I know anti-Santa people who are not smug but the anti-Santa influencers are getting smugger and smugger each year#my generation was not raised to cope with loss of childhood#pro-tip: it comes back when you have your own children#I know because I get a taste of it whenever I visit my friends’ kids#mobile#x#Christmas#Christianity#history#mythology#let kids believe in magic again#you know what believing in magic did for me? trained my heart to recognize the wondrous when I see it#trained me to accept that I don’t and can’t know everything#trained me to live by the faith of adherence when i cannot enjoy the faith of assurance (Matthew Henry)#I was the only person in any of my friend groups who ever believed in Santa#and you know why I didn’t feel betrayed to find out I’d misplaced my belief? because Santa is real.#someone moves even terrible parents to give good gifts to their children on the same holy day every year#someone moves the imagination to ensure that the darkest week of the year will produce the most ethereal lights#someone moves the ancient and forgotten back into our conscious present minds#and if you’re wondering whether I’m talking about Jesus or Santa that’s a GOOD thing!#that’s the whole point!#the Santa mythos *impacts* people all over the world. and that is an act of Providence whether you believe in God or not
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I met this guy once in my government class and we were working on a project together and I was taking about mairuma and he was like 'oh I've watched that' so we started talking about it and he asked me who I thought was endgame for iruma and I told him the love trio obviously and he was very put off by that. He literally said "maybe Clara but not asmodeus because he's a guy"
My brother in christ mairuma is basically a big allegory for being queer
#It's impossible to engage with mairuma without acknowledging that it's queer#Striped of all the magical elements mairuma is about a boy with a secret where if people around him find out he will be harmed#It's about being yourself and it's about greed#Be passionate and greedy when it comes to yourself be indulgent#It's about queer acceptance#It's about queer love#It's about queer power#You can't look past that it's impossible#Mairuma#mairimashita iruma kun#That guy after we finished our project literally never talked to me again
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watching wish and asha just said 'isn't truth supposed to set you free' and i went:
more seriously i've very rarely seen 'the truth will set you free' used in a context that wasn't at least aware the phrase comes from the bible (the same way people are generally aware that 'to fly too close to the sun' comes from greek mythology)
so now i'm wondering if the people who wrote this line and put it in the movie know where it comes from and didn't care or plainly didn't know. it's just a very weird phrase to use in the context of that movie imo cause it's far less of an all purpose expression than other biblically inspired sayings.
#i'm probably not being very clear but basically i find it jarring to hear an idiom that couldn't have come to exist w/out jesus#in this loosely-defined and magical fairy-tale world#sure wish takes place in the mediterranean so we can assume it IS set in our world#that's still an acknowledgment of real life history whether intended or not#and unlike say 'to fly too close to the sun' that particular phrase has *deeply* rooted religious significance#maybe i'm completely wrong and it IS commonly used in english but i haven't come across it enough#and again never in a context where i'd assume the speaker was fully unaware of the bible being a thing#like if you hear a 21st century person say it in a fictional story or irl you understand how they came to know it#either they read it or they learnt it throught osmosis#it's reasonable to assume they would have come across it even if they're fully secular#but here who in asha's world says that truth is supposed to set you free??
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Revisiting the character designs I did for my barchelor thesis (part 1/3). The older version is bellow the cut. I tried to stay as close as possible to the original designs, as I still think they work very well...
Anyway, meet Peter, a silver-tongued ghost punished to work as a bartender in his after-life.
#my art#digital art#illustration#original character#original art#character design#after the midnight club#that was the tittle of my thesis#I developed three characters for an animated series pilot#peter here would be our very relutant protagonist#in a kind of slice of life/fantasy#that parodies the isekai genre#bc the idea of regular joe dies goes to magical world just to end up stuck on costumer service once again is very hysterical#even more so when this fricking guy procedes to stay completely unbothered not interested in adventure whatsoever#he only wants to find a way to get out of work and maybe get ghost-unionized
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every time I remember that we're getting animated mighty nein and I'll get to see the Circus Man and Magic Man tenderly kiss each other on the forehead I feel weak--
#theyre everything to me--#and when I get 'please dont give up. you can still find your own life again. there will be time for that later'#'empty no longer mr tealeaf.'#'i kiss him where he kissed me a long time ago'#'oh youre cute magic man--'#'this might be your first time meeting us but its our second time. stick with us.' 'we have a habit of taking in strays--'#then what??#i will be simply inconsolable--
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Abusers will emotionally neglect you, find ways to personally insult you, and purposefully trigger you but as soon as you snap suddenly they're the victim and you're actually the abuser because they're "walking on eggshells" when they were actually just beating you down as much as possible and realized you're not always gonna be submissive and you're gonna lash out from mistreatment
#tw abuse mention#thinking about my ex again. i was gonna find evidence of him abusing me in my archived screenshots#but just seeing our conversations sent me into a breakdown so it was too taxing#i remember the first time he ignored me all day and when i got upset they said i was being unreasonable#and it was my fault for not knowing he was feeling sad when he literally ignored me all day and only answered with 'ok' and acted mad at me#just for checking in every couple of hours#and till the end he clung to that claiming it was my fault#yet magically forgot all the vile things said to me and how cold they acted for no reason#idk#meffy rants#tw vent
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the hermes brainrot is so real oh my god
#🌙.rambles#[ ffxiv. ]#the name they chose is so perfect#w the wings n then#checking hermes' wiki again#'he also named after Hermes Trismegistus who was an expert in magic alchemy and astrology' bro.#the last three. ily#also like his character really just means so much to him#one more example is that of. his love for life#his love for meteion. not romantic tho god no but like#one of my favorite things ever in ffxiv r like#that line in. his side story where. gazes into her eyes the same shade blue as her wings something something like that#& hermes w the flowers n hermes w the stars n hermes w time stuff#off-topic but other stuff that r my fav in ffxiv include like#random yeah but yk aymeric technically has a cat right.#& then alphinaud in that side story in tales from dragonsong war with. he writes in a journal. he canonically is good at drawing#he writes letters to his friends. i find it funny how he was actually popular back in the studium#back to hermes though the things in his side story r just so relatable n understandable it Hurts#such as. guilt. shame. the things we'll sacrifice for our duties. for the sake of some sort of love#acceptance kindness n understanding..#choices blames n strength#'no turning back' i know that painful sentiment n the contradiction w it so well#fuck the way they wrote the whole story is just so. perfect to me. :c#he's so. hdjfalskdfjsd#when meteion stroked his hair 'leaving his dark hair an unkempt mess─and his soul somehow comforted' then the way he smiled#'That hope did not last.' that line.... hurts so much#'The fire would rise in those who looked up at the heavens in defiance of oblivion─#the desire to confront the answers for which Meteion journeyed...no matter how terrible the truth may be.'#so. beautiful.
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I’ve started playing dnd again and the campaign I’m in has the pitch that we all must be characters from written works. The plot is we got thrown out of our own stories and must find our way back.
I am Hamlet, a warlock who made a pact with his Dad’s ghost (it’s absolutely his Dad’s ghost, he wasn’t tricked at all, ignore the fiend patron type) to get revenge on his Uncle. But this post isn’t about him.
Because our cleric, the one entrusted with keeping the party full of heals, the only person with healing magic, is House MD.
“Wait Iz!” You cry. “House MD is a television show, not written fiction.” You’d be correct. Which is why our cleric House is not from the television show.
He’s from a fan fiction.
It’s as funny as it sounds.
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Dont be angry, Finnula said. Be smart.
#Chapter 23#Kingdom of Ash#Sarah J. Maas#Elide Lochan#Finnula#no spoilers pls first read along w me chapter spoilers in post & tags below w more annotations/quotes/notes/reacts/perspective 3 of 4#The City of Rivers… can Aelin get a City of Fire? cuz that would be cool & Elide already said “fear was another companion it can’t be worse#IT WAS LORCANS SHIRT😭 & he cared so much he lied so she’d use it from Gavriel/Rowan😭 OH ELORCAN😭😭😭#Yet this place seemed like a paradise. WHATS REAL? is it a Maeve illusion… but it sounds lovely; like Rowan could just fly around😭#Pink and blue flowers draped from windowsills; little canals wended between some of the streets ferrying people in bright long boats.#And though a good dose of fear would aid in her cover too much would spell her doom. -smart clever spy gal Annabeth Chase would be proud#And this city Rowan had told Elide had been built from stone to keep Brannon or any of his descendants from razing it to the ground.#when u know ur evil cuz you had to build in a backup plan for the day Brannons peeps eventually come to shut that shit down… my poor Aelin#Elide fought the limp that grew with each step farther into the city--farther away from Gavriel's magic… or Lorcan’s👀😭🖤🤨#okay Elide I see your mirror mirror Aos moves with the berry listen and compact trick she can do it with a broken heart#cycle. She hadn't been able to find the words anyway. Not with what it would crumple in her chest to even think them. WELL NOW IM CRUMPLED#As if she'd been weeping for weeks… yeah that fits the KoA vibes#But it wasn't the reflection she wanted to see. But rather the square behind her. — BRILLIANT QUEEN — lol thx Lorcan for having a mirror#if only anything could be a witch mirror then they could all cell chat and communicate cause the travel time in this one is rough#she was merely staring into a compact mirror no more than a self-conscious girl trying to fix her frazzled appearance — she is the best spy#A girl trying to muster some dignity. Let them see what they wanted to see-A girl far out of her element in this lovely well-dressed city#cornflower blue ALWAYS THESE SHADES#her golden-brown skin shone with an inner light. Her eyes were soft with kindness. And concern.#had always made them foolishly off guard and eager to get away. To tell her what she needed to know. — funny 2 watch Elide do this after HoF#The sort of voice Elide had always imagined great beauties possessing the sort of voice that made men fall all over themselves.#Cairn. One of the males swore; the other scanned Elide from head to toe. But the two females had gone still. — agreed he’s the worst#the portrait of hope—yeah child’s right cause no—Elide always naming people—If you escaped Cairn don't go looking for him again.—true#Cairn is blood-sworn to our queen. Still makes him a prick TRUTH — doesn’t need to be a far to catch the lie — WHERE IS SHE DAMNIT#She was about to do it again wheen… The dark-haired beauty from the tavern was standing behind her. — SHIT#Maeve was not in Doranelle. How long would that remain true? Had to make the next performance count. — how many had she done this already?🥹😭
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My mother tells a lot of stories and admittedly my memory is undependable but every now and then she’ll start an anecdote like “as I’m sure you’re tired of me saying” as tho it’s going to be the most boring fact ever conceived and then drop “i met Tommy Douglas multiple times as a child”
#for those who aren’t Canadian or who were asleep during that social studies class#he was the guy who spearheaded our whole free healthcare Thing#after being on the ground for how brutal the 30s were for rural folks in the prairies#and apparently he was just a very kind man#he moved out west towards the end of his life and my grandparents were Politically Active so that’s how they crossed paths#Mum wouldve been just a little kid at the time#but apparently he would talk to her like he took her seriously#like this weird little kid living in poverty could have opinions and ideas that mattered#some people are capital-P Politicians in the sense that they’re slimy all the way to the tips of their toes#and some people are capital-P Politicians in that they’re genuinely interested in the people of their city/province/country#and want to find ways to make those people’s lives better#and you know chaboy is a staunch leftist but I truly believe that transcends ideology#anyway idk. it was like my equivalent of someone dropping that they hung out with an Olympian or whatever#which tbf my mum also does#also i keep telling her: i love hearing stories over and over again#BECAUSE my memory is not great and also bc im adhd and I literally!! don’t mind having the same conversations#also there’s always some new angle to it#it was fascinating years ago to do an assignment where I interviewed her about my (and my siblings’) births#and compare my recollected Tale with one particular telling from her#some of that’s telephone. some of that’s that the way she tells the story when trying to Provide A Factual Account#might be different from when she’s trying to emphasize the magicalness of it#or her frustration with my father#or what a comedy of errors it was#tell me stories fifty times. then tell me them again. i love you.
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neither of us have introduced ourselves here like At All i don't think but. jumping on here for a second to say. this is the first time in i think actually 6 months since we formed that we've actually seen Maxwell genuinely smile
#- will#we've Been Here just staying in the background for personal reasons 👍#anyway healing power of friendship and whatnot#maxwell felt alone bc they were pretty much The Only brainmade active whatsoever for a good couple months#and was thus much more affected by irl trauma bc there weren't any exomems to like. block that out with#and like. bc of weird headspace lore they also felt kinda guilty for existing in the first place#so. the stuff we do to our bodies in headspace. injuries and things. that tends to be permanent?#if we get injured in paracosm we stay injured in headspace#and percy is like. basically a fragment of a gods soul embedded in a human body#but the 'percy' part of the equation. was entirely the SOUL and not the body#so when at one point their soul became fully separated from their body#maxwell appeared. basically the human that was In The Background of their mind the entire time.#bc percy and also maxwell by extension were plural in source before getting introjected#but then in their canon their magic somehow forced all those previous headmates into their own bodies essentially dissolving the system#so they were freaked out alone in their own mind (they assumed)#but then the echoes started finding each other and combining into their own system-like structure so they weren't alone anymore#but then maxwell gets ejected from that system by having the echo part of its soul torn out#so they're alone in their mind AGAIN#but now they're like. forming their own little subsystem here. and it's making them feel better. less alone#there's maxwell and me (william) and we're brothers and then there's wasp (my weird cousin) and roobles (the bug that walked in)#and then julianna the mermaid and terria the little girl that hates everyone and then trick the weird fuckin imp goblin thing
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https://www.tumblr.com/qqueenofhades/743255237060689920/the-thing-that-confuses-me-about-the-dont-vote
The “don’t vote” left’s point is basically that, if Biden gets a second term, it’ll basically signal that “They’ll vote for us as long as we’re not Republicans, why don’t we do some REAL fucked up shit, if we can get away with it?” It takes the power out of the people’s hands and places it firmly in the party’s.
I can’t completely disagree with that, my caveat is that there’s no real alternative system or party in place, because top-down change is ineffective; a third party president has to contend with a two party congress.
Except no. This whole "Biden just wants to do as much fucked up shit as possible while not being a Republican, and if you give him a second term he'll do more fucked up shit deliberately to spite you" mindset is only possible as an interpretation if you a) deliberately and comprehensively ignore everything he has done to date, and b) you approach the situation with the maximum bad faith possible. Not to mention, the ultimate outcome of this Big Important Teaching Biden A Lesson is that Trump gets back into power and makes everything orders of magnitude worse, because he does in fact want to deliberately do evil shit to everyone and says so at every opportunity. There is not some magical happy alternative that springs into existence by not voting. If you choose this as a year to Teach Biden A Lesson, you are enabling Trump. Trump will be much, much worse. If you don't care about that, I still do not care what your Great Ideology is. You are not helping anyone and you are directly and irreversibly hurting everyone.
I made a post a few days ago wherein I mentioned that I want to assess Biden fairly, taking into account both strengths and weaknesses, but the rampant bad-faith, lying, misreading, misrepresentation, and open sabotage of him (especially by the online left; the GOP sometimes only wishes they were as good at turning Biden's voter pool against him) makes it really difficult to do that. My frustration with those people makes me just want to go "BIDEN IS GREAT THE END." I know he is a flawed old man (though by literally every account of a career spent in public service, he really does care about making the world a better place and any remotely good faith reading of his accomplishments thus far can see that). It is also very likely that he goes MORE left in a second term because he won't have to face the electorate again, he has always gone more left when pushed before, and he's not actually the scheming genocidal mastermind that leftist social media paints him as. Shocking, I know.
I know there are things in the world we don't like and don't want and want to stop, and therefore we blame our own president for not making it stop. But I have zero, no, none, absolutely none whatsoever sympathy for this pseudo-populist "WE NEED TO TEACH BIDEN A LESSON BY ELECTING TRUMP AGAIN, I AM VERY MORAL MUCH ACTIVIST" mindset. There's this funny thing about America wherein it is still (for now) a democracy. If Biden wins a second term, he can't run again. I would take literally anything these people said more seriously if they focused on developing their dream progressive successor for 2028 (and also figured out how to get that person elected and in a place to make real change) rather than cynically sabotaging Biden in the most consequential election year, again, of our lifetimes. If you don't like him now, find a way to make his successor a better option. Throwing a toddler tantrum and handing the country back to a senile, deranged, fascist, revenge-riddled, theocratic Trump HELPS. NOBODY. I still don't know how many times I'm going to have to say that, but yeah.
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365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 343
Adjective: Modern
Noun: Street
Definitions for those who need/want them:
Modern: relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past; characterized by or using the most up-to-date techniques, ideas, or equipment; denoting the form of a language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form; denoting a current or recent style or trend in art, architecture, or other cultural activity marked by a significant departure from traditional styles and values
Street: a public road in a city or town, typically with houses and buildings on one or both sides; (US) used to refer to the financial markets and activities on Wall Street; the roads or public areas of a city or town; relating to the outlook, values, or lifestyle of those young people who are perceived as composing a fashionable urban subculture; denoting someone who is homeless; performing or being performed on the street
#im rather late again#but my girlfriend and i had yet another busy day#we did some shopping and saw some local holiday lights (which is now a yearly tradition for us with this being our third year (wow))#and we played some magic when we got home#it was all rather fun (despite it being a lot)#anyway i find this prompt particularly interesting#mainly because there are definitions of both words that i guess i didnt know about or never thought about#so there is more to explore and more potential than i initially thought there would be#i have quite a few ideas running through my head right now#specifically inspirations to pull from#mag150 cul-de-sac (from the magnus archives)#1x22 the monsters are due on maple street (from the twilight zone)#the house on maple street from the mysteries of harris burdick#im not sure if ill use any of them or which ones (or one) i will use#or if ill come up with something else later#but we will just have to see#the magnus archives#tma#the lonely#the lonely tma#the twilight zone#the mysteries of harris burdick#chris van allsburg#thanks for reading#writing#writer#creative writing#writing prompt#writeblr#trying to be a writeblr at least
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The funniest thing to me about the new adventure time cartoon is that in the Fiona and Cake show the characters i liked the least where Fiona and Cake themselves 😭
#and it sucks because those first episodes about them were really good#but then it just felt like they were just there#like secundaries on their own show#and i ended up just getting annoyed at them rather than finding them endearing#because a lot of the time i felt like they weren't taking shit seriously when they caused such a fucking mess on the multiverse#and don't come at me like “oh but Fiona never had the adventures Finn did which made him mature” bro she's an adult#and if i (also an adult living in a magic-less world) can mature as i grow older so should she#Finn was a teen during adventure time and even he took things seriously when needed#through most of the show Fiona and Cake just came across to me like they didn't give a shit about the mess they made#because “ooooooo it's our magical adventure!!”#so yeah I don't like them#liked pretty much everything else tho#it was hella fun seing all the different universes#and Simon's storyline was awesome#we even got to see golbetty again which i always wanted more ever since the og show ended#hyena ramblings
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I gave you the power to completely hurt me, and I trusted you completely not to.
And then you did.
In the worst way I could have never imagined from you.
#enjoy your life#I don’t think I want to hear a single thing about it#part of me knows I want you to be happy#part of me wants every relationship you have from here on to be miserable and pale so fucking much in comparison to ours.#I know that’s so selfish and self centred and ego feeding#but i gave you the very best I have and I know the best I have is so fucking good#I selfishly and horribly hope you can never find a best friend in the person you love#because then I’ll know I truly was never special despite you telling me that for three years#I thought I was special#to you and as a person#but I guess I never was#I hope to fucking god someone else will think I’m so special and actually mean it#if anything’s out there listening; the universe or angels or magic or anything#please please please let the next one be my person for life#please please please let me meet the love of my life and let it last#I’ve already been with two people who I thought were the love of my life and they didnt last#I’m terrified that that’ll be it for me#I had my chance and I even got a second one#and look where I’ve ended up again#heartbroken and alone and self hating#except this time I’ll love myself#I’ll try to love myself more than anyone else ever has#I deserve better I deserve the best I deserve everything I want and more
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