#inheritance of magic

[taenique]

[nzbookwyrm]

October 2024

[crustaceousfaggot]

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

[amberkendslacy]

Buffy: I have regained consciousness from death less than a week ago. The very act of my organs functioning must feel like torture.

Willow: you have debt and also the pipes in the house are fucked. Better start applying for loans and jobs and interacting with the world like nothing happened.

Buffy: ...

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Jason gets booted to another dimension and adopts a recently orphaned Bruce Wayne.

Whom he also takes along for the ride when he’s pulled back into his own dimension.

EDIT:

Now a fic! The Antithesis of Magic

[edorazzi]

Page 16 of my Miraculous Mentor AU comic A Matter of Trust! In which Felix highlights significant differences in the Black Cat Miraculous 15 years before Adrien got it - all that unstable chaos magic would not stay inside! 💀💣

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[mirensiart]

Crying screaming and throwing up thinking about Sky telling the other links the ONE iconic line from fire emblem awakening 🫠💔

"You deserved better from me than one sword and a world of troubles. I'm sorry."

[shisasan]

[cracklewink]

I know its not canon but I always liked the idea that Flurry Heart grew up to be a normal pony. Never went on any princess-title-earning quest, no grand magical destiny, no real royal responsibilities. Just a normal pony (who happens to be an alicorn) free to enjoy life with her friends and hobbies

[gatekeeper-of-witchcraft]

there are people in the occult/witchcraft world, particularly men and male-identified women, who haaaate the actual, historical fact that witch accusations and hunts were (and still are in many parts of the world) overwhelmingly motivated by sexism, overwhelmingly targeting women. they’ll go to great lengths to obscure this fact, to downplay it when they do acknowledge it, because they hate the fact that women have a unique (and dare I say exclusive) association with witchcraft and right to inherit and reclaim that word and stream of magical practice

[dailydegurechaff]

Maid day part three idea: Vooren Grantz is the young master of the house and covers Tanya's mistake. (The reason why he was in the maid outfit in the first part is because he knew it would had made her happy.) [P.S. As always, your art is amazing and beautiful. Lots of love from one friend to another.]

Today’s Daily Degurechaff is… maid tanya, who's NOT getting fired !!

[taenique]

[dia-viller]

Can someone please lock them in the same cell?

[ryukawa29]

(Masc! Dear) hehehe he’s wearing his lil cultural outfit

Tiny wasko

[saphira-approves]

The Ancient Language and True Names: Some Musings

So as a preface, let’s first recount some of the rules of the Ancient Language we’re told/shown through the books (spoilers through Inheritance):

One cannot lie in the Ancient Language

This doesn’t mean you cannot say something objectively untrue—so long as you believe it is true, you can say it (see: Murtagh tells Eragon at the end of Eldest that they are both sons of Morzan, which Murtagh can do because he doesn’t know about Selena having an affair with Brom)

Magic, however, is a bit trickier—intent can go a long way, but a grammatical or syntactical error can obliterate your intention (see: Eragon tries to bless a child, uses the noun form of “shield” instead of the verb form, accidentally curses the child)

So what am I getting at? Well!

In Inheritance, Eragon and Saphira follow a riddle-prophecy to Doru Araeba, the magic-nuked seat of power of the previous incarnation of the Order of Dragon Riders, and find their way into the magically-hidden fallout shelter with a forgetting spell on it that holds several Eldunarya and dragon eggs protected from the magic nuke blast and hidden from Galbatorix’s reach.

Or, put another way:

Saphira Bjartskular, the first new dragon in a century, the only living female out of five living-or-soon-to-hatch dragons (the others being Glaedr, Shruikan, Thorn, and Fírnen), literally the LAST CHANCE for the existence of HER ENTIRE SPECIES… finds out that she isn’t, actually, the last chance. That dozens, a few hundreds of eggs survived, and statistically at least a few of them have to be more females, and dragons will be fewer than before, certainly, and it will be centuries before they reach their previous numbers, but they won’t be doomed to a drawn-out spiral of inbreeding and decline and eventual, final, end.

And then she forgets.

Temporarily! But the memory is removed, excised for her protection and the protection of that precious maybe-future. Saphira’s view of the world, of herself, of her very place in the world, is completely overthrown… and then she returns to what had been the status quo (admittedly with the souls of several other dragons—but functionally this is just Glaedr, multiplied).

The question I pose is: what happened to Saphira’s true name?

On a broader, more generalized scale, the question really is this: what happens to a true name when the memory of a major name-changing event is altered somehow—either by removing the memory of an event that happened, or implanting a false memory of an event that did not happen, or changing the elements of that memory? What rule of the Ancient Language applies here—belief, or The Words Themselves? Is a true name built on memory? On how life experience physically shapes the brain?

Does Saphira wonder at the giddiness in her chest when she thinks of the Eldunarya, quietly thinking that the instinctive chemical reaction is an overenthusiastic response to ghosts that can advise, but never repopulate?

Would Galbatorix, if the battle had gone differently, have been intrigued by the curious lack of I am the last in Saphira’s true name?

Or would he have seen exactly what he expected to? I am the last—and hope is lost.

[lunarharp]

idle leftovers...i drew the dream from my last post