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daydreamdoodles · 4 months

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I still need to finish the books, but I don't think I'm loving the framing of magic in the worldbuilding

It's lowkey obvious that magic ban is in part to avoid going over budget in the movies with cgi effects. But especially in the books, it feels a little "oh magic bad and corrupts." There's good and bad, yet all magic seems to cause issues. The good acts of magic get written off, like they're an exception to the rule.

There's like. attempted nuance to it, but I don't think the execution really works with how everything else reinforces that previous idea of magic is bad.

#day musings #this is def a pet peeve writing choice for me #which i am not placing the blame on Cruz #But as someone who was raised in a pagan household #magic has always been about intent #And even if you dont ascribe to that belief #To take a world that is the Disney Descendants land #with Neverland and Canterlot #That is so deeply ingrained with magic #and to write off all magic as corrupting #feels a little gross?#idk #Maybe the other books will expand on it #descendants #disney descendants #rise of the isle of the lost #Dayscendants

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