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Spoonbat #1

June 14, 2025 Hint Click Here Kanga can see the sea from her house Solution Click Here A ROOM WITH A VIEW (A Voom with a Roo) Rules A spoonerism is where a phrase has the first letters (or sounds) of the major words swapped around, such as ‘Car Park’ becoming ‘Par Cark’. A dingbat, also known as a Rebus, is a picture that represents a phrase. A spoonerbat is a picture that represents a…

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Aetherworld

The Aetherworld is one of the names for the magical dimension where magical entities can hide if they don’t want to stay in this world. A magical creature or person can pass from this world to the other world anywhere on earth and they will end up in the same place on the other world. There are a few permanent large portals, like at the poles, where a person walking through a snowstorm can pass…

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Aetherwood

The Aetherwood is the name for the area of the Aetherworld that covers the majority of western world, characterised by its lush forests that still cover the land in the magical realm. There are areas that have dense forest like that of the Black Forest of Germany and the light floaty old oak’s of Robin Hood’s Sherwood, and while it may not look exactly like the countries the other world mirrors,…

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Thaumatology

Thaumatology is the scientific study of magic. It is often compared to thamology, the broader scientific term referring to the general study of magical phenomena. While thamology may encompass history, folklore, and cultural practices involving magic, thaumatology focuses more narrowly on the principles, mechanisms, and experimental processes behind magical forces. Many people mistakenly believe…

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Chinese Zombies Commercial Soup Center

Chinese Zombies Commercial Soup Center

I don’t think they should be too happy. It only looks like a fake stew pot to humans because the local guild of sentient Jiangshi (hopping zombies) had to restrain their ghoul-like tendencies to eat the flesh of humans. They were bringing far to much attention to the local community of magical creatures, and this was their compromise to minimise the number of investigations. The “pool water” is…

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POSTPROCTOCEN HETEROCHRONTAG

Experiencing time in the wrong order after a fantastic bowel movement

The humble toilet, and it’s domestic cubical, is well known for its association with time travel. It has a similar effect on time as the dark enchanted forests of Germany or some in the more temperate areas of Africa, allowing time to pass for those inside at a much faster rate than outside, such that what may seem like mear…

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#wordoftheday PROFELILUCUT An optimistic facecloth Facecloths imbued with personality come in two different varieties: those that have a cheerful persona and those that impart a cheerful persona. In the simple case of cheerful, unlike many other types of facecloth, the word PROFELILUCUT is used to describe both. Who doesn’t fancy the prospect of washing yourself with an item that means no matter which side of the bed you got out of, you can feel bright and cheerful just by washing your face? There was a drive to make them commercially but it was found that they don’t go well with washing machines, as the machines themself became too cheerful, refusing to do anything that might harm the clothes and making a hot wash completely impossible. The other type are perhaps more controversial, as all necessary sentient items can be, but imagine having a buddy to could always trust to tell you how great you look, how smooth your skin was, or even give you a reasonable second opinion while you’re checking yourself in the shower. I imagine its certainly a better prospect than trying to get a sarcastic facecloth to help you out. #bathroom #facecloth #flannel #optermisem #sentient #wotd https://ift.tt/2Oo6Xv1

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#wordoftheday LANDKELIS The metric equivalent of seven-league-boots As you know, seven-league boots allow the user to walk the distance of an entire day of walking in a single step. While early prototypes produced mixed results in simply moving each boot 3 miles apart, the most famous pairs worked well by a process of elasticated waist physical and amorous entanglement that attracted the feet to the destination. Having said that, the most common type were the sliding boots, where the wearer would lift their foot in the air and suddenly find themselves pulled along at high speed by that boot, the other one still firmly on the ground following along, unable to put his foot back down until the journey was finished maybe 5 min later. Many people will have seen a stranger sliding through their village streets at speed, with one foot stuck out in front of them, screaming for someone to help them. The more modern versions only move distances in prescribed steps of 12mm, due to the limits of leather and brass to hold the sublight speed effects of quantum tunnelling at smaller intervals. It does, however, mean that the size of the step is directly related to the size of the user’s regular pace rather than a fixed distance, and the more modern techniques do not leave you with a rubberized pelvis, bruised kidney and jelly legs. It also normally doesn’t disturb as many onlookers, unless they happen to be right on the 12mm limit. #boots #scream #speed #walking https://ift.tt/312ksoV

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#WORDOFTHEDAY PHANTASOKINETIC The capability of a ghost or spirit to move objects. Certain types of spirits, while being technically incorporeal (have no body to go with) with have the ability to interact with the physical world. The poltergeist is probably the best-known type of ghost have this ability, though it can strictly become a manifested power in any type of haunting. The mechanism is similar to telekinesis in living individuals but is far more power-hungry for a spiritual core to operate and therefore can often result in violent jerky and incidentally destructive spasms rather than controlled motion. While the prospect of a ghost with the ability to use items might seem rather disturbing, just in case your granddad comes back and tries to use his old bed again, only powerful magical individuals will have that kind of power right from the end. More domestic ghosts do possess this ability (hence the poltergeist) but because of the amount of time it takes to gain any sort of control over the ability, they have often forgotten what it was they were intending to do by the time they have that control. #wordoftheday #wotd #body #comingback , #ghosts #haunting #poltergeist #telekinetic #aetherwood https://ift.tt/314joRK

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PROCTOPYR CATABOMB When your baby dragon backfires Quite a common ailment among Cobs (baby dragons) when they haven’t quite got used to their own internal fire breathing anatomy and can suffer from trapped gas in the draconian equivalent of the sigmoid colon. The cob needs to be stimulated to expel this gas regularly to prevent a painful build-up, much like a human baby needs to be burped. Failure to do so by the mothers can result in several odd effects, including deformed flight bladders. but the most spectacular is when circumstances are just right for the trapped fire to spontaneously ignite and fire the baby dragon forward with incredible speed. Launch distances of over 100 meters have been recorded in some nests and the mothers have demonstrated themselves to be incredibly adept at catching projectile infants in flight, though allowing the children to fire themselves into the air has a noticeable effect on the dragon’s patience. Treatment is usually to make sure there is no build-up in the first place, but if the gas is not released for several days, mothers will start to administer a brimstone enema. #BABIES #DRAGONS #FARTING #FIRE #GAS #PROJECTILEFARTING #RAISINGHELL #THERESHEBLOWS #WIND #wordofthedat #wotd Original post at https://ift.tt/2TH50wU https://ift.tt/2RBlLXB

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ODIFEDEROT An argument between you and your vehicle. A common phenomenon in the modern era, where steaming vents and flaming bonnets are all too often seen to be lining the browning green verges of the nation’s highways, it is sometimes hard to remember that this has been going on for as long as unicorns have had the wheel. In the golden age of wonders, before even the stone for the runes existed, many man-hours were spent in disputes over operating conditions of mules and horses that would decide their own way of things. It was even stranger if you came across any magical individual became involved in the conversation, as you would often find the animal had a much more philosophical and sensible point of view than the human. It was a fine line between watching a madman trying to persuade his donkey to take another step, and a witch discussing the reason why sophist arguments are no defence against the carrot on a stick approach. Some other less noticeable but perhaps more unexpected transportation arguments have been documented: At an incident in Kansas, where a witch fell on a farmhouse, eyewitnesses said they saw a small object descending, silhouetted against the twilight choking a long thin stick and swearing vengeance on it and all the little dwarf ‘Buggers’ that had claimed to repair it. In another incident, a ship disagreed with the recent change in captain, insisting that the old captain knew what he was doing. The last time the ship was seen, it was heading towards the actual black hole just outside Calcutta, the captain hanging from the bowsprit on a rope, having a blazing row with the figurehead as the rest of the crew jumped overboard to avoid disappearing forever. #ANGRYTIMES #ARGUMENT #CARS #CARTROUBLE #HORSES #wordoftheday https://ift.tt/35YnWd9

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RASURKASS A rocket-powered Cat Cats are known for being able to perch on the narrowest of ledges, though the proliferation of videos on the internet these days proves that quite clearly they are often not the lean, sleek, graceful stalking machines they pretend to be. Cats falling into ponds or dropping off fences, feline clumsiness has been observed throughout history, and yet people still ascribe them the poise to sit on the back of a besom, hundreds of meters in the air with the wind whistling around them, accompanying their witch mistresses everywhere. Without seatbelts or one of those ridiculous little pet harnesses, they fall off with regrettable regularity. As a solution to this, witches started to enchant their cats so that if they did get caught by an unluck airflow a small booster would emanate from the cat allowing it to hover and return to their seat with the nonchalant pose that they automatically adopt. This additional ability did mean that there was almost no mouse or bird safe from the propane powers pusses. #BROOMSTICK #CATS #EMERGENCY #ROCKETS #wordoftheday https://ift.tt/387CpEZ

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CARDINSINUMUR A device designed to draw the perfect pentagram Pentagrams are commonly associated with black magic and dark geometry, but all forms of magic a have a need for accurate angles in your sigils. If science teaches anything, its that even a small variation can make the difference between blowing up your enemy or knocking the stuffing out of their teddy bear. As a five-pointed shape, they basically tap into the ethereal resonance of the dodecahedron orbital shell that protects Earth from cosmological energies. These devices have become increasingly complex over the years, with the most recent addition being a petrol-powered turtle, though many acolytes have been a little naive and started to fed gasoline to terapins, which certainly pep the little creatures up. Most of these devices became spring or motor power for emergency pentagram drawing, but they would frequently break giving the users black eyes, bruised thighs or worse, broken edges. This was a problem because it was when the demons would break through and try to sell you soul insurance. #wordoftheday #aetherwood #geometry #magic #makeitright https://ift.tt/35Ub8UW

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TECNMYTHACOT Reading simple stories or nursery rhymes to cure an aliment

Recalling the age-old practice of Mothers (and Fathers, and Widgets, and all the other types that may exist) reading to sick young ones, some stories are psychosomatic, promoting well-being and jolly good larks all round. In addition, enchanted books can provide a more direct means of healing: reading some books invokes the spirit of characters that can heal specific issues, while there are even some that will actually absorb wounds and illnesses into the stories.

These newly grim fairytales should not be viewed on a full stomach, especially if it happens to be a picture book and as such these tombs eventually have to be locked away and burned as soon as possible. They can become pretty nasty after generations of catching interesting diseases, exotic to the modern era, such as the plague or Wombles.

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URGIDIGAST Any type of magical stomach

Almost every magical creature has a magical stomach. Some creatures have a spare ruminating stomach, a bit like an appendix, that can be appropriated for different tasks. Unicorns use this stomach to store excess sugar from eating magic mushrooms before converting it to a multicoloured sweet that can be excreted. Other creatures like the Sphinx actually have a thinking stomach to come up with riddles. Don’t ask me how that works.

Human mages can cast spells on their stomach for various purposes Some mages in the mid-first Millennium AC created very complicated spells to allow them to distil alchemic components directly from their intestines. This led to very unpleasant burps, more than a few catastrophic hydrocarbon explosions and occasionally bitumen constipation, the reason for the term “Laying a road”

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EMULMULTIHISTROPAR

A mythical franchise

(Redacted under the 1254 Act of Winter Workers and Wonderland Walkers) 

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SCOTSCORN GISEDEK

A mask to bring forth the wrath of the fashions gods

Most tribal masks are hideous for a variety of practical reasons: to scare the enemy away; to scare the bad spirits away; to scare your mother in law away.

Sometimes the mask is so bad that it actually angers one of the many gods who like to think of themselves as the fashionable god, even if they are not supposed to be relevant to that particular tribe. It doesn’t usually lead to a religious war, but it can end up in a heavenly rain of sequins for desert peoples as the goddesses let loose with handbags and stilettos.

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