#all the artificers are busy with magical calculus and the humanities wizards have to write so many papers

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stars!! re: your tags on the post you rb'd about wizard uni/wizard tech school: may i recommend Year of the Griffin, by Diana Wynne Jones (the woman who forced Tolkien to keep lecturing instead of fucking of to work on his books by continuing to attend his terrible uni lectures) as a book leaning hard into the wizard undergrad lyfe. One of the main protags is a griffin from a loving family of human wizards (this book is loosely the sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm, the fantasy pastiche) and the book follows her and the ragtag group of friends she makes at uni as their various unique problems interfere with the process of studying magic and making friends at university. It's been a while since I last read it but it features terrible profs obsessed with going to the moon, a pirate invasion, philosophy of magic debates in the cafeteria, and a really sweet moment in the middle of an action-packed climax where the main protags have to talk out their feelings to fix the big magical life-threatening problem. I highly recommend!

(wish I knew a book that went the wizard trade school route, but alas. if you hear of a book like that please tell!)

tumblr I need a "mark as unread" option for my inbox because the moment the little dot went away I forgot this ask existed. oops. sorry verso I read this and appreciated it and then forgot to reply 😅

(the wizard uni/trade school post)

That book sounds amazing, thank you for the rec!! The post made me really hungry for like, relatable-to-my-current-life uni shenanigans but with magic, and now I'm so curious what Undergrad Life(TM) adventures this book contains and if any of them will resonate. Either way it sounds like it's full of very fun shenanigans. (Now what I really need is a book about wizard art school. Someone should write that.) Anyway, thank you verso, this is going on my tbr immediately :)

#stars answers #book recs #tbr #seriously. wizard art school. I want this to be a thing so bad now #if I'm basing it fully on my own experience then it should be like #a subset of the wizard uni that's equivalent to the art school #all the artificers are busy with magical calculus and the humanities wizards have to write so many papers #meanwhile the art mage's homework is the equivalent of 'paint a value scale' #that or they have multiple monthlong creative projects that they have to design from the ground up going on at once #.......my semester is going great why do you ask #hmmmmm color theory as an element of spellcasting though. that's definitely something..... #tag for tags