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thevaudevilledemon · 10 months

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Duck Musings: The Tragedy of Magica De Spell

Tragedy and the Disney Ducks go oddly hand in hand, and we have examined this in several characters, Gladstone Gander and Donald Duck specifically. When it comes to the most tragic character though, I may have to put my money on Magica De Spell, and this isn’t just me being a simp, though I’ll admit that is part of it.

The comic that sparked this Duck Musing was this scanlation by lettheladylead of a 2021 comic by Giorgio Cavazzano titled “Magica De Spell: Origins of a Witch”, which is... pretty much what it says on the tin, the origin story of Magica De Spell. In it, we learn about what happened to her parents, why she is interested in the Midas Touch, and even where Ratface came from. It’s... kind of a sad comic.

Magica’s parents were killed in a spell gone wrong when she was just a baby, probably barley hatched, and from some of the artwork, it appears that they were more focused on the spell than on Magica. After, her Aunt and Uncle took her in, but tried to repress her magic, since this is the same magic that took their loved ones from them. Magica left after learning the truth and deciding to finish what her parents began, and never did seem to return to her Aunt and Uncle.

It is worth noting that there is an alternate backstory as to why Magica wants the Midas Touch, in the comic “The Pact of the Moon”, it is revealed that Magica was not originally evil, but she forced to make the Midas Touch spell by, what I’m assuming is the Witch Council. This lead her to becoming greedy and unscrupulous, again, not a very happy backstory. She also laments about her niece Minima, and how she hopes her niece doesn’t follow the path she herself has went down.

All of this ties into the tragic situation of her current life, always after Scrooge’s dime, always outwitted by the old man, always one step closer but two steps behind her ultimate goal. One of my favourite comics is “The Journey is the Reward”, where Magica does steal the dime, but ends up returning it because, she literally does not know what to do when she’s done. It kinda reminds of that scene in Fight Club where Tyler Durden was talking about always calling his Dad and asking him on what he should do next. It adds a lot to the tragedy of having an ultimate goal, when you don’t really know what you’re gonna do once you have completed it.

I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention Magicstone, the strange pairing of Magica De Spell and Gladstone Gander. I’ve mentioned “A Gal For Gladstone” prior, but the big tragedy of the pairing, I think was best explored by, once again, Sarah Jolley, otherwise known as ModMad, specifically in their comic “Enough Time to Fall”, because they’re right, it never would work. Even if Magica stayed in her disguise, it would have to disappear eventually, and what then? It hurts because, in A Gal for Gladstone, they were both genuinely happy, and her plan failed because she was genuinely concerned about Gladstone’s safety. One true moment of joy, and it had to be snatched from her.

I wrote a piece of fanfiction titled “Stuck Together Duck” in which, Magica De Spell and Donald Duck get stuck together, and bond a little, because when you look at the two of them, they are quite similar. Lost their parents at a presumably young age, raised by extended family (Donald in part by his Uncle, but mostly by his Grandma, and Magica entirely by her aunt and Uncle), niblings they look after (Yes that is the neutral term for niece and nephew), honestly, it feels weird that this pairing isn’t more popular, but I digress. It goes to show that, at the core of the evil sorceress, is something a lot more tragic than one might initially think.

It’s also worth noting that Scrooge, doesn’t seem to hate her. In several comics, they work together to stop a bigger problem, like a comet hurdling towards earth, or another magic user stealing Scrooge’s dime. Scrooge has also helped Magica in situations where she would, or has, lost her magic abilities, and in one comic, it’s shown that the two of them send birthday cars to each other. So maybe Scrooge sees something in Magica, and I don’t mean that in a shipping way, though feel free to take it like that.

Well, I made a Magica post that referenced three of Magica’s ships. I think I’m done for now.

To wrap up, Magica De Spell is easily one of my favourite characters, and really getting a chance to explore this aspect of her character was fun, and also a little heartbreaking. Maybe someday, Magica will get a happy ending to her story, maybe her nieces will find a path to follow that she can be happy for, maybe she and Scrooge will become genuine friends, we can always hope... and write fanfiction. Lots and lots of fanfiction.

#ducktales #magica de spell #uncle scrooge #Gladstone Gander #donald duck #MagicStone #dimeshipping #donald x magica #topolino #Disney #Disney comics #duck musings

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aggressivelymediocrebagel · 2 years

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I've been watching some baby ducks grow up nearby where I'm living and why do adolescent ducks look wet????

#like #arent duck feathers hydrophobic #adult ducks and baby ducklings look dry #???#duck musings

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quinloki · 18 days

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I love coming to appreciate a character more because someone's love for that character shines through so beautifully you can't help but appreciate them.

#quin muses #fandom things #like Katakuri because of Mew #or even just falling for people's OCs because they share them #or appreciating the Kid pirates more cause of Raven #How I came to really enjoy twisted Doffy cause of Lo #Starting new anime cause of Loni #so many others too #I'm such a lucky duck #and I hope - if I haven't already #I bring that kind of joy to a few people

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ride-a-dromedary · 2 months

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So we know Halsin obviously prefers terrestrial animals, but given the choice between flying animals and aquatic ones, which do you think he prefers?

Halsin loves all creatures of Toril, big and small, maggots included.😌

But something in my heart says he prefers flying animals if made to pick between those two options - partially for his fondness for ducks, but there were also just so many birds in the Grove and I feel like he had more chances to be very closely in their company more consistently. He would have loved those Ancient Giant Eagles on top of the Rosymorn Monastery.

I do feel like he would be fascinated by the astronomical biodiversity present in bodies of water - that would, at the very least, pique the academic interest. He strikes me as a swamp, pond and wave pool type of person.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #Jemi gets asks #autistichalsin #*emphasis on creatures - humanoids and shapeshifters are an entirely different story #The only real 'in canon' backup reason I can cite right off the top of my head as to why #is his fondness for ducks (and apparently swans and eagles if the unsubtle flirting with Gale is any indication)#he also does talk about bird nests a few times #otherwise it's a vibe and a vibe only

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bexmuses · 8 months

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#muse jose carioca #jose carioca #donald duck #panchito pistoles #joe carioca #ze carioca #josé carioca #zé carioca #the three caballeros #bhutan

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apollos-boyfriend · 8 months

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wait sorry why is rivers bird coded?

the post i saw mentioned something about how she calls her chat little chicks!! also when i went on namemc her first ever skin was Just a chicken too. so

^^ new quesadilla island inhabitant everypony

#muse talk #yb-cringe #the qsmp sounds like a set up to a bad joke #so three ducks two crows a conure and a chicken all walk into a bar

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lady-of-glass-and-bone · 2 months

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shout-out to all my girlies (gender non-specific) who have stories in their heads that won't. get. on. paper. I love you and you are doing great sweetie✌️

#i haven't written in forever #i miss it #maybe i need to go watch some movies #my favs always bring out the muses #duck quacks

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ducklooney · 5 months

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Huey Duck from Quack Pack - Icons

I know I owe another Duck brother from the Quack Pack, and the oldest brother at that. It's Huey Duck and I'm uploading pictures or icons of his character from the underrated series Quack Pack, from the episode "Cat & Louse" that refers to him. In fact, he has Ailurophobia, or the fear of cats, and was afraid of black cats in particular since he was a little boy, until he overcame his fear. However, he has a slight sneeze and an allergy to cats. Poor him. Yes, Dewey and Louie helped him a lot to overcome that fear and Huey managed to get Raven, the pet black cat of the cruel Andre Demouche, to his side. I definitely recommend that you watch that series and that episode who hasn't yet.

As with Dewey and Louie Duck, I put a photo of the icons (icons of Huey Duck) here, although some are more repetitive. So if someone needs it, feel free to use it, but for GOOD PURPOSES, NOT FOR NEGATIVE. Yes, all the impressions and feelings from the oldest triplet (red triplet) from one episode in one picture (two pictures actually). That is all. I hope to create icons for other characters and cartoons and comics, if I have the opportunity.

If you want to see pictures of the iconic Dewey Duck look here: https://ducklooney.tumblr.com/post/670862385307893760/dewey-duck-from-quack-pack-icons-ive-posted

If you want to see pictures of the iconic Louie Duck look here: https://ducklooney.tumblr.com/post/664431415688036352/louie-duck-from-quack-pack-icons-somewhere-i-saw

Of course, those who love this version of Huey Duck and love this duck, feel free to like this or reblog this.

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aduckwithears · 6 months

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The bookshop post season 2 - Muriel has been cheerfully informing all the other shopkeepers on Whickber street that Mr. Fell has gone to Heaven. Shocked and saddened, they bring grief-appropriate gifts like fruit baskets.

That's all fine until Crowley shows up to just, you know, check on things, and Muriel tries to give him an apple because it's 'red like his hair'

#idk where this is going #but i'm procrastinating #so have a fic prompt i guess #good omens s2 #good omens #crowley #muriel #fic prompt #just musings really #a duck talks #good omens spoilers

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aestheticbyais · 10 months

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“As long as you can talk, you can talk your way out. Trademark: Louie Duck.”

Louie Duck character aesthetic.

#aesthetic #aesthetic board #aesthetic boards #muse aesthetic #character aesthetic #disney #walt disney #disney channel #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #louie duck #animation #cartoons

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thevaudevilledemon · 10 months

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Duck Musings: Just How Lucky is Gladstone?

Let’s start this Musings Post off by talking about one of my all time favourite Mickey Mouse shorts, Mickey’s Trailer. For those of you who haven’t seen it, it’s on Disney+, you can probably find it online somewhere if you don’t want to support Disney (No judgement there), but long story short, about half-way through Mickey and Donald are sent down a dangerous road after Goofy accidentally dislodges their trailer from the back of the car.

During this time, Mickey manages to Stop the trailer falling off a cliff twice, uses a fence to get past a truck moving along a one way road, and avoids both getting hit by and ramming into a train by the narrowest of narrow margins. So, clearly, Mickey is lucky, and since we know Donald Duck is eternally unlucky, we can only assume that Mickey’s luck somehow cancels out Donald’s bad luck, since if it was just Donald in that trailer, he would have fallen off the cliff, gotten hit by a large truck and a train and then run into the train and be carried off somewhere far away. Which is interesting, because Donald is very familiar with ungodly lucky beings, but the problem is that the other guy’s luck actually makes his bad luck worse.

Okay, so maybe Mickey isn’t actually really lucky, and maybe his luck doesn’t cancel out Donald’s bad luck, but this was the thought I had before I began trying to make sense of Gladstone Gander’s... Absurd? Ridiculous? Absolutely effing Bonkers? Unnaturally good luck.

Because here’s the thing, Gladstone’s luck, might not be your everyday luck. This is, advanced luck!

The Oxford Dictionary defines “Luck” as; “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions”, while Merriam-Webster defines “Luck” as “A force that brings good fortune or adversity”, and “favoring chance”. But this is all often just happenstance, like for instance, you find a flower that someone wants to buy for a thousand dollars, well if you just happen to stumble upon it then that is really just happenstance. However, if you were to find a whole field of them where they normally wouldn’t grow, that might reach into the supernatural.

We’ve seen in “The Solitude of the Four-Leaf Clover Part 2″, (No I will never stop bringing up that beautiful comic) that Gladstone’s luck was so good that, if we took it all as happenstance, he returned to Duckburg right at the end of a terrible storm, and the Earthquakes that fixed everything had nothing to do with his luck, they were just earthquakes that put a lot of things back where they were, that were moved by the earthquakes. Okay, clearly Gladstone’s luck had something to do with all that, even Professor Ludwig Von Drake hypothesizes that Gladstone is the city’s good luck charm, so his luck clearly isn’t just unusual amounts of happenstance.

Of course, Gladstone’s luck could be predominately magical in nature, as proven by the time his luck was stolen by Magica De Spell in both “A Gal for Gladstone” and “Gladstone The Unlucky Duck”, and when it was syphoned by The Phantom Blot in one episode of DuckTales 2017 (The Phantom and the Sorceress), so that does kind of completely explain everything else. A wise(-ish) man once said “Because Magic is a better reason than Because Potatoes”, and magic does seem to be a good explanation for Gladstone’s superior luck, but it doesn’t quite answer the question of how strong it is.

We know that for a while Gladstone had the worst luck on his birthdays, thanks to a mishap that happened on his birthday thanks to the Triple Distelfink or whatever he was born under, some lightning, and his cousin Donald, and it is theorized that one one such Birthday, he lost his parents. However, on the one birthday he managed to reverse this curse, his bad luck didn’t seem to hinder him... for the most part. He got in a taxi to drive away from Grandma Duck’s farm, but the taxi got spun around, he gets on a train but the car he’s in derails and lands on a boat on a river that he instinctively knows leads to Grandma Duck’s farm, and then he gets on an airplane but a meteor hits the side, sucks him out and he lands on a hot air balloon and gets taken to Grandma Duck’s farm. So, it seems that even his bad luck, isn’t all that bad.

In fact, this leads me to the question, can Gladstone manipulate his own luck? As seen again in “Gladstone and the Solitude of the Four Leaf Clover Part 1″, when Gladstone was trying to form a new identity in the country, and his new friends took him out truffle hunting, not only did he not find any mushrooms at all, he also had such bad luck that his new friends commented on his bad luck. So, either he is so lucky that he can become unlucky when he needs to be, or he can somehow manage to turn his luck off.

We do know that others can manipulate his luck, as seen in the DuckTales ‘87 episode “Dime Enough for Luck” where Magica De Spell managed to hypnotize Gladstone in an attempt to steal Scrooge’s number one dime, and we can also assume this is how he managed to get trapped in Toad Liu Hai’s casino in the 2017 series, that the Luck Vampire managed to manipulate Gladstone’s luck to keep him trapped for several years. On top of all that, if Gladstone’s luck wasn’t able to be manipulated or was infallible, then his bad luck birthdays would never happen.

This has led to a lot of people making headcanons and theories about how exactly Gladstone’s luck works, does it give him what he needs when he needs it? Does it give him more? Does it give him less? Is it trying to communicate something to him? Is it all just happenstance? Is it actually magic? Is his bad luck actually bad? Is his good luck actually good? Does his luck even effect Donald? Ultimately, Gladstone’s luck does have its limits, but just what those limits are is anyone’s guess.

I dunno, maybe we should just let ModMad write the rules for Gladstone’s luck.

#ducktales #ducktales 2017 #ducktales 1987 #Gladstone Gander #donald duck #grandma duck #uncle scrooge #topolino #scrooge mcduck #Disney #Disney comics #duck musings

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godfrey-the-chaos-duck · 1 year

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Okay so me and my sister got into a debate and since you like ducktales, what sounds more legit:

F.O.W.L went to the lengthy process of changing Scrooge's chromosomes when cloning Webby, May AND June to make them girls FOR NO REASON OTHER, something F.O.W.L does NOT DO (sisters incompetent idea)

or

Scrooge is trans (my CLEARLY superior idea)

Btw gonna be sending the message to a bunch of people for majority rules type stuff

Ok. This may turn into an essay, but you'll be pleased to hear it's an essay that pretty much proves your point!

Scrooge prides himself on being a "self-made man", right? And I know most of the time it's figurative, but I personally think he may mean it literally.

And before people come at me saying "how would he have made his transition before gender affirming healthcare became available?" Let me just tell you THIS.

This is Dr. James Barry. Born in Cork (Ireland) in 1789, he got a medical degree at the University of Edinburgh and went on to serve as a military doctor for the British army. He improved conditions for wounded soldiers, and is widely credited with performing one of the first Caesarian sections where both the mother and the baby survived.

But his military funeral was cancelled. Why? Because after he died in 1865, the army discovered that he was, in fact, a woman. He had managed to pass as male for literal DECADES, and wayyyy before gender affirming healthcare was a thing.

Many women have managed to pass as men to follow their desired careers in history. So could it really be so far-fetched to say Scrooge McDuck, in the DuckTales 2017 canon at least, could've been one of them?

And lastly, there is no way in hell that his parents actually sat down and named him "Scrooge" - that HAS to be handpicked!

So, yeah, everyone's entitled to their own headcanons. That said, show your sister this essay and hopefully you've just won an argument!

#the chaos duck has spoken #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #dt17 #scrooge mcduck #chaos duck answers #historical musings

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dakt37 · 1 year

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