#prestidigitation

[brainwormcity]

I may not know much but I know that if you were to ask me, in any circumstance, "what's that man doing up there?" I would immediately reply, "Is he here to amaze and befuddle us all with his prestidigitation and jiggery-pokery?"

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens 2 #aziraphale x crowley #michael sheen #prestidigitation #jiggery pokery #the amazing mr fell

[dreams-shape-the-world]

1941, what a year for our Ineffable husbands. Can't help it, an angel fell in love with a demon. That was the the magic that day.

#aziraphale #crowley #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #innefable husbands #good omens #good omens season 1 #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #aziracrow #david tennant #michael sheen #1941 #prestidigitation

[nowwheresmynut]

A few scenes from @oodlyenough 's fic Prestidigitation 🥺❤️🪄✨️, you can and should read it here.

#arcane #viktor arcane #arcane by me #arcane viktor #jayce talis #jayvik #comics #prestidigitation #oodlyenough

[leapin2u]

#the prestige #movie gifs #2000s movies #gif #mine #escape #self sacrifice #classic #prestidigitation

[angeletombee]

Can we show some Tumblr love for our man Pete Firman who played Pat, the zombie-digested owner of the magic shop in Good Omens S2? Dude is fantastic!

#good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens s2 spoilers #pat the magic shop owner #Pete Firman #prestidigitation #Youtube #he says ‘wee baby piece’ which makes my life a sunnier place

[decadentstrangeluver]

#the prestige #gif #mine #miblin #2000s #classic #prestidigitation #you have to live the lie

[nerdyperday]

Day 2703 Bracca

#oc #magician #prestidigitation #confetti #top hat #blue hair #tricks #wand #gif

[cannibalcaprine]

shout out to prestidigitation for being the go-to "im gonna shit your pants" spell

#d&d #prestidigitation

[slouchingwriter]

I need to see Aziraphale presenting Blue Peter, doing shit like this

and Crowley, laughing behind the scenes because:

#showbiz is hard baby #aziraphale #good omens #gomens #ineffable husbands #aziraphale's shortlived TV career #prestidigitation #no badge for you

[jynxeddraca]

Toilets in Faerûn

This was supposed to be in the sewer post that I made but realized I was focusing a lot on toilets so it is now it’s own post because I can.  Once again, not doing the links because links make it so no one can see my posts for some stupid reason.

According to a Reddit post, supposedly, Ed Greenwood said that people use chamber pots that are emptied into 'nightsoil' buckets that are later dumped in cesspits or picked up daily by wagons while the wealthy have sluice toilets. Historically – this is indeed what people did.  I only have one major issue with this: chamber pots were used when sewers didn't exist, and sewers do exist in several cities canonically.  So while this would work well in an area that doesn't have a sewer – cities that have sewers wouldn’t use this method.  2nd minor issue is that this is Faerûn. Faerûn has magic – so while chamber pots might still exist, I think it won’t be so cut and dry as ‘do business in pot and wait until wagon comes’. 

Now the only spell that consistently comes up when magic cleaning is discussed is the cantrip prestidigitation – which is “a minor magical trick that novice spellcasters use for practice”.  There are multiple things it can be used for, but in regards to our purposes it can be used to “instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot” (1cu ft = 12in/30.48cm on all sides).  Both things in quotes are directly from the Player’s Handbook.  This spell features heavily in my head.

Now for my headcanons!

I’m thinking enchanted "Self-Cleaning" chamber pots are semi-common in the land (probably not the cheapest thing in the world, but not an exclusively wealthy person thing) and use prestidigitation to clean themselves.

Honestly, items charmed with prestidigitation are probably fairly common in general.

Gross as I think this thought is: I’m not totally convinced that toilet paper exists or is terribly common in Faerûn. 

IRL, there is evidence that toilet paper was used in China as early as 589 AD, and by the early 14th century were making millions of packages of toilet paper annually.  But Faerûn is more or less based on Europe.  Sadly, toilet paper in the western world was not invented until 1857 and before that people used some variation of their hand, snow, seashells, ceramics, stones, leaves/moss, sponges/clothes on sticks that soak in vinegar between uses, and corncobs to wipe their butts after. 

Truthfully, I see ceramic scrapers being much more common regardless of toilet paper existence – most would be enchanted to clean your butt, but regardless of enchantment you only have to buy it once.  It’s even easy to travel with. 

Toilet paper would be a wealthy flex of ‘I buy this thing on a regular basis that I only ever use to wipe my ass’.

I refuse to believe that people don't wash their hands after using the toilet (I don't care how unrealistic it is, hand washing is a thing in Faerûn).

I mentioned this in the sewer post as well, but: Since there are sewers in Baldur’s Gate, I fully expect most homes, especially newer ones, to have some kind of toilet that connects to the sewers.  Though I still think mostly you would have to use a bucket of water to flush the toilets.

While the only faucet you see in game is in the House of Hope, in game it is clear there is some amount of plumbing because Astarion talks about ‘drunk naked patriars in the fountains’ and you can even talk to a couple of people who are trying to get water from Lower City fountains, but none of them are working currently. 

Lower City would have numerous fountains so people can get water for drinking, cleaning, cooking, etc, and not have to walk too far to get it. But - while not unheard of - it wouldn't be common to have indoor plumbing itself, let alone a flushing toilet.

Indoor plumbing probably would be far more common in the Upper City and a flushable toilet would be a huge flex.

There is no plumbing at all in the Outer City. 

For toilets, the Outer City uses a combination of outhouses, chamber pots, ‘night soil’ wagons, and refuse pits to deal with bodily wastes.

Also mentioned in the sewer post: Blackgate and Rivington would have their own "sewer systems" since those are the first places visitors see.

But neither are technically within city limits so probably more along the lines of a glorified cesspit/giant septic system that I'm sure someone has released a gelatinous cube or something into to keep the waste level down.

Outer City residents do have one surprising source of income and that is selling dung. Both pig dung and access to old outhouses that stopped getting used because they got full - because both are good sources of getting saltpeter which is used in explosives. (Fun fact, the best saltpeter is made from pig dung).

Bonus thought:

Since prestidigitation cleans things, the dirt, grime, etc has to go somewhere. I used to go with that it just 'knocks off' the dirt but now I'm starting to headcanon that there's "normal" prestidigitation - which is a minor magic trick, and an advanced "cleaning" prestidigitation that basically disintegrates the dirt/grime/whatever.

That or all the stuff that is removed by this spell is transported to an elemental plane of 'ew gross'.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #D&D #dnd #toilets #headcanon #cw poop #I have given this #entirely too much thought #prestidigitation

[thebeautifulbook]

OUR MAGIC: THE ART IN MAGIC, THE THEORY OF MAGIC, THE PRACTICE OF MAGIC by Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant (New York: Dutton, 1911)

source

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #illustrated book #vintage books #stage magic #prestidigitation #edwardian books

[thetealhummingbird]

Germs aside. Does it actually clean things, or does it just look clean.

#Ohh luxury… I should probably take a shower after this #prestidigitation #dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd questions

[mywifeleftme]

280: Reveen // Stop Smoking... Stop Over-Eating

Stop Smoking... Stop Over-Eating Reveen 1978, Reveen Recordings

Novelty record with a fab sleeve here, featuring hypnotic self-help suggestion courtesy of the Man They Call Reveen, an Australian-born magician who toured a trough through Atlantic Canada for 35 years. Due perhaps to the limitations of the LP format, Reveen spends the majority of each side of the record inducing the listener into a hypnotic state by telling you Hooow reLAXed Yooouuuu Arrreeee and COUNting DOWN in a DRONing CADEnce before rather briefly outlining what is bad about smoking and over-eating respectively and supposedly planting the suggestion you mightn’t want to do either of those things anymore. Reveen’s accent is kind of stuck in one of the middle stages of Animorphing between his native Australian and a poncy Received British accent, which makes everything he says funny. I’ve never been susceptible to hypnosis (…unless?), so neither side pulled me under and cured me of my ways, though the record is acceptable as ASMR and I conked right the fuck out listening to it this afternoon.

Reveen was both a mesmerist and a magician—I’m just old enough (41) to have possibly caught the tail end of his career, but never saw a performance. From what I can gather from the sparse clips online, he ran a very old school show, dressing himself in faux Eastern finery and no doubt reciting borrowed stage patter about having learned certain of his arts from Oriental mystics. His illusions look fairly stock, but he probably didn’t have to do more than the basics to thrill rural Canadian audiences in an era before widespread cable television and the internet. He’s largely forgotten these days, though his resemblance to Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys is the source of a running gag, but in his day his gently hokey mysticism was woven into the fabric of his adopted country, and a warm nostalgia still faintly clings to his powerfully coifed visage.

280/365

#reveen #magician #hypnosis #self help #quitting smoking #quitting overeating #therapy #quackery #atlantic canada #private press #vinyl record #kitsch #camp #magic #illusionist #asmr #sleight of hand #legerdemain #prestidigitation

[francepittoresque]

13 juin 1871 : mort de l’illusionniste Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin ➽ https://bit.ly/Illusionniste-Roberrt-Houdin Fils d'un horloger, ce féru de mécanique fut non seulement un amuseur prestigieux, mais également un inventeur dont l’oeuvre, quoique inconnue du grand public, est cependant considérable

#CeJourLà #13juin #RobertHoudin #illusionniste #magicien #prestidigitateur #illusionnisme #magie #prestidigitation #inventeur #mécanique #biographie #histoire #france #history #passé #past #français #french #news #événement #newsfromthepast

[iamkawiidino]

One of my players used Prestidigitation. In combat.

Recently I hosted my first ever DnD session, with 3 of my friends. They played a Salamanderfolk Rouge (which soon had to be under my control halfway through because the player could't be online after a certain time), a Half-Elf Bard that HATES the sea, and a Human Warlock who communicated with their patron through their watch. First encounter is a swarm of wasps (dont ask) because Warlock happens to fail Dex save and steps onto the ground hive. Bard happens to have an idea.

They recognize that wasps are attracted to meat, and thus uses a prestidigitation cantrip to just... make the scent of meat out of the way of the warlock.

And. It. Works.

The warlock also threw sand at the bees and the Rouge (tried to) cover the other two with a cloak. Genuinely hilarious, and not much damage was actually done (those wasps didn't hit like, at all.) Will be making more wasp swarm encounters from now on :)

#dnd #dnd story #prestidigitation #dnd5e #dungeon master #dungeons and dragons #warlock #bard #rogue

[luckydicegoblin]

Just use a towel to dry your hair. She casts prestidigitation.

#dnd oc #drawing #original character #dnd art #dungeon and dragons #dnd bard #dnd cleric #comfort character #prestidigitation #dnd rogue #dnd romance #art doodles