#when does the magic begin

[radaverse]

don't mind me just practicing

I love that fool

#samurai jack #art #sj #sj art #jack #jack the samurai #doodles #sketches #when does the magic begin #foolish samurai #samurai #samurai jack art #fanart #SORRY I JUST CAN'T HELP IT #I JUST LOVE HIM VERY MUCH #IDK WHY BUT YEA #I mean the freaking :< cat face he's always making #AUUUUGHGHFHHFHDHFHHGH 💞 #HELP I CAN'T GET THE SAMURAI HYPERFIXATION OFF #GET OUTTA MY MIND JACK #mimido 💖 #extra thicc #hyperfixation #comfort character #cartoon network #adult swim #jackposting #radaverse

[whetstonefires]

Do you have any opinions on Scholomance?

I do! I like it a lot. I really enjoyed all three books, blitzed through them easily and was much more excited to see how the plots unfolded than I'm used to these days, as a jaded adult, and I also really appreciated them as works of craft.

Especially the first one, I spent the whole time being all 'wow!' at how simple it was. So easy to read, but no waste. You really need to know what you're doing, to get that kind of pared-down elegance of form to work and still fit so much content in.

Like these are dense, there's a fantastic stylistic minimalism that allows El's character all the space it needs to breathe by making absolutely every other thing and person in the whole novel also do character work for her, which is exactly where the first person voice shines.

Also great use of character perspective to make the pacing feel really natural, so the fact that the first book takes three weeks, the second book takes one year, and the third book is like. Five or so incredibly stressful days spread out over the course of a few weeks? Doesn't feel imbalanced.

I actually got distracted from the story a few times by noticing the strength of Novik's technique. 😂 This is a me problem, in itself it's the opposite of distracting. Very low-profile.

I think the Scholomance is a great example of how far you can go in specfic when you aren't cringing from the label 'derivative,' because the Scholomance books feel very fresh ad clean specifically because nothing in them is concerned with standing out as 'original,' whatever that's supposed to mean, only with being well-executed and suitable to its task.

Hm, maybe that's where Liesel was born, the intersection of the efficient narrative style and the vast proportion of the story that concerns the maximization of utility and the instrumentalization of persons by themselves and others, and the forces that incentivize these behaviors. Or maybe she's just the narrative counterweight to Orion 'Head Empty' Lake lmao. How's that for a principle of balance, Galadriel?

I really did enjoy how beautifully it was laid out, over and over, in dozens of shades of humanity, how no matter where you go in an exploitative system almost everyone is being driven by the same survival instincts.

Because I don't think I've ever seen made so cleanly clear why you just can't expect any person or small group of people, no matter their level of goodwill or status, to unmake one of these systems from the inside; how it's not a matter of people being bad but of every single person being very...small.

And then not retreating into the idea of a person who is Big coming and breaking the cruel system from the outside as some kind of panacea, because 1) that is terrible, even if it's necessary and done in the best way possible and 2) that's not a sustainable answer to anything. Getting a balance between the protagonist being able to effect change and not subscribing to the great man theory of history can be really tricky!

Also did I mention, I love El, and I love most of the cast, even the dreadful ones. How am I going around with this many feelings about Li Shanfeng who doesn't appear until the actual climax?

The romance murdered me a bit, but it took up no more space than it absolutely needed to do its job, and I respect that. Also I appreciated Orion as a love interest; Novik has a slight record at this point of a version of that style of male love interest who's like a caricature of Mr. Darcy but old, which was shaping up to be my least favorite thing about her body of work.

...Orion is kind of like if you took the human king from Spinning Silver and gave him an alignment flip come to think of it, so he's not coming out of nowhere. Lmao.

Which reminds me (re: romance character typing) I've heard Novik didn't want it to be known she was astolat, which this series has renewed my sympathies if so. Because if I were a published novelist I wouldn't want people going 'you know, that resolution was really emotionally satisfying! reminds me of that fic she wrote where optimus prime and megatron get stuck in a hole underground and hatefuck about it.'

I don't even like Transformers. That fic almost made me cry. Actually I suspect it reads better if you don't like Transformers because I'm sure it does not give a shit about canon.

Anyway, whoever pointed out that one of the things El has going on is she's Enoby (and we're going to sit down and explore what the true reason to put your middle finger up at preps is, and what are some constructive ways to channel that socioeconomic wrath, and what it means that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism) was right and I'm not entirely over that either.

Fucking love El's mom as a character. Spectacular level of parent relevance and usefulness. A+.

Aadhya and Liu are also characters who fucking delivered.

Re: minimalism though, I laughed at the start of The Golden Enclaves when I realized that none of the enclaver characters who'd gotten development in the the first two books were from London, the enclave El was theoretically shooting for when we met her.

#ask #hoc est meum #Anonymous #scholomance #my sister's biphobia made an appearance when i was reading the second book and tried to tell her about this thing i was enjoying #still mad at her about it #anyway though #good! #wish i could ask novik what she was thinking by making a single-cell abortion work as human sacrifice #like is it just because magic works on intent so if you think the newly fertilized egg #that you couldn't know about without magic #is 'your baby which you are killing' #then it is? #for purposes of hole in reality making? #or does this story have a spot where its politics sharply reverse and human life begins at conception #spoilers #scholomance spoilers #especially in the reblog #lakjfaldkfs seanan mcguire has granted this rambled Circulation oh dear

[hanzajesthanza]

the scene i find most relatable in all of the witcher saga is ciri in the korath desert, and idk what that says about me, but… probably nothing good 😅🙃

#i am emotionally connected to these events and her characterization during this chapter in ways i can’t even understand #this chapter is also probably singlehandedly why i think the witcher makes a brilliant YA series even if it’s not originally marketed as YA #ch 6 toc is excruciating but it is so cathartic and relieving to read :’( #because every young person has felt betrayed abandoned powerless and lost #ciri’s entire feeling beginning here which she recounts in ttos ch 1 to vysogota #that she felt so betrayed by the morals and goodness which geralt instilled in her because it was useless and did not save her #the whole series is about: if goodness does not save then what is the point of being good #and then when she goes insane from fire magic and shouts she’s going to make cabbages grow in the desert #this entire chapter is just what teenhood-young adulthood is like lmao #oscillating rapidly between ‘i am going to die here i am utterly powerless’ and ‘I CAN DO ANYTHING’ #and her revenge fantasy exploding into killing everyone she loves because paranoia says they will also one day betray her #idk what else to say. really hit the nail on the head with ciri’s character. i understand now how she is the evil and geralt is the good #the elbow high diaries

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Anyway prohibitedwish dark medieval mystery drama au. The story is interjected every so often by prismo and scarab arguing over what should happen next

#random thoughts #adventure time #over time scarab learns to accept when things dont go his way (especially when prismo has a very good idea) #and prismo gets help working through his depression through the beauty of creating with another person (euphamism for gay sex lol) #hey prismo why do you want to collab with scarab hmm? to create life with another man? pretty gay it does seem #anyway in the beginning they argue because scarab wants stuff to go his way #and prismo keeps bringing up bad ideas and wanting to put jake-esque characters in everything #prismo is. not very creative #anyway their universe ends up following a sheriff and a self-declared wizard in the late-12th century (so around robin hood times) #as the sheriff hunts down a group of bandits #(prismo ends up really liking the bandits and thinking the sheriff sucks balls for hunting them down and scarab's like you just dont get it) #the self-declared wizard is very much a conman hawking snake oil (i do NOT sound like that is. very commonly interjected by prismo) #there is no magic. prismo keeps trying to put magic in there. scarab keeps shutting him down #scarab ends up trying to kill off the wizard for a dramatic moment and prismo gets upset about it #'it's a tragedy! it's supposed to be sad!' 'but WHAT IS THE POINT??? it's just tragedy for the sake of tragedy!' #'if your plan this whole time was to make me upset then congrats!!! you made everyone's friend prismo upset. im gonna do something else now' #prismo disappears and scarab feels. bad. it doesn't feel good. #eventually prismo comes back in to apologize for getting too into the story and leaving in a huff and shit and surprise!!! #the wizard is still alive! scarab LISTENED and he CONCEDED and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT BABEY!!! #now the ending of the story they were trying to tell is more bittersweet instead of a full-on 'everyone's dead or sad' thing #btw the sheriff and the wizard end up kissing and prismo and scarab are both VERY awkward about it #scarab still likes dark edgy stuff but he recognizes the universe he created with prismo is a SHARED project and he's been kind of a pill

[laniidae-passerine]

see I am very disjointed from a lot of nine/ten fandom discourse because I genuinely believe that in a different world where space boy was not to be seen, had an older Rose gone to the hospital and bumped into a certain Doctor Jones by a vending machine or as she was taking Rose’s vitals, she would have instantly hit it off with Martha. and probably flirted with her a little on accident and then on purpose when Martha flirted back

#I can see Martha raising an eyebrow as she catches Rose (who definitely snuck out despite being on bedrest) by the vending machine #Rose probably snuck out of bed because the girl in the bed next to her was crying and she wanted to make her feel better #because she doesn’t really like hospitals either #and when she tells Martha this she’s surprised when the Doctor (who seems quite strong and a little serious) suddenly smiles #and shows her a trick to get extra sweets and chocolate out of the machine #and then tells her to hurry because the check-in sweep of Rose’s ward is about to begin #you just KNOW Rose would be Martha’s most combative patient but in all the best ways #always asking what that machine does. what that incomprehensible doctor scrawl means. if there’s something she can do to help other patients #and Martha loves it. loves how much Rose cares just like her. they gossip and they chat about their daily lives. they get closer #everytime Martha has to scold Rose for sneaking out of bed or doing something she shouldn’t #(even though she secretly adores it. she’s never really mad she just wants Rose to take care of herself as well as other people) #she sighs and says (in her most firm but still fond tone) ‘Miss Tyler-’ #only to be struck in the heart again with a cheeky grin and a ‘yes Doctor Jones?’ #and also Rose loves that Martha is a doctor. that Martha cares. that she works overtime. that almost all Martha’s patients love her #and the ones that don’t just aren’t kind people anyway. that Martha doesn’t condescend. that Martha cares and cares and cares #that Martha likes all the things about Rose that other people think make her difficult and trouble and too much #she likes the things that other people don’t like in Martha either. thinks she’s magic. #Rose Tyler is always going to love her Doctor. and Martha Jones will always love somebody who thinks everybody matters #I’m like. obsessed with them?? move OVER space boy (actually nine can get involved in this. lmao ten stay away) #they’d have been so cuteeeee #rtd failed to see the lesbionic possibility but I am no such coward. no fighting over boys here #martha jones #rose tyler #dw #doctor who

[chloeseyeliner]

help, now that i have stopped tearing up at every mention of the series, the young royals forever documentary and the bts videos have brought my past obsession with film-making back-

#beware: rambling ahead!!! #so when i was in high school a secret dream of mine was to go to film school #because i was mesmerised by the whole process of writing and directing and everything the crew typically does during filming #and i was reading so much stuff about all the different angles and symbolism and the like #but of course my mother wouldn't let me #(very neil perry of me lmao) #and i mean i was trying to be realistic too #because i don't come from money and greece is not exactly a great place to be an artist #(since i wouldn't be able to go abroad and chase my dreams or something like that i am not the main character in a disney movie) #so like i threw this dream into the bin along with being an astronaut (i was bad at physics because no one ever explained anything to me- #-before last year of high school i still don't know how i technically aced my uni entering physics exam lol ANYWAY) #and don't get me wrong #i like the path i have chosen now (which was at the beginning at least also against my mother's wishes but she thinks it 'has money' so- #-she 'allowed it' as if- i won't say anything worse i'll regret later i'll just leave it be) #i like it very much because i can help people and maybe contribute to making this world a better place #i just... #i watched the documentary some days ago and it's all i can think about (along with the show of course) #like i LOVE the cast #but the crew is magnificent as well #what they create is like magic #anyway #young royals #filmmaking

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

"Fenris is hard to friend with a pro-mage Hawke" to YOU. Liam gets him though

#it doesnt look that high but rn i dont even have varric maxed out; and he's the one i constantly get approval with x'd #but genuinely i was surprised when i heard so many ppl say they had trouble befriending him with a pro mage hawke #cus i bring him along p regularly even to mage centered quests and i still get max approval by the end of the game #well. liam *is* vocal against blood magic so that helps probably #tho the first time i played he was way more neutral on it (at the beginning at least) and i still max friended him #and tbf he gets less eager abt it in act 3 but at the same time hes the most open/willing abt supporting them in act 2 #guess liam is just built different xdd #laya plays dragon age #da2 #getting to the point now where approval does matter so i gotta start paying at least a little attention to who i bring where lol #so far im on track with everyone i think so no need to get finicky about it just yet~

[teledild0nix]

okay i finished a power unbound on the plane and i don't think i quite get the drarry coding that you do (tbh i just really loved all the intricate dynamics too much to compare them, they were SUCH a fascinating relationship and did not go how i expected them to at all!!! i am famously Not a romance reader and was still way more invested in jack and alan than the actual overarching plot lol, it was very odd for me) HOWEVER...i am shocked i've never encountered their safe word system in drarry fic before because it would work so well for them lol

AH! I loved that book I'm so glad you enjoyed it too!!! I don't see Jack as being like Draco or Alan as being like Harry. I just think their dynamic (esp their sexual dynamic) as being kind of aspirational to capture for a lot of drarry writers. Their safeword system being an EXCELLENT example. Maybe their enemies to lovers journey as well.

#a power unbound #the last binding #those books are so much fun #fun fact i forgot the sex scenes are Like That in this series #and i was shopping at target while listening on my ear buds when the first sex scene in apu came up #i nearly Passed Away #anyway i want to start over again from the beginning i love this series #i love what it does with magic and i love the characters #also like Addy being ace? i don't think i've ever seen a character actually like talk about being ace? #and she does it without sounding all modern and online about it too

[symbioteburnout]

My dumbass self every time a new Venom or symbiote related book drops

#shitposting #memes #venom #mania #andi benton #andrea benton #silence #symbiotes #when does the magic begin meme #eddie brock #flash thompson

[iryonin]

actually. dragon age sakura as a spirit healer+warrior would be sooooo

#the existence of inner in canon gives me sooo many possibilities in dragon age #iygwim #and (just like in canon) itd make her resistant to mind control... #i do imagine she doesn't even know shes coexisting with a spirit until she begins studying under tsunade #like. wdym not everyone has another voice inside their head that they could talk to when they were a friendless kid ? #like i thought i had an imaginary friend ? yes i still hear the voice today what does that have to do with anything. im normal #and (again) she doesn't even begin thinking of herself as a mage/someone who can use magic until tsunade takes her as a student #because shes always been a warrior (specifically a berserker) ! #but this could be interesting to explore... thinking #META. #DRAGON AGE.

[bananasofthorns]

Okay, what about "have" 😭

ok yeah this one has some. so sorry about the rest of your words 😭 I have many wips but they don't total a huge amount of words

this is also from the Aphim double life au fic! although the double life part still is not relevant here

“Why would I know?” “Well, you know.” She flaps a hand at him. “Your eyes started glowing. While you were out of it. I thought maybe you were seeing things.” Aphim looks at her sharply. She’d been gesturing at his hands, he realizes a heartbeat later. The tattoos are dormant now; he would’ve noticed otherwise. He doesn’t like that someone else has seen them for what they are. Apate is simultaneously too close to hitting the truth and not close at all to guessing right. Neither option is comforting for the simple fact that she knows anything. “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” he tells her, then turns away to find the people she’d mentioned.

#banana made a post #banana answers things #his eye tattoos glow when he does weird magic shit #oc tag aphim #campaign the reckoning begins

[akkivee]

i stopped watching the 5th live because i think the dvd cut of it sucks but i certainly don’t remember why i think that way after years of not watching it lol

anyway guess who fell in love with the bat seiyuu all over again watching the raw livestream version of the 5th live LMAO

#this is vee speaking #NAH THE DVD CUT RRRRRRRLLLLLLY SUCKS LOL #for the dvd cut they had to re-record bat’s portion of their live #not because sakakihara-san made a mistake (😢) but because their section had sound issues the studio tried to play off as transition music #and A LOT of the magic in bat’s first performances were cut out 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #i’m not the biggest fan of the sound editing on the dvds in general even if i understand why it has to happen lol #like!!!!!!!!! in the raw livestream you can hear the hypmic seiyuu cheering on the bb seiyuu in this first foray into crowd less lives!!!!! #the way you could tell the og divis were adjusting to the lack of an audience in their performances!!!!!! #the way sakakihara-san out here ROARING moonlight shadow started from his frustration from this live!!!!!! #those little trills hayama-san does at the end of one two law started in the 5th live!!!!!! #the gremlin laugh hayama-san does just as batfs starts bruh!!!!!!!! #the dvd took away ALLLLLLLLLL OF THAT!!!!!!!! RAW 5TH LIVE LIVESTREAM SUPERIORITY!!!!!!!!! #LIKE TELL ME WHY I STARTED SCREAMING THE MOMENT TAKEUCHI-SAN GAVE US OUR FIRST LIVE ‘EAST SIDE!!!!!!!!’ IT WAS SO HYPE #ALWAYS HAD THAT MAD POWER VOCALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭 #like rewatching the 5th live made me think no wonder bat snatched my entire heart out of my chest so early on #when they were giving us all that from the beginning lmao #c: seiyuu stuff

[godsprettiestprincess]

As far as I’m concerned paladin Sam with Lucifer as his patron is canon

#maybe not DIRECTLY but why does Sam have his magic hm #I don’t mean from demon blood I mean the stuff baked into him from the very beginning when he was being designed #designed for……. #:) #ramsey barks #sam #samifer

[nerdie-faerie]

I do think it's funny that the Salvatores are the ones with all the information this season because it's usually the opposite. Despite being around for a century and half they don't actually seem to know anything about the supernatural world

They didn't know werewolves existed, they didn't know about the Originals until Rose (despite their sire being on the run from them), they didn't know about sire lines, they didn't know about the sun and moon curse (this is particularly funny because wolves who'd been around for less time than the Salvatores knew about this), they didn't know about doppelgangers and honestly they don't seem to know a whole lot about Katherine full stop. Damon knew her real name and Stefan knew her birthday but other than that they seem to be missing out on key details about their sire. Stefan didn't even know he was a ripper until Lexi showed up despite Mystic Falls being home to 20+ vampires before this and they don't seem to know much about witches either despite knowing Emily and Damon protecting her bloodline

But this season? Damon is the one that knows about Shane and the Pastor's shady relationship, that Shane also knew Haley, that Shane convinced him to blow up the council, that a Bennett witch was needed to raise Silas and despite sirebonds being rare Damon has past knowledge of those too. Stefan knows about the origin of the five and the daggers. They both learn about expression being worse than dark magic to the point it's not even considered magic and is powered by mass murder, they know about the hunter's curse and potentials and they don't share any of it with the relevant parties!

Like I know the reason that they don't know things is for plot reasons so that they learn as we the audience learns but instead it just comes across as them having been entirely oblivious for the last century and a half. Which is particularly funny when they're the two vampires left in charge of teaching the baby vampires. They don't know shit! Nobody taught them by the sounds of it. Katherine and the MF vampires had otherwise disappeared, Lexi seems to come and go as is relevant to plot and Sage despite being at least 900 years old sticks around for one day to teach them to indulge in the feed before disappearing without further information like damn

#TVD #tvd lb #series 4 #Damon Salvatore #Stefan Salvatore #Salvatore brothers #The Mikaelsons #Katherine Pierce #like generally they dont seem to know anything and yet this season they have all the cards and dont share them with anyone #damon knows shane is manipulating bonnie and even when Shane says 'who do you think shes more likely to trust?' damons response is to say #to bonnie that 'the witch that loses her powers gets left out of the important conversations' further proving shanes point that bonnie cant #trust him instead of coming clean to her and creating that doubt in shane before she learnt about the massacres and was already dependant #on Shane for his help and keeping control. also at that point he knows shes getting her magic back? like i know its cus plec did bonnies #character dirty and constantly kept her out of the narrative despite being pivotal to the story but it doesnt even make sense #i know stefan couldnt tell in the beginning but once its out there theres really no reason for him not to come clean about everything #including express the sirebond and the massacres Stefan admittedly doesnt have quite the monopoly on info that Damon does particularly as #damon doesnt even bother to share what matt learnt about the pastor and Shane despite he himself being accused of causing the explosion #but still the lack of communication as a running theme throughout the show irritates me especially when it regards bonnie as shes the one #that has to pull through to fix everything in the end anyway so she needs that information to do so #but yeah they really are the donna nobles of tvdu in that they seem to have been unaware of everything going on in the supernatural world #for the century and half that theyve been alive

[dabidagoose]

Oh. My god. He's a DRUID!!

#ok ok so. context for this #my cursed baby boy wugglies is a sorcerer very much not by will in my dnd game. and at some point pals and i considered AU where we're all #like living relatively happy suburban lives in an HOA. and the big question there for me is like. what the hell class would wugglies be #when he actually has a *choice* #and like. y'know we've played this game for a while now and I was still a pretty baby player at the beginning. so i didn't really #understand how the hell a cleric worked nevermind a druid #but. now that I'm Big. and i Know Things (thx dimension 20). I'm like. oh. he's a druid. DUH! #it's like. i think he has a connection to magic no matter what cause i think he *does* enjoy it. but also the sorcerer stuff is a little #too much premeditated destiny stuff for wugglies who likes to have choice over his life. he's not religious so cleric doesn't work and he's #not really someone i see as a wizard (although i feel like he would want to practice doing magic he wouldn't want to study or get into the #theory or anything). and he's very much not a bard vibe. so the question is what the hell is he #but like. if he were at his best self he WOULD be connected to nature. when he accidentally killed a horse in combat he cried and when he #thoughtlessly smashed a bug it was indicative of him losing his sense of self and a horrifying moment #wugglies would always be a magic user but it'd be because he's connected to the natural world and be using nature in that way #also like. my lion guy be transforming into animals anyways (polymorph beloved). it's just tight #right* #so happy to have made this realization #crowned #DND blorbo posts

[flowerflamestars]

Your Heart snippet

They lived and breathed and existed in the black. But looking at Keir’s mad, ancient face, blue eyes reduced to a rime of grey under flooded pupils before absolute detachment reasserted itself, it was impossible not to wonder. To remember, if never sympathize with this murderous tyrant of a man, that High Fae- all High Fae- had once lived like they did in Autumn.   Folk of the forest, the sky, changing seasons of wild run magic.   It had been twelve thousand years since a High Lord of Night had built Velaris as his personal playground. Ensured both his primacy and its privilege by trapping the whole of a capital city in shadows.   The rest of his family, a bloodline that couldn’t set foot outside without lordly magical intervention.   It was a large mountain- an eerie, beautiful city- it was a prison, as the Lords of Night so loved.   Keir’s hands- three immaculate gold rings, the only personal adornment on Night’s Seneschal, paler than milk- reeked of blood. Old and new and present pain, not his own, when he moved them to speak.   Clapped Eris both too hard and too close on the shoulder, before turning the whole of his disturbing attention Nesta’s way.   “You are the Kingslayer,” he purred, hair-raising and beautiful and horrible, breathy.   Eris had not told her to be careful. Dressed her like a doll to Night Court fashion, told her not to speak, to preform, to hide- Nesta was as herself in the Hewn City for the first time, Archeron red and angry already.   “Cauldron-slayer,” Nesta corrected, head held high.

#bad man body count begins!! #when is a monster not a monster?? #when you fucking love it with all your heart and then some #it is time for politics and QUESTIONS #like hey #in what way does the Night Court not...totally fail to rule? #how does the government work? #why is Keir alive? #why could Morrigan leave the mountain? #actually seriously WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH MORRIGAN? #we're going to talk about magic!!! #and Eris and Nesta TRUSTING ONE ANOTHER #those bloody hands are his to hold! #we love to see it! #getting creepy and weird and fae #your heart as it was will be on fire #fix-it fic