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Like If A Guy Was Bisexual

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Anton || Adult || Some guy || participant in White Boy Summer || 4600 County Line Q Colgate, WI 53017 United States

just overhead the most fucked up conversation at walmart:

customer: do you guys have any grapes?

employee: no, they stopped making grapes *walks away*

discord shoving nine popups in my face about changing my username every time i click any interface element. alas they will never persuade me because i am the ignorer

myeh i dont really wanna. turns over and goes back to sleep

not even my name btw. they’re just getting aggressive

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⚠️⚠️ CW: AMERICAN POST ⚠️⚠️

i wish i could take a bus to the library :( or maybe a coffee shop also. that would be nice :(

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Anonymous asked:

What’s your LEAST favorite fictional magic system. Anything you’ve seen and immediately went Damn this is dog-piss

I know it's a meme answer but even when Harry Potter was popular I thought it's magic system was stupid. It basically doesn't have one. For a series about a magic school, they basically don't teach you anything about magic.

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The most explanation of the magic system is the whole wand ownership thing. Which implies that magic gives wands a degree of sentience but only to enforce property law.

Some of y'all are missing the point. It's fine to write a story where magic is like Harry Potter magic. Sometimes there's just wizards and you don't really need to explain how they do their magic. Arthurian myth is a great example. They never really explain how magic works, but it functions for the narrative. Arthurian wizards are mysterious! It makes sense that the audience wouldn't know how they functioned.

Harry Potter is a series that takes place entirely inside a school for wizards, and is supposedly about the characters learning how to perform and improve magic. Damn near every single plot revolves around the functioning and production of a particular form of magic.

The fact that miss Rowling never feels the need to actually explain how magic works is, charitably speaking, one hell of a missed opportunity. Magic for this narrative is a load baring element. It's a boulder the narrative has to push uphill.

Imo it's part of why the new media she's making sucks so much. The original stories were carried by strong, well-developed characters. it was an enjoyable high school story even without the magical elements. So the moment she tries to explore the world outside of these characters, the world buckles under its own weight.