#Devastating Magic

[bookstattoosandtea]

Release Blitz, Exclusive Excerpt & Giveaway: Twisted Tome by Vanora Lawless

Release Blitz, Excerpt & Giveaway: Twisted Tome By Vanora Lawless Devastating Magic, Book 2 A stubborn empath. A passionate dreamwalker. A love worth fighting for. For empathic illusionist Warren ‘Sully’ Sullivan dreamwalking Captain Elliot Stone is more than the only thing keeping him sane and safe. He’s the keeper of Sully’s heart, even if he can’t seem to admit it out loud. When an ancient…

[fairsweetlonging]

just thinking about how binghe had no idea that without-a-cure even had a cure and he spent all his years as a disciple thinking his shizun would at best be disabled for the rest of his life and at worst die a slow and painful death, and it was to save him.

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

thinking about "it's unreasonable to assume that a character knows what genre they're in" and how in series 1-3, Merlin (and the audience) thinks that he's in a fantasy adventure comedy. no one realises that he's in a tragedy until it's too late.

[happyk44]

actually lol the story playing out as it does but after Annabeth reunites with Percy, he looks behind her and is very quickly, "where's grover"

cue depression that some other satyr is joining them on this quest instead of Grover, who obviously decided not to come get Percy himself because he hates him

("percy, he doesn't hate you, he's just busy preparing trying to keep Gaea down with all the other nature spirits")

("HE HATES ME")

[nmbrrr77]

Schneider my beloved… </3

[marlynnofmany]

I just learned the fascinating science fact that if not for air slowing the speed of snowfall to a gentle drift, snowflakes would plummet with enough speed to slice people. Like tiny ninja stars.

Of course, without air to hold all that moisture in the sky, snow would never condense in the first place. Unless there was some artificial snowmaker up there for some reason. Or there was a gap in the atmosphere somehow.

(I was trying to think up a sci-fi justification for lethal snowflakes. Instead I thought of a magical one.)

Hey, you know who could make a strategic gap in the atmosphere? Airbenders.

[tapetum-lucidumb]

Wdym "fantasy" and horror"? My favorite genre is weird woke chaos

[knuts-and-bolts]

The entire cast having like a thirty minute mental breakdown:

Aabria the entire time:

[strawberri-draws]

usually it’s fine, but sometimes the way btvs makes a moral lesson is hilarious actually

[mamawasatesttube]

tired: the bats are so weird and creepy and everyone else is always so normal compared to them!

wired: impulse started fidgeting so hard he just started vibrating and clipped halfway through the floor and part of helen's foot before he realized what he was doing. this is just a normal tuesday

inspired: superman, superboy, and supergirl are sitting together in midair having a mild-mannered midwestern discussion as to which of their nonpowered combatant friends has the most fucked-up looking bones. several of said friends are in the room and really wish they wouldn't do this

[passiunclepaltry]

‘m dialing long distance, with frozen fingers

[sweetteaanddragons]

Starting a reread of The Dresden Files (thank you, @incomingalbatross, for inspiring this), and I got to the part where Marcone and Harry first meet.

Specifically, the part where Harry legs it out of the crime scene so unexpectedly fast that he manages to catch Marcone off guard, and Marcone has to have his vehicle follow him for several blocks before Harry slows down enough for them to catch up.

Marcone does not, of course, let any sense of having been ruffled by this show, but I would have loved to see that first moment of unguarded shock on his face when he goes from, "Oh? A fugitive from the crime scene - Wait a minute, that's the guy we need from the crime scene, why is he so fast, why is traffic so terrible - "

AU where Marcone and Harry's meeting is delayed until significantly further into the investigation because Marcone keeps trying to corner Harry in person, and Harry keeps unexpectedly departing at speed toward exit left, pursued by what Marcone is firmly telling himself was a bear.

[blackcathjp]

au where drarry are neighbors and harry grows all sorts of things for potions, cooking, regular plants/flowers that he thinks are pretty. draco asks for ingredients, showing up at his door looking both haughty and shy, pretending he's not looking at harry but he IS, and always notices the smudged, forgotten dirt behind harry's ear that he kinda wants to clean off...

they behave like polite neighbors; it's a transactional business relationship. draco buys ingredients from harry, and every 2 weeks harry buys a calming draught potion from him.

"helps me at night, you know", he explains after the 3rd time. draco then brews heightened ones just for harry, and tosses a few other potions his way (for a hefty neighborly discount ofc). harry invites draco over more, cooking meals made from his garden and packing leftovers. he even leaves flowers at draco's doorstep.

their relationship develops so naturally - draco is at harry's most of the time, only going home to brew or sleep. they'll eat, play chess, talk quidditch. draco sleeps over sometimes, accidentally, but it's so... domestic to be cohabiting.

draco realizes he's in love while watching harry doze off during a movie, bc wow, he feels safe around draco to do that. harry realizes he's in love when draco rushed over to take care of him when he fell off a ladder, tending to his cuts and bruises with gentle care. their first kiss is explosive, not quite biting with urgency; it's slow and tender that leaves them tingling with warmth, their hearts bursting with fullness.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Lethal Sting

Initiates once believed defeat was the worst fate possible—a sentiment they quickly abandoned.

Artist: Randy Vargas TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Flavor Text Highlights - Hour of Devastation

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Cool - Grisly Survivor

No cartouches to earn. No afterlife to enter. Only the glory of a well-struck blow and the growing pile of felled enemies at her feet.

Worldbuilding - Moaning Wall

Before the monuments, before the first trials, before Naktamun itself, Bolas culled the plane of its adults in order to rebuild it for his own designs.

Emotional - Tragic Lesson

Though Kefnet’s followers feverishly searched his last words for some final riddle, they found only the gurgles of a dying god.

Emotional - Survivors' Encampment

“What will happen to us?” they asked. The vizier paused. “I think … I think that’s up to us now.”

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[akimojo]

Lowkey hate the possibility of ff9 getting a remake after ff7 😭 og 7-10 are incredible the way they are (and super charming at that), I just don't see the point??

If any ff should receive a remake next it's 100% ff6, despite being a great game I feel like that's the only ff that was actually limited by its technology and goddammit there were themes that just weren't dug into deeply enough!!!