#Magic Words

[superbat-love]

Superman trying to defend Robin until Batman gave him The Look.

[misersdream]

Can you help me reach 40k views before month-end so that I can qualify for ad revenue?

Hi! If you didn't know, Webtoon Canvas comics can only apply for ad revenue if they've hit 40k views in one month! Due to some lucky promotions, my series Magic Words hit an all-time high in pageviews this month, so I'd be happy if you could help me hit 40k views before month end by reading my comic!

My series Magic Words is a fantasy adventure about a traveling magician and his new apprentice on a quest to stop a cruel prince from taking the throne. Found family, LGBT+, a tired man who reluctantly becomes a father figure, evil pretty boys, rebel witches, oh my!

If you like the storytelling of Fullmetal Alchemist or Avatar: The Last Airbender I hope you'll enjoy my series!

Click here to read episode 1! Thanks!

[axiseart]

No.

[rainbowpopeworld]

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Reading through the initial outfit brought this outfit from Staged to mind:

[jaubaius]

Source

[theshytmblr]

- catatan pendek -

Apakah manusia harus "pandai bicara" untuk mengucapkan 3 kata ajaib?

Meminta maaf sesaat setelah kita sadar telah berbuat salah. Bahkan ketika kita tidak salah pun, meminta maaf menjadi perbuatan yang amat mulia.

Berterima kasih ketika mendapat hal hal yang kita senangi.

Dan ucapkan tolong ketika kita membutuhkan bantuan.

Aku rasa tidak perlu menjadi profesional public speaker untuk menjadi manusia baik yang tak pernah lupa mengamalkan 3 kata ajaib.

[bicanthropus]

i made a spreadsheet for simon snow spells!! it includes all the canon ones plus ones i made up & eventually ones i pull from fics i've read (with credit). i'm hoping this is a good resource for anyone who writes simon snow fanfic and/or roleplays the characters!

check the source link to see them all & send me any spell ideas you have and i'll record them with credit to you!

[thegoodmorningman]

The Sun casts Continual Light on The Earth!!!

[inconveniently-discorporated]

Right. Who wants to talk about the magic words in episode 4?

So the magic words Aziraphale says before his trick are: banana, fish, gorilla, shoelace with dash of nutmeg.

Now, I'm assuming that it's meant to sound like gibberish, but why THESE words? Do they sound/look like something else while lip reading? Translate to something else? In German maybe?

Hmm. Probably not.

My first impression upon hearing these words was: banana, fish, gorilla all sound VERY familiar... Like when Crowley was talking about Armageddon in S1 about all the gorillas and stars crashing down and "WHAT ARE THEY PUTTING IN THE BANANAS THESE DAYS" (📌) and Aziraphale also makes a comment about dolphins being a type of fish.

But I don't recall there being anything about shoelaces or nutmeg in that dialogue. (Side note -- when Job mentions whales all I could think was "brain city, whales".) Nutmeg is mentioned once in the book:

Now for the 📌 -- I saw a reference somewhere to a manga called Banana Fish?

If you subscribe to the "spiked coffee" theory (I'm not sold on the idea myself), that's a VERY interesting note indeed. And only fitting that I would be reminded of Crowley's rant on gorillas questioning if their bananas were spiked. Could it... Could it be... ??

Perhaps the words mean nothing at all, but in my experience in S1 there was hardly a wasted line or name. All of the nuns' names meant some form of "talkative", for example. Again, it could just be words picked at random to sound silly.

But MAYBE it is a clue of some sort. Or at least a reference to something else.

Any thoughts?!

[drconcussion]

My friend & I just came up with the best fucking idea ever. You text your friend with the secret phrase “hype hoe” & she responds ASAP with all the reasons you’re a bad bitch to hype you up.

No need to explain why you need the confidence boost, no questions, no judgement. You just act as her Hype Hoe and hype that bitch up!

[misersdream]

the first anniversary of my webcomic Magic Words was on June 30. a little late but I still wanted to draw something!

[anotherocean]

opportunity, destiny, mastery, stability

[pink-lemonade-rose]

The idea that the iynx magically affected people by means of sound should not be surprising, for the ancient Greeks assumed that both verbal and non-verbal sounds had powerful magical effects. We see this as early as Odyssey 19.437-38 where Odysseus' uncles sing incantations over the wound in his thigh to stanch the flow of blood. Aristophanes mentions "clicking the tongue" to ward off bad luck (Vesp. 626). The spells of the magical papyri often instruct the practitioner to "whistle," "make a popping noise," "groan," imitate various animal cries and recite magically significant combinations of alphabet letters - as well as chant more or less coherent phrases of recognizable words (e.g., PGM VII.756-94, XIII.734-1077, XIII.343-646). At least one spell tells the practitioner to "make a noise like the sounding wind"and then "make a wind-creating sound," which could in fact have been accomplished by manipulating an iynx-wheel (PGM VII.775-76). These examples, early and late, could be multiplied several times. Recently, indeed, Frankfurter has argued that aurality was one of most distinctive features of ancient Greek magic, in contrast to ancient Egyptian magic, for example, which understood power to be concentrated in written words or pictures. Burkert has reminded us that the very word for "magician" in Greek attests to this, for [goes] is cognate with [goao]: the magician was one who knew how to invoke powers through his voice. Sounds that we might not call strictly "magical" were also thought to affect people and the cosmos in powerful ways. Orpheus' music stirred animals, trees, stones, and even the gods of the dead. The Sirens of Republic 10 produced harmonious tones that reflected the order of the Cosmos and perhaps helped to retain it as well (616d-617d). Even the ordinary human voice, as Gorgias and Plato knew, was able to stir the passions.

Sarah Iles Johnston, "The Song of the Iynx: Magic and Thetoric in Pythian 4"

[1introvertedsage]

▪️Asked Twice▪️

Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal.

~Sappho~

[service4marriedmen]

Daddy's waiting for the magic words.

They're a little more subtle than "stop by my place and I'll lick you where she won't and let you cum in my mouth" but that's the gist of it.

Once he knows he has the all clear to release balls deep and have his load swallowed, he'll be around in no time.

[stinkywrinkles]

Before and after I asked her if she wanted belly rubs