#Minus Magic

[mushipien]

"あつい"

This summer is really bringing the heat. I finally felt like I had the mental capacity to finish this one up! Here's Lumi, keeping cool while reading some choice literature lol

[mary-kasexual]

alas, motivation granted me more ponies as was promised yesterday. A joyous occasion this is indeed

[theside-b]

BL Couples + Husbands

[extravalgant]

i looove azteca from like. a narrative stand point

because we have this hero and thats you. were practically the stuff of legends by arc 2 just because of what kind of experience we have under our belt. we've never lost a fight, and it's assumed that we never will. that's how powerful the wizard is—everyone expects them to win, expects light to triumph shadow

and when we fail.... well. it shocks everyone doesnt it? people get angry. people get disappointed. to the wizard, who has never known failure or disappointment, it must feel like an entirely new thing. this culture was here for thousands and thousands of years—a culture and a people you never knew about until you were brought into the spiral.

and now because of you its gone. because you failed to save it and stop morganthe, its gone. and i think merle's passiveness about this situation hits a little differently this way—i read it more as disappointment, anyways. and to someone who has never known defeat, not to this capacity, with this many casualities and victims, the disappointment feels a little more crushing, doesn't it? the wizard is supposed to be a hero summoned from the legends, from a place not beyond a spiral where they had not heard of magic, and it feels like they let everyone down.

this imo is where morganthe truly establishes herself as a villain. i mean she already was a villain before imo BUT bringing a grieving man back from the dead to puppet around AND destroying a world is just straight up evil (and i love that). people like to complain about the malistaire bit which is valid in some cases but i think it really does sell the frivolity in which she chooses to go about things. like hey heres a man you killed with your own hands. probably when you were young. i brought him back from the dead to use as my pawn and now you have to fight him again btw. using a dead grieving man for my own goals. and then the fact that we cant beat him at the end, to 'send him back', is just another way she gets a leg up on us. she leaves us with unfinished business and xibalba destroying azteca is just icing on the already fucked up cake she's given us.

shes TAUNTING us. and this is important because it does come back to us in khrysalis—no doubt the wizard is still haunted by the sins of their past; their failure to save azteca. they have to get through this bit, to learn to let it go, before they can learn shadow magic. after all this, it's still stuck with us—our failure, one that she spearheaded.

dont even get me started on the wizard learning shadow magic maaaaaan because now they share one thing in common—they know shadow magic. they wield shadow magic. and shadow magic is so reviled that it's forbidden. no one else but her can really understand the isolation that comes with learning shadow magic, and it parallels the wizard and her even more because neither of them had a choice! the shadow magi turned morganthe into the shadow queen she is today, and we are subsequently forced to learn shadow magic and do the same if they ever have a chance at defeating her. i love it. i LOVE it. i love azteca... i love khrysalis....

[paradox-n-bedrock]

the more i watch Elsbeth, the more i dream of an Elsbeth Tascioni/Kalinda Sharma queer buddy cop-style dramedy

[wen-kexing-apologist]

I was out all day with a friend so I have only just now managed to complete my shows, and I have some thoughts about Cherry Magic Thailand, which are as follows:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

THAT WAS SO

FUCKING

CUTE

[mushipien]

Lumi (trying her best) to make lemonade (°◡°♡)

[juicyreptile]

i don't know how else to put this, or in more coherence but like in regards to Prototype crossovers where Alex gets yeeted into the unknown

I love crossovers okay. And I love crossovers where a character who may or may not be powerful in their own world is OVERPOWERED in another. like, i get it. we love to see our cool little dude (gender neutral) being cool and whatever but like

Alex Mercer is already OP as fuck even within his own universe and I think it's overkill to have him be able to use abilities from other universes. He should not be able to do magic, no matter how many mages or wizards or magical creatures he consumes. He should not be able to assimilate quirks or superpowers or whatever.

maybe I'm alone in this but I really think Alex should be limited to his own inherent and already overpowered skills.

also he is only a month old please do not give the disaster virus baby the ability to produce fire he is a fucking dumbass (affectionate) and WILL hurt himself with it

[sadlynotthevoid]

I need a fic where little Jason, still in the streets and about to steal Batman's tires, has a vision of the future or a seer tells him about it.

So, Jason, smart park row habitant with self preservation instincts and no emotional attachment to Bruce or the Batfam, decides to turn around and avoid Batman until he's at least 18 years old. He refuses to become into some rich furry's punching bag. He's not a convenient tool to someone's disposition. He's not anyone's cautionary tell to keep children on line. He's not a ghost in someone else's life to point fault at when he fucks up. He's himself, his trauma is his own and his decisions will be taken for him.

Curiously, he still gets involved in a lot of crazy shit— much of it magic shit— but with a lot of less emotional trauma involved. And with more healthy relationships in his life.

He gets to go to college as he always wanted. He has hobbies he enjoys and places where he and his friends meet. He goes to the kind lady two doors away for dinner twice a week and spends time with the children on the neighbourhood. And he doesn't feel he and the other future Jason are that different. Maybe he's just lighter and less sad. So he does his best to protect this little piece of happiness that for him is brighter than the Sun.

When Batman shows signs of becoming that horrible man he foresaw, he decides to pay more attention to the bats' activity. Gotham is his home too. He won't let that guy ruin her. Plus, not all the bats are assholes. The purple one is cool.

[wrongcaitlyn]

i was thinking that history of a man is so sadie!! in my mind it fits her a looot

IT ISSSS that's partly why i even thought of her as sadie. that and being a british blonde girl, but like, maisie's songs just scream sadie so much. i can't wait for her to write history of man and have it go super viral

[skonksrus]

Lina Invoice

[lord-squiggletits]

Another thing that gets me about Pharma's situation is a personal headcanon related to the way real life militaries work (I used to be really into the US military, don't throw tomatoes at me I stopped wanting to join it a long time ago) is that it's considered pretty much standard protocol to retrieve the bodies of fallen soldiers unless it's absolutely impossible. A literal "nobody is left behind" attitude.

Now granted, the LL isn't really acting in a military capacity because the war is over.

But I like to imagine that part of why Pharma felt so betrayed was because standard Autobot procedure would've been for any known missing/lost soldiers to be checked for, to try and find their body to confirm their death if nothing else. But the Autobots just left Messatine and left Pharma alone without even bothering to check if he lived or died. So to Pharma, it feels as if after all his years of serving the Autobots dutifully, they couldn't even do the bare minimum duty of looking for his body to confirm his death or god forbid give him proper funeral services.

Incidentally, this headcanon will be the premise for a "Pharma gets brought onto the Lost Light as a prisoner instead of getting left on Messatine" AU fic. With the justification being that Magnus hears about the Delphi situation and is like, wait you guys just left but the Autobot Code says we have to look for the body blah blah and I guess he acts annoying enough about it that someone goes looking for Pharma's body and finds him still alive.

INCIDENTALLY-incidentally, I think the most likely canon answer for "whether Pharma fell or flew to his death" is that Pharma fell. We see on screen that the Red Rust's symptoms activate within minutes of being triggered and that it renders victims practically nonfunctional after only a short amount of time (limbs and the entire body slowly disintegrating). So if Pharma had transformed, he would've activated the rust and died very quickly, especially since he wouldn't be able to go back to Delphi and access actual medical equipment.......and had his hands cut off so he was physically incapable of tending to himself anyways.

Pharma has thrusters on his heels that probably wouldn't require transformation to activate, so my headcanon is that Pharma was able to cushion his fall enough to not die, but probably still broke his legs and was in too much pain/practically immobile and couldn't crawl to find any help. This would also align with Pharma saying that Tyrest found him "sleeping in the snow" and Tyrest calling Pharma "a disease waiting to happen", implying that Pharma was infected with the Red Rust but hadn't actually triggered its effects yet.

[gottaarc]

Magic is honest sometimes

Ok so I have this headcanon that magic in twst is not necessarily determinate of the user unless they actively choose for it to be (I'm only in book 4 so idk if this is negated or not). Like, there's obviously specific intention behind spells/magic because they learn to cast it, but small details can sometimes be left negligent because it doesn't matter too much in the mind of the caster.

For example, if Grim wants to shoot out a ball of fire, he might picture that and the degree of his detail in imagining it will determine what type of fireball it is. If he literally just imagines a ball of fire, then boom: ball of fire. But the heat of the flames or the color might not prescribe to anything specific- if it's fire, it's fire. He'd have to fine tune his vision to get something more nuanced; say, blue flames or smaller more condensed flaming projectiles.

Along those lines, there's magic that actively involved other people; Trey's unique magic, for example. If I recall correctly he did ask Ace, Deuce, Yuu, and Grim what they wanted a pastry he offered them to taste like out loud, but his magic directly interacts with them and their preferences. So the intention to have that magic interact with the affected subject changes the outcome by making their preferences part of the equation.

Anyways all that to say that I've been thinking about my Yuu and the uniform summoning magic. They're nonbinary and sometimes swing between feeling more masc or more femme. There's a magic Cater uses to summon uniforms in the first book, but if his vision of the uniform was vague and an enby Yuu was involved, would it conform to how they were feeling? Like imagine they felt more femme that day and everyone was just shocked something like a skirt/dress appeared.

[motherfuckingmaneater]

Voldemort’s girls coming back from their dark magic rituals.

[girlbob-boypants]

I like the weird magic veins the new demons have holding them together, it feels very tied to the aesthetics of the elves and the veil but thus far they've kind of relied on it too heavily visually and it's lost some of the distinction/uniqueness the dai demons had