#a magician's secret

[groovyinsects]

[rontra]

night shift (+ variant)

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playing around w stipple beast

[moodyvoid]

Mr. Compress, in the back of a cop car: “Could you possibly turn up the AC? It’s a little stuffy in here—”

Cop: “Stop talking.”

Mr. Compress, on his phone: “Yeah, I’ll be back at the hideout shortly.”

Cop: “What— how did you get your hands free? Are you on the phone?”

Mr. Compress: “Yes, I’m on the phone— Sorry, Dabi, my chaperone is being impolite.”

Cop: “Chaperone??”

Cop, pulls over and looks in the back seat, Mr. Compress is gone.

Radio: “Do you have the suspect detained?”

Cop: “I did.”

Radio: “What do you mean you did?!”

Cop: “I don’t know, he disappeared!”

The car starts up and drives off.

Cop: “HEY!!! STOP!”

Mr. Compress, blasting the AC.

[teasodium]

tis a magic leo!

my secret santa from the tmnt pit!

the prompt was just 'rise leo in a suit' so i went ham after remembering the nifty detail that he canonically loves magic/is a huge magic nerd so this!

[turtleblogatlast]

“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo

[lokidokeyartichoki]

an oceans 11 heist movie based on a team dedicated to burning down the Gävle Goat

[weirdlookindog]

Reon Argondian (b. 1962) - Carodej tajnych symbolu (Magician of secret symbols)

[mufos-photo-album]

Drawing dark plants to mentally prep myself for the diagrams I'm gonna have to draw.

[thatsbelievable]

[denkisauce]

how did he make it feel like anything was possible?

my piece for the @gohexyourselfzine <3 leftover sales are still live!

[groovyinsects]

random doodles

[princessimotep]

Blind Character Devotion

Anyone else just ever watch a film / series or play a game and you meet this one character and it just changes your whole perspective? These characters can just turn your brain to mush and you wish they were real?

My genuine reaction when I see them-

[spn-fanfic-reblog-writes]

Destiel Prompt #50-something

The Magician vs the Real Thing

The question will be why is Castiel the real thing. Multiple possibilities:

1. Angel of the Lord

2. Witch

3. Psychic/Natural ability

4. From an alternative universe my where he has been implanted with a device that allows him to do his trick.

5. Superhero (Alien from another world where everyone can do this on his planet or could be just the elite)

6. Military experiment results

7. From the future, eugenically created/altered

8. Artifact/Artefact that gives him this ability to perform his illusions/tricks

If you write any of the prompts, please tag me so I can read the story! I would love to see what you creative minds think up! ❤️❤️❤️

[howdoidothiss-blog]

Guys this is so scary to me but I officially posted my first fic on ao3 🫣🤭 here’s the description

“Morgause forces Merlin to choose between his secrets and Arthur’s life when Merlin and Arthur are bound by secrets magic. This spell has only two possible outcomes: be broken by the confessions of both Merlin and Arthur’s deepest secrets, or kill them at sunrise. (Spell based on The Magicians secrets magic ritual in 1x06, but no knowledge of the magicians required!!)”

If that interests u check it out or something idk this is so scary to me 👹 why am I sweating

Also s/o to my little sister for COOKING 🧑‍🍳 Bringing up this ep of the magicians when we were talking about merthur

[turtleblogatlast]

Love the idea that Leo’s portal and teleportation based fighting style can heavily parallel the types of stuff you’d see in magic acts. Disappearing and reappearing, pulling stuff out of a hat/portal, sleight of hand and other such methods of averting the audience’s/enemies’ attention from what you’re trying to do, etc.

It’s genuinely pretty neat to see and I wish his love of magic acts and magicians was brought up more often because it and his other interests tie into each other and in turn his whole self so neatly.

[childrenofthesun77]

...okay, so I'm probably not the first person to notice this.

But gear's earing that he points towards when he says that he did the same ritual he wanted to help kuro with already on himself before:

actually looks pretty similar to the pieces of the necklace the count used to create the servamps:

The different pieces of the necklace seem to contain one demon each and the count used them to create the servamps.

So...did the count either learn this technique from the werewolves or is he possible even originally a werewolf himself? It would explain why he's immortal, that's why I'm wondering about this.

Gear says that the ritual is used to remove spirits, could it be that the count removed his own sins using the werewolf ritual and created the demons this way? But he went too far and removed too much unlike gear who only removed one part of himself? Him removing the sins from himself would also explain why he's so weird and doesn't understand other beings. As the sin demons say, they are a natural part of being a human and we have seen multiple times that denying their existence is harmful, removing them all from you would probably lead to you not being able to relate to other people anymore.

Maybe removing all these parts of himself is also why he has no appearance. Without his demons he's not a person anymore.

The count originally being a werewolf would also explain why he has magical abilities (gear can also use magic) before other magicians existed and why he's so anxious about certain people dying. Gear talks about how his immortality makes him sad because human friends do die, but unlike the count gear seems to accept death, grieves in a heathier way than the count and is able to move on and make new friends. Could also explain why his magic and creations are all strongly tied to the (full) moon.

Another similarity is that while werewolves apparently can't reproduce gear was able to have descendants by sharing his life force (it's mentioned in chapter 135 which isn't translated yet) with a woman and through her human children tsurugi is related to gear. Sigurd explained to nicco that the magicians came to be because the count let humans drink his blood, three survived, got magical ablities and became the ancestors of all human magicians:

Maybe the count is more of a werecat though. He and the sloth demon do seem to have a closer connection, even though the count's appearance changes depending on the person looking at him he does usually keep his tail and the tip looks exactly like the one of kuro's cat/lion form and similar to the the one of inner sloth's non-human form.

It was also stated multiple times that the sloth demon is the strongest. I wonder why that is. Servamp comments on the fact that being lazy is often actually a sign of depression/anxiety through kuro's arc, so maybe the count was depressed and that's why the sloth demon is the strongest? Basically the demons strength depends on how much the count suffered from the different sins? It would also explain why melancholy is so strong, I assume kuro refusing to see him no matter how many siblings he sent his way to tell him to come looking for the count made him extremely sad and probably even made him come up with the plan to have himself be killed and then put in the same body as kuro through the ritual.

I assume he was behind C3 ordering the servamps to kill him because he's the one who created the magicians and thus C3 and lily who is kind of working for him was probably the one who put the idea that the count needed to be killed into the head of his eve (aka a member of the alicein family who hold a lot of power in C3 basically since the beginning. I explained this in more detail in another post). The people from C3 even said that the count can only be killed if he wants to and yeah, kuro didn't truly kill him, but he did destroy his body and kuro seems to have met little resistance when he attacked the count. Which probably means the count wanted this to happen.