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"Irulans fate"
#listen to the soundtrack#and magic#princess irulan#irulan#princess#art#dune#dune part 2#dune 2#digital art#procreate#concept art#artists on tumblr#character design#fanart#illustration#space#scifi#spaceship#sand#desert#arrakis#movies#florence pugh
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hey have you ever thought about how inej describes kaz's hands as being for making things vanish? how one of his classic magic tricks is making things disappear? how she describes her trauma response/dissociation as vanishing? how she is the Wraith and it is her greatest skill to disappear?
how we can imply from this that she feels like a) kaz's touch will trigger her and make her vanish and b) he only values her for that skill?
but how, the one thing he does, every time, is see her? is not let her disappear? is ask her, multiple times, to stay? is tell her, "don't slip away from me?"
"but it's what I do best."
#anyway#kanej#and magic#and vanishing acts#kaz brekker#inej ghafa#six of crows#grishaverse#shadow and bone#etc etc#writing tags makes me feel like I'm wearing a little dunce cap
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God imagine the conversation Charlie and Ron must have had after the war was over
Charlie: “You did WHAT at Gringotts?!”
Ron: “Yeah we road the iron belly out of Gringotts…���
Charlie: “How?!”
Ron: “I just…Remebered what you taught me.”
Charlie: “You listened to my endless rambles?”
Ron: “Course. Yer my brother-!”
Like I said. Ron is the GOAT. Like if his skills were more utilized ((more like his family in GENERAL)) Voldemort probs would have been killed before book three. IM JUST SAYING
#harry potter#hp#harry potter incorrect quotes#hp incorrect quotes#Charlie Weasley#Ron Weasley#weasley family#Weasleys#they are the GOAT#fight me#anti Weasley bashet squad#except for Molly#she can be bashed#as a TREAT#random thoughts#while I swing#thoughts on the swing#the weasleys#the goat#truly#so much potential#so much wasted potential#ugh#my special interests#gingers#and magic#belladonna rambles
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Meeting Other Royals
After becoming the Ghost King of the Infinite Realms, Danny finds himself having to take on a lot of new responsibilities. Chief among these is the duty to represent the Realms at interdimensional events for High Society. Luckily for Danny, he isn’t the only teenager/young adult forced to attend, so at least he has some people he can hang out with between schmoozing it up with his fellow bigwigs.
#Danny Phantom#Hazbin Hotel#Helluva Boss#DP x HH#DPxHH#DP x HB#DPxHB#Danny Fenton#Can include universes as well#Ghost King Danny#Octavia Goetia#Charlie Morningstar#Kids at gallas#High Society stuff#Complaining about High Society stuff#Humor#Kinda Crack#Crack Treated Seriously#Danny is not fancy#Danny is not classy#Think Old Money vs New Money#But with immortals#And magic
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so let me see if i've got this right
we were here
then...
you were on hiatus for a long time
and...
i got deleted like four times
but...
i looked for you every time
then...
you found me
and...
you still find me
every single day
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Glad you enjoyed pact!
I'd love to know your thoughts on the magic system and diabolism in general, also what did you think of Black Lambs Blood?
Also if you actually want wildbow long windedness in his supernatural setting, then I can say thats Pale's biggest weakness, so if you are okay with that I can heartily recommend it
Diablerism/Black Lambs Blood was my favorite part of the Pact magic system by a long shot actually. I wouldn't say there were any parts of the magic that I didn't like or enjoy to some extent but the best part of Pact for me was the character work and I feel like diablerie was the most realized supporting metaphor for the relationships between those characters.
For example, and I promise arent critiques so much as comparisons to illustrate just how good the diablerie is, the DuChamps enchantress magic system is pretty solid. They manipulate connections and in the process the connections within the family lose the authenticity within their relationships with each other and only end up being connected through magic and false promises. Pretty well realized metaphor for how focusing on a family's position rather than the family unit itself will weaken the unit to disrepair. Mara for all of the side eye worthy racial politics of her character, also has a fairly realized metaphor about family dynamics. The parent draining the life of the child to prolong her own youth only to ultimately fail to realize any new goals as youth was never a requirement necessary for change in the first place.
I will say where pact starts to lose me is the other Jacobs Bell Powers. Mags works to an extent. The representation of how violent trauma affects a person who then carries that violence forward and inflicts it on others. My main critique with that is that Pact is such a family focused story I wish we got to see more of Mags and her dads and how the metaphorical violent trauma separated her from her family. Padraic being the one to sever the connection rather than Maggie's specific individual practice hobbled the thematic resonance of goblins for me, personally. I also won't lie, I'm fairly confident that there IS a strong metaphor within the Behaims chronomancy. However, said metaphor went completely over my head. Chronomancy was a super cool magic and I loved reading about it and the Behaim family dynamic was also interesting, but since I couldn't see the correlation between the two it weakened both elements impact on me as a reader.
So with all that said. On the other hand: Diablerie. Honestly incredible work in terms of landing a metaphor. There's a lot with passing on karmic burden as the cycle of abuse that's great. What really hits for me though is the idea of Permanent Damage. Society really supports the idea of family as the strongest most unbreakable bond in the world. So writing a family then explicitly filling it with the power of completely unfixable never able to be undone damage is really good. Pact doesn't play around with the idea that the Thorburns could ever completely fix their family to have a normal or entirely healthy relationship ever again. Rose Sr broke them in a way that can't be fixed. There's no amount of family therapy or Wanting to be a family that can undo what's been done.
I think part of the reason Black Lambs Blood is such a good side story about diablerie is because it also centers a family unit and how a demon can destroy it.
What I really love about dark urban fantasy compared to standard fantasy is that there's no escapism present. Like I love escapism but I love magic as a storytelling tool to tell human stories about inhuman characters. Which is very much the core of pact and why it works for me.
In terms of Pale though. Eeehhhh? I'm going back and forth on it because like you brought up, length in and of itself is not something that bothers me. However, how that length is used IS pretty critical. Worm and Pact both like to put the protagonist in an unwinnable situation where Taylor/Blake try several strategies that fail before either finding the solution or suffering a great loss. I think this style can bother people because the failures, especially in large numbers, aren't necessarily adding new character development or plot elements to the narrative and they would much rather just skip to the loss/solution. But personally I love when things get drawn out in this way because it helps hammer home the emotional feeling of victory or tragedy. The reason I'm apprehensive about Pale though is that I do not think that Ward used it's length well and that's when I started to get bored. Victoria would have very long fight sequences where she wouldn't need to find new creative solutions so much as continue through waves and waves of goons before she could reach the final boss and either win using the same strategy she did in the beginning, or lose using the same strategy. And like the things I like about Worm and Pact this definitely CAN work for people, it makes her victories via punching very hard feel earned. For me though it just felt like a slog and I've heard from some friends that Pale can fall in to this category in its latter half as well. Also frankly, the idea of pulling the magic outside of a family narrative and into a Magic School sounds like the least interesting possible choice to me. So while I'm sure it's more interesting than I'm imagining it is a steep barrier to entry for me.
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You guys remember the episode where Gwaine appears the first time?
The melee that they attend is the "ultimate test for strength and Courage"... Yeah. Just leaving that out there.
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Eclipse just hit totality. Magic is real. There is nothing like an eclipse lol
#total eclipse#solar eclipse#eclipse updates#eclipse2024#I get why ancient people believed in a deity#Because this seems#So unexplainable#And magic#and I know it’s not#But it’s so wonderful
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#midna#twilight princess#legend of zelda#tumblr polls#all these creatures are associated with cleverness mischief#and magic#and are often misunderstood and unfairly judged#but if you have something else that fits#I'm happy to hear it!
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#personal#sims 4#sims 4 meme#sims 4 gameplay#me#so that's how i have cottage living#and magic#and paranormal stuff#just hold me back from grow together pls
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I promised pictures of my hooded cloak, but then I discovered a movie making app & inspired to create a video instead.
This is now the new tradition every Halloween: get or make a cloak, add some embellishments, become magical & have fun.
Wishing everyone a safe and happy Halloween! 🎃
#ladyjuxtaposition talks#and fashions#and sews#a hooded cloak#with embellishments and details#because artist#and magic#halloween#halloween 2023#cloak#hooded cloak#costume#trims#lace#video#selfie#video selfie#ladyjuxtaposition#costume by ladyjuxtaposition#video by ladyjuxtaposition#photos by ladyjuxtaposition#have a safe and happy Halloween
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So my 2 oc stories Starry Orchard and Aces and Omen right? Yes.
SO as I’m writing the story for Starry Orchard I’m realizing both of these stories is about a deer character finding out their parents love has hidden them from the embodiment of Death itself but now Death has found out and is pissed and will kill the deer by any means necessary.
Featuring 5-7 death omens and magic
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I want it to be known that I am reading troupes I haven't read in literal years and I am genuinely honest to the Force living my best life right now
#i looked up the plot of the relevant movies on wikipedia to read this fic#things were super normal for what ive read so far#and then i got to this chapter#and now there are dragons#and faeries#and magic#and i am. somehow. even *more* enraptured#i cant even the tell you the last time i read this kind of fic#or this kind of *novel* actually#(outside of hp obv)#like my guy#how in the fuck have i been sleeping on this#i am so in love with every fic ive read so far#might need to make a rec list when (if) i get done
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I forgot my strongest writing urges come only when I have a literal fucking essay due
#school's back bitches are you ready for me to complain#this in unprofessional#personal#like i want to draft two different stories right now#instead i have to do two reading summaries#and read about how colonialism#which is all very genuinely interesting#but i could be writing about KISSING#and MAGIC#writer problems
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You know, yesterday is the 30th anniversary of Backstreet Boys. While today's the 25th anniversary of another Mariah Carey banger. The romantic/sad ballad My All released on the radio. While NBC was causing a stink for cancelled Debris, the spiritual successor for The X-Files and the spiritual successor for Lost show Manifest (at least, Netflix rescue the show and ready for 2nd part of super-sized final season this summer) and released the goddamn tacky Jurassic World meets The Twilight Saga meets Land of the Lost meets Mase in Abyss mashup ripoff telenovela without the lovable characters, they have a balls when the network released the 2-part movie Merlin debuts on April 26th, 1998. After the mayhem hilarity cartoon-y of The Simpsons and King of the Hill on FOX, people in America have turned in to the now beloved NBC/Hallmark miniseries and felt amazed deeply within their bodies. Magic, villains, Frik the goblin, badass moments and pure (Thank God. No toxic romance Bella and Edward, Gavin and Eve and Massimo and Laura style detected) romance blooms between Merlin and Nimue. Pretty crazy 25th anniversary week of pure "no toxic crap" love power.
#merlinxnimue#merlin 1998#nbc#hallmark#notoxicromance#pureromance#and magic#sam neill#isabella rossellini#helena bonham carter#martin short#miranda richardson
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