#science wizard

[headphonemouse]

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CHROME WITH MUDKIPS DAY

[crustycrow]

i made one for us as well

[dduane]

Meanwhile, at Ebooks Direct...

...a quick reminder that all the prices on our Ebooks Direct ebook bundles are still holding at Black Friday levels (pretty much 50% off, and in some cases more...), because frankly I think everybody can use a little bit of a break around now.

I invite you to pause the doomscrolling (assuming that's what's been going on), take a few deep breaths, and visit another universe. Or two.

The Whole Store bundle is right here, and honestly, it's ridiculously cheap at $39.99.

And you can see the other available series- or universe-specific bundles here.

As usual: all our bundles are DRM-free, so they're yours forever to keep and move around as you please. And they come with our lifetime free replacement guarantee! (Because as non-billionaires, we somehow don't feel any urgent need to make you pay for lost or mislaid ebooks twice.) Lose a loaded device, have a drive crash, or suffer some other local difficulty that results in ebook loss? Mail us with your order number and we'll send you new download links.

That's it! That's the post. Support your local non-AI-using authors!

And thanks, everybody. :) (Also: if you feel inclined to reblog this, it'd be very much appreciated.)

(I keep forgetting to add this, probably because i hate it: UK friends, please note that we can't sell directly to you any more, because of Brexit. Dammit. But still: sorry.) :/

[deswhomst]

Regulus was horrible at remembering important dates like birthdays and anniversaries but he tried to make an effort for his friends and used to note the dates down.

When he wished Barty a happy birthday, Barty was very happy initially that Regulus remembered. Regulus told him about having it in his calendar (thinking that Barty would feel special) but Barty got super upset at that. They eventually fought and Barty admitted that his own father didn’t know his birthday and had to refer to his calendar so it becomes meaningless. After that, Regulus memorized the date (which was hard for him) and it remained the only date he knew.

Regulus also drowned himself that day.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

NGC 7380, Star Drops of the Wizard

[this-vs-that]

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[fleshwizard]

i've been mixing flesh, wax, chemicals and dyes for months to obtain these images

[cosmic-perspective]

The Wizard Nebula NGC 7380. Do you see it?

[at-weeb96]

Requested this rad commission from RenaX_kyo over on twitter. They're also working on a F&C fan comic atm. Please check them out, their art is so pretty ❤

[oldschoolfrp]

Sometimes the melee fighters have to take a step back and let the wizard handle things (David Martin box art for AD&D campaign adventure Tale of the Comet by Thomas M Reid, TSR, 1997). Published late in the 2e era, this story begins with a light streaking across the sky and leads to the characters battling alien invaders through a portal into their sci-fi world.

[headphonemouse]

stream warmups and a smooch cuz i was getting really pissed off at the other thing i was working on

[lets-get-ready-to-ramble]

Do you think in like, an urban fantasy setting, with a modern lab and chemistry knowledge you could brew super specific potions? Imagine getting a C on your lab final for Potions 238 because you didn’t balance your equation correctly and accidentally added 4 mols of salamander blood when you only needed 2. You lose points for incorrect titration, leading your potion of invisibility to last 10 minutes instead of 20. Would you treat each magical component as its own element/ compound or would you have to break it down into organic molecules? What does “enchanted” MEAN in terms of reactance!!! These are the real questions!!

[mysharona1987]

By Tom Gauld

[linddzz]

(regular disclaimer that I will exaggerate big feelings for effect but at the end of the day this is fandom and in the grand scheme of things Just Ain't That Serious good? good)

okok look while I am obviously SOOO into where Arcane went with the Machine/Arcane Herald, I can get why gamers who liked og LoL Viktor would be Big Annoyed at him being totally retconned and overhauled in game. That is undeniably a totally different guy there and yeah it would be shitty to have the guy you like completely swapped out. I can especially get it if they liked the mechanical cyborg engineering aspects of his character!

BU T I keep seeing iterations of "he didn't choose anything for himself he just had things happen to him" or "he just went mystic. he used to be someone who used his genius to remake himself and now he just meditated himself into a wizard" and I am so so down to meet in the pit on those takes!! I get people not liking the less mechanical aspects of him but hhhhhhohmygod do not be taking my guys agency and genius down like that

Yes the initial full fusing with the hexcore is something that happened to him, that someone who loved him maybe too much did to him (almost like Arcane has themes of people being launched down dark paths by things that happen to them beyond their control hMmMmmmmmm!!!) And btw I still hold that while his brain got changed by trauma (bc trauma DOES THAT) and the hexcore helped amplify and empower him leaning into his worst traits, after Jayce forced that initial fusion everything Viktor did was a choice.

But also!! Jayce used Viktor's notes. Viktor was the one who went down and got shimmer, who lied and experimented in secret. He stumbled into noticing the hexcore responding to biological material but then he pursued that avenue (because LIFE is a lot of stumbling into things and then deciding what to do from there), figured out what interdisciplinary collaborations he needed to make, figured out on his FIRST TRY what runes he would need to put where.

And while they don't lean into the mechanical engineering genius as much as the OG Viktor like...guys that's a software engineer with a big scoop of magic theorist on top of it (who then started a pivot into biomechanical arcane theory like THAT). He made a magic AI! Don't go telling me he didn't use his genius to become the Arcane Herald when he made a magic AI and then I got to watch the hexclaw grabbing and programming runes into spells like the coolest shit ever!!

That man figured out how to make Jayce's ideas into reality. He then used the scant knowledge of the arcane that still exists to figure out and recreate, using technology, what mages do by instinct. He made a MAGIC AI HOLY SHIT. Jayce is STILL referencing Viktor's rune theories to figure out the anomaly!!

He did not use the same type of genius to become the same type of Herald, but my guy invented being a technomancer so hard that he turned himself into a magical supercomputer and was so good at THAT that he made himself a robowizard god and I will not be hearing anything belittling how nuts that is!!

[hellsitegenetics]

I have a request: the first paragraph of Industrial Society and its Future, courtesy of https://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Anarchism/Unabom/manifesto.html

"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the Iffe-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries."

String identified: T ta t a t cc a a at t a ac. T a gat ca t -ctac t "aac" ct, t t a ta ct, a a g, a ct a g t gt, a t a cgca g ( t T t ca g a ) a a ct aag t ata . T ct t tcg t tat. t cta ct a g t gat gt a ct gat aag t ata , t a a t gat ca t a cgca g, a t a a t ca ca g "aac" ct.

Closest match: Euplexia lucipara genome assembly, chromosome: 11 Common name: Small angle shades

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[the-wolf-and-moon]

NGC 7380, The Wizard