#secret magic societies

[sunny-salamander]

Fanfic: Crafting Pandora's Box

Fandom: Danganronpa Series, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Relationships: Makoto and Komaru Naegi’s Mother/Makoto and Komaru Naegi’s Father, Makoto Naegi & Makoto Naegi’s Mother, Komaru Naegi & Komaru Naegi’s Mother

Characters: Makoto Naegi, Komaru Naegi, Makoto and Komaru Naegi’s Mother, Makoto and Komaru Naegi’s Father, Original Characters, Original Family Characters

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Other Tags: Tags Beyond This Point Contain Spoilers. You Have Been Warned, Modern Day Magic AU, Magi AU, Magi!Hanako Naegi, Secret Magic Societies, Dying Magic Societies, Gen Naegi is A Patient Man, Makoto and Komaru Naegi’s Mother Has An Ultimate, Disclaimer: Author is Not a Parent and Has Minimal Contact With Children. She Tried Her Best, Tags Will Be Updated as the Story Updates, Rating May Change

Summary:

Fact 1: Unbeknownst to modern humans, there’s another species that’s been living in close quarters with them for several thousand years. 

Fact 2: Hanako Naegi is one of these creatures.

Fact 3: Hanako Naegi has never had children before in her three centuries of existence, but that’s not going to stop her from doing her best.

Or: The struggles of raising magical children in a world ignorant of and/or hostile to magic.

Notes: This is the thing I was referencing in my post about Makoto's parents, lol! I've given them personalities. And backgrounds. They're basically my OCs now.

Makoto and Komaru's parents? No. Our parents.

[machinegrl]

so i totally forgot that this build exists

[occultesotericart]

The Wishing Well | engraving print from an old arcane book

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

"... When you decided you needed a mask to fit into the world, you chose one that was sunny instead of scowly..."

[cakemoney]

- tabby is implied to be a piece of something that was broken/broken off (perhaps the well); tabby is also mirroring behavior but specifically in his most effusive moment became a "dark mirror" for evan (plus also the shadow thing back when evan tried to cut it off the hoopty)

- evan dies and comes back and appears to have generated a new body and his old body turned into a terracotta vessel of some kind. like a big hollow pot

- k becomes a big bank of amplification magic. humans are capable of holding enormous power inside them

- the demons' return to evan is described as something dripping into the hollowness inside him. dripping, like a liquid, like the viscous magic k was swimming through, like what would be inside a well

i won't let go of my secret theory that there is no evidence for!! i knew the demons mattered !!!

[plate2]

Sometimes I'll just think of insane crossovers with characters I like despite fully knowing no one has read any of these combinations of books, nor would they ever interact. Like, I could go on and on about the similarities between the Bailey and Sorenson siblings (Land of Stories and Favlehaven) or I could go on about three different Jacks from different books (Half Upon A Time, Mighty Jack, Jack Blank). I could look at Nova Artino and Alex Knight (Renegades and The Cloak Society) and while they're for very different ages there's similarities. Alex from Alex Rider and Carson from Codename Zero would likely never interact but by God do I think about it. I could name so many: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Seven Wonders, Revenge of Magic, Beyonders, The Lies of Locke Lamora, etc, etc, etc. I am going insane over so many different books that have little semblance of connection, saying they each have pieces of one another within. And these fanbases (if there are even a fanbase for each of these books) would rarely ever interact.

So I'm just left here, reading books in my pajamas, deranged

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Witchy reads for some cozy late October vibes ✨☠️

[mage-witha-glock]

There's something really funny about the fact that the team's strongest member is also their medic. Like, you'll have Daimen or something being like "I'm injured, where's our best medic" and Zorian just points at Zach who is mid combat with the most dangerous opponent on the battlefield.

[the-gayest-tree-you-ever-did-see]

finally caved and started reading all for the game. two chapters into the foxhole court and what kind of gay fucking shit is this! also did not know there were sports in here

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Call me a boomer or whatever but I feel like fairy tales with the trope of "help elderly/disabled/homeless people because any of them might be a fairy in disguise who will bless you, but you cannot do it for the reward, it has to be out of genuine desire to do good or else the magic won't work" are very important in raising kids who are just starting to develop a sense of right and wrong and don't yet fully grasp that "you should help people because they need it"

[garvalhaminho]

honestly extremely fitting that the acronym to "the mortal instruments" is the same as the one to "too much information" bc it reads like that.

[cosmicportal]

Maria Orsic was born on October 31, 1895, in Austria. She studied ballet, languages, and the occult. At some point in her life, she became a trance-medium, channeling spirits and beings from other star systems. These beings gave her the blueprints to build flying discs capable to travel through time. Maria Orsic was the leader and founder of the Vril Society, In 1945, she, along with some of her followers disappeared without a trace.

[occultesotericart]

Alchemical etching, circa 1624

[slitheringghost]

For the unpopular opinion ask game, how about 💚 and 💔?

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

That Lily's relationship with Slughorn wasn't one of him genuinely being her favorite teacher - but that, other than the obvious of her being ambitious and using Slug Club etc for connections, Slughorn's description of Lily implies that she often manipulated Slughorn for information.

The text draws a very deliberate parallel between her, Tom Riddle, and Harry (and to an extent Dumbledore) in that regard in HBP - i.e. Slughorn calls her charming, charismatic, says that he used to tell her she ought to have been in Slytherin, which means she has Slytherin traits (cunning, ambition, resourcefulness, a disregard for rules) and which sounds like the kind of thing he'd say specifically when she was displaying those traits - akin to when Slughorn tells Tom Riddle that he'd "like to know where he gets his information", that he's "more knowledgeable than half the staff" and has an "uncanny ability to know things he shouldn't".

Lily's cunning and ability to zero in on people's weaknesses and manipulate them (i.e. with Petunia and Snape) is one of the most consistent traits she shows in her scenes, and it needs to be used more often in fic.

Basically, Lily used her charm to manipulate others - likely to get information for the Order, access to forbidden magic, etc. It's also the kind of trait that, in tandem with her curiosity and penchant for pushing boundaries, would allow her to find the highly obscure information she needed to deflect the Killing Curse.

(I think you can even read her dynamic with Bathilda Bagshot that way - that Lily was fishing for information; after all she found out the same information Rita Skeeter got using Veritaserum, which was meant to be the "best kept secret" of Dumbledore's life)

💔: If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose?

Molly, hands down. At least the other characters I dislike and are irritatingly praised by the narrative - Snape and Dumbledore - can be interesting in some ways. Molly just sucks and brings absolutely nothing interesting to the story either.

From this ask meme

[sweetshire]

me after i finished reading legendborn:

EXCUSE ME, TRACY DEONN, WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO PLUCK AT MY HEARTSTRINGS LIKE A FUCKING GUITAR PLAYER??

[gif credit: @shegos]

[reviewsthatburn]

The main reason I didn't enjoy Spellbound by Allie Therin is that the more the characters learned about each other, the more it felt like they were ignoring red flags in order to make it all work (for more details, refer to the review linked above). I prefer books where, as the characters learn more they find out that either they're more compatible than they thought, or at least that what seemed like insurmountable issues can be substantially erased or mitigated in a durable and mutually supportive way.

Please enjoy this non-exhaustive list of books and series I've enjoyed where it originally seems like it won't work and then it does as the characters learn more about each other. Most of these are fantasy and/or romance.

Authors who frequently write this kind of story:

Most things Seanan McGuire writes, if there's a relationship it tends to be this style.

October Daye

InCryptid

T. Kingfisher's World of the White Rat books

Clockwork Boys / The Wonder Engine

Swordheart

Paladin's Grace / Paladin's Strength / Paladin's Hope

Most of what Ilona Andrews writes:

Kate Daniels and associated books

The Edge books

Stand-alone books:

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

Bone Weaver by Aden Polodoros

Curses by Lish McBride

The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

Peter Darling by S.A. (Austin) Chant

A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell (stand-alone story in a shared universe)

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell (stand-alone story in a shared universe)

Ongoing series:

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

Completed series:

The Celestial Kingdom Duology by Sue Lynn Tan

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Heart of the Sun Warrior

Witchmark by C.L. Polk (Book 1 of The Kingston Cycle trilogy)