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The universal translators go haywire and stop accounting for linguistic drift. Most people don’t notice, but Tom taught himself a bunch of 20th Century slang as a teenager and never bothered to stop using it. Things get awkward on the bridge when he calls Janeway “daddy-o”

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Please correct me if I'm wrong

Buuuuuut...

Amity *did* appear to make abomination tendrils during the fight with possessed Hunter.

Notably, this fight takes place in a graveyard, so it still pretty much supports your theory. It's further supported by the fact that the tendrils are a different color, and they wibbly looking. That sort of implies that these are really weak compared to her usually magic.

Any HC’s on how abomination magic specifically works?

I DO ACTUALLY - OH MY GODS, I DO ACTUALLY!

Because it's clearly different than plant magic! It's not earth magic, even though it's some sort of... soil. Of sort. And Amity says she had missed it when she returned to the demon-realm.

So WHAT IS IT?

Now, I think a big point of what could-have-been season 3, is that MAYHAPS Amity would be much less helpful in magic. Giving Willow space to be "the strong/powerful one" and thus their friendship could have a continued arc.

But it's just one of those big question marks of; Is that intentionally something that only exist in the demon realm? If so, what point to the story does that serve? And if not - what difference is it to plant/earth magic at all?

I genuinely can't answer that.

Anyhow, let's identify what it is that could make it different from plant magic.

My headcanon, based on the little I can scrape together from the show's world building and plot direction.

I deduce that abomination is very specifically made out of grime and slime, like, the sort of thing you'd scrape away to make something clean again. Dust, muck, flakes, waste, dead skin, carcass, slags, mould, rot... Things that would make you feel Oh yeah, that's very boiling isles-esque.

So, dead and gross things.

Plant magic is making things grow, turns and moves the earth, terraforms.

And abomination is kind of an opposite.

To me, this makes sense. Since Darius is on the good-guys' side, and Terra is on the bad-guys' side. Putting these two seemingly similar but actual opposites against one another makes thematic sense.

it also makes aesthetic sense, since we see in season 3 that the TOH-Crew make the aesthetic choice to give Luz a typical villain aesthetic and the collector the typical hero aesthetic (pastels, round stars, childish happiness, etc).

Willow vs Amity would have been a cool fight to see, or, if not a fight. At the very least see Amity try to calm Willow's growing emotional storm (ah, pun!) Which they were rounding up for Willow in season 3.

This is a side-track, but all that they put in episode 2 of season 3, I feel were things they always wanted to give resolution to. I know a lot of fans are ???? about boscha and kikimora getting a lot of attention, but specifically Boscha - with Amity, and Willow. I get the sense that they had much more in store for the hex girls friendship than what we got. But alas. They sho-horned what they wanted in there and maybe forgot that the audience doesnt have the knowledge of intent as the crew does. So it comes off as a bit "why did this get attention instead of X thing?"

Okay anyway back to biz.

The fashion direction and aesthetic of the Demon-Realm is, to me, like if you took a fantasy renaissance fair and slapped cheap halloween decor on it. Jester hat? Glue some fussy spiders on it with fangs. A colourful vest? It has batwings and eyeballs for buttons.

This is important, actually!

Alador has abomination magic, and Amity's dad, he is aesthetically designed to look very much like a stereotypical it's aliiiiveeee crazy scientist. But with the mellowness of a tired workaholic dad.

Amity's mother has oracle magic.

Together they make evil steam punk science. In a show that canonically built it's catalystic event on a brother murdering his brother and is haunted by his ghost, while trying to ressurect copies of him that he also murders.....

You cannot look me in the eyes and tell me that the protagonists love interest's magical ability has no visual direction that connects the two. And I will tell you why I'm right.

Visually we are guided to connect Amity's parents. Look at their factory, at aladors lab, look at how it's pleading us to look at their manor as a typical gothic horror. (mind you, their home is also one of the few buildings that doesnt have eye-motifs on it, and instead has a star/moon symbols. The only other place I can think of that does is the library and the collector disc & Titan tower.)

Amity doesn't use abomination magic in the human realm. Not even in the fight against Belos. There's... something purple, for sure, a kind of smokey bomb-attack thing. But no abomination.

Amity has used other non-abomination purple magic before too, when she caged Luz at the knee to keep her safe. A cage, much similar to what Odalia can do.

Which means that PERHAPS Amity knows, and can, use oracle magic.

If we are to take Amity's comment on Camila saying "you were really holding back in the human realm, huh?", Amity says "maybe a little"

And she calls it slime.

So perhaps it is something that also exist in the human realm too? But she didn't use it in battle. Or maybe this comment is to referr to that she had to hold back on her preferred magic style, because there wasnt much of this *particular type* of slime.

Meaning she'd be forced to use oracle magic? And maybe have an arc where she reclaims that magic. It would also be more useful to the gang, since they would be going through a story-line of uncovering Belos' past in Gravesfield's history.

Her mixing both oracle and abomination magic, I feel, would also bring forth more purpose to the episode where a basilisk invaded the school.

The whole purpose of the episode was to show that you should be allowed to have more than one preferred magic - but NONE of the main hex-squads ever dabble in that. Making the episode somewhat purposeless - but if Amity gets to reclaim oracle magic as her own.. I feel like this would tie into the thematics of GOLEMS.

Abominations already are designed to look like golems. But the real life folklore dabbles in re-animating clay with LIFE. Much like a zombie, or what have you. Grimwalker, anybody? no? Just me? Very well.

I feel that would have been a perfect story segway to put pressure on Hunter and Luz hiding that Hunter is a grimwalker. The more they find out about Philip, the closer the pieces would be put together. Drrrraamaa~!

I have a feeling Amity and Gus would become closer, as illusion magic would be very useful to them all as well, moving amongst humans. Perhaps this would play into Willow's insecurities that we see her having in season 3.

Which, also, by Amity and Gus becoming closer (Amity being closest to Luz, Gus with Hunter) this would also put pressure on their secret. And the two of them would have insight, being the twos confidants. Leaving Willow, again, a little to the wayside - giving more fuel to her arc of trying to overcompensate with being the strong friend, as she slowly disconnects a bit with the group and her emotional turmoil grows.

ANYWAY.

I think abomination is meant to be something that Amity would combine with oracle magic. Something that would be fundamentally different than if you combined oracle with plant magic.

Perhaps there are more layers to Belos wanting the magics to be apart. Clearly, mixing magic doesn't only make a witch stronger, perhaps their creativity is the only limit to what a witch could do.

What if you oracle a ghost into a clay figure? What if the human version of abomination is hardened mud (clay), or metals like steel (coal and iron), what then? DUNNO. Sky's the limit. Write a fanfic.

That's my headcanons and thoughts on abomination magic, anyway.

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Niners ⚾️🌌

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I need an original series phaser for my Halloween costume. I did not already own an original series phaser. The solution:

Make one out of Cardboard and Popsicle sticks! It's not perfect, but it will suit my purposes nicely.

Build pics/details under the cut!

As you can see, the handle's main structure is popsicle sticks. There's a bunch of those hot glued willy-nilly inside the prop to make it sturdier. I used both glazing spot putty and wood filler to smooth out the surface, but frankly I recommend skipping the spot putty. Super nasty to work with, and actually really delicate, so not really worth it. Wood filler is cheaper and less likely to give you lung cancer. Wear a dust mask or respirator when working with either, regardless. The rounded edges of Phaser I are actually foam clay, which I figured would be easier to use than to shape and fold cardboard into a compound curve. The radiator fins in the back of the prop are made of acrylic from a cheap picture frame.

This took me about a week to do, but that's partially because I lose focus easily.

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Modern AU! (things end well)

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That interview on TV last night was pretty weird, wasn’t it?

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The Stargate sound designers hit it outta the park with all the noises associated with dialing the gate. That bitch clangs and thunks and thwooshes like it should. Encode those mf chevrons, bay-beeee!

Special mention to that noise the DHD buttons make, for which I can’t come up with an onomatopeia.

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Folks pondered just what had inspired Leonardo da Vinci to paint the Mona Spock.

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sometimes when i’m bored i stare at a wall and imagine Vulcan Tiktok.

Vulcan mom vlogger puts foundation on her vulcan child so no one can see him blushing while he is still learning to control his emotions. a guy stitches the video barrating HER for being illogical- mastering emotion is a difficult task for young vulcans and stigmatizing it IS illogical. it gets 2.3 million likes.

Vulcan comedy videos of supposedly a man making recipes of Orion/Klingon/Human dishes except in every video they substitute ingredients until the video ends with Plomeek Soup every time.

Tiktok lives of lessons on The Teachings Of Surak and at least once an hour they have to respond to comments to say “no, Surak did not state that calling your ex is illogical, but that still does not mean it is logical”

Vulcan teenagers still do dumb shit just like Human Teenagers do, but now they just cover it with “it is logical to test the boundaries of logic, to further our mental o and philosophies.” and no one buys their bs but unless it’s illegal nobody cares enough to stop them

AMITA tiktok’s still remain extremely popular, just in a AMIIL (Am I Illogical) formula

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Just dropping this Work in Progress here. I'm kinda juggling a couple of projects right now, and this one's just sort of on the backburner for now.

Extremely, extremely rough right now. Pretty sure I've goofed the perspective on Alan's face, and it doesn't quite look like him yet either. I'll get around to fixing it eventually.

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Moisturize me

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Severe untreated ADHD!

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Ever since I was a kid I compulsively scan clover patches for a four-leaf clover. I never find one. The other day in the park, I happened to glance down at my feet and somehow spotted one instantly. This particular high might last me the rest of the month.