Since I’ve Entered A Vampire Era And Realized This Is More Commonly Believed Than I Thought, Here’s

Illinois released all of the rejected applicants for the new state flag design contest, and I love so many of these that I have to share them lol.

hello mister magician my green son and yellow son would like to see one of your fancy tricks and their father is out of the picture by the way your cane is very long and handsome

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

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Harry Potter is like Star Wars in that, in its original incarnation, you aren't supposed to think about it, its world is a pastiche meant to provide suitable aesthetics for a simple and fun adventure story. And at that task it succeeded so thoroughly that it attracted a lot of people who wanted to think about it, and in its later incarnations it seems that its creators want to too. But this was a doomed thing from the start because it wasn't designed for that and was never going to succeed at it.

thoughts on this, as a math enjoyer who also happens to write magic systems?

this is because math and applied math (physics) really is the language of the universe and all its vast secrets within and in any fair world this would let me shoot fireballs. unfortunately for all us math and physics people the true magic of this world is actually chemistry, which is the physical manifestation of all that beautiful math and physics hitting the primordial soup of quarks and gluons and is Hot Bullshit as soon as you start trying to analyze it too close. the real wizards are those guys synthesizing fulminating silver in their backyard

The transition from “Why do *I* need to survive” in the original post to “YOUR tragic and graphic demise” in the follow-up is some kind of ominous threat

"if you got isekai'd into [story] would you survive?"

why do i need to survive? is it not enough to have one charming conversation with geralt of rivia before dying tragically and preventably two days later thus changing the trajectory of his life forever ?? ?

Haha get kudzu’d