• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 months ago

      slaps the top of my plastic box that lets me draw shapes and colors, then send them to people on the other side of the planet near-instantaneously

      Magic is NOT real.

      • TraumaDumpling
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        3 months ago

        -wondrous items capable of impossible feats

        -made of rare hard-to-obtain material components from the remotest of places deep undergound, secured with slave blood sacrifices

        -hundreds of lifetimes worth of man-hours of virgin recluses learned in obscure ways goes into designing and engineering each component

        -must be assembled in exactly the correct order by masses of people and machines moving in precise, pre-arranged rituals

        -complicated symbols and rituals required for startup, maintenance, and usage

        -always goes wrong in unexpected ways and has horrific ramifications for society

        nope, no magic here, no sir