Vampire [any] to askchapo • 3 months agoDo you believe parapsychological powers exist? Premonitions, telepathy, etc.Removed by modlockmessage-squaremessage-square181 fedilinkarrow-up143
arrow-up143message-squareDo you believe parapsychological powers exist? Premonitions, telepathy, etc.Removed by modlockVampire [any] to askchapo • 3 months agomessage-square181 Commentsfedilink
minus-squarezifnab25 [he/him, any]hexbear31·3 months agoslaps 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. link
minus-squareTraumaDumplinghexbear30·edit-23 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 link
minus-squareAbracadaniel [he/him]hexbear11·3 months agowhen magic is a real phenomena of nature it can be systematized and studied. link
minus-squareHiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]hexbear15·3 months agoTurns out when the magic is real small you can fit a lot of it into one of those bad boys. link
minus-squareEvilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear4·3 months agoFit so much [magic] into this smol rock. link
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.
-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
when magic is a real phenomena of nature it can be systematized and studied.
Turns out when the magic is real small you can fit a lot of it into one of those bad boys.
Fit so much [magic] into this smol rock.