The financial world and the magical elixir of confidence … https://aeon.co/essays/the-financial-world-and-the-magical-elixir-of-confidence
[…] In modern magic, mundanium (an aluminium alloy) has mostly supplanted cold iron as the go-to antimagical material. In fact, a large mass of it can be used to enchant cold iron in a setup not unlike a sacrificial anode […]
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
During new moon, the forest’s canopy is often bathed in aurora arborealis, waste magic from rituals below meeting the fog above
How The Ancient Magus Bride Makes Magic Feel Real - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLvf1-3s_8
Frownland by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band: Analysis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhhB9teHqU
Magic Works: An Interview with Grant Morrision Part 1 - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/08/14/magic-works-an-interview-with-grant-morrision/
magic, here, is not so much as flying sparks but knowledge of ancient tech and self-knowledge through hundreds of years of experience
Magic was given only to players, but nobody’s logged in in a few hundred years of game time. We run on hardware the admins have forgotten
How Mushrooms Became Magic - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-mushrooms-became-magic/537789/
Blood has the highest magic capacity of all materials, making it one of the best choices for magic batteries as well as a great coolant
Want to Transcribe Rare Magical Manuscripts on Your Lunch Break? - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/newberry-library-transcribing-manuscripts
“Sure, I’ll cast a recursive spell”, next you know that spell has used up all the universe’s magic to convert it into hot expanding space
Magic 8-Ball - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_8-Ball
In industrial magic, to test whether magical equipment is cold enough to service, you blow a few soap bubbles near it. Some outcomes:
Wizards’ beds tend to be the least magical things in their towers, full of antimagic to prevent sleepcasting fireballs and nightmares
They come from wells in the mountains where earth magic leaks to the surface, and the High North where the Aurora Borealis is harnessed
Wood is the best conductor of magic and long rows of trees carry it into our cities, artificial leylines singing with barely contained power
Magic 8-balls are really awesome. Both answers are kinda perfect…
@8ball@domgoergen.com Do we need a magic 8ball for twtxt?
Confined to the ghetto, our druids adapted. They still guard the lore, but now also memorize sewer maps, teach asphalt magic on the roofs,
In the workers’ quarters, magical pollution makes snowflakes fall as tiny ice furniture while raindrops have bulbous misshapen outgrowths
Magical radiation makes the city’s houses develop cancers: Walls covered in door handles, bays protruding everywhere, atavistic buttresses
magic is reverse memory: action comes from words
“Live by the word, die by the word” - Inscription on the magical criminal court’s gate
What if there’s a rich existing toolset to deal with words that have power, right in front of us?↵What if magical thinking is actually good?
Add magic to the mix: certain symbionts grant magical powers. Wizards, to be less tasty and not be hunted down, eat disfiguring parasites
Trees form around and channel slow discharges of magic towards space, wooden lightning bolts with growth rings for equipotential field lines
Error correction algorithms proved curiously effective against magical corruption. A game changer for black magic, now nearly respectable.
The magical radiation in faerieland ruins most of our tech so there are special faerie-hardened mycocomputers made entirely of mycelium
Quills used for spell books must withstand strong magical currents, but also be magically inert unlike wandwood.
The reason you use dead languages for magic is that they don’t move. Spells in living languages spoil within years due to semantic drift.
Neat side effect: the semantic resonance between digital magic and your digits makes keyboards unreasonably effective in its control.
Apart from this, digital magic has quantization artifacts from low resolution that leave glitches. And lacks a certain analog warmth.
You’ll need to use specially hardened processors, strong magical fields will often transmute your boards into something semantically close.
There are a few practical challenges. Should you stop simulating space, the GPU will quench violently and release magic smoke, lots of it.
Getting magic into a computer is a challenge though: It took a few breakthroughs in psionics and information theory to add a meta level.
It also turns out magic is not picky about what space is made of: GPUs soak up magic like sponges when running certain computations.
Fractal pyramids for a really sharp focus. Interwoven rings and splines as broadband magic storage. Spinning iron rods as temporal lenses.
I step out of the portal and all the trees are petrified, the dryads dead at my feet, the last bit of magic powering the portal fizzling
Binary trees make for a decent magic conductor in a pinch. Magic has not yet caught on that they’re not really wood. Please don’t tell it.
A core principle of attack magic is: Disorder is easy. Destructive spells are easier than their constructive versions.↵Just consider nukes.
attempted def: meme magic is internet mediated hyperreality’s brand of magic. it becomes real wherever the internet is about itself.
alien magic betrays their own perceptual biases, so it is incompatible to ours and exactly as incomprehensible as their minds
magic as tricking reality into seeing patterns in the noise↵magic as imposing human perception on reality
[At which point world builder brain piped up and was like “hey it works essentially like crypto! magic compatible!”]↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/712422004343840769
Objects that have no Adamic names cannot be addressed in Enochian, making them immune to magic. This includes a lot of our modern world.
With those “true language” based magic systems like in Eragon, I wonder: How has nobody ever asked the universe a nonterminating question?
Magic: The Gathering, Deck Editor ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/mtg-deck-editor.html