Rowling was great for branding, but not good for internally consistent worldbuilding. Hogwarts has anti-tech wards, but its never specified whether a Glock 9, a Bic rollerball, A CANON EOS 35MM, or a TI-84 Graphing Calculator would work. Each of them work based on widely differing physical mechanics. Are they independently warded, or are they waved away by the category tech?
The common consensus regarding the HP books as they are is that in a muggle war, the international community would quickly dominate, and magical secrets would fall into the hands of billionaires like Bezos and Musk, who could muster far greater cruelty and misery than Voldemort's ambitions, all in the name of profit.
The reason there's a codefied masquerade is to keep magic exclusively in the hands of less creative more sensible minds.
If I remember correctly it was mentioned somewhere that magic causes electrical / electronic devices to malfunction.
I remember in Prisoner of Azkaban the anti-tech field around Hogwarts was briefly mentioned, though much ado was made over Arthur Weasley's flying Ford Anglia which he wasn't supposed to enchant but totally did. Arthur's department in the MoM is about regulating intersections between magic and tech, which implies there are problems that require legal prohibitions. My read is the laws are overly harsh and not well enforced, except when the state or some official wants to make someone go away.
That said, again, Rowling wasn't great at consistency in the canon, so it remains up to the writer if and how electronics might be affected by ensorcellments, and how they might be integrated.
Now eat this sucka!
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As a reader of a certain web serial, watching her deal with not being an innate magic user by using spell cards was very fun. That world didn't know what hit them.
You're gonna have to tell me more, like a name perchance
Ah sorry. I try to not appear like I'm advertising. It's Pale by Wildbow which just finished. Modern fantasy with 3 girls as protagonists. Rituals, other-than-human creatures and spell cards are a big part of the magic system.
Dammit, I really need to read the rest of Wildbow. I only read Worm. Is the one after Worm any good, or are the other series better?
I have so much to reeaad...
I couldn't get through Ward mostly because I fucking hate Victoria Dallon and couldn't stand her as a main character.
I've read them all and liked them all. They all feel quite different.
Pact is urban fantasy about a protagonist dealt the shittiest hand and dealing with that. It gets pretty dark but I really like the world it creates.
Twig is about kids at an academy in a world where alchemy and biology took off. To the point where grade schoolers creating Frankenstein's Monster would be a class project. It deals with flawed characters in a really unique world.
Ward is the sequel to Worm staring a very traumatized Glory Girl. Imo it's about healing and dealing with trauma and forgiveness. It's the toughest of Wildbow's works in part because he got a LOT of negativity during this that made writing harder. But I liked it for what it was and how it expanded on the Entities lore.
Pale takes place in the world of Pact but in the future with different setting and characters. 3 girls introduced to magic with a strong emphasis on the Others and how they and humans coexist. I think it's his best work so far and would suggest picking up here if something else doesn't strike your fancy. Wildbow has said he likes writing in this world and I think it shows.
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Rowling was great for branding, but not good for internally consistent worldbuilding. Hogwarts has anti-tech wards, but its never specified whether a Glock 9, a Bic rollerball, A CANON EOS 35MM, or a TI-84 Graphing Calculator would work. Each of them work based on widely differing physical mechanics. Are they independently warded, or are they waved away by the category tech?
The common consensus regarding the HP books as they are is that in a muggle war, the international community would quickly dominate, and magical secrets would fall into the hands of billionaires like Bezos and Musk, who could muster far greater cruelty and misery than Voldemort's ambitions, all in the name of profit.
The reason there's a codefied masquerade is to keep magic exclusively in the hands of
less creativemore sensible minds.If I remember correctly it was mentioned somewhere that magic causes electrical / electronic devices to malfunction.
I remember in Prisoner of Azkaban the anti-tech field around Hogwarts was briefly mentioned, though much ado was made over Arthur Weasley's flying Ford Anglia which he wasn't supposed to enchant but totally did. Arthur's department in the MoM is about regulating intersections between magic and tech, which implies there are problems that require legal prohibitions. My read is the laws are overly harsh and not well enforced, except when the state or some official wants to make someone go away.
That said, again, Rowling wasn't great at consistency in the canon, so it remains up to the writer if and how electronics might be affected by ensorcellments, and how they might be integrated.
Now eat this sucka!
You wanna play the game huh? Then try parry this
As a reader of a certain web serial, watching her deal with not being an innate magic user by using spell cards was very fun. That world didn't know what hit them.
You're gonna have to tell me more, like a name perchance
Ah sorry. I try to not appear like I'm advertising. It's Pale by Wildbow which just finished. Modern fantasy with 3 girls as protagonists. Rituals, other-than-human creatures and spell cards are a big part of the magic system.
Dammit, I really need to read the rest of Wildbow. I only read Worm. Is the one after Worm any good, or are the other series better?
I have so much to reeaad...
I couldn't get through Ward mostly because I fucking hate Victoria Dallon and couldn't stand her as a main character.
I've read them all and liked them all. They all feel quite different.
Pact is urban fantasy about a protagonist dealt the shittiest hand and dealing with that. It gets pretty dark but I really like the world it creates.
Twig is about kids at an academy in a world where alchemy and biology took off. To the point where grade schoolers creating Frankenstein's Monster would be a class project. It deals with flawed characters in a really unique world.
Ward is the sequel to Worm staring a very traumatized Glory Girl. Imo it's about healing and dealing with trauma and forgiveness. It's the toughest of Wildbow's works in part because he got a LOT of negativity during this that made writing harder. But I liked it for what it was and how it expanded on the Entities lore.
Pale takes place in the world of Pact but in the future with different setting and characters. 3 girls introduced to magic with a strong emphasis on the Others and how they and humans coexist. I think it's his best work so far and would suggest picking up here if something else doesn't strike your fancy. Wildbow has said he likes writing in this world and I think it shows.
I'd also check out: https://www.patreon.com/wildbow/about , it has concise descriptions of each work by the author.
I haven't watched the full series yet and still need to since it's just sitting on my hard drive
But I have always wondered if there is one sigil or multiple combined sigils that could basically act as a medium for luz to use magic normally
Oh boy are you in for a ride
Sounds like Katerina Donlan.
Relevant Buffy moment
No weapon forged can...what does that do?
"avada kedavra" bang
Yay Owl House content
the goblins @ the fifteenth doctor
Ok sauce?
Its a Disney series called The Owl House, but there's also a great comic series based on the show here on lemmy drawn by moringmark.
https://lemmy.world/c/theowlhouse@lemmy.world
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Seconded
I think it’s owl house comic
A gun is its own magic in a way.
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