I just keep thinking about how the Wizard World in Harry Potter books never has the right amount of imagination.
All this talk about how Time Turners and Horcruxes are far too dangerous to toy with doesn't make sense. We're humans. We've searched out dangerous radioactive substances, injected diseases into our own bodies and launched ourselves and innocent animals into space only to die, and that's just the stuff that we did in the name of science and hasn't been deeply classified by some government power. I refuse to believe that no one has been reckless or desperate or driven enough to toy with time travel or supposedly dark arts with benevolent motives in mind. Especially because time travel with no caveats is, in terms of power rankings, a few shakes short of absolute omnipotence, and anyone who figured that out would end up somewhere between 'undisputed ruler of whatever they desire' and 'deity'.
This post confuses me because I'm not exactly sure what you want out of the series? But what you're describing is essentially very spec ficcy, not quite in line with the goals of Harry Potter as a series.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I just keep thinking about how the Wizard World in Harry Potter books never has the right amount of imagination.
All this talk about how Time Turners and Horcruxes are far too dangerous to toy with doesn't make sense. We're humans. We've searched out dangerous radioactive substances, injected diseases into our own bodies and launched ourselves and innocent animals into space only to die, and that's just the stuff that we did in the name of science and hasn't been deeply classified by some government power. I refuse to believe that no one has been reckless or desperate or driven enough to toy with time travel or supposedly dark arts with benevolent motives in mind. Especially because time travel with no caveats is, in terms of power rankings, a few shakes short of absolute omnipotence, and anyone who figured that out would end up somewhere between 'undisputed ruler of whatever they desire' and 'deity'.
This post confuses me because I'm not exactly sure what you want out of the series? But what you're describing is essentially very spec ficcy, not quite in line with the goals of Harry Potter as a series.
I just don't see how Wizard Society could have co-existed with Muggle Society without taking some aspects that are endemic to how Muggle Society works. Namely, humanity's tendency to keep toying with certain ideas, even though all evidence has shown that toying with them can be really, really frigging dangerous.
I'd probably be less of a pain about this if Wizard Society was more distinctly separate from Muggle Society, with interaction between the two being very rare, but there's so much metaphorical and often literal intermarrying between the two that it's remarkable that the former doesn't more closely resemble the latter.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Update: it seems it wasn't a shooting, as such...rather, the assailant drove a car into some pedestrians and then attacked people with a knife
I just keep thinking about how the Wizard World in Harry Potter books never has the right amount of imagination.
All this talk about how Time Turners and Horcruxes are far too dangerous to toy with doesn't make sense. We're humans. We've searched out dangerous radioactive substances, injected diseases into our own bodies and launched ourselves and innocent animals into space only to die, and that's just the stuff that we did in the name of science and hasn't been deeply classified by some government power. I refuse to believe that no one has been reckless or desperate or driven enough to toy with time travel or supposedly dark arts with benevolent motives in mind. Especially because time travel with no caveats is, in terms of power rankings, a few shakes short of absolute omnipotence, and anyone who figured that out would end up somewhere between 'undisputed ruler of whatever they desire' and 'deity'.
This post confuses me because I'm not exactly sure what you want out of the series? But what you're describing is essentially very spec ficcy, not quite in line with the goals of Harry Potter as a series.
I just don't see how Wizard Society could have co-existed with Muggle Society without taking some aspects that are endemic to how Muggle Society works. Namely, humanity's tendency to keep toying with certain ideas, even though all evidence has shown that toying with them can be really, really frigging dangerous.
I'd probably be less of a pain about this if Wizard Society was more distinctly separate from Muggle Society, with interaction between the two being very rare, but there's so much metaphorical and often literal intermarrying between the two that it's remarkable that the former doesn't more closely resemble the latter.
I mean, there are numerous thematic justifications for it at least. Wizards are intentionally pretty backwards and snobbish. I don't really care much for arguments of logic especially with fantasy. "Wizards are kind of dumb" is just as much a pretense of the story as "magic exists."
Why is is that 80s kids can't admit that their favorite genre of Metroidvanias is actually just a shittier version of their much maligned collectathons
Bro I'm not an 80s kid so you're obviously not talking about me, but I do like Metroidvanias and just like how they work, I'd sincerely appreciate it if you could approach this take you have on video game genre differences without filtering it through this - to me - spiteful lens.
You'd be stupid too if you'd learned to rely on magic for everything
Cracked treated the lack of professions available for wizards as a worldbuilding flaw but the idea that most wizards are subsistence farmers doing private magical study both makes perfect sense to me and is pretty neat
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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So does the cat, who is still cute and furry and hyper and snuggly.
This has 8een your upd8. Carry on.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
they just don't mean as much once you pass your 8icentennial, and that was centuries ago.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
it comes off as a bit silly but whatever man.
and the president of the american wizards in the 1920s is a woman of color (still think that's a bit neat)
yours is the day before mine
8ut thank you all ::::D
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Cracked treated the lack of professions available for wizards as a worldbuilding flaw but the idea that most wizards are subsistence farmers doing private magical study both makes perfect sense to me and is pretty neat
Someone talking shit about Metroid?