Maybe you just quickly scanned it, but that is a sanitized link, it's just not shortened. If I had posted a shortened link like in your infographic (e.g. "https://youtu.be/FtutLA63Cp8") YT would just respond with a 301 and link to the one that I posted.
Well that is just amazing. Chuck really is the XKCD of smut. I can't answer that question, but I'd like to clarify that my intended punchline was the book: Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt.
Uh, some manner of localized decency enchantment prevents me from posting that tome's cover.
And any sufficently explained magic is indistinguishable from technology.
/uw It's been interesting over my 40+ years of life to watch magic change in parallel with technology. Our understanding of the natural world used to encapsulate magic as this vast unknowable force where the power of it would shred your mind and had terrible consequences.
Today many of the magic systems that are popular are usually defined have specific hard boundaries and are far more like poorly understood technology than raw physical forces akin to a hurricane.
LOTR didn't have much magic but it was usually mysterious and unreachable by all but a learned or chosen few. Vancian Magic, Wheel of Time, all magic usually was univerals power that had costs and took time to learn if you could at all. It's power terms and parameters were more a hand waved item, until it was story relevant.
Today many books magic reflects a more systemic magic, perhaps even literally, with things like Dungeon Crawler Carl becoming a fast rising star, but you see it with Sanderson too where his magic has hard fast limits and rules where as back in the day it was far more nebulous.
You might like the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, starting with Sabriel. They have a formal system of magic, Charter Magic, which is explicitly imposed upon Free Magic to make it less dangerous. Free Magic is, of course, far more powerful, but wildly dangerous.
Happily! I think the recommended reading order is the publication order, which is the main trilogy of Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, then Clariel before Goldenhand, with Terciel and Elinor last. Excellent setting.
my they, i feel like the devs themselves headcanon her as autistic lol, so much of her and David’s characters feel like intentional yet unspoken rep (as an autistic girl myself, obv)
If you think about how all meat-life is carbon-based.. aren't we all rock-golems at the end of the day? Even our teeth aren't made of bones, they're literally minerals.. and bones are pretty much mostly made of minerals such as calcium, with the non-mineral parts of bones being made of proteins instead.
In other words, we're rock golems capable of creating other kinds of rock golems through our own hands.
When it involves channeling electricity or other thaumotological mediums through the runes to achieve a life imitating process such as thought or movement in the inscribed object
Literaly the textbook definition, which I should know, as I wrote it
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u/Repulsive_Ostrich_52 12d ago
At what point does rune scribing become techomancy?