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  • Does anyone play magic cards? p1

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    MAGIC IS NOT EASY TO LEARN

    I mean, it is so so simple to play magic cards and become familiar with the dark mage and the red eyed dragon… I couldn’t find a single video explaining how to play them I could understand [in Spanish, I never add difficulties to my quests if I can help it]! If it wasn’t the exception, X condition, crevice or strange feature coming up; no one’s explaining did a lot of explaining useful enough to start. At least not without being more confused than pristine as I started.

    YOU AND I, A GAME FOR TWO

    However, I learnt something. The game is played by two people, which can be treated as inconsequential and obvious if we don’t think plot1.

    Think plot and what do we have? Main character vs antagonist!

    Why? Mainly because our resources are limited and stories have to be simple. It’s enough to sneak upon chess and checkers. How many players? Two. Both players can move ONE piece at a time and the turns are alternated. You play, then I play.

    WANDS AND TURNS

    Just like in magic systems. Most magic systems. The attack is limited to a single spell and then the other does defend with a single spell. Between two characters [which is why wand dares are so flamboyant]. Indeed its complexity might vary from the only forward as in checkers or Ls for the horsies and diagonals for the bishops. Malfoy sends a Desmaius; Potter defends with a Protego. None can cast two to three spells at the same time. It is one and one.

    TO BE CONTINUED

    1. Which you might have discovered earlier than I did for you’re truly smarter than I and this ain’t irony. ↩︎

  • La función del poeta

  • Masquerade

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    I move a little, 
    they change,
    Scurrying aside.
    Hey hey,
    Dance.

    Un, deux, trois...
    The orchestra crunches.
    A step back, go forth.
    Masks on hands.
    And the sun beams,
    They dapple as they hop and glide.

    My hand above,
    A sun eclipse.

  • De la inmortalidad de los cuentos

    The fact that two such separate tale types have been combined here demonstrates how the folk process constantly remakes old themes in new ways, and thus keeps the tale alive in the retelling.

    Lilith’s Cave Jewish Tales of the Supernatural. Schwartz, Howard.

    El hecho de que dos cuentos de tipo tan disímil entre si se vean combinados aquí; demuestra como el proceso folclórico renueva temas viejos, manteniendo con vida dicho cuento al contarlo de nuevo.La cueva de Lilith.

    Cuentos judíos de lo sobrenatural. Schwartz, Howard.

  • Wand dares and magic systems p2

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    SCARCITY AND FEAR

    From that feature, scarcity and difference, fear comes in. What happens if not everybody can use magic? Is there racism because of magic? — Read muggles and dirty blood. Are the magical people freaks and in consequence, something to obliterate as unwanted? Maybe just passe?

    OLD FASHIONED

    When magic becomes old fashioned and people stop believing in it, what happens to mythological animals? Do they exist because of humans or do they exist without human belief?
    Gerald Durrell made this question and had mythological animals to depend on belief so they almost become extinct once humans go believing in tech instead than believing in magic!
    That’s how he invents Mythology, a place where mythological animals believe the ones in the others in The talking parcel.



    ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH



    Then, maybe you’re not as familiar with animals as you’re with… Boarding schools?
    It’s time to have people educated in a far away place with special professors, prizes, punishments, classes in hidden classrooms, sports and perhaps, family calls. Remember, you better write about what you’re familiar with.



    FROM THE DICTIONARY


    Not. Because it is not about using an Oxford or a Merriam [Webster] dictionary to define magic. IT IS TO DEFINE ITS IMPORTANCE.

    Is it a McGuffin we chase, something important or something that exists and that’s JUST it?

    Remember. No one explained why Melissande required a king’s blood to give birth to a shadow. Normally, shadows can come out of anyone’s blood (vengeful spirits). So long there’s blood. However, it didn’t matter. We were already too absorbed in who was getting the throne to care why. Magic existed, period.  


    In stories where magic does matter, you need cat herb harvested under a blue moon and dried over a rhino beetle (okay maybe a mandrake). Yes, silver knifes to press garlic to get more juice and wolf’s bane to kill wolves (no matter if wolf’s bane is botanically poisonous in general). You need ten knots, elemental magic — fire being a result of heat, fuel and oxygen won’t deter a fire user to summon it in Alaska. That’s why it is magic. Still we need to stablish there are four elements and such elements are part of the way the user casts magic.

    CONSEQUENTLY, DEFINITION IS:

    AM I TO ANSWER EVERY SINGLE QUESTION RAISED FROM MY MAGIC ELEMENTS? 

    In the time you ruminate the answer, define how much you like or dislike this entry. Have fun writing magic. Pasto kalo.

  • Chejov, un sobreviviente

  • Ejecución

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    Seda fruncida,
    Puntilla y bordado.
    ¿Qué hacen las mujeres que aún no ha acabado?

    La novia con una boca de cólera.
    Mientras ellas alrededor,
    Enhebran con sus deseos,
    Las agujas bordando una flor.


    Ellas con risas en las mejillas,
    Miradas de azúcar,
    Y el banquete previsto en la lengua.

    ¿Por qué ellas y no el primor?
    ¿Qué sucede?
    ¿Por qué su risa no es un color?
    ¿Por qué la rosa no abre su corazón?
    ¿Espera un jilguero que se perdió?
    ¿Es esto una ejecución?

  • De lo sagrado y lo profano

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    En el Templo de Sek Siete Manos, una precipitada asamblea de sacerdotes y artesanos del trasplante ritual de corazón, estuvieron de acuerdo en que la enorme estatua —cien palmos— de Sek era demasiado sagrada como para ser plasmada en un cuadro mágico. Pero el pago de dos rhinus les hizo pensar rápidamente que quizá no fuera tan sagrada.

    El color de la magia. Terry Prattchet.

  • Wand dares and magic systems p1

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    SOURCE

    Directly from the website A guide to writing magic systems by Michael Alwill; the original entry is an attempt of mine to explain in my own words (and in Spanish obv), what this guy says about basic bibidibabidi bu.

    Thus, if you feel like skipping and going to the website, go. I’m going to try and rant about it anyways for the people who might stay wishing to read something that I hope is very similar to The good grammar book1.

    HOW MUCH OF IT IS THERE?

    We can go from the scarcity to the overflow.In scarcity we have Howl’s moving castle2. In this plot, Wynne Jones moves Howl from a place with no magic (how did Howl, the exception came to be?) to a place —Ingary— where magic is not for everyone but still as domestic as sewing and talking to hats.In abundance, the website speaks about never turning magic into something mundane and so overflowing that it becomes boring… Nonetheless, The magicians uses this notion as a metaphor of the have-it-all boredom of rich people (notice boredom of the rich, those who have a lot of magic, not the rest of the human race)… Then magic can be boring too and there still will be TV series about such books.

    THE QUESTIONS

    The abundance or scarcity can spark questions. Questions can be answered with plot. How did the exception Howl came to be? Was there a magic egg falling into a black hole landing in this magic scarce world?Is real magic something to be derised, mocked and pitied whenever it is mentioned as in Annasumanara?

    THE CHOSEN ONE

    Going on with the questions. Do we have a chosen one3? Scarcity is the key. Magic can be like vampirism. In Noblesse, not everyone bit by a vampire becomes a vampire, some go into «infection» as in zombifiying. They become mindless guys who drink blood without any other abilities. Just as in Hellsing.

    TO BE CONTINUED

    1. Long ago… In a country far away from the British islands, there was a Merriam who had to improve her grammar ipso facto (better if it happened yesterday). She read an English grammar for dummies. That was anything but for dummies. Just the intro required rocket science. Until she found a smart and simple book called The good grammar book. It was so simple, everything made sense! That’s how I learnt grammar. That I acquired a passable listening and speaking much later… That, that’s a different spin off. ↩︎
    2. Yep, there is a movie and you most probably haven’t read the book cause I also talk manga and it wasn’t as well known until the movie. The adaptation is quite successful in terms of eliminating details and still convey most of the spirit of the novel, though it doesn’t deal with Howls origin ↩︎
    3. More and more, a well known and predictable plot but still one of the favourites. ↩︎

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