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Question: What is the greatest magic of all? Answer: Friendship, right? [B]: The greatest magic of all is not friendship, it's chronomancy, the ability to control and warp time. If friendship were the greatest magic, look, it's a pet peeve of mine (...)

DUNGEON MASTER BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN ANSWERS DnD QUESTIONS (TECH SUPPORT | WIRED)

aetherictree

Whilst I get what he said in one of best parts of Fantasy High, I have to defend Elora Danan (and others who used the Power Of Love) here. Kit's love for her brother brought him back, but it was Willow's magic that enabled her to talk to him.

#and ah #beauty and the beast #it's not that the love does the spell #its that the relationship changes us #and that kind of 'magic'...#well #people still have to make a choice to respond to the love don't they #agreed about the boy wizard story though

Is that...?

Did Elora put her hair in a loose braid in episode 7, in anticipation of all the trauma she'd need to store in it?

#trauma braid #elora danan #willow 2022 #things you notice on a rewatch #trauma is stored in the braids

Rewatched Willow (2022) and the DnD campaign vibes are... well, they're a lot. An awful lot.

Probably why I love it so much.

#what can i say #i like shows that are basically a ttrpg party going on adventures #stargate #is also like this #it is so easy to imagine the trolls in skellin being voiced by #brennan lee mulligan #just go ahead and try it #it almost feels like the entire show was gamed out lol #including graydon failing a persuasion check #willow #willow 2022 #ttrpg #and lets be real #any fantasy adventure probably would end up being more like this than like the fellowship of the ring #at least if its baseline humans #if you're writing an epic that's different of course #they were not writing an epic

Now that there's a new CEO at Disney, perhaps a Release Willow campaign could get some traction? Not asking for the other seasons (...yet), but simply for the series to be made available in a less ah piratical way for fans to watch.

#willow the series #willow 2022 #save willow #release willow #willow rewatch #warwick davis #ellie bamber #ruby cruz #erin kellyman #tony revolori #amar chadha patel #walt disney company #disney #josh d'amaro

aetherictree

I've seen art mashing up Jinx and Rapunzel, and whilst I can see the vision, I recently watched a Disney film (for the first time!) featuring a character I think would be an even better fit for combining with Jinx.

Balloon? Check. Magitech? Check. Genius inventor? Check. Trouble from break glowing blue magic gems? Check.

Also, Jinxerbell just flows, y'know?

aetherictree

Tinker Bell should be softly rebooted with the new hybrid animation style and keeping the original plan to introduce a whole academy of magitech fairies.

#you see it right?#the vision #the gorgeous clockpunk painted archicture #airships #because you have to have airships #explorations of how to use pixie dust in the most efficient manner #rather timely for our fossil fueled civilisation #this could cut through disney's creative slump #tinker bell #tinkerbell #tinker academy

linusbenjamin

Arwen's incantation against Nazgûl THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001 — dir. Peter Jackson

ekjohnston

I love this scene. It forced me to grow as a person, because it's Not What Happened In The Book, and at the time, I was annoyed about it.

The thing I understand now is that movies and books are extremely different, and the way they land emotions is different, too. My favourite example of this is North & South. The book and the miniseries have wildly different endings, both of which are perfect, and neither of which would work if reversed.

We tell ourselves that LotR is timeless, and it might be, but we aren't. The movie needed a more cohesive character list, and the Jacksons and Boyenne (rightfully!) needed a way to make Arwen more visible. This was a a great solution, because we don't really need Glorfindel, and Frodo is much less fae in the movies, so having him raise the river would also be a distraction.

Instead we get Liv Tyler. We get "A ranger, caught off his guard?" We get "If you want him,come and claim him." We get Arwen Fucking Undomiel standing up to the servants of Sauron physically, so that it will make sense later when she does it mentally.

So yes. It wasn't like the book. Because it was a movie. And I'm grateful for that lesson, because it influences both how I read stories and how I write them.

ALSO IT'S JUST VERY COOL.

aetherictree

Adaptations are much more enjoyable when you accept they're fanfiction. That is how I watched another Peter Jackson adaptation, Mortal Engines, without internally screaming at the changes.

"You said lead, follow, or get out of the way, so I got out of the way." -- Ryland Grace, Incorrect Quotes

#well tried to at least #project hail mary #ryland grace #incorrect quotes #source: idiocracy #phm incorrect quotes

aetherictree

The Neverbeast has me wondering about a setting where "abandoned" towers and keeps and dungeons appear because they're built by various animals and monsters as lairs, rather than being actual abandoned structures. Or at least, abandoned by humans. Castles as an emergent feature of the ecology.

aetherictree

Imagine: trees, wide and squat, with exoskeletons, that hollow out with age. Free tower real estate.

#At least once you clear the monsters out like the thief you are.

silverslipstream

just watched the Artemis II flyby, and just before loss of signal, the solar array camera captured the Orion capsule, the crescent Moon, and the crescent Earth in a single shot - a family photo with every living person in frame.

Now I have to go downstairs for a drink and explain why I'm crying!

So... Season 7 is the Star Wars season of Stargate: SG1 right? I mean, not just the trick shot down a ventilation shaft to destroy the superweapon controlled by the hooded creepy voiced space wizard, the army of clone warriors with the poor marksmanship too.

#no accident they told bra'tac to #punch it #they were definitely making deliberate homages in those episodes #stargate #sg1 #star wars #nice #weaponised teleportation #by the way

afellowgoodsir

Which almost useless power will you accept?

Always knowing exactly what time it is

Being able to precisely date memories

Automatically knowing the legal first name of everyone you see

Perfect balance

Able to remember all of your dreams

Control of your body temperature

Slightly, noticeably bioluminescent

Voting ended onApr 4

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aetherictree

Besides the last one, none of these are "almost useless", so it's hard to decide.

Perfect balance? You mean I can run across girders high up in the sky without falling to my death?

Control of my body temperature? Aka hibernation. Plus being able to be as warm as I need to be, whenever I want.

Knowing everyone's first name? I'm sure I'll find a use for that...

scourge-lover

What wow characters would you trust with a baby?

velvetwar

You have to leave your baby with a Stargate character. You leave them with:

Daniel, he delivers babies he's a gentle lamb

Jack, he's a dad. 🥲

Janet, she's a mom! and a doctor.

Carson, he's also a doctor and his Scottish brogue sounds soothing

Teal'c, he's a gentle giant they can kelno'reem together

Sam, she's good with Cassie, she has nieces/nephews

General Hammond. A literal grandpa who loves his grandkids sm

Sheppard, you know I think he and the baby would get along somehow

McKay, ok hear me out he's a big baby at least it'd be a good learning exp.

Jonas. You know he's a good babysitter.

Teyla, she's a mom, she has the patience of 1000 saints from dealing w her team

Oma Desala. Hey, Daniel left the harcesis with her how bad can she be

Voting ended onApr 6

aetherictree

Flipped a coin to decide between Doctor Janet Frasier and General George S Hammond (it landed on Frasier as the babysitter).

#which fits with the results lol #i'm sure hammond looked after his grandkids when they were babies #still think jacob carter and selmak would be a good pick though

Goa'uld evolution

Binge watching Stargate:SG1 to finally finish the series, thinking about how the Goa'uld might have evolved.

We know that: (1) they are capable of independent existence as aquatic predators; (2) they are capable of taking over a host body and controlling it; (3) only a small number of individuals reproduce, each spawning many offspring; and (4) the queens are able to control the genetics (and genetic memory) of their offspring.

So... I propose that the Goa'uld are, in their base form, a predatory eusocial species that originally hunted by burrowing into their prey and directing them to the water, where they would be devoured. The queen of each colony would have control over the caste of their offspring, designing them for whatever particular role they need to fill. Over time, their control over hosts grew to the point that they were able to use them to move between bodies of water, enabling Goa'uld queens to form new colonies, and picking up useful traits.

Also, baseline Goa'uld may not even be sapient. We've seen what completely blank slate Goa'uld look like; it's possible that they were deliberately spawned as non sapient because Egeria knew what would happen to them, but consider that they pick up traits from their hosts which they can then pass on to their offspring. What if, one day, a queen took an Unas host? Being blended with a sapient creature, she may have gained enhanced thinking abilities and become sapient herself, which she then passed on to the offspring.

#and so the galaxy gained the wonderful goa'uld #then colony collapse disorder happened and the eusocial aspect fell apart outside of the #tok'ra #social aspect even #they don't really hang out with each other much #goa'uld #stargate #speculative evolution #scifi biology #goa'uld evolution

Preliminary, but indications are that the problem I have with going from detailed plans to written sentences, which has made it by far the hardest part of an assignment and is why i've finished the first draft of only two non drabble stories in my entire life, can be effectively handled by using a pen and paper instead of a laptop.

W.T.A.F. This has caused me so much trouble in my life. It cannot be so simple, surely?