basically a walking spellbook by this point

Dee/Ditto || she/they || late 20s || I post about kids' cartoons and Nintendo games mostly || just here to watch cartoons and vibe but I'm all out of vibes || Please ask me about magic in Elena of Avalor because I know a lot about it

[dittomander]

A Comprehensive Guide to Magic in Elena of Avalor

With Elena of Avalor coming to a close, I decided to compile a guide to every spell, enchantment, potion, magical creature, and artifact that appears in Elena of Avalor, including use cases, limitations, and other facets of magic. Some notes on notation:

italics - formal name and presumably canon spelling for an incantation. Spellings are based off how things are spelled in the iTunes subtitles except where noted

[transcription approximate] - cases where the subtitles were either vague, incomplete, or absent and I had to make my best guess based on other standard spelling conventions used in the show

“quotations” - spells that had backfiring or incorrect results, where its unclear if it’s truly a unique spell that just wasn’t intended to be used or just a mispronunciation of the actual spell in question

I’ll be updating the spell list as the last few remaining episodes air. Currently up-to-date through Día de las Madres. Spells are listed in order of appearance, with Elena and the Secret of Avalor being treated as episode 0. Follow the link to the Google doc or go below the Readmore to see the spellbook.

Let me know if you notice any obvious absences and I will update accordingly.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xbylfktNY2clqLpLadPALaK4RxBL0-vpwyhRpLtjWj0/edit?usp=sharing

EDIT JANUARY 3 2021: The spellbook is now complete, at least in terms of content, all the way up through the finale. I’ve also corrected some spellings and added a few more miscellaneous magic descriptions. I’m still trying to sort out some updates for readability and organization, as well as approximate translations, but verion 1.0 is effectively done.

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[dittomander]

The spellbook has been updated!!! It’s now up-to-date through Coronation Day!

[thehummingbirdsmatter]

I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was

[dittomander]

pros of writing in a physical notebook:

much more portable than my computer

less likely to try to edit while i'm writing

average words per page makes it easy to track rough word counts without obsessing over them

looks #aesthetic as fuck

cons of writing in a physical notebook:

what do you mean i still have to type it all up eventually

can't read my own handwriting

[dittomander]

*stumbles out of the timeloop covered in blood* haha hey guys whoo that sure was a wild sequence of events—wait what do you meant that wasn't a time loop? Time has been passing normally this whole time???? But. but I was doing the same things every day??????? what do you mean, chronic depression??????????

[zoeology31]

I have read the articles you have wrote about elena of avalor. However I have a small question. In season 3, if elena's dress was magical, then why she didn’t put out her that magical dress to get rid of her emotion magic. And if her dress wasn’t magical, why magical rays always came out of her dress like the light rays freed esteban and the kingdom from becoming stone, and magical rays from her embroideries gave life to the big flo in the magic within episode.

Elena and the dress were both magical, since they both fell into the well. The dress was more like a warning sign for her powers, all the powers came from her. It's visual shorthand to make it easier for the kids to tell what's happening and also to sell merch of the dress.

Even if we don't technically see her powers activate without the dress (which I can't recall if we ever do or not), it is fully implied that the powers are tied to her, not the dress. The powers caused a lot of issues for her throughout season 3, so if getting rid of them was as easy as putting on a different dress, she obviously would've tried that.

[dittomander]

Yep, exactly!

We actually do have one instance in the show of her using her emotion magic w/o the dress - in "Dreamcatchers", her magic activates when she's asleep and wearing her nightgown, so we do have pretty concrete evidence that it's not the dress that's causing it.

[thehummingbirdsmatter]

I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was

[dittomander]

been playing a lot of in stars and time and every time I message someone about it my phone tries to autocorrect 'siffrin' to 'suffering' which. yeah. yeah.

[dittomander]

just finished Spiritfarer. man.

[dittomander]

i love writing fanfiction bc then i get to have blorbo dreams about it. I had one the other night that it was mateo's birthday and elena was throwing him a party, and along with naomi and gabe, the other two invitees were, inexplicably, princess valentina and ash delgado

[heartless-aro]

Dismantling the relationship hierarchy is not about rearranging it so that sexual and romantic relationships are devalued while QPRs become the new “more than friends.” We need to completely do away with the idea that relationships exist on a fixed hierarchy. Some people will consider friend(s) or a zucchini/QPP the most important part of their life. For some people, their most important relationship will be a sexual relationship (and not necessarily one which includes romance!). And some people will still consider their romantic partner the most important person in their life, and that’s fine too.

Just as it’s harmful to tell an aroace person that romantic and sexual relationships are the most important ones, it’s also harmful to tell an alloaro person that sex is inherently less important than romance or to tell an alloromantic aplatonic person that friendship is inherently more important than romance. There is no way to rank relationships that will not devalue the experiences of at least one group of people, nor is there any reason why we need to rank relationships in the first place.

[tlirsgender]

My special talent is that I can draw connections between anything. Which is good for literary analysis but also makes me socially weird

[tlirsgender]

Most skills that are conducive to writing and writing related activities also make you socially weird

[lieutenant-amuel]

My YouTube channel revives every six months when I make a new Gabe video.

[tomorrowillbeyou]

Takes a guy who's obsessed with saving people even if it risks his life and a guy who is literally allergic to asking for help in any situation and puts them in My stew puts them in my fucking stew and stirs it

[soleilsplanet]

do you ever just … picture a whole scene, a whole fanfiction in your head, you know how to place every single word of the english dictionary that you need (or your language dictionary), you know how to structure your sentences, you know just what your characters are going to say to each other and then… and then you just open microsoft word.

[quesadilla-day]

i honestly love elena of avalor sm like……….?? the entire premise is pretty messed up, when you think about it. like, the family’s situation with the magic time travel shenanigans and stuff? and elena being trapped in an amulet for THAT LONG?? and if you think about it, if she’d waited longer, esteban could’ve been DEAD by the time she was freed? with shuriki still in power?

anyways i call this one ‘back from the dead’ because that’s essentially what she did, tbh………😂

[corvid-language-library]

Remember that if you want to do more of something, you have to do less of something else. It's that time of year where people set goals for the new year and they have plans and hopes and it's always focusing on what they want to do more of. More studying, more exercise, more crafting, more socialising, more making things from scratch. Okay, great. What are you going to do less of in order to have the time and energy to do more of those things you really want to do?

[natalieironside]

If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"