#ask the mage

[pixiemage]

Joel is on his Mascot Horror Series arc this season and I love that for him. And the fact that he (intentionally?) recreated a MLP horror fic is just frosting on the Very Normal cake.

I’M SORRY HE WHAT?????

He’s a freak and I love him wtf

Also phrasing it as his “mascot horror series arc” got a delighted reaction out of me, that’s fantastic and somehow makes so much sense knowing his past character choices in SMP’s lol

[wearemage]

So, Wish is explicitly able to replicate the effects of any other spell. No restrictions on power, on class, on components, nothing. It's the one thing that cannot blow up in your face with it, the one and only safe way to use it. Even in places like the Demiplane of Dread, you can replicate other spells without it backfiring.

Well, a thought occurred to me: "Any other spell," includes any and every spell besides Wish. And, last I checked, included in, "any and every spell besides Wish," is Karsus' Avatar.

You are not wrong, but your DM might be entitled to financial compensation after that.

Replicating a spell does not backfire indeed. BUT the replicated spells effects take place. As Krasus' Avatar has been cast only once to my knowledge and caused a massive cataclysm, I am not sure if one really wants to cast it.

Anyway. Bonus points for creativity!

[pixie-mage]

IT WAS SO COOL SEEING UR NAME ON JIMMY’S PLATE UP STREAM!!!! I was like HEY I KNOW THEM!! Like seeing a celeb

OH GOSH HI HELLO LOL o/

I don’t get to catch his streams often because I’m normally at work, so when I do I like to gift a handful of memberships because I like to pass along a little kindness to both Jimmy and the community 🥰 It’s just fun!

It’s also very funny because I didn’t used to know many people in the MCYT community, and now that I do, I get messages from mutuals sometimes on the rare occasion I do get called out ausbdjbd. It’s very silly to me lol

[thewildmageoftortall-blog]

Peach? Lemon?

peach: do you have any piercings or tattoos?

((I do, I have my ears double pierced and my septum pierced. I also have a powerpuff girl tattoo on my thigh.))

lemon: do you have any pets? what are their names?

((I have acquired a pet. The sweet baby I posted pictures of is Pi. She’s my person’s cat.)) 

send me a fruit 

[pixiemage]

Heyo in that Kris & Susie cosplay against the water coolers (rip btw) are you the one who designed that axe and if you’re not do you know how I can find the person who did bc THAT AXE IS SO FREAKING COOL. ITS LEGIT THE COOLEST AXE IVE EVER SEEN

please I must know 🙏 I must see more of it

Hey there!

SO I’m the Kris cosplayer in the photo, and Susie is my roommate Zaylo. The armor and sword (though you can’t see it well here) were designed and made by me, and Zaylo designed and built the axe herself! [ @zaylo-creations ]

It’s not actually finished yet, because she intends to upgrade the handle further before our next convention, but you’re SO RIGHT, it’s sick as hell and I LOVE her design for it! We spent some time planning and sketching out our props together a few weeks before the convention we wore this to…she just has a natural talent for this kind of thing.

(We did literally paint them AT con too, the night before we were going to use them for photos lol, so the fact that both our props need a tiny bit of polish anyway doesn’t surprise me LMAO)

When she DOES upgrade the handle (which she hopefully will be before Halloween, since that’s our next rough convention deadline), I’ll see if I can post updated photos of how it turns out! She deserves the praise, it’s such an awesome prop!

[pixiemage]

You had a post a while back saying you were gonna rant about the canary and coalmine thing AGAIN...what rant would that be? 👀

Oh boy, you're opening a can of worms here lmao.

(A very fun can of worms that gives me lovely lovely brainrot every time I lift the lid :3)

I've actually made a post about this before (god knows I can't find it right now), but the long and short of it is that I've see too many people call Tango the coalmine to Jimmy's canary.

Except...he isn't. He's not.

Tango is not the coalmine.

The coalmine is the thing killing the canary. The coalmine is what the canary is trying to warn people against, and the coalmine is what the miners have to make a glass tank to save the canary from. Tango's not a danger to Jimmy like that. Tango's not a threat.

Yeah, yes, Tango takes Jimmy's first life in the Life series (3rd Life, Dare to Flare), and also causes their first mutual loss of life in Double Life (creeper explosion). But I don't count that as volatile enough to make Tango the coalmine.

No, Tango, in my eyes, is the coal miner. The one that's in just as much danger in that coalmine as the canary. The one who hurt the canary by bringing it into danger in the first place, and regretted it. The one who is so very grateful for the canary that saved his life/gave him hope/helped him by providing bright colors and beautiful music in a dangerous place, that he built a glass oxygen case to save the canary's life in exchange.

So no, Tango is NOT the coalmine. The Life Games are the coalmine, and Tango is just the miner that journeyed into danger with a canary, Jimmy, at his side. They save each other and support each other in a place that has potential death around any corner. (Not every corner, but any corner.)

The Canary and the Coal Miner. With teamwork and camaraderie like that built right into the metaphor, how can anything else possibly be a better fit?

[pixiemage]

who the heck is that.

ASFKNFEIBTG HYBS YOU CAN'T JUST DROP THIS IN MY INBOX OUT OF NOWHERE COME BACK HERE

(...but also oh my god that's exactly what happens lmaooo...Skizz is just in a state of ✨confusion✨ from the moment he manages to rub the sleep from his eyes hahahaha. Dude's BAFFLED give him a BREAK)

[wearemage]

I propose a caster alignment grid using Fizban vs. Raistlin (axes: edgelord vs. comic buffoon, various crowd control spells vs. fireball solves everything). I'm open to altering this.

Works for me, but I am a visual learner... Would you happen to have that ready? :P