#backfiring

[imagine-loki]

Imagine Tony, Bruce and Y/N are standing around a new plasma cannon adapted from Chitauri technology that has been horribly backfiring after every trial. While they loudly argue about what they think is going wrong, Loki looks up from his reading spot across the hall and stares at the blackboard with all your calculations. "You're accounting for general relativity when you should be solving for special relativity." He turns back to his book without another comment.

[adurolobe]

Sometimes in the pursuit of our ambitions, we can get a little carried away with ourselves.

Sometimes in the pursuit of our dreams, we can get a little ahead of ourselves.

Sometimes, it's a little bit more. Like one’s dream-self literally backfiring, as you try to convince yourself you’re real, you’re real.

Drawn by the delightful @woozyintyria and @threeasurainatrenchcoat !

[i-ate-nt-dead]

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

- Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

(Image credit. Image description: a grey horse kicking out at the viewer. Her front feet are on the ground, while both hind feet are in the air, blurred with motion, and her tail is raised.)

[strangesigils]

What is backfiring a sigil?

Backfiring is a phenomenon some witches encounter when practicing magic (not just sigils). It happens more often with curses than anything else.Backfiring is when something with the spell goes wrong, like if you meant to curse somebody but say you used the wrong incantation or weren’t properly focused or got scared during the casting. This can cause a backfire.A backfire can manifest as instead of the curse being laid on your target it is now laid on the castor or somebody else with a connection to both the castor and the target.

For non-curse backfires the worth case scenario is that the spell does the opposite of what it’s supposed to or (as is more often the case) it just doesn’t work.

Backfires are mainly caused by worrying about a backfire. 

[writeodome]

Prompt - 3/22/19

Write a piece in which a character’s plan backfires.

[wheelsandengines]

[blessedrestlessness]

[strangesigils]

Can color magic be used with sigil in a bad way? For example, would using a color that symbolizes energy to make a sigil for peace mess things up?

Nah, drawing a sigil with a certain colour won’t cause it to backfire, don’t worry.

The main cause of backfires is just the worry of a backfire manifesting itself