#etcetra

[you-are-amazing0-0]

If you look closely, Etcetera isn’t inside the pyramid!!! She pops out from the left afterwards!!!! Whaaat… it’s cute, but I feel so sad that she’s not in there… It’s a movie, so I feel like they could’ve adjusted that…

[solisitude]

yk considering the whole werewolf thing, there's very little traditional a/b/o in the marauders fandom

[preservationofnormalcy]

Got a predicament here, accidentally picked up a cursed sword that won't allow itself to be dropped or sheathed until I've slain "my greatest enemy". As far as I know, I don't have a greatest enemy, yet, and I'd rather not make one just to kill them so I can drop the sword. Good news is I have one hand free and I can transfer the sword between hands, but I literally cannot form the thought of letting go of the sword; one hand always has an iron grip on it. Can this curse be broken?

So, bad news is you’ll probably have to come in. Curses are tricky to untangle without thaumaturgical support. Unless the curse technician was really shoddy, they can be near impossible to ‘brute force’ within a human lifetime. Fun fact, the Large Thaum Collider that the European Thaumaturgical Centre for Research and Analysis (ETCetRA) built in France was originally designed to perform the en masse magical calculations needed to brute force deactivate stronger curses.

The good news is we have a specialized Cursebreaker Corps, licensed by ETCetRA in the fine art of wiggling out of curses. Thing is, curses like this are typically pretty stupid, being just unguided magical constructs. You can creatively finesse your way out of a lot of stuff.

This one is pretty common. Greatest enemy in single combat, yadda yadda. But like I said, it’s pretty dumb. I once helped a guy with a cursed amulet who had to do the same thing. Turned out, arguing vociferously against a piece of local legislation and defeating the town’s effort to move trash pickup day from Thursday to Friday counted for the purposes of ‘slaying his enemy’. Rose Garden, Louisiana still has trash pickup on Thursday to this day.

We’ll do some morphic analysis and see if this is a similar case. When you come in, put bubble wrap around the sword for reasons I hope are obvious.

[zachbiller]

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[you-are-amazing0-0]

Lately, I’ve been kind of obsessed with looking at everyone’s slightly dangerous CATS fantasies and artwork… haha.

And well… I’ve been sitting on something of my own for over a year now.

My absolute masterpiece is an Alonzo x Macavity story that spun off from an Electra and Etcetera peeping-tom story. There is absolutely no way I could ever show it to anyone!! (Over 300,000 words!!)

[preservationofnormalcy]

[preservationofnormalcy]

My roommate hooked up with a ten foot tall sparkly woman who kept phasing in and out of reality and now there’s a god damn portal in my mini fridge. I’ve been trying to live a normal life but my roommate is like super involved in this woman’s life now and NOBODY HAS FIXED THE PORTAL YET. I missed my seminar because my acrylic nail got stuck in the piles of gooey stardust stuff my roommate’s girl leaves around the dorm. It’s driving me nuts. You’re a big guy on the whole ‘keepin it normal’ thing, any advice?

I mean, lucky roommate.

In all seriousness, there’s the usual advice about boundaries that applies whether or not your roommate’s partner is a demigoddess. In this case in particular what concerns me is definitely the portal. So, you might want to get in touch with an ETCetRA-licensed telemancy portal technician - portals aren’t meant to be just left open, that’s bad practice. It leads to instability, inaccuracies, all kinds of problems.

You’re going to want to very gently break it to your roommate that their new flame isn’t being very considerate of the mortals in the household, including themself. If you need a third party, maybe you can schedule the technician while your roommate is home, so that they can hear it from a professional.

As for the….stardust - vinegar and water in a 1:1 mixture.

[preservationofnormalcy]

The mountain I live on is always singing about how lonely he is, and while he has a very nice singing voice it's also very loud and all the sad songs are starting to bring down everyone's mood. We tried talking to him but I think he wants another mountain friend. Any way we could help him out with this?

Aww. Poor guy.

Genus loci are always a little tricky, balancing the needs and comfort of one larger sapience with the needs and comfort of others - typically ones that live on or around the former. We actually just had a rough case in California, someone rigged up a true “smart home” and we had to shut it down. We’re lucky that terra loci like this are often pretty chill.

However, since ETCetRA (the European Thaumaturgical Centre for Research and Analysis) banned geomancy on this scale sometime in the…40s, I think, it’ll be hard to really fulfill a request like this. I can pass this on to Applied Thaumaturgy.

…hm. Might also slip a messenger pigeon to some folks in the West Virginia office. We’ve got some druids on the payroll. If anyone would know what to do, it’s the folks with a connection to the Green.