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can't log into main I'm here for a good time not a long time

[garpen]

"you already left kudos here"

And??? Let me like it again??? Clearly it deserves more??

[zmeess]

what do you mean the manga i'm reading features a greasy sleep-deprived little guy with a Shrek-ass 'get out of my bog' attitude and a savior complex. AND he's a fashionista? stop it

[zmeess]

truly nothing. mans holed up in his best friend's shed engineering portable space heaters 24/7. and yet

[venting-corner]

I can't wait for Beldaruit to be animated. Because then Nepo baby Qifrey agenda will spread to anime onlys lmao

[poketfriend-blog]

Olruggio being Qifrey's Watchful Eye although the two are close friends seems irresponsible. Who even allowed it?

Beldaruit.

Taking in an Outsider as a apprentice is really rare. I wonder who gave Qifrey permission to take Coco in in the first place?

Beldaruit.

Coco just became a witch and already have passed two tests. She's basically speedrunning the whole education program. Who looks at this and says everything is fine?

Beldaruit.

[thelightfluxtastic]

(WHA manga spoilers ahead)

You know how every organization has some generic positive mission statement like "We value community and diversity and want to help everyone achieve fulfillment". But, by default, whether it's an ice cream company or a nonprofit charity, it will still be run like a business with all the regular pitfalls and prejudice and exploitation they can get away with?

Olruggio is the only one who really understands the pointed caps mission statement of "magic is meant to help people".

Other characters (like Qifrey and the apprentices) absolutely believe it and work hard at it, but still get hung up on their personal issues, or have trouble enacting it. The Knights Moralis are meant to enforce the principles, but (like all cops) have calcified into violent rules enforcement rather than actual fulfillment of the ideal. Most witches, I'm sure, try their best, but (as with the recurrent ableism theme) are often disconnected from what the most vulnerable people in their society actually need. Or fall into the same classism and prejudice as the rest of the world.

Olruggio? He's on the fucking ball. He heard "magic is for helping people" and locked the fuck in. I've made jokes about his fulfillment (or lack thereof) of a Watchful Eye's duties. But really, what happened is Olruggio took the spirit of "ensure the well being of apprentices" rather than the letter of the law or the expected norms. All of his spells from the snugstone to the phantasmal fireball are about comfort. He takes the safety design elements incredibly seriously. He's the one to warn Agott at the river that she should be willing to do mundane, non-glorious tasks if that's what people need. When Qifrey and Easthies are facing off, it's Olruggio yelling at both of them to knock it off and maybe focus on the civilians they are here to help. He says he can't be a master because a master must always prioritize the apprentices, but he's the one in Romonon stopping Qifrey in his tracks to remind him to get back to the kids. During Silver Eve, he thought he accidentally got caught casting. What he actually got caught doing was sneaking away from his commissioned work to do pro bono charity work for the local villagers. He tells Tetia her sense of empathy is the most important part of her magic. He doesn't even want to kill bugs.

[ladysdork]

I have so many thoughts about Olly representing magic at its best. He is warmth and dedication and comfort and help. He’s exactly what fire is when it’s kept at the right temperature. Also, because he is the star from the story, who gives its magic to its love and the people to save them.

[vivoryy]

I know a school principal hates to see him coming

[big8cola]

One of my favorite bits in all of wha is when coco runs off to the tower of tomes by herself and qifrey goes after her... The trigger for it all of course being beldaruit pretty much trying to snatch coco right out from under qifrey lol. When beldy is basically trying to let coco down easy on the prospects of being able to bring her mother back from the dead it almost reads to me as what he wished he could have got through to qifrey when he was his apprentice. Cuz on paper what coco and qifrey are going through seems very similar, they seek to restore something that may only be possible through forbidden magic (at least if our reading is that qifrey is just trying to restore his eye and his memories). And this is coherent because from beldaruits pov qifrey is a troubled child who grew into an equally troubled adult, whom beldy cant even be sure he can trust to be a teacher in favor of his personal missions. (A biased and skewed perspective, but one partially shaped by qifreys own secret keeping) This of course upsets tf out of coco the same way it probably would have for qifrey at her age. What really perfects this moment for me is when qifrey finds coco trying to get to the tower and hes talking her down from her state of desperation, he's thinking internally "i wish someone had said this to me" which is so heartbreaking and it just really shows the disconnect between qifrey and beldaruit. The gap between the things beldaruit wished he could have got through to qifrey and the things qifrey wished hed been told is so big, and coco ends up right in the middle of it. And what qifrey says really is what gets through to coco! Beldaruit has to learn that their similarities is what makes them such a good pair, rather than the opposite

[bluelric]

Thinking about this thread

[nounoursonne]

I'm just leaving this here

[stealingpotatoes]

very very successful fabric shopping trip! (for @honey-0tu)

(links // tip jar!)

[yakichoufd]

Olly yearning for over a decade is everything to me

[emilydevoursstories]

Easthies’ name echoes around the room, impossibly loud for a whisper.

Here it is, Chapter 18 of Why would you be loved. (This one hurts.)

This or something similar is the outfit I'm referring to in the end, btw.

[dismoondart]

This feels so gross… this feels good

[timelockedwitchgoblin]

I'm not an artist but could someone do an edit or fanart of orufrey but set to/inspired by yearning teen girl music from the aughts like "things I'll never say" by Avril Lavigne or "sometimes" by Britney Spears??? Plz?

-a millennial

[nanshii]

One day, Qifrey will prefer to die in the arms and lips of his sky's kindest most radiant Star ✨

[kayit-z]

More yoshikaru drawings c:

[timelockedwitchgoblin]

Wow Qifrey geez, that's a bit extreme right? Why would you say that? Memories are so important, obviously Olruggio isn't going to want you to get yours erased. That's like, kind of a really fucked up thing to just say to your best friend with such calm conviction. You are going to look him in the eye and tell him to erase your memory. You are literally so dramatic what the hell. Where would you even get an idea like that?

...oh yeah