The Unknowing

The more you learn, the less you realize you know.

[sewi-li-suwi]

hi is there like a union of small wizard blogs? how do i find other small wizard blogs? if you run one please shoot me a message! i'd love to follow you

[sewi-li-suwi]

wait wait wait i have a better idea. if you're a small wizard blog, then rb this with like a small description or dumbass comment! with luck we can get a chain going,, i'll update my pinned message with each new addition

[greywizard-reporter-jim]

Hoping it catches on !

[wanderingsorcerer]

I summon

INBREAD FIRE SPIRIT

JEFF

from the depths of the Mississippi

[wizard-smitty]

I’m trying to work this magical shop, but there’s just so much regulation nowadays I’m having a hard time with it. Magical wares just ain’t what it used to be. Damn the council

[wizorbs]

woe orbs be upon ye

[candyspells]

if i tried really hard do you think i could turn all the gnomes into little housecats

[newevilwizard]

Hats but they're evil. That is all.

[quicksilver-queen]

i invoke the the ancient dark arts to cast curse of steal all your salami

[feyosha]

Regulations are Written in Blood. (This increases compliance with Fey, Infernals, and the Undead by up to 66.6% in trials)

[magicalbob]

Technically a Druid, but most of the other Druids don’t know how computers work so I chill with the Wizards on here.

[zoltranthemagnificent]

@magicalbob is squatting in my tower

[humm-bird]

Also this too I am in wizard council hell So much bureaucracy I am a lowly advisor and security designer

[bogglethebogwizard]

I’m boggle! from the bog : )

[mana-but-with-mana]

Posting once in a blue moon, I tell other young praxtitioners how to get started! I can also tell you about my homeland, Skry!

[therisenskeleton]

Not a wizard but associated.

[wizardgoblin]

✨🧙‍♂️I’m @therisenskeleton’s wizard boss. I rarely post but I live in a cave and make fucked up mischievous goblin curses.🧙‍♂️✨

[sorcererest-sorcerer]

I used to be a wizard but I transferred into sorcery. Too many rules. Nobody in the council wants to play polymorph twister or witness the nebula of reality.

[the-shredded-cheese-wizard]

I make HUMONCULI and tastey POTIONS and SEWER BEASTS. I also HATE the WIZARD COUNCIL. NO SPELL should be RESTRICTED.

[hubristicwizard]

i have invented over 200 brand new unique spells and none of them have ever gone wrong. prommy <3

[oramil-the-off-white]

I’m Oramil, credited with fixing an entire hemisphere of the mirror dimension (that I did not in fact accidentally hit with a stray golf ball thus shattering it), resulting in the discovery of such spells as Entropic Antiportal, Kaleidoscopic Deconstruction, Infinite Fractal Burst and Summon Kaleidoscopic Creatures! I also run a Las-Vegas-esque tower cluster in the Death Valley area of plane 1.4A

[wizardslut9000]

new quest, making birds sentient

[diamondsharkz]

I am pretty sure arcanic script is turing complete and i will die proving it

[artegan-theallpondering]

I may be interested in sharing some of my great pondering techniques

[dragon--thing]

I love blue beams

[octal-alchemist]

i came here to spread the word that calculations in base eight are much better suited to magic than 🤢 decimal

[gay-little-treat-wizard]

I just want to make potions

[muckmagister]

sometimes i cast bugs and throw mud at people

[transgender-wizard]

CAST ALL DESTRUCTIVE SPELLS AT TRANSPHOBES

[thistooisyuri-ttv]

Hi, I was the one that made ostriches flightless. My bad, I didn't mean to start an all out war.

[scarsmispronouncedgong]

I exclusively cast and create spells that put things in people's mouths, i.e., Summon Wisdom Teeth, Gumworms, Dongify Musical Instrument, etc.

[vaguewizard]

I fucked up a spell and now everything is weird (and I have no intention of fixing it) <|:3

[hummingbird-hunter]

No, I am not half wizard and half clown, I am a full wizard and a full clown, thank you very much.

[offbrandspacecolumbo]

Sometimes I speak in a POWERFUL WIZARDLY VOICE

Occasionally I will EVEN CAST A SPELL when I am feeling PARTICULARLY BORED

MOST OF THE TIME however I simply REBLOG EVERYTHING that causes DOPAMINE or RIGHTEOUS FURY

MY FEED IS YOUR FEED

PLEASE ENJOY

[transedwizard]

alright who summoned me i was right in the middle of giving this guy curse of no kneecaps

[blogntinthewind-deactivated2025]

I'd like to throw my 💫Greater Baja Blast💥 into the ring. I do some wizardposting and I'm a fan of all things occult, spooky and folklore.

[sewi-li-suwi]

reblogging this to say, WAY too late, that you should check the notes of this post. there are a lot of other variations on this, lots of other chains, and i can only pin one version of it. there are a load of good blogs in there.

i'll say it again:

check the notes.

[one-wizard-frob]

Every day I wake up and cast 4 Extra Legs on my tarantula

[wizard-anarchist-dragon]

Let's make dragons fly, birds speak, trees walk.

Let the force of nature run loose and wild with wizardry through the woods as the word for world is forest.

And remember, there is no magic.

[wizard-gobling]

WIZIRD.

GOBLING.

HEXAS AND TRETS.

PAY?

BOOGIE

[leafcutteroverlord]

I’m getting started in magic, and I have an unhealthy love for arthropods ( mainly spiders and ants). I’m also searching for the cup and the scepter.

[mystery-mage]

i am indubitably accredited and practice only the most legal of magics. er, just don't look in the attic. or open that iron cabinet. or ingest any of those potions. or touch that crystal.

[wizard-of-cryptids]

hello, yes it is I the wizard of cryptids! I go out and research and befriend all cryptids in my area while also practicing different types of magic.

It is lovely to meet you all

[wizardbookclub]

i run a wizard book club and I’m evil sometimes but mostly I just eat the parchment to learn spells

[tiny-wizard]

small,

[i-am-a-wizard-i-swear]

oh, lovely, hello fellow wizards! i too am a wizard , yes

[asteroidtroglodyte]

AsteroidTroglodyte, first of his name, Yeoman of Chaos, Sex Warlock, Journeyman Ichthyomancer, Green Witch, Speaker to Machines, Friendly Neighborhood Cryptid, Librarian of Discarded Wisdom, here for a Good Time and a Long Time.

[un7n0wing]

Not a wizard, but an amalgamation of eldritch curiosity and poorly thought out literary critique. I just like the wizards. They're weird and have good snacks.

[grimeclown]

Every time I rewatch breaking bad I’m completely STUNNED by how fast Walt resorts to cooking meth to pay his medical bills. He doesn’t try literally anything else before resorting to meth. He finds out he has cancer and then immediately contacts the first meth dealer he can find and is like “let’s be partners.” Like I cannot emphasize enough that cooking meth was Walter White’s FIRST resort, not his last. His old college friends even offer him an executive position at an immensely successful business he helped found so the health insurance would cover most of it and his pay would more than cover the rest, and he turns it down because he doesn’t want “handouts.” The story of breaking bad is about Walters descent into immorality and depravity but he really fucking hurtles off the diving board at the first chance he got and ignored the people throwing him life preserves.

[n0thingiscool]

This is why I don't watch mainstream television. The whole pre, pro, and post production crew all knew they were profiting off of glorifying meth usage to millions of impressionable viewers and they did it with glee.

[grimeclown]

This is so funny. You thought Breaking Bad was about how doing meth is cool?

[wotsukai]

are you implying big meth funded Breaking Bad?

[un7n0wing]

So let me get this straight. You're saying that it's unrealistic for a terminally ill, under paid, high-school chemistry teacher who feels lost and without support, to act irrationally and take a self destructive option out of pride, imposter syndrome, and the fear of rejection?

[rubyleaf]

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they’re usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don’t see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that’s bottling up all their emotions is not the one that’s brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it’s that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you’re upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they’ve never actually told you anything about themselves.

[rubyleaf]

Adding onto this: characters who are so deeply repressed that they don’t even realize they’re not fine, or at the very least not supposed to be fine. Characters who do tell you about a situation they’re in that should be bad, but instantly laugh it off saying they can handle it (spoiler: they can, in fact, not handle it). Characters who laugh with you and listen to all your woes and much later you learn that they were actually going through something at least equally bad at the time, but they wave it off and don’t want to speak of it. Characters whose main coping mechanism seems to be “don’t think about it” on endless loop.

Basically, the fictional embodiment of the “this is fine” dog.

[un7n0wing]

Sounds like someone needs to play Doki Doki Literature Club. Ignore the hype about the meta ending, and just pay attention to the characters. They're very well written and realistic until things start getting meta.

[donnasweettttttttt]

when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body

[perrisbueller-deactivated202002]

Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself

[donnasweettttttttt]

michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN

[kryptonians]

Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks

[dangerousturkey]

michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this

[onion-souls]

Jesus Christ, that’s the height at which every rollercoaster and dark ride is a decapitation threat

[un7n0wing]

Have you ever read any Chrichton books? The dude only knows one plot:

Step 1: science did a cool thing

Step 2: nobody really understands the cool thing

Step 3: someone tells the scientists that they don’t understand the thing they’re working on

Step 4: cool science thing gets out of control and probably starts killing people

Step 5: ACTION! DRAMA! SUSPENSE!

Step 6: I told you so moment while they break the cool thing to make it stop and everyone has a long moment of self reflection

Love his writings, but if you’re surprised he copied himself, you haven’t read more than 2 of his books.

[shybi-n-ready2cry]

Apparently it’s because he’s trying to tell us about the evils of capitalism impeding the progress of science and we haven’t fucking listened yet.

[un7n0wing]

I see where you're coming from, but that's not the message I got at all. I read it as a critique of unrestricted scientific progress from the perspective of someone who genuinely believes in science. Rather than taking the side of the luddite and shunning all progress for the sake of "new thing scarry," Crichton sides with the scientist(s) and aggrees with them while holding them accountable for the danger they might introduce. He encourages scientists to understand what they're doing before doing it. The only series he wrote that had anti-capitalist messages in it were the Jurassic Park books, where John Hammond was shown to be a conman pretending to be an entrepreneur. He made the same mistakes as the scientists in Crichton's other works, by ignoring how and why what he was doing worked and fixating on a potential end product. Most of the dangerous tech that Crichton deals with has not been proven viable in any way, let alone profitable. If anything, a profitable incentive would have made almost every Crichton plot so, so much worse.

[papasmoke]

Just admit that you hate monarchy because you think it's 'primitive' and think that white countries should have more 'modern' styles of government.

I'm actually a classical royalist and I think white countries should be balkanized into 1000s of powerless bickering regional territories ruled over by local petty monarchs. They all each get exactly one nuke.

[papasmoke]

RETVRN

[un7n0wing]

The funny thing is, the original design of the United States is almost exactly what the EU is. Many states refused to sign the original constitution because there weren't enough allowances for states rights. The original states were designed to work as mini countries only using the federal government to settle disputes between states, provide a standard currency, protect the states from international threats, and be a unified face in the international community. However, as the US rapidly expanded, it became more efficient to operate as a single homogeneous entity, so the federal government took on more responsibility. Now we're in this weird place where each state may contain several distinct cultures with their own interests and needs, but a government of 100 or so people are forced to make choices for over 300 million people. It's only natural that we don't feel adequately represented. One fantastic solution would be to break up the states along cultural lines and have them act like their own country with a united international face. I really like to take this argument with me when I talk to self proclaimed Constitutionalists, because the look on their face when I point out that they want to live in the EU is priceless.

[irreparableinnocence]

I think it should be done more often that works of fiction present horrific things without condemning them explicitly or showing you a right path; portraying the horror as it is, including the parts that entice its perpetrators, pushing you into the situation and saying "figure it out". But perhaps that's having too much faith in the critical thinking skills of the average reader.

[irreparableinnocence]

There is no objective moral arbiter in real life. We have to do that work ourselves, and it is difficult. Why is it wrong for a work of fiction to reflect that?

[apricops]

There’s a bit in Don Quixote where Quixote and Sancho Panza come across a gang of galley slaves chained together.

Up to this point, it was implied that Don Quixote was the arrogant, delusional, self-centered Bad Guy and Sancho Panza was the relatable, salt of the earth, long-suffering Good Guy. Except when Quixote sees the galley slaves, his ridiculous devotion the outdated ideals of chivalry - the very thing that makes him dumb and crazy - makes him want to free the slaves, because he genuinely believes that being chivalrous means helping the oppressed. Meanwhile, Sancho’s pragmatic worldly concern makes him go “we shouldn’t free these slaves, because that might make the church get mad at us.”

Then Quixote actually talks to the galley slaves and hears their tragic stories of… being pimps and incestuous rapists. They justify themselves enough to Quixote enough that he decides to set them free, at which point the newly-freed slaves mug them both and run away.

What makes all of this even more complicated is that Cervantes himself spent years of his life as a galley slave, and yet this scene that could have just been “is slavery bad? y/n” becomes so back-and-forth that even the central dynamic of the book gets muddled. And then they just… keep going. Whoops, they fucked up, there was no right answer and nothing was solved, end of chapter. And it’s great.

[un7n0wing]

On the other side, more people need to learn that just because a character is the protagonist, doesn't mean they're praise worthy or even remotely "good". Sometimes it's not a misunderstood villain who actually had a good reason. Sometimes they're just bad people. Characters like Rick Sanchez and The Joker are supposed to be horrible people. Yes they may be products of their society, but that doesn't make their actions ok or society the secret villain and them the tragic heros. We can look at why someone's bad without excusing them. It's supposed to call out the audience by showing them the natural extreme of their own flaws, but some people take it as recognition and form a sort of belonging around it. It sucks that authors are almost required to put in disclaimers about how their protagonist is actually a bad person and breaks the flow of the narrative just so that people don't misunderstand the entire point of the work.

[donnasweettttttttt]

when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body

[perrisbueller-deactivated202002]

Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself

[donnasweettttttttt]

michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN

[kryptonians]

Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks

[dangerousturkey]

michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this

[onion-souls]

Jesus Christ, that’s the height at which every rollercoaster and dark ride is a decapitation threat

[un7n0wing]

Have you ever read any Chrichton books? The dude only knows one plot:

Step 1: science did a cool thing

Step 2: nobody really understands the cool thing

Step 3: someone tells the scientists that they don't understand the thing they're working on

Step 4: cool science thing gets out of control and probably starts killing people

Step 5: ACTION! DRAMA! SUSPENSE!

Step 6: I told you so moment while they break the cool thing to make it stop and everyone has a long moment of self reflection

Love his writings, but if you're surprised he copied himself, you haven't read more than 2 of his books.