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northcentralpositronics:

tattoo artist who can encode magic into tattoos but doesn’t want people to know she can so she just puts low-level luck spells on her clients’ bodies without telling them

jeweller who makes body jewellery and pendants which have amulet properties and draw love and luck and happiness to their wearers without them realising it

piercing artist who keeps the remnants from her piercings and puts them all in little jars in the back of her shop to work sympathetic luck spells on all her clients

and then all three of them slowly realise what the others are doing and end up in a poly relationship living in a little shop in the shitty end of town, which gets curiously less shitty the longer they stay, and people think it’s just the development of the area but the three artists know

and they’re never rich and they’re never famous but they’re always happy because they have everything they need

they have the shop and they have their customers and they have each other

and when their customers are happy and content, they pack up and move on, all together now, to find another space with skin to be coloured and jewellery to be made and magic to be done.

this is beautiful

DETROIT – The three body modification artists were arrested today on charges of voluntary manslaughter after a past client suffered a fatal stroke, allegedly due to thaumo-alchemical interactions between her prescribed potions and a luck charm that had been placed on one of her tattoos without her knowledge.

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“Some potions and drugs are known to react with common charms, which is why it is absolutely essential that your doctor and pharmacist have a complete and accurate list of your active enchantments,” says pharmacist Patricia Patil. “Putting an enchantment of any kind, no matter how minor, on someone without their knowledge or permission is playing Russian Roulette with someone else’s life.”

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The victim, Carmen Jackson, was 36 at the time of her death and is survived by a husband and 4 children.

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#death tw #yes this #I did not think this *exact* thing #but I did wonder why we were assumed to sympathise with people tricking others into taking spells

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prongsmydeer:

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: How do the owls in Harry Potter work? Can they read the addresses on the envelopes or do you have verbally communicate the name of the recipient for them to understand? Does this mean that Voldemort could have found Harry Potter years earlier by just sending him a letter at the right time and following it? Are owls more powerful magical trackers than Voldemort?

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#Harry Potter #yes this #never got that far in that particular train of thought before #but still #I’m reminded of watching the Twilight movie #and that scene where Edward is listing off what the other people in the restaurant are thinking #and it’s like #’sex sex sex money sex cat’ #and I’m like #’what none of them are contemplating the psychological coping mechanisms of Piper’s Children?’ #’that’s what *I’d* be thinking about’

Anonymous asked: Should only people with children be allowed to vote, since they are the only ones with a stake in the future?

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ilzolende:

ozymandias271:

only people with children have a stake in the future

no one without children has younger friends, a desire for their works to be remembered in the future, or empathy for future humans

this seems very plausible

I am a child and I have a major stake in the future, and when I am 18 I will also expect to be personally affected by the state of my country 60 years from now.

Ban all elderly (65+?) people from voting, as they won’t be around to face the long-term consequences of their decisions? This is equally (read: not very) reasonable. People have actually proposed doing stuff like “make smoking illegal for all people born in [current year] – 17 or later” or “let adults vote on whether all people graduating high school should be ‘drafted’ to do menial tasks like elder care and washing military laundry and whatnot for low pay”, because they would never be negatively impacted by those proposals.

People with children, when voting on policy that only affects young people, can be incredibly patronizing and self-interested. (“I want the government to spy on my kids for me!” “I want my kids to go to jail if they ditch class too much!” “I don’t want my kids to ever be allowed to do things I disapprove of, even when they’re adults!”)

I don’t want to live in the future people approve of for their children to live in, I want to live in the future that its residents want. Read proposals for utopias and you’ll soon see that approval uncoupled from actual desires leads to a society you wouldn’t want to live in.

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#yes this #I mostly see this with global warming #’we must Do Something to make 2050 a good place for our children to live!’ #dude I don’t give a fuck about my nonexistent children #I want to make 2050 a good place for my *future selves* to live #you don’t *need* and in fact shouldn’t *try* to rely on selflessness to get me to care about the future #self-interest will get the job done nicely #I’m going to tag this #death tw #under my policy of ‘tag death warnings on things that would have triggered my seven-year-old self’

On Special Snowflakes

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ozymandias271:

There is a common criticism of people (okay, of Tumblr denizens) for being special snowflakes. They make up an absurd number of labels! Why would you want to identify as a requiessexual heteropoetisexual squidgender moongender aroflux lesbian when you could identify as, well, normal?

But, in fact, as absurd as the subsubsubsubsubclassifications get sometimes, Tumblr’s attitude towards sexual…

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#language #the wondrous variety of sapient life #yes this

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taymonbeal:

pistachi0n:

Sometimes when I go hundreds pages deep into people’s Tumblr archives, I find really funny posts and I weigh the pros and cons of liking/reblogging them.

Pros: I’ll have access to them later because they’re fucking hilarious

Cons: They might think I’m creepy. Despite the fact that it’s public and on the Internet, it is not socially acceptable to let anyone know the extent that you creeped their archives.

I hereby extend blanket permission for anyone to creep on my archive, and to like and reblog posts from it if they want to. It’s really quite flattering.

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#yes this

Discworld synopses sound both ridiculous and totally awesome out of context

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mayleavestars:

– an ex-conman reforms a post office with the help of a golem?

– Les Miserables in reverse starring a time-traveling policeman??

– a seven-foot skeleton and his granddaughter save Christmas???

– a wizard rescues Australia while his colleagues accidentally invent sex????

– like any newcomer reading this post is either ‘did he use a random plot generator’ or ‘oh my god I have to read that right now’

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#Discworld #GNU Terry Pratchett #indeed

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taejira:

bigjaeger:

a support group for vampires who were turned as children or adolescents. a bunch of small, melancholy kid-shaped vampires sitting around in somebody’s living room talking very seriously in tiny voices about current events in the vampire world. a lot of them dress like grandmas because they are as old as a grandma, maybe even ten grandmas. they have a network system where they can call adult-looking vampires to help them get things, drive places, pretend to be parents so child-looking vampires can get into adult movies 

#two vampire friends of the same chronological age #but one was turned at age 11 and the other at age 40 #they pretend to be parent and child but they’re actually more like bickering elderly roommates #bickering elderly roommates who are serial killers

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#vampires #yes

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itsnotthatfunnyisit:

My talents include being able to hear a Fleetwood Mac song playing lightly in the background of a loud, crowded store or supermarket.

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#music #yes #I once did this with a Fleetwood Mac song that I had never previously heard #also with two Phil Collins songs that I had never previously heard #more recently I was in the grocery store and heard the sound of an alto holding ‘ohhhhhh’ #the longer it went on the more convinced I became that it was ‘No Light No Light’ #until by the twelve-second mark or so (when it ended) I was completely unsurprised to find out that in fact it *was*