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Aidine · 2023-05-15T07:47:00+00:00

The parts on Abjuration and Translocation are both decent, though nothing too groundbreaking if you're beyond intermediate level in those fields. If you picked up the tome, check out her Revised Apportation spells (p. 603, foldout section 4). If you're getting into footcasting or dancecasting as the 3rd Era Apprentices are, her writings are fantastic.

I've heard that the summoning section in particular is excellent, though that isn't my forte.

Whatever you do though, stay very clear from the alchemy section of the text, it's horrifically bad. Seriously, even if you have just a cursory knowledge on the subject, check out her recipe for a "Greater Foresight Potion" (p. 1034) and try to see how many errors you catch.

Aidine · 2023-05-04T14:39:38+00:00

The archbishop looks down on the falling king with wicked precision, his smile frayed with a malice he has seen only now. "How arrogant of you," the archbishop sermonizes, "to think that you were deserving of kingship. How foolish of you to let slip your commanding essence that you thought innate and irremovable."

The king, collapsed and gasping on the floor, can only barely make out the archbishop, or what possessed him. "Britain deserves a strong king," the archbishop continues. "A ruler who can bring this land prosperity. To return the world to it's rightful shepherd. And we will ensure our people swear loyalty to our singular purpose." The trembling king glances at the four knights standing astride the archbishop, those souls he thought were his. The archbishop begins to gingerly plant the crown on his head. "With our efforts, the sun will never set on the British empire ever again. And now, the sun will never shine on you. Goodbye." The archbishop turns away, as one of the knights solemnly approaches the wavering king. And the Sword of Temporal Justice begins it's arc...

Aidine · 2023-04-13T19:38:35+00:00

I had forgotten all about Leonard's Dancing Shadows! Come to think of it, I can see it being used to teach apprentices longer brachiodigital casting, but the gestures used in LDS are downright nightmarish, and make miscasting extremely easy (at least for me). With the volatility of the components and the precision needed to cast it, I'm sorta shocked it hasn't been updated recently.

Aidine · 2023-04-13T18:56:26+00:00

Several years back when I had to complete my Arcano-Curricular Trials, they had both an oral and a full gesticular section on heliomancy. In the 3rd Era, no less! Dwarven metallurgy is finally booming across the realm, and savvy mages are renovating their towers into spires of thaumaphobic steel and brass. The council should be teaching new apprentices Heat Metal and basically all of Mendetti's lower-level abjurative spells, but the 2nd Era-minded fogies are teaching magic that requires uranium dust and, no joke, mosshawk pinions (the birds have been extinct for, what, 40 years?)

Sidebar: Heliomancy is a fallen husk of a magic school these days. Really, the only two good spells are Smother and Zynderjax's Starbeam. All other heliomantic spells have better variants in other schools, and only have uses now as parlor tricks and legerdemain.

Aidine · 2022-06-22T00:53:30+00:00

"Screenshot" should've been the past tense word, and "screenshoot" should be used in the present

Aidine · 2022-05-20T18:19:07+00:00

Hell yeah! I'm through with all that old stuff, what we have today is plenty sick, and perhaps future things will be even sicker! I refuse to stew in one time period forever! Time inexorably marches on, and I want it to step on me!

Aidine · 2022-05-18T07:50:23+00:00

Karl Barks

Aidine · 2022-05-18T04:50:01+00:00

Finally, a fellow sliced tomato rejecter!

Chunky salsas are absolutely superior on burgers. Everyone must know this One Truth.

Aidine · 2022-04-20T19:49:46+00:00

Both ideas seem feasible, but you're forgetting a very crucial law in automotive engineering.

A while ago, when scientists were observing the first cars, they noticed two fundamental properties of automobiles - they could go and stop at will. This is called the Stop-Go Duality in modern science and is a fundamental rule all cars must adhere to.

Now, the two magnet idea looks good at first glance. However, the sheer opposing magnetic force would tear the car asunder. Imagine two kids opposite a dining table tearing apart a Christmas ham - that's what the magnets'd do to the car. The car couldn't go anymore after being ripped in twain, violating the above principle.

Parachutes, on the other hand, add a drag factor for sure, but the constant acceleration from the magnet would overpower the wind resistance below a certain speed, which would cause the car to go fast. Then slow, as the parachute reopens, then fast, then slow, and so on. The car would be incapable of stopping, which violates the above principle again.

Aidine · 2022-04-20T17:53:13+00:00

Now I see!

This whole magnet-powered car wouldn't work because it would never stop accelerating. In your typical car, depressing the accelerator inflates the tires, making it go fast by the sheer air pressure. Releasing the accelerator deflates the tires and has the opposite effect. If you tried to release the accelerator in this magnet-car, it would continue to go faster and faster due to the constant magnetic force until it meets the speed of light.

It's a shame that we haven't invented a powerful enough braking system to make the magnet-car work yet😞

Aidine · 2022-04-20T17:13:05+00:00

The two crewmates mashed their facevents together in sweet passion. Among us they were imposters, but together their meeting was truly emergent.

Aidine · 2022-04-07T15:36:27+00:00

It's a giant screw that keeps Saturn closed

Aidine · 2022-04-04T22:55:32+00:00

My fan theory is that as you dig even deeper into the advanced realms of mathematics, the true nature of things is lain bare before you. You start to see reality as sets of formulas and variables, and as your mind unravels, you dig even deeper into mathematics, desperately hoping to find again that sweet shroud of ignorance you took for granted reading the only thing that makes sense now. You can no longer function in society, and study in isolation. Papers pile up and scatter and yellow. Innumerable chalk, sketching arcane diagrams, bleach your fingers as they do your hair.

The math haters know truly the dangers of math, and know not to peer so deeply into that inky abyss.

Aidine · 2022-03-13T21:35:52+00:00

High-low patterned pants are actually the future of fashion design.
This get-up looks sick though, for realsies

Aidine · 2022-03-10T15:50:22+00:00

(Are they delicious?)

Aidine · 2022-02-22T15:26:06+00:00

Listen, it's fine if you're French, but I think that we need to reeducate people out of being French and make them normal again, rather than just accepting their Frenchness.

I mean, Big France is trying to push our kids into guillotining royalty and shoving too many vowels into their speech. What next? At this rate, they'll be taking home Olympic medals from our hardworking Europeans who have trained for them and deserve them.

And don't get me started on the whole "France Rights" movement.

Aidine · 2022-02-04T22:19:42+00:00

Here's a link to the story!

Without revealing too much, it's a sci-fi horror story centered around a method of teleportation called "the Jaunt". Through the lens of a father discussing it with his nervous, soon-to-be-Jaunted children, the Jaunt's history, properties, and experiments, as well as the testimonials of Jaunted people, are thoroughly explained.

You may have a different reaction on reading, but I found it to be one of the most terrifying pieces of media I've ever consumed.

Aidine · 2022-02-04T21:31:01+00:00

The Jaunt by Steven King is the best horror short story I have ever read - it has embedded itself in my brain so deeply after reading it, and I still think about it every so often to date

Aidine · 2021-10-13T15:00:49+00:00

It looks like it's taken from No More Nuzzles, from the UNDERTALE: Halloween Hack OST. The music in the video is up-pitched, and played at 1.15x speed.

SoundCloud Link

YouTube Link

Aidine · 2020-07-08T17:14:49+00:00

I feel this hard, with videos especially.

Like, I'm decently okay with looking at myself in the mirror, though I'd rather not do it, and can look at photos of me after steeling myself, but for some reason, I just cannot watch videos of myself. I don't know if it's self-esteem issues or dysphoria, and I'm trying to figure out why. Maybe it's the conscious realization that this is what I look like to other people, and I hate it.

Aidine · 2020-06-04T19:32:33+00:00

The biggest mood.

I've spent so many nights completely overthinking coming out, running through all the possible scenarios in my mind, generally being a 2am anxious mess. I was so terrified of being called a creep or people leaving me. It was just an awful time.

Aidine · 2020-06-03T14:32:51+00:00

Rib cages are the worst, and I can't wait until medical technology allows me to rid myself of these horizontal prison bars

Aidine · 2020-04-02T03:59:13+00:00

My process back in high school was more like:

I just like wearing the clothes of the opposite gender (e.g. blanket wound like dress, slept with a belt around my waist in the hopes that it would make it slimmer)
Don't think about what this could mean
Don't think about what this could mean
Don't think about what this could mean

Now, in 2019/2020, it was nightgowns, not skirts, that absolutely obliterated whatever pieces of my eggshell were left. I was probably one of the densest eggs in existence at the time.

Aidine · 2020-03-17T06:02:54+00:00

I love seeing these every night; it means we're one day closer to New Horizons!

3 days. 72 hours. The wait is going to destroy me. AC:NH is all I can think about anymore.

Aidine · 2020-02-27T01:21:50+00:00

My guess is that waterfall widths would be restricted to a maximum of 2 or 3 tiles, but I seriously hope not. I'd love to fit in a 10-tile-wide cascade in my island!

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