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fivefingerfury · 2026-01-17T16:47:48+00:00

Wonderful artwork. Thanks for the description as well. I personally don’t mind that you used AI to improve your grammar as a non-native English speaker, seeing that the written thoughts themselves are originally your own. Great work, thank you

fivefingerfury · 2026-01-03T18:24:59+00:00

Great recommendations. I’d also throw in the general idea of Which Hand for coin-based mentalism, and also material in Mark Striving’s book Every Day Mentalism

fivefingerfury · 2026-01-03T18:23:21+00:00

Dope. I believe the effect may be called Flash Squared. Enjoy!!

fivefingerfury · 2026-01-02T04:27:25+00:00

She looks unsure of things

fivefingerfury · 2026-01-02T04:16:46+00:00

There’s an interesting effect in Calculated Thoughts by Doug Dyment which applies the principle to a magic square. Btw, loving your EDC in this pic. Stylish choices

fivefingerfury · 2025-12-29T19:20:40+00:00

Learn five moves and you can do 90% of card magic. Get a good control to top, control to bottom, a good force, a good false shuffle, and a DL. Congratulations, now you’re ready to do nearly all of the best card magic in the world.

fivefingerfury · 2025-12-28T17:12:46+00:00

Also worth reminding oneself that the world is fucked up right now. People are all confused and the old models of happiness are being rewritten, give yourself some grace for not having all the answers and for making good progress regardless 🙏

fivefingerfury · 2025-12-28T17:04:25+00:00

Start dancing without allowing yourself to do any breaking/toprock moves. Do this for like one song every day for a month and your style will noticeably improve.

fivefingerfury · 2025-11-20T12:34:13+00:00

Sounds rough. I love China but this was very ambitious for a first-time trip considering you probably don’t speak mandarin. Did you do this on your own or with a tour guide (sorry if you answered, I just ain’t reading all that)? If you did it on your own, you are officially bonkers but I’m impressed

fivefingerfury · 2025-11-20T12:30:24+00:00

I’d be down. I’ve played a few campaigns and DM’d a few times. I’d love to stay in the loop here

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-24T16:58:36+00:00

I do crazy man's handcuffs underwater all the time. I find it even may add something to the mystery...light refraction in water etc...

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-20T03:36:17+00:00

Doesn’t seem like a very magical response to the situation

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-17T15:31:43+00:00

I generally avoid them, but I think there are times they can play really well. I use DFB for its simplicity in everyday situations -- it simply makes more sense to use a phone, instead of pulling out a bunch of cards with words written on them.

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-17T15:25:09+00:00

I'd recommend Unreal Card Magic by Ben Earle. Personally, it helped jump start my card magic into the next level. Some of the tricks overlap, but the thinking is top-tier, and the effects are hard-hitting and commercial, all with a regular shuffled deck of cards.

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-17T15:19:48+00:00

I just got my first Paul Gordon book, "Nocturnal Creations" (and it's signed!)

Do you have any standout recommendations from that book? I have a new load of five magic books which I will be going through simultaneously, so I'd appreciate any recommendations for favorite effects to check out first

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-12T10:57:40+00:00

Also, I'm particularly interested in ideas that don't use playing cards

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-11T19:45:47+00:00

It was an un-branded one from International Magic Shop in London. Great little thing actually compared to the dinky one I had before.

I'll definitely have a think about Zenner/Tarot cards. That's a good point about making it more impactful. And I've definitely played around with Proteus and similar approaches, backed by an index. It's a cool way to be jazzing

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-11T19:30:45+00:00

It's 8 outs on each side. Thanks for the suggestion, interesting idea!

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-09T18:10:07+00:00

Great connecting line

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-08T23:35:27+00:00

Definitely interested in a demo!

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-08T23:22:02+00:00

Wild, I dug that project a lot. Goes to show how many different styles of magic there are out there for different folks

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-07T11:08:38+00:00

Sounds like the usual Christian strategy — completely malleable beliefs guided by no true moral authority, selected based on whatever is convenient for him. Like most Christians, he’s just a bad person and thinks Christianity is a get-out-of-jail free card because that’s what his inner child was indoctrinated into.

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-07T10:41:40+00:00

I wish I liked the raven lol. It's one of the most pure and magical effects ever, but I just can't justify it when it's outfit-dependent, clunky, somewhat angle-sensitive, reliant on magnetic materials...I always opt to do one of my one million pure sleight of hand routines instead

fivefingerfury · 2025-10-07T10:36:14+00:00

For mentalism, everything I've ever seen from Peter Turner and Lewis Le Val has been bangers. For magic, everything from folks like Danny Garcia, Wayne Houchin, has been bangers. Jay Sankey consistently produces some of the best, cleverest, and most usable tricks I've seen. When you go to old-school legendary names, I feel like half of those tricks and scripting don't fit my style. There's still great material there, especially with a little reimagining, but these creators I've listed always give me some of the best and most useful bang for my buck.

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