i wonder if magic is real, but only in a really mundane way.
when i was little i could almost inerringly switch back to disney channel right as the ads ended when i was channel surfing.
maybe youve never accidentally crushed a ladybug underfoot. maybe your microwave popcorn never burns. maybe you can spin around lots and lots of times before you get dizzy.
is that magic??
honestly im not sure if these are magic or just small, invisible skills. im not sure which i like better.
My ankles never twist. I’ve always been rather active, I did track for five years (all the running events), and one time while running I stepped in a hole, lost my shoe, and landed sprawling about five feet away. I pulled my shoe on and kept running.
I have a coworker who somehow makes better coffee than everyone else even though the grounds come pre-measured and all you have to do is load them up and push a button. I have a friend who has inch long nails that never break. My brother can copy origami just by looking at the finished product and my mother can do the same with knots. I knew a guy who never made an error when typing.
Maybe we all have little magics, the kind that you don’t realize you have. Just tiny things that make your life slightly better but are completely unnoticed on the outside.
While scanning through a lot of magic posts on tumblr, I’ve seen a lot of tags misusing suffixes. In particular “-mancy” gets used as a general term for magic works, I guess because it just sounds mystical in nature. As someone deeply in love with facts and the English language, such misappropriations van be a little off putting. With one simple search, it would be immediately and obviously revealed that -mancy specifically refers to forms of divination; i.e. cartomancy, the use of cards in divination.
The obvious exception is of course, ‘necromancy’. The term actual literally means ‘conferring with the dead as a mean to divine answers’, but modern media has bastardized the word into encompassing a strange hodgepodge of dark arts involving corspes. This is wholey inaccurate, and probably is the single reason for that abuse of -mancy. However, the fact that we study eclectic wisdom not typically included in modern academia, is no excuse to abandon higher study practices and formal education. And so, I present a brief list of suffixes and how they can and are applied to magic.
-Mancy: A form of divination.
(CRYSTALLOMANCY: Divination by crystal gazing.)
-Graphy: Writing or feild of study.
(TASSEOGRAPHY: Study of tea leaves)
-Tion: Action of.
(INCANTATION: Act of chanting.)
-Ology: Study of.
(NUMEROLOGY: Study of numbers.)
-Ism: Practice or system of.
(MYSTICISM: Practising mystic arts.)
-Ry: Occupation of.
(PALMISTRY: Work of reading palms.)
-Ic: Having characteristics of.
-Scopy/Scope: Examination of.
(HOROSCOPE: Examination of a time.)
-Sis: Action, state, condition, or process of.
(TELEKINESIS: Process of long distance psychic interaction.)
-Magy: A form of magic.
The suffix -Magy would be a much more logical end to a custom word describing a practice of magic, and far better than the overused -mancy. For instance, magic with technology would become ‘technomagy’. Magic involving thoughtforns would become ‘tulpamagy’. It’s a slight change in spelling and pronunciation, but a huge shift in meaning.
I hope this will clear up some confusion on not only naming of magic practises, but also understanding the meaning of names of existing practices. As always, I’ll update this post as I find more useful ideas, and I’ll probably also make an extensive list of magic related studies and words for reference purposes.
We’ve hit 90k! Printed Sketchbook will be added to the $50+ tiers for free!!! Here’s a small selection of the tons of stuff I have sketched out while working on Blindsprings– Tammy was first drawn 8 years ago!
Only 10k to go to the last stretch goal, a preview of which will be up on the KS page soon!
Thank you all so much, this has gone above and beyond everyone’s expectations!!!
also known as the Castle “inevitable multiple school trips destination if you live anywhere near Austria” Hochosterwitz It’s a really rad castle though, even after about five visits.
They had this giant dude they dressed in giant armour and sent him down to meet whatever army was trying to get through the billion castle doors and he’d say he’s just the messenger on account of him being so tiny and nimble compared to the other soldiers and the army would presumably fuck right off
skysonglark reference 