i loooove having millions of liquid crystals, coerced by captured lightning, to obscure this pane of pure light. each shadow is a sigil, and baby, i'm crafting incantations of a millions of these runes.

Submitted by twovests in just_post (edited )

it may seem like the pinnacle of magic, but no-- the monitor merely serves as a scryers looking glass.

the magic is happening in this monolith, the wrought beast beside the window. these incantations will ask it only to scream into the ether, to scream yet another specific set of incantations. it's incantations all the way down honestly

i love being a real deity commanding real magic. maybe i should use this device to do literally anything productive or helpful for humanity

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twovests OP wrote

i know "technology is magic" is pretty cliche by now, but the thing is that it IS magical actually.

we are so saturated by magic, that it's become passe.

we're fucking tired of magic. there's too much of it. give me a tea and a sunset

these jira tickets are magical and. there are so many of them. what would my therapist say

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emma wrote

it may seem like the pinnacle of magic

*oled tv owner voice* no

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flabberghaster wrote (edited )

If you describe the process of building a phone in fantasy terms you can see that it kind of is a sort of dark magic.

Thousands of slaves spend their days digging up the earth to produce a tiny quantity of rare metals and elements. These are etched into intricate runes by automatons, themselves built by scholars and technicians that have spent their lives studying these secrets.

Legions of our brightest minds spend their days writing incantations that allow these rune devices to perform new tasks, and sometimes, subtly alter the way those who use them think so they spend more time looking at them. Sometimes, people stare too long at them and lose their grip on reality.

I really believe if you described what smart phones are to a medieval peasant they think you lived in a horrible and profane empire under the control of dark wizards that create lovecratian madness runes. And they'd be right.

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flabberghaster wrote

Replying to twovests (#21,883)

Sorry i didn't mean to do the thing where you restate someone's OP. It's osmething i've been thinking about for a while and it seemed like a good time to express it, thank you for giving me a chance to do so

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twovests OP wrote

Replying to flabberghaster (#21,888)

there is nothing to apologize for at all. all posts are good posts, but yours i particularly liked

you took the bit and ran with it. i am simply bowing

i welcome you to continue to express it. one could even say, just post,

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