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Mara Lynn Johnstone

@marlynnofmany / marlynnofmany.tumblr.com

Welcome to the inside of my head! It’s fun in here. I write, draw, and generally create. Expect to find everything from shapeshifters to robots, eccentric wizards to space dragons, with a healthy dose of Humans Are Weird. Let’s have fun with this.

I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind

As she should

It’s fun to overthink magic. If a character can control rain, what else does that mean they can do? Sure, you could go the cheap way out with a written spell for weather and nothing else, but there are so many more intriguing options.

How does the character control rain, anyways? That could be pure telekinesis. If so, then they can likely control anything, or at least anything lightweight. Throw sand in someone’s eyes, clean up spilled flour from baking, wipe car windshields of condensation/snow…

If the rain is controlled by waterbending, then we’ve seen how that works. Water is everywhere: blood, air, plants. A waterbender could control living things, not just rain.

If it’s a weather-based magic, either talking to the planet as a sentient being or simply causing things to change, then boy howdy there are some useful weather tricks out there. (Google “heat burst” and tell me that wouldn’t be handy to throw down on a villain.)

Honestly, it could be anything. The rules of magic are what you make them, and I prefer to make them interesting.

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Actual question #2

If you were going blind, what kind of magic would you use to compensate?

Telekinesis. If it’s not vision-based (a variety I have seen written before) then it stands to reason that in order to move things with your mind you’d have to be able to sense them. How much of the shape of a thing you can sense depends entirely on how powerful you want the ability to be, but I think you could get fairly detailed.

And it gives you the bonus of flying Peter Pan style!  Which seems funny if you’re blind, but not with Daredevil vision taken into account.  Then you could see even in the dark.  Very useful.  I can’t think of anything better.

Liam Neeson apparently was a danger on set because the jedi have like four basic moves but he was trained for swordfighting for Rob Roy so he would wave his plastic sword in new and interesting ways that would not be choreographed but were traditional actual ways to fight with a sword

To be fair, that does sound like something Qui-Gon would do.

between Liam actually knowing what he was doing and Ewan not being able to stop himself from making lightsaber noises it's a wonder the Phantom Menace got made at all

Don’t forget the possibility of turning each other’s lightsabers off.  That would be the funniest bit of slapstick in the galaxy. 

“Take that!”  woosh

“So there!” woosh

“Grr.”

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