Nita: I’m going to do the thing!
Kit: Please don’t do the thing. Stop doing the thing!
Sker’ret: I’m gonna eat the thing.
Filif: Can I decorate the thing?
Carmela: I will explode or blackmail the thing.
Dairine: I’m gonna do my own thing.
Roshaun: I’m too cool for this thing.
Darryl: I will do the thing in two places at once.
Ronan: I don’t want to do the thing.
Harry: Why do these things keep happening?
The Powers: WOOOHOOOO THIIIIIIIIIIINGS
Tag: Young Wizards
SOME DIE YOUNG (BUT YOU’D BETTER HOLD ON); a nita/kit fanmix
“Look,” she said, “I didn’t do it for you ‘some.’ I did it for you ‘pretty much.’”
Kit looked at her with an expression that at first made Nita think Kit thought she was angry with him. But then it became plain that he was embarrassed too. “Well,” he said, “okay. I—thought maybe you did. But I didn’t want to say anything because I didn’t know for sure. And I would have felt really stupid if I was wrong.” He had been looking away. Now he looked at her. “So?”
“So,” and her voice stuck again, and she had to clear her throat to unstick it. “I like you, that’s all. A lot. And if you start liking somebody that much, well, I still want to keep the team going. If you do. That’s all.”
He didn’t say anything. Nita stood there burning in a torment of embarrassment and anger at herself.
“Neets. Cut me some slack. You’re my best friend.”
This is actually the most perfect fanmix and it’s perfect for Nita and Kit and you should listen to it even if you don’t really ship them romantically it is so perfect perfect songs perfect lyrics perfect
Cousins cousins cousins
Oh Powers in a bucket, I just made a connection (and once again I’m drowning in feels)
When were the two times Atlantis has been mentioned in canon?
DW: Discussing with Ed its destruction as a result of the failed Twelvesong
TWD: The Transcendent Pig telling Kit, “The last time someone asked me a question phrased that way (…) Atlantis sank.”
What if it was the same question as Kit’s?
How can I save her?
……NO
…oh.
so something that might be of interest/amusement to certain people: one of my classes involves going to a concert at the end of the quarter
i don’t yet know what to expect except that it apparently revolves around whalesong
make sure you read the fine print before you volunteer for anything
^^^
But don’t be afraid to give yourself away.
“I never thought goodness could be so tough,” [Nita] said. “So strong. But then again, I guess goodness isn’t something I’d think about a whole lot, anyway. Nobody uses the word much unless it’s in a commercial, and then they’re just trying to convince you that something has a lot of milk in it.”
Carl nodded, looking wry. “Virtue,” he said. “The real thing. It’s not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It’s dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it’s not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you’d better watch out.”
“Something bad might happen?”
“Impossible. But possibly something painful.”
A Wizard Alone (NME), by Diane Duane (via dorotheian)
“Must I accept the barren Gift?
-learn death, and lose my Mastery?
Then let them know whose blood and breath
will take the Gift and set them free:
whose is the voice and whose the mind
to set at naught the well-sung Game-
when finned Finality arrives
and calls me by my…
Okay, I tried to voice this. I tried to make it sort of half-sung, half-spoken, and I think I did okay.
Reconciling the HP and YW universes
Okay, so everyone knows that Young Wizards and Harry Potter are different things, right? Really different. One of the best comparisons I’ve heard is that magic is a right in the HP world, and a privilege in the YW world.
Yet it’s also close to canon that the YW ‘verse can encompass all fictional universes to some degree. So how do we reconcile this? I will talk about this under the read more.
The “magic” we see in the Harry Potter world is not magic as we know it in the Young Wizards series. Instead, it is a form of psychic ability that some people possess, a combination of telekinesis and mental. The fact that silent spells exist suggests that most of the “spells” are just a way for younger “wizards” to focus their abilities, by establishing a base method. In actuality, you could wave your wand any way you want and say anything and if you knew well enough what you wanted to happen, it would. Hermione would probably have mastered silent spells super-fast if it wasn’t for the “right way” getting drilled into her.
As a matter of fact, part of me wonders if the Harry Potter world isn’t a world that is under the influence of the Lone Power, as in Wizards at War. The mentality of almost all the “wizards” has been warped to think of magic as something that only they deserve, not to be used to help “muggles,” as well as something to constantly use frivolously for everything. As a result, true wizardry has a hard time gaining a foothold. Some of the more dramatic “magical” moments in the series are probably interventions by the Powers That Be.
in young wizards they do sometimes say ‘i love you’ but more often than not they say ‘there’s always timeheart’ which means because you are loved when you die you will go to the eternal, timeless universe where everything that was loved in life lives on; ageless, deathless, perfect in its own way, and i think that’s really beautiful
FIGURE SKATING WIZARDS DRAWING SPELL DIAGRAMS ON THE ICE AND IN THE AIR AS THEY SKATE
oH MY GOD
because
dd mentioned this thing about physical expressions of the speech, that there’s gonna be a cameo or something of someone who uses their whole body to cast, and nita’s gonna think “wow, it looks like he’s dancing”
and
and what if
the figure skating routine is the spell
like, forget the noisewords or thoughtwords
the movement is the spell, and as you carve it into the ice it is being cast
EXACTLY
cries because what if that’s where the idea of professional figure skating came from
like the first people who decided “dude I’m totally gonna strap blades to my feet and then do incredibly difficult and sometimes dangerous acrobatic maneuvers on ice” was just a wizard trying to draw a really really big spell diagram
and then other people saw, or maybe they just enjoyed what they were doing enough to want to do it for non-wizardly reasons
ugh and now I want to apply that to so many different things
capoeira danced in a Brazillian village and a wizard looks on and goes “you know what, that would be a great move for this one spell I’m working on” and asking if they can join in, using the energy of the crowd to strengthen the spell
aerial acrobats using wizardry during their performances to allow them to do moves they couldn’t normally do, weaving the wizardry into their acts, so their graceful arcs through the air become the graceful arcs of the Speech
synchronised swimmers, though, taking inspiration from the whale wizards they’ve worked with to use their whole bodies to trace out schematics in the water (wearing artificial fins, even, because a single point is always more precise than two, and you can’t really afford misspellings in a spell)
(basically what I’m saying is mermaid wizards. I want—nay, need—mermaid wizards)
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