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madcat-world · 21 hours
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Robot Unicorn 1 - Unita-N
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hdgnj · 5 months
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DC AU that's got a lot of fun potential with a DPxDC crossover: Every single instance of Mad Science or Superpowers is actually just an example of Magic. Most Alien civilizations are specialized in what they can do, and as such have to study how what they can do works, but since Earth's magical specialty is Magical Potential (as in everyone can manifest their own individual specialty rather than having to work off of a planetary or species specialty, just like each ghost can manifest their own range of abilities) Earth hasn't realized that all their different abilities work off of the same basic principles since there's too many data points and each work slightly differently. Every alien ally assumes that it's such an obvious fact of life that there's no need to point it out to Earth, and it's also why there's so many invasions.
Well that sure explains the Fenton parents to a T. Darn idiot scientists with their belief and duck tape inventions. I can't wait for Danny to find out and be so offended.
Danny and his fraid being aware because ghosts know? allows them to do some serious magitech. Well beyond what most can manage. Which had hilarious implications for when they leave Amity Park. Like, they go to college in Metropolis. And Lex is being his usual self.
Tucker rocks up, looks at the suit and weapons and just pulls out his PDA. Types a few codes and shuts it down.
Clark: How did you do that??
Tucker: Oh! I hacked the magic! Magitech is hilariously vulnerable if you know what you're doing!
Clark: Magitech? Luthor doesn't use magitech!
Tucker:.... Huh. Yeah, yeah he does. Did you not know??
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racefortheironthrone · 2 months
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fantasy sometimes doesn't afford itself the ability to fantasize about a better world with many of the same problems of real life. thankfully ive found fantasy thatfantasize about things like gender roles, orientations, social status, etc. being more accepting, and the world kinder more often than not. question is, as hard as it is to find solid urban fantasy, are there anyworks you know of that use itself to imagine a optimal city for us urban nerds? magic public works, free dragon transit?
So there is a real problem in the fantasy and sci-fi genres that they often have a failure of revolutionary imagination, as I’ve termed it. We’re so used to not just the world as it is but also the public historical imagination of how change happens, that even in art that’s supposed to be about radically reimagining our world or new worlds, we often revert back to the familiar. (I find this tic particularly annoying in alternate history, which is supposed to be about imagining how the world could have evolved differently, but often reverts back to a retelling of (often bad) history with the numbers filed off.)
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(A sadly rare counter-example.)
You raise a fascinating question about the potential for urbanist fantasy. This is often quite rare in urban fantasy, because often out of a desire to maintain the verisimilitude of urban life, they default to a masquerade scenario which renders it impossible to explore the impact of magic on transit, housing, and other aspects of urbanism because the central conceit is that people with magic are trying to hide and thus have no impact on the mundane world.
However, it does crop up sometimes in Magitech settings, because their central conceit is all about how magic would function in place of science and lead to new ways of organizing societies, urban and otherwise. For a popular example, look at how Arcane examines the social impacts of Hextech and Shimmer. My personal favorite example of urbanist fantasy is the plane of Ravnica from Magic the Gathering.
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Ravnica is a ecumenopolis, a city-state that covers the whole planet. The city is governed by a guild council, each of whom are responsible for an aspect of the city’s physical and social infrastructure:
The Azorius Senate is responsible for running the courts and the legal system, and sometimes they run the police as well (although they have a jurisdictional dispute with the Boros Legion on that front).
House Dimir are couriers, messengers, journalists, private investigators, spies, assassins, thieves, and librarians, as well as the city’s clandestine intelligence service - if it deals with information in any way, the Dimir have a hand in it…or do they?
The Cult of Rakdos run the city’s entertainment, food service, retail, and labor recruitment (lots of shanghaing and press ganging goes on in Ravnica) - and they’re also a crazed juggalo bdsm blood cult who are responsible for keeping an ancient arch-demon entertained so he doesn’t try to destroy the city, again.
The Gruul Clans are an anarchist collective responsible for the planet’s wilderness areas, which they try to maximize by violent raids that tear down developed areas any chance they get - which also makes them Ravnica’s main demolition industry. The Boros Legion spends a lot of time defending built-up areas from Gruul rampages.
The Selesnya Conclave are a hippie nature cult commune who manage the city’s parks and other green spaces, as well as providing basic welfare services (food, “shelter,” clothing, etc.) to the city’s poor. They also use magic to do weird hivemind brainwashing in the name of harmony and unity, and they can raise giant Ent-Kaiju to defend the city in times of need.
The Orzhov Syndicate are a vampire banker mafia, and also one of the city’s biggest religions. They believe in debt on a spiritual level, and their religion fully embraces indulgences to their logical conclusion. The Orzhov preach that you can literally buy your way into heaven, and that debts to the (Catholic by way of Prosperity Gospel Evangelical) Church or its many front organizations and legitimate businesses will carry over into the next life; the Orzhov practice debt slavery on both living people and ghosts. And lest you think it’s all a cover for profit-making, they can summon dark angels to conduct rituals, lead services, and make war on their enemies. Something above is answering their prayers…
My personal favorite is the Izzet League, an institute of mad scientists and engineers and elementalist wizards who combine science and magic to research, build, and maintain the city’s infrastructure (as well as funding all tech R&D and theoretical and experimental research in physics, chemistry, and engineering) - the power grid, water and sewer systems, heating and gas lines, as well as the city’s mass transit and transportation/freight system, are all powered by their steam and fire and lightning and Magitech gadgets and robots and cyborgs made out of a magic metal named mizzium. Yes, a lot of their devices explode, and yes their golems and robots and elementals have a tendency to go rogue, but that’s the price of progress!
The Golgari Swarm are a subterranean necromantic cabal who run the city’s waste disposal, burial services, and do the bulk of the agricultural production for Ravnica’s hungry masses. All of Ravnica’s citizens are entitled to a food dole provided by the Golgari’s fungi farms as a form of basic income. Just don’t think too hard about what went into the compost heaps or what your rations might be made of…
The Boros Legion is Ravnica’s main police and military, led by a literal host of warrior angels. Imagine the combination of a police force entirely made up of noir detectives and loose cannon Dirty Harry-esque cops and an army with flying fortresses led by fiery angels who are all deeply dramatic lesbians. True believers one and all, the Boros are here to mete out justice and divine wroth upon evildoers wherever they hide. If they had their way, the Orzhov would all be in prison along with the Gruul and the Rakdos, but the damn bureaucrats in the Azorius Senate keep trying them up in knots with paperwork.
The Simic Combine are responsible for the city’s environmental quality, ensuring biodiversity and sustainability in a global metropolis; they are also the city’s universal health care providers. All Ravnicans have access to free health care, as long as they consent to the Combine’s biomantic research. See, the Simic are the other group of mad scientists/mages in the city, except they went into genetics, environmental science, and (marine) biology and they believe in individual and societal evolution through the use of augmentation, cloning, and splicing. After all, why stop at curing someone’s respiratory illness when you could also give them gills? Or giant crab claws? Or tentacles?
I love the world-building and the attention to urban systems and infrastructure in Ravnica. More than most, they’ve thought about what urban life needs to function and made it magical.
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zabe-books · 1 year
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You might like my book about hot sad men who turn into dragons!
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Koré is a male courtesan in a matriarchal society whose dad is a complete and total (also beautiful) asshole. He’s out to ruin his dad’s political career when he runs across the ghost of a dead god (while getting screwed) in the basement of a ruined temple. 
She chooses him as her herald, giving him the ability to transform into one of her sacred dragons and breathe life back into their dying world. Which is a massive problem because a) he’ll be stripped of his hard-won agency and turned into state property if discovered and b) he sees himself as inherently worthless and bad and can’t fucking process the idea of anyone choosing him for anything
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(art by Therese Waricka)
Enter Ria, a young scholar and adventurer eager to make her mark by uncovering the dead gods’ secrets, and Faziz, an outlaw and assassin who’s running an underground low-cost housing scheme. Both have their own reasons for meddling in Koré’s life. Neither expects to fall in love with him.
And love is a problem. Because they love him for him, which means his secret, scaled side keeps appearing whenever they’re nearby. he’s nearby. Try as he might, he can’t erect emotional barriers to keep them out. With a war against the undead looming and a royal succession crisis brewing, Koré must embrace the creature he truly is--and fight for his city and his own place within it.
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(art by Nicole Deal) 
You might like SILK FIRE if you like: sad traumatized men with daddy issues, epic fantasy with heroes as likely to flirt as to fight, sci-fi that plays with gender roles, giant buildings and palaces that can fly, women who light stuff on fire and who are adored for it, morally-grey characters, and, of course, dragons. It’s available here (Amazon | Audible | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org) and the hardcover comes with shiny gold foil that makes it a great gift. You can also follow me here where I talk about it all the time!
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trash-sidhe · 11 months
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So I got inspired to make a steampunk au of my THSC selfship au and I got all the important ones done except Dr vin and I did some doodles too
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With my own version of "humans" that are somehwhere between Homestuck humans and thsc sticks and can have animal/fantasy parts like tails ears wings and even limbs
They're very comfort to me now and tomorrow when my new pen comes I'm probably gonna make a little comic with them I might even make a long form thing I'm just gonna go ham on and not try to write a good story for like the rest of my projects just to try to tell something while I whittle away at the Chaosmic plane
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ironfey-42 · 1 day
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Based on this tweet
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iamthespineofmybook · 8 months
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I think it'd be interesting to see a story where they have what's effectively modern technology, but the methodology of how the people of that world acheived it is with various types of magic instead of science and engineering.
So, for example, instead of mobile phones, they have communication stones, with the various stages of phone evolution being different sizes and types of stone, with the smart phone equivalent being something like a plate of obsidian or something.
I think the most fascinating thing for the whole concept is coming up with the equivalencies and then backtracking their development with how our world developed them.
Their version wouldn't even havr to look like ours, such as their commercial airlines using merely flying box instead of an entire airplane.
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maimbutt · 8 months
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vyriadurav · 6 months
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Chapter 12 of Forged in the Light of New Stars is now live on Patreon for 1 dollar and up patrons! Follow Gwen as she struggles with her feelings of helplessness in the face of the Tearathian attack. Learn more about her and Brian's shared past! And, finally, see what mysteries await them both on Tellara! Forged is a t4t lesbian isekai taking place in a magitech world just as advanced as our own. Powerful creatures, fantastical wonders, and a civilization that embraces queer joy fully and completely, all this awaits on Tellara!
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ironstrangehaven · 5 months
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voidshaker · 6 months
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my artificer: Sir that's my emotional support robo-familiar
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madcat-world · 3 days
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CyberKnight - BenedickBana
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blogfanreborn777 · 2 years
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Artisans by Matt Cowdery
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art-of-li · 6 days
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🔸 𝐎𝐂: 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐄𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 🔸
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Born into an aristocratic family, Asher Hayes spent most of his years growing up focused on intellectual development and writing. Most of the Hayes dedicated their careers at the University as researchers or scholars as a way of reinforcing their family name and legacy.
Asher, however, appeared to stick out as the black sheep of the family due to his clear preference for writing fantasy and outlandish works of fiction. He would commonly receive raised eyebrows or dismissive remarks due to his 'wayward' interests. With the dawn of Aetherium upon humanity in recent years, many have insisted that Asher ought to redirect his focus towards Aetheric research and development instead.
Asher was just on the verge of reconsidering his path when the local Battlecore arena finished its construction after his 28th birthday. Originally intended as a brief visit and only to gain first-hand experience of Aetherium use in combat, Asher found his passions ignited unlike anything he has ever known once the sparring began. Between the adrenaline of the fight, and the rush of Aetherium coursing through his body, empowering him with regenerative and telekinetic powers, Asher felt like he was able to live the fantasies of warriors he only ever wrote about.
From that point forward, Asher knew his true destiny deep down. Despite the shock and resistance met by his family for his newfound calling, claiming that he’s throwing away his high-born life to volunteer as some ‘lab rat' of a dangerous, unrefined bloodsport, Asher would return day after day to refine his skills in the arena.
While his ambidexterity served as nothing more than a neat party trick of writing a perfectly form sentence starting from both ends, Asher decided that his talent would be much better maximized to master the simultaneous dual-wielding of a blade and pistol. Now, from scientists and engineers who regard his writings as research, or to folk who simply enjoy the entertainment of the sport, many continue to watch and track Asher's rising success in the Battlecore Ring to this day.
Song: Extreme Music Feat. Dan Murphy - Inside of Me
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void-organism · 8 months
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Trading Company Enforcer
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From guarding blacksites and VIPs, to strikebreaking, or even engaging in open warfare, private enforcers do the dirty work of the trading companies.
Their equipment and training can vary wildly, from barely-armed thugs to elite shocktroops.
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Strange (Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tony Stark/Stephen Strange Characters: Tony Stark, Stephen Strange Additional Tags: Stephen Strange Loves Oranges, drunk stephen strange, Responsible Tony Stark, Designated Driver Tony Stark, Stephen Really Loves Oranges, Oneshot, Post-Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Not Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Compliant, Tony Stark Lives, no beta we die like tony stark Series: Part 2 of IronStrange Week 2023, Part 8 of Iron's IronStrange Bingo 2022 Summary:
Not drunk Stephen really loves oranges of any type. Drunk Stephen really loves oranges of any type and will pout when he doesn't get oranges. Drunk Stephen might cause a worldwide shortage of oranges if no one is watching.
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