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sense and the masquerade
May. 25th, 2022 10:45 pmIn a discussion of modern-day monsters and whether they should be more, not fewer, I suggested that they are sensible.
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masks and the masquerade
May. 15th, 2019 09:57 pmA superhero secret identity has its affinities to the masquerade. To be sure, the superhero is known to the public world in both identities, where the magical creatures may be hiding not only that they are vampires or werewolves, but that they exist at all -- and if not, it's the mundane identity only.
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special snowflake magic and class
Aug. 11th, 2017 10:32 pmThere's another problem with magic where some special characters have it and others don't.
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Phoebe and the masquerade
Feb. 25th, 2017 07:16 pmWas contempating the masquerade in Phoebe and the Unicorn, where the unicorns live casually among us and go unnoticed.
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other worlds and the masquerade
Oct. 25th, 2016 07:27 pmIn the normal portal fantasy, there is no need for the masquerade: the magic's in another world, open there, and hardly hiding from the more mundane world, and if the characters aren't snatched from it by magic from the other, the portal is an effervescent and fugitive thing with a mind of its own.
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the masquerade and the government
Oct. 16th, 2016 11:42 pmWas pondering Monster Hunter International. Where the masquerade is upheld by the mundane government, putting down the monsters and threatening the witnesses. Lately revealed to because people's knowledge of it would prove dangerous. BUT --
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the masquerade and punishment
Oct. 6th, 2016 11:37 pmWas pondering the masquerade and realized -- what if the magical being were forced away as punishment?
It would leave a whole lot of the world-building questions open but still has its intriguing aspects
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It would leave a whole lot of the world-building questions open but still has its intriguing aspects
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the worlds in the world
Sep. 27th, 2016 11:38 pmah Julian. . . there I was, merrily outlining along, and got to the point where I introduced him. . . love interest. To give my heroine more motive to get her job done. And then it turns out. . . .
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shapeshifting stasis
Aug. 29th, 2016 10:56 pmSo we have dove maidens and swan maidens, peahen maidens and heron maidens, and a few others, and out in the farther reaches, unseen by our main character, there are some oddities: spoonbills, selkies greyhounds, frogs (even though frogs are mostly cursed in this world).
Why stop there?
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Why stop there?
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how thought leads on to thought
Aug. 23rd, 2016 10:52 pmA while back, I was musing on an idea loosely derived from Harry Potter. . . and it never went anywhere because it's just a beginning.
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humans hanging around
Aug. 22nd, 2016 11:45 pmBuilding the masquerade and the magical worlds within it -- and I think there's going to be some humans hanging around in some, aware of the magical beings.
Not wizards -- well, not necessarily -- some might incidentally have some magic, but that's not why they are there.
I think I have concluded that they were people too tightly entwined with the magical creatures to be torn away. As long as they are bound not to blurt out the truth when they meet the ignorant, and don't themselves realize there's more magical beyond -- so they don't go and become nuisances -- they can fit in nicely in the worlds of trolls or dragons. Might not be fun for them, but it would work.
Not wizards -- well, not necessarily -- some might incidentally have some magic, but that's not why they are there.
I think I have concluded that they were people too tightly entwined with the magical creatures to be torn away. As long as they are bound not to blurt out the truth when they meet the ignorant, and don't themselves realize there's more magical beyond -- so they don't go and become nuisances -- they can fit in nicely in the worlds of trolls or dragons. Might not be fun for them, but it would work.
good morning, grandfather
Aug. 9th, 2016 10:03 pmI have these worlds of magic. One with werewolves, one with dragons, one with bird maidens -- one, I think, with trolls and ogres -- and the heroine, one of the bird maidens, goes on a walk. A long one. And meets a troll, and knowing her fairy tales, says, "Good morning, grandfather."
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multi-stage masquerade, and motives
Aug. 7th, 2016 11:55 pmWas pondering the possibility of different kinds of magical beings hiding themselves from the mundane -- and each other -- and realized that a selective withdrawal did not have to mean hiding from each other.
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cursed child and the masquerade
Aug. 4th, 2016 07:58 pmThe Cursed Child did not add much to the details of why the magic is all living in secrecy in the Harry Potter world. However, it did have one interesting touch -- spoiler warning --
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