shitposting rave 2, electric boogaloo

Nu-uh. We're all owls.
You? Fuzzy owl.
Ma'Vali? Tiny owl.
Mabel? Magnificiently fashionable owl.
Dipper? Adventurous owl.
Chroma? Forbidden lovechild of an owl and a bug, and still an owl.
Merwolfmom? Owl. She can fly.
Getheny? Snowy owl.
Jame? Silent and deadly, and if that's not what an owl is I don't know.
Clover? Poofy owl.
Huskies? Weird cuddly owls.
Me? Totally an owl. Hoot.
Jellyfishmoms? Weird underwater owls.
Loreli? Ambassador of the weird underwater owls and at the very least owl-by-proxy.
Sev? Obviously an owl.
Stan I'm not actually sure about, I have to confess.
Sunshine is a fruitbat.

 

*rests her chin on her hands*
This is gonna be fun.

 

SNOWFLAKE IT'S PAST YOUR BED TIME.

 

I'M A DAY OWL FIGHT ME
OvO

HOOT

 

look, fine, maybe i shouldnt havwe admitted that my old friends treat me like shit. that vwas the only mistake i made that vwas ACTUALLY my fault in any vway. the second old guy clone VWAS right about that and he vwas the only one vwho gavwe me any useful advwice. happy?

 

What kind of owl am I?

 

-fights her-
-with cuddles-
GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP YOU SILLYHEAD <>

 

When you admit you did somethin' wrong while still doin' another wrong thing (not takin' responsibility for what you've done is not attractive), it makes you look twice as much like an aft as before. Stop shootin' yourself in the foot. Already got one self-sabotagin' slagger t' deal with for free. An' he at least pays me back. In a slightly diff'rent form.

 

Nah ; )

I can't use captchalogues haha ; )

I'm not from your universe ; )

I gotta keep fit to keep my magic strong tho ; )

Magic muscles aren't fake bro, I had to work for these babies ; )

I won't lose ; )

*Aaron floats down in front of a convenient table, and rests his arm on it, gripping the table with his other arm*

 

Okay, Norm, let me take this one.

"Magic" is a word, and it appears to be a word that you don't like.

I can understand that. It's not a very useful word, because lots of different people use it to mean different things, for different reasons, and they generally all believe that they are right about their usage of it, and that makes life really difficult sometimes!

Rarity is using the word to describe some kind of innate power she possesses, and apparently in her dimension, unicorns usually possess this power. I'm not sure why they call it 'magic', or rather a word that translates as such in this interstitium. (We're almost certainly not actually all speaking the same language here.) But when she uses the word, that's what she means, and the power she possesses must be real--at least in her dimension--because it allows her to do things she can't do with her body. I'm pretty sure no unicorn has ever operated a sewing machine unaided only by using her hooves, aren't you? And she's not delusional, because she has made things for other people using this ability, and Discord is not behaving the way he would if she were delusional and he were humoring her.

(I don't know that I trust Discord, given that he seems to be getting along well with Bill, but...that's not important for the purpose of this discussion. I don't trust Discord to have anyone else's best interests in mind, but that doesn't mean I'd assume he was lying about something like Rarity making clothing.)

Anyhow. Rarity uses the word to describe a power some people have and some other people don't. That's one common way the word is used. I've heard the skeletons, and other people from their world, such as Clover, use it similarly, except that they also use it to describe a substance they believe they are made of, even though they appear to be made of bone, or flesh, or kinds of living material. That's a less common way to use the word.

The word is frequently used in many cultures to describe ways of accomplishing goals that work for some people, but not for others, when nobody knows why that is. That's ... kind of a dangerous way to interpret it, because it frequently comes with an assumption that some unseen power is actually doing the work, and often that carries a bonus assumption that whatever power is involved must be evil. When people start talking about magic like that, your best bet is to get as far away as fast as you can, because once that gets going, it doesn't matter whether you can actually do any magic or not; people go after anyone the group doesn't like, and they become susceptible to believing things they wouldn't ordinarily believe.

It can also be used to describe sleight-of-hand and other forms of trickery or physical illusion.

Anyhow, the thing to remember when someone tells you that something is 'magic' is that they probably don't know how it works. Otherwise, they'd say "it's alchemical", or "I summoned an elemental", or "it's life energy that our bodies produce".

But most of the time, depending on what dimension you're in, you'd be very unwise to dismiss the possibility that something is real just because someone described it as 'magic'!

It may very well not be magic in whatever sense of the word you commonly use. But that doesn't mean that it's not actually happening, and more importantly, it doesn't mean that it can't hurt you.

Trust me on this one.

Scepticism allowed me to get into a mess with what I thought was an alien being of immense wisdom and power.

The only part I was right about was the power, and he didn't use it for anything benevolent.

It's also a waste of your time to argue with people about whether or not magic is real when what you really need to know is whether or not the effect of the so-called magic is real. I only get into this argument with people I'm trying to teach, because the distinctions are important. But most people who use this word use it because they're happy believing in powers that may or may not be real and not having to think too hard about how things actually happen.

 

He's not going to listen to that, you know, darling.

 

What kind of magic is engex that shuts off all the threat-assessment protocols, because guesssss whaaaaat =]]]]]

 

I'm that type of magic too, yeah? The power type?

Drunkedness. It's drunkedness.

 

That's the magic of intoxication.

*grins*

 

Is the 'd' supposed to be in the middle like that? 'ked' is a nice syllable in this typeface, the 'e' has tall friends to protect it and its symmetrical??? but I thought it was just 'n's all the way through? or is this a translator thing

Yyyyyyes. And also naybe cuddles. Cuddles feel magic too.

 

... uh. It sometimes is. And it sometimes isn't.

 

Okay but what are the rules for the sometimes...es? The timing of the usage. Are there rules?

 

WE'RE ALL OWLS???

NO WONDER I CAN MAKE SUCH BEAUTIFUL BIRD SOUNDS!

 

*shrugs* I dunno. Ask Ford.

 

Syanford. Standord. STANFIRD. STAMFORD STANFORD there got it. Explain me the rules of whatever language Norm is using. I can explain Licentan for you once the hangover tomorrow wears off??? I wanna know