I'm A Big Fan Of Wizards-as-programmers, But I Think It's So Much Better When You Lean Into Programming

I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.

A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.

The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.

The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.

A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.

A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.

Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.

Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.

Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".

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a cute puppy in a t shirt typing on the computer. he is doing a very good job.

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2 months ago
They’re Judging You So Hard Kathy Omg
They’re Judging You So Hard Kathy Omg

they’re judging you so hard kathy omg

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They’re Judging You So Hard Kathy Omg
2 months ago

FINALLY YES THANK YOU

also COMPLETELY unrelated but when people talk abt stuff like quirkless vigilante izuku and whether toshi would be for or against it (generally they paint him as against it because it's usually an all might bashing dadzawa fic COUGHS who said that) i feel like people miss the obvious

Also COMPLETELY Unrelated But When People Talk Abt Stuff Like Quirkless Vigilante Izuku And Whether Toshi

girl he WAS that quirkless vigilante. anything he'd say about that would come from a place of having tried to BE that quirkless vigilante at FOURTEEN YEARS OLD. not get into ua. not get mentored. toshi's goal was to STOP CRIME with a LEAD PIPE and NO QUIRK

don't ever tell me that he'd be a big meanie who hates the quirkless and the idea of quirkless heroes/vigilantes ever again. get the fuck out of my house. if he's saying something against it thats because he doesn't want anyone else to get hurt!!! he had to get bailed out by nana!!! like!!! use your fucking brain im begging

2 months ago
"You'll Have To Be Faster Than That, Kid."

"You'll have to be faster than that, kid."

I know the only scenes we see of Gran Torino training All Might are just Torino kicking the crap out of Toshi, making him scared shitless of Torino as an adult, but I really like to think that they goofed off a little too before Nana's death. This hc created the idea of one of Torino's training activities being a really intense game of tag around the city.

close ups below the cut :)

"You'll Have To Be Faster Than That, Kid."
"You'll Have To Be Faster Than That, Kid."

i really need to work on my backgrounds 😔😔😔 drawing the city almost put me in an early grave i swear

2 months ago

midoriya sensei !

Midoriya Sensei !
2 months ago
He Really Needed That Hug ( ཀ͝ ∧ ཀ͝ )

he really needed that hug ( ཀ͝ ∧ ཀ͝ )

Inspired by this wholesome video from

@ lifeisgoodco (on instagram)

2 months ago

Playing off the current trend of Ba Sing Se residents being absolutely mindblown that Lee the nice-if-grumpy young man from the tea shop is now Fire Lord, I present another headcanon:

They don’t think that Lee was secretly Prince Zuko this whole time.  They genuinely believe that the Fire Nation straight up made a Worthy Tea Shop Waiter the next Fire Lord.  After all, they’ve had such poor luck with their last three Fire Lords, it might be better to pull their next Fire Lord from the common ranks instead, someone who has absolutely no ties to the Fire Nation, and really, who better than someone who has literally served the people before?

“No, no,” an exasperated Zuko tries to explain to well-wishers that he knew from when he lived in the Lower Ring.  “I really was Prince Zuko back then.  I was just in hiding from my family.”

Sure, they say, humoring him, but they all know that it’s just a line he has to say because that’s how the Fire Nation is justifying their choice and legitimizing his rule, that he really was the long-lost exiled Prince of the Fire Nation.  Could you imagine, though?  A prince?  Working in customer service?  In the food industry?  A spoiled little silver-spoon brat like that wouldn’t have lasted even a day as a tea shop waiter, let alone handle all those Kah-Rens with such aplomb as their Lee did.

Zuko eventually gives up, and whenever he visits the Jasmine Dragon and dons the waiter’s apron henceforth, he just lets the patrons welcome him “home.”

2 months ago
I Redownloaded The Sims To Make This

i redownloaded the sims to make this

inspo from this pic

I Redownloaded The Sims To Make This
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