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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 24 Sep 2020

      Modern Fantasy usually avoids becoming sci-fi by having its fantastical elements tempered by rarity and accessibility; e.g., the existence of wizards in THE DRESDEN FILES doesn't matter because such things are niche and too divorced from normality to change things macroscopically

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    2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      fantasy also generally has very strong anthropocentric aspects to its magic--doing things that would alter the human condition is invariably somehow Beyond The Pale and requires Great Sacrifice and Difficulty

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    3. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy

      hence it being normal and easy in The Magicians to jaunt around the multiverse, but impossibly difficult to (say) cure cancer, or perform cosmetic surgery on yourself, because Sickness and Being Plain are just things the human must learn to live with

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy

      Stuff like Mage the Ascension gets explicit about the meta nature of this - whenever you try to do something in the normal world you're fighting "the consensus" of what is and isn't possible here, and the rules literally change if you just abandon Earth for Doissetep

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    5. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      like i can give considered genre analyses of this trope but there's also a part of me that's always just screaming BULLSHIT!

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    6. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      like seriously even if you want an anthropocentric universe, building conservativism into the fabric of reality is just lazy, caveman science fiction at its worst

      3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    7. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      currently in the middle of CONTROL, which i'm loving, where the universe is affected by human minds and culture--but weirdly, in ways we can't predict or understand like a meaning you're always just in the edge of grasping

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    8. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      rather than human culture simply setting the parameters of reality with no other inputs in that function, which is just uninteresting the author's biases reflected back without addition

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy

      I would say that just saying the setting of Mage: the Ascension is "human culture decides what's true with no external inputs" is deeply unfair That doesn't actually make any sense -- then normal mundane scientists would never be able to disprove theories, etc.

      3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    10. Felicia DesJardins‏ @chibikonatsu 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof @Nymphomachy

      This was always my big problem with the setting. Fighting for consensual reality is a neat *idea* but you dig down at all and it just dun' work. It's one reason I much preferred the whole semi-gnostic "fallen world" idea they went with for Awakening.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @chibikonatsu @perdricof @Nymphomachy

      Awakening's setting and Ascension's aren't *that* different if you really get into the lore underlying Ascension, Awakening just moved it to the forefront

      6:51 PM - 24 Sep 2020
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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 24 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @chibikonatsu @Nymphomachy

          this whole thread is fun and yet i am overcome by melancholy it feels like a mourning for a childhood none of us can return to just imagine if it were still 1997, and we were all in someone's basement, eating pizza and drinking two liters, digressing over ttrpgs

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        3. Felicia DesJardins‏ @chibikonatsu 24 Sep 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          Mood.

          0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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