in the absence of a clear way to distinguish muggles from wizards, I tried to unconsciously figure out what the other wizard schools were
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Replying to @life_minutiae @patiencemosher and
When Rowling tried to get out of the absurdly small number of official wizard schools in the world (11) by handwaving the vast majority of wizards are homeschooled "hedge wizards" I decided there's probably a class divide in their world like in The Magicians
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Almost all actual magic-users are hedgewitches whose culture has nothing to do with the absurdly inbred, insular culture of the Hogwarts elite They rarely interact, the Hogwarts alums pretend the hedgies don't exist and the hedgies dislike and resent the Ivy Leaguers intensely
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
This is my first time ever hearing of hedge wizards and that probably says something profound about the setting
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Replying to @life_minutiae @patiencemosher and
Well of course all of the wizard kids in Britain get a proper formal education in magic, because they're a proper civilized country Not like the anarchy they've got in the States
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
(Ilvermorny is supposed to be about the same size as Hogwarts but if the wizard gene is just as prevalent in North America as it is in the British Isles then Ilvermorny can't take more than 10% of all the American wizards That's a BIG hedge mage underclass)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
THE ROOK discusses this--someone wonders, "why isn't britain the tiny smaller partner of the dominant american chequy," and they get an answer, "oh lol, magic is super-concentrated in britain, despite the difference in population we have the same number of paranatural weirdos"
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
like once you say it out loud it just comes across as cuckoo, the author's anglophilia distorting the fundamental mechanics of the world to ensure that britain remains at the center of the (magical) universe rowling, by contrast, never even bothers to consider it
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
I just sort of assumed that most of the world didn't really care about those isolated, inbred, ignorant weirdos in England. The American mages (it's gender-neutral!) just kind of made stuff up if they had to interact with the Brits.
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Replying to @itsmeerkat1 @perdricof and
"Yeah, we've got a school. Ilvermorny? Yeah, that's it. Of course we've got Houses. Um. I was in... uh, WOLFTHORN. Totally not a deodorant. What's a deodorant? (well, that explains a lot.) It's a M-word thing that makes you not stink. You should try it."
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"No-maj" as the word for someone who doesn't have magic is totally what you'd say if you didn't actually have a specific word for that concept and had to make one up just now upon being asked about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @itsmeerkat1 and
One of the things that 40k has evolved to do really well is the intra-subfaction ways of talking about each other. Imperial psykers flat out call non-psykers "blunts", amongst other in-universe insulting slang.
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