I’ve always dreamt of waking in a magic forest. And I mean like, no explanation. Just Poof I’m there, kinda thing. I think a lot of it stems from games like Zelda or any RPG.

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    3 months ago

    I’d like to live in a world where people come together to save it instead of splitting apart.

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    As someone with a progressive disease: healing magic. I would pay all the bullion and cattle and sacks of wheat necessary to heal, or at least regress this stupid thing.

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    3 months ago

    I’d like minimum wage to be able to support my family, so that a job flipping burgers could actually feed us

    Failing that, to live as a bunny in a cottagecore tree stump, spending my days slicing up strawberries like they’re roasts, and baking pies with my neighbours

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    I’d like to be a peregrine falcon. No natural predator, able to soar above it all.

    I’d also like to be wealthy enough, not in any unethical or greedy way, to have my own home by myself and not have to work, simply so I could enjoy the rest of my life in peace. No need for golden toilets and limousines, just the ability to get up in the morning and have peace and be free of fear of what is happening to me right now.

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    3 months ago

    Socialism would be nice.

    Or just something that can actually be called democratic with a straight face.

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    Being able to actually do anything you understand well enough, the way that magic works in many settings. A brilliant engineer can design an airplane, but he still needs lots of workers and machines and materials to actually build one. A wizard who knows how to cast “fly” can just go ahead and cast it and fly around. If he has the right books, he doesn’t need other people for anything at all.

    The sort of mystery only possible in a story where the author himself doesn’t have to know what the secret is. I love science but I was very disappointed when I was a kid and I realized that science meant that everything ultimately had a mundane explanation. A mysterious structure? Built by some Bronze Age dudes. Dinosaurs? Unusually large animals. Legendary heroes? Made-up stories. Even if elves or unicorns turned out to be real, they would have a mundane explanation too because the whole universe follows rules.

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    3 months ago

    The fantasy: i gain time stopping powers with little to no side effects on using it

    The result: “Billionaire suicides skyrocket across the globe”

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    3 months ago

    I just want magic but magic based on understanding and manipulating matter. Like magic based on real life physics

    Kinda like the sorcerer’s apprentice where they can make fire by vibrating the molecules in the air until they get hot enough to combust.

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    I want to be able to remove my body parts and put them back without harming myself. That’s old school sorcery skills.