[ SECRET POST #3009 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3009 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Peggy Carter]


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03.
[Robin Hobb]


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04.
[Fossil Fighters: Frontier]


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05.
[Katie Holmes/Jamie Foxx]


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06.
[Infinite Jest]


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07.
(Harry Potter)


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08.
[Hellsing]


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09.
[Grimm]


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10.
[CLC/CrystaL Clear]


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11.
[Stargate Universe]


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12.
[Doctor Who]


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13.
[Robin Hood (BBC)]


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14.
[Tales from the Borderlands]


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15.
[Great British Bake Off]


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16.
[The Cure]


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17.
[Top Gear]


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18.
[The X-Files]


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19.
[Ron Perlman/Hannibal Chau, Pacific Rim]


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20.
(One Direction, Zayn Malik)


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21.
[Doctor Who]


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22.
[bokura no negai]


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23.
[Gunnerkrigg Court]









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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Considering all the medieval superstitions about menstrual blood--supposedly, it could prevent grain from sprouting, make trees drop their fruit, sour wine, rust iron, and cause rabies, among other things--I should think there would be a substantial literature about potions made from it, as well as other bodily fluids. Probably there would be plenty of arguments about whether the menstrual blood is really the working agent in them. And wizards would be sharply divided about whether they were dark magic or not.

[cloud_riven]

There'd probably be a huge push for something like body-positivity in more modern times too, and how no one should be ashamed of how they acquire their own ingredients.

it could prevent grain from sprouting

Funny you mention that! I do hear that blood is wonderful for gardening \:D/

[(Anonymous)]

There'd probably be a huge push for something like body positivity in more modern times too, and how nobody should be ashamed of how they acquire their own ingredients.

I like this idea! I can definitely see some male wizards looking down on magics worked with menstrual blood--precisely because they would be favored by witches.

In a somewhat similar vein, in the magical 'verse I've been playing around with, on and off, there's a divide between academic magic and folk magic, with the academic types looking down their noses at "dirty charms" worked with crude physical vehicles like blood, spit, salt, hair and the like.

"Is it ok to give blood to a plant you're going to eat?"

lolol

[cloud_riven]

Definitely could see that! Not just that the nature of it is cruder, but also criticism for who it comes from! If sex ed is assumed to be conservative too, i'd bet there were unintentionally dangerous accidents involving students spiking someone's potion assignment, but it would still open up opportunity to actually talk about how your load is not a joke, but here's a practical use for it btw haha

How are ingredients even harvested in the first place? With science, getting material and organisms is rather clinical, but is that the case for magic science too? Like you need proper licensing to buy spider legs from the company that specifically breeds spiders for their legs? Because dirty charms totally sounds like it make use of body fluids and farmers markets to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, depending on where and when it was practiced, "dirty" magic could make use of the farmer's market--although I kind of envisioned it being practiced largely by peasant women and displaced peasants, people who'd left the land in order to work in factories. (My magical 'verse was early Industrial Revolution.) But yeah, if you imagine it being passed down and used in modern times, the farmer's market would be the route to go.

Whereas I think academic wizards would want magic to rely on the will and spiritual strength of the caster. The joke being that "dirty" magic does that too: which crude material vehicle you use is kind of immaterial.