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[Night of the Lepus + Bill & Ted]

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[Iron Fist]

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[Kingdom Hearts / Devil May Cry]

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[Thor: Ragnarok]

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[Compete to Eat]

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[Guilty Crown]

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[Outlander]

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[teen wolf, stiles]

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What are your favorite supernatural things in fiction? If you're reading a story about magic, how do you like the magic to function? Is there anything you've found especially interesting or cool?

I love magic of any kind honestly. I love it in any genre too. Give me all the magic in my scifi.

I especially love magic with rules that are clearly set out. Magic that takes into account real world physics and such is great.

But I also like it when magic isn't everything. When the magic of a world isn't all powerful. When there are mundane characters who can do awesome things. When magic has strong limits and can't always save the day.

I especially love magic with rules that are clearly set out. Magic that takes into account real world physics and such is great.

But I also like it when magic isn't everything. When the magic of a world isn't all powerful. When there are mundane characters who can do awesome things. When magic has strong limits and can't always save the day.

This describes my preferences pretty well.

Magic with rules that have an internal logic, and with limitations that prevent users from relying on it too heavily (or that make it so that it can backfire in spectacular fashion), is wonderful. The 'Mistborn' magic system is among my favorites: super rules-based, and limited by world resources and socioeconomics.

Magic that's kind of individualistic and esoteric, or impossible to master (because it's a chaotic force in its own right), is cool, too.

Yes to this. I think a lot of my favourite sci-fi is mixed sci-fi/fantasy. The magic doesn't have to called "Magic" either - like biotics in Mass Effect is basically technobabble for a magic system in a sci-fi game series, or the Force in Star Wars.

Uhhh, is urban magic a type of magic? I love magic that is used for every day things (with some people having super magic). I especially love magic stories that take place in modern(ish) times.

I like "one person with psychic power" stuff, like Eleven in Stranger Things. I'm not quite as into magic because there usually has to be an explanation of how it works, and why some people can do it and other people can't, and that can get boring. I did enjoy Harry Potter, and I also liked the Discworld books, but high fantasy is not my favorite genre.

I really like kind of low-level, folkloric magic? You know, the standard witch toolkit: augury, supernatural sensitivity, prophecy, low level curses and spells. The sort of thing that lets certain people feel their way through the world that little bit more accurately, and maybe influence big events by subtle means. You know, tie three knots in a red string stained with a messenger's blood, feed it power, and three bouts of bad luck mean a vital message arrives too late to stop a war, that kind of thing.

In general I kind of like the smaller, more subtle, bordering on insidious sorts of magic. Also perception-based magic, sensitivity to the supernatural, ability to see and negotiate with supernatural beings. I'm generally not much for the 'superpowers' sort of magic, fireball kung fu or elemental free-for-alls. I like the little things.

yeah!!!! I agree with this.

I feel like fortunetelling is definitely one of the most interesting, and least utilized, forms of magic in fiction. And I definitely like the more ritualistic, subtle stuff generally.

IA this is very cool. Not all magic has to be like... flaming swords and summoning dragons.

I'm a big fan of classic everyman in faerie stories.

And postmodern and modern mythic.

Magic that's learned as opposed to magic you are either born with or not and you can't do anything to change that. One reason I'm not a big Harry Potter fan.

I love stories about haunted houses, ghosts, stuff like that. Especially in a period setting. For magic, I prefer universes where magic exacts a price, like a physical toll upon the wielder. Like someone else said, Harry Potter is a lot less interesting to me because so much of the magic consists of spells where it's just a matter of saying the right word or putting together the right ingredients. IMO that creates a problem because it makes magic too easy to use, so why wouldn't you use it for everything? Then they needed a Ministry of Magic to lay down rules for its use. I'd rather the limitations were part of how magic works, period.

Harry Potter is a lot less interesting to me because so much of the magic consists of spells where it's just a matter of saying the right word or putting together the right ingredients.

When it comes to potions this seems to be true; the creating of a potion can be extremely complicated, but it's ultimately like following a recipe. But I don't think the HP universe ever depicts spells as being that simple. Yes, you need to say the right word, but you also need to do it with the right...focus? Energy? Feeling? Otherwise the spell doesn't work. To my memory, the books never really go into that side of magic much (which I could see being considered a shortcoming of its own), but we know that the internal state of the spell-caster must be important to the result, otherwise Charms class and Defense Against The Dark Arts class would be a lot quicker, easier, and more perfunctory than they are in the books. All the students would simply memorize all the spells and then they'd be good to go. Where what we actually see happening in those classes is a hell of a lot of trial and error; kids saying the spell and nothing happening, or getting a fraction of the response they're supposed to get, or something else entirely happens.

Not saying you need to like HP. Just saying, the way spell-casting is depicted in the books isn't anywhere close to rote.

More alchemy and occultism imo

I tend to like sorcery, like someone is born with the ability to use music on a near-instinct level. All the better if it needs training to control.

I also like wizardy existing as a counterpoint - someone who is not a sorcerer can learn to use magic, with spells, rituals, tools and dealing with powerful entities.

Wizardry has rules and rituals to learn, sorcery has more instinct and emotion.

I am very much a fan of Fantasy worlds.

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