[ SECRET POST #5910 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5910 ⌋

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


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[String Tyrant]



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[Asterigos: Curse of the Stars]



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[Atomic Heart]


















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I would be down with a story about a purehearted nun whose magical powers resulted in sick kids being healed and homeless people being cured of addiction and such.

Most fiction about magical beings like angels hardly ever results in them doing anything actually helpful and decent. Maybe saving one mortal they've fallen in love with or something.

If I was an angel or something I'd like to think I'd quietly pop into cancer centers or fix the kidneys of people on dialysis.

...and also smite serial killers.

[(Anonymous)]

"I would be down with a story about a purehearted nun whose magical powers resulted in sick kids being healed and homeless people being cured of addiction and such."

I wouldn't be opposed to this, but it's hard to see how that'd work in the setting of a book or TV show. You'd need some source of conflict, for starters. Without the balance of religious people who aren't quite so saintly, it's going to feel like clumsy Christian propaganda, i.e. Christian lit.

[(Anonymous)]

Or just as bad, the only way to really do this is a kid's story and that's... A different kind of propaganda.

[(Anonymous)]

All you'd have to do to start out with is have Sister Healer start using her powers on people the church leaders deem unworthy or bad. Then you have the conflict of "compassion and helping" versus "listen to leadership/follow what I've always been taught is correct" and you can do a LOT with that in this day and age

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I like this! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, but you very quickly run into the Reed Richards problem, which is if these amazing super religious/science/superpower abilities exist, why doesn't he do anything about all this real world suffering? And you immediately have to either set your story outside the real world or come up with a whole lot of bullshit reasons why, or reduce the scope of his powers. And that's why I get so mad about writers using cancer storylines in fantastical worlds.

[(Anonymous)]

SA Big exception for Black Panther 2 which did in fact explore this.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my favourite book series, which has people with magic powers (as a side-effect of possession, warded off or not), has a massive NOPE with regards to healing magic. Well, two.

1: Healing magic is life energy transference, meaning healers can only heal at the expense of their own health, causing aging aging equal to the nature of the injury healed. Ie a small cut would have a negligible effect, but reversing a fatal injury would kill the healer. Healers tend not to live long or just never use their power.

2: Cancer is 100% not healable via magic ever because it's the sufferer's own cells causing the issue, so attempting to heal it just makes it worse.

Logical nerfing is good nerfing.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Yes, this is great - very specific, something that the healer still might risk it for in certain circumstances, very logical. But I suspect that those people also had specific and serious limits on their powers in general.

What series is this, I like the sound of it!

[(Anonymous)]

It's The DEDA Files series by Yahtzee Croshaw!

The first one is Differently Morphous, which sets the whole scene regarding magic being revealed to the normal world and all it entails, and the second one, which deals with this exact thing as a major plotline, is Existentially Challenged. c:

It's very tongue in cheek, given the writer, and is halfway a satirical, cynical social commentary, but that sort of gets less major in the second book.

[(Anonymous)]

"I would be down with a story about a purehearted nun whose magical powers resulted in sick kids being healed and homeless people being cured of addiction and such."

This sounds like a mental anime adaptation of Call the Midwife, I love it.