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rynlingSorry I’m not done yet. I want to clarify that the narrative distance between the fictional world and the real world is important in how I perceive a character’s actions.
So if Wind Waker Ganondorf sends his giant bird to kidnap girls with elf ears in an attempt to trigger the appearance of a hero so that he can reassemble a magical artifact and thereby reverse a cataclysmic flood, he is doing fantasy wizard crimes. And wizard crimes are cool.
But if Severus Snape in the Harry Potter books abuses his authority to be mean to students because he knows no one will stop him, that’s not a wizard crime. That’s just being an asshole, and plenty of teachers (and professors) in the real world are assholes in exactly this way. Unfortunately.
Along the same lines, if Tenna in Deltarune traps your characters in a custom-tailored game show in order to stave off an almost-certain oblivion for himself and his subordinates by using the magical properties of a surreal otherworld to recreate pleasant childhood memories, then that’s wizard crimes. And I support him.
But if Susie bullies the weird nonbinary kid in an empty school corridor... I mean honestly I love her and she can do whatever she wants, and genuinely I think that was just her trying to become friends with Kris by provoking attention in the only way she knew how. But you get what I’m saying.
So if Wind Waker Ganondorf sends his giant bird to kidnap girls with elf ears in an attempt to trigger the appearance of a hero so that he can reassemble a magical artifact and thereby reverse a cataclysmic flood, he is doing fantasy wizard crimes. And wizard crimes are cool.
But if Severus Snape in the Harry Potter books abuses his authority to be mean to students because he knows no one will stop him, that’s not a wizard crime. That’s just being an asshole, and plenty of teachers (and professors) in the real world are assholes in exactly this way. Unfortunately.
Along the same lines, if Tenna in Deltarune traps your characters in a custom-tailored game show in order to stave off an almost-certain oblivion for himself and his subordinates by using the magical properties of a surreal otherworld to recreate pleasant childhood memories, then that’s wizard crimes. And I support him.
But if Susie bullies the weird nonbinary kid in an empty school corridor... I mean honestly I love her and she can do whatever she wants, and genuinely I think that was just her trying to become friends with Kris by provoking attention in the only way she knew how. But you get what I’m saying.
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Date: 2026-07-15 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-07-15 11:26 pm (UTC)*or turtle, but I had to go for the rhyme