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I don't know anything about basketball.
there they are,,, the lakers
I’m dying after reading this
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*Scrolls past*
*reluctant sigh*
*scrolls back up*
*rebogs*
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The party's Wizard ruining the Rogue's attempts to show off after they said "I can do magic too, it's not that difficult!"
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One thing I find really interesting about the Merlin fandom is that a lot of us explicitly ignore some of the show’s magical rules in fanfiction when pertaining to Merlin. Like, every other character is bound by these rules, but not Merlin. Merlin is the most powerful sorcerer (Warlock) ever. He is magic incarnate and will never run out of magic, and this is explicit in the show, that’s true. He will live forever.
But we take it and we take some of the hints the show gave us and we decide that all this power means that Merlin can break the rules. No one can create magical life without also taking it… except Merlin. That’s what a lot of the fandom decides when they write him, but he also doesn’t know that, so he can’t just bring people back to life, because he doesn’t think he can.
But we know he can.
We’ve seen him create life from nothing, and yeah, they were small instances and the creators probably didn’t fully understand what they were getting themselves into with them, but they exist.
Merlin can create flowers and butterflies and turn stone to life from nothing. Real physical little things. By the laws of the show that shouldn’t be possible, but he does it, over and over again. We learn in the poisoned chalice that conjuration magic is incredibly difficult with the afnac and Giuas’ words. But Merlin does it easily.
And it makes sense that he can. He has infinite power, infinite energy. If anyone else tried to pour enough of themselves into nothing to make life, it would take a lot of power, probably enough to kill them or someone else, hence the need for a life for a life. That energy has to come from somewhere.
Unlike all of the others, Merlin can just pour enough of himself out to make life and be fine, because he is literally everything.
And I think it’s really interesting that basically the entire fandom knows this and often makes other characters comment on it, while Merlin is just vibing with no idea.
It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.
It is genuinely baffling to me, in a very kind and positive way, especially coupled with the local news continually going several shades of 'wtf, this thing is a roaring success again and we don't quite get why'. They've already quadrupled their capacity for simultaneous clicks and it's still nowhere near enough and there's just... Bewilderment.
- I think people want to help the environment in small but tangible ways, which is hard right now because of.. well... because of The Horrors. And being able to say 'wow! I helped this creature cross a dam' makes you feel good.
- I also think that most people can relate to a small, helpless creature trying to get from one place to another and there's a FUCKIN WALL in the way.
But to come back to point 1- Citizen Science fills a hole in the soul that wanted to go out on adventures and discover things when we were younger, but the study of it was hard or we didn't have the money or our schools were garbage. But you don't have to have a degree to do things like... press a button or download and use an app, or count or transcribe notes.
Anyways- here's some Citizen Science links if the Fish Doorbell makes you feel happy and you yearn for more ways to help scientists do stuff:
Zooniverse is a website that hosts information on many citizen science projects
