I am not a fan of december.
... three tries at the next sentence later I kind of wind up back at 'the dark bit always sucks and it's kind of unsatisfying when feels are fundamentally about the sky orb'.
This too shall pass.



I have been reading fanfic but already I have read all the ones from this new to me throuple and am going again with the filters off, so that's working about as well as it usually does.

There must be really teensy tiny amounts of canon though, none of these resemble the others except for the ending.


Unrelated to the throuple, I keep thinking up plot bunnies that are just the grand confrontation parts, and then not wanting to think up how the confrontation ends up happening. Like obviously it was all a big misunderstanding and the Star gets to be Epic and Misunderstood and then Everyone Says Sorry!
Which is a grand daydream but not a story I let see the light of day.

Got to have some sort of core disagreement
or
got to write a sportslike.

I mean there's no reason not to posit that magic users do duels on the regular, and being really good at duels could be so satisfying, but, I do not read stories like that, I read stories with big epic demon fights etc.


I do have an idea about The Magic Went Away But We Can Bring It Back. Only it keeps veering about not deciding which particular verse it is in or if I need to remix them all.

Also if magic was real here then I think here would end up looking like Golarion. I think Golarion from Pathfinder is a logical end point of it being impossible to take away people's Weapons of Mass Destruction. People there can get upset and just do a Plague Storm and make it everyone's problem. Magic can get fouled up so thoroughly you end up with Mana Wastes. Crashed sky cities can make for problems thousands of years later. That all seems perfectly logical if magic.

So what's the actual up side?


A lot of stories don't want magic, they want to be *the ones with* magic. Like, as soon as the other guy can do the exact same things, that's Hard mode and distinctly less fun. People spend more time dreaming of fireballs than resist or protect from energy spells.

Also the protection spells fail when it is drama, and then there is waking up in hospital, because stakes.
There are so many more stories with magic injuries than magic healing, that I have seen.

Making there be stakes even when there is magic healing seems pretty simples, since it's all the things that do not involve hospital, which is most days.

But then I end up reading a bunch of stories in a row about how magic user abusive relationships can go that wrong, and I'm stuck between, well that is a lot of no fun, and, well if they used the same abilities on each other that we've seen against the bad guys, that is so very not dark enough yet.

Tricky, making something interesting to read once it can go horror story from a standing start.

Memory spells and tracking spells alone make nightmare fuel.



Okay, I shall go think of something else to do.