Fucked up how humanity discovered electricity and radiation and made machines and learned to make airplanes and cured diseases and our takeaway isnt that “Some Magic Is Real And Here’s Why”, but that magic is fake this is big boy science and it’s totally not magical
Me upon being isekaid to a fantasy world: you say you dont have magic but you conjured up that frog the other day whats with that
Wizard who spent decades mastering his craft, understands how and why it works, and processes it entirely as a regular part of his day to day life: did you just call creature conjuring magic
Works the other way around too in isekais.
that wizard: and you said you don’t have magic in your world but there are lights that come on, that do not use candles or flames or emit any heat at all, the moment that you walk into a room? you don’t even have to say anything?
me, squirming uncomfortably: for a while there an earlier version ran off of two claps
the wizard: an earlier version of what? the spell? the spell you use to make the lights come on?
I’ve said this before, but any alternate universe that has things we would consider “magic” almost certainly would not have a word for the concept of what we consider “magic”
I mean. We don’t have a word for “things we can do in our universe which are not possible in one specific other universe that we’ve never been to”