"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
@MicroSFF
that's awesome
a bit more on the nose than some may imagine
I think I love you now. 🧶
Oh, who the heck is it I saw recently—oh, right: Virginia Postrel's The Fabric of Civilization
"Any sufficiently common technology is indistinguishable from nature."
Brought to you in a roundabout way by (grossly oversimplified) Hank Green stepping in it wrt knitting on a podcast. Marvelous conversation here:
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@MicroSFF Hearth Magic 🤗
Reminds me of Ify Nwadiwe on Very Important People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Important_People_(2023_TV_series)
It's a show where comedians are given a costume and have to improvise a talk show interview in character
His costume was an alien and he keeps describing mundane things as alien technology
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"All technology, no matter how primitive, is magic when you don't know how it works." - Florence Ambrose
:D
@MicroSFF i fucking love this.
@MicroSFF the best of magic !
@MicroSFF
Very good magic indeed!
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