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[fatespoken]

I've got an inquiry about amputation. Metaphysical amputation, you could call it.

Where I come from, cutting off limbs is a routine procedure. We've been doing it since before the days of biting on a belt buckle and bearing the pain. And if you do it right, you'll survive. But what about parts that can't can't be cut into and stitched up?

Some of you call it magic, even if that frankly just sounds like fairytale bullshit to me. A generalized name for distinct powers in different worlds.

It's something that can't be seen or touched, that's immaterial, and is yet just as attached to you as an arm or leg. If you cut yourself you bleed. If you remove that part of you, what happens? How the fuck do you cut out something like that?

At least for me, it hasn't always been there, so logically, I shouldn't need it around. I should be able to get rid of it, without repercussion. Except that's the thing about this-- magic-- power-- whatever you want to call it. It isn't logical. It's existence itself is a blatant fuck you to all the laws of the universe, laws that have a damn good reason for being there in the first place. Unfortunately, it's also stubborn. Older and trickier than you can even imagine. It doesn't want to go away, and it'll keep on reminding you of that, louder and louder, ever incessant.

My question is simple— how do I get rid of it?

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[darkart]

Possibly psychic surgery. Possibly a modified exorcism. Possibly a ritual. Possibly disabling the part of your brain that controls whatever it is you want gone. Possibly a hundred other things that may or may not work because without knowing what you're talking about, it's impossible to say. Just like there's a different process for removing a hand at the wrist and a leg at the knee, there are different processes for metaphysical manipulation.

If your supposed universal laws do not account for magic or, pardon me, "fairytale bullshit", then they are pedestrian and incomplete.

[fatespoken]

Considering my anonymity, don't you think I'm being vague on purpose? Never really liked show and tell, which includes delineating the details of my existence to a network full of strangers. What i want to know is whether it's possible in your world to get rid of "magic," and if it is, then I'll explain further.

And the laws aren't supposed to account for a power whose very purpose is meant to break them.

disconnect.

[darkart]

[ Severus will pass on coddling. ]

anon text (ish, she's not very good at it)

[sweetmotherofgod]

Oh, boo fucking hoo.

anon.

[fatespoken]

cute, except i'm not asking for sympathy or backpats. i'm asking for a solution.

[sweetmotherofgod]

oh man, you're right. I'm so sorry. I totally misunderstood you.

I must have been distracted by the part where you compared wanting to get rid of something because you don't like it to a procedure nobody would ever choose except to save their damn life.

[fatespoken]

it's more than just "not liking it"
in fact, it's a little more along the lines of saving my own damn life, but i don't think you'd understand

[ancientalien]

You should not discard what few weapons you possess.

[fatespoken]

if this weren't the only place to discard it, i might agree
instead, i'll find a gun.

[ancientalien]

You are placing too much trust in leaving this place alive.

[fatespoken]

for once, i'm trying to stay optimistic. and i suspect i'll be safer using a gun when it comes to survival

[northerner]

It seems from your description that you do not. No maester can cut out what he cannot see.

[fatespoken]

not sure what you mean by 'measter,' but i'll presume it's a doctor

but 'cut out' is little more than a metaphor. it can't be seen, but it's still there, and maybe there's someone out there who can at least sense it and. i don't know. rip it out? separate it from me?

they could even have it if they wanted.

[northerner]

Is it a weapon, this invisible thing of which you speak? Why do you wish to rid yourself of it?

[fatespoken]

Depends on how you look at it.

And why? Because I'm not a fucking magician, I'm a scientist. [ A beat. ] People are made for certain roles. That's why a warrior is a warrior and not an artist.

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[vindictam]

[ did Disney land hurt you is this what this is ]

Time not using it, is the only cure I have seen for that which I know. But there seem to be as many types of magic here as trees in the gardens.

[ But it has far more to do with a God's whim and fancy, than any actual ability. ]

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[fatespoken]

The singular thing tying together is the name magic, and perhaps being a pain in the ass.

But there are still elements that can't be turned off, that you can't stop using, like when the future decides to give you the finger while you dream.

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[vindictam]

Your dreams... trouble you with the future?

[ wait, wait, someone else? ]

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[fatespoken]

Unfortunately.

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[chaineddog]

Just tell it to shut the fuck up then.
Either that or learn to ignore it.

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[fatespoken]

That's what i've been doing all this time, but it won't work forever.

You have experience with this kind of thing?

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[chaineddog]

Kind of.
Wouldn't call it magic though.

[nightblogs]

how is amputation ever routine oh my god

[fatespoken]

if you consider all the hospitals in all of the world
and how many of us are littering the earth?

come on, you don't even need to do the math. it's routine.

[nightblogs]

no it aint
how many dismembered people do u know