glassblowing videos are great because you get to watch the incredible precision and skill of a seasoned professional as they craft the tackiest item you’ve ever seen
Tbh my first thought about wizard towers was, if im a wheelchair wizard who can't have stairs in my home, does my magic castle just get. REAL WIDE
Pip.
PIP.
Magical Anti-Gravity Tower
AND MAGICAL ROCKET-POWERED FLYING WHEELCHAIR.
Antigrav means you don’t throw out your back lifting Great Tomes or worry about dropping combustible potions on the floor, also the Goats can climb around the vertical garden outside of the tower like giant horned spiders, as is the not-so-secret-desire of all caprids.
Magical Rocket-Powered Flying Wheelchair is Rad as fuck and the best way to tool down to the Publix at 2 AM, shoot a magic missile through the front window, buy like. Way Too Many obscure Flavors of Bugles or whatever it is you get at a Publix at 2AM, and fly home at Mach Fuck You, it’s not like the cops are gonna pull over The Great Wizard Pipistrellus when you can cast Fireball up to three times a day.
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The Rambling Ranch House Of Arcane Knowlege And Very Level Floors is also a terrific Wizard House.
Re: wanting more fantasy heroines who don’t disdain traditionally female tasks, I also want to see more men whose skillsets buck modern gendered norms.
Give me a knight who learned how to embroider his own symbol onto one of twelve identical surcoats to mark his out when he was a page, who mended all his master’s garments as a squire, who sits up, gritty-eyed, the night after his castle is besieged, to sew a banner to shout his defiance from the rooftops.