I rather enjoyed the section of my last post in which I listed out moments from film and television which could be ripe for magical effects, and I’ve mentioned one TV show before.
What’s fabulous about The Lost Room as an inspiration for magic is that the core premise is that ordinary looking objects are imbued with strange properties, not the people who wield them, so it sidesteps the whole ego problem of wanting to seem special.
But also the people who end up owning objects from the titular lost room are all weird little freaks, which if you recall is what I want more magicians to lean into.
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or It’s an object, one of many”