#themagicians — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #themagicians, aggregated by home.social.
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #TheWheelofTime #ShadowandBone #TheMagicians The 5 Best Fantasy TV Shows With Complex Magic Systems, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TV84Bj
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #LevGrossman #Books #TheMagicians This Fantasy Reimagining From ‘The Magicians’ Creator Deserves Its Own Miniseries http://dlvr.it/TV7z1F
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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Reasons I've stopped reading or watching a series
#WritingCommunity #WriterCommunity #BloggingCommunity #BloggerCommunity #WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge #Challenge #Wednesday #blog #TheWalkingDead #TheMagicians
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamemastersbookclub/116777242417842956
Hey, did you see this yesterday?
Lev Grossman is on the podcast
#levgrossman #TheMagicians #thebrightsword #Arthurian #ArthurianRetelling #books #fantasy #fantasybooks #knights #roundtable -
Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #Fantasy #TheMagicians #The10thKingdom 7 Forgotten Fantasy Shows That Are Perfect From Start to Finish http://dlvr.it/TSxfYL
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@jmw @adeese I feel like #TheMagicians did a good job right out of the gate. Also new #BSG which isn't technically a "new property" but also it really is a new property because it's so dissimilar from its source material and intended for audiences who have no knowledge of it.
I think #B5 hits it just fine starting with the first proper episode (as opposed to the pilot movie which is canon but also needs audience participation to rectify with the rest of the series). The characters all feel well-developed to me from the start, but I may just have too much knowledge of the series to be objective about its beginnings. I do think that #Farscape starts with less strength.
I went to check my NAS for other shows and discovered that it turned itself off and won't come up so....I think I'm going into hardware troubleshooting mode now.
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I've been watching The Magicians on Amazon Prime lately. I'm about most of the way through season 3 and I find myself wondering if the show had a good ending or if it just stops after five seasons with no real resolution.
#TVShows #TheMagicians #Fantasy #ShowsFromThePastDecade #Streaming
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Hop, on est lundi, donc, oui, c'est l'heure de souhaiter au Fédiverse une excellente journée (courage, ça va le faire, en plus, la chaleur a notablement diminué 💪), mais aussi de vous partager mes notes de la semaine !
On cause bien entendu Pokopia, mais aussi The Mentalist et des nouveaux trucs comme The Magicians ou un concert de Hans Zimmer. Ca parle aussi d'écrans e-ink 👀
https://blogz.zaclys.com/irisdessine/notes-hebdos-semaine-du-1er-juin-2026
#blog #blogz #zaclys #NotesHebdo #pokopia #TheMagicians #ClanDesOtori #HansZimmer #TheMentalist #e_ink #remarkablePaperProMove #reMarkable
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #Fantasy #TheMagicians #Carnivale 10 Near-Perfect High Fantasy Shows That No One Remembers Today http://dlvr.it/TSdRJr
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #Fantasy #TheMagicians #CarnivalRow 8 Near-Perfect Hard Fantasy Shows That No One Remembers Today http://dlvr.it/TSZYP0
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #PrimeVideo #TheWilds #TheMagicians 3 Prime Video Shows You Need to Binge This Week http://dlvr.it/TQsN87
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #TheMagicians #PrimeVideo This 5-Part Fantasy Series on Prime Video Has Aged Like Fine Wine http://dlvr.it/TQl7fz
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #Fantasy #TheMagicians 10 Most Criminally Forgotten Fantasy Shows, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TQhWYy
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Roleplaying games are stories
They’re different from novels, short stories, comics, theater, movies, and most other forms of storytelling. That does not remove the tale being told nor the concept of story.
If anything they are most similar to communal storytelling around a campfire and improv dramas. For the most part roleplaying games are communal events with a group.
How did I bump into this well-worn debate? Via a recent thread on EN World, the rare bright spot in RPG discourse.
Let’s talk about “plot”, “story”, and “play to find out.”
My response there focused mostly on the story and plot aspects, and the power of having more voices (something rare in written fiction, but common in other forms of storytelling).
There are people who are not good authors, nor good directors, nor good actors who are good roleplayers/gamemasters/etc. By leaning into the ways that community, plot and play-to-find-out work the creation displays, maybe even demands, story emerges.
This is the Potential of games like D&D.
Sometimes conventional Western storytelling formats can lean into the things that make the emergent and divergent story that happens in RPGs. This can be magical — because it shows how all story is really a reflection of point of view, or in our hobby — spotlight.
RPGs-as-story feel messy when considered through a lens of a literature class or mainstream television.
But, stories are quite messy
Two people can read the same story, watch the same film, listen to the same podcast and come away with different meanings, see different main plots even.
To me, RPGs are stories in the way that campfire tales are. They involve a lot of wandering, forgotten threads, lack firm outlines and are at their best when the tale is woven through multiple voices providing input.
Can they be a traditional novel after the campaign? Absolutely! But during the telling of the tale they are similar to writers who don’t edit as they go or a director who over films alternative concepts that aren’t on the script.
One of the more thrilling things about RPGs is that it is an ensemble cast of both PCs and recurring NPCs. Together they’re important, but the tale and spotlight as to who is most important can easily shift. Use any of them as the point of view to change the story as you understand it. Each can be vital.
The messiness is the fun part of RPGs as story.
The messiness is what helps me discover tales I cannot tell on my own. That’s part of the power of the table and broad casts in ensemble stories.
You think you’ve seen stories like this before, so you can guess what’s going to happen. Who’s important and who isn’t, but that’s because you’re trapped in your POV.
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When you file people away as sidekicks you don’t realize their importance to the story, and this story belongs to a lot more people than you think. Where to shelve a book, it’s not a little thing. You’re telling the world what to value. Who to value.From The Magicians, Side Effect (S4, E7).
RPGs are very much like that.
They remove your assumptions. You don’t know what’s going to happen. The POV constantly shifts and the importance of the broader cast shifts constantly.
From RPGs-as-Story we learn what and who to value by including others.
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The Magicians: l’alternativa adulta e inclusiva a Harry Potter che conquista gli ex fan del maghetto
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@rands
Thinking about him today...
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I... am I a fan of Dark Academia? Should I really derive pleasure from Quentin's suffering?
I enjoy noticing his bullshit being pummelled out of him, eventually feeling paternal for someone making the same impulsive self-miseries.Dark Academia is nerdy Icarus but rich and depressed?
https://nebula.tv/videos/lauracrone-the-harry-potter-for-grownups-industrial-complex/(Piranesi is still bad and should still feel bad.) I cannot overemphasise my indignant disregard & disgust for Piranesi.
It felt like... idfk, "autism-face"?!#book #BookTok #lit #literature #read #reading #media #MediaAnalysis #books #analytics #TheMagicians #TheMagicianKing #TheMagiciansLand #LevGrossman #author #story #ComingOfAge #Bildungsroman
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If you haven't seen it, you might not get it and that's fine, but #TheMagicians' did this moment where they had to save their friend and themselves and to do so they all had to SING, together, even if they were bad at singing, and this scene will never leave me, and I think it is the world right now.
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Marina from #TheMagicians is in #Section31 which is going to make it even more awesome.
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DANG THAT'S IT
WOW Y'ALL I just watched every fucking Star Trek ever. it's been a wild ride, thanks for following along with me!
as previously discussed, I'm now going to rewatch #TheMagicians for the billionth time, cry a lot, and probably not post about it (and no @serge, I'm probably not gonna watch Babylon 5 anytime soon)
I'll be back with more Star Trek opinions once the new seasons drop, but until then this is it 💜
#AllTrekWatch #StarTrek #TheOriginalSeries #TheAnimatedSeries #TheNextGeneration #DeepSpace9 #Voyager #Enterprise #Discovery #ShortTreks #Picard #LowerDecks #Prodigy #StrangeNewWorlds
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School starts tomorrow. My first and only class is on Wednesday. Quantitative Research Methods. Looking forward to it but also a bit nervous about my dossier for work. I could have worked on my dossier this weekend, but my brain said F— that. I vegged out. Watched #TheMagicians on Netflix. Still not done, so no spoilers, please! Trying to be optimistic and balance things. We’ll see how that goes. #workSchoolLifeBalance
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There is so much pollen blowing in this park right now that it looks like a scene from Fillory on The Magicians.
#LateSpring #Michigan #TheMagicians