I Was Thinking About It And Ice Powers Are The Most Versatile And Overall The Best Elemental Power.

I was thinking about it and Ice powers are the most versatile and overall the best elemental power.

For attack, you can make swords, axes, cannons etc. and they are pretty solid too. If they break, just make a new one.

For defense, shields and ice floors. They can’t hit you if they are sliding everywhere and then running into a wall of ice.

Ice can also be made for escapes. Slides, stairs, bridges. All can be really helpful if you’re stuck in a bad situation.

It doesn’t have too many weaknesses compared to the other elements. If you have enough endurance you can keep recreating the ice when fire melts it. Water turns to ice. The earth is more difficult but a thick layer of ice is pretty hard to break through. Lightning can’t transfer through.

Also, ice can freeze someone in place and you can deal with them later/ move them. It can pretty much instantly capture an enemy.

This is why ice is the coolest element, no pun intended.

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Baz and Lady Salisbury being besties because of their hate for smith smith-richards is ICONIC

Reading Good Omens again and I didn’t realize before how little Aziraphale and Crowley do. Like Crowley misplaces the Antichrist. Aziraphale kills a dove. Crowley turns some paint guns into real guns. That’s it.

my main takeaway from the Simon Snow series

You Are Not Broken.

Simon grew up in care with no one that really cared about him. No one coddled him, no one fussed over him when he didn't feel well, and he felt like the most insignificant nobody in all of England.

And then this cool guy that has a sword and can do magic (whoa!) sweeps in and tells him that he's the most important and powerful somebody to ever exist and sweeps his entire world out from under him.

When we get his POVs, the mage spends the entire book telling us he has to fix Simon. That Simon is broken because he can't harness his power (which I did a tiny essay on here if you're interested). That Simon is so broken and shattered that he is unfixable.

From a boy with nothing to "Let the greatest power of powers reign, and may it save us all" and then back to a boy with nothing. His magic was what connected him to that beautiful world of worthiness and just as quickly as he was whisked into it, he was cast out. After being told by his mentor that he was unfixably broken.

That's... devastating.

and even more devastatingly, he believed it.

He believed it so much that started self-sabotaging every other good thing in his life because one horrible manipulative person told him he was broken.

and he believed it for over a year.

Which is why Simon and Baz meeting Lady Salisbury was so important.

She had a son who barely had any magic. And even though he didn't have magic, he didn't have that crucial connection to his mother's world that was coveted above everything else, she loved him anyway. She loves him so so much. and then, her son with some magic became her son with no magic at all. And she still cried with joy over his return when he came back to her.

Because love doesn't care about a silly thing like magic. Love is the greater magic, and it always is, and always will be.

He didn't have any magic to give, because he gave it all away. But he had love. He has more love in him than any other character in that series, except for maybe Ruth. He loves his school. He loves his friends. He loves his world of mages, even if it hurts too much to be a big part of it. He loves his mentor, and the silly goats that everyone overlooked, and even his evil, scorned roommate. Maybe the scorned roommate most of all. Simon never had a shortage of love to give.

And meeting Ruth and his real family was finally able to prove to him that the love he held close and carried around his whole life was finally enough. Better yet, it had always been enough, even though he was the last to see it.

Your love is enough. The love and goodness you put out into this world is enough. And you are worthy of love in return. Always. No exceptions. You are not broken. You are human, and humans are immovable and unshatterable. Your love is your magic, and you are worthy.

This post is for you. Never let them tell you you're not magic.