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May is an esper and Lucy is dealing with my magical girl brainrot
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"Oh, excellent! So, uh, [the non-spatial meta-shapes that magical energies form when they're Doing Things] [the particular ways those shapes interact with her particular magic-self to form viable combinations] [a spectrum that encompasses both precise controlled-variable science experiments and throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks]."

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"That sounds like it would take forever to construct coinages."

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"Coinages as in--quantized units? No, you mean like coining a term, don't you."

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"I do mean like coining a term."

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"Yeah trying to actually translate that into English would be, uh, hard, but explaining in more general terms might be possible?"

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"Go ahead! - wow the speech to text program I have recording this conversation for later consultation and editing has just absolutely no idea what to make of anything you said in the magic language. It's printed a bunch of punctuation marks and the number three."

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"Interesting! There is a written version."

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"Not that my phone's ever contacted in its life but I am suddenly way more interested in calligraphy than I was five minutes ago."

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"I am not surprised your phone doesn't know it from cuneiform but also, yeah, it's neat--I don't know how much calligraphy is necessary, I...haven't actually ever tried to write the language down in a normal way..."

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"In what abnormal way do you write it? Cricket watched a movie where the aliens have some kind of weird relationship to time and they'd just touch a surface and simultaneously ink an entire hypercomplicated radially oriented sentence - I don't watch a lot of movies but Cricket does and he tells me about them because he is a very good kitty who loves me."

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"Remember how I told you about my wand tracing the material it's made of into existence?"

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"Yes. The tracing process would still imply a linearity to the composition of a character, though? I guess you could do it in three dimensions. Sculptural writing. You could hang legible magical Christmas ornaments all over a tree."

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"I think I have more control over the shape in which the material comes out than just the movements of my hand would imply, that's not a weird intuition thing that's an I've been messing around with my wand while we talk and I have observations thing."

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"Huh, like the equivalent of being able to control the flow of ink separately from the pressure of a pen?"

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"A little of that, a little of--being able to dictate what the counterfactual 'surface' I'm writing against in the air is shaped like?"

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"Oooh that sounds cool to watch."

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"Next time we're in the same place I'll show you!"

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"Can you write it down in a - flat format, though?"

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"Good question!"

She looks around for some kind of writing implement and Thing What Is For Writing On.

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There is a mug with pens on it and a little notepad near the phone she's on!

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Perfect. 

"...Yes, I can write them down," she concludes, "but, hm. They're legible, but the thing where you automatically perceive their meaning? I am also automatically perceiving the places where my handwriting deviates from the 'correct' version."

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"So it's like it's got 'typos'?"

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"Sssorta? It's possible the word 'typo' has inapplicable connotations. Like, it's that I did the right thing wrong, not the wrong thing right, if that makes any sense."

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"Writing magic language with a pen is which thing and typos are which thing?"

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"Typos are wrong thing right--you put down the wrong letter, but the letter itself is fine. Magic language is right thing wrong--it's still recognizably the correct shape, you haven't swapped out elements of the character for elements of a different character--but the lines aren't quite straight enough and the curves aren't quite smooth enough."

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