{"id":184,"date":"2023-06-15T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.com\/blog\/swan2swan-hot-take-futuristic-fantasy\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:38:40","slug":"swan2swan-hot-take-futuristic-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/swan2swan-hot-take-futuristic-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/swan2swan\/179121591892\/hot-take-futuristic-fantasy-stories-that-dont\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">swan2swan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hot take:<\/p>\n<p>Futuristic fantasy stories that DON\u2019T quantify and rationalize magic to some measurable degree (midichlorians,  aura, power levels) are actually Badly Written because, and hear me out: people quantify everything. Calories, acidity, solubility, decibels, milliliters, the Scoville scale tells you how hot a pepper is. Ancient fantasies,  myths, and post-apocalyptic stories can get away with vague rules because they don\u2019t know how to close an electrical circuit so they can light a room, let alone measure radiation wavelength. If you want me to buy that your civilization has been practicing magic for ten thousand years in a flourishing empire with magic academies, there had better be a thermometer they can stick in your mouth to see how many magic points you are putting out right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see you and raise you \u201ca magical distribution curve\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>swan2swan: Hot take: Futuristic fantasy stories that DON\u2019T quantify and rationalize magic to some measurable degree (midichlorians, aura, power levels) are actually Badly Written because, and hear me out: people quantify everything. Calories, acidity, solubility, decibels, milliliters, the Scoville scale tells you how hot a pepper is. Ancient fantasies, myths, and post-apocalyptic stories can get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/swan2swan-hot-take-futuristic-fantasy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hot Take&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":5,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,60],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-worldbuilding","tag-writing-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}