2024-07-15 19:19:09 ¶ ●

The “mundane modern solutions to arcane supernatural problems” trope gets me every time. Like nothing will ever top the episode of the Magnus Archives where Adelard Dekker looked at a horseman-of-the-apocalypse-style world-ending bringer of pestilence and went, “Well, you can’t end the world if you’re encased in cement.”

2024-07-15 19:44:45 ¶ ●

In retrospect, it’s pretty funny that the two things in the Magnus Archives that the ‘encase it in cement’ strategy were used against were:

1. an immortal supernatural entity trying to spread a deadly plague to bring about the apocalypse, and
2. a very large pig

2024-07-16 20:10:10 ¶ ● ⬈

future-crab:

> In retrospect, it’s pretty funny that the two things in the Magnus Archives that the ‘encase it in cement’ strategy were used against were:

> 1. an immortal supernatural entity trying to spread a deadly plague to bring about the apocalypse, and
> 2. a very large pig

I’ve seen people in the notes going, “well how else were they supposed to defeat the pig?” - and like obviously the answer is the power of friendship but regardless - my thing is less “why did they cement the pig?” and more “why didn’t they cement more things?”

2024-07-16 20:10:44 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

future-crab:

> future-crab:

> > In retrospect, it’s pretty funny that the two things in the Magnus Archives that the ‘encase it in cement’ strategy were used against were:

> > 1. an immortal supernatural entity trying to spread a deadly plague to bring about the apocalypse, and
> > 2. a very large pig

> I’ve seen people in the notes going, “well how else were they supposed to defeat the pig?” - and like obviously the answer is the power of friendship but regardless - my thing is less “why did they cement the pig?” and more “why didn’t they cement more things?”

What I’m saying is they should have encased Elias in cement.