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Clotworthy Skeffington

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AuDHD. 99% reskeeting others to make myself look clever.

Reading recently about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer. Her father wanted her to marry a guy named Clotworthy Skeffington. Possibly the greatest name ever.

  1. I did this tonight for my work in progress, choosing texts for students who were doing this exercise, and my husband kept asking "Why are you laughing so much," which I was because the choices were dramatically perfect.

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    And while we're at it, color-coding your magic is for babies. It's a shorthand for casters too lazy to memorize the equations. "Red Mage?" "White Mage?" How are we still doing this in the twenty-first century?

    Magic doesn't have colors. It has ONE color, and none of us can see Octarine.

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