[crosspost] the nameless sorrow at the bottom of your heart

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QC (4/10 Substack posts) @QiaochuYuan

diane duane's "so you want to be a wizard" is one of my favorite YA novels and i wish more people knew about it so i could reference it more easily. there are some beautiful ideas about magic in this book but one of the spookiest is about what happens if you give magic up