How to Write Love Magic (that doesn't suck!) | On Writing

Summary

"Hello Future Me" delves into the diverse portrayals of love magic in fantasy narratives. Love magic often appears powerful, capable of surpassing other magic systems and solving stories' central conflicts. The video discusses how love becomes not just a feeling but an act of creation and sacrifice, transforming lives and worlds. However, love magic can be unpredictably dangerous, sometimes corrupted by grief or obsession. Through various storied examples, including motherly love's unique power and the role of love in overcoming curses, the episode highlights the narrative potential and pitfalls of employing love magic in writing.

Highlights

• Love magic often overpowers other systems, solving plots effortlessly. 🪄
• Connection to art: Creative acts as expressions of deep love. 🎨
• The story "The Paper Menagerie" shows love's power and the pain of being unloved. 💔
• A mother's love creating powerful protective magic, like Lily Potter in Harry Potter. ⚡
• Love magic healing and resurrecting, shown in "WandaVision." 🦸‍♀️
• Questions about the limits and ethics of potent love magic in stories. 🤔
• Destiny-bound love, offering certainty in tales like "A Court of Thorns and Roses." 💘

Key Takeaways

• Love magic is a powerful narrative tool, often making love the most potent force in fantasy worlds. 💞
• It can take many forms, from creation to sacrifice, shaping plots and characters profoundly. ✍️
• Motherly love in stories is uniquely potent, often portrayed as ancient and primal. 👩‍👦
• Unprocessed emotions like grief can taint love magic, leading to unpredictable outcomes. 😢
• Love magic isn't just about romance; it can be friendship, sacrifice, or even parental love. 👪
• Writers should carefully consider the implications and costs of love magic within their stories. 📚
• Fantasy allows exploration of love's complexities through relatable yet fantastical scenarios. 🌌

Overview

Love magic, often seen in fantasy writing, is portrayed as the ultimate force shaping storylines. Whether it's through ancient, primal connections like a mother's protective sorcery or through the bonds formed between lovers, love magic transcends other forms of magic. The way love is shown as an artful creation, like in "The Paper Menagerie," adds a soulful depth to characters and narratives, compelling readers to reflect on the real-life power of love.

Motherly love is frequently shown as hyper-powerful magic that challenges even the darkest curses. In stories like "Harry Potter," this protective aspect becomes a narrative cornerstone, emphasizing love's unmatched energy in overcoming evil. The complexity of this love, whether it be purely protective or tragically corrupted as in "WandaVision," creates compelling drama and enhances storytelling depth.

Writers exploring love magic must balance its advantages with narrative realism. While love can indeed be a plot-driving force, portraying it with authenticity ensures that characters' journeys aren't simply products of magical solutions. Instead, love should be seen as a catalyst for growth, actions, and emotional depth, enriching the fantasy worlds they inhabit and urging creators to delve into love's unpredictable nuances.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction to Love Magic in Fantasy The chapter explores the prevalence of love magic in fantasy, noting it often appears not just as a spell but as the most potent kind of magic. It discusses how magic systems in stories bring real-world concepts to life. Art-based magic reflects the powerful process of creativity, while language-based magic, such as true names, emphasizes the transformative power of words and intimate knowledge. Love magic, however, often stands out as uniquely significant in the magical hierarchy.
• 01:00 - 02:30: Why Love Magic is Overpowered This chapter discusses why 'love magic' is considered overpowered in fictional narratives. It highlights how love magic can supersede other plot elements due to its immense power, often providing easy solutions to complex scenarios. The narrative touches upon potential laziness in storytelling when love magic is used as a convenient plot device. The speaker also promotes a video on how food serves as a world-building superpower, available on Nebula.
• 02:30 - 04:30: Examples of Love as Creation and Sacrifice This chapter delves into the concept of love exemplified as both creation and sacrifice. Initially, it discusses the portrayal of love as a potent, almost magical force in storytelling, capable of bringing life to art and characters. An example highlighted is Studio Ghibli's 'The Cat Returns,' where love is depicted as an act of creation. Characters like Baron and Toto the Crow in the Cat Bureau are brought to life by the artists' dedication, illustrating that such creative processes are acts of love, involving care, effort, and investment of time.
• 04:30 - 06:00: The Consequences of Lost Love The chapter explores the concept of love as a form of magic, emphasizing its intangible yet potent qualities. It suggests that love, like a magical creation, gains essence and vitality when infused with genuine emotion and sincerity. The narrative highlights love's power while acknowledging its vulnerabilities, such as betrayal and lack of commitment, which can weaken its effects. Ultimately, the chapter underscores the theme that love derives its strength from the significant demands it places on individuals.
• 06:00 - 08:00: Love's Unique Ability to Heal and Defy Death The chapter discusses the concept of self-sacrifice as a creative and life-giving force, drawing examples from mythology and literature. It mentions the common mythological theme where gods sacrifice themselves to form elements like the earth and sky, and to initiate life. The transcript also references Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, where the God Preservation sacrifices part of its essence to bestow souls upon humanity, parallel to the idea that within each human exists a fragment of the divine, much like how we share parts of ourselves with others.
• 08:00 - 10:00: The Dark Side of Love Magic This chapter explores the theme of love and its likeness to magic, particularly in the context of creation and sacrifice. It delves into the concept that love is not merely a feeling but also involves significant effort and selflessness. The narrative draws parallels between love and the act of bringing new life into the world, suggesting that love's true power lies in its ability to extend beyond the individual, much like the creation of art or offspring carries on one's essence.
• 10:00 - 13:30: The Power of a Mother's Love The chapter, 'The Power of a Mother's Love,' explores love as a fundamental and transformative energy that profoundly influences our lives and existence. It discusses love's immeasurable power, likening it to a magic that individuals are willing to make any sacrifices for. The narrative contrasts this with the concept of neglect or the absence of love, illustrating how it can lead to metaphorical and literal decay, much like toys that lose their essence and break down when forgotten or unloved.
• 13:30 - 16:00: Love Magic in Modern Fantasy and Romance The chapter discusses the role of love magic in modern fantasy and romance genres, using 'The Paper Managerie' by Ken Leu as a primary example. In the story, a mother from Hong Kong crafts origami animals for her American-born son. These creations serve not only as toys, but also as symbols of the mother's love and a connection to the boy's Asian heritage. The chapter highlights how these magical elements represent a tender bond between mother and son, blending cultural identity and familial love.
• 16:00 - 18:00: Love Magic in Middle Earth The chapter 'Love Magic in Middle Earth' delves into the theme of cultural identity and childhood creativity. It tells the story of an Asian-American boy who finds magic and joy in his origami creations, which are depicted as coming to life. However, as the boy grows up, he faces societal pressures and teasing, causing him to distance himself from his heritage and creative passions. He hides his origami toys and desires to assimilate into mainstream American culture, symbolized by his preference for eating pizza over traditional dishes.
• 18:00 - 20:00: Criticisms of Love Magic The chapter "Criticisms of Love Magic" highlights a troubled relationship between a child and his mother. The child is ashamed of his mother's cultural background and her inability to speak English fluently. In his frustration, he chides her for not being like other mothers, which ultimately leads her to stop communicating with him in Mandarin. This disconnect causes the child to lose his affection not only for his mother's origami creations but also for his mother herself. Consequently, the origami animals, once magical, become lifeless, symbolizing the loss of love and connection.
• 20:00 - 22:30: Integrating Love Magic into Storytelling The chapter explores the theme of integrating love magic into storytelling, focusing on the emotional impact of love and creativity. It emphasizes that when love animates creations, the loss of love can lead to a sense of emptiness and demise. The story depicts a mother who feels dead inside, unloved by her child, illustrating how the absence of love can make one feel less alive. The narrative delves into the profound effects of unreciprocated love and its power to animate or destroy one's spirit.
• 22:30 - 25:00: Conclusion and Personal Reflections on Love Magic In the final chapter titled 'Conclusion and Personal Reflections on Love Magic,' the author delves into the profound connection between love and self-identity. They argue that feeling loved affirms our existence and humanity, enabling us to become our true selves. Without love, individuals may feel as though they are fading into nonexistence. The discussion emphasizes how fantasy serves as a powerful medium to explore and illuminate complex human emotions and relationships by placing them in magical contexts, thereby enhancing understanding and empathy.

How to Write Love Magic (that doesn't suck!) | On Writing Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Have you ever noticed how much love magic shows up in fantasy? Not just as like a spell or something, but as the most powerful kind of magic in the world. We use magic systems to bring realworld concepts to life, right? Art-based magic systems are all about the power of the creative process of expressing ourselves. Language-based magic systems like true names are often about the transformative power of words and persuasion and knowing something intimately. But love magic often stands
• 00:30 - 01:00 out as more powerful than any of them. In fact, it's often so powerful that it can single-handedly override everything else and solve the plot. And we have to wonder why. And you might not know this, but I want to tell you about it because it's awesome. You can watch my video on how food is a worldbuing superpower right now adree after this video over on Nebula at the link down below. So, why love magic? Well, sometimes it's lazy
• 01:00 - 01:30 and weird, and it being so overpowered can be a big problem, and we will get to that. But first, I think we need to understand why and how it shows up in storytelling. In some stories, love becomes a magic powerful enough to breathe life into something, even our art. In Studio Gibli's The Cat Returns, love is creation. The characters in the Cat Bureau, like Baron and Toto the Crow, were made by artists who poured their care and effort and time into them. The act of creation is an act of love, of labor, and it gives more than
• 01:30 - 02:00 just shape and form. It gives life. Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul. Lucy, like me and Toto there, love is usually a very soft magic system. Its weaknesses, costs, limits are often vague because love itself is often hard to define. Maybe it's weakened by betrayal or a lack of commitment. But I think most of these stories explore how powerful love magic is through cost. Love is powerful because it demands so much from us. It
• 02:00 - 02:30 means giving something of yourself to someone or something else. This idea shows up all the time in mythology, by the way. Creative magic where gods sacrifice themselves to create the earth, the sky, to birth life. In Brandon Sanderson's Misborn series, The God Preservation, gave up part of themselves, their very essence to give humanity souls, and create these freethinking creatures, little pieces of God embedded in each of us, just like there are little pieces of us embedded
• 02:30 - 03:00 in the people we love and art we make and the children we have. So much so that preservation almost sacrifices their life here in an act of love. Love in these stories becomes more than just feeling. It is work. It is sacrifice. and it brings things into the world through that. The parallel to bringing children into the world is hard to miss here. Creating life, giving a part of yourself to something which will carry on beyond you. It's the sort of magic which is infinitely powerful only
• 03:00 - 03:30 because we will often pay the cost of anything for it. We like to think of love as this fundamental energy which shapes everything, who we are and what we leave behind. Love is the sort of infinitely powerful magic in these stories because it's the sort of thing that we will pay any cost for. But the other side to this kind of magic system is how a lack of love, how being forgotten can kill us, can rob us of life. Think about toys which slowly break down and lose their personality because they're not loved anymore. And
• 03:30 - 04:00 there is no better story to demonstrate this point than The Paper Managerie by Ken Leu. A mother from Hong Kong makes her American-born son a box of humble origami creatures to play with. Tigers, water buffalo, sharks. They're simple toys, a small comfort in a home which can't afford much else. But they're also a bridge, a way to connect the boy with his Asian heritage while living in America. They're extensions of the mother's love for her son and his love for her. So much so that this little box
• 04:00 - 04:30 of origami creatures come alive. The tigers prowl. The water buffaloos wallow. The shark swims circles in the goldfish bowl. But then, as all children do, the boy grows up and he's teased for how he looks, for his heritage and his beloved origami toys. He hides them away. He doesn't want to be Asian-American. He just wants to be American. He doesn't want to eat his mother's traditional peppers and beef. He wants to eat pizza like all the other
• 04:30 - 05:00 kids. He's ashamed of her, of those dumb little toys. Embarrassed, he demands his mother speak English instead of Mandarin, but she struggles. She can't, and he gets angry at her. "Why aren't you like all the other moms?" he says, until eventually she gives up. And she stops speaking to him at all, so he doesn't have to feel ashamed. His love, not only for the origami, but his own mother disappears. And the origami animals stop moving. They lose their magic. that don't dance or swim or
• 05:00 - 05:30 prowl, whatever magic once animated them dies with that love. She had poured herself into those creations and when they fade, she eventually does too. The mother dies before he can reconcile with her. But you get this sense in the story of the mother kind of feeling dead inside for years before that even happens, unloved by this child that she brought into the world that she gave everything for. And it's in this that the story gets at something deeper. That we can literally feel less alive, less
• 05:30 - 06:00 ourselves when we don't feel loved. It gives us a sense of being real, of being human, and we become more fully ourselves. And it's only when we're unloved or forgotten, that we can feel like we're fading into nothingness, that we're not real people at all. These magic systems bring those really complex relationships and feelings to life. And this is what fantasy does best. It places very real things in fantastical contexts that allow us to better understand them and empathize with them.
• 06:00 - 06:30 The Ability to Love often marks this definitive moment where we're meant to see them as truly human. Doll Makers by Lin Buchanan is a really great story about all these artists who bring dolls to life to fight and serve. And I don't think it's any coincidence that the one doll that the main character pours the most love and care into perfectly carving and painting him seems to be the most sentient, the most alive. They have the soul. That in being loved, he seems to acquire a soul. So much so that he
• 06:30 - 07:00 goes on to basically sacrifice himself. It seems in other stories, love doesn't just give life, but it can heal. It can restore. It fixes what's broken. Think about how a parent kisses their child's scraped knee and just for a moment, the pain actually fades. That's love at work. In a lot of these stories, the raw emotion of trying to help a friend, a loved one, literally makes the magic more powerful. The power is exactly proportionate to how deep the friendship is. And in some rare cases, the magic is
• 07:00 - 07:30 even powerful enough to defy what is usually the greatest power in the world, death. In Wonder Vision, Wand's love brings Vision back to life. Yes, but it's a twisted tragic resurrection in a way. The magic isn't pure. It's tainted with grief and the inability to let go. Wander's unwillingness to accept his death means she's not letting herself or him heal. Her unprocessed grief just leads to more pain. But what is grief if not love? Persevering. It's a
• 07:30 - 08:00 powerful magic here, but is it a good magic? Love can be a beautiful thing, but it can also be vengeful, lustful, angry, even selfish. This type of quote unquote love magic often takes the form of potions or spells where they bind someone else to them. It becomes more of a prison than something liberating and beautiful. These types of magic might appear to be romantic or protective, but they're rooted in manipulation, in obsession, in uncontrollable grief masquerading as love. They're more a prison than liberating. We know that it
• 08:00 - 08:30 will hurt to see Wanda let Vision and her children go, but that doesn't mean it's any less right of her to do so. But people will do terrible things for what they think and feel is love to them. And magic like this is often disastrous in fantasy. I actually really love stories where the magic is a little bit unpredictable, not perfectly in the control of the user. This is where that sort of soft magic comes in, where the magic like love can be kind of uncontrollable and catastrophic and get out of control. And love magic sometimes
• 08:30 - 09:00 does this the whole world burning down for the sake of one person. I mean this kind of magic can sometimes drive the entire narrative conflict. But one division does speak to perhaps the most powerful kind of love magic. A very specific version which shows up over and over in fantasy. One which I hope we have all felt or may one day feel. The magic of a mother's love. This shows up in fantasy and anime all the time as uniquely overpowered even for love magic. And we have to ask why? Like why
• 09:00 - 09:30 not a brother's love or a father's love or a second cousin twice removes love? Sometimes a mother's love appears as protective magic. And it's hard to reference this without taking undoubtedly the most famous version of this and Harry Potter's mother Lily who sacrificed her life to save her child and created a shield which protected Harry from the killing curse which in turn destroyed the dark lord. What's more, it's a magic that Voldemort apparently never saw coming. never accounted for that he fundamentally didn't understand. Love is one of those
• 09:30 - 10:00 magics which sometimes evil itself cannot possibly fully comprehend. It's like outside of the realm of evil. It's that pure in some stories. Often times a villain is shaped by the absence of love and their magic is fueled by everything but it. It's fueled by resentment and anger and desire for power. Maybe they think love is a weakness. All of which is why love magic is ultimately the thing that undoes them. Right? They're blind to its power because they might have never felt it themselves. And it's the thing that they can never fully see
• 10:00 - 10:30 coming. So much so that Voldemort let Harry pull the same trick again in sacrificing himself for his friends. Love magic here is Voldemort's downfall and itself stronger than any hate or death, which makes the messaging of the series somewhat ironic these days, especially considering the author's recent opinions. In other stories, motherly love manifests as a dangerous force of nature. In The Girl Who Drank the Moon, the mothers of the Protectorate are forced to sacrifice one of their children each year to the woods on the edge of town. It's the only way
• 10:30 - 11:00 to supposedly keep themselves and their other children safe. But what about the mothers left behind? Their grief, their love so vast and powerful, it gathers in the sky. It presses down on the town in these dark clouds of sorrow. It hangs in this fog. The love they have for their children cannot be contained in their bodies and leaks out into the world in a way we rarely see in fantasy of other kinds of love. And we have to wonder why is that? I think a lot of people see a
• 11:00 - 11:30 mother's love as unique in society. It holds a special place. A mother's love is protection incarnate. It is unrelenting. It is a life of constant sacrifice. It's almost primal, ancient. And I started to think about how in a lot of fantasy, the most powerful magic is usually the oldest, the magic which goes back to the beginning of creation. It's the magic we never fully understand, but is bigger and older than us. Remember, magic is rarely free. And I think a lot of the time, what makes a
• 11:30 - 12:00 mother's love so uniquely powerful is how costly it is, how often selfless it is. For a lot of history, mothers have lost their lives trying to bring a child they love into the world. Does a child ever truly perceive how much their mother loves them when they're young? Do we even understand as adults? Do we finally only understand when we have children of our own? It's the sort of love which might never be returned or fully understood, but is often still given, often in the face of children
• 12:00 - 12:30 being incredibly cruel to their mothers. I mean, I think we all have those times that we look back on our childhood and kind of wished that we didn't say that one thing to our mother, right? That we possibly at the time didn't even really think about how much it must have hurt them to hear that. And I think that's what makes this love magic show up as uniquely powerful in fantasy over and over again. In other stories, love magic breaks curses and undoes dark magic. You know, this is true love's first kiss, the only thing powerful enough. In
• 12:30 - 13:00 stories like Beauty and the Beast, love frees cursed characters from the shackles of past punishments. But through being loved and learning to love, the beast doesn't just become human again. He earns his humanity back. But a really interesting version of love magic actually shows up a lot in modern romanty. Romantis, you say you're going to talk about that? And yes, I am. I'm not going to have anyone saying that, oh, it's not real fantasy or whatever. Don't do that. Don't be a dick. Fix their hearts or die. These stories mean a lot to a lot of people and it's worth exploring why. In Sarah J. Mar's A Court
• 13:00 - 13:30 of Thorns and Roses series, characters are paired off and these soul bonds which offer these deep psychic connections. It's way more than just physical. Love magic here is destiny. It's fate. You're bonded to someone from the start. And I think I know why people like this idea, why we are drawn to it, because there's something really comforting in that. It's the universe putting a hand on your shoulder and promising that there is someone out there waiting for you and you will find
• 13:30 - 14:00 them. And that's reassuring, right? Because love is terrifying. Giving that much of yourself to someone else, you can get hurt. You will get hurt. The enemies to lovers trope is often full of characters hurting each other on the way to inevitably falling in love. And sometimes you're left staring at the ceiling at 2 a.m. wondering, "Did I just waste the last 10 years of my life with someone?" But destined love sidesteps that fear, that worry. It says, "Yes, love will be hard, but love will be
• 14:00 - 14:30 worth it." The magic system here gives a level of certainty to love that we sometimes worry we don't have, that maybe we missed the train on years ago. Similarly, other stories have characters reincarnating over and over and over again into the next life and still finding each other over and over again. Love conquers death once more, but in a different way. It stretches lifetimes. There's this little fun theory in Avatar the Last Air Bender that the Avatar supposedly looks like their love from
• 14:30 - 15:00 their previous life. And you know what? It kind of works. It almost feels like they're carrying that love with them into the next life. In these stories, not even death can fully separate us from our love. It's why we get stories like Francis Volcopolis's Dracula, where the count literally survives centuries to find his reincarnated wife, hoping that in this lifetime they can finally be together. But there's a problem. The woman who has inherited his wife's soul is engaged to someone else, and he refuses to let her choose her own path.
• 15:00 - 15:30 He forces her into this love that her soul remembers, but her heart doesn't want. And this brings up an interesting knot of tension in these stories. What if the character, you know, resists that fate that destiny has in store for them, the person that they're supposed to want? It might sound comforting at first, but sometimes this love magic gets us to ask, are the most meaningful relationships the ones we are given from birth through destiny, or are they the ones we make for ourselves? Love magic can create conflict just as easily as it
• 15:30 - 16:00 can bring people together. Often, it can drive the whole story. I feel like I have to mention one more example of love magic, and it's going to be from somewhere that you probably haven't thought about. Middle Earth. You might think, "Love magic? Middle Earth? I don't think so. I don't remember Gandalf making a love potion for [Music] Denithor." No, it's a lot more subtle than that. Tolken very consciously made it so that the most powerful acts in his
• 16:00 - 16:30 story and his world are kind of these everyday acts of love rather than the actions of armies and curses and swords, right? That the true forces which change the fate of the world are these selfish acts of mercy, pity, forgiveness, love, self-sacrifice. Both Bilbo and Frodo had the chance to kill Gollum, but they chose not to. And Tolken is pretty explicit that that's the decision which ultimately kind of destroyed the ring which destroyed evil. In Middle Earth, acts of love have this kind of almost divine magic and threads of destiny
• 16:30 - 17:00 woven into them that make them end up mattering the most. But the vagueness of love magic is also why, you know, people kind of hate it a lot of the time. The greatest magic of all is friendship. What the And I get it. I really do. A lot of the time it can just feel like your characters are working for the entire story. You're really invested in all their skills and then right at the end they just go, "A wizard did it." And wow, the power of friendship
• 17:00 - 17:30 and love saves the day without people really having to work for it or use their skills. It's just them feeling super intensely when they could feel those things and have it not be super magical. I get it. And it can have some really weird implications for the rest of the narrative. Like if someone's love brings another character back to life, what about all the other dead people? Were they just like not loved enough? Was some mother's love good enough but not another mother's love? Like, do you really want love magic to be the most OP power in your world? Or should it be, you know, something which doesn't tell
• 17:30 - 18:00 the orphans and widows they didn't love their families enough? You know what the most OP magic really is? Chronommancy. Too often, love magic is a get out of jail free card for characters who've had a hard on for each other when maybe, just maybe, they should have had to work for it like everyone else. And there's almost the sense of, "Oh, you don't like it? You don't like love." So, yes, it can be bad. But all of this is why the best love magic stories, I think, usually focus on that cost. Cost to the person who loves and sometimes to the person who is being loved. Supposedly,
• 18:00 - 18:30 love is sacrificed. Love is patient, but love can also be warped. And it's not always easy to love. So if you're going to have love magic in your story, make sure that you establish the possibility early on. Make sure that the characters when they solve the plot, it feels like they actually did solve it through effort and trying and their growth as people rather than it just sort of happening to them once they feel strongly enough about something. I think it tends to work best when the characters do get to solve the plot as
• 18:30 - 19:00 they normally would, but love magic can kind of elevate it to another level and add a level of intrigue and spectacle. Fundamentally, I think we as humans want to believe that love is this fundamental driving force behind the universe, that it can make everything okay, that it can conquer death. And maybe sometimes it's that kind of hippie putting a flower in a gun type thing, but I think there's definitely a place for fantasy which has that kind of optimism, especially because I know that most humanity has felt the impact of love in their life
• 19:00 - 19:30 and the people around them. And hopefully fewer than those that have felt the impact of a gun. Magic systems, both hard and soft, bring us closer to the power of things in the real world as we know them. It kind of brings them to life in new ways. And I love how fantasy does that. I think it's fantastic. But I want to ask you, what is your favorite example of love magic? Which story is it from? Let me know down in the comments below. One of my favorite examples is actually food, believe it or not. That like the act of creating something for someone else uh and giving it to them
• 19:30 - 20:00 and kind of imbuss it with the love that you made it with. Or think about potions and witches and cauldrons. I actually think that blending love magic with food is a really creative way to do it cuz you know, you're you're creating something. It's an act of labor and they're consuming it, taking it into themselves. It's such a visceral way to capture that relationship. And from here, I actually started thinking about how well food is kind of a worldbuing superpower. Hear me out. It can be a bit difficult to communicate the depth of your fantasy world to your reader,
• 20:00 - 20:30 right? Like you've got all this information about your magic system, your culture, your economy. But characters need to eat all the time. And you can use food to explore all sorts of things through it. trade, history, gender roles, right? We often focus on like big worldbuing things like wars and politics and food is just not something enough people think about. And I couldn't stop thinking about this. So much so that I uh made a video on it. Uh there's a whole other video that you can watch right now uh at the link down below, by the way. Completely adree I
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