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Remember it is illegal to use, produce or distribute love potions in most if not all cases. This includes every state, province and territory.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Necromancy gets a bad rap, but these soulless husks weren't doing anything useful before I got here. Enchantment is the stuff of nightmares.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

But my boy Sandal loves enchantment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ahahahahahaah! xD

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I wouldn't mind selling my future corpse to the Dusties. I need money now, and won't need my body then. Seems like a perfect deal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The Gods Are Bastards makes the same call-out!

“I’d be careful with that kind of joke, Professor,” Toby warned. “Sisters of Avei consider the use of love potions a form of rape. So does Imperial law, for that matter, but Imperial law doesn’t get quite as…worked up on the subject as they do."

Only Villains Do That, by the same author, has a similar reference - the protagonist receives a "starter bundle" of spells, one of which is Enamour. He's pretty skeeved that one of his few starter spells is a rape spell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Dang, love potions are a dark art confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps what the potion really does is changes you when you make it so that you become the person that your object of desire will love.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well that works until the person you're pining for is, unbeknownst to you, gay or lesbian. Now you're in for more changes than you bargained for!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

The beauty of such subtle magic is that you would be happy to be changed in such a way. :)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Third one of these comics I've seen in a short time. Are they supposed to be anti-jokes? None of them seem to have any sort of punchline..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I think there should be another (perhaps hidden) panel where the guy on the left just chugs the entire cauldron in front of the witch, maintaining eye-contact.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I think they’re going for the kind of humor Li Chen or Poorly Drawn Lines does but … it’s a work in progress

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The Harry Potter series is so weird about this.

It’s like a joke that a girl essentially tries to roofie Harry and gets Ron instead. Voldemorts mom drugs a muggle into loving her.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Pretty wild

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As it turns out the author of Harry Potter is a huge piece of shit

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just interesting that for all the hysteria about trans women going into women’s restrooms to rape, she’s remarkably nonchalant about women raping men. (UK law defines rape in such a way that cis women can’t really commit it anyway.)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Yes, she’s an awful awful person generally and it shows through her characters in her books.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)
  1. Throw love potion on monster

  2. It stops attaching

  3. Kill it, it doesn't even fight back

  4. ???

  5. Profit!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

More like

  1. It’s starts getting frisky with you
  2. Walk funny for 2 weeks
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Only two weeks? I want my money back for that love potion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I'm not seeing any downsides here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I recall i scene in The Pest where they use pheromones to attract lions or something. Really showed how scummy the antagonist was.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

That life drain potion though? Totally ok :-)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Offers the police a refreshing drink when they arrive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

But when I kissed the cop down at 34th and Vine

He broke my little bottle of

Love Potion No. 9

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Giving a love potion to your parents so they'll stop abusing you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Daaaannngggggg

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

And the final ingredient, a dash of GHB...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Would certainly be welcome in my CNC play >.>

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ok but what about placebo love potions?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

They will be confiscated by the imaginary police.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Maybe still a little questionable? Like if you honestly convince someone that they are supernaturally compelled to be in love with you, that might be a bit manipulative

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago
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