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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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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 16 points 13 hours ago (2 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.

[–] Blujayooo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Ahahahahahaah! xD

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.

[–] Blujayooo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Dang, love potions are a dark art confirmed.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours 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..

[–] SolarBoy@slrpnk.net 6 points 15 hours 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.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours 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

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours 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.

[–] Blujayooo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Pretty wild

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 29 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours 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.)

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 14 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] Semester3383@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours 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.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours 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!

[–] Semester3383@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blujayooo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Daaaannngggggg

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours 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!

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

More like

  1. It’s starts getting frisky with you
  2. Walk funny for 2 weeks
[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago

I'm not seeing any downsides here.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

That life drain potion though? Totally ok :-)

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Only time I’ve seen an ethical love potion plot was a cute little comic featuring a couple looking to spice things up due to mutual boredom. They split a love potion, but neither changed their behavior. Both remained bored together, but with slight, visible smiles.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, one of the most scientifically plausible "love potions" we might actually be able to make someday would something that long term couples might actually be really interested in. You know that initial early head-over-heels "chemical love" that happens right at the start of a relationship? In principle that could be duplicated artificially. That would be something.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

So just an absolute rage of hormones and oxytocin? Sounds miserable to me, but I’m ace-aro so what do I know?

You can get an oxytocin nasal spray, right now, to enhance your bonding if you so choose.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)
  1. What if I use it on myself?

  2. Does the recipient have to love a person, or can we, say, make one for the environment and the wellbeing of all our fellow living things?

[–] Blujayooo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Still illegal, as the person will feel a romantic love towards the environment. Some people who've done this little experiment have been caught doing unspeakable acts to forests and groves. And for some reason, fences.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 9 points 15 hours ago

Can I introduce a dilute form of it into the water supply and then have an easy path to elected office?

[–] grissino@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

As for 1/. is concerned, you'll be ok as long as you can stay away from lakes and other deep still water reservoirs (Narcissus)

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago

You're just describing shrooms, lol

Big Depression won't allow it, it's a scheme to sell more sad

[–] sxan@midwest.social 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Offers the police a refreshing drink when they arrive.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 11 hours ago

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

He broke my little bottle of

Love Potion No. 9

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ok but what about placebo love potions?

[–] Blujayooo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

They will be confiscated by the imaginary police.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago
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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What if it was a platonic love potion?

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago

To make you fall in love with Plato, or to make Plato fall in love with you?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

That would be pretty solid.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 1 day ago

like, with 12 sides?

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For even more warning, a child made through procreation via a love potion also loses their nose.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

And is also a sociopath, incapable of feeling or giving love.

[–] boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Slovene 7 points 1 day ago
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