What If You Had Lizzie’s Magic?
You sneeze and there’s purple smoke and bunnies.
What would you do if you had Lizzie’s power?
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I would love, nay adore it, if there a pair of funky shoes resulted from every lustful thought I had, but I’m not sure if that’s a factor of Lizzie’s inability to control her powers.
If I had Lizzie’s powers, and by some miracle had decent control over them, I would be able to spend a whole lot less shopping since I’d be able to transform whatever was laying around into what I needed. But maybe only certain things. I don’t know how I’d feel about eating a muffin if it used to be a sock.
The unlimited shoe potential boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
I love the idea that Lizzie cooks so that she can mix something up that doesn’t explode! What a great power that would be, even if I messed something up in the kitchen, or if it didn’t turn out quite the way I liked, with a little magical tweaking I could achieve exactly the culinary results that I desired. I wonder if that would feel too much like “cheating.”
I could use Lizzie’s power to clean my house before potential buyers came to look at it - wave of my wrist and to finish the trick - all of the clutter could be transformed to decorative tchatchkes which would encourage people to buy so I can rejoin my husband.
I also see great potential for some role play - instant costuming, no explanations, and no wasted money!
I would certainly be able to dress better. And replace furniture when the cat yakked up on the old stuff. The possibilities are endless.
I’m not sure if this is Lizzie’s power or Mare’s, but I just saw an interesting news item: ‘Peanut butter is being turned into diamonds by scientists with a technique that harnesses pressures higher than those found at the centre of the earth.’ (BBC).
Oh, and I still think that Lizzie finding a way to transform nuclear waste into something inert and non-radioactive would be really, really useful.
I absolutely agree, Laura, but maybe that would make everyone think it was OK to keep making MORE of it, which would pretty much give Lizzie a job for life (pretty boring, however!) - and then what?
The shoes are definitely a good thing, but maybe I could visit biodiversity hotspots and turn invasive exotics into formerly endangered plants and animals, thus restoring the ecosystems. I’d probably have plenty to keep me busy, without even reaching back into history for passenger pigeons and dodos.
I like that idea, Diane, and clearly Lizzie’s sort of magic is particularly good for transformations involving animals as she makes bunnies without even trying.
I would. Never. Cook. Again. And I would turn one whole closet into shoe racks.
Since Elric says you’re only supposed to turn like into like, maybe I could buy cheap thrift shop shoes or clearance shoes and turn them into cute, comfy shoes? That sounds like a good plan.
I might also turn mosquitoes into fireflies, leaving just enough mosquitoes for the bats to eat. Or maybe I’d just transform mosquitoes’ biters into something that can’t puncture skin, so they aren’t so annoying.
Water into wine would be nice . . .
My fave part, if I had Lizzie’s powers, would be the bunnies. I’m a total sucker for small fuzzy things, and real live pastel bunnies would be so adorable! Plus I could buy one pair of shoes and change the color to match any outfit I’ve got-now THAT is a power to wish for.
I am waiting to get dental implants so I would save myself a lot of money by transforming the space maintainer/fake teeth I have in my retainers to real teeth.
I would also turn my parents old house into a new one and replace Mom’s badly arthritic knees with new, improved versions that didn’t hurt.
I would transform my husband’s mechanical heart valve into a strong, healthy tissue one so he didn’t have to listen to it ticking. As the valve shuts it makes a ticking noise like a clock.
Then, when that was all done, I would transform the nasty, invasive weed in my back yard into a nice, easy to control ground cover.
And the shoe thing. Gotta have the shoes.
I can think of a number of leaders and would-be leaders of different countries world wide that would make excellent frogs.
If I had Lizzie’s powers, I’d be turning all the silver into bunnies just so Elric would come and STOP me. Oh wait, Elric is Lizzie’s. So I’d keep turning things into bunnies until Elric’s second in command comes by to stop me. Hmmm. That’s sexist. Maybe Elric’s second is a woman. New plan. Turn the furniture into really big bunnies or maybe even large, tame animals (wouldn’t want to get eaten by a bear) until the adorable, ripped, animal trainer shows up. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Welcome to Temptation gave whole new meaning to “getting eaten by a bear”, making it a far less distressing prospect!
Just saying.
Like to like, hummm…
A lot of the plains in the world are no longer fertile because of drought, overgrazing, overuse, etc. I would make all the plains in the world fertile again so that food could be grown for people and grass would be available to animals. That way everyone could eat.
Hmm…I’m definitely with Jill June on the Never. Cooking. Again. I like food so much better when I don’t have to cook it. (Not that this stops me from eating. I mean, those Cheetos just come right out of the bag- no cooking involved.)
There are many, MANY people I would transform into toads. When I’m not a graphic designer (read: *sadly* most of the time) I work in retail management. Trust me when I tell you that the customer is so very rarely EVER right.
These questions are sort of like “What would you do if you won the big lottery?”. My first impulse is to take care of everyone around me but then I got thinking about myself. What would I want that would be just for fun and just for me.
On a nice, sunny day when there wasn’t a cop - or another vehicle - for a hundred miles, I’d turn the big red beast (my Cherry red GMC Sierra half ton) into a Corvette. Don’t get me wrong, I love the truck - it pulls our boat and holiday trailer and hauls all sorts of good stuff for me and I wouldn’t trade it for a car but a Corvette would be nice every once in a while.
Shoes, bunnies, shoes and purple smoke. Did I mention shoes? Shoooesssss!!! Plus the power of suggestion thing. You know those annoying phone calls when the person just won’t let you go?
I’d make all my animals young again. and turn all the extra junk in my house into animals, just to see what they turn into, and then set them free. Candlesticks roaming the woods. That blazer that looks so lousy on me swimming the river like a stingray. All my extra magazines flapping through the treetops. “Look, it’s a speckled Real Simple! And I think that’s a red-bellied Rolling Stone.”
“I’d make all my animals young again.”
Damnit, Jenny, don’t make me cry.
I’d turn one of my chairs into a dish washer. There are several of them I don’t use, and I’ve already broken one, so they are no longer a matched set. And I’d love it if I didn’t have to hand wash my dishes so much!
Oh, I think I’d turn my silver car into a jet and then I’d travel the world and visit places I could never afford to go to and then I’d write fabulous stories about them and I’d always feature a romance and I’d get rich and famous, but only if I learned how to write really, really, well, because you know you like can’t control everything or life would be too perfect and then we’d all go crazy from boredom and heads would explode and …
If I had Lizzie’s powers , I’d turn everyone who has struggled with reading into people who can read easily and fluently at the levels they want. Not being able to read is a huge barrier and so many people, including adults, struggle with it daily, but still are brave and keep movign forward. My magic would turn these courageous wonderful people from survivors into flourishers and contributors to society, with the ability to fulfill their quests for knowledge, enrichment and entertainment.
If I had Lizzie’s power I would make all my clothes fit me and look marvelous. I would turn Cello, my fat, slothful cat, into a maid because he needs to get exercise, and I would have a very clean house. Maybe I’d make the animals (and Richie and me) alternate being the maid, just to be fair. One day out of six (three cats, one dog, one husband) isn’t bad.
I would turn my humble and boring meals into gourmet feasts. Plus I love shoes, so I would turn garden weeds into designer shoes.
Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Okay, I’ll stop now. I wasn’t sure, other than the shoes, what to do with transmutation, but someone’s suggestion of transmuting dirty rooms into clean or transmuting my excess junk into something that walks out the door, well, let’s just say I have seen the light!
I put my answer under the Xan question.
Because I’m a bonehead like that.
And utterly ashamed.
Lizzie’s powers–hmmm. I love how she can make things into something else, so I think I would take my powers and turn evil people into frogs and the people they hurt into snakes and leave them alone for awhile…. It would certainly cut down on over-crowding in our prison systems! *grin*
And I would go to third world villages and turn stones into gems so that the poor people could sell them and buy food and stuff to make their lives better. And I wouldn’t tell people I was doing it. They would just get up one morning and the ground would be covered in emeralds and diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and topaz. All they would have to do is pick them up and sell them. Yeah, that would be fun!
I answered this on another page, so I put it here also *blush*.
I think I would also like to be able to fix people that had physical infirmities–sort of like a doctor but better. Straighten crooked legs, make blind eyes see again, cure MS and MD and cancer and CF and all the other things that kill children (and adults). If she can transmute things, she can transmute a sick cell into a healthy cell, right? And I would do if under the cover of herbs–natural health remedies. I think I would be VERY busy, however! I would have to have someone like Elric in my life to whisk me away to somewhere peacefull oonce in awhile to keep my own sanity. But it would be worth it to see the parents smile and the children healthy again…
i’m sure if i really thought about it, i’d think of something clever and noble. not happenin’ now. now = tap water into scotch. good scotch.
well i think she has the power i would want. she is so nice and sweet. always thinking of others, of her family. you dont see that in the real world a lot. everyone is so me me me lately..
I would use her powers to help people who has illnesses. I have fibro so i know how it feels to be sick all the time. i am 29 and feel 80 most days..I am also a air force wife..
so i would use her powers to help people like me to feel like life is ok even though your sick. I would help cure people from illnesses, help with doing noraml thinkgs like snapping and getting wash done. I know how it feels not to be able to do these things and how bad you feel as a person b/c you cant physcially do them..
But what i would do most is to help our soldiers and vets when they come home. help them by healing all their wonds, mental and physical..This way even though with everything that have been threw, they would be able to live out their lives healthy, and happy.. but most of all with a feeling of honor.