Anonymous asked: Hey! So I was curious as to what Magicstone is? No hate or anything, but I just wanna know the origins! (And maybe I'll even end up shipping them too hahaha)
no worries! If you’re unfamiliar with the characters from the Donald Duck comics, it’s a ship between Magica De Spell (a sorceress who famously wants to steal Scrooge McDuck’s number one dime), and Gladstone Gander (a supernaturally lucky goose… who is Scrooge’s nephew!). I don’t know about others but I first hit on the ship when I read A Gal for Gladstone when it came out, and I’ve basically loved their dynamic and the possibilities of that relationship ever since! What I didn’t know is it seems to have happened to a lot of other people at the same time, we’ve just… kind of come out of the woodwork on tumblr oddly recently?! It’s wild. Enjoy the tag there’s some lovely fanart in there my dude.
The two characters are both magically inclined but in very different ways, sit on opposite sides of the luck scale and opposite sides of a significant debate in the ownership of that very special coin. They also have a great deal in common, however, especially in terms of hidden soft sides, moral ambiguity and enduring hardships that few others know of (or could even understand). I find they balance each other out in an endlessly interesting, funny, and often extremely healthy way. There’s obviously also infinite room for angst, and the whole thing is such a dynamic ball of story potential that making comics featuring them has become something of a therapeutic side project for me. The first follow-up comic I did to A Gal for Gladstone was The Sorceress’s Apprentice, but there’s been no stopping me since :’D
I hope that helps explain! Also if you would like to get into the Duck Comics as a whole there’s a links post here that might help you out some <3