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SnepGem
@SnepGem asked:

Regarding the associations you have with potions’ appearances and effects… are there any related conventions you follow when brewing your own potions? N-not asking for any particular reason…

So as I mentioned before, I think unconventional aspects of ingredients can have an effect on the potion's effects. This does mean that things like changing the flavour of a potion, or how it looks, will necessarily affect the function too.

But that doesn't mean there's no room for expression. It just creates a situation where you might have two wildly divergent recipes that result in the same effect, but each one's a different fruit flavour.

I think the two things I'd really hammer home on are making the taste (and aftertaste) nice,1 and ensuring the texture is at least tolerable to my autistic standards. Colouration is generally whatever, although I guess I'd avoid colour/consistency combinations that resemble bodily fluids.

I do quite like ironic factors too. Like the sour potion of cuteness, or an inky black potion that grants bioluminescence.


  1. "Nice" meaning "tolerable in the appropriate dose". If "the taste of how a library smells" is the best I can work out, I'd call it good enough.


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