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(gah, I wrote an initial post and then a server error had the site down some time before I tried to post)

@noah-cochran I’m a linguistic descriptivist more than a prescriptivist, so I don’t believe it’s right to demand almost everyone else accede to your wishes of how a word’s used in the context of the fantasy genre. All the power to you if you want to start a campaign to “take back” the word magic, just I’m afraid I won’t be joining you =P We have enough miscommunication in the literary sphere as it is.

Ideologically, I have zero issue with a fantasy book operating on a different theology to our world’s, so I’m afraid I’m not with you there either.

Finally, I don’t think magic is inherently cheesy, goofy, cringy, or childish, and we’ll just have to chalk that up to differences in taste. Even if it was cheesy, I don’t think silliness or cheesiness preclude literary value. Dickens and Shakespeare were both intensely cheesy, and it’s hard to overstate the literary value of their works.

I guess we just need to agree to disagree ¯_(ツ)_/¯