User blog comment:Bluebutterflychan/Headcanon Corner: Science and Sorcery/@comment-26890640-20161207212210/@comment-30622263-20161207220557

I just love worlds where the creators have clearly gone to a lot of effort in developing the details... you've got the pun-related references, of course, but then you get the cool little details like chemistry and chemythstry connections.

I really like the idea that the the magical periodic table could be connected to the classical elements! There seem to be a great deal of colors on the periodic table that we can see from Briar's page... Pixie Dust is green, which maybe represents earth or possibly air? And Dragon Fire is obviously fire, though it's purple. I like the idea that things may be sorted like that. I think carbon is highlighted in this shade of orange, maybe meaning that there are both magical and non-magical versions? Honestly, the possibilities are endless.

I love the idea of alchemy being the use of mundane elements for spell-casting... something closer to potions and artificed magic objects than anything that's inherently magical. It sounds a lot like how I imagine CA Cupid's magic to work, except I didn't really have a name for it before ^^; Either way, I'm 100% on-board with alchemy being "magic for the non-magical."