Discworld would be a good example of fantasy that doesn’t follow this trope (pretty sure in that world anyone can study magic, but like everything else that doesn’t mean everyone is good at it).

Yeah I also feel like the original one does a better job getting the same general point across

While he doesn’t get a lot of attention, PlasticMan is considered to be pretty dangerous in DC comics. He has a pretty cool run in the Injustice Comics (released alongside the games) .

I’ve used Ubooquity on and off for this. It has some nice features, but isn’t open source.

Yeah, I made a similar comment above. It starts slow, but hits a really good stride after a while. However, it felt like it ran it’s course years ago (felt like they kept making up more drama to keep things going) and it’s still going.

Upvote for Gunnerkrigg Court, Ozzie and Millie, and Girl Genius.

I need to catch up on girl genius, but the other two I can attest to their quality up until now.

Definitely will be checking out the rest you recommend and another two I’d throw out there, although maybe a little too dragged out and have some controversy are Misfile and Questionable Content.

I get your point. I don’t know about OP, but I hadn’t seen a similar thread, but I usually browse all so easily miss posts for specific communities.

Also, I’ve found search on Lemmy hit or miss. The federation aspect of everything makes search sometimes difficult or confusing. For example, what community would most likely have already provided an ELI5 post and how would it have been phrased?

Not OP, but the point of asking for an ELI5 is that sometimes you don’t even know where to start. For example I clicked the link you provided and only have more questions as I don’t really know what people mean by display servers, etc.

Sure I could look everything up and try to understand, but the hope is someone in the community might provide a better or faster summary than what can currently be found online.

I don’t like Ubooquity, but Calibre somehow seems worse.