Three levels of alienation here! First you have to know ponies… Which I’m sure you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t. Then you need to know Minecrat… and then you need to know Thaumcraft, a minecraft mod! In the most basic terms, the player researches projects and gains new recipies to create new magical things. Some things are forbidden knowledge, which cause an effect called warp. Warp being a nasty magical sort of madness which causes all sorts of nasty things, the most mild bad thing being Flux Flu which increases magic cost. So here’s Celestia taking care of a poor booksmart pony down with a little Flux Flu.
 

 
Huh. Just noticed I didn’t color the thermometer. Silly me.