Evil Eel

"All labels are fake, but some are useful." He/They/She

[anevileel]

Hi, I'm Eel and this is my Wretched Domain.

My gender is currently undergoing scientific review, so any of the classical pronouns (they, she, he, it, etc.) work.

I've got a bunch of mental health stuff going on. No, I'm not going to give a list; I don't even have the full list.

If you're wondering what my header is, it's a collage-thing of my current fixations. Every time I get I new one, I add a new image overtop of a previous one.

Tag Legend:

#Eel's Unintelligible Ramblings™ — for original posts where I say things.

#Aekolysis — For posts relating to the Pathfinder Second Edition campaign I'm in.

#mtg custom cards — Self explanatory. These aren't for a cube or anything, they're just for fun.

[hajima-7]

as the snake sheds her skin 🐍🩸

c0mm i did of Dafni and Eirini, from M G Katsibouri's upcoming book!

[prasinoutsikos]

cia faq

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[ballgame]

I barely registered what this meant while playing, but looking back on it I think the idea is "Blue has a character portrait sometimes because he likes having one sometimes"

[balaclava-trismegistus]

if i dont respond to a message from you i can basically guarantee its not because i dislike you. im just getting attacked by imps and shit all the time genuinely.

[iceghosto]

I couldnt not draw this

[janglingargot]

quit laughing, you guys, she is having a crisis here :')

[iceghosto]

Poor Peppermint is in so much distress

[deepfrieddeltarunememes]

Kris is gonna write a callout post for Bratty on their bsky

[existentialterror]

Following @mossworm reminded me that kidpix is technically abandonware now, which means you can just have it. EDIT, 2024-04-04 - I release this art and its associated text into the public domain. It is under a CC-0 license, no rights reserved. Go ham.

[teaboot]

"Oh yeah, we have an outdoor Corgi, he just gets so bored cooped up inside all day. He knows to stay off the road. Don't worry, he's way too smart for coyotes and the neighbor's know to look out when they drive past."

"Us? Oh, of *course* our Dachshund sleeps inside- we just let him out in the morning and make sure he comes back for dinner. He just does his own thing, no worries."

"Um, you know it's not humane to keep a chihuahua confined to an apartment? They're dogs, they're natural predators. They need to experience hunting behaviors or they get depressed. No we don't leash ours, he absolutely hates it, we just let him come and go whenever."

Yall get how fucking stupid that sounds, right? So stop letting your goddamn cats get eaten and attacked and infected and hit by cars

A toddler would probably love full unattended access to the neighborhood too, but we don't do that either, do we

It's 2026, "keep your damn pet in a house or in your view" should not be controversial

[angel-stars]

I had to go on a hunt for this but it was worth it. 100% agree

[justspilledcoffee]

Hey guys did I mention I live on a fucking weird island and sometimes land crabs with 8-inch claws try to get into my house

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

cute puppy what breed is he

[purified-zone]

sideways

[markrosewater]

Just want to say, watched the trailer for Nauctis, got so excited not only by the concepts but specifically by how gorgeous the art looks. I thought no way they'll be able to top this, saw Titanbreach and was even more impressed, and then the trailer for Zhalfir blew it out of the park. Been in an out of magic for a long time but next year is unbelievably exciting. The passion of the people at every level of the creation process for these sets is so palpable in the trailers!

Next year’s in-Multiverse sets are some of the best world building we’ve ever done.

[markrosewater]

Hi Mark!

So, I assume Titanbreach is the reason why Ikoria was moved out of Aetherdrift? Whatever the case, I’m very very very excited for Monsters vs Mechs :)

It was.

[anevileel]

We can assume that drugs work on Magical Girls (at least to an extent) given that Octavia and Grimgrave get drunk in 3.3. It has also been heavily implied that the magic used by Magical Girls is affected by their mental state. 

With that in mind, I think hallucinogens would make pretty good anti-Magical-Girl weapons. A gas would be best, but not all hallucinogens work well as gasses and you’d run the risk of friendly fire. Flechettes, darts, arrows and bolts all have the issue of a Magical Girls extreme reaction speed, but you could always just try more of them.

Some other fun options include: LRADs and other sound based weapons; LED incapacitators, Dazzlers and whatever the hell is going on with the “DIY Eyesight Deleter” (remember when working with high power light to wear the appropriate protection). 

You could also try the basic pepper spray and taser although the lack of pained screaming during the fight in 3.6 indicates that transformation grants some degree of pain resistance (Signal also corroborates this while telling Octavia why she shouldn’t immediately run back to England iirc) But pepper spray and tear gas don’t need to hurt to greatly inhibit vision.

Hell maybe you could even get the US military to loan you an Active Denial System. It probably wouldn’t work, but it sounds cool as fuck.

[tlirsgender]

We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife

[harperd]

I love making shitposts ahwvehrgtg

[markrosewater]

I’ve been getting a lot of feedback on some posts from a few days ago. There’s one point I think I could have been a little clearer on.

Magic design will always follow the will of the players, as a collective whole. If the majority of players want the game to go in a certain direction, that’s what R&D will do, albeit making the choices that lead to the best gameplay in that direction.

The players, again as a collective whole, can change their mind and Magic will adapt. Just because we do something one way doesn’t mean we will always do it that way. If opinion shifts, we will shift with it. It is the best interest of Magic that we follow the desires of what that players want.

But you all have to understand two things:

1) What you personally believe the direction of the game should go might not be the current desire of the collective whole. And recognizing your perspective is not lined up with that of the larger collective can be hard to do.

2) The loudest voices on the Internet are not necessarily representative of the collective whole. It’s why we have so many metrics and an entire team to break down what the data is telling us.

So yes, we very much listen to what you all are saying, and I never want people to feel that they shouldn’t be empowered to share their opinion. This blog, in specific, is a place for you all to voice what direction you would like to see the game go.

In exchange, I’m using this blog to be as open as I can about what all the data we collect is telling us about what the collective whole wants. I’m speaking for a lot of players whose voices aren’t heard as much online, so it might often feel as if it isn’t what you all might believe is the desires of the collective whole.

I can’t share all the data, as much of it is proprietary, but I’m always happy walking through our understanding of it and explaining how it’s guiding our focus.

I do enjoy the back and forth on this blog. Again, I just ask that you all state your opinions politely. Everyone here is a real person with real feelings, myself included.

Thanks.