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@theartofmadeline
Origami Around
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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if i look back, i am lost
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Stranger Things
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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@cencalwizard
theyer old enough that they used to connect
They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.
Some people are like "The classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus is Problematic because it features the Torment Nexus"
"No but see the only reason to write about the Torment Nexus is because the author has a sexual fetish for the Torment Nexus, which is both bad and relevant somehow. People only write about stuff they want to have sex with. Literary criticism is about reading everything in the worst faith possible to try to determine what weird sexual fetish the author has and/or whether they're trying to mind control readers into fascism or communism. The author just wrote the 'don't create' bit as a flimsy smokescreen to hide how much they want to fuck the Torment Nexus, thus they're a bad person, thus the book is bad and also Problematic and therefore devoid of value. If you see any value in it then you too must be hiding a desire to fuck the Torment Nexus (therefore proving you are a bad person) and/or you're a secret fascist. This is how literary criticism works."
Sometimes I’m the person who hates a work and can’t see any interpretation of what I’ve read/watched other than “creator wants to fuck the Torment Nexus.” But what I’ve gotten a lot of value out of in my life is just asking people who enjoyed it what they got out of it. This is a dangerous move for me because when I ask people questions, they often feel questioned. But no one likes something because it’s terrible and has no redeeming qualities. They like it for a reason.
Sometimes the creator does want to fuck the Torment Nexus. Usually they do not. Either situation is completely irrelevant re: the value (or Problematicness) of the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus. There's this whole weird puritan branch of shitty internet criticism that basically boils down to "never mind the story; I am terrified of the possibility that someone, somewhere, might possibly be getting a boner that I don't approve of". And it's creepy and weird.
I think it's mostly a way to attack the intentionality of the story, and therefore it's value. If Don't Create the Torment Nexus was just written as an excuse for the author to put their fetish on a page, then anything worth discussing about the book, or the concept of the Torment Nexus itself, can be painted as a monkey-on-typewriter accident or a deceptive ruse intended to trick people into reading about the author's fetish by disguising it as something profound. As for the instinct, I don't think it's necessarily JUST puritanism. It's a nice triple-threat way of getting Internet Media Analysis points, a way of Showing Off Online. First, you declare I am SMARTER than you fools. Because while everybody else is claiming deep meaning in Don't Create the Torment Nexus, I can see that it's trash that only exists because the author wants to Fuck The Torment Nexus. You don't need to actually provide any real analysis. You're positioning yourself as the child in the Emperor's New Clothes. The whole point is to say that everybody else has been bamboozled either by the author, or by the book's status as a classic while you see the simplistic truth. Next, you declare that you are More Wholesome than the story and it's adherents. The Torment Nexus is so obviously horrible, why would anybody put that negative energy into the world by thinking about it? (Answer: Because they want to Fuck the Torment Nexus). You only think about/enjoy Good Things. Finally, you are Morally Superior to the book's adherents, being brave enough to call out such a beloved classic as worthless bait for a horrible, morally unjustifiable fetish. It's not enough that you dislike the thing, you are brave and moral enough to fight against it before it causes more harm. And that last bit is the key to the "They want to fuck the torment nexus" accusation. If the author was just writing about the torment nexus because they want to fuck it, then the implication is that they wrote about it in some way that's alluring and seductive, and therefore, the book must be PROMOTING the Torment Nexus, and you are therefore Defending the Moral Character of Society by fighting against it..
mlp roleplay [18+ only]
*rarity smiles mischievously* dont look so surprised to find me here… ive been waiting for you
what
*rarity is suddenly furious* youve been smoking again, after you told me youd given it up? stoney pony ive told you: either the weed goes or i go!
dude are we talking horses
BWAAAAHHHHH wake the fuck up everyone on earth
Suuuuuck
*FOOMP*
this is awesome i wish this happened in real life
What strikes me about this is just how incredibly lazy the cartoonist is. Like you could literally just replace the words "Critical Race Theory" with whatever the latest far-right moral panic is and it would be the exact same cartoon. Like, 15 years ago, it could say "Gay Marriage"; 150 years ago, it could say "Italian Immigrants". And the same bunch of dunderheads would just be nodding along, "Oh, no, we MUST rescue America!!"
But it's fine. Creative bankruptcy and zero talent are par for the course when your brain is an ossified lump of bone.
Gary Varvel is among the lazier politoon artists out there. i can practically guarantee he has at least five more derivatives of this same cartoon
Honestly the fact the sword looks vaguely Arabic already makes me assume that this is probably just a reuse of a drawing that originally just said "Creeping Shariah" or "Ground Zero Mosque" or some other bullshit.
Here ya go, blank template. Go nuts.
Comic sans bold italic seems to work pretty well.
Big knife
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Hey I don't know if a post had been made about it but I wasn't able to find it if it was. Either way I was just wondering (if you're willing to share) what turned you off of mtg so hard?
In order, it was:
-Avacyn getting killed. No, seriously, Avacyn and Innistrad were a big part of what got me into the game as a whole. It didn’t outright kill my interest in the game at first, but it was definitely the first step on that slope.
-The end of Magic’s in house story team and the passing of that job off to outside authors who tend to know nothing about it.
-War of the Spark, and its back pedaling of Chandra’s bisexuality. I wasn’t even a fan of Gruulfriends to begin with (was more of a Julaar fan myself), but even I can say that that was just scummy.
-War of the Spark: Forsaken and realizing Wizards really just does not give a shit about its own franchise’s lore anymore. A decade of story just thrown in the trash and lit on fire. Every single character came away from that story worse than how they started, and I have no confidence that Wizards will ever re-reach what it had from Khans to Ixalan.
-Brandon Sanderson writing on his own time what was supposed to be a free novella (Children of the Nameless), and Wizards then taking down the free link so they can sell it as an e-book. Even Sanderson was pretty pissed about it last I heard.
-Pumping Simic with so much value that it almost feels stupid to play anything else. Remember; Oko and Uro were supposed to be playable in the same standard environment. Or, in a broader sense, just the sheer amount of power creep that’s taken place these past few years.
-Wizards focus on Arena and letting it dictate how they design cards rather than it being a table top game first and foremost. I remember during Ikoria season a card getting spoiled that gained a keyword counter at random but only keyword counters that it didn’t already have. I remember reading that card and trying to figure out “how does a person even go about figuring that out?” before realizing “oh yeah, the Arena RNG is just supposed to do that for you”.
-Inconsistency with its reprint policy. A few folks at Wizards have gone on record to say they “don’t want to reprint fetchlands because all of that shuffling slows the game down”. And then they print Fabled Passage and Prismatic Vista which do literally that. Like...come on, Wizards. (What’s worse is that I’ve heard rumors that fetch lands are lined up to come out in Zendikar collector boosters. Which, if true, is just...so god damned scummy in its own right.)
-“This isn’t for you”, aka, product fatigue. It started with Secret Lairs. Cats, Serum Visions, Thalia, Godzilla lands. At first, none of them appealed to me, and I just shrugged it off as “well, yeah, that’s just not my thing”. But over time, as Jumpstart came out, then Double Masters, I started to wonder when Wizards would start making something for me. It’s just been product after product and none of it excites me because it’s all fed through the pipeline, one after another, with none of those products getting a chance to stand out. Christ, it seemed like I was finding spoilers for something every day for two months straight on the Magic subreddit, and after a while I just became completely desensitized to it.
And the worst part? This isn’t even everything. There were so many tangents that I was willing to go down as I was writing all this, but forgot because I had so many other things to cover. And it sucks, because I look back on the time that I was more heavily involved with Magic really fondly.
I miss discussing the weekly stories that got published for each new set. I miss coming up with characters and figuring out how they interact with my friend’s characters (some of my current best friendships started out this way!!!). God, there was a time where I was trying to get everyone I knew and their mother into Magic. But now those days feel so long ago.
Flat out, Magic does not care about making a fun, engaging game anymore. It’s devolved into “just make whatever gets us more money”.
So, with the fresh new batch of "WotC is terrible, actually" posts going up, I just want to point out that
-making MtG fancontent is totally alright, actually, it doesn't benefit WotC in any way and often fills the void where they promised actual diverse representation was supposed to be. If you're out there, making fancharacters or fanart or fanfic for yourself and for others, you're valid and if people are gonna give you shit about making something good out of something you legitimately loved, they're shitheads and your work is worth producing.
So, like, in conclusion
angry bisexuals who play magic: the gathering pride flag
blue decks: are at the top of the format for years
players: ...
wotc: prints Veil of Summer
players:
I know you can’t tell us much, but can I get a maybe on the Mystery Booster having Magic: The Gathering cards in it?
Maybe. : )
“What did you open?”
“Three of clubs, Professor Plum, Trivial Pursuit Baby Boomer Edition, and a Get Out Of Jail card.”
the hot new tv trope…bottom storage.
bottom storage = when your gay-coded villain is defeated but is too charismatic and important to the plot to actually be killed off and is also too interesting to be put in actual prison, but also needs to be accessible for talking to or possibly being a b-character in future movies with a different villain? he gets put, in Bottom Storage. which is a prison with no actual bars on it that instead looks like huge tupperware. and he goes in there.
thats Bottom Storage.
