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Ok I don’t go here (mtg OR Spider-Man) so I’m probably just missing something, but while I get the problem with a single-protagonist story for mtg, I don’t really get the problem with hotdog etc? To me having very mundane real-life things be the flavor of your usually fantasy-themed cards seems funny. If anything, I feel like they should have gone farther with the mundanity. What’s wrong with hotdog card?

magic the gathering sets are good at a specific type of storytelling: the cross-section of a world. every trash draft chaff common should tell you about the world. here are some examples, right, just at random from universe withini sets. say you draw this from a pack:

assuming you know nothing else about the world of eldraine, you suddenly know a lot. there was a devastating invasion of some sort in the past that upended the existing social order (the 'courts') and caused catastrophic environmental damage. it's a fantastical feudal world, with knights and orders but also what looks like a war deer.

now, take this:

now you know a lot about bloomburrow: it's a world of little woodland creatures. mice have distinct cultures, including travelling performers who perform established folk tales about the important of bravery and kindness.

let's take a common from another UB property, final fantasy:

i don't know jack shit baout final fantasy. but from drawing this card i can tell you that it's a world of adventurers, where you can go from an nobody to a hero with a distinct role in the world, that a 'red mage' is someone who fights with a sword and gets stronger with magic. in all these examples, the card is telling one part of a whole story, the story of an exciting and fantastical world that you can become more and more familiar with as you play with more cards from it. this is what is exciting, what is interesting, what is inimitable about the storytelling of magic: the gathering, even when it's telling the stories of other properties. at its best every card you draw is another piece of a greater puzzle painting a picture of a world and the people and crteatures who live in it and the kind of things they do. Hot Dog Cart

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Either Silksong has managed to completely take down Steam's checkout workflow, or there's an extremely funny coincidence happening right now.

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been getting really into bed recently

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Idk man it’s so easy to get bogged down in all the bullshit online but when my then-6 year old cousin found out I was trans he said “ok” then corrected my grandma when she misgendered me. I was once the third between a gay man and a lesbian. Two lesbians once invited me back to their place when I presented as a man. I met an AMAB nb butch who looked strikingly to outsiders like a cis man and it was one of the more sapphic experiences I’ve had. I nervously wore a boydyke shirt to pride and got 3 different cis-looking femme folks tell me they loved my shirt. I once told a trans group at a protest that any pronouns were fine for me and one person said “wow, I’m impressed and intimidated by people like that. I don’t know that I could be that chill with pronouns.” I once told a GNC friend I wished I could wear a type of “opposite” gender clothing after I had already transitioned and so it would be associated with my AGAB and he said “You could just do it.” I’ve had cishet men fight cops for me before. The first time I had a doctor ask me if my name was different than what was on my forms I had to try not to cry. Last week, a phone call with a doctor’s office where I am generally cis passing asked unprompted if my name listed is what I want to be called. It touched me then too. I told a lesbian friend once I felt like my attraction to men AND women both felt gay. She said “makes sense.” And we moved on. I go by different pronouns in different circles. I’ve had gay women love my facial hair. I’ve had gay men like my tits. It’s all out there, I promise. It can be hard to find it but I promise there is community like you and community who likes you. And it’s more messy and beautiful than tumblr discourse makes it out to be.

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just letting everyone know this post has been cooking for 7 years and it'll finally post in 2028

its so old that when i click edit the corners of the boxes are still sharp

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so because canva forces you to sign up to use their service and it asks for your Full Legal Name (fuck canva) i put mine in as "deez nuts"

well today i got an automated email

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they ran out of silksong on steam

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@puddlellama guess they want. Deez Nuts

so because canva forces you to sign up to use their service and it asks for your Full Legal Name (fuck canva) i put mine in as "deez nuts"

well today i got an automated email

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england and france may hate each other but that tunnel is a work of art and the footage of the breakthrough always makes me tear up a little

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but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???

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so because canva forces you to sign up to use their service and it asks for your Full Legal Name (fuck canva) i put mine in as "deez nuts"

well today i got an automated email

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Obsessed with whatever is going on rn

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who will match my freak (blunt genuine honesty)

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