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chandra & nissa

card sleeve design made for a local lgbtq charity fundraiser

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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

Happy June for all:

I finally finished it after so many days and hours. and I thought (I have to I'll upload it on the first day). One of my favorite MTG girls :3

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you're basically home to me dude but it's not a big deal at all. don't worry about it

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Terra and Esper Terra by Yoshitaka Amano for Magic The Gathering

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if a girl kissed me i'd probably be like yippee! or perhaps yay!

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Narratively, they couldn’t let Loot stay with Chandra because if that little portal creature ever teamed up with Nissa they’d be unstoppable

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“look who finally decided to come out of his room.”

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Teeth of Akoum gang

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it was a stupid, bigoted question with a great response, yes, but who the hell is “we” in this chud’s estimation? speaking for me personally, a mostly cishet boring white dude, gay communism almost always makes any game a thousand times more enjoyable.

Im really torn between the fact that my favorite set of all time Will be seeing the light of the day again ( lorwyn) and my gut feelings of how It Will be fucked up by the new superbland mediocre art style and the real world politic agenda ( not so) subtly pushed in late sets, in a CARD GAME. We want to see stories of faeries, kithkins, elves, goblins, Giants,merfolk and cinders in their beautiful fantasy setting, no trans they/them faeries that think they're kithkins

Two points:

1) When returning to a world, we’re very cognizant of the aesthetic of the world. We understand returning to Lorwyn requires embracing what made people love it the first time around. Obviously, there will be updates, as the game has evolved much since our first visit, but we’re very aware of the need to recapture the plane’s essence.

2) For far too long, fantasy, as a genre, was used as a way to reflect the worldview of those in power. It leaned into stereotype and reflected how the privileged wished the world was. Modern fantasy is more reflective of the actual world, which includes the wide variety of life experiences that exists.

Trans people, people of color, and women playing a larger role, are all part of modern fantasy because they’re all part of the actual world, and it’s important that our stories and world building be reflective of that.

“I want to return to a time where we could ignore the existence of certain elements because I was happy living in that ignorance” is not an excuse to deny real people and their real life experiences.

Entertainment is at its best when it lifts everyone up and isn’t used as yet another means to ignore certain people’s reality.

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