#Beyond the Box

[beatsandskies]

Boxing up “Beyond the Box” reader’s comments on the Scars Block intros.

You can find Part 1 (old frame theme decks) here, and Part 2 (new frame theme decks) here. There may be a fourth part covering the small intro packs and duel decks: we’ll see. As mentioned before in those two links, Beyond the Box was a regular precon focused column written by Jay from Ertai’s Lament. I have used some of the comments on this articles in my “Compendium” posts, for instance for…

[stoicoftheday]

Beyond the Box

Have you noticed lately how everyone seems to be becoming the same? It seems like everyone is watching the same entertainment channels, laughing at the same memes, traveling to the same places. It’s becoming increasingly rare to find people with unique opinions. We find ourselves resembling each other as we are influenced by the same algorithms, brands, and trends. Be yourself; everyone else…

[everytechever]

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[ricisidro]

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Got a 3-month free trial of #AppleTV+ and #AppleArcade when I scored the #Apple #iPhone14Pro at 16% OFF in #BeyondTheBoxPH #OpenBoxSale at Century City Mall, Makati on 4 June 2023.

[rillils]

it's lowkey crazy how stucky will have me entertaining about a dozen contradictory headcanons all at once, like

they explored each other's bodies in their old shoebox apartment in brooklyn, two young things learning how to love in each other's arms. they never even kissed before wakanda. they were lovers during the war, stealing secret caresses and breathless i love you's in the darkness whenever they could. they first confessed their feelings post-catws, each thinking their love was unrequited - and surprised to learn that they were, in fact, loved back. they finally tied the knot in wakanda, after bucky got out of cryo, and lived happily ever after in the most unexpected of places: a farm - their farm. cacw never happened at all; one day, bucky showed up on steve's doorstep, with a few fragile memories and only one certainty he was holding onto (steve was everything to him), and now they're living in brooklyn, close to their old neighborhood, building a life together in the most unexpected of places: the future.

and they're all rotating in the blorbo microwave, all together, all the time

[proteusolm]

Discussed the "would you rather a run into a bear or a man when alone in the woods" question with my friend who is a black bear technician, and I have a lot of experience working in remote areas with a high black bear population myself. She and I both were instantly in agreement that: 1. If I'm in the woods deep in bear country, the bear is simply much more expected and less startling to run into than the man. It would be something we are prepared for and fully unsurprised by. 2. Bear safety is pretty straightforward, we know and have training in their behaviour, how to avoid conflict, what a black bear that is trying to hunt you looks like, and how to maximize your chances of getting out of the situation safely in the incredibly rare case of an attack. There's no equivalent handy step by step guide to respond to a dude attack.

Most people approach the question as a feminist one, thinking more about risk of violence from a man, but neither of us really even expressed much concern about the dude beyond knowing from experience that it is startling and unsettling to run into someone when in a remote wooded area far from any trails or residences. As two animal autistics that studied wildlife management in college and have spent a lot of time in the woods of northern Ontario, we both missed the intended point of the debate, instead coming to a stance solidly rooted in "why would be I be upset to see a bear when I'm knowingly in the bear's home?"

[ghcstcd]

If you’re still taking requests, can you do something with Dew and Secondo again? I love the way you draw them together!

I need everyone to see how much they love each other.

[7cfc00]

Cast: Hermie the Unworthy as Theatre Kid with Identity Issues!

[anghraine]

jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:

Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)

Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.

LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.

It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.

The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.

So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.

So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.

[nimos-flakes]

!! SCOPOPHOBIA / STARING (?)

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cool caption here (those are not scissors)

[tokyopewpew]

Big thanks to the Dragon Age dev team for doing a signing at SDCC! It was the one thing I was able to attend around schedule conflicts!!

I did not ask any leading questions about the game, just gushed how much I love the series, the world the characters, and as a Solavellen truther I expect to be face down in the dirt one way or another by the end.

I asked each of them to sign over their favorite place in Thedas. Corinne got dibs on the Grand Necropolis.

John Epler chose Kirkwall (Dorian’s voice rang out in my head: kind of a shithole)

Ashley Barlow chose the Sea of Ash

and Parrish Ley went to Rivain!

On that note San Diego Comic Con is coming to a close and Sag-Aftra voice actors are on strike officially. Please support the voice actors on this game and beyond, show solidarity, support, and unionize your workplace. GOOD NIGHT!

[beatsandskies]

Beyond "Beyond The Box": Readers' comments on Theme Decks.

Jay of Ertai’s Lament fame also wrote articles for a couple different sites in addition to the blog. I’ve started mining these for my “Compendium” posts, and to make things easier I’ve fired everything into a google docs file and grouped them by set. I then had the thought that it was probably worth just making a couple of dedicated posts about them. They’ll all trickle out eventually as I go…

[thebardbullseye]

www ep 32 spoilers

not accusing anyone of anything but the derrick discs have powerful conjurations and abjurations on them and

✨soft was a conjurer✨

✨stone was an abjurer✨

🌀what could it all mean🌀

[everytechever]

Apple's iPhone 15 series arrives in the Philippines

Beyond the Box, open_source by Beyond the Box, and Digital Walker on Friday, October 20, marked the arrival of the latest and greatest iPhone 15 series at the strike of midnight with an exciting activity-filled event at its Uptown Mall, BGC, and Open_Source ASEANA Parqual branches, with the former event being live-streamed to its satellite locations at Robinsons Ermita and Digital Walker Power…

[ricisidro]

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#Apple #iPhone14Pro #BeyondTheBoxPH #OpenBoxSale #GooglePhoto #ColorPop #photos

[h4amarch]

Blueshift gang be like:

More Blueshift!Loop sprites and a bonus Petronille below the cut!