#the Gathering

[niuttuc]

Weird Magic: the Gathering effects

Magic has a lot of cards and mechanics, so kinda wanted to try and see how well people both in and out of the community could fare at one of these. For fairness, I limited things to paper, tournament-legal cards, none of the joke sets or digital exclusive ones. Using current versions of each card's text, presented here as excerpts. Order for the poll was randomized. Reblog for a bigger sample size hopefully outside the magic community.

[bonelady]

coworker today (pretty normal, kinda wooey millennial lady from New York) told me that she went to a gathering over the weekend, and I replied “oh shit you went to The Gathering? cool! how were the juggalos?”, you know, as a joke, and she said “what” and my supervisor (young dude from the Seattle east-side) said “yeah what the fuck are you talking about?” and I go “you know, juggalos? Insane Clown Posse?? They hold The Gathering at Lake Hepatitis every year in Michigan???” and in unison they go “Michigan?” and I just like, didn’t realize that normal (”normal”) people don’t know about juggalos. Like, I’m not a juggalette but I am absolutely down with the clown like c’mon man. anyways, fuck shit pussy ass motherfucking damn bitch

[bruce-morrow]

The Gathering, SMU-Taos, NM, 2024

Photo: Bruce Morrow

[theverumproject]

10 Songs I have been obsessed with the last month

Unrelated to writing, but I felt like this was a nice idea to do. And you know what? I think I'm gonna make it a tag game! (Can also be less than 10 songs, ofc)

Seven Widows Weep - Sirenia

Mea Culpa (Ah! Ca ira!) - Gojira, Marina Viotti, Victor Le Masne

Prosthetics - Slipknot

Masters of Destiny - Delain

Leaves - The Gathering

A Rose for Epona - Eluveitie

Dark Chest of Wonders - Nightwish

Tender Trip on Earth - Tristania

Love Infernal - Poisonblack

The Sun, The Moon, The Star - Aether Realm

Tags: @creative-author @rivenantiqnerd @teamarine777 and whoever else wants to do this

[marril96]

Criminal Minds 8.17 | The Gathering

[fellthemarvelous]

Zatt was the Jedi version of Tech.

[tinkerbitch69]

Small detail I love about Gargoyles: in the Future Tense timeline, Lexington goes completely off the deep end and masterminds a convoluted scheme for world domination, seemingly because he was so hurt by Goliath’s abandonment. Then in The Gathering, when Goliath returns, Lexington is the first to run over and welcome him home with a hug 🥹

Like I know it was probably all made up by puck but like clearly Lexington missed Goliath a lot more than he was letting on, my poor guy </3

[pedanther]

If you're doing the Babylon 5 watchalong strictly according to the schedule and haven't seen the pilot movie, you won't know that the title of this week's episode is a call-back to a scene in the movie where Sinclair recalls the Battle of the Line:

“I was squad team leader when the call came in. We all knew it was a suicide mission. The Minbari had broken through, and were closing in. Every ship we had left was ordered to circle Earth. We had to stop them… no matter what it cost. They came at us out of nowhere. We never had a chance. The sky was full of stars… and every star an exploding ship. One of ours. My team was blown out of the sky in less than a minute.”

“I managed to take out a fighter before they hit my stabilizers. I was losing power, I'd lost my team. I figured if I was to die I'd take some of them with me. So I targeted one of their heavy cruisers. Hit my afterburners. I was going to ram them head-on. The last thing I remember is hurtling toward that cruiser. Filling my screen… big… my God, so big… Then something passed in front of my eyes. I guess I blacked out from the acceleration. When I came to, 24 hours later… the cruiser was gone. I checked in. They told me the war was over. The Minbari had surrendered.”

“We were beaten. We didn't stop them, they stopped themselves. And I wish to hell I knew why.”

[frasers-of-my-heart]

Wednesday 100: Baby Steps

Jamie reached his hand out to me and I took it without pause. His grasp was warm and gentle, and oddly familiar. Perhaps it was the bond of healer and healed— I had tended to his wounds too many times to count in the last few weeks and it brought us close to one another in many ways. But never once had I felt this intimacy and ease with one of my patients. We stopped abruptly at the entrance to the castle. I thanked him and he gave me a lopsided, humorous smile and my belly felt warm and tight.

[niuttuc]

Weird Magic: the Gathering effects: Third edition

Some months ago, I ran a poll and then another where people guessed which of a bunch of weird MTG effects wasn't real. It was fun, so we're running it back with a third batch of weird things.

As last time, only the current text of effects is used, not necessarily the one printed on the card. Limited to cards that exist in paper, and are legal to play in at least some tournament formats. Though last time I did expand to text that's part of keyword rules or that's part of the current reminder text on at least one card.

[carli-meows]

Hi! Are you going to the gathering of the juggalos this year? I'm going for the first time and looking for people to talk to about it

im not, but i have been

my best advice is

continuously drink water when you can

wear a hat

it gets cold at night and is hot during the day in ohio

do not lose your wallet lol

be cautious how much drugs you do, don't do any hard shit no matter what

@roxspoxs @are-we-really-doing-this and @that-0ne-loser-ky are first people i think of when it comes to being experts i believe (sorry if the hyperlinks wont work, they wont) since they are juggalos

but heres the infomercial if you have questions about what's there

[bruce-morrow]

The Gathering, SMU-Taos, NM, 2024

Photo: Bruce Morrow

[femalefrontedbandsconfessions]

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My favorite niche of music is 90's gothic doom. I love how bands like The Gathering, Theatre of Tragedy, or The 3rd and the Mortal combined gloomy sounding doom metal riffs with beautiful lead vocals.

I think it's so cool that more recent artists like Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle have inspired a new wave of bands who mix doom and post-metal with ethereal vocals and haunting atmospheres. Bands like Frayle, Iress, and Shedfromthebody remind me a lot of those 90's gothic acts that I love so much.

Alongside Draconian and Lethian Dreams, it overall just feels like a sort of revival or resurgence of that style of music that I loved so much. 

[stoneoferech]

Anneke Van Giersbergen

[doctorwhoisadhd]

mortal jack as a metaphor for him finally letting someone take care of HIM for once. ough

[christian-zelda]

Hey guys. I've started working on a Link Meets fic. By "started working" I mean I've come up with a few scenes and some lore/headcanons. I'm calling it "The Gathering". Please let me know in the comments or by rebloging if you would like to hear more about.