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Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

THE DREAM APPROACHES

SOON MY BOYS WILL RIDER KICK A SPACE BATTLESHIP AND DOCTOR HELL (BUG)

Screenshot from Super Robot Wars Y: Kamen Riders Double and Skull are delivering a Rider Kick to an enemy

November 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Vampire Yuri.... REAL.

November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Don’t feel confident enough for face even here but I mean

Maybe I look kinda good

November 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Vampires are out for AoW4.

It is time.

November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

It is the best competitive esports game about coin flipping I have ever played, and one of the two best games about coin flipping I have ever played

November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

"OK but people are gonna be nostalgic for the shots they love from the cartoon" Magic, bro, Decipher was doing "screenshots from the show" in fucking 1994 and they are EATING YOUR LUNCH at it, they show how it can look good if you give a shit

AND THEY'VE BEEN DEAD FOR 20 YEARS

Decipher Star Trek CCG card "Kivas Fajo - Collector". The card art is a screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation showing a man in a red velvet suit posed with a shrugging smirk in front of a collection of stolen future art.

November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

It's not the first art for the card, either: this is a THROWBACK card (that hasn't been printed in a "standard" set before, and hasn't been printed at all in decades) and has been in at least some demand ($35 card on average!) for all that time

so this is what they thought they were competing with

November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Still not ready to really comment on the thoughts that Dispatch brought up the other day but I AM here to say that there are scenes in the game which I'm "ehhhhhhhh" on, but would be HOOTING AND HOLLERING for if it was yuri instead

IDK proof I'm trans or something, I'm tired

November 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Secret Lair this, Universes Beyond that, did you know that you can make your own Locked Tomb commander deck and put it in a skull and nobody can stop you

a 3d printed grey skull with knotwork patterns on it. The skull is weirdly wide.

The same skull but with the top off to reveal that it holds playing cards.

Playing cards spread out on a purple sheet. The card backs are the Japanese publication cover of Gideon the Ninth.

Multiple playing cards spread out on a purple sheet. They are magic cards which have been renamed to Locked Tomb characters.

October 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Today's random #Netrunner card is from the same cycle as yesterday's - what happens when a corp needs to figure out how to remonetize something really quick? Why, you Pivot, of course!

Pivot is a card which would be right at home in Jinteki mind-game decks, but belongs to the Weyland faction.

Null Signal Games Netrunner card: Pivot

The cart art shows a stylized depiction of a biolab: four scientists in different fashion styles are standing around a central display which looks like something biological, a familiar curvy shape to DNA but without the doubled-helix structure. All four look confused or disheartened by something. In the foreground, two caged monkeys look on, also confused by what's going on.

Pivot is a Weyland corp Operation (Double) with a play cost of 3, an influence cost of 2, and a trash cost of 3. As an additional cost to play this operation, spend 1 click. Search R&D for 1 operation or agenda and reveal it. Shuffle R&D after searching it. Add that card to HQ.
Threat 3: You may play or install 1 card from HQ. This ability is active if any player has 3 or more agenda points.

October 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

You have been visited by the peaceful encouraging Desdemona. She believes in you!

An orange cat on a chair cushion, with a contented look on her face

October 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

What's it like inside your head?

October 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Today's random #Netrunner card comes from the recent Liberation cycle! Living Mural is an interesting icebreaker. The Trojan category have to be hosted on pieces of ice, as a rule, but normally their abilities affect the ice they're hosted on. Still, Mural cares about ice at the same server!

Null Signal Games Netrunner card: Living Mural

The card art is a mural of a green poison dart frog snagging a bug with its glowing yellow tongue, rendered in a vaporwave-esque color scheme to represent being digital.

Living Mural is a Shaper Program (Icebreaker, Killer, Trojan) with an install cost of 3, an MU cost of 1, an Influence cost of 2, and 1 Strength.

Install only on a piece of ice.
Threat 4: When you install this program, it gets +3 strength for the remainder of the turn. This ability is active if any player has 4 or more agenda points.
Interface, 1 credit: break 1 subroutine on a Sentry protecting this server.
1 credit: +2 Strength.

October 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Hey it's time for today's random #Netrunner card! Daniela Jorge Inácio is a Jinteki sysop who... used to be a Runner, by th elooks of things! The merch on her shelves and desk hints at the kind of crowd she used to run with, and her ability indicates that she knows how to hit runners where it hurts.

Null Signal Games Netrunner card Daniela Jorge Inácio

The card art is a tattooed woman with a long purple sideshave wearing a corporate suit, sitting in front of holographic computer displays and a little blue robot toy.

Daniela Jorge Inácio is a Jinteki Upgrade (Sysop) with a rez cost of 2, a trash cost of 2, and an influence cost of 3. As an additional cost to trash this upgrade, the Runner must add 2 cards from the grip at random to the bottom of the stack. Persistent: As an additional cost to steal an agenda from this server or its root, the Runner must add 2 cards from the grip at random to the bottom of the stack.

"They call me turncoat. I call them broke."

October 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

I'm rereading through The Crooked Mile and there's already some very good stuff in its pages but I remain firmly convinced that these are some of the most important words in ANY roleplaying game text, ever:

"The game only works when everyone still actively consents to the experience".

October 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Me: I don't like how Haukke Manor is so big
Them: It's a manor it's supposed to be big
Me: No I mean like, big floor plan, big house, yes, but this is just LARGE
Them: what do you mean
Me:

An elf lady is driving a carriage pulled by a big bird. The carriage is held up by baloons. Everything about this is normal except that the multi-seater passenger carriage which could also carry some freight is fitting very comfortably on a staircase inside a house.

October 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Just witch things

A cardboard box full of doll faces on a purple bedsheet

October 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

Hope is that feeling I get when I look over at my tea shelf and see little guys smiling back at me. It's stupid, but that's the point. It's indescribable except by feeling it. They're just so happy to get tea splashed on them. Their little smiles. I just gotta smile back and enjoy the tea.

Two little clay slugs with cute smiles on their faces. The slugs are tea pets. One is greenish white and long, and the other is red-brown and squat.

October 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

As a matter of fact… yes

Slipstream from Transformers Animated, aka “the female Starscream clone” given a name. She is a tall dark gray plane robot lady with a smirk, sharp fingers, and teal and purple accents and highlights.

October 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

i love how his face just works for everything

like no matter what the caption is you can imagine him saying it

Kai Shiden from Gundam with a sort of walleyed universal expression

October 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM

Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

I'm specifically seeing vibes of Mamoru and Ikumi from GaoGaiGo, but their designs are in line with the rest of the series(es). It's obviously not 100% with your art, but there's some similar vibes!