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A quote from the blog Kung Fu Monkey by John Rogers on March 19, 2009: "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
November 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Tyvärr bara en fisk här.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Happy Birthday!
Clearly:
The Magic the Gathering card Time Walk: {1}{U} Sorcery Take an extra turn after this one. 2018 North America Vintage Championship Illustrated by Chris Seaman This is the non-tournament legal 2018 North America Vintage Champion vesion, where the art portrays a person with a staff, a cloak, and a red ponytail descending a spiral staircase decorated with glowing runes and descending into infinity.
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Amazing! You even got referenced in an RPG that came out this year! @hellomcdm.bsky.social @mattcolville.bsky.social
A quote from MCDM's Draw Steel: Heroes, about the origin of species in that setting: "A perhaps less egregious use of this power is called quickening, used when a powerful mage lives in and amongst some clever species just on the cusp of self-awareness. These instances, which are much more numerous than creating a new species from whole cloth, are more like the concept of /uplifting/ found in science fiction. The mage or witch or shaman didn’t create anything. They just gave these cute, clever, frog-things a little boost. A little nudge. And suddenly there are angulotls walking around having conversations with each other," (cont'd) (cont'd from previous picture) 'wondering when someone will invent a fabric that doesn’t get moldy in the swamp. This also carries serious ethical repercussions! “You didn’t create angulotls! You screwed up some perfectly good frogs! Look at them, you gave them anxiety!”'
October 31, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Have you considered:
The Magic the Gathering card Flying Carpet, depicting a carpet flying above a vaguely arabic city. Flying Carpet {4} Artifact {2}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Illustrated by Mark Tedin
October 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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An "Insanity wolf" meme: a wolf's head with gaping jaws and red eyes, on a field divided into eights in black, white, and shades of grey. Above it, the caption "Preposterous amount of testosterone", and below "Preposterone".
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Cast a huge X spell, then counter it with this. Needs a pretty big spell to get a good exchange rate though.
The Magic the Gathering card Spell Swindle, costing 3UU. Instant Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
October 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Same thing with this one but works directly with red, doesn't require a sac outlet, but does require something to kill (ideally something small).
The Magic the Gathering card Hell to Pay, costing XR. Sorcery Hell to Pay deals X damage to target creature. Create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the amount of excess damage dealt to that creature this way. Flavor text: For years afterward, lucky explorers who found the cave could chip gold fragments off the rocky walls. Illustrated by Liiga Smilshkalne
October 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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With a one-turn delay on using the mana unless you can do mass untapping or have some other shenanigans:
A picture of the Magic card Goldvein Hydra, casting cost XG. Creature — Hydra Vigilance, trample, haste This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power. 0/0 Flavor text: The key is to slay it before it sprouts so many heads that your fear outpaces your greed.
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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For specifically white to red, there's this classic:
The Magic the Gathering card Sunglasses of Urza, depicting a pair of ornate rounded sunglasses with red faceted lenses. The card is an Artifact with a casting cost of 3, and the rules text "You may use white mana in your mana pool as either white or red mana." Illustrated by Dan Frazier.
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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The proper withdrawal would be to the blue area in this picture:
A map of the UN's planned partitioning of Palestine.
October 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Här är en karta över en del av Hovshaga i Växjö, ca 600x1000m. Här finns både höghus (eller vad vi kallar höghus i Sverige i alla fall, 3-6 våningar), lägre flerbostadshus, villor, och olika varianter av radhus och parhus. Mestadels byggt på 80-tal eller sent 70-tal.
Karta över del av Hovshaga i Växjö.
October 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Stephen Colbert standing at a podium at the White House Correspondents Dinner, with George W Bush and some other dude in the background, with Colbert quoted as saying "We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'reality.' And reality has a well-known liberal bias."
October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.
October 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Make sure they don't do you like this.
Leo, a very incompetently stuffed lion, on display at Gripsholm Castle.
October 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Sant, men som de själva säger så behöver man se till att mål och medel är i balans. Jag ser hellre att de gör genomtänkta förslag om grejerna de kan än försöker täcka hela politiska spektrat. Däremot får gärna någon smedja på vänsterkanten outsourca sin skolpolitik till dem.
September 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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September 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I don't understand. They're nowhere near one another!
A keyboard with Nordic layout, with the ! and ? marked.
September 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Inside you are two wolves
A picture of Chief Miles O'Brian in his Deep Space 9 uniform, played by Colm Meaney. Top caption: Inside you there are 2 wolves. Bottom caption: Sorry about the transporter malfunction
September 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Robert O'Reilly portraying the klingon Gowron, with his trademark bulging eyes.
September 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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A TAC-2 joystick.
September 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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This is unfortunately not real:
A fake picture of a knife block shaped like Julius Caesar as depicted in the Asterix & Obelix comics, complete with many knives in his back.
September 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
Doctor Doom, a man wearing a green tunic and hooded cloak over full metal armor including a full face mask, entering an airport flanked by two security guards. Doom is complaining about having to use a public gate due to problems with the private gate where he was expecting to meet a delegation from Geneva, and proclaiming that such shoddy workmanship would not be permitted in the Latveria of DOCTOR DOOM. One of the guards wonders how he can speak in all caps like that, and is told "Silence, minion" by DOOM.
September 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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När Scott bodde på månen hade hans rum en dörr till Jeans rum, och Jeans rum hade även en dörr till Logans rum.
Wolverine putting his arms around both Marvel Girl and Cyclops while holding a six-pack of beer, with Cyclops feeling up Wolverine's abs.
September 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM