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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now
@understatesmen.bsky.social
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Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social

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gonna start a conspiracy theory that this is the same guy with a time machine
Eddie Burback, a young white guy with glasses and a bushy moustache, holds a microphone Marc Maron, an older white guy with glasses and a bushy moustache, holds a microphone
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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lazy sunday, did a buncha mechs, feeling pretty good about these
a slender, almost biomechanical mech strides confidently forward, two energy swords held low at its sides a flesh-coloured snakelike mech emerges from a portal. it seems to stop existing further from the portal. it has no head, just a hole into nothing a bulky four-legged mech with a lot of big guns
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
man, has a great verse EVER aged this poorly
You can feel the lyrics, the spirit coming in braille Tubman of the underground, come and follow the trail I made “Sunday Candy,” I'm never going to hell I met Kanye West, I'm never going to fail
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
"what if Ancestral Recall was legal in standard again?"

with Gran-Gran is it
Accumulate Wisdom {1}{U} Instant — Lesson Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Put each of those cards into your hand instead if there are three or more Lesson cards in your graveyard. “To prove your worth as scholars, you have to contribute some worthwhile knowledge.” —Wan Shi Tong the art shows a traveler kneeling, proffering a book to a great owl spirit
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
building a simic shell around these two and it actually cooks, grandma tribal is real
Gran-Gran {U} Legendary Creature — Human Peasant Ally Whenever Gran-Gran becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card. Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast as long as there are three or more Lesson cards in your graveyard. “It’s been so long since I’ve had hope, but you brought it back to life.” 1/2 the art shows a friendly older woman waving Hermitic Herbalist {G}{U} Creature — Human Druid Ally {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Lesson spells. “Wounded Earth Kingdom troops still come by now and again—brave boys—and thanks to my remedies they always leave in better shape than when they arrive.” 2/3 the art shows a nice old lady in a greenhouse. she is saying something to a fluffy white cat
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I love the devon rex, as far as cats go it's just the perfect venn diagram of princess and goblin
a devon rex, a cat with huge eyes and ears and a wonderfully textured coat
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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the bleak realisation that you can chart her radicalisation through her book covers
The Soulful Traveler (2013). A black and white photo of renee jax looking to camera DON'T get on the Plane! Reasons to reconsider your sex change (2016). the cover shows a plane at an airport, the colours are ominous Dark Ages 2.0: a survivor's guide to life after america (2022). A farmer works fields in front of a ruined white house Transgender killers: the monsters that walk among us (2025). the cover is a bloody knife
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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inexplicably a real plot point from Treason's Harbour, Stephen Maturin is such a good character
the meme with the couple in bed, except she's saying "we are made! the good doctor has spotted us! he knows the assassins are closing in!" and Stephen Maturin is saying "I bet that spooky abandoned tower has cool bats in it"
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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oh yeah also I think it's rubber?
the handle of Shadiversity's quote unquote Katana, which lacks a wrap entirely and seems to have a rubber menuki glued onto it
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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losing it over the official Shadiversity Katana, designed by the man himself. "yeah I want it to look as cheap as possible, even the metal should look like plastic, and make it racecar colours"
a red and black katana. the guard is shadiversity's channel logo
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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your semi-regular reminder that one of the greatest swordsmen in human history was a short king who was hot as fuck
Luigi Barbasetti gives a piercing stare. His hands are on the grip of a fencing foil Luigi Barbasetti, a full body photograph, signed, showing his height. He is wearing fencing gear and wielding a sabre
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Google Maps has a spot where an elderly cat used to hang out and get pats I'm not getting emotional about it you are 🥹
a screenshot of Google maps, including the landmark "Formerly Monty's Corner"
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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formulating an extremely stupid bant deck in my head
Smile at Death {3}{W}{W} Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures. MTG card: The Walls of Ba Sing Se. An 8 mana 0/30 legendary artifact wall with defender and "other permanents you control have indestructible." Bedrock Tortoise {3}{G} Creature — Turtle During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof. Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Many temples have strong foundations. Few are also wise. 0/6 The Pride of Hull Clade Mana Cost 10 and one green Legendary Creature – Crocodile Elk Turtle Mythic Rare This spell costs X less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.Defender 2 : Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender. 2/15
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I am not a serious magic player; I am a silly magic player. My favourite deck of the last few years was based around the Rooms mechanic and I roleplayed a haunted house. You're playing goblins? Goblins lost in a haunted house.

Which is to say: oh my god lmao YES
MTG card: The Walls of Ba Sing Se. An 8 mana 0/30 legendary artifact wall with defender and "other permanents you control have indestructible." The Pride of Hull Clade, a mutant crocodile turtle elk that lets your defenders come alive and punch your enemies with their toughness
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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nothing has quite rammed in how bad the bonus sheet screenshots look than seeing the same character on a bonus sheet vs a regular magic card
MTG card Joo Dee, Public Servant. one blue mana three colourless, 3/1. You may have Joo Dee enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Joo Dee's other abilities.The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.) the card art is a slightly grainy screenshot of her from the TV show MTG card for Joo Dee, one of many. one black mana one colourless, 2/2. Human advisor that's a cool sacrifice outlet. The art is her in a sewer, lit from the back by green light, with a line of faceless women standing behind her
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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tf did I only just realise now this was the same actor, his voice is SO distinctive
Mr House from Fallout New Vegas: a large computer monitor showing a man in a suit with a pencil moustache Odo from Deep Space 9, a shapeshifting alien who mostly looks like a kinda rubbery dude
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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this state of affairs cannot last
a writing desk with a computer on the right and a stack of books on the left. a coffee mug and a bottle of water are in the center. there is a wee horse.
November 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Grixis is SO back
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Kawea brings the sort of energy I think we need in our politics, my vote has been secured

www.nationalaquarium.co.nz/visit/pengui...
a really grumpy-looking tiny pengiun advancing menacingly on the cameraman with determination and grit
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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gonna die mad about the fact that somebody looked at all this character's unique design elements and went "ew that's weird though"
a sniper woman with a sniper rifle that looks like it's been grown out of bone. Her legs look like exposed muscle with strange lumpy chitinous bone plates on them the same design except her rifle is a normal rifle, and her legs are normal robot legs, which really just leaves a sniper woman with robot legs
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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everything I can find out about Concord's early development has a TON of personality, direction, a clear aesthetic, and it seems like it just got chipped away piece by piece
three profiles of different robotic faces wearing a pink suit a woman in heavy power armour, with tubing around her stomach that looks like intestines a sniper whose rifle appears to be made of bone, and whose legs look like a mix of exposed muscle and bone
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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oh my god I love the new drake model. really simple colour scheme for this one but I like how it came out
a bulky, dark mech projecting a green energy field in front of it
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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... am I completely talking out my ass here or are the pulse rifles from farscale clearly just an Austeyr in a plastic casing
a rifle rifle from Farscape, a high-tech looking spacegun an Australian soldier with an Austeyr, a really weird looking rifle that has some spacegun qualities
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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... does this work with Snapcaster like I think it does
an MTG card for fire lord azula, which copies any spell you cast while she's attacking
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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"but AI is really good for making TTRPG character portraits"

you coward, you fool, watch this
a terrible photoshop of cunoesse from Disco Elysium inside a suit of warhammer state trooper armour
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM