#Get frogified

[bird-the-introvert]

you.

yes you. You are

A frog.

[koszmarnybudyn]

Finally got to finish this little neverafter lineup. I listened to the first episode and i really liked it so here is my interpretation of the charakters. Idk why but it turned out more cartonish then my usual style.

Also the color pallets i choose:

[melodyfrogface]

Trans Frog Streamer Needs Help

It really pains me to have to do this, especially since I haven't been able to stream much lately. I promise once I'm back on my feet and have more free time, I'll get back into things in full force.

If anyone is able to help support me, I'm in a big rough patch right now. My "real" job has been giving me the bare minimum hours for the past 2 months, and a majority of my free time is taken up working on my family's farm. My parents insist that as long as I live with them I have to help work in the field and greenhouses, basically as much as possible. It's often multiple hours in the sun doing physical labor and heavy lifting. They don't pay me at all for this.

If anyone's able & willing to toss a few bucks my way so I can afford gas and start saving up funds again, it would be immensely appreciated. Realistically, no amount of money will "fix" this situation unless I can afford to move out entirely and get a better job elsewhere, but at least right now, any amount helps.

As a thank you/incentive so I don't feel like I'm just taking your money, to anyone who donates $10 or more: I'm offering to Frogify your OC or sona, like I did for my Frogathon back in March. If you're interested, just give me a way to contact you (tumblr, discord, email, etc) in your tipping message

Here are some examples! More complex designs just means it'll take more time, but if you want specific details like markings or accessories just let me know!

[dravidious]

There's a frog-themed Midweek Magic this week where you make a historic brawl deck with any cards (even ones you don't own) and you get two emblems. One is a gimmicky sacrifice ability-manipulation thing, and the other is THIS FUCKER

So obviously, everyone is stuffing their decks with frogs and changelings to take advantage of this absurd cost reduction effect. Except they're not. It seems like everyone except me is stupid and is playing a regular historic brawl deck that just happens to have a frog commander, and they're all getting stomped by my pile of frogs, lead by Grolnok to make sure I never run out of frogs to cast.

This is the first time I've ever done well in a constructed event

btw @thatonebjp you probably want to get in on this if you haven't already. If you'd like to jump right in, here's my decklist to copy for importing:

Commander 1 Grolnok, the Omnivore (VOW) 238

Deck 11 Forest (BLB) 377 11 Island (BLB) 372 1 Splash Lasher (BLB) 73 1 Waterspout Warden (BLB) 80 1 Clifftop Lookout (BLB) 168 1 Crocanura (J21) 97 1 Fountainport Charmer (Y25) 17 1 Stickytongue Sentinel (BLB) 193 1 Long River Lurker (BLB) 57 1 Skyskipper Duo (BLB) 71 1 Froghemoth (AFR) 184 1 Lilysplash Mentor (BLB) 222 1 Dreamdew Entrancer (BLB) 211 1 Clement, the Worrywort (BLB) 209 1 Trollbred Guardian (RNA) 148 1 Treeguard Duo (BLB) 200 1 Papercraft Decoy (NEO) 253 1 Halo Hopper (MOM) 260 1 Excavating Anurid (MH1) 163 1 Poison Dart Frog (LCI) 207 1 Three Tree Mascot (BLB) 251 1 Mistwalker (KHM) 68 1 Realmwalker (KHM) 188 1 Littjara Kinseekers (KHM) 66 1 Moritte of the Frost (KHM) 223 1 Faceless Agent (J21) 1 1 Bloodline Pretender (KHM) 235 1 Gladewalker Ritualist (KHM) 392 1 Witness Protection (SNC) 66 1 Eaten by Piranhas (LCI) 54 1 Reflections of Littjara (KHM) 73 1 Workshop Warchief (SNC) 165 1 Selective Snare (GRN) 53 1 Amphibian Downpour (MH3) 51 1 Metallic Mimic (KLR) 251 1 Imprisoned in the Moon (SIR) 74 1 Stop Cold (OTJ) 72 1 Patchwork Banner (BLB) 247 1 Icon of Ancestry (M20) 229 1 Roaming Throne (LCI) 258 1 Three Tree City (BLB) 260 1 Cavern of Souls (LCI) 269 1 Secluded Courtyard (NEO) 275 1 Unclaimed Territory (XLN) 258 1 Kura, the Boundless Sky (NEO) 200 1 Vaultborn Tyrant (BIG) 20 1 Azusa's Many Journeys (NEO) 172 1 Wurmcoil Engine (BRR) 63 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking (M21) 173 1 Wayward Swordtooth (RIX) 150 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse (MKM) 155 1 Malcator's Watcher (ONE) 58 1 Reef Worm (MH3) 271 1 Willow Geist (MID) 207 1 Quirion Beastcaller (DMU) 175 1 Frogify (ELD) 47 1 Goldvein Hydra (OTJ) 167 1 Kasmina's Transmutation (WAR) 57 1 A-Druid Class (AFR) 180 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove (THB) 169 1 Stasis Field (MOM) 79 1 Utter Insignificance (MH3) 78 1 Command Tower (ELD) 333 1 Arcane Signet (ELD) 331 1 Otawara, Soaring City (NEO) 271 1 Boseiju, Who Endures (NEO) 266 1 Gutter Grime (SIS) 51 1 Barkchannel Pathway (KHM) 251 1 Botanical Sanctum (OTJ) 267 1 Breeding Pool (RNA) 246 1 Restless Vinestalk (WOE) 261 1 Hinterland Harbor (DAR) 240 1 Hedge Maze (MKM) 262 1 Dreamroot Cascade (VOW) 262 1 Temple of Mystery (M21) 254 1 Yavimaya Coast (DMU) 261 1 Fabled Passage (BLB) 252 1 Misty Rainforest (MH2) 250 1 Universal Automaton (MH1) 235

[sdyuteiaok]

Man, just so tired, constantly. And then another 5-3 in Draft today, losing out embarrassingly to a URb Otter deck, which is infamously the worst deck in the format. The only high rarity card I recall was Cruelclaw, which ate a Frogify with a Shore Up on his turn and then the 4 damage Abrade on mine, so it never got in. But I was nibbled away with the Otter that prowess-counters, and it just got out of hand. I couldn't get my board online either, so that just made things worse. I had a nice and early Hunter's Talent, but just couldn't draw any threats to stop his attacks. One decision point was on when to deploy my 4/5 Raccoon, which might have put a stop to his growing Otter, but I had him on a trick, so I just deployed my Offspring 2/1 that damages on death. So I used that to buy time with chumps, but I just didn't draw anything and by then there were other threats to contend with and he may have drawn into removal by then if he didn't have it before. So anyway, it was bittersweet cuz I love going infinite of course, not complaining about that, but it would be nice to get that ever elusive trophy again...Almost into Diamond at this point, too, which is pretty neat, but that is also bittersweet cuz that means we'll demote to a higher rank next season...which means a tougher slog early into the next format, assuming my success in Bloomburrow is a bit of a fluke. My success fluctuates each set, so we seem to be on an upswing here, but I'm always bracing for the other shoe to drop...

[kittieeepaw]

when you get frogified

[witchyfictional]

Week 1 (SPRING 1/13)

Professional Log of Harper Tobin, Journeyman Witch

Patient: Kiara, a vampire child (bitten, not born) who works as a bloodletting assistant for the local physician in High Rannoc. She is obviously older than she looks but still acts quite childish, in my opinion.

Ailment: Frogified [wart*] [poison*] (T6) Apparently she has been obsessively kissing frogs in an attempt at someday turning into a princess. Someone has mislead her about how that curse works.

Recommend: Smooth-Croak for the warts, Skullcaps for the poison

Field Notes:

Went to the Loch to forage, and happened to meet a family of elves living in a giant’s shoe. Apparently it was abandoned there on the shore, so they cleaned it up and converted it into a rather large bed & breakfast. I introduced myself and joined them for tea while Shadow rounded up all the Smooth-Croak frogs we needed by himself. The elves & I had a long conversation about the previous witch, Kevyn, and I told them that he’d actually left a note and instructions intended for whoever replaced him – so he must have gone of his own free will, wherever he went. He seems like a flighty fellow.

The shoe elves pointed me toward a local dungeon haunt called Hero’s Hollow, popular with the adventurers passing through. I headed there next, expecting it to be an ideal cultivation ground for Skullcaps, and I wasn’t wrong. Just outside of the dungeon entrance, however, I found an old map of the place half-buried in the dust. I thought it was nicely convenient, until I wandered around inside long enough to realize how terribly outdated and inaccurate it was. The good news is that it led me straight to a patch of Silverleaf, so I made sure to gather plenty of it along with my Skullcaps on the way out.

Hoping to make a good impression with my first patient in the area, I hurried back home to mix her cure in less than half the time I needed. I call it -

“Anti-Toad Antidote”

Crush Skullcap mushrooms into a paste

Boil the mucus out of Smooth-Croaks (discard the bodies - I fed them to Shadow)

Stir together with the mushroom paste until the Skullcap pulp dissolves

End result should have an oily consistency & a mild umami taste

Paid: +20 silver Kiara seemed relieved and thankful, if a little embarrassed. I told her that kissing frogs would never get the result she wanted, and she seemed to concede, although I didn’t like the gleam in her eye when she left.

Additional Notes:

Explored the village a bit this week. I ran into a newly formed adventuring party, lingering around the general store as they prepared for an expedition into Hero’s Hollow. I offered up the old map I found to them, in case it could still be useful, although I did warn them that it’s mostly out of date. They asked me to come along with them in person and act as a guide, instead – so I agreed, thinking this could be a good opportunity for more foraging, and it would be useful to know the layout a little better.

During our exploration I found an ancient-looking whiskey bottle with the seal unbroken despite its age. I’m excited to crack it open sometime and see if it’s really whiskey inside, or something else. Scattered around where I found the bottle was a good number of Hermit Snail shells as well, so managed to gather a good handful. I also picked up a few more Skullcaps, growing around what might have been a tapestry at one point (now it was just scraps of rotted cloth with hints of embroidery on the clean edges). I found a second batch after we struggled our way through something called “the puzzle room,” which is accurate if not expecially creative.

The adventuring party - they call themselves the Bacchae - told me they’ve heard rumors of Wyrd Water sometimes found in the depths of certain dungeons. I’ve studied the idea of Wyrd Water - I’m fascinated by the thought of an entirely separate dimension of reality - but I’ve never handled any personally. I got a little too ambitious and began to search for some while we continued forward, and I was less cautious than I should have been. I fell into an active trap when I wasn’t paying attention and it wounded me badly enough for the expedition to be cut short, as a few members of the party had to help send me home to recover.

OOC: Rep – 6 [Novice] Silver – 20 Tools – basics Familiar skill – Hunter (-3 Animal reagent rarity) Upgrades – garden plot (x1; Surgeon Sap)

Surplus reagents: ** Surgeon Sap [wound] [burn] [+1s]  — (freely available) * Hermit Snails [wound] [bones] — (x1) * Silverleaf [infection] [rash] — (x1) * Skullcap [poison] [pain] — (x2)

[kreetn]

let’s get angry about lore

episode 2 of my podcast is out! listen to me rant about magic Lore, and find out what to do when the druid casts Frogify on the eldrazi you'd built up as a boss.

https://anchor.fm/tristan-sellers/episodes/Content-Warning-Nahiri---episode-2-etk8rt

[literalite]

hi I’m submitting two frogs in one post because why not lol so first up here we’ve got the tomato frog. Because the other person included some extra info about them I will as well

so those are some pictures of it. idk if that is what a tomato looks like I mean I guess so I don’t really eat tomatoes. anyways they live in Madagascar which is pretty cool I guess they met those talking penguins from those movies with king Julian. according to Wikipedia these fuckers release a toxin when animals try to eat them, which causes the animals mouth and eyes to numb ?? really fuckin weird mr frog named after a food. anyways this substance they release can cause people an allergic reaction sometimes 😳 uh oh. anyways , there’s like 3 different types of tomato frogs and two of them are fucking brown. So stupid.

ok what you don’t know what a tomato looks like??? like at all??? u never seen them in a shop or smth? sliced? dude i

ok. anyways the frog is dope looking as fuck and the poison thing is cool even if its false advertising. aside from the colour though? not that pretty of a frog.

❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤

points for poison and awesome skin colour but who am i kidding so many frogs have poison and they’re usually cooler looking    

second frog is the uhh Vietnamese mossy frog, or just mossy frog. it’s native to northern Vietnam and China. here’s a couple pictures

so these frogs r called the mossy frog cause their skin is similar to the texture and color or moss, which gives them an effective form of camouflage 😎 another cool thing is that these fuckers are pretty tiny. the males are on average 2.4 in (61mm) and the females are 3.1-3.5 (8-9cm). so despite the fact females r larger they r still pretty small frogs. also when these little Guys are scared they curl up in a ball and play dead 🥺 these guys typically live in evergreen rainforests but it’s currently threatened by forest lost.

now THIS is a frog i can get behind! look at that texture. its like cottagecore, but frogified. i am a big fan of moss. they look like tiny dragons. and they’re vietnamese like me! we are of the same blood. they have lovely vibrant skin and matching eyes and i think they’re very pretty n nice

❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤

1 point docked but tbh it’d be more of a 4.5/5 then 4/5. why the half point? because i just know someone in the world draws frogs as humans and i just know someones going to draw this frog as a white girl

anyways honorable mention is the white tree frog. No need to rate these dudes I just think they’re cute

u are right they are

[markrosewater]

I just want to say I'm very happy to see Blue getting more change removal effects as Auras. I get Frogify wants to be an Aura so it can be undone to match the flavor and in an enchantment based set you'd rather it be an Aura so this is just a pendulum swing, but I'm happy nonetheless.

Glad you’re happy.

[edh-a-to-z]

Throne of Eldraine - Blue

Top 3

While I normally have a top 5, I felt only these three were really EDH worthy. Plenty of cards are worth an honorable mention, but I felt the following are a cut above the rest.

Faerie Formation

Grade: C

Home: Token Deck, Faerie Tribal Decks

Range: Wide

A 5 mana 5/4 flyer is good, especially for a tribe that rarely gets that big - only Oona compares in P/T and cost. Making extra Faeries and drawing a card for 3U is nice as well.

The card is straightforward and usable in a lot of decks. Disappointing it’s only available from the Brawl precons.

Mirrormade

Grade: C

Home: Clone Decks, Artifact Decks

Range: Narrow

Ideally you want your own things to copy, like a Sword of X and Y or Propaganda  but what I really want to do is copy an even better card one of my opponents brought to the table that I need in the moment. 

Functionally acts as a duplicate for a lot of noncreature permanents that can’t be traditionally cloned in a singleton format allows significant versatility I haven’t seen before. 

The Magic Mirror

Grade: C

Home: Spellslinger Decks, Combo Decks

Range: Narrow

Potentially as cheap as UUU, this rolls together some massive draw potential with the utility of Spellbook (what every draw heavy player needs).

Synergizes easily into spellflinger decks, as it likes instants and sorceries in the graveyard. Also a good choice for artifact reanimation - another reason to play Argivian Restoration!

Drawing one, two, three, four, and so on cards makes it magnet for removal, so be prepared. A backup of a Reliquary Tower or Thought Vessel helps if you get heavy handed.

Honorable Mentions

Animating Faerie - As the first Adventure card I was exposed to, I have a soft spot for this. Getting a 4/4 on turn 2 is still pretty good for EDH, especially if it’s a Mana rock or small utility Artifact - or that Sol Ring you landed early. Casting both sides is ultimately a 6/6 for 6 over two turns, some of which have flying.

Faerie is a relevant tribe as well, so this makes even better.

Brazen Borrower - There’s yakking back and forth whether this is a good mythic or not. Regardless, it’s an efficient card, and it looks to be a good workhorse.

Fae of Wishes - I love a good wish card, but I also find that it slows everything down. Being repeatable is nice for a big casual game, 

Folio of Fancies - Circular draw is fair, and milling that doesn’t hit you is great - if someone feels like drawing heavily into their deck, this may give them pause.

Frogify - Shutdown. Doesn’t always work, but monoblue could always use some more removal, even if it is soft.

Hypnotic Sprite - I’m not jazzed about the limitations of a counterspell, but being a counterspell + body makes it more attractive.

Into the Story - Draw 4 for 4 at instant Speed! Technically there’s another requirement, but 7 cards in any other players graveyard? Easy pickings in EDH, especially in a mill deck, discard deck, or against GY decks.

Midnight Clock - It’s just a rock until Cinderella’s Clock strikes 12, and then the spell ends! Hitting yourself with a Timetwister effect has always been powerful, but I think this is pretty slow, even with payments over time.

Shimmer Dragon - decent big blue creature in an artifact deck with lots of synergy.

Vantress Gargoyle - sure, it has limitations, but it’s still really big for a 2 drop, and it has flying.

[magusofthefork]

High Alert

At FNM at my LGS this week it was Standard and I took an Eldraine updated version of High Alert. I wasn’t sure how well this deck would do without Tetsuko or Dive Down but I was pleasantly surprised that the deck actually performed better now than it ever did when I previously used it and I went 3-0. Its a small sample size so I could have just gotten lucky but didn’t lose a single game and they weren’t particularly close. The deck is super low budget too.

There are a few things that made this deck better with Eldraine: 1. More 4 toughness creatures at 2 cmc. It turns out 4 is way bigger than 3 in standard. 2. Fortifying Provisions is actually pretty good. This one surprised me but that extra 1 toughness often got me lethal a turn earlier and made it even harder for my opponent to deal with my creatures. The food token was never relevant. 3. Most importantly Fae of Wishes is really really good. Curving it into a high alert or Huatli and hitting for 4 in the air on turn 3 puts a lot of pressure on your opponent and it also can function as a tutor for high alert or removal if needed.

Click below for more deck details and match up details

Mistford River Turtle is not normally a card you would play in standard but in this deck its basically a 5/5 that makes another creature unblockable when it attacks. I actually rarely used the turtle as I often won before it was relevant but the few times I did use it it was very strong.

Teyo isn’t a new card to the deck but I wanted to mention it because this card is deceptively good. I put this in the deck just for the ability to make 0/3 walls but it has stayed in the deck as a 4 of because of just how relevant the hexproof is. Against aggressive decks teyo saves a lot of life because he prevents burn from going face. Against control decks he prevents discard and milling effects from working too. The hexproof Teyo gives has come up a lot while I’ve played this deck.

Huatli is great as a backup for high alert. She can’t let your defenders attack but she does make them into much better blockers until you can get your high alert (and even if you don’t there are enough non defenders in the deck that you can still win with just huatli).

Drawn from dreams is card draw that makes the deck a bit more consistent in getting the important cards.

The sideboard is mostly situational removal. I have 4 pacifism in the mainboard which is a generic removal that deals with almost any potential blocker or threat but there are some match ups where you need more removal or more specific removal. Conclave tribunal is just a good catch all for any problematic permanents. The Frogify and Kasminas Transmutation is in there for dealing with big creatures and utility creatures, The only reason for the split is thats just what I had you could run either in place of the other (frogify is slightly better if you have the choice). Giant killer is again good for big creatures. It may seem a bit overboard but in my experience the deck struggles most against big creatures, it tends to have no problem against aggro. Selective Snare is in there in case I went up against a knight deck or a token deck. The counters in there for playing against heavy control decks. Having a variety of removal in the sideboard is also quite nice for Fae of Wishes. Obviously this sideboard was leaning a bit on what my local meta is generally like, when making a sideboard I recommend you adjust to suit your own meta.

Matches:

Round 1 vs Simic Elementals 2-0

Not much to say about this match up. It was a very budget build of simic elementals and I curved out into fae of wishes and high alert both games. In game 2 I did use Wish Granted to get selective snare to bounce their only blocker for lethal which was an interesting play.

Round 2 vs Rakdos Aggro 2-0

Game 1 I got hit once by a dreadhorde butcher and then walled my opponents aggro. Teyo came down early and really slowed my opponent down as they had to spend their burn removing him (their only planeswalker removal was angraths rampage which doesn’t work while teyo is in play). Once I played high alert and fortifying provisions making my turtle effectively a 6/6 it was pretty much over. Game 2 was a bit slower for me but I got down an early huatli giving me some extra life. My opponent played a spawn of mayhem but I had the pacifism for it. Once I got the High Alert my opponent scooped.

Round 3 vs Esper Stacks 2-0

Game 1 Teyo really shined in this match up. The hexproof prevented my opponent from using thought erasure. They ended up using teferi to bounce Teyo in order to thought erasure, I had another Teyo in hand so they picked something else. My creatures all being 4 toughness mattered a lot in this match up as it meant Oath of Kaya couldn’t kill anything. Without any good blockers once I got down high alert I won pretty quickly. For Game 2 I sided out my Pacifisms (since I didn’t see any creatures in my opponents deck) and sided in the counters though it ended up not really mattering. My Negate got thought erasured and I didn’t draw the others. I also lost High Alert to a Thought Erasure and had to Fae of Wishes to get the one in my sideboard. It was a slower game but I still ended up winning.

Conclusion

While I wasn’t playing against any crazy tier 1 oko decks (my local meta is great like that) the deck did feel very strong. More consistent than previous iterations. In any case it was a lot of fun, easily my favourite azorius deck I’ve ever played.

[gods-third-eye]

Gonna show this post to my roommates to get approval to frogify our house

Hi, welcome to my humble dwelling, here have a seat please!

You must be hungry, don't worry, I'll serve you a nice warm meal too.

What is it, do you have to use the bathroom now?.

Sure thing, it's right there!

Make sure to clean up after you're done!

Also, feel free to take a shower if you feel like it, just remember to dry up the floor after you're done!

If you need my computer you can borrow it, don't worry about it.

Oh dear!, You are shivering, here, have these socks to warm you up

Now, would you tell me what time is it sweetheart?

Oh honey, it's time for you to leave now, what a shame :(

I hope you come visit again dear, i really like having you here, you keep me company like no other can.

Goodbye sweetheart.

[dont-offend-the-bees]

My Two Cents: How Suzie Boreton’s Arc SHOULD Have Ended

Here’s the deal, I was DIGGING Suzie Boreton- and by digging, I mean I hated her. Like, she was unapologetically hateful, which is a thing you don’t often get in female characters for reasons beyond A) they’re just poorly written or B) they’re written to be the archetypal ‘crazy ex’ of the main guy and are essentially straw women intended to act as an effigy for all the writer’s pent-up misogyny (I’ll be honest, this DOES fall under the ‘bad writing’ umbrella, but it’s such a prominent trope I thought it needed addressing separately). Combining that hatefulness with the parcel of hillbilly white mom rage masquerading as suburban white soccer mom rage wrapped up in store-bought cheesy affirmations and increasingly ironic t-shirt slogans, and I think Max was on to a real winner with this character.

So where did he go wrong? With the ending.

Now, obviously I WANTED her to get her comeuppance. I mean, come on, she’s evil! She’s mean, entitled, she zombified her husband and frogified her son, murdered a bunch of people and a dog, she’s bad! She was meant to die at the start of the season, but Bart didn’t kill her and instead gave her a chance to grow like a cancer and fuck up everything. Of course I wanted things to end badly for her! And being trapped for eternity in a sky train prison, endlessly looking out on everyone else’s happy ending? Pretty damn savage, Moloch, I like it.

Here’s the thing though- did she really HAVE to be returned to her previous state before she found the wand?

I remember episode two, before her evilness was showing through, when she found that wand and started fixing all her problems. She made herself younger and prettier, she cleaned her house, made more money, gave herself abs and, most notably, fixed her gammy hip. I remember concern flying about back then about the ableist connotations of having a character with a disability magically fixing themselves the first chance they got, and I brushed it off because it felt like too early in the story to cast judgement. And by the time she was showing her true colours I was pretty much sold- since she was clearly an evil character with no redeeming qualities, it seemed fair to assume that anything she did, including magically fixing her hip, was not intended to be aspirational, and becoming suddenly able-bodied didn’t magically make her a better or happier person.

So why then, would you make the choice to return her back to her original state- which is older, haggard and disabled- when she has utterly and completely LOST the fight?

Now, by comparison, the time when she was young and pretty and healthy truly IS the happiest she’s ever been as a character, and the closest she ever came to true victory, and now that it’s all been taken away she’s back where she started. If Moloch has supreme power over this world, he could have imprisoned her no matter what state she was in. Imagine how poetic, how perfectly apt, how fresh it would have been for Suzie’s end to ultimately be “Congratulations! You’re beautiful and healthy and everything you wanted to crush other people to be! But you still suck lol get rekt hope you enjoy that pretty face cuz it’s the only one you’re gonna see for the rest of your life”, all while Amanda and Todd go back into the ‘real world’, still in possession of their disabilities but stronger and closer than ever for it? I mean come on, we’ve had the ‘wicked witch commits atrocities for eternal youth, has beauty revoked when they lose’ trope countless times before, it comes from an age-old association of age, disfigurement, disability and ugliness with evil characters (particularly female ones). Ugly on the inside and out, while the heroin’s inner beauty shines forth. We’ve had that, done, no more needed tbh. 

And yet here, where we had a perfect opportunity for an elegant subversion of that, we instead got a reinforcement- not to mention the unfortunate side-effect of establishing, with this and the season one finale, an actual PATTERN of disability as punishment within the show.

Y’all know I love this show with the fire of a thousand suns, but this? Swing and a miss, I’m afraid. At least for me- but idk, what do you guys think?

(Also, this is in NO WAY me trying to say it’s a bad show or that we shouldn’t be fighting to get it renewed- it does so great at so many things, and while there’s a few things about s2 that I wasn’t fond of it was still fantastic and I want more. #SaveDirkGently and all that, but also maybe Max if you’re reading this because I KNOW you stalk the tags buddy, just think about this next time, yeah? I love this show for so many reasons but I’m starting to think ableism is its most pervasive problem. Amanda and Todd’s arcs this season are a step in the right direction but be very careful when you associate disability with your evil characters- I’m not saying you should treat characters who are disabled, gay, or anything else like that differently, but bear in mind that they’ve spent most of their screen time thus far in the history of movies and TV being the villains and the expendable, and consider what sort of associations you’re reinforcing.)

[sneakyhomunculous]

Last PT Report

Day 1: Wake up fresh; shower normally and then turn it freezing for the last 30 seconds. Shadowbox for 5 minutes. Stand on head against the wall for 3 minutes. 20 push-ups, get dressed and shuttle 0.4miles to site. Walking would be better, but it’s a bit cold and I don’t wanna worry about a jacket. Arrive at 8:55, pods go up minutes later. Arrive at the table to see Zvi and 6 others I don’t recognize. Zvi is two to my left. Open my pack Ayara, Edgewall Inkeeper, Slaying Fire, Fierced Witchstalker, and thankfully a Charmed Sleep. Slam the Charmed Sleep. I’m not going to let the way some early packs break determine my fate in the last PT ever. I’m passed clockwork servant and a bunch of mediocre cards like scorching dragonfire scalding cauldron maraleaf rider. Slam clockwork servant. Pick 3 there are no good cards, luckily I’m greeted with a Fabled Passage. Take it easily over middling things (I did briefly consider taking corridor monitor). 4th pick I am greeted with a gift from the gods. A 4th pick Opt!!! One note, at this point corridor monitor is the only blue card I’ve passed. This pack contains no blue cards besides Opt. Many people would panic thinking Blue is being cut. While the chance that is happening are not 0, they are not significantly more likely just because you haven’t seen blue cards in 2-3 picks. The packs easily could’ve just been light on blue cards. But what is certain? No one on my left has even seen a single blue card they can take. Pick 5 no blue cards. I take Jousing dummy over middling cards in other colors. Pick 6 a welcome sight. Corridor monitor! Slam it so fast as I wouldn’t want to give the players on my left a faulty signal. Pick 7 there is a mad ratter that I assume my fellow draft mates did not see in the pack. Pick 8 there are no blue cards but a wicked guardian will do. I already have servant and monitor, to go along with Opt and this mad ratter. Not sure how I’ll cast it but we’ll see I round out with another joustin dummy and that early corridor monitor tables!!!!! Pack 2 I crack open a pack without a blue card. Luckily there is an epic downfall that I may end up playing. Pick 2 I get passed a pack with the best common in the set, draw 3 sry 3. I take it quickly over reave soul and other irrelevant cards. 3rd pick Stolen By the MF Fae. Thanks Worth! 4th Pick Frogify over nothing. They aren’t going to give this draft to me easy. 5th pick No blue cards 😡 take Witch’s Vengeance I probably won’t play. 6th pick SO TINY; The second best common in the set with a run away together and didn’t say please in the pack too. Bad distribution tilt. 7th pick spinning wheel. I can’t wait until they fix these bots and we can get REAL practice in 8th pick Draw 3 scry 3 😂 this is when I knew I had 2-1 at least locked up. Around this pick I notice the player on my right (I’m on the edge so he’s directly across from me) has an opportunistic dragon sticking out of his pack C. So I call a judge and they have to replace the pack with no issues. I round out the pack with dregs. Pack 3 I open Folio of the fancies GG yo I get passed a pack so blank I almost cried but then I noticed a scaulding cauldron, whew. 3rd pick I face the decision of mystic sanctuary vs hate drafting, and sanctuary is completely busted so I take that. Pick 4 I am greeted with another 4th pick Opt!!!! 3 for 3 baby. 5th pick there is nothing great I take a searing barrage I hopefully won’t have to play. 6th pick I get passed a pack with didn’t say please! But there is also a Lochmere Serpent and a Drown in the Loch. I take the serpent 7th pick is blankish if I recall correctly and I got sad. 8th pick another mad ratter, I recall being happy/content. And saying to myself in my head... I think I shall play it all! I do end up playing everything! 4 swamps 1 mountain 1 Fabled Passage 1 Sanctuary 10 Island. My SB is pretty weak but I do have a couple searing barrages, a forever young and a few expensive fliers/jousting dummy type things I can bring. [Insert Picture of deck 1 here] (I’m trying but can’t figure out Tumblr maybe I’ll post all the pics at the end?)* Wouldn’t be a PT without a Round 1 Doozy I’m paired vs someone I don’t recognize. Apparently it is their first PT but I don’t know this at the time. They seem confident but reserved and ready for battle. We both keep 7 and I am on the play. My opponent plays a turn 1 witches Cottage. On turn 2 he plays a swamp and an order of the midnight. It immediately becomes So tiny. On turn 3 I do nothing. My opponent plays a mountain and a redcap raiders. I miss my land drop but put the raiders into a Charmed Sleep. On turn 4 my opponent plays swamp Lochtwain Paladin with Cheese. I untap and draw Fabled Passage. My hand is expensive cards like mad ratter Draw 3 Serpent and something else. I am about to fetch and then I realize his hand is facedown on the table but looking thicc. I just double check how many cards and he picks them up no problem and says 5. And it’s correct it is 5. However my brain says it should be 4. Turn 1 land. Turn 2 land 2 drop. Turn 3 land 3 drop. Turn 4 land 4 drop. This means he started with 7, drew up to 8. Played his land down to 7, and he didn’t miss any land drops so far. So turn 2 his card played should mean he is down to 6, then turn 3 down to 5, and now his Paladin down to 4. He has an extra card!! I count 5 times just to confirm, and sure enough he is 2 cards ahead of me. I call a judge and after a quick count and discussion it is confirmed he has one too many. He is extremely calm but also quiet during all of it. I didn’t get any vibe of him trying to be dishonest or hide anything. At the same time it’s incredibly sketchy of course. How and when did he get an extra card? He is on the draw so he’s already got extra cards, seems like he’d notice if he had 9 to start or something?? The ruling is that I get to Thoughtseize him basically and he has to shuffle what I pick back in his deck. I really hate this rule as its putting so much of the onus on me to always track my opponents hand so vigilantly. If I would’ve noticed he drew 9 to start, it would be hugely beneficial for me to Thoughtseize him. But now I Thoughtseize him and see 5 spells as I’m already behind on the board and want to throw up. Did he just draw 2 cards at once on turn 4 because he needed a land? I’ll never know. But his hand is completely fucking stacked and I can’t find myself ever beating it. He has another lochtwain paladin, Murderous rider, another order of midnight, lash of thorns, and a festive funeral. I take the murderous rider but miss a land again and by the time I can play serpent I am forced to block into his Lash and have no outs so I just concede without showing him. Game 2 I don’t remember a ton of, but I know he plays multiple rimrock knights and order of midnights and I am so close to dying so many times. I had spinning wheel and he made a few small errors, and it let me survive at one life but needing to topdeck a cheap creature/play to survive at all. I peeled a Charmed Sleep and it left me actually in control with mana left over to tap his one other attacker. Well, as in control as you can be with 1 life. Shortly after I find a draw 3 and turn the game around over 2-3 turns before he can find a way to deal me 1 damage. Unfortunately the time is about out in the round and we only have a 7 minute extension. I slam in the 2/1 bloodcrazed wolfthorn guys and both searing barrage hoping to have time to finish game 3. Instead I am on the backfoot and in serious danger of dying. T2 order. T3 rimrock it and play rimrock. T4 rimrock it and play rimrock. I am all the way down to 4 before I have any chance at stabilizing. I play in the only way I think will give me any chance to survive and it involves letting him untap with me at 4 life and him having a Brimstone Trebuchet in play, knowing he has at least two cheap knights he has returned with order of midnight/forever young combo. He did only have 5 mana so I wasn’t that scared (I had witch’s vengeance for walls ready on my next turn). But the prospect of surviving at 1 still seemed grim at the time. Oh yeah somewhere in there he played a murderous rider and pumped it with rimrock knights so he was at 30 and me at 1. I never felt safe until around a minute before time was about to be up. Unfortunately my opponent was still at 30. The judge called time right as I passed so I got turn 1. On my Opp turn 2 I flashed in serpent and untapped and sacrificed two swamps but could only find more lands. I made it unblockable and attacked with it and all 4 of my stolen by the Fae tokens and 8 of my mad ratter tokens leaving back a few more to make sure I wouldn’t die to the swing back from my now 3 life. My opponent took 17 down to 9 so they must have been at 26 at the time. On turn 4 I had a small sweat as I left myself dead to barge in (hadn’t seen one, did pass multiple in draft though) as I really wanted the win and not the draw. Luckily my opp not only didn’t even attack, but they played out their entire hand and were clearly dead on board by 2 points more than lethal. Win on turn 5. Wild start. The rest of the day was a lot smoother. R2 vs ZVI Mono G Zvi Mulligans on the play g1 but leads t1 Goose. I have so tiny and Charmed Sleep draw 3 and bunch of lands so I ignore goose. He plays a wildwood tracker at some point I so tiny and I Charmed Sleep a Fierced Witchstalker. He is hitting me for 1 with gingerbrute when I cast draw 3. Then I cast another. Then I play serpent and folio etc and I’m still above 10 life and he dies in short order. In g2 I get sloppy and lose a game I have no business losing. I turn 3 clockwork servant turn 4 Wicked guardian draw a card, but this was just a mistake. I did this knowing I would take 5 damage this turn but I had no business taking it as I already had everything I needed to win this game. I needed to preserve my life total. On turn 5 I do start preserving life, but when I flash in serpent on turn 6 to block Zvi has Insatiable appetite on his gingerbrute that has counter from weapon rack to kill me from 7. G3 is a lot smoother as I so tiny a gingerbrute, and at some point am up so many cards I decide to use a searing barrage on the untapped gingerbrute with so tiny on it (only 3 cards in Zvi yard) just so I don’t have to worry about losing to double insatiable appetite when I tap out for stolen by the Fae and or serpent. R3 vs GW I play vs the person feeding me and my heart drops. I assume he is blue and will have many secret keepers and didn’t say pleases and I know I am screwed because I have 0 counterspells. Instead he leads forest curious pair food turn 2 the 1/3. Then he misses land drops and eventually beanstalk giants up to 4-5 mana but just plays some medium GW creatures. I win without much resistance and G2 goes about the same. 3-0 and now it’s break time. I immediately start running to subway as I want to beat the crowd on our short lunch break. Unfortunately as I open the door I am greeted by a 50+ deep line. I turned around and dive into the fried chicken place. 30 person line and 1 lady working. GG yo. I am feeling good despite not having any lunch options. At some point in the beginning of the constructed rounds Allen Wu shares his protein cookie with me, and I think that was just enough to save me from crashing too early. R4 JetSki Fires I don’t recognize my opponent but I Open his list and see a Sam Roflo Specialeee. 4 Bonecrusher 1 Shimmer 1 Fae 1 Realm Clock 4 clarion 8 cavalier stock fires. I have a t2 Oko on the play, but otherwise my hand is Shite. Joe Demestrio is birding and brings up my line after the game saying he would have done things differently. That is why Wallace was on the rail and I was in the streets. The point was that my opponent played a turn 2 shimmer. On my turn 3 I made my food an elk and attacked for 3 missing a land drop and said go without playing paradise Druid. The reason being that if my opp has clarion you always want to have a food back to start attacking immediately. This way I could make food with goose in response to clarion untap make it a 3/3 and play Druid. Instead my opponent did nothing, and I passed turn 4 with a lethal attack if I untapped (9 damage from elks and 2 from Druid I just played with opp at 11). But They play 4th land and say go? I am worried about going for it as if they have bonecrusher giant for my Druid and then untap and realm cloaked giant I will have an Oko no food and 2 lands with no plays. But I don’t see any real other options. If I don’t make My 3rd elk and attack with everything I still will die to the realm cloaked. My opponent just concedes when I right click attack all. I sort of forgot what Joe even wanted me to do. Maybe it was not playing Druid T3 he didn’t like, or maybe it was when I turned my goose into an elk the following turn. But that was mandatory as it left me a food back Incase my opp had the t4 clarion or fires/clarion, and left me with a lethal attack if they did not. G2 I play a T3 nissa untap Breeding Pool attack, my opponent plays 4th fires and I Aether Gust it and untap and krasis for 6 or something. I won that one. R5 Jack Kiefer on JetSki Fires. His list was notably a bit cleaner and played less bad cards (except he had a bunch of shimmers I guess, that does qualify as a bad card) This match was really good, but just showcased how good the food deck is. He beat me g1 with no real sweat as I couldn’t pressure him nearly fast enough. G2 and 3 details are blurry to me but I know a surprise brontodon really threw him off in one of the games. He cast fires into drawn from dreams turn 4 and when I untapped and played and brontodonned his fires he seemed frustrated. I don’t know if he could have taken different cards with drawn but his next couple of turns were not good enough and I won. Oh I remember now. I absolutely ravaged him with a casualties of war in the other game killing his 5th land and only white source, his fires, his sorcerous spyglass and his cavalier. 5-0 R6- Oscar Christensen Mirror Oscar had a good list with 2 Casualties and I was a bit worried going into this match as I hadn’t practiced much at all with my deck and I felt he was probably well prepared for these mirrors. That proved to be true as he seemed to play very well in all the games. I think I just ran away with one game on the play, and the other game I won was solely bc I jockeyed myself into a position where he was forced to make plays to keep parity and left himself tapped out and dead to my 1 SB casualties. That 1 card I put in my sideboard at the last possible second after discussing how much I hate duress with Collin is certainly the only reason I made this run. It singlehandedly won me 4 matches. 6-0 R7- Craig Krempels Mirror Craig has a Karn’s bastion in his deck! I immediately screamed judge to get an Oracle as I had no idea what that was. But the rest looked pretty normal. I don’t know Craig well but I knew he was old school and at least a good to great player. I was in the zone this round and I think I got extremely lucky in a few ways. First was the seating arrangement. By the 2nd game a huge crowd was forming and I could sense them around me, but couldn’t really see any of them. He had them over his shoulder but also could see all of the people behind me up close and looking on. He made a few glaring strategical errors (Multiple times in Nissa fights he attacked with a land which let me kill his nissa for free where otherwise I would’ve had to overextend/throw things away to get to it), but he also just literally forgot to activate his planeswalker one turn and also forgot to play a land in another. He ran away with game 1 with a t2 Oko followed by an early Nissa, capped off with a Karn’s Bastion threatening to activate no less! In game 2 we have a bit of a back and forth affair but I am starting to fall behind. I am not giving up hope as on turn 5 I draw the black source I need for Liliana on the following turn. My board is two wicked wolves and a food, and I have 4 forests and a watery grave after playing land this turn. My hand is Liliana and my freshly drawn overgrown tomb. Howver Craig has just deployed Nissa to go along with his Oko on 10 counters, and his own goose and wolf. On his turn he makes an attack after I had attacked his walkers with my wolves. His only blockers now are the lands and one goose but his Oko has so much loyalty and nissa is now at 4 because I hit it with a wolf last turn. Fortunately he says go without even using his Oko. I untap ready to slam Liliana and hope I can fade krasis for a couple turns and claw back from a dangerous life total (I was at under 10 but don’t recall exactly). Instead I draw my 1 casualties 🏆 I kill both his creature lands and his Oko which leaves his nissa at 4 loyalty and him only having a goose to chump. But I have two wolves and a food so he can’t save nissa and chooses to not block with goose. He’s down to 3 lands goose and I end up winning easily with Liliana a few turns later. Game 3 is another back and forth affair but this time I wrestle control in the middle turns and also have my casualties ready. He is fighting back and has a vraska in play for a couple of turns, but I manage a krasis for 3 which will threaten to kill it as its at 1 going up to 3. He does remember to use it and has a goose he can use to jump in front and protect it for one turn. But I have nissa and casualties ready this turn and when I untap I know it’s over. I start by attacking Vraska with Krasis. He blocks with Goose and Bins it. I ask how many cards he has as they are on the table and he spreads them out slowly and it’s 4. As this is happening someone behind me on the huge rail screams Judgeeeeeee. My eyebrows raise and I immediately realize he left his Vraska at 3 but it should have gone to 2 from Krasis Trampling over his Goose. So I tell him this. Craig looks incredulous. I said yeah u chumped with goose it should be at 2. He says well trample is your ability. You have to remember your own abilities. So I said wait what? Did you think maybe I just wanted to go ahead and assign all 3 damage to the goose this time?? Really fuck that goose up good huh??? He kind of shrugged and said something back but I said let’s just call the judge. Lengthy call but I just lead with exactly what happened. I tell them that the person behind me screamed judge after a few seconds and that is what prompted me to scan the board and realize he didn’t tick his vraska down. It’s been 5-10 seconds since binning goose and all I have done was ask how many cards he has. I acknowledge that it wasn’t even on my radar until someone screamed judge (bc I was so happy and knew I was going to win. Also probably bc I suck and can’t seem to remember what my own cards do) They basically rule that trample does not have a default rule, so it’s on me to assign it. And also that someone behind me saying judge seems to have prompted me to realize I missed it. So the vraska stays at 3 I think this rule is kind of BS in the first place. Trample should be automatic default lethal + rest at you. (That’s how it works on Modo and Arena no?) But also barely any time has passed and no actions have been taken here, so I snap back and ask “What if I would’ve just called you over and told the exact same story, but left out the part about someone behind me screaming out judge?” You would rule differently right? “I cannot answer that hypothetical at this time” Ok well when can you?? “After the match” Ok thanks. “You can appeal if you are not comfortable” No it’s all good. Nissa float Gb with overgrown tomb untap casualties your entire board except vraska and a useless wolf go. The crowd goes wild!!!! “Olldddd Schooooooollllll” rings heard throughout the hall. He died the next turn or so. I bring it back up with Craig and I just let him know it’s not 1999 anymore. It’s actually the future now, 20 years later. And almost everyone in the room would just tick their own Vraska down to 2. He didn’t agree with that, but I have faith in the new guard. 7-0 R8 Eli Kassis on GB Adventures I was starting to fade hard at this point. The lights also got to me a bit. Its extremely bright up there and I was actually having trouble even reading what lands/cards he was playing. Game 1 I was feeling the head spin from not eating and having such a long day. I managed to keep it together and I am proud of myself for recognizing what I should be doing in this game. I had a wolf and 2 goose and on turn 4-5 I untapped and could slam nissa, but he had left 3 mana open and had some cards still. And I identified massacre girl as a massive blowout if I didn’t get my food count up ASAP. On top of that Nissa was so likely to just die to Murderous Rider or Grasp as he’s not doing much proactive stuff and I haven’t given him a great window to use either of those cards either. The issue is mostly that I didn’t practice so I haven’t played this matchup. But I totally blanked on Liliana for a few turns. The passive plays I was making left me completely fucked if he had one removal spell (kill a goose) into Liliana make me sac two. I still think I made all the correct plays, but after a few turns of skipping my plays to make food with geese to play around massacre girl and abyss him with my wolf, I realized how big of a threat Liliana was and finished the game off while playing around that as well. I win and he drops his hands of all lands. He played well but literally drew all lands so any plays I made throughout the game probably would have been good enough to win. G2 and G3 I think I play quite poorly. I don’t remember specifics but every time I made a play I felt like I was guessing and second guessing and I would just tell myself to make a play u are thinking but actually not getting anywhere. Go ahead, guess you monkey!!! No amount of thinking can save you. And then I’d just listen to The Oko Devil on my shoulder and make a random play. It all culminated in me scooping when I wasn’t dead. (I was dead as shit, but not technically dead. He had 2 cards and a castle, and any 1/1 or removal spell in the top 4 cards would kill me immediately) but I never would have scooped if I knew wasn’t dead immediately. You see the problem was Lovestruck Beast. Eli had 2 of them, a massacre girl, and a 1/1 human. I had a wolf that could kill the human and now help double block Massacre girl. The bigger problem? I played the entire match as if Lovestruck Beast was just a 5/5 for 3. Totally forgot it can’t attack without a 1/1. There is no excuse as I had the card multiple times in draft, but after a long day it just totally slipped my mind. 7-1 [Happy] One other note. Open decklists. I think this is a massive reason for my success at this tournament. I don’t have much time to practice these days, and there are so many damn formats and they are always changing! Magic is already so hard, but when you don’t have the practice + confidence in what your opponent will have in their list + confidence in your ability to remember and understand all of the possibilities/interactions/situations in the entire format it makes each game so much harder to form your long term strategical plan, which in turn makes all of your tactical ideas harder to execute as well. Knowing exactly what I am working with and against every round makes me 10x as comfortable/dangerous. I know it goes both ways, but I feel like most players at the top level have a huge edge on me without open decklists. I struggle to play around cards/piece together what they might have until it’s too late so often. Mostly because I’m bad at it and scattered, but also because of the lack of reps. I can never remember what set a card was from or how long ago a standard was or all the decks from the old formats etc. I actualy can barely ever tell you what sets are in standard and which cards are in which set! And that’s when I’m actively playing. So yeah. Shoutout to Open decklists. I’m sure many people hate them, but I strongly prefer them. I’m always going to bring caw blade anyway; GG yo. Day 2 & Day 3 Coming soon!

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Tagged by: @cj-cat (Tysm by the way :^DD)

Name/nickname(s): (I’ll just give nicknames) Kitty,Kit-Kat

Favourite colours: Red, (Plus mainly pastel colours)

Last song I listened to: Animal [Cover by Chase Holfelder]

Favourite tv show(s): Once Upon A Time,American Horror Story,Sherlock.

First fandom: Avatar : The Last Airbender

Hobbies: Drawing,Going on my laptop 24/7,Typing up stories on my phone+laptop,Games,Baking.

Books that I’m currently reading: Uhhhm Pride and Prejudice 

Worst thing I’ve eaten: I’ve had a few bad things that I’ve eaten but cheese is probably one of the worst.

Favourite place(s): Wales,My house in Wales,By the river,In a forest,Basically anywhere that has nature. Also I love going into old houses for example the Newton House in Wales. Best thing ever!! :D

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