taking the crumbs of venetian agna qel’a chewing biting gnashing on them until there aren’t even bones left and then spitting out. carnevale northern water tribe style
I’ve been following the release of story chapters for March of the Machines, and while they’re all quite good (with some way better than others, like the Innistrad one or the Ravnica one), I can’t help but be a bit disappointed, because even though we’ll be getting a lot more chapters than usual, I feel like everything is going SO FAST. Like, entire plans get attacked off screen or in one chapter, we usually see the “big attacker” (usually a compleated PW) get rekt or killed or repealed, and most of the time we don’t see a lot of planes “losing” except off screen. Like, Theros seem in a bad place... and we’re not seeing any of it, except one paragraph in Elspeth’s episode. The author is doing a very good job with what she’s been given, still this is frustrating...
I wish we had more time, and the invasion had been more of a saga. Like, we’d visit planes one by one, Phyrexia being (for a plot reason idc) constrained to invading a plan at a time, until they reach a McGuffin or Dominaria again. We could have fleshed out the compleated PWs, have Praetors politics at play, compleated PWs siding with this or that Praetor... It’s criminal Tamiyo’s been compleated for like a year and we only have snippets of how she thinks or what she did. Ajani’s been compleat for like 4 sets and we only got “well he likes the family and also he’s too clever for his own good eheh”. Even the thing with Nissa and Chandra, it feels rushed to me! With a kind of saga thing, we could have had fights, tearful reunions, tragedy...
But well. We have what we have. I guess they’re also constrained by gameplay decisions and they wanted to show us the “new Magic” that we’re going to have post MOM. I’m still enjoying things and I still love the game. Just wish we had more time to flesh things out.
I think what I want to get into with the "Anyone can do harm." thing that I keep beating yall over the head with is that literally anyone, anyone at all can do harm it's not "in your DNA" to be an abuser or written in the stars that you'll be a predator.
Whatever image you have of an abuser in your head, drop it and replace it with your favorite person in the world and you'll probably be closer to the truth than you realize.
It's easy to address harm when it's coming from someone you already hate.
I see it happen all the time. Someone you couldn't stand for no real reason does something heinous then all of a sudden here comes the avalanche of "I always knew they were a fucked up individual."
No, you didn't.
There is no possible way you could have known, you just already didn't fuck with them before they started doing something you could use to justify your hatred of them. I'm guilty of it too! I'm petty, mean, vindictive, and yes! I'm way quicker to believe something bad about someone I hate versus someone I love because I'm human. Still, y all gotta learn to move past that initial "Well, they were always nice to me!" gut feeling and understand that nobody truly knows anyone and anyone can be capable of anything. Even victims. Even you.
Compilation of EVERY single time they changed Hobie's filter in the digital version:
Left: Theatrical release Right: Digital release
You might have to click on some of them to get a better look at Hobie, sadly I don't have a video editor that allows me to make better edits than these :')
there's something i need to say and yall can boo me for it but deep in my heart i'll always know i'm correct: crowley already forgave aziraphale. like already would take him back at one flutter of his eyelashes. that's all.