Sacrifice for 2 Black Mana

East Coast Summer

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It's cooled off just a bit as some summer storms roll by, but to everyone also dying in the tags ... I want you to know you are SEEN and UNDERSTOOD!! 🥵🥵🥵

All true, except for me no dry heat. I live in Western New York, so I get to "enjoy" the mugginess that comes off the great lakes. Which means even when its down in the seventies it still feels hotter than it is because the heat sticks in the air like peanut butter in a horses mouth.

And then of course there is the haze, which has not been helping things either.

Is it just me, my nostalgia, and love of wizards, or is this art sick af

Also he's gender goals

The best part is that guy is Arcanis the Omnipotent.

You think with a name like that he would be some big deal, like a ruler of a magic kingdom or an ancient God of Magic.

No, he's a fighter in a pit fighting ring.

So he's basically the wizardly equivalent of a professional wrestler.

killer nutcracker possessed by the spirit of a woman GO

Like, I'm not gonna say that the X-Men and their various imitators are anything like a perfect allegory, but "it's a bad allegory because super powers really are dangerous" has never held water for me. Like, are we really just gonna uncritically accept the implicit assumption lurking in that argument that bigotry is only wrong to the extent that its targets lack the ability to threaten the status quo? Hand-wringing over whether certain minorities are inherently dangerous is – and, critically, always has been – a smoke-screen for the real conversation about who has the right to possess the capacity for violence, and you can't engage with that conversation if your opening move is to concede that the only legitimate victim is a powerless one.

To underline what I mean about "the right to possess the capacity for violence", let's peel back the allegory and bring it back to the real-world issues that are allegedly being allegorised.

Every time the cops roll up and shoot some poor guy thirty-seven times in the back because the cell phone in his pocket looked kind of like it might be a gun, the public conversation always centres around questions like "are the police telling the truth about thinking it was a gun?" and "were the police reasonable to assume it was a gun?"

These are not the right questions to be asking.

The right question to be asking is "so what if it was a gun?"

Would the public execution of a guy who was literally just walking down the street have been justified then?

It's not accidental that stories of this type are most popular in America, where the people who can be counted on to argue that cops are behaving correctly when they kill on sight every time they see a member of a visible minority who looks like they might be packing are the exact same people who argue that carrying concealed automatic weapons without a permit is the God-given right of every red-blooded American man, woman and child.

This is not hypocrisy. They know exactly what they're doing. It's not about who is and is not dangerous: it's about who has the right to be dangerous.

Plus, various interpretations of the X-men have gone out of their way to show it doesn't matter about the powers, at the end of the day its about punching down on a marginalized people.

In the X-men 90's cartoon, we see a scene where the Friends of Humanity (the Anti Mutant hate group) going after some random mutant who even pleaded he doesn't have any powers, he just looks different.

And then of course following the Decimation (where Scarlet Witch depowered most of the worlds mutants) we got worldwide reports of former mutants being killed because they could no longer protect themselves. (Culminating at Xavier school where a bunch of depowered kids were being sent home, literally being put on a bus, and then The Purifiers blew up the bus. Which still galls me to this day).

Point is, The whole "dangerous powers" excuse has always just been that.

Grimace Shakes, not even once.

I think it’s hilarious that they made Slade look like a Pokémon villain in the new Adventures with Superman show.

Slade Wilson has been a Dilf for a super long time. He’s clearly so much younger in this show. Ya’ll should let the twink enjoyers have a win here.

This shows version of Jor El looks more like Deathstroke than Deathstroke does.

super special award for every1 who survived 🥇

i think we're all so brave, actually

The site went down??

Early in the morning yeah.

Elon is such a little fucking shit. He fires most of his staff, then gets mad that they went to work for his competitor. Like, where did you THINK they were gonna go?

Like if some arrogant idiot took over my store and fired me for no reason, and someone drove up to me and offered me a job working at a place designed to put my former boss out of business, I'd jump at the chance.

The best doggy

Wow, that's a dog? At first I thought that was a guy in a dog suit doing a bit.

That is a big honkin boy. What breed is that?

Tibetan Mastiff. that’s the breed that Mouse, Harry Dresden’s dog, lets people think he is

Oh cool, I've heard of them, even seen pictures, never seen on in comparison to other creatures to get a feel for their actual size.

They do not disappoint.

Only capitalism could turn unlimited free electricity into a problem.

oh no the poor billionaires may lose a few thousand dollars so the plant doesn't die so sad

Didn't Nikola Tesla invent a way to transfer electricity without wires and power stuff forever and no one ever used it because they couldn't figure out how to make money off of it?

Stalin's USSR = most woke nation to ever exist. You heard it here first, folks.

Imagine, for a moment, trying to figure out what the fuck is being measured on a scale where the USSR is a 10 and Portland, Oregon is an 8 without the excruciating knowledge of the hyperspecific neuroses of fascists over the past decade

I'm guessing this is because Australia recently voted out pretty much all their conservative politicians at once because the fucking dipshits policies led to the entire continent being on fire for almost an entire year.

So in this case I think they are measuring wokeness by how much of the country is not on fire at the moment. Or they just could be idiots.

The best doggy

Wow, that's a dog? At first I thought that was a guy in a dog suit doing a bit.

That is a big honkin boy. What breed is that?

Everyone be like: ME AT WORK

We all know he’s looking at Neelix in that second gif

Tuvak: I've grown to respect many of you, others I have learned to tolerate. Still others, well, Janeway wont let me bury you in a shallow grave on an undiscovered planet. So count your blessings.

Neelix: Is he talking about me?

Tuvak: What do you think?

duck nanner

Get fifteen of them and you can destroy the magic barrier keeping their mother locked away and then defeat King K Rool.

...I spent the last two weeks 100% completing the DKC trilogy on the SNES. So this is relevant to me.

WASH YOUR WATER BOTTLE IF YOU HAVEN’T IN A WHILE