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Fern

@genderferrofluid

25 queer person. Pretty much a shitpost blog with some of my life. I am a lifeguard and enjoy games, juggling, martial arts, and very invested in politics

Theft question: If I use a theft spell like "Threaten" or "Price of Loyalty" that let me have control of a creature until the end of the turn. Then I cast Slip Out the Back. Since this phases out until my next turn, and I am still the controller when the end-of-turn effect hits, do I keep this creature permanently?

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Threaten's effect will still wear off while the creature is phased out, so it will phase in under its previous owner's control. Phasing a creature out doesn't stop these sorts of effects from wearing off. Not even "end the turn" effects can stop them.

What's unexpected is that the creature won't phase back in on its previous controller's next untap step, but rather will phase in on your next untap step instead since you controlled it when it phased out, so at the very least this will delay the creature's return a bit.

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"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

To wit:

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

I personally think it’s very rude how people can’t really study martial arts for a living anymore. I mean, university is nice and all, but why can’t I spend my days living in my master’s attic or something, doing household chores in between bone-breaking lessons?

sometimes I wish that every article naming how much a public service would cost (or how much it would cost to repair needed infrastructure for the service or to make the service more accessible to disabled people and poor people) would explain that number in terms of how much time it takes a billionaire to earn that much.

like "it would cost $8.6 million (or, a little under one hour of Bezos's earnings) to build a new public library building in this area which would serve 45 thousand people."

money is literally a social and political representation of how we are choosing to allocate resources. I wish these direct comparisons were made so people who haven't yet made the connection might at least start asking "huh... why should we allocate these resources to one person to do nothing with them instead of to 45 thousand people in the form of an essential service? why do we allocate this amount of resources to this one person every single hour of every single day but it's unthinkable to provide it to tens of thousands of people just once? why are tens of thousands of people (of which I am one), all of us collectively, less valuable than this one guy?"

i’d also like to see comparisons to the us military budget. that same 8.6 million would be about 5 minutes and 16 seconds of the 858 billion budget the senate passed in 2023.

Imagine if you locked Light and Patrick Bateman in a room together. They would be having the most generic conversation but you wouldn’t be able to hear it over the sound of their overlapping internal monologues. There would be a few seconds where their monologues both play in sync to say something misogynistic.