Jason

Yep I tend to be very big on the "people I normally see talking about imposter syndrome are demonstrably more accomplished, competent experienced, etc than me,so clearly if that's imposter syndrome then I must actually be an imposter and am only telling myself it's just imposter syndrome to cope"

by age 30 you should have:

* strong opinions about birds
* 12 different "when i get time" projects on indefinite hiatus
* sandwich(es) you fruitlessly yearn to have again
* a growing list of obituaries you're looking forward to reading
* parasocial friendships with other people's pets

Watching now and so far have nothing but praise and one minor note that If it matters to you , the script has a couple phrases that got changed before public release of the set( not done so maybe part of an Endstone revision joke for all I know)

Nope sorry I'm not talking about spider mans until I at least draft EoE once god damn

The Endstone: On Revision 38 of trying to get me to win my prerelease

Me staring at my board, not realizing my round two opponent's parents never met: Fuck I tapped my lands wrong

Yeah man he’s a character. He characts, confirmed. He’s developing distinct personality traits and motivations. I’m telling you he’s characting right now. He’s appearing in a work of fiction

I was prepared for it given SDCC coming up but it is still quite frustrating

I feel like they're a lot closer to Thelema:
-"Do what thou wilt" gets quoted near verbatim,
- view true will and fate in terms of stellar gravitation (albeit at a later stage of a stars life cycle)
-there's some argument to be make for entering a black hole as parallel to Crossing the Abyss

It's very fun because we weren't told what the spider man versions of the cards were, but like sometimes it was pretty easy to clock.

I actually love the stylized spelling, but it is funny to me since // has an established meaning in magic card names

"Sp and dr"

Like, notice that Raphaela follows that line by saying she will never recur, versus the endless recursion of a loop mantra, so either she is quoting and refuting a Summist mantra, or contemplating the meaning of a mantra common to both faiths but interpreted differently

I do not believe it's an error that the Summist loop mantra appears in a Monoists Death poem, I think the key is that for Summists it is an endless loop of creation and for Monoists it has been shaped so that it collapses to a single point identical but distinct to the beginning.

I'd better get started on that essay I said I'd do about theology and mysticism in #MTGEternities , shouldn't I?

we need to invent the vaccine that causes autism

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"Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here."

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This is Earth.

Photographed out the window of the Apollo 14 Command Module on the return leg in February 1971.

Apollo image AS14-76-10349, 70 mm Hasselblad, 80 mm focal length, Magazine O, with minor processing by me.

I mean, either that or a bunch of real, actual people on this website realized that Newsom is a fence-sitting, transphobic douchecanoe and gave voice to it. But sure, "anyone who disagrees with me is a bot/troll" works, too.

Admittedly it's arguably close to Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra the Alchemist's "All is One, One is All" but that scans very differently for magic players

Wait, what do you mean the card with the "As above, so below" allusion is number *69* ?! #MtgEoE

Moonlit Meditation {2}{U} Enchantment — Aura Enchant artifact or creature you control The first time you would create one or more tokens each turn, you may instead create that many tokens that are copies of enchanted permanent. Flavor text: “All is the hand that weaves the Fabric of Being. The Fabric of Being is All.” —Drix Codex, line 1

It is true without untruth, certain and most true:

Oh shit new vsauce video that's like a less than once a year occurrence these days

Also Metamorpho, who it kind of feels like has long been like a synecdoche for " obscure weird comic character completely unknown to the mainstream"

That is an exceptionally fitting award, 🎉

"Yup, there's your problem. You've mistaken arbitrary norms specific to your social group for sacred immutable truths and it has driven you insane."

A lot of conspiracy theories come around to the concept of a lost age of humanity. Atlantean and Lemurian societies invented no physical technology, but had advanced spiritual technology, like vast teleporter networks of monks mediating over crystals. Unfortunately, this type of shit is bad ass.