#rankle

[emerald-observance]

March of the Machine: Eldraine and Innistrad.

I'm a big big big fan of the Innistrad story. Like, super big. Gissa and Geralf are always fun perspectives and this time was no different. I also liked the art shown. Specifically this one:

Because A) Phyrexian Cathars are cool, and B) because it's a Phyrexian of the Machine orthodoxy that has style. The belts, cape, and prayer tags are great additions.

As for Eldraine, it was fine. I'm not a fan of Rankle, (and he has terrible taste, I mean, he falls for her then he sees this:

and changes his mind? Pathetic.) But I do think that the love-potion rain into a giant chasm was a good idea. Still a horrendous lack of Urabrask, especially with Ayara's new Furnace Queen epithet.

#march of the machine #mtg #magic story spoilers #march of the machine spoilers #gisa #geralf #ayara #rankle

[xantchaslegacy]

#mtg #rankle #march of the machine #mom

[alliterative-endlessknot]

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is DRACULA/RANKLE #wotd #Dracula #rankle #Halloween #SpookySeason

#dracula #count dracula #vlad the impaler #vlad dracula tepes #vlad dracula țepeș #rankle #halloween #spooky season #etymology #wotd #connectedatbirth #words #language #linguistics #word nerd #history #history of english #history of the english language #historical linguistics #lingcomm #lingblr

[illicit-centipede]

Came across this when trying to explain yargle to my partner and now my whole use of language is irrevocably altered

Source:

#mtg #magic the gathering #yargle #rankle #margle the gargling #each plargle discargles a cargle

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Rankle and Torbran by Viko Menezes

#Magic the Gathering #MtGMOM #Eldraine #March of the Machines #Rankle #Torbran #Dwarf #Faerie #Rankle and Torbran #Fantasy #Art #Viko Menezes #Wizards of the Coast

[prosperity-post]

The power creep is strong in this one but at least it's symmetrical.

#mtg #magic the gathering #wilds of eldraine #preview season #rankle #fantasy card game #wotc #wizards of the coast

[mortemilla]

#my art #original character #cat #art #og design by wyrmdi on th #ive had this char for years yet they still dont have a name #forcing myself not to focus on lineart so i dont go batty #rankle

[almostlookedhuman]

#mtg #rankle's prank #eldraine #rankle #rankle's prankle #walpole

[meanfairies]

#rankle #mtg #alter #card #mean fairy #faerie #fairy #art

[aethersea]

honestly it was a red flag when bbc sherlock went “well obviously the word written in blood isn’t the german word for revenge, it’s clearly the beginning of the name ‘rachel’, what absolute idiot would fail to see that” when in the original novel it is, in fact, the german word for revenge, which sherlock points out gleefully to a roomful of policemen who all figure it’s the beginning of the name ‘rachel.’

and by red flag I mean it was a clear sign that the adaptation was trying to one-up the source material, instead of engaging with it with love.

#sherlock holmes #finx rambles #this kinda bugged me even when I first watched it and still thought it was a super cool show #and tbh it WAS super cool in a lot of ways #they had such dynamic and exciting editing #good pacing #cool character introductions #great snappy lines #but this was a small thing that rankled even then

[1tbls]

man, DE fic piss me off a little sometimes asdfgk. i think u guys are greatly overestimating how much police can or are willing to do, and what cases they are incentivized to actually pursue.

when my mom's apartment was broken into a year ago, her next door neighbor literally got one of the guys on camera, and the police basically shrugged and went "sorry! nothing we can do!". when one of the men broke in again a week later, while my sister was home alone, when she could have been attacked, when she saw the guy face to face, again they were like "sorry! nothing we can do!"

which isn't to say i think they should have gone all supercop to solve the case. what the fuck are they gonna do, manhunt the guys across the city based on grainy camera footage? what would my mom and sister even gain from that, what would the community gain from that, having cops hovering around and then maybe throwing two poor guys from the neighborhood into prison? it's just reality that there's only so few resources to solve these things, so many dead ends, and more harm than benefit to the socioeconomic circumstance of the area.

it's just kind of irksome seeing fic casually talk about all the crimes precinct 41 and C-wing are pursuing and solving, when in reality most probably wouldn't even reach their desks before they were waved away as a dead case. or if they did reach their unit, still wouldn't be solved because it's simply too big of a gamble of time and resources. according to pew research center, in the US, about 45% of violent crime cases are solved each year, and only about 18% of property crime. and that's only the solve rate for the reported cases. it is in fact copaganda and simply inaccurate to portray the police as though they make a significant impact on crime, when more than half the time they're going, "sorry! nothing we can do!" 👍

#de tag #a little rant ♥️ #i was a little upset earlier thinking about my sister and how traumatizing that was for her #then went to read a DE fic and it just casually mentioning the theft and assault cases they were pursuing and i was like #they literally wouldn't even bother #rankled me lol #police brutality jic / #disclaimer that this doesn't mean stop writing casefic bc i like them :p most of the time #i just hate seeing police portrayed as case solving machines spending their days doing more good than bad lol #disco elysium

[gayvecchio]

My initial impression when I watched Eclipse for the first time (and what I still believe) is that Stella knew full well that Ray didn't humilate himself on purpose in the bank when they were kids. I always read it as Stella knowing how embarrased and ashamed Ray would feel for having wet himself, and instead of trying to console him and tell him that it was okay, she let him be the hero instead. Because even though in Ray's memory he thought that he was being 'John Lennon, James Bond, Joe Namath, all rolled into one', I don't think Stella actually fell in love with an illusion at all. Like Fraser said, 'I am willing to gamble that Stella looked beyond that one incident and saw the whole person'. I think she always saw Ray for who he really was, but Ray's own insecurities about himself made him believe that she had to be with him based on a lie. I think the person who doesn't see Ray clearly is Ray himself. He has such a low sense of himself that he can't imagine her falling for anything but a con. He can't imagine that Stella simply fell in love with little Ray Kowalski, because who the hell is even is that? He's convinced himself that he's been playing the part of 'the hero' all these years that he doesn't really see that he has actually become one. The person who recieved all those citations that Fraser recounts wasn't a lie or a con, it was Ray Kowalski, a good policeman, someone who one would be proud to call a partner and a friend. In my opinion Ray's biggest con was conning himself into believing he isn't good enough just the way he is.

#due south #stella kowalski #ray kowalski #anyway this is why the depiction of stella in some fics of being historically embarrased by ray over the years has always rankled me #she wouldn't have stayed with him since she's 13 if he was a constant source of embarrassment #she truly loved ray for ray #she just sadly ended up outgrowing the relationship eventually #and i think ray tied so much of his identity to stella for so long which is why he struggled so much to let go of her #lol i just wanted to write a little thought about stella and it ran away from me a bit. this is why i don't do meta stuff. i tend to ramble #i just hope i made sense #ds30below #<- oops forgot to tag

[xantchaslegacy]

please raise your hand if you also thought, for a brief horrifying and exhilarating moment, that WotC was about to drop *Scourge* Orgy 2: the Sequel on us

please tell me it wasn't just me

#mtg #march of the machine #rankle #torbran #EXCELLENT stories today

[ingravinoveritas]

feliciafancybottom replied to your post "It never ceases to amaze me that despite…"

What I don't get is that since they are both such outspoken LGBTQI+ allies, why people would think they'd spend all these years essentially making a joke out out of it. Like, "Yeah we're allies, unless you're talking bisexual polyamory. That's the one exception. In that case we're going to take the piss out of it for 5 years for absolutely no reason! It's what the fans would want" How does that make sense? It's as if it's alright for them to be allies as long as they're only paying lip service. The minute it seems as though they may actually be part of the community themselves, well that's a bit "icky".

@feliciafancybottom Exactly this. What has been noticeable to me is that Michael and David have been doing this for the past five years, but apart from a small group of us, no one seemed to take notice until Georgia and Anna got on board. Like suddenly there was "permission" to talk about shipping Michael and David because Georgia and AL were calling each other "wife," and the thought of two young, blonde women flirting with each other was immediately viewed as more acceptable than two middle-aged men.

Yet despite this, there is still a reluctance--a sense of disgust, even--at the thought of Michael and David actually being in love/having anything other than a platonic relationship. But as you said, this has been going on for five years, and there is no reason for Michael and David to keep doing this just to show what big LGBTQ+ allies they are. It's also long past the point where any of this would make sense as fan service or something being done solely to promote a project.

Taking all of this together, I am downright baffled at people repeatedly stopping short of realizing Michael and David might also be part of the community, and even reviling them for it. I'm not sure what it says about the fandom for a show where the main characters exist outside of preconceived boxes related to gender and sexuality if the worst thing Michael and David can do is fall in love with each other, but I do know that I don't like it...

#feliciafancybottom #reply post #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #the hypocrisy also rankles me to no end #and it ignores how Michael has repeatedly said that he has put so much of himself into Aziraphale #i can't even with this nonsense #fandom woes #let men be in love 2k24 #so tired from traveling the past three days but happy to be home now #ineffable lovers #thoughts #discourse

[covey-o-quail]

inej the frowner! highest frown count! cheering and clapping kaz 🤝 me being enthralled by the furrow betwixt her brows

#so so looove when she #annoyed! puzzled! vexed! rankled! #six of crows

[owlpellet]

opinions on generative images aside, every time i see this stupid advert on reddit i get so embarrassed on behalf of whomever at adobe thought this malformed beast with a broken beak and worm toes and disappearing tail was actually good enough to be an example of their tool

#every time i see that beak i get so rankled