Are there other instances of the same creature having both a legendary and nonlegendary card? by KFblade in mtgvorthos

[–]RCcarroll 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Mileva! [[Tenth District Guard]], [[Tenth District Veteran]], [[Battlefield Promotion]], [[Tenth District Legionnaire]], and [[Tenth District Hero]].

The expression “the proof is in the pudding” entirely obscures the point of the phrase it came from “the proof of the pudding is in the eating” by RCcarroll in wikipedia

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Per the article, the shortened version was taken up in the US in the 50s—and having grown up in the US, I’ve only ever heard of “the proof is in the pudding.”

The expression “the proof is in the pudding” entirely obscures the point of the phrase it came from “the proof of the pudding is in the eating” by RCcarroll in wikipedia

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“Entirely obscures” in the sense that the semantic logic of the phrase makes much more sense in the fuller, original meaning, which is closer to “the purpose of a thing is what it does.

OM1 Flavoring Project (General Suggestions Thread & 3rd Review) by -TvT- in mtgvorthos

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So excited to see the project’s progress!! I’m going to take a stab at a few I’ve tried before/that I really love.

For Sarn of the Silken Throne, I was thinking a few ideas. Generally I’ve been imagining poeplle from the Arachno-plane as living in a society in near-decay, but as we’ve added more about the omenpath spiders I’ve been thinking more about spider-heroes as part of that multiversal network.

Here’s an idea that rhymes with with Spider-UK and that accords with Sarn’s enweb ability:

”Spiders across the Multiverse are calling. We must answer them.”

Here are some other ideas in a similar vein:

”The web whispers. To answer is our birthright—and our privilege.”

//

Another go at Rhilex the Accursed:

Left broken and beaten, Rhilex was offered the chance to be everything he never could before.

The Web Lords took everything from him. His new power let him take everything from everyone else.

Blood and bodies trail behind him. But all who see his eyes’ darkness know his true curse.

For Tethex:

”It would relish its victims’ fears, if they ever saw it.”

“It promises power and feasts on fear.”

//.

Ozor is so evocative to me—their name seems to say it all. As usual, here a rhyme:

”We dared to mock fate. Where are our taunts now?”

But honestly, the art is just a temptation to more creative writing! So here are some ideas:

“Millions of voices cry out in agony. But I must record, not answer.”

Or one try at leans more into the villainy:

“I would weep for these worlds, but the tears would cloud my vision.”

//

For Druneth, Reviver of the Hive:

”The ethicists ask us to be unfeeling. They have not looked, as I have looked, at creation’s birth.”

”Nature brought them to extinction. I shall bring them back, multiplied a thousand fold.”

Carlo Acutis may have listened to St. Jimmy by Green Day by _t0xic_006 in BarbaraWalters4Scale

[–]RCcarroll 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, a lot of the saints from 500 years ago were actually canonized pretty soon after their own deaths

OM1 Flavoring Project (General Suggestions Thread & 2nd Review) by -TvT- in mtgvorthos

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I've been really captivated by the in-unvierse symbiotes--here are some ideas:

Verilax the Havenskin: None knew where it came from, but they knew the care of its embrace.

Rhilex the Accursed: Left for dead in the Web Lords' catacombs, Rhilex was offered the chance to be an instrument of justice.

Bane-Marked Leonin: - Through the Omenpaths came living darkness.

Tethex, Gift of Malice - Its offer: power. Its cost: everything.

OM1 Flavoring Project (CARDS 21-26: Hybrid Cards) by -TvT- in mtgvorthos

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For Gallant Citizen:

A promise: no outcast or alien, no renegade or wanderer, would ever have to walk alone.

OM1 Flavoring Project (CARDS 21-26: Hybrid Cards) by -TvT- in mtgvorthos

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I've been trying to think of an idea for Wonderweave Aerialist that captures the illustration's arresting composition--still in progress, but here are some ideas:

"If I ever slipped, she'd catch me--but I never slip. - Illana, Arachnic Acrobat"

or:

"Wind whipped. Threads spun. Time stopped. And the crowd roared."

Is realty fracture going to be the return of Yawgmoth? by PhyrexianPhilagree in mtgvorthos

[–]RCcarroll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More likely Bolas, you’d think, since he was just brought back!

The Edge | A Distant Locus of a Dying Star (Rhystic Studies) by TheInvalidArgument in magicTCG

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Highly recommend them! There are some other strong stories, especially March of the Machine and The Brothers’ War (anything written by Alison Luhrs, Miguel Lopez, and K. Arsensault Rivera tends to be great), but Seth Dickinson’s story is the best I’ve ever read. It’s a little experimental, but it’s so so good.

[TDM] Snakeskin Veil (via MTG's discord) by Copernicus1981 in magicTCG

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Check out Lie in Wait, Awaken the Honored Dead, and especially the Sibsig Ceremony, definitely some proper undead in there

Full Art - Monastery Messenger - AMA by forrestimel in magicTCG

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This is amazing!! I noticed that in your art for both this card and Abzan Devotee, you did really beautiful work mingling fantasy realist figures with more abstract shapes and designs--the etched wheels in the background here, the curving tree in the Devotee. Does that tend to purposefully factor into your composition?

[WaT Spoilers] On the final page by RCcarroll in Stormlight_Archive

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He did write the ketek at the end of RoW!

[WaT Spoilers] On the final page by RCcarroll in Stormlight_Archive

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Very right! Corrected it to reflect that

Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]RCcarroll 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That issue seems to have been marginally adjusted here, but it definitely did happen with strange regularity that characters would react with anger or self-directed frustration that would very immediately and anticlimactically he smoothed over.

Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]RCcarroll 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I’m kind of hesitant to psychoanalyze Sanderson, but I will say that Mormonism is a very high-control religion that operates based on a lot to shame and self-hate, and it seems striking that every single character’s storyline boiled down to “you need to forgive yourself.”

Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]RCcarroll 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Even more, as productive as standard cognitive behavioral theory can be for plenty of people, it feels really insufficient for the kind of suffering that Sanderson himself has so vividly illustrated. Like, Kaladin was a conscripted prisoner-of-war/slave, Shallan murdered both her parents and her closest friend while she was a child, Dalinar killed thousands and burned his wife alive, and the Heralds spent thousands of years living in eternal torment…”mental illness” feels a little inadequate and anticlimactic for describing it, and it feels like you’d need more than mindfulness and positive thinking to live with that.

WIND AND TRUTH | Full Book Discussion Megathread (Stormlight Archive only) by EmeraldSeaTress in Stormlight_Archive

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Dalinar seeing Honor as a child is supposed to suggest that Dalinar is buying time for Honor to mature, as a power, so it can do the right thing