Chiral 🏳️‍⚧️

@chiral.bsky.social

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she/her I like birds and turtles

The art for the Magic card 'Maeve, Insidious Singer'. It depicts a Siren laying on a rock with the lower half of an octopus. Her hair is made of kelp and she's adorned with captured trinkets and baubles. Surrounding her are ships that have wrecked against jagged rock jutting from the sea.
Late 20s woman in a full length white dress with a blue floral pattern standing beneath a pergola with Wisteria growing across it. She has brown chin length curly hair and is carrying a brown leather purse.
Five roasted chicken drumsticks resting in their drippings while they cool
The Magic: The Gathering card Ovika, Enigma Goliath
A screenshot of a Tumblr post that reads: "you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally
A section from a Gizmodo article covering a recent interview by author Andy Weir. It reads “And here’s another thing: I pitched a Star Trek show to Paramount, and I was in Zoom with the showrunners with all the shows and spent a lot of time talking to [executive producer Alex Kurtzman],” the writer continued. “I don’t like a lot of the new Trek. He, as a person, is a really nice guy. But at the same time, those shows are shit. He is a nice guy. But they didn’t accept my pitch, so, you know, fuck ’em.” The final sentence is highlighted.
A cat with white fur and black patches is sleeping on a blanket. She has her face squished up against something as she snoozes.
Well sol ring was first printed in 1993 so... Jokes aside I don't think it has, more cards and mechanics will always mean more ways to explore new ideas or revisit old ones. If anything there could be an argument for commander as a whole becoming less creative on average as its casual nature and broad popularity brings in less creativity-minded players and that could in turn point to the original preconstructed commander decks as a sort of original sin for the death of commander losing creativity. In practice though I don't think that's the case. I would argue that the increased popularity and ease of access has just as well brought other creative people into the space that wouldn't have been able to otherwise. How many people first bought a commander precon and have them gone on to build dozens of their own decks? Quite a lot! Finally, someone copying a deck from a YouTube video or playing a precon also doesn't reduce my creativity as an individual. The potential for creativity still exists and can be shown by the people demonstrating it even if others choose not to partake in it. And beyond that magic is fundamentally a deck building game, choosing to not change pieces in a deck can be a creative decision in itself!
My black and white cat named Rin. She's lounging on the seat of an office chair as if she's been there all day even though I just stood up from it moments before.
Bocchi, from the Anime Bocchi the Rock, climbing into a trash can with her guitar case on her back
A cup of hot chocolate swirls in shades of brown and tan inside a porcelain mug rimmed with a dark floral pattern, a spoon rests against the side of the rim.
A long exposure photograph of the comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over a pond ringed by trees
New Card from Magic the Gathering's Wilds of Eldraine: Yenna, Red tooth regent. For 2 plus a white and a green she's a 4/4 Elf Noble with an activated ability to make copies of enchantments you control.
At eye level with a tawny colored turkey vulture circling lazily over a town. It's feathers are a mix of predominantly browns and blacks with white and gray streaks. The tip of its outer wing is splayed and pulled up as it circles.
An American Goldfinch perched at the end of a branch of thistle. Many of the thistles flowers are still closed and flowering but the Finch has found the older flowers that have already opened and gone to seed.
An adult bald eagle looking down from it perch in a tree
Great Blue Heron in flight over a body of water