darine

@darine.bsky.social

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Books, cats, fungi, and Magic: The Gathering.

Two lazy tortoiseshell cats flopped out on a patio.
A Magic The Gathering card of the Fifth Doctor, signed by Peter Davison.
An old 8-bit Amstrad CPC464 computer. Black, with some bright red, green, and blue keys, a numerical key pad, and a tape deck built-in on the right hand end. Connected to a colour monitor showing the yellow-text-on-blue-background startup screen.
Fluffy tortoiseshell cat sitting in a Riverford veg box.
Old pewter Games Workshop models. Squat trike and rider, a minotaur with a spiked club, a 1989 Imperial Knight, a Squat Adeptus. All bare metal.
Fluffy long haired white and tortoiseshell cat laying on my lap.
Result of playing dialed.gg: 44.62/50, followed by the five colours matched, and a message saying "Tetrachromat or obsessive? Either way, maybe go outside."
A greeny-blue glowing fractal-like "galaxy" of splodges and dots on a deep blue background. Two points are circled in pink: one a little south-south-west of centre labelled shivambhatt, a second on the far eastern edge labelled darine.
A fence post thickly and entirely covered in dead, dried, ivy stems.
Red aurora behind dappled clouds, with a single tiny star in the middle
Fluffy tortoiseshell cat looking comfy on paper toilet roll packaging.
A double-wide box of cards for the old Netrunner CCG. Purple left half, green right half, with circuit-board patterns across the whole width. Top-centre is the Netrunner logo in orange text, above a holographic-style silvery disc icon.
Fluffy tortoiseshell cat laying on a cream blanket on a sofa, rear legs upwards, front legs and head turned 90 degrees to one side, somehow arching her back at the same time. Also, fast asleep.
A gaming playmate with artwork by Richard Kane Ferguson for the MTG card "Misdirection". On a snowy hillside a lightly armoured individual carrying a shield and spear faces a bearded, snow-covered figure holding a long mace-like implement. The snowy figure is pointing into the distance as if to tell the warrior which direction to take
Catan New Energies game box with Amazon delivery labels stuck directly on it, which arrived with no other packaging.
Rotundifolia sundew plants in boggy soil
Screenshot of my bluesky timeline, juxtaposing John Bull's post (to which this is a reply) with artist Jason Rainville's astonishing artwork for the MTG card "Storm the Seedcore". It depicts a small team of humanoid soldiers in golden armour and billowing cream-coloured cloaks, carrying a dryad with grey skin, forcing their way through a jumble of enemies.
MTG card: The Reaper King
Gisela, Blade of Gold knight MTG card, with the special profile artwork.
Longhaired tortie cat with white paws and tummy, stretched out on a sofa with her top half 180 degrees rotated.
Grey-green lichen on a wooden gate
Tortoiseshell cat doing a rectangular loaf impression.
A screenshot of the joke about "ten tickles" that I am replying to, with the ten likes underlined for emphasis.
Slug-nibbled Fly Agaric fungi in a grass verge.
Fluffy tortoiseshell cat lying on a duvet, looking oddly rectangular.
White-bordered Magic the Gathering card named Teufelsmaschine.
Screenshot of previous post, with three occurrences of the word "dragon" underlined in red.
Large Parasol mushroom on grass verge.
A Tortoiseshell cat curled up snoozing on my lap.
Fluffy tortoiseshell cat "relaxing" on a sofa in a surprisingly contorted position.
Photo of a flat leaded roof with raindrop, with a garden backdrop.
1990 paperback edition of Asimov's Foundation novel.
Photo of the spines of several Alastair Reynolds books, including Absolution Gap.
Screenshot from Magic The Gathering Companion of a three-wins result from a pre-release competition.
Photo of a 1999-vintage Magic The Gathering level 1 judge certification card.
Long haired tortoishell cat with white paws and belly fur, lying on a sofa with her top half twisted 180 degrees from her bottom half.
Loafing tortoiseshell cat on my work desk, with her tail across the keyboard.
Screenshot from the MTG Arena application showing a typo: "allegience" rather than "allegiance".
Screenshot of bluesky timeline coincidence: Cats of Yore post of a picture of two cats captioned "By the light of the moon" underneath John Scalzi's post with a hi-res picture of the moon.
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MTG Secret Lair massive checkout queue wait screen.
MTG Secret Lair checkout queue screen. More than an hour wait to go.
Screenshot of MTG Secret Lair checkout queue after >1.5h, with lots already sold out.
A photo of the spine of a 1904 third impression copy of The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin), and the cover of a 1935 copy of The Quantum Theory of Valency (W.G. Penney)
Long-haired tortoiseshell cat curled up amongst her toys in a cardboard box.
Lazy tortoiseshell cat lying belly-up on the patio outside the glass door.
Long haired tortoishell cat curled up in a cardboard box of cat toys.
Two sequential skeets: "No this one's good and I'll fight you if you pick on the weird Italian nerds" followed by "Italy is what happens if you asked AI to do a Eurovision act and sing."
Tortoiseshell cat lying on her side on the beige carpet, in the striped sunlight through the blinds.
Textless versions of Zombify and Incinerate Magic: The Gathering cards.
Magic: The Gathering card Bog Imp, 4th Edition.
Fluffy tortoiseshell cat snoozing on a sunny windowsill behind the hanging slats of the blinds.
Magic: The Gathering card Terror, with black border, in (I think) Chinese.
Fighting Fantasy books 24-30 (lime green spines), plus the Dungeoneer rulebook (blue spine) and all four of Steve Jackson's Sorcery! books (orange spines), on a bookshelf.
@tappytoeclaws (US Magic: The Gathering streamer and cosplayer) reposting @garius (British, naval history and the like)
Playmats with design by Magali Villeneuve.
Street frontage of All Bar One pub on Wimbledon Hill Road. An impressive red brick four storey building with ornate features and an embossed BANK written in the brickwork above the front door.
Package tracking note showing arrival in UK.
Cover of a book "Secrets of a Devon Wood" by Jo Brown, with colour drawings of blue tits, flowers, and insects.
Picture of magic the gathering card Breath Weapon