MakeMonsters

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Infrequent writer of short fiction. Frequent editor of romantic lit/ erotica. Lover of Indie games, musicals, Magic: The Gathering, and fucked up little guys.

Magic the gathering card featuring art of a woman waving a sceptre as green energy flows off of it, floating islands in the air of the background Card text as follows: Garnet, Princess of Alexandria {G}{W} Legendary Creature — Human Noble Cleric Lifelink Whenever Garnet attacks, you may remove a lore counter from each of any number of Sagas you control. Put a +1/+1 counter on Garnet for each lore counter removed this way. “Someday I will be queen, but I will always be myself.” 2/2 Illustrated by Daniel Correia
Altered version of an image from Of Mice and Men: George stands behind Lennie, a gun trained on his head while the other man sits obliviously. In this altered version, the head of Lennie is replaced by the head of Ashling, a flame elemental from magic the gathering, and George has had glasses and a thicker beard added. The original art was made by Todd S. Rogers in 2010
Magic card featuring art of a fiery elemental, flames emanating from her head and arms, with wailing humanoid faces formed within those flames. Card text as follows: Ashling, Rekindled {1}{R} Legendary Creature — Elemental Sorcerer Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Ashling, Rekindled, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {U}. If you do, transform Ashling. 1/3 Art by Chuck Lukacs
Mtg cards Dark Ritual and Dance of the Dead with mild fading and wear around the edges
Magic the Gathering character Volrath the Shapestealer (a pale humanoid with mutated physical qualities) performing mad science on another humanoid creature with a bunch of painful looking tools. Volrath is holding a mechanical spider with a doll’s head in a cage attached on top of it. The image has the text ‘So Much for the Tolerant Left’ on it in bold white letters.
11 magic the gathering cards laid out, from a variety of properties, including Dr. Who, Spider-Man, TMNT, Dungeons and Dragons, and Lord of the Rings.
Magic the Gathering card featuring art of Thanos the Mad Titan flying above a burning city, in a helicopter with ‘THANOS’ written on the tail. Not pictured, my soul leaving my body. Card text as follows: The Thanos-Copter {6} Legendary Artifact — Vehicle Flying, haste When The Thanos-Copter enters, Vehicles you control become artifact creatures until end of turn. Whenever a Vehicle you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. Crew 2 5/5 Illustrated by Paulius Daščioras
Magic the Gathering card with art of a woman clad in black looking ominously down and to the side as lighting and fire rains down from the sky around her. Card text as follows: Edea, Possessed Sorceress {2}{U}{B}{R} Legendary Creature — Human Warlock Ward {2} At the beginning of combat on your turn, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control but don’t own dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control and you draw a card. 2/5 Illustrated by Lius Lasahido
MTG card with art of a demon overlooking the sky and floating rock formations. Card text as follows: Scourge of the Skyclaves {1}{B} Creature — Demon Kicker {4}{B} When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, each player loses half their life, rounded up. Scourge of the Skyclaves’s power and toughness are each equal to 20 minus the highest life total among players. */* Illustrated by Chase Stone
Box art for the SNES game King Arthur’s World, featuring a black and white depiction of knights fighting up and around a bewildering loop of spiral staircases.
Double-sided magic card, the front featuring an elvish queen holding a cup of wine, wearing a mounting veil and all black, and the back featuring the same character with molten cracked flesh turned to metallic armor, in front of a desolate background. Card Text as follows: Ayara, Widow of the Realm {1}{B}{B} Legendary Creature — Elf Noble {T}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Ayara deals X damage to target opponent or battle and you gain X life, where X is the sacrificed permanent’s mana value. {5}{R/P}: Transform Ayara. Activate only as a sorcery. ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) 3/3 Ayara, Furnace Queen Color Indicator: Black and Red Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elf Noble At the beginning of combat on your turn, return up to one target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Ayara cherished her new machine servitors just as much as she once did her many suitors: not at all. 4/4 Illustrated by Anna Podedworna
Alt arts for the final fantasy themed magic the gathering ‘summon’ cards. Sunmon: Primal Odin, Summon: Kujata, Summon: Fenrir, Esper Origins, Summon: Titan, and Summon: Brynhildr
Inventory screen for the game Shell of a King, featuring my character who is like... half-zombie... wearing a bow and a paper hat... and like, they have fire in one hand and are sassily leaning on their sword... They're so cool, man.
Somewhere around 20+ PS2 games in a square shelf, primarily RPGs.
Purple text on a black background: Give me a game and I’ll give you my honest opinion on it.
Bosch from the video game Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter. A blond young man standing lazily, with a hand on his hip and his rapier pointed at the ground.
Life tracker for a magic the gathering commander game, showing 4 life totals: 20, 0, 420, and 17
A flying fish-creature that’s been converted into some sort of transport ship, docks with a small building as the sun glows in the distance; clouds billowing past the building are illuminated in a soft orange-pink hue as they’re backlit by lights from the building.
Magic the Gathering Card, with art featuring a red-headed Giant woman, holding a crook and smiling as she looks down on a basket of sheep hanging off her neck. Card text as follows: Bre of Clan Stoutarm {2}{R}{W} Legendary Creature — Giant Warrior {1}{W}, {T}: Another target creature you control gains flying and lifelink until end of turn. At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost if the spell’s mana value is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained this turn. Otherwise, put it into your hand. 4/4 Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing
Roy Scheider looking at the camera.
Remy the rat from Ratatouille, smiling.
A black ball cap with ‘Stay Gold’ printed on it, from the Broadway musical The Outsiders.
Box art for the Japanese version of Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2) Three tiny figures stand in the bottom right corner of the box, looking upward at a truly massive tree, covered in moss, leaves, and vines, further surrounded by all manner of greenery. Two pink birds fly by in the foreground.
Character creation screen of a Sylvari Necromancer (Sylvari are basically dryad-like creatures) Colour scheme is ash-white with deep red highlights, and a tiny amount of green around the eyes.
Magic Card depicting an elf falling to corruption, her left infected with a sharp and twisted copper-like substance, softly grasping her still mostly normal right arm. Behind her on one side is a massive beast-like creature looming over her, and on the other her fellow elves who ultimately abandon her. Text is as follows: Glissa Sunseeker {2}{G}{G} Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior First strike {T}: Destroy target artifact if its mana value is equal to the amount of unspent mana you have. To seek the truth was her calling. To gain its power was her destiny. 3/2 Illustrated by Livia Prima
Magic the Gathering card featuring a blond woman in armour, wielding a glowing long weapon that comes to an end in a crescent shape, riding a gigantic Armoured Frog with a protruding tongue and sharp teeth through the foggy swamplands. Text of the card as follows: Thalia and The Gitrog Monster {1}{W}{B}{G} Legendary Creature — Human Frog Horror First strike, deathtouch You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped. Whenever Thalia and The Gitrog Monster attacks, sacrifice a creature or land, then draw a card. 4/4 Illustrated by Howard Lyon
Choshiro Kirishima, the third playable character in Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, with his eyes closed looking down. Notably, not a fashion-forward teen/college-age girl, and therefore intrinsically unpopular. He is a gritty mid-20s detective though! That's cool!
Leon Kennedy from RE4 Remake, wearing a fully black outfit covered in dark feathers and lower-jaw skull mask, with glowing red eyes. He is backlit by a single yellow lantern, in an otherwise dark shack. He looks like an enthusiastic cosplayer, or the villain from a mid-tier YA novel. So, what I’m saying is he looks perfect.
Magic the gathering card featuring art of a freaky lookin’ goblin lady grinning like a maniac, and brandishing some sorta staff covered in weird, unnatural looking growths as a full moon hangs high in the background. Card text as follows: Auntie Ool, Cursewretch {1}{B}{R}{G} Legendary Creature — Goblin Warlock Ward—Blight 2. (To blight 2, a player puts two -1/-1 counters on a creature they control.) Whenever one or more -1/-1 counters are put on a creature, draw a card if you control that creature. If you don’t control it, its controller loses 1 life. 4/4 Illustrated by Daniel Zrom
A 3 by 3 grid, featuring 9 indie games Starting at the top, from left to right for each row: Chrono Cross, Illusion of Gaia, Legend of Mana Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy X, Dark Cloud 2 Link’s Awakening DX, Disney’s Goof Troop, Cool Spot
A 3 by 3 grid, featuring 9 indie games Starting at the top, from left to right for each row: SomnaBuster, Decline’s Drops, Belle Boomerang The Void Rains Upon Her Heart, Shell of a King, Lost in Vivo Mohrta, Dungeons of Blood and Dream, Carter’s Quest
A girl stands half-turned, holding an ancient camera and looking off to the side. She’s standing in a degraded, dark building, a single light illuminating the front desk behind her, and further back a staircase slightly illuminated by blue-tinted moonlight. Further off to the side is a hallway with the tiniest bit of its own light source coming from around the corner. The character is the only thing fully in focus, with the entirety of the background slightly blurred, and moderately affected by film-grain.
PlayStation 5 homepage featuring multiple resident evil games installed or installing, as well as Beyond Good and Evil, Grim Grimoire, and Valkyrie Elysium.
Extended art version MTG card ‘Nahiri, Forged in Fire’ Card text as follows: {4}{R}{W} Legendary Creature — Kor Artificer Affinity for Equipment (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Equipment you control.) Whenever an equipped creature you control attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. You may cast Equipment spells this way without paying their mana costs. 5/4 Illustrated by Marta Nael
Chip bag with a big NO SANS circle.
2D art of Hilde from Valkyrie Elysium
Title screen for the game ‘Valkyrie Elysium’ displayed on a TV
Magic the Gathering card with art depicting a sword buried into the earth, cracking the ground where it’s pierced. The blade glows blue and steam/smoke rises off of it. The background environment is charred and grey. Card text as follows: Worldslayer {5} Artifact — Equipment Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy all permanents other than this Equipment. Equip {5} ({5}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.) “If that is what you seek, try looking in craters.” —Fodrus, mastersmith Illustrated by Greg Staples
Magic the gathering card with art depicting an anthropomorphic alligator wearing a cowboy outfit, enthusiastically riding the outside of a moving train. Card text as follows: Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker {2}{G}{G} Legendary Creature — Crocodile Mutant Rogue Trample Leatherhead enters with a hexproof counter on her. Whenever Leatherhead deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from her. When you do, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls. 5/4 Illustrated by Lie Setiawan
Gold Ship from Umamusume holding a revolver and pointing it, in the game Red Dead Redemption 2
Magic The Gathering card ‘Timeline Culler’ with art depicting a grey bipedal alien creature in a black set of armour/cloak, wielding some sort of energy weapon Card text as follows: Timeline Culler {B}{B} Creature — Drix Warlock Haste You may cast this card from your graveyard using its warp ability. Warp—{B}, Pay 2 life. (You may cast this card from your hand or graveyard for its warp cost. If you do, exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.) 2/2
A variety of crayon doodles on a placemat
Image of the stage for the 2025/26 musical Chess on Broadway. The word CHESS is lit up in neon purple above the stage, with the rest of the area lit in a mix of blue and red.
PS5 trophy screen displaying the platinum trophy for Silent Hill f, titled ‘I Still Have Wings’
3 cards from a pack of Final Fantasy Magic the Gathering cards, from left to right: Ultima, Memories of Nibelheim, Summon Bahamut (foil)
Dry-erase magic the gathering token representing a copy of Evie Frye, crudely mimicking the art in the card (a woman in a hooded coat throwing a knife toward the viewer), along with the text “Knife! Throw!”
Image of a man wearing a dear mask and a leather jacket on a TV, staring straight ahead as he gives a stilted book review, with the closed caption text: “Alan Wake’s brilliance is on full display with his choice of hardcover book jacket”