Marshall 'Merdle' Cain 🐀

@merdle.blacksky.app

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Writer, Nerd, Gamer. Big into Tabletop and Card Games. https://blackstarlit.substack.com/

A meme of a very depressed person that constantly repeats 'finish the project'. First there is a head with scribbles inside with a speech bubble that says 'I just need to finish this project'. Then there is a person laying in bed with a thought bubble that says 'I just need to finish this project'. Then there is a loop of arrows that say between each 'finish the project'. Then there is a person wearing a hat opening a door saying 'Are u okay bro?' and inside is a scratched out space and a person sitting in the darkness saying 'yes I just need to finish this project'.
A season results screen for pokemon champions. It is for Sean Vio, trainer ID 122643281477. It shows master ball tier rank 4, placement 366,242, final rating 1635.741. it is for double battles in event period june 16 2026 to july 7 2026, season M-3. The team is called Haters, with Farigiraf, Forretress, Glimmora, Kangaskhan, Hippowdon, and Venusaur.
A pokemon champions screenshot of rising to Master Ball Tier on a 4 game win streak in ranked double battles.
A Pokemon Champions team share sheet. The Team ID is K5ARWC495K. The team is Farigiraf with Armor Tail, Colbur Berry, Protect, Shadow Ball, Imprison, Psychic. Forretress with Overcoat, Leftovers, Volt Switch, Lunge, Helping Hand, Light Screen. Glimmora with Toxic Debris, Glimmoranite, Spiky Shield, Sludge Bomb, Energy Ball, and Power Gem. Kangaskhan with Scrappy, Chople Berry, Protect, Circle Throw, Fake Out, and Ice Punch. Hippowdon with Sand Stream, Sitrus Berry, Protect, Rock Slide, High Horsepower, and Yawn. Venusaur with Chlorophyll, Venusaurite, Protect, Sludge Bomb, Earth Power, and Giga Drain.
The avatar legends character poll for the last DLC slot. It says Character Voting Options and It includes 5 Avatar franchise characters, shown in the order of Tenzin, Kuvira, Amon, Bumi, and Asami.
Yugioh card spoiled for an upcoming set. The art is of a strange white knight golem in front of another golem. Angelechy Opening to e4 Normal Trap Card If your opponent goes first, you can also activate this card from your hand during the Standby Phase of their first turn. Place 1 "Angelechy" Field Spell from your hand, Deck, or GY, face-up on your field, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 2 or 7 "Angelechy" monster from your Extra Deck to the Extra Monster Zone, and if you do that, place 1 "Angelechy" monster from your Extra Deck in your Spell & Trap Zone as a face-up Continuous Spell. Until the end of your next turn after this card resolves, you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck, except Synchro Monsters.
A picture of a sidewalk and grass. A dvd is lying there. It is daytime and there is some tree shade.
A sketch of a foot headed Columbo from television's Columbo.
The wow cool robot meme format. A Gundam labeled 'Marvel's Civil War 1 / 2' and a person looking at the Gundam is saying 'Government regulations are dangerous'. But the Gundam is shooting over the person's head, a message that says 'Marvel hates recovering alcoholics'.
The 2xko detective notes post from Senna releasing. It mentions several facts about senna, like "incident details: improsoned in this lantern like many souls before her, senna somehow escaped, stronger than ever.' and 'can transform into a powerful ghost-lile state. Wonder what it can do but would prefer not to find out.' next to a picture of senna glowing green in wraith form.
A large art showcase for the marvel superhero set for magic the gathering. It shows a variety of superheroes like iron man and Thor fighting villains like doom in an attempt to get the cosmic cube. It is very pretty, and in the end will include likely 18 cards in one tableau.
The magic the gathering card construct a cosmic cube. It is a black plan enchantment, the text isn't relevant. The art shows AIM scientists making a blue glowing cube, a powerful object from marvel canon.
The magic the gathering card Secret Invasion, it is a blue aura enchantment. The art references the comic book arc Secret Invasion and shows spider-woman jessica drew as a skrull, and then other heroes as skrulls.This arc was bad, but not as bad as the show they made for it.
The magic the gathering card the last agni kai, depicting a scene from Avatar the last airbender where two firebenders are unleashing powerful fire blasts at each other. The abilities of the card are not relevant, but it is an instant red spell.
The magic the gathering card Black Panther Vanguard. It is 2 and green white. The text isn't important here. But the art is black panther and other wakandans doing the wakanda forever pose.
A pencil drawn map draft of a fantasy location called Claw Island. A landmass to the left has a circle indicating a town called Red Coast. The pizza shaped island has Talonpoint near the bottom, Ulustraza in the middle. And a place called Ansta up North. The island is divided into the south end, west end, north end, and east mountains.
A mural of boomer cartoons on a garage door found on Granville island. It includes characters from the simpsons, Powerpuff girls, johnny bravo, rugrats, king of the hill, daria, doug, sailor moon, dexter's lab, pinky and the brain, ren and stimpy, sonic, stitch, hey arnold, spongebob, pokemon, and paw patrol.
An image of goods purchased while down on Granville island. Including some Lee's donuts, candied salmon, a copy of Murdle volume 1, a leuchturm notebook, and the Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butker.
Screenshot of playing Root by Leder Games, on Tabletop Simulator. The Lilypad Diaspora faction has many frogs in one clearing, and there are a couple bats, and a couple skunks along with the Scoundrel captain of the Knaves. The scores visible include the Knaves at 14 points and the Lilypad Diaspora at 12.
A team share for a pokemon champions team. The team ID is XP8ASGJKG3. The team has a bulky hydrapple, a rock slide Chesnaught, a Mega Venusaur, a Meowscarada with triple axel, a sinistcha with rage powder, and a whimsicott with tailwind. There is added text to say it went 4-0, No it isn't good.
The Invincible 'I miss my wife ' meme. Norman is in space, looking sad. His speech bubble says 'I think I miss my giraffe'.
Meme image 'leave alone the multimillion dollar company'. An overweight man with glasses and an unkempt mustache is brandishing a knife, with the text 'leave alone the multimillion dollar company' attributed to him.
The You are not immune to propaganda meme. Garfield's head is on a sky blue background and dark blue text says 'You are not immune to propaganda'.
The final scene from DK bananza. DK and little pauline say goodbye, DK beats his chest, then DK charges off a cliff while Pauline waves goodbye. Dk falls with glee and then falls fist first, the Donkey Kong Bananza logo crashing into the screen.
It just says in plain text The 'fascist minimum': An (often nationalist) political stance built on a cultural crisis in opposition to perceived degredation of culture from 'degenerate' forces, requiring a return to a mythologized past that promises a 'national palingenesis' or 'national rebirth'. It is my best summary of the idea of the fascist minimum.
The legend card Leblanc Deceiver from the Riot card game Riftbound. The art is by Valentine Tran. It depicts the character LeBlanc, many duplicates of her standing in a row looking to the left with their eyes closed, wearing metallic armor and makeup that bleeds down from the eyes. A single Leblanc duplicate is looking toward the viewer with gold eyes.
A 9 game chart for the My9games trend, made using my9games.com Games listed from top to bottom left to right: Bubble Bobble, Final Fantasy Tactics, Ogre Battle 64, Guild Wars, Mother 2, Super Mario Bros 64, League of Legends, Company of Heroes, and Starcraft.
Screenshot from Resident Evil Requiem where Leon Kennedy is looking at a decayed billboard for Umbrella corp.
A screenshot from Resident Evil Requiem where Grace Ashcroft is in the office of her boss at the FBI. He is saying 'investigate that crime scene and report back to me with your findings.' the image was taken on the switch 2.
Pokemon wind and wave starters revealed today. Browt is a green bird. Pombom is a red dog. Gequea(?) is a water lizard.
a Pokemon favorites chart. There are too many to list here, but it has been exported as text. The main theme is lots of Grass pokemon.
Screenshot of a youtube comment section on the how to play elestrals video. The first comment says 'So basically Yu-Gi-Oh with a resource system. Seems interesting!' Second comment by the same person says 'The only thing I'm a bit iffy about is the card art/the flavour. I don't mean to be rude, but the monster design is kind of unappealing compared to something like Pokemon or the cute/cool monster in Yu-Gi-Oh.' The third comment in reply says, 'For me it's quite the opposite, it brings a modern card design into the TCG scene, for me it's the best card design by far.' A fourth comment in reply says 'It looks like every single ad for a dragon mobile game lmao, be real.'
Screenshot of a Reddit post. First user says 'For those not watching the stream. Floring who is currently ranked 45th going into day 2 is on an unedited Fai sage precon. A user replies 'The Prophecy.'
Four panel comic about the Stormlight Archive books. Panel 1: 'Kaladin jumped into a volcano full of chasmfiends and then,' with a picture of Kaladin with a spear jumping into a lava pit full of monsters. Panel 2: a person holding a book saying 'And then???'. Panel 3: 'Interlude. This is Pibu, He sucks on rockbuds.' with a little man in green saying 'ooh lala!' in front of a bud like plant. Panel 4: The person with the book from panel 2 shouting 'BRANDON!' while dropping the book.
A black and white photo of Dr Martin Luther King Jr holding his Nobel Peace Prize that he got in 1964 in Norway. He is presenting it to the camera.
The cover for Joe Abercrombie's novel, The Blade Itself, The First Law: Book One. The title is on parchment style paper, with a splatter of blood going around the bottom.
A post from fabtcg reddit that says "James White used to have a stance on protecting the collector’s market by favoring less attractive reprints, like white-border versions. I agree that our top priority should be making competitive cards widely available to grow the player base. However, reprints could be handled differently—simply reprinting a standard version, or using the same art with a reprint stamp, would achieve the same goal. New players get affordable copies, and those who want premium versions can pursue the original printings. This way, everyone wins. Some argue that new alternate-art reprints are needed to attract players. While beautiful cards certainly help, that appeal doesn’t have to come from reprints. LSS should be drawing in new players with compelling new mechanics, heroes, and deeper lore—areas that have seen little attention lately." it is from the OP of the thread.
A picture of a newborn in a carseat, they have the face of a Bulbasaur from Pokemon. Their clothing has an elephant print on it.
A 2xko tweet to announce the release on console in january. It also announces Caitlyn. Then there is a follow up tweet promising they are done with arcane champs for now.
A battle map from the Stonewalkers adventure for Cosmere RPG. It includes lush foliage and water pathways. Khornaks, giant crabs, pop out and attack the players.
Youtube recap top five showing my top channels as Flesh and Blood TCG, MBT Yu-Gi-Oh, LCK Global, MTGgoldfish, and Valorant champions tour.
Penguin classics edition of Thus spoke Zarathustra, with heavy note rabs along the side.
Screenshot from Pokemon Z-A for the Nintendo Switch. It shows the grass starter pokemon Chespin trying to attack a taxi while the main character and a tax driver stand watching. The textbox on screen says 'Axi: Why are you trying to fight my taxi? Go battle other pokemon like everyone else does!'
The classic constructed meta game for the flesh and blood world championship in Philadelphia. Of importance is that Arakni Huntsman has 6 players, and Arakni slipped through the cracks has 1.
The Domino meme with a man in a blue shirt pushing over a small domino leading to a massive domino. The first domino says 'A guy named Moot takes over 4chan' and the last domino says 'The GOP has a schism between the Pro-Nazi side and the Pro-Genocide side.'
The Cosmere symbol, which is like a curved star inside a circle, with a many pointed sun in the center of all that.
Art by the artist Aramisdream on Cara and other places. Of a red haired androgynous noble wearing a purple furred coat.
Screenshot of Brightlord Amaram from the Stonewalkers Adventure book for Cosmere RPG. He is a handsome asian man wearing a green vest and carrying an F-You huge sword while smoldering at the camera.
A baby toy from Harry Potter that says Dobby is Free
An MSPaint picture of a Flesh and Blood card!
Emma from Pokemon Legends ZA says something and then Naruto runs away.
A map of a castle town using Canvas of Kings. It has a river, a keep, and a path going through the town.
A sketch drawing or a map of a castle, all the buildings focused to the East. Buildings marked Palace, Academy, Storage, Barracks, and Parsh. With sections marked Soldiering grounds, courtyard, Town, and Imagine many squares.
Victory screenshot for the 4x strategy game Endless Legend 2. The victory is with the money focused Dust Lords faction.
'I love you in every universe' meme with Dr strange at the top and three cards at the bottom. Fizzle from VS system, it negates a plot twist. Deny from Runeterra, it stops a spell or skill. Last word from magic the gathering, it counters a spell and cannot be countered.