The Willow Wisp

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(he/they) Writing. Magic: The Gathering (#MTG), video games, video essays, and general geekery. Neurodiverging every day.

An image of Seth from Deltarune beside and image of Seth from Illusions of Gaia. The word "Seth" is written above them both. The Seth on the left, from Deltarune is a violet coloured video game sprite with long hair and glasses who is holding a book. The Seth on the Right is also a violet coloured video game sprite with long hair and glasses.
A screenshot of the BlueSky trending topics. 1. Kefka 2. Nintendo 3. Final Fantasy XIV 4. Evangelion 5. Yoshi P.
A screen shot of a Tumblr post by user comedownstairsandsayhello from June 17th, 2025. It reads: "2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate ton the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published."
The card "Scolding Administrator" from the Magic: The Gathering set Secrets of Strixhaven
A custom plastic baby pacifier. It features art from the Magic: The Gathering card "Pacifism" by artist Kev Walker. It depicts a fanged beast laying on its side, its tongue lolling out, its eyes a glow, fairy lights around its head. It holds up a huge claw to gentle support a butterfly.
A character from final fantasy 14 with a coat revealing a leather studded harness and thong.
A screenshot from the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Captain Carol Freeman is shown in the center of the hallway with an indignant expression on her face. Her arms outstretched. Admiral Les Buenamigo stands looking at her with his back to the viewer. The title card on the top right of the image reads "The Stars at Night." The caption text reads: "You know that AI can't navigate complex problems like I can."
A cartoon image of Sabin from Final Fantasy 6 suplexing an ICE van with two ICE goons inside. The old video game text box is superimposed over the ICE van and reads "Suplex." Sabin has a blond tied back pony tail and is wearing a blue tank top with a pinkish sash, loose fitting long, puffy yellow pants, and pointed shoes.
A screenshot from the One Light, One Dark | A Lorwyn Eclipsed Short Film. A bat-like puppet stares off wide eyed and smiling while poking their head out from the underbrush. Below them the caption reads "Anarchy's so much fun!"
A screenshot from the video game Soul Blazer (1992) for the Super Nintendo, done in the pixel art style of the era. Leo, a man with wild hair and glasses is standing beside a soldier while they both look out over the railing of an airship. He says "I have been haunted by a monster called "research."
A screenshot from the video game Deltarune: Chapter 1. Lancer, a blue spade themed character is shown sticking out his tongue in a text box. He is saying "Hoho! Yes! Earn a second doctorate, Smart Genius!"
The scryfall image of the Magic card Kavu Predator, a three clawed beast with sharp fangs, coming out of a blasted tree. (https://scryfall.com/card/a25/176/kavu-predator)
A screenshot of a text message that reads: "You will have to repair our Enshrouded main lodge ..... a grenade might have hit the flower bed while I was trying to pet a dog."
A screenshot from Deltarune, Chapter 2. A Plug person in a bowler hat is talking to the party saying "If you didn't know, an evil ruler is taking over this world.
A screenshot from the game Dragon Age: Veilguard. They player character, a purple haired elf stands to the left of the image. Emmeric, the necromancer, is kind of cut off in this view owing to the player character's height. His text reads: "At least! The implication of what Rook's witnessed are--- ah, thank you Manfred!" There is a special Mournwatch dialogue option to say "He's precious," about Manfred the skeleton.
A modified beast token with art by Jeremy Carver. It is a 3/3 creature. The image is of a flying purple hippopotamus with teal wings. It is very chonky, with piercing blue eyes. The falvour text is from The Hippopotamus Song by Flander's and Swann. It reads: "They dived all at once / with an ear-splitting splosh, / Then rose to the surface again. A regular army of hippopotarym, / All singing this haunting refrain.."
A image of the Card "Homarid" from the Magic set Fallen Empires. It depicts two humanoid crab people. The one on the left's face is much closer to the viewer. https://scryfall.com/card/fem/19c/homarid
A notice with signs in different colours reading "Tariff": "We received the unfortunate news today that tariffs have started on all trading card products. We're already seeing the increases from distributors. Many know that, as it is, we have a 20-25% markup on MTG products. We're now seeing a 25% increase to our wholesale costs. We'll absorb what we can but prices will definitely be going up. Tarkir is the first to be hit with these, and we're still being told that the price could change again before they arrive. As of right now, it looks like the pre release event will go up to $65."
A screen grab of the AI symbol in Gmail, looking like the colourless mana symbol from Magic: The Gathering. It is a vertical diamond with sharply curved sides.
A screenshot from the game Terranigma. A man with green hair and a moustache has just emerged from a kind of pod. He is standing in front of a conventionally spiky haired anime protagonist. They are in a lab setting with vats of green liquid. His text reads: "I have no idea who you are, but I thank you for arousing me."
An image of the Magic: The Gathering card Hermetic Study. It shows a fantasy researcher surrounded by observational equipment attaching some kind of red and green crystal and brassy device to the back of a horseshoe crab. The flavour text reads: "At last! I have discovered a way to weaponize one of Tolaria's most abundant resources: horseshoe crabs."
The card Accursed Duneyard from the upcoming Magic: The Gathering set Aetherdrift. It features an ominous sand swept view of an impossible pyramid in the distance. Obelisks float in a path towards it. The top of the pyramid is floating above the base. In the forefront an Egyptian style sarcophagus lays partially submerged in the sand. Large blue scarab beetles with gold trim wander at the edges of the path. The card's ability of note is that you can pay to mana and tap it to "Regenerate target Shade, Skeleton, Spectre, Spirit, Vampire, Wraith, or Zombie."
The Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking" meme with text: "I am once again asking for a compelling G/U/R X matters commander.
An image of the card Liesa, Forgotten Archangel from the Magic: The Gathering set Innistrad Remastered. It features an angelic being with long dark hair, their gaze downcast and shadowed. They carry an angelic... pitchfork? They are suspended in the air. Scryfall: https://scryfall.com/card/mid/232/liesa-forgotten-archangel
A Screenshot of a fan translation of the video game Mother 3 (Earthbound 3). It depicts the character Lucas and his dog in a jail house. He is talking to a cop, the cop says: "Please don't stare directly at me. It might make me want to arrest you." A person with sunglasses stands beside a dog in a jail cell next to them.
A copy of the card "Lightning Graves" from Magic: The Gathering (https://scryfall.com/card/dsc/93/lightning-greaves). Instead of the regular art, it shows a pair of blue crocks in a cosmic landscape. Lighting crackles around them. An image posted by Tank Magallanes on Facebook.
A screenshot of a twitter post (I think?). User Dextero posts: "Elon Musk is considering buying Hasbro to secure the rights to D&D." Below it is a four panel comic. The first panel is a blue finger pointing to a rule in a book that reads: "Rule 1 When playing with Sir Elon of Musk, he and He Alone (underlined) shall be permitted to use le epic die." The second panel is three simplified people on a plain background, one is yellow, one blue, one magenta. Character sheets and pencils are on the table. The blue person in the centre was the one reading the book. They are looking at the viewing with deeply unimpressed expressions. In the third panel you see that they are looking at a slightly more realistic Elon Musk with a cartoonishly trollish expression on his face. He smiles as he reaches into a dice bag. The fourth panel is a closeup of Elon's fingers holding up a 20 sided dice, but all the faces read 20. Below the cartoon in a Twitter community note which reads: "Elon Musk does not have 3 friends to play D&D with." and it cites Wikipedia.
A version of the "Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh Meme." Winnie the Pooh is an illustrated anthropomorphic bear with a orangy-red shirt. On the top image is a regular closeup picture of Winnie the Pooh sitting on a blob-like chair, looking off to the right with a tired or unimpressed expression on his face. Beside the image are the words "Magic: The Gathering." The bottom image is an edited version of the first image that puts Pooh in a tuxedo and gives him a smarmy expression. Beside that image reads: "Magic: The Gathering, A Literary Text.
A screenshot from the series Adventure Time featuring Jake the Dog in a toxic gamer form. In this form he is yellow with straight triangular horns, pony tail, and a jacket made out of him. He has an impish/smugly grin on his face. He is in a sort of warehouse that it serving as a gaming convention. Turtle people in the background look on at him in concern.
A digital illustration of the character Martlet from the game Undertale Yellow by Deviantart user ArtKett1412. At the top left of the image there is the original pixel art version of Martlet as she appears in game. Martlet is an anthropomorphic bird person with large eyes, wing-like hands, and a bob cut. Her dominant colour pattern is blue, with a darker blue ruffle around her neck. She has a yellow beak and yellow pointed shoes. In the ArtKett1412 version she is standing with her right arm on her hip as she reads from her notebook which she is holding in her left arm. There are two red hearts floating on either side of her head.
A copy of Sonorus Howlbonder from Magic: The Gathering, with art by Kimonas Theodossiou. (https://scryfall.com/card/iko/230/sonorous-howlbonder). The image features a bearded white man and a large spiral horned wolf. They are both howling towards the top right of the image. The man wears what looks to be a horned skull on his head with horns that spiral just like the wolf's. His left arm is up to his face like he is projecting his voice. His left hand touches the wolf.
The image of Rendmaw, Creaking Nest, illustrated by Ryan Pancoast ( https://scryfall.com/card/dsc/5/rendmaw-creaking-nest ). The image shows a large creature looming over the viewer, a hit of wheat fields in the foreground, crows swarming overhead above the image. Rendmaw is on all fours, with its left arm raised with menacing claws. It's made of sticks and looks to have human bones stored in its forelimbs and rib cage-like chest cavity. It's head is large relative to its body, rounded face with narrow empty eye sockets, snubbed noes, and a large, dark maw filled with pointed wooden teeth.
A screenshot of a post of the card Urza, Prince of Kroog (https://scryfall.com/card/bro/226/urza-prince-of-kroog), except most of the text has been blacked out. It now reads "6: Create a token that's a copy of you, except it's happy."
A picture of Doran, The Siege Tower, by Rob Alexander. Doran is a treefolk with autumn coloured leaves and a slightly skull-like face. Some of the leaves are blowing in the wind. Doran has a long lizard like tree tail, which is rare for treefolk. They are standing in the middle of a valley surrounded by trees and mountains.
A screenshot of the animated show Fiona & Cake from Season 1 Episode 8. Cake the cat is a semi-anthropomorphic cat with large eyes, a bushy tail, and long, spindly limbs. She is standing in a a flat waste cluttered with books about ninjas. A ninja sword is stuck in the ground in the back left of the image. To her right is an old suitcase full of VHS tapes. She is holding up an old camcorder in her right hand. She turns around and gestures to it with her left hand. "Hey! I found some dirty tapes!" reads the caption.
An alternative proxy for the card solidarity from Magic: The Gathering (https://scryfall.com/card/8ed/46/solidarity). The card's name has been changed to "Solidaritree" and instead of the original artwork it has art by Alexandre Honore depicting a large treefolk curling around the image in a forested scene. It holds a staff in it's right hand, which it holds out before it as if walking. It has no obvious face, just an impression of maybe eyes and a noes from tree holes. Little blue, red, and yellow fungus people with mushroom heads and tiny bodies stand and perch all over the larger treefolk.
A screenshot from Adventure Time S04E16. Finn the human is smiling with his eyes closed and blushing. He is wrapped in tinfoil while Flame Princess hugs him. Flame Princess is also closing her eyes, smiling, and blushing as she hugs him. She has a red diamond on her forehead and flame for hair. The background is a mountainous valley system at night.
An image of the card Muldrotha, the Gravetide from Magic: The Gathering (https://scryfall.com/card/dom/199/muldrotha-the-gravetide). The card has been modified so that instead of the rules text there is a tweet by Dril which reads "im sensing some major bullshit coming from the graveyard." Muldrotha is a a churning mass of blue/green water with bits of debris from ships and bodies swirling up into her. There is a sense that she's quite large on the landscape. Her lower half is more undulating and mass like, but she has a humanioid upper half. Her arms are made from swampy detritus and broken wood. She is reaching towards the onlooker. She has two sets of curling horns. Her head has no facial features. The background is a swampy mire with twisted trees and some wispy clouds overhead.
An image of the card Muldrotha, the Gravetide from Magic: The Gathering (https://scryfall.com/card/dom/199/muldrotha-the-gravetide). Muldrotha is a a churning mass of blue/green water with bits of debris from ships and bodies swirling up into her. There is a sense that she's quite large on the landscape. Her lower half is more undulating and mass like, but she has a humanioid upper half. Her arms are made from swampy detritus and broken wood. She is reaching towards the onlooker. She has two sets of curling horns. Her head has no facial features. The background is a swampy mire with twisted trees and some wispy clouds overhead.
A screen shot of Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It is just his head looking past the viewer. A text below him reads: "Well... setting aside"
The card Tom Bombadil from the Magic: The Gathering set The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. Tom is in the centre right of the image. He has a mid length brown beard and moustache. He is wearing a large, almost bonnet like hat with two yellow feathers flanking a longer blue feather in it. He wears a large blue coat with slight gold trim. He stands in a field in the middle of a forest, poppy like flowers bloom around him. His arms are slightly outstretched and orange and yellow butterflies circle his right hand. https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/234/tom-bombadil