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CarpeDM

@kaysol.bsky.social

6/8 done on my Value Vintage battle box, got some @infinitokens.com deck labels at PAX and now have room to fit a small deck primer on the front of each!

November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM

CarpeDM

@kaysol.bsky.social

What’s worse? Thursday that feels like a Friday? Or Friday that feels like a Tuesday?

November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM

CarpeDM

@kaysol.bsky.social

Rewatching it again to catch my gf up for Fionna and Cake and man, Adventure Time continues to be the best series of all time

November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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New Video Game Advisor

@newvgadvisor.bsky.social

Final Fantasy VIII (PS1, 1999)

An NPC is saying, "Well, good luck. Go get yourself a GF."

September 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM

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Rich

@mechspiral.bsky.social

"It’s up to you whether to ride the waves or to let’em die. That is the motto that all lifters live by, isn’t it?”

Holland: @mechspiral.bsky.social
📸: @allyspock.bsky.social

#eureka7 #eureka7cosplay #cosplay #hollandnovak

September 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM

CarpeDM

@kaysol.bsky.social

Unfortunately they got my ass with this one, not really sure what the logic is with Squall but the rest of these are bangers

Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · Sep 26

Right before your eyes, the opening movie of #FF8 comes alive once again! #MTGxFINALFANTASY

Six cards are pictured here where their art makes up the full scene.
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Edea, Possessed Sorceress
Cost: {2}{U}{B}{R}
Type: Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
Rarity: Rare
Abilities: 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.
Power/Toughness: 2,5.
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Fated Clash
Cost: {3}{W}{W}
Type: Sorcery
Rarity: Rare
Abilities: You may cast this spell as though it had flash if a creature is attacking and a creature is blocking.
Target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls each gain indestructible until end of turn. Then destroy all creatures.
Flavor text: "I'll show you who's the better man!" —Seifer Almasy
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Rinoa, Angel Wing
Cost: {2}{W}
Type: Legendary Creature — Human Rebel Warlock
Rarity: Rare
Abilities: At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with flying get +1/+1 and gain vigilance until end of turn.
Whenever one or more creatures you control die, you may return one of them to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a flying counter on it. Do this only once each turn.
Power/Toughness: 2,4.
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Seifer, Balamb Rival
Cost: {2}{B}{R}
Type: Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary
Rarity: Rare
Abilities: First strike
Whenever you attack a player, goad target creature that player controls.
Whenever a creature attacking one of your opponents becomes blocked by two or more creatures, that attacking creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Power/Toughness: 4,3.
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Duelist's Flame
Cost: {X}{R}{R}
Type: Instant
Rarity: Rare
Abilities: Until end of turn, target blocked creature you control gets +X/+0 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. Exile up to one nonland card from among them and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost."
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Squall, Gunblade Duelist
Cost: {R}{W}{B}
Type: Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary
Rarity: Rare
Abilities: First strike
As Squall enters, choose a number.
Whenever one or more creatures attack one of your opponents, if any of those creatures have power or toughness equal to the chosen number, Squall deals damage equal to its power to defending player.
Power/Toughness: 3,2.

Art description of the scene: A man wearing a white coat wielding a gunblade, Seifer, launches a fireball from his hand at another young man wearing a black coat wielding a gunblade, Squall. Above them lies a stormy sky with lightning crackling from the center of a swirling circle of clouds. Above Squall is a ghostly figure of a young woman in a blue dress with white wing designs on the back of the dress, Rinoa. Above Seifer is a ghostly figure of a woman wearing a dark black outfit with a white cape billowing from ornate shoulder filigree, Edea.

September 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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30+ year SimAntless nightmare

@snugcrow.bsky.social

really big fan of this post. goated imo

tumblr post from astralcafe. "I Hope people are aware that the dominant strategy in magic the gathering right now is putting vivi from final fantasy 9 in a witch's cauldron to extract his powers" followed by a picture of the Vivi Ornitier card and the Agatha's soul cauldron card. Further text reads "watch any tournament footage and you will see him being boiled in the corner, often on both sides of the table"

zidane final fantasy 9 saying "its so fucking oppressive, the dominant strategy doesn't even begin to describe that 80% of all decks used at tournament right now are this. i hope they ban both these frickin cards the standard meta sucks right now for a broke bitch like me". Next to zidane is Adelbert weeping with his eyeliner running hollering "NO NOT MY BOY NOOOO SAVE HIM FROM BEING SOUP theyre boiling my son NOOOOOO"

September 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM

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ash

@ukrainekraine.bsky.social

Posting all my Nero cosplays because I can ✨I really want to make her gaudy idol outfit next, she has so many fun looks!

3rd ascen Nero 📸 @allyspock.bsky.social
1st ascen Nero 📸 Large Photography
Summer Nero 📸 @kaysol.bsky.social

#fategrandorder #FGO

August 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM

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Rich

@mechspiral.bsky.social

The man known as the King of Hearts, Domon Kasshu!!

Domon: @mechspiral.bsky.social
📷 @kaysol.bsky.social

August 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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ash

@ukrainekraine.bsky.social

New pics of my summer Nero cosplay and I love them! I love this dress I'm so glad I got another chance to wear it.

📸 @kaysol.bsky.social

I have this costume for sale on my Etsy still!

ukrainekraine.etsy.com/listing/4354...

August 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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Mr. Tweets

@declanisfine.bsky.social

"Who did this to you? How did you ever get so messed up?"

@kaysol.bsky.social was kind enough to get some photos of my Gilbert cosplay. Finally cosplaying from my favorite manga was a joy - I was just terminally exhausted. That's fine Gilbert is too.

August 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM

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Rich

@mechspiral.bsky.social

"These hands of ours are burning red! Their loud cry tells us to grasp happiness!!"

Got to cosplay from one of my favorite Gundam series at Otakon. Can't wait to wear Domon again, it was a ton of fun!

Domon: @mechspiral.bsky.social
Rain: @softieghost.bsky.social
📸: @kaysol.bsky.social

August 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM

CarpeDM

@kaysol.bsky.social

Developing a new metric for any classic animated show reboot called TTC (Time To Cancelled), this is how long it takes for the reboot to make a mention or explicit plot line out of cancel culture

August 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM

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Whimo

@whimolee.bsky.social

#EldenRing Ranni

July 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM

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Sam Wilson

@samwilson.bsky.social

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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Game Changer

@gamechangershow.bsky.social

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌

DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!