do not ask the audience what content they want to see. They will not actually show up. I promise. Make something you want to make & if an audience exists for what you’re doing, they’ll come. Don’t worry about thinking there’s “too much” of that thing either. If you wanna make it thats good enough.

gas station cashier told me gas like the honey of man an gas station the hive

I’m a harsh grader, I get that, but I come by it naturally. My dad used to spend Christmas break with a kettle of tea, a stack of students’ papers, and enough red ink to supply a Sam Raimi set. But I also like to call out when something works, and brother, Strixhaven worked for me this time around:

RE: last RT—this is the creep of LLM art, from chum bucket ads to billboards to beer labels. It’ll be the “disposable” commercial art mode for a long time, the stuff that used to let graphic artists and product designers hone their skills and build a portfolio.

Fuck it, Zordon Mamdani

“wet dream” implies the existence of—no. No. I’m not doing this hack shit. One thing existing does not mean it also has an extant opposite or inversion. No one thinks this and it’s usually just a way to write a dumb pun or intrusive phrasethought. I’m too good for this. Dry nightmare

Do you think Sorcery players come home from a con on the high of hanging with all their friends and tweet "It really is all about the Contested Realm"

medications on which one can jerk off

who up making jerkoff motions on camera during their company’s AI demo

Getting called on after zoning out in a meeting and replying "this used to be a vast prairie"

I personally love to read shit like "U.S. Pauses 'Project Freedom'" in headlines. Not all good jokes need to be complicated.

When you give an object power, you give it power over you. Sometimes, that’s okay and even fulfilling. Just remember that the power came from you first.

gotta admit those seas are wine-dark as SHIT

goblin, pussy, pussy, goblin, goblin, pussy, goblin, pussy, pussy, goblin pussy

TECH BRUNCHLORDS: we believe AI has successfully achieved human-level cognition NEUROLOGISTS: okay so your brain is like, imagine if there was a kind of pudding that sang two bars from Semi-Charmed Life whenever somebody nearby was baking cookies, right? we don’t know why it does that

Not a baseball guy, but am a games and postmodernism guy and this book is great.

Anytime Wizards prints a Swamp that looks like a nice place to hang out, I get hyped.

The workers behind Magic the Gathering Arena have given management at Hasbro and Wizards until today - May Day - to recognize their union. You can sign in support at cwa.org/uwotcletter and follow them at @uwotc-official.bsky.social

Critchlovian Phyrexians (and Chippy Phyrexians) are the best Phyrexians. Card: Phyrexian Monitor, illus. Carl Critchlow from Urza’s Destiny AD: Ron Spears

This is what Cascade Cascade is all about—a home for writing about Magic that matters, because Magic matters. And as Cas outlines, how we feel about Magic—and how we feel DURING Magic—matters.

This is a good article in many ways, but I think it confounds two axes that are best considered separately. Casual-Competitive is one axis. Fortnitification-Normal MTG is another axis. I’m surprised to hear so much anti-commander stuff from someone who is fundamentally a casual player!

before you don the armor of the hater you have to have a long and difficult self-evaluation where you think: am I a hater, or am I not very smart

signing up for this at karaoke and standing perfectly still on stage with the mic in my hand and tears leaking out of my peepers

This is why LLM technology is antihumanist and must be destroyed: bringing up goblins when only semi-relevant is what makes us sacred.

madly in love with the baddie zappy zaddy and how he exhumes the eye

Your voice really matters right now. If you would like show your support, join us in requesting that Wizards and Hasbro voluntarily recognize our union by signing our petition at cwa.org/uwotcletter

Here is the CWA release, which includes the important clarification that this effort is specific to developers working on Magic: The Gathering Arena. cwa-union.org/news/release...

unions rule www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

yeh im practically cumming alright

none of the cutesy ways people try to get out of reading their children bedtime stories actually qualify as the reading of a bedtime story nor do they achieve the individual or societal goals of the reading of said. sorry, there's no workaround. crack open make way for ducklings big guy

my kid has graduated to what I can only term “healthy ‘Gummo’ shit” (eating a honeycrisp apple in the bath)

*shaking hands after a game of Magic* Them: GG Me: Good Girl to you as well!

Dandan forever, Cal forever. Your influence matters, and what you focus that influence on matters.

For under eight bucks a month, you too can read the Only Magic Website that drops “cryophiliac.” This week, Ryan examines the tension of Coldsnap, from the marketing (lying) to the weird mix of nostalgia and upheaval in its themes.

insidious roots is one vengevine away from playability, and i am going to infiltrate wizards and brute force it into a future set before murders rotates out

ET after me and my friends have started our thing and then taken him to the backyard to "go full Atari with it" (dig his own grave)

i'm waiting for my man 0.000013 BTC in my hand

Magic is a game, and games are how we process our place in larger systems. I’m so proud of being a part of @cascadecascade.com precisely because it’s the home for this kind of writing about games:

fascism is basically when you get so obsessed about purity there’s an overflow error and you achieve super rot

This week on CASCADE CASCADE: Krillin gets cut in half and our writers get pushed to a level of power previously thought impossible. Krillin does die though, no way around that.

White people really thought 'unc' was short for 'homunculus' 🤣🤣🤣

you really don’t realize how much glow-in-the-dark shit you have on until you go in the biergarten bathroom.

This was the first 3-d movie I ever saw, which set the medium up for an absurd expectation level for the next 3-7 years.

Went to a Harry Potter trivia night with a bunch of elder millennials years ago, back when that was not a cultural skirmish, and thought we were going for a strong second. The questions were like “on the fourth page of Chapter One of ‘Chamber of Secrets,’ what’s the first question someone asks?”

packing my bag the afternoon before an all-day Cube event like I’m going to summer camp, I will never fucken burn out my love for Magic

Literally just put in for time off this afternoon so I can give Sam’s latest the respect it deserves (and sleeve up a Cube)