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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What orgs/people love the crap out of Pauper and would want to spread word about our first Pauper $1K, which is gonna rock some socks? @emmapartlow.com might know 😬

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So this happened! I’m really proud—and especially proud of my team—that this happened. We have worked very hard to create a community-first third space and it feels so gratifying to see that recognized by our region. Thanks y’all.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you use AI in your YouTube thumbnails, you are a dumb cunt.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Do you ever regularly return to a very specific moment in a movie or show, like it pops into your head way more often than you’d assume? For me it’s this moment in Inside Llewyn Davis, specifically the single calm line about to be delivered and how absolutely devastating it is.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I built an entire Commander deck using only cards with art by my favorite MTG artist, Rebecca Guay (@rebecca-guay.bsky.social), and wrote about it and a little on Guay’s impact on the game for @edhrec.com! edhrec.com/articles/fin...

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A Commander Deck of Only Rebecca Guay Art | EDHREC

Fan-favorite Magic artist Rebecca Guay hasn't had a good option for the command zone — until now, finally! Enter "Guayladriel."

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

First words of this Murakami short story is the most Murakami sentence ever: “I’m in the kitchen cooking spaghetti when the woman calls.”

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There's an unintentional melancholy alongside all the excitement of the first issue. An uncertain future had us all thinking about the past and I think it led to a final product that feels contemplative and current. It wound up as a perfect example of how hobbies are a microcosm of everything else.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It’s fascinating how much you can learn about a person based on what they think the point of a dictionary is: to tell people how to use words, or to tell them how words are being used.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Emily Wilson, translator of the incredible recent version of The Odyssey, put into words a lot of the confusion and misgivings and disappointment I had watching the latest film adaptation. Worth a read if you’re at all interested. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”

photograph of the relevant passage in Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey ("I make no bed of love with you upon it. Or swear me first a great oath, if I do, you'll work no more enchantment to my harm.")

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Holding the bittersweetest thing in my hands—the final issue of @theflreview.bsky.social for which I helped curate the poetry. Will forever be grateful to Jamie Poissant, the talented readers at TFR, everyone who sent us poems to consider, and to @rochellehurt.bsky.social for editing alongside me.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 21/07/2026

woop woop / that's the sound of the police / honk honk / that's the sound of the geese

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s July and I want an apple cider donut

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Q: Did I need another MTG playmat? A: Nope Q: Was there any chance I was going to miss out on this beauty from @rhysticstudies.bsky.social, @ropearrow.bsky.social, and @stitcherssupply.bsky.social? A: No freakin way

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Is there a run on balloons that I didn’t know about?

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Easy lock for top 5 most gorgeous cards Magic has printed in recent memory, and probably pretty high on that list—Otherworldly Gaze by @mollymendoza.bsky.social

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

BREAKING: Johnny and Junebug have withdrawn from the great American “state fair”

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This was fun! And a bunch of games on here I want to replay…

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Grateful to Julie Benbassat for this hand-drawn Icarus that mirrors the reaching Moonshadow in this MTG artist proof of Julie’s work. Gorgeous stuff!

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This game is just pandering to poets

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Asheville friends: Please vote Gamers’ Haunt for Best Game Store in Mountain Xpress’s Best of WNC! We have been working our tails off to make our space and community the best around. Give us a vote when you have a few mins! (And voting closes soon too, so don’t wait!) mountainx.com/bestofwnc/

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🎶 I’m not a gentleman, I’m a gentle man Let me handle my business, please

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

“I need to find a gingerbread house artist.” A real sentence my wife said about their work. This is life in Asheville, I guess

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.” —Jack Gilbert poetrysociety.org/poems/a-brie...

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A Brief for the Defense

Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I finished The Chair Company season one and I just had to ask what the Fuck did I just watch

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Just learned something unbelievable Did you know poetry can rhyme?!

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Very proud to have been on the editorial team of Florida Review the last few years—congrats to Bertha and all!

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Louise Glück ♥️ “I speak / because I am shattered.” Always revisiting this poem.

The Red Poppy

The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago,
before you were human? Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

“Flavor text” is the intersection of two of my passions: literature and MTG, so I sorted through well over a thousand cards’ flavor to find the best texts of the year. Check out the article at @edhrec.com: edhrec.com/articles/the...

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The Best MTG Flavor Text of 2025 | EDHREC

It's been a big year for Magic; let's pause for a moment to read the Flavor. This list gathers the best flavor text of Magic in 2025.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Happy “you bought a few gifts online so enjoy the next six months trying to unsubscribe from more newsletters than you ever thought even existed” season for those who celebrate it

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Kinda have a dream job working not just for an LGS, but one staffed by and frequented by really amazing people?

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A quote on “seriousness” in individuals from an old lecture by John Cleese. Feels especialy apt lately—

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Honored to have two poems from my pandemic crown of sonnets in the latest South Dakota Review along with several friends and writers I admire. Thank you to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me in this storied journal.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

sex is fine but have you ever had someone review your poetry who fundamentally gets what you were doing and a few things you didn't realize you were doing?

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Interesting MTG Art @interestingmtg.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

One must imagine Sisyphus happily mulling to three

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

So excited to finally be able to move this nerd hub to a bigger place downtown that our community deserves!

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

For from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Time for my monthly check in of ONE of my student loan bills from 2017 to see if it’s tipped over to me paying more principal than interest yet…nope! So close. Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If there’s one piece of art that perfectly encapsulates the millennial experience of a life placed squarely at the intersection of a country’s promise and its broken pieces that we’ll be left with, it’s Kentucky Route Zero. Hauntingly beautiful, human and bleak.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

in the brilliant standup special “dress to kill,” eddie izzard said communication is “70% how you look, 20% how you sound, and only 10% what you say.” seems relevant right now.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Yesterday I didn’t know this card existed but today it’s one of my new favorites. Sometimes you need to deploy a midair lion

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Boiled down my AI policy this semester --

I get it; AI is everywhere these days. Let this class be a bubble where it is not; where we learn by focusing on process, not product; where we embrace the friction and joy of expressing our own ideas in our own words; where we lean on our own imaginations, histories, and imperfections as we write our own imperfect human pieces.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Tonight I tried to check my pocket for my keys *while* driving, if you want a sense of my level of generalized anxiety these days

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Probably swap 3 and 4 but otherwise no edits

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Happy Labor Day 🙂

2 shots from tv show Frasier. One shows Frasier holding a sign, "You're Fired." The other shows the producer of his radio show, Roz, holding a sign that says, "I'm union".

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

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