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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Harley Quinn season 4 was a pretty good depiction of corporate capture.

A screenshot from the Harley Quinn animated series, Season 4. Poison Ivy is in a board room with elongated Venus fly traps moving things around the room for her. She has her left hand up to get people's attention and is saying: "But listen up. The plan is socially conscious evil."

The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Seeing this block in Celeste, knowing exactly what to do with it; realizing that some of the people who made it were close to the same age of nerd as I am.

A screenshot from the game Celeste. A simple pixelized red haired character stands in a mountainous level. An out of place block is on the right of the image, white, with screw like circles on each corner. It stands out from the more naturalistic textures around it.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A tale of two Seths. www.reddit.com/r/Deltarune/... #Deltarune #Illusionsofgaia #Seth

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Woke up today so relieved that this murder clown was trending instead of that other murder clown.

A screenshot of the BlueSky trending topics. 1. Kefka 2. Nintendo 3. Final Fantasy XIV 4. Evangelion 5. Yoshi P.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Got invited to host a baby shower for a friend

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Topical Star Trek: Lower Decks screenshot

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."

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Noticed the subtle shout out to Spice8Rack in the new Lorwyn Eclipsed music video

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!"

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Soul Blazer (1992) coming for my entire soul it seems....

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."

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Me whenever I feel like I don't have any control of my life and the only time I had a sense of definite progress, accomplishment, and direction was in school.

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!"

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

With the revival of lifegain decks, I think there's still an interesting design space open to "Whenever an opponent gains life" triggers. Albeit, it probably makes more sense in red or than it does in green. Signed, a Phelddagrif enjoyer. #MTG #Magicthegathering #Kavupredator

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)

The scryfall image of the Magic card Punishing Fire showing an action shot of a person throwing three hammers made of fire. (https://scryfall.com/card/cmd/131/punishing-fire)

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Feel like I have to play as a Mournwatch character just so I can tell Manfred that he's precious... every time.

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Playing around with making proxies for a #Phelddagrif group hug deck.

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 modified Phelddagrif with art by Oscar Valverde. ( https://scryfall.com/card/me1/150/phelddagrif ). A smiling purple hippopotamus with greenish wings outstretched. It is on the savanna. Two smaller hippopotamuses are sheltered beneath its wings.

A modified hippo token with art by Jeremy Carver. It is a 1/1 creature. The image is of a purple hippopotamus with teal wings. It is sitting in a pool of water. It is very chonky, with piercing blue eyes, but less chonky than the beast token. The falvour text is from The Hippopotamus Song by Flander's and Swann. It reads: "Mud, mud, glorious mud, / Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. / So follow me, follow, / Down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud!"

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I think one of the interesting things about the legacy of Fallen Empires is how Magic's designers never fully gave up on trying to find ways to represent the rising and falling of waters (whether of the tides or of the regular flooding of the Luxa, Magic's in-universe Nile) in its game mechanics.

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 image of the Card "Tidal Influence" from the Magic set Fallen Empires. It depicts a dramatic ocean scene with a large moon in the top left of the image, a rocky shoreline to the top right. A brain-like jelly fish swims in the churning ocean waves. https://scryfall.com/card/fem/28/tidal-influence

A image of the card "Bounty of the Luxa" originally from the Magic set Amonkhet. It depicts a sort of Ancient Egyptian inspired cityscape, except the pyramids go up at sharper incline and all have flattened tops. Floodwaters and greenery run between all the buildings.
https://scryfall.com/card/akh/196/bounty-of-the-luxa

A image of the card "Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied" from the Magic set Atherdrift. It depicts a a procession of Amonkhet worshippers, arms raised. They stand on either side of the image facing the god Sab-Sunen, who stands larger than life in the centre of the image. Sab-Sunen is a giant frog woman with rather snug form fitting armor (and frog breasts, can't have a frog goddess without frog breasts these days it seems). She holds a staff in her right hand that looks like it's skewering a symbolic fish. She is standing in front of the Luxa river, water splashing around her, with a rainbow encircling her.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It's not identical, but I get big "Isle of the Dead" by Arnold Böcklin energy from Kishla Village by Bruce Brenneise in Tarkir: Dragonstorm.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Just got this in the local LGS Discord Server. Sad news for Tarkir:

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."

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It's probably fine that all AI seems to be using the colourless mana symbol that has become deeply associated with cosmic horrors.

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Adventure's in translation, Terranigma (SNES, 1995)

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."

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I don't know if it has something to do with my personal flavour of autism, but I find I still do like the older borders. Having thicker, more solid colour borders makes the things inside them easier for me to parse.

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

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Crutcher, Paul A. 2017. “Magic: The Gathering, A Literary Text.” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-Present) 16 (1). #MTG #Magicthegathering

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Jake has to confront his toxic gamer past in Adventure Time S08 E11 - Daddy-Daughter Card Wars

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'm a fan of keyword ability kinship cards in Magic (counting mana ability here). There's not a lot of them in the larger scheme of things, but I think there's a lot of room to explore there.

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I don't even care if I die to crows. They deserve a little treat. "Head and shoulders, knees and CROWS!" Rendmaw EDH tappedout.net/mtg-decks/he...

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Birnam Wood; or, all toughness to all the treeple Treefolk Commander Deck tappedout.net/mtg-decks/bi...

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I was primed to assume that Fiona & Cake was going to be more adult that the original run of Adventure Time when they started showing blood... And then this happened... #Spoilers

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.

A screenshot of the animated show Fiona & Cake from Season 1 Episode 8. A closer shot of BMO (BeeMo) trundling up to her from the left with an outstretched hand. BMO is a tiny robot that looks like a pastel green old GameBoy with tiny arms and legs and a face on their screen. Cake looks down at them and offers the VHS tape, still holding the camcorder down in their left hand. The caption reads: "Ooh! Butt stuff!"

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 even more close up shot of BMO, who has turned around to insert the VHS tape into a VHS port in their butt. The tape reads "Good Times" with a little heart beside it .

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Did up a re-skin proxy of Solidarity for the Doran deck... It's... It's... Solidaritree... #Doranthesiegetower #MTG #EDH

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

And as long as I'm Muldrotha-posting today, was reminded of this gem. #MTG #Muldrotha #Magicthegathering #Dril

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.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Wasn't so into the art of Muldrotha. It's not bad, it's just kind of the formulaic "monster in the centre of the image gonna getcha" that MTG art direction seems into and doesn't really connect to the flavour text and environmental grief. I like Lorenzo Bruzzese's version more and made up a proxy.

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.

An alternative Muldrotha, the Gravetide from Magic: The Gathering (https://scryfall.com/card/dom/199/muldrotha-the-gravetide). It has been given the old gold border treatment, mana symbols, and type line. This image uses the same colour scheme as the original. Muldrotha is still depicted as being mostly composed of churning blue/green water with rotten wood and detritus, but instead of looking right at the viewer with a reaching arm she is staring skywards with arms upraised in a more votive or lamenting gesture. Like in the previous image, her arms are made of dead wood looking almost like bone. Instead of horns, she has a mantle of wood pointing skyward from around her shoulders and swamp grasses hanging from her in a way reminiscent of hair. There is the hint of an impression of a skull in the murky waters of her head. Rays of light are more visible streaming down from left to right. Like being on the edge of a storm between clouds and light.

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series overview in three images:

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"

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: "all the legal and ethical issues involved... "

A screenshot of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine title screen with the show title in a star field with the space station shown below the text

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The Willow Wisp @willow0wisp.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Tom Bombadil has bearded enby swag. No, I will not be elaborating at this time.

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

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