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AzureShade

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:33 pm

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WHERE THE HECK IS TANA FROM?!

She's from the same place Ghave is from. How do I know this? She pals around with the same sort of Saprolings that are made by a card he flavor texts.

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LilyStorm

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:45 pm

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Where is he from though..

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AzureShade

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:52 pm

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LilyStorm wrote:

Where is he from though..

I don't know, but I got us two steps closer.

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AzureShade

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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:07 pm

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neru

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:23 pm

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I feel like they were trying to show intimacy but Tiro's hand in the Kynaios' hair is weirdly posed. It's an okay way to try to squash 'just bros being bros' comments though.

As the founders of Meletis, though, it's weird that their story is so lost now.

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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:28 pm

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Like I mentioned over in the UR thread, that hand is...kinda creepy when issued with their expression.
If it had been on his opposite shoulder, I think the message would have been just as clear.

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Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:30 pm

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Barinellos wrote:

Like I mentioned over in the UR thread, that hand is...kinda creepy when issued with their expression.
If it had been on his opposite shoulder, I think the message would have been just as clear.

nah my mans. have you have founded an eternal city-state with a bro who's also more than your bro? i love this art it's perfect

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Barinellos

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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:32 pm

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Johnny Valdez wrote:

Barinellos wrote:

Like I mentioned over in the UR thread, that hand is...kinda creepy when issued with their expression.
If it had been on his opposite shoulder, I think the message would have been just as clear.

nah my mans. have you have founded an eternal city-state with a bro who's also more than your bro? i love this art it's perfect

Touching anybody there in their hair is creepy.

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LilyStorm

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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:35 pm

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It is, but people do it.

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neru

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:40 pm

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I think it'd be fine if his hand was in his hair while resting on his neck, but it is just weirdly positioned here. It does not seem to be resting on anything, just shoved up into the locks.

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LilyStorm

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:44 pm

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It's because the picture was taken while his hand was still moving.

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Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:15 pm

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Touching anybody there in their hair is creepy.

idk about you but i love to hold my common-law warrior partner by the nape of his neck as we gaze over our conquered dominion

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Barinellos

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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:19 pm

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Johnny Valdez wrote:

Barinellos wrote:

Touching anybody there in their hair is creepy.

idk about you but i love to hold my common-law warrior partner by the nape of his neck as we gaze over our conquered dominion

Neck holding is reserved for gazing at each other in my relationships.

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Jivanmukta

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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:22 pm

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Not seeing anything wrong with the 'hand on neck' thing. The intimacy is relevant because they're staring at what their life's work has become. If that isn't a moment to want to have a deeper contact with your lover than what is?

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AzureShade

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:23 pm

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AzureShade wrote:

LilyStorm wrote:

AzureShade wrote:

She's from the same place Ghave is from. How do I know this? She pals around with the same sort of Saprolings that are made by a card he flavor texts.

Where is he from though..

I don't know, but I got us two steps closer.

Three steps closer:

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When monsoons devastated the land of Drakkus, the herds drowned and the harvests washed away. The humans there were forced to the fungal forests to find sustenance, and find it they did—in the form of the mycoids and their saproling offspring. What the humans saw as salvation, the mycoids called genocide, and they declared war on the invading mammals. Mages tore through the sporeborn troops with fire and steel. Only when the mycoid hero Ghave, Guru of Spores emerged did the tide finally turn. Gifted with mystic influence over the sporeborn, Ghave sculpted the fungal matter of his people into an ever-mutating army and reclaimed his forest home.

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Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:28 pm

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Jivanmukta wrote:

It's weird for the pose. They're looking out over a stunning vista, not so much at each other, which dictates hand on shoulder. Hand on neck is going in for the kiss, which, okay, is a thing but dork still has his helmet on. Or maybe he just has a hair fetish and that's why their legacy was mangled and forgotten

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AzureShade

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:29 pm

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Look who's back....back again. Hanna's back! Tell a friend!

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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:30 pm

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Neat, it's the really good Terese art too.
Makes me glad if throw in with the no :g:

deck if I'd get this on top of everything else.

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AzureShade

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:32 pm

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure you'll find her in Breya's camp.

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theamazingsquid

Post subject: Re: Commander 2016 Story Thread - "Partner in any way but Western!"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 5:02 pm

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I don't really have a problem with the hand positioning. I actually like it. I'd go through my boyfriends hair the same way a lot. It's intimate while casual, which makes a lot of sense in the scene their in.

Theyre entire story too is v gay too, and I'm digging that its interracial (in a non fetish way). Go u mtg

EDIT: I was just looking at kraums art and it looks like ludevics labratory is just in the middle of a regular town. Whats up with that ish

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