i dont care how corny iris by the goo goo dolls is bc i love iris by the goo goo dolls and i will continue screaming iris by the goo goo dolls from the top of my lungs every time i hear iris by the goo goo dolls for the rest of my miserable life聽
if you are a trans boy, especially a teenage trans boy, i wanted to say that as a trans man in their 30's, you have my deepest respects and condolences for what you may be going through right now.
it has become socially acceptable and basically online custom to bully teenage trans boys & mascs, call them cringy, or excuse misgendering them for whatever reason. people put trans boys on this pedestal of "must perform masculinity and manhood to cartoonish degrees" even though they're still children.
people make trans boys fight for their manhood before they can even be boys. i am sorry people can be so judgmental and harsh on you. you are not wrong for wanting to be a boy. you are experiencing something wonderful. it's okay if you still want to be a boy even if people have treated you poorly, or tried to make you feel bad for being a boy. there is nothing wrong with being a boy.
it's okay if you never socially transition. it's okay if you're afraid to come out because it's not safe. it's okay if you never change your outward appearance. it's okay if you try very hard to pass but struggle to. it's okay if you wear "women's" clothing and shoes, bras, makeup, etc., it's okay if you're gay and love other men. it's okay if you're scared of hrt. it's okay if you don't want surgery. it's okay if you mainly occupy girl's spaces still. people will find every reason to pick these things apart and ridicule trans boys for, but they are all perfectly fine experiences that do not make you any less of a boy. you are the one who is in control of your transition, presentation, and state of being- you should be able to prioritize your safety over the comfort of random strangers who have no impact over how you live your life.
i've been put through this too, but later in life as i came out when i was an adult. people still try to make me feel bad for identifying as a trans man, for whatever reason they have in their head to justify hatred of a trans person. i've had enough. there will never be an excuse for how people try to excuse the infantilization and abuse that trans men and trans boys face.
take care of yourselves, no matter what age you are, if you are a trans boy, man, or masc you deserve to know that other trans men care about you, especially when people are scrambling to find ways to punch down on you. there are people who suck, but there are also a lot of people who care about you. keep your chin up. you know who you are
when you avoid palestinian narratives and history just know you participate in a very very long line of colonial historical reconstruction/decontexualization from before 'israel' was even created. you're directly participating in the violence that palestinians experience. if you'd like to learn more about this, read "Facts on the Ground" by Nadia Abu El-Haj.
It isn't solely a combo deck--it actually started out as planeswalkers + control + recursion + proliferate to play more of a long game--but it ran away from me the moment I realized Jin-Gitaxias + Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider create an explosive winning combination.
The normal way to play this deck is to amass clues for card draw, play planeswalkers, use control + fogs to protect them, and use counter support to build up their loyalty.
The more interesting gimmicky way is Worldly Tutor -> Vorinclex -> Tamiyo's -3 to return Tutor, and add G -> recast Tutor to get Jin.
It can take a while to assemble all the pieces in place, but generally, Vorinclex should hit the field before Jin and do his thing pumping up planeswalkers (and hopefully ulting Tamiyo, which will make the next step much better). Once Jin enters, you want to flip him as soon as possible.
If you ulted Tamiyo prior to flipping Jin, that just wins you the game, as her -7 is drawing half your library, his chapter 1 is drawing equal to your hand, and Thoracle and co. are in this deck.
If you did not ult Tamiyo, Jin's chapter 3 Omniscience will still likely drop a large number of planeswalkers and enablers which will ult rapidly thanks to Vorinclex. This will likely happen on the same turn as flipping Jin if you have Vorinclex and proliferate in hand.
It's not the most streamlined and watertight combo wincon in the world--notably it's mana-hungry and may take multiple turns (not after flipping Jin though)--but I had a lot of fun with it during playtesting and when it pops off, it really pops off. It also helps that it isn't the deck's sole wincon.
Jin and Vorinclex are also individually just plain good in this deck. They are both top tier cards to be playing, even if you don't combo off with them.
girl help i accidentally built an explosive jinclex combo deck
Once when I was in college I needed a picture of my fish for an assignment, but the fish lived at home so I text my brother to send me a picture and he asks "how close of a picture" and I say "pretty close" and he sends me this