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If there’s anything you shouldn’t mind, it’s an expression- especially a ferocious expression, the result of Molly Velvet’s nephew being harassed by the Rescue Rangers.

I get the punchline (the ferocious expression caused by Rescue Rangers), but not the lead-up (”if there’s anything you shouldn’t mind, it’s an expression”).

This is…probably backwards, isn’t it.

The other half is this legendarily clunky bit of exposition.

(Here’s the Ferocious Expression part, for those who haven’t seen it.)

Ah, so both halves are high-context. Good to know.

(I do not speak Magic the Gathering, but I do have a pretty good grasp of rationalist in-jokes. (This afternoon, some guy in the episode of The West Wing Mom was watching was running under multiple parties, and it was only with great effort that I resisted the urge to say “He’s also Strange Kek and Charm Kek.” I did not feel like explaining the history of Finland to my mother on short notice, let alone “top kek”, quark types, and how all of these mesh into a hilarious whole.))

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