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Starshipping Week 2025 Wrap-up (at last!) + Reflections

⚝ 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝟣 - First Meeting (fic) ⚝ 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝟤 - Time Travel (fic) ⚝ 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝟥 - Wounds (fic) ⚝ 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝟦 - "Get your game on!"/"Let's rev it up!" (art) ⚝ 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝟧 - Free Day (art) ⚝ 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝟨 - Academy/City (art) + bonus: Duel Academia!Yusei design ⚝ 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝟩 - Teamwork (fic) ⚝ 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝟪 - Farewell/Return (fic)

This year, I promised myself that I would complete all 8 days, and ended up publishing nearly 27k words across 5 fics. I'd been in a slump with writing for a while, and putting aside IRL things that might've impeded things, coming into this event I wanted to try a different approach to see if I could make writing easier for me. This meant loosening the iron grip I often hold on each and every word and punctuation I choose to put down, and just focussing on delivering the essential ideas clearly. After all, there are so many drafts that I have kept floating in my head (/computer/notes app/notebooks/random stationery stolen from the office) it's not even funny, and it was clear I needed to get much more comfortable getting a story out with clarity — all the decor can come later once it has been completed. Also, since I tried my best to stick to the days, I didn't do the usual step of waiting for a couple days before one last round of editing/proofing (which I often dread anyway lol), so they may be a bit rougher than my earlier works.

(Not to say that the arts were easy, btw, but we already know how hard drawing is.)

I hope that everyone liked the ideas I put out for these prompts — my favourite was definitely Day 1 (and not *just* bc of the smut ok), that idea had been brewing in my head since last year but worldbuilding is always intimidating to me, so I'm proud to have overcome it. I'm also happy about publishing Teamwork, which was an idea that would sometimes get me giggling out of the blue. Thanks for all the kudos, comments, likes, reblogs, reposts, and if you have thoughts/inclinations to gush about Starshipping in general please do leave them — that's the best part to me about creating fanworks!

P/S: I hear all the people cheering in the comments for Milieus — I will for sure work on Four and get it out at some point <3

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so the reason Day 5 took so long was because i started out doing a completely different idea, and then i just *had* to get the full Duel Academia Yusei design out of my head first

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Starshipping Week 2025 Day 5: Academy/City

No offense to the rest of the GX cast but over half the bullshit in season 3 wouldn't have happened if Yusei had been there

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My favourite pretty boy <3

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actually, that art reminded me of this particular point of brainrot i had about them in a Musicians AU

Also consider: eye-fucking each other across the stage as they do this (their bandmates have to duck from their lines of vision)

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Starshipping Week 2025 Day 4: "Get your game on!"/"Let's rev it up!"

They are the Frerard of this universe.

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Ryo 💙 Johan keychains

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[Fanfiction] The Seafoam-Coloured T-Shirt

Title: The Seafoam-Coloured T-Shirt

Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

Pairing(s): Starshipping (Fudo Yusei/Yuki Judai)

Rating: M

Genres: Romance, Angst

Synopsis:

Judai, the peripatetic saviour of the world, kept coming back to Yusei in between adventures with grievous injuries, which then healed at miraculous speeds. This situation perhaps wouldn't have been so troubling to Yusei, if not for the fact that he found out because they always ended up in his bed after each of Judai's return. What was to be done? What was the truth behind those wounds? And did Yusei really want to find out? As these questions slowly eroded his faith throughout these waiting days, he began to discover a side of himself that he didn't recognise.

Starshipping Week 2025 Day 3: Wounds

--> Read here <--

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[Fanfiction] Embers Underneath the Ashes

Title: The Art of Driving in the Rain

Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

Pairing(s): Starshipping (Fudo Yusei/Yuki Judai)

Rating: G

Genres: Romance

Synopsis: Yusei never stopped to wonder why he was still in Venice.

Starshipping Week 2025 Day 8: Farewell/Return

--> Read here <--

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[Fanfiction] Teamwork

Title: Teamwork

Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

Pairing(s): Starshipping (Fudo Yusei/Yuki Judai)

Rating: G

Genres: Romance, Humour

Synopsis: How many particle physicists does it take to change a light bulb? As it turns out, "one" is not the correct answer. And neither is "one, plus a very enthusiastic and supportive Osiris Red alumnus."

For Starshipping Week 2025 Day 7: Teamwork

---> Read here <---

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Who knew all I needed to do to get comments on my fic was beg

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Starshipping Week 2025 Day 5: Free Day

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[Fanfiction] The Milieus Between Our Touch

Title: The Milieus Between Our Touch

Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

Pairing(s): Starshipping (Fudo Yusei/Yuki Judai)

Rating: G

Genres: (Pre-)Romance

Synopsis: "When was the last time I met you for the first time?"

For Starshipping Week 2025 Day 2: Time Travel

---> Read here <---

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[Fanfiction] Clandestine in Praxis

Title: Clandestine in Praxis

Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

Pairing(s): Starshipping (Fudo Yusei/Yuki Judai)

Rating: M

Genres: Romance, Dystopia

Synopsis:

With the growing restrictions on games that citizens were allowed to play under the National Cultural Unification Act, the friend group's weekly gathering was quickly running out of options. As a response, Manjoume suggested a new game that did not require cards or game pieces - only creativity, and the willingness to subject oneself to potential humiliation. When Judai got dared to ring up one of the phone numbers written on the bar's bathroom wall as part of the game, he went for one that stood out from the rest. But what he couldn't have foreseen was that an underground resistance fighter - member of a secret organization listed as terrorists by their government - would show up as a result of his phone call.

For @starshippingweek Starshipping Week 2025 Day 1 - First Meeting

---> Read here <----

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I made my cat babygirl into a keychain just like the DGM pop-up merch ᓚ₍⑅^..^₎♡ (full art here)

Well, minus the thickness and the hologram coating XD

og for comparison:

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What's an art piece that's driven you guys crazy recently? 😁 Am curious to know. (Interpret "art" liberally, can be writing, film, poetry, music etc.)

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Finally getting to show the intended effect of this art.