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Sleepy Judai = velcro

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Day 12 - Rare pare

Starshiping they make me sick!!!!

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🌟Starshipping Week 2025🌟 is here!!!

Hello all, it is once again the most wonderful time of the year - our annual Starshipping summer event! This year, we're celebrating a very special occasion - the 15th anniversary of the Bonds Beyond Time movie's release! Though it's hard to pinpoint the exact origin of this ship, for many of us Starshippers, this was where it all began~ જ⁀➴

So from July 31 to August 7, let's celebrate the moment Judai and Yusei first laid eyes on each other in canon, joined forces with Yugi + Atem, and went on an adventure that lives on in our hearts and dreams ♡(˃͈ ˂͈ )⋆˙⟡♡~

The prompts were selected based on the movie as well as their respective series, because we wanted to give everyone an opportunity to share their ideas about canon. But same as before, you're free to interpret and express them however you wish. For days with multiple prompts, you can combine them or use only one of the prompts. Make sure to tag us wherever you post, as well as #StarshippingWeek2025 so that we can share your wonderful creations!

Here's to 15 years of Bonds Beyond Time, and the 4th consecutive year of Starshipping Week!! ✨🎆

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Some little snippets from my 5GX starshipping fantasy AU!! In which Judai wonders the world with Yubel and runs into team 5Ds, an independant rebel group tring to save the world hehe.

Working on this has been wild because Its also kinda becoming an original work with heavily inspired OCs?? So if I post more of it it will be a jumble of this AU and OC content!

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𝒴𝓊𝒥𝓊 🐺🌟🦊𝑀𝒶𝑔𝓃𝑒𝓉 𝒦𝑒𝓎𝒸𝒽𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓈!!!!!!!

Did you think that in my prolonged absence from the interwebs I was wasting away my days wallowing and idling? Nay, I was scheming, plotting, honing my blade, crafting tirelessly all in the service of bringing to fruition my greatest ambition in life:

❣️❣️𝓢𝓣𝓐𝓡𝓢𝓗𝓘𝓟𝓟𝓘𝓝𝓖 𝓜𝓔𝓡𝓒𝓗❣️❣️

Look at my tiny babies they're so perfectttttt ｡･ﾟﾟ*༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽*ﾟﾟ･｡

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Signal Strength

Pairing: Judai Yuki/Yusei Fudo

Prompt from a lovely discord friend: Long Distance CB Radio Buddies

Of all the things Yusei has dealt with in the past year alone, a radio which lets him connect to the past doesn't even begin to rank on his radar.

When he first found the thing, old outdated tech amongst all the other old outdated tech that piled high in the Satellite, he had planned to scrap it for parts. Radios could be handy in the Satellite, but anything that didn't run on Momentum was practically useless to him. Fixed points of electricity were hard to come by and working batteries could cost a fortune.

Like a lot of Yusei's projects however, it got put to the wayside in favour of keeping his friends and the world safe and then swiftly forgotten about entirely.

He finds he's glad he didn't scrap it now, as Judai's voice comes crackling through the speakers as he fires off questions at a mile a minute.

Meeting Judai had been a brief thing but they quickly bonded over their desire to defeat Paradox. And even quicker than that, Yusei found himself genuinely enjoying Judai's company. His easy smiles and quick jokes, his curiosity and his confidence. Yusei had been sad to have to say goodbye to him, but he knew that, realistically, it was impossible to stay together.

They were from different times, after all. And there was no force of nature more unforgiving than the hands of time.

So, when the radio in the corner of Yusei's garage with no working power source suddenly sparks to life and Judai's voice comes through, Yusei can only wonder at the miracle before him.

"What's the future like, future boy?" Judai asks him and Yusei can perfectly visualise the teasing smile that must be on his face.

"You know I can't tell you that," Yusei replies.

"Ugh, come on man," Judai whines. "You can't keep your duel runners and your Synchro summons to yourself! I need to be prepared for when we get this stuff!"

"Give it a few more years," Yusei says dryly. "Tell me about the past instead."

"I don't think I could tell you a single current world event," Judai muses. "Let me text Manjoume or something actually, he keeps himself well informed."

"What do you even do?" Yusei finds himself asking. "You were in Venice when we met, right?"

"Yeah! But I'm in Scotland now. Somewhere in the Highlands, actually." Judai says casually, but to Yusei who found moving from the Satellite to Neo-Domino to be a huge change, the idea is mind blowing.

"I travel, mostly," Judai continues unbothered. "I'm not good at staying still really so I just go wherever."

"And you just lug a whole radio around with you everywhere?"

"Amongst other things. I have a cat somewhere in my bag, too-- a live one! Just for the record. He likes it in there."

Yusei finds himself breaking out into a loud laugh at Judai's rambling, a content smile on his face. He could listen to Judai talk for hours, he thinks. It's so easy to get lost in the sound of his voice.

"Tell me about the places you've been to," Yusei asks, the coding project on his laptop left forgotten as he turns his full attention to his magical mystery radio.

And as Judai quickly breaks off into a long rambling story interwoven with a hundred different stories, Yusei is once again glad he kept this radio. His one connection to his bond outside of time.

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Thank you for joining! You draw them so very cute 💝💝

Look at our boys being precious and in love! Thank you all for filling our first ever Starshipping collab canvas with so much sweetness and joy!! Truly the best Valentine's day gift we could ever ask for💖💞 If you've contributed a drawing here, please let us know so that we can credit you 🥰

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Look at our boys being precious and in love! Thank you all for filling our first ever Starshipping collab canvas with so much sweetness and joy!! Truly the best Valentine's day gift we could ever ask for💖💞 If you've contributed a drawing here, please let us know so that we can credit you 🥰

Arts by @nemsou77 | @stardustneeko | and others

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Lovely drawings are filling up the canvas! There's still plenty of space left, so come leave something of yours before it closes this weekend💙💘👈

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V-Day Magma Canvas Live!

Without further ado, the Starshipping Valentine's day collaborative drawing canvas is live! Please check out this post if you're hearing about this for the first time. Looking forward to seeing your beautiful drawings here!! 🎨🖌🌟

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Quick reminder that we're less than 12 hours away from the Valentine's Day Magma canvas going live!

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Hello everyone, hope you're having a swell 2025 so far. Let's kick off the year with our first ever ✨Starshipping Magma collaborative drawing event✨ this Valentine's Day! The canvas will be live from 00:00 February 14 to 23:59 February 21 (UTC+11) and we'll share the link here when the event starts.

What is Magma? It's a website where you can draw with other people on the same canvas. It comes with a lot of common features in regular drawing apps, such as layers, blending modes, transformation, canvas flipping, etc. If you've never used Magma before, check out this guide for useful tips.

All skill levels are welcome - and if you don't draw, feel free to leave notes about Starshipping and/or nice comments for others' drawings. Looking forward to seeing you there! ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡⋆

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They are on a date guys trust

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Drew Starshipping as mdzs paro :D

Below for close ups!

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2025 Event Plans

Hello Starshippers!

First of all, thank you so much for everyone who participated in 💝 12 Days of Starshipping 💝 - we hope those 12 days brought you a little bit of joy during the holiday season. Now that we're nearing the end of 2024 (or perhaps it is already '25 where you are!), the team would like to express our appreciation for everyone who drew, wrote, talked, breathed, thought of Starshipping this past year - whether or not it was in contribution to one of our events. We've had a wonderful time getting Starshippers together this year as well, and we're really excited to bring you another year of fun happenings.

So, without further ado, here is the tentative event schedule that we'll be hosting on this blog for the year of 2025:

February 7 - 14: 💘 Valentine's Day Celebration [Collaborative Drawing (Magma) Board]

July 31 - August 7: Starshipping Week 2025 [🌟BONDS BEYOND TIME 15TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION🌟]

October: Halloween Trick and Treat [Mini Gift Exchange]

December: Holiday event [TBD]

That's right, we're planning two new events - just because we think about Starshipping all year round and we're sure you do, too 💭 So why miss any opportunity to celebrate our beloved protagonists (who are also in love)? (Details are subject to change, pending interest and our availability, but we will keep trying our best as we have for the past 3 years.)

That's all for this announcement! For now:

🎆 Happy New Year! 🎆

We hope you'll have a wonderful 2025 - full of light and hope and adventure just like this fandom has been for us 🌠

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On the twelfth day of Starshipping,

SpaceBun gives to us a beautiful art of the boys cuddling on a quiet Christmas night 🎄✨

*↟🌟🎄* 𝙼𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚜 *🎄🌟*↟

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On the eleventh day of Starshipping,

Mod B gives to you a very short version of my fic rec list - because we all know the best way to spend the holidays is to curl up in a cozy blanket with a mug of hot chocolate and binge on tales of our OTP until dawn ૮꒰ྀི∩´ ᵕ `∩꒱ྀིა. Stories are listed in order of whenever I manage to find them (should've utilised the bookmarks more :c) and mostly feature non-English languages and older publications.

风与旅行者 by 薛量子 (QuantumSchro) (translation: The Wind and the Traveler).

Summary (translation): Judai has a story about dreams, adventure, and saving the world. And in their journey with the years, he also created another story: a story about love, life and vows. He saw fine lines forming at the corners of Yusei's eyes, and his skin was gradually becoming rougher. They grew up together, laughed together, grew old together, and watched each other grow gray.

Why I recommend this fic:

The premise of this story is that Judai is immortal, and after years and years of travel post-Duel Academia, he runs into Yusei in Neo Domino (in this timeline, Zero Reverse didn't happen). They fall in love and build a life together. But Judai keeps his secret hidden - until he no longer can.

This is, without exaggeration, one of the best executions I have ever seen of the "immortal Judai" idea, and the author also ties this storyline into canon very nicely. I had to use Google Translate to read this but I'm sure it's even more beautiful in the original language - as even with the choppy translation, my heart was sobbing with the vivid description of the scenes, the joys and sorrows of their journey, and especially Judai's character growth thanks to Yusei. I couldn't stop thinking about it for DAYS afterwards. Highly recommend if you want a big ol' hit of angst with a happy ending that'll leave you gushing.

2. The Constellation of Our Hearts by EntameWitchLulu

Summary: "We've drawn this constellation between us, hoping that one day, it will let us remember all the times we've been together." - a collection of oneshots for Starshipping Week

Why I recommend this fic:

The outro of one of the chapters best describes the premise of this body of work:

They say when a dragon falls in love, its soul becomes mortal, and it joins the cycle of rebirth. We were both dragons, and we both fell in love. Over and over we find ourselves spinning like this. But a dragon's soul can never rest once it's fallen in love—not until both souls learn to remember. Not until both souls meet, and resonate, with the memory of their times together.

Even though it's a Fantasy AU at first glance, this collection has everything - adventure, action, suspense, angst, fluff, PIRATE YUSEI, and of course sweet, sweet romance. Judai and Yusei met as dragons and the stories document their meetings across reincarnations. Sometimes they meet only briefly, sometimes they form long-lasting relationships, sometimes neither remembers and sometimes one remembers while the other does not - until too late. A deeply bittersweet but gorgeous tale of longing and hope and wonder and honestly if I keep thinking about it any more, I'm gonna start crying, so. *puts this collection on a marble plinth for permanent display in the Museum of Starshipping*

3. 周末小事 by FinnaC (translation: Things to do at weekends)

Summary: Yuki Judai caught a cold. *Journal of daily life of cohabitation.

Why I recommend this fic:

It makes my heart go like √v^√v^√♥💥 with cuteness! A cozy, fluffy fic featuring Judai, who cannot stand being stuck inside all day because he's sick. Thankfully he's got a wonderful boyfriend to take care of him! So sweet it makes me melt~

4. good earth & good bones by en passant (corinthian)

Summary: The world ended, the ocean swallowed many of the coastal cities and left behind a changed landscape. Judai's coming home, Yuusei's finding his way. Along the way, they discover a little more than just their destination. -- Starshipping, post-apocalypstic au.

Why I recommend this fic:

Delightfully inventive. This story paints a vivid picture of a world that's very different from the ones in GX and 5Ds, and you can see how its brutal circumstances have shaped the characters, but deep down they still have the traits we know (and love) from canon. Judai and Yusei have got chemistry like crazy from the moment they first meet, and I also love the idea of them going on an adventure together! It was also really cool to see how other characters from both series found their places in this world - definitely a very unique reading experience.

5. Starships Were Meant to Fly by iatethecookie

Summary Random Starshipping oneshots.

Why I recommend this fic:

As of today, there are two one-shots at this link, and both are utterly charming, especially the first one. I am smitten with this depiction of Yusei - confident, kind, caring, and with a sense of humor that can best Jaden at times. I'd just like to present my favorite excerpt:

"Didwehankypankylastnight?" he suddenly blurted out, pink dusting his cheeks. Waaaaay to go Jade. Smooth. Hanky panky, really? He probably thinks you're a total idiot. At least he no longer felt the compelling need to stare into the other boy's eyes anymore. Oh God. To Jaden's surpise, the guy gave out a short laugh. He had a nice laugh, it was smooth and made his eyes light up. Drunk Jaden seemed to have really good taste.

Also, get-together fics are my weakness. Aren't we glad that they didn't get together in canon so that us fans get to imagine that part however we want?

I'll wrap it up here even though there are more and moreeeee awesome fics I wish I could shove into everybody's face. If you have a lesser-known fic that you think should be required reading for all Starshippers, please let us know down below!