#I’M STILL INTO YGO or at least i am. Trying

[ectoplasmer]

i did an oopsie

[pwnyta]

Apologies for my mistakes in advance.

Ok, so, I have a question for you.

Some time ago (honestly, it might have been kind of a long time ago) you’ve been talking about Genshin and how you prefer when the mc is not the point of view character but just someone who spectates from afar while other characters living their lives/stories. Tbh I’m not entirely sure that it was the exact thing that you said, but at the very least, that’s how I’ve remembered it xD

(Not trying to put words in your mouth btw, again, that’s just how I’ve remembered it)

So, my question is: do you not like MCs, like, in general? Like I know that it’s a strange question and that mc from Genshin feels more like a self-insert (I think they get better as the time goes on, maybe they’ll be their own characters by the end of the game lol), so it’s strange to question whether or not you like MCs just based on this one answer, but I was wondering about it so I decided to ask.

I’m not gonna lie, I am (kind of) a main character truther, they usually end up being my favorite characters, and if I don’t like mc, then I usually drop the work as a whole (because I don’t want to consume something that’s going to anger/annoy me, and bc MCs are usually a huge part of the story, I would rather just not interact with the story as a whole. Kind of unrelated, but my hatred for Bak*go forced me to drop mha bc he started to gain more and more screen time, and even though he is not THE main character, I still think that’s a good example).

Like. I hope you don’t think that I’m looking for troubles or anything, but as a person who likes MCs and as someone who would rather drop the work if I can’t emphasize with them/don’t like them/feel like they are NOT treated or behave like main characters, I’m just interested in the perspective of someone who doesn’t care for those characters/don’t like them in general.

Sorry if my message was confusing, I hope you got my point.

Well honestly I do tend to find MCs significantly less interesting than other characters. MCs tend to be the most generic character so that people can relate to them… thats just not how I read stories so it does nothing for me.

Like Naruto (& honestly the rest of his team) I found him (them) largely annoying and was always more interested in the stories of other characters with weirder powers (like Shino) & because I like more minor characters I Guess Im just more tolerable of their absence so long as the story is fun (Shino was probably THE most neglected of class but I stuck through Naruto until it wasnt fun anymore.)

But yeah especially in something like Genshin where Aether/Lumine are both the MC… and nothing really changes based on the character you pick... they arent a real character and what they do doesnt really matter because its just a stand in.

Like if you made QIQI the main character things would inherently change because she is her own character and the world would have to change based on what she might do. Her options to choose would be SO much different since shes a child and a zombie and w/e the world couldnt possibly be the same…. or CYNO would be interesting because hes got such a different temperament and also struggles with discrimination from being a desert dweller so there would even be more resistance... Hes basically got 2 personalities the quiet professional who keeps his head down and the goofy little meme boy who likes puns and YGO thats closer to who he really is and only shows to his friends (who hate it… OMG WINDBLUME IM STILL DEVASTATED LEARNING CYNO IS QUITE WHILE WORKING BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE RACIST AND HE ONLY JOKES WITH HIS FRIENDS BUT HIS FRIENDS ARE ACTIVELY ANNOYED BY IT AND DONT WANT TO HEAR IT…. IM SICK. …anyway.)

You can interchange Lumine and Aether and nothing changes because theyre not a real characters with their own personality so I just cant give a shit about them. The only thing that makes them tolerable is that its pretty clear Aether is supposed to be the main character canonically.

That said I wouldnt completely dismiss an MC just for being an MC…. some are interesting or serviceable enough to be somewhat likable. I love Luffy from One Piece, I like Tsuna from KHR and I did like Deku from MHA at first though recently he just feels like he doesnt matter at all (which normally I wouldnt mind since I usually prefer side characters stories but cutting screen time of Deku and focusing on characters who genuinely dont fucking matter or are terribly written like Endeavor or the side villains whos stories are forced and/or dont fucking MEAN anything… its frustrating. As much as I cant STAND Bakugo I actually wouldnt mind him having more screen time because he IS important to the story (or should be)… same with Todoroki but Bakugo is just a FLACCID and stagnant character and Todo was fucking wasted as Hori somehow thought itd be a better idea to build his abusive POS father without him present… DONT UNZIP ME NONNY. IM SO MAD…).

UM…. yeah. I didnt take offense or anything to the question… I actually love having an excuse to bitch about silly shit like this. Fandom discourse used to be one of my favorite pastimes before people started pretending it was serious business because theyre too lazy to do any actual social justice.

[chaosxyz]

Vent:

It sure feels weird to get back into a series that I watched when I was younger…

These fictional characters are exactly the same as before (stuck in time once the anime concluded), but I’ve gotten older and older…

I used to be the same age as Yuma Tsukumo, when I watched ygo Zexal for the first time on german television… now I’m almost 24…

I had a mild crush on Vector back then, and now I’ve returned with a full on obsession. Feels just a tad odd…

I’m still exactly where I was all those years ago…

(Only difference is that I finished school and lost my 3 irl friends cuz we grew apart.)

I guess I changed somehow, but also not quite?

The depression got worse with age, but at least I’m content with my existence. I am okay with being alive. I don’t dread waking up anymore (mainly cuz school ended in 2017… no more meanies, no more fear.)

Tho it is still strange… I am the same, maybe a bit more tired looking, but if you knew me then and now… you’d immediately know that it’s me. Same old. Same ugly. Hasn’t grown up one bit.

Still unhappy with my life. But I’m fine.

I avoid thinking about reality. It’s hard to grasp and understand… Perhaps the loneliness is getting to me? Tho I’m not exactly alone… I still live with my parents (for better or worse. I would starve on my own.) It’s a good thing that they are nice… but maybe they are too soft?

There is no need or pressure for me to change and get a grip… Everyone is okay with me being a lazy blob. But I hate it. I hate my room. I hate myself. I don’t want to keep living like this… but I never learned how to change for the better.

Whenever I try to get my life in order, the day ends. And it just keeps repeating… until I give up and just leave it as it is… before I try to change again…

But it never goes anywhere.

I never go anywhere.

My friends gave me a reason to get dressed n leave the building… then one by one they got busy with life and no longer had a use for me… and now I just wear pajamas 24/7 and lay around.

I think I’m turning into mush.

[seqka711]

Ranking the six main boy/girl ships in Yu-Gi-Oh from best to worst!

Not all main girl ships are created equally, I'm afraid. Let's take a look at each ship and see what's up! (Except Sevens because as I mentioned in a previous post, I am way too far behind to comment on anything in that show.)

First up is Anzu and Yugi! And YES I do ship them! However, I don't ship Atem and Anzu. Anzu was friends with Yugi, and started to see him in a different light when Atem started showing up. However, those changing feelings also started to influence her feelings about Yugi as well. We saw that in Duelist Kingdom. Then in season 2 when she realizes they're two separate people, she gets really confused! Anzu doesn't know how to feel anymore! Then Atem and Yugi are both playing wingman for each other, so that's not helping matters. I don't really ship Atem and Anzu because Atem just doesn't seem super interested in their date. I know he had other things on his mind, but if they wanted me to ship it, now was the time to show off some chemistry and they didn't.

We saw in GX that Yugi grows up to look just like Atem and he also grows more confident over the course of the series. After the end of Duel Monsters, I think they're both too hurt by Atem's passing to be digging on each other. But, distance makes the heart grow fonder, and I feel like she's gonna come back from the states and have some heart-pounding feelings when she sees him again. And Yugi's feelings didn't change, they were just put on the back burner. So hopefully when they meet back up, sparks are gonna fly! At least, I hope so. <3

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Next up is Asuka and Judai! When I watched their first duel, I was 100% on board with this ship. They were cute, they had great banter, it was a fair fight. I loved it! But over the course of the series, I started losing interest in their relationship, fast. By the end of season 2 I was pretty convinced they had abandoned Asuka x Judai for Asuka x Manjoume, and honestly, I was 100% on board with that, I love a good romcom couple and those two have dysfunctional romcom energy. Plus they had evil power couple vibes when they were running the Society of Light together, so I thought for sure they were gonna have Manjoume and Asuka be better friends post possession.

Then season 3 came a long and I was like "woah, they DID do that on purpose! I was right!" when we saw the Judai x Johan x Yubel love triangle they spent the entire season on. Asuka and Manjoume were of course relegated to background characters, as was everyone who wasn't a transfer student. And then the series ended with a pretty definitive Judai x Yubel ending and I was like "cool I like it".

But then season 4 made me question everything by making it clear that Asuka was still crushing on Judai?!?! Uhhh.... what? You haven't mentioned this crush in OVER TWO YEARS ASUKA. You've both changed so much! I thought the whole point was "she had a fleeting crush on him in year 1, but people change and so do our feelings"! I thought they had her fall out of love with him on purpose!! You're telling me the writers just wanted us to ASSUME she was still in love with him this whole time?!

I honestly love the whole "had a crush on him, now that I know him better, he's an amazing friend but I don't like him that way anymore" dynamic and they RUINED IT so bad. And for what? To say "well they fought the whole time, but now look! They can tag duel together!" Well, jokes on them, because a few episodes later Judai and Johan will show off some of the tightest teamwork in the show and I'll have to throw Asuka x Judai in the trash. </3`

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Yusei x Aki!!!!!! AHHHHHH I LOVE THEM. Their first duel is very romantic in my opinion. Yusei lives to help people, and it's actually a flaw of his that he'll help people no matter the cost. Usually that's sort of a "who cares" flaw in a protagonist, but for Yusei, it adds a lot of depth to his character. The reason he helps people even at the cost of himself is because he feels enormously guilty due to his parents' involvement in Zero Reverse, and he feels like he owes the world (but especially Satellite) everything. Yusei tried to go to jail in Kiryu's stead, but failed, and I think that only compounded his guilt even more.

Then, when Yusei sees the chance to help Aki, he does it. He's scared of her, but he rallies his courage to face her so that he can help her. And it's only natural that Aki would fall hopelessly in love with him after he continually put himself at risk over and over again JUST to help her. I love the episode where she rescues him from being kidnapped and then accompanies him on a riding duel. I think it hits me harder because it reminds me of how much I want to drive a motorcycle but can't because of reasons I won't go into. But part of her desire to learn to riding duel is because she wants to feel the same things Yusei feels. And that's so cute!

Unfortunately, I do have a certain headcanon that gets in the way of my shipping desires. I won't get into the whole headcanon, but I think Yusei might have ended up time travelling back in time to fix Zero Reverse and prevent Zone's future. And Aki wouldn't have come with him because we see her in the flashforward. Yusei is still giving her strength though. And I like to think that maybe a much older Yusei was able to help a much younger Aki control her powers and not enter a cult in the new timeline. And if my headcanon isn't true, then GET MARRIED AND HAVE BABIES GUYS. <3

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On the one hand, I love Kotori x Yuma. They’re so adorable! Not only is Kotori surprisingly self-aware of her crush (usually the YGO girls love to deny it) but Yuma clearly treats her differently from the rest of his friends, even though he doesn’t know why (yet). Kotori’s confession at the end of the show is SO CUTE AND ADORABLE and Yuma accepts and I love it!

But… I can’t love it as much as I WANT to love it. Kotori’s character, especially in Zexal II is kind of boring. I liked her a lot in Zexal I actually. I thought it was fine to have a character not duel as long as she was doing something else. In season 1 she occasionally gets shit done. Or she’s there for comic relief like when she’s riding the duel coaster. Or arguing with Orbital 7. It wasn’t much, but it was something. In season 2, she’s a total non-entity. I thought the duel where she gets possessed was very funny, but I almost wish that her getting possessed by a Barian was played for drama rather than laughs.

I think what could have been cool is either a) after she can hear Astral, her and Astral team up for a duel or b) when watching Yuma she started to memorize his strategies. Or both. Or neither, just get this girl something to do BESIDES watch Yuma! In the end, my love for how adorable these two are is always somewhat soured by Kotori’s squandered potential. <3

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Speaking of squandered potential, Yuzu and Yuya are next on the list. I love these two A TON! I’ll be perfectly honest and admit my biases here, I am NOT the biggest fan of Arc-V. The show had a lot of problems, and I’m harsher on it than most.

But one thing I really did like about the beginning of the show was Yuzu! She was independent, driven and her dueling was getting better as the show progressed. Just like Kotori, she became a non-entity in the latter seasons. However, I ship Yuya x Yuzu more than I ship Yuma x Kotori because Yuya was always keeping Yuzu in mind during the latter seasons. So it still felt like the ship was in focus, whereas with Kotori x Yuma, the ship kind of disappeared since more important things were going on. For Yuya, nothing was more important than getting Yuzu back, so really I had no choice BUT to ship it. How could I not? It was so sweet! She was his whole world! I wish we got more scenes with the two of them together though. Them never tag dueling is a crime against humanity. Also its total BS that only Yuya and Yuzu got to come back, but whatever, I guess. I was happy that the two of them reunited and even HAPPIER that the show was finally over. <3

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Last and basically least, Yusaku x Aoi. Or Playmaker x Blue Maiden. I’ll be honest, I don’t ship this at all. The show doesn’t go through any effort to get us invested in their so-called “relationship” and if I had watched this show on its own, unaware of the series’ tropes, I wouldn’t have assumed they were a “ship” at all. With Judai x Asuka, I actually liked the fake out (at least until S4 when I wondered whether or not the fake out was actually on purpose or if the writers are just morons) but with Yusaku x Aoi I get frustrated because it wouldn’t have been that hard to GIVE them some chemistry. They’re both interesting characters, and I think Aoi and Yusaku could have had an interesting dynamic if Aoi had learned Playmaker’s identity a lot sooner.

What I think the show should have done was have Aoi discover Playmaker and Soulburner’s identity at the same time they discovered each other. Then have Aqua come into the fold a lot earlier. Trios are popular in fiction for a reason, and I think Yusaku, Takeru and Aoi would have been an excellent trio. Specifically, with both Yusaku and Aoi being so reserved, their relationship would be very understated. But that’s not a bad thing. It just means that the writers would have to put more focus on the little things. Like, maybe after a while of being friends, Yusaku sits next to her in class. That would be a small thing for other people, but for those two, that’s huge! I could also see there being a fun episode where Ai tries to trick them into going on a date but fails spectacularly. The two of them end up spending time together to foil the plan. That could be really cute! LITERALLY ANYTHING is better than NOTHING.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t ship this because the writers thought they could get me to ship it just by having boy meets girl and then having them shake hands over a hundred episodes later. And no. I refuse. I need a LITTLE more than that, please and thank you. </3

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That was a very long post! All in all, 4/6 ain’t bad at all! Or maybe it’s more like a 3.5 since I only gave Kotori and Yuma a small heart? It doesn’t really matter, I’m a multishipper. At my heart and soul, I’ll ship anything. Like I said I don’t ship Judai and Asuka, but I totally have shippy fanart of them on my phone, lol. It’s more like… which of these ships would I defend in court and which ships do I only like because I’m trash that’ll ship anything?

Oh, I guess I did title this as a ranking... Well, I'm sure you can figure out my most and least favourites by how much I used caps lock, so it should be fine.

Give me ANY Yu-Gi-Oh ship (straight, gay or in between) and I’ll dissect it like I did these six.

[higuchimon]

[fanfic] In The Blue

Juudai adjusted the fit of the blue uniform and wished that he could chuck it into the  nearest trashcan.  He hated how it felt on him - far too clean, just a smidge too tight, especially around his neck, and he kept getting the feeling if he tried to relax, the uniform would just force him to stand up straight all by itself.

How in the world had he ended up in Obelisk Blue?  Not that he had really cared too much about what dorm he'd end up in, but he'd sort of assumed it would be Red or Yellow.  Everything he'd ever heard told him that there were two ways to get into the Blue dorm - if you went to the associated high school or if you got promoted from one of the lower dorms.  But he hadn't done either one.  He wasn't supposed to be here.

And yet here he was. 

Maybe because I beat Chronos-sensei?  That was the only thing he could think of.  Sometimes he could see the teacher giving him a very measuring look when he thought Juudai wasn't looking.  He didn't know what else to call it.

With a deep sigh he flung himself on the bed, wincing as the uniform once again rubbed him the wrong way.  The bed was way too soft, too.  He rested his head on his folded arms and sighed.  I kinda wish I hadn't if this is what it got me.

Juudai wondered if he could take a nap or if someone would come in there to wake him up right when he didn't want to be.  He couldn't sleep in class - the other Blues poked him whenever he closed his eyes for more than a few minutes.  They didn't like him being there as much as he didn't like being there, but they refused to let him bring them down.

He stifled a yawn again.  Maybe he'd head down to the Red dorm to talk to Shou.  Shou might even let him take a nap there!  Wouldn't it have been awesome if he'd been assigned there?  He could sleep whenever he wanted.  He'd been told quite firmly that he couldn't let his grades drop below a certain level - they wouldn't put him down in Red, oh, no.  He would be expelled.

That had to be Chronos-sensei's doing too.  Juudai wondered if he should go and ask him why he wanted him in Blue so badly.

No.  He'd probably find out, and Juudai wasn't all that certain if he wanted to.

Just as he slid off the bed and started for the door, a firm knock sounded.  Juudai sighed; just what he'd expected.  He wondered who it might be, and headed to find out.

The person who stood there he sort of knew, because the other first year Blues told him about some of the older Blues.  This was Marufuji Ryou, the Kaiser of the school. 

"Yuuki Juudai?"  Kaiser asked, one eyebrow quirked.  Juudai nodded, more than a little confused.  "May I come in?"

"Uh, sure,"  Juudai said, taking a step back.  "Is there something I can do for you?"

"Actually, I'm here to do something for you."  The Kaiser observed Juudai.  He wore his uniform as if it were the regal garb of a king, not some sort of prison meant to incapacitate him.  Juudai wondered if he could ever learn to wear his uniform like that.  "Chronos-sensei assigned me to be your - teacher, of sorts."  Juudai thought he saw the faintest hint of a lip curl but it wasn't there enough for him to be sure.

He had a very bright reaction to that, of course.  "Huh?"

"You are not the usual sort of Blue student we have,"  Kaiser pointed out.  "Therefore, you need someone to make sure you fit into the Blue dorm."

Fitting in was the very last thing that Juudai wanted to do.  He wrinkled his nose and shook his head.  "I'd rather go to the Red dorm.  That looks pretty cool."  And maybe he'd not have all those people staring at him even when he wasn't dueling.  He expected them to watch when he dueled.  He didn't want them staring at any other time. 

"I'm afraid that's not an option."  Kaiser shook his head.  "Chronos-sensei informed me that he pulled a few strings to have you in our dorm, out of respect for your skills.  I saw that you defeated him.  That's very rare.  He even used one of his best monsters against you and you still did."

Juudai wanted to be proud of that.  He just couldn't bring himself to be, not since it had landed him here.  "So that means I can't ever leave?"

Kaiser shook his head quietly once more.  Juudai dropped down onto his too-soft bed and groaned.  He thought he'd be happy here in Duel Academia, dueling all the best.  He'd never cared about what dorm he might be in, but now that he was in the best dorm, it didn't feel right.  Like the world twisted out of its proper course. 

"It isn't that bad being an Obelisk Blue,"  Kaiser tried to point out.  "I can show you the benefits."

Juudai wondered if he were trying to sound kinder.  He wasn't sure of how successful Kaiser was at it.  But at lest he tried.  Juudai looked over at him.

"The food's good?"  He suggested.  It was kind of rich and he wasn't sure if he liked it all, but it was good.  Kaiser chuckled softly.

"So I have noticed."  He gestured for Juudai to get up.  "But I can show you other places round here, and things to do."

Juudai pulled himself to his feet.  If he couldn't go hang out in Red, at least he could have some company, and he had herd about how skilled at dueling Kaiser was.  Maybe if they hung out for a while, he'd be able to duel him?  Worth a try.

And it gave him something to look forward to.

The End

Notes: SilvorMoon and I worked out some of the details here, such as Ryou being Juudai’s “mentor”. I am making the most evil giggling noises!

Also, getting caught up on my GX Month 2021 fics. What I have planned for day #13 might take me a bit, so I have no idea of when it’ll be ready. But hopefully before the end of the week!

[south-park-meta]

How would you describe Stan and Sharon’s relationship? Would you say that Stan is Sharon’s favorite? It seems this could be the case at least according to Shelly in the season 19 episode “PC Principal Final Justice” when she said, Why are you always taking Stan's side? You're always acting like Stan can't do anything wrong.

I'll start with whether I think Stan's her favorite: I wouldn't exactly say he's the favorite as in she loves him more but I think both his parents are closer to him. There's definitely a reason that Shelly feels like they love Stan more than her. In part it's because he's the baby of the family. It means he gets more attention, gets more leeway, basically gets a lot of benefits for being born second. The second thing is just that, well, frankly he's easier. It's kind of weird to say that since Stan's life is absolutely bonkers and outside of the home he chases adventure. So the wacky adventure stuff has to be taken out of the equation a bit.

In a daily life way, Shelly's more likely to yell, beat up her brother, slam doors, that kind of thing. Stan's purposefully taken on a 'don't worry about me' role in the family while a lot of Shelly's home behaviors are deliberately attention-seeking. Stan has conversations with his parents. He tells them what's wrong and takes steps to fix it himself. He's emotionally mature, but in ways very childlike-- like he's still happy his mom reads bedtime stories to him.

The attention he wants from his parents is arguably too 'kiddy' for a lot of kids his age. It's certainly not like he never complains/whines to his parents. We've seen him do that. But a lot of the attention he seeks from his parents is just 'please spend quality time with me'. No solving his problems even if they listen to them, no yelling, no rants about friends at school. When he discusses his problems with them it's often pretty straightforward and stamped with a 'But I'm fine!' disclaimer. Not only that, but like I mentioned with my analysis for Stan and Randy, Stan's been in a parental position of taking care of Randy himself since he was a little kid. So he doesn't talk back THAT often (particularly before moving to Tegridy; he's definitely gotten snippier), the attention he wants is often the easy book-reading/watching sports games together kind, he works to solve his own problems, AND he can be depended on to solve his parents' problems a lot of the time, too. The reason they have more of a problem connecting with Shelly is because Shelly actually wants parented instead of the weird thing Stan's got going on where he takes on a parenting role himself a lot of the time.

I think Stan and Sharon's relationship is good, though. Stan's a lot like Randy, but he's a lot like Sharon, too. He tempers things with logic and reason. He cares about people being wronged even if everyone else shrugs and says it's normal. Stan has a lot of her sensibilities tied up with his dad's drive to get things done.

He has the ability to talk to both of his parents about his problems, which is something the other kids don't have-- Kyle was the closest to having this in earlier seasons, but Gerald's ruining his relationship with his kids and doesn't even seem to like Kyle. But Stan can talk to his dad despite having to expect off-the-wall responses. He can talk to his mom despite wanting to protect her from having to really take care of his problems. He might keep his emotional hurts from them, or meet them halfway in fixing things if he needs their help, but he rarely actually LIES to them about things going on in his life.

His relationship with his mom isn't perfect. Sharon is someone who relies more on shame than guilt, i.e. the difference between ‘I am/you are a bad person’ and ‘I/you did a bad thing’. Stan's deeply internalized that doing things wrong marks him as a bad person. And you can see that in the words Sharon chooses when she chews people out and the fact when she thinks Stan does something VERY bad in Spookyfish her instinct is to hide it to keep him 'good', that she operates a lot through shame. This isn't healthy for him, and feeds into him wanting to do things just to prove he's good, strong, capable, and hiding or not talking about things that he finds bad about himself (including his depression).

The things that Stan doesn't think will be a huge inconvenience for his parents, or the things that he doesn't think will mark him as a bad or weak person, however, he doesn't have a problem sharing. And that does put him LEAGUES above a lot of the other kids in South Park. He actually loves his parents and DOES actually want to talk to them about things more than he doesn't. I think most of his problems with his parents are actually fixable, but it would take a lot of work.

That said, Stan's family and Sharon in particular very actively supports putting the work in. They whisk him off to the doctor if he has a complaint. When they think he has Asperger's in Ass Burgers, they quickly pop him into therapy, and I think this is more Sharon's doing than Randy's. Personally I think Randy's influence was the awareness tour that was more about getting attention for himself than for Stan, similar to Stan's behavior in Butterballs. But anyway. They get him into therapy immediately when he has hoarding problems. They have apparently instilled in him to talk to counselors on his own as well, since he actually does open up to Mackey pretty quickly even in the cases where he's 'forced' to go see him. They, and I'd say primarily Sharon, are all for Stan getting whatever professional help he needs when he says he has a problem. It's just that the help that's available in South Park is crap.

So I think there's a lot of good in Stan's relationship with Sharon. They can turn to each other when things are fucked up and have someone they need to be strong for. Stan's willing to share MOST of his problems with her. When he talks back, she apparently checks in on him later to make sure he understands where she's coming from as seen in YGO. When he actually expresses a problem to her, she will try and fix it by taking him to whatever professional necessary. She does facilitate discussion and actively listens to him. She reads him bedtime stories, cares about his day, engages in his school projects and extracurricular activities, and wants to spend time with him.

She's also a part of the family dynamic that makes Stan reluctant to really be a kid and not have to be forced into a parental role at a very young age. She also-- unintentionally-- helps feed into his belief that he's fundamentally a bad person who needs to hide things about himself to appear good so he can still be liked. In thinking Stan's just being a good, responsible kid, she's helped put him a position where a lot of his childhood has been eaten up by trying to be an adult to help his family function.

Most of Stan's relationships are loving but dysfunctional.

[blueeyeswhitegarden]

So guess who got their first death threat on tumblr today? Or at least the first death threat that I’m aware of from this site. Now I get to sit with the other cool kids at the cool kids table.

In all seriousness, it might not be the best idea to talk about it and maybe I’ll delete this later, but I want to at least vent about it. It’s kind of strange since a part of me has kind of expected this for awhile, but it was still a bit of a surprise. I don’t allow for anonymous questions, so they got around it by submitting the threat as a post instead, which I guess shows that they really wanted to threaten me. I have reported it, taken multiple screenshots and I no longer allow people to submit posts. I’m going to post a copy of the threat under the cut, so if seeing death threats is too upsetting for you, especially when the title they used for the post is rather large, please don’t look.

So there’s a lot to unpack here. Honestly, I’m not surprised that someone threatened me over a YGO series. People have harassed me before over that, mainly about A5. I am surprised that it isn’t because I hate VR or that I’m not that into 7s. Calling me a 5//D’s hater is pretty strange considering that despite my problems with its later arcs, it’s still one of the currently four YGO series that I do like. The jury is still out on 7//s, but I don’t dislike it so far at least. It’s also kind of strange to get this upset when I haven’t talked about 5//D’s in months. I guess he looked through either salt tags or replies I’ve made to other people’s posts and got upset because I said things I didn’t like about the series and called Yo//shida a bad writer. I can’t really fathom going to bat for a writer so hard to send death threats over them, let alone for someone like Yo//shida. Even if I didn’t think he was a bad writer or thought that his writing got progressively worse with each series/manga he wrote for the franchise, I don’t think I could get this upset with anyone disliking him or his writing. The focus on 5//D’s is also kind of strange in regards to Yo//shida . His writing on 5//D’s is noble prize winning material compared to whatever the A5 manga was.

All of that is pretty moot when the real issue is someone was apparently that upset over what I think about a YGO series that they told me to kill myself multiple times in the mist of a pandemic. This would be pathetic regardless, but doing this when so many people are still suffering from the virus makes it even worse. Part of the reason I kept kind of expecting to be harassed over a YGO series even during a pandemic is because my expectations for its online community are that low, if not even lower somehow. A part of me wouldn’t have been shocked if this was over how much I love A5 or the recent Pok//emon games either, especially with the latter fanbase has its own share of toxic people. Whether or not you agree with my opinions, I know that I do not deserve death threats over them. You can disagree all that you want with me and that’s fine, but I do not deserve harassment because I think a show like 5//D’s has problems or that Yo//shida is a terrible sexist writer. I do not deserve harassment in general, but I wanted to emphasize that my opinions, or really anyone’s, do not warrant any kind of threats or harassment.

Telling people to kill themselves is extremely dangerous because people might actually go through with it. I don’t think I’ve had suicidal thoughts per say. There have been times where I’ve gotten really depressed and then some really bad thoughts have come to mind, but I’ve never acted on them. I usually just feel surprised with how that thought came to mind and then I go cry or try to watch something to take my mind off of things. Regardless, I still have bad days. I still have emotional meltdowns that leave me exhausted for at least a day or two, depending on how much I cry or what the meltdown was about. I am a sensitive autistic person who has been bullied for most of my life. I am still dealing with the aftermath of emotional abuse that happened decades ago at this point. Even saying that I look okay or that I don’t deserve harassment are a pretty big deals in terms of my self-image/confidence/esteem issues.

That’s why I don’t allow for anonymous questions since I didn’t want people to abuse it to harass me or send me hate while I’m already extremely low. I have felt worthless because of what people have said and done for me for years, so I didn’t want to leave an opening for people to do it online under the anonymous disguise. Needless to say, bullying can and often does have long lasting effects on people’s emotional and mental health. If I had gotten this message while having a bad day or still in the middle of an emotional meltdown, especially when I had one fairly recently, it could have been even more dangerous. At the very least, it would have hit my emotions extremely hard and I can just imagine feeling so emotionally numb if I was in that kind of head space. Fortunately, despite this message, my day has been relatively good, so this is just more upsetting in a baffling way more than anything else.

The moral of the story here kids it to not send people death threats. It’s not okay to do under any circumstances and it is extremely dangerous for people already dealing with suicidal thoughts or other mental health problems. But don’t send death threats during a pandemic over an anime aimed at kids with the intent of selling trading cards to said kids either. That just makes it even more pathetic.

[bakugouisabitch]

Have you read the yugioh manga? Is the season 5 done better in the manga?

hello anon. sorry for replying this late to this.

YES i’ve read the yugioh manga and this also includes millennium world (the part that became season 5) and to be honest with you..................................... it’s hard to pin it down as a yes or no answer because the main biggest issue I have with the season 5 anime was still present in the millennium world manga BUT there are a few more things that are actually better in the manga than in the anime imo. So if I have to give you a short answer it’s: yes. Imo the manga is done better.

Let me name a few things I prefer in the manga without trying to spoil you anything lmao

1- Thief King Bakura, in general. I fell in love with the character because of the manga. In the anime you never actually get to know him - it’s just his body but with the spirit of the ring literally possessing him, so the anime has basically no TKB (this is the main reason why it sucks lmao) and they really made him dirty in the anime. He literally says he doesn’t care abt revenging his village anymore and i’m like ??????? this is not TKB. In the manga, he really makes it a point to remind everyone how atrocious their doing was and he’s very loud and factual abt it. He spills the T. He’s punk as hell this is why i adore him and they robbed him off his best quality in the anime. This is character assassination and i do NOT stand with that. (But before you get all hopeful he still never gets the ending he deserves - not even in the manga so rip to that. we just can’t have nice things 💀💀💀💀💀)

2- The duels/dahas are better in the manga. More blood realistic. And there are no stupid golden duel disks needed to summon the Kas. i hated that sm in the anime. it really belittled the whole thing into a game once again. The ka comes from your soul. It’s part of you. That's why you die/hurt badly when it gets destroyed/attacked.

3- The dark priest/Aknadin/Zorc issue. Listen I hate that dude with my whole heart but at least in the manga, you get to see him as being that dark priest/Zorc aka the main monster/satan of the story. and you also see his mummy in the modern world at the museum and it explains the whole deal much better. The anime just fucking confused me. It confuses everyone and it makes you literally believe that everything is possible atp.

4- Diabound. listen,, liSTEN,,,, IT IS MY FAVOURITE MONSTER . In the anime it’s literally only belittled into a monster who steals powers like???? the first thing we see of it is that it somehow stole the Blue Eyes’ power from Seto before we meet it in millennium world and only thanks to this does he get to win against obelisk which no ! !!! N.O. The whole deal of diabound is that it’s so fucking powerful on its own all the priests are left open-mouthed. it confronted a God. and won. WITHOUT stealing anyone’s power (at the beginning). It is majestic and beautiful. and no one could have believed that just a simple thief happened to have such a powerful ka. A GOD KA. yes. they call it a demon and tkb corrects them and tells him this is a spirit ka. A fucking GOD. born from the whole rage tkb developed for the palace ppl over the years while growing up and making a god like angelic ka blossom from it all!!! in the anime none of it is explained. they belittled it into just some monster that kinda makes the impression to be pretty weak if it wasn’t for its ability to steal other monster’s powers, stripping it of all its power and fucking majesty. And the shitty animation ruined him too. (yes i am particularly bitter over what they did to diabound!!!)

Everything is in general better explained and there are no useless plot distractions like Honda becoming evil????? The dark soldiers/army of tkb??????? Diabound stealing BEWD’s power????? Bobasa??????? like the whole deal of Bobasa is just wrong because of him being the most racist caricature we have in ygo but in the anime, he also contributes nothing to the plot??? (in the manga at least he serves some more to the plot like he weights the hearts of Yugi & co. in the beginning before letting them enter into the memory world - where we also have Ryou sobbing and running away because his soul didn’t get access :((( but it’s still better than not including Ryou at all because yeah i guess we are the anime and Ryou never existed in the anime) Other things that bug me: TKB coming back to life after dying for good with a piece of Seto’s soul??????? SETO in the millennium world?????? Listen, i am not saying these things ruined millennium world but they made it all the more confusing and erased “plot-space” that could have been filled with fix-its for what they did in the manga, that, per see, was never that good to begin with. But still better than the mess that was the anime. 

A few things I can name that they definitely did better in the anime than in the manga is

1- Priest Set, he’s not a megalomaniac classist asshole in the anime and doesn’t torture ppl for funsies

2- Kisara, in the anime she has a personality. I’m not even sure if she utters a word in the manga. Poor girl.

Yeah overall millennium world is a fucking mess and i hate it like the only reason i am attached to it is cause we have tkb (which happens to be my favourite character) and we see him in all his greatness and his tragic backstory!!! but he was never treated as an actual character, only as a villain - he never got the justice he deserved as a character so, sorry for making this all abt bakura lmao but yeah, like i said before, the biggest issue i have with millennium world is only better explained in the manga, but it’s never fixed. So I‘d say the manga is better in a story-explanation-pov. But it still has the same shitty ending. 

Oh and the manga is better cause you don’t have to endure the trauma that is the shitty animation in season 5. Totally not worth it.  

[keylimejuice]

AAAAAAA LOVED YOUR LAST ANSWER(s)!!! You’re an angel, Key! Coming atcha with moar~ xD Do you have any other headcanons to what happened Post!Canon to other characters? What was an interaction / friendship / enemyship that didn’t become canon but you WISh it had? ~annd do you have an oc~? >w>

HWAHHH BLUE even more??!! you’re as cool as ever! let’s go!! 💃

1) any other post-series headcanons?

ooooh hmm

i definitely think that the Barian emperors all live together in Shark’s old house, and they all cleaned it up and everything <33 (genuine questions though, where do the Kamishiro/Kastle twins even live ?????)

i also love the idea of Astral finally confronting Eliphas about how god awful he is. it still hurts my heart how he went back to Eliphas at the end of the show. i will never shut up about Eliphas’ horrid mistreatment of Astral and how his redemption was rushed solely for the sake of cramming in the final arc

i love the idea of Haruto meeting up with Yuma like every week too. he’s got a whole load of big brothers now! Kaito can finally rest ^^

2) any noncanon interactions that you wished could’ve happened?

Ena and Astral, hands down. heck, anyone in the Astral world interacting with him other than Eli. but i wanted Ena especially because of episode 8 and how Astral brought up a possible mother. of course he doesn’t actually have parents with Eliphas being the closest thing to a parent as his creator, but i would have loved to see him and Ena talk with each other. the voice in episode 8 and Ena’s voice sound similar enough to make me believe she was present at Astral’s birth or was at least involved in watching him be born. i’m just desperate for any crumbs at this rate

3) do i have any ocs?

i do! none specifically for YGO though, but i am trying to design one for funsies >:))

thanks again for the ask Blue! have a lovely day 🥰💕💕

[inktrailing]

I stole this from @the-kaedageist because it looked fun.

(Also me: “I’ll do this meme quickly...” ... *loses track of time*)

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

78 to my greatest surprise. I guess the only favor 2020 did for me was in writing.

2) What’s you total AO3 word count?

355,868. Holy...

3) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

10. Critical Role, CWDC, Men in Black (movies), Supernatural, Doctor Who, PotC. Spattering of some other stuff.

4) What are your top five fics by Kudos?

Unconventional, Men in Black, Jay/Kay, 1211 kudos... somehow

Fish Tales, Men in Black, Jay/Kay, 336 kudos

meet us where the night ends, Critical Role, Essek/Caleb, 298 kudos

I see death cresting over the hill, Critical Role, Essek/Caleb, 276 kudos

message, Critical Role, Essek/Caleb, 273 kudos

5) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I AM REALLY BAD ABOUT THIS. It’s literally on my AO3 profile that I’m bad about it. I try every now and then but I so often just get flustered and then don’t end up responding. Oftentimes I’m at work and just flailing during the rest of my shift and yeah /)_(\ Words Are Hard, says the writer.

6) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

OH THERE’S A COUPLE. I would say Caught in the Wires (MIB, Jay/Kay); and you know my soul (CRc2, Essek/Caleb) probably are the two worst for bad end future fics. follow me into the golden wild (DW, Rose & the Moment) is my favorite of my bad end fics though lol. I fucking love that fic hahaha, and it’s one of my least read stories XD

7) Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I don’t really. Not fic wise. A lot of my thought processing goes through basically using an RP format with myself (because I like icons, okay) so sometimes I’ll take wild concepts and play out scenarios with a bunch of characters and sometimes I’ll get shit out of it that I can actually use but other times I’ll have fun things that will not translate well to fic.

My fav of those was a Pokemon AU that y’know basically dragged a bunch of characters in and eventually they had to deal with a Problem like ya do while still ending up stranded. I enjoyed throwing Dean/Lucifer at that because Dean just ended up “ghost hunting” aka freeing/helping/catching ghosts and ending up with 70+ and Lucifer really only traveling around with a Zoroark and still hating humanity but helping mistreated and scapegoated pokemon.

I just really like Dean and his ghost army lmfao.

An actual crossover fic I have (and maybe one day could finish) was Arrow/The Dresden Files only because Paul Blackthorne except it uses book canon instead of TV canon because of Winter Court Bullshit so like whatever, I do what I want some days I guess \o_O/

8) Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I don’t... think so? I sometimes get minor disagreements on characterization but I typically write for myself and am pretty set in my ways so it’s like okay I accept your opinion but it’s not going to change anything.

9) Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I cannot write smut to save my life.

10) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

If I have I definitely haven’t noticed.

11) Have you ever had a fic translated?

stood too close to the flames (LoT, Mick/Len) was translated.

12) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No.

13) What’s you all-time favorite ship?

I ship so many things at the drop of a hat and so frequently go back to old ships to find new things to read even if it’s been a looooong time. I would say Jay/Kay since I’ve shipped and written them for the greatest length of time without it fading.

I do genuinely enjoy writing Dean/Lucifer though so go rarepairs I guess.

14) What’s a WIP you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I fucking love I’ll Stop the Whole World (DW, Doctor/Master, 47k words) as I’ve pulled it up again after idk months to skim through but I suppose I learned a lot from writing lost in the lapse again and going backwards to any of my longer WIPs just hurts a bit? I want to figure it out because there’s so much I adore in it but there’s a lot of work to be done and having two monitors helps now but... I don’t have the energy to tear it apart and sew it back together.

15) What are your writing strength?

god idk

I’d like to say I’ve gotten better at I guess... balance? Juggling dialogue and action and scenery. I forced myself to work on scenery descriptions awhile back and I think it paid off?

I learned to take good notes, especially if it’s something with multiple plot threads that I need to keep track of. That’s what has made some of my older WIPs such a bitch because I didn’t do that and I’m like ????? Hey? Past Me? WHAT?!?! And retroactively trying to build a timeline is REALLY DIFFICULT ACTUALLY.

I do also think I keep my narrative parallels pretty tight. I’m sure a lot get missed because people aren’t staring at the same story that I am for months combing things over, but it delights me okay ;)

16) What are your writing weaknesses?

Finishing shit?! Well, I’ve gotten better at that over the course of the last year. Critical Role reaction fics helped A TON with that. Just spitting things out immediately after an episode.

I am a fucking perfectionist though. Like I’ll canon divergence all I want but mentally I need the basis of canon to weave into my writing even if it’s just for a single line. I like willfully breaking canon not ignorantly.

This means I either never get things done because I need to rewatch or I too meticulously obsess over something.

While I think I’m good with writing scenery I’m SUPER BAD at character descriptions?? I’m trying to?? Work on it?? But that’s one thing I’ve finally just been like okay I know I’m bad at this I just need to accept it and go on because if I get hung up on it then again, nothing’s gonna get posted.

I’ve learned that I vehemently hate the words “still” and “probably” because I white noise them even when doing intensive editing and I use them so damn much and now that I realize going back to read old things hurts my soul.

17) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Look I grew up primarily on writing Yu-Gi-Oh! fic. I had my Time with poor use of Japanese in fic. While I don’t have any fandoms now that I write for that it would be relevant... I can’t do it anymore. However, reading it doesn’t bother me, and it generally doesn’t jar me out of anything. Like it feels normal reading it in MDZS fics for one thing.

18) What was the first fandom you wrote for?

I want to say some super wonky ~new cards~ Cardcaptor Sakura fic. But I think the first fandom I published for on FFN was likely YGO. Anything early than that I would have blacked out of my memory ahahaha.

19) What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

lost in the lapse again took up my life for MONTHS and was really my pride and joy. It was the longest thing I’ve ever written and edited to my liking. I’m so so happy with how it came out and I’m shocked honestly that it has 118 kudos now because I really expected it to get maybe half that, tops. But it was definitely one of those I’m writing this for me, this encompasses what I want, and if others enjoy it that would be really nice!

Otherwise I think I’d say I see death cresting over the hill because it has so many elements I just enjoy rereading. I think it’s my favorite of my Critical Role fics too.

[cityescape4]

Emergency Commissions

Ok so, hi! Long time no talk, Zexal fandom. It’s been like, since October since I’ve interacted with the main tag in any way >o>;; Also, sorry I never got around to doing that second Zexal Week in the fall, I was going through some rough shit.

And honestly, I still am. I just found out that I no longer have a source of income. I’m in the middle of a second degree, living away from home in an apartment so I can attend college, and we’re still kinda in the middle of a pandemic so uh. yeah.

So, I’m opening up emergency commissions to try and make at least a little money? You can find the specific info here, (such as ships, wills-dos and won’t-dos, pricing, etc) as well as fandoms I’m willing to write for (such as My Hero Academia, RWBY, Digimon, DBZ, and YGO) but honestly, I’m most comfortable writing for Zexal! If you’re interested in checking out some of my works you can look to either my AO3 or my writing Tumblr, city-writes!

[sakurarisen]

General RP style and preferences

Repost, don’t reblog. Bold what applies. Strikethrough what does not. Elaborate on any points you’d like.

Please be honest, we all want to find the people who work best with how we RP. ____

Types of RP / How I do threads | I don’t I just do whatever  is on my dash when I’m online | Mainly asks | I do little short things  mostly | I do my threads on discord | Long running threads that slowly  build upon the muses |

*I tend to do whatever I have the most muse for at the moment - But I also have a habit of doing them by the number I owe first instead of by order I see them a lot of the time. If I owe person A 6 threads, but person B 2, I’m more likely to tackle person A’s first, unless B’s been waiting for a long af time. Most of the time tho, I just do whatever I can grab first off my tracker. <3

Plotting Preferences | Wing it | Get a general idea ooc and then run with it & plot further if need be | Long expansive thought out story arcs |

*I can’t bold anything here because I love them all? And they all work in their own way? <3

Type of threads I do / Prefer | Oneliners only | Whatever dash shenanigans I’m online for | Para or Mulit para | Literal Novels |

*I struggle with short. I can’t give you back oneliners, and if I do it’s for dash crack type things and never stays that way for long. I like to explain and describe and give my partners two or more things to run off for their replies, and my muses can babble on their own, as well, so you’re prone to get back multipara and a legit novel from me, which I never expect anyone to match. I just ask to not reply to a multipara with like.. three lines. XD

Reply Speed for Threads & Consistency & Keeping threads |  I lose threads all the time & don’t usually get back to them | I  tend to lose threads but please tell me if I have and I’ll reply! | I  drop threads pretty easily | I’m really slow but I WILL get back to you |  I reply on a schedule/queue (specify if you’d like) | I usually reply  within a week | I reply every day | I reply almost instantly |

*I deal with a LOT offline, which means while I might be here and doing things like this, I may not have the headspace for doing a reply at the moment, or for only doing a single reply to a friend before my writing ability fizzles for the day. It’s nothing on anyone else and more personal things I have to deal with myself offline, and that saps my ability to write a lot of the time - and as a result, I am not fast. On top of that, like I previously mentioned, I have a habit of doing my replies in the order of owe the most to owe the least unless it’s been WAY too long since my last reply, but I swear, I am not ignoring anyone. Unless tumblr’s eaten it, I will get back to you, but if it’s been a couple weeks? DEFINITELY feel free to ask me if I lost your reply! I don’t mind a gentle nudge in that case! <3 I’m just a slow dork <3

Romantic or sexual ships |  I don’t do these ships (specify reason if you would like) | I’m not  against them happening but it is not the main point of my blog | All  ships will have to be super slow burn & discussed a lot OOC, super  chemistry based (specify reason if you’d like) | I love doing ships, HMU  I probably already ship it just ask! | I ship really quickly | I  autoship or ship within a few interactions | I mainly RP for the cute  ship fluff or smut |

*As much as I love ships, I tend to run my blogs as singleship these days - a spot usually taken by a close friend’s muse. I no longer feel comfortable shipping with people I’m just not close to/know I can really talk to ooc, and I don’t like making romance the sole focus of my blogs, either. I love developing friendships and other kinds of bonds as well and would rather have more of those than romantic oriented ships, and just leave the romances to the muses of close friends.

Smut | I do NOT do smut at  all (specify reason if you’d like) | I’m very selective about it | I  only do it on a separate (blog/discord/specify here) | I mainly only do  asks relating to the subject on Sundays | I write it a medium amount | I  write it all the time and love to |  

*I don’t do this on dash at all. I may reference to it, if the thread/conversation calls for it (i.e. akin to someone teasing Sera), but the actual writing of it remains off dash and only with close friends.

Active hours [Specify Timezone, if you’d like] | Mornings 8-10 | Midday 11-1 | Afternoon 2-5 | Evenings 6-8 | Night 9-12 | Ungodly hours of the day 1-onwards |

*Eastern US here!

Activity Schedule |  SUPER slow and sporadic, like once a month or so | Slow and sporadic  week long gaps between activity | Bi-weeklyish activity | Weekly  activity (specify if there’s a certain time you have school/work/etc.  off that you are most active) | Daily activity | I’m online nearly all  the time |

*I’m legit pretty much almost always online, but I may not always be in the right headspace to be doing anything with my blogs - any of them. How much I get done, or even if I get anything done, depends heavily on how my day is going, and those are all factors out of my hands, unfortunately. I am though trying my best to get caught up and stay that way. <3

Starters | I don’t do starter calls | I want to do starter  calls but often don’t have time | I do selective calls (specify) | I  don’t do calls, but always fee free to ask me for one! I do starter  calls rarely/regularly/often |

*I have stupid levels of anxiety. XD I’m trying to put myself out there more with Sera, but it’s still hard to do and I might not do a whole heck of a lot of starter calls. The ones I do do, though, are few and far between, but always feel free to drop in and ask to plot something anyway if you like! <3 Or hit up one of the memes I reblog! <3

AUs | I don’t do AUs | My blog is an AU but  outside of that I don’t do them | I sometimes do them but only with a  lot of plotting | I have a couple of AUs already feel free to request  them! | I have AUs coming out of my ears please interact with them! | I  love making AUs HMU to plot if you think of one! | There are some AUs I  won’t do |

*I try to limit the number of AUs I have for I’m not overrun with them, but I do love them! <3 I do though find they need a fair bit of plotting to get off the ground, so I won’t usually commit to one without a good deal of plotting to figure out settings and soforth first. I also won’t do a handful of AUs; no murder verses, nothing designed solely around being toxic/traumatizing or existing just to be toxic...  No thank you.

Crossovers | I  don’t do crossovers (specify reason if you’d like) | I’m selective with  crossovers (specify reason if you’d like) | I love crossovers! |

*While I’m trying to keep this blog as FF related as I can (with a touch of YGO <3), I rarely mind crossovers! However, I do ask that crossovers don’t require me to 100% drop my muse’s background/history/etc to pull off - Part of the fun of a crossover is seeing how series A fits into the world of Series B, and taking away one of them entirely kind of defeats the purpose. These are another thing I kindda prefer to plan and plot ahead of time so everyone’s on the same page, rather than just jump right in.

[riyuyami]

Since I’m not letting this DW au fall flat nor am I letting my sudden urge to make ygo content vanish from lack of producing content, here’s a drabble!

Summery: Yugi just wants to leave work for the evening, but a quick chore is delaying that.

Only, he wished that was what it was, not these scary plastic people! At least a guy in a leather jacket is there to help him, right?

Right?

Warning: spoilers for those who having not seen the first episode of the new Doctor Who series, Rose. Yami Yugi from season zero/early manga is meant to be the Ninth Doctor, tho with shorter hair without the red tips, he has to look a bit different from Yugi, but he still keeps some of the leather haha. 

On with the fic!

--

Yugi couldn’t find the electrician anywhere, making this task practically pointless!

He should have just left the money bag somewhere the man would be able to find it with ease so Yugi’d get home. It’s been a long shift, and he had spent the day out and about, including a lunch date with Joey! He deserved to go home and relax at the estates with his mom.

The young man paused, having heard something in the empty maintenance hallway. At least... he hoped it was empty. 

There was a sudden bang on a door nearby and Yugi jumped, realizing that was his exit door out of here! He rushed past some mannequins to get to the door, trying to open them, but to no luck. The doors were locked! There was a sound behind him, and Yugi turned, trying to see who or what made it.

“Is there someone knocking about?” He called out, only seeing the mannequins. Carefully, he stepped down the hall, looking around. “Who is it?” He asked, never noticing that he was being watched.

Until he turned around at the sound of a strange creaking.

Staring in confusion, Yugi watched as a mannequin started to slowly lean forward, then stepped out into the hall in front of the boy. Behind the plastic thing, Yugi watched with wide eyes as other display models started to do the same as the first, moving towards him with awkward steps.

“Uh... y-you got me, very funny.” He said to the figure, this had to be a joke, right? Plastic models can’t just come to life. “I’ve got the joke! Who’s idea is this? Is it Derek’s? Is it?”

Yugi was beginning to panic, backing away as the mannequins continued to step closer and closer.

“Derek, is this you?” Yugi asked, turning around to find another plastic model moving behind him. He gasped, moving away, but they just kept growing in numbers, were all of them alive!? This had to be a prank, it just had to be!

He moved away, trying to find an exit, only to be backed up and suddenly surrounded! The mannequins lifted their arms, readying to strike, and Yugi shut his eyes, fearing what comes next.

Until a hand, a warm, flesh-and-blood hand, grabbed his own.

Turning, Yugi stared at the man to his left, dressed in leather with black and blond hair.

“Run.” He said, and Yugi was yanked, moving out of the way of the attack, that sliced right through a steam pipe!

The stranger pulled Yugi along, through a pair of doors, away from the plastic models. However, they seemed to have picked up speed and were keeping a close distance behind the pair as they ran down another hallway.

They continued to run through doors and halls, avoiding more of the strange figures, until the stranger found the service elevator. The doors opened quickly and Yugi was pushed inside, the stranger following quickly just as a fake arm shoved itself through the closing doors.

The man in the leather jacket struggled with the arm as it tried to grab at him, until it came off with a nearly-comical pop! The doors shut and they were left alone.

“You pulled his arm off.” Yugi spoke, blinking.

“Yep.” Said the other man, tossing the arm at Yugi, who just barely caught it. “Plastic.”

“Very clever, nice trick.” Yugi huffed, looking at the man suspiciously. “Who were they then, students? This a student thing or what?”

“Who could they be students?”

“I don’t know.”

The man in leather raised an eyebrow, crossing his arms. “Well, you said it, why students.”

Yugi frowned, giving a shrug as he still held that stupid arm in his hands. “Cause... to get that many people dressed up and being silly, they gotta be students.”

He turned, smiling, giving a nod. “That makes sense. Well done.”

“Thanks.”

“They’re not students.”

The younger of the two rolled his eyes. “Well, whoever they are, when Wilson finds them, he’s gonna call the police.”

The man looked a little confused. “Who’s Wilson?”

“Chief electrician.”

“Wilson’s dead.” Came the reply just as the elevator doors opened and the man stepped out, leaving Yugi stunned at how casual that was just said. 

He snapped out of it quickly. “That’s not funny, that’s sick!” 

Yugi was suddenly stopped by the stranger, telling him to mind his eyes as he turned around and focused a strange looking pen at the elevator buttons on the wall. It made a curious sound, glowing a bright blue, before the buttons popped and sparked brightly.

The man moved away, Yugi left stunned and annoyed this time. “Well, who are you then!?” He demanded. “Who’s that locked down there!? I said, who are they!?” He called out as he chased after the retreating weirdo.

“They’re made of plastic.” The other man replied as they continued onward. “Living plastic creatures that are being controlled by a relay device on the roof! Which would be a great big problem if I didn’t have...”

He came to a stop in front of a set of doors, suddenly wiping out a strange device that was beeping, a bomb. “This!” He said, sounding a bit prideful about it.

“So!” He turned to go up a small flight of steps to get to the doors. “I’m gonna go upstairs, and blow it up! And I might will die in the process, but don’t worry about me. No, you go on, go have your lovely beans on toast!” He pushed Yugi through the doors as he spoke.

“Don’t tell anyone about this,” He continued, “cause if you do, you’ll get them killed.” With that, he shut the door, leaving Yugi confused.

The door suddenly opened up once more, and the stranger leaned out. “I’m the Doctor, by the way. What’s your name?”

Yugi blinked. “Yugi.” 

“Nice to meet you, Yugi!” The stranger, the Doctor, smiled brightly. “Run for your life!” 

He slammed the door shut again, leaving Yugi to his own devices. Which was pretty much to do exactly as the Doctor said, run! 

He had been lead outside and he made a break for it, getting away from the building as quickly as he could. Once he was a distance away, he walked carefully, making sure that those plastic things weren’t following him. He crossed the street, away from his work place, turning around just in time to see the roof of the building explode! 

People were panicking, running away, screaming from the explosion, and Yugi made a move to get back to his home before anything else crazy happened.

All the while, he still carried the plastic arm with him.

TBC

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I might do a second part, where the Doctor shows up at the Powell Estate where Yugi lives. Yes, I know I probably should set this in Japan, but honestly? Putting this in England like the original show is a lot more fun, haha. And also, Doctor Who is very British, so it’s hard to just change up a lot of elements because nearly every episode centered on Earth is in the UK.

Also, I had to copy this scene from a youtube video with no subtitles so I might have gotten some of the dialogue wrong. 

And yes, this is tagged puzzleshipping because if any of you know the ship ninerose (or even tenrose), you know why.

Thanks for reading! I’m open to drabble suggestions for this au! :D 

[tcheschirewrites]

2, 6, 13 💃

Thank you for the ask! You always pick such good combos.

2.       Is there a least favorite character or title you dislike writing for?

Oof, tough call. I don’t really have specific examples, because I tend to take each writing project as its own thing, and research accordingly. I usually dislike writing for characters I don’t understand, or titles where I don’t understand the rules of the universe. If I’m very new in a fandom, I freak myself out sometimes and I get obsessive about how everything works and “oh has this been done in canon, and how was it done”. I bog myself down by trying to find loopholes in all of my ideas because it’s a big brand new world and I’m scared of doing something Wrong.

For characters, honestly, even if I don’t like the character or am neutral to the character, I’m usually still able to write them pretty easily as long as I can get a feel for where their head’s at. For example, Pegasus is my least favorite YGO character, but I’m confident I could write a mean Pegasus. Same thing for Overhaul, and you know how I feel about Overhaul. I understand them (which is why I dislike them), so I could write them.

If I’m writing a character (or fandom) for the first time, though, I’ll usually do, like. Drills, almost, until I get a better feel for them, specifically to avoid this kind of discomfort.

6.       What would you say your strongest genre to write for is?

Angst, probably. I don’t talk much about it, but I’m familiar with a lot of the ways to make a person hurt, and with a lot of the ways that people respond to being hurt. Also, I have more practice in angst than anything else, since it was predominantly what I wrote when I first entered fandom as a kid. I’ve broadened my horizons a bit since then, but angst will always come easiest and linger most intensely.

13.   What’s one thing you like about your blog?

For all of my sideblogs, I like that they all have matching Kaiba-isms. lmao Writing is “Dweeb Patrol”, drawing is “Dork Fest”, and imagines is “Nerd Herd”. Even if I someday slide out of the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom (which would take a very long time, since as you know I just started another rewatch), I’d keep those. Aside of that, this blog and my main are kinda messy lmao

(Ask The Writer Game!)

[higuchimon]

[fanfic] Not A Good Job

He slipped in through the window, sneering at how easy this was.  For all that this Haou had a monstrous reputation as a duelist, he didn't seem very aware of how to keep unwanted guests from entering his home.

Snowdun kept his tail tucked close to himself, ears perked and nose drawing in air, ready to bolt at the first sign of trouble.  But so far, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.  He could tell that there were spirits in the area, but this was the castle of a warlord.  Spirits were all over the place.

So carefully he moved forward, finding the areas that would leave no trace of his passing.  He passed rooms where people talked to one another about whatever the servants of Haou spoke about, none of them noticing anything as he did so.  He sneered to himself again; this would probably be the easiest gig that he'd pulled off in his entire life.

Somewhere around here, he knew, would be Haou's treasure room.  He didn't know what sort of treasure it was, but he knew one thing - Haou was a king, a mighty warlord who'd ruled this land for quite some time now, and that meant he had treasure gathered somewhere.  Treasure that Snowdun would identify, decide if it was worth his efforts, and then return to take away.

This wasn't even close to the first time that he'd done this.  Snowdun enjoyed going around to whatever fortresses he could find, scoping out their most valuable treasures, and taking them away to sell for money.  He'd done it to Brron several times; the Mad King hadn't even noticed.  There were other as well that he'd dealt with over the years. 

Though he wasn't ever going to try sneaking into the Fallen Angel fortress ever again.  He wasn't even certain which one of them had caught him, but he'd seen the look in the eyes of Fallen Angel Lucifer, and he never wanted to see that ever again.

He shook his head to dismiss the memory and focused on what he was doing now.  Where would Haou keep his treasures?  The most sensible place would be down below, where most people would never be able to get to.  Carefully he flicked down there, bypassing guards and warriors alike, sometimes having to wait in hidden alcoves for half an hour or more at the time.  He found himself quite grateful that he didn't have anywhere else to be.  Not to mention that he'd neither eaten nor drunk before coming here.  The last thing he would have wanted in this situation was to have a sudden call of nature and not know where the proper area was!

But slowly he made his way downward.  He listened to those he passed to determine if any of them said anything that might be useful.  Once he stopped, concealed by a fine tapestry, and paid strict attention to the conversation.

"Did you pick up anything interesting?"

Snowdun resisted the urge to peer from behind the tapestry and see who it was that spoke.  These voices weren't familiar, but anything could provide him with information.

"A few things."  This voice whispered of flame and burning death.  Snowdun flinched briefly at the sound. He'd never been fond of fire.  He closed his eyes, trying to ignore that and focus just on the words.  "I put them in my hoard."

Hoard.  Snowdun licked his lips.  Hoards were treasure.  Now all he needed was a way to get to the hoard.  But - that could also mean - he had to look.

Slowly he peeked out, keeping himself as concealed as he could while still seeing what was going on.  That wasn't easy but he did have a lot of experience. It mostly involved staying very still, since movement attracted attention.

Two monsters stood there chatting with one another.  One he recognized as Skull Bishop - one of Haou's chief servants, his Death Duelists.  Snowdun had made a point of ensuring he knew what all five of those, and the two or three others who were known to be close to Haou, looked like.  At least this wasn't Snoww, Magician of Dark World or Freed the Dark General. 

The other one, however, was even more terrifying to him.  He bit back a whimper of fear at the sight of Dark Blaze Dragon, a creature of pure flame.  It hovered above the floor, tail twined about itself, voice hissing with the flames that composed it.  Snowdun shivered; he'd never robbed a dragon's hoard before, let alone a dragon of fire.

Never robbed a dragon's hoard before.  He considered that carefully, then slowly smiled to himself.  He didn't know any other thieves who'd done that either.  While robbing Haou would be impressive and worth a great deal, robbing a dragon's hoard would be even more so.  And if he could do both?  They would sing of his exploits forever.

He kept himself back behind the tapestry, listening harder.  There had to be a hint of where the treasure would be.  Did Dark Blaze Dragon keep their hoard in the castle or did they have somewhere else to store their treasures?  What were they even doing here?  Did they guard Haou's treasure?

"Haou-sama said I could keep it,"  the fiery dragon purred, tail moving back and forth casually.  "He has no use for it."

"That doesn't surprise me."  Skull Bishop agreed.  "Are you going to attend dinner tonight?"

The flaming tail shifted back and forth, possibly in some form of negation given the following words.  "I would prefer to hunt for my dinner tonight.  I've caught the scent of something interesting and I wish to track it down."

Snowdun winced.  He did so hope that it wasn't him the dragon hunted.  He thought he could hide enough - he was very good at that - but being chased never set well with him. 

The two of them bid farewell and departed, each in a different direction, neither of which were near Snowdun.  He leaned his head against the cool flagstones and pondered his options.  Tracking Dark Blaze Dragon would probably lead him to the dragon's hoard or maybe even Haou's treasure.  Following Skull Bishop might not award such treasures. But continuing downward stood both a chance of finding the loot and doing so without being caught.  If he found nothing, then he could take another chance at a later time.

Once he was certain that no one else was out there, he moved onward, looking for a way to the lower regions.  He headed down a row of stairs, through another corridor or two, then more stairs.  This wasn't the first time he'd had to go so far down to find treasure but by the time he spied a wide set of double doors, reinforced with steel, but with no guards outside of it, he looked forward to carrying as much out of here as he could right now.  He had an enchanted bag with him that he'd intended to use to gather a sample of the treasure to carry back and ask his contacts how much they were worth before going back to take the rest of it.

Now he would pick everything up that wasn't nailed down.  Haou could and probably would take more from wherever he got this.  He didn't need all of it.  He didn't need any of it.  He controlled his minions through absolute terror.  They didn't get paychecks. 

Snowdun waited behind a pillar, watching and sniffing.  He could still smell hints of fire here, so Dark Blaze Dragon probably came down here a lot.  This might even be his hoard after all.  It wasn't labeled; it could be anything.  Slowly finally Snowdun moved forward and rested his fingers against the door.  It didn't seem locked.

In retrospect, that should have sent him fleeing as fast as he could go.  But at the moment he pushed the door in and entered, still trying to keep himself aware and yet in awe at what he saw.

Treasure chests everywhere.  Each one sealed and locked, but he was a thief.  It was what he was, a Burglar.  He knew treasure when he saw it, and he knew that these would bring him wealth beyond his wildest dreams, before or after he sold it all.  He whisked out his bag and started to drag it over the nearest chest.

One by one each chest ended up in the bag.  Snowdun stopped paying attention to what else happened in the room as he worked on clearing it out.  Hours must have passed before he finally turned back to the door, ready to leave.  He'd done a very good job.  There wasn't a single chest or random coin or jewel left.  The last item he held and admired, a glorious golden goblet, set with diamonds and rubies.  Quite gaudy and probably worthless to drink out of, but Snowdun liked it. 

But when he raised his head, ready to slip out, he stood shocked.  There in the door stood those two same ones from before - Skull Bishop and Dark Blaze Dragon.  Snowdun growled low.  This wasn't going to be a good night.

"I told you that I smelled a thief,"  Dark Blaze Dragon declared, tail lashing back and forth, setting small bits of dust on fire as they did.  "A Burglar, in fact."  A tongue of flame licked at their jowls.  "Dinner."

Skull Bishop chuckled, regarding Snowdun as if he were some sort of dirt beneath his feet.  He fingered his great sword.  "You were right indeed.  Now, thief, set the bag down and I might consider requesting Haou-sama to spare your life."

Snowdun shifted, gripping harder onto the bag.  He'd taken this all - he wasn't going to give it up.  "Why would I do that?  I'm not hurting anyone!"

"You're attempting to take what's mine,"  Dark Blaze Dragon hissed, tail flashing harder, tiny bits of flame falling from their claws.  "And I will not allow that.  Haou-sama has assigned me to guard this place and I am free to devour any who enter here without permission."

Snowdun backed off, clutching the bag and goblet close to himself.  He didn't have any spare hands to defend himself and he didn't see any other ways out of here.  Skull Bishop stalked forward, boots clicking on the floor.

"If you choose not to surrender what you've stolen, then my companion will roast you.  Surrender the items and you might be spared.  Haou could find a use for you."

That didn't encourage Snowdun at all.  He shook his head. "There's nothing that I would want to do for Haou!"  He judged the distance between the two of them and darted forward, intent on sliding between them and pelting his way up the stairs.  He would figure out what to do after that - but finding the nearest window and jumping out of it remained one of his favorite plans.  Most people didn't expect that and while they stood around in shock, he could get to safety.

He was a rat, after all.  Hiding in plain sight was one of his specialties.

He'd scarcely begun to slide between them before Skull Bishop's heavy sword slashed down onto him, knocking him to one side and sending that goblet skittering across the floor and out of sight.  Only the fact it was the flat of the blade saved his arm from having been taken off.  Snowdun skittered to one side, uncomfortably aware of how close he was to Dark Blaze Dragon, especially when one fiery claw caught onto the back of his shirt.

"Fleeing isn't an option,"  the flame dragon hissed.  "Especially not when you carry what isn't yours with you."  A claw of flame wrenched the bag away from him, then the creature sniffed even more at him. "He has more treasure on his person,"  Dark Blaze Dragon reported.  "Search him."

Snowdun wanted to get out of there.  But Dark Blaze Dragon shoved him towards Skull Bishop, who wrapped one powerful hand around his throat, choking his air off.  The rat creature struggled and squeaked, tail lashing furiously, his metallic claw trying to grab hold of Skull Bishop's hand and get it off of him, but to no avail.  If he'd been able to get a grip, it might have been different.

Coldly and clinically, Skull Bishop searched him, pinning him up against the wall with one hand.  One by one he pulled out other bags that Snowdun had with him, dropping them with small metallic clinks onto the ground.  He shook his head.

"I'd heard rumors of a skilled thief.  You might be useful indeed to Haou-sama.  This is your last chance.  Agree to serve my master or face the consequences of refusal."

Snowdun twitched harder and harder, tail lashing hard against the cold stone, trying not to look too often at the dragon and how the dragon kept staring at him, as if he had a sign over his head reading "good food here".  He wasn't doing a very good job of it.  "What would he want me to do?"  If he could buy just time enough to escape that would be good enough.  He had no intentions whatsoever of doing anything that over-arrogant human wanted him to do. 

"You are skilled in getting in and out of places without being seen.  You can go to where people resist Haou and worm your way into a position to open gates for our army.  In return, you would be allowed to live."  Skull Bishop informed him.

Snowdun snorted as harshly as he could.  Speaking wasn't his greatest strength, especially not not when he had only what air he could get in through Skull Bishop's grip on his neck.  But he tried his best to appear unaffected - and knew he still wasn't doing a good job of this.

"Be his little run ahead dog?  Why would I do that?"  Every word was one more moment that he had to live.  Each moment he lived was one more moment to find a way out of here.  He thought he saw one, slim as it might be, but he had to walk this carefully. He fought to keep away a moan of fear just at the thought of Haou and having to do anything that he said.

Skull Bishop's lips performed a movement that in someone else might have been considered a smile.  Snowdun wasn't so certain about it.  He thought it might mean the same thing.  Or at least be intended to.

"Because if you don't, then you're going to be killed.  You won't even be allowed the honor of a duel - if you even know how."

Snowdun had to admit to himself that he didn't know how.  He'd never gone to the effort to learn, not when thievery came so much easier to him.  He twitched harder, then sank back against the wall, relinquishing all efforts to get away.

"Do I really have a choice?"  He sagged back, hoping this would allow him some air if nothing else.  At least he wasn't yet to the point of not being able to speak at all.  Though he didn't doubt Skull Bishop would get him there with little effort.

Dark Blaze Dragon's tail swished ever so lightly.  Tiny bits of trash on the floor flared up in its wake.  "You can choose to serve Haou - or you can choose to be my dinner.  I can tell you which one I would prefer."

Skull Bishop shifted his grip so that Snowdun could actually breath but wasn't touching the floor at all.  "I'll introduce you to Haou-sama."

Snowdun found himself carried along like a child in a sack.  His own sacks were taken by Dark Blaze Dragon into the vault and the last he ever saw of them included the dragon tearing open the bags and starting to sort out the treasure as it tumbled out in a waterfall of silver and gold with thousands of sparkles of gemstones.  He wished that he would have the chance to come get it all again.

But he told himself over and over as he was dragged up the stairs he'd worked his way down so carefully that even if he had to open the way for Haou's army, that also meant that he could open the way for anyone who might want to enter into Haou's castle.

If he were stupid enough to trust a Burglar, then Haou deserved whatever he got.

The End

Notes: I do have plans for a sequel. One day. But not today. Also, I love the Death Duelists and I wish we’d seen more of them. Well, that’s what fanfic is here for!

[cycleoffates]

hello hello again! ✩

hi everyone, long time no see! it’s been well over 2 years since i touched this account. here i am finding myself touching it again. so you’re probably wondering, “wow Kura, where have you been! what’s cooking!”

i’ve been super (sorta) busy over the past couple of years! hell the last i remember logging in here, i was still in college!!! i actually am still in college and it’s been a struggling 6 years! a lot of stuff, good and bad, happened over those 6 years but for the first time in like, ever, am i actually giving myself a break from it (if you don’t count transferring as a break). i’ve mostly been active on twitter for the most part. 

“ok so why are you back here????”

for a few reasons, actually! one of which is that sometimes once in a while i think about this site and like. the nostalgia! i made a lot of friends on this site before and even tho some of them have migrated off of here i just think about how i used to enjoy the community here. i feel like it’s different now but sometimes a b just misses tumblr’s golden age.

another is because of twitter and instagram’s horrific upload quality. like holy shit is it bad. sometimes it looks fine but then like other times it so 😔 tumblr’s never let me down with quality as far as i can remember and god if i know if that’s changed (on a second note THIS SITE FEELS SO ALIEN TO ME THERE’S A LOTTA CHANGES IN SMALL WAYS). i used to be active on my ygo art blog but like, i want to repurpose this blog to be like an art blog(second try) while having fun on the side. boy am i debating on uploading all the art i’ve done in the past 6 years here but lord knows i don’t want to go through all that trouble so expect me uploading some ‘recent’ art and retweeting shite from my ygo one.

tl;dr (do ppl still say that?????) i wanna kickstart this again!!!! or at least try to! and i’m also gonna remake my faq so y’all know whats up cos i’m sure some of you guys have questions on some ol’ projects of mine. QuQ) i’ve got some art queue’d up and am gonna put up more, also apologies ahead of time, my non-illustrations will be uploaded randomly!

but yeah, sorry this got long! and thanks for reading <3