#TPOFATGIF

[gallusrostromegalus]

"The Average Kaibacorp Employee buys 200 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies every spring" factiod is just a statistical error. The average kaibacorp employee buys 2-3 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies per year, because they're hella good. Seto "Thin Mints Georg" Kaiba, who is a teenager with growing pains, billions of dollars and no impulse control so he buys 10,000 boxes every spring, is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted.

[wolvesandcomputers]

The Egyptian God Thoth admiring the ass of a man stuck in a hole in a wall.

More fan art for “The Power Of Friendship (And This Gun I Found)” because what else could something like this possibly be from?

This is the same man being discussed in this picture:

[cesium-sheep]

@gallusrostromegalus introduced a new Little Guy in the new chapter of tpofatgif and I had to draw it.

[humunanunga]

TPOFATGIF is right, actually, and makes lots of points. Dozens of cosmic-brained takes per chapter. Definitely one of the fanfics ever.

[precise-prismatic-mess]

Okay, so @gallusrostromegalus has a great Yugioh fic, (which I am reading despite that not even being a franchise I've consumed, it's that incredible) called "The Power of Friendship and This Gun I Found!"

In it, Anubis speculates that Téa would have a mystery cult if she'd lived in ancient Egypt, and later Téa goes on a rant about how fear is a gift, and how it's intoxicating, and, well. . .

I present Our Divine Lady of Sublime Terror.

I don't know, I just had to draw it.

[twoheadedoddity]

a very serious and completely intimidating rival

(featuring the beasts from @gallusrostromegalus ‘s Yugioh Fanfiction Extended Universe)

[cat-penguin-anon]

realized I could put this somewhere REASONABLE now!

Fanart for @gallusrostromegalus 's YGO fic (which is HILARIOUS btw. Literally my favorite fic)! Even if you dont know YGO, go read it. It's amazing.

[ajaneofmanytalents]

Aye, fair enough.

@gallusrostromegalus Genuine thanks for the polite reminder to pause my hyperfocus! It's a good story so far, and it's true I don't need to know anything about Yugioh to enjoy it :)

[gallusdrawseverything]

Episode 9: Spooky Scary Skeletons (In The Closet)

[shitpostingkats]

Reading TPOFATGIF before any other yugioh fic really did a number on my Author Brain. Be in the middle of writing a scene and then suddenly WHAM intense urge to meticulously plot the entire cosmology and dimensional structure ad nauseating length.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Do mermaids exist in tpof?

There's exactly one "Classic" Mermaid. A pregnant woman on the west coast of Ireland was afflicted by a curse where she'd give birth to a Lingcod instead of a human baby, but since she was carrying twins, the curse was split between them. One sister has a human head, chest and abdomen, and from her pelvic girdle on she has the powerful and beautiful tail of a Blue Lingcod. She's the current record holder for long-distance swimming, starred in several movies and holds multiple modelling contracts- but she's always been notably jealous of her sister, who has the head and chest of a Lingcod but the pelvis and legs of a human and (the source of her sister's ire) a devoted husband.

There's a few things that European sailors could have mistaken for human women while they were on long voyages, dying of syphilis and scurvy too- Dugong and Dolphins both exist in great numbers in TPOFATGIF, along with some very large Mimic Octopodes. But the most likely, or at least, most startling candidate is a creature only described in 1996- Ziphiius andersoni, or "Anderson's Beaked Whale", after the first ...semi-credible witness.

Ziphidae is a family of deep-diving whales whales known almost entirely by beached corpses, and Z. andersoni holds the peculiar title of the most and least seen member of the family. No body has ever been found to examine, but the animal is (apparently) the subject of many amateur sightings.

Like most Beaked Whales, Z. andersoni is about 13 feet long, and shaped like an extremely hydrodynamic sweet potato- a sharply tapered head, tubular body with small pectoral fins and a minimal dorsal fin, and an similarly sharply tapered tail with small fins, and a mouth with only two teeth- a pair of overdeveloped lower canine teeth that form a pair of tusks. Unlike most marine life, Z. andersoni has reverse Cryptic camouflage- where most marine animals are darkly colored on the dorsal side and pale beneath to hide from predators in the open water, Z. andersoni has a large, bright white pattern on it's back that starts at the head and runs the length of it's spine and across the tail fin, and includes both pectoral and pelvic saddle patches. between the whale's darkened and unusually anterior blowholes and the gloom of the twilight waters they inhabit, Z. andersoni's peculiar markings bear a STARTLING resemblance to a human woman with a piscene tail.

The species is named after the famed Fairy Tale Author, Hans Christen Anderson, who in 1835 saw what he described as a "Mermaid" swimming near the surface of the North Sea coast near Hanstholm, Denmark, when out in a rowboat with a cousin on a summer holiday. The Mermaid was "Ghostly pale, with large, dark eyes that stared up at us as she passed. She circled the boat thrice, seemingly regarding us with sadness, before she vanished into a cloud of sea-foam and we could not find her again." This encounter inspired him to write The Little Mermaid the following year. Despite his and his cousin's insistence that the event took place exactly as described, it was largely written off by the general public, and Anderson was discouraged from sharing it by his publisher.

In 1996, a family had a similar experience while Kayaking, save that this time the encounter took place in the sunny clear waters off Baja, Nihofornia, and the family had a video camera. A juvenile Z. andersoni approached them, circled the family a few times and even hung out under them for almost 12 minutes. This video proof sparked international interest, with dozens of other pictures, videos and oral accounts coming forward about encounters with these strangely friendly yet elusive creatures.

Most Recently, an exceptional individual, thought to be an old bull from it's size (i and scarring was seen following underwater welders as they repaired an underwater naval installation, picking off the curious squid that came to investigate the lights. The Naval Engineers have nicknamed the animal "The Duke", short for "Ducolax" on account of one of the engineers realizing there was 16-foot long, multi-ton carnivore floating just over his shoulder and (understandably) shitting himself.

[wolvesandcomputers]

I have been enjoying reading "The Power of Friendship and This Gun I Found" very much. One of my favorite characters so far is the alleged dog. Here he is with a bottle of something flammable wrapped in a rag.

[catrose13]

Chapter 4 A Very Particular Set of Skills... "Learning things whether you want to or not" is my favourite of this chapters "Brought to You By" The chapter art also continues to be awesome

Mokuba is very unimpressed with Pegasus' hostage keeping skills

"in his Barbarous rage" yikes, he was feral enough without Barbarous rage

What's an evil lair without a bottomless pit?

..."Testicular-trauma based revenge" yikes, Mokuba possibly you should avoid the guards

He thanks the Blue-Eyes-White-Dragon topiary bush, aw

Lol Pegasus you underestimated Mokuba

...Joey...are you...breaking the Fourth Wall? Are you allowed to do that?

Poor Yugi, clowns can be very disturbing. Téa's ready to throw down, no clowns gonna touch her friends

Honestly I don't think the foxes need training to steal from people

Heh using facts you learnt an hour ago to make your point, nice one Joey

Ah Joeys Mom returns once more to prove how bad a parent she is

"Lost" can have so many connotations

...Joey this is the second time you've touched upon the Fourth Wall is there something you'd like to tell us?

So many ocean facts. I am definitely learning

Wow dolphins are assholes

Yugi...how many crimes are you going to encourage during this tournament?

Poor naive Yami "Oh I thought this would be because of the Shadow Game, glad we're only messing with his money" "No we're definitely gonna fuck him up" paraphrased

Mako knows so many "mad reliable people"

The casual shade thrown at the British museum

Pegasus, the joke wasn't funny to begin with

...I thought ketamine was a vet thing, can it be prescribed to humans?...Google says it can good to know

Kemo you really should have listened to your Grandma

Pegasus you're still talking in Capital Letters and it's less Ominous than you think and a lot more... concerning

...Cornered Rabid Mongoose, I can see why the Parasite would want to avoid that outcome

Bakura is really not a fan of this or any of the Parasites adventures, and yet he finds ways to make the most of it.

Joey...again with the Fourth Wall

Secrets age like melons because aged milk can still be cheese. Yami just spilling truths into the world

Poor Yami, so confused, "Where are all these people coming from? And why do they hate you?"

"Spiritual Appendectomy With A Chainsaw" Welp that's one way to explain what they did to Kaiba

Ohp Joeys measuring the shoulder height, he's noticing the differences!!

...Tristan I think it's a bit late to be shielding Mokuba's innocence

Sweet mercy Téa is beating the crud outta those guys

Yikes, No Kemo the Kids are Not Alright

Oh Yami is now well ready to mess Pegasus up, ya done fucked up

"Pegasus’ idea of Benevolence is probably several war crimes in a cartoon trench coat" Welp you're not wrong Marik

Hodgekiss I do not think he meant you when complimenting his work force

The Russians are not Twins Marik, they are really not Twins

Oof Hodgekiss

Yugi really is the more feral of the two of them isn't he?

Duels as a Ritual, is actually really interesting, especially in the context of Ancient Egypt and dispute solutions

...The Hippo

He makes sure to strictly obey the Rules of the Ritual to avoid Hippos

Dammit Joey stop poking the Fourth Wall...I think I'm going to start counting

Oh no you hit Yugi's Berserk Button

"Speak not to me of this 'Febreeze'" Brilliant, just wonderful

Oh no Grandpa this is what happens when you endear yourself to the Gods

Grandpa...you are denying the existence of Gods to the face of a God...

...The Hippos again... Why does this God want to continue being able to fight Hippos?

"Beloved" Gramps... Is there something you need to tell us?

Yugi is definitely not a fan of the Abomination...Boys speaking in Capitals...

Lol cold as burning anger and Yugi still has time to throw shade on Yami

Joey and the others are unaware of Mokuba's recent Finger biting adventures

Tristan. Tristan Did you just give Mokuba what I think you just gave Mokuba? Tristan the last thing this feral child needs is a gun. You better not have just given him a gun. Tristan!

Intense Battle Focus....Cheerful phone call... Poor Yami bugs freak me out too

Noot-Noot

Joey has a spare tea pot just incase they use the first one to destroy a Ghostly Abomination?

Heh Anti-Ghost-Teapot-Grenade

Pegasus should really know better than to screw around with the rules of a shadow game

No Croquet they did not give you shrooms, Yami is invoking Great Powers

Hello Anubis...Goodbye Goons

Kaiba could possibly stand to expand on his decorating scheme

"tortured into submission" is that what we're calling Pegasus' love of terrible cartoons?

"Divine Guidance"? What God is guiding you Seto?

He's channelling Salmon...an interesting choice

How expensive are these plushies? And why is it so big?

Yeah pants are probably a good idea right about now

[humunanunga]

You know, there's a few things I coulda expected myself drawing from a particularly endearing fic or another......... this sure as hell didn't make it on that bingo card, and yet here I am. Because you can’t tell me this isn’t exactly how chapter eight of @gallusrostromegalus‘s The Power of Friendship (And This Gun I Found!) went.

[reginacardsong]

I don't care how much you know or don't know about yugioh, go read this fanfic. do it. now. (or well, when you have an hour)

it's got the best comedy writing i've read in years if not ever, and I just got finished with terry pratchett's "going postal". the characters all have such distinct voices, personalities and backgrounds. it's got 🏳️‍⚧️ and 🏳️‍🌈!

[fic-recs-for-all]

Alright so it’s been a while but I’m back with another fanfic!

Do you love chaos? Do you love crack treated seriously and absolutely batshit kids? Do you adore chaos? (Cannot emphasise enough there is a shit tonne of chaos in here)

Then this is the fic for you - it’s one of my all time favourites, despite the fact that I know nothing about yu-gi-oh. There are many people reading this fandom blind - please don’t yet the unfamiliar fandom put you off.

The Power Of Friendship (And This Gun I Found!) is by @gallusrostromegalus, has 10 chapters, 213,853 words so far, has a mature rating and is a WIP.

The summary is:

Honestly, Mokuba deserves to have a gun. And everyone else deserves to go absolutely Off The Fucking Rails.

YuGiOh, but they're all appropriately feral little gremlins. Kind of a Reconciliation of the 4Kids Dub and the Horror-Comedy Manga, but mostly me wildly overthinking the setting and deciding to lean into the weirdness.

Trigger warnings for gore, grievous bodily harm, implied/referenced sexual assault and… everything you would expect from the summary really.

This fic has polyamory, teenagers being feral gremlins, the best worldbuilding you’ve seen in a while -a seriously amazing full and wacky world-, is demented and is hilarious.

If chaos is your sense of of humour in a nutshell I unreservedly recommend this fix - it’s one of my reward myself and relax fics.

Kudos to the author for writing an amazing work, and all the worldbuilding they do on their blog (if you love the fic go check out the blog - they always write like that, it’s hilarious)!