#grim freakin reaper of a guy

[aquelondungeonmaster]

thinking about how for one glorious, horrible session of third life, skizzleman was basically the grim freakin reaper.

thinking about how in session 7, he got eight whole seconds into his episode before declaring that he had to kill somebody today, that today someone would die.

and he did kill somebody.  two somebodies.  two red lives.

y’know skizz is the only life series member to have ONLY gotten permakills?  everyone else has gotten at least one kill on someone other than a red life.

thing about it is, skizz was very, very bloodthirsty that episode, but despite that bloodlust, he actually arguably spared as many as he slew.  after jimmy’s death, scar was still relatively cornered in that same box, and while the rest of the red army did tell him that it was the banner or death, skizz was the one to rephrase that to “give up the banner and you get to live”, which was an opportunity that scar took to change the situation from Combat (a fight he would lose) to Negotiation (a fight he can, and did, win).  after cleo’s death, he even more explicitly spares bdubs, allows him to go because, unlike cleo, bdubs didn’t attack ren.

it’s not just the murders that make me describe him as the grim freakin reaper, it’s the long-term effects.  obviously the permakills stay permadead for the rest of third life.  but the folks he spared came second and third in duration of being alive, and the guy who won the season was the guy who ultimately killed him.  for one glorious, horrible session, skizz determined who lives and dies, not entirely to his own benefit.

and THEN.  so obviously the permakills stay permadead for the rest of the season.  and cleo’s already technically undead, so uh. bottom text. 

but then there’s jimmy.  the guy whose failed bomb defusal set both himself and skizz to red life, the guy who skizz was hanging out with during scar’s death, the first permadeath of third life and of all other life serieses since.  i could make a pretty convincing argument that jimmy is still feeling the consequences of the arrow skizz put through his him, seeing as uh, he’s still permadying first in life series to this day.  grim freakin reaper.  long-term consequences.

and this is a kind of ridiculous tangent to go off on about someone who is generally just a silly goofy guy who is unflinchingly loyal to his friends, but like, it’s also true.

it’s like. skizz caused the first two permadeaths of third life and then became the third.  we’re all just normal about that?

[3fling]

Tag 9 People You Want To Get To Know Better!

Thank you thank you @iam-jacks-redacted-information for the tag this was super fun and I loved reading your post!!

First Ship: oh babey you know it’s Kyoru of Fruits Basket. That was the first non-children’s-media I ever watched and I was immediately enraptured by them. Idk they still occupy a huge piece of my mind, I’m always thinkin bout them.

Three Ships: seriously you’re gonna limit me to three okay hard mode

-- Well I simply *must* start with Taakitz they were so deeply instrumental to The Way My Brain Is Now and I stand by the fact that they’re simply one of the best relationships I’ve ever seen. Do they only have a very little bit of screentime? Yes. Am I criminally in love with both Taako and Kravitz? Also yes. It’s a mental illness I love them. Something Something the world’s greatest wizard and the world’s most down bad grim reaper-- you can rip them from my cold dead hands.

-- I’d be remiss if I didn’t say BokuAkaKuroKen I’m so weak for the Tokyo OT4 nobody talk to me nobody look at me I love the dynamics, I love the characters, I love how different they all are and how well they work together, and I love Mookie’s art of them *drooling* LISTEN you’re telling me you’re not weak for a crazy professional volleyball player, a tired but handsome manga editor, a pro gamer, and a 6′5″ salary man??? Yeah okay. Sure you’re not.

-- I wanna say soapghost so badly but I have to give my last to Widojest. To you they’re the ship that never was, they’re canon to me though. He’s fire, she’s ice (LITERALLY), he hates himself she loves herself and everyone, he’s red she’s blue -- they’re the perfect foils idk guys. He wrote her an effing book for gods sake. HE CAN’T CALL HER BLUEBERRY AND EXPECT ME TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THEM. Yeah like I said to me they’re canon I am respectfully ignoring the end of the campaign.

Last Song: I’m fairly certain was “Fluids” by Michael Medrano it is SUCH the bisexual anthem idk what else to say you guys  and I don’t know how to link music so you’ll have to look it up on your own but it’s worth the effort I promise it’s got the club vibes it’s got the catchy lyrics it’s got the bisexual disco cowboy singer what more do you want????? 

Last Movie: Glass Onion

I almost never watch movies anymore who has the time but boy and I watched this together while I was recovering from a hospital stay and it was incredible. I love the plot, the cinematography and color design was to die for, costuming had me absolutely *drooling* I could go on and on. If you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend.

Currently Reading: Beartown by Fredrik Backman

“Culture” is an odd word to use about hockey; everyone says it, but no one can explain what it means. All organizations like to boast that they’re building a culture, but when it comes down to it everyone really only cares about one sort: the culture of winning... We love winners, even though they’re very rarely particularly likeable people. They’re almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn’t matter. We forgive them. We like them while they’re winning.

Yeah I’m reading it for the second time in less than a year it’s fine. Idk guys you can just fit *so much* character dynamic, development, and moral quandaries in these little hockey guys and the little hockey town they live in. I can’t recommend Backman’s work enough, especially Beartown, it’s such an important book. 

Currently Consuming: PB frozen hot chocolate from freakin’ DQ

Currently Craving: Not to reinforce a stereotype but it’s cheese

Tag you’re it!!! @fandomsgirl10 @couldjanot @nighttimenoodle @lluvguts @eiry-real @enigmatic-cyborg @thatradicalrobot and anyone else who’d like to do this!

[maguro13-2]

Shattered Hero ~ Origins of the Ink Demon Episode Maka Pt.3 ~

[Carnival - Fumie Kumatani]

Sonic : Ah, man. 2006, this is possibly going to be the worst year ever, and my co-creator that made Phantasy Star and Nights left out to prevent him being blamed by the public. Producer that created the hardest Shinobi game on Playstation 2. I knew that he was gonna do that to me after dealing with that catgirl at the first ds game, which was released on the same days as the Black Arms Invasion.

Tails : Relax, sonic. It's not that bad. Although the Dreamcast era did ended after the Black Arms Invasion therefore the new Sonic game would be the very start of the modern era. Plus, Sega required that the boost system from Heroes has decided to give you to boost freely!

Sonic : Yeah, that's really cool, Tails! I can boost freely! Watch this! *BOOST!*

Tails : Woah!

Knuckles : Hey! My hot dog!

Sonic : *BOOST* Oh, sorry about that. The vendor decided to give you another one.

Knuckles : And I asked for extra mustard, when does boosting became a thing since Heroes and now that the Black Arms Invasion has ended, who's gonna look after the Space Colony ARK after the invasion? Did something happened to Amy's Place that was located in Central City? You know, where the Amy's Room stage is at.

Sonic Oh, that? It got destroyed during the Invasion. Two years, man. Two freakin' years.

Sonic : Now that we finally dealt with eggman and Eggman Ne... (attempts to say "Nega", but stutters to change the subject and determines to say something instead) Eggman Negative in Rush. Yeah! Eggman Negative! That's what I really said about him after dealing with a cat! I'm sure the 06 will be great without--Dodge! (the trio avoids) Hey, who was that just by now!?

[Sonic Speed Riders - Tomonori Sawada, Runblebee]

Jet : So, you must be Sonic the Hedgehog! So surprise that you wouldn't see your face after the Black Arms a year ago. I heard that alien leader has got some daddy issue with Shadow.

Tails : Woah, who is that guy?

Sonic : That's Jet the Hawk. The leader of a group of thieves called the Babylon Rogues. They steal things that are treasures and are bandits capable of theirselves as Pirates. Luckily, this all changed for theirselves and became Extreme Gear specialist! You know Sonic Riders just came out to be part of the 15th anniversary. He maybe have speed, but I have the power to boost! *BOOST!*

Jet : Oh yeah!? Two can play at this game! Storm, Wave! Let's show him who's the fastest thing alive!

Storm : Yes sir!

Wave : With pleasure!

Jet : Onward!

(WHOOSH!)

Tails : Knuckles! We gotta go after them!

(cuts to Sonic running through the streets while racing against Jet)

Jet : So did you heard the news? The Grim Reaper of Mobius has released a girl who had been framed for a crime that she didn't commit.

Sonic : Who's the girl that was mysteriously released?

Jet : Hero of Soul World, Maka Albarn. 14 year old human girl born on the planet Jupiter.

Sonic : Born on Jupiter. What else?

Jet : And some say that she is responsible for wiping out 80 percent of the country's population after a tremendous power she unleashed has created an explosive shockwave of amount of that power called Shattered Resonance, luckily, the masked boy named Makoto Asagiri of the Phantoms of Society have saved her life by calming her down to lower Shattered Resonance.

Sonic : And after that, a second explosive shockwave was occured in it's capital, Tokyo, where a girl named Kimial Diel was teased by people that were killed by her and including her best friend, and then another phantom saves the day. Too bad Death City was so out of character. Or should I say, a city that was the home village of the hero of the ohkuboverse himself, Shinra Kusakabe, aka Mr. Devil. Responsible for creation his son and Soul World, and as well for spreading the "Influence" of his.

Jet : Yeah, right. And it's not like that they dealt with the forces of evil that is exactly a diversion, they weren't created to protect peace, they were created to get the attention of heartless to act like they're the forces of evil. But the true forces of evil is the Shadow Realm.

Sonic : What!? Shadow Realm? That lame concept made up by 4Kids? Tou know, I changed my voice from Ryan Drummond to Jason Griffith voice after Heroes in 2004 and in 2005 during the Black Arms invasion.

Jet : Correction. Shadow Realm maybe a concept, but it's also a world where the Ohkuboverse has became a facade to it's kind, all thanks to this Demon Vibe fella. So the author did falsely led his characters to be the instrument of his son and was an arrogant dickhead. So we don't know what's gonna happen to the Real World is that might be covered in Darkness!

Sonic : You bet!

Jet : Think fast! You should really catch up!

Sonic : You're on!

Tails : Sonic Wait up!

Knuckles : Hey don't leave us hanging!

(on top of the building is Silver watching Sonic and Jet race through his binoculars)

Silver : So we finally know who you are. I finally found him, the Iblis Trigger.

"Meanwhile at the Halberd..."

Medusa Gorgon : I can't go back now. I have to get away from the influence of Shinra Kusakabe. Perhaps that Crona would be pleasing me that our heartless is working perfectly syringing the heartless of original Asura Kusakabe. With our emotions in plan, we can kiss Real World AU goodbye to the Kusakabe Legacy and then our jealously would be over. Shaula, Arachne, come. We have to make our escape into Soul Eater's moon, we will overthrow the Kusakabe Legacy once and for all.

Shaula and Arachne : Yes, sis.

Inky Albarn : What do you think you're planning to do, Gorgon Sisters? Or should I say the hated enemeis of Soul World that goes against the Kusakabe Legacy. Where do you think you're trying to do on destroying the planet just to get away with murder?

Medusa Gorgon!? : (Gasping in shock) Y...You! You're not Maka Albarn! Who are you and what are you doing here!?

Shaula Gorgon : We were just minding our business that's all!

Arachne Gorgon : Yeah! N...Nothing much at least! (sweats nervously) We wouldn't hurt a fly on destroying the Kusakabe Legacy.

Inky Albarn : And what were you attempting on Destroying the Kusakabe Legacy for what?

Medusa Gorgon : Umm...I...I believe that we are planning to coup d'e tat the Kusakabe and the Kasugatani Legacy so that we can end our jealousy once and for all!

Inky Albarn : In an attempt on genocide by creating heartless doppelgangers from yourselves? Nice try, fakers. But it shall be me that will end your jealously, you and your so-called sister did that to witchkind and for taking the royal bloodline which you stole from, you cowards! (walks up to them as the Gorgons back up and cowers in fear)

Medusa Gorgon : Please! Why us! Why me!? All we just wanted was to end our jealousy over the Kusakabe and the Kasugatani! But what kind of family of sorcery is this supposed to happened, cowering in fear by the ones that Gave Crona to life!? You gotta understand us! We just want the Jealously ended! That's all we ever wanted, so we may have created our heartless doppelgangers as decoys so the Kusakabe and filthy teenagers would never suspect our real intentions! You got it all mixed up!

Inky Albarn : Shut your mouth, Heartless Genocider! You and your sisters have did naughty things to Humankind and witchkind, and even of course Demonkind. This is why villains like you are always such a pain in my ass! You creating a sadistic heartless of yourself to attack me so that you would get away of ending your jealously. But I believe that I will be the one that is going to teach you a lesson. You three witches deserve punishment in the slammers. I got a date with a 14-year old girl that looks alike me, and you three got a date with justice!

Medusa Gorgon : Wait! Don't come any closer! I was born to end our jealousy to overthrow the Kusakabe Legacy and of course the Kasugatani! I just want the jealously to end! I have the knowledge for this!

Inky Albarn : Too late! The only knowledge you'll ever find something to love is get you punished and heartless born from within the darkness, shall be perished!

Medusa Gorgon : No! Don't! Please! I beg of you for this! Nooo! We don't deserve this! (yelling) NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

"Ah, Justice! The Sweet taste of victory!"

~ Act 2 : Justice Against Heartless ~

[twst-vampire]

THEY’RE HAPPY TO SEE YOU

i swear i’m not a writer but i think posting oc snippets is kinda fun! kinda wanna get in the groove of doing it more? maybe?

💰ARMA💰

“nah, nah, why are ya dudes movin’ at a grandma speed?! we gots work to do, people!”

toontasma was bustling with activity, students left and right preparing for a good ol’ fashioned event held at ink and paint. arma, of course, overseeing the entire thing. he seemed just the tiniest bit stressed, his tailcoat long since discarded, sleeves rolled, and record-breaking pen clicking as his choice of fidgeting. “ugh, what a nightmare, these guys.” for a second, you can see a scribbly thought bubble of annoyance hovering beside his head.

he pinches the bridge of his nose before looking up and seeing…you, his main squeeze. the original bubble pops, replaced by exclamation points.

“the hell you standin’ over there for, babe? don’t be a stranger!” he beckons you over with a sly grin until your close enough and he snatches you up, in a firm hug.

“i ain’t seen ya in a minute! you avoidin’ me? don’t answer that. happy to see ya.” arma rambles, leaving no room for an answer, anyways.

“sorry, can ya tell i’m freakin’ out? hows about we take a few to catch up over a drink? ah-up-up, and ya can’t refuse. order anythin’ u want! don’t mind the mess….” he talks on, guiding you to the bar by the small of your back. even if for a moment, he wouldn’t mind taking a small breather with you.

toontasma student b rolls his eyes, nudging student a. “so it’s all work, no play for us but he can run off just like that?”

“watch yer mouth! like hell i can!”

🦇RIN🦇

out of nowhere, a rift appears in the NRC courtyard, a ghastly portal now open for anyone to see.

rin steps out of it, letting out a huge yawn. the rift disappears just as quickly as it appeared. “wahh, what a day! ” he complains, his once full-sized scythe now the size of a pencil, being tucked away. being a grim reaper could be sooo exhausting sometimes.

they scan the area, to see who they could bother. they weren’t exactly looking for you but when their eyes land on you of all people, they’ve immediately got this mischievous sparkle in their eye. their tail sways a bit faster now.

“_______~!” he calls out your name, running to give you the strongest hug he can manage, spinning you off the ground. it’s like holding a couple of grapes. “i missed seeing your cute face! i missed you!” putting you down, rin’s own weight doesn’t let up as they lean on you, which easily takes you both to the ground.

“i think we should go on a date right now! ♡ mmm…you’ve got class? boo, you’re gonna pass me up for school work?”

> if you insist on keeping your attendance, they’ll pout but eventually let you go. they can’t believe you would reject them when they’re so cute and awesome. after school, though? they’ll find you again!

> if you’re feeling just as mischievous, expect them to immediately grab your hand to take you somewhere fun!

[maychild]

dear doctor ep 2

i do think ep 2 was a bit better than ep 1 but i still have to remind myself to not get my hopes up that this will turn into a great drama (at the rate it's going, all we can ask for is that it's passable and watchable to a certain extent.)

i do love tua interacting with someone other than the other grim reaper and dr. prakan (NUCH!! i love this blonde lady so freakin' much! mostly i love the brother-sister dynamic between her and our dear doctor)

the show's greatest sin is not having any kind of balance between the comedy and the drama. the show deals with some serious topics like death, how some poor people are driven to doing bad things in desperation, and being an organ donor BUT then u have prakan literally hooking himself up to an EKG machine because he thinks there's something wrong with his heart--because it always beats fast around tua! and i'm just sitting here, going, u idiot. u're supposed to be a brilliant doctor but u dont know the kind of effect handsome guys have on you?!!

also, i get dr. metha's jealous of nuch & prakan's friendship but dude be annoying me very second he's on screen.

i will give the show props for keeping me invested in the emotional scenes (and the mystery of how tua and prakan met before tua became a grim reaper and WHY prakan doesn't seem to remember him).

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh Ep 32 S4: Most Disturbing Kid’s Show Award Goes to This Episode

I often talk about how wonderfully effed up Yugioh is. What a freakin delight, how effed up this kid’s show is, somehow still remaining a Y7 kid’s show, despite everything it tries to do to get pulled off the air.

Y’all this was a filler season and it didn’t even have Bakura in it so...why did it go so edge? Don’t get me wrong, I’m thankful for how many levels of “OK THERE, KID’S SHOW” it was.

But what the hell was that, Yugioh?

Anyway we start off completely normal in this foggy ass graveyard--Halloweens in this season so I’m down for this. Halloween is also...cancelled...this year, so at least I can celebrate it somewhat in a Yugioh episode. Then again, can you imagine how many people would be dressed up as sexy Covid?

So I don’t really talk about the card game mechanics on here, and (full disclosure to any new people) I don’t know how to play this game. But, considering that this card doesn’t usually send you to distant graveyard memories IRL, lets get into it.

We’ve clarified before that Card Graveyard is a place--like an actual place--but that it isn’t the same place that the cards vibe in within the Puzzle necklace. It’s a separate place, but ALSO not the same place as the Shadow Realm, either. Card Graveyard is just...some other third place we never talk about.

TBQH I think the people who make this show have kinda forgotten how many random pocket dimensions we’ve made that are basically the equivalent of hell (including California, PS), and are just like “no one will write a blog about it and list them all in one place, we’ll be fine.”

We’ve only seen Tristan bum out here once in like S1 and he spent most of his time running away from the Grim Reaper. But, if you remember correctly, the Grim Reaper is currently hanging out and living his best life haunting some park in Japan, so now instead of the Grim Reaper it has...this?

So is this a memory stored within the card graveyard, or did Dartz literally take Raphael to the card graveyard and tell him this was a real ass graveyard?

We’ll never know! It gets very vague from here on out!

(read more under the cut)

First off, I’d like to welcome our new guest star--the Rain--there’s a lot of rain in this episode, and we animate it by just making all of our characters glow. This comes through fine in animation, but in caps I just want you to know that no one has gone super Saiyan, they’re just...wet.

PS get a gander at Raphael’s baby boy mutton chop mustache. They somehow got longer with time? And also, when soaked his hair is just as spiky. Everyone on this show has unparalleled hair gel. The real heart of the cards.

Anyway, Dartz shows Raphael a bunch of gravestones and is like “Get it???”

and me, the audience, was like “no???”

The headstones, by the by, aren’t...normal, either, they have Orichalcos symbols on them instead of words. So like...it sort of infers that his family was taken by Orichalcos, too. I mentioned before that it sorta feels like Dartz caused the whole shipwreck to munch up a bunch of yummy souls, and maybe he did in the Japanese version--cuz like...

...why else do all these headstones have Orichalcos symbols on this graveyard that you can only access through a card god like Dartz or Yami?

Just throwing that deep lore out there, and the fact that Raphael can’t really see it or understand is either because that didn’t happen or...Dartz totally killed his family, right? And that makes this relationship between the two of them extremely effed up?

This is a great show for kids with separation anxiety.

Which is...somewhat convincing of a motive for Raphael. He gives Raphael a way to move on from his trauma in the past, and it’s not a GREAT way to move on--but it’s falls in line with things Dartz has done with his other card generals by offering false redemption.

Like Mai needed to move on from her insane jealousy, so Orichalcos was her way to prove she was better than Joey Wheeler (which, honestly, no one needed proof of). Alister needed to move on from his dead brother, so Orichalcos was his way to get revenge. Valon also had a backstory but a bunch of it got deleted in the English version apparently so...

And Rex and Weevil needed...cards? I guess? I think they just needed a ride, mostly. And Orichalcos can give you a ride. It’s not like we had Uber in 2003 and clearly they were not fit for Caltrain.

And like Gurimo.............existed...?

Anyways, they’re looking for justice that they can see. Justice for their pain. To make that pain worth something for more than just suffering. A system where this type of thing can’t happen anymore. But the thing about justice is that...eh...it’s probably not done through cards that kill people.

OH OK, KID’S SHOW.

Mmmmm take in that burying up your grave imagery. Again, this show is rated Y7 for 7 year olds, and I think that’s amazing.

Anyway, this is symbolism that is so heavy handed that it really needs no explanation, so he’s just gonna dig dig dig for...days I guess? Relive his trauma over and over again? Dig up that past like you’re a popular artist on twitter and you gotta make all of your followers relive that time you got called out because you offended a hell ton of people?

(Which is so many people on art twitter right now, ps, you don’t even know which one I’m talking about because It’s SO MANY of them. Art twitter during Quarantine is like watching the fall of Rome but it’s freakin Art Twitter. Everyone’s the freakin worst and just poopin all over themselves as they roll all the way down the steps.)

But I want to know. Who’s grave this is? It has a slightly different meaning if it were his family’s or his own. I guess I’ll have to save it for the fanfiction.

And so to add another level of spook, Raphael’s card mom shows up and kinda just stands there with a sad face?

Raphael’s reaction to seeing his card just alive and hanging out was “I’ll get to you in a sec, I gotta do some unforgivable evil, first.“

WHERE DID THEY GO?

These two shots are like nearly back to back. They’re just GONE. No explanation.

And yes I’m gonna talk about the outfit because it makes no freakin sense, even for a Yugioh card. Granted, this was a show made in Japan, for kids, with a budget that had a limit. A lot of people get involved with these productions, many aren’t artists or historians versed in American History, just basic ass business people. That be TV.

But her outfit looks waaay too modern. Like she’s gonna go to a musical festival, drop acid and climb on top of a statue and take a bunch of instagram selfies and regret all of them 4 years later. If these are Atlantean cards, this is not an Atlantis outfit to match with Dartz, who has been dressed vaguely medieval. So whyyyyy would this girl be dressed more like a vague old western costume bought at a discount so she could vogue in front of installation art at Burning Man in 2008?

Anyway, I won’t even get into the bird that is slowly devouring her face as a stand in for a headdress or wtv. Just a lot of stuff happening here and I just wanna say, Yugioh did it so you won’t need to. Just delete that desire. Yugioh already did it so you are now free from wanting to draw...anything like this problematic situation on your own OCs.

And then Yugioh predicts exactly how I’d feel about this outfit.

And she then lights ON FIRE and falls dead into the grave he just buried for her.

And in case you were like “kinda on the nose there, Yugioh, that got DARK” she climbs out of his own grave with a spooky ass face and no more coconuts to share with her bros and he’s like...

Rapheal’s reaction was like...Ya OK I can get used to this, and Yami is just pointing at the scene desperately trying to follow Raphael’s brain waves.

And like, this is YAMI.

Yami just walked through Yugi Hell earlier today. He’s seen some stuff. He’s already undug his own grave this morning in a more poetic card sort of way. But Raphael’s memories of literally digging up his family’s graves with his bare hands because Dartz told him to was...stuff he didn’t want to see today. (especially since it’s super suggested Dartz was the one who...murdered them in the first place, like I know it’s a reach but...it just feels like we were supposed to reach that conclusion)

But whether or not Dartz put the bodies here or gave Raphael a bunch of phoney graves, Raphael is still essentially siding with the guy who ruined the only thing he has left of his family--this paper card mom--and turned it into an undead evil Mom. And it just had...no freakin impact on Raphael at all.

Like what?

He just murdered your card mom. This is fine?

Card shenanigans continue and Raphael eventually realizes what he should have realized like 10 years ago when he was digging up graves and killing card Mom’s. That maybe it’s a bad idea. So Raphael decides to sacrifice his remaining monsters to “free” them from the graveyard and basically commits suicide. There’s no other way to say it, really. He kills himself.

But wait, right when you figure this episode will end like every other Orichalcos fight before it...They decide not to.

Like an angel from heaven, our drunk ass looking music concert reject descends from the clouds, along with all of Raphael's dead family members!

Yeah.

I REALLY didn’t expect them to show up. This was so much content it’s like...an entire season of any other TV show. I say that a lot with Yugioh but these episodes really like to just jam-pack it in there.

And here I thought I’d actually have to take them off the Death Count one day. Here I thought 4 kids would do something to like...prevent this many dead kids, but I was wrong.

Everyone’s HELLA DEAD.

it’s both vindicating to actually say that, despite 4kids, these kids absolutely died, but also disturbing because even Raphael is like “ah, the hallucinations today are really swell, right?”

NO, GHOST CHILD.

DON’T TELL ME THAT.

And I’ve been over before how “heart of the cards” is a catch-all phrase that can mean literally anything in this show, and it’s not the first time that cards have kept someone’s spirit around. No word on his family members if they are thrilled to be trapped in a Pharaoh situation, or whether they only occasionally drop from the heavens, or whether they have actually been the spirit that was within each of these cards the whole time. I don’t know.

And so the card family “cures” one of the most evil people on this show.

He’s fine now. This guy murdered the hell out of Yugi, our main character, but don’t think nor worry about it. This isn’t the show to worry about such things.

This show has Marik.

Bro and I were talking Star Wars the other day, and mostly about the Kylo Ren arc and how a lot of people happened to dislike that particular ending. Mostly about how there is a difference between your character being redeemed and being forgiven. I think this children’s show wants to redeem Raphael, but honestly, much like Kylo Ren--he’s just forgiven. And that’s fine. You don’t need to have your characters redeemed. We can stop at forgiveness.

And also, Yami forgives him immediately because he knows he can’t throw a single damn stone, his house is made out of 2 mm of extremely problematic glass.

Man, RIP Weevil, right?

Weevil who just pretended to rip up a card that could have been Yugi and got tossed off the freakin Caltrain? Raphael got off so freakin lucky and I am boggled he’s still alive. He freakin killed Yugi!

The injustice to Weevil right now, omg. Not like I enjoy Weevil. I super don’t enjoy that character. But DAMN. Yami murdered Weevil for even mentioning Yugi. Just feels like there’s a bit of a hypocritical line here in how the justice is dished out and...that tracks for a Pharaoh so I’ll just let it go.

And also, looking at that sunshine and I’m pretty sure they’ve been up over 48 straight hours. No one’s slept since Yugi died, right? I mean Yami is fine. We know from Bakura that puzzle people don’t need to sleep, or eat, or have blood in their body. But like Seto really needs to get Mokuba to bed.

(Although I am 85% positive that Mokuba is still part Noah Kaiba so it is...also unlikely that kid sleeps anymore, just leaving Mokuba’s future therapist so much to unpack.)

The GALL of this show right now.

Of all the generals--they saved RAPHAEL? Arguably the worst one?

I would take even Alister. I would take even Weevil.

Raphael?

I mean if he ends up as the next Duke Devlin, just driving us around for the final season of this show I guess I’ll accept this but, damn.

Raphael?

Are you sure, Yugioh???????????????????????????????????

Can’t we just let that guy die? He’s basically dead already, Yugioh. This guy does NOT want to be alive anymore. Literally everyone he cares about is super dead and now he doesn’t even have Card mom because she sacrificed herself to save his soul. This GUY.

I can’t believe Mai is dead but we still have Raphael.

The same disappointment when I watch British Bake off, man, they just...sometimes they save people and I’m like...no man...that one can’t bake. Just because they pulled something off last second does not mean they get to the semifinals. Raphael can’t bake.

Anyway, the episode attempts to end on a cliffhanger but like.

Just want to reiterate how common and boring Earthquakes usually are to a Californian. This was the most normal thing in this episode.

Man.

Freakin Raphael.

Anyway, if you just got here and is like “I don’t know who the hell Raphael even is,” Yeah, I know, I didn’t think twice about the dude until like just now, but if it’s because you’ve never seen my recaps before, I’ll direct you to the link to read these in Chrono order:

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

Anyway, stay safe and have a very happy and safe Halloween alone eating your own carmel dipped apple slices.

[radioromantic-moved]

what does love feel like?

guess what…the fic is here…welcome to feelings hour with liz and kid

legit i sat down, started typing this out, and didn’t stop 4 like 2 hours BUT ANYWAY here

--

kid and liz have a talk about love. (kid’s demiromantic. liz and tsubaki are girlfriends.)

Liz flops back on the black couch and breathes out softly, running a hand through her hair. It’s quiet in Gallows Manor, for once. Patty’s taking a nap, and Kid sits beside her on the couch, opening and closing his hands into fists in rhythm. Liz shoots him a glance out of the corner of her eye. He’s got that look on his face, the “there-is-an-urgent-problem” look that’s so uniquely Kid, and she’s about to ask him what’s wrong when he speaks up. 

“Liz?”

“Yeah?”

“What does love feel like? Y-you know, the romantic kind.”

Liz makes a noise that’s some sort of blend between a squeak, a snort and a laugh. “That’s a--a hell of a question, Kid. Jeez.”

“Oh. Sorry. Never mind. I just thought--”

“No, talk.” Liz sits up now, facing her meister, who’s still staring down at his hands. “What brought this up?”

“It’s...it’s nothing, really. I mean--”

He struggles with words for a little while longer. He slides a ring up and down one hand, and then the other. Liz notices his face turning pink.

“Oh.” She grins. “You like someone. Like, a lot.”

He buries his head in his hands, messing up his hair a bit. He doesn’t even notice. Man, this is a big deal. “Yes. No. Maybe? I don’t know. I’ve never felt like this before about someone, Liz. And you...know about these sorts of things, and I thought you could. You know. Help me out here.”

Liz thinks. She’s never been quiet about liking people, even before Tsubaki. Guys, girls, everyone-her heart used to go from person to person, as if trying to make up for lost time with only one person to feel things about. But she gets the feeling that it’s different for Kid. This is new territory for him, so she’s gonna try to be gentle. 

When she speaks, it’s softer. “Okay. Uh. So... I don’t know, there’s not really one way to love someone, even just romantically. I mean…”

She grasps for words a little more. GAH, she is so not good with this wordy elaborate crap. With Tsubaki, it’s just...easy. She doesn’t need to talk if she doesn’t have to. She knows if she does, though, that Tsu’s gonna listen, and that’s the important part. Or they can just sit there and make out for like a few hours. She gets the idea that that’s not really Kid’s thing, though.

“Well,” she says carefully. “How do you feel about them? You know, when you see them. Or think about them. What do they mean to you?”

Kid looks up and starts staring off into space. He stares for such a long time that Liz thinks about waving a hand in front of his face. When he speaks, it’s slowly, softly, almost reverent. “They’re...almost indescribable.” And if Liz wasn’t so dedicated to being a good friend and listener, she’d laugh out loud at the goofy smile that crosses the face of the unflappable junior reaper. “They’ve been through so much in such a short time, and it makes me feel like, if they can be strong in the face of everything, I can too. They’re so smart, and the way they talk about things that they’re passionate about...they talk with their hands and their voice pitches up and it’s like somebody’s put all of the stars in their eyes. When you’re talking and they look at you, they can tell they’re really listening to you. I feel like I could move the sun for them if it would make them smile. They’re...wonderful.”

Liz just stares and blinks for what felt like a solid minute before running her mouth. “Oh. Wow. Can I steal some of that to say to Tsubaki?”

A smile flits across Kid’s face for a few seconds. “Not a chance.” Then he grows serious again, staring at his hands. “So. Am I, do you think..?”

“Oh. Dude, you’re gone. If you meant even half of that little monologue, you’re irreversibly head over heels.”

“I meant all of it,” Kid says softly. “Every word.”

Then he buries his face in his hands again and makes a horrible noise that is so remarkably unKidlike that Liz does a double take: some sort of barking, snorting, gleeful laughter that borders on maniacal. “Oh, dear. What do I do now?”

“Beats me! I didn’t even help with the first part! You were the one who spilled your guts to me in the end.”

“Oh. Right. I did, didn’t I?”

Liz sighs. “But look. If you really want my advice, just go for it. I mean, that’s what I did, and look at me now; I’ve got an awesome girlfriend.”

Kid looks uncertain. “But...you’re you. You don’t care what anyone thinks about you.”

Liz laughs in surprise, so loudly that Kid jumps. “Come on! You know me better than that. I’m terrified of what people think about me, all the time! I just...you know, I figure that the people who already like me are the most important ones anyway.” She glances away for a second, then continues. “Look, Kid, you’re the freakin’ GRIM REAPER. You’ve done way scarier things than tell Nova she’s cute, and you’re gonna do scarier stuff in the future, too. So, come on, how bad can it really be?”

He finally smiles--a real one, this time. “Thank you, Liz.” Then he stops short and stares at her. “Wait. How did you--”

The expression on Liz’s face can be best described as a shit-eating grin. “Aw, please. Give me a little credit, why don’t you? You give her the gooiest puppy eyes every time you’re within fifteen feet of her. Honestly, I’m surprised she hasn’t noticed yet--I’m kinda surprised everyone hasn’t noticed yet.”

Kid’s face goes redder than Liz knew it was capable of, and he shoots her a vicious glare. “I’m disowning you as my weapon partner,” he growls.

Liz laughs until she can’t breathe.

[brothersgrim]

SIN: 8, 13 (for both?)

8. Do they believe it’s okay to use violence to resolve problems?

Oh, yeah. I mean, yes, there are limits - they’d never hit their SO’s, for example, or their kids. Family’s very important to them. There’s been a lot of shit between them - most of it exceedingly horrific and traumatizing - that leads to the two of them getting into the fights they do with each other, as well as just being brothers, but they’ve been shown to be extremely soft and protective towards the people they love. 

Paul is not family, he doesn’t count. Also, he deserves everything he got and more.

But yeah, they won’t hit family (aside from each other) and, it is possible to talk out issues with them - Hell, ‘Taker’s judge of Wrestler’s Court, he’s a pretty good guy to mediate or work through issues with. But also, they are ready to throw hands 24/7, so that’s on you if you get it into their heads that punching you might make them feel better. 

13. Are there certain times, currently or in their past, when they are more prone to violence than usual?

MAY 19TH. MAY NINE-FREAKIN’-TEENTH. I am one-hundred percent serious when I say it is infinitely better for your health to leave them alone on that day unless they directly come to you on their own terms. During the Ministry of Darkness era, you’re talking about a brainwashed, furious, extremely traumatized Grim Reaper who’s been put in charge of a homicidal cult and forcibly stripped of his empathy and ability to inhibit his lust for violence, so, that’s not a great time to be near him full-stop. Whenever Kane’s around Paul, it’s also probably not safe for one reason or another. Same for Taker, especially if the urn is involved - at that point, he’s just a weapon that sometimes has a pulse. After a few years of being in the basement, Kane had legitimately nearly gone feral and would lash out at anyone who wasn’t Paul, so that’s also a thing. Aside from that, they both have bad days - it’s a part of living with PTSD - but if you know to give them space or recognize the signs, you’ll probably be fine.

…

Probably

… 

Maybe.

Just leave ‘em alone and don’t make eye contact. 

[montepoetry-blog]

Poem #9

Persona poem!! I had fun writing in this style. You write a poem as if you were something, or someone else. The idea is to get you out of being you, and to write from a different perspective: a new/different persona other than your own. It opens the door to be anything or anyone you want to be.

I wrote two poems, one as Casey Kasem, and the other as a ladybug. I chose Casey Kasem because he had a terrible end to his life. Casey Kasem was the voice of American top 40 radio for most of my childhood. He also played the voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, one of my favortie cartoons. He lead a very luxurious life, but his ending was a complete mess.

His last days were spent being kept alive by machinery while his wife and family fought about his money, and how and where he would spend his final days. They both wanted control over him, and his cash. Then when he died, they still kept fighting over his money, and where to bury him. So much so that he spent a year above ground in death. What a freakin nightmare for a guy that lead such a charmed life.

And the ladybug poem, I dunno, I just love those little bastards. They look so cute, but they are killers! If you are an aphid, the ladybug is your grim reaper. Be entertained.

Poor, Casey Kasem

 I am tired: my back hurts, my face it hurts

it all hurts.

Even my brain hurts!

I can’t get no relief.

For some reason

I cannot die!

 My voice,

it was platinum.

 I ranked

all

your favorite songs

even played a dog

in a cartoon.

 I had

a good life.

 But now,

for some reason,

I cannot die.

 My love, my kids:

fighting.

But not over me –

my money, see.

 I had a good life!

 Now it all

hurts.

Even my brain hurts.

My voice was platinum.

But now,

for some reason,

I

cannot

die.

 I’m dead?

Great!

 Oh, wait

they’re still fighting.

Not over me

you see –

they fight for

my money.

 I am dead, and for

some reason

I still cannot

get no relief.

 I am dead

yet 365 days later

I am still

Not

6 feet under.

 My voice

It. Was.

Platinum.

 Yeah, I am a Ladies Bug

I am on your child’s backpack

I am the tattoo on your ankle

I am the adorable art piece

your kid made in school

I am thee symbol

for cuteness

I am red

I am black

and my shell,

my shell is red and hard.

My spots are black,

like the ink of

the night-sky

beyond what you see

with your eye.

And if you are an aphid

I will fucking kill

then eat you.

[spacecowboyblevins]

The creepy dream peasant is the most interesting character of Anna Karenina. Hear me out, this dude-

1) Appears on two occasions in real life, both right before someone else is violently killed. You know who else does that? The freakin Grim Reaper. 2) Also appears in the dreams of two different characters. I see no reason not to assume that it's the same guy, and that he is a real entity with the power to project himself into other people's dreams 3) Speaks French. Russian peasants did not speak French. More evidence that this guy is not who he seems. 4) Carries a mysterious sack

I think it's pretty obvious that this creepy dream peasant is some kind of powerful death deity with the ability to enter the dreams of mortals to further his own nefarious purposes and that he's got something truly horrifying in that sack

[g1choding]

Episode 11: Graduations & Reincarnations

SPOILERS AHEAD ✔✔✔ ❣ Graduation and Reincarnations This episodes had so many feels man, I’m so proud of Eun Tak for graduating, I was so emotional when Eun tak was sitting there alone, smiling sadly as she watched other students with their parent,

 I was glad she was able to congratulate the daughter of her daughter, Samshin visited her and congratulated her on graduating and of course 

Eun Tak recognized who the red lady was.

 And when Haelmoni spoke to the teacher I was emotional too, the teacher reacted as if she had disappointed her mother, 

which she freakin’ did. I loved that scene! I thought it was gonna be forgotten how horrible of a teacher she was to her student who was obviously already struggling with life. ✎ It was so meta too! Kim Shin saw Kim Shin from Joseon period see his future through that lady serving him and his friend drink(?) It was so funny when he tried to explain what a smartphone is gonna look like. And! And! He saw Eun Tak in that period so I am definitely waiting for more of that.

❣ The death card I’m glad Shin is more honest with Eun Tak, because that’s one of the key for them to break the deity’s will and to write their own fate, they must be honest with each other and trust each other more. I’m glad they’re relationship is becoming more and more stronger.  

I feel bad for Eun Tak gosh, she’s at that point of questioning the deity again, why he so cruel to her? When Eun cried on Shin’s shoulders? God her face killed me my poor Eun Tak.

I just want her to finally enjoy the harvest of her life, for God’s sake let her! ❣ Sunny and Kim Shin’s interaction. I was glad they got to talk. We got more of the history of Wang Yeo and Sun, It was a tragic love really, they loved each other, the king loved her Queen. He wasn’t being a d*ck when he flipped that tray of medicine, he doesn’t want Sun poisoned, I just wished he explained to her! He was too blinded by jealousy and arrogance plus the whispering of that son of gun right hand of his, which brings me to this next thing.

✎ Samshin haelmoni proving again how she works in mysterious ways, It was revealed she was Gr’s Junior’s landlady, and now turns out, she’s Sunny’s too? (Still don’t think she’s the baddy here in this drama though)

❣ 184 cm tall, 2 cm heels I found it so clever yet so sad how Sunny found out GR’s real identity, the shock expression she had, her eyes swelling with tears, the confusion, the sadness on GR’s face. 

I want them to have a happy ending instead of a tragic one they had in their past lives. They didn’t deserve it. 

❣ The king’s adviser Freakin hell he’s back! Or should I say, he’s here? It did seem he waited all this time, he didn’t cross to the other side but stayed and waited to meet the Goblin’s bride? for 900 hundred years? or was he brought back?

❣ AND YOU! I’M LOOKING AT YOU DEOKHWA! 

Goodness gracious i have this nasty feeling, he’s just too freaking mysterious it makes you wonder! I just freakin know, I am like 80% sure now he’s not a normal human/person something was off with him in this episode and in the preview. How in hell did he know Sunny was Kim Shin’s sister in her past life? And that preview , was I correct with my past theory with  Deokhwa? That the reasons why he didn’t tell ET about the meaning of the message on KS’s journal is because she might not pull the sword?  Or maybe he didn’t think he she was ready to know? WTF is happening?  I NEED ANSWERS! Because this I don’t want to believe, many theories had said that Deokhwa might be an angel, a guardian angel and that’s the theory I wanna go with ;-; because he’s too precious man!

Again, this has been a roller coaster ride for my feeling. I cannot believe we’re at the Episode 12 tomorrow guys, only 4 episodes to go, they better give us 3 hours per episode because- UGH I cannot. It’s gonna be hard reviewing the future episodes cause I just want to savor the moments you know. I really wish this drama a happy ending, again like I’ve said before, I’m not that type who’s always after a Happy, perfect ending, cause sometimes.. love is tragic, but can you blame me for hoping for this drama?

Others ✍

∞ Controversy revolving Goblin, Point One: Pedophilia? ∞ Controversy revolving Goblin, Point Two: Age gap, grooming, Immaturity of Heroine ∞ Episode 7: The Beginning of Angst ∞ Episode 8: A broken hearted review lol ∞ A Theory about Samshin Haelmoni ∞ Deokhwa a Deity? ∞ Episode 9: Things are getting clearer. ∞ Episode 10: The past meets the present. ∞ Grim Reaper’s Junior, Heaven’s plan & Deokhwa’s Purpose. ∞ Episode 12: The sins of their past still haunts their present. ∞ Saying Goodbye to Goblin

[itagoko-blog]

2/1/17 6:04pm

Confidence is at an all time low. I mean, I just can't seem to freakin get myself to talk to people when I find them attractive. Especially when I've established that they are attractive, and here are my three theories that cause this lack of confidence: Theory 1: All highly attractive males have girlfriends. Theory 2: If they are attractive and nice, then they must have a girlfriend. Theory 3: If they are attractive and single, they must be players. What are the odds that an attractive special needs teaching aid who says he likes to cook and clean is single? Unless he seriously has some issues like OCD, which could drive a person mad, then he must have a girlfriend. I turned to jello at this guy's attractiveness... I turn to jello at anyone's attractiveness. Once I establish that I am attracted to a person, it becomes nearly impossible for me to even look at them. I hate showing my clear thirst. I don't want to make a fool out of myself. And honestly, I'm not that interesting of a person. I have nothing to talk about. If I talk about anything I like to do (workout, watch Korean dramas, and listen to music, get drunk after work on the weekends, and lay in bed), I would clearly be the greatest catch. For all of you who have seen Goblin: The Lonely and Great God, I am the Grim Reaper every time he meets with Sunny. Please help me find an attractive man, who has all the best qualities in the world, I always say. I find an attractive man who I could easily just ask out, but the fact that he's attractive and he's an aid in my teacher's kindergarten/1st grade special needs classroom, makes my life a bit more difficult... I will just accept that I am single! I know I write about this all the time, so clearly I have not accepted it. Lol Anyways, time to get my violin on for my comps.

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh S4 Ep6: Gozaburo Kaiba Just Casually Started WWIII And Only This One Guy Cares

Welcome to November, where we celebrate writing a 50,000 word book as if I don’t do that every single time I write about an episode of Yugioh. Hello, this is my season. It’s wordy season. I’m so freakin good at doing this. I can’t say most of what I’ve made is any good, but I CAN say at least I’m prolific. Do enough content to fill that bitter pit and walk right over it, that’s been my motto for the past 5 years.

Anyway, I had an awful flu this past week. (Everyone I live with had it so every bathroom was like ground zero) It was SO bad. I still can’t eat spicy food over a week later (Which is so hard for me because usually I can keep up with my Indian friends, that’s my spicy level--max spicy, please--but since this illness, my white taste genes went into overdrive and I tried putting pepperoncini slices in my sandwich and it set my mouth on fire. Pepperoncini. It’s v embarrassing.)

I did attempt to write this post. Unfortunately I never made it past this cap because I got VERY distracted by the emblem on Alister’s face, and how it isn’t proportionally adjusted to match the angle of his face, and it was like three paragraphs of just wanting to talk about it. And then at some point I got very distracted talking about how many empty glasses I was given at my place setting at this baby shower I went to during the flu epidemic, and it mattered a whole lot to me at the time, but I think, overall, was mostly just some sort of nonsense. The things I’ve spared you. 

(bro has just informed me that the 4 gold-lipped crystal goblets I was given at this baby shower was actually very distressing and a very big deal and that I should absolutely talk to at least someone about it, but maybe he’s just saying that to make me feel better, but I have no idea. I am too sick for sarcasm at this time but my god why was I given so many glasses????)

I straight up have no memory of if I’ve made this joke before. Maybe.

(read more under the cut)

Since it feels like 8 years since the last time I could just eat chicken without feeling like I consumed an entire Thanksgiving meal, a little recap:

-Alister pretended he was Pegasus to lure Kaiba and then, off screen, murdered everyone in Pegasus’ castle

-Pegasus got murdered by I’m pretty sure Mai (which is like...OK then...)

-Yugi and Co went on vacation by driving directly through San Francisco and peeking out the window and saying “yeah that’s enough for me”

-No adults, not even Roland, bothered to come with their kids this time, so the only adult of the entire crew--Pegasus--is dead

-Rex and Weevil are luggage

-The Eye of Sauron showed up and it was the end of the world but Yugi threw a dragon at it so I guess everything is OK now

-Monsters are real but they are hard to animate so we’ll just pretend like they’re causing havoc everywhere although most of the planet seems basically unaffected by this.

-The Grim Reaper is a friendly monster that hangs out in a Japanese park and that feels fairly on brand.

And I think that was all that was happening so far.

In a weird twist of fate, Mokuba is the only one in this room that isn’t trapped which sort of...if you’re the only one NOT kidnapped wouldn’t that also be a type of being kidnapped?

And we finally get to figure out why Alister wants to Murder Kaiba so bad and, spoiler, it reaches.

???

I’m gonna get more to the obvious problems with Alister’s devotion to murdering all the Kaibas in a bit but yes, Alister is in fact going to try and Kill Kaiba on this kid’s show because of Kaiba’s Dad, who is such a horrible and abusive person that Kaiba essentially drove the bastard out of Japan and straight to the bottom of the ocean.

Just kinda feels like Alister has been living under a rock...which, I guess he has been. He has been living in some weird Atlantis structure so I guess he never got the memo that Gozaburo Kaiba is hella dead.

So that’s what they’re up to. How’s Sausalito?

Um.

Huh.

So the North Bay is a really classic scenery. It’s rolling hills. It’s NAPA. It’s like...definitely not Arizona. California has a couple of mesas but they’re no where near here and the Monument Valley style Mesas really only exist in Monument Valley.

And I know it’s because the background artist for Yugioh is all horny for horny rock structures but like...this couldn’t be farther from the Bay Area in the way that it is drawn and it is such a shock after all the work they did last episode to research that Bay Area lore. Once they crossed the Golden Gate they were like “well no one will care about this part” which is true not only of Yugioh but also of real life Californian politics.

Anyway, I have been making a map, but unfortunately my original file will not suffice. time to fix it.

There we go. Now they’re in the right place. Just smack dab in Monument Valley, Arizona, smack dab in the middle of the Navajo Nation and so hypothetically, not even in the United States anymore.

While in the car, Yugi has just been anxious as hell the entire time, and just going “y’all I have a bad feeling I’m uncomfortable I have a bad feeling” while Joey and Tea just patiently stared at him flipping out in the corner. So...kinda like a normal trip with someone who has high anxiety/possessed by a ghost. I  kinda feel like this is every girls trip to Disneyland for me. There’s always one Yugi who’s like “no one said anything about CROWDS.” and you kinda just gotta let them do their thing. Just let them get it out of their system and hide in the bathroom when they need to hide in the bathroom and don’t fight it, they’ll be fine. Just hold their spot in line when they desperately look for a secret place to medicinally vape because there’s too many freakin children at Disneyland.

And it is HILARIOUS that Yugi is able to have this type of premonition but cannot figure out that they have somehow missed San Fransisco and have wandered into a DESERT.

Back in Pegasus’ California (an island that legitimately looks more like California than actual Yugioh California) Alister has decided to go completely off the rails and it happens so fast and without any warning.

the line is actually “This doll used to be my brother’s” which is a very different meaning but both are likely from weird ass Alister and this weird ass show, so I’ll leave the cap like this (although yes, this is what I thought Alister was saying for kind of a while until I recorded it for this blog and was like “oh shoot I heard the line wrong when I had the flu huh.”)

Man, RIP Noah, he would have been excellent this episode.

Honestly seems like just yesterday when Seto and Noah were pitted against eachother by a cyberdemon Dad-head floating in the sky, Mokuba was possessed for some reason and being used as a human shield, Tristan was a robot monkey, and Yugi was just shrugging at Kaiba from across the field like “Kaiba if you don’t play good you die--oh my gods, he died. Well that was bound to happen...again.” Man.

Alister should be their best friend, this is nonsense.

So lets do the math to 7 years before 2002.

I searched Wikipedia for wars during 1995 (they do have a list of 90′s wars) and looked for any that involved heavy use of tanks and their artillery fire (on big swatches of cities like this), inner city western architecture, temperate landscapes, and western clothing that match Alister and Mikey (AKA WWII vibes) and found out:

Nothing fits that description

UNLESS Alister and Mikey are time travelers from a WWII bombing in Europe. This is Yugioh. That could happen. Probably not, but youknow...it’s not too late for Yugioh to bring in time travel.

I mean if you don’t want to get super political in your cartoon just invent a world war I guess? We’ve already clarified that Gozaburo was Big Boss, so at this point I can easily see him inventing wars just to sell ships.

(I could probably add thousands of more deaths at this point but I have no idea where they are, if they’re on a tiny island or an entire country so I’ll just...leave the count alone but just now it’s implied that a hell ton of people died during this episode)

People going off about how Sesame Street is so amazing for talking about issues like you’re Dad going to prison while Yugioh was straight up talking about the intricacy of the War Economy. Yugioh being all “don’t forget kids, your good capitalist economy survives off of the undeserved bloodshed of civilians in other countries! Eat the poor!” and it’s like hot damn this heavy commentary came out of freakin no where.

Anyways, this is stuff most kid’s shows will delicately skip over but nah, Yugioh is going to go here, and they are going to steamroll directly through it with massive tanks.

So, lets kill this kid’s entire family and talk about the terrors of the World War of 1995 and all the war orphans who get recruited to become soldiers at the ripe old age of 9. Alister was 9 when he was recruited to be a child card soldier.

This kid’s show.

Alister is...basically Raiden, right? Like as long as we’re talking about Metal Gear, this kid is just one step away from cyborg implants and weird colored blood?

Better wear bright red when you visit the war crime scene, surprised Gozaburo didn’t invite like an entire photo -op crew to incriminate him even further.

Now we did look up “where the hell is Alister from Yugioh from?” (there is no answer) and we did find out a little factoid. In the Japanese version of the show, Gozaburo had bought the land and was just forcibly evicting Alister and his family from their home with tanks.

Which is wild.

He just straight up evicted an entire metropolitan city????

Like the dub did a way better job than the sub at this one, I’ll give them that.

It’s just so weird that Gozoboro just didn’t like...raise the rent like a normal bad landlord. Instead he was like “rather than gentrify my land and save me a ton of money, I’ll just destroy everything I just bought and murder everyone here” which is like...

...Seto did the world so many favors when he kicked out his Dad, right? Like Damn. I don't understand why Alister isn’t freakin worshiping Seto right now when his whole deal is “I must kill Gozaburo” and Seto’s like “yo I already did that. Twice. I didn’t even have to literally kill him either, I just embarrassed him so bad that he killed himself. His stupid tank company sells joke games now. I literally turned the man into a joke.”

Then again, Alister is on the green magic and like I think it alters your brain chemistry somewhat.

(How ripped did Alister get in this episode, by the way? The kid is like 16 years old or something so how did this happen? ...The perpetual horny line running straight through Yugioh, man. Look at it run. That 16 year old is drawn like he’s 28 and really into Crossfit and his crop top gets smaller and smaller like every scene.)

So like this is a very gray issue that I cannot believe they brought up in a kid’s show (like can you imagine if Scrooge McDuck had to face facts that his company murdered tons of people???), but also this is Seto Kaiba. Seto grew up in the system, so like he doesn’t need to be lectured to about dirty money because he was on the losing end of that not too long ago. Seto is himself basically a upscale war orphan since he was adopted by Gozaburo to continue the machine like a freakin maniac (a Solidus Snake, if you will) so of all the people on this show I don’t get why Seto would care about this. This is just how Seto views the entire world as either losing or winning and no reason to feel bad about it because he’s been both.

Also...Seto stopped the machine. Kind of. He was unaware that cards were the same thing as weapons, but at least he stopped the sale of huge child-stealing tanks.

So they play the game for a little while and Seto does kind of poorly as usual, and just when I thought this episode couldn’t get any weirder...

And just like that, Seto peaces out. Like he does almost every single time he has ever played a card game solo except for that one time he was playing Joey Wheeler. (Which was also one of the few times Seto ever won.)

Like I just want to remind you that this segment is in the same episode as WWIII and the tonal whiplash is pretty remarkable.

That’s right, we’re back in the Unnamed Monster World, which is not the Shadow Realm, and which I thought you could only access if you were dreaming and able to search through the puzzle maze.

Apparently this can just happen at any time and all that stuff with the guiding Kuriboh and Yugi and Pharaoh trying to find this place was just...them wasting time.

Again he ditches the legendary sword so freakin fast because who needs a sword when you have a dragon? Only this anime.

And that’s how Seto, who was absolutely going to lose this game, somehow just barely came to a draw.

So just to recap, Seto has yet to win a card game that he didn’t get prophetic help for via a hallucination or Yugi telling him what to do. Unless you count Joey and grandpa.

Then, the one last adult I forgot about, the driver of Yugi’s car, decides that it’s about time that he also died and left this show as adult free as possible.

THE HELL ARE THEY?

Also...maybe it’s the angle but the writing on that gas station looks a lot like kanji.

Yo, what if this is the backgrounds for a different show and they’re just sharing? I mean I doubt it because Yugioh had a good enough budget but...what if? What if that’s why they’re in Arizona?

Anyway, next time we’ll find out if this guy just drops dead or has been a Yugioh monster this whole time, and I think maybe both?

And if you just got here, this is a link to read all my Yugioh recaps in chrono order

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Episode 12: The sins of their past still haunts their present

🌠 Deokhwa & Grandpa Yu 🌠 Goodness gracious, FINALLY! His identity is revealed, or should I say the “entity” that has been using him has been revealed. It was really like, “wow 😯”  Kind of like that, but I can’t say I was shocked, I have thought that he is either helping for some kind of a deity/is a deity himself, or he is being used by one. So the reveal wasn’t much of a shock. It was still freaking cool though! That shot where the butterflies flew away.  

 Chairman Yu’s death though, man it hit me hard, Shin sobbing for the lost of his loyal friend, Deokhwa crying because of his grand fathers lost, his heart full of regret. He may have been a hardheaded kid, but there is kindness and love in his heart, even Samshin thinks so. i JUST CAN’T REALLY.  I’m so proud of him, he’s now being moe responsible than he was.  Realizing and thinking back to all the things his Grandfather had taught him. Even in death Chairman Yu still took care of things, look after Deokhwa and Shin. He made the most loyal person in his stead because he understands and he doesn’t want to put pressure on DH at such young age. He helped Shin find his loyal lieutenant. I just love Grandpa Yu 😰

🌠 Kim Shin, Eun Tak 🌠 ◽ That’s photobooth scene freakin hell! It was so cute! 😆 The stolen kiss, again, from Eun Tak was hella sweet 😆 Eun Tak: 3 Kim Shin: 1 ◽ I’m so glad Eun was there for Shin and said all those words to him, it must be so hard to see and hear someone you love dearly cry like that, nothing to do bu just be there for him. But that is enough Eun don’t worry  😰 I just want these two to be strong and hang in there, I’m so proud of them both. I’m proud of them for being honest with each other.

🌠  Wang Yeo and Kim Sun 🌠 ◽ I’ve almost and I am serious almost cried because of these two and their tragic, but hang on because I watched episode 12 here at work (I can’t help it) We can see that Wang Yeo became miserable right? I mean it doesn’t change the fact that he killed his queen, his queen’s brother and their family, that was a shitty thing to do and was in fact one of the three biggest sins that happened that time still I can’t help but feel sad, because being the grim reaper was not his punishment, the penance he is doing is not enough. He just HAD to fall in love again with the reincarnation of his wife, he just HAD to be best friends with the person he had put death upon in his past life. He just HAD to be the Grim Reaper that he is.  ◽ Sunny and Wang Yeo is continuing the tragic love they have had before, and it still isn’t looking like they’re gonna get a happy ending this lifetime.  🌠 Kim Siblings  🌠 Boy oh boy did i sob internally when they’ve met, both of them crying, freaking finally i can read on Shin’s face. Coz’ it was one of his biggest regrets you know? One of the main reason of his anger towards Wang Yeo is because of Sun’s death. Because he blames himself for that, why couldn’t he write back, why didn’t he check on her, why didn’t he make sure she kept her promise on being happy. It’s an older brother’s regret, he did freaking see her die in front of him.  So I can just imagine how happy he is to be able to hug her, even its in this new life time. 🌠  Park Joong-won, Kim Shin & Wang Yeo 🌠 ◽ Listen that son of a%^&*  Joong-won needs to disappear I hate him to the core! He stayed for almost a thousand years to see/cause Kim Shin and Wang Yeo perish? Like %^&$%^ hell is he some kind of a victim? that bastard seriously that tongue of his was the %%^%^ cause of all these, now see his ^&%%# tongue is rotten. I was so irritated when Shin could’t just slice him to pieces, “ Even is the next life your sister fell for the same guy. I pity you” 😤😤😤 i hate him as much as I hated that Geoffrey bastard from GOT.  ◽ Damn that shot where Kim Shin was walking towards Yeo BEFORE they even showed the flashback shot I immediately thought of it and I was like “dammmmmmmmmmn” And I can understand Shin’s anger, really I can.  I don’t think he’s gonna end Wang Yeo though, but I think they might part ways? which is gonna break my heart, I’m serious they’re bromance 😭😭😭 We can’t blame Shin for getting angry, we can’t forget that he blames himself as well for what had happened, right now he’s just blinded by anger. It’s a complicated situation for him at the moment, he just spoke to the entity who gave him this eternal life as punishment, making him once again witness the death of a loved one, he just met that bastard Joong woo too, laughing at his face, and he can’t even do anything about it.  ◽ I’ll give my trust to Shin into doing the right thing. One question though: Why doesn’t Eun Tak see ghosts now? 

This episode is by far one of my favourite episode. And this drama is up there on my favourite dramas. We’re neering there guys, 2 more weeks, 4 more episodes to got, I CAN’T.

I need to know what’s gonna happen next, Wang Yeo and Sunny’s story is not looking good 😣 Eun Tak and Kim Shin’s story is still in danger.  I love these characters like their my children now, I hurt for them, I’m happy when they’re happy 😭 Give us a satisfying ending the least writer-nim! 😭😭😭

Others ✍

∞ Controversy revolving Goblin, Point One: Pedophilia? ∞ Controversy revolving Goblin, Point Two: Age gap, grooming, Immaturity of Heroine ∞ Episode 7: The Beginning of Angst ∞ Episode 8: A broken hearted review lol ∞ A Theory about Samshin Haelmoni ∞ Deokhwa a Deity? ∞ Episode 9: Things are getting clearer. ∞ Episode 10: The past meets the present. ∞ Grim Reaper’s Junior, Heaven’s plan & Deokhwa’s Purpose. ∞ Episode 11: Graduations and Reincarnations. ∞ Episode 12: The sins of their past still haunts their present. ∞ Saying Goodbye to Goblin