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[steve0discusses]

Ep 45 Part 1: Wife Gone, Miss Wife

Hey y’all, been a while! I fully blame this last unexpected haitus on Tears of the Kingdom. Also a billion other life things I won’t go into because 👏 I 👏 Want 👏 To 👏 Talk 👏 About 👏 Dead 👏 Wife 👏 !

Like damn, we’re coming back for just...a wild episode. Remember how a few episodes ago we finally united Seto with his long lost wife card? (and I had to check my notes and um...it was actually last episode if you count Kaiba, and only Ep 39 if you count Egyptian Seto. So uh...6 episodes.)

Remember that moment? Anyway, she dies this episode.

Yeah. Like. Damn. That quick huh? Knowing Yugioh’s track record with wifeys we’re pretty lucky she’s been on screen even that long before she went the Valon route and just full on died from one brush of cards with Joey.

Speaking of Joey, we last left the gang fumbling through a series of puzzles to unlock the pharaoh’s name. Bakura, disguised as Tristan, ran head first in there and threw off any semblance of a disguise and y’all, lets see how long it takes the guys to realize this isn’t Tristan.

Inside of this glowing door is a room with absolutely no light in it, which, don’t worry about it. That’s just a thing we do in art when we don’t want to draw a background--blow it out with light.

(Read more under the cut)

MAN I have questions about the support bricks on the wall, but for now we’ll ignore that and look at the even more confounding giant bricks on the ground.

faced with a wall of Egyptian text on this pair of ancient Egyptian sunglasses they drew on the floor, it is lucky that Bakura cursed Tristan’s bean or else they would have never gotten past this room.

They’re zooming right by the fact that their friend is reading ancient Egyptian. A friend who is best known for 1.) Being a student janitor because he failed to become class president, 2.) being head of a “melons” club, and 3.) punching god-strengthed villains in the face when he should know better. A god which definitely didn’t get pissed as hell and immediately possess his bean earlier today.

So he levels with Yugi, using the biggest most simple baby words that Bakura knows, and they still talk right completely round each other.

Hey remember in Season Zero when that effed up thing happened and we all assumed it would never show up in this remake? (and by we I mean me)

It freakin showed up. My audible gasp when this show remembered that Yugi cursed um ALL of his friends. Like and he just straight up told them? Just like this?

Like at the start of this arc he and Pharaoh did have a chat about how Yugi didn’t have friends before he came along, but I thought they were gonna glaze over it! But nah, he just laid it out there that the past few years were all because Yugi got bored between class and wanted a buddy.

The implications of “hey we would not be friends if I didn’t curse your ass” is already pretty deep. But doing it within a brain puzzle that you followed your friend into, despite the fact you could literally die doing this, and realizing...the only reason you’re in this puzzle to begin with is because you were cursed 2-3 years ago...

...this is the Yugioh I never thought would come back. This season, man! This season goes so freakin fast and so freakin hard through things that like...this could be a whole episode in another show.

But, this is Yugioh, so we’re gonna put a pin in that.

Because it’s time to go back to Seto Kaiba’s past life and his nearly dead stranger friend that we have collectively decided is his wife, and by “we” I mean literally everyone on this show but Aknadin.

Aknadin sure doesn’t know what a “wife” is, but he sure as hell knows what it ain’t.

Kissara runs towards Seto in this huge, empty boss arena that I would avoid like the plague in any video game.

And speaking of based, Seto Kaiba shows up. Because this episode wasn’t unhinged enough yet. Seto Kaiba is here to be the greek chorus of his own wife’s death.

He’s noticed. He’s noticed this is weird.

It’s a different storyboarder this season, but this storyboarder is still dropping some great frames. Look at this Seto they gave us, just snooping behind a pillar. New PFP just dropped (that is if anyone was even still using twitter which like, my life has been extremely blessed ever since I left it, we should all leave it together.)

So anyway she farts out a Blue Eyes on turn one, and Seto just kind of seethes from behind a pillar while trying to parse just anything that is going on.

Aknadin decides to shove her (well, her dragon...spirit...thing) into the rock tablet during the card shenanigans that followed. I, at first thought it was with an Orichalcos, and I got very excited about how complicated this season was going to get before I realized it wasn’t lime green.

I do not fully understand the card shenanigans at play here, it was not covered in my education playing through Yugioh Duel Masters (Master Duel) but it doesn’t matter because of the power of...love? or whatever the hell vibes are going on between these two goobers. They, with their vague as hell energy, will stand together against whatever life throws at them.

And by that, I mean literally dying 5 seconds afterwards

Seto Kaiba behind a pillar watched this go down, confused by whether he should feel anything at all by this random series of events between a girl he had half a conversation with, and a guy who looks like him except with guns the size of barrels.

Seto, filled with the pure anger of his wifey’s revenge, also immediately biffed it in solidarity.

Seto still remained behind the pillar, because why interrupt this? I mean yeah he looks like yourself and that girl absolutely died but eh...he’s gonna stay behind the pillar. Maybe if he had a duel disk he’d have thrown a couple cards and done some property damage. but as you can see, there are not helicopters or cranes to do property damage with.

So instead he remains behind the pillar, which they didn’t draw here in this next frame.

And on the back of a horse, in gallops Pharaoh.

I live for these popcorn moments in TV, where we’re like “hey, what if we just threw these characters in a weird blender and see how they reacted?” and this episode is just--everyone ends up in this one random spot and they all collectively are like like “what? The hell is happening?”

And we will see more of that next update.

As usual, here is the link to read these in chrono order:

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

Next post will go up like tomorrow probably, but, may my post after that not take 2 months to make, lmao, I swear guys we are going to finish Season 5!

[rydoofall]

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[ankhisms]

hey do you want to see my yugioh card collection

[the-dark-magicians]

Hey, the holidays are approaching so gather 'round and here's a stupid little Yu-Gi-Oh! holiday friendship story straight from me to you children;

I will immidiately start off with some backstory:      I've been doin' the duels for 11 years now. I thank my best friend, who made me a mixed Harpie deck for my 16th birthday. I’ve always kept it, its now in 2021 probably my best built deck out of 3. Anyway, I'd walk to his house after school and play yugioh with him and a group of friends. Him and I would go to the card shop together and trade/duel every Sunday. Made better friends with other kids at school because of it and made more friends outside of school from it that are still in my life. (One kid I went to highschool with makes an actual living off this game, proud of him) Years after graduation, him and I moved hours away to the city together from our small town. Maybe 6 years ago? Life happened, I got a boyfriend who wasn't into Yugioh, I saw my friend less since I didn't like driving in the city (🤷‍♀️)

I'm with that boyfriend for 3 years. Around this time 2 years ago, he's been cheating on me for a year and a half, breaks up with me, kicks me out when I don't take him back. My best friend and his housemates let me crash on their living room couch with my dogs for a few weeks until I get back on my feet. We drink and play a fuck ton of yugioh like when we first moved to the city.

I get an apartment, work schedules don't line up. He takes me out for Valentines Day cause I desperately post online offering feet pics for buffalo wings and we play a yugioh.

I get a new boyfriend. He plays yugioh!!! He and my best friend meet for the first time. My boyfriend knows my best friend as "Kaiba". Blue Eyes cards out the ass, most brutal Blue Eyes deck, confident, well knowledged on everything going on with the game, and spends lots of money on cards. My boyfriend definitely talked way more than my friend was ready for, my friend was unsure about his energy lmao. Anyway me and my boyfriend buy a house an hour away from the city and I move.

Another year later,

About the cards: a few days ago I ask my best friend if he's doing anything for thank givie. He is but he insists on making time. I drive up to the city after closing the store and scoop him.

He asks me if I want his yugioh stuff, with the exception of his Blue Eyes, and Dark World decks. I humbly accept, knowing how much money he was literally handing me, and told him should he ever want anything back, it will be his. (He's just more into Magic and really only plays that now.) Not pictured are his:

Entierly holo Noble Knight Deck, my boyfriend has always wanted that warrior deck

A spellcaster deck I needed cards from

 A D.D. deck, the unstoppable most bullshit troll/anti-meta deck from the peek of our heavily played time.

Yes, his 54 (and still goddamn counting I assure you) card "Blue Eyes White Dragon" collection is glorious, but the glorious part to me is he essentially gave me...our childhood to keep because he "knew I'd take care of it"

I did. I rearranged all those Blue Eyes cards out of the old thicc boi 3 ringer from MY childhood in a safe pro binder and sent him pictures. I watched Duel Monsters and broke into tears as Solomon preached to Kaiba about what that card meant to him, why he wouldn't ever part with it.

But yeah. This was a really big yugioh friendship move and I'm still emotional about it and wanted to share I guess.

Also this makes me both Yugi and Kaiba AF even though his collection almost doubles mine.

[the-a-j-universe]

Alright, cool. I finally have a guaranteed length of time that should be long enough to go through all of these, so let’s do this. I know the plan was to have me address each ask one at a time but that didn’t work out lol so I’m just doing it all at once. I’m also turning it into a post so anyone who wants to can follow along with my journey.

I’m also gonna copy/paste the text of the other asks instead of screen capping them because copy/pasting is faster lol.

I’m gonna put a pic of each one here, give my thoughts, maybe a goofy rating (I dunno), and then pick my favorite. Just so y’all know.

* Tanawy's entry n.1 in the Dragon Quest monster showcase: the all-time classic Slime. When asked to design the Slime like the standard goop monster they usually were, Toriyama said "no" and a legend was born, now cute slimes are more popular than the disgusting goop depiction. Its cousins and variants are numerous and some are very different from one another so as a bonus here the criminally underutilized Mottle Slime and its evolution the Mottle King Slime.

See, I don’t even need to look this one up. Here it is:

But let’s be real, you guys didn’t need to see an image of this dude either. I love this thing. I never went through a period where I thought of the grosser oldschool slimes. This thing has always been what’s come to my mind when I here the word in an RPG context. Which, considering my zero experience with DQ, really speaks to this thing’s popularity. I am actually going to remove this one from consideration, though, for that reason. I just have too much of a bias towards it. I know it too well, and all variations seem to be equally great. It’s a 10/10, though. Truly iconic.

Get the rest after the cut!

* Tanawy's entry n.2: Originally a boss monster, here is the Golem. While not the sharpest tool in the shed, these brick-made guys can be quite loyal, with a child-like personality, downright adorable (I will never forget you Goldirox) but their strenght in battle must not be underestimated. And since St. Valentinus is around the corner here a Chocolate Golem variant as a gift. Friendship chocolate mind you, from a dude to another 😄

I like this guy. He reminds me of a couple oldschool Yugioh cards. They’re all bad cards, but I’m nostalgic for them so that help’s this guy’s chances. I don’t know that I buy him as a threatening boss, though. He seems more like he’d be your big stone pal.

The chocolate variant is absolutely adorable.

8.5/10 overall for both.

* Tanawy's entry n.3: Here are two members of the Machine Family, first the Killing Machine. These relentless hunters are merciless and they are constantly upgrading, so models with different modifications are plenty. They even come with garden sprinkles. Then there is the Mecha-mynah, who puts a different spin on the mechanical Cuckoo-bird motif. Careful these guys have razor-sharp wings and they selfdestruct when cornered.

Alright, not so much for the second one, but the Killing Machine also reminds me of, like, a half dozen Yugioh monsters. Did Kazuki Takahashi just like ripping this franchise off or something? Either way, these are both good designs, but they don’t really work for me that much. They’re a little...plain? I guess? I guess I like my machine creatures rougher and with more detail. 7/10.

* Tanawy's entry n.4: Next are my deepest fears (exaggeration) if they were real; the Waspion, half wasp half scorpion, and the Claw Hammer, Half hammerhead shark half metal scolopendra, all nightmare. Continuing with the caravan of creepiness, here is the Bona Constrictor, just get it away from me. This next one, when i saw it for the first time i yelled "WTF is That?!" here is the Ulcer, a walking awful pile of rotting flesh.

I am NOT a fan of the Ulcer. That thing’s ugly, and not even in a fun way. 0/10.

I like these other guys, though:

The Waspion is literally just Gligar from Pokemon, but aside from that I like animal/creature mash-ups. And the Claw Hammer is a pretty unique one. 9/10 for the whole lot.

* Tanawy's entry n.5: Beef or chicken? Why choose when you can have both? Here is a heavyweight of the Bird Family the taurine Bullfinch. But dont forget your vegetables, or else they might turn into these Plant family monsters, the eggplant Woebergine, the bellpeppers Capsichum and the cucumber Cruelcumber. Also, meet the Peahooter, these guys pelts their targets with arrows taking advantage of their higher ground.

Okay, we’ve got another mash-up creature here in the form of the Bullfinch, but I’m not feeling this one as much. It’s worth, like, a 6.5/10, maybe. The Woebergine and the Peahooter are both pretty interesting. The Peahooter is kinda cute in a weird way and the Woebergine is delightfully derpy. They both deserve approaching an 8/10. I’m not really feeling the Capsichum at all though. They get a 5 or a 6/10.

* Tanawy's entry n.6: Who doesn't like a good dog? Well maybe not these guys from the Beast family: the Chainine who will ensnare their preys with their collars, the Putrefido, who is no longer alive, the Abracadabrador, who will eat your bones, the Crocodog, a levitating (yes this thing floats in the air) dog-crocodile hybrid and finally the Jackal Ripper (long lost relative of Wolverine or just imitator? More at 11 on the news)

Hey now. That’s not really fair to the other entries. Every one of these dudes:

Is a very GOOD BOI. I think I like the Abracadabrador the least. He’s a little too un-dog-like compared to the others. 6.5/10. The Chainine and the Putrfido are both the perfect blend of cute and weird. I like them a lot. They get 7.5/10. Jackal Ripper is a badass 8/10. He’d be cooler if he was wearing jeans. I LOVE the Crocodog, though. 10/10. Perfect. He just looks like a friend, but he also looks like he could kill my enemies. Which is what I like in a monster.

* Tanawy's entry n.7: Here is a taste of Japan with the Boppin’ badger, the most Tanuki-like monster you will ever meet; Then these guys don't need consent to give everyone within their reach a smooch, here is the Lips. Also, beware of these horses of the underworld, the Equinox where they probably hangout with these other lovely fellows, the Hellspawn. Speaking of which here is the demon Teeny Sanguini. Cute eh? Not when it evolves in the Bloody Manguini. Thankfully not everyone of them does that.

Okay, you can’t fool me. That first one is just a regular animal.

Jokes aside, though, I’m not really feeling this bunch unfortunately. The Hellspawn just reminds me too much of mutant can Steven, the Lips is a little boring, and the Equinox, while I like the wordplay in its name, and while it’s cool in principal, is too busy. I’m just not feeling the designs of these guys overall. 4 or 5/10 for the whole lot. Though the Teeny Sanguini is closer to a 5 than a 4.

* Tanawy's entry n.8: There are two species of monsters, the Pips and their cousins the Conks, who constatly imitate the classic classes of the humans, like warriors or priests, but this time the little rascals have gone a little farther and here they are copying the DQ8 4 main heroes in the Trodainian Conklave, the DQ4 heroes in the Zenithian Conklave, the hero of DQ1 and the 3 heroes of DQ2 in the Alefgardian Conklave and the hero of DQ3 with 3 other companions in the Aliahanian Conklave. Cute.

Okay, I love the idea of these things. They’re cute, they fit right in with the general aesthetic of the franchise, and they have a ton of personality. I’m not gonna post pics of all of them because there’re so many, but they deserve ~9/10 collectively. They’re very good.

* Tanawy's entry n.9: Not enough dragons? So here's three: what do you get mixing a T-rex, a dragon and a vicious axeman? An Hacksaurus that's what! Then the Drakulard. Don't be fooled by their mole these portly fellows mean business. Another chubby dragon, the Jargon: dragonic masters of the clay containers, these guys URNed their right to use jar puns and they will make sure you remenber it, even if they have to crack your pot.

Okay now these are more what I was thinking when I heard the title Dragon Quest.

I like the Hacksaurus the best outta them. He just looks nice. They’re all good, though. They fit the art style perfectly, and resemble each other just enough that you buy them all being related creatures. 8/10 overall, though the Hacksaurus is a little above the others, with the Jargon being a barely at the bottom of the barrel. Or the jar I guess.

* Tanawy's entry n.10: The only story entry in this showcase, because just look at him, it's the only DQ big baddie (at least in english) to actually call themselves "the Demon Lord" It's Orgodemir, specifically it's true form which is the first photo you find in the gallery at almost end-page. Let me just tell you this, Orgodemir is a d*ck of the highest level. The brain it's actually an eyelid for a giant eye by the way. Happy Nightmares.

HAHAHAHA. I know there are other forms for this guy, and this is probably not the reaction that anyone who played the game would have, but I just can’t take this guy seriously. He looks like Edward Cullen with bat wings. HAHAHA. 8/10 ‘cause it made me laugh.

* Tanawy's entry n.11: And lastly, in a category i like to call "I can't belive these are real", its the Funky Ferret; yes he and his cousins do exactly what the image shows. And the almost copyright-infinging Owlbear, yes they did not even try to distance themself from D&D with this one (ok they have a variant but is not saying much). There were others in the last category, but since they REALLY did not age gracefully to the modern standards of "acceptable" i prefered not show them.

I love Owlbears, they’re just such iconic fantasy monsters at this point, so he gets a solid 8/10 rating by default. It’s a pretty original take, too, focusing on the cuteness potential of the creature over the badass potential. I like that.

The Funky Ferret, though...

With a name like that this guy coulda been so cool. But he’s just a pretty generic design blended with a fart joke. What a bummer. 3/10.

And there we have it. Probably not exactly what you were thinking but I hope you like it. I don’t hate any of these guys. Some are more boring than others, but there’s something neat about each of them. I like the ones that take badass ideas and make them cute while remaining intimidating best out of all of them, and I think the Crocodog does this best with the Hacksaurus as the runner up. Crocodog is definitely my favorite of these, though. He gets the Best Good Boi award of Bestness.

Orgodemir gets an award, too, though, the “made AJ spit out his rum and Coke laughing” award. It’s not the most coveted, but it’s something.

I know this is a long one, and y’all may not want to reblog, but what do any of my followers think of these funky dudes? Leave a comment on this post or reblog with your answer in the tags!

[blitzisms]

lays down sensually across ur desk ;)

hey nerd, what are you doing on my desk? where are my yugioh cards? did you move my yugioh collection off my desk just to lay on there? you mother fucker you don't mess with the cards-

[darkzorua100]

Tagged by @the-yugioh-theorist and @authoratmidnight - this came out of nowhere but hey thanks guys! :) 

Rules: Answer 20 questions and then tag 20 people you want to get to know better!

Nicknames: Darky (by me), Zorua (by online friends), Penguin (my real life friends (inside joke). Pretty sure I’ve had more in the past but honestly can’t think of them at the moment.

Height: I was just at the doctor’s about a week ago and I already forgot XD I think it was either 5′4 or 5′5 give or take.

Orientation: Bisexual

Where I live: Oklahoma for about a year now. Grew up in Missouri for my whole life before that if anyone cares to know.

Favorite fruit: Grapes

Favorite season: Autumn 

Favorite flowers: All flowers are pretty end of story

Favorite scents: Peppermint 

Favorite color: Black

Favorite animals: Foxes (I may or may not have a collection of them...)

Favorite instrument: Violin

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Honestly, I don’t like any of them. Just give me some milk and I’ll be good.

Average hours of sleep: Not enough...

Cat or dog person: I have both a dog and a cat and I love both of them equally, same can be said for dogs and cats in general. 

Favorite fictional character: Sebastian Morgenstern from the Mortal Instruments (I just love this psychotic bastard so much. Just the levels of how messed up he is amazes me so much. Anyone who has read the series knows exactly what I’m talking about).

# of blankets I sleep with: 1 (and that’s all I need since my room is smothering half the same and the other half is freezing when I don’t have that single blanket around me). I also have my baby blanket (don’t judge) I use at as a pillow.

Dream trip: Ship me to Japan please!

Blog created: 03 July 2015 (wait really?! 0-0 that’s news to me even)

Followers: 443 (How much are you all getting paid to put up with my crap?)

Random fact: I have a library of books, movies, stuff animals, and Yu-Gi-Oh cards in my closet because who gives a crap about clothes anyway?

Tagging: (if you want to do this or not or if you have already done this sorry) @mireil-mizi, @breakdawn-avenue, @theholylight, @rainbow-galaxy-supernova, @maindeckdeathtoymonsters, @entermates, @yu-yatogori, @justanotherotakuandartist, @scratchface and anyone else who wants to do this of course (I’m really bad at this part...)

[dcviated]

@hcnkaibrainrot​ sent:  Sirin, poking the back of Mizuki's head. " Hey. Do you like trading cards? "

“Ow ow ow! I heard you the first time, Sirin. Gimme a sec, just... have to wrap up this match.” Her character is hopping, bobbing, weaving, being an absolute menace on the field as others try fruitlessly to eliminate her, the last on her team. Resistance only draws out the inevitable, and the last opponent falls and they return to the voice lobby.

“Heh! Too easy, nice game, losers.” Mizuki cackles into the microphone, basking in the resulting fervor of cursing from the other players. “Beaten by a little girl.”

“Bullshit. Shut the fuck up you fucking hacker.”

“Little girl? More like some dude in his mom’s basement with a voice filter. You’re nothing.”

“The only filter here is me. Enjoy that hit to your ratio. I’m out.” Mizuki shuts off the game and turns back to her friend, shaking out the lingering tension of the match on her end before she focuses on the other.

“Okay! Now that those wimps are handled-” She expects some hate messages and rematch requests over the next couple hours- “You said trading cards, right? Yeah, sorta. I used to collect Odoroki-man stickers, but now I collect the official Adorabbit trading cards. And some other anime based ones. I never really got into any of the big competition ones myself, bu~t I still think they’re kinda cool. Ota plays Yugioh. Do you play any, Sirin?”

[millenniumpedant]

Chapter recap: Pobody’s Nerfect

Previously on Yugioh: YUGI and JONOUCHI were invited to Kaiba's house by MOKUBA, who's dinner invitation turned out to be an EXCUSE to make them DRINK POISON. DARK YUGI beat Mokuba in EXCITING RESTAURANT COMBAT, but Yugi and Jonouchi are left STRANDED at Kaiba's house because they are TOO AWKWARD TO LEAVE.

But like... you’re saying you didn’t try to escape? I'm definitely picturing Yugi with Jonouchi's limp form over his shoulder rattling the front door only for Hobson to stop them like "aren't you going to wait for Master Kaiba :)" and Yugi is so mortified he just goes back to his room.

Elsewhere in this mini castle, Kaiba wakes up late because he's been having persistent penalty game nightmares since his duel with Dark Yugi.

I assumed that Kaiba was tacitly in on Mokuba's whole schtick but it turns out he just slept through the revenge thing HE had planned. Absolutely relatable. (Also why didn’t they use his silly little housecoat for DM it’s great)

Jonouchi's like "hey asshole, your brother tried to murder me" and Kaiba's all "yeah... he does that :)" and then drives them to his new theme park.

Unlike the reader Yugi doesn't know that Kaiba's dreams are Messed Up

So it turns out Kaiba did build a real theme park (called Kaibaland) (of course he did), which is great, and everyone loves it apart from this one spoilsport:

god we can't all be "politically correct" and "not kill our fathers"

Apparently

I feel like the characterization differences between anime Kaiba and manga Kaiba are encapsulated in the duel stadium designs. Sleek futuristic arena vs. utilitarian glass box.

Thanks Columbo

Yugi is forced to watch in horror as Grandpa is challenged to a collectible card game. I should point out that there's no real reason for Kaiba to be doing this, it's not like he has any special gaming superpowers--

Well okay.

I guess that makes him the Batman to Yugi's Superman? Or, no, wait... a villain who's jealous of the main character's powers, and invents a technological equivalent because they can't stand not to be the best at everything...

Same character (he’s even got the stupid robe)

The duel is pretty straightforward, Grandpa is winning until Kaiba busts out three blue eyes white dragons. Where did he get three of these things?

IT'S A TRADING CARD

Grandpa loses, Kaiba gives him a VR penalty game:

(DM plot hole #4: This is how playing a card game caused him to become horribly injured)

Actually, I just realized that both Grandpa and regular Yugi have nooo context for any of this. They must think Kaiba's off his rocker. Anyway, the only way Yugi can stop the penalty game is by agreeing to play through Kaiba's expensive death theme park and then beat him at cards. Again. 

Of course Jonouchi is going along, and surprisingly enough Honda shows up as well. He was just visitig the theme park opening because I guess he's a close enough friend to go through a death maze with, but not close enough to like, already be hanging out with them. If you’re wondering what the baby’s deal is, it’s pretty simple: he is the worst character. You will grow to hate this baby.

Whew, some pretty heavy stuff Kaiba's laying down! Just to briefly remind you of the events that Kaiba's mad about: Kaiba stole Grandpa's BEWD from Yugi, then Dark Yugi challenged him to a shadow game to get it back, and won because the BEWD sacrificed itself during the game.

And here's who Kaiba wants revenge on:

Yugi (for beating him at a card game so bad he got nightmares)

Grandpa (for owning the card he stole)

A trading card (for not working correctly)

Yugi's friends (look they're in the room and this deadly theme park was very expensive)

Conclusion: Kaiba is a very reasonable gentleman with a good sense of proportion.

Next time: Laser tag! But with guns!

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Yugioh especially the early Yugioh was a blast! I used to play it all the time. I still have all my old cards. I miss the show and keep meaning to go watch it again. Who was your favorite character?

Ahhh, I’ve been meaning to reply to this earlier but life got in the way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Oh man, I never played much, but I collected the cards for the aesthetic and kept a 40 card deck (with which I mostly ended up doing tarot readings instead lol)

I’m on such a nostalgia trip - I’ve watched the show in German, English, and Japanese (with Eng subs), and read the manga in both official and fan translations. And now I’m rewatching it and it’s got so many “oh god how did I take any of this seriously as a kid” moments, it triggers my second hand embarassment so hard xD especially the logic of the whole Orichalcos arc! like wtf did I think was cool about that lol

Tbh I always loved the girls, though Rebecca felt kinda annoying, and I used to think it’s a “I’m a girl so I identify with the girls” thing (and especially with Shizuka since, hey, she’s got the same hair as me! :D!), but it’s probably that plus the fact I’m actually a bit bi :’D though like all shonen anime they never got enough character developement :/

From the boys, Ryou Bakura is hands down my fave. Like okay, Yami Yugi is hot, and I absolutely crushed on Seto Kaiba (I have a thing for brunets to this DAY I have a type lol). I went through so many ships over the years, but out of the yami/hikari pairs, Tendershipping was my go to and that devolved into variations on Bakura/Marik with their various iterations. (Especially Deathshipping AKA Yami Marik x Ryou Bakura. I’m still kinda a sucker for Deathshipping, so I might actually write some of that again if I get around to it?)

In hindsight, I’m much fonder of... a lot of the characters that I didn’t particularly like as a kid lol. Like Pegasus or Shaadi. Then again, I’m definitely a lot less impressed by Rafael, Valon and Alistair (sp?), considering I’m way less impressed with that whole arc’s set-up overall xD

Really recommend watching the Abridged stuff if you haven’t! The earlier episodes have some problems, but it’s fun how LK calls out weird little dub choices, and the recent episodes have been hilarious.

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Thoughts on Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Link

It’s been AGES since I watched Yu-Gi-Oh.  Last time was when Marrick was trying to get all the Egyptian God Cards and put Mai into a coma.  The first time it aired in the US.  I think I might have still been in high school!  I knew that there was also an actual card game, but I never picked any cards up in the store.  I was more of a Pokemon gal.

Last week, some acquaintances at the local game store were talking about their cards in the Duel Link game, and today, I figured I may as well give it a shot.  It had to be less expensive than picking up the MLP CCG again.  (Nothing drains your disposable income like a collectible card game.  NOTHING.)

Since I’ve been playing other Bandai/Namco anime-based cellphone games, I knew I’d probably enjoy it.  I was also pretty sure it wouldn’t play too much like DBZ Dokkan Battle, and...probably nothing like Sailor Moon Drops.

Here are my comments thus far:

* Fourth on the list of search results in Apple’s app store for “yugioh” is Klondike solitaire.  I can post a screenshot later if you really want proof.

* The interactive load screen is a nice touch.  It looks like the same 20 cards each time, but it helps you kill time while you wait for the game to download, and that’s all anyone can ask of a load screen, really.

*  Oh thank the GODS there’s an “I only really know this game from the comic/anime” option.

*  Demo battle: I picked Yami Yugi.  (Kaiba’s a dick and we all know it.)  Not a bad intro to the game.

*  I picked English text, Japanese voices, since I understand spoken Japanese way better than written at this point.  The Japanese voices sound deeper than the English ones, but that may just be me.

*  Oh hey, I battled a kid with a suspiciously English name.  That was fun, I guess?

*  Watched a replay of someone else’s battle: Seto Kaiba vs. Maximillian Pegasus.  Pegasus is even more Extra!! in Japanese.  Nobody is allowed to be that melodramatic.  I’m pretty sure there’s a law.  OTOH, he doesn’t have L.100 Anime Hair like Yugi’s, so maybe this is his way of compensating.  (Also, I couldn’t help but notice he uses a more polite form of Japanese than the kids: “Watashi” instead of “Ore” and “desu” instead of “da.”  Which you kind of expect from this sort of character.)

* Bonz is apparently an event battle.  He’s being creepy and stealing cards from little girls.  I already disliked you from the Duel Kingdom arc, Bonz, you don’t have to do shit to make me hate you more.

*  Gameplay is...exactly like the card game, AFAICT.  You summon monsters in either Attack or Defense mode, set Trap Cards, and cast Spell Cards.  First person to run out of Life Points loses.  No mention of the Shadow Realm yet, though.  I guess these are non-lethal matches.

Verdict: This is a pretty solid FTP card game.  For those of us who don’t want to spend lots of real-world $$, the game offers you chances to get Gems for free (including those daily login bonuses that keep you hooked).  

Also, any time I duel against an opponent using Bandit Keith, I will shout “IN AMERICA!!” even if it means people give me weird looks.

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Yugioh S4 Ep 4: Pegasus and His Unlimited Moxie

So, I’m finally back after that long--time--when I was sick, then busy, etc etc. Long story, I peaced out from social media for the large part, and my method for finding solace mostly involved watching so much  “big living in a tiny house.”

Those houses are so damn tiny.

And now I feel better, so lets get back to business.

Just FYI, this is a midweek post because this weekend I’ll be exploring a part of California I didn’t know existed before my friend was like “Napa’s booked, so we’re going South to do our wedding in the other wine country” and it’s like “the hell are you talking about other wine country?????”

So I might be driving to a large cardboard cutout of a winery, and me and 400 guests are going to just stand in front of it and pretend that it’s real for a couple days. This means that I will probably make only like maybe three updates this month and I’m just going to have to come to terms with that.

And in case you are wondering (you’re not) the bye bye bye mashup dance we’re doing for the wedding is going great. It’s really freakin great that the Seahawks decided to choose this week to steal our thunder, so now everyone at this wedding will think we’re just all really into Football. (I’m just telling you that because I feel a need to complain so thank you for listening.)

But anyway, it was a nice surprise amongst all this *stuff* I didn’t really want to do, that this particular episode of Yugioh is pretty great. Like...guys we get Pegasus, we get Kaiba having a meltdown, we get PEGASUS. Like I forgot how much I like Pegasus.

So first off, Yugi and friends decided to watch the news about the whole shpeal from last episode, probably because each and every one of them was certain they all shared the same collective fever dream.

Something to note about Yugioh is they use a lot of near future tech, and I don’t know how much of that sci-fi goes completely over the heads of kids nowadays since this has become so normal. But yo, people in 2002 were still using AOL.

A lot has changed in 10 years. Just let that sink in, babies in the back.

(read more under the cut)

Also, please turn your entire attention over to this

Man.

the weird orange cookie on this painting is what really gets to me. It looks like a handmade soap. Because in order to soothe my soul during this stressful month I also watched a lot of cold-process soap making videos.

*quickly looks up to see if there’s Yugioh Soap*

Yeah that doesn’t exist. Hey do you think that if I sent in a Yugioh soap design into Royalty Soaps she’d actually make it? I mean, she did Studio Ghibli. This is just Studio Ghibli but on fire and with terrible hair and actually very different.

(And yes, I did, just now, in fact, make a soap design that I’m absolutely mailing to Royalty Soaps. I’ll put it at the end. No idea what it should smell like, mostly because the last thing I want to do when watching Yugioh is think about how ANY of this smells.)

See, tangents like this are why I don’t have more time.

Anyway, Yugi recalls that he was supposed to *do a thing* but also recalls that he was given really no instructions at all.

When something absolutely wonderful happens.

Y’all I was like shouting at the screen “BE A TAPE BE A TAPE BE A TAPE” and lo and behold:

Dude. Pegasus is such freakin mastermind. Remember that this show started out with them streaming video on a computer, and what did he decide to do? He sent them a tape. Pegasus knows FULL WELL how much they want to see this tape but at the same time...don’t want to watch this tape, and what follows is everyone deciding if they should or should not open Pandora’s box. A Pandora’s box they opened once before and then murdered Grandpa entirely by accident.

I can’t believe they sat on this joke for four seasons. It’s such a freakin good joke.

So of course it’s the same kid who once decided it would be a great idea to put together a puzzle that came in a box that said “WARNING THIS GODAWFUL THING KILLS PEOPLE” who decided to just stick this in the VCR when everyone else was fighting and no one was looking.

And, this is not a joke, this is literally how Pegasus decided to open this tape by scolding him for not keeping in touch when Pegasus tried to kill them not once but multiple times back on murder island. Pegasus thinks this deserves him at least a Christmas card.

Something that’s also very Pegasus is that he um--doesn’t even bother wearing an eyepatch nowadays. He’s just got...one eye now...just an empty socket that he covers with bangs and is like “ya I dare you not look at it.”

And then on, this kid’s show, they basically go through the checklist of things that are “things a child abductor would ask you to do”

And that’s it. That’s the whole tape. It’s the end of the world and Pegasus wants to get one last good prank in before it all goes belly up.

And it worked really good on Joey. But unfortunately, did not seem to phase Yugi.

And then after this, the show gets very sidetracked by some side characters that are...they still exist.

First of all, how much did Weevil spend on a bug drone? Like...what’s this guy’s day job?

Second of all, Rex and Weevil live on some weird brain plane, where they’re pretty sure that the upper echelon of card people are all in love with eachother (which, I don’t blame them, I’ve seen tumblr, it does give that impression if you’ve never watched this show). What they don’t realize is how badly each of the upper echelon of card people want to murder the Hell out of eachother, wipe eachother’s brains, and blow eachother up on a 6000 ft tower on an abandoned island.

so I guess...Unfortunately...Rex and Weevil are...still with us. Their reasoning is kind of weird--they want super good cards--but like...what’s the point of having super good cards if you’re still Rex and Weevil? Rex is so bad at cards we didn’t even get to see him lose in S2.

Also, the biker gang is back, and I still don't know their font color because they’re in dim lighting in this scene so I’ll just use these temporary font colors for now.

So, having done his one last good Joke (and maybe the only good joke that Pegasus has ever made) Pegasus decided to sit and wait for someone to do a murder on him. I mean he’s not psychic anymore, but he’s figured he’s screwed enough people that this was how he was going to go out anyway.

Mai....Valentine....

So I guess she’s back for another season? It’s weird, she made one cameo and then that was it for this episode, but it was very clearly Mai Valentine. Bro brought up that they had to make her a villain again, because she’s literally their only girl villain and I was like “no that’s, not right they’ve got...” and then I kinda sat there for a couple of seconds and I realized “oh dude there’s only been one girl villain so far in all of Yugioh!” and he was like “YEP.”

Because both of us completely forgot about Rebecca until I wrote this in this post and he was double checking it just now. My apologies to the Rebecca stans.

And then Yugi decided to let us know something extremely disturbing about his curse. The showed played it off like this was a cute thing you would want to have happen. But no. No one would ever want this.

Ho boy! They share FEELINGS?

So like...

...bear with me here--when Yugi is scared, Pharaoh gets scared. When Yugi is tired, Pharaoh feels tired. When Yugi has a complete meltdown basically every single day, Pharaoh reaches for his Tums. So um...I have to ask the question...

So who’s dating Tea? Yes, I know the real answer is neither of them, but who is the one that keeps bringing forth this ship that this show is supposed to be shipping? Both of them??? I mean they have the same feelings, and before I was like, well, I’m sure Pharaoh just kinda turns around and watches brain TV when Yugi and Tea talk about...deadlifting, or whatever she’s into, but nah he’s like...he’s got the same feelings as Yugi.

Does that just...never bother them? Like...they never get jealous? Ever?

It’s so freakin weird.

This whole sequence was Yugi being like “You can’t keep a secret from me Pharaoh, I will instantly know since I can feel you lying to me” and it’s like hot damn that’s a big lore drop that they just hop and skip away from.

So the next day they go to the airport and just go unsupervised to a foreign country.

This makes complete sense on Gramps’ part, because he was exploring Egyptian caves most of his life, so in comparison, California is baby town and Yugi would be fine. Clearly Gramps doesn’t know enough about Oakland.

Then again, Grandpa spent a very long and mysterious time in the Middle East raiding so many tombs and stealing an entire artifact that contains the whole history of a lost age of Egypt and an actual Pharaoh’s soul so like...probably wouldn’t get you past TSA in 2002. He’d send off like every red flag warning in the airport.

Give me an Air Joey spinoff this instant, Yugioh, you cowards.

It’ll be just like Wings, except all the pilots are very bad at their job and haunted by multiple ghosts.

There’s a very long pissing segment where there was no piss, but Rex begging Weevil to let him piss in the airplane. It’s about as much as you can expect out of a Rex and Weevil segment. And like, basically at this point, Rex and Weevil are married, yet this ship is never, not once, ever surfaced in my feed of fanart I see out of y’all.

And I don't blame you.

Now, when we get to California, we find out that Croquet either went completely gray or was replaced with an identical twin and also...

GUYS IT’S MY HOMESLICE.

Which doesn’t really look like this, PS.

So bro has already told me that they’re going to San Fransisco next episode or so (OMG I’m so excited to talk about it), so this is absolutely supposed to be SFO in the show. (maaaybe Oakland Airport? But I super doubt it)

Most people outside of CA don’t know the vast scale of Bay Area and that the San Fransisco Airport is not very well named since it is...not close to San Fransisco at all.

So, I’m going to guess that the show thinks they landed directly in the heart of SF. With the way this vista looks, I think they basically just painted the view from north of Downtown. Which is especially fun because that is a pretty bougie community and the thought of having just a major airport smack in the middle of it makes my heart warm and fuzzy because they have voted out an affordable housing community SO many more times than is morally acceptable. Serves you right, here’s your international airport across the street.

But Bro has warned me ahead of time that this season makes absolutely no sense geography wise...and I’m pretty stoked for that.

And then, as if reading my mind, Tea removes Rex and Weevil from the show, yet again.

Incredible that they got through customs like that, but they did arrive on a private plane, and maybe customs are different for them? I...don’t think it would be, even for a private plane, everyone has to go through customs. But, it’s a kids show, so Rex and Weevil snuck into America in a luggage bag, just like how Fox News warned us about.

Then again, I imagine that the customs agent was like “yo there’s two human bodies stuffed in here!????” and was like “ohhhhh wait, it’s a Pegasus’ plane. That adds up. Ya.” and just let it through.

Time for a classic Kaiba meltdown sequence, where he puts on a show of being really competent but is in reality acting like a stack of screaming cats in a purple trench coat.

Mokuba just working overtime to keep this ship afloat because man.

And then this next part isn’t a joke I made up--Kaiba only took as long as it took to monologue for five seconds about his reputation before doing this:

It’s more than possible that the translators have no idea who Roland is, and unlike me, isn’t keeping tabs on Roland every second that green haired fourthKaiba is on screen.

So Pegasus decides to give Kaiba a call on his video phone--because again he only saves the Panasonic Camcorder for spooking Yugi.

Pegasus could have just *called* Yugi the entire time, lol.

Anyway, without the camcorder, Pegasus now has room to stretch out his legs and stick his feet directly in the screen like the end of the world wasn’t less than 2 days ago.

And the show isn’t telling us why or how this is happening after the whole Mai thing that happened. But it’s nice to know that even when Pegasus may be absolutely held up against his will, he still freakin slays.

Youknow, Pegasus does more in this one episode to remind me that “oh yeah, Pegasus was my favorite character this whole time” than anyone else and he did in like two calls, sitting in a chair behind his desk, just screwing with people to screw with them.

And what I enjoy about Pegasus is that, although he had his eyeball removed--he’s still a freakin asshole. He still super sucks. I had a lot of questions about “how much of Pegasus being the worst was the eyeball?” And apparently the answer was “VERY little, this guy is just the freakin worst. Didn’t need to be cursed at all.”

And so, Yugioh doesn’t really do transformation sequences--unless you count when Yugi sometimes goes “yugiohhhhhh” and then to everyone else looks virtually the same. Instead Yugioh does gear up sequences.

Where we find out that Seto promised Mokuba he wouldn’t play cards anymore until he was done building all those theme parks.

I guess it’s unfortunate for Mokuba that this whole Pegasus end of the world thing happened out of nowhere and also unfortunate for Mokuba that Kaiba can build card-themed theme parks Really Quickly. I think Mokuba was banking on it taking an entire lifetime to build a park but youknow, looking at how many sequels of Yugioh there are...eh, Mokuba should have instead dared Seto to give up dueling until he finished a single semester of public school. Then those cards would have stayed buried.

Hey um...did Kaiba add hip spikes on this purple coat since Season 2? I don’t remember him having those.

Good thing I write a blog and I can check. Time for some time travel to Season 2.

Ah, yes, the hip spikes were not there in Season 2. So, at some point in between then and now, Kaiba looked at this old ass coat hanging in his closet and was like “Not Enough Butt Spikes!” and just glued em on there.

But anyway, back to Season 4...

I’m pretty sure this is one of the doors from Evangelion.

And so, off they go, straight to their death, in the world’s most un-aerodynamic vehicle.

Really glad that Dragon Plane seems to have become a permanent character, as it would if you spent 10 million dollars building a dragon plane that can’t possibly fly using real world physics.

So, Yugi and Co are going to California, and Seto is going to Season One.

And I guess Bakura was like “Oi! Loves! Is every body ready for me to murder them?” and Gramps was like “sorry, they’re getting murdered by Pegasus today” and he was like “bloody hell, every time.”

Anyway, if you just got here, this is a link to read all these recaps from the beginning, in chrono order--it’s a lot of content, and I can’t believe I spent this much time doing this.

And because you’re curious, here’s the soap design that will get absolutely rejected by Royalty Soaps because they say they like to watch anime but they also pronounced “Ghibli” wrong like over 20 times on that one video so I have a strong feeling this is not their brand.

[delacruise]

The Yugioh story I’m writing that no one cares about but imma put it here anyway so Nyeeh~ 😜

Prologue

“Fool! Did you really think your pathetic deck could hope to defeat my Blue-Eyes?” Kiba laughed arrogantly at the shadowed figure, his Blue-Eyes letting out a roar with 3 back-row spots glowing, his lifepoint counter reading 8000. The shadowed figure’s field had only 2 back-row spots glowing along with a Plague-Spreader Zombie in defense mode, his life point counter reading 7000; “Hahahaha! I don’t even need the rest of my deck to trounce you, you amateur!”

Suddenly the entire area became a dark shadow as the figure placed two fingers onto his deck, readying to draw. “Don’t you dare mock my deck Kiba. I trashed the former King of Games Yugi, and now...” he drew his card, holding it up sideways in front of him; “I’ll destroy you, and add your deck to my collection.” He looked at the card, grinning as he held it out showing Kiba; “Now I reveal! Rank up: the 7th One!”

Slowly, behind the figure, the shadows twisted and churned as they slowly took shape of a demonic shadow figure with bright red piercing eyes, Kiba looking on in terror.

“Wh-What IS that thing?!” Kiba stepped back as he stared at the beast, even Blue-Eyes seemed to be trembling in terror.

“It is your end Kiba! Now feel the fury of my-“

*BEEEP! BEEP! BEEEP!*

The sound of the alarm blaring caused the young child to jump, freaking out when she found herself trapped under her sheets, flailing for a few seconds before breaking free, her blond hair sticking out everywhere as she slammed her fist onto the alarm clock, silencing the beeping.

“*Yawn!~* geez Anutha one of dose nightmares of the big duel last year...”

She climbed out of bed, rubbing her eyes as she scratched her backside, her Marvel PJ bottom’s left leg riding up to her thigh.

‘Everyone in the whole world saw dat duel.’ She thought, walking to her dresser, grabbing a brush and started brushing her bed head; ‘Kiba vs some rando. And he Lost! What even Was that monster?’

“‘Ey Kira! ‘Urey up an get down heuh! Dose new Boosta packs just arrived! Imma open em up widdout ya!” A thick Boston accent bellowed from out her door.

“Hang on Pops! Don’t open em yet!” Kira shouted, hurrying to get dressed and running to the stairs. Jumping onto the railing, she slid down to the bottom, jumping off and running into the kitchen, seeing her father Joey sitting at the table, looking over at her, smiling as she runs in.

“‘Ey! Nice landing squirt.” He let out a chuckle as he held up one of the booster packs, teasing her ; “Lookie what I got.~”

“Aw c’mon pops! Don’t tease me widdem!” Kira whined, reaching for the pack. Joey chuckled and popped her on the forehead, leaning down.

“Like I’d open any packs widout my lucky charm wid’ me.~” He moved slightly to the side, revealing a small pile of booster packs. Kira’s eyes widened seeing them, 20 total. To her, it was the most packs she’s ever seen.

“Holy shmoley! Mista Pegasus really sent us All these?!” Kira remembered the first time she saw Maximilian Pegasus, back when she was just 8. ‘Even then I thought he was a bit off. But he did send us these boosta packs ta help me start off! He might not be such a bad guy aftuh all~’

Joey passed Kira half the stack, smiling. “Dats right squirt! He said he wanted ta see ya be a supah amasin’ duelist like yer dad!~” Joey looked at the packs curiously; “He also mentioned they’d help out my old buddy Red-Eyes.” He shrugged, and held out a pack towards Kira, Kira doing the same. “Here’s for some killa pulls!” They tapped the packs, then began tearing into the packs.

After a few minutes, they both stared in awe at the cards they removed from the packs, all having something to do with Red-Eyes.

Joey was in shock seeing all these new cards. “Holy Crud! These are the coolest cards I’ve ever seen!”

Black Metal Dragon, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal, Return of the Dragon Lords, Silvers Cry, Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon, Red-Eyes Wyvern, Return of the Red-Eyes, Cards of the Red Stone, even 2 more Red-Eyes Black Dragons!

Kira noticed one of the packs fell from the table and landed on the floor under the table. “Oh. There’s one more!” She picked it up and opened it, both her and Joey looking curiously, revealing 2 monsters and 3 magic cards.

2 Black Stone of Legend and 3 Red-Eyes Fusion.

“Woah. These guys are insane!” Kira looked over her collection of cards, two or three copies of each card. ‘Wow...these are all mine...my first Duel Monsta deck!’

“Eh? Hey what gives?? No Extra Deck Monstas?!” Kiba looked at her cards, shocked realizing her dad was right. “Dat weasel knows Red-Eyes are strongest when they fuse with other Monstas!” Joey face palms himself, leaning back in his chair; “Geez...ah well.” He sat back up, grinning his confident grin; “I’ll just have ta let ya borrow a few of my cards~ hehee~” Kira’s eyes lit up with joy, knowing her dad was gonna help her build her first deck.

“R-Really?? You think after I get the hang of it, I could enter the Duelist Academy?”

Joey looked at Kira, seeing her eyes practically glowing with excitement. ‘Duel Academy?’ Joey pondered the thought for a bit. ‘If she does get into one of those, she’d have to leave home...’ he closed his eyes, trying to avoid eye contact. ‘AHHH I CANT TELL THAT FACE NO!!’ He let out a sigh, grinning as he placed a hand on her head. “Get in? With my help, you’d be in the Top of the Academy in no time squirt!”

And with that, Pops helped me build my deck and teach me how to use each card, even letting me borrow his Summoned Skull, red-eyes, and Black Skull Dragon! I knew with his help, I’d never loose! A few months later, we found a Duel Academy not too far from home! Little did I know what challenges awaited me along the way...stick around to find out what happens next!

To be Continued.

[animusharmonia]

At about the beginning of last school year, I began logging the random stuff I’ve heard or seen around the wonder that is high school. Admittedly, some of this contains some of my shenanigans, because who am I going to pay more attention to other than myself. Writing every single thing all at once would take a while (the document I’ve been using is nearly to 16 pages as of now), so this is just a collection of some of what I deem funnier or more bizarre. 

Class split into groups of 4. The four Asian kids teamed up. The one guy of the group whispered “Asian Invasion” 

The manga section of the school library had two volumes of yaoi

The manga section of the school library being mixed in with the comic section

The comic and manga section of the school library being in the middle of the non-fiction area because “its cultural”

“I can’t reach the top shelf in my house, and who’s going to help me there? My dog? I don’t think so.” 

“Wow! That’s so cool! I don’t care, I might tomorrow. No, wait! It’s Saturday!”

“This one is fancy heels, this one is fancy pants”

“Wait, it’s a different Louis?” “There are a lot of Louii”

“And then the guillotine was too slow, so they shot them instead” “...okay”

“This is due Thursday, right? Let’s discuss who’s doing what slide and leave it at that because yay, procrastination”

The Latin teacher teaching us how to say “Go to hell” in Latin when she told a story about someone in the Latin 3 class having asked what the phrase in question from one of their books meant

The radio was playing music over the gymnasium. My Immortal came on. “I’m so tired of being here” “Hah, same”

“Everyone knows what a coup d'etat is, right?”

We got the majority of the class

“An overthrowing by the military”

And we got this kid

“It sounds like something from Lion King”

“???”

Someone said “Coup d’etat” slowly, to the tuneish of “Hakuna matata”

The realization and understanding dawning across the class

Waiting in those minutes for class to end, a few people sat there quietly singing Hakuna Matata

“A coup d’etat-ta, what a wonderful thing”

“And this guy was like “Hell yeah, we want change…””

“Probably using different words”

“Well yeah, he used French”

“Is that a lacrosse ball?” “Yeah” “We’re in theater, how the fuck did you get that?”

One girl sitting on one of the plastic desk chairs with her knees to her chest, calmly eating a salad as she participated in the class discussion

One girl dislocated her arm in sports and, instead of keeping it in a sling, got this exoskeleton thing made to keep her arm at a 90 degree angle. She was way too excited to discover it was at a perfect angle for dabbing.

“I swear, if we have a pop quiz in that class I’m going to cry. Or kill a man. I can’t tell which anymore”

One girl all but sprinting down the hall as she let out some low shrieking noise, only stopping when she got to her friend’s side and leaned far enough in front of him to make eye contact.

“I was doing, like, six things at once and thought ‘What if the building fell right now? I would get nothing done.’ Because hey, it’s the end of the year, I got all this stuff to do, and it would be really inconvenient.”

One guy had a table in the lobby and stood, roll of tinfoil in hand and tinfoil hat on head, yelling about the Illuminati, aliens, and government. He was passing out tinfoil hats to anyone who wanted them

Someone walked into my Latin class wearing one and magistra asked if the guy was talking about the “Alluminati” instead of the Illuminati

One girl’s promposal where she called out the other girl’s name to get her attention as one friend to her right began playing “Never gonna give you up” and the friend to the right held roses. The sign she held read “It would meme a lot if you went to prom with me” in large shiny foil letters, meme in purple as opposed to the gold of the others, and a pepe in the bottom right corner. It was adorable.

“I nearly got a detention for reading in reading class. I was tempted to continue just for when people asked me what I was in for”

On a Latin test, there was a section where you were given 7 names and you had to give a fact about 5 of them. For Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, someone put “A species of alien that appears in the series Star Trek” and he got a point for that.

A girl put “Got a Yugioh card named after him” in small font for Regulus, but filled in 5 others seriously

One girl who is Very Passionate about Yugioh

The teacher was making hand gestures as he spoke. He paused in gestures with his hand outstretched, still addressing the class, and the person sitting right beside him reached out and gave him a high-five

The guy who gave him the high-five had hacked his (the history teacher’s) computer earlier that year

The common “Final” for jazz band is that the teacher brings in Rock Band and they play that

“I’m amazed, you can hear the lack of brain cells”

One meme of a girl wrote “I’M SCHLEEP” on the whiteboard in band. She took a picture of it and walked away satisfied with herself. A few minutes later, the band director piped up from the back of the room. “Hey, Ashley? What does ‘schleep’ mean?” “I dunno”

Someone hiking up their shorts to the length of girls’ shorts, pulling his shirt down so you can’t see them, and Naruto running a circle around the room

Due to state testing, classes were shortened. On the day of the final band concert, those involved went to their first three classed but remained in third (concert band. Those from wind ensemble were pulled in as well) and lurked there for the rest of the day to practice. Pizza was ordered and soda was brought for a celebration of sorts. The 32 pizzas ordered were emptied within around half an hour.

A group of three girls and two guys. The third girl declared herself the fifth wheel of the group, staring tiredly at the two couples.

She didn’t really seem to care, though, and generally could be found latched onto one of her friend’s arms. Both the friend and friend’s boyfriend didn’t really seem to care either.

The other couple, meanwhile, was fluent in innuendos and suggestive comments that tended to scare away the asexual fifth wheel.

“Freshmen, do not climb into the trash cans, thank you.”

One girl convinced some guy in class that Inside Out ends with the girl dying

“That’s not possible.” “It’s magic, shut up.”

“Why is the final cumulative? I can’t remember shit.”

One girl’s realization that graduation was the following day (seniors have been out for well over a week, it’s hard to tell) and the complaint at how “WE HAVE TO PLAY AT THE FREAKING THING, WHY DOES NOBODY TELL ME THESE THINGS?!”

One kid brought in wasabi candy. He offered some to his table mate before telling him what it was. He ate the offered treat with hesitance and a shrug, but the underlying regret was visible before long.

“I hope you know my scoliosis doesn’t like you.”

Some people (4 or 5?) in the corner of the room, taking the Rice Purity test and comparing answers

Apparently the sole girl of the group had the worst score

A math teacher who doubled as the theater director had his yearbook picture taken in a ghillie suit

The ghillie suits had been gotten for the production of Little Shop of Horrors the year prior

“I love getting stepped on!”

Someone was complaining about how their hair looked bad. Our teacher just “Yeah, tell me about it,” gesturing to his own balding head

One of the freshmen band kids after graduation reverently whispering “You’re free” to every graduate they passed

For graduation, all of the people of the band and choir were wearing muted colors - whites, blacks, pale blues, soft floral patterns, etc. - and then we have one cackling flutist in fluorescent orange

“If Kim Kardashian doesn’t feel ashamed, neither should you” - the fucking valedictorian speech

It contained other golden moments such as “I got to work with some of these students due to my participation in The King and I,” (Note: he was the king) “and one of them said something profound that stuck with me. He beckoned me closer and made me lean down and he whispered in my ear… “yolo.” Now, according to Urban Dictionary, yolo is “a term that should have stopped being used five years ago and means You only live once””

He kept looping back to yolo. “What does yolo mean to you”

Next day some of us from the musical had been talking about that the next day. The collective statement was “Hudson. That was Hudson”

“We were the first class to take keystones, and the last generation to not get touchscreen laptops. What a time to be alive!”

The “corner crew” of Latin class (the people who had taken the Rice Purity test) decided to get a group picture with the teacher. One person in the group is my book-nerd friend who had been placed there by the teacher in an attempt to break up their antics (it didn’t work, they absorbed him, much to his exasperation). My friend is the smallest out of the group, so they decided to pick him up. The picture was taken with “Te Amo, Latin” written on the board behind them, my friend held aloft horizontally, and magistra slightly crouched in front of the group with an unsure smile.

The corner crew also had done a presentation on how Canada is just a government conspiracy and also the government is run by shape shifting lizards

“Did you really assign a project? Mr [Last name], I am appalled! There are four days left in school”

It was a 6 prompt essay. All prompts had to be answered with proper sources and everything.

That got a lot longer than intended, so I only covered the happenings of last year (still 6.5 pages of nearly 16)...

[nenya85]

hey don't mean to bother you! i know you're big into prideshipping and i am too so could you recommend some other active prideshipping blogs for me please? thank you!

Hi!  I guess it’s no secret that prideshipping is my OTP!

I’m apologizing in advance because I know I’m going to forget some really awesome blog and feel like a jerk afterwards.  So if anyone reads this and wants to add someone I missed, please do and please accept my apologies!

I tried to list all the blogs I’m familiar with where prideshipping was the main pairing.  If someone had a description on their blog that described its contents, I included it, otherwise I did my best to summarize.  My comments are in parentheses.  Please note that I can’t remember the nsfw status of most blogs.

Anyway, in alphabetical order:

@aminotvxq - Hobbyist artist / TVXQ fan shipping Homin / Yugioh fan & slave for Prideshipping & The DSoD addict & VRAINS hype (amazing fanart, very high percent of it prideshipping)

@arcatsk  The Dark Side of Prdeshipping: ARCat submits..well..random stuff and sketches.. ^^ Also expect lots of platonic Prideshipping posts and reblogs

@card-gays - Official Yugioh Trash Blog - head canons, memes, asks and answers

@drummerdancerficsandpics -  Yu-Gi-Oh! Writer, AMV Editor, Doujinshi Translations Prideshipping/Puzzleshipping

@duelingdestiny - post-canon atem blog 18+ Character quote: I have chosen the wrong path too many times “  (Not prideshipping exclusive, but the prideshipping rps are pure gold.)

@duelmepharaoh - yugioh art/meta/writing, often nsfw. (also head canons and fanfic on au centered around the AI dueling Atem created by Kaiba in DSoD.)

@egyptiansapphiredragons -  Personal Blog with TONS of YGO. My canon of choice is the manga.

@evexe-n - (fanfic, asks and answers, fanart)

@hellyeahsetokaiba - (fanart, gifs, screencaps, memes)

@hiramiyugioh - Cosplay, Merchandise, Prideshipping and Shitposts (think of it as a one-stop blog for all your prideshipping needs)

@ifwegettherebysunset -  gay memes, gay ships, & gay fics.

@mooguriklaine-art - (really cool artwork and head canons, a lot of them centered around the AI dueling Atem created by Kaiba in DSoD.)

@moophinz - (au head canons, fanart)

@pen-strokes-and-music-notes -writer and artist

@pastthevaulteddoors -  Various posts about Yugioh, One Punch Man, Captive Prince, Yuri!!! on Ice

@pharaohsparklefists - (hilarious recaps of Yu-Gi-Oh! DM that are insightful as well. Literally LOL.  Awesome fanfic.)

@prideship-beauty - (fanart)

@rainstormcolors - (awesome meta, head canons and fanfic. Great asks and answers.)

@setofreakinkaiba - (screencapes, memes, chats, humor)

@sombreset -  Another 100% YGO shitblog//I draw I cosplay I write I collect merch I meme (prideshipping and puzzleshipping fanfic)

@soundlesswind - (puts the ART in fanart.)

@tachishini - (lots of DSoD translations and commentary)

@ultralolcatlove (memes, screencaps, comics, a bit of everything prideshipping related.)

@very-merry-sioux​ -  Place where I mostly post my doodles and sketches (fanfic and head canons, a lot of them centered around the AI dueling Atem created by Kaiba in DSoD.)

@yugihell -  Have you ever missed someone so badly you leave your teenage little brother in charge of your multi-billion dollar company, jumped into an untested dimension cannon set to firing you into Ancient Egypt/The Afterlife, warned no-one else you were going and refused to promise that you’d ever return? (fanfic as rowan-the-strange)

@yugioh4life - (memes, screencaps, artwork, recaps, meta)

[tumblunni]

I wish I could hug y'all!

In fact I think I will make it A LIFE GOAL I really really wanna someday be able to visit all my friends who live in different countries! Its something good to save up for, even if it'll probably take years. So.. lets randomly ramble in a journal about Plans!! IDEA THE FIRST TRIP THE FIRST FIRST THE FIRST: THE SEQUEL I think it'd probably make sense to go to america first, since i have a lot of close friends living there and I don't need to learn another language. (I am notoriously dumb...) But then afterwards I could set another goal to save up and visit another friend in another country! IT WILL NEVER ENDDDDD, THATS WHY ITS CALLED FRIENNNNDDDDD So far all I have confirmed is that two of my friends would be happy to see me if I was able to visit america, @darkeiya and @summon-daze But its not like I've exactly asked everyone else, so I dunno really how many people I might be able to visit. And it depends on time constraints too, i might only be able to spend a full day or two with the closest friends and maybe then if there's more than three of us we could all meet up together and hang out en masse? Depends on how tricky it'd be for everyone to get to the same place! SO! PLANS AND THINGS I NEED TO PREPARE! workin to figure out a precise money goal im gonna save for * Become Fab * no but srsly i wanna look my best if im meeting friends in person for the first ever time. need to acquire Cool T-Shirts * figure out what exactly you can and cannot take on an aeroplane, and how to deal with anxiety if i cant take electronics. Nothing's as distracting as videogames when you're freakin out! * DO NOT SCHEDULE ANYTHING ON THE 11th-14th OF THE MONTH. i have a bad history of my period landing on these days ONLY when i have to do something important. Or when its my birthday :P I dont need even more reason to feel nauseous on a plane! * figure out how many days the stay will be, and how many clothes etc I need to bring. probably a basic thing, but this is my first time going on a holiday alone so i need to write stuff down to make sure i remember! * figure out how long exactly I want to spend with each friend, and how long I can afford in hotel fees. And does a plane ticket cos more if you're staying for longer? * find out what kind of luggages are easiest to carry and how to carry three luggages when i have two hands. Can you tie them together and make a luggages train??? * Find some sort of secure way to carry large amounts of money. I'm gonna have to do that since I need to get all my currency converted before I go. I was thinking maybe a little matchbox tin chained to the inside of my coat or around my neck? Something where you couldnt get it without roughhousing with me, and it'd still be hard to pull it off the chain. Gives me a precious few extra minutes to yell for help/possibly bludgeon a guy with a suitcase * Figure out hotel(s) in different areas of america, depending on how far I'll have to travel. And figure out affordable ways to travel the difference if its not a situation where the friend can pick me up. And make sure they are cool hotels, not just the absolute minimum! i wanna make a fun tourist experience of the hotels!! I havent been in a hotel since I was a kid! * Possibly schedule it like a 'safehouse' thing? Returning to home base! I need to make sure I schedule around the potential anxiety of doing so much travel in a new place. So maybe schedule it out so I have a period of me-time in between visiting each friend? Itd probably cost too much to rent a hotel room for an entire day in between so maybe just schedule it out so I have half a day at least. I dunno if hotels allow you to sleep in all day tho, are there rules about what time you need to be up and out? * I'm kinda looking forward to using hotel beds and showers cos theyre like luxury compared to my house XD man, I wonder if I could get a place with a hot tub?? or the fabled mini-bar?? (which i would drink nothing of, but it would be fun to take photos!) And it'd be so cool to see what american breakfasts are like! And lol all my friends have just been like 'YOU NEED TO SEE OUR LOCAL RESTAURANTS' and im like... dude, i dont need to get fatter XD lets limit it to ONE! * I dunno if my friends would just wanna hang out in their local mall or something, or if I could visit their house and say hi to their family? that might be going too far. i'll still bring gifts they can give to their family tho, i wanna show my appreciation to everyone!! * are you allowed to bring extra empty suitcases onto the plane with you? I'm anticipating that knowing myself im probably gonna buy enough souveniers to need one. I'm planning to basically have half the money be for travel and then half again is just for buying NOVELTY HATS! * need to make sure to finally get a passport, and also consult heavily with my support worker and friends to make sure i have every form of travel documentation in order. I know stuff is... not good, in america right now. Thats probably why it'd be good that it'd take me years to save up for a visit, hopefully i'd be there after the next election. But I need to prepare anyway, in case border control is even more stringent. * Prepare the 'ol misgendering, because getting strip searched and treated as a suspicious threat is a very big reality for trans people. Having the wrong gender marker on your birth certificate is treated as 'this passport must be a forgery' rather than.. yknow.. transgender people exist. And then you need to be invasively handled by the guards to make sure you aren't packing explosives down your goddamn pants, they have to inspect the parts of you that you're most self concious about. *shudder* I've heard a lot of horror stories. I dunno if america is any better about it. But yeah I'm probably gonna have to just pass as female during boarding and hotels and stuff, and not wear my binder til i get to meet my friends. Saves trouble... Man, I might have to even go buy some more cliche feminine outfits or something, to make sure. Itd be fun burning them afterwards, I guess... * BRING GIFTS FOR FRIENDS N FAMILY! Figure out what is and isnt allowed to be transferred between countries. As far as I know I cant bring any form of food or drink right? I'm only allowed to eat the in-flight meals? Thats a shame cos I wanted to bring welsh cakes, theyre the only one of our local delicacies that's not a super acquired taste. (I tried bara bryth for the first time and DIED) And I dunno if anyone would be interested in silly souveniers of my country but I could get a pile of em if you are! Want an eight foot tall lovespoon? Want a giant inflatable daffodil? Want a bazillion ceramic dragons? * I am determined to bring at least one personalized super awesome gift for each person! It might just be an expensive merchandise of their fave show, it might be some form of handmade handicraft of one of their ocs! whatever I'm able to do! ^_^ * BRING SKETCHBOOKS SO WE CAN DRAW TOGETHER. LEARN THE WAYS OF THE AMERICAN MASTERS. * hey does anyone wanna trade trading cards yo. They'd be like the single easiest thing to bring with me, but I only have a handful of pokemon ones and i only really have one friend that I know likes yugioh. (And she's in england) * WE CAN FOOL AROUND LIKE DOOFS. God willing, if anyone wants to join me I will play water balloon tennis or jalapeno roulette or any sort of insane friend activity you can think of!! Gotta make up for the fact im a boring teetotaler. Tho lol I probably already act more drunk than the real drunks at a party XD * TAKE A LOT OF PHOTOS!! And possibly try and acquire a portable video camera? I'd only photo/video anyone if they gave me permission, and I wouldnt post it online unless I also had permission for that. I just wanna make a lot of memories and record them forever! Whenever I feel down, I can remember this amazing trip!!! * remember to get one of those plug adaptor thingies cos american plugs have one less prong. Gotta trade the pokeymons!! I know I can already do that easily online but BATTLING IN PERSON WOULD BE EPIC * ...bring an Ash cosplay? XD * no but seriously if i could schedule this right to coincide with an american convention or something that'd be awesome! EVEN MORE SOUVENIERS! And I could actually try cosplaying!! I'd have to find a character that suits me tho, I dont wanna get laughed at like everyone always does with fat people cosplaying thin characters. (Like... almost every character is thin, yo. let people do what they want) * possible idea: magma admin tabitha from pokemon? he's like the only fave I have who's chubby but not like... inherantly a comic relief ugly guy or a seventy year old grandpa. I wanted to do quina quen from final fantasy 9 but I dont think I have the charisma to pull it off. I'd get paranoid if people just treated the character how they treat the character, my brain would twist everything into an insult on my costume or myself XD also I kinda already look like tabitha, tho I'd either have to go without hairdye or like... wear a wig in my natural hair colour. Also his costume is super heavy and sweaty in a convention setting, according to what I;ve heard from other team magma cosplayers. (Makes you wonder how on earth they all wore it on a volcano!) * WHAT IS AN AMERICAN BISCUIT. They look like savoury welshcakes??? Learn about all the language differences! Man I wish I could bring food souveniers back with me, I'd never be able to try every single different foodstuff in america in one day without DYING. AND DYING AGAIN. * Collect product wrappers and advertisements! Its always really interesting to me to see the differences between countries! A friend mailed me an american cola once and the bottle was a whole different shape??? (he also mailed me a bunch of spent shotgun shells, which was kinda terrifying cos I was currently in a christian homeless shelter and I didnt exactly wanna cause trouble XD Apparantly it is totally legal to own unuseable bullets tho, as long as you dont have a gun.) * I dunno if any of my friends would be equally interested in similar things? i could take requests for weird british stuff to bring with me! * for summon-daze specifically: since we are both cuddly honest goofballs of childlike joy, maybe bring some of my plushie collection to show her? I'd usually just bring one as an emergency anti-anxiety measure. Tho the embarassment from having a full on meltdown in public and having to be seen hugging a plush toy to keep from crying means its not 100% effective. Only works good when I'm with people who arent judgmental. Secret pocket gengar plush is good for other times! (I've been squeezing that thing during doctors appointments and nobody noticed!) * extra reason why I'd love to visit my friends: visiting my friends's pets. I have been absolutely blessed by images of dazy's pet cat Pam, and apparantly her family has a few other cats and a dog! O_O WHAT AN AMAZING LIFE YOU LIVE. I always tell her to give pam a hug from me, and I know pam probably wouldnt like me very much when we first meet cos she's shy, but still I'd love to at least see her. I wish cats could somehow know that they give joy to people through the internet! * ...are you allowed to bring medications across the border? is there a procedure I need to go through to be allowed to bring my antidepressants? Would painkillers be allowed too? If not, is there anywhere I could buy plane-bring-onnable headache meds in the lobby or something? Just anticipating that I might get a stress migraine on the plane, cos it'd be my first time ever flying. * are you allowed to take photos out the plane window, if you use a non electronic camera? i know you cant really see anything but panning landscapes but it still sounds awesome!