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You got any thiefshipping headcanons you’ve never had the chance to share before? 👀
I PROBABLY DO. LET ME THINK
I think that out of the two of them, Marik is the one who is the most preoccupied with putting up "a confident, has-his-shit-together" act and he's very good at it, even managing to fool his siblings-up to some extent-because keeping up appearances is very important to him. Hell, it comes as second nature to him since it's what he's needed to do since birth to survive: he had to be a good heir to keep his Father happy, then prove he was capable of overthrowing the Pharaoh to liberate his clan and avenge his Father's murder, and now he has to prove the second chance he was given at life was worth it.
His life is all about proving why he deserves to be alive to those around him, and it's really a fucking wonder how he manages to keep himself together as well as he does. I think he is riddled with tons of insecurities and self-doubt, MOUNTAINS of it, that he keeps repressed, even around those closest to him. But I think Bakura is the only one who is truly able to see through all the bullshit walls Marik puts up and like, really look at him... and Marik lets him, because he understands what living like that is like, and perhaps that's why he allows himself to crumble every once in a while in Bakura's arms.
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If you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs. anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog!
hi thanks for sending!! I tried to make these decently interesting ^_^
- I'm a figure collector !!! I love figures sm I love seeing new figures come out especially ones of series I like and I collect all types :D
- I learned how to sail boats in my youth I don't remember how old I was exactly but I'm pretty sure it was before I was 10. so if anyone out there needs a captain I'm available LMFAO
- I love expressive jewelry I have like 384847 pairs of earrings and half of them are statement pieces I think the more jewelry the better I won't go without it
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Marik Questions, 2, 18 & 20? 👀
2. Favorite canon thing about this character?
not THE favorite thing but A favorite thing, I just love his fashion sense 😭 lavender crop top hoodie and cargo pants (+ pinky rings in the manga), getting a bunch of scary purple cloaks for him and all his little henchman so they have some brand recognition on the streets. He's so cool....
18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?
His relationship with Rishid is so good... like it's not super simple and not entirely healthy. Yes Marik sees Rishid as part of the family, but he does still view him as someone below himself. He's struck him in anger before, and in the manga he mocks Rishid for carving his face in an act of servitude. Rishid loves Marik very much, but he's also thought about killing him for being a source of the abuse he's faced. They have so much going on, very messy and interesting stuff!!
20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?
ryou tbh...
Like yeah there's angst there if you want the 'bonding over being possessed by malevolent spirits' stuff but even more than that they have some complimentary interests. I think after the disillusionment with his family's prophecy, Marik would be very interested in human psychology/religion/superstition across lots of cultures, kind of going with Ryou's penchant for the occult. And if Marik wanted to talk about his own background, Ryou would definitely want to listen lol
#trying so hard to not say joey for best friend.#but like even if I did they would never EVER call each other that so.#ask meme answers#justapalspal
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🌸 Best compliment you ever received?
PAL! I hope you are having a fabulous day 🥰
Oh so like this is a hard one for me cause Im one of those assholes that deflects compliments like they are gonna kill me. So I don’t tend to remember them like I do insults haha.
But hmm I have to say all the lovely compliments I get on my art from the amazing tumblr community! They always make my day and remind how far Ive come with my art and that I am good at what I do.
Ask game
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wanted to say thank u for all the entertaining tags on my artwork y’all leave gang 🙏💕💕 that and the likes are very much appreciated!!
#we’re getting close to 650 followers… I wonder if I’ll have time for a request a thon milestone celebration thing again#ALSO don’t forget I’m way active on main @justapalspal!!!!!#ramble
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HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAYYY!!!! 💞💞💞💕💕💕🥳🥳🥳🥳💞💞💕
AHHHHH THAMK 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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@batbaffle thank you for tagging me!
10 Characters/10 Fandoms/10 Tags
Elisabeth: das Musical — Death
Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal — Astral
Yu-Gi-Oh Vrains — Ai
Tanz der Vampire — Herbert
Metropolis — Freder
Revolutionary Girl Utena — Saionji
Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters — Yuugi
Black Butler — Sebastian
Dracula — Jonathan
i seem to have suddenly forgotten everything ive ever been interested in, please pretend theres a tenth thing here
@jaewul @phosphohope @dualumina @r-biter @violent-kurumi @hasbledtodeathunderourknife @eggsinthewind @picturejockey @spiritsncrystals @justapalspal
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Hi! I'm new to the yugioh fandom and have been asking around, do you have any fic recs you could share with us? I always love hearing what other people recommend ❤️
Hello anon, and welcome to the ygo fandom! 💖 I hope you're having a great time here. (We are a little weird but we are nice I promise.)
I have a lot of recs, it depends of what you're searching for, but I'll make a little selection:
Canon verse fics:
The last puzzle by @tenderwulf
11 years after the Ceremonial Duel, Atem and Bakura inexplicably find themselves back in Domino. When they meet their previous hosts, they realize how much things have changed: Yuugi, the now world-renowned King of Games, is going through a marriage crisis, Ryou is struggling to balance studies, work, and his brittle mental health, and Malik... well, Malik is living his best life—and his own yami is nowhere to be seen. They soon realize they all have to work together in order to solve the mystery of the yamis' return: some to make sure that they stay, and some to make sure that they don't.
- Philosophy of a knife by @crush3dmary
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Ryou learns this the hard way when he becomes the vessel for Zorc's power. A canon rewrite where Bakura wins.
The HoURGLASS serie by @worldendercharles
Two character studies of Marik Ishtar and his darker half, meant to parallel each other and explore the cross-contamination between them.
Chained to you by @saijspellhart
Taking place after the events of Season Zero, all the shadow games happened but Yugi never found out he was possessed by the spirit of the puzzle. Now he's an adult, living on his own, and he starts to notice strange and spooky things happening around his apartment. When he sees his own shadow moving Yugi begins to suspect his new place is haunted. But is this shadow spirit malicious or... kinda sweet? Yami does a bunch of stupidly sweet domestic shit for Yugi to help take care of him. Expect romance, fluff, self-care, and Puzzleshipping shenanigans.
Our Scars remind Us that the Past was Real by @sesshy380
Imagine waking up, and everyone is trying to convince you that the things you 'remember’ never happened, and that those 'memories’ exist only in YOUR head. The Thief King doesn’t have to imagine…because that’s exactly what happened. -or- The Thief King get’s a second chance at life.
Yami Bakura’s Got A Crush by @justapalspal
Yami Bakura’s got a crush, and it ends up being Bakura Ryou’s problem. Diva’s even more so.
AU fics:
To Balance the Scales by @sadistikitteh
Fleeing from being killed by his uncle's knights, Atem is saved by Bakura; the mate of the naga he'd helped years before. After healing from wounds and bonding with the couple, Atem's love and desire to help the creatures grows stronger.
Swan Lake by @kitsunefaux
A twist of fate leaves Bakura under the care of the fae Ryou, who thinks he would be so much cuter as a swan. What can you do against a creature who holds your choices in their hands? Who can you be in the belly of the beast?
The Kill Shot serie by @apathetic-theme-song
A modern/magic assassin AU. Two unstoppable forces collide as Bakura, one of the best assassins in the world, finds himself a target of an up-and-coming rival named Qadir in a plot to destroy them both. In teaming up to get revenge, they find that they make much better partners than enemies in more ways than one.
If you're into smut (and of age to read it of course), I would heavily recommend the whole work of Fat-Butch-Dyke (@fat-butch-dyke) and Sitabethel (@sitabethel). Fair warning with Sita: they do the best character developments. You think you will go for a fun pwp but be prepared to be a crying mess at some point.
Also Rochelle Echidna (@rochelle-echidna), Ninjam117 (@ninjam117), RelaySoul (@pandabaozi) and DisposableVillain works are to check too. <3 (I couldn't decide for a fic to recommend more than another.)
There are a lot more I'm probably forgetting but I think that will give you some reading material. Also I recommend to look at the other works of all the authors I mentionned, they are great. ♥
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A YGO fanart in the year 2023 by me?! What the heck?! After meeting up with @sitabethel, @ninjam117, @justapalspal and @rochelle-echidna and cosplaying the citron boys again with @kittykaibasblog at Sakura Con two weeks ago, I got into the mood for some YGO again. So I digged around in my WIP files and found a 3 years old WIP of a fanfic (link will follow in a separate post, special thanks to @mainstream-deviant for beta-reading!) and the sketch for the corresponding artwork and decided to finish it! So this one goes out to all my YGO friends who were at SakCon and to all those who sadly couldn't make it!
#sanddemon!YMalik#Yami Malik#Yami Marik#Malik Ishtar#Marik Ishtar#ygo#ygo fandom#yugioh#yu-gi-oh!#Shadowchan93's art
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10 Questions for Fic Writers
Thanks to @forsssnaken and @katiefrog217 for the tags! No pressure tags to @contritecactite @mywaywardcupcake @justapalspal @resuri-art
1. How many works do you have on AO3? 15
2. What's your total AO3 word count? 22,620
3. What fandoms do you write for? Currently, Good Omens. Before that (and maybe again soon), Spider-Man. Yu-Gi-Oh!'s always lurking there as a possibility, too.
4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I do! I didn't at first because I grew up on ff.net where the way you responded to comments was by doing it in an author's note at the start of each chapter. Us kids did that, while the cool adults didn't, so when I started posting on AO3, I was determined not to be so socially inept and begging for attention. Turns out, AO3 has a very different culture, and responding to comments is fine there! So I'm back to doing it again! (Besides, as a commenter myself, it delights me that I get more AO3 notifications that are a reply to my comment than I do comments on my fics. I love hearing I made people happy! It's fun!)
5. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Probably? It seems like it would've happened back in the webring days, but I honestly don't remember.
6. Have you ever co-written a fic before? You bet! 💖 It looks like I co-wrote 8, via the high-tech method of having a group chat and taking turns writing out lines. Half were with just one person or another, and the other half were with a group. I haven't co-written anything in the modern era, though; I have no idea how people do it these days, although I'd love to learn.
7. What's your all-time favourite ship? Puzzleshipping from Yu-Gi-Oh!. Sorry not sorry. It's wildly unhealthy, baffling physically, and goes entirely against the moral of the show. It's twisted. It's great.
8. What are your writing strengths? If I'm writing well, it's a toss-up between nailing the character voices and slipping poignant headcanons into otherwise funny scenes.
9. What are your writing weaknesses? I cannot do plot. 25 years of RPing every day and I still cannot come up with a plot. I adore reading long, plot-heavy series, but the only way for me to figure out what happens next in one of my stories is to write out the characters doing it, and that doesn't work well with a long action-adventure plot.
10. First fandom you wrote for? Digimon. I was known for Yu-Gi-Oh!, but Digimon was my first window into the idea that the internet can be used for fun things, not just researching school assignments. The first fic I read was Digimon, and the first ones I wrote were Digimon too.
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Why did nobody tell me the bus system is terrifying when ur lost and ur phone (which is also ur map and ur bus pass) is about to die and u have no clue which bus to take to get home because uve never been to this part of town without someone else driving u there and the bus you were on arrived so late you missed the bus u were supposed to take to get home by like two whole minutes. Anyway I’m never doing that again. Waiting for an hour to see if ur phone will die before the next bus gets to you is. Terrifying. Horrific. Always keep ur phone charged to 80% kids don’t go adventuring if it’s below 30%. It will get to 9% before you know it even with low power mode turned on and white point turned off. Also keep spare change on you in the form of dollar bills and quarters in case you need to pay cash for the bus this is your lesson from Tumblr User Justapalspal Taking The Bus TM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY 💞💞🌸✨✨💞💞🌸✨💞💞🌸💞🌸✨✨
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
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top five ygo spinoffs characters?? 👀👀
CRACKS KNUCKLES i've been waiting for this one
5. KYOSUKE KIRYU my good friend from 5ds omg I love that bitch. he has the most insane character arc ever they bring him in and he's sick in the head then he dies in yusei's arms and then comes back as a cowboy actively trying to kill himself hes a father by the end of his cowboy arc ITS SO GOOD. also his dub name is so cute kalin kessler my good friend.
4. YURI YUGIOH ARC-V i've only know him for like 2 months but potentially the most me bait yugioh character to date. his color scheme is made up of my two favorite colors and he's a little cunt it's hilarious. HIS DECK ROCKS SO HARD I LOVE PREDAPLANTS and his ace starving venom fusion dragon she is so beautiful to me. hes only in like 30ish eps which is a damn shame cuz he's so good. they couldn't handle his power. also i've only heard clips of it but his dub voice is UNBELIEVABLE I think they told the VA to just do an asshole voice and he kills it it's amazing
3. KITE TENJO where do I begin. mr yugioh zexal rival he is incredible. yugioh always knocks it out of the park with big brother characters but kite might just be the best one his bond with hart is so sweet it makes me sob. he engineered a robot at like age 12 to help him take care of his brother and im :'). his deck is amazing #galaxyeyesphotonSWEEP and his character arc was so wonderful to watch. his dub voice is one of my favorites of all time he sounds PERFECT like genuinely when he appeared in arc-v it took me a while to get used to his sub voice. HE'S CATHOLIC. i think he's the first yugioh rival to die on screen. he's incredible. kite tenjo world domination
2. REGINALD "SHARK" KASTLE. THIS FUCKING GUY !!!! if we're talking about insane character arcs he is like top 5 that boy did it all. he's the rival he's the best friend he's a big brother he's the VILLAIN??? they put him through the war. he grew on me so so much as I kept watching and especially in zexal II he's incredible. there's so much i wanna say cuz they really did it all with him. his drive to protect his sister and those around him makes me sob like he's the most 14 year old of all time. acts like he doesn't care but jumps in line first to help out. he's sososo good. love shark to death
1. JADEN YUKI THE KING HIMSELFFFF my favorite yugioh protag he is so beloved to me. he's so sweet and has one of the most unreal character arcs of all time it's INSANE but so good. i'm a little biased cuz I love gx sosososo much but also that's the Jaden Yuki Effect he's wonderful. PIONEERED THE HERO ARCHETYPE. WHICH NOW HAS THE MOST CARDS OF ANY ARCHETYPE. he's just such a joy to watch anytime he's on screen and his growth throughout gx makes me cry like i was a mess the last few eps. being the first yugioh spinoff protag is not easy but he did it and he rocks so hard. i have such love in my heart for him
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(ask game! no pressure)
List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers.
! :O thanks pal
(Small delights in no particular order of joy provided)
1. When my dog sleeps curled up with all 4 paws together
2. The first day after many winter months where you are finally able to open a window for fresh air again
3. Starting a new chapstick, such a pristine and even-level surface…
4. Favorite food on sale (>50% off) at the grocery store
5. The moment a one-off joke with your friend becomes a running gag because it’s just That funny
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Welcome!! I’m Pal
I’m impulsively making a daily art acct blog because why not. My main is @justapalspal and my main art blog is @ryoubandwagon. You’ve probably found me via one of those. Let’s have fun!!
Note: I will do one doodle or higher quality drawing of a bakurae or more a day. Some days may vary by quality significantly. Some days may be scans of traditional art, most days will probably be digital sketches or flat-colored pieces.
Ryou is my blorbo, so there might be a bit of a bias toward drawing him. We shall see.
There may or may not be overt shipping on this blog, but most pieces will be readable as non-ship as well. I’m generally a multishipper and give most bakurae related ships a chance, so we shall see how often ship stuff comes up.
Otherwise, expect lots of bakurae!
And if I forget a day, I forget a day. I’ll be as consistent as I can be <3
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10 fandoms. 10 characters. 10 tags.
Let's do this.
Tagged by the lovely @sesshy380, thanks, friend!
No order of preference, just what popped into my mind at the second
1. Kakegurui - Saotome Meari
2. Yu-Gi-Oh! - Thief King Bakura
3. Genshin Impact - Arlechino
4. One Piece - Tony Tony Chopper
5. Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun! - Asmodeus Alice
6. Danganronpa - Kamukura Izuru
7. Steven Universe - Pearl
8. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Giorno Giovana
9. Gravity Rush - Kat
10. No Straight Roads - Eve
Tagging @iamallyetnotatall @ryoukio @cartoonus-maximus @williampcoffee @nonbinaryyugimuto @ninjam117 @fat-butch-dyke @glitterforboys @iamterra @justapalspal and anyone else who wants to do it! No pressure!
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