#which is kinda funny for a card that's literally all about spirituality I guess

[chimaeray]

Dannymay day one: Different Style

OKAY okay this is one of those things that I started working on and I kept increasing it’s scope because I got excited about it, but I think it turned out well! It was gonna be a one to one of the card but obviously that didn’t happen haha.

Some symbolism  stuff under the cut 👀

It started out with the pillars in the background, their carvings follow a similar basic pattern but are inverse of one another. One of course follows more of the ghost zone designs with a full skull, and strange polygonal shapes with a few softer ones thrown in. The second is more organic to be like life, flowing and softer, but a few polygonal shapes to mirror back to the other side.

The original Heirophant card I was referencing, from the Rider-Waite deck, shows the priest in a three-tiered crown. Danny got three “tiers” of crowns as well!

Of course there’s Danny pointing to the heavens and to earth, classic “As above so below” imagery. This is an exaggeration of something already present in the original card, of course, but it’s fun  when Danny is a balance of life and death

Sam has her back turned to the viewer, slightly looking up. She’s more closed off to other people, but she’s receptive to change and often instigates it. She’s usually the one seeing the consequences of actions before the boys, looking forward to see what could happen next. The flower she’s holding was originally inspired by Dahlias--which can symbolize new beginnings, diversity from the mundane, enduring kindness, and devotion to good. While all these qualities sound good for Danny and Team Phantom in general, I also chose this one because of the association with Black Dahlias, making it still reference death as well.

Tucker is facing the viewer, looking down at his PDA-phone hybrid. He’s more receptive to others, and actually has a few references to friends outside of the trio! He also seems to be more anchored in the world, often distracted by his tech. He sees a lot of what affects the now, and worries more about that instead of what the future might bring.

And Danny himself is fully facing the viewer, seeing the scope of things often and trying to encapsulate both sides of it all. He’s relaxed, maybe bored, in his posture, but still upholds “as above, so below” with firm gestures. He might not be fully comfortable here, but he’s devoted to it regardless. This ties more into the Heirophant’s actual meanings, generally divinity and goodness but specifically  alliance, servitude, mercy, inspiration. Reversed it can be society, concord, overly kind or even sacrificial, and weakness.

but these all tie back into the constant message of duality and balance that is shown in The Heirophant’s card and how Danny really is in the middle of it all.

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh S5 Ep 19: Yugi and the Only Neck Accessory He Didn’t Really Want to Wear

Been busy! Hopefully stuff will open up soon as I’m taking a hiatus on a different quarantine project and will be finishing painting the entire roof of my car this week? One can hope. Sanding the rust off the whole top of a car takes a long time it turns out?

Also, fun Yugioh fact, I recently painted a book cover for an author who is older so she’s never seen the show, and she looked at my tumblr, saw my Duke Devlin fanart and was like “That’s him. That’s my main character. OMG. You captured him perfectly!” and I was like “Ma’am that is Duke Devlin, hence the single dice earring on his lobes there, but we can work with this.” and now a spiritual Duke Devlin is on the cover of a Wuxia-style fantasy trilogy on the Vella. Had to give him a top knot and delete the eyeliner for Wuxia reasons but uh, that’s just Duke.

So long story short, fanart can get you work, don’t even worry about posting that stuff online because most people don’t even know it’s fanart anyway and older ladies freakin love it.

Back in Yugioh, the team was doing their best to navigate a map through the woods and they do about as well as they normally do.

And inside Tristan lifted up the floorboards and was like “I found the only way out, this is it, this is the only way.”

And they ended up in something that has a color scheme I would actually associate with a jungle. Finally. We have finally left California (in order to go to another Hell.)

Youknow, when we went to California, we visited Hell, and when we went to India, we also took a stop at the nearest death destination. There’s just so much death on this show and sometimes I forget because there’s been a ghost in our party for so freakin long it’s been normalized.

(read more death imagery under the cut)

Joey freaks out at a flock of crows and reveals in this episode something I never realized about him before.

Like I’m not always the perfect observer as I’m sure you’ve noticed, but I love that this is canon for probably only this episode, but I will never forget it for the entirety of this series.

You go on hating birds, Joey.

Bro was like “Maybe it’s a deep cut about Mai Valentine because she’s a harpy lady” but eh...pretty sure we spent like an entire season of Joey telling us that Mai was a good experience? Would be incredibly funny if immediately after all of S4, Joey was like “You know what? Screw Mai, guys.”

So my thoughts...it’s probably just a literal bird experience. Like I had a friend who hated deer because once she went to a petting zoo, got some pellets to feed the deer, but her finger was sticking up, so when the deer came over to nibble on some pellets her finger went up it’s nose by accident. She was so disgusted by this event that was entirely her fault, that she brought up how much she hated deer basically whenever we saw one.

So like...maybe Joey fed a bird wrong at a petting zoo. I can see him getting bit by a parrot because he was too Joey Wheeler.

But now that we’re in a graveyard neighborhood, Pharaoh decides to hop out because there’s a lot of ghosts here and he needs to practice socializing with his peers.

So that’s just a Yugioh monster doing the ostrich dance, right? Like this is a meme from like 2010 but on Yugioh in 2003(4?)

Good to see the Ostrich dance here in the land before Vine.

So they pull out their Pokemon to do some antics, Tea looked like she was about to do something useful, and Yami does a yump across time and space to get her as far away from playing (not)cards as quickly as possible and y’all...sure was a position these animators animated.

Holy crap.

And I was going off about that scene last season where they woke up in the same bed like...

...have these two been together this entire time? Like together together?

They’re like...way more comfortable than you’d figure they’d be considering Yugi nearly passes out every time he gets a hug. But Yami just like....How long has this been going on? As long as Joey’s fear of birds?

Like obviously this show would never cover what the hell Yugi may be thinking about this overreaching move here, because we’re gonna gloss right over that, and just run away up a flight of stairs. No one mentions this ever again. Which is mind blowing for an anime to do. I think in most anime I watch, the kids would be like “ahh ahhhh I bumped into a booooob!” like it does for I want to say every other episode of My Hero Academia. But in Yugioh, they saw that low hanging fruit and they were like “we expect a higher level of maturity out of our audience. Now here’s a fleet of ostrich dancing tree monsters with faces for crotches.”

They decided to sprint up this flight of stairs, and it enough of a slope to deter the monsters who are only unbalanced weird legs.

I want us to take a moment and admire this background painting. I can’t unsee the rocks that are all the same size, just piled on top of eachother. Did Alexander the Great just plop rocks here--or was the mountain made up of tons of similarly shaped boulders?

Like there’s a lot of nice bg’s in this arc, don’t get me wrong, but this one...I’m just trying to wrap my head around the logic of it.

At the top, they meet a pantheon, that is immediately blocked by this wall, because if this arc had a tagline, it’s “Yugi gets inconvenienced every 4 seconds.”

Bro was like “Clearly they would have pushed it over if Tea wasn’t slacking off” and like...she is actually. Look at her. Only used one hand? Slacker.

Joey was disappointed he couldn’t push over a massive wall, and the team decided not to analyze how much Joey Wheeler thinks of his own strength and instead fixate on these statues.

Usually in anthro characters they kinda look birdlike but act human. But what about an anthro that’s just a bird? Like human torso, but can turn his head 180 degrees? Yugioh made me ask this question.

And then Joey was like “wait, there may be a solution that isn’t just to use brute strength!”

Youknow it is a bummer that Kaiba couldn’t witness Joey own a dragon while he himself only has a robot jet dragon. Although, the jet is probably faster, stronger and overall...better than this baby dragon. It would have been great for Kaiba to witness Joey under-utilize this dragon and forget he has it for like huge swatches of the episode.

And then Grandpa pulled some body horror out of nowhere.

Wow.

I mean that is really gross.

I guess Grandpa can’t use Blue eyes, because Kaiba ripped it up, Grandpa can’t use Exodia because Weevil tossed it off a boat, and grandpa can’t use the card that’s just a building because...it’s a building.

So instead Grandpa has a bunch of meat and bones that look like something out of Doom. It’s probably from a more obscure Konami property, but I forget which.

I’ve seen Tristan hold back Joey in this hold, first time it’s been Tea.

So much shipping in this episode, it’s wild.

It’s also wild how low my standards are for what could possibly be shipping when it comes to Yugioh because of how freakin tepid all of these characters are, which as I’ve brought up before, I really don’t mind.

So Yugi decides that because Grandpa was folding his arms like one monster and it made a gem light up or something, to just do the video game thing and use the giant ass statues as clues.

Why was this arc not a video game? Like parts of it really feel like it was meant to be.

So Yugi falls down a hole, where the walls cave in like it’s that dumpster in Star Wars but like...it barely phases him.

Also...Yugi might be able to see in the dark. It’s never been brought up but like...the more I think about it...has Yugi ever struggled to see without the lights on?

After Joey disappoints everyone, he confronts death.

And Pharaoh and Yugi decide to solve the puzzle of “how do I get out of this trap dungeon room” which, honestly, is probably what they’re doing every time they hang out in the brain pyramid.

So they summon their mascot monster, and surprisingly the show decided its ability to fly cannot help them out here.

Kuriboh manages to become enough of a doormat to push Yami up to the stone and they end up in a set of weird cuts that ended in this?

Like seriously it was like flashes of light and then they were just...up here like this.

Hey like...

Alexander the Great, my man...

Were you planning to put that stone in the middle of a exhaust vent hoping someone would touch it? Because there’s no way anyone would rationally have done that. You would need to fly to do it. This is the world’s worst DM.

Like Yugioh pulls a lot of fantasy nonsense but this arc is a lot more like a “it’s a kid’s show, just go with it.” arc than most of them. It’s not a bad vibe, necessarily, it’s just not the vibe I’m used to.

So once I witnessed maybe the most boring conversation I’ve ever witnessed about corn (this was on a twitch stream, by the way, a guy was playing an interesting game, and then a guest came on and started talking about corn and plants for 2 hours) and they would not shut up about how all taxonomy is wrong because there are no such thing as trees and how all animals are labelled incorrectly, and then they started comparing it to like all sorts of mushrooms and phytoplankton as you would if you clearly got a little bit high before dumping your corn knowledge on a twitch stream.

Anyway, after that bizarre experience I suffered so I could learn how to play an obscure video game, I think I can safely say, that while I know everyone here thinks a bird can’t be a dog. If you’re a high biologist: a bird is absolutely a dog. Apparently you can just do that if you’re the most boring biologist alive and no one will argue with you because to do that would involve talking to you. We’ll just say a bird is a dog and no one can fight me or I will talk about the corn book that this guest on this twitch chat was thinking about renting from the library about the different types of corn mutations inherent in freakin Indiana. Therefore, Joey’s fear of birds and dogs is same.

So they use Dark Magician to save them from the statues, and Yugi busts into the pantheon again because they got to open this casket before a time limit that I kind of forgot about, tbh.

And inside the casket, is...this thing!

(enjoy this line on the bottom of the image I don’t feel like fixing it)

And you may say to yourself...it looks like it’s just floating in mid-air, that’s silly, and so I want to introduce you to the next panel where you can see that it is...quite literally...just floating in the air like a video game.

and it just slurps itself onto Yugi before he can be like “nonono.”

Wasn’t there some horror movie where you were stuck in some sort of body brace that slowly tortures you (was that Saw?) This has that vibes. Like man that looks uncomfortable to wear over a jacket and two belts and a collar that is another belt.

That and I...I gotta appreciate that Yugi popped his collar while wearing body armor and chunky necklace. What 00′s fashion appreciation right there.

Bit like...this isn’t breathable, right? Like Yugi’s gonna finally take this thing off and his jacket will just be completely soaked in sweat?

Anyway, that’s it for this post, next week we’ll see if Yugi can walk through a doorway in that thing.

Also, I can’t bring up the ostrich dance without sharing the vines of my generation

[skamfairy]

I was tagged by the great and powerful @thelibraryiscool no your eyes aren’t deceiving you i’m actually doing one of these. hjjahshjas thank you for tagging me Allie. 

Rules: answer 21 questions and tag some people

Nickname: Mikki, michi, mochi, mikkles, mik, most beautiful person in the world (names I call myself count okay) 

Real name: Mikayla but i consider Mikki my real name too so 🤷‍♀️she’s both! 

Zodiac: sun: Virgo moon: Aries rising: Aries 

Favourite musicians or groups: well this is extremely hard to answer. i love too many??? i guess to name a few: Lorde, sleeping at last, Kanye, Manchester Orchestra, Mitski, Taylor Swift, Cub sport and i’ve recently gotten into bts 

Favourite sports team: ummmmmmmmmmmmmm god i don’t know i barely follow sport besides tennis and a little UFC and they don’t have teams. i’ll just name drop Roger Federer and Khabib. do with that what you will

Other blogs: oh man i have a bunch i’ve made to try and be the kind of person who has more than one but i literally never used them so i’m gonna say no because not really. 

Do I get asks? sparsely. But it always makes me really happy when i do. feel free to send me some 💖

How many blogs do I follow? 174

Tumblr crushes? I think i have a tumblr crush on all of my mutuals tbh and then some. there’s also those people who i see in my notifs a lot that i’m just like YOU 💖😭🌈⭐️ you know what i mean. 

Lucky number(s)? it’s kinda funny that i don’t really have any because i’m the most spiritual and superstitious person in my friend groups but i think i’m gonna say 19 because last year was probably the best year of my life and i think the year i was 19 was pretty good too actually. 

What am I wearing? right now a super baggy long black T-shirt that has day dreaming written on it. No pants because i live alone baby 

Dream vacation? i don’t really care where (cough europe cough) just as long as i’m on it with the people i love. that’s all i want really. 

Dream car? i don’t care about cars shjsahjahsj but probably something small in a cute colour. i would 100% want a cute colour and not like white or something boring you know. black would be pretty badass tho i’ll admit. 

Favourite food? i’m super into pho right now. I feel obligated to add like chicken in general and chocolate. and apples. (pink lady) 

Drink of choice? ummmm right now it’s pink gin with sprite. (i mean right now as in like this time in my life not that i’m drinking it right now because it’s 11:30am shjasjhjas i’m drinking coffee guys)

Instruments? I played trumpet for like 4 or 5 years when i was younger. i quit when i hit puberty and started being an angsty teenager lmao. I have a guitar that i still don’t know how to play but it’s one of my goals in life to learn shjasjh

Languages? just boring english sorry. i want to learn more i’m really bad at it tho. 

Celebrity crushes? Hilary Duff and Hayden Panettiere were the big ones for me as a child, oh god and Phoebe Tonkin VERY much. was majorly in love with her. oh and Kristen Stewart. now i have like celebs i’m very clearly infatuated with but idk if i’d call it a crush just like eeeeee love youuuuu JHASHJSAHJAS idk but that includes Ashleigh Cummings who i’m just happy for when i see her smile and be happy. idk i kinda stay away from looking into celebs too much.  

OH BUT FUN FACT lmao my crush as a child was on Hilary Duff but i remember being like 10 and telling everyone i had a crush on Jesse McCartney which i’m sure I thought I did he’s Jesse McCartney but i just think it’s funny that my “hetero” crush was basically the male equivalent of Hilary Duff. bless me. 

Random fact? I read tarot cards and i think i’m legit good at it. and i’m part psychic. when i say that people think i’m joking but I’M NOT. it’s true my psychic intuition is crazy you guys

Tagging: @abigaylhobbs @snapbackdragon @mfrov95 @matteoohno

[mynameisdreartblog]

Cars 2

Leo: Audi Quattro. Yo, does anyone remember the time where I was buying Ben 10 minifigures from a cash-grab machine at the skewered chicken grill? Damn, you could really see the smoke coming off the grill there, and it was like, situated directly in a corner and accompanied by a window directly in front of it… floor three, wasn't it? Baby, come home… yeah, my thick alligator baby… come home. […] What? Wh-what was that? Ugh, Viz, goddammit: You have something to do with that probably. They’re the only person I know who could alter my subconscious to make me attracted towards plump alligators. <Oro is suddenly interrupted by a steep drop off of an unidentifiable platform; it’s hard to see in the dark atmosphere of the room.> Oof, that was almost as bad as when I got on that kiddie trike and it nearly impaled my taint. There’s no goop dripping off my body, and there’s no sensation that I’m nude either, so I’m not in a Matrix-like situation either. […] Ah, my phone, yes: The communicator. If I’m right, it should be situated in my right pocket, — the one with only one white stripe pattern — and if I turn it on, there should be a background image of Remigio Ángel González as required for opsec in the case that our operations are compromised… <The room Oro is within suddenly lights up, revealing a brick-layered second-floor with a unique and prominent detail.> Forget the phone, the phrase “somos los segundos nefilim” is written all over the walls. I think it’s a weird, religious thing, but the agnostic in me feels it’s related to general flooding, like that you’d find clogging up the pipes. [,] Viz? «Hello, I thought you were writing up a thesis to expose fireworks manufacturers; what gives?» I think my father’s job as a plumber is coming back to haunt me in ways I don’t like: Maybe it’s retribution for plunging that kid into the toilet once… «Cool; I don’t care. Just tell me where you are now so I can get an idea of your status.» Uh, second-floor, religious scrawl on the walls, darkness turned to light, hallucinations of thick alligators, and- <The walls begin trickling water.> Err, I’ll call you back.

Taurus: Maserati 3500 GT. Good morning, how can I interest you at all in- Good Lord! I could tell immediately that you’re spiritually exhausted: If it wasn’t obvious, your face looks like it was peeled off like the skin of a potato. «Uh, what does that mean? I’m coughing up something funny here, big guy, and I don’t have time to deal with the metaphors.» Oh no, don’t get me wrong; You came into my establishment not for the purpose of nutritional sustenance, but rather the mystical services I offer on the back of the sign. «Is that sexual implication?» Can you believe the degradation of this man’s morale? Do you wanna look through my Zen Cat calendar until you feel an improved fighting spirit? «I am the governor of the state of Goa, and this is the treatment I receive from shop-owners in the north? I was nearly killed just making it… Oh no, he caught the tone-switch.» <Gresham leaves a pillow for the weary man who claims he’s the governor of Goa, leaving him with the Zen Cat calendar that he didn’t request.> [,] «Did he notice the façade, or did he actually buy it? If I just stay here, admire the atmosphere, and pretend I’m hurt in some way, he’ll still buy my story. That titan of a man can’t know that I work for the CWW or that he’s wanted by th-» Heh, sorry about that, I was trying to look for that Zen Cat calendar ‘cause I thought you needed it, but apparently you’ve had it with you the entire time. Silly me: I always forget that there’s spare calendars below the restaurant calendar. <The CWW agent breathes with relief and continues pretending to be the sickly president of Goa: Offended attitude from poor service still maintained.> Your condition clearly hasn’t improved much since I left to aid: This is a healing that’ll require a lot more than simple yoga. Your atman (true self) is still locked away behind many layers of grief and domestic malnourishment which keep you hindered back to cycles that have washed you away. This isn’t a naturality according to my senses, and must be the work of minor demons attempting to prod at your well-being. Natuk, bring me the Soma! «<The CWW agent mumbles under his breath> Either this guy is a nutjob, or he plays a really sincere act as a nutjob.» Do you fancy the Zen Cat calendar? I favor the Himalayan cats out of all. «Typical.»

Aquarius: Mini. “Oh, hello. I see you two have come in the corner of Paula’s Sports Cards, and, sorry to say, but if you came here for the tourney sign-up, we’re currently not listing right now. However, we’re making some special deals for you. We also sell Magic the Gathering singles, but they're the really shitty ones that nobody wants."  […] My plan to help these teens outta Magic cards isn't going too well, <Aukai thinks to herself.> «Yeah, whatever, lady. We saw the flyer at the noodle shop and I wanted to fulfill my cardboard crack addiction.» <Aukai contemplates dropping the act of a shady dealer for just a moment, then she returns back to a more aggressive form of the same act.> “Eh, don’t compromise this deal, buster, I only have several, ultra-rare cards stored between my boob wedge, and being dismissive to my game is bound to get you kicked out.” «Just show us the cards and tell us what you’re offering.» [,] Ugh, fine. <Aukai drops the act: The one that had brittle legs to stand on. She then begins to monologue with the cardboard-addicted teenagers as she literally takes the cards out of her bosom.> You know, I was on board on a cruise ship once, — that’s usually not my style; I’m the one manning the ship more often — and I saw this cute magician who blew me away, and I thought imitating her style would help me, but I guess I’m better at this merchant personality when I’m selling ship parts. <The teenagers are thinking if her cleavage possibly damaged the material of the cards, but they don’t question it: They’re battle-hardened players.> «Yo, is that a Judge Foil Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite?» <Aukai reflects on what Tehura told her regarding the basic cultural knowledge of Magic, and she grinned somewhat deviously, knowing that she can present as malicious.> “I could make you cough up $400 for this card, but do you know what’s a better investment than this?” «Literally nothing else, just give us the cardboard crack,» <Said the teenagers in a creepy unison.> Yeah, but teacher-learner skills when it comes to the game are way more important than what cards you can get your hands on. <One of the teenagers breaks the creepy, unison speaking to speak their thoughts.> «Actually, I’m intrigued by what she can offer to us in terms of both real-world and game knowledge. The fact that she was able to get her hands on such cards tells us that she’s more than meets the eye.» <The two other teenagers counteract in unison.> «Shut the hell up; she stores cards in her boobs.»

Pisces: 1948 Tucker Torpedo. “Copulation is just the insertion of an appendage into a bodily orifice for the purpose of expelling a juice containing seed that is absorbed into the body for the purpose of procreation.” I’ll use any disgustingly medical and biologically-existential definition of human biological functions to make me as repulsed by humanity as possible. For the previous time, I attempted to embrace naturality as much as possible by isolating myself from what I perceived as corruptive forces of civilization, but then I found out that I ended up terrifying whoever came along with me, and that I was guilty of several counts of potential assassination, so I had to call that one off. But now, I’m a changed man: I seek to embrace a transcendence beyond my natural form as quickly as possible. […] «Oh, my son Aleep? Yeah, he’s in one of those moods again where he tries to see if he can flex himself beyond humanity. I don’t get it, and I think it’s the corruptive influence of too much television and tinkering around with electronics that’s getting to him. I preferred his older hobbies of ambitious poetry, but now, I don’t know what he’s doing anymore.» I can hear your valid criticisms, mother! The walls in this house are made out of cardboard and so are my feelings! «He likes to engage in these dramatic monologues or whatever, and he’s saying it’s leading up to some “connective truth” as he calls it. He’s a bright young man, but he’s kinda flippant.» <Only silence can be heard from the upstairs room where Aleep stays. It’s like this for a good two minutes, and Aleep’s mother assumes he’s busy and likely didn’t hear the continuation.> I seek to busy myself in the virtual world since my mother is already occupied with introducing a false image of me to her regular guests; they probably think I’m so gross hermit, when the truth is that I’m a well-kempt hermit. The boys at my gym class thought that my locs were sexy, and that’s all the confidence boost I needed for the week. […] I look around my abode and I see nothing but human unnecessariness: The floors are covered in years of shedded skin, rolling around as it were a wasteland, and the windows are marred with the remnants of oils excreting from the human hand. It disgusts me, and I see it fit that only the world of human exclusion can save me now… Olligestaia, here I come. <The Olligestaia theme starts playing from cheap speakers.>

[espressonist]

Rover Red Tarot Read!

[underabr0kensky]

150 random questions (for anon)

1.) What’s better, having high expectations or having low expectations? Low expectations. That way if shit goes south you expected it but if it actually works out it’s a pleasant surprise.

2.) Would you rather go without junk food for a year or go without TV for a year? TV, if by that you mean no watching TV shows since I barely do that anyway. If you mean go without using a TV entirely, probably junk food.

3.) Describe your perfect man/woman. I honestly don’t have one. Just someone I click with who can be my best friend and will take the good with the bad, because there’s a lot of bad unfortunately. I suck lol.

4.) Thoughts on school dress codes? I don’t really care, sure they’re annoying, but at least it keeps people from feeling like shit about not being able to afford nice clothes and whatnot if everyone has to wear the same thing. What does get annoying is how ridiculous people get about what’s “acceptable” for girls to wear so they’re not “distracting”. Bra straps are a thing. Get over it.

5.)Any strange phobias? Nah, just standard fear of spiders and needles.

6.) At what job do you see Donald Trump best fit? What a weird question. It’d be kinda funny to see him shoveling shit.

7.) Who was your first crush? Her name was Jessie, I was in 3rd grade.

8.) Who was your first best friend? Uhh. Fuck, I’m not sure. Maybe John, I can’t remember how old we were.

9.)What is one weird thing about you? I keep a list of all the horror movies I’ve ever watched and update it regularly. I’m well into the 400s.

10.) Top 5 TV shows you like to watch? Game of Thrones, House M.D., Criminal Minds, Hell’s Kitchen, and Lost.

11.) What are your favorite boys names? I don’t really have any tbh. Never really thought about it.

12.) What are your favorite girls names? Rachel, Jess/Jessica, Sam, Katie, Hanna.

13.) Do you have any tattoos? If so, what are they? Nope, I do want to get some eventually though.

14.) Do you plan on getting (more) tattoos? If so, what do you want to get as of the moment? I do plan on getting tats, yes.

15.) Do you have any piercings? Do you plan on getting more? Nope and nope.

16.) Do you like hugging people? Fuck yeah, if it’s the right people. I love hugs.

17.) Think of ANY person on earth right now.  Who did you think of? Abby, I wonder how she’s doing.

18.) Do you have an iPhone? No, but I kinda want one.

19.) What is the worst thing that could happen in your life right now? Getting rejected by this job interview on Tuesday, I guess.

20.) Do you watch anime? Yes I do. Seasonally.

21.) What brings true happiness? Financial stability.

22.) What is the most expensive thing you’ve ever paid for? I paid 6 months of rent all at once when I got my first apartment because we didn’t make FIVE FUCKING TIMES the rent. Cunts.

23.) If you could have any job in the world and get paid millions of dollars a year for it, what would you be and why? Being a musician, because music keeps me sane and it’s really the only thing I’ve ever considered doing long-term.

24.) Do you want children? If so, how many? Hell no. Never.

25.) Name and describe someone who you feel most comfortable around. My friend Hanna, I can talk to her about whatever and vent to her if I need to. Taylor too.

26.)If you could invent a holiday, what would it be? National Spaghetti Weekend. A federal holiday. Having that weekend off would be mandatory and all Italian-themed restaurants would give half off on their pastas.

27.)Would you rather have summer weather or winter weather all year round? Summer. I fucking hate winter like you don’t even know.

28.) If you could make an alien race, describe what they would look like. Uhh. They would probably have evolved past the need for a physical form so they’d just be invisible (or visible, I dunno) clouds of consciousness.

29.)  What was the first thing you learned to cook? Spaghetti and meatballs.

30.) Describe your sense of humor. Very dark and sarcastic. Most people are unnerved by it at first so I tone it down around strangers.

31.) What is the key to happiness? Financial stability and being with someone you love.

32.) How many phone numbers do you have committed to memory? Whose numbers are they? My dad’s, my friend Jackie’s, and mine. That’s literally it.

33.) Name three songs that make you want to dance. Wop, Shots, and Trap Queen.

34.) What job did you want to have as a child? I wanted to be a driver in the demolition derby and then a paleontologist.

35.) Do you have any talents or skills? Yeah, I play guitar/bass/harmonica/some drums and I can sing, and I’m fairly good with computers. Also good at writing.

36.) What was the worst punishment you’ve ever had? Getting grounded from my video games for like a month back in middle school. Shit sucked.

37.) Did you ever do anything weird as a child? Yeah, I liked to pick clovers and eat them.

38.) What is your dream car? Lamborghini Diablo SE-30.

39.)  Describe something that made you laugh this week. I was watching videos about big cats chasing laser pointers earlier.

40.) Did you have a dream last night? If so, describe it. Nope, last night was too solid of a sleep because of all the wine.

41.)  Do you ever have repetitive dreams? Describe it/them. No, generally all my dreams are different, but sometimes they’ll be about the same person.

42.) Describe the worst/ scariest dream you’ve ever had. Shit I don’t remember. My dreams usually aren’t scary. I did have a dream a few months ago that my friend died in a terrorist attack or something, that freaked me out.

43.) Describe the best dream you’ve ever had. I won the lottery. And then woke up pissed the fuck off.

44.) If God himself gave you a choice of either having unlimited money for the rest of your life or finding your one true love starting tomorrow, which one would you choose (keep in mind, you are still able to make a ton of money if you choose love, and you are still able to meet your soul mate if you choose money)? Soul mate, absolutely.

45.) If you could do anything (and I mean ANYTHING) right now without consequences, what would you do and why? Take Emma Watson on a date and then bang her into next century.

46.) Do you have any recipes that you know off the top of your head? What is it/ what are they? Yeah, spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, Fettuccine chicken Alfredo. 

47.) Do you have your license? If so, do you have a car? Yes and yes.

48.) Have you ever had a near death experience? Yup, car crash in third grade.

49.) Do you personally know anyone that has been to prison? Nope not personally.

50.) Have you ever been in a physical fight? Yeah, a few times.

51.) When you get out of the shower, do you towel dry, blow dry, or air dry your hair? Towel dry a bit and then air dry. Who has time to blow dry that shit?

52.) When you go to the movies, what snacks and drinks do you take with you? I usually sneak in a bottle of vodka or whiskey, buy a Coke, dump out a shitload of it and then cut it with the vodka. Makes movies a lot more fun.

53.) Do you like going to the beach? If so, do you like to stay dry or go in the water? If not, why? Fuck yes, but I haven’t been in years. And I don’t mind getting wet, swimming is fun.

54.) Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Nah, do people actually do that?

55.) If you could have a superpower ASIDE from being invisible or being able to fly, what would you have? Control fire. Always wanted to surround myself with fire whenever I’m pissed off.

56.) If you were able to live for however long you wanted to (i’m talking thousands of years without aging), when would you choose to die? Whenever I got bored or when the world got too shitty to handle.

57.) What do you think happens after you die? I don’t think jack shit happens.

58.) Do you believe in aliens? I’m a healthy skeptic but it seems pretty retarded to just discount the possibility of aliens considering how fucking massive the universe is.

59.) Do you believe in ghosts? I’d like to. Never seen any evidence firsthand but I won’t completely write it off.

60.) Do you believe in spiritual things like ouija boards, tarot cards, and crystals? Do you believe they are portals for evil entities to enter the mortal world? Not really. Seems kind of far-fetched. But I do wanna fuck with a Ouija board and do everything you’re not supposed to do just to see what I piss off.

61.) If you could make one mythical being real, who/what would you make? Dragons motherfucker.

62.) Do you get tan, or do you burn? I tan. I can burn too, it just depends.

63.) Describe your shower routine. Shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face wash.

64.) Do you enjoy school? Why or why not? High school was a joke but I met some cool people there, college was a fucking waste of money and I’m glad I dropped out.

65.) In your opinion, what is the worst way to die? Alone.

66.) Do you get carsick, sea sick, or airplane sickness? None of those.

67.) What’s one memory that you wish you could live again and again? Visiting Jess in South Dakota. Also my 21st birthday.

68.) What were some of your stuffed animal’s names from when you were a kid? Mr. Bear is the one I remember the most. And Babas the clown. 

69.)Do you have any pets? I wish.

70.) Describe your daily wardrobe. Whatever the hell I feel like putting on. Usually a T shirt and jeans.

71.)  Describe what your daily wardrobe would be if you were rich. The exact same thing.

72.)  Create a character right now.  Give them a name, age, and character description. Fluffybutt McSnugglekins. She’s a 2 year old tortoiseshell kitty.

73.)What was the last thing you bought? Fuck if I know, I’ve been broke for a while. Probably bread or a bottle of vodka.

74.) Have you ever bought a CD? What band was it for? I’ve bought a lot of CDs, the most recent one was Metallica’s newest album.

75.) Describe your perfect ice cream sundae. A brownie sundae. Make sure the brownie is warm.

76.) If you could make ANYTHING happen right now with no cost, trouble, or obstacles, what would you do? Immediate winning of Power Ball.

77.) What are some of your favorite physical activities to do? I like boxing workouts, I need to get back into doing those.

78.) What were some of your favorite shows as a child? Scooby Doo and Inspector Gadget.

79.) Describe how you would survive the zombie apocalypse. I probably wouldn’t because I’d be too excited that the world had finally ended to be careful. I’d make sure to always keep a sidearm on me though so I could shoot myself if the zombies were closing in.

80.)What are some things you shouldn’t say at work? You can say whatever you want as long as the wrong people don’t overhear you.

81.) If you were told that if you killed someone, you would save 100 people, would you do it? It would depend on the person. And the people I’d be saving.

82.) How’s the weather right now? It’s a little chilly, I wish winter would fuck off.

83.) What is the background on your cell phone right now? It’s a road covered in red leaves.

84.)Is it better to work at a job that you love or a job that pays well? A job that you love. You can’t pay away misery.

85.) What do you have within arms reach of your bed? My iPod dock.

86.) Have you ever been fired from a job? If so, why? Nope, just quit a lot of them.

87.) Have you ever won a trophy, prize, or medal? If so, for what? Yeah, I won some Tee Ball trophies when I was a kid, also won a spelling bee once.

88.) Do you have any posters, pictures, or art hanging on your walls in your room? If so, what are they? Yup, it’s a lot of band and music-related stuff.

89.) Are you afraid of the dark? If so, why? No, I love the dark.

90.)What is something that you’ve never done but would like to try? Skydiving.

91.) If you could choose three famous people or characters to be friends with, who would you choose and why? Emma Watson because I am fucking in love with her, Peter Dinklage because I bet he’s a fun as fuck dude to hang out with, and Hugh Jackman because he could give me voice lessons and seems like a generally good guy.

92.) Do you smile at strangers when you pass by them on the street? Depends on my mood, usually yes.

93.) Do you have a favorite TV commercial? If so, what is it? Nah, there have been some Super Bowl commercials that were fun but I’ve forgotten them.

94.) Do you like your handwriting? My handwriting sucks lol.

95.) Cable TV or Netflix? Netflix. Cable is so unnecessary.

96.) What are your favorite smells? Freshly cut grass, bourbon, cooking food, and Hawaiian Aloha Febreze.

97.) Do you consider yourself physically strong? Yeah, I’m a lot stronger than I look.

98.) Describe a time where you said something really rude or mean, whether intentional or not. I can’t remember exactly what was said, I was with my girlfriend at the time in her car, we were fighting, she said something that pushed my buttons and I hauled off and screamed at her.

99.) Do you ask strangers to pet their dogs? Usually. Furry babies make me happy.

100.)What is your most embarrassing moment? When I danced with my crush in like 4th grade, I had no idea what the fuck I was doing.

101.) Has anyone really close to you ever died? If so, who was it and how did you handle it? Nobody super close. My friend Shannon died when she was 16 but we hadn’t talked in a few years. It was still really shitty, still think about her sometimes.

102.)  Describe your plan of action if you were home alone and you heard someone break into your house. Grab a weapon, whether it’s one of my swords or my shotgun. Prepare to end someone.

103.) If you were to be born again, would you want to be born male or female? I wouldn’t mind trying life as a female.

104.)  What shampoo do you use? Whatever I pick up. Usually Aussie or Pantene.

105.) Guess the meaning of this word: ulotrichous. I have no idea and I don’t feel like Googling it.

106.) Do you let messages (phone, email, text, social media, etc…) build up, or do you have to look at them right away? I usually look at them right away. Except for my email, my inbox is a cesspit.

107.)  Where is the nearest McDonalds to your house? It’s like a 10 minute drive or so.

108.)  If you had $1 billion and you had to spend it in exactly one week, what would you spend it on? A fully paid off house, a fully paid off car, lots of musical equipment, a shitload of expensive ass food, and the rest on lottery tickets.

109.) What is the best thing you’ve ever eaten? My own spaghetti and meatball recipe. I like it better than actual Italian food made by immigrants.

110.) If you could go on a trip around the world with up to three people, who would you bring (they can be people you know personally or famous people). My best friend, Taylor, and Emma Watson.

111.) What expletive/ explicit phrase do you say most often? Fuck. All the fucking time.

112.) What is your personal definition of success? Just not wanting to die every single day.

113.) How was your day today? It was alright, I got a job interview.

114.) What is the closest Big City you live by? I live right outside of Nashville.

115.) Have you ever been in a car accident? Yeah, 3 of them. Only driving for 1 though.

116.) Do you hide anything from your parents? A lot of things.

117.) If you could possess one talent, what would you be able to do? Not be depressed.

118.) Ugly and smart or beautiful and stupid? Ugly and smart.

119.) What is the worst thing you’ve ever seen in real life? Man of Steel. God, that movie is terrible.

120.) Use only 3 words to describe how you want your future to go. Go away, depression.

121.) QUICK! give me a few things a brick could be useful for: Breaking a window, breaking your arch-enemy’s skull, smashing open a bottle of wine because you don’t have a corkscrew.

122.) If you could make a dream society, describe it in great detail where it would be, who would be in it, and what rules there would be? I’m not even gonna attempt that because humans are far too shitty for a “dream society” to exist. I’d love to do away with money ruling everything though, and racist/homophobic/overzealous religious types would have no place in it.

123.) If you could make any animal miniature, what would you make and why? I’d love to make a mini octopus. Because they’re the shit. And they’re geniuses, they’ll take over the world eventually.

124.) What are your favorite candle scents? I like pine.

125.) If you HAD to have one plastic surgery, what would you get and why? I have no idea, the least intensive one.

126.) Do you prefer to hang out with the same sex or the opposite sex? I usually find myself with more female friends than male, but my two best friends are male and female.

127.) If you could make a charity, what would the profits go towards? How would you raise money for it? Something to do with mental disorders and researching cures and shit. I have no idea how I’d go about raising money, charities are hard. Maybe fundraisers.

128.) Describe the body you wish you had. Basically my body but a lot more lean and toned.

129.) If you were a famous director, what would your next movie be about? Describe the plot, characters, and possible title. I want to make an atmospheric psychological horror movie. The characters would probably just be random college students, but they’d be tormented by crazy psychological shit. Like one of them goes into a room and the door vanishes, they freak out and bang on the walls for what seems like hours and then their friends come in like “What the fuck are you freaking out about”. Fun shit like that.

130.) If only women were to rule the world, how different would the world be by 2050? Entirely different. I can’t even guess at how, but it would obviously be very different.

131.) What is your favorite alcoholic drink? Bourbon.

132.) Do you have a problematic friend? Yeah, a couple of them.

133.) Are you more spontaneous or more of a planner? Spontaneous. Plans are lame.

134.) If you could change your full name, what would your name be? I’m pretty cool with my name.

135.) What is one song that describes your life? “Never Enough”

136.) What is one show you’ve been meaning to watch but can never find the time for? Breaking Bad, everyone says it’s so good.

137.) Do you find it easy to drop toxic people from your life that you’ve known for a long time? Hell no, I can’t let of anyone.

138.) Do you like children? Why or why not? Nah, they just kind of annoy me most of the time.

139.) What is your zodiac sign? Libra.

140.) Do you like to dance? Do you dance often? In front of other people? Sort of, but no, never.

141.) Name some of your favorite colors. Black, dark red, silver, green.

142.) Have you ever shoplifted? If so, what was it? Yes. Food, Magic cards, headphones, a toothbrush, a comb, a DVD, I think that’s it.

143.) If you could speak three additional languages, what would they be? Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.

144.) Have you ever been in legal trouble? Nothing serious, but yeah.

145.) Have you ever had surgery? Nope. Probably should though, my shoulder is fukt.

146.) If you could change 2 things about yourself, what would you change and why? I’d get rid of my depression and be in much better shape.

147.) What do you want done with your body after you die? Probably cremation.

148.) What three physical features do people compliment you most on? What do they say about them? Hair, eyes, and jaw line. Everybody thinks my hair and eyes are pretty and I’ve been told I have a “strong jaw”.

149.) If you could have your own business, what would you do? It’d be cool to have my own record label.

150.) What current friend do you have that you’ve known the longest? My best friend, I’ve known him for like 15 years or so.

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Yugioh Ep 36 S4: Seto Joins Dragon Wife in Hell

So I dunno about you guys, but 2020 aged me like a lot in just these 8 months, so I figured it was time to embrace the feeling of being on death’s door and I decided to learn Mahjong. So I could truly embrace the ancients and vibe in their natural habitat.

Anyway, once I learned some Mahjong lore, some parts of Yugioh just open up. Namely--Seto’s dragons. Like a whole lot of stuff about early Seto Kaiba that confused me at the time just makes so much more sense now.

But unfortunately, he dies this episode, and he never pulled out his Blue Eyes White Dragons, and it’s just like...

...but my Mahjong deep cuts...

Like every episode I’m just rubbing my palms together in anticipation that someone will die, but like...I never get to talk about how in Mahjong, there’s only 4 white dragon tiles, but if you have 3, you can steal the fourth white dragon from another player’s discards, and that when you that, other stuff happens...I don’t get to talk about that because Seto’s hella dead.

So lets just get to the death. Dartz decides to make all of our soldier frenemies attack Pharaoh--because that’s all he needs to raise the Leviathan. Like Dartz doesn’t even really need to finish this game. He just needs Yami.

Seto picks up that these friend (and Pegasus) soldiers that Yami refuses to kill are probably going to end the world very quickly so he decides to do something about it. If this were a blog where I talked about cards instead of Mahjong, then I’d dive into the intricacies of what that even was.

But, we’re not, so lets just talk about Pegasus.

(read more under the cut)

This guy harnesses some psychic energy he’s got leftover from S1 and communicates directly to Pharaoh’s mind.

So, hey, what was that about Pegasus not having powers anymore? Like? He’s still doing this? He’s still psychic and he very clearly can still make blank cards so like...I guess you can take out the eyeball and make him nicer, but you can’t take out some of the effed up magic side-effects. (like there was a comment I didn’t respond to (which, sorry about that, been a little nuts over here in California), but apparently there was a movie in between seasons where Pegasus saved their lives--so he’s legit good now...there was a DLC where character arcs happened.)

Which kind makes you wonder about Marik, but we’ll probably never see him again so o well, save it for the fanfiction.

PS Yami is totally fixating on that eye we can’t see, right? Like...it never outright tells us, but does this spiritual Orichalcos manifestation of Pegasus still have the golden eye? A human eye? Or no eye at all? Just skin?

Not like it matters because Seto does some sort of card shenanigans that undo the whole friends that are soldiers thing like it never happened.

MMMMM I don’t like these weird legs on Yugi. Don’t like the thighs it gave to Joey. No! I’m seeing like this skin-tight silhouette of half an ass right now and I really don’t like it.

Along with other card things I won’t go into that consumed most of this episode, Seto finally got hit by a...well, I mean you can clearly see it in the next cap.

So, in Mahjong, there are 3 types of dragons: a white dragon, a red dragon, and a green dragon. I used to think it was really lazy that we’re just calling monsters straight up “white dragon” or “red dragon” in this show, but now it makes more sense because this whole time it was probably baby’s first Mahjong reference but I’m too Western to know that.

Anyway, the white dragon is funny looking because it’s a white tile--just a completely blank white tile. I thought it was a wild card at first but nah--it’s a white dragon in a snowfield--which is a very funny Dad joke from 200 years ago we’re still doing today. But, often, instead of a Dad joke, they’ll just make the white dragon tile a drawing of a blank card, like this:

Kind of funny that the guy who’s shtick is white dragons, ended up with his soul in a blank card. Was that a mahjong reference? Probably not, but I noticed it.

And mahjong aside, the show paid it’s respects to Seto dying and so he took his sweet time passing on. It’s still not that much respect. We aren’t gonna get that amazing Joey death sequence from S3 that took like half an episode of scene-shredding for our mains to recover from, but like...Seto was very determined to keep going, despite not having a soul.

He even finished his turn of cards, as if to just spite Joey Wheeler for that one time Joey hella died before killing Marik.

Shippers rejoice, it’s a Yami and Seto Kaiba death sequence. If you squint really hard, it might even be an embrace. I mean they both have very sharp duel disks on, and if Yugi’s closes for whatever reason, it’ll snap Seto’s head clear off, but what other “hugs” do we really get on this show?

And as for Mokuba, he was quite tragic this episode. I mean it’s Yugioh, so it’s not like you’re gonna cry or anything, but Mokuba just doesn’t really have anything else going for him without his brother so it is legit like...man Mokuba gets a lot of crap thrown his way and even when he’s happy, he still has to live with Seto so just...Mokuba...

Again we get this bubble effect of other people trying to enter the Orichalcos which happens just a Hell of a lot this season. Like Dartz probably has never had a single person WANT to go in the green zone in 10,000 years and then these bizarre children happened and they just want to bounce off that thing like a jello pudding.

I think it took over 5 minutes for Seto to die, and he was very, very, VERY angry the entire time. Just fueled by literally nothing but rage. Could probably go a couple more episodes if he had taken a nap in the KaibaCopter, but alas, even Seto Kaiba eventually runs out of fumes.

Anyway, another Mahjong fun fact. The dragon tiles are considered an “honor tile” and how many times have we heard Seto--who is such a scumball--go off about his honor? It can be hard to use honors tiles because their rate of success is lower, so when Seto’s like “I have to live up to my dragon’s honor or I can’t keep these in my deck” could he be like...making a Mahjong pun as well as a literal reference to whatever he defines as honor?

...Again, just a Mahjong reference I noticed, but probably not what they intended at all. Which is Good Enough for this blog.

After he tragically passed on, and Yami delicately put his body on the ground, -- Dartz decided to make this moment very funny for me, instead.

Bless.

Not as good as Yami the both times his body was chucked casually across the screen this season--but a very good toss, nonetheless.

I have made so MANY clips of this season!

Tristan and Tea kinda just stood there this entire episode while this was all going down and like...I know they can’t really do anything else at this point but like...can someone give Mokuba a hug???

I can’t believe Valon was the only guy in this entire show about friendship who knew how to hug people. He was in prison since he was 9, and then was raised by freakin Dartz, why is he the only hugger?

PS, apparently Seto’s yummy soul was enough to make the Leviathan open a single eye-ball in curiosity.

Mokuba out there flinging so many insults that he got everyone else banned from watching devil cards. It’s like sports competitions in Middle school with that one kid who won’t stop cussing. That one kid who is the reason everyone else has to sit through a boring ass assembly about sportsmanship? That’s Mokuba.

Now that everyone is ‘passed out’, we can get to the juicy stuff only the olds talk about--which sounds a lot like I’m about to do another segway into talking about Mahjong again, but I’m actually all out of the Mahjong juice. Again, I’m ass at Mahjong.

(and like...the peanut gallery died in the original version, right? I know to never trust a “they’re just sleeping” line in Yugioh.)

Dartz telling me he dragged that ass length blue hair across Egypt?

Man.

I would say that it must’ve really thrown people, but then again, their Pharaoh looked like...that.

So Dartz ended up wandering the earth for 5000 years, cursed to live immortally, unable to revive the great Leviathan, wallowing in his failure. Sentenced to suffer the entire existence of humanity that he never wanted to see survive anyway, unable to die himself.

That’s an interesting plotline that I wish I saw more of. I really like the idea of a supervillian who is already past his prime, who’s already burnt out, who’s so far removed from what happened that he’s fully accepted his demise and is just wandering around out of habit. But, most importantly--that changes my math. That’s like...5000 years he wasn’t slurping no souls because he was too damn depressed. So I’ll append the Deathcount. One second.

OK so we can just subtract 7.3 million from what we had, leaving us with: 7,805,844,047. Barely even made a dent but...eh...when you got the current population of the Earth in there it’s really hard to make a dent in that thing.

PS I still have that google doc where I keep track of the deaths, we have 55 lines of entries, haha.

Yugioh is interesting because you do have some racial stuff going on here where Yami is SO OLD that he doesn’t remember not only his own name--he doesn’t remember what he looks like. He’s even seen it a few times in hallucinations but like...Yami legit doesn’t know what it is to be an ancient Egyptian anymore. It’s been a hot minute, and he still sees himself as a pale skinned Yugi clone when he spiritually manifests in the show. Because the modern day, set in Japan, through Yugi’s eyes--that’s all he knows about life.

Dartz was so impressed by Pharaoh’s magic powers that he knew--he just KNEW that this Pharaoh with the worst hair would be the yummy soul for the Leviathan tummy. But unfortunately...

This is a show that has had so MANY overlapping apocalypses that I did have to sit back and kind of count off on my fingers which crazy person this would be about.

Honestly? Either Seto or Bakura...guessing Bakura because we haven’t finished his storyline yet and I know that he’s the big bad of S5. But man...Dartz was just like “oh...no thanks to that guy. I’ll just take a nap for 5000 years, BIG no thanks.” and it does make you wonder...

...oh...so that’s why you didn’t bother Bakura in this timeline.

It also helps make Bakura even more of a threat. Again, Bakura is great because he’s just constantly leaving nuggets of what a threat he is and then just...disappears for seasons on end. The Bakura we’ve made in our head is probably way more awful than what he may end up being.

But for now, it’s fun to just fill in the gaps instead.

anyway that was it for this episode, I’m off to pretend it’s Thanksgiving week and will look forward to drowning my anxiety in a 16 lb turkey shared between four people.

Anyway, I brought up the cat that falls asleep on metal rods so I have to do this:

And for those that are new, this is a link to read these in chrono order: https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono