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Reblog if you're in the Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom.

I want to see how many duelists are on tumblr.

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Honestly, the 'Karipand(o)raperi as a sort of Hindu deity name honestly hadn't occurred to me, and makes the already 'I'm gonna die from this portmanteau' energy even more 'oh god'.

That said, I went with Cyberse because it's such a required name string. It's fine for like subs, but there's always the non-zero chance with Rush Duel introducing Elemental HERO (and probably with it, theme Name Strings), that Konami might make サイバース a required name string, and both Guardian of Cyberse and CPT's monsters would fall under this, should some sort of card that wants "サイバース" be made.

Basically, due diligence and future proofing, on my end. Konami's been very consistent about translating サイバース as Cyberse.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!! Episodes 103 Sub Release

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カリーパンドラペリー Karipandraperi

Since these cards were revealed for the newest pack, YGOrg already has a translation for them. However, I don't really like trying to force the reading as Curry Bread Drapery.

I believe her name is a play on the how Hindu deities are usually named, down to the selection of syllables used to mimick the sound. Yes, it is "curry bread" + "pandora" + "drapery" together - that isn't wrong. I just believe making it a full name instead of forcing the English works better.

This is just my opinion, though. Same goes for Cyber Spyce instead of Cyberse Spyce.

CPT's pronouns

You may have noticed we have used "it" to refer to CPT. This is entirely intentional and based simply on the reason that CPT doesn't seem like it wants to be compared to a lifeform (after all it spends the entire episode degrading everyone else for being living beings).

So I thought it best to not refer to CPT with gender or even something gender-neutral like "they" (like we use for Damamu). CPT also doesn't use a gendered pronoun to refer to itself.

"It" seemed like the best choice given that.

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Happy Wooperween!

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Smol squishy cute.

After many long years, she has finally caught her mortal nemesis.

She now has no idea what to do.

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bakura (inoue you) and atem (17 yr old kazama shunsuke)

VS (a year and four months later)

bakura (matsumoto rica) and atem (18 yr old kazama shunsuke)

may god rest inoue-san's soul, but I really do adore matsumoto rica as bakura/ryou. she slayed that role. and you can tell kazama shunsuke gained more control over his voice acting when the scene was re-recorded. its less stilted and he's finally grasped his atem voice after playing him for a while.

I love them both a lot!!!

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Caterpie, Metapod, and Butterfree! 🐛🦋

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Yugioh protagonist stickers!!

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So what I’ve learned from the past couple months of being really loud about being a bi woman on Tumblr is: A lot of young/new LGBT+ people on this site do not understand that some of the stuff they’re saying comes across to other LGBT+ people as offensive, aggressive, or threatening. And when they actually find out the history and context, a lot of them go, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry, I never meant to say that.”

Like, “queer is a slur”: I get the impression that people saying this are like… oh, how I might react if I heard someone refer to all gay men as “f*gs”. Like, “Oh wow, that’s a super loaded word with a bunch of negative freight behind it, are you really sure you want to put that word on people who are still very raw and would be alarmed, upset, or offended if they heard you call them it, no matter what you intended?”

So they’re really surprised when self-described queers respond with a LOT of hostility to what feels like a well-intentioned reminder that some people might not like it. 

That’s because there’s a history of “political lesbians”, like Sheila Jeffreys, who believe that no matter their sexual orientation, women should cut off all social contact with men, who are fundamentally evil, and only date the “correct” sex, which is other women. Political lesbians claim that relationships between women, especially ones that don’t contain lust, are fundamentally pure, good, and  unproblematic. They therefore regard most of the LGBT community with deep suspicion, because its members are either way too into sex, into the wrong kind of sex, into sex with men, are men themselves, or somehow challenge the very definitions of sex and gender. 

When “queer theory” arrived in the 1980s and 1990s as an organized attempt by many diverse LGBT+ people in academia to sit down and talk about the social oppressions they face, political lesbians like Jeffreys attacked it harshly, publishing articles like “The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians”, arguing that because queer theory said it was okay to be a man or stop being a man or want to have sex with a man, it was fundamentally evil and destructive. And this attitude has echoed through the years; many LGBT+ people have experience being harshly criticized by radical feminists because being anything but a cis “gold star lesbian” (another phrase that gives me war flashbacks) was considered patriarchal, oppressive, and basically evil.

And when those arguments happened, “queer” was a good umbrella to shelter under, even when people didn’t know the intricacies of academic queer theory; people who identified as “queer” were more likely to be accepting and understanding, and “queer” was often the only label or community bisexual and nonbinary people didn’t get chased out of. If someone didn’t disagree that people got to call themselves queer, but didn’t want to be called queer themselves, they could just say “I don’t like being called queer” and that was that. Being “queer” was to being LGBT as being a “feminist” was to being a woman; it was opt-in.

But this history isn’t evident when these interactions happen. We don’t sit down and say, “Okay, so forty years ago there was this woman named Sheila, and…” Instead we queers go POP! like pufferfish, instantly on the defensive, a red haze descending over our vision, and bellow, “DO NOT TELL ME WHAT WORDS I CANNOT USE,” because we cannot find a way to say, “This word is so vital and precious to me, I wouldn’t be alive in the same way if I lost it.” And then the people who just pointed out that this word has a history, JEEZ, way to overreact, go away very confused and off-put, because they were just trying to say.

But I’ve found that once this is explained, a lot of people go, “Oh wow, okay, I did NOT mean to insinuate that, I didn’t realize that I was also saying something with a lot of painful freight to it.”

And that? That gives me hope for the future.

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Great Mouse Detective version of Dracula happening simultaneously as the events of Dracula, so there’s just five mice in Victorian clothes unnoticed by the human cast desperately trying to kill a bat.

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Affection

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RIDE OR DIE ⚡️

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postcard for the travel zine (they all went up to visit kaiba’s space station)