#AO3 Thiefshipping

[sonnista]

Aaaa the end of an era !! ; v ; The last chapter of @aestromeri and my collab has been uploaded on AO3 💕☕️

You can read it here:

Beautiful art by Cali 🫶💓

[kitsunefaux]

Chapters: 11/? Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Bakura Ryou/Yami Bakura, Bakura Ryou/Thief King Bakura, Bakura Ryou/Zorc Necrophades Characters: Bakura Ryou, Yami Bakura, Thief King Bakura, Marik Ishtar, Yami Marik, Zorc Necrophades, Sera (Yu-Gi-Oh), Diabound (Yu-Gi-Oh) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Angst, Unreliable Narrator, Non-Linear Narrative, References to manga canon, Post-Ceremonial Duel (Yu-Gi-Oh), Tendershipping, Gemshipping, Leechshipping, Hints of Conspireshipping, Background Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships, human!Zorc, Out of Character Aigami | Diva, Out of Character Sera, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), Depression, Social Anxiety, Dissociation/Derealization, Obsessive Behavior, Possessive Behavior, Emotional Manipulation, Codependency, Sennen Items | Millennium Items, Soul Room as Mind Palace, Magic, Memories, Ghosts, Gods, Avatars, Possession, Creative License: Egyptian Mythology, Taking a hatchet to DSoD’s plot and using the pieces to make something new Series: Part 3 of Chiaroscuro AU Summary:

A spirit carves a hole into a boy's heart that he might crawl inside and nestle in its warmth. Now, he is gone, and Ryou is left with a gnawing wound, memories, and the certainty that he will get Bakura back.

Behind the curtain, gods meddle, resetting the board for the start of another game. A new cycle of the world has begun.

[worldendercharles]

A thiefshipping fic by Rye @changed-of-heart and I for the bestie @crush3dmary !! Featuring blood, stabbing, Marik's internal monologue, and trauma!

[bakurasvampire]

me when i wanna write more of the draft of one of my favorite thiefshipping aus/stories ive made only to remind myself i am, in fact, still on the prologue and not at the cool part(s) yet.

[micheladee]

It's here!

It's been an honor to contribute to the @thieveszine. The fic I wrote for it, Three Days Left, is now available to read on ao3! Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Ship: Thiefshipping (Malik Ishtar/Yami Bakura) Rating: Explicit Go read it!

[koutone]

Do you have any fics or authors you recommend?

definitely recommend anything and everything by @crush3dmary! they write the tastiest ygo angst out there and some of my favorite thiefshipping ❤️ here's a link to their ao3!

i also recommend @micheladee's work, which you can find here!!

Anything by girahimu_sama (aka dmbakura) is also incredible and I highly recommend!!!

Some other fics I love are

From Shadows by orro

Playing Card Games Is Just Like Making Love by ChaosRocket and Taemanaku (NSFW)

Heal You by ChaosRocket (NSFW)

[alectoperdita]

Gonna gush a little apropos of nothing tbh - I was a big ygo fan in in my teens despite never having properly watched DM ((for shame etcetera the abridged series took hold of my mid-pubescent mind and shook it like a rag-doll)), and at the time I was Big Into Thiefshipping. But having now watched the damn thing (dubbed for laughs but I'm seriously considering doing a full sub rewatch)

And for whatever reason (/obvious reasons) Kaiba and Jou just took me by the throat, and when I went on my little fic hunt on AO3 for kindling to fan the flames I found your fics. Your beautiful, wonderful fics.

I just love all your different AUs and your different takes on Kaiba and Jounouchi grafted into each universe. I think you have such a good handle on their characters and what makes them tick - in universes where they can be in love and in universes where they can be in self destructive obsession with one another and everything in between.

So I just wanted to say thanks for sharing them with the world <3

Embarrassing confession time: I took a while answering this one because I would periodically come back to my inbox and reread this message (you may imagine me giggling and twirling my hair as I do so). I hope you don't mind me replying in public so that I can save it for posterity. <3

Now onto the content of your message.

Your experience is not that uncommon. There was definitely a bit of a renaissance in the fandom in the early days of YGOTAS. It brought a lot of new people to the fandom. In a lot of ways, it was one of the biggest factors in sailing thiefshipping prevalently. As for me, I started out as a Kaiba/Shizuka shipper waaaaay back in the day (we're talking like 2002).

Kaiba and Jounouchi are going to be my favorites forever, though! I've jumped around to some other fandoms during the intervening years, but I always come back to these two. A big part of it is that I had very ambitious story ideas as a teenager, then young adult, that I failed to both execute and see through to the finish. It took literal decades but I've finally cultivated the skillset I wanted/needed to make those stories happen.

So I legit want to cry every time someone tells me that the fics also had an effect on them. Whether it entertained them or gave them a bit of joy. Yeah, I write for myself. But the rest, the editing and the agonizing and the formatting and the posting, that's me sharing something (perhaps egotistically so, a part of myself) with the world. So it's always gratifying to hear that it's been received somehow by someone. And that it had a positive impact.

Thank you for the message. I hope to keep sharing stories about these two for a while longer if y'all will have it. <3

[mixelation]

Wednesday, Saturday, November

fanfic questions themed around time

name a fic which you have posted which you think is underrated?

i was going to say auto-da-fe but then i actually looked at my ao3 page sorted by kudos and NO ONE RESPECTS MY THIEFSHIPPING FICS LMAOOOO

what gets you excited whilst writing?

i write mostly to get Ideas out of my head, so every once in a while i get SO into an idea that i am able to just churn out words like this

for example, that time i churned out like four chapters of homemade dynamite in a week? i really, really needed deidara to blow up an island. it was essential to my mental health

do you have any rituals or requirements for getting in the mood for writing?

not really! although i guess i get most into writing late at night, which is extremely bad for my sleep schedule

[crush3dmary]

I may or may not have written some thiefshipping smut for my beta reader's (belated) birthday. I'm not linking it because I posted it to my nsfw alt, but if you check the thiefship ao3 tag, it'll be riiiight at the top.

[winkle-pickers]

Woohoo, officially made my first foray into Thiefshipping!! I had so much fun writing these terrible kids. Gift exchange for @darkmagiattack ​ - thanks for the excellent prompt ideas, I’m such a hoe for arranged marriage fantasy AU’s 😂

Animal Husbandry

In the end, it doesn’t matter if the boys like each other, because Malik’s father needs Bakura’s father’s army, and Bakura’s father needs Malik’s father’s land. It’s a very mutually profitable arrangement, if you aren’t the one being forced to marry a rude little hellion.

The next time Malik and Bakura meet they are ten, and they end up fighting so badly that Malik ends up with a black eye and Bakura comes away from the encounter with the impression of Malik’s teeth in his forearm.

Their fathers are undeterred, and the marriage contract remains intact.

“He’s not so bad,” Rishid says, trying to comfort Malik.

“He’s awful,” Ishizu says, not looking up from her book. “Does make you two perfect for one another, though.”

Over the course of a decade, Malik and Bakura learn that marriage is horrible and annoying and generally a bad idea all around. On the other hand, it's kind of nice to have someone to set fires with. Arranged Marriage Fantasy AU

AO3 Link:

Animal Husbandry

[sonnista]

[If someone were to ask him, he would answer that they are just one-night stands. It’s nothing more than just meaningless sex. ...But not as meaningless as Malik wants it to be.]

Enemies With Benefits by Sonnista (read on AO3)

[bakugouisabitch]

Wearing his black hoodie and his hair tied up in a ponytail, Bakura had smoked far too many cigarettes when waiting for Malik at the airport. Despite never admitting it, for some bizarre reason, he felt really nervous.

Malik has been away for 3 weeks now. A handful of calls and texts were the only means holding up any kind of link between the two. Bakura knows Malik well enough to recognise how easily he gets impressed by a new thing, by new ideas, and maybe also a new lifestyle. He’s not sure what to expect with his return, how much of Egypt will influence his new state of mind. But he’s mostly not sure how much ready he is to endure any kind of change in life right now. He was just starting to settle down in their current one.

However, any feeling of anxiety was quickly replaced with pure elation once he saw him.

Everything pt. 3/5: Impactful Change (from ‘A Day In The Life of Bakura and Malik’ series) by sunstreamandmoonlight

[rochelleechidna]

Guess what the universe totally needed? A five-part quarantine fic with our favourite emotionally-constipated idiots Abridged thieves who just need that little push.