#his friend Téa!!

[millenniumdueled]

Yugi left his phone behind....

[gallusrostromegalus]

Another TPOFATGIF question actually:

You made Tea brutally competent in Duel Monsters (as she deserves), does that mean that she might outright join the Battle City Tournament when it happens? Given how absolutely ride or die these friends are and what is/will be at stake, it feels like a logical thing, but it also would probably cause some massive changes.

Then again, you already made massive (and wonderful) changes to Kaiba, Marik and his gang, Mai, so, I guess it probably wouldn't be that far out?

Téa was planning on joining Battle City, but then she gets the Opportunity Of A Lifetime-

A Chance to Audition for the Newer York Ballet. Full-ride Scholarship on the line.

Battle City is a Saturday to Saturday event, and the auditions are Monday to Friday that same week. She doesn't know when that week her number will be called, and there are multiple elimination rounds, with the final contenders for the scholarship having to stick around until Friday. She has to hang around the downtown area, but can't risk getting stuck in a duel and miss her audition call.

Fucking assholes, but that's show biz.

This Audition (and it's fallout) is load-bearing to the next arc :)

[bleugioh]

say what you want about douma/waking the dragons arc but my depraved angst loving little shit gremlin heart loved being torn to shreds that entire time they really pulled ALL THE STOPS like of course there’s the great puzzleshipping divorce schism of season 4 and pathetic yearning atem grappling with his inner darkness and # ilostmyaibou heartbreak plotline but i also got jounouchi/joey and mai drama, anzu/téa dealing with post breakup crybaby pharaoh who is also now stuck with a mortal body for the first time in thousands of years, kaiba facing The Consequences AKA war crimes of his big tech company and stepdaddy issues round 2 after virtual world, mokuba almost losing his brother several times once again, the nerd herd missing yugi hours 24/7, post-battle city otogi/ryuji stressfully trying to keep his friends AND the professor + rebecca alive half the time (he had a pastel green car, dice, and a dream), PEGASUS COMEBACK FOR LIKE TWO EPISODES, haga/weevil and dino/rex side quest that ends with them joining an ancient cult deadset on bringing about armaggeddon via children’s card games that lands them both fucking dead for like the second time in this series, the literal end of the human AND monster worlds happening side by side with dark magician girl having to manage the worst trio of legendary dragon heroes ever (2/3 of them are friends which is like ok but meanwhile guy number three is a rich teen CEO who is always cranky and has unlocked shrimp color levels of denial), the three motorcyle goons’ consistently wackass tragic backstories, the lost city of atlantis lore — THE LIST GOES ON I REALLY HAD IT ALL

[gx-gameon]

What would the DM cast do if Jaden was the one that got left behind in the dark world instead of Jesse?

Oh oh. You are a mad genius.

I love stories where Jaden stayed behind instead of Jesse. They are rare but I’ve read them before. My favorite one (I don’t remember the name or what site it was on) but it had Jaden taken Jesse’s deck and duel disk from him since they needed rainbow dragons attack to continue. (He might have knocked Jesse out to do this it’s been a while)

But let’s say Jaden stayed and Jesse returned. (Jaden stole the deck/threw Jesse through the portal)

Yugi, Seto and the others are waiting at duel academy for their son to return. They helped Pegasus’s find rainbow dragon and helped get rainbow dragon through. They are trusting Jaden and his friends to do their part now.

The school returns and with it the students. So many students are roaming around. Many dazed and confused about what is happening (the duel zombies are snapping back to reality)

The DM cast are running through. They are checking on the other students as they go, but they are looking for Jaden.

They find a screaming Jesse instead. He’s fighting with Axel. “How could you leave him? How could he do this to me? What am I suppose to do now?” Jesse’s having a lot of emotions. His best friend/crush just switched their decks. He and Jesse’s deck/Jesse’s family are still in that dimension. (I think it’s easiest to have Jaden switch their duel disks meaning Jaden and the Crystal beasts are in the dark world while Jesse and the hero’s have returned)

Jesse is switching between rage at himself for not realizing what Jaden was doing, Axel for not stoping it, Yubel for starting the problem in the first place, Jaden and his stupid hero complex, and all these students here who constantly act like Jaden’s existence is to make their lives easy. He’s sad, angry, grieving, and terrified all at once.

And he is who Yugi finds.

The boy is mid-rant when the two lock eyes and Jesse freezes before he just falls to his knees and sobs. How on earth is he suppose to tell Jaden’s family that he didn’t come back with them.

Yugi puts it together and almost breaks down right there and then. He pull it together enough to find Mokuba. Mokuba loves his nephew, but Yugi knows Mokuba won’t lose himself to rage of grief. Mokuba will loss himself in strategizing how they are going to get Jaden back. Yugi can’t do that right now, he needs a moment to collect himself and then he will be on it. He knows Seto, Atem, Joey, and Tristian will lose themselves to their rage. Téa will be lost to grief. They all need a moment.

So he goes to Mokuba and tell him to start pulling students. Jaden’s still in that dimension and they need as much information as possible. Mokuba is on it. Organizing the students into three groups 1) zombies (unhelpful) 2) cowards (people who didn’t become zombies but weren’t helpful) 3) leaders (most of these, unsurprisingly, are Jaden’s friends)

Yugi goes and finds the others, breaking the news to them. They all have a good cry or rage out. They have been under a lot of stress for the past three years and this last week has been hell.

After a good cry and scream (or whatever they need) they pull it together. They go to ‘interview’ (read interrogate nicely) Jaden’s friends

Yugi pulls Jesse. He needs to know exactly what happened in that final duel. He pulls the boy separate from the others so there is not mincing of words. Jesse knows Jaden is Yugi’s son. There is nothing to hide, they both want to figure out the fastest way back to Jaden.

Atem is talking to Axel. He was one of the most active participants in leading the others.

Joey is talking to Jim. Same as above. He was active in leading the group and might know information they need.

Téa is talking to Alexis and Blair. Trying to price together how everything went so wrong. Blair also remembered how Martin behaved when under Yubel’s control and that could be helpful.

Tristian is talking to Hasselberry, they are taking though all the decisions made and where things went wrong.

Seto is ‘talking’ to Crowler and Bonaparte. He is chewing his staff out for not taking control of the situation. Leaving everything up to students. And worst of all leaving one of those students behind

Mokuba it taking to Chazz and Syrus. They became duel zombies fast but still any informations they could have is useful and Mokuba is going to pull it fast and move on. He’s not going to make them feel worthless for failing but he’s not going to spend time comforting them either.

A big difference is that Seto is not leaving anything up to chance. They are going after their boy now. He will rip the whole in space himself if he has to.

The group reconvened after talking to the kids, they are planning to go back to Kaiba Corp to get the dimensional pods ready. (Only two can go but that’s a fight for later)

The Gx kids are heading back to the slifer dorm to lick their wounds. Jesse stops and says he forgot to tell them something. He barges into the room right as the DM crew are making their plans demanding to go with them.

They try to explain to him that only two can go and there is no way they can put a literal child in danger. But then winged Kuriboh appeared and starts cooing at them. A rift is appearing and it’s time to go.

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Round 1

Propaganda Under Cut

Misa Amane

she gets treated in-canon the way fandoms treat female characters that Threaten an m/m ship. it's like, "oh why don't you go sit in the corner and be pretty, misa, while the Men have intelligent conversation and pretend they aren't ten seconds from fucking each other, doesn't that sound nice?" it's infuriating. and MAYBE it's better now but i remember her getting treated the same way in fanfiction too, like we all need to do just as badly by our female secondary characters as fucking tsugumi ohba, but with the added insult of making her be alternately oblivious of the relationship between light and L or actively trying to sabotage it—incompetently, of course, because god forbid misa be allowed dignity or moments of cleverness.

she's one of the first characters I think of when I consider old school fandom misogyny. The annoying bitch and clingy crazy gf allegations were AFTER HER ASS. She's also a lot more intelligent than people gave her credit for, but most seem inclined to take the Very Biased word of our unreliable, narcissistic narrator and his homoerotic arch nemesis and claim that just because she's bubbly and into romance that she's also a complete moron. Which is blatantly untrue. Everyone was afraid of Misa girlbossing too hard. Killing people and devoting yourself to the deranged twink of your dreams even though you know he'll never love you back??? Having a hardcore goth aesthetic and being so Hot even literal Death Gods are into you?? God forbid women do ANYTHING!

Not only is she the victim of yaoi culture, she is the victim of early 2000s misogyny by an author that wanted to introduce a girl character because he knew his male rivals were getting too homoerotic. She is a goth bimbo icon who portrays what I think is one of the few callouts for stan culture and what parasocial relationships can do to both the stan and the idol. The fact that she is a toxic fan of Kira and also hot, funny, sociable is tragic in its own way, which I think the author did try to touch on but was too misogynistic too really get through. Of course, she was reduced to villain status by the fandom and anime alike because she got in the way of the supposed romance in their psychological horror anime.

Téa Gardener/Anzu Mazaki

She's friends with Yugi, the main protagonist, who is usually either shipped with his other self (Yami Yugi), or Yugi/Yami will be shipped with the main antagonist (Seto Kaiba). She tends to get demonised a LOT. I have read SO many stories where she is turned into this evil, scheming harpy of a woman who will get in the way of Twu Wuv. 

the fandom does her so dirty bc she's in the way of at least 3 different yaoi ships she's so amazing and underrated tho she's such a great character

Was portrayed as a bitch very often in fandom! Is very not a bitch in canon! Supportive, occasionally snarky, occasional damsel in distress, good card player in her own right (this is important in universe, trust me), and very very loyal! 

[aberooski]

What other Yugioh ships do you like?

Only small handful of others really. Mostly ones I've had since I was a kid, I don't really delve much into shipping like I used to, though the ships I do ship I ship hard lolol

I've also only watched DM, GX, and 5Ds so there's that too on the quantity subject.

I've always been a champion of Yugi and Téa, peachshipping champion since day 1 baby I love them, the childhood friends to lovers angle is on of my favorites and I mean, look at Téa's duel with Crump in the virtual world and her and Yugi in that and him giving her his jacket cuz she's cold after that before they find Joey even though he's also freezing his ass off, they're just so sweet with each other 😭

I'm also a fan of Tristan and Serenity, when they're older. Like maybe they get together in their early 20's or something because she definately likes him back, but she's a little young. She's not that much younger than them, but still. When they're both older, super cute together. But also conversely to this......... I'm a massive chaseshipper.... I love Tristan and Duke.... I want them to kiss... I'm just saying, Duke only started showing interest in Serenity after Tristan made it clear he liked her from my recollection. He was just trying to make Tristan jealous and get his attention. That's my delusion and I'm sticking to it. Plus they are always getting pushed together in groups and they've slept up against each other more than once.... I'm so delusional right now it hurts akskksks

And when I was a kid I loved Atem and Mana. I loved the idea of them. It's one that's a really low-key ship for me I don't have any particularly strong opinions or stance about it but I'll probably take it with me to the grave regardless.

I've been screamed at for shipping Yugi and Atem with Téa and Mana and not each other when I never even cared much for that ship anyway I just don't interpret their relationship as romantic, so yeah. That turned me completely off of that ship I just wanna say. Also why I don't really engage with the DM side of the fandom anymore, especially when we're talking about shipping.

I used to be a fan of Joey and Mai as a ship when I was a kid, but not as much these days. I mean, if she wasn't like 10 years older than him, that would be one thing. But she is, so that kinda wrecks it when he's not an adult as well... y'know..? Even then, 10 years is a bit too big of a gap for me regardless haha

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In GX I really only ship spiritshipping and stormshipping. I mean, Jaden and Jesse was the only ship I really shipped for a while.... then my third eye opened and now Chazz and Atticus have my entire heart and are now my entire creative brand mostly so akskkskslzlzl

I also like the idea of Bastion and Tania, but I feel like I need more information about her before I can commit to shipping them or not. Like... I don't know how old she is, you know? That makes me hesitate a little bit haha

Also shoutout to Nightshroud and SoL!Chazz!!! LaDDshipping you fuckin' hit!

Bonus shoutout to Sheppard and Dorothy, stop it they're so cute!

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The ship in 5Ds I like the most is Jack and Carly, bar none. Scoopshipping supremacy is my middle name! I shipped them before I even watched then show, dude. I watched it because of them. And they did not disappoint....... until the writers took their relationship out back and shot it by basically pretending it didn't exist in the 2nd half but shhhhhhhhhhhh ignore that!!! The best het ship in the original trilogy of shows argue with the wall.

Also a big fan of Yusei and Akiza, but like with Tristan hilarious cuz Tristan and Yusei are both voiced by Greg Abbey 🤣 I also ship the fuck out of Yusei and Bruno. I have cried thinking about them. Jack and Carly and Yusei and Bruno have made me sob profusely.

Also shoutout to Trudge and Mina! She doesn't deserve him with all her Jack bullshit but dammit love it anyway!

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So yeah, those are the only ships I personally ship or I guess have shipped in the past *cough* Joey and Mai *cough* . Just a small handful really, like I said. Never been a massive shipper by way of quantity. I latch onto things too hard to have a billion and 1 anyway 😂😂😂

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

A LIFE IN THE DAY

David Duchovny: ‘Love can happen at any age, right?

The actor, 63, on The X Files, songwriting and snacking

EKATERINA GERBY

Interview by Helen Cullen

Wednesday January 17 2024, 12.01am GMT, The Sunday Time

Duchovny was born in New York City. He studied English at Princeton University and Yale, before breaking into acting in the late 1980s, starting in TV adverts and working his way up. In 1993 he began playing the role of the FBI agent Fox Mulder in The X Files, which ran for nine years. He later played Hank Moody in Californication. He has also released three folk-rock albums and published five novels — last year he directed a film adaptation of one of these, Bucky F***ing Dent. Duchovny has two grown-up children from his former marriage to the actress Téa Leoni. He lives in California, with his girlfriend, Monique Pendleberry, and his two dogs, Brick and Rookie.

I like to get up at dawn because those are my best thinking and writing hours. I love the sunrise but it also means I can get some work done before the sun gets too much. That’s the best time of day for me. I have a coffee that makes me think I’m brilliant for ten minutes and that’s all I need to get going.

Food to me is just fuel and I don’t have very advanced taste buds. I think everything kind of tastes OK, which people react to with suspicion. For breakfast I like oatmeal — what my Scottish mother called porridge.

If I’m filming I still like an early start, but I shot my recent film What Happens Later, with Meg Ryan, all through the night because we filmed in a regional airport after it closed at 9pm. That’s a bit of a nightmare for me as a morning person, but we developed a great camaraderie from working while the world was asleep. My daughter, West, thought it was great to see a romantic comedy film with people my age, but I don’t think of myself as any age, so I hadn’t thought about that. Love can happen at any age, right?

Everybody wants me to have a hobby, but I’m blessed because I love my work. I’ve been able to branch out into music, writing and directing. With songwriting I can pick up the guitar at any time. If you wait for inspiration to hit, you’ll be sitting on your ass for ever.

I knock off for lunch about 12pm. That’s when I have the one big meal of the day that would be recognisable to other humans as a proper meal — vegetables and a protein such as fish. The rest of the time I snack.

In the afternoon I work out. I love the games I played when I was younger — boxing, tennis and basketball — but as I get older I tend to get hurt doing those, so I’ve found Pilates is best for me. It’s still super hard but the least dangerous.

I live in Malibu and the height of my fame has passed, so it’s not difficult for me to move around any more. It’s a different era now because everybody has a phone, so paparazzi are more a thing of the past. I tend to go to the same places where people are bored of seeing me.

There are always different reasons why fans might stop me — it could be still because of The X Files or Californication. I am very proud of The X Files. I can’t think of another show like it in terms of cultural impact and longevity. I just thought we were making good, goofy TV but Chris Carter, the creator and director, saw what was coming in terms of the culture of conspiracy theories. Gillian Anderson [his co-star] and I went from being unknown to globally recognised in a couple of years. We don’t get to see each other that much as she lives in London, but there’s no one else I can share that with.

West is an actor now too. It wasn’t something that I would have charted out for her because I know how difficult it is, even more so for a woman, but I want her to do something she’s passionate about. There are still dark corners in Hollywood but the pitfalls and dangers are much more upfront.

I do enjoy a party, but I’d rather spend time with friends in the evening. Because I like to get up so early, I go to bed early also. I feel electric light has really f***ed with our sense of mind and body, and that we were made to hide in the cave at night from predators and wake up with the sun, so I try to do that. Constitutionally, I feel like that works for me.

Words of wisdom

Best advice I was given

It doesn’t matter if people laugh; it matters if it feels funny to you

Advice I’d give

There’s no such thing as good advice — you have to come to it on your own

What I wish I’d known

Take a moment to appreciate what you’ve done before worrying about the next thing

What Happens Later is in cinemas now and available to stream in spring. The Reservoir by David Duchovny is out now (Akashic Books £19.95)

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[one-idea]

I was interested in your “dream-stealer” devil fruit power idea! What would be the thing that stops is tho? The power of friendship lol

I know it won’t be easy to give the dream back. But what would your solution be?

“The power of friendship.” Téa from yugioh will haunt us all for years I swear.

I’m still figuring out the specifics of the fruit. I think the dreams would have to be stored somewhere. Else the only solution is death but you can’t guarantee that would undo the devil fruit’s work, it’s never worked that way for any other fruit to have their damage or effect magically reversed after the user passes.

So they have to be stored is a way. I kind of like the idea of floating bubbles. Not only because it calls back to the old comic thought/dream bubble but because they could be stylized so that each bubble is its own little dream world in it. If you look in the bubble you see what the persons dream looks like once it’s fulfilled. Or at least how they dream it will look.

So if Nami’s dream got stolen you’d see a complete map of the world completed in her hand writing. (Probable a lot of gold to)

Or if Sanji’s dream got stolen you’d see him cooking in a restaurant at the all blue. He’d probably be cooking for all of the crew, Zeff, and all of the beautiful women then met along the way. (It makes for a great way to cameo Vivi and other characters. This could also be used as a fun gag with the male strawhats being farther back, or could be really sweet showcasing all the strawhats together as it shows how much Sanji values his crew members)

But their dreams didn’t get stolen Luffy’s did. I can only picture Luffy’s vision of being pirate king as reaching the last island with all of his crew. The joy on all of their faces. Maybe Shanks is there wearing the famed strawhat as Luffy has returned it. Maybe Sabo is there cheering him on. Maybe because it’s a dream Ace is there. But regardless of anyone else. It is him and his crew celebrating together. Looking forward to the next adventure. Be that exploring the world (helping Nami’s map and Franky’s dream) or going on to accomplish one of the other crews dreams.

But as far as getting it back I think they would have to return the bubble in tact to Luffy. They can’t pop it. Dreams can be fragile things. If the dream breaks it cannot be returned.

This adds an extra layer of stress because the Strawhats don’t know this rule. Heck they don’t know what this persons devil fruit is. All they know is that Luffy pushed one of them out of the way and collapsed from one hit. When he woke up he gave up. He doesn’t want to go after this person and he doesn’t believe in his dream any more.

Maybe they try to confront the dream stealer head on. That’s when the user informs them of exactly what their fruit does. It steals dreams/ambitions and gives them power (I don’t know if this power is just greater speed and strength or if they can used the powers of the people whose dreams they stole)

They engage in a fight because they want Luffy’s dream back and Zoro cuts through one of the dream bubbles. Thinking if these are the things giving the user power he can just take their strength. Or maybe he’s thinking that’s how you free the trapped dreams. Maybe he’s thinking both maybe he’s not thinking at all. But he does it.

Only for the user to laugh at him. He just destroyed someone’s dream forever. Shattered it on impacted. And for one heart stopping moment. He and the crew fear that was Luffy’s dream. But no, the user is keeping that one close.

This means the crew has to find way to get the dream away from this person without damaging it. It also creates a tension because the user can pop the dream bubble at any moment. It would be a massive lose of power for them so they won’t do it but again the crew doesn’t know that.

Note

I don’t know if Luffy’s lack of ambition will carry over to his feelings about his friends dreams. Does he lose all of his conviction for his own dream but still believe in theirs? Or does he not believe in anything?

Just imagining Zoro realizing Luffy’s given up on being the king of the pirates. Listening to his captain repeat all the reasons everyone’s told them their whole journey it’s not possible. He’s to young, it’s not real, there are stronger people, etc. and looking at his Captain the only person with ambitions greater then his own and try to snap him out of it. “if you’re not going to be the king of the pirates then I need to leave this crew, I’m still going to be the world’s greatest swordsman.” He doesn’t mean it, not fully. If Luffy truly gave up then they need to separate (no matter how much it would hurt, he needs to keep moving towards his dream) but he knows Luffy would never give up just like he’d never let one of them walk away. He’s expecting Luffy to snap out of it, but instead he gets Luffy looking at him with such a blank look asking why he thinks he of all people can become the world’s greatest swords man. And just like that the crew knows that it’s not just his dream Luffy’s given up on, but all of their’s, he doesn’t believe in any of them anymore.

[duckprintspress]

"A Truth Universally Acknowledged": Our Fifth Teaser Post

The crowdfunding campaign for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice is about two/thirds done, and we’re more than halfway through our teaser posts! The campaign ends December 5th, and our special Flash Backer Level (with a massive discount on all our anthologies, old and new!) ends December 2nd. We’re so close to our base funding goal – almost 90%! – so if you’ve been thinking about taking a peek, there’s no time like the present. Maybe you’ll be the backer who pushes us into officially funded!

Two of our authors, Téa Belog and nottesilhouette, opted to do related stories – not in the same settings or about the same characters, but about similar themes. In the final book, we gave the creators the option to write a paragraph or two about the inspiration behind their pieces, and Téa and nottesilhouette talk a lot in theirs about how their pieces are in dialogue with each other. As such, we’ve of course included both their teasers in the same day’s post!

Story Teaser: Téa Belog

Title: unwound thread and wilted roses

Excerpt:

It wasn’t something she ever expected, not before Bingley and his party went to stay at Netherfield. Despite all the barely disguised offers, batted eyelashes, and pointed looks, Georgiana never expected her brother would actually fall in love.

William never cared for courtship or marriage; he never had any inclination toward romance. His friends, while few and far between, were loyal and platonic and nothing more. In Georgiana’s eyes, he was never looking for romance in the same way others were. And maybe most importantly of all, he never seemed unfulfilled or restless in the way that some people did when they were searching for love. Or even just marriage. Despite the grand fortune bestowed upon him, William never mentioned looking for a wife.

And that… that had been a relief.

Art Teaser: Flore Picard

Title: Girls’ Night In

Story Teaser: nottesilhouette

Title: tell that to my tell-tale heart

Excerpt:

“So proline has restricted phi and psi angles given its 5-ring structure—you can see how it’s an outlier on the Ramachandran plot here.” Mary points to a tight ring, curled up on itself, tiny compared to the way the other amino acids sprawl out and take up space across the plane of the graph. “And that restricts its ability to bond with other amino acids.”

Immediately, Lydia blinks back tears.

She feels ridiculous, sobbing over protein folding patterns, but god, proline’s just like her for real. Bent all wrong, all sharp corners and stolen valence electrons. The way proline twists up into itself, the only amino acid to bond the protein backbone twice—it’s like it’s holding its own damn hand, no space for anybody else.

Art Teaser: mcdad arts

Title: Follies and Nonsense

Story Teaser: Em Rowntree

Title: We Can All Begin Freely

Excerpt:

“Come,” she says, “let’s dance.”

“I cannot dance,” Charlotte says. “I’ve been crying.”

“Perhaps that is the best time for it,” Caroline says, and her tone has its usual velvet sarcasm, but her expression is the most earnest Charlotte has ever seen it.

“I do not know if I can,” Charlotte admits.

Caroline says nothing, only begins the dance with a smile. Charlotte cannot help but follow, though she tries to move stiffly, tries to maintain propriety; she tries to show that she knows how odd and uncomfortable she must look, so she cannot be caught off-guard and vulnerable by a joke at her expense from Caroline. But her body has cried away its stiffness and its shame for tonight. Her body moves softly, easily. Her body asks for more.

Visit our campaign page now!

[rosalind-hawkins]

Can you please give me some minorshipping head canons? They won't leave my head.

Of course! Thanks for asking, I love these two together so much!!

Duke makes Ryou some custom resin dice for each of his Monster World characters. Ryou makes hand-painted figurines of all Duke's characters for him in return.

They gift each other the nerdiest things you've ever seen. Mug that reads "Rolling Dice Builds Character." T-shirt of D&D dice in pride flag colors. Art prints of their Monster World characters that looks like a movie poster for their campaign.

They are a switch couple. That means they take turns being the big spoon when they cuddle. (Sometimes Duke just wants to be held, okay?)

They love to play with each other's hair.

They shower together often.

Ryou falls asleep on the couch sometimes, and Duke will pull a blanket over him so he doesn't get cold overnight.

For Halloween, they always do couples costumes and throw a big party for their friends. That includes little monster cookies and tombstone cupcakes and all the fun party food you see in those home magazines.

Duke doesn't ask about Ryou's experience with the Millennium Ring, because he doesn't want to pry, but he will always listen whenever Ryou feels the need to talk about it.

Ryou started stealing Duke's t-shirts, so Duke started stealing Ryou's socks, and it kept getting worse until one day they realized they were both wearing only the other's clothes. Then they went on a double date with Yugi and Téa where they dressed up and acted like each other, just for the fun of it. Everyone had a good laugh. They now do makeovers often.

You know that meme of the lesbians? One leaning over the other doing their makeup? Yeah, that's Duke doing Marik's Ryou's makeup.

They go to Renn Fair and fantasy/scifi conventions together, always with couples costumes. Sometimes as fairies or as their Monster World characters, sometimes as Duel Monsters cards.

Duke wears high heels sometimes, to show off his legs, and is greatly in support of Ryou in frilly skirts.

They have a very comfortable, playful relationship. They're cute and flirty and happy and great together.

[kira-quartz]

Kira's Sim Yu-Niverse: Nerd Herd Again, Now With Serenity and TKB

Next: The Ishtars and the Kaibas

Happy Sim Saturday, cornflakes! :D

I've revamped the Nerd Herd yet again (this should be the last one for a while 😅), and this time I've decided to include Serenity and TKB, since they'll each be part of one of my main households at some point.

The old save was kind of a mess, because I started it back in 2019 and it was a while before I came up with any real gameplay rules, so I'm thinking of starting again from an earlier point in the timeline - probably halfway between the Ceremonial Duel and DSOD, although I'm not sure if DSOD is an ingredient in my canon soup. 🤔 So yeah, when I start posting my gameplay, you'll be able to see the whole thing from the beginning! :D

Yugi's aspiration is The Curator, and his traits are Geek, Good, Loyal and Self-Assured (character development, cornflakes~).

Atem's aspiration is Discover Life (by Midnitetech), and his traits are Genius, Competitive (by Kuttoe), Geek and Socially Awkward.

I was lucky enough to win the Goth Galore kit in a giveaway earlier this year, and it's perfect for Yugi! I wish there were more CC addons for it, though.

Joey's aspiration is Friend of the World (still not sure about that, but I can't think of anything that works 🤷‍♀️), and his traits are Active, Glutton, Hot-Headed, Loyal and Outgoing.

Serenity's aspiration is Discover Life (at least until I settle on something else), and her traits are Gentle (by Lazurite, adopted by Chingyu), Loves Outdoors, Music Lover and Cheerful.

Fun fact: While I was playtesting the cornflakes, Wonderful Whims told me that Serenity found Téa extremely attractive. I haven't set anyone's preferences yet, so I guess my game's a Sideshipper! 😂

Téa's aspiration is World-Famous Celebrity, and her traits are Outgoing, Hot-Headed, Dance Machine and Ambitious.

Tristan's aspiration is Soulmate, and his traits are Dog Lover, Active, Loyal and Romantic.

We still need a dance career. 😔

Ryo's aspiration is either Bestselling Author or Paranormal Investigator (from Lifetime Aspirations Reworked - I like both for him), and his traits are Gentle, Geek, Glutton and Creative.

TKB's aspiration is Discover Life, and his traits are Glutton, Kleptomaniac, Geek and Can't Stand Cold (by NateTheL0ser). (Yep, I kind of struggled, ^^;. He's not exactly evil anymore at this point, so I wasn't sure what else to give him.)

Having them live together should be fun, especially with Tristan thrown in... (I've had Thoughts about this. Not all of them will work in-game, but still.)

Oh, and I took some inspiration from this piece of art for TKB's face!

Miho's aspiration is Soulmate, and her traits are Bookworm, Cheerful, Materialistic and Romantic.

Duke's aspiration is Computer Whiz, and his traits are Genius, Geek, Romantic and Outgoing.

These cornflakes just kept rolling wants to talk to each other during playtesting, and these probably weren't even the same Sims from the original save! I'm pretty sure I remade them from scratch! It's like the game itself ships them! VANITYSHIPPERS, UNITE! (All... maybe three of us! 😂)

Next up are the Kaibas (including Roland) and the Ishtars, and then some characters I haven't posted before! 👀

[unlikelyfanhairdoalmond]

VIDEO - Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents Jayne Atkinson and Tim Daly

Anybody else wondering why the ring is on his other hand? 🤔 I like that he says “our” house. 🤗

Jayne : […] “I met him and Téa at the same time and of course, fell in love with them both.”

Tim : “We’re actual friends, like in real life. Jayne and Michael stayed at our house and we hung out together before any of this came about.”

——————-

Tim : […] “I’m glad my accomplice thinks- If she thinks that I’m sexy then I’m okay”

[dei-lab-assistant]

Nothing Builds a Friendship Like a Crisis

Co-written with multifandoms27 Summary: You wanted to work in peace, but a certain CEO wanted you to take on a job for him. Dub canon plus a version of DSOD. Female Reader. Set maybe two years post DSOD. Fun fact: I always write my Reader character with personality and specific description. This means she may not be as generic as is customary for this type of story. Each reader character also has a specific place in the Yu-Gi-Oh world, and is basically an OC with set connections and feelings about the various canon characters and other reader characters. This is reader B, who is immune to the siren song of romance, cheap, eccentric, logical, and hands-on. Word count: 1,100 You never intended to become friends with Kaiba. You'd heard too much about him from Joey over the years to think such a thing was possible. But... It felt lonely after Yugi and his friends’ graduation. Over the course of the three prior years, while you had worked at Kame Game, Yugi had slowly pulled you into his friend group. Always slow to form emotional connections, you found you were no match for Yugi’s bright smile and quiet nudging to join in the fun. And despite being four years older, you had been well integrated by the time Yugi graduated—although, truth be told, you were only marginally aware of how much you had come to delight in spending time with the group. At least, until it ended, then you became keenly aware. Téa left to study in New York. Tristan was working full time in his dad’s factory. And Joey spent his days working a collection of odd jobs and chasing down his dream of becoming a professional duelist. And then Joey started dating your younger sister, and it felt like losing two friends at once. Fortunately, you and Yugi grew closer, starting Pharaoh Games together, designing a few games which the two of you sold for a slight profit at a small scale. And Mokuba started to swing by; he latched onto you, quickly becoming close. It was Mokuba who hired you and Yugi to design the proof of concept game for his older brother’s new solid vision holograms. And that was how, amidst a whirlwind year and a half project, you met Seto Kaiba. He was the most interesting human you had ever met, he designed incredible things, and he loved his little brother—the three shortcuts to winning your favor, all in one person. You and Kaiba worked well together—which Mokuba encouraged—and to your surprise, by the end of the project, Kaiba was going out of his way to talk to you, tell you about his plans, and ask for your advice on specific elements of scenario design for his own Solid Vision projects.

You even tried to help Kaiba win a bet with Pegasus, and although the two of you eventually lost, it did help create a true bond between you, (especially when it came time to pay up.) Still, once the Solid Vision game was completed, Kaiba moved on to other projects, and you were left with nothing to return to but quiet work at the game shop. It was a good job, a good life, and Yugi was a good friend; but you missed spending time with someone smarter than you, someone who built imaginary worlds from light, someone with impressive dreams for the future. It felt like, after years of hearing about Yugi’s adventures, you had been swept up into the edges of something grand, only to be dropped again back into the mundane—and there were fewer friends to share it with now.

Still, the Kaiba brothers both kept in contact in their own way, and you had low social needs, so it all seemed like it would work out. 

While working alone at the game shop, you flipped the radio on. An old fashioned trumpet fanfare blasted out of the speakers as you scrambled to turn the volume down. You were all too familiar with the melody—the theme song for a rapidly ascending game company, Knightly Rook, which had been in an advertising blitz for almost a month now. From your admittedly biased perspective, the company seemed more hype than substance, but it was the company’s snide, barely concealed jabs at Kaiba Corp that irritated you. Still, there was a lot of talk from the company’s popular president that Knightly Rook would soon go public, so for the moment, even the news was covering their rise to prominence.

At your hip, your cell phone went off, playing the Kaiba Corp theme. Switching off the radio, you popped the phone out of its clip and answered it. “Kaiba?” 

“You’re taking Mokuba to Kaiba Land tomorrow.” Kaiba rarely bothered with the customary social dance that defined most people’s conversations.

Had you forgotten about a plan made months ago? You switched to your calendar app, “No, I’m not. I’m working tomorrow.” You liked jumping straight past the niceties too. “Besides, I don’t remember asking you to plan my schedule.”

“You should. You wouldn’t make yourself a long-term plan if I paid you to do it.” Kaiba gave a harsh little laugh. “Yugi can run the shop. I want to hire you to assist Mokuba for his park inspection tomorrow.”

“Don’t you usually do the monthly park inspection with Mokuba?” You switched your phone to speakerphone, setting it down and grabbing a box cutter. “Besides, Yugi’s out of town this week.” Cutting open a few boxes of supplies, you began to check the contents against the provided invoices.

After a moment’s silence, Kaiba gave a little growl, “Why is Yugi in New York?”

He must have checked Yugi’s duel disk location. “He’s visiting Téa.”

“Fine. I’ll pay Mr. Muto to give you the day off.”

“Honestly, just wait a couple of days and—“

“Do you think you’re not up to the task? Is that why you’re turning this opportunity down?” 

“Hey, we both know I’m capable of keeping up with Mokuba. I’ll be available in a few days. You don’t even have to pay me.”

“I’d rather you did it tomorrow. And I’ll pay you. The last time someone other than me did the inspection with Mokuba, he ended up covered in wet paint and quit.”

Not surprising. Mokuba could be something of a feral gremlin with anyone he didn’t like. You sighed. “What time will a car be picking me up?” You weren’t going to pay for parking at Kaiba Land if you could help it.

“Nine. I’ll have someone fax you your W-4. Fill it out and have it ready for tomorrow.”

“Okay.” You marked off the last of the supplies on the invoice. “Anything I need to read up on tonight?”

“I’ll send you the latest security protocols. But be sure to destroy the papers after you read them.”

“Security proto—Kaiba what’s going on?”

“I’m handling it. But I don’t have time to accompany Mokuba tomorrow. Just keep an eye out.”

You sighed again. Why did Kaiba have to be secretive? “Fine. But I’m not a bodyguard. I don’t have the right training.”

“Mokuba will have guards with him.”

You set down your pencil. “That’s good. Will we see you tomorrow?”

“I doubt it.”

“Well, I’ll keep Mokuba out of trouble.”

“Bye.” Kaiba hung up. Abrupt as always. Hopefully, you wouldn’t make any embarrassing mistakes tomorrow. If Kaiba trusted you, then you had no intention of letting him and Mokuba down. Part 2 Want to check out my other reader-insert stories? Behold! My side blog exclusively for such purpose.

[sunshinies]

can i get,, pink , or graveyard themed names ? (so sorry 4 the 2 very diff themes LOL) please & thank u in advance ! :3

hi friend!

💗 pink themed names

blossom , blush , cerise , claire , coral , delia , ellie , faela , faye , flora , gloss , june , pearl , peony , persephone , rosemary , rosie , shimmer , téa

☠ graveyard themed names

abyss , angel , anubis , aura , deidre , eldritch , hades , lilith , lucifer , misty , moon , morgana , norton , omen , rain , rue , salem , stone , thorn

[gx-gameon]

I love these au ideas, they are so much fun! I also thought of one that I think sound's interesting. What if the DM crew arrived in just enough time that they get to the school before it disappears after the Viper vs Jaden duel, but arrive too late to stop the duel, and they end up dimension hopping with everyone.

So now they have reasonable adults, but have to constantly hide their worry of Jaden to not give away the secret, and Jaden might still have a hero complex even with family their.

Oh goodness this is epic.

The Kaiba copter flying in in the middle of Jaden and Vippers duel. Jesse’s just finished hyping Jaden up/calling him back from his spiral. Jaden’s ready to keep going to win. When suddenly a helicopter is over head and Seto and Yugi are jumping out in dramatic fashion.

The Gx crew are a star struck. Especially as Atem and Joey follow behind (Joey definitely doesn’t stick the landing) and then Tristan, Téa, and Mokuba. (Bakura, Duke, Mai, and Serenity are all maybes)

Jaden’s stuck between relieved because his dads are here and nothing can hurt him, and anxiety because what if his family gets hurt because of him.

Seto tries to take over the duel. It’s his school, his employee that’s caused this problem. But Viper won’t let anyone else in. Jaden’s also hurt that his Oto-san doesn’t think he can win, but also terrified of him taking his place and getting hurt.

The Gx crew are a little miffed because “Jaden’s got this” the only one who knows this is Jaden’s father trying to protect his son is Jesse and he’s trying to hard to not say anything. (A delicate balance of wearing to support Jaden, not upset his family, not let their friends know that’s Jaden’s family. He’s trying his best)

The duel finishes with the Dm crew forced to watch. They are all holding their tongues not to cheer for Jaden. This is their first time watching Jaden duel a threat in person. First time watching him duel someone who’s not part of their family. It’s hard not to cheer for him and encourage him (Tristian, Mokuba, and Téa are so used to being cheerleaders, Joey absolutely cheers Jaden when ever he duels regardless of opponent. It’s the only time he cheers against Yugi. Atem wants to call out to his nephew. Yugi wants to comfort his son. Seto wants to comfort Jaden but he also want to remove vipers head from his body) there are several times they do cheer but have to stop themselves from calling his name, or they have to wait until the Gx crew says it first.

The duel ends and they end up in the dark world.

Jaden is big stressed. His family is here. They are in danger because he failed to stop the threat. But he can’t show this. He has to act like this is awesome like the rest of the group.

The Gx crew is thrilled. Finally some adults who are competent and active. Seto has this place running like a well oiled machine. Food is rationed, plans are made, students are listening. No one wants to argue with an angry Seto Kaiba.

The rest of the Dm crew are repealing any threats. They are the only ones without Bio bands and they don’t want any of the students fueling if they don’t have to.

It’s a relief to the Gx cast. Finally a break. They are still helping. But a lot of their jobs (guarding the school and food) are given to the Dm cast. They are helping the Dm cast keep everyone calm and are part of creating plans. The Dm cast plays this off by saying these were the students fighting Viper. They obviously know what’s going on/have the drive to lead/figure things out.

Really it’s an excuse to keep Jaden nearby. Hey know Jaden and his friend know the situation best, but the Dm cast won’t let anything bad happen to Jaden.

When Blair gets sick, and the sub is discovered it almost starts a fight. They all know they need the Medicine from the sub. Adrian wants to lead the mission (Mokuba and Seto are highly suspicious of him) the other transfer students and Jaden wants to go as well, they want to be useful. The dm cast is against this. They all have bio bands dueling will exhaust them.

Yugi wins the argument. The crew going are himself, Atem, Seto, and Joey. They are experienced. They can get there and back fast. The Gx kids can defend the school from any monster attacks while they are gone. (There haven’t been many since Yugi, summoned Gandora and took out every monster around them. He hopes they won’t get attacked in the time it takes for them to make it to the sub)

Téa, Tristan, and Mokuba are staying behind to keep order. Mokuba’s the one who actually has everything organized. Seto is just the scarier of the two. Everything should go smoothly.

Jaden’s been having a hard time. He’s keeping up a cheerful façade. His family keeps trying to pull him away from the others to talk, coming up with jobs or task they need opinions on, but Gx crew members keep tagging along.

“Alright im going to check the perimeter. Jaden why don’t you join me, you’ll know the lay out better than I will.” Joey calls. Jaden’s about to agree when Chazz shoots up. “Let me help. The slacker rarely comes to class, he’s likely to get you lost.”

“I could use some help setting up a barricade.” Yugi calls. “Jaden why don’t you come with me.” Jaden starts to get up “really me?” He’s acting star struck for the king of games. “You know I should come to. I am Jaden’s best friend.” Syrus jumps up. “If sarge is helping I’m helping!” Hasselberry calls

The Dm crew can’t be mad. The kids are excited. Their childhood hero’s are here and they want to spend time with them. There are actual adults around they can trust, so the kids are acting like kids. But it means the Dm cast can never get a moment alone with Jaden.

Jesse’s trying to redirect the Gx members. Trying to give Jaden a moment alone with his family. Any member of his family at this point. But it’s starting to seem suspicious if he keeps trying to stop the Gx crew from going with Jaden.

The Gx crew are to excited to wonder why the Dm crew only ever wants Jaden’s help. They think it’s cause he’s the only one they’ve actually seen duel. Leading to many conversations about how actually they could have beat Viper fast (they are kids trying to get attention from their hero’s. They aren’t bad people. They are just excited teens. They don’t realize they are blocking their friend from talking to his dads/uncles/aunt.)

Jaden’s trying to keep up a positive façade, but it has cracks. The stress from being in this world. Trying to keep everyone safe. His family being here (which is all his fault, according to Jaden) he’s stressed. And he can’t get a moment alone to talk to his dad. And he can’t just asked for Yugi to come with him cause that would be really weird.

Jesse pulls Jaden aside and just lets the boy break. It’s so much worse with his family here. He should feel so safe but he’s terrified. What if they get hurt. What if someone finds out. He just wants his dad. Everytime something goes wrong at school he just wants his dad. Now his dad is here but he can’t talk to him. It’s so much worst. What he wants is right there but he can’t have it.

Jim and Axel notice that something is off about Jaden. They are also star struck by the Dm crew but they can tell Jaden’s upset and Jesse knows what’s up. They try to talk to Jesse. They want to help but Jesse can’t tell them what’s wrong.

It’s a big old mess.

It gets even worse when Yugi, Atem, Seto, and Joey leave.

Yubel strikes and the duel zombies become a problem. Chazz and Syrus still get turned. They would have gotten Jaden if Tristan dint yank the boy away. It’s chaos as they are chased all over the school. The zombies came so fast they didn’t have time to quarantine them. The schools over run so fast. The school had relaxed with Dm cast there to handle things leading to more students be turned faster.

By the time Yugi and the team get back, everything is in chaos

[deusvervewrites]

Yami AU: Strange to think about, but since Shadi hijacked Stain and Iida for his games with Yami, I assume that it's possible that Todoroki and Endeavor weren't involved with fighting Stain. And I assume that Shadi either ignored Native, or that Native didn't get attacked by Stain at all, unless Shadi took control of Stain after he attacked Native.

Todoroki might be involved because Shadhi is trying to provoke Yami by threatening his friends, like when he kidnapped Anzu/Téa and used a brainwashed archeologist to attack the others