#jadenposting

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it’s so weird how asymmetrical people’s effects on each other’s lives are like in 1996 some guy I’ll never meet said exactly one wrong word without a second thought and it made me miss my entire childhood✨

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In honor of Jaden day, what's your fave piece you've written about him so far?

I will admit I'm still very fond of Beautiful Times; it's an old piece at this point, and it's still pretty messy, but. I think it's one of the times I was able to actually capture the coziness and displacement I feel when I think of him lmao

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I’d like to thank the anon that convinced me to read the GX manga

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agirlinsearchof said: Here! thefangirlcatalog.tumbl…

agirlinsearchof said: I can’t believe that’s A Thing in official art now! We had Malik before, but I can’t think of other examples of YGO dudes canonically or in official art wearing crop tops.

oh,,,,,,,,,, my god,,,,,,,,,,, he’s in a TINY CROP TOP,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, HIS PANTS ARE TORN,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I;M GONNA LOSE IT Y’ALL

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jadenposting begins

I’d like to introduce you to someone who is not only my favorite Jaden artist, but might be my favorite artist ever— moribuden

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Jaden Yuki I stg I’m trying to get in your pants be your friend can you just behAVE for fIVE MINUTES,

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y’all wanna see some good shit

I have been blessed on this day

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I keep staring at this in the inbox swedgtrfhyjgtfredswaa

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okayokayokay while I’m here, I’m writing instead of doing homework, listen I'm selfshipping on main again

Jaden is very much a physical-affection type. he’s extroverted and energetic and has no problems hugging people, high-fiving, just draping himself across anyone who will hold him. he doesn’t even seem to put much thought into it, it’s so natural to him.

and me? I don’t like to be touched. y���know my family’s not very affectionate, and I had very few friends growing up, so I didn’t adjust to physical affection that way; being touched just makes my skin crawl, and even now, my closest friends rarely touch me.

so listenlistenlisten

Jaden Yuki automatically wraps the new girl in a hug and she freezes in his arms and he’s so confused bc hey, aren’t Americans as touchy-feely as he is?

and then the very slow progression from “nobody fcukgin touch me” to “okay you can put your hand on my shoulder Once” to “so we held hands for five minutes” and on and on

LISTEN I’M IN LOVE

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May we ask why you're also in love with Jaden?

The Jadenposting begins

Like the Chazz post, I’m talking about myself + my home + bein kinda sad lmao, so feel free to skip this; I apologize if the readmore doesn’t work

Honestly it’s a bit tougher to narrow down why I like Jaden; I’ve loved him longer than Chazz, so it was before I really hit an analytical mindset, y’know? And I have so much trouble seeing myself as a person lmao

A big thing with Jaden— in my interpretation— is that he has trouble connecting with people properly. Yes, he clearly adores his friends more than anything, and he’s able to make friends with most anyone— but asides from the main cast, his relationships seem a bit shallow. People are drawn to him, and he enjoys making them happy, but that’s about it. He doesn’t seem very close to his family, either; things aren’t outright bad, but they’re clearly not a close group. And then of course, there’s his actions through the later seasons— he does cherish his friends, but since he has trouble understanding everyone deeply, he gets caught up in trying to save only one of them and hurts everyone else.

And then, after Yubel and the Supreme King, he continues having difficulty connecting— now, because he’s such a different person than who he used to be. He still loves his friends, but he feels that he’s just someone else now, and has trouble believing they’d still want him, or worries that he’ll hurt them again. So he distances himself and perpetuates the cycle.

That resonates with me a lot. We know I’ve been kept isolated— it’s difficult for me to make friends, be with people. It always has been. I do have friends that I love more than anything, but even after years together, I still feel some level of disconnect— I don’t even understand myself, so I worry that nobody else will ever really understand me. And if they do understand me, they won’t like me. So my options are either to keep everyone at a distance, or risk losing people after they’ve gotten close. And I can recognize that maybe this is just a result of my own skewed perception, because of a bad home life + apparent untreated illness, so it’s probably just my fault. idk, I don’t think I was designed to be with people.

And I really hate saying things like that, because I love my friends. If it weren’t for my friends, I don’t think I’d be here now. And I love running this blog— I need to write, and I love making people happy with something that’s so important to me. But I do still feel disconnected. And, after everything Jaden’s been through, nobody will ever be able to truly understand him, either.

Jaden is 15 at the start of GX. I was about the same age when I started watching. And it was about that age where I began recognizing and acknowledging a lot of things in my life, things began changing, and it was just a horrifically turbulent time. Things still haven’t really gotten better, and it’s been years. So watching Jaden go from a happy and blissfully ignorant child, to recognizing heavy things beyond his control, to hurting the people he cares about, and eventually coming to terms with everything? That hit me hard. I was basically in the middle of the same story arc— mine has just happened to take longer than three years.

At the end of GX, while Jaden’s traveling on his own, he has a letter from his friends that effectively amounts to “we know you’re healing— when you’re ready, we’re here for you.” something like that means a lot to me, too; after everything he’s done, people still love him, even though he’s changed. And I just kinda really hope that one day I can fully be who I am, and somebody will stay with me.

BUT ANYWAYS LMAO

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just because I’m Jadenposting now doesn’t mean I’ll stop Chazzposting

I WANNA TOUCH HIM SO BADLY HOLY FCUK DGFHFREDSXDFR