#seto porcelain

[sheltiechicago]

(2014), porcelaneous stoneware, 12 7/8 x 20 x 22 1/4 inches. Photo by Richard Goodbody. 

Tens of Thousands of Clay Shavings Cloak Hattori Makiko’s Coiled Porcelain Sculptures

Creating one of Hattori Makiko’s twisted porcelain sculptures is an exercise in patience. The Japanese artist makes just a few works a year, each requiring tens of thousands of rolled clay shavings precisely placed on and within the curved forms. Dense with crinkled florets, the unglazed pieces are made from Seto porcelain, a material from Aichi Prefecture in Japan, and can take up to six months to dry.

“Samayou (Wandering)” (2012), porcelaneous stoneware, 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches. Photo by Richard Goodbody

“Mayu; Cocoon” (2019), unglazed Porcelaneous stoneware, 15 x 9 7/8 inches. Photo by Richard Goodbody

“Kizashi; Sign” (2023), unglazed porcelaneous stoneware 11 3/8 x 15 3/4 inches. Photo by Hayashi Tatsuo

[ippinka]

Made in the famous pottery region of Seto in Japan, this Modern Dobin Tea Set includes five porcelain teacups for delightful tea time with family and friends.

[not-bcring]

✩   「   @nickelsdrocs​   」   ✩   -   Continued from ★

「 ☆ 」   He needs to be in there. He needs to be in there. He NEEDS to be in there. 

That’s the only thought— the only FEELING —echoing in Shuichi’s mind as he waits the agonizingly-long breath between his shaky request and Seto’s hasty answer. That and the feeling of hands roaming his skin. Ghosts of a touch that had been a living nightmare mere moments ago. Praise still tickling his ears... Breathy. Genuine. Deserved. He deserved what happened to him. He ALWAYS does. Fingers dig deep enough into his sleeves to pick at his skin, threatening to scratch that soft porcelain as a distraction.

❛  Please... Please let me in.... Please don’t make me go.  ❜

Breathing heavily, Shuichi feels his heart claw at his throat, threatening to burst through in a beating bloody mass. He wouldn’t be surprised to see it in a heap on the ground, thrown at Seto’s feet, at the mercy of his boyfriend...  ❛  Please. Please.  ❜  Shaking in the hallway, legs feel weak, Shuichi leaning forward to rest his forehead against the door.  ❛  Please. ❜  A trembling hand raises to rest his palm flat on the door, Shuichi’s breath catching in his suffocated throat at Seto’s voice. Fumbling for the doorknob, he nearly has it turned before he abruptly stops.

❝  Wh-What?  ❞  Thoughts clouded, it takes him a moment to comprehend what it is Seto told him. Grip on the knob tightens, Shuichi considering turning it anyway for one terrifying second, before he slowly, reluctantly lets go. Fingers brushing the smooth metal as they fall down, Shuichi blinking back tears that he KNOWS are stupid to shed. It’s only a few minutes of delay, after all. Enough time for Seto to get dressed and then he can come in. Feeling the adrenaline rush, the thrill of knowing he was about to be in Seto’s arms, fade away to be replaced by a foreboding weight in his stomach, Shuichi weakly says,  ❝  O-Okay...  ❞  

❝  Um, I— I can wait... That’s alright.  ❞  Fighting and losing against the tremor in his tone, Shuichi goes back to hugging himself, now fully resting his weight against Seto’s door, desperate to be close as he possibly can.   「 ☆ 」 

[brazenlystrong]

A small bite on the shoulder.. as payback for raiding his fridge last night.

@coldazure

Porcelain digits comb into the upward strands of his unruly hair while he observes the combination of logical analysis, science, heart, and creativity which is the art of the three-dimensional monsters formed by the interference of a light source. How fascinating, such advanced technology is rare to be found. It’s almost as though KaibaCorp is ahead of its time.

He could tell Seto is near, so he doesn't look away from his current fixation. He might have to ask him further about the wonders of artificial intelligence. If only—

A bite.

There is a mild pause.

To let his barrier down means trust. He couldn’t feel much due to the layers of cloth but decides to mess around for his own indulgence. Gojo leans his head back, ivory locks smushing against the crook of Seto’s neck. Shell-pink lips part lightly after the other crossed uncharted territory, emitting a sharp, breathy gasp through the quietude. Salacious on purpose.

[digitaidummy]

❝ wait, did YOU say you wanted the last piece of pie in the fridge? 'cause i kinda just ate it ... ❞

Okay, well, Jounouchi sometimes crashed at the Kaiba mansion.

It wasn't a secret to the older Kaiba brother, far from it. It wasn't so hard to figure out that the mess that was left behind after every night Mokuba spent staying up late wasn't the younger one's doing. However, it didn't keep Kaiba from feeling infuriated about it.

Mokuba didn't care so much for his brother's thoughts on the matter. As far as he was concerned, it was his home just as much as it was Seto's, and he could invite friends if he wanted.

Even those of the blonde variety.

Mokuba clearly enjoyed spending time with Jounouchi, seeing the boy as a sort of role model. As a result, he was pretty lenient when it came to general Kaiba mansion rules, and was quick to forgive.

...but, this? This Mokuba could have never seen coming.

They'd been playing on Mokuba's PS5 for a little while, when Jou excused himself to get snacks. Mokuba had grown used to the blonde letting himself into their kitchen and hadn't thought twice about it.

Maybe he should have.

When Jou comes back with familiar crumbs on his cheeks, the color drains from Mokuba's face and he drops his controller, eyes wide with disbelief.

"...you ate it!"

He says, visibly panicked.

"You ate it?! The last piece of cake that was in the fridge?!"

No, the issue wasn't that Mokuba wanted the last piece of the cake. Although it may have seemed that way to the blonde, he was about to learn that was definitely not the issue.

"Did you chew?"

The strange question seems to catch Jou off-guard, and Mokuba's jaw drops to the floor.

"That was a King Cake! Y'know, the cake French people eat for New Years'?"

Well, that cake had a particularity Jou didn't seem to be aware of. This made things even worse for the younger Kaiba, who seemed torn between panic and a violent urge to laugh hard enough to wake up the rest of the mansion.

"Jou, did you eat the porcelain figure that was in the cake? Did you even realize it was there?!"

[ofthepuzzle]

[ intent ] sender leans their forehead against receiver's [from Seto!]

PROMPTS FOR COMFORTABLE INTIMACY ╰┈➤ @kaibacorpbros

As though the environment around them is spinning at a slow pace and they’re the gravitational center. The outer world doesn’t matter in this portion of time. The gentle weight above his own forehead immediately ignites all sorts of emotions. A contact so magnetic that he doesn’t want to pull away. Amethystine-violet optics form an electric connection with striking blue eyes. There’s a yearning for something. In Seto’s presence, Atem feels like he could conquer anything on his path. This inviolable energy, without fail counters every move that fate throws at Kaiba. It fascinates Atem. That’s what made him realize how compatible they are. Instead of perceiving their constant clash as an inconvenience, he encourages it. At times, he even needs it. Seto had pulled him up at desperate moments when he couldn’t see a way out. His first encounter with Osiris. The duel with Dartz and the fake depictions of his friends… Some things he sees differently from Seto. And he admits to being saved by the other’s intervention.

Ring-adorned digits delicately brush over the sleek exterior of arm bracers. They travel lower and lower until they skim past lithe porcelain fingers. Index lightly hooks around Seto’s. His gaze conveys the words ‘I need you’. Just to feel his presence is more than enough.

[designobjectory]

Stunning handpainted [antique] blue and white Japanese porcelain plate. It is estimated to be from the Late Taisho-Early Showa period, circa 1920s. Adorned with a graceful pattern of stylized Kikumon (chrysanthemum) and waves. The mark on the underside indicates the name of shop (not listed in any references that I checked). It was likely produced in Seto.

[savagequeenie]

Am I finally getting to years old requests? Yes. Will these people ever see them? Unlikely.

Possible TW: vague description of breaking fingers, and obviously female being slapped by male.

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A slow blink. Her eyes were wide, head turned to the side. Her cheek stung and tears pricked her eyes, but she refused to cry. Instead, she stood her ground and turned her head back, head held high and eyes glaring at the male who assulted her. Her fists were clenched, blunt nails digging into her soft palms fiercely.

She didn't even hear the shouting, until she was pulled behind an angry ginger, who had the opposing male by the tie. It took her a few seconds to notice most or her team was here and it made her almost chuckle; of course one of them was watching. They always were.

"Does it hurt?" Furuhashi's voice sounded as emotionless as usual, as he tilted her head slightly so he could assess the damage to her skin. She always found it amusing how gentle they were with her. Almost like she was a porcelain doll, and they were afraid she would break if handled. Really amusing once you saw how they played.

"It stings, but it'll stop soon enough," she put on a brave face, not wanting to break down completely. Especially with that bastard still there. She could hear Yamazaki shouting at the guy, as well as Hara's usually carefree voice, uneasily heavy as he spoke. Matsumoto was trying to disfuse the situation before it got out of hand and they were caught. As for Hanamiya and Seto, well, they weren't here, but she was sure they would be soon enough. And when they arrived, it would all be over for the guy who dared to lay a hand on the Kiridai basketball teams Manager.

Seconds passed, the silence only disrupted by the sound of threats being made. Soon enough, even those two went quiet and it was then that she knew he had arrived. By now, it was only her, her team and the moronic male who had not only tried to ask her out, but had gotten angry when she'd declined and backhanded her.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Hanamiya's voice held its usual coolness, a slight mocking tone to it as usual. To any who didn't know him, and even some who did, it would be hard to guess just how upset he truly was, but beneath that teasing facade was a monster ready to annihilate its prey, slowly and painfully. "Not only do you think it's okay to ask our manager out, but you also lay a hand on her when she refuses? Are you just outright stupid or do you a death wish?" The male would sneer, rolling his eyes as he stalked up to the opposing male.

Normally she wouldn't watch when they attacked others, after all she wasn't the biggest fan of violence, yet she couldn't keep her eyes off what was about to happen. "There's a lot of people I despise, yet you've just made the top of the list." A low chuckle. "You should know no one touches our manager, no one apart from us." The possessiveness would scare most people, but for their manager, it made her feel safe and secure. Protected.

"What should we do with you?" A rhetorical question, no need for any reply. And luckily none was given, as the next thing heard was a soul-shattering cry of agony, as the males fingers were bent back in one foul swoop and easily broken. The hand he had used to assault their manager was now deformed and causing their victim excuriatinv pain, something no one at the scene felt any sympathy for. Not even the manager herself, who disliked violence.

"Consider that a warning. If you as much as look at her again, I'll make it so that you'll never be able to walk another step in your pathetic existence, do I make myself clear?" Hanamiya didn't wait for an answer, the males pitiful whimpers and snivelling beginning to get on his nerves. "Let's go. We can get an ice pack for your face at practice."

As they walked away from the scene behind them, Kirisaki's manager could only think one thing: how lucky she was to have her boys.

[ofthepuzzle]

A soft hum elicits his lips at the jest. “You have a way of leaving a mark, a lasting effect. You tug at my heartstrings. Everything you do has a chance of electrifying my senses. The bare thought of you is etched on my mind.”

The change in mood has a delightful impact on Atem, getting him a little friskier by the second. Sensuality manifests through into the most vibrant picture of beautiful soulful eyes doting on the one person Atem loves so dear. The suggestion transforms his facial features into a coy yet complacent smile which eventually becomes a little grin as a quiet ‘heh’ is sound. For a brief second their hands are interlocked, Atem’s fingers squeeze into the back of Seto’s hands. Sometimes he craves something that is more than a soulful connection, something tangible like this. To feel him close in the most physical way.

He goes with the flow, changing his position where he sets a leg over Seto’s form until he’s kneeling above him and then claiming his lap. When their hands are released, both of Atem’s find their way cupping each side of Seto’s face with his thumbs delicately brushing over porcelain skin.

“A smooth talker, aren’t you? Exactly what I described. Charmed.” His lips ghost over the other’s. The rest of his fingers lightly spread to the nape of Seto’s neck and the tips lace into his hair. “I wanted this for so long. Your touch and the taste of your lips.”Atem tilts his head to the side lightly, much like a request to seal their lips into a passionate kiss.

He smiled at the kiss. Reaching up, he strokes the other's cheek, his nails gently grazing his flesh. "Completion is an understatement, Atem." He hummed out. "I'm glad that you haven't forgotten about me. Big shot king and little pond guppy me."

He was teasing, of course. His hand snaked its way up to Atem's hair, idly twirling the golden lock around his pointer. "So.. want to do anything together? I have you all to myself.. The door is closed. The lighting is perfect.." Seto said all this in a soothing, velvet tone. There may be some implication there, only for him to continue.

"Perhaps.. if a certain someone sat in my lap, we could shorten this gap's bridging between us.." His free hand tracked down Atem's hand, intertwining their fingers while being careful of the rings to not scratch himself. Retracting the hand messing with his hair, he has it copy its twin to reach for the king's other hand and slowly reeled him into his lap.

"That's better.." He cooed, wrapping his arms around his waist now.

[shadow13dickpistons]

For the YGO request, Guardshipping with the prompt "spoiled." Thank you.

Anon, you are so legit. I salute you.

NSFW and a bit of kink below the cut!

"What you are is spoiled."

Isono looms over him in the bed, Seto's long limbs a helpless tangle, white cheeks flushed. Difficult not to spoil a pretty piece of porcelain like this.

"Am not." Seto looks up at him with hot, pouting blue eyes. "I am not spoiled, Daddy."

"Oh yes, you are..." He plods kisses across his collarbone, down the chest- He's broadened out so much from the coltish boy he used to be, intent on building the muscle needed for handling the pressures of space. Isono thinks he also just likes the way it feels, the way he looks. 

He can't say he dislikes it himself.

He runs kisses down the lines of his abs, and then the inside of his hip, and into the sweet, musky curls of dark hair between. "Constantly pitching fits if you don't get attention..." Seto whines in response. "Everything has to be done your way...Heaven help us if you don't get exactly what you want, when you want it-"

"Isono-"

He silences him when he finds his mark, mouth slipping around that sweet length of his. Seto shuts up, which is so rare with him, except for the hiss that escapes that red mouth, whole body arching off the bed in contact. Isono takes his time, feeling him twitch and go turgid in his mouth. He pulls off and wipes his lips with the back of his hand.

"I never said I don't like spoiling my baby."

[empressofthesunwriter]

The Queens Gambit: The Story

The most powerful piece in chess is the queen.

When this piece joins the game of Duel Monsters anything will change.

With two dragon sisters, a magician and her descendant, the queen will take her rightful place.

As it should have been.

8th Millenniums Items

Reborn!Kisara

Reborn!Mana

Queen!OC

QueenReborn!Oc

RedEyesBlackDragon!OC

Pairings:

Atem/Yami YuugiXOC

Yuugi MutoXOC

Seto KaibaXReborn!Kisara

Author Note: Hey and welcome to now the final and real Queens Gambit Story! :D The snippet collection is over and we dive right in into the Plot of YGO! I have to thank my dear friend Light guardine35 from Qoutev and AO3 for it. She offered to help me with the duels and now, the fanfic who is with me since I was a little girl and changed and transformed over the years can go online! I hope you follow along this ride and don’t forget about The Queen’s Gambit: Prequel, I will still write for it too since it’s Afya’s/Yanara’s backstory, but this FanFic takes priority. Again a huge thanks to Light guardine35 for your help and go and check out her own works! I think I can talk for both of us to say, to enjoy this story! And now on to it!

Chapter 1: Happy 15th Birthday!

On the day of her 15th birthday, Sehrazat Faizan woke up like any other school day.

More asleep than awake and with a groan.

She didn’t care that today was also her birthday, it was too earlier!

Why does school start this earlier? That was inhuman!

The dark blue-haired girl put her pillow over her head.

Any minute now Kihana would storm her room and drag her out of bed. She loved her best friend, but these were times when she wished Kihana and her family would live in their own house.

…Yeah, Sehrazat didn’t think that would stop Kihana either.

There!

She heard the familiar boom of her door opening and wanted to cry.

Today was her birthday, even a special one in her family, so why couldn’t she stay at home and sleep?

Fuck, school!

“Rise and shine, your highness!”, sing-songend Kihana. She couldn’t be normal. Who was that happy, at this time?! “Today is your birthday, happy birthday my dear Sehra!”

Aww, at least this was cute.

It stopped being cute when Kihana gripped her blanket and left her in the cold morning air.

Sehrazat hissed like an angry cat and rolled herself into a ball.

Cold, way too cold!

Why were mornings so cold in Domino? How she missed the warm mornings in Lisabon!

Kihanan just tutted at her. The white-haired girl with the bluest eyes Sehrazat had ever seen was merciless. She gripped one of her arms and just let her fall to the floor!

“Hey, what was that for!”, Sehrazat shrieked offended.

The floor was even colder!

Kihana put her hands on her waist.

She was already wearing the Domino High School Uniform, her long white hair perfectly groomed into a ponytail, decent make-up which made her blue eye even more pop and her white porcelain skin glowing healthily.

“That’s the only way to wake you up, Sehrazat and you know it. We do this five times a week.”, reminds her Kihana.

Making a face Sehrazat stood up and has to control herself to make a worse face. She still reached only under Kihana’s breast.

Why was her best friend tall like a supermodel and she was small like a child?

They were now the same age, so unfair!

Only Sadiye, Kihana’s younger sister, was smaller than her! And that was because she really was a ten-year-old child.

Again, so unfair.

Pouting she followed Kihana to the dining room, where both their mom’s already were with little Sadiye eating breakfast.

Even if they all lived in Japan now, they still had a more wester-styled breakfast. With pancakes, cornflakes, bacon, and eggs, you name it.

That didn’t mean none of them had tasted the local cuisine.

For example, Sehrazat loved Ramen like she was Naruto from the same named Manga, but sometimes you needed a bit home.

They were all original from Egpyt, but Rahila, Kihana, and Sadiye’s mom, and her own mother Amira grow up in London, England.

Sehrazat’s Grandmother still lives there, like Kihana and Sadiye’s Grandparents.

Besides Rahila and Kihana, who were white-passing, all of them were black.

Sadiye was the first to note them.

“Happy Birthday, Sehra!”, shouted the ten-year-old, which gripped the attention of the two older women.

Her mother smiled and stood up from her sit. She opened her arms for her.

“Good morning, my little princess, and happy, happy birthday!”

Still tired Sehrazat let herself fall into her mother’s embrace. Ah, nothing to rise her spirits like her mama’s hugs! She was warm and smelled, like always after jasmine and sandalwood. Comforting and homey.

“Happy Birthday, your highness. Now you are finally 15.”, said Rahila to her and Sehrazat felt how her head was patted.

“Thanks aunty Rahila.”

They all sit down at the table and Amira signs wistfully.

“15 years already…I can’t believe time flew so fast. It was like yesterday you wear this tiny and I could pick up you whenever I wanted.”

“She still IS tiny!”, joked Sadiye and grinned at her.

Sehrazat looked at her angrily and bit into her pancake.

Kihana tutted her little sister, who shrugged her shoulders.

Sadly it was true.

Didn’t mean like Sehrazat liked to hear that.

“And you can still pick her up Amira.”, reminded Rahila.

Thanks, aunty!

Sehrazat bit harder into her pancake.

“You know what I mean.”, said Amira and then turned to her daughter. “Don’t forget, today IS a special birthday. Now you will be the Keeper.”

It took Sehrazat any amount of strength to not roll her eyes.

Ah, yes, she became now the Keeper of the mysterious Millennium Fragment which was in possession of her family since the times of the great pharaohs.

She never even saw that thing, because her mother keep it in a little golden box with Hieroglyphs written on it.

But nearly anyone treated it like it was something sacred.

Holy!

The dark blue-haired girl thought personally that it was too much. It was just some jewelry.

Yes, really old jewelry, but jewelry.

There was nothing special about it.

Or let’s say better she didn’t want to believe the stories her mother and grandmother told her.

They were just too crazy!

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEHRA-CHAN!”

Sehrazat and Kihana flinched at the loud shout and the birthday girl couldn’t even look as fast, as Maja, the third in their friend group, launched herself at her and hugged her tight.

The blue-haired girl couldn’t even respond, since Maja’s hug was so strong that it squeezed the air out of her lungs.

“Maja-Chan, let Sehra breath, she is turning blue!”, came Kihana to her rescue.

The brown-haired girl let her go with an ups, but Sehrazat would have nearly fallen on the ground if Kihana and Maja didn’t catch her.

“I’m so sorry, Sehra-Chan!”, whined Maja, while Kihana checked on her.

Sehrazat just made a thumbs-up.

She could feel how nearly everyone in the schoolyard was looking at them.

Like always.

Maja was consistently over the top with her affection, but that’s why she and Kihana loved the other black girl.

The three were a bit infamous in Domino High, the only black girls, even if Kihana was white-passing and Maja half-Japanese, and their morning routine got them even more attention.

After Sehrazat could breathe again, Maja handed her a little gift box.

“Here is your birthday present, my dear Sehra-Chan. I hope you like it!”

“Thanks, Maja, that’s so nice of you.”, told her Sehrazat smiling.

Maja grinnend and rubbed her nose.

Kihana looked at her as she unwrapped her gift. A small gasp left her lips.

“Dark Magician Girl and Magical Hats! I searched for them everywhere, where did you find them?!”, shouted the birthday girl happily.

How long she had wanted these two cards for her deck of Duel Monster? She couldn’t remember and Maja found them and gifted them to her.

“Aww, makes me happy you are so happy! I found them in a cute little card shop named Kame Shop. The old grandpa who owns it was nice and he has a lot of good cards.”, explained Maja, rocking back and forth with her hands behind her back.

“We need to totally visit it!”, decides Sehrazat.

Maja raised a fist in the air and shouted a loud yeah!

“But not today.”, came Kihana, the voice of reason in their group. “You know how important your 15th birthday is Sehra. Our moms expect us back after school, no improvised trips.”

Both Sehrazat and Maja let out a gloomy sound and slouched over. Sadly Kihana was right.

The brunette was the first to gather herself.

“Is this again some of your guys’ weird family tradition? Reminds me of my Obaa-Chan and her demand that we always have Mochi after dinner.”, said Maja.

“Eh, you could say.”, answered Sehrazat.

It was forbidden to tell outsiders about their family affairs, even if Sehrazat didn’t believe one bit and would like to tell Maja, she respected this rule. Also, Kihana was there and would give her a headbutt if she told a thing.

Other than her Kihana believes this shit.

Sehrazat wonders sometimes if she was the weird one in her family or if the others were all the weird ones.

Stupid ancient jewelry and its stupid ancient legend around it.

It was then that the school clock sounded, meaning it was time to get to their classroom.

The three girl pals hocked their arms with each other and followed the long line of their school- and classmates into the building.

The school day was too fast over in Sehrazat eyes. Normally she would be happy, but she threaded what would her await home.

She so doesn’t want to participate in that superstition of her family, yet she didn’t have a choice.

So she had to say goodbye to Maja and follow Kihana home.

Arrived there her mother reminded her that they would go out for dinner today and then the ceremony would take place.

So she had to dress nicely.

Her mother had bought her extra a pretty white dress, with it she should wear her best golden jewelry.

After a shower and dressing up Sehrazat had to let out a sign.

She looked like a modern version of an ancient Egyptian princess…she really hoped no one she knew saw her like this.

Well, at least she wasn’t the only one. Her mother looked like a modern Egyptian queen, while aunty Rahila, Kihana, and Sadiye looked like priestesses.

Besides her little Sadiye whined to her mother that she wanted to wear her favorite red dress, she know the stories too, but she seemed only to half believe them.

Yet Rahila didn’t give her a choice and so not only Sadiye pouted, Sehrazat did it too.

Her mother tutted her and so she tried to smile.

At least they would eat well before the whole weird shit happened.

Since Sehrazat’s favorite food was Pasta, they would eat out in the best Italian restaurant in Domino.

The food, of course, was delicious and as her birthday cake came out, made out of chocolate and vanilla and everyone in the restaurant sang happy birthday to her, the birthday girl forgot for a second what would await her home.

Then it was time for her presents.

From Rahila she got the new CD from her favorite J-Pop Idol Mimi Kawaii! It was even a special edition, with an autograph and an exclusive poster.

From Sadiye she got a self-drawn book, with drawings of her and Sadiye having adventures together. Also, she gifted her a Kuriboh card, which was adorable since Sadiye used her own money to buy it. Everyone cooed at her.

From Kihana, who had a passion for sewing, she got a self-made bag with a large D and M on it for Duel Monster and a new card holder.

From her mama, she got a new dress in her favorite color gold which sparkled like the sun, with fitting shoes and new earrings, and a necklace.

Her granny had sent her money, which her mother gave her.

Sehrazat already know she would buy some new Duel Monsters cards from it.

All in all an awesome birthday.

If it wasn’t for one thing remaining.

“Long ago when the pyramids were still young, the great pharaoh played a game filled with obscure magic. These were the shadow games. But these Shadow Games erupted into a war that threatened to destroy the entire world. Until a brave and powerful pharaoh locked the magic away, imprisoning it within the mystical Millennium Items. His name we don’t know, he is only now as the Nameless Pharaoh.”, told Amira the story Sehrazat had heard 100 times or so.

She had to keep herself from yawing.

This was important.

Oh well, for her mama.

She just wanted to get over it.

They were back home. Currently in their dining room where now the table and chairs were missing and a little altar was placed. On it was a statue of the goddess Isis, lotus blossoms and the famous golden box of her mother.

Rahila with her daughter stood at the side, and beside Sadiye who seemed to wish to be somewhere else, listen to attentive Amira's words.

Amira stood beside the altar and Sehrazat was standing before her.

God, it sounds like they had a cult meeting or something similar. People would call them crazy if they saw them. Thankful the curtains on the window were closed and the room was illuminated by a lot of candles.

“The Nameless Pharaoh had a wife. This wife born our ancestor, the founder of the Faizan family.”, continue Amira. “The great queen gave her daughter a duty that till this day we handle. She gave us the 8th Millenium Item, the Fragment, which belonged only to the queens of Egypt. Sehrazat.”

Oh, dear.

She looked at her mother, who had raised her hands like a prayer, which made this even more sound like a cult meeting, and tried to stay impassive.

Even if she just wanted to go to bed.

“Sehrazat, my dear daughter. For thousands of years, we protect the Millenium Fragment from outer forces who want to use its power for evil. From mother to daughter, when reached the age of 15 the keepsake gets passed down. Now it’s your turn.”

Amira took the golden box in her hands and Sehrazat nearly forgot to hold her hands open, so her mother could place the box in them.

“You will keep it safe till it’s your turn to pass it down to your daughter or when the time will come that its power it’s needed again, then the great queen, our ancestor, told us one day the world would need it again the power of the Millenium Fragment. Fulfill your duty to our family, our bloodline, as all the other daughters before you.”

“I will, mother.”, she responded and stared at the box which was now hers.

So that was it?

Yeah, of course, nothing strange happened.

It was just a box with jewelry.

Nothing more.

At least this ceremony was over now.

Sehrazat was freshly showered and wearing her PJs as she retired to her room for the night. Yawning she closed the door after her.

Well, this birthday was over, she got cool gifts, had an awesome time with her family, eat well and now was the Keeper of a shiny little box.

The Box with the Millenium Item was sitting on her Vanity Mirror where she had it placed before taking her shower.

She frowned at the thing.

Till she had a daughter and she was 15, she had to keep an eye on it. Yeah, she could imagine more fun activities.

Stupid family tradition.

The blue-haired girl bet some of her ancestors got conned with this thing and the story and made anybody believe it to this day.

Well, she surely wouldn’t.

Mumbling to herself about stupid shiny boxes, she sat down on her bed and reached for her deck. She wanted to put the new cards in it and then in the cardholder, Kihana had made for her.

Just…something was bugging her.

She couldn’t explain it. It was something in the deeps of her mind. Something like a whisper.

Something said deep in herself to look at what was in the box.

Frowning she placed her deck on her bedside table and took the shiny box from the Vanity Mirror to her bed. She crossed her arms and sat before it.

“So, now what? Stupid shiny old box, what is so special about you?”, she said to herself.

Meanwhile, a storm was forming with lightning and thunder, and howling wind.

The blue-haired girl took the box in her hand and opened it. There laid this Millennium Fragment.

It was golden, tear-dropped formed with a big eye of Horus staring right into her soul.

She admitted it looked really…ancient.

And the eye was creeping her out.

“So you are the Millenium Fragment, heh?”, was she really talking to jewelry? What had gotten into her? “What is so special about you?”

To demonstrate, herself and anybody else Sehrazat decide to break the rule about not wearing the jewelry.

It was just a story.

She took it out of the box.

It was just a story.

The box was placed on her bed.

It was just a story.

Lighting illuminated its surface and reflected on it ominously.

It was just a story!

Sehrazat took all her courage and put it on.

Her heart beat so fast, that she could feel and hear it. Sweat has broken out on her body, but it was done.

The Millenium Fragment hung now from her throat.

The storm outside got more intensive.

“Heh, that’s it?”, she said with a wobbly voice. “It’s really just-“

The teenager couldn’t even end her sentence as some kind of energy flowed through her being. A golden eye appeared on her forehead and she throws her head back in a silent scream.

If someone saw this he wouldn’t believe his eyes, but the girl seemed to grow taller, her body taking more womanly curves, her hair reaching her bottom and her eyes becoming shaper.

Her mouth closed and she slowly put her head again forward.

She blinked her eyes a few times and raised an elegant eyebrow as she looked around the room.

“Well, this…this is surprising.”, Sehrazat or not said in a melodious sinful voice who belonged to a woman and not a young girl.

She raised her hand to look at it, studying it.

“Really surprising.”

Next

[changeling-droneco]

Ashes is a fun time travel themed one shot around death t

Wild Card Return To The Start hasn’t been updated in years but it’s one of my favs about jou going back in time

Crash Landing takes place after DSOD about Jou’s tournament career, it’s a little violetshipping but honestly it can be read as platonic just as easily

Recoil Damage explores the more toxic side of jou and Kaibas relation, and how Jou realizes he can’t keep doing this

Heart of the Underdog is a fun story of Jou taking a bullet for Kaiba and Kaiba having to deal with that fact emotionally

The Valley is a fun Stardew au

The Many Times Seto Kaiba Was In Debt To Joey Wheeler is a collection of really fun one shots

Cracked Porcelain Soul is a really good horror about the connection between Yami Marik and Jounouchi

What is everyone's favorite Jou-centric fanfic they've ever read? Doesn't matter the ship, word count, genre, etc.

[atembomb]

Thanks to @kaibacorpintern for the tag!! The Game: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favourite opening line. Then tag some authors! I tag @kuriboh-i-choose-you @smokedoutcoldstar @dellefox @blue-and-amaranth chapter openers are also fair game!

1. The Poetry of Logic

“Atem, you’re such a pretty idiot.”

“My beauty is a perpetual tyranny, Aibou.”

(Perfect time to mention this one is a deliberate bastardization of Socrates' beauty is a short lived tyranny which I don't think anyone ever got the joke LOL)

2. Der Schachedrache

“Hey, Atem? Do you mind stopping… whatever it is that you’re doing?”

3. Indefatigable (Tourist's Guide #8)

“Where are you dragging us today, pharaoh?”

4. Serpens Caput, Serpens Cauda

As with all things in the desert, it started under the sun.

5. Ouroboros

It was summer again, not that Kaiba would know.

6. Psychopomp

Under the silver eyes of a thousand-thousand souls watching from the heavens, Atem rode alone over the shifting sands.

7. Let Us Go Then, You and I

"Patient is a Japanese male, age eighteen, height approximately 185 centimetres, weight 70 kilograms, unresponsive, experiencing severe arrhythmia and second degree burns of unknown origin."

8. I Dream of Rain

“Mahad?”

9. Oral Fixation (Tourist's Guide #2)

So Kaiba finds the pharaoh perched in a haggard old pomegranate tree wearing nothing but a shendyt.

10. Chariots of the Dawn (Tourist's Guide #1)

If Atem were remembered for any habits in life by the attendants who served him still, it would have been his penchant for late nights and far later mornings.

11. In Vino Veritas (Tourist's Guide #3)

Time crept on as it is wont to do and winter settled over the palace not long after Kaiba’s arrival.

12. A Crown of Thorns (Tourist's Guide #4)

Atem rerouted the traffic and to do from the infirmary to his own chambers despite squabbling protests about high thread counts and bloodstains.

13. Still Falls the Rain (Tourist's Guide #5)

It was two in the afternoon and the pharaoh had yet to return from his temper tantrum.

14. Soak Up the Sun (Tourist's Guide #6)

Sensitive wasn’t a word that Atem would have chosen to describe Kaiba’s vexatious spirit but his porcelain skin was another matter altogether and Kaiba was certainly sensitive about that.

15. Petit Mort (Tourist's Guide #7)

Seto had been waiting all day to see Atem, taking casual strolls past the throne room every few hours or so only to find him deep in a string of successive meetings with no quarter for rest in between.

16. Unpublished Prideshipping WIP

This story begins the only way it ever could: with 140 acts of arson.

17. (probably) Abandoned WIP

The ground floor of the Aman hotel stank.

18. Cat Naps (Unpublished)

You can’t hear the front door open from the kitchen, it’s too far away.

19. Kuwagata (Unpublished)

Atem forced his hand through the thicket of brambles, wild stubby fingers grasping for the thing while the stinging nettle cut thin red stop signs up his forearm.

20. Nailed It (Unpublished)

“Stop that,” Kaiba watched Atem from across their high-top table, his reflection warped through a funhouse of several empty glasses in the low light of the restaurant. What is the theme?? That I open on dialogue A LOT and that a ton of these are a bit too long ha ha ha My personal faves though are TPOL for the sly joke and #7 #9 and #16 for being the few that I look at and actually want to know what happens next :) PS - this exercise makes me realize I should work more on my openers! Also this could be equally fun with last lines and now I kinda wanna do that too

[rainstormcolors]

seto + night ?

I do not mind all the Kaiba prompts. He’s my boy. Thank you for the prompt. Prompt read and written with a ten minute limit:

The feeling was hot, sticky, a hellish kaleidoscope. He heaved all the contents of his stomach into the toilet, his fingers trembling on the porcelain seat.

He’d been trembling in bed before he stumbled into the bathroom, oily light pooling around him as he sweated, knees on the stone tile floor.

Gozaburo wanted him to attend a special meeting tomorrow and his head felt like it was melting. But this was nothing. He’d purge the stomach virus and swallow some caffeine pills in the morning. He’d be bright eyed in the morning. It was all he could be. But for the time being his knees were planted on the stone tile and his head rested on the toilet seat.

Why did he have to submit to such tiny things like viruses? But viruses were something every human submitted to. It was such a fragile and such a human weakness. He felt so numb but he was still human. He was human.

[ygocollablove]

@augustwritingchallenge‘s 2020 monthly prompts have come to a conclusion, and YGO Collab Love would like to present all its members who participated this year!

Before that, I would like to give thanks/applause to @cieryuu for creating the banner above (and another round to @darkmagiattack/@crshrs for making the template). Look how adorable it is! <3

There are many pieces still in progress even after the challenge’s end day, and we are excited for the day that the fics will all come to completion. Otherwise, please give love and comments and feedback to the pieces listed below!

For Art submissions...

scemo vampire yami Bakura by @crshrs Vampire AU Rating: Teens and Up Blood warning

For General Audiences...

Step One College, Step Two Take Over the World by Souless_Robot ( @soulessrobot ) Status: COMPLETE College AU Characters: Chazz Princeton & Ojama Brothers Summary: “Step one: get into Neo Domino University,” Chazz lifted one finger and waved it in his spirit partners’ faces. “Step two: get a Ph.D. in dueling. Step three: get hired to teach at Duel Academy. Step four: take over the school.”

Dueling Royalty by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Modern AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Kaiba will block you on Twitter.

Diagnostic Don’ts by Souless_Robot Status: COMPLETE Hospital AU Characters: Jack Atlas, Seto Kaiba, Alexis Rhodes, Duke Devlin, Atem Summary: Dr. Seto Kaiba very much does not want any fellows in his diagnostic department. Unfortunately the hospital administrator Atem has different ideas. That's how Kaiba ends up with three fellows in his office. It's a good thing Kaiba doesn't plan to keep them for very long. He'll bet Wheeler he can get them to quit by the end of the week.

Mr. Jounouchi Will See You Now by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Role Reversal AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: The CEO of Jounouchi Corp. is known for being charming and lucky—not just a shrewd businessman who bravely took over the company for his alcoholic dad. Seto Kaiba is a bright kid who really needs to pay for his brother’s eye surgery.

Succ's to be You. by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Flower Shop AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Kaiba is the worst at office plants.

For Teens and Up...

Cafe Nervosa by Elexica ( @elexica ) Status: COMPLETE Coffee Shop AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Good morning, Domino! Dr. Seto Kaiba runs a call-in psychiatry radio show, and whether he wants to or not, he's listening. His sound engineer, Joey Wheeler, unfortunately has to listen too.

All the King's Men by Souless_Robot Status: COMPLETE Soulmate AU Pairing: Rivalshipping (Chazz Princeton x Jaden Yuki), Spiritshipping (Jesse Anderson x Jaden Yuki), Supreme King x Chazz Princeton Summary: Or Chazz is the Supreme King's soulmate but not Jaden's.

Wasted by Elexica Status: COMPLETE College AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Kaiba gets drunk at Mokuba's fraternity initiation party and does the cute orientation leader's calculus homework. He's bad at flirting, but he's good at math.

Blank Slate by KitsunePhantom09 ( @kitsunephantom09 ) Status: COMPLETE Soulmates AU Pairing: Kingcrabshipping (Jack Atlas x Yusei Fudo) Summary: Everyone has a mark signifying their soulmate. Yusei doesn't.

The Voice in My Head by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Soulmates AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: The month leading up to when you meet your soulmate is the only period in your life where you will hear another voice in your head, their thoughts streaming through your mind. For Jounouchi, it's hell.

Demon Days by Souless_Robot Status: COMPLETE Angels & Demons AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Joey never meant to be permanently assigned to earth after the events that take place in the Garden of Eden. Still, now that he is he really wishes he would stop running into his least favorite demon. Unfortunately, it seems the creator has other plans.

Cancelling the Apocalypse by Elexica Status: ONGOING Chapters 1/3 Post-Apocalyptic AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Are Joey and Kaiba drift compatible?

Straight to the Top by Souless_Robot Status: COMPLETE Band AU Characters: Joey Wheeler, Seto Kaiba, Yuugi Mutou, Chazz Princeton, Jaden Yuki Summary: Joey is a folk singer trying to break into the mainstream with her childhood friend Yugi. Too bad she gets nothing but problems most from the Kaiba corp record label run by the young CEO and music prodigy Seto Kaiba.

A Good Match by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Superheroes/Superpowers AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Or, Kaiba and Jounouchi can't wait for the whistle to start fighting.

Good Eggs by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Farm/Ranch AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Kaiba is forced to work as a farmhand the summer before college. Joey doesn't mind the company.

Mercy by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Crime AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Kaiba's a bit tied up at the moment.

Who You Gonna Call by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Treasure Hunters AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Ghost hunter Joey and skeptic Kaiba enlist Yugi's help in answering the question: Are ghosts real?

For Mature audiences...

And Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” by KitsunePhantom09 Status: COMPLETE Vampire AU Characters: Yusei Fudo Summary: Rule #1: Never answer when you hear them knocking.

Dark Web by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Pirates AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: You wouldn't download a car. Kaiba would.

The line that stands between us is 100 lives worth living by SwordsAndSwongs ( @blue-eyed-priest ) Status: ONGOING Chapters 8/32 Pairing: Prideshipping (Seto Kaiba x Atem), Rivalshipping (Kaiba x Yuugi Mutou), Stoicshipping (Kaiba x Priest Set), and Puppyshipping (Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: In a world full of multiverses, who will Kaiba meet? Is it his Pharaoh, his enemies, his few friends? Or is it himself, waiting at the end of every step taken?

Demon in a Bottle by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Angels & Demons AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Kaiba overdoses.

Addicted (You’re My Favorite High) by KitsunePhantom09 Status: COMPLETE Crime AU Pairing: Kingcrabshipping (Jack Atlas x Yusei Fudo) Summary: Yusei has never felt like this before, and he desperately doesn't want it to end.

Netflix and Chill by auroraXborealis ( @xauroraxborealisx ) Status: ONGOING Chapters 11/? Pairing: Puzzleshipping (Yuugi Mutou x Atem) Summary: When the department of Human Resources from Kaiba Corp decides it is in the company’s best interest to send some of its employees on a team-building seminar for a whole weekend, Atem does not think his bonding experience with his colleagues will turn out to be this intense. Especially when he is thrown into a downward spiral of strange events with the one coworker he dislikes the most: Yugi. Now, they must work together to survive and figure out all the clues to make it back home.

Enemy Fire by KitsunePhantom09 Status: ONGOING Chapter 5/? Pairing: Kingcrabshipping (Jack Atlas x Yusei Fudo) Summary: Jack has just escaped a horrible alpha, but is in dire straits – heavily pregnant and out on the streets in the middle of winter does not bode well. But as his darkest hour arrives, so too does his savior.

Catalysts for Kindling by bewdofchaos ( @atems-leather-pants ) Status: ONGOING Chapters 11/? Pairing: Puzzleshipping (Yuugi Mutou x Atem), Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: In the eight months that Yugi and Atem have been roommates, they have formed a fast friendship over their fondness for coffee, late-night study sessions and video games. But recently, something has not been quite right. When Yugi receives a mysterious parcel, he is sent on an unexpected journey where each new step makes him reconsider everything he ever knew to be true… but mostly his relationship with his roommate.

The Dark Woods Circus’ Monster by KitsunePhantom09 Status: COMPLETE Circus AU Pairing: Kingcrabshipping (Jack Atlas x Yusei Fudo) Summary: Once, the circus was meant to wow and inspire its audience with feats of grandeur. Now it horrifies and terrifies them with unholy creatures of man's own design.

Time to fight fears, for once and for AUll by Seiyofira ( @seiyofira-doesntknowshiet ) Status: COMPLETE Chapters 11/11 Summary: These will be some scattered works for AU-gust 2020, which will either revolve around Yu-Gi-Oh! DM or JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, I will put the used AU prompt as well as either YGO or JJBA at the beginning of each chapter. They do not build a consistent story!

For Explicit audiences...

Forgiveness by KitsunePhantom09 Status: COMPLETE Angels & Demons AU Pairing: Kingcrabshipping (Jack Atlas x Yusei Fudo) Summary: An angel is offered as a sacrifice by a cult to appease their lord.

Scrubs by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Hospital AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: The door to the supply closet doesn't lock, but that doesn't stop Drs. Kaiba and Jounochi from having an intimate moment.

Embrace me, Love. It's been a long day. by Cleopatra ( @writelovetomeempress ) Status: ONGOING Chapters 20/33 Pairing: Flareshipping (Seto Kaiba x Atem x Yuugi Mutou) Summary: Atem is gone, back to the Afterlife when the Ceremonial Duel was complete. A piece of Yuugi's heart went with him. Kaiba, with all his genius and all his tech, has found a way to use the Quantum Cube to claim the victory he was denied. Per a reluctant deal, Kaiba brings Yuugi along. All the bravado in the world couldn't prepare Yuugi for that final goodbye, and with shaky hands, he broke their world completely.

Porcelain Wings and Shattered Dreams by Life_0r_Death ( @life-0r-death ) Status: ONGOING Chapters 11/17 Pairing: Kingcrabshipping (Jack Atlas x Yusei Fudo) Summary: Paradox has come to take his revenge against Yusei Fudo, but a former king will sacrifice himself for the love of the greater good. Too bad sacrificing doesn't mean death, but a perpetual prison of different worlds, different dimensions where Jack gets to witness what could have been.

For fics Not Rated...

Doin��� Time by Elexica Status: COMPLETE Childhood Friends AU Pairing: Puppyshipping (Seto Kaiba x Joey Wheeler) Summary: Joey is trying to get a contraband cell phone in Juvie Hall. Kaiba is a little more ambitious.

A huge round of applause for everyone who participated and who are still fighting the good fight of completing their fics! We hope to join again next year and provide a plethora of amazing YGO-related fics for you all to read! Congratulations everyone!!

[brazenlystrong]

He’s just a little taken aback when Kaiba’s hand redirects its position. The ‘barrier’ can be felt the closer the hand comes to his face.

“Hm?”

What a tricky move… His face out of everything. It isn’t like he hasn’t felt a hand directly smudge against his cheek harshly before. That memory plays like a film record in his head. He sees what Kaiba did there. But a fair deal is a fair deal.

After a little quiet pause, Gojo decides to selectively deactivate the Infinity around the area on his cheek so the surface of his porcelain skin to meet with Seto’s hand. Soft and warm. He would even deepen the touch a bit by nuzzling into the palm of his hand. The edges of his roseate lips stretch for a coy smile.

“Is this what you wanted?” His voice flows like a purr.

"..If you're being serious about this.." His hand unclenched itself as it looked like it was making its way towards Gojo's. Even though his digits had spread and they barely grazed the tip of his palm, the hand quickly peeled away and was placed on the other's face instead, right on the cheek.

That is.. if he was allowed to.

Kaiba granted a small smile before saying, "You expect to take the hand but if you're actually truthful about your words, you would allow more to actually prove your point. Takes courage to tell the truth but takes trust to build up that foundation."