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[glitter-alienz]

You guys aren't ready for lita's younger bug sibling. Her name is grub and she lives in soil.

[doctorwhoisadhd]

nooooo i just considered what if jack was the one who carried his daughter. so like either 1) alices mother was transfem (maybe she even left torchwood bc she was coming out as a woman and leaving torchwood would allow her to get a new identity where nobody knew her) or 2) for whatever reason alice's mother couldnt have kids.

and like. jack having given birth to alice FUCKS ME UP because if he carried a baby to term that means he wanted to do it. maybe he loved alices mother enough to do it for her, or maybe... he just wanted a kid.

and it means he knew how it felt to have a kid that he loved like alice and steven. he carried alice for 9 months and gave birth to her and two years later alice's mother took her and had her put in deep cover to get her away from him. this tiny baby that he held as a newborn, who wrapped her wee little fingers around just the one of his big ones so tight when they gave her to him to hold after he'd spent however many hours in labor. of course, he doesn't age, so now she looks older than him, but he still sees that tiny tiny baby when he looks at her. by season 3, for her only 35 years had passed since that day, but for him it was over 1,900. nearly 2000 years but he could never forget the feeling of her little fingers holding on so tight.

and like, children of earth. day one, jack finds out gwen is pregnant... another thing to remind him of his daughter and her son. ianto says, "Where do you get a child, though? I can find you lasers and Weevils and hitchhikers. But kids?" maybe ianto doesn't even know that he can get pregnant. he visits alice. she says about steven's absent father, "But he er, he phones every now and then, and sends Steven postcards, remembers his birthday. There are worse fathers." she probably means him. he says, "I'd come round here every week, if you wanted me to. Every day."

then of course, day five. and at the end of it all that tiny baby whod held onto his finger so tight all those years ago takes one long look at him in that corridor and turns around. and he knew he could never face her again after that.

[enemyoflactose]

I finished rewatching season 1 of Yu-Gi-Oh. My redemption arc is 1/5 complete. (I have to watch the dub because I don't wanna support Crunchyroll and I don't know where else to watch the sub)

My main thoughts are about voice acting since of all the arcs, Duelist Kingdom and Domino City side stories make me the least angry.

So to start off, a comparison between Dub and Sub acting and which voice I like more as of now.

Yami: His sub voice in season 1 is honestly so cute. He just sounds like he's having a constant blast.

His dub voice on the other hand, sounds so hot 🥵. And Dub Yami is what's keeping me from doing drugs.

Overall, I like both a lot. I do however think Dan just makes the character.

Little Yugi: similar thing as Yami, only his dub voice doesn't sound hot. Just cute. I love both voices and honestly can't pick between them.

Joey Wheeler: I like his dub voice more. That's where the personality is. His sub voice just sounds generic.

Tristan: For the first few episodes of the dub, Tristan has this really stupid voice that I just don't like, so for that alone I like his sub voice more.

But then from the Rex duel and onward it's Greg Abby, and then I like both his sub and dub voice.

Téa: I think I prefer her sub voice. Just a little less grating. (I still love you Téa)

Ryou: He sounds like Gachapoid in the sub 🥺. I love Gachapoid!

His british accent tho 😩

Yami Bakura: Gachapoid doesn't suit him unfortunately. I like his dub voice more.

Pegasus: stunning. Both of them. The performance is impeccable. But Dub Pegasus never said "Jesus Christ".

Seto Kaiba: a hard one. In the sub he screams so much, but in the dub he doesn't sound like he's one insult away from killing himself... I can't decide.

Mokuba: they both sound the same.

Mai: I think I prefer dub. Just sounds deeper idk.

Weevil: I love him and his voices.

Rex: I prefer his sub voice. Just less grating and he doesn't sound like he has bronchitis.

Everyone else: meh. Could go either way.

Now to talk about the characters, and if I relearned anything:

Téa's friendship speeches are so sweet and cheesey I can't believe people don't like them. She is always there for her friends and clearly cares so much. I will never forgive Téa bashers for what they did to her during the great Yaoi Revolution.

Joey isn't as stupid as I remember him being, just a beginner at Duel Monsters. Nothing wrong with that. He's trying. His utter determination to get that money for his sister's operation is seriously so heart warming. I love whenever he says "Time roulette go!"

Tristan threw a dead body at Satan. And grabbed Ryou's leg while climbing the tower because he was getting impatient.

Yugi being uncertain of Yami until the Bakura duel is crazy. Like he wasn't even having memory issues. Bro huh? He's also so supportive! Like baby boy was the one to suggest he and Yami fight PaniK for Mai. He told Yami not to attack Kaiba and send him falling to his death. He gave Joey Time Wizard! Yugi is a bro.

Yami is such a good friend. Helping Joey out with duels, got Mai her star chips back, freed both Mokuba and Kaiba's souls because Mokuba asked, tried getting pink shirt his star chips back, and never believing that Joey couldn't duel by himself.

Ryou was, certainly there. Honestly his impact doesn't really matter. He just explains Duel Monsters to Tristan and Téa whenever Yugi is dueling. His first appearance isn't even that impressive because instead of killing himself to save everyone like in the manga, Yami switches the places of Ryou and Yami Bakura. So even if he tries to help, someone else always helps way more.

Yami Bakura is so hot. I'd suck his dick if he asked. I also just love how his deck can not only do tarot readings, but is also really annoying to go up against. Like boy had 3 morphing jars, an electric lizard, a man eater bug, and change of heart. Those cards were fucking devastating back in the day. He also would have won that duel if he used Just Desserts one turn later, but oh well. Why did he lick the millennium eye tho? I get the tarot reading, but why did he lick the eye?

Mokuba. Oh sweet Mokuba. He just wants to help his brother, but he suffers so much.

Kaiba is awesome. He hacks into Industrial Illusions and causes a satellite to crash into an office. Killing people. He helps Yami win a duel. He rips a Blue Eyes. He annihilates with Crush Card Virus. My man uses Saggi the Dark Clown. His devotion to rescuing Mokuba is amazing and is really what has me start caring for him when I first watched the series 5 years ago. His comebacks and sheer distaste for the Yugi gang are fun and amazing to watch.

Pegasus, the star of season 1. He's in my top 5 favorite characters list. I absolutely love eccentric villains, especially when they love cartoons and are actually threatening. Pegasus is a beast. If we ignore his millennium eye for now, he's a fantastic and fun duelist! His deck is interesting and entertaining to watch, neither of his duels were boring, and the man is so funny. "Do I spin it like a top, or roll it like a ball!" I love him. He's also (so far) the only villain I feel genuine empathy towards. Y'all, I'm a sap. If a villain's reason is being evil because they lost their Significant other than I'm sorry I'm crying. My poor guy.

Grandpa: he trained Joey and Yugi, he gave Yugi his deck, he appeared in dream sequences to help Yugi beat his opponents, and he gave Yugi the puzzle. If this man didn't exist, Yu-Gi-Oh wouldn't happen.

Duke Devlin: I forgot how much I hated him when I first watched his dumbass Dungeon Dice Monster 4 episode showdown. He's so fucking mean.

Rebecca: not much to say other than I like her.

The duels:

Seto vs Yami (first duel of the series): a fantastic way to start off the series. Kaiba finds out Yugi's grandpa has the Blue Eyes White Dragon card he's been searching for, he steals it, rips it, and Yugi challenges him to a duel.

Yami takes control and is surprised by Kaiba's duel arena having the ability to make life-like holograms of the monsters on the cards.

The duel begins and for the entire thing, it's honestly pretty equal. Yami summons a monster, Kaiba destroys it. Kaiba summons a monster, Yami destroys it.

It's a back and forth kind of deal until Kaiba pulls out his own Blue Eyes White Dragon card, shocking Yami. He surprises Yami again by summoning another Blue Eyes, but then gets hit with swords of revealing light.

Kaiba summons Judge Man, and it gets Destroyed by the Dark Magician.

During this, Yugi is having his doubts about winning because of Kaiba's Blue Eyes and can't seem to draw cards. Especially when Kaiba summons his third Blue Eyes White Dragon and destroys the Dark Magician.

This leads into Yami and Yugi having an inter monologue with Grandpa about Exodia. How Exodia is split into pieces. Pieces like a puzzle.

Yami gains the courage to draw and he gets all five pieces of Exodia! Instantly winning the duel!

Kaiba is then given a mind crush and starts to question all his life choices.

Rex vs Weevil (half a duel): in this not really a duel, we are introduced to two characters. Since they have names they are obviously important to the plot.

The duel starts with Rex summoning King Rex and instantly getting vortexed. Then Weevil summons his Basic Insect and equips it with Insect Lazer Cannon. This lets him wipe out all of Rex's Life Points.

Weevil is then named Regional Champion, and Rex is the runner up.

Yugi vs Pegasus (second real duel): this is where we are introduced to Pegasus as a villain.

He makes Yugi duel him on a 15 min time lock.

During this duel, Pegasus is cheating. Not just with his millennium eye, but he's sending subliminal messages to Yami. It's not mentioned in the dub, but it still happens.

Yami finds out that duel monsters was created in ancient Egypt and Pegasus starts talking up a storm so he can waste time.

Pegasus wins the duel due to the time limit and steals Grandpa's soul.

Weevil vs Yami (the third duel): This duel was initiated because Weevil decided to be a little dick and threw Exodia off the ship to Duelist Kingdom.

Yami bets his deck and star chip, Weevil bets both his star chips.

The duel begins, and we find out about field power bonuses. Insects get lower from the forest, warriors get theirs from the meadow, dragons and winged beasts get theirs from the mountains, zombies get them from the wastelands, and fiends get theirs during night time.

Unfortunately, Yami doesn't get many bonuses.

During the duel, Weevil summons a full board of monsters. He gets mirror forced.

Then he plays his Petite Moth and Cocoon of Evolution combo. He gets Burning Landed.

He then summons his Great Moth. He gets Makiyued and Summoned Skulled.

This is a simple explanation of what happened, but Yami wasn't met without struggle.

A lot of his monsters that he summoned got destroyed. They usually only lasted one turn.

Anyways, Yami won and has three star chips. Joey steals Weevil's dueling glove.

Joey vs Mai (Duel 4): this is Joey's first duel! Hooray!

He doesn't understand that his land monsters can't attack flying monsters, and gets demolished.

Mai adds several equip spells and uses Elegant Egotist to multiply her Harpie lady card.

Joey finds out Mai is cheating with perfume.

Joey then summons Baby Dragon and the Time Wizard and uses them to win the duel.

He got a star chip and his first rival!

Mako vs Yami (duel 5): Yami duels Mako Tsunami.

Mako's monsters are in the water and can't be attacked.

Yami attacks the moon and then uses his Burning Land card.

Yami wins

Mokuba vs Yami (half duel): Mokuba is trying to keep Yami from dueling Pegasus because he wants to save his brother's company.

He loses the duel.

Yami vs Ghost Kaiba (duel 6): Kaiba jumped off a cliff and died. Now his ghost is dueling Yami.

He's psychology tormenting everyone except Tristan. Mokuba quickly became distraught.

Ghost Kaiba summons his Blue Eyes one at a time, and they all get destroyed.

The first one is destroyed by the real Kaiba because OH MY! He ain't dead! That's just some fat ass pretending to be Kaiba! (Or he's Kaiba's dark half)

The second Blue Eyes gets destroyed because Yami summoned Mystical Elf and Raised the Attack points of the Blue eyes he stole from the graveyard.

Yami wins the duel!

Mokuba got rekidnapped tho.

Joey vs Rex (duel 7): Rex is dueling Joey because he wants to duel Mai, but Mai will only duel him if he beats Joey.

Joey again gets his ass beat and is saved by Time Wizard.

His spoils are some chips and the Red Eyes Black Dragon!!!!

Yami Bakura vs Yami (duel 8): in this duel we are introduced to two new characters. Ryou Bakura and Yami Bakura.

Before the duel, the gang and Ryou are talking about their favorite cards (important). Then Ryou challenges Yugi to a duel, Yami Bakura appears, takes them to the Shadow Realm, puts the squads souls in their favorite cards, then tries to steal the puzzle.

Yami challenges Yami Bakura to a duel and when he summons the Cyber Commander, he finds out that all of his have had their souls placed inside their favorite cards.

Tristan dies to the white magical hat or some shit and Joey Flame Swordsman gets summoned. Then Tristan Cyber Commander gets resurrected, then Yugi Dark Magician gets summoned, then Téa Magician of Faith gets places face down. (She's a flip monster)

Throughout this whole ass duel Yami and the gang are getting their ass handed to them.

Yami gets Morphing Jared like 3 times, had Man Eater Bug eat Joey, had Just Desserts taking life points from him, and Yami Bakura was looking at him like

(𓁹‿ 𓁹)

The whole time.

Anyway, Yami Bakura plays the Change of Heart card and we get to see Ryou in a dress.

We get to see Ryou in another dress because he betrays Yami Bakura and takes control of his Lady of Faith and tells Yugi to attack him.

Yami then thinks about how Yami Bakura took the souls of his friends out of their bodies and put them in the cards and then wonders if he can do the same. He can he does.

We then see Yami Bakura in a dress but he doesn't slay as hard as Ryou.

Yami Bakura is defeated but he took a page out of William Afton's book because he comes back instantly.

Yami vs PaniK (duel 9): This duel starts immediately after Mai gets defeated by PaniK.

Yugi calls this fucking giant of a man a bully, PaniK tries to kill him with fire, and the duel starts.

PaniK is hiding in the dark and Yami calls him a pussy multiple times.

PaniK sure is a duelist. He loses his temper easily and doesn't think about the opponent's strategy. This Leads his Reaper of The Cards to get caught in a Magic Circle (I can't remember the name) and destroyed by his monster.

PaniK gets Swords of Revealing Lighted and his Castle of Dark Illusions has its floatation ring knocked off. His monsters get destroyed and he loses.

Mai got her star chips back :D

Joey vs Kaiba (duel 10? Does this one even count?): the entire duel is Joey getting annihilated. He loses. Badly.

And Kaiba gets insulted.

Joey vs Bonz (duel 11): This duel happened because Joey got kidnapped.

We also get introduced to Bonz, Sid, Zygor, and Bandit Keith.

Bandit Keith used to be the intercontinental champion, and he hates Pegasus.

Bonz is just a little guy who doesn't really like Bandit Keith, but he wants to duel with his zombie cards. Keith is helping him out. So they just gotta work together.

Sid and Zygor are Bonz's friends. They're just kinda there.

During this duel, they are in a cave and Joey is getting scared because Bonz is ugly (no he's not 😤) and zombies are spooky.

Joey is managing pretty alright for the first half because Keith keeps making Bonz play not zombies and they keep getting destroyed.

However, Keith wanted this. Because he put a Call of the Haunted in Bonz's deck. This means that Bonz can bring his monsters back from the graveyard as zombies, they're indestructible, get stronger each time they come back, and they keep destroying Joey's monsters.

Bonz then summons his Pumpking and makes his zombies stronger, but it gets destroyed by the Red Eyes Black Dragon.

Then Red Eyes gets destroyed by ways I don't remember.

Now all Joey has left is his Battle Warrior and Sword and Shield.

He summons Battle Warrior , uses Sword and Shield, wins the duel!

The Yugi gang are now trapped in a cave and Bonz and his friends get their shit rocked by Bandit Keith.

Joey and Yami vs the Paradox brothers (duel 12): Ryou leads the gang here.

We meet the Paradox brothers. A pair of eccentric twins who can't shut up and keep rhyming.

The duel is a tag duel. Meaning they take turns, if one opponent loses all of their life points that team loses, and they can help each other out.

The duel is in a maze. Each card can move up a space for as many levels as it is.

Beaver Warrior gets destroyed instantly by the Wall Shadow, which gets destroyed by KUNAI WITH CHAIN.

Some other shit happen, Yami and Joey gotta face some tank and a worm and spider.

Don't know what happened to the tank, the spider got stabbed with Mystic Box, and the worm had something something Magical Hats.

Gate Guardian is a thing and Yami says it's in the class of Exodia even tho it's not an instant win. (Shout out Gate Guardian for getting support 😔✊)

Yami and Joey won the duel with Black Skull Dragon and make it out of the maze with some coins.

Yami vs Kaiba ( Duel 13): this duel starts after Pegasus told Kaiba that dueling him was a privilege, not a right.

Yami and Kaiba duel with the new Duel Disk system. They're using the advanced rules, that's why it's one monster at a time.

With the duel system, you can recall your monsters and replace them with a different one.

Yami falls for the Crush Card Virus trap and can now only use weak monsters.

He makes his Kuriboh wall, and Kaiba summons his Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon to try and get past it. He doesn't.

Yami then uses his stupid fucking arrow card that I can never remember the name of because it's so stupid and dumb to fuse his Mammoth Graveyard to the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon.

The dragon starts to decay, Kaiba has a panic attack and threatens to kill himself, Yami says "Bet", Yugi stops him, Kaiba wins.

Téa vs Mai ( duel 14): Téa wants to get Yugi his star chips back and challenges Mai to a duel.

During this duel Téa summons a bunch of wimpy cards like Petite Angel and most of them get destroyed by Mai's Harpie Lady.

Mai has a bunch of equip spells on her Harpie and Téa Wabokued her once.

Shining Friendship gets summoned, gets an equip spell, and Téa activates De-spell to remove Mai's equips.

Mai surrenders and Téa gives Yugi some chips.

Pegasus vs Kaiba (duel 15): in this duel Kaiba is trying to get his brother back.

Kaiba tries to get Pegasus to use his new Duel Disk system, but it doesn't go well.

The duel begins and Kaiba destroys some of Pegasus's monsters, but then Pegasus steals a Blue eyes and turns it into an Ugly Ass Toon.

Kaiba starts losing.

We learn that toon monsters are hard to destroy because they hide in a book.

Also Kaiba falls for his own Crush Card Virus trap and loses.

Mai vs Yami (duel 16): I'm pretty sure Yami was originally being sexist, but I watched the dub so Yugi is the one actually doing most of the dueling here. He doesn't want Mai getting hurt.

Yugi and Yami keep falling for the stupid Mirror Wall thing and their monsters keep getting wrecked.

Then we see Harpies Pet Dragon.

Yugi Mind Controls it and puts it on a catapult to destroy the Mirror Wall (shit looked epic).

Harpies Pet Dragon comes back and we get three Harpie Ladies.

Yugi let's Yami help and they do the Black Luster Soldier ritual and win.

Joey vs Bandit Keith (duel 17): I love this duel.

Joey gets his entry card stolen and Mai gives him hers, so wholesome.

During the duel Joey is fucking shit up. He's doing so good.

Then Keith starts cheating. But Joey prevails.

He uses trap hole, kunai with chain, time wizard, baby dragon, red eyes black metal dragon, and time machine!

Bandit Keith is using Machines and everyone is wondering why. Like bro, machines are a good monster type with a lotta cards.

Anyway Keith is pulling cards out of his wrist band, tries to use Shield and Sword to wipe out Joey, it doesn't work, Keith loses.

Then Keith tries to say that Joey didn't use his own tournament entry card, but Joey shuts that down

Then Keith gets accused of cheating and is sent falling to not at all death.

Yami vs Joey (duel 18): we have to sit through a long ass montage.

Joey throws some cards away, Yami wonders why.

Yami falls for a few traps, then Joey falls for some traps, this whole time Ryou is explaining the birth of the universe to Téa while Tristan kinda stares off into space.

Joey uses his last Time Wizard of the season to bring out his Thousand Dragon, but Yami planned this.

Yami's Dark Magician has become the Dark Sage and he uses Makiyu to stop Joey's attack and wipe out Joey's life points.

Yami wins and I cried the first time I saw this duel.

Pegasus vs Yami (duel 19): the final duel of the arc.

Pegasus tells Yami that if he wins he gets whatever he wants, but if Pegasus wins he gets his soul and the puzzle.

Yami says he wants Mokuba, Kaiba, and Grandpa's souls to be released and Pegasus says "Damn I thought you hated Kaiba", but Yami just doing that for Mokuba.

The duel starts, and Yami is immediately having trouble. He can't destroy the rooms and the Gorgon's Eye is keeping him from defending.

Pegasus also turned Summoned Skull into a toon and it's being creepy.

Yami keeps getting his mind read and Yugi comes in like "what if we switch places?" And Yami says they should.

This gives Pegasus some trouble. It gives him so much trouble that the toon world gets destroyed and he takes the duel to the Shadow Realm.

Yugi dies.

The Yugi gang feel this and send him some good vibes.

This means Pegasus still can't read Yami's mind.

Pegasus does some shit with Relinquish and Yami tries his Kuriboh stunt and his Magician of Black Chaos is there.

Yami wins and gets the souls back.

Pegasus does like 10 minutes later.

Other shit that happened that was interesting/Important:

During the Pegasus and Yami duel, Tristan and Yami Bakura go off on an adventure to find Mokuba's body. This leads to the ring getting thrown in the forest.

The ring goes back to Ryou because love or something.

In the sub Mai offered Rex anything he wanted during their first encounter. This was changed in the dub.

We still don't know how Ryou snuck in the ship to Duelist Kingdom.

Shadi doesn't even try to find Yami Bakura. He just goes to one person (Yugi) and gives up.

I'll never forgive 4kids for editing out Yami Bakura sexily licking the Millennium Eye.

If Joey had a Magic Jammer he would have won his duel with Yami.

Domino City side stories:

Rebecca's cool. I like her.

Rebecca vs Yami (duel 20): this duel happened because Grandpa got accused of stealing Rebecca's Blue Eyes White Dragon card.

Rebecca's strategy is also pretty good for the time. Her deck is centered around milling cards to power up her Shadow Goul, and she uses cards like Witch of the Black Forest and Sangan to do this.

During the duel Grandpa is having flashbacks because he had a duel go exactly like this. We find out Rebecca is the granddaughter of Grandpa's friend, Arthur.

Yugi drew Soul Release, but didn't use it because... I don't know. We find out that's how the duel between Arthur and Grandpa ended.

Arthur appears, says some shit, and we never see Rebecca again.

That dumbass game thing:

I wasn't paying attention to this because there weren't any actual duels and I didn't like this part.

Duke Devlin:

This bitch really gonna say Yugi cheats in his duels and steal all the girls. Bro.

Duke vs Joey (duel 21): Joey almost wins, But Duke does an ass pull and wins at 50 life points.

Duke vs Yami (Dungeon Dice Monsters): Duke doesn't explain shit because Yami is King Of Games and should know how to play a game he's never heard of.

Duke makes fun of Yami for not knowing how to play the game he never explained, gets angry when Yami figures stuff out, and is just an ass this whole game.

I wasn't really paying attention, until shit actually started to happen because there was just a whole lotta nothing.

Eventually both players have monsters on the field, some are doing magic, others are just standing there.

Orgoth the Relentless is certainly a thing. He gets beat by the Dark Magician.

Yami wins.

Other thoughts on the Domino City stories:

I laughed when Joey told Duke "I like ya game, just not you."

More characters gotta duel like Rebecca.

The existence of Adina is weird. If Kaiba made her, ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ. If the Big Five Made her, then fine I get it. Mokuba is like a damsel in distress. I just don't like it.

I hope you enjoy this long ass wall of text. My redemption is going steady. I have noticed no change other than being slightly more unhinged.

Imma do this every time I finish a season.

[bluewavesofchange]

The guardians of the Pharaoh

The rise of a new darkness

I don't own Yugioh or it's characters

 

Chapter 8

 

Lillian’s eyes slowly opened, a soft moan leaving her lips as her body felt numb. She tried to mover but couldn’t; finding herself on her knees, her arms spread out as they were chained to the walls of the warehouse she currently found herself in. She was confused for just a moment before her memories came flooding back into her mind.

 

The day started out like the one before, Lillian got up early to make breakfast for her family while Yugi and Yami were chatting away in the short boy’s room before heading downstairs to eat.

 

Once they were done they headed into town for day two of Battle City. The siblings went their separate ways after having a quick word with Mai. Yugi simply wondered the streets, waiting for Marik to send his next rare hunter after him. Meanwhile Lillian easily found 3 more of the wielder of the Millennium rods minions…the last one was someone she didn’t think she would see again…

 

She had just gotten her 5th locator card, walking down the street when she heard a familiar voice…

 

“Hey baby girl…”

 

She froze, a frown forming on her face as she turned to face the man she had dragged off the ship several weeks ago, “Markiato.” She said with a soft growl as the blond smirked at her. He looked a little different…he was wearing an eyepatch, a messy beard covered his jaw, a scar on his face from where Lillian had cut him and wearing a purple robe…how the heck did he become a rare hunter??

 

“In the flesh sweetheart. Thought you saw the last of me did ya?” he grinned as he stepped towards her, trying to intimidate the girl. Lillian wasn’t fazed; she was more annoyed and curious than anything else. “Kinda. How the heck did you survive being dragged down to the bottom of the sea?”

 

“Well you see, I managed to wiggle myself frees and swam to the surface. And as luck would have it there was a piece of driftwood that carried me back to land.” He reached a hand out and ran a finger over Lillian’s cheek, “I was nearly dead thanks to you, I was about to bleed out on that beach when I was found by these hooded men who took me in and helped…their employer was kind enough to offer me a job…”

 

Lillian rolled her eyes as she slapped his hand away, “Figures you would end up working for another psycho.” She tried to walk past him but he grabbed her arm to stop her, “Not so fast sweetheart…” he grinned, “Master Marik has special orders to apprehend you and your little brother’s friends. And it seems to be my lucky day.” he laughs before the raven head grabbed his hand, pulling it off her arm and twisting it behind his back and pinning him to the wall, the man grunting as he glared back at her.

 

“Last I checked I kicked your ass last time and I can easily do it again.” she threatened as she squeezed his arm to the point where he could feel the bones straining. He uses his free hand to pull out a hidden knife and tries to swing at her, revealing his duel disk. Lillian released him and quickly moved out of the way, Markiato’s cloak blowing in the wind, the girl’s eyes on the machine on his arm, “Seriously? You’re a duellist?”

 

He twirled the knife in his hand, “You bet and thanks to my boss, my deck is filled with powerful and rare cards, monsters that could easily beat anything in your deck.” He activates the duel disk, “So why don’t we try it out?”

 

Lillian shook her head and sighed as she activated her own duel disk, “If only to shut you up.” she really wasn’t in the mood to face this moron but she would teach him a lesson anyways and earn her last locator card.

 

Joey had just gotten finished duelling Weevil, the little worm had tried to cheat but Wheeler was able to defeat him, making grandpa proud of his student as the old man was there to watch with Tristian and Téa. The group was now wondering through the streets of Domino, the blond looking for his next opponent. However they were distracted by a large group of people, curious as to what was going on the 3 teens and Solomon squeezed through the crowd and discovered that everyone was there to watch a duel…a duel between Lillian and Markiato.

 

Solomon wasn’t sure what to make of this. His granddaughter had never shown any interest in competing in duel monsters competitions, he wasn’t even aware that she was taking part in the tournament…and by the look of things, she wasn’t doing too well…

 

Her life points were down to 100 and she had no monsters on her side of the field while her opponent had 3. But the girl didn’t look worried; she stood there with a blank expression on her face while Markiato laughed, “You’re not even putting up a fight! Oh how the mighty have fallen. You’re dead after your next turn!”

 

Tristian looked over at Joey, “What’s going on? Since when is she a duellist?” Joey frown at him and conked his friend on the head, “Seriously?? Didn’t ya notice she ad a duel disk yesterday? Or de fact dat she and Yug were talkin about der duels?” Tristian rubbed his head as he looked back at the raven head, “Oh right…I forgot. It doesn’t look like she’s doing too hot…”

 

“I don’t know...maybe she’s got somethin up her sleeve or she’s gonna loose.”

 

Markiato ended his turn and Lillian drew a card, the corner of her lips curling up in a smirk, “This duel is over…” she states as the field starts to fill with a dark fog. Markiato laughed, “Oh yeah? What you got sweetheart?” his grin left his face when he watched his monsters get dragged into the fog, their grunts and growls disappearing as shadows starting forming on the walls of the buildings surrounding them, the people in the crowd starting to get concerned.

 

Lillian pulls a card from her hand, “You see Markiato I have a 2 very special cards in my deck. One of which needs 3 monsters to summon it…your monsters to be specific.” She places the card on her duel disk, the shadows and fog swirls around the card as it appears on the field, a dark figure rising to tower over the area…this time it’s features were clearer…its hair became long strands of burgundy, red symbols forming on her body, her eyes shining bright gold and a nasty smirk on her face, her teeth sharp as her snake like tongue runs over her pearly white fangs…

 

Every time Lillian used the card, the more Rozu could channel her spirit into the hologram, the image taking on more of her true form. She looked at the quivering man in front of her, his fear smelled delicious…she couldn’t wait to devour his soul…but there was a problem…

 

Unlike the previous duels, this one had attracted a crowd, meaning there were several eyes on her. She hated humans…all they were good for was meals for her. They looked at her with a mix of awe and terror as all should when gazing upon a queen of her calibre. But she knew that they saw her as only a projection of a toy created by a giant man baby…meaning she couldn’t do what she normally did and end this worm before her…she didn’t need anyone catching on that she was possessing the Muto girl. She noticed that the pharaoh’s friends were watching and would expose her to the twerp if they figured out what was going on.

 

This would ruin her plans…the spirit of the puzzle must not see her coming in case he is able to seal her away again in that accursed object. So for now she would leave this man be, instead simply attacking the guy when Lillian commanded her, knocking the man down and reducing his life points to zero…

 

Slowly the holograms disappeared, Rozu returning to Lillian’s body, hiding deep within her mind again.

 

The people started cheering for Lillian who simply smiled as she deactivated her duel disk, looking over at her friends and grandpa as they approached her. Solomon is the first to speak, “My dear that was incredible!” 

 

“Yeah man! I’ve neva seen a monsta liked dat before!”  Joey exclaimed with a big grin on his face. Lillian could only smile, rubbing the back of her neck. Her grandfather has a curious look on his face, “Where did you even get such a card? In all my years I’ve never heard of a monster that had to be summoned by using your opponent’s monsters before…”

 

“Well um…you see…it was given to me by Pegasus…” Lillian spoke softly, not sure how she was going to explain this.

 

While the teens and grandpa were listening to Lillian, none of them noticed Markiato getting up, a snarl on his face as he glared at the girl that had defeated him…again. He pulled out his dagger, screw what his master wanted, this bitch dies today.

 

He charges at her while she’s distracted, deadest on taking her out for good this time…however just as he was about to reach her, someone grabbed his cloak and threw him down to the ground. A boot slams down hard on wrist, crushing the bones as his fingers lost its grip on the dagger. He screamed in pain, altering the group as they turned to face the newcomer…Lillian’s eyes widening slightly as she caught sight of the tall finger…his murderous blue eyes focused on Markiato as the pathetic man tried to free his arm...

 

She slowly took a step forward, “Seto…” the brunet turned his head the moment he heard that soft voice call his name, the lovers meeting each other’s gaze for the first time in more than a week though it felt like it had been forever.

 

The CEO and his little brother had been in the area when they were alerted that Lillian’s duel disk had been activated and quickly made their way to where the duel was taking place. For once they arrived in time to watch the raven haired girl destroy her opponent, some scruffy looking rare hunter that looked very familiar Seto but couldn’t remember where he had seen him before.

 

The Kaiba brothers kept their distance as they watched the duel, Seto was curious as to where the girl had gotten such a powerful card…it could easily stop the god cards even before they could be summoned…it could even stop his Blue Eyes even if he had all 3 on the field. He could feel the power radiating off it the same way he could feel the strength of Obelisk when he played it. It would be interesting to see if he could beat this card…surely there had to be a way.

 

The other thing he couldn’t keep his eyes off was his girl…she looked positively incredible while she duelled. Waves of confidence rolling off her, the looking she had in her eyes when her opponent went do, the power she displayed as she let lose her monsters attack…it was positively thrilling seeing her in this light…they had duel casually in the past yet he always wondered what she would be like in a real competition (not that he wasn’t a competition for her) and he was not disappointed.

 

He tried to keep his wicked thoughts in check as he couldn’t take his eyes off her, his imagination trying to run away from him as he thought about what it would like to face her like this…and what it would be like to have her afterwards…he shook his head to get rid of the images. Now was not the time for such things…he still didn’t feel worthy of having her back yet (not that he would ever say that out loud).

 

Seto saw the defeated man get up and go for Lillian, the glint of a blade hitting the billionaire’s eye. He was gone in a flash, quickly getting to the man and throwing him to the ground, crushing his wrist under this shoe as rage filled Kaiba as he glared down at the man, thinking of all the creative ways he could make this rat suffer for trying to hurt his girl.

 

However he was pulled from his thoughts when he heard someone calling his name. He turned his head to look at Lillian, their eyes meeting as the world around them seemed to disappear. His previous thoughts of murder leaving his mind as he took a step towards the raven haired girl. Markiato gripped his broken wrist as he curled up in pain.

 

Mokuba arrived a second later with the security team to drag the sad pathetic hunter away after the younger Kaiba took the losers locator card. Seto didn’t notice this as his focus remained on the girl in front of him, he had almost forgotten what it was like to be in her presence and Lillian had almost forgotten what it was like to be in his. It seemed like forever since they had seen each other even though it was only a matter of a week or so. Like two souls swirling around in the empty universe before reuniting again of being lost for eons.

 

They found themselves speechless for a second, not sure what to say to each other until Seto eventually cleared his throat, “Are you…alright?” Lillian nodded a soft smile forms on her face. She was aware that he had saved her for the second time from Markiato. The moment reminded her of the day they met, sending a warm feeling through her heart. “I’m alright…” he nodded before they fell into silence again.

 

After a few seconds Lillian spoke up, “You’re looking well…I like the new outfit…it suites you well.” Seto folded his arms across his chest, “I could say the same about you…I’m glad to see you got some use out of my gift. It looks good on you.”  He said with a small smirk, Lillian rolled her eyes playfully, “Of course you would say that.” She giggled softly, the sound flowing through the brunet’s ears like music, glad to see her happy.

 

He was about to say something else he was interrupted by Wheeler, the blond couldn’t help himself but get into the taller teens face…the two getting into a heated exchange of insults. Everyone rolled their eyes including Lillian as she face palmed while Mokuba walked over to her and stood beside the girl, “Their like a cat and dog…the moment they’re in the same space they will go at each other.” Lillian couldn’t help but chuckle at the kid’s comment, “You calling your brother a cat now?” The youngest Kaiba brother grinned mischievously, “His got the temperament of one.” The two friends laughed as they both agreed.

 

They kept watching as Lillian turns to Mokuba, “How has he been?” the kid shrugged as he set his brothers brief case down that he had been carrying around, “His doing better. Not completely but…his getting there…” Lillian nodded as she looked back at Seto and Joey, the blond seeming like he would start foaming at the mouth any second now.

 

“He really missed you…”

 

Lillian sighed softly, “I know…I missed him too…You know that I was never mad at him for what happened…” Mokuba looked up at the girl, “…I said something’s that I wish I didn’t…things that pushed him over the edge…”

 

“…That’s not really an excuse—“

 

“I said he was acting just like your step-father.”

 

Mokuba went still for a moment, “Oh…” he glanced his big brother, “…I hated that man as much as Seto did…well I don’t think anyone could hate our step-father as much as Seto did…not after everything the monster put him through…” Lillian had to agree…although she might just despise the asshole…wishing she had had the strength to kill the man after…well she didn’t want to think of that particular night now…

 

“I get why Seto reacted the way he did. But…” she raised her hand to her face, running her fingers over her healed cheek bone, “…it still scares me a little, what his capable of…I sometimes forget that the kind and sweet man I love is held back by his ego and years of unresolved trauma and anger.”

 

“He feels really bad about it…he wanted to go over to your place so many times to beg for your forgiveness and yes I mean beg even though he will deny it till the day he dies. But I convinced him you needed space…I tried to help him through his issues as best I can…even though a therapist would’ve been a better option!” he was the last part loud enough for Seto to hear, the taller brother glaring at him before going back to throwing insults at Wheeler.

 

Mokuba just shakes his head as he grins, Lillian ruffles his hair as she smiles at him, “Thank you. You’re a good brother.”

 

A few moments later Seto is notified that an Egyptian god had been played. Lillian felt the power of the monster the moment it was put on the field. A few seconds later a helicopter arrives and the Kaiba brothers climb up the ladder, Mokuba going up first and then Seto, the brunet holding out his hand to Lillian. She looks up at him and takes his hand, letting him pull her up onto the ladder, wrapping his arm around her waist and holding her close as the helicopter flies off.

 

They arrive in time to witness Yami facing one of Marik’s minions, the pharaoh on his knees as the looming red dragon stares him down. Seto can’t believe what he was seeing…he gives out some condescending words of encouragement to the teen while Lillian can’t take her eyes off the giant beast…something in the back of her mind coming to the surface.

 

Rozu was not expecting to see one of the 3 great beasts again…who had the brilliant idea to turn them into trading cards?! They were dangerous and uncontrollable by most humans. Their power rivalling even her own and probably the siren’s and her sisters…Clarity…she felt a tinge of guilt in the back of her mind and her darkened heart. Her sister was no longer around, having sacrificed herself for the pharaoh’s beloved years before the queen of darkness was locked away…how this happened she wasn’t sure…and what ever happened to Heba? She and Atem had been sealed in the Millennium puzzle while the pale Egyptian beauty was still alive…and even though Yugi might look exactly like Heba and shared a similar personality, he seemed to have no memories of his time in Egypt or Atem for that matter…Rozu was curious as to why that was…

 

The duel is soon over as Yami finds a way to overcome Slifer. However his victory is short lived as Marik (through the mind slave) reveals his plan to go after Yugi and Yami’s friends…keeping his the other two victims he would be going after a secret…

 

Yami runs off to go find his friends with Lillian close on his tail and the Kaiba brothers close behind.

 

However they run into a problem…two incompetent rare hunters challenge Yami to a duel which he reluctantly accepts and with the help of Seto (who simply wanted to crush the hunters with his god card to Yami) they defeat the duo fairly quickly.

 

Lillian asks Kaiba to help them find Joey and the others since they were both her friends as well…he easily caves to her request. The 4 of them split up, Seto and Yami searching the streets while Lillian and Mokuba head back to Kaiba Corp to try and locate Joey’s duel disk. She gives Seto a hug while whispering softly to him that they will talk later once everyone was safe. She leaves a soft kiss on his cheek before pulling away…giving him one last thing before heading off with Mokuba…

 

They ended up on a roof top of a building near KC headquarters, Lillian standing near the edge of the roof, looking out at the vast city while Mokuba worked on his computer to find Joey’s duel disk. He looked up at his friend and a question came to mind, “Why did you join the Battle City? I mean wasn’t this tournament and the god cards the reason you and Seto got into that fight?”

 

Lillian sighed as she started to fiddle with her Blue Eyes pendant, “Yes…it’s a part of the reason we had that fight…one of the main things was that it would be dangerous…” she turned to look at the boy, “…I’ve encountered many rare hunters in the past year…each one more dangerous than the next…and their leader…Marik…is a mad man hell bent on taking over the world.”

 

“Take over the world? Sounds like the villain’s from Saturday morning cartoons…” he grinned but saw the serious look on the girls face, “This isn’t a joke Mokuba…they’ve killed people over cards. Over stupid trading cards and Marik murdered his own father and have brain washed several others. He is dangerous and I wished Yugi and Seto and you and our friends weren’t involved…”

 

She walked over to Mokuba and sat beside him, “I’m in this tournament to find a way to stop Marik before he has the chance to get to Yugi or Seto…to keep my family safe…”

 

“You think of me and Seto as family?” he tilts his head as the girl gives him a playful shove, “Of course you two are.” They smiled at each other and laughed, “Well that’s good to know since Seto wants to ask you to marry him.”

 

“He WHAT!?”  Lillian’s eyes go wide as Mokuba laughs harder.

 

They talk for a little while longer before Mokuba gets a hit on Wheeler’s duel disk, sending the location to Seto and Yami.

 

Lillian and the youngest Kaiba brother were busy packing up when the rare hunters attacked them, Lillian trying to fight them off while she yells at Mokuba to run. But the kid isn’t fast enough and one of the hunter’s grabs him. Lillian’s eyes start to glow as well as her tattoos, a fire hydrant on the ground below starts to shake before bursting; the watering heading towards Lillian for her to use, but one of the hooded figures grabs the girl from behind and sticks a needle in her neck, injecting her with a sedative.

 

She feels her strength slowly leave her as her body stops responding to her commands as she goes limp, her vision becoming blurry as she tries to reach out for the water one last time before she loses consciousness, Mokuba’s cries for them to stop grows faint and distant as she has failed to protect him…

 

Odion who was amongst the group of hunters, walks over to the man who had slung Lillian’s body over his shoulder, Mokuba screaming at him to leave her alone. But it falls on deaf ears as he removes her duel disk and deck…and finally her necklace…he instructs them to load their prisoners into the helicopter before he hands the necklace to Lumous, the short masked hunter knowing what he was going to do with it…after all he needed to force Seto and Yugi (Yami) into a duel…not only was Joey and Tea’s lives at stake but also Lillian and Mokuba’s.

 

Lillian’s eyes slowly opened, a soft moan leaving her lips as her body felt numb. She tried to mover but couldn’t; finding herself on her knees, her arms spread out as they were chained to the walls of the warehouse she currently found herself in. She was confused for just a moment before her memories came flooding back into her mind.

[naninadz]

wait to clarify when i said pneumagate brook characters i didn't mean that i just mean your ocs in general sorry </3 btw sorry if i spell names wrong it is 6:25 in the morning.

anyways i feel like im going to explode sorry for my bug autism beam

i feel like Luca is a house centipede, specifically allothereua maculata since i think they are typically larger than the variety you find in north america (this also makes Eman a house centipede since. yea). house centipedes really feel like a her trait since they look like that yknow, but also because of how stealthy, quiet and overall dangerous they are (- to other invertebrates that is; they are not harmful to humans unlike Luca lol). she feels like a house centipede with the mannerisms of a mantis (but not quite the bloodthirst).

i know Adriel is already based off of the scolopendridae family of centipedes but i don't think itd hurt to say that luca is also a centipede since house centipedes and scolopendra are very different, so it wouldn't be to repetitive (btw idk if you had a specific centipede in mind when you were designing adriel but i feel like they are a chinese red-headed centipede :])

ok enough of centipedes i like those guys he he, so anyways Brayden is a kissing bug because of obvious reason. but also he just kinda looks like one, imo. he gives bowie chagas parasite for fun <3 though his flesh vampire form kind of reminds me of repipta taurus.

speaking of bowie i can't decide between her being a beetle because of how bulky she is or a scorpion (bc shes a reaper. lol). i don't wanna be generic and just say shes a stag/rhinoceros beetle bc thats the Classic beetle everyone thinks of but she really is like both of those. BUT scorpion wise she'd def be a tityus obscurus

little bowie baby guy bowie is a weevil of some sort and adam is a flatid planthopper nymph

is this too long??? is tumblr gonna cut off my bugtism?? that would be kind of ableist ngl. so if you respond to this and its cut off lemme know if you want me to send the rest of this ask sorry its so long and hard to read

anyways, Regan is definitely either an asian longhorn beetle or an earwig. idk she is very earwig to me but asian longhorn beetle kinda fits her appearance more? theyre both silly and weird

Harper is a click beetle, idk man calling her a roach seemed mean but like she(? you never post them idk their pronouns :sob:) seems like just a nondescript brown beetle to me. oh not that roaches are bad theyre just sorta the staple bug yknow. you see them and ur like "oh man.. bug"

actually dillards a roach that fits more

Lotte is a harlequin bug can you tell why? can you tell why? can y jk that doesnt really fit her actually, panacanthus intensus seems more like her

blue kinda seems like a tailless whip scorpion but like i literally cant think of anything else

i kinda dont really know too much about the rest of ur characters and i am very tired but my last thought is that dian is a solifuge bc they both look kinda funny thank you for listening *burrows into the mud and tar and becomes unconscious for 13 to 17 years*

This is so fascinating, thank u, autism be damned my boy can GRILL

[gayelectro]

>is obsessed with Yu-Gi-Oh when I'm a really little kid >kid me is a "girl" with long brown hair and bad eye sight >hates Weevil for throwing the Exodia cards overboard >is regardless still obsessed with bug cards and making a bug deck one day >stops watching after they defeat Pegasus because I assume that's the end and I'm like 5 or something >tries to watch GX when it airs on Meguzi but tbh baby me is simply not impressed >forgets about YGO for the most part >flash forward to highschool and I finally get glasses and realize I'm non-binary >flash forward again and I meet my girlfriend >she is a mega YGO fan >we don't really talk much about it since the knowledge gap is just so vast >I shave my head >I start frequently bleaching and dying it various shades of teal >gets top surgery >flash forward again and girlfriend is now wife >starts testosterone >Kazuki Takahashi passes away under tragic circumstances >now bringing up YGO makes my wife sad >time passes >we see Yugioh on one of the free streaming platforms on our landlord's TV >I mention how I'd love to revisit it with her since I barely remember any of it and I know she loved it so much >we jump in at season 3 for some reason >we watch the whole season and I'm constantly asking questions >she gives me in very in depth answers >it's really fun watching it with her >I figure it would be good if we go back to season 1 and watch from the beginning >I see Weevil and I'm like "oh I hate that guy" >thinks >watches more episodes where Weevil shows up and duels >starts rambling about how fun it is to watch YGO with my wife to anyone who will listen >my bestie comes over to hang and points out how much I look like Weevil >minty short hair, glasses, "boy", bug obsessed >mfw

Something something "the things that we forget still subconsciously shape us" or something idk where I'm going with this

I dunno how to feel about the realization that I transitioned into Weevil completely by mistake

[sapphireemeralds]

Dude, I'm super curious about your spicy Yugiho takes for the fandom post lol

You got it! <3

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most) - Yugi Mutou, my son, sweet bean, best boy, fictional light of my life!!! I AGGRESSIVELY adore this character, always have, always will.

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped) - I could also put Yugi here, honestly (as the previous answer demonstrates, lol), but to mix things up and try to give a different character for each answer, I'ma say Mokuba! He goes from an awful little gremlin in his first few manga appearances to a disarmingly charming little brat for the rest of the series. Rock on, funky lil' dude. Also the style upgrade he got for Darkside of Dimensions was A+. The twins Lua and Luca from the 5Ds spinoff are also absolute darlings. <3

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave) - I have to go with Anzu/Tea for this, cuz I hated her as a kid but have really grown to appreciate her! She and Honda/Tristan may not be the most important characters to the plot, but they both have good heads on their shoulders and balance out some of the, uh... bigger personalities in the cast. Tempted to also put most of the 5Ds cast here cuz I. Actually love 5Ds??? And don't see it getting as much love or attention as some of the other series???? Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places, I dunno. All I DO know is when the series first aired I was fully prepared to hate-binge-watch it, but I fell in love with it instead.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week) - There's this classmate of Yugi and co. in the manga, called Tomoya Hanasaki; he shows up in a couple of chapters where Yugi and Atem (the latter still a morally-knackered mess, more alter-ego than distinct entity) save his ass, and he's even name-dropped in GX as an easter egg, I think? But he completely disappears from the story after Duel Monsters hijacks the plot, and I think that's a damn shame. It would've been fun to see the main cast interact more with their classmates, make more friends outside their tiny little tight-knit group, and do more more normal teenager shit. Also! I have questions about Ushio from 5Ds, namely whether or not that's actually the same Ushio from the first chapter of the original manga... because if that IS the same Ushio, that has some interesting (i.e., HORRIFYING) implications for the timeline of the Duel Monsters-through-5Ds continuity and the fates of some of the characters from Duel Monsters and GX. Oof.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave) - Okay. Jounouch/Joey is a divisive, love-him-or-hate-him character, I know, and the anime did him dirty - not just the dub, the anime in general. Dude's actually kind of a badass. Imperfect, still annoying sometimes, but much more interesting than he gets credit for being. At least that's my opinion. Fully prepared for people to not agree, that's a-okay.

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason) - Part of me wants to give Shadi a taste of his own cryptic medicine, but he's a little too powerful and also True Neutral to an extent that... unsettles me. Fucking with him would backfire badly, I'm sure. Fucking with Kaiba would ALSO backfire, because he has too much money and NO chill. Also... kid's got issues. Even if by some miracle Kaiba didn't retaliate, I'd feel a little guilty. So I'll go for the low-hanging fruit: Insector Haga/Weevil Underwood. Fuck that twerp.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell) - Oh, what's-his-nuts, Dartz, I think??? and literally the entire Atlantean biker gang from Season 4. Their greatest sin: being boring as hell, which is an unforgivable offense for villains in a series this goddamn weird. I know there are people who love Season 4 for the sweet, sweet angst it inflicts upon Atem, but I am most distinctly not one of those people. Nothing else about that season vibes for me, at all.

[u-iona]

After seeing the last episode on the YouTube channel GrandLineReview, I wanted to comment about a thing I hate about One Piece, but it was too long (as all my writtings tend to be), so I’m posting it here.

I apologise for all gramatical mistakes that will inevitabely appear.

I hate how female characters either don’t appear as much as males or are left as background characters while the males duke it out.

Marines: I can remember about three female characters from the top of my head (Tashigi, Tsuru and Hina) and even though there are more (Tsuru’s crew) there is nowhere near enough to counter the males. Additionally, we know of two former Fleet Admirals (Sengoku and Kong), one current (Sakazuki), and five Admirals (Akainu [former], Aokiji [former], Kizaru, Fujitora and Ryokugyu). Notice a trend? All males.

Cipher Pol: While writting about the Marines, I thought that maybe the reason for the lack of females was that the society at large expected women to not fight and simply take care of the house. With that being the case, it would make sense for Marines to promote the idea, since it would fit with the world at large. It would also make sense for the lack of female characters in CP1-8, since those are known to public (maybe even CP0, since they work mainly for the World Nobles and need to keep up the appearances). But it would not explain CP9, which is an allegedly assassination organisation unknown to the world. In that case a female would be more inconspicuous and thus better at assassination. So, either my idea is wrong and the Marines and CP0-8 have no real explanation for their lack of females or CP9 has no good explanation for only having Kalifa out of at least 8 known characters.

Pirates: Even if theory of misogyny mentioned above is true, pirates, who rebel against the World Government should have a better track record.

Shichibukai (including former, but not Blackbeard, since he’ll be a bit down with the Yonko): Admitedly, Shichibukai work for the World Government, but they’re more of independant contractors than actual employees. So, from all the know Shichibukai Mihawk, Kuma and Weevil get a pass, since they don’t have a crew. Boa Hancock gets one as well, since she does have an all female crew, but her whole crew (present, past and future, since Kija Pirates just seem to pass from generation to generation) is made of Kuja women only and doesn’t seem inclined to recruit out of her island. Which kind of makes sense, but is also discriminatory of every non-Kuja woman. Now to the rest. Crocodile had a bounty hunter organisation that employed both males and females, most notably current Straw Hat Nico Robin, who, once they got up high enough on the ladder worked in male-female duos. That sounds good, but (while I am not going to go back to manga/anime) I remember that, when explaining the structure of Baroque Works to Straw Hats, Vivi said that the number agents are the strongest men in the organisation, who then get a female partner with complementary skill set. Enough said. Next, Moria. But, there’s not much to say, since he basically had 3 living crew members and with that number it’s either man-man-woman or man-woman-woman, so it’s good enough that he didn’t have three men. Jinbei and honestly Fisher Tiger (who I still love and cry when I see him die) did a terrible job at gender equality, since there are no fishwomen or mermaids on the crew of Sun Pirates (there’s Praline, but she’s Aladins wife and joins during time-skip as a part of alliance with Big Mom, so I’m not really counting her). And we have no evidence that fishwomen or mermaids would be any worse at fighting than mermen or fishmen. Trafalgar Law does a bit better, but with one woman out of 20 crew members it’s still not much. Buggy (a guy I totally forgot was a part of this group, sorry Buggy fans) has a huge crew, but out of the well known ones, I’m pretty sure that only Alvida is female, but I cannot be certain that he doesn’t have more. And lastly, Doflamingo. Here I only count the Donquixote Family, since counting every minion would take too long. Out of his Elite Officers (the guys that stood for heart, club, diamond and spade) there were five (Roscinante and Vergo both standing for heart) and all male. Each of them could have subordinates which were: Giolla, Sugar, Violet, Lao G, Senor Pink, Dellinger, Machvise, Gladius, Buffalo, Baby 5. Then there was Monet, who was part of the family, but neither as an elite officer or an official subordinate of one. In total, out of 16 there are 5 females. Like with Moria, it is roughly one third, but better than some other and Doflamingo could have had more females. My main concern nere were the Elite Officers, but they were in general much harder to defeat than the other. Those that jump out would be Sugar (as being hard to defeat, but we need to take into consideration that she was being actively protected by Trebol), Vergo (being easier to defeat than other Elite Officers [in my oppinion], but that took Laws genuinly OP Devil Fruit] and Roscinante (since he didn’t seem to do much and his Devil Fruit was kind of useless, so he either had hidden skill we didn’t see or nepotism).

Yonko: Since this is much lower on the list, I actually thought through the order of writting (from most women inclusive to least) and am not winging it like the rest. Firstly, Big Mom (Charlotte Linlin). She is a female and her crew is greatly inclusive to both genders and all races (species?), though the higher ups (Sweet Commanders, Ministers) seem to be ONLY her children. That means that unless a blood relative of hers a character has little to no chance of mattering. But that could be due to both her and her children, in general, being stronger than at least humans, as well as most of her crew being made up of Homies (if I remember correctly). Out of her three (formerly four) Sweet Commanders one, Smoothie, is female and, while she is weaker than Katakuri (like most of her family), her bounty is higher than Crackers, so she presents a bigger threat according to the World Government. Taking her and Crackers Devil Fruits into consideration, it is likely that Smoothie is more powerful than Cracker (without Devil Fruit), since Cracker can use his whenever he feels like but Smoothie seems to need to get close up, making her fruit harder to use against many enemies at once and thus needing to rely on other abilities. Like Big Mom, Kaido does employ many females, but not as much where it counts. For me, the characters from the Beast Pirates that I remember are Kaido, the All Stars and the Tobiroppo and from those 9, 2 are female (only Ulti and Black Maria). Not to say that those two aren’t awsome, I love both, especially Ulti, but I don’t think that it’s enough. On top of that, the All Stars (which are basically the Beast Pirates version of the Sweet Comanders) are all male, so not even the one third. Then we get onto Blackbeard, from who’s crew we know only the 10 Titanic Captains, where only one (Catarina Devon) is female. That could certainly be better and I will not comment much further, since the 10 Captains themselves show that Blackbeard has a gigant crew, most of who we don’t know, but having a few more females there would be better, since any Blackbeard female shown from now on will most likely be weaker than any of the captains. Next is Whitebeard, whose crew I genuinely hate. I honestly think that Whitebeard is cool and I support the idea of blood not making a family, but any and all females on his crew are nurses. No fighters, let alone a female being one of the 16 Divison Commanders (I checked and Haruta is male. I also heard some people mention Whity Bay, but she’s an ally and a captain of her own crew, not a Whitebeard pirate). So, while there are females, it showes them as damsels in distres rather than foghters. Nothing more to say. Lastly, the worst offender, Shanks. No females. That’s it. There is not a single female character that would be a known member of the Red Haired pirates, not even as a nurse. Grantes, we still don’t know much about Shanks or the Red Haired pirates, but we’ve seen them at Marinefort and I think that if at least one female from the crew was an important fighter, she would be there. So, there could be some, but either not strong or not a fighter at all.

Straw Hats: Let’s be honest, we all love Straw Hats, but they’ve got problems. There are females, but it’s still only two out of then, neither of the two is part of the three strongest (until the time skip Nami was actually seen as one of the weaker members and before Alabasta she didn’t even fight) and even their fighting styles show a problem. This is something I wanted to also point out (before this rant became longer than some of my essays [and I didn’t even research here, just checked to make sure some of the things I wrote were actually true and to check the names]), but another thing I don’t like is how even when female characters are shown, they are not fighters, not GOOD fighters (or in general tend to be weaker than men) or are long distance fighters. Nami and Robin are a great mple of the last. Both of them attack from a distance, which makes sense with their weapon/Devil Fruit, but all the other Straw Hats (excluding Usopp) fight at close or mid distance. That makes the Straw Hats balances, but it doesn’t make sense that neither of them are close combat (at least statistically), especially since Nami DIDN’T FIGHT until Alabasta (and even there her combat with Miss Doublefinger was pretty close range) so her fighting style could have been thought of for a long time. And Robin DOES have some close ranged attacks (shown in Alabasta and Skypiea arcs) but just doesn’t use them (especially post time-skip). And that’s not even talking about Haki. Logicaly speaking, it would make all sense in the world for Robin to have at least Arnament, since it would give her already OP (if used correctly) Devil Fruit a way to more effectively attack other Devil Fruit users and even normal enemies (since Arnament also seems to make attacks stronger, not only allow Devil Fruit users to be hurt) and, unlike basicaly all the other Straw Hats, who didn’t learn Haki during the time-skip, Robin was surrounded by people who knew Haki and could have taught her.

Thank you, for reading my rant. I hope you enjoyed. Additionally, I suck at tagging, so please let me know, if you can think of any.

[postmodern-blues]

first listen to rhys and ianto’s excellent barbecue: a saga

I’m just gonna put all my thoughts in order while I listen to this audio and do my homework. I’ll tag it for spoilers, but I’ll also put everything below the cut in case you haven’t listened to it yet <3 um also i do a lot of swearing be warned...

last warning, yall, lots of spoilers and quotes ahead:

Rhys’s friends call him RHYSIE and I Am So Soft For This.

“I’m making my Special Sauce” god if Jack were here....

I love how Torchwood writers can’t even find a way to write RHYS in a straight way. He’s so cute and AHSDHGHFDAS I LOVE THIS SO FAR

the meat jokes.... already.... let’s hope serentiy Ianto does not resurface

IANTO! my god I have missed my boy. HE IS BACK

Oh my god... oh my fuck.... he’s so CUTE i might need to take a breather.... dude....

Gwen looking out for Ianto, inviting him to Rhys’s stuff. DID SOMEONE SAY FOUND FAMILY HMMMM

“lads, lads, lads” I WENT FERAL WHEN I HEARD THIS IN THE TRAILER

“Jack’s sorry he couldn’t come” hhhhhhhh one sausage comes off the barbecue and he’d be like “this is quite homoerotic” HAIJFODHS

Rhys come on,,,, baby,,,,, do not be homophobic about this

I get the feeling I might be going too crazy about this,,, WE’RE ONLY FIVE MINUTES IN

godDAMNIT THIS IS THE SHIT I’VE BEEN CRAVING EVER SINCE GHOST TRAIN afdsohfs

Ianto brought Chardonnay....

“Except Banana boat, he’s a bit thick” AGFDKHDGS R H Y S

oh shit alien things are happening

“yes, RHYS, I know how to discuss my TOP SECRET work at a social event” he’s fucking ICONIC

“you have an inability to call each other by your proper names” my sister is just like this tho... she calls all her friends by anime character names.. little bit better than ‘sticky jeff’ but not much

Ianto being oblivious to Rhys’s gender role shit is just,,,, I STAN HIM

If Ianto and Rhys do not take a ride in the pink car by the end of this audio I’m suing

jkjk but that would be so great wouldn’t it

godDAMNIT i love this audio

"we.... don’t” yet again, it is the 21st century, and torchwood is sooo not ready

“It’s the BOYS’ barbecue” rhys and his friends seem like they have a very cute queerplatonic relationship. wonder if they wear socks when they’re doing “barbecues”

who the fuck is steven.... whAT IS GOING ON

“I don’t know him THAT well, but there’s no way he would call me love” u sure abt that rhysie

“if u run headfirst into an invisible wall, at least let me FILM it on my phone” these two i stfg

this ‘time bubble’ concept has SO MANY FIC POSSIBILITIES why is big finish spoiling us-

jack and gwen going for pizza instead of being at work AHHDOFDGSHK 

oh my GOD THE CALLBACK TO DISSECTED!!!!! this is like when gareth called back to The Last Beacon in Dinner and a Show AHHHH

I am reminded about martha and gwen,,, i am happy,,, the PARALLELS

these two arguing dude the TENSION.. the SUBTEXT

“god help you if you ever hear about pink wine” SFIHOJADHGF 

i swear half my commentary here is me quoting something funny and then keyboard smashing

Ianto is fucking ANNIHILATING Rhys here and by extension gender roles. Goddamnit THIS is the conversation we needed. I love him so much can you tell

“you LOVE each other” I’ve only had this audio for about half an hour but if anything fucking happens to it, i’ll kill everyone in the room and then myself

i don’t think you understand how goddamn adorable rhys is about his friends

“thank fuck none of them are here right now” mate my man badger calls you RHYSIE i don’t think it would affect them

I am so thankful Jack isn’t here because oh my g o d this would be an hour long block of innuendos. this whole audio is just exposing the very prominent homoerotic tendencies of straight men

sometimes, and by that i mean all the time, i wonder if my family hears me listening to big finish and wonders if i’m actually just watching porn. and honestly I think it would be a whole lot less embarrassing if i just told them i was watching porn instead of “yeah it’s this scifi thing these characters are trying to make a hole in an invisible time force field thing. are they gay? no, well, i mean, yes, but not like that! welllll, a little bit like that, but it’s NOT PORN”

“what the hell was that rhys? You Absolute Idiot.” AHHH THESE TWO

“let’s stuff it full of sausages” 

GWEN AND IANTO TELLING EACH OTHER STORIES ABOUT THEIR IDIOT HUSBANDS IS MY LIFEBLOOD FUCKKKKKK

“back pocket” THIS IS SENDING ME BACK TO MY SHERLOCK FANDOM DAYS (fucking remember john getting sherlock’s phone out of his coat that he was wearing? that’s what this is)

Rhys pretending to be Steven (Stephen?) is,,,,, oh my god,,, this is too fucking intense

god i feel so bad for rhys,,, seriously

ohmygodddddd

this took a serious turn I was not prepared for

also gwen wanting rhys to talk to ianto is,,, ughhhh i ship gwen/rhys sooo hard

rhys- baby- oh my godohmygodohmygod

im like,,, IM CRYING BRO THIS IS

“I DO love them” hhhhhh

the special sauce thing is sending me im sorry

“can we rescue the beer?” RHYS

‘Ianto you beautiful man, you did it!” THEY!!! THEY!!!!!!

i wanna make it clear that i don’t ship rhys and ianto but i think they are so cute as friends

guys im in tears right now

the way rhys goes from not wanting ianto here to not wanting him to leave,,, um its a simple arc but i’d also do anything for it

RHYS AND GWEN RHYS AND GWEN RHYS AND GWEN ANDHDHSGHFAOSDLSDLHD

“OH HE’S ADORABLE WHATS HE CALLED?” me when i first saw Ianto Jones onscreen

“he’s a colleague of the missus,,,,,, and a friend” why don’t you just shoot me in the head hm

rhysie,,, baby,,, holy shit you need to go to therapy,,, just like,,, have a chat with janet the weevil and see how you feel after

funny how rhys fucking williams is handling loss so much better than ANY of torchwood. like jack got PREGNANT after losing owen+tosh. Ianto started having sex with his immortal boss after losing his girlfriend. healthy coping mechanisms? who is she?

they let rhys say fuck a lot in this audio and that is Very Sexy of Them

“bunny has run away with my tie” h e s s o f u c k i n g p r e c i o u s

“lads lads lads” AHHHHHHHHH

this audio. is. so good. so cute. so sad. BIG FINISH YOU DID IT AGAIN YOU SEXY BASTARDS YOU!!!!

[yamithediaperdork]

Des checks in but she can’t check out (OC story staring my buddy sparkle)

Des Checks in, but she can't check out

Malcore stared at his sister in a mixture of shock and amusement, as they sat at his place having supper. It was a few days before Des's 18th birthday and since Malcore had to work the night of her birthday, he'd invited her over to his small one bedroom apartment for a few drinks and a birthday dinner. in fact they were on their 3rd glass of rye and coke when Des had told Malcore what it was she wanted for her birthday. shaking his head, he just reached over and took her drink away. "Ok, clearly I was wrong, you can't handle the good stuff and your cut off." he laughed. "malcorrrrre!" Des whined. "I'm not drunk!" "I think you are. Otherwise you wouldn't of asked me to commit you to a mental asylum for a week so you could be treated like a baby." Malcore said, sipping his own drink. "Stop being a butt head about this!I know what I want!" Des whined again and pouted. "And you told me I could have whatever I wanted! and this is what I want!" Malcore rolled his eyes, but let her have her glass back and finished off the last of his steak, thinking. "Ok Des, let's say I do decide to help you with this. first and foremost..you living with mom and dad still. I think their gonna notice you missing for a week." Malcore pointed out. "They actually won a cruise and so their gonna be gone for a whole month. they're gonna trust me to stay by myself at home...so they'll never know." Des said and smiled. "..So your rewarding their trust by...Ok ok..never mind. Secondly, How exactly am i suppose to get you locked up in the loony bin, and treated like a baby? I'm not exactly made of money you know." Malcore pointed out, gesturing to his tiny place. "Ooook sooo I found a place that does more.. temp placements and hold patients while the family gets things ready at home. it's not free but I got the money to cover for it! I've been saving up all year for this." Des said proudly, flashing her toothy grin. "..Ok, who's gonna look after Mom and dad's place while your in the nut house drooling on yourself in a strait jacket?" "A duh, YOU! You job is actually closer to their place AND they have AC and a satellite dish. all the channels you could want and you just have to mow the grass. Plus their fridge is stocked." "..I'll THINK about it, but one's thing for sure Des.." malcore said, smirking and taking a drink. "whats that?" She asked. "Either way you SHOULD be in the nut house. your bonkers." he teased.

two days after Des's birthday, Her and malcore saw they're parents off on their cruise and malcore promised to look after Des and make sure she stayed out of trouble. He still hadn't given her his answer yet but as they walked to their parents car he made her sit in the back seat 'where little babies belonged.' Pulling out of the parking lot she was a little disappointed as they started on the route back to the house. "Sooo uh.. guessing thats a no on my gift..huh?" she asked, sounding a little disappointed. "Des did you really think I'd just drive you up to the nut house and take you in like this and get you put in there for a week?" Malcore asked, looking in the rear view mirror and seeing her pout. "I..I dunno." she huffed. "Think about it Des..if you want them to believe you think your a big baby damage to yourself we have to dress you for the part first." malcore said and smirked. "Then..then you're gonna do it?!" Des squealed, and went to lunge forward to hug him and got caught by her seat belt. "Pffft, DORK! and yeah, but we're gonna have to sell it..so I hope you have some babyish outfits at home..and lots of diapers." "heh, you bet your butt I do!"

Malcore hadn't been sure what to expect when Des pulled out her little suitcase of goodies out from under her bed, but he knew it was going to be a mixture of cute and funny. and he wasn't disappointed. thick white disposables diapers, Disney print ones, and even some cloth diapers with a pair of locking plastic panties, with ruffles on the butt. aside from the diapers she had a few different t-shirts with phases on them like 'mommies widdle stinker' and 'daddies girl' and 'caution: full load'. finishing off his sisters little collection of kink, was a matching light pink baby booties and baby mittens, both of them lockable. "well I think we know what your mostly gonna be wearing to prove your helpless and a big baby." Malcore joked, nodding at all the lockable stuff. "you got a preference on which t-shirt you wear in?" he asked, then noticed a bottle of mad lax in one of the pockets. "huh, I thought they stopped making this stuff after it kept being used in so many pranks and so many kids were crapping their pants." "Oh heh, I uh, got the last bottle before it was pulled. only used it once or twice, the stuff is WAY too powerful." Des said sheepishly. "I was crapping myself with like NO control for a day and..a..half.." She trailed off as she noted the look on Malcore's face. "Noooo no no no no no!" she said, waving her hands back and forth. "oh come on, you wanna be put in a strait jacket and left to poop yourself, but some mad lax is too much for you? don't be such a baby." Malcore laughed and winked. "..See when you put it like that.." She said, giggling a little. "Andddd I dunno.. what shirt do you think will work best?" "Caution, full load for sure. now go and get a shower in and uh.. shave..you know.." Malcore said, suddenly blushing and looking uncomfortable. "Huh? why?" "Because well, do you think we'd let a big baby have big girl hair? sides it'll give you one last chance to think about whether or not you really want this." malcore said. Des blew a raspberry but marched off. "..the shit I do to make my little sister happy." the 20 year old grumbled. "I HEARD THAT!"

all squeaky clean, Des practically skipped her way back into her room, on cloud nine and eager to get dressed like the big baby she knew she was. no being a dumb stinky big girl for a whole week, with the added benefits of being helpless and she was sure there would be at least some humiliation involved too.. it was everything a total diaper dork big baby like her could hope for! coming into the room she saw Malcore had gotten the diapers all ready for her as well as the rest of her soon to be attire and as a nice little bonus, had prepped a sippy cup for the big baby ('hehehehe thats me!' she thought) to drink. "Last chance to bail and just I dunno, waddle around the house and I'll tease you." Malcore said, smirking. "..wait, that was a option?" asked asked, putting a blank look on her face. "..Uh..yeah of cou-" "Kidding! I knew that dork. it won't be the same!" Des said and burst out laughing. "..Somebody wants a spanking before her butt goes back in diapers huh?" Malcore said dryly. "Threaten ME with a good time!" "andddd my kink limit has been hit. come on doofus, get over here so big brother can get you back in your diapie wipies." Des giggled and walked over, dropping her towel and planting her butt on the thick terry cloth diaper and grinned like a fool as malcore powdered her and then pinned them nice and snug. "where's your bank card so I can pay for this whole little trip back to baby land for you?" He asked, tugging the t-shirt on her then holding out the plastic panties for her to step into. "oh, I just have it all in cash, it's in my night stand." Des said, holding onto Malcore as she stepped into the plastic pants. "And I think you mighta gone too thick with the diapers, I don't think the plastic panties are gon- URK!" Des was cut off as Malcore yanked up with the panties, lifting her up off her feet for a second and letting her weight force them over the thick cloth diapers, making them bludge and puff out, then locked them tight. He also gave her the mother of all diaper wedgies as he let her plop down onto her pampered butt. "You were saying?"  he asked. "Son of a bisket eating weevil, that HURT you butt!" she huffed. "Aww widdle baby Des can handle spanking but not a widdle wedgie?" he asked in a mocking baby tone. Des glared at him but then he reached down and tapped a finger on the end of her nose. "boop!" this, much like it had when they were 3 and 5, made her break into helpless giggles.

with the mittens and booties clicked into place, and Des using both hands to hold the sippy cup in place as she chugged, malcore lead the way out to the car, which was parked back in the garage. sure it could of been cute to make her waddle into the driveway like this but since they hadn't been able to find a skirt, let alone pants that could of covered her massive diapered ass malcore was glad he had parked inside. 'That's all we need, noisy ms.Johnson from across the street seeing Des in all her diaper dork glory.' with Des strapped into the backseat, and Malcore having all her monies in his wallet, they drove off to go and commit Des to a week of babyhood, though before they even reached the end of the block Malcore was rolling down the windows and glaring at the rear view mirror at a blushing Des. "I-I told you this stuff works quick.." She whined.

The Nurse at the front desk for oaks mental placement ward had seen a lot of things in her 3 years on the job. People who thought they were kitties, a guy who insisted her was Bill Clinton..and even one man who turned to go super sayain has his parents had dragged him in. Today she smelled the newest arrival far before she saw her, and raised a eyebrow at the sight of a young man leading in a girl dressed like a big baby, and judging from the funk in the air the blond girl was living up to the disclaimer on her t-shirt. "Malllcorrrrre, I wanna go pway wiff da other babies at da park!" the blond girl was whining. "Just hang on Des, Big brother needs to talk with the nice lady." the Brown haired man was saying, Malcore the nurse assumed. "Excuse me, who do I talk to about admitting my sister for a week?" he asked. "Whattt? nu admitting! wanna stay with ou!" the blond girl whined and started to have a full on fit, slapping at malcore and looking like a big stinky toddler. the nurse was forced to call two orderlies out, and then lead Malcore to go and talk with her boss.

Des put up the best fight she could, not that she wanted to get away, but she wanted to make sure they felt the need to restrain her as tight as possible for her stay. She also nipped at fingers and was rewarded with a big fat pacifier gag being forced in her mouth and strapped around her head. she suckled on it and fussed, till a hard swat on her squishy rear made her knees wobble, then she was dumped into a large medical crib, too high for her to climb out of even if she hadn't of been in a massive diaper that had been loaded to the brim. Getting to her knees she held onto the bar's with her mitten hands and glared at the two missing link's that were the orderlies. "Sheesh, this ones gonna be a handful, I can already tell." "no shit Sherlock. I don't care WHAT her brother says, I'm getting a strait jacket for her." the other one said, rubbing his eye where Des had scored a lucky hit. "heh, think spanking will be part of her treatment?" the first one asked, shaking his hand where Des had bitten his fingers. "because I could go for tanning her bratty backside." '..This..this might of been a mistake.' Des was realizing for the first time as she whined and backed away from the two, landing on her mushy back side and letting out a loud wet sounding fart. "Ugh! Christ! what did she eat, road killed skunk!?!"

In the head office Malcore was just finishing up the last of the paper work, it had been stupid easy to get Des signed in..it almost seemed like the guy running the place KNEW what was really going on but didn't mind as long as malcore could pay for Baby Des's stay. it had taken the better part of a hour and in that time Malcore had given over the key and given permission for them to get Des changed, in more ways then one and also given them free reign to use whatever treatments they deemed needed to keep her safe from harming herself, and even allowed corporal punishment if they felt it was warranted. One small change though from the original plan, unknown to Des though she would soon find out..was that Malcore hadn't just paid for one week like the little dork wanted. As it turned out the place hadn't cost as much as Des had assumed, and so, being the -kind- and loving big brother he was.. Malcore had signed her up for three weeks. Of course he'd be lying if he said the temptation to enjoy his parents house hadn't played a role in this, but he also figured after three weeks in baby bondage land Des would either be cured of her need for this darker side of her fetish..or hug him like crazy and thank him for making it real. he was ready to flip that coin. "Well, i think that about does it." Dr. Altez said, shaking Malcore's hand. "Would you like to see your sister before taking off to supervise the constitution of her new nursery.?" "of course, though i don't think she's gonna be very happy with me. I did after tell her we were going to the park." Malcore chuckled, getting up and leaving with the good doctor. "heh, well we all do what we must." Walking down the hallway Malcore was lead into the nursery, where a series of cribs were set up and there was a changing table. the carpeting was nice and plush and there was a animal print on the walls and from the looks of it, a toy chest just filled with nice soft toys that Des would be able to play with, if she could earn good girl time. Sitting in a crib by the back of the room however was Des who was mumbling before her paci gag. She'd been changed from her soiled padding of course, and was now in a thick wet plastic diaper and a light pink straitjacket that had her arms trapped at her sides. her booties had been replaced and -snk-, her hair had been brushed and put into pig tails. the paci gag had a cute little pink mouth guard on it and she was wearing a little bib..mostly because with all the grumbling and muffled protests she was trying to do she had a stream of drool going down her chin. rocking back and forth and clearly trying to get her arms free, Des cried out around the gag and tried to get up only to fall on her face , though the mattress of the crib was soft enough she didn't hurt herself. "would you like a moment alone with her to say bye bye?" The good doctor asked. "Yes please." malcore said. Once they were alone, Malcore walked over and leaned over the crib bars, down at Des. "Well dork, having fun yet?" malcore asked. Des glared at him and started to shake her head no. "ah ah ah, beeee honest~" Malcore scolded, wagging a finger. She stopped, then closed her eyes and nodded. "Good, I'm glad you having fun, I know this might seem a little scary at times, but I'm sure you'll get used it before your first week is up." malcore said. That got her attention and Des's eyes went wide, and she gave him a questioning look. "oh yeah, I decided since it was cheaper then we thought, to give you -THREE- weeks in baby land. I didn't think you'd mind, but on the off chance you do..well.. No one will care. I've already given consent for the paci gag to stay in save for when you're being feed, which will be bottle feeding of formula, and I've okayed them spanking you if you get out of line. I ALSO.." and malcore gave a evil little grin. "Told them how much you loooove sitting in poopie diapers..so asked that they let you sit in everyone for at least half a hour." at this Malcore reached in and patted Des's head, as she glared and shook, going red in the face and trying to yell at him. "Aww, no need to thank me, your my BABY sister after all, i just want you to be happy. and who knows, Maybe mom and dad will decide to extend their cruise and I'll pay out of my own pocket for you to stay awhile longer." Des was whimpering and whining now, shaking her head. "Des calm down, we both know you're going to enjoy the hell out of this, this is exactly what you wanted. I'm just giving it to you for longer then you wanted. I promise I'll come and visit you every couple of days." Malcore said and patted her head. Des whined and trying to pull away, but the head pats apparently felt nice and she relaxed. Maybe she relaxed a little too much as a wet bubbly fart escaped and the back of her diaper started to puff out. "heh, and that's my cue to leave. Bye bye baby des. Have fun~" Malcore coo'ed and walked away, stopping at the door. "and remember, big brother loves you~" he said with a wink, then walked out as Des did the only thing she could. and finished loading her diapies.

The end

[blackmuzak8484]

nortey dowuona’s best of 2020

to be completely honest, I decided to do this entirely for TSJ. otherwise, I wouldn’t have bothered at all. Best end lists are for music nerds and billboard chart nerds and industry vultures, and i happen to be subscribed, in the discord and in the comments of the youtube vids of these folk. so, i decided to pick 10 out of random from the big best of 2020 i was compiling for the whole of the year, which I was gonna post to this Tumblr at the end of the damn year, but I guess I can just post the link to the playlist in the bottom of this post. Here, i’m gonna write about 10 songs I personally love, and pick out a few artists i specifically loved:

artist of the year.

RAP Ferreira put out his best album and best verses in a year everybody either stagnated, fell off or got rendered irrelevant by the world at large. He was ebullient, hilarious, thoughtful and even surprisingly honest. I enjoyed the fact that now he’s begun to create a real platform for many talented folx, and I hope he continues to do that in the margins and make even more beautiful music in the years to come.

rookie of the year.

Enny by a mile. Everybody else who debuted this year got hamstrung by the pandemic but she created 3 great songs, each thoughtful, insightful and a joy. Apparently she just started publicly releasing music to a large audience, and I hope she gets better and better, and even gets bigger than J-

most pleasant surprise.

Vic Mensa’s V Tape. An artist who I though had no more moves left completely turned around his whole career with a fantastic performance at Lollapalooza, a fantastic fleet of features and tis gorgeously produced EP which had some of his most brilliant songs on it. I love it all, Vic Mensah is well and truly back. Welcome back bro. (ALSO, DROP THE DRILL TRACK.)

GREAT THING A GHANAIAN ARTIST DID.

Strongman Burner, Amarae, Okunta Kinte, Vic Mensah in general.

cool things my friends and classmates did.

Justine Darcenne’s #4TheBaeless. Valencia Rae’s Siren thyhomebodies’s Coming of Age. (Phil, a producer in the group, made his own studio!) Brad built his own computer. petit abri put a track on APT9 Record’s compiliation album Volume II. khaalid anderson’s transitions. (khaalid will also be performing at Beats & Brunch on January 23, 2021 at 11 am.) Yannick Paul’s Bear Fruit. The Big Climax’s This Is Ya Boy kxng jetson’s Waves (ft. Kokko Williams & Mike Mezzl) Nicole Gonzalez performed in The Composer’s Melody. Victoria Marie released a bunch of beaufiful covers on her Insta, @toriiii_marie @ph0ssy_jaw works as a counselor online. Pay her at her PayPal. Johnny Aperano Yoba was on People AND Vogue. Dalitso is a wonderful pianist at his church back home in Zambia. Kobina is a fantastic drummer at his church. Kayla graduated with a BS in Music Technology and Industry! Damian been cookin on his insta. Travis graduated! (Look out for Clan of Dragons.) Rorghino Flores made a documentary! Francis (and Animax FYB) put out Mmofra on AmaLexPrime! (play it with yo kids.) A Hype has been dropping crazy all year, roll by his SoundCloud and check out Persistence Of Memory. Reina H been doing great covers on her Insta, @challenges_inlife. Hannah placed music on C. B. S.

best albums of the year (that nobody’s written about).

Maya Huyana -1991 DaWeirdo - Broke and Ugly $ilkMoney - Attack of the Future Shocked, Flesh Covered, Meatbags of the 85 VI Seconds - Because Why Not/Never Knows Best Erik Cain - Heart & Soul Vol. 2 Dimitri & the Scarecrow - Messenger is Sender (from 2015, finally got released onto streaming this year, still pretty great and another great Zimbabwean rapper for us to all fawn over, just like billy woods) Flowking Stone - Gifted 1 The Hoodies - Incommunicado Jayy Grams - Every Gram Counts Domo Genesis/Mike and Keys - Just in Case1/2 Madwiz - God’s Gold Teeth Maez301 - Hasaan Daara J Family - Yaamatele Dai Burger - Dessert EP TeePhlow - Road To Phlowducation II Tef Poe/Blvck Spade - Preacher in the Trap Terrell Hines - Portal One: The Mixtape redveil - niagara Nyukyung - Trap Harmonix AdrianXpression - Sucka Deante Hitchcock - Better (Deluxe) maassai & jWords - ve.loc.i.ty tobe nwigwe - cincoriginals everything Kelsey Lu did this year.

strangest things happening in music in general.

vic mensah actually making a great record. goldlink going through a narcissistic collapse and winding up making the best music of his career. redveil blowing up off Fantano calling him wack. pharoahe monch finally making a rock pivot and it actually works. meet me@the garden coming 10 years too late for my 14 year old self. RAP Ferreira being in the NYTimes, selling a vinyl record for $72, creating an actual nostrum grocers in a video game so we can listen to his next record. The entirety of the playboi carti phenomenom. The entirety of the lil uzi vert phenomenom. The entirety of Chance’s instagram EP being far more money worthy then the entirety of the Big Day and yet being released on Insta and not immediately monetized. Deante Hitchcock releasing a great album and being completely forgotten armand hammer releasing their underground kings wayyy too early. my ass continually not actually looking into amapiano despite always loving it when I review it. several good songs needing to be tacked on to a prior youtube vid as an ad for me to find them instead of actually listening to the artists. santan dave still releasing good verses after he made his illmatic. (expect his new album to suck.) slowthai becoming cake. (we let that go way too far.) Guapdad and BfB Packman being wonderful. Finding out BfB PAckman is a better rapper than Sada Baby. John Boyega putting on Ego Ella May. Having to admit Young Dolph was good all this time and i missed out like a fool.

best tv performance.

Chance The Rapper’s “A Chi-Town Christmas.” IDK’s “Change The Channel.” Sa-Roc’s Tiny Desk Concert. Chika in general. Robert Glapser’s “This Changes Everything (ft. Denzel Curry).” SZA at the Roots Picnic. Sampa The Great at the Roots Picnic. RAP Ferreira in general. Umi’s “Introspection Live Show.” Alexa Esperanza’s cover of “Is It A Crime.” Bad Bunny in general. the jwords, nappy nina and MIKE performances at Satellite Syndicate

most embarrassing piece of music i love with all my heart

Logic’s No Pressure. In all sense of the words I should not love this album like I love my siblings but I do. It is beautiful.

best 10 songs of this year objectively

1 - RAP Ferriera - An Idea Is A Work Of Art (ft. Mike Ladd) [prod. by Kenny Segal, mr. carmack and Mike Parvizi]

I know, I know. In all honesty Doldrums should be here. Then Noz put it on his best list and I had to be all ChiTown Go-Getter and pick the next better thing: this. And in all honesty, it has the best lyric RAP spits on the album: “we build better answers.” But it’s not just that, it’s RAP’s most animated performance, the most dexterous piece on the whole album and the most gorgeous beat, a loping bassline sliding behind the flatfooted drum, allowing Mike Ladd, his musical father, to gently drift through, saying, “what if royalty depised us?” and knowing the only gold is soul and giving it to all of us, all us maggots and vultures and locusts and weevils, to hold to the light so we can finally see. On the quest to get open and free, we continue.

2 - Chika - U Should [prod. by Lido]

I heard this the night it dropped and shot 2 insta videos playacting as it played. But apart from that, it’s a intimate, beautiful song about getting to know a new lady love, so tenderly sung it might melt and disappear if not held gently, with a sweeping guitar lick and purring trumpets sliding all over the place, Chika softly holding each frayed piece together into a considered, gorgeous piece - wait, she’s talking her shit.

3 - Issa Gold - Boys Don’t Cry [prod. by Kingjet & Sherwyn and Matt Zara]

The only reason this isn’t number one is because it dropped on Christmas Eve. But otherwise, it’s a openheart letter to us all. “it’s a lonely path being different,” Issa says, swimming in the melted ice caps as he once danced happily on the edges of melting glaciers that failed to drown him, looking at the world that keeps hurting his heart, yet he still opens his eyes and smiles, and dances. The heavy drums are so bouncy the whole song suddenly flies, formerly a hidden murmur becoming a bright sunlit flight across the sky so we can all see. I can’t wait to see Tempus, if it’s anything as good as this was.

4 - Deante Hitchcock - Growing Up/Mother God [prod. by Brandon Phillips-Taylor]

In all honesty, “Growing Up” is really not the best song on Better. It’s a sweet, happy song with a smooth, crackling bassline with soft, ghostly synths, but still kinda ok. It’s the song added at the end, “Mother God”, that has warm, sizzling piano chords and gorgeous singing in the back. It’s one of the few time I’ve ever heard a man pay homage to the woman in his life and to the God above while being entirely sincere and not faking the funk. The way he praises his mom, his lady, remembering the women in his family taking care of him and him foolishly neglecting Breonna due to his overburdened mind feels full of details, remembrances, explanations and praises. Plus, it actually makes sense that God, if she exists (she does) is a woman since -

5 - Yana Perrault - whiskey and weed [prod. by slate]

Apparently, Yana Perrault is verified now. Excellent. {YES YES MY GOD YESS}, It means more folks know about how great this song, and Yana herself is. If I had any sense, I would’ve written up 12:21 as the best song of 2018, but such is life. Anyway, we have this smooth, bass heavy slinker with shimmering percussion and lumbering drums about hooking up with a former flame who’s “sober” yet keeps on calling Yana to break their sobriety, “know we ain’t talked in a while but you still know my address,” she wryly mentions. As the beat sprints away under a warm cocoon of accapella echoes, it mirrors a relationship so tenuous it might disappear into the wind. Yet still strong enough to have whiskey on call.

6 - Marlon Craft - Culture Sick Freestyle [prod. by Cormill]

Apparently this was supposed to be a shot at Flex. And since Flex is a woman beater and a lame, good for him. Shouldn’t have even gone on Flex to be honest, but then again neither should Jay Critch or Tyler or Black Thought and besides, I watch those freestyles too. And on the freestyle, Marlon frankly put things in perspective. “You don’t want us to better, you just want to be cool still.” This describes all of rap media to be real. And tellingly, it only has 310,000 views. Methinks nobody really wants real. But I do. Thank u Marlon, you continue to be the best white rapper alive. (Nowhere near the best rapper tho, and if Token hadn’t fell off -)

7 - Miah - Cascades [prod. by Cedes]

I’m sideeyeing the boy Miah cuz I had to search up his Audiomack to find the producer’s name (it’s Cedes, and they have a really great avalanche of Drake Type Beats is you like that kind of thing). Were you trying to trick folk into thinking you produced it yourself? You don’t need to do that shit. Especially since you’re writing stuff like “back in high school all my peers were tryin to hit the league / until the league too far from reach so they tap dancing over beats.” When you can frankly break down life that clearly, don’t be trying to hide producer’s names unless you actually learn to produce too. Plaster your name all over that shit.

8 - Justine Darcenne - Off Days [prod. by Mikhail Miller] / Enny - Peng Black Girls (ft. Amia Brave [prod. by Paya]

Justine is indeed my classmate, but that’s not why this song is here. it’s here because it’s a nice little guitar driven song with a spellbinding bridge that’s the best thing I’ve heard her do yet. And I’mma keep it short cuz I already wrote this up at the Singles Jukebox.

Enny released this soft, cushiony record with washed out synths over bulky drums and floated FLOATED over them without even trying to run in the tar, saying frankly, “He said to me, 'they put guns in the streets, that’s what they wanted for me.’ And I said, ‘G, someone can fix you a plate but no one can force you to eat.’” After all, why not try to live for something greater than what the world has expected you to be. And Amia sings, “We’re gon be alright, ok?” with the joy and excitement of someone realizing the words coming alive on their tongue. One of the best songs of this miserable year, and it’s kinda funny watching Jorja accidentally Drake out Amia and even Enny (and by funny I mean irritating.)

9 - Tobi Lou - okay (ft. Dreezy) [prod. by Matteo Woods & Dilip]

Fun fact: Dilip did some great songs with Otxhello, a producer who recorded and mixed 2 records on my first album. That again is not why this song is here. The warm, swinging synths and heavy, bouncy drums are why this is here. Oh, and Tobi’s goofy, silly lyrics and his surprisingly effective Missy Elliott tribute are great too. But obviously, the verse that vaulted this into top 10 was Dreezy, which opens with such a openhearted line, “i can’t help it, it’s too hard to say I’m sorry.” And every line is harder than the last, until she closes with “and I ain’t talkin frontals but we got the city sown up.” Absolutely amazing.

10 - Strongman Burner - Pilolo (ft. KelvynBoy) [prod. by Nixie]

The sweet, gooey synths are poured over the soft, zipping and smooth drums as the wiry bass whirls between Kelvyn’s soft, thin crooning as Stoneman tap dances over the drums, both desperate and defiant, trying to salvage a sinking relationship that he knows is already gathering coral and snappers. It’s the best afropop song of the year and yet it still has a Nigerian on it (well, I put 4 Nigerians on here, next year I’m rectifying that.) And they even did a song together last year , not as good as this. At all. (still pretty good tho.)

best 10 songs i love (but not enough to write full paragraphs for, I already put 10 in and this is already 5 goddamn pages)

11 - Logic - Heard ‘Em Say

best song on the project that isn’t Dadbod but at least it isn’t tempting fate.

12 - Deqn Sue - Creep

I already love this for having a gorgeous bridge, and is cute af. Yes Sue, you can creep.

13 - Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Sudden Death/ka - i love {moms, mimi, kev}

QUELLE CHIS CAN SANG SANG./ka can heart heart write.

14 - IDK - Square Up (ft. Juicy J)

I don’t know why this is here either but this slaps regardless.

15 - Nappy Nina - Modestly (ft. Maassai)

Maassai is creating some of the best raps out here. so is Nappy Nina.

16 - Kehlani - Lexii’s Outro (ft. Lexii Ajaii)

Let’s celebrate our great rappers when they’re alive (and this includes me. Pls Chika, don’t win Best New Artist.)

17 - Samad Savage - Goodnight

What Travis Scott should’ve tried to be instead of what he is now. Samad still dope af regardless.

18 - Bad Bunny - Si Veo Tu Mama

The way Bad Bunny actually hits that last note makes me feel so excited and alive.

19 - Fat Tony - Back In The Saddle

I fucked up. But I’m getting back in the saddle, back in the saddle next year. NO NIGERIANS ALL NIGERIENS. #ENDSARS tho.

20 - Lady A - the truth is loud

Why am I the only one who has this on a best list? I have 34 bot followers. Vibe, step it up.

best of 2020 music right here folxs.

worst music things of the year:

The Pop Smoke album. Just in all areas. (Better win that Grammy tho.) Travis Scott in general. (So loud and empty and boring.) Big Sean’s Detroit 2. (why does this exist? Just put out Deep Reverence and Detroit Night Cypher and leave everything on the cutting room floor fo the next album.) Remembering all the great rappers who are dead or incarcerated. No Kendrick album (just leaks. Not good enough.) J. Cole and Noname beefing and Noname getting strung up by twitter. Jay Rock pushing being anti-vaccinations. The realization that Normani might never drop a single record ever again. Tory Lanez in general. Joyner Lucas making actually good songs and falling off almost immediately. Cardi B in general. Anything positive being said about steven Universe songs. Luzamity shipping (until it’s canon please stop! Willuz is RIGHT THERE!)

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Yugioh S4 Ep10 pt2: Yugi’s Never Ceasing Commute Continues

Last we left off, it was time to eat. Thank you. Thank you, Yugioh. You get me.

Not one of their better spreads, TBH.

No cheese wheels, too. They are truly living in hard times.

(read more under the cut)

Rex and Weevil decided to look for rare cards in the rubble of Arthur Hawkin’s house.

I don’t know why they bothered with this, everything was very clearly exploded and on fire, but youknow, these two just seem to be very hellbent on being bad at life. Just two jokes that are here just to be jokes, wearing these duel disks that they’re not going to use until it’s finally time for them to betray us. Checkov’s jokes.

And I hate to say this but they really are this season’s Bakura.

I know I just said that.

But this show really likes having at least one character that might turn at any moment and stab our protagonist in the back. They like to have at least one at all times there, hovering over Yugi’s oblivious shoulders, with that figurative knife (or literal, in the case of that time when Bakura stabbed himself without nearly any provocation).

In the past, when Bakura was out to lunch, we would have betraying friends like Kaiba, who would go solo in the middle of his own card game and end up throwing everyone in danger, and also Tristan who got full on possessed by the Big 5 and tried to murder everyone, but I guess after 4 seasons they were like “Youknow...I think Kaiba got over it.” and like...you can’t have Rebecca stab us in the back so lets bring Rex and Weevil.

At least their showtime is minimal, because unlike Bakura, who is pretty likeable even when he’s being an asshole, Rex and Weevil never turn off the asshole and are mostly just visual gags stumbling over eachother. Bakura was quite clever and had a bit of depth and mystery, while I don’t think Rex and Weevil are smart enough to even know how to spell mystery.

And if Rex and Weevil end up being good guys and the saviors of the whole show then my sincere apologies, but they are still kind of grating.

Now Rebecca gets a duel monster’s card that has a death threat on it, which is probably the normal way to sign your duel monsters cards in this universe. I imagine every card in Yugi’s deck has a couple death threats on each of them by now. Probably makes them more lucky.

Ya so...

I can forgive this. The people who made this looked at a map of California, forgot that California is roughly the same size as Japan, and were like “I mean, there’s like 50 states, it can’t be that big.”

But here’s the thing about Death Valley. I am a Californian, but I have never been there. This is why.

Death Valley is ASS to get to. Barely anyone lives there. Nothing goes there. You can’t just take a train, you have to drive there by going south past it and then turning around. It’s real round about and just in the middle of nowhere. May as well get there by flying into Las Vegas, and if you are flying into Las Vegas, chances are slim that you will leave that Vacation Town USA to vacation in a literal desert.

Clearly they saw the name “Death Valley” and got super excited but y’all...there’s a reason why we call it that, and everyone who knows about geography or is a Californian is kind of like “um...is Yugi...going to Death Valley???? That city slicker?”

Cuz this is not a normal desert. Normally, a human can survive 3 days without water, in Death Valley you apparently can only survive for 14 hours. It is the lowest point in the US and also the hottest point in the US and the place where the highest temperature was ever recorded on the Earth. And while that heat is only for 5 months of the year...it’s not winter in the show, is it? It’s fairly warm. San Fransisco wasn’t even foggy?

Like even the Death Valley website is like “please don’t leave the main roads and hike during the hot months” because y’all, this park is damn serious. Like this is one of the only National Parks that has not just one, but multiple ghost towns in it.

Don’t get me wrong, Death Valley’s very pretty and very fun I’ve heard, and it has like a very fancy dayspa in it, and if you like geography and like to rough it, then you will absolutely love how freakin weird Death Valley is. So, if you’re safe and know how to pack your gear, you’ll have no problem, but...Y’all, Yugi Muto, who barely survived Pegasus’ island (and only because Mai fed him) is going to just casually go into Death Valley.

In that outfit.

Then, in some barn somewhere (I have NO IDEA where this exchange takes place) Rafael is grilling Arthur only to realize that this is a very pointless conversation.

And in case you forgot Darts exist, he’s still out there, murdering people off for kicks. we’ll just add 20 more to the death count, the internet told me that’s the average amount of people on a fish boat of average size (although sometimes this boat seemed like the size of a shipping container barge but youknow...)

And in case you missed it, I have been doing the death counter wrong so I was 2 people behind--it’s correct now. With the rate this show goes I feel like we might see death 666 eventually. But, yes we did pass 269 so we’ll have to wait another 100, I guess, because it went to some rando on this boat. Nice.

(The highest surface temperature of Death Valley ((not the air, but the ground)) ever recorded, was 201° F.)

(That’s 94° C for those in the back.)

I mean Yugi is part Pharaoh so I guess he just has a strong attraction to really terrible deserts. He’s also half a dead guy so maybe he also just has a strong attraction to being dead.

But I dunno, maybe this is the months of the year where Death Valley is manageable? Maybe? Possibly? We’ll just assume that it is.

Now you can go horseback riding in Death Valley, as you can in any National Park, but it isn’t real normal to ride your horse all the way from San Fransisco. And like you can’t even let your dog off a leash in Death Valley. This is such a bad park for pets!

Also, I found out some fun facts about horse travel, for anyone interested in writing fantasy and wants to know the average speed of a horse.

So a horse can go about 100 miles in a day, but only for one day. If you do 250 miles, the time has to be more spread out since you must recharge your horse. According to some horse-specialist on the internet who does horse marathons from coast to coast, if you have to do 500 miles, then you average about 24 miles a day, accounting for horse-recovery time and assuming it’s a horse that wasn’t bred for super long distances. (this is about a 500 mi horse ride, ps)

The pony express of old, the iconic Wells Fargo, would actually have horse stations along the prairie, where you would trade in your tired horse for a new horse, so that way you would never have to stop going 100 miles in a day. Since Yugi never changed his horse, this ride would have been absolutely ridiculous, and Copernicus the horse, would have stopped somewhere in Gilroy.

But this is a kid’s show so wtv, we’re gonna ignore that.

(reminder that Yugi decided not to unhitch the perfectly serviceable truck and drive away with air conditioning.)

And Yugi really did make Rebecca promise not to tell these much older teens that he took off (something about how he doesn’t want to put more people in danger yada yada, normal Yugi stuff), but the show kind of blames this on Rebecca...but like...she’s 12. This one is on Yugi.

But, if Rebecca were older, maybe she would have done the same thing. Rebecca seems like maybe the type that realizes that when you like an idiot boy, you gotta let them do idiot things, and make idiot mistakes. You can’t just control what your friends do all the time, unlike this crew, which is controlling because that is the only way they keep eachother alive.

So Joey decides to ignore both of the cars right next to him, and just book it to save his stupid ass friend. On foot. To Death Valley. From what the show insisted was just outside San Fransisco.

And I guess that Rafael decided to just let Hawkins go?

Probably because Yugi got on a horse and Rafael was like “of course I know Yugi is chasing me on horseback off the main roads. Of course I know that.” and then he just...let Hawkins walk all the way back...

Hawkins should be dead, but not yet.

So lets check out Death Valley.

So like...again I just think they probably boarded everything and had a rough idea of “America has a bunch of natural canyons, right?” and didn’t realize that the Grand Canyon was soooo far from California.

There are actually canyons in Death Valley but like...I dunno if the art matches that so much? They aren’t nearly as massive as the canyon situation farther East.

Again this was their art choice that they made and it’s...a choice. And they committed to it.

And this bike thing happened?

This tandem bicycle for children lost among the wreckage of Rebecca Hawkin’s home is like a whole “baby shoes, never worn” short story in itself. Rebecca has nooo siblings or parents, right? She has a really old grandpa who is like 80 and doesn’t bike? Just uh...bringing that up...was this tandem bike for her to hang out with Yugi? Does Rebecca even have friends her own age? She already graduated college.

So much inferred by the bike that I know is just here because it’s a funny joke to see Rex and Weevil on a stupid tandem bike.

So I’ve heard about the bike/car/horse paradox before in regards to this season, (it’s one of the few things I knew about this season before going in) so I’m happy to see I’ve recapped enough Yugioh to see it play out.

The paradox being, if Yugi is on horseback, and Rex and Weevil are on a bike, and the rest are in a car, who arrives first?

Apparently the show itself isn’t even sure because Rex and Weevil can keep up with a horse???

Anyway, the correct answer to the paradox is that everyone not in a car is dead for not bringing any water.

Everyone except for Raphael, who probably put a camel pack into each of his shoulder pads.

OH NOW IT’S AN ANIME.

I don’t get why this is happening. But it’s a thing now. Rafael has either literal or metaphoric wings. Bear in mind I thought Pharaoh was Metaphoric for like 14 episodes. These Icarus wings might just be real. Rafael might have been a card this entire time, and I wouldn’t even blink.

Anyway, if this is your first post of mine you’ve seen of this, my apologies, we’re in S4 and this is very confusing. You can read from S1 ep 1 in chrono order by clicking this very handy link here!

[bookdork1]

I think i just got why one aspect of this season felt so *off*. Narratively, it is really really close to 100% from Veronica’s point of view. We have a couple scenes with just Keith or with just Baby V (Maddie) looking into things on their own but otherwise everything case related comes through Veronica. So main characters not directly involved with the bomber case- like Logan, Wallace and Weevil- hardly even get a voice, except for when that voice is directed at Veronica (and which Veronica chooses to either acknowledge or ignore but never listen to). 

This isn’t that different from seasons 1-3, but it is a lot closer to how the movie rushed to portray Veronica and her various relationships, trying to fit in as many guest spots and old season call backs as possible, rather than allowing our other main characters to develop outside of how they spin around Veronica’s orbit. 

Veronica actively chooses to run away from Logan, rather than discuss their relationship on multiple occasions. She makes fun of Wallace and his settled life. She mainly insults Weevil rather than acknowledge that he still has her back, even if she doesn’t have his. I just don’t really get how this character became even more selfish. Veronica will be the first to admit she has trust issues and issues with maintaining relationships, but outside of Keith she was pretty awful to so many of her people during season 4. 

[millennium-puzzle]

Bc it's been a while since i started s2 i want to make a charas rank based on the first season, in my s0 post i... weirdly managed to included every single characters and even more weirdly i can do it again, there aren't really many characters in this story, maybe even less than s0, so can make a more lengthy description:

1) probably Mai, i'm actually surprised that she ended up the person with the arc i loved more of all, but she was a very pleasant surprise, i didn't expect her character to be that good or consistent, specially for a girl in a shounen; but here i am, waiting for her to appear again.... and maybe win for once eh at least she has a win against Rex

2) Yami Yugi, much higher than the s0 ranking, it's ironic how despite DM!Yami Y is a way better person he actually feels much less than a Gary-Stu and more his own character, with real emotions, fear and desires; as much he sometimes makes choices that other people/characters don't like he is just a cool, nice guy at heart that just want to get along with other cool, nice people

3) Joey: i mean, i still love him for the same reasons in s0... that i didn't mention earlier, but anyway, it's so easy to like him i don't even mention why he did fell down from the top to bronze tho

4) uuuhhh Keith? He has the funniest design in the series and just like Mai he was much better than i expected, he is just absolutely, possessively, obsessed with revenge, and even if that's what consume 80% of his character (and personality) he still a enough dept to make him good, i'll tell you more, you know all those white male characters in "artsy" movies that are deeply fucked up and used as way to "criticize" american culture? Keith is infinitely better written and more interesting than all of them and wasn't even written by an american

Ok i'm done with the lengthy ones, these are my fave which are also the semi-finalist, i think the anime made a good job to make them care abt them, even as villans

5) Yugi, short king;;;;;; u know that i love you,,, but you should be more proactive sometime, and your Yami should be your magic pixie boyfriend not the reverse!!!!!

6) Mako, he appears for too few eps, but his good-natured personality and aesthetic are top notch, i appreciate his subtle mermaid theme, unlike everyone else his strategy is "remain on the beach and fish; actract opponent with food made by you, challenge them in a duel right so you can have ocean field vantage, win, take his star-chips and repeat" not too different from mermaids using their beautiful voices to actract sailors and causing shipwrecks, and he is very very hot and he is 19 just like me 0u0

7) Weevil or Bruchido in the ita ver. (why ita dubbers? Why?!): fuuuucking gremlin!!! Extremely iconic tiny bastard, he is a baby nerd bully, how can i not love him

Him trowing Exodia was one of the best defining moment of this anime and this 14yo smug kid did IT just because he couldn't find a way to beat a card game strategy, he literally defeated an ANCIENT GOD by trowing those divine piece of paper bc he didn't wait a banlist, accidental BDE

8) Rex; he is the dorky kid that is super obsessed with dinos,,, he is just "wow i like dinosaurs i wish i was one" dare i say relatable

9) Mokuba: the sweet Kaiba, whenever i think of him my brain goes :3

10) Kaiba: the edgy Kaiba, i would place him higher but he is a dick and also both me and Mokuba are waiting his redemption arc :/

[please-help-this-little-lesbian]

My Personal thoughts on The Prom Novel, organizes by chapter

Prolouge

-It’s Broadway Mania, Saundra

-I like the typical broadway journalism

-But the dialogue is...weird

-The NY Times review made me smile

Chapter 1

-She started with don’t be gay in Indiana praise the lord

-“I’m already gay in Indiana.” Iconic

-So we’re just gonna brush over the death threat? Ok

-Why would Emma come out on YouTube?? Idk seems weird.

-“The digital hellos make me feel less alone.” Preach

-I’m sorry, but I can’t see Edgewater having a “cool” church

-“No mom, I want to go to the cool church.” Iconic

-“Meatball spooner???” Emma honey no...

-I wouldn’t describe Alyssa’s hair as auburn but cool I guess

-Emma was a baby lesbian aww

-Pastor Zak

-Why would anyone in town besides Alyssa watch Emma’s channel? Idk the whole scene is confusing.

-Crunchy ramen salad aggdfbfdfgg

-“cancel the gay like Netflix.” Beautiful

Chapter 2

-Alyssa’s contrasting view of Indiana is 👌

-How far away is James Madison that Alyssa has to get up at 5am?

-Golden Weevils???

-Future Corn Keepers of America??? Can you not mention FFA???

-So that’s how it got out

-“I’m not ashamed to be a lesbian.” 👏👏👏👏👏

-Caitlin’s eyes are brown?? Maybe Saundra wanted to include Gabi and Brittany?

-Mr. Greene cheated and I oop sksksk

-I always thought the Greene’s were well off but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Chapter 3

-Nick Leavel. Saundra, I get what you wanted to do, but is coming up with original last names that hard?

-$100? That’s cheap...

-does JV Football mean nothing to Saundra?

-That is NOT how the promposal goes

-You know what? Nick is the whitest kid at their school.

-NO BAND CLOSET?!??!!

-“That’s basically a gay tax.” Me when I spend money.

-THAT. IS. NICKS. QUOTE. HOW DARE YOU SLANDER SHELBY LIKE THIS.

-I too, would panic and say Anna Kendrickson.

Chapter 4

-Oh, Frick

-What school has a lunch that’s over 30 minutes?

-“We HaVe MoRaLs”

Chapter 5

-“My own personal cootie factory.” whAT

-Yeah So no death threats then ok

-Emma, you have a truck

Chapter 6

-Shelby is being slandered I won’t stand for this

-“Ho-meo and Juliet.” I’m stealing that.

-LGBTOMG I—

Chapter 7

-These insults, does Saundra not know how high schoolers actually talk

-Emma says y’all gay rights

-Oh there’s the death threat.

-Why so many big words??

-The Rosa Parks exchange is weird

Chapter 8

-Did...Nick And Kevin tpose?

-Saundra you can’t replace Trent like this

-“Plus all the other letters that I don’t know, but are equally worthy of love!” I. Lost. It.

Chapter 9

-wow how convenient that we’re alluding the Crucible since I happen to be in it

-How DARE they defame Trent’s cowbell like that!

-Alyssa never wore that outfit

-“Everyone gathered to discuss whether or not I deserve civil rights.” Mood

-“Elena Greene.” That’s it book cancelled

-stop. Assigning. Lines. To. The. Wrong. People.

-That’s not the hashtag

-“liberal actors from New York.” Saundra—

-At least we have “This isn’t America, it’s Indiana.”

Chapter 10

-“I rAiSeD yOu To Be A gOoD cHrIsTiAn”

-“I’m not telling you to hate that girl.” I’m actually Helen, you are.

-Is Helen subscribed to Emma’s channel?

-Man Mrs. Greene has some nerve

Chapter 11

-“Farm metaphors! How charming!” I’m saying that.

-baby gayseed

-emmAs HAD SEX?!?!!??!

-Emma? Doesn’t? Expose? Alyssa? Like? That?

-Mary (Emma’s grandma) is pETTING a godspell kid???

Chapter 12

-Helen works real estate, not retail.

-Daaaance with youuu

Chapter 13

-Mary is a savage

-Dee Dee how dare you eat Angie and steal her words

Chapter 14

-Um the lavender dress is Alyssa’s not her mother’s Saundra get your facts right

Chapter 15

-WINSTON MCARTHYS CASINO

-Mary please punch Dee Dee

Chapter 16

-“No homo” there it is

-Is the prom an Aladdin reference?

-Elena Lannister Greene

Chapter 17

-Saundra these chapter titles

Chapter 18

-Emma’s shirt is iconic

-WHERE IS 24 MART????

-“You made my mom cry rage tears”

-That’s not Kaylee’s friggen tatoo

-“Nooo. Not my precious Kelvin’s head!” Is Saundra on crack

Chapter 19

-Mary you gotta be more slick

-Ooh she spitting truth

-Uncle Donnie is an icon

Chapter 21

-Asggf Emma’s mullet phase

Chapter 22

-Emma has Adsense?

-EMMAS SONG IS UNRULY HEART WOMAN

Chapter 24

-The PowerPoint adhecvfsfb

-Barry’s speech I’m crying

Chapter 25

-ALYSSA KISSED FIRST?!?!

Conclusion:

If I was going in blind, I would’ve loved it! And I do enjoy it! But, I do wish it would’ve stuck to the musical more, and had better last names. And Angie and Trent.

[annalane]

V. MARS S4

I just have so many Veronica Mars S4 thoughts. I need to release them into the void to feel okay again. Spoilers galore.

1. Thank god Papa Mars is okay. Logan may have been her rock, but her dad is her bedrock. The red herrings definitely got me good.

2. Why did they reintroduce Parker like that?!? A bitter divorcé?? She has NEVER been the Madison Sinclair type. This is the cool girl who embraced Mac despite their personality difference, made sure it was okay with Veronica to date Logan, saved Veronica from rape, and lived through a rape herself. Not. Cool.

3. Why wasn’t there more of Wallace? just like literally any little bit more. That’s her best friend despite his slight yuppityness now. I can’t believe they introduced a new bestie like that when she already had one!

4. The dream was awesome. Max Greenfield you alluring son of a bitch.

5. Why does Leo have the job Veronica should have had? That smarts and it irritates.

6. Why wasn’t Piz in on this little get together. Would have been gold!

7. Why did they change Logan’s character so drastically? From the movie to this, I mean you made him into just another Jack Ryan type with multiple languages and Kung fu dude it was lame and it’s already been done. A lot. Was this supposed to make me less sad that he died? It didn’t.

8. Excellent Dick (junior). Just excellent. Need more Dick. More dancing Dick would be a plus.

9. Please, please just a slight check in with Duncan and Baby Lily - please?!?

10. Can Weevil be Veronica’s new boyfriend now? Okay? for like two seconds? I’ve just always wanted it.

11. We never really got closure on Vinnie’s ring storyline- it would have been fun to show the new jaded young girl also foil his plans.

12. Veronica’s visit to prison: interesting. But unnecessary. But interesting.

13. Dude. Penn. come onnnnnnn.

14. Why did the police station change so much? Was the set destroyed? Is it too late to ask for more Don Lamb? Still gonna ask.

15. Make more episodes.