#yugioh structures

[starrylemon]

Happy to see other characters get some figures but I'm still confused on why Yuya is the only non rush protag to not have a figure-

[shitpostingkats]

For anyone curious, Sora and Yuri were Obelisk Blues (high ranking soldiers and special ops), Dennis was Ra Yellow (intel and espionage), and Celina was Slifer Red (basic units and grunts). I know this because I made it up.

[cozymochi]

Do you have any advice on how to emulate the twist style? I'm genuinely struggling to wrap my head around it.

NOPE! I wish I did! Because! I’m not sure how to describe what I’m doing in the first place. I just kinda… go. (And anyone who has watched any drawing stream of mine can probably attest to that. Assuming anyone watched them actively, I doubt it sometimes.)

I was just formally taught how to draw what I see (this applies to real-life stuff too, it kinda goes hand in hand), and I just have a nasty lifelong habit regarding stuff I like. If it looks a certain way, I wanna draw it the same way or at least as close as I feasibly can get to it. 😩 This is like…. Years worth of somewhat unrelated knowledge + training just being applied to this goofy stuff. I draw wildly different art styles as a habit hobby.

For twst in particular, I’ve mentioned it elsewhere a couple times, but I did spend a good 2-ish years just trying to acclimate myself into training my hand to get used to how it works at all. It really is just… 80% staring at their model sheets or generic renders, and 20% me just… GOING!

I think people can easily tell when I’m not staring at a model sheet vs when I am lol. I do really like Toboso and her staffs artwork, and I’d like to get closer to understanding it, but there are things that she and her staff know how to do that I still don’t know how to accomplish. And those “things” are elements that I’m currently not able to identify in theory or in practice. Let alone articulate in words either if my meandering and vague way of talking about it is any indication lol. (Im not trying to be 1:1, that’s literally impossible for any human to do)

All I do is just look at it. A lot. I just try to draw what I see and go. Though, I’m sure that’s not exactly helpful or even practical “advice”, especially in just typing. Believe it or not I also can only wrap my head around it so much. And even then, I’m still not satisfied nor confident with where I’m at. Mostly due to my own limits. It’s not easy.

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Then again I also don’t know how to explain or give “advice” on the fly on something that broad just in general. I wish I could be more useful with a more satisfying answer but, I’m not sure how I would. I wanna be helpful but I’m genuinely drawing a blank.

[ygoartreviews]

Tyrant Dragon

As one of the first Yugioh cards I ever owned, I have such a big soft spot for Tyrant Dragon and all the other dragons that came in the structure deck with him. He just exudes classic Western dragon energy throughout his whole design. I think the only truly unique detail he has is his giant forehead jewel (maybe his head fins as well). Thinking about it, Tyrant Dragon almost looks like someone’s realistic interpretation of a Charizard lol. Looking at them more closely now, I think the only feature that comes off as weird is his arms. They’re built almost like gnarled tree trunks instead of like arms, and his sideways facing arm especially looks wonky.

Rating: 9/10

[kcuf-ad]

My favourite Sibling dynamic is where the sister constantly bullies her brother.

Yugioh perfects this:

[knickknackgalore]

YuGiOh Card featuring Nefarious Archfiend Eater of Nefariousness SDCH-EN007 from the Spirit Charmers Structure Deck

[starrycyberse]

Since I posted the Yuamu and Judai drawing I decided to post these as well

[damieny2k]

Ohza doodles jumpscare !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jose92gt]

El Yuya cosplayer luciendose algo en el manga de OCG Structure

[gayestyugiohcharacter]

Welcome to the gay yugioh polls

hello, and welcome to the gayest yugioh character tournament. this is to see who is the gayest ygo character to tumblr, as the name suggests.

RULES

no homophobia, transphobia, racism, or any discrimination or you will get blocked.

no dm characters. this is because dm’s popularity will make the rounds possibly unfair. however, i may do a separate tournament with only them.

no voters fraud. i want these to be as equal as possible.

HOW TO SUBMIT

go in the ask box and submit the character name (sub and dub if possible) with series, and if it’s canon/semi canon/non canon. propaganda for submission is optional.

submissions open until JULY 20 2023

canon characters are more likely to get in than non canon if i need to cut characters out of the poll

HOW MANY CHARACTERS WILL BE HERE?

whatever even number i can round this to lol

HAVE FUN SUBMITTING, AND PLEASE SPREAD THIS TO GET AS MANY CHARACTERS AS POSSIBLE.

@underratedygocharactersfight, @its-to-the-death, @flatassvrainscharacters, @numbermonstercontest, @zexaloneshotduelist,@ygo-monster-type-tournament

if I find other ygo tournaments I’ll @ them as well lol

[starrylemon]

Recently been testing out Mathmech/Salamangreat so why not draw some Vrains characters with OCG Structures characters :3

[rainofcolours]

Turns out it is a thing to share 10 little-known or behind-the-scenes facts about your writing/fics! Totes hopping on that bandwagon! If anyone wants to share their own set of tidbits I'd love to read them too!

These are for my Yu-Gi-Oh! Kaijou/puppyshipping/violetshipping fics ofc :’)

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Top 10 Fun Ways I Like To Write Character Dynamics and Scenes in hierarchy of collapse Without Explicitly Writing Them

1. ⁠Instead of telling you what the non-POV character is thinking, a line or two about what they are doing in the scene is enough of a reflection (e.g. instead of Seto outright showing distress or anger, he drives more aggressively)

2. ⁠Because the setting is in East Asia, I love bringing in comparisons or metaphors birthed from the region (e.g. Tales of Heike, Buddhist tenets, Japanese and Chinese idioms…), and include specific things in their daily lives you tend to find there (e.g. rows of izakaya, old brutalist buildings from before the turn of the century in the working class or factories-laden areas, biz meetings in karaokes and discos my god I hated those)

3. ⁠You don’t always have the luxury of saying what you feel, so let the indirect comparisons in one’s speech and the actions taken between take you along instead! (e.g. deliberately watering down expensive alcohol before drinking it, spending time between another character’s speech attending to cooking their hotpot ingredients than eating yourself)

(Read the other 7 below the cut!)

4. ⁠Colours. I’m a visual thinker and colours play a huge part in the emotions I envision… which means they will be used as metaphors and as indirect references to the characters and their dynamics (e.g. blue in reference to Seto’s eyes for when Katsuya tries to forget him, greys for helplessness and hopelessness in reference to the barren walls and smoking habit he can’t seem to quit fully). It helps that I'm basically writing out the literal movie that plays in my head so even if they make less sense in traditional writing, I still add them in for atmosphere lol

5. ⁠Parallel descriptions are great for this pairing given their natural dichotomies! Especially for fics where both characters are physically apart but are thinking of each other or experiencing the same hurt (e.g. gold vs. blue; restrained vs. vivacious; cold apathy vs. heated anger)

6. ⁠Really like using repeated lines/quotes/sentence fragments from chapters before, usually italicised, to drive home certain themes or decisions made by the characters (e.g. sacrifice worth its weight in gold (also gold for katsuya cause why not))

7. ⁠I’m terrible at reading smut and even worse at writing them explicitly, which is why I fold everything into emotions and help those scenes along with metaphors and parallels instead (e.g. everything is just heat, tenderness, urgency and need lol)

8. ⁠Adding to the above, love myself a good homophone (e.g. feel vs fill) or double entendre (e.g. mouthing into the head and wrapping your hands around the shaft…of microphones) to push away my own embarrassment ha ha

9. ⁠Part of the fun is having your readers interpret what is going on in the characters’ heads - I say as I expressly detail their thoughts - during key moments! So instead of writing say someone had deliberately gotten Seto drunker (or even drugged), up the descriptions of the room with sentences more disjointed and filled with sensory information to suggest that confusion, peppered with passing lines about imbibing alcohol throughout

10. ⁠Last one saved for how I adore using the space as extended metaphors for their mental and emotional states! A broken photo frame? Why not use their shards as mental reflections of how they were into how they never will be again? Passing a row of working class bars before a scene happens? Why not take the time to go into how Katsuya in all his loneliness is desperate to set foot in there for human contact but can’t because of how broke he is?

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This was a fun reflective exercise! Writing to me is more about experimentation than having a scene fulfilled or to create content that’s not already out there (selfish writing is the only non-professional writing I do hoho), so it’s nice to have an opportunity to share some of what I’ve woven into my stuff!

Curious to see what y'all weave into your own fics/pairings!

[dash-n-step]

The rare sky striker fan who's actually her age, but also, come on dude

[angeltannis]

it’s with a heavy heart I must announce that I’m back on my Master Duel bullshit

[kcuf-ad]

I feel like this is how Yugioh Players make friends