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WIP WIP there's another half to this picture, the theme is "Kaiba getting his ass kicked by successive generations of Links" <3 It's good for him <3

(there is going to be a new chapter up THIS SUMMER if it KILLS ME)

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Thanks for the tag @raaorqtpbpdy!! 💙💙

Writing game: Post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

Haaahahaa man this month has been rough for writing, so have something incomprehensible:

Anzu had no clue what a Rauru was, but that was Zelda’s problem to dig out of some book later.

I think tumblr actually limits tags to five per post (???) and five word sentences are not my forté, so: @xokiddo @fishcapades @joeytaylor @k-aalia @desisailormoon HAVE AT 'ER MY DARLINGS

Thank you @lokiitama for the tag! 💚

Writing game: Post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

My current document is a mess lol I think this was the last one I edited at least, so it might be the last I wrote:

The dead phone in his pocket felt so heavy with questions and even heavier with conclusions that put one elusive medium at the center of it all.

Feel free to ignore the tag, but if you're inclined to share your last written line, I choose you: @ghostly-penumbra @sapphireswimming @roundaboutnow @akela-nakamura @thewritingowl @tourettesdog @seaglass-skies @agentianlegend @deathcomes4u @murphy-kitt @finemeal @littlestartopaz @little-dreams-of-life @five-rivers (and the first 10 people who see this and want to do it because 1) I can't count and 2) I don't want to tag too many ^^)

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It was the artists for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Rare Pair Mini Bang who created the prompts for the writers this time around. And @sturionic wrote a wonderful and emotionally-complex Isono and Rishid Ishtar fanfiction. Thank you so much for writing for my artwork !

the instruction of rekhmire

6100 words

“What will you do, when you go back to Egypt?” Isono deflects, taking the coward’s way out.

Immediately, Rishid volleys back: “What will you do when Kaiba has no more need of you?”

“I don’t like to think about it,” Isono says.

A glancing point of contact between two men who don't know where they stand, because to know it would be to change it.

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It's that time of year again: @ygorarepairs mini bang!! This time around I had the wonderful luck of working with @rainstormcolors not once but twice 💙💙 The fic they wrote for this art is an absolute delight, funny and touching and just sweet through and through plus a banger of a Honda character study, GO READ IT RIGHT NOW!!! (I promise the name for the robot is going to make you laugh out loud, it's SO good)

A Noble Kind of Monkey Wrench

by rainstormcolors

Pairing: Honda Hiroto/Mutou Yuugi

Honda has discovered that he has a knack for fixing things and robotics and tries to join the school's robotics club. He doesn't mention it to his friends because he doesn't think it's very interesting. After stumbling onto Honda's new hobby, Yugi disagrees! Honda has spent years cheering Yugi on during duels and now Yugi wants to return the favor. A battle of the bots awaits.

READ IT ON AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63966100

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Song of Healing - Anzu Mazaki, the Healer

I've been wanting to draw Anzu with all her ghosties for ages and finally my art skills caught up ٩( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)۶ So here is our favourite healer practicing that classic healer skill, "exorcising ghosts that may or may not want to depart to their eternal rest and will put up varying levels of a fight (sorry about all the destroyed pottery and weird Goron metaphors.)"

From The Legend of Zelda: Ten Thousand Year Elegy

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Trick or treat

TREAT!!!! Chopin dropped a new track this week after being dead for 175 years 🔥🔥🔥

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Got the chance to draw cherub-themed versions of these two beloved cuties for the YGO Rarepairs Minibang banner!! can u not see them being besties and going on adventures through domino?! just me?!?!

Signups open Nov. 1, and this time it is a reverse bang, so artists go first. Join us. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO (˵ ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°˵)ﾉ⌒♡*:･。.

Click here to see more cherubs and the rest of the event announcement!

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The tags on this post make me feel like we're all in cheering in the stands of a gladiator arena together while snacking on figs and olives and I am so here for it

Also shoutout to everyone who either tagged this as blueshipping or said this made them consider it, our brains are RESONATING, YOU GET ME, YOU'RE ALL INVITED TO MY SECRET TREEHOUSE etc etc ( ಠ ͜ʖರೃ)

Covenant

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Tfw you can't fire your PA for the top ten anime employee betrayal of all time because she's your platonic dragon soul mate and could actually literally bite your head off

sometimes you just gotta descend into completely unprompted shipping brainrot with the homies we have only @earceus to blame <3

Breathtaking

Joey knows it's bad manners and probably distasteful. Really, he does.

Despite what others may think, he really is a gentleman. Tries his best to be, at least.

Unfortunately, his mouth has always run quicker than his brain. Usually it just gets him into a bit of trouble he can't talk his way out of, but every now and then it just leaves him embarrassed and humiliated in front of pretty people.

He will not let this be a repeat of that situation though. Not when the girl who's grabbed his heart is the most gorgeous, ethereal woman that he has ever had the privilege to lay eyes upon.

Especially not when she's Seto Kaiba's fuckin' personal assistant.

It's not often Joey comes to KaibaCorp -- okay, he never comes to KaibaCorp -- but Yugi had invited him along for one of his weekly matches with the man himself.

And for the first time in his life, Joey just cannot focus on the game playing out in front of him.

Not that seeing Yugi and Kaiba duel isn't always some sort of spectacle -- and these days, filled with so much innuendos and flirting it's like watching a particularly captivating trashy TV show -- but no matter the dramatics or the plot twists, Joey's attention is firmly held by the pretty woman sitting next to him in the spectator stands.

Kisara, Joey knows her name is after hearing Kaiba bark commands at her. Silky white hair flowing over her shoulders and curling round her pale face. Her eyes are a beautiful sparkling blue, intensely focussed on the laptop sitting on her knees.

"Hey, how's it going?" Joey says to her and fights the urge to wince.

Really? That's the best he can do?

Kisara blinks and turns her head to face him, concentration broken as she looks at Joey like she's only just realised he's there.

"Oh, hi. I'm just working," she tells him with a quick smile and fuck is it breathtaking.

She turns back to her laptop and Joey curses silently as he realises he'd missed the opportunity to say anything more, too captivated by her stupid pretty smile and now if he tries again it's gonna be awkward and god, what if he makes her uncomfortable?

Kaiba and Yugi's duel finishes soon after and Joey practically runs up to Yugi to try and escape his spiralling thoughts. The two of them are halfway to the door when Kaiba grabs his arm and pulls him back.

Joey whirls around, a taunt on the tip of his tongue. What's wrong, rich boy, want me to beat your ass too?

But he stops when he sees Kaiba's sneer.

"Don't hit on my assistant." He warns "Kisara is too good for a mutt like you."

Joey feels himself flush, pulling his arm out of Kaiba's grip.

"Fuck off man, I was just being polite!" He snaps back.

Seto's sneer falters slightly as he narrows his eyes, looking Joey over like he's some fun new puzzle to solve.

"At least wait until she's off the clock. I can't have you distracting her."

Seto stalks off before Joey can get another word in, Kisara at her bosses side in an instant. Despite recieving Kaiba's blessing -- which he didn't want or need, by the way -- Joey is almost certain it's not gonna do him any good anyway. Kisara is way out of his league, as usual, and totally not interested in him. As usual.

Joey suspects he has a type.

But just when he thinks he's done for, Kisara looks over his shoulder to shoot him a wink and a smile.

Oh. Joey thinks, heart beating so fast it could burst from his chest. I'm totally in love.

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Covenant

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For Talk Shop Tuesday (IF ITS NOT TOO LATE!!!!), I have two/two and a half questions.

The first is that do you write chronologically (ie chapter 6 after chapter 5), or do you write some scenes early just to get them out of your head? And if so, have we seen an example yet?

Also, for TTYE, have there been any lore elements/enemies you just wanted to use, but ended up discarding them because they just didn't fit?

ABSOLUTELY NOT TOO LATE it's always Tuesday in my heart and you are always welcome in my askbox <3

I write in absolutely bonkers order. In fact, the scene that closed out the most recent TTYE chapter was one of the earlier ones I wrote! It changed a lot from when I first wrote it, but it's been kind of a guiding star in how I've been navigating Kaiba & Jounouchi's relationship and where I wanted to go with their sort of parallel arcs (using our favourite fail archer as a fulcrum of sorts). There's another one I wrote very early on involving Midna that probably won't show up until the last few chapters :) I do tend to write section by section, though. For TTYE I wrote Book 1 all together, then each section of Book 2 I wrote as a chunk. Basically I just vomit out absolutely all of my ideas and the scenes that I need to have happen, then I go through and put them in a reasonable order and edit! And cut some usually...

OH MY GOD YES. I was dying to use Kalle Demos. DYING. My favourite boss of all time and I'm crushed I couldn't find a good place to jam it in. I love that evil funky plant. Ditto Stallord, my beloved bone monstrosity :(

Answered for Talk Shop Tuesday!

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Is there a favorite theme or element from any of the Zelda games that you were most excited to work into TTYE?

And was there any prep work or research for any part of the fic thus far that you enjoyed most?

YEAHHH I love this question!!!

My favourite element/theme from the Zelda games has to be, by far, the idea of being trapped in cycles. The obvious cycle being the Link/Zelda/Ganondorf trio, doomed to reincarnate over and over and over; but also the cycles of Hyrule being abandoned by gods and heroes, Zelda having to stand alone because the curse of her wisdom/prophecy isolates her, and Link having to leave or be left behind by the ones dearest to him, over and over, because that's the nature of his journey.

And it's really fun to explore that through Yuugi & co. as adults, who have had their own fair share of being utterly fucked over by 'destiny.' They're now able to watch these two seventeen-year-olds - the same age they were during the events of YGODM - and have the distance to realize how wrong and twisted the cycle looks when two young people you care about are the ones bearing the brunt of it. Perhaps some of the Yuugang will come out of it with new perspective on things they wholeheartedly believed were necessary at the time, but looking back...

AND PART DEUX, THE RESEARCH: I enjoy all of it tbh, I can't even pretend otherwise. But a special shout-out to researching avalanches (TERRIFYING), deep dives into architecture (delightful!) and the current research I'm doing. Which involves traversing areas across six separate games, zooming in on wall carvings & design motifs, and comparing them with no less than four Hyrulean alphabets (unhinged.)

Answered for Talk Shop Tuesday!

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Talk Shop Tuesday

Talk Shop Tuesday: the day of the week where you send fan creators (fic writers, fan artists, anyone that creates things for your fandom) questions about what they do! It can be fic-specific or general but either way: send them a question talking "shop" about the things they create! You never know what you might learn!

Rules:

send asks to creators in your fandom

share this post

have fun

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I often find that when other media has weak plot, zero character development, poorly handled plot twists, is in anyway lacking, or disappoints me, i fix it by crossing it over with og ygo. Og ygo fixes everything!

I also cross og ygo over with media i love, so really i just like injecting it into everything like a southern women with butter.

SO TRUE BESTIE. Crossovers clear my crops, water my skin, moisturize my depression, etc. etc. I'm writing like three right now. and LIVING!!!

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Aaaaannnddd my second contribution to the YGO Minibang! It was such a delight to draw for @beni-o2 's fic - a very sweet, poignant and funny exploration of the bond between these three, sometimes contentious but with a lot of affection. (Very very cute shrimpshipping and an excellent Mai. Read it!!!)

Love, and Other Things

Mai, Rex & Weevil, post-canon. Shrimpshipping, hinted Visionshipping

Summary:

Mai’s lived relying only on herself, so it’s a surprise to find herself being the leaned on by someone else. She finds that she doesn’t mind the trouble.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56470933/chapters/143501650