I CAN SEE THE RUST.

She/Her (Trans :D) I go by Clara mainly Mechsploitation and heavy music enjoyer (Not a minor), will hornypost sometimes IF WE ARE MUTUALS, CALL ME KIONE, IF NOT, CLARA IS FINE

[margo-mayhem]

[bloodraven55]

[anthurak]

So I’ve finally read up/through the Abyss/Albaz/Branded/White Yu-Gi-Oh Card Lore series in preparation for the anime mini-series coming out in April.

And HOLY SHIT, it is so fucking FUNNY what they do with story ‘protagonist’, Fallen of Albaz.

Like on paper, Albaz looks like your pretty standard fantasy-hero-protagonist. A cool-looking, brooding dragon boy with amnesia who meets a cute girl and the pair go off on this big, grand adventure together.

Plus he’s got a really cool, special and very ‘main-character’ power in that he can transform into a number of awesome, badass dragon forms. Again, pretty standard ‘fantasy-hero’ with a sides of ‘self-insert power-fantasy’ stuff.

Except that in practice, this whole setup turns out to have a bit of a wrinkle in that Albaz just CANNOT win a fight to save his life. As in, this guy is just CONSTANTLY needing help from others to win fights, or just getting his shit wrecked.

Seriously, across all of the Abyss Lore we’ve gotten so far, EVERY fight Albaz is involved in has him getting/needing a powerup/help from friends and allies, and then getting a brutal ass-kicking.

Note that I didn’t use ‘or’ there. Because even with powerups from allies, Albaz still just CANNOT actually win a fight himself and is constantly getting his shit wrecked, generally smacked around, losing his girlfriend, and/or getting all his power stolen by his evil theater-kid clone/brother/possible ex-boyfriend.

It’s fucking HILARIOUS.

Like the only real, actual ‘win’ Albaz gets across the entire story is when he’s able to save his corrupted, mind-controlled girlfriend Ecclesia via their mutual bond and fusing into their new ultimate dragon form and go off to fight the final boss of the arc together. Which you know is actually legitimately pretty interesting, poignant and cute.

That for as much as Albaz might get smacked around and just generally can’t win ‘traditional’ fights, the actual victory that is truly his is when he SAVES someone he cares about.

It’s still REALLY fucking funny looking at it through the hypothetical lens of anyone going in hoping for some standard power-fantasy shonen-protag and getting someone who just constantly gets their ass handed to them.

In fact, it gets even funnier when considering anyone expecting Albaz to be some standard shonen-protag self-insert power-fantasy guy, because he’s also kind of being constantly upstaged by some seriously BADASS ladies in both plot relevance or just generally ‘doing awesome shit’.

For example, this is Fleurdelis, aka The Iris Swordsoul, the mentor and older-sister-figure of Ecclesia, the other main character of the story and Albaz’s partner.

This is her kicking Albaz’s ass in his first dragon form at the start of the story.

This is her utterly OBLITERATING a city-sized sandworm and also smacking Albaz around again in the crossfire. For reference, that little winged-guy in the lower left getting zapped by one of the smaller lightning bolts is Albaz in one of his dragon forms.

This is her and two of her buddies taking on the entire evil cult/religion that she and Ecclesia used to serve and 1v1ing the evil pope and utterly wrecking his shit. Though sadly it didn’t stick and she ended up getting captured, corrupted, mind-controlled and implanted with the 663 souls of her and Ecclesia’s predecessor ‘saints’ of this cult.

This is Fleur after overpowering that corruption and mind-control through sheer willpower and drive to protect her sister.

And then wresting control from all 663 of those souls and channeling their power along with her own in order to absolutely annihilate the evil pope in his new godlike, dimension-warping dragon form.

Yeah, Fleur is kind of the biggest badass in the entire setting XD

And this is Tri-brigade/Springans Kitt, who ends up being kind of the real hero of the story thanks to spending the entire B-plot of the narrative assembling and recruiting an army of various technology and explosive-possessing fae and mecha space gladiators and a shitload of magitek weaponry before showing up to save the day at the final battle.

So yeah, all in all Albaz actually feels like this fun little subversive take on the typical ‘fantasy-hero self-insert power-fantasy shonen-protagonist’ mold where the hero actually loses all the fights he takes on alone and has to get help from others and all the real victories are won through teamwork and the power of love and friendship and also there are some seriously badass ladies kicking ass.

And I am REALLY looking forward to seeing it all animated XD

[anthurak]

So one fun thing I've noticed on my latest big dive into Yugioh Card Lore:

The girls and ladies in the Albaz storyline have the notable distinction of being treated with more respect/development/generally better than basically every female character in ANY mainline Yugioh anime.

I mean Ecclesia gets to be a proper deuteragonist, and possibly even the actual main character depending on adaptation and framing.

Kitt gets to be the main character of the story's major B-plot and gets to lead the big 'show up with the cavalry to save the day' moment during the final battle.*

Fleurdelis gets to be kind of the biggest badass in the whole story, to the point of straight up killing the final boss herself.

And Aegirine and Mo Ye both get a good old fashioned, no strings attached REVENGE arc.

It's like if Tea was the one to get the Millennium Puzzle, Alexis got to lead all of Duel Academy into battle, all four bracelet girls got to team up to take down Zarc together instead of all getting fridged, and Aki and Sherry got to have a whole revenge rampage on Arcadia and Yliaster.

And yeah, I am fully aware that this notable distinction ALSO applies to plenty of other girls across Yugioh card lore like the Sky Strikers, Diabellstar, the Shiranui/Mayakashi, the Evil/Live Twins and more. It just feels a bit more notable in the Albaz lore given that it's probably the most fully realized storyline in Yugioh card lore (not counting manga adaptations of Sky Strikers) and that it has, at least what APPEARS to be, a pretty standard fantasy-hero-guy protagonist.

*Also this is completely unrelated, but I would like it to be know that the original name for 'Rindbrumm the Striking Dragon' before localization USED to be Lindwyrm the GUN-HAMMER Dragon. I swear that is the biggest localization fuck-up since Mekk-Knight 'Check THIS out!' Avram.

[sailatina3]

As time goes on the idea of a "transtrender" gets funnier and funnier. At what point in time has there ever been a trend or clout to gain from being trans?

[sailatina3]

Gen z is getting into this new trend which involves losing all your friends and family and being effectively legal to rape and murder.

[anthurak]

So I think it is extremely funny/awesome that for the big debut of Konami finally doing an actual 'Yugioh Card-Lore Anime' adaptation, the two stories we are getting are;

What is almost certainly a Yuri Magical-Girl series disguised as a mecha-action show*.

And what is basically a Shoujo-Romance Fantasy Adventure story that people have mistaken for an isekai-esque action show**.

I mean, given what they could have adapted, I just think that's really fun and cool XD

*Which admittedly is still going to have a bunch of mecha-action lol

**Particularly given how Eccelsia and Albaz are shown on the poster in a way that all but states that Eccelsia is meant to be the actual protagonist.

[bleekay]

had a fucked up dream i had a book that turned out could never be read again the same as the first time because each reread the characters became incrementally more aware that the events of the book had happened before and they were “reliving” it and i reread enough times that they became self aware, figured out they were in a book, acknowledged me as the reader, and some lost their minds or had existential crises, became violent to other characters or themselves, some begged me to never stop reading or they ceased to exist and others begged me to end it all stop reading and keeping them trapped in the endless loop of torment, and the literal only way to get the book back to its first run was to hand it off to someone else to read for the first time and for some reason i physically couldn’t tell anyone about it so i’d have to just hope whoever i gave it to would only read it once and i could never open the book again to check if they were okay and back to normal because i was terrified of fucking them all up again :(

[bleekay]

i'm glad people are finding this fun as a concept and making references to stuff that this reminds them of but i really gotta express how bad of a nightmare this was for me. i had fallen in love with the original story and characters (though on waking i couldn't tell you the details), unintentionally warped their story beyond recognition, and found myself an unwitting god that could not provide mercy for some without doling torment to others. one of the characters started offing themselves every time i started another reread. stress dream doesn't even begin to cover it

[afriendofblahaj]

It would take a shit ton of writing to actually make this work

But

It would be really really cool to have a webpage that hosts a story that changes a very very small amount every time someone reads it. And have an entire meta-story about how it changes over time. Idk I might just love interactive art tbh.

[balkansoul-deactivated20220924]

love how tumblr staff has time to censor words like “paint mixing” and “my face” and yet they can’t get rid of ssexsophie8127 thats been liking my posts from 2017

[ssexsophie8127]

fuck you

[ssexsophie8127]

i won

[sup-its-cat]

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

THAT WAS LITERALLY MY FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING IT IN THE MOVIE

[notes-and-violets]

I had to xD

[b0tster]

lesbians making out video but with reduced music so u can hear them making out sloppy style. happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🔊

[themechnamedashley]

That giggle is *everything*. That joy.

[beardedmrbean]

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

[miaislying]

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

decay exists as an extant form of life

[miaislying]

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

[haystarlight]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!???

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

On my dash!??!

Please hold

[natalieironside]

It's fascinating (and infuriating) to live in an age where almost everyone I know is languishing in Dickensian poverty but social media is slap full of professional-managerial computer-touchers who've never known hunger insisting that the economy is fine because their metrics say rich people are still rich.

[natalieironside]

A bad economist and a bad engineer are often bad in the same way; they're both people who, when reality doesn't conform to the model, decide to get mad at reality instead of adjusting the model

[epicallyepicnerdery]

[kayla-denker]

My roommate is transmasc. We were just talking about their reluctance to use the men's bathroom even as they "pass" more and more as a man, which is starting to cause people to give them concerning looks when they use the women's. They said they still use the women's because they feel more comfortable there. Which is fine, we shouldn't have gendered bathrooms anyway. But I told them "you might not feel as safe when you eventually get 'accused' of being a trans woman in the women's bathroom." To which they replied "oh, I'll lust lift my shirt and show them my mastectomy scars. That'll prove I belong in there."

Oh but "everyone is subjected to transmisogyny" (according to tMRA chuds, not my roommate), right?

This is the point of TME/TMA. This is why non-transfeminine people aren't subjected to transmisogyny.

I can't fall back on my AGAB to "prove I belong" in women's spaces.

[k1nky-r0b0t-g1rl]

ive said it before and ill say it again, self harm is an incredibly valuable grounding technique and without it i almost certainly would have done far more harm to myself than any cutting or burning could have. We need to stop framing self harm as this ultimate horror indication of damage, why is this form of self harm any different than another?

We should be teaching people harm reduction not that self harm means you're broken. I'm sorry if anyone has ever made you feel that way. If self harm makes you feel better, even for a moment, why shouldn't you be allowed to do that? people do shit that harms their body all the fucking time but this one thing is off limits?

I'm edging around the topic because it's almost certainly ban worthy but like, if it helps fucking do it, id much rather you use a "less than ideal" grounding technique (which im already rolling my eyes just typing that) than have no way to help yourself.

I hope this makes sense and helps at least one person, i love you <3

[ign1ted-ember666]

THEY KILLED AMITY???????

[xenasaur]

you're not allowed to tell girls who are in a terrible place that they're not broken. it's a bannable offense on tumblr.

[estrogen-blood-chalk]

Honestly, fuck @staff. This post helped save my life and @staff banned her. Fuck you @staff, when ya'll are *anywhere* close to the level of harm reduction that this post provided, maybe then you'll be a real blogging site again

[gaynessopimizationalgorithm]

THEY KILLED ESTROGEN BLOOD CHALK TOOO?????

[estrogen-chalk-blood]

they cannot kill me in any way that matters. Thanks for being here, lovely.

[herefortodazeylily]

they've been very clear with us on this point: you're not allowed to tell girls who are in a terrible place that they're not broken. it's a bannable offense on tumblr.

I'll do it again.

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

Do you remember when Amity risked her blog to give love and paid the price? I haven't forgotten.

[rosees3ray]

reblog if it's okay for your mutuals to message you and create an actual friendship, not just interactions