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★ beth ★ she/her ★ adult ★ wlw ★

[bakurue]

I've come back on here to stop the tiktok brain rot and to try and get back into things I used to like

I'm still with my girlfriend (for almost 5 years now!!) and I'm still working, so I'll be coming and going

[mango-peach-strawberry]

The Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep

[castigatedcast]

soon I will be euthanized due to my various behavioral issues and also they just don’t like me

[playtheshadw]

when do you start being yourself?

[rinhadokoa]

Kaiba boy

[cozymochi]

I drew Bakura because I was asked to draw yugioh. He never leaves me.

[oddeyesarcpendulumdragon]

i hate all the side characters from the KC Grand Prix arc so i MADE MY OWN!

anyway i'm gonna blab about them under the cut

Fantasmo El Muerte is the Mexican champion. He's said to be psychic, but most people think he's a hack, and he sort of plays up the hack psychic angle to make his opponents underestimate him. He actually is psychic, though, and he can see ghosts. He's capable of seeing Yami no Yugi in his spirit form. He's a laid-back, chill guy who enjoys being a bit of a tease to rile up his opponents, but he's genuinely a nice guy off the dueling field and is quick to make friends.

Hielo Shields is an Argentinian duelist who uses Ice Barriers and a champion of many South American tournaments. A gruff older man who believes in treating all his opponents with deep respect. He may have been a soldier at one point, but won't talk about his past.

Không May is from Vietnam and uses a ritual deck focused around the End of the World ritual card and its two ritual monsters, Ruin and Demise. She's won a ton of tournaments in Southeast Asia. She's a fortuneteller but the only thing she's good at fortunetelling is unlucky and bad events. She's a little confused and off kilter right now because she was pretty certain the world was just about to end like a couple days ago and then it didn't (Doma stuff). She can come off a bit creepy and overwhelming at first.

Zahrah the Desert Rose is the North African champion from Nigeria and uses Plant Princesses. She's super energetic and loves dueling with all of her heart and soul. She wants to make people happy with her duels above all else. She's the main one of my new characters who becomes good friends with the main gang.

King Tau is the South African champion from...South Africa...and uses a Beast deck. He's very suave and a bit flirty but its so gentlemanly that it never puts anyone off. His elegant style and personality seems at odds with his power-focused Beast deck, so it can often catch his opponents off-guard.

Ocean Sheridan is the Australian champion, and her deck is based around sea serpents. She's kinda happy-go-lucky, excited and really jazzed to be here. She's a major fan of Jonouchi specifically, who was her inspiration to get into Duel Monsters, and like him she shot up the ranks as an amateur remarkably quickly.

And then hang on, who's that familiar dude???

I was thinking about characters from GX who could potentially have shown up at this point in the timeline - most of the cast is probably around 4-6 at this point, so they're too young to show up. But you know who isn't? Chronos de Medici!

I thought, hey, we already have one insufferable European (Siegfried), why not add one more? So here's a slightly younger Chronos, who has a somewhat one-sided rivalry with Siegfried as they both ended up in a lot of the same tournaments and Chronos has yet to beat him.

[aboutoriginality]

[sandmandaddy69]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[birds-in-posts]

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Photographer Snaps Bird Catching a Ride on Bigger Bird's Stick

Wildlife Jocelyn Anderson captured a one-in-a-million photo of a bird hitching a ride on a bigger bird's stick.

The article contains a link to her photography shop, btw.

[layzerkek]

Art trade for @chicory27 🩷

[lysimachias]

All transformative fandom (fanfiction, fanart, speculative meta) involves some extrapolation from canon; otherwise, we're talking about curatorial fandom (Star Trek folks out there counting how many doors we see on the USS Enterprise during each series run, Silmarillionheads charting the lineages of elves back to the dawn of time, etc.)

This means that if you're in transformative fandom, "canon vs fanon" isn't a binary, but a spectrum.

YGO is an interesting case because there's a zillion canons to pull from, all of which both reinforce and contradict each other constantly. Also, much of the fandom has been kicking around for 20+ years, mixing and matching at will; the horse is out of the gate, and trying to enforce strict delineation between anime/manga/spinoff films/filler/dub/sub/etc on the entire fandom is a lost cause. I think that's actually even more of a reason to add in some nuance and work off a spectrum, because in a canon this (I say lovingly) convoluted, there's some real value in being able to broaden your evaluation tools past "canon vs. non-canon" and figure out which bits of 'fanon' might actually trace back somewhere.

Here's the rubric I tend to work off:

"Honda Hiroto attends Domino High School" - this is stated canon. It is a declared fact in-story, and there are no conflicts across any Yu-Gi-Oh! medias.

"Honda is loyal and conscientious" - this is directly conveyed canon. Honda is demonstrably loyal to Jounouchi and later to Yuugi. Honda carries and looks after people when they're incapacitated. Honda makes sure people aren't left behind: he advocates for the Kaiba brothers in Duelist Kingdom despite his personal distaste, and he checks up on Bakura more than anyone else. This is a major character trait and you're clearly meant to get this out of the source.

"Honda is interested in machinery" - this can be reasonably inferred from canon. Honda rides a motorcycle, is frequently associated with mechanical imagery in the context of Duel Monsters, and is seen in DSOD repairing Jounouchi's duel disk. It's not the major focus of his character, but it's still a straight line you can draw from canon.

"Honda really fucking likes cantaloupes" - this is esoteric canon. It is mentioned Once in capsule monsters, and literally never again. This could easily be confused for fanon, but...it is indisputably canon. to something.

"Honda would become a mechanic post-canon" - this is grounded fanon. Despite his interests, Honda never actually mentions wanting to be a mechanic. While he does mention that he's expected to work at his father's factory post-graduation, he's clearly not thrilled about it. Because the series ends before we see what he actually chooses, there's nothing directly supporting or contradicting this fanon; but it also doesn't come out of absolutely nowhere.

"Honda has asthma" - this is ungrounded fanon. I give Honda asthma in my personal headcanons because I have asthma, and I love Honda and relate to him and want to project my shitty lungs onto him. There is absolutely nothing in canon to suggest this. If you wanted, you could argue with me and tell me that this is a ridiculous headcanon. It would be unnecessarily confrontational, but you'd be correct. And if I were to go around telling people they were stupid for not making Honda asthmatic, I'd be both unnecessarily confrontational and wrong.

There are definitely some medias where it's really easy to suss out when the fandom is just running with some randomly invented fanon that has inexplicably replaced canon. Unfortunately yugioh is not one of them. but...that also means you get to enjoy the delight of explaining to people that Yami Alexander the Great and Henry Tudor Yugi are not mass-hallucinated fanon AUs, but both actual (and completely unrelated) canon.

[lysimachias]

@c-l-y-d-e Yes 🥰🍈

[prismatic-bell]

Okay, serious question. Where does "Yuugi is diabetic" fall in this?

[lysimachias]

This is such a fantastic question!

For anyone who's not familiar with this particular bit of esoterica, it appears ONLY in one panel of the English manga translation, and absolutely nowhere else (that I know of):

It is, unquestionably, canon to something - the English-language manga. It is very, very likely a mistranslation or at least something that wasn't given a lot of thought. But it's there, it was published, it's never been refuted in any other piece of canon.

So the question isn't really "is it canon," but "how seriously do we take 'esoteric canon."

Someone absolutely is not wrong, or making things up, if they write Honda as a melon lover or Yuugi as a diabetic. They're working off published canon. HOWEVER, both Honda's melon obsession and Yuugi's supposed diabetes are one-offs that have absolutely no impact on the story before or after they're mentioned. We never see Yuugi have to make any concessions to being diabetic. Even if it wasn't a mistranslation and was 100% Takahashi's intention, it's still kind of a random one-off. So if someone chooses to ignore Yuugi's diabetes, they're also not wrong.

That's why I kind of group 'esoteric canon' with 'grounded fanon,' for the most part. You can absolutely die on those hills and make very solid arguments either way. I just don't tend to see most of them as hills worth dying on.

[prismatic-bell]

Just for the record:

Not only is it a mistranslation, it is an absolutely baffling mistranslation. The original is "Yuugi, daijoubu ka?" ("Yuugi, are you okay?") Best guess in fandom circles five or six years ago was the translator made a joke to take off some stress and then forgot to fix it, and I think in later releases it was actually changed.

[tenukiki]

Don't ask me what I'm looking for

[vanilleflwr]

sleepy baby 💤

[teaboot]

Late for an appointment this morning because my beautiful son child stole a wrapped and bagged bologna sandwich containing roughly 300% his maximum safe sodium intake out of the lunch box in my backpack while I was on the shitter and refused to spit it out

[teaboot]

⬆️ Documented evidence of my sweet and perfect and beautiful firstborn son furiously defending his hard-won right to shit his brains out

[bobbole]

Anthony Machuca, Wake up Steve, our bowls are empty

[werewolf-girlfriend]

i rly like how many electronic devices you can turn off by holding the power button down. its very intuitive to kill a thing by choking it