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She/Her. 20s. Yu-Gi-Oh, Sims, Yu-Gi-Oh Sims and other randomness. Mostly WCIF-friendly. Leave your ship drama as far from the door as possible.

[kira-quartz]

Intro Post

Hi, cornflakes, I'm Kira (she/her)! I'm a 20-something Australian artist and fan of Stuffs. There's no real theme to this bloggo, I just post about whatever I feel like, which may include but is not limited to:

Yu-Gi-Oh (mostly DM, but I have started watching GX and I'm at least vaguely familiar with the other spinoffs up to Vrains)

Sailor Moon (I've watched all of Crystal and I'm halfway through R, but I read all the spoilers years ago so they're not an issue XD)

Other anime (currently watching: The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess, Yu Yu Hakusho)

My OCs

Pokémon

The Sims

Visual kei (mainly X Japan really, but I also like Buck-Tick and Exist Trace, and I've been exploring different subgenres. Not really familiar with any newer bands though.)

Other things:

I'm not looking to get involved in any fandom drama, and I don't believe in biting people's heads off over anything like that - if I'm really bothered by someone else's ship (which doesn't happen too often), that's my problem. I have laundry to do.

I don't always follow back.

I might take a bit to reply - sometimes my brain won't Words, 😅. I generally reply to DMs within a few days; ask memes tend to take longer.

DMs are 18+ only.

Do not repost my art (reblogs are welcome) or feed it to an AI.

Carryshipping is cuter than actual heck.

I'm also on Pillowfort and Bluesky (but I'm not too active on either of them.)

Tags

Art | Plushies | OCs | Sims (YGO | Sailor Moon)

Personal (Ranty Business is tagged with "#kira komplains" if you want to filter it out)

[kira-quartz]

"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME???" - me, about 5 minutes ago, to the heckin' massive gecko I had to catch + evict

[tofupixel]

goots

[witchcreatures]

These goots need some boots

[tofupixel]

boots

[ebis0]

This is also quite old, but my favorite Sailor Moon art. I really love old anime and remakes! I basically just experimented with this one, drawing frame by frame from the anime. 🌙✨

[daveedmee]

explosion at health potion factory 0 dead 0 injured

[achillesinhighheels]

[thestuffedalligator]

It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.

[andhumanslovedstories]

#i don’t think this is what pterry meant by ‘a man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’

I absolutely think it is

[seiya234]

I read Jingo for the first time when I was 13.

I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.

Terry was a comedic genius

[stormsbreadth]

#shoutout to the one in Soul Music about the leopard that got thrown out of the circus because it couldn't hear the ringmaster#it was several months after my second or third time reading the book that I clocked it was a Deaf Leopard (via @morkaischosen)

god DAMMIT

[adverbian]

When I was informed that “Vetinari” is a pun on “Medici”. That pun was so painful I couldn’t even see it.

[triflesandparsnips]

...are you FUCKING KIDDING ME.

*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*

get out here Terry I just wanna talk

[amuseoffyre]

Twurp’s Peerage made me throw a book (gently) at a wall.

In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u. 

The Book of Silly and Annoying People, based on the real thing with a pun on the name thrown in for good measure.

[deathsmallcaps]

OMG I FUCKING *KNEW* VETINARI WAS A JOKE ON FUCKONG SOMETHING I JUST COULDNT GRASP IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REFERENCE TO WIND SOMEHOW

[sarahreesbrennan]

I am not a talented punster so I was today old when I realised about Vetinari.

[fiollaigean]

guys it's fucking close to water

[aridotdash]

[jennyofmany]

Latinclass ca. 9th grade: the text we had to translate contained the words trans means "on the other side of" or in german it can be translated to "über/ hinüber". Also silvas; silvanis means "the forest" or in german "der Wald".

Trans silvas very simply translated into german would be über den Wald

Trans silvas -> Transsilvanien -> Überwald

My latin teacher gave me a very weird look as I suddenly facepalmed myself and groaned quietly.

[arkytiorlecter]

The Venturi and Selachii feud is what killed me when I got it.

The Venturi Effect is a scientific term referring to the acceleration of a liquid through a narrow tube (like a jet).

Selachii is a classification of sharks. (I discovered this when my stepson got really into sharks)

... fucking HELL Terry.

[nochd]

In Carpe Jugulum, Count Magpyr boasts of having helped write the Malleus Maleficarum, along with the Torquus Simiae Maleficarum, the Auriga Clavium Maleficarum, and in fact the entire Arca Instrumentorum.

The Malleus Maleficarum is a very real, very nasty and absolutely batshit insane book from late 15th-century Germany, basically laying out the procedure for catching, torturing, and executing witches. Its title translates to The Hammer of Witches. The other titles are Pratchett's inventions.

Malleus = "hammer" Torquus Simiae = "monkey wrench" Auriga Clavium = "bucket of nails" Arca Instrumentorum = "box of tools"

[africanaquarian]

I thought I needed a new laptop but nope, youtube is slowing down your PC if you have adblock on on any open tab...

[astraltrickster]

To be very clear about this: CPUs aren't magical devices that can operate forever. They generate heat. They wear out over time. This happens faster when they're operating near capacity. This is not just an attempt to inconvenience you; this is an attempt to damage your property.

For the "crime" of not wanting to be tracked/have ads pissed into your eyeballs 24/7.

Even if you've paid for the "privilege" of the latter.

Fuck Google, and I hope they get sued into oblivion over this.

[fernwah-funzone]

i see everyone in the notes talking about newpipe but nobody's talking about youtube alternatives for desktop

IF YOU USE A DESKTOP PC OR LAPTOP, TRY INVIDIOUS

https://invidious.io/

it is a free, open-source alternative YouTube front-end. in addition to not having ads, it has other great QoL features like a download button. try one of the several instances on that link up there ^^^^

[kira-quartz]

I would've drawn today had it not been for the

insurmountable

lack of paper directly in front of me.

[clubpenguindoneright]

[croptool-deactivated20221013]

i fuckign queued this and forgot abt it and got scared cuz i thought i was hacked or smth. anyways happy june eleventh

[lunamothed]

reblog while its still true 

[teo]

Please don't go somewhere where I cant follow

[amethystsoda]

[inconveniently-discorporated]

Me: *agonizing over whether a semicolon goes here, what the proper dialogue should be there, other assorted rules and semantics*

Terry Pratchett: "!" said the stranger.

THAT'S ALLOWED?

[serricoj]

Writing is for communication. Sir Terry knew very well that anything's allowed if it helps you communicate something effectively.

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

[filthyprotozoan]

people are always like “i have face blindness but i’m good with names” or “im terrible with names but i never forget a face” well baby idk how to tell u this but i am . bad at both.

[filthyprotozoan]

yesterday i didn’t recognize my coworker bc he was wearing a purple shirt and im used to him wearing all black

[filthyprotozoan]

yeah and im stomping you to death with my hooves

[lychgate]

my husband put on a wig, in front of me, and i immediately got distressed and mad because it looked like a stranger was in our house and my ape brain wanted to attack

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I once accidentally filled in a form using my internet name, went "that's not right", realised I didn't remember my legal name, panicked, and started filling it in with the names of everyone in my lab in order until I stumbled on the name that I recognised as being used for me.

[kira-quartz]

Once I failed to recognise the voice of a major character in a show I'd been watching for about 6 or 7 seasons... because he was wearing a hat.

[catastrophic-writer-deactivated]

Story Time:

Working in retail is really fun, and the times when major fuck-ups happen, they can be either anxiety-attack inducing, or make it possible to get through the rest of your god-awful shift with a smile depending on the customer. My all-time favorite absolute fuck-up is as follows:

This kind woman is just doing her thing. She scans her membership card from her keychain. The register beeps to acknowledge the scan. We continue as usual. Neither of us notice right away, but after I’ve scanned a few more items, I hear a very quiet, “Um,” from the lady, very polite. I look at her. She is looking at the screen of my register, blinking. I, too, look.

And lo and behold. There is a charge of over four-thousand dollars ($4,000) worth of garlic bread staring us in the face. There are no words for a minute. We’re just… in awe. How did this happen? How the hell did this happen?

She didn’t even have garlic bread in her cart.

I sputter a partial apology - I was incapable of forming actual sentences in the moment - and try to void the garlic bread. Since there was no garlic bread to scan, I try to manually remove $4,000-some from this transaction.

Well, the registers don’t like it when you try to void off more than five dollars ($5) from a transaction, so naturally it pings my manager for confirmation, but she’s not by her pager.

At this point, both myself and the lady are just… dumbfounded. She’s not even mad. I’m not even all that embarrassed. Both of us are just looking at the screen. There’s a bit of laughter, but it’s mostly just… confusion.

I have to call through the whole store for my manager on the intercom because she’s not answering. She shows up, ready to override and void it, when she too, sees what exactly is being voided.

“What… did you do?”

“I genuinely. Have literally. No. Idea.”

She voids it, and I go to finish the transaction and tell the woman her total (minus the garlic bread). My register pings. It tells me that she hasn’t scanned her membership card. Odd. I distinctly remember her doing that. The woman goes to scan her card again, and I notice that her library card is stuck to her membership card. I tell her gently, and she separates the two and scans her card.

My manager, hovering nearby still, sees this and says, “I think it mistook the barcode of her other card for garlic bread, and the remaining digits were read as the price.”

And that’s when the laughter really came over us. There were no hard feelings at all. In fact, the woman was incredibly glad that the receipt still showed the garlic bread and the voiding of. I will remember it until the end of time, my only regret in the entire situation being that I didn’t take a damn picture, because she has proof and I don’t. But I swear to God it happened.

TDLR; Library Card Charged $4,000 of Garlic Bread.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

that’s just how valuable library cards are. each one is worth at least $4000 of garlic bread

[nudityandnerdery]

A picture is worth a thousand words, a library card is worth $4000 worth of garlic bread, if we can figure out how many words the average library card can check out at once, we can probably work out a picture-to-garlic bread conversion here, too.

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[xehanortle]

If you nod Thymely as well, you get a Scarborough Yeah.

[wheelie-sick]

when people tag posts "unreality" it's a signal to people who struggle with discerning reality that a (likely scary if believed to be true) post is not real even though it's written as if it was. it's also a filter tag so those people can opt out of seeing posts like that entirely. many people who rely on the unreality tag are psychotic and struggle with paranoia alongside (or because of) the struggles discerning what's real. posts that these people interpret to be real can lead to incredible distress and compulsions.

when someone tags your post "#unreality" and you screenshot the tags and say "what are you talking about? this is real" because you consider the post easy to discern as not real and find this joke funny you're actually just causing paranoia for people who now feel like they can't trust the unreality tag. not everyone has the same reality discernment skills as you. what's "obviously" a fictional story to you may not be obvious to other people.

I don't think most people make this joke maliciously. I think most people making this joke don't even realize why the unreality tag exists. anyways, if you've made this joke or have the urge to make this joke then consider not doing that.

[midnightscorpius]

Names inspired by Hecate

Feminine

Hekateia / Enodia / Jennifer / Katerina

Amaris / Propylaia / Aikaterine / Vespera

Caterina / Circe / Selene / Nienke

Opaline / Cato / Aradia / Despoina

Melinoe / Hekate / Catharina / Lunessa

Celestia / Mikina / Nodia / Aylin

Rhiannon / Kora / Trinity / Morwenna

Aveline / Thonia / Solenne / Katheryn

Keto / Tria / Belladonna / Drusilla

Thessaly / Eka / Katia / Cadi

Nymeria / Morrigan / Mino / Calista

Dasha / Mirielle / Doro / Itzel

Lilith / Cate / Elvira / Arcana

Laya / Phosphora / Ina / Umbria

Elaria /Virelai / Mirabel / Lunette

Nessa / Ariadne / Nebula / Aeloria

Elowen / Astra / Milagros / Louve

Guinevere / Carmenta / Zoraida / Calypso 

Gizem / Liora / Aisana / Morana

Masculine

Hekatos / Lucifer / Arcadius / Karanos 

Acheron / Drogo / Dante / Vesper

Ophios / Corvus / Dash / Dorian

Mika / Thorne / Lysander / Amon

Vesper / Caelum / Stellan / Ambrose

Nyxander / Leander / Ansel / Corvin

Caspian / Valerian / Orpheus / Elias

Auberon / Morian / Nathair / Silas

Evren / Alaric / Erebus / Asterion

Zephaniah / Cassian / Damien / Bastien

Draven / Lucien / Elio / Phobos

Ravyn / Sirius / Lowell / Conan

Mirou / Lovel / Wolfe / Gergory

Eran / Modris / Oliverio / Anastacio

Osiris / Lazarus / Damon / Caden

Gender-Neutral

Nyx / Veil / Brontes / Cross

Obsidian / Key / Torch / Echo

Rune / Sage / Midnight / Salem

Lux / Ari / Myth / Cipher

Phos / Fable / Onyx / Aether

Naga / Zenith / Moon / Indigo

Halo / Shadow / Winter / Riven

Aster / Dusk / Ash / Reverie

Silver / Poe / Wren / Crow

Isami / Raven / Clover / Marlowe

Rowan / Ember / Storm

Miracle / Liraz / Phoenix

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