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my gender is Mask the Rock | twenty rarepairs in a trench coat

[lysimachias]

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Multifandom art blog! YGO, Zelda, Fruits Basket mostly. Multishipper, 25+. Formerly @winkle-pickers

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[hanniejisungquokkakingdom]

[koolkat9]

Behind every gay person is a gayer, more evil gay person

[phoenixwithapencil]

So today I learned that there’s a conventionally attractive dragon furry BEWD card

And I just have to live with this fact now.

[outofcontextanimation]

[pearly-stargirl]

Kaiba has a soft spot for Shizuka because her and joeys dynamic reminds him of him and mokuba

if you don’t believe that why are we even talking.

[baguantte]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!! so to celebrate i drew things the gx cast fumbling what not to say during a coming out!! my goofuses deserve the world...

[gedascrown5768]

What do you mean it feels good to see people scared of him 🤨📸

[lysimachias]

LETTERS TO ATEM

by @mystical-flute

In the aftermath of the Ceremonial Duel, Yugi, unsure of how to verbalize exactly how he's feeling, chooses a different outlet: Writing letters to Atem in the afterlife.

Read Chapter 1 on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77731931/chapters/203615326 It was so lovely to team up with the wonderful Meri for @ygobigbang!! I enjoyed reading this fic so much, and it made me want to create an art that incorporates Yuugi & the whole nerd herd just like the fic does!! It's so lovely & touching and has so much affection for all the cast. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did!

(⌒▽⌒)☆ Full-res image & closeups under the cut!! I went kind of nuts on the background lol, as I do, so have fun hunting for all the easter eggs <3 should i make a lo-fi beat for this. i am so tempted...

[mxrtified777]

SOMEONE GET HER OUT OF PERVERT WORLD. ANYONE

[sannee-jp]

HBD Yugi Mutou 🎉❤️‍🔥

[missmrah]

A little korrasami drawing I did for my sister last year that I thought might be due for some colour before pride month is over! Happy Pride to all my queer friends and allies ❤️

[lysimachias]

i ship a lot of ridiculous rarepairs where i'm fully aware i'm causing my own pain like some kind of fandom hair shirt, like the ones where i make up f/f pairings with characters who have never existed in the same millennium. BUT.

come on ganzelink should NOT be a rarepair. hello, you're telling me a twink who eats rocks and the hulking avatar of destruction and a princess who has fucked up OP powers of prophecy that haunt all three of them are locked into an eternal cycle of reincarnation where they're resurrected solely to face each other over and over in battles that both defy and submit to the gods who decided this evil fate?! You're telling me we're NOT supposed to ship them in a tortured throuple from the depths of both heaven and hell?!?! Please. let's be serious.

[lysimachias]

There's this really interesting phenomenon in fandom where the top 5 ships in any given fandom are often battling to the death and feeling very affected by minor ground gained or lost within the top-5 ecosystem. while there's a whole separate ecosystem of ship bottom-feeders who just truly cannot conceptualize the problem of having one's ship being the #4 ship on AO3 rather than the #3 ship, because they are eagerly waiting to feast merrily on the carcass scraps of their one annual ship-week whalefall

[pukedevlin]

Happy pride month

[lysimachias]

ok sorry one more Kisarapost and then i'll throw my computer into the sea

but, you really can't separate Kisara and the Blue Eyes White Dragon. The whole thing with Kisara is that her ka is atypical; her ka and ba are both the White Dragon. This is why it can only be summoned when she's unconscious, because it is literally her consciousness.

This is why I use "Kisara" and "BEWD" interchangeably in a way I wouldn't do for, say, Mahaad and the Dark Magician. In YGO's worldbuilding as it pertains to Ancient Egyptian beliefs, people like Mahaad will have a ka that corresponds to whatever monster represents them. The ka is one's "life force," and actually it's normal for the ka to separate from the rest of the soul after death. The ba is one's personality, or what makes their 'self' unique. So while you can separate Mahaad and his personality/self from the Dark Magician, you can't do the same for Kisara and BEWD.

There's lots of interesting thematic stuff to dig into here with Kaiba (how Kisara and Seto both relate to the concepts of humanity vs. monstrousness, how that ties into power vs. inclusion vs. acceptance, etc.) and with death in general. Kisara's death is in fact a reunion and actualization, which is closer to the real Egyptian beliefs around what happened to the soul - the ka and ba were supposed to reunite after death to form the akh. This is also why I don't think Kisara being "fridged" in the narrative is the only interpretation. She's onscreen all the time and communicates with Seto frequently! If you can reconcile a giant swag ass lizard with a pretty waifish anime girl and hold them in your head as the same thing.

(Do I ship them? Well, yes, no, in a mutually destructive and beautifully transformative and fucked up and undefinable way that doesn't have need of a strict platonic/romantic dichotomy. You know. just a guy and the absolutely fucking massive unholy creature he perceives as 'his' because he can't make sense of his feelings in any way other than ownership, but actually she's the one stalking him through millennia and dimensions, so maybe he's the one who got owned. #justdragonthings)

[lysimachias]

broke: Seto/Kisara is boring because Kisara is barely a character

woke: Seto/Kisara is thematically fascinating when you throw in a dash of Egyptology and reframe the BEWD as Kisara's actual 'self'

bespoke: Seto/Kisara is problematic because it's a millennia old dragon manifesting her influence over the remnants of Priest Set in a 16 year old boy's spirit and enabling his destructive obsession with victory and power

[dogpuppy]