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Hey guys I haven’t posted in ages but I just posted a new chapter for my Yugioh puzzleshipping slow burn fanfics
Library Meeting
Summary
Yugi thought his life would be simple now that he had at least gotten his internship underway. Yet life never wants to be simple, especially for him, the day he meets face to face the 10th Grade History Teacher, Mr.Sennen. Will there be a change in his downtrodden life with this meeting, or will he be left feeling as he has been?
Dealing with his issues, could he ever be capable of a relationship?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/30
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Mutou Yuugi/Yami Yuugi | Atem
Characters: Mutou Yuugi, Yami Yuugi | Atem, Jounouchi Katsuya | Joey Wheeler, Honda Hiroto | Tristan Taylor, Bakura Ryou, Mazaki Anzu | Tea Gardner
Additional Tags: World Travel, Puzzlejune 2026, PuzzlePassport, Alternate Universe - Gods & Goddesses
Series: Part 8 of Puzzle June
Summary:
When traveling, taking in the sights of different lands and having new experiences, never forget to keep your companions close… or to leave yourself open for love.
May I present my project for PuzzleJune 2026, out super soon? In 12 days!
SUMMARY: After a routine duel, Yuugi gets hit by a card and loses all of his memories about Atem. Everyone gathers to help him gain them back.
@x-puzzlejune-x offered ODYSSEY and HOME
And I take them both :D
There's sweetness in this story, and much love. I added just a pinch of angst. I chose to talk memory once again, in a choir that celebrates, I hope, many of its forms and how it sticks to the places we loved so fondly, once... or forever.
I hope your curiosity is at least a small bit challenged! If so, meet me June 1st! I will release 2 chapters at a time, for 4 weeks.
Small preview is under the cut.
Thanks for the prompts!
Draw me a [blank] by Pure_Ichor
Chapters: 1/10
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mutou Yuugi/Yami Yuugi | Atem
Characters: Mutou Yuugi, Yami Yuugi | Atem, Kaiba Seto, Bakura Ryou, Jounouchi Katsuya | Joey Wheeler, Honda Hiroto | Tristan Taylor, Mazaki Anzu | Tea Gardner
Additional Tags: PuzzleJune, Established Relationship, Smutty, Is love memory-based or intrinsic?
Summary: After a routine duel, Yuugi gets hit by a card and loses all of his memories about Atem. Everyone gathers to help him gain them back.
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As many of you know from my previous productions I SIMPLY ADORE playing with skins and taking advantage of AO3 being a digital media and not just a book.
This time, my production contains normal-writing and smutty-writing, but I couldn't avoid some shit-writing like:
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It was Katsuya to call them glitches first.
Yuugi gave the name credit, so it stayed. Unexpected behaviors happening here and there. Strays of dark energy, the shed skin of old Shadow Games that hadn't quite finished dissolving. The gang started thinking they never would, since they were happening twelve years after the Ceremonial Battle, still.
Glitches came from the most different times and places.
Once, it had been a lost ka wandering Domino's train system and opening automatic doors out of sequence. Another time the glitch was a ghost that smelled powerfully of sulfur and scared a salaryman into finally calling his estranged brother. Katsuya fervently maintained that one was a malevolent alien glitch. Ryou, with his peculiar familiarity with these matters, said it was just a disoriented soul-fragment.
Not all glitches were evil. Some were sad, some angry, and some were simply lost.
Their nature was different in kind, but each shared the same way of acting: possession.
Be it a spirit, a ka, a ghost, a demon, an angel or a deity. They exploited rips between their dimension and ours, and sneaked in. Luckily, they were weak. Each time, the resolution was quick and clean: a duel to chase them back, stitch the rip, and free both host and ghost.
It was deeply anticlimactic. Which was all in all, fine. Anticlimactic is very much underrated, Yuugi thought. Monster of the day became a fun activity in the last years. He, Katsuya, Ryou and Atem had turns in dueling and kicking them out. Any Puzzle piece reacted to their energy, so it was easy to spot their activities.
Each of the members of a group baptized "Glitch stitchers" by Katsuya himself always had a Puzzle piece with them. Spotting a glitch, they advised the group to chase it out, and stitch the rip. Seto silenced the group a long time before, Yuugi suspected, because even if he was inside it, he never read any message or reacted or showed up at any duel. Rumor had it that he once stitched a glitch by himself, without telling anyone.
Welcome to PuzzleJune 2026: ...To Explore The World WIth You!
It's another PuzzleJune and another month to celebrate our favorite soulmates! As always, this month is all about finding that creative spark to celebrate the amazing relationship between Yugi Mutou and Pharaoh Atem from Yugioh DM. Creative freedom is welcome in any way you want to share your interpretation of their love with writing, art, or whatever art you feel like expressing yourself with!
We want everyone who wants to participate to express themselves freely. You don't need to do a prompt every day. You can do one prompt a week, one prompt for the whole month, or pick and choose which prompts you want to use for your creative works. You may want to use multiple prompts for one work. No matter how you go about it, we want to see it, whatever it is! However you want to celebrate is great! This month is all about coming together to celebrate our favorite puzzleboys. The theme may be about travel, but your work does not have to be. Write or draw about whatever comes to you with the prompts!
When you post to social media or Ao3, please use the following tags: #puzzlejune2026 #puzzlepassport so that others can find your work.
You may also post to the following collection on Ao3 so that we can easily find your amazing work: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/PuzzleJune_2026
Special thanks to Rat King for the amazing art to celebrate this month!
Idk if it counts but I wrote a fic where yami stabs yugi in their soul rooms to crack open his chest take a peek inside his very being. Fun puzzle bonding ^_^
Yugioh Yami-Has-His-Own-Body AU except we solve the separation anxiety by chaining their chokers together @rocketbirdie zakkura style. The point of the AU is just what hijinks ensue.
Note: they ARE still weird and codependent and want to be inside each other’s skin. They’re probably getting Worse. There are just also Shenanigans.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter 6 is here! And surprise, it is not the last chapter because I have poor planning. I also have made a playlist of all the songs. Enjoy! <3
Title: Of You
Summary: Yugi is still trying to move on from him, even four years after their final duel. Hoping a change of pace will help, Yugi goes with Anzu to America to see if he can find any answers there.
What he ends up finding is so much more.
Word count: ~32.2k so far!
Chapters: 6/7
Relationships: Mutou Yuugi/Yami Yugi | AtemTags: Slow Burn, Fluff and Angst, Grief/Mourning, Gay Panic, Reunions, Yami Yuugi | Atem Has Own Body, Yami Yuugi | Atem Comes Back, Gay Yami Yuugi | Atem, Atem and Yami Yuugi Are Separate People, Yugi Gets Emo, Atem Gets Emo, Content Warning: Mentions of blood/bleeding, Atem Sucks At Eating
over on dreamwidth i am running a kink meme for the next month! anonymous commenting is turned on, and you should not need an account in order to post. rules and guidelines are over on the post itself.
Another one of those "Yugi can't let go of Atem and time travels to Ancient Egypt, where they meet again" fics. Because I was itching to write one myself.
After risking his professional career by entering Atem's re-sealed tomb, Yugi finds the mummified remains of his former other self. Traumatized and slightly out of his mind, he spends the night in the tomb and eventually falls asleep. When he wakes up, the tomb has changed, and Yugi finds himself in the past. He tries to think of a way to get into the palace in order to find Atem and everything spirals from there.
As for Atem, he's struggling to figure out if he made it to the afterlife or if he's finally allowed to live a peaceful life for once.
(Hoestly, this could probably be rated T, I'm just paranoid about the death and mummy stuff)
I’ve had this one has been up for a while now but I’ve been told the fandom is the most active over here so I feel like it’s only right for me to let you guys know in case anyone is interested 😆
