#just ygo things

[laquilasse]

Come eat lobster with a monster

#seto kaiba #yami yugi #yugioh #yugi mutou #ygo dm #ygo #the real punchline here is that Atem had to look at yugi for assurance just in case this was in fact a normal thing to say #REUPLOAD THE OTHER ONE WAS IN THE WRONG ORDER :trucybonk: #my art

[harpuiaa]

(person that has never seen saw but has read yugioh voice) yeah? so he traps people in evil puzzle rooms? sounds a lot like a guy i know

#yeah. im into drawing absurd crossovers now #feat. the stupid fuckign chess meme #ik the doll thing is just a doll but i keep seeing shitposts online that treat him as if hes not. i think it adds to it #no idea whats up with the formattign we'll see if it fixes itself after posing #(edit: it did not i had to re-add the second image) #i think yami yugi would survive a saw trap no problem. it's his natural environment #for that matter i also think he would survive squid game (ignoring the political messaging here. sorry.). he does that for a living #i've thought out how an evil chess shadow game would play out. even if it's not actually explained in the drawing #theres a time bomb on each side. you can prevent/regain time on yr side depending on the type of pieces you take. loser explodes #yami yugi would get a pawn across the board unnoticed turning it into a queen bc of course he would. prompting the opponent to cheat #getting themselves super penalty gamed #ygo #dm #s0 #yugioh #idr my tags help #saw #(i guess???????)

[theminecraftbee]

so a thing this fandom does that remains FASCINATING to me, as a function of the fact a lot of this fandom is people's first fandom or only current fandom, is just... assume a lot of things it does is a scourge that this fandom has invented or doesn't exist outside of it? or like, is uniquely bad here? and i won't deny that sometimes mcyt fandom is a bit more intense by virtue of numbers, but like...

duo names: confusing fandom-injokes to describe duos and groups tend to be an anime fandom thing specifically for many historical reasons, but they're not uncommon. hey quick--if you haven't been in KHR fandom, can you guess what 1827 is? no? i'll give you a hint: that's actually a ship name. or, ygo fans, tell me the difference between puppyshipping, prideshipping, violetshipping, and rivalshipping. my hint is that they're all kaiba ships and two of them are actually the same ship. good luck!

reducing characters to a specific trait: have you read fic in another fandom before? i would recommend you go do so and come back to me. my example here is "sasuke likes tomatoes", for the record.

common au fanon that's confusing to outsiders: my deep cut here is "when i got into certain tv fandoms i was baffled by the existence of sentinel/guide fics", which is a slightly older tv fandom thing so many of you probably don't know what i'm on about. but trust me: in certain fandoms it's ubiquitous and unless you've watched a completely different tv show you're gonna have to entirely pick it up from reading fic. oh hey, hybrid aus and watcher!grian, nice to see your relative here,

fanon being treated as canon: did you know there's this whole bnha character, naomasa, who is treated as canonically having a lie detector quirk? did you know that, best i can tell, that's not in canon anywhere, it just got echoed through fanon enough that everyone treated it as canon? 'fanon trait becomes so ubiquitous everyone assumes it has to be there' is not a new thing. also, batfamily fans, i have been lead to understand the tim and coffee thing is also this.

characters being treated badly to make a different dynamic look better: the fact we have the term 'character bashing' tells you all you need to know, here. if anything my one complaint on this front isn't even that it's happening--it's that i wish bashing and/or "not [character] friendly" was tagged a little more frequently, haha.

characters being reduced to their family dynamics: tale as old as time. "even the family dynamic thing" yes even that. just because this fandom tended to be particularly ship-adverse in the past didn't mean it didn't do basically the same behaviors as any fandom with shipping did with those dynamics, just gen. and other gen fandoms also do that. yes, down to the "and shipping reduces them to a ship, unlike my gen dynamic, which is very in-character; why can't people just be friends?" thing. some of you have to have been marvel fans right.

characters being reduced to their ships: some of you have to have been marvel fans right.

The Discourse: yeah this is an "actively running show" fandom thing, but also a hiatus fandom thing. ask a homestuck about vriskourse sometime. as much as i hate to say it, it probably made doomsday discourse look cute.

and those are just like... some things i've seen people complain about on my dash recently. idk it just hit me there are probably fans in mcyt fandoms who are assuming that some things (like hybrid aus or duo names) are the kind of things that only happen here, so i thought i'd offer some examples of other places they happen! i also have even more examples if you'd like.

to be clear: this isn't shaming anyone for complaining about any of these things. lord knows i go complain to my friends about it all the time, just the other day i was complaining in the category of 'they keep bashing my guy'. it's more of just... a gentle reminder that maybe we're big, maybe we're loud, maybe we have problems... but these problems aren't always unique.

so uh. we're all suffering together i guess...?

#discourse #<- because. yeah. #this isn't meant to start a discourse this is more me laughing about Fandoms Is The Same #its also why i'm not bringing up the More Serious types of Fandoms Is The Same because i don't want to make light of it #and am instead bringing up the pettier ones #this sparked initially by someone acting like duo names are a this-fandom only phenomenon after years of being a ygo fan #and i was like. oh i've done this song and dance many a time. #and then i was thinking about posts complaining about things like fd and ships and everything else and i was like. oh that's an OLD song #so here. so we all remember sometimes that we all suffer together lol #this isn't a vague of anyone in particular i just constantly waver about making this specific post #anyway back to my usual discourse-free self

[dribevoli]

Marik is really killing it with the whole "friendship" thing

#finally colored this thing i made months ago so just take it #need to get in the groove of drawing again but its HARD #ygo #yugioh #ygo dm #duel monsters #marik #marik ishtar #malik #yugi mutou #ygo atem #yami yugi #comic #fanart #ygo anime #ygo manga #digital art

[moldy-mold]

alright... i’m in

trying to learn how to draw them!

#yugioh #seto kaiba #yami yugi #katsuya jonouchi #mai kujaku #pegasus j crawford #ryou bakura #marik ishtar #mai valentine #joey wheeler #maximillion pegasus #i've learned only one thing and it's that they're all really pointy #bakura's hair? easy. just like kratos #my art #ygo #dm

[shitpostingkats]

We need to acknowledge that Yugo spends almost the entirety of arc-v just skipping around between dimensions with no control over where he ends up. Reminder that Yugo is re-introduced to the plot like four times by just poofing into being, usually on a motorcycle, typically in places where a motorcycle should not be. Reminder that Yugo is a cryptid who, upon to being questioned on how he miraculously showed up on a heavily guarded island in the middle of the ocean, refers to being transported there by magical artifacts beyond his ken as "the usual"

What I'm saying is Yugo randomly popping out of shrubbery and dumpters with exactly zero idea how he got there is 100% true to canon and should be utilized in fanworks more often.

#yugo is the brother who leaves the party and when you text him the next day he's somehow in Jamaica #you leave him alone for five seconds and next thing you know everyones gotta go down to the precinct and pick him up #because he was found wandering around the third story of city hall #yugo is a 'things just happen to him' himbo #this may be an established fanon idk I've read like one fic with Yugo in it #but if its not already it SHOULD BE #spk watches arc v #yugioh #yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #yugo arc v

[nethersonq]

okay. i think ive done it for real this time

i THINK ive managed to finally run out of bakura colors. finally.

now with the addition of ????more miku blues???, this weird ass sandy color for ryou and ONE (1) new color for tkb. honestly props to him for being the most consistent out of the 3

like halfway through i found someone who had posted some of the official arts i'd already put on here but for some reason the colors were different on those editions and i have no idea whether they should be added or not. so.

all in all. 57 bakura colors. just like heinz sauce

#im hating this chart a little less because ive learned its not that serious #but also it may be because i finally gave in and realised that yeah i cant escape new bakura colors anymore #just add them to the chart #bakura #yami bakura #ryou bakura #thief king bakura #yugioh dm #yugioh #ygo #stupid dumbass housefly says things #also thank you to @thewittyphantom for helping me find a shit ton of these. including weird little sandy ryou

[zxal]

the biggest structural flaw with arc v imo is the absolute failure to engage with yuya's professed "make everyone smile" motivation on anything more than a glancing surface level. Ray tells zarc that yuya is the part of him that wants to make people smile, and yuya has that revelation himself in the finale (that zarc wanted to make people smile just like him) but doesn't manage to extract any takeaway from it other than "I guess we weren't so different" or "I guess zarc wasn't all bad" Which Like, Huh? guys, zarc wanting to make people smile was, like, the whole fucking issue. zarc felt pressured to conform to an audience's expectation of him (wanted to make them happy) and it made him hate humanity because what he wanted no longer mattered. It made him do things that disgusted him and it was never enough. He couldn't fill the hole in himself with other people's smiles. yuya is trying desperately to please everybody right up until the credits roll and he's miserable the entire time, he's still that part of zarc that desperately wants approval from others, without even the aspects of zarc that made dueling enjoyable to him (yuri's sadism, yugo's competitiveness, yuto's vindictiveness). I'd go so far as to wager that it's because Yuya is that aspect of zarc that he struggles so much more with zarc's influence compared to the others, BECAUSE HE'S EXPERIENCING THE EXACT SAME THING. it's not about entertainment or smiling or fun, it's conformity and it's going to break him. and they never address it. EVER.

#yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #arc v #they don't even bring up things like 'you can't make people enjoy something' or 'bottling up emotions is bad' #they really have yuya's dad tell him 'if you feel like crying just smile!' #and yuya goes okay i'll internalize that! and doesn't think about it doesn't question it. doesn't grow beyond that coping mechanism. #it makes me insane. What if you were an atomic bomb and you were shaped like a boy and you were so so empty inside. #yuya sakaki #.txt

[princessofgames]

puzzleshipping fans need to stop being afraid to depict yugi and the spirit sharing a body like they do in the show.

#So many fics where Atem just has his own for no reason #Not even post-canon just aus and whatnot #When the body sharing thing is an integral part of their relationship and needs to be focused on more #puzzleshipping #yugioh s0 #yugioh season 0 #yugioh season zero #yugioh duel monsters #ygo dm #yugioh #ygo #yu gi oh

[angeat]

hello. yusei with boobs. you're welcome.

#he has girl status in my head so hard i forget he isn't one in canon #this is not genderbend this is just yusei in his normal state #yusei fudo #yugioh 5ds #yugioh #ygo #digital art #fanart #sister walked in on me drawing his armpit specifically. just one of those things that might as well happen

[cyberdragoninfinity]

idk. fandom is general is bad about it but anime fandoms are. Really Particularly Not Great About Fat People (and especially the ygo fandom?!?! guys cmon what are we doing) and it can be frustrating.... challenge and think about the way you talk about and react to fat character designs. even if it isnt out of malice it can still be rooted in fatphobic stereotypes (as with any type of society-ingrained bigotry). sometimes the guy is just fat. and it's fine. "fat" isn't a bad word lol

#just. in general. woke up still a little pissed about that ask yesterday and thinking about things #ygo fandom on the whole really particularly not very slick about Absolutely Fucking Hating Fat People and it is. a bit exhausting HFDHGFD

[alectoperdita]

Your legend impels the tides in every ocean there is by Alecto

Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jounouchi Katsuya | Joey Wheeler/Kaiba Seto Characters: Kaiba Seto, Jounouchi Katsuya | Joey Wheeler Additional Tags: JouKai Week 2024, Alternate Universe - Honkai: Star Rail Fusion, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Science Fiction, Developing Relationship, Vidyadhara (Honkai: Star Rail), First Meetings, Herta Space Station (Honkai: Star Rail), Eventual Romance

The universe housed marvels great and small. Even for those as long-lived as Seto's species, there were new discoveries to be regularly made. Seto had never met anything—anyone like Katsuya. And he was certain he wouldn't in subsequent lifetimes, either. The collected vignettes of Katsuya, the Trailblazer, and Seto, a Vidyadhara always far from home.

Written for @joukaiweek 2024 day 1 prompts: star & dragon

Read Chapter 1 on AO3

#fic: Your legend impels the tides in every ocean there is #joukaiweek2024 #yugioh #puppyshipping #violetshipping #kaijou #joukai #ygo #my fanfiction #look ma! the Honkai Star Rail fusion no one asked for! #title taken from the most recent Pure Fiction update #just continuing my thing of writing random and niche fusions featuring my favorites who can never do anything wrong

[yes-my-paladin]

do u think, as he grows up, Yuma will start to see Kazuma in a different light? I mean, he idolized his father so much, and the man was obviously a source of comfort for him. But as he gets older, do you think he'll wonder how things could've turned out if his dad (and mom too ig. Mirai wasn't exactly there a lot either) had provided that comfort...in person? How much more it could've helped to actually hear these encouraging words from Kazuma in the flesh rather than have to rely on memory the whole time?

Idk bc its not like Yuma was a military brat, his parents weren't bound by the govt to go overseas and serve the country....they were explorers. Idk how professional Kazuma and Mirai were in that field, if they did it as a career or just a hobby but if it was the latter....idrk how I would feel abt my own parents choosing a hobby over me.

And I mean this is just speculation and all but I'm just trying with the idea of this tiny spark of resentment popping up within Yuma as he gets older and starts thinking about just how alone he was and why that was. I don't think he'd come to hate his parents; I don't think Yuma is really capable of hating anyone. But I do think maybe he'd wish Kazuma and Mirai had done things differently, been there more for him and Akari.

#im not like u talented yugioh essay ppl i just ramble on but #its also just the thing that happens when u get older #you realize ur parents weren't actually so perfect and didnt actually know everything there is to life #how you realize their mistakes #idk just a thought lol #ygo zexal #yugioh zexal #yuuma tsukumo #yuma tsukumo #kazuma tsukumo #mirai tsukumo

[emiartcorner]

Compilation of all of my Yugioh Paintings!

#yugioh #yugi mutou #ygo #yugioh dm #ygo dm #I’m super proud of how all of these turned out ^^ #that being said it’s funny to see how inconsistent my style is across all of these 😭😭 #not a bad a thing tho I just lwant be drawing this lil gamer

[starburstsobsessions]

every single day I am appalled and amazed by Misaki's characterization being leagues above so many female characters in shonen history. She was a girlboss she could cry she had a tragic backstory that actively mattered she had flaws she was great at the game she had her own "superpower" she wasn't for sex appeal or a love interest she cut her hair short she was loving yet not yielding she is so cool. Misaki you're amazing <3

#I can't think of another shonen girl to get this level of care put into her #Akiza ygo is great but still suffers from the whole Sex Appeal and also just being forgotten constantly. Misaki is p consistent somehow #NOT “she's better than all women” or “slut-shaming” thing obv. everyone knows how freaky tcg fandoms r about women especially teenage girls #im just so proud she was given such care and thought put into her #cfv #cardfight!! vanguard #misaki tokura

[taichouu]

As much as I truly enjoy the ways the ygo anime developed and added to Mana's character, I can't help but be left with such a bittersweet pang when I think of her.

Her bond and devotion with Atem and Mahaad were all she had left after the events that led them to their places of rest. The millennium ring that she inherited from her beloved teacher Mahaad was now tainted by not only the bitter pain of his absence but also the hand of darkness. Did it change her? Or was that just the influence of time and the loneliness of losing both her closest friend and her mentor?

It must have been difficult to see Atem's name be scrubbed from existence for her. She knew him intimately, considering the nature of their circumstances. Perhaps her love for her friend was enough to surpass lifetimes; enough to wait thousands of years to reunite with her best friend and her mentor. We never saw Mana make the same open declaration to serve Atem for eternity as Mahaad did, but maybe she didn't have to. Maybe her devotion for them both was enough to be able to reunite with them when they needed her again.

#tai talks #yugioh #ygo dm #ygo dmg #ygo mana #dark magician girl #HAS ANYONE ELSE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS... NO... JUST ME? .. ALRIGHT #im kind of miffed takahashi didnt address it in the manga because its CLEAR dmg has the same thing dm has going on #unless i completely missed it but i dont think i did #i like to believe her love was enough to reunite them ^_^ #(edit: I know Takahashi was very ill when he was finishing the manga so im not angry at him for forgetting her) #just wish that she got the same respect Mahaad did