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steve0discusses · 2 years

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S5 Ep 32: Mahad’s Dead

Feels like a million years since I’ve actually sat down and done a Yugioh post, which is a shame, because Bakura was just about to do some nonsense.

Mahad has decided that he’s going to trap Bakura’s soul into this tablet which like...good luck, man.

and like if we are assuming that all of these blank Chekhov’s tablets are going to house demon souls from all of Yami’s dead friends that will eventually become our playing cards in the future...Bakura’s monster, diabound, is a card nowadays right? (And I mean he’s a modern card in the shows universe, I figure there’s like a billion versions of diabound by now in Yugioh proper) so ... at some point Pegasus made him into a card.

So I guess that means Bakura’s soul monster isn’t actually diabound. I think? I try not to think too much about that at this point cuz it is a little bit confusing.

Look at em go, doing this vertical wheelie drop in those flimsy wraps, upskirting everyone on Bakura’s front line. They’re living their best life. Me, personally, would be terrified about going this fast without at least one belt on my sarong, but strangely this is the only time in Yugioh no one has 5-20 belts each.

(Bakura stuff under the cut)

Meanwhile, inside the tomb, Bakura and Mahad are gonna have a card tablet fight against the diabound that Mahad already knows needs a freakin God card to win against. Mahad really thinks a lot of his magician powers, which youknow...that’s hubris for you.

Yugioh loves to go back to hubris as a reoccurring theme and I appreciate that in every season of Yugioh, that has always been a constant. Don’t tempt (card) gods, folks.

Diabound now has a new look, and it’s getting kind of complicated for the art team, who just have no idea where to properly put the snake on this guy without it looking like a problem, so they just go for it and let it be a problem. I mean why the hell not, he has a snake for a lower torso. You can’t make this not awkward.

Because I know a little bit about how this game actually works (Character Development on my part, can I just say) I actually looked up this card, and no where does it say “it gains the super powers of the monster it fought before” so um...really glad I learned how to play this game.

When’s car season? I only know the car deck, and apparently no one in Master Duel plays any of these anime cards except for like Blue Eyes White Dragon so all of this is still completely over my head.

There’s not enough cars in ancient Egypt man. But you know what is in Egypt?

A little bit of actual Egyptian, which was cute!

At first I was like “wow, way to out that you’re from modern day Japan, Bakura!” and then I remembered his past self isn’t even from Egypt, either. Bakura being quite meta here.

Anyway, it was time for Yami to get the hell out of bed, because Yugi and Yami both have a really damn hard time sleeping on this show. And, I guess it’s been so long since Yami had a body and had to go to sleep that he forgot a little bit about how one gets ready for bed. Please admire how much metallic jewelry this child wears to bed.

It’s worse than Yugi. Yami your magpie situation is wow. Four rings, four bangles, a stacked choker, Tea’s airport cartouche, earrings--THE HAT? He even slept in the hat??? (also his eye liner, but I’ll give that a pass. We have, all of us, every single one, slept in our makeup and woke up to a pillow that has that one little splotch of mascara. We have, all of us, every single one, taken that pillow and just flipped it over to cover our sleeping-in-makeup sins.)

From an artist perspective, part of this is because they very much used a mirror tool do draw a lot of him here (which like, yes, you should absolutely be using the mirror tool if you have one. Please use the mirror tool and save your precious time on this planet earth. We like art shortcuts in this house) so if there’s earrings on one hand, it’s on the other by default. And also they just didn’t want to bother figuring out what his bangs situation was without the hat on--but it is pretty funny that he just...went to bed like this.

OR, and this is a big thing I just realized--that’s a wig. He’s bald under there. Do they have the guts to draw a bald Yami? Clearly not.

Parts of me are like...was there a point in the storyboarding process where Yami had no hair here? Did someone in a suit point at that and be like “this is very off-brand put back on the 30 lb hatwig I don’t care if he’s sleeping.” But we will never know.

Also please admire his bed.

What you don’t see here is the giant millennium eye just hovering over him on the bed rest. This is a very cursed bed situation that only a ghost would sleep in for any amount of time. (and that it was too spooky for even Pharaoh is saying something.)

Yes I did look up ancient beds in Egypt and none of them seemed to have four posters. But it’s not like this bed was even drawn to the perspective they clearly mapped out on the floor right there, so I don’t think they had the time to research that. Team did their best. Which involved taking that spooky bed from Noah Kaiba’s arc in S2 and shoving it here in Egypt in S5.

So Yami decides to ponder the sky pyramid that no one else can see but him. Just vibing in the middle of the night on a balcony filled with so much anxiety. This episode is really calling me out right now with my chronic insomnia, but thankfully none of my friends play murder cards (that are apparently made out of human souls of my ancient best friends).

In a sequence that was too hard to cap, one of the towers set off a little laser beam to inform us that Mahad was being a dumbass.

So something that I didn’t catch last episode, when I was hootin and hollering about the Anubis and how Anubis allowed everyone to just use the same damn deck of cards--I was wrong actually. Not my fault, it was the show doing organic storytelling and I was not prepared for that. Because it turns out everyone gets their own unique card crypt. So really, each of these towers is it’s own deck.

What a freakin nuisance this must have been to build, holy hell.

Also when bro was capping this, he at first was like “huh, isn’t this Dartz’ tower of souls?” and like yeah. Of all people, we’re getting a lot of Dartz throwbacks this season, so S4 wasn’t so tangential after all. Really they were just hinting that the horrible awful thing Dartz was doing, was done about 7 times over by Pharaoh’s Dad himself.

Which youknow...Yami is taking this in strides, still getting over the fact that his Dad probably (absolutely) killed that village, and that Seto is going to betray him very soon, and that Bakura is about to kill Mahad. Pharaoh I’m sure will eventually address this hypocrisy soon. Maybe. Kind of. Maybe not.

Man I can’t believe how honest Dartz was when he was telling Pharaoh point blank about how Pharaoh’s dynasty wasn’t that great in the past. Man. Pharaoh really shouldn’t have come here, kid should have just gone to math class, honestly. This isn’t worth ditching PE.

Anyway, Mana’s here because she also had the very bad dream that Mahad was about to biff it.

Imagine if this was a rule during the season where Tristan had the souls of 5 different dudes crammed into his brain who all freaking died in there. Tristan would be like 5 times banished.

Which now that I have played a Yugioh game, I know that banishing the same card 5 times in a row is a completely normal way of playing Yugioh.

Speaking of being dead and being banished and being Tristan, the gang is still lost in Yugi’s brain palace.

Yugi finds a door in it that for a split second really threw me for a loop. I 100 percent saw this and was like “DAMN IT HOW MANY BAKURA’S ARE THERE.”

Thankfully, this was a trick Bakura, and Ryou is indeed still passed out on the steps of Marik’s tomb. Assuming Marik hasn’t picked him up by now and shoved him into the Jeep.

Back in the simulation of the past, Bakura is doing really, really well for himself.

I do like the dedication to the detail on his Ancient Egyptian Toms. When even was the last time I saw a Toms in the wild with the tiny toe box? Like 2012? Maybe the fashion was the same for 3012 BC.

Anyway, Mahad is a real freakin asshole to Bakura this episode and that was kind of refreshing. It was a straight up Home Alone situation in here with him using his magic powers to just make a billion traps invisible. (and do less damage to Bakura than the Home Alone kid did to those robbers, ngl)

HOW.

How did he freakin miss this?

How is it even possible to miss the guy who is chained down by a bear trap with the largest ax that mankind has ever made? And how did it manage to break off said bear trap in the process? Like Mahad may be dark Magician, but he’s also the unluckiest human who has ever lived.

Anyway, Bakura reacts by shoving the ax at him which like--I never get to see this ceiling to figure out how the hell the suspension on this can go so many directions, but the big takeaway is that Mahad overcompensated, tried to kill a card god, and cheated at cards in the process of doing so, which in Yugioh means you’re already dead.

Meanwhile, in the Desert, Pharaoh is doing his best to not look like a dumbass in front of Mana.

Mana directs him to the summoning training grounds, which is where I guess they practice cards usually (don’t think about how many souls were sacrificed so they could practice cards). Where, Pharaoh finds out that Mahad has already locked himself into a cave, and that it’s too late to do freakin anything about it.

Mahad’s explanation for why he’s doing this is that he wanted to pay back Yami for all the goods stuff he’s done, like that time that Yami sucked the snake venom out of him all those years ago--which is a somewhat symbolic thing about how Yami tends to remove people’s darkness when he plays them with cards (or kills them, either/or)--but also puts in motion the fact that Mahads going to hella die here and put Pharaoh in a pretty bad position.

Mahad shouldn’t have done this, it definitely hurt Pharaoh’s dynasty in a huge way more than it helped Pharaoh, but Mahad was absolutely certain that his dark magician powers could do the trick. Which they didn’t but youknow...hubris.

Anyway, Bakura’s guards are here.

Lets jump cut so we don’t have to animate that. Instead, we’ll just jump straight to this:

This is a nice shot. For your redraw a scene from an anime meme, you could redraw this shot. I like this shot.

I don’t like this next shot though.

Good ol Egyptian spandex.

Unprovoked, the tablet from the very beginning of this episode decided it had enough of this plotline.

Pharaoh realized he was about to lose all of his magicians in one single day because of this single damn piece of rock, thanks to Mana just...standing underneath it. Bit she’s fine now. Mana survived.

Mahad is not though, he HELLA died.

If it had killed them both, it would have been a little awkward for that tablet because it’s only really supposed to fit one dude. We gotta wait to kill Mana for later.

Who would you cast as Mahad? Serious question, because I joke about this show becoming a Netflix original but there’s been a little bit of a Yugioh renaissance lately (like apparently Master Duel ended up having WAY MORE downloads than anticipated and it’s really upset the meta of the rankings because everyone is playing the same deck) so we all know it’s only a matter of time. How white are they going to cast Mahad?

Like it’s just going to be an off brand Robert Pattinson, and honestly I’d be kinda down for that because my expectations are zero, and I just want to recap that potential hot garbage and what it would do to their hair.

And if an off brand Pattinson is too much, like I enjoyed the cowboy Bebop remake cast, I just didn’t want them in the Cowboy Bebop remake. Make them all Yugi. Go ahead Netflix, Yugi’s so many people at this point, turn him into those three, you have done worse.

Yugi realizes that he needs to stop searching through random doors and simply wait for Pharaoh to call out to him, which, because Yami is trapped in a hell period where he’s absolutely going to die, should have already happened like a billion times already but Yugi just wasn’t paying well enough attention.

And like that, they get transported away. To where? Probably Egypt. Excited for the outfit change on all four of these guys. Yugi will be the only one in Egypt with a belt around his neck.

Soon, they will all be eating a garlic in Egpyt with the homies, assuming they don’t get immediately murdered because everyone will think they’re some sort of wizard. Which, in the case of Yugi is absolutely correct.

Anyway, see you next episode, here’s a link to read these in chrono order from the beginning.

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

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pjisskullourful · 2 years

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I am a submissive so i can only imagine myself as a sub with Victoria, who's definitely a hard dom, everyone sees it. Like, tying you up, gag in your mouth and eats you out with loud slurping noises and shaking her head as she eats it and spits on it and calls me a good little slut for taking her and then just fingers every hole as she sucks on my nipples, aggressive licks, bites, squeezes and everything.

Or thomas. I saw the other anon request about jealousy and i don't know what you have in storage but dom! Thomas amazes me. pounding into you, one hand around your throat, other fingering you, overstimulating your clit, then flipping you over to hold you from your hair as he fucks u from behind and then in your ass, omg i wish I could experience it.

And damiano and ethan- gay enough is the best story here!! The plotline, the smut, the kiddos i love so much (bet 1000% sylvia will come out as a lesbian or pansexual maybe), or the threesome we love?

thank you for granting us with månesmut, we love to see it :) i do like your posts from my original account but i don't always log in so here i am :) love u girl, focus on your mental and physical health too

... the way that i had to stop everything that i was doing, pause my podcast [harsh reality- its completely fuckin devastating but definitely an essential listen esp for somone like me who was a kid when something about miriam ran& couldnt understand why this woman was the most attractive/most ideal partner i could ever imagine] & have to physically pick my jaw up from the ground as i started reading that 1st paragraph. not even the whole way through. i think the spitting got to me& i just... oh my arousal-- didnt see that cuming, wasnt ready for it, but happy its here.

vic is a dom- there is simply no alternative for me. she has big top energy. & my submissive ass-- she can do whatever the fuck she wants me to& afterwards i'll tell her how happy i am to be her slut as we curlup & cuddle& watch labyrinth to relax. i do have a couple of solo vic fics inmind& both of them are dom vic-- including 1 just being her standing over you while you lie onthe ground& she degrades you while you masturbate... youknow suuuuuuper casuallike🙈[& thats in addition to the 2 vic 3some fics in the werks as we speak henny]

dom tom is definitely 1 ofmy interests too. the jealous fic is definitely him being the dom, degrading the reader. i hadnt added in choking but i can[its currently sitting at 3.6k+ words]

i am so grateful that somany people enjoy gayenough cos i just really love writing it. im not saying which of the twins is gay- but 1 is

❣️thankyousoverymuch. the mental health hasnt been sogreat sofar this week[& its only tuesday-- aaaaaah] but im trying

#pj answers

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gayspock · 2 years

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also ohhh by the way vis a vis black sails i dont thinkive done asilly little check-in post in a while so :3

FIRDTLY i am enjoying it so f- OH GOOD HEAVENS....

TUMBLT DO NOT TURN MY POINTS INTO - oh fine. sniff. ythats sick though. that makes my thoughts look wayyyy too official i only even bop thrm with a dash bc theyre just disjointed silly little things, heavens above!

but firstly: yes well i am enjoying it!! I THINK... hm. it hasnt gripped me! THATS NOT IN A MEAN-MEAN WAY- i think its just you know, not making me obsessseeddddd, which is quite the shame. there's some really good fucking stuff in here, is the thing and some good fucking characters but i think, perhaps, my one issue with the show is... there's some really mediocre connective tissue? which- really isnt a horrific ISSUE its just kind of dragging it down a bit. and it's, like, mostly TOTALLY inconsequential stuff but it accumulates and i think, if there was some polishing and this thing was REALLY TIGHT, then god... god this would fuck so so fucking GOOD. and again thats not to say it doesnt- i am liking it so far, im just like well :3 an episode...

like, for example: there's certain characters i dont care much for. certain plot points i dont care much for. certain executions im very lukewarm on. and lots that i DO care for. i feel as if... if this were tighter somehow, i'd be more into it, but also im not SO sure what it is i would cut out ... like its just like. god if we got to FOCUS more on these specific things, i'd be obsessed- but also i dont know how that would work without compromise of other things i like. so im like hm hmm hmm. like- i called it connective tissue, yeah? bc that's what it is- like all the stuff.. that's fitting ALL the stuff together. ehhh. im like ehhh! youknow? EHH?

like i think flint is, perhaps, like the BEST example of like: i want to be so obsessed with you (ESPECIALLY what they're doing with him in S2!!! moves in the right direction) but still feel like... we don't get enough to bring it, bring it home. perhaps i just need to sit tight a bit longer- bc again this isnt the "oh, death sentence!" its just like a well uhm i would have to liked to have seen it now !

and i think one another issue is, that im having with the show, is sometimes help..... i'll admit: there's random side characters i lose track of. any older white guy? hell- any white guy that isnt one of the MAIN white guys ... he just kinda fades into the bg for me. andTHATS SOOOO a me thing. but also help. i want to be intrigued more by internal politics of nassau - i really do - but i do kind of... lose threads when guys show up and im like wuh huh.

WHICH, sspeaking of: as i said with flint, i like what theyre doing so far with him in s2! I REALLY like it. showing a bit more of his past- but also showing more of him... as a captain? and what it really means to have influence, and to command people and to have that authority over them.

which speaking of, speaking of: is funnily enough... ONE point of disappointment: dufresne. and i know there was some other issues (i saw abt his actor whilst reading up abt him :(... honestly such a fucking shame) so im conscientious of that,and i realise that must have affected SOME ofit... to the extent, i don't know if we know!? as in- dont know what the writers have said about that, and i dont know how much im comfortable speculating on what-ifs there BUT.... YEAH. SAD. i really liked him, i did- but mmmm. there was something so rushed about his "arc" and kind of a shame, you know? hell- i was so fucking into it, into this idea of HIM becoming the captain of all things and i dont say it was OOC but then the actual ... way it was executed and played out. maybe it WAS the replacement actor who dropped the ball with it, i dont know, but it was like... there was a lack of something, you know? because again- i dont think him stepping up could be OOC, that he WOULD act so drastically, that he had the moral compass to act like that and to respond to flint like that in the aftermath of what he went through. makes a hell of a lot of sense. BUT also i dontknow- it feels like.. it wasnt right, in its execution- i feel as if... there was a lack of that conflict within him played out. and it, again, could be actor issues- the new guy not delivering, or hell them intentionally scaling back on him bc they just wanted him to fade out more organically but hm... i dont know. either way the point is it felt... like they put out a good character, gave him a really good scene, and it just sort of flittered out? shame

and i SAY this bc. shite why was i SAYING this... bc it DID sort of set the stage for Flint, and for demonstrating him well, and.... i think THATS what some of the trouble is, sometimees? sometimes? characters used, and introduced solely to demonstrate another character- which is FINE, yknow, and things like that happen aaalllll the timeeee in media yes sireee but sometimes- you know, i dont know. it does have a certain inelegance, a certain clumsiness - because obviously ideally you arent just setting up characters to develop others, etc. butlike... mm. like in general there's, again, one or two one note guys floating about- which again WILL always happen, you know- but they'll get... a LOT of screen time for who they, because theyre obviously advancing the plot along in nature, and then its like oh well ehrm YAH?

the other guy tht comes to mind is uh. that unsavoury cunt from s1- you know... who i mean, i presume... who was unkind towards max. i dont remember his name- truthfully dont FEEL like giving him one. but its like: obviously, freaking god, i dont want him to have a sympathetic angle. when it comes to guys like that- i'd much prefer a one note guy, to some godawful attempt to build depth into him, bc if ur clumsy it just reads as whatever. like fucking hell. but STILL- it does leave him feeling (and i do wince at this word for him- sorry) a bit cartoonish, like... yeah. this dude fucking SUCKS! he walks out and he SUCKS! and he just does BAD SHIT! now he can DIE to cause us PROBLEMS. like that's- again its all well and good, but it does seem to also be happening with the new bloke being introduced THIS season. and so the issue is- you know... characters brought in for, like, purely functional purposes? or being turned into- like dufresne... it feels eh to me.

and again. its like i dont want the shitty guys to have a sympathetic spin on them and i'd rather them be just straight up cunts than them do a clumsy attempt at making them more. but i think- you know, that's why i LOVE what they did with dukat in deep space nine. like fucking hell. he had a lot of depth- but he was the fucking worst guy around. like they showed what shitty people REALLY are like, irl. they arent just guys who do bad shite for the sake of it. but theyre guys who actively choose to be the worst fucking people - and they convince themselves of it all, sooo hard - and there's no "oh, they did this bc THEY had to! no choice! they were raised wrong, etc.!" bc whilst those can be factors its like. at the end of the day? dukat thought himself better than others; dukat was selfish and power hungry and did not want to sacrifice his positions of power; and it lead to some godawful perceptions he had on the bajorans, and he treated them shittily because of that .... and itmakes no apologies about that. but it shows like his thought process, exactly this that and the other, and its fucking horrible. as it should be, bc thats what oppressors ARE irl. theyre not some guys lead down the wrong path... they DO actively choose to be like that, for their own gain, bc they value it more than the livelihoods of others and i think sooo often ppl try to make the worst fucking ppl sympathisable and its like. fucking come on man. idc.

anyways what was i saying. yes. my point is- you can GIVE shitty guys some depth, have them be characters, rather than vague antagonistic forces to work against and to advance issues within a story, yah? its possible! but idk- it feel slike black sails does just... fall into that problem sometimes, mmm. which is a shame! it is! bc like i said- god, i really do like a lot of the other stuff theyre laying out... but when u just. idk. theres a lot of mediocre ppl dumped into this story that idc for that much is all. anyways positivie s tho bc

i like anne a lot. like i do. i said the show doesnt drive me crazy cuckoo bananas- well its true, but when i see anne she does to me. its that moment of mmm. :3 the perfect little sweet spot thats ENTIRELY appealing to some specific personal tastes of mine so hiyyaaaa anne. bestie anne. you and your girlfriend and your.... eyebrow raise boyfriend. your pet little he/they for you to carry around in your purse. LIKE IM LOVING ALL OF THEM- jack, anne, and max... theyre my faves. my ride or dies.

other than them i loved gates so bad. i knew he was sort of doomed from the start- like his character.. YEAH. YOU COULD FUCKING TELL. so i just sort of held on there with him and got shocked nonetheless when he died. i also loved billy. no idea what theyre gonna do with him going forward- but im SO intent with it like ooey ooey... I HOPE they do well with him.

(though maybe thats another issue? i dont know- its like... theres a PACING thing going on here ad maybe it relates to the above. im not sure. its like ithink this works as being fast paced- but also it feels like its taking some weird slow moments and its like god i dont know. maybe its the rate im watching it at- or maybe its ME, bc i know i have problems with ehrm. time. in general - but i feel like i havent seen billy in fucking forever... that he's been unresolved for forever. which is weird. its been like half a season. but still eh. you know!??)

and who else. i said i liked flint- but i fucking LOVE thomas even more... nand yep. yep god. okay. god bless those fucking men i can so easily goinsane if we get to see more of them - it has to be said - and if they are going about things well enough of course.

and then eleanor? I THINK ITS ODD- I THINK... characters like her, in general? god i do like them- but i do feel as if my like for them is more of a: upon reflection, yes..... do you know what i mean? shiv and helly from succession are two that come to mind: girlbosses i cannot relate to on any sort of level, but when i step back from the work and get to really appreciate the decisions they made... yeah. loving it.

BUT: i dont know how i feel about her and max? i mean- look, im not a shippy guy in THAT sense you know... just eh. dont know how i feel- i know they were together and loved each other and liked their chemistry well enough, but we're obviously seeing the unfortunate side of their relationship here. so im like lukewarm - potentially turned off a little? which - i dont say that in a... OK. thing is: i dont really care for it, ever, when a character is SO dedicated and lovestruck by another but we dont really get to see A LOT of why that is. and i get why that is some with max and eleanor- we see bits of it! but also again we are seeing a LOT of the unfortunate side and so its like... eh. you know. WHAT they were to each other god thats so sweet- but the story we're getting now is the sadder partofthat.

and . what did i say: OH I SAID TURNED OFF BY IT. YES . WELL. to elaborate more- bc im obviously not like... turned off by two ppl not being together any more its not thatits the. ok we have to bring him up. fuckin charles. mixed feelings on the cunt. bc him and max had a little exchange just now like goddd we're so in love with that girl- and its like with them both im just like . i dontknow. i dont care for it, sometimes? MAYBE ITS IKE- im not... obsessed with romantic plotlines, or at least not ones where the romantic foot is put before the other one. i love stories wherein romance emerges between the characters. but if the driving factor is: oh these guys are in LOVE! we're both so blindly in love with ealanor. full stop it doesnt do much for me. shruggie shrug. and i think theres enough surrounding max and eleanor that its not LIKE that- but itdoes sometimes give me a bit of an ehhh whatever cmon keep it moving girlies....

but yeah. freakin charles. i ahve my finger on him- bc i think he IS the more "antagonisitic" freak with some depth to him, that could have frankly been used this entire time rather than introducing new ones for like the purposes of the story... but its like idk. again with the introducingnew guys- i suppose they did that, in a way to sort of soften his presence which. againjust makes me eh? bc like-i did not like his behaviour towards eleanor to begin with and i certainly did not fucking like what he did to max. bc yes theyre all god damn pirates; yes theyre fucking horrible and yes theyre operating within a system that perpetuates that horrific nature, makes it all feed into each other... but yeah, its p obvious when youre being a bit of a fucking CUNT even within the space you're put in babygirl. m. and its like- i have a cerain OWRRY with him... that they're going to try and sympathise with him more which. im not saying they CANT do- that they cant od redemption arcs with guys that have done what they did- but it does make me nervous a little. i do like his character, though, with some reservations there- like... i do think that he is a guy written well thus far its just. a tipping point thats VERY very delicate and yah. make him go through the fucking ringe.r then we will see.

anyway do i have any other thoughts god i dont know

im just finished s2e4. its odd. i thought there were so many mre episodes- why did i convince myself there was seven fucking seasons of 24 each? thats half the reason why i put it off so long- nutno girl help...

anyways maybe it will send me crazy insane more as i go forward. it DOES have the potential to for suresies! :3 but also idk. im thinking abt what to watch next? yah.... smile.

#Egg.txt #black sails liveblog #i donthave a lotof like . moment to moment thoughts on it you know?#its one ofthose shwos. smile.

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engineer-jo · 2 years

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best and funniest part of health class is retelling all of your fucked uo experiences to the class and teacher cause you can relate to the bad shit they talk about like nobody goes thru them . like we move onto the next ‘serious’ topic and wheni rqise my hand and she calls on me the class now instinctively looks back to see what byllshit happened to me in my childhood fr—youknow youve had an abnormal life when now people start looking worried when the teacher says your name and dont look at anyone else when theyre called on

#this class is so so sooo fun tbh #all i do is draw stu and overshare LOL #jojo7life

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vyladromeave · 3 years

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SHABOWKNIGHT HEADCANONS PLASTERBOATS

This is how Shabowknights work in my brain. It just is.

(Warning this is super long. like really long. its literally like 69k+ words im not kid. ding. i did include a couple poupble to help break up the bup the text. so. good lick.)

BECOMING A SHADOWKNIGHT

There is only one requirement for a person to become a shadowknight: you gotta feel it. you gotta reel it. you gotta feel it in the heart of the cards. sometimes ur having a rough day and youknow what thats fine. the shadowlord is totally there for you. hes your homie. your bro. your bromie. he can be anything you want him to be. but most importantly he is here for YOU. hes the cool boss. he lets you slack off on fridays, he puts slightly outdated memes in his powerpoint presentations. all for you. you’re welcome.

Now I hear what you’re thinking. What happens when the Shadowlord has a bad day? He can’t always be there for you, right? Wrong. The Shadowlord is on that grind, as the kids say. The grind never stops. no breaks. Stops? no stops. the only thing the Shadowlord is putting a stop to is ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ʀᴜ'ᴀᴜɴ ʀᴇɢɪᴏɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠɪʟʟᴀɢᴇ-ʟᴏʀᴅ sʏsᴛᴇᴍ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɢᴏᴠᴇʀɴs ɪᴛ. Hes up all night and all day, working hard for you. give him a big thank you.

Not convinced? here’s a cool diagram he made for you. this could be us. you could be partially dead BUT holding hands with your best bro the Shadowlord. and really, what’s better than that? ghat? yeah? no. nothing. nothing is better. look at this diagram and fucking weep.

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SHADOWKNIGHTS AND IMMORTALITY

All Shadowknights are immortal, as in immune to giving a shit. they just dont give a shit. they can just sit around for hours not giving a shit. do you give a shit? you shouldnt. you shoulding. houlding. hold mushrrom. thats what you should be doing right now. what are you waiting for? well???????????

If you were a Shadowknight, you could be holding a mushroom right now. That’s right. a whole mushroom just for you. but you arent. so you wont. why not? what’s stopping you? pledging your undying allegiance to the Shadowlord isnt so bad, we promise. it rocks, actually. we have pizza parties at the end of every month. does your employer hold pizza parties at the end of every month? I didn’t fucking think so.

Now I know what you’re thinking. But I dont waaaannnaaa kill the person I love the most! Well guess what? Sometimes you have to make hard decisions in life. Which is why you’re lucky that this decision is actually an easy one! I mean think about it, end of the month pizza party, mortal emotional attatchments. attachemnts. atatchments. fuck. however you spell it. Which one sounds cool as hell? Thats right. I don’t even have to say it. you know the answer. you already know the answer. i put it in your breain and it stays there.

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Your favorite pizza topping.

What do you want on your pizza? I know you’re technically not one of the bros yet, but theres no way you wont be after all this, so I figured I’d go ahead and get your order down. Yeah i know the pizza party is a month away. im not ordering it right now. im ordering it later. that way its still fresh when it shows up.

Although the delivery times out here in the nether kinda stink if I’m being honest. dont tell the shadowlord I said that though. he puts in a lot of time and effort to making sure everything is cool down here and like, really he doesn’t need to worry about the whole pizza delivery thing. like he already puts in so much time, the least i can do is cover the pizza thing yknow?

I actually made the pizzas one month. have you ever made hundreds of personal pan custom pepperoni pizzas. its a lot of work. seriously. I kept burning them. so many burnt personal pan piping hot pipper pepper pepperoni personal pan personal pizzas. luckily im immune to fire, and i can never die. if you were one of the bros, you could be too. here’s your pizza.

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Consuming the Pizza

Go on. eat it. I made it for you. what do you mean when did I have time to make a pizza? just now, while we were talking. didn’t you notice? maybe not. I’m good at making pizzas quickly now. ive had a lot of practice. maybe we could make some personal pan pinni mini pan pepperoni pizzas togethethter sometime.

oh my god. wait. im an idiot. im a fool. i was so focused on making you your personal pan pipini piziza pepperoni peper piza that i didnt even hear what you wanted for your toppings. im so sorry. oh my gosh im so sorry. i really didn’t mean to, i just got caught up in the moment. really. i promise. i know this reflects really badly on the whole shadowknight thing, but i promise this is a rare occasion. really. all the bros here in the nether are really kind and thoughtful, so stuff like this rarely ever happens. I really hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

maybe its better that we dont have personal pipizini personal pan papaza pizzas. im not actually that good at making the pizazis. i lied. im sorry. im so sorry. this doesnt normally happen. i just wanted to sound cool. its been so long since someone’s considered joining the bros, i just wanted you to really like me. im so sorry. oh my god. im so sorry.

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A Reformed Pizza

The pizza is metaphorical. we’re still friends, right? we’re still bros? future potential bros? the potential kinetic mechanical energy of bros? thats a little science joke for you, whwhwhere i just said the science words. I havent learned about science in a while, ive been stuck down here making personal pan pizzazos for a while. im sorry about the pizza thing again, by the way. i tossed your bad personal pan pizza in the lava pool over there to make up for how sucks it was. it was really bad. yeah. its probably a good thing that nobody ate it.

A Sturdier Pizza

The pizza is literal. We can make a new pizza. together. with my powers and yours combined. give me your hand. we are holding hands now. these are the hands that will make a new pizza. together. we can do it if we believe. do you believe? in our new world? in our now pizza? you should. you should believe. you better fucking believe it.

look at thsi shit. ohhhhooooooollyf uck. look at that pizza. holy shit. look at that piza. holy shit. balls.

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Natural Abiblibties

sorry im still jsut thinkginbg aboutt he pizza. homygod. holy shit. did youz seetheat pizza. did you see it. arey you looking. at the pizza. ohmygodc. look at thits. is. its. the pizza. its fucking perfect look at it. ive never made a pizza like that before. we diddit tofgotehr. we did it. the pizza. we did it.

iknow itsnoth the end of the month yet but iwant to have a pizza party. lets do it again. we’re strong enough. we can take on anything tofeger. antyhign. even pizza. especially pizaz. we can. iknow you dont believe it but its strue. lets do it again. lets make a pizza one more time. what dtopping do you want to put on it this time? mushrrom? we can do mushrrom.

here. im handing you a mushrrom. you can put it on the pizza. its a topping. there are many toppings you can put on pizza. you can put on extra cheese too. then iets ecxtra cheesy. cheesy peezy. pizza.

lets do it together.

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Additional Pizzas

we’ve made so many pizzas. thatslike two whole pizzas. wholy fuck. holy shit. thats twho whole pizzas. bro. thats great! thats amazing! thats two more pizzas than we had before. like seriously we set our mind to the piizza and our brain to the pizza and you smush it and you sus it and then you pizza. woaw! pizza. pizza.

what if we made more pizzas.we could make a pizza for everyone. everyone could knpow of our pizzas. everyone could be just as happy as us. isnt that great? isnt that amazing? we could all pizzas. we could ALL pizzas.

hold on. im calling the bros. they need to know. they need to pizza. ive got two bros right here ready for a pizza. do you think we can do it. thats double the pizza we’ve already made. it could be tough. i know this is a lot of pressure, and it really means a lot to me, but its ok if you want to back down now. pizza is a lot of work. its hard work. i know it is. you know it now too. but we can pizza. we can pizza together.

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THANK YOU FOR PIZZA!

:) the bros really enjoyed the pizza. thanks for helping me make pizza very appreciate very cool. pizza. im handing you a pizza coupon right now i am folding it into your hand. what store does it go to? dont worry about that. its just a coupon for pizza, you dont have to worry about the specifics. they��ll know what to do with it.

they’ll know.

#april fools #unreality tw #???#this post is. something.#sorry it doesnt cover all the sections of the original post i got so tired. so so tired. this much gibberish takes effort to write.

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variousqueerthings · 2 years

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well

season 5 has been watched

an incredibly strong season, as youknow... basically every season of this ridiculous show

I think s3 broke me, because I was expecting something horrifying or bleak in the last episode and that’s not what happened at all here! it surprisingly made me feel more melancholy than if something dramatic had happened, like I was holding a lot of tension and it didn’t get the chance to go anywhere. also because it feels like we’re headed into a new era again, and there’s always a little goodbye when that happens, even if the goodbye has itself been very joyful

as far as I’m aware we’re now moving into the half of the show that was far more influenced by alan alda (not that he hadn’t been a strong creative and production presence before this of course) and that gives it a third “new” feeling from previous seasons

I know we’re still missing another (last?) piece of main cast that I think stays until the end? I know his name is “charles” and I know he’ll be arriving soon. I’m guessing in replacement of frank, whom I will wait to say more about until his farewell (which I guess isn’t happening offscreen? unless he’s just gone in s6ep1... sure hope not, he deserves a proper send-off + I don’t think larry linville did what wayne rogers did 😂)

it’s interesting because we’re almost at the halfway mark of the show overall and yeah I’ve been counting down the seasons, but because seasons 1-3 have been their own thing and seasons 4+5 have been their own thing, it’s felt less like a show with seasons and more like I’ve watched the prelude, and now the first act

there’s such a distinct change in the characters in 1-3 vs 4+5 (including of course two exchanges which will change up a dynamic significantly + two characters moved into main cast, and more of a sense of who the secondary and tertiary characters are)

so I wonder if 6-onwards will mark another change in how the characters are. margaret I think will continue to move dramatically, as I know she’s still going places, and I will continue to wax poetic about the joy I feel in seeing makers recognise character and actor potential and not stifling it!

Overall:

cautiously calling 1-3 the hopeful/innocent era, ending with loss

4+5 the grief and... recovery? era. the end of s5 is very different tonally from the beginning of s4 and like i said... it wasn’t sad (for anyone but frank)

i have a vague assumption on 6, that it will be more sombre. or not sombre but... serious, in a particular way, as if the last few seasons haven’t also been that, but I think overall more. it’s not based on much evidence -- it may also simply be the mood that I’m carrying into the next season with the scant knowledge I have of it

anyway. slow clap for seasons 4+5 (act 1), hello bj and colonel potter, well done margaret who’s the mvp of s5 and gets best punch of the show so far, big kisses to mulcahy, klinger, and radar - and hawkeye uh... hang in there buddy. unconnected, but I hope we see sidney freedman again

(and you know... like I said I’m going to wait until frank leaves to say anything longer, but I really have enjoyed his presence on the show, fascinated by his increased erratic behaviour in s5, kept expecting him to get a section 8 to be honest)

#im watching MASH #margaret houlihan #hawkeye pierce #frank burns #MASH #bj hunnicutt #sherman potter

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docholligay · 3 years

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I laughed at the “DO YOUKNOW THE ANSWER?” because of course we fucking do, Utena brings this up like it’s her fucking JOB, and while I have softened to many things in this anime, or, okay maybe a handful of things, this is not one of them. WE GET IT, HONEY.

But I was sitting here thinking, and I think so much of what this is focusing on is Utena’s intense sense of loneliness, and how this draws her into unhealthy relationships, as it can for even the best of us. I really balk at Ikuhara’s fixation on the sexualization of sibling relationships, but let’s for just one moment, pretend that he’s Not Like This and I could be appreciating this in a normal human way, it makes sense that she would attach herself inappropriately to Anthy, to Akio, if she feels this sense of never having had the stability of a family relationship. I’ve seen women do this with not-great men all the time, hold fast to them because the alternative is to potentially be lonely again. ‘

I would ask why she couldn’t build that sense of family and connection with Wakaba, the only person worth caring about in this anime, but I suppose that’s the most realistic writing of all. How many people with this sense of sucking lonliness DON’T seek out friends, but instead feel like only something with a romantic sort of cast can create that stability and fulfillment?

#Eight Days 2020 #Doc watches Utena #Utena: The Rebloggening #Episode 33

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thewolfisapartofmysoul · 4 years

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Hey lovelies,

Another fic... This time its a Beetlejuice x reader. Actually i was planning on a quick drabble but got sucked into it. 😅

Reader is coming out as not-straight to Beetlejuice. Either bisexual, lesbian, asexual, tanssexual, pansexual, aromantic, gender-neutral (or any i've missed)...

Any 🏳️‍🌈single one of you... i love you and you are valid as hell. 💕

Thanx for reading. Hope you enjoy.

@paxenera @demonwifey @hoodoo12 @ironmansuucks @stranger-strings @vicunaburger

You were lounging on the couch with your favorite ghost-with-the-most, laying on your back with your head on his thigh as he gleefully chatted about the last scare he gave Lydia 10 minutes ago. You chuckled as Beetlejuice tried to reproduce the scream of terror Lydia had made when he jumped out of her mirror. Again. For the 4th time this week.

The vibe was relaxed and happy, his hair was vibrating-neon-green because of the joy he just had pulling a scare on Lyds. Sometimes you felt pity for the goth teen, but then figured that she would get back to him the same way soon enough. It was often only a matter of time untill she figured out a plan to scare him back.

A smile creeping up your face as you praised yourself lucky to be part of this loving odd family.

As Beetlejuice stopped talking, you noticed him looking at you as you were laying on his lap. His eyes narrowing as he thoughtfully scratched his scruff. You got uncomfortable at his stare so you blurted out: "wha-... whatsup BeeJ...? Do i have someting between my teeth again?" He rolled his eyes saying: "No babes. You look as pretty as always... its just... you dont have the mood-ring-hair-awesomeness going on like me. But i can tell that you're upset about something lately."

You took a deep breath. Of course Beetlejuice would notice. He was your best pall.

"Yeah... i uhm... did some thinking recently and erhmmm..."

He was looking at you with kind eyes as you stuttered through your scetence. "I... want to tell you BeeJ, i just can't... quite... say it."

Beetlejuice nodded quickly, understanding where you were coming from. Far too many people could hear you around the house right now.

His eyes glinsetered and his while body perked up, smile forming on his lips as he started to yell at the top of his lungs: "Hey Babs...?! Uhmm....I think i set the stove on fire AGAIN!!!" He winked at you and clipped his fingers, wicked smile on his face as even more neon green appeared in his hair.

Whitin seconds you heared everyone running through the house towards the kitchen, a swearing Charles rushed past the living room first, with a fire extinguisher in hand. Lydia right behind him, scolding Beetlejuice as she ran after her dad. Barbara and adam following suit trying to calm Charles and Lydia down. Delia followed quickly behind mumbling something about bad karma, also rushing towards the kitchen.

Your eyes went wide as you looked at the demon you were still lounging on. His eyes smirking as much as his mouth did, and you smacked his arm. "Ouch! Hey!! Gimme a break babes... i got you some nice and quiet talking-time!" beetlejuice defended himself.

"Yeah... well... you could have just poofed us away youknow?" you mumbled, but had to laugh at his antics anyway. A smirk was creeping up his face as he hummed: "Its more fun this way! Now... im all ears doll... you were saying?"

You sat up next to him and pulled your legs under you, so you were sitting cross-legged beside him. He was once again looking at you intently.

"Well... the thing is... i think i... might not... be... straight?" you winced a bit at your own words. Watching his face closely, expecting him to do the same. He never did. Instead he frowned a bit as he started to speak: "Babes... you do realise that i am literally attracted to every human being, regardless of whats in their pants... right?" You nodded. "Then you do know that that shit is NOT what makes you less then the awesome breather you are."

You felt tears pickling behind your eyes as he said so. Swallowing thickly at his kind words. "If you ever want to talk to me about how you feel, im here for you babes. And i am the last demon around thats going to judge you.... Besides...." he clipped his fingers again. Bouncing with excitement as he did so. The green smokenaround you dissapeared you were both wrapped between a rainbow flag together. "...we are both KILLING the rainbow look, babes." You chuckled, feeling happy and relieved your bffff foverever accepted and supported you.

He went to lay his scruffy cheek on your shoulder as he tugged the rainbow flag closer around his shoulders, getting comfortable next to you. He purred softly: "... now... tell me all about it babes... im listening."

#alex brightman #bouncy oddball #beetlejuice imagine #beetlejuice x reader #beetlejuice/reader #beetlejuice the musical #beetlejuice #beetlejuice broadway #beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice #pride #lgtbqia+#lgbtq positivity #you are valid #never forget #lgbt 🏳️‍🌈#🏳️‍🌈#🏳️‍🌈pride #myownfic

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kirk-goes-to-gallifrey · 4 years

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Dan in the spotlight

as per @the-best-of-what-we-had-youknow ‘s request ;)

#thanks for sending the request #I loved painting this one #dan smith #bastille #kirk.goes.to.gallifrey #ThatGoodOldArtTag

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combeauferre · 4 years

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hi Abie! Did you know there's a bastille discord? It'd be great to have you on there! (If you're interested of course)

that’d be so cool, thanks for thinking of me! i don’t really have the space on my phone for another app atm rip but if i manage to clear out some of the shit ive got on there i’d love to join!

#<3 #abie answers #the-best-of-what-we-had-youknow

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twoidiotwriters1 · 4 years

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Written In The Stars XLI (Harry Potter xF!Oc)

A/N: Last chapter, time flies when you’re having fun :’) Part one of book three coming this thursday uwu

Words: 4,548

Warnings: None!

Series’ Masterlist

Previous Chapter // Book III

Chapter Twenty-Three: New Discoveries.

She was definitely not expecting to see so many people inside the office.

Mrs and Mr Weasley got up and trapped Ginny in a tight hug, both of them crying happily at the sight of the daughter they thought was lost forever.

Dumbledore's eyes were fixed on her and Harry, and he was smiling brightly at them. Fawkes flew away from her shoulder only to sit on Dumbledore's.

She was suddenly in the middle of a bear hug with Ron and Harry, Mrs Weasley leaving the tiniest space for them to breathe.

"You saved her! You saved her! How did you do it?"

"I think we'd all like to know that," said Professor McGonagall with a shaky voice.

Mrs. Weasley let go of Harry, who hesitated for a moment, then walked over to the desk and laid upon it the Sorting Hat, the rub-encrusted sword, and what remained of Riddle's diary.

Then he started telling them everything. For nearly a quarter of an hour he spoke into the rapt silence: He told them about hearing the disembodied voice, how Hermione had finally realized that he was hearing a basilisk in the pipes; how he, Mel, and Ron had followed the spiders into the forest, that Aragog had told them where the last victim of the basilisk had died; how he had guessed that Moaning Myrtle had been the victim, and that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets might be in her bathroom...

All sounded way more impressive than how it really was, most of what they knew was by pure luck and guessings, but altogether, they sounded better than any of Lockhart's books.

"Very well," Professor McGonagall breathed heavily, "so you found out where the entrance was- breaking a hundred school rules into pieces along the way, I might add- but how on earth did you all get out of there alive, Potter?"

Harry continued though his voice was growing tired, by the time he reached the part where the diary had somehow something to do with the whole thing, he stopped, giving a nervous glance to Ginny and then going back to Dumbledore, who only smiled as a reply.

Harry was hiding something, the thing that connected Ginny and the diary with the rest of the story, she just couldn't tell exactly what it was.

"What interests me most," Dumbledore said, "is how Lord Voldemort managed to enchant Ginny, when my sources tell me he is currently in hiding in the forests of Albania."

"What?" Mel turned to look at her uncle in disbelief, "Voldemort?"

"W- what's that?" said Mr. Weasley. "YouKnow-Who? En-enchant Ginny? But Ginny's not... Ginny hasn't been... has she?"

"It was this diary," said Harry, giving the book to Dumbledore. "Riddle wrote it when he was sixteen..."

The man took the book and examined it, Mel saw the same strange glint in his eyes she'd seen a year back when she mentioned her bursts of magic to him.

"Brilliant," he said. "Of course, he was probably the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen. Very few people know that Lord Voldemort was once called Tom Riddle. I taught him myself, fifty years ago, at Hogwarts. He disappeared after leaving the school, traveled far and wide... sank so deeply into the Dark Arts, consorted with the very worst of our kind, underwent so many dangerous, magical transformations, that when he resurfaced as Lord Voldemort, he was barely recognizable. Hardly anyone connected Lord Voldemort with the clever, handsome boy who was once Head Boy here."

"But Ginny," said Mrs. Weasley. "What's our Ginny got to do with -with... him?"

"His diary," Ginny cried. "I've b-been writing in it, and he's been w-writing back all year..."

"Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley. "Haven't I taught you anything. What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain? Why didn't you show the diary to me or your mother? A suspicious object like that, it was clearly full of Dark Magic"

"I d-didn't know," sobbed Ginny. "I found it inside one of the books Mum got me. I t-thought someone had just left it in there and forgotten about it..."

"Miss Weasley should go up to the hospital wing right away," Dumbledore interrupted. "This has been a terrible ordeal for her. There will be no punishment. Older and wiser wizards than she have been hoodwinked by Lord Voldemort. Bed rest and perhaps a large, steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up... You will find that Madam Pomfrey is still awake. She's just giving out Mandrake juice- I daresay the basilisk's victims will be waking up any moment."

"Hermione!" Mel blurted out in excitement.

Dumbledore walked up to the door and opened it so the Weasleys could go.

"She's okay!" said Ron brightly, his mind on their friend.

"There has been no lasting harm done, Ginny," nodded Dumbledore.

The girl and her parents disappeared through the door, then the man looked back at McGonagall.

"You know, Minerva, I think all this merits a good feast. Might I ask you to go and alert the kitchens?"

"Right," said McGonagall, already going out. "I'll leave you to deal with Potter, Dumbledore, and Weasley, shall I?"

"Certainly," said Dumbledore.

They glanced at each other nervously, not knowing what that meant.

"I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules," said Dumbledore. "Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words. You will receive Special Awards for Services to the School and- let me see- yes, I think two hundred points apiece for Gryffindor."

She sat heavily on the nearest chair, shaking from weariness and relief.

"But one of us seems to be keeping mightily quiet about his part in this dangerous adventure," Dumbledore added, she looked up to see he was talking about Lockhart. "Why so modest, Gilderoy?"

"Professor Dumbledore," Ron piped up, "there was an accident down in the Chamber of Secrets. Professor Lockhart-"

"Am I a professor?" said Lockhart. "Goodness. I expect I was hopeless, was I?"

Mel laughed, catching the man's attention.

"You were," She smiled, "but you know, we worked with what we had, I like to think that we were smart enough"

"You certainly look clever," The man agreed innocently.

Ron snorted, trying to hide his amusement with a cough.

"He tried to do a Memory Charm and the wand backfired," The boy explained quietly to Dumbledore.

"Dear me," said Dumbledore, shaking his head. "Impaled upon your own sword, Gilderoy!"

"Sword?" Lockhart tilted his head. "Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one."

"Would you mind taking Professor Lockhart up to the infirmary, too?" Dumbledore said to Ron. "Id like a few more words with Harry and Mel..."

Ron obeyed, but not before throwing a curious glance over his shoulder as he walked out of the room.

"Sit down, Harry," He pointed to the chair next to Mel. The boy obliged. "First of all, Harry, I want to thank you. You must have shown me real loyalty down in the Chamber. Nothing but that could have called Fawkes to you."

Mel glance at Fawkes, the bird was sitting on Dumbledore's knee, comfortably leaning his tiny head against her uncle's hand.

"And so you met Tom Riddle," said Dumbledore. "I imagine he was most interested in you..."

She felt her heart race, she remembered what'd happened during her time in the chamber, the... vision she'd had, should she mention it?

"Professor Dumbledore... Riddle said I'm like him. Strange likenesses, he said..."

"Did he, now?" said Dumbledore. "And what do you think, Harry?"

"I don't think I'm like him!" Harry said, so abruptly that manage to bring her back from her thoughts. "I mean, I'm- I'm in Gryffindor, I'm..."

He glanced at Mel, and she understood he was anxious about telling his worries in front of her. She offered a hand for him to hold, Harry took it with uncertainty.

"Professor," He looked back at the old wizard. "The Sorting Hat told me I'd- I'd have done well in Slytherin. Everyone thought I was Slytherin's heir for a while... because I can speak Parseltongue..."

"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," explained Dumbledore, "because Lord Voldemort- who is the last remaining ancestor of Salazar Slytherin- can speak Parseltongue. Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred some of his own powers to you the night he gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure..."

"Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Harry said, his hand closed tighter around hers, but she didn't mind.

"It certainly seems so."

"So I should be in Slytherin," He lamented. "The Sorting Hat could see Slytherin's power in me, and it --"

"Put you in Gryffindor," said Dumbledore. "Listen to me, Harry. You happen to have many qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his hand-picked students. His own very rare gift, Parseltongue -resourcefulness - determination- a certain disregard for rules... Yet the Sorting Hat placed you in Gryffindor. You know why that was. Think."

"It only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a defeated voice, "because I asked not to go in Slytherin..."

"Exactly. Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. If you want proof, Harry, that you belong in Gryffindor, I suggest you look more closely at this."

He handed the shiny sword back to Harry, he let go of her hand in order to take the sword and examine it carefully, she peered over his shouder to see it better. There was a name engraved below the hilt.

'Godric Gryffindor'

"Only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat, Harry," said Dumbledore simply.

Mel looked up from the sword and into Dumbledore's eyes. She had her brows knit together and wanted so badly to express her thoughts, yet she couldn't. It was about things that neither harry or he knew, and she didn't know how to express them. Still, Dumbledore was a great wizard for a reason, he knew Mel wanted to speak privately.

"What you need, Harry, is some food and sleep. I suggest you go down to the feast, while I write to Azkaban- we need our gamekeeper back. And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too," He said, deep in thought. "We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?"

Harry stood up and waited for Mel.

"Oh, I'm staying- I need... I need to talk about- some things" She stammered.

"Okay," Harry eyed her carefully, but he started to leave without asking more questions.

Lucius Malfoy burst into the room looking furious.

Mel stood up immediately.

"Good evening, Lucius," said Dumbledore.

Mel noticed the man wasn't alone, a small figured walked in behind him, something that looked exactly like Harry had said Dobby looked like. The elf bent down and kept polishing the man's shoes, Mel'd never seen such a sorrowful creature.

"So!" Malfoy said "You've come back. The governors suspended you, but you still saw fit to return to Hogwarts."

"Well, you see, Lucius," said Dumbledore, smiling serenely, "the other eleven governors contacted me today. It was something like being caught in a hailstorm of owls, to tell the truth. They'd heard that Arthur Weasley's daughter had been killed and wanted me back here at once. They seemed to think I was the best man for the job after all. Very strange tales they told me, too... Several of them seemed to think that you had threatened to curse their families if they didn't agree to suspend me in the first place."

Mr. Malfoy went even paler than usual, but his eyes were still slits of fury.

"So -- have you stopped the attacks yet?" he sneered. "Have you caught the culprit?"

"We have," said Dumbledore, with a smile.

"Well?" said Mr. Malfoy sharply. "Who is it?"

"The same person as last time, Lucius," said Dumbledore. "But this time, Lord Voldemort was acting through somebody else. By means of this diary."

Mel moved over to Harry's side, watching the scene attentively.

Dumbledore held up the small black book with the large hole through the center, watching Mr. Malfoy closely. Harry, however, was watching Dobby, so she did as well.

The elf was doing something very odd. His great eyes fixed meaningfully on Harry, he kept pointing at the diary, then at Mr. Malfoy, and then hitting himself hard on the head with his fist.

Dobby was confessing. She remembered what Ginny had said, that she'd found the book with the rest of her books- the same day she'd gotten her school books Lucius Malfoy and Mr Weasley had fought inside the library, Malfoy had even examined Ginny's book.

This was Malfoy's fault.

"I see..." said Mr. Malfoy slowly to Dumbledore.

"A clever plan," said Dumbledore in a level voice, still staring Mr. Malfoy straight in the eye. "Because if Harry here," Mr. Malfoy shot Harry a swift, sharp look, "and my niece, along with Ron- hadn't discovered this book- Ginny Weasley might have taken all the blame. No one would ever have been able to prove she hadn't acted of her own free will..."

Mr. Malfoy said nothing. His face was suddenly masklike.

"And imagine," Dumbledore went on, "what might have happened then... The Weasleys are one of our most prominent pureblood families. Imagine the effect on Arthur Weasley and his Muggle Protection Act, if his own daughter was discovered attacking and- killing Muggleborns... Very fortunate the diary was discovered, and Riddle's memories wiped from it. Who knows what the consequences might have been otherwise..."

Mr. Malfoy forced himself to speak. "Very fortunate," he said stiffly.

"Don't you want to know how Ginny got hold of that diary, Mr. Malfoy?" said Harry suddenly.

"How should I know how the stupid little girl got hold of it?" he said.

"Because you gave it to her," Harry said sternly. "In Flourish and Blotts. You picked up her old Transfiguration book and slipped the diary inside it, didn't you?"

Mel looked at her friend with wide eyes, not believing that Harry was daring enough to say it aloud.

"Prove it," Malfoy hissed.

"Oh, no one will be able to do that," said Dumbledore, smiling at Harry. "Not now that Riddle has vanished from the book. On the other hand, I would advise you, Lucius, not to go giving out any more of Lord Voldemort's old school things. If any more of them find their way into innocent hands, I think Arthur Weasley, for one, will make sure they are traced back to you..."

Lucius only turned to his house-elf, utterly offended.

"We're going, Dobby!"

The way he treated poor Dobby, it broke her heart.

"Wish we could save him from Malfoy," Mel commented under her breath.

Harry perked up at her words.

"Professor Dumbledore," he said. "Can I give that diary back to Mr. Malfoy, please?"

"Certainly, Harry," said Dumbledore. "But hurry. The feast, remember... And Mel, please stay so we can have a few words"

"Yes," She nodded, going back to her chair.

Harry grabbed the book and rushed out of the office, not looking back at all. There was a moment of silence while Dumbledore finished his letter, then he looked up, expectantly.

"I suppose you have a lot in mind," He stated.

"A lot, Sir," She agreed, not knowing where to start.

"Most of them are doubts, I imagine," He continued, "you must be confused about how the houses really work..."

"Everyone says Slytherin is meant to be all bad, or at least, that is meant for people that don't care about what's fair and good," She explained, "but I... I've started to think that maybe we're seeing it wrong"

Dumbledore's smile grew.

"Erick Flint is a person of interest, isn't he?"

She didn't even bother to ask how he knew, of course he knew about her friendship with Erick.

"He's helped me before- and he doesn't care about blood- he's nice and wants to learn about muggles," She shook her head, "I don't understand... I'm sure he didn't choose to be in Slytherin, he always says that's where his whole family's been, that he belongs there, but I-I'm not saying he shouldn't be in Slytherin, cause I don't know... if he is a Slytherin, and he's a good person, then what does that mean?"

"It means that he's a remarkable boy," Dumbledore said, "I know his family, they're not the loving kind, and this boy took me by surprise during his first year, he's well-mannered and intelligent, with an interest in the muggle world... I guess there's always a black sheep in every family, I remember during your father's year, there was a boy that was a lot like Erick," He said with a sad smile, "he could've done so much good to our world, yet the war changed him, it poisoned his soul... if this boy is reaching out to you, asking for your help, by all means help him. You never know when you could be saving someone's life by showing kindness"

She nodded, Erick was a good boy, she wasn't planning on breaking their friendship just because others thought differently, which reminded her of another thing she wanted to talk about.

"Professor?" She asked. Dumbledore remained silent, "People... my friends- my teachers- they're always saying they're expecting great things from me, but I don't think I have it in me. They think I'll be like you, Sir- which isn't bad if it turns out to be true, but it certainly does put a ton of pressure on me... it's hard to make a decision when they've already planned my future without knowing who I really am."

"And who are you, Mel?"

"I'm a little girl," She replied worriedly, "I don't know what I want to be as an adult, not yet. I don't even know the extent of my own abilities... something happened again, while we were waiting for Harry and Ginny to return"

Mel was aware that it sounded crazier now that she was saying it out loud but she kept going, determined to clarify her doubts. Maybe she was imagining things, but she thought she'd seen a triumphant expression on her uncle's face.

"And it stopped after a moment?"

"Like it never happened"

"I see," He examined her features carefully.

Mel felt too self-conscious, she lowered her look and stared at Fawkes, her mind somewhere else, uneasy.

"Fawkes is a marvelous creature," She said after a while, "he brought us back"

"He's a Phoenix," Dumbledore stroke the bird's head, "a magical creature, loyal and with infinite qualities... your father loved them very much as well"

"My father?" She looked up in amazement.

"He seemed to understand Fawkes, there was a bond between your father and him, I never dared to ask what it was... Dear girl, I think I've postponed this talk long enough, it's clear that you've inherited abilities that only the women in our family can get, and I shouldn't keep asking you to try and push them back without help. Would you agree, if I offered you help with that?"

Mel frowned, not fully understanding.

"Like... extra lessons?" She wondered, "To help me handle my temper?"

"It would help you with more than just your temper, dear. The lessons could help you in case of emergencies, you'd be able to control your magic, to gain control"

No more powerless moments. No more sitting and waiting for things to just happen.

"Yes," She said without a second thought, "I want to learn, I... I want to help"

"Perfect," The man said, "I'll give you some books that you can take home so you can start studying during summer, get acquainted with the subjects we'll see. We can start next year when you're a bit older and well rested"

"Okay," She said, trying to hold back her excitement, "can I talk about this with my mother and uncle? I think they'd love to hear the news- oh! Can I tell Harry?"

"I don't see why not," Dumbledore smiled, then he added, "your uncle... I haven't heard of him for a long time."

"Well, he lives a bit far from us as well, I don't see him often," Mel said, thoughtfully, "he got ill during my first year, he often gets sick... but I believe he's alright now"

"I should send a letter his way soon," Dumbledore mentioned casually as they walked out of the room, "I would like to hear what he's been doing for the past eleven years..."

"I can't believe you freed Malfoy's elf!" Mel laughed wholeheartedly, "I wish I had seen his face! That was brilliant, Harry!"

"Dobby deserves a better life, that's all," Harry shrugged, blushing lightly.

"You solved it! You solved it!" Their heads snapped to the sound of the voice.

Hermione was running towards them, the biggest smile on her face.

"MIONE!" Mel yelled, standing up in a hurry and meeting her friend half-way, hugging her and crying, "You're back! I'm so happy- I've missed you terribly!"

"Hermione!" The boys also hugged her, though their hugs were shorter than hers.

The feast continued its course, and several people approached Harry to apologize and thank him for all he'd done and did the same with Mel and Ron- Hagrid appeared as well and hugged them tightly, almost breaking several bones in the process.

The exams got canceled and Gryffindor won the house cup again- things were going just fine.

Erick managed to pass beside her table and deliver a tiny note saying he was happy they'd found the heir and saved everyone, and he couldn't wait for the next year so she could join him in Hogsmeade at least once. Mel read the note quickly and looked up to see Erick already sitting back on his table, the tiniest smile threatening to light up his face.

"He's a Slytherin," Someone said beside her.

Mel jumped, hurriedly hiding the note in her pocket.

"What?"

"Erick Andrews is not a Ravenclaw," Hermione said seriously, "you thought I wouldn't notice? I knew about a week after he introduced himself... when I saw him enter the great hall and sit next to Daphne Greengrass"

"In my defense, he wasn't supposed to talk to me in public, I don't know what got into him that day when he talked to you..."

Hermione just stared at her.

"Are you mad?" Mel asked shyly, "I know how all of you feel about Slytherin, but I promise- I swear he's not like that at all"

Hermione wasn't happy, but she didn't give her a lecture either.

"I just hope you know what you're doing, I don't want you to get hurt"

"I won't," Mel assured her, "our friendship it's odd, but it's based on trust- I know things about him... He won't hurt me."

The girl just nodded, it was obvious she didn't feel comfortable with the subject.

When Dumbledore announced Lockhart wasn't going to be back for next year though, she forgot about all her problems.

"Ah, perhaps we'll get a better teacher this time," She sighed in bliss.

"Shame," said Ron. "He was starting to grow on me."

Fred and George found their way to sit next to Mel, one on each side so she couldn't ignore them.

"I think we owe you an apology," George started.

"To me?" She frowned.

"What we did on Valentine's was wrong, I guess," Fred sighed, "it was a masterpiece, but you didn't do anything to deserve it, you were only watching after of our sister-"

"We came to the realization that we might not be doing a good job as older brothers at all-"

"On the other hand, you did it perfectly- you saved our sister, brought her back-"

"Harry did that, I just-"

"Yeah, but we don't like Harry as much as we like you," Fred shrugged, "I mean, is it true that you threatened Lockhart by telling him you were going to feed him to the monster?"

"I... yes." The twins laughed.

"You're something else," George stood up and ruffled her hair.

Mel huffed, trying -and failing- to brush her hair back to how it was before George's attack. Fred stood up as well, pulling her in and kissing her temple in a very exaggerated manner, handing her the piece of paper where they'd originally written her poem.

"Bugger off!" She giggled, putting the poem inside her pocket.

"You know," Ron said, watching as his brothers went back to sit with Lee Jordan, "you may not have a crush on them, but now I'm starting to believe they fancy you"

Mel almost choked on her drink.

"Ron!" Harry and Mel yelled at the same time.

She stared at her friend in surprise.

"I know you hate it when he says that, I don't think it's funny anymore," Harry explained casually.

"'Course you don't," Ron said with a grin.

Harry made sure to kick him in the shin while Mel wasn't paying attention.

"Ginny - what did you see Percy doing, that he didn't want you to tell anyone?" Harry asked as they approached King's Cross, they were almost back home, and Mel couldn't wait to see her mother again.

"Oh, that," said Ginny, giggling. "Well - Percy's got a girlfriend."

"What?" Fred and George asked at the same time.

"It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater," said Ginny. "That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was- you know- attacked. You won't tease him, will you?"

"Wouldn't dream of it," said Fred, and it didn't sound convincing at all.

"Definitely not," George smirked.

When the train stopped, Harry hurriedly pulled out ink and parchment, along with a quill.

"This is called a telephone number," he said, giving the paper to Ron and Hermione. "I told your dad how to use a telephone last summer- he'll know. Call me at the Dursleys', okay? I can't stand another two months with only Dudley to talk to..."

"What about me?" She teased.

"What if you go with your uncle for the rest of the summer?"

"Fair enough," Mel sighed.

"Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they, Harry?" asked Hermione once outside of the train. "When they hear what you did this year?"

"Proud?" Harry snorted. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious..."

"I'm proud!" Mel put an arm around his shoulders, "I'm sure my mum's too, bet she'll give us tons of cake and cookies once we get home, as a reward for our bravery, you know?"

Harry tilted his head.

"Don't you think she'll be furious you almost got yourself killed again?"

"Oh, absolutely- she'll kill me. I'm just trying to imagine a happier story so I can survive her scolding."

"Good luck with that..."

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Yugioh S5 Ep 21: Joey Takes A Snack at that Cray Sauce

Hey guys! The 17 yo cat with kidney disease I was out of town watching lived to see another week (she was a very good girl). Which means now I can get back to the good stuff. This episode is brought to you by the colors red and orange, and I hope you like this color, and I hope you like this after effects they CGId onto this volcano.

Anyways, they first have to do this familiar ledge fall, because, it’s Yugioh, and if there’s a bunch of lava, Tristan wants

that.

And then Joey decides...hey you know what? I’m gonna jet. And...it’s not the first time he’s pulled a wild card and been unpredictable, I mean none of us can really forget that time he decided to get murdered by Mai instead of going in a straight line towards the end boss last season, but this time it was kind of funny how it was hastily composed.

And off he goes, folks.

As he left, Tristan was like “Ya dummy!” and Tea was like “nono, we gotta encourage him--run Joey! You can do it! See? Now he’s gone.” and it’s like...Tea is either trying to kill Joey with her support or honestly thinks that’s good support and I can’t fully tell which she is.

(read more under the cut)

It’s at this point that Grandpa has the gall to say “Did any of you happen to catch the lore? I fell asleep during that part.” Just like my Dad when we watch any movie as a family.

Meanwhile, maybe 100 ft away from them, Joey is in mortal peril but it’s Joey, so he’ll be fine. Don’t worry about it.

In fact, this episode seems like it would have been a better arc if it stretched out more episodes because the Joey neglect happens so quickly and out of nowhere that it’s...less organic than your average children’s show. Honestly it’s kind of funny how fast the fall of Joey Wheeler happens this episode. And I think it could have been a fun interesting time if it was handled better but youknow...it’s crammed into one single episode and you’ll se what happens.

As Yugi ruminates a cool thing that would have been really interesting this season--like running into more rando’s from other periods of time than just Alexander--Tea looks across the lava highway and was like “found it.”

Back at the dragon situation, Joey starts opening his heart to this dragon and it’s like...did they originally intend for Seto Kaiba to be here? Because I guess Joey uses Red Eyes a lot, but I also skip a lot of the card games, so when I think “who likes the dragon card?” Joey is not the first one I think of.

That and like he got over his Atlantis dragon card like hella fast, right? Like totally already over that?

And also if you thought Joey would pull out his other dragon to try and communicate or get a hold of this dragon like...nah.

Back at the fort, these guys decided to ditch Joey to get to this sword at the top of a volcano to solve the riddle, and what follows is some weird ass canon.

As I’m pulling up my Google Doc with my deathcount on it, Tristan decides this is the time he won’t freakin die and turn into a robot monkey for 15 episodes.

And he makes a huge ass green dragon. You’d think this MASSIVE dragon would do more in this episode, but nah. Although he pulls out Massive Dragon, it’s like kind of worthless, so he mostly puts it back in his pocket.

And then Tea pulls this elf chick out and it’s freakin hilarious because look at her giant elf.

Like Tea is not a small person! Are Yugioh monsters all 12 ft tall???

Yugi is also all ham about fusing with his dude now. It knocked him out a couple episodes ago, but Yugi is so keen on destroying his body that he’s back in clown town. And like...took his Grandpa for a ride, I guess, although I’m pretty sure Summoned Skull has wings.

Course, Summoned Skulls insides are his outsides...and I dunno if you’d want Summoned Skull to give you a big hug and carry you around. Summoned Skull just seems like he’s sticky.

And, once they make it to the top of the volcano where the plot sword lives, we first have to visit this plot twist of the century.

YEAH.

OUT OF NOWHERE.

THIS EPISODE IS NOT LONG.

Aaaaaaand now Joey is going to try and kill everyone here. I did not skip anything, PS, Joey dipped off-screen.

PS, everyone’s reaction to “I will kill you!” was a whole lot of rolling their eyes at first being like “Joey, stawp.”

So, now that Joey’s randomly possessed by this dragon, we get a peek into what Joey’s brain zone looks like. It’s a whole lot of nothing in between his ears.

Consistent to S1 actually, when we had a bit of a Joey Brain Zone moment. It was a blank void there, too.

So apparently Joey decided, back when he was confessing his love to Red Eyes Black Dragon, that he would jump on it’s back to calm it down--and it just...fused with him. So...now he’s a dragon.

Sure, I guess. I mean...there’s really no limit on what a Duel monster can’t do, so I’ll allow it.

The team tries to just say “ah screw it” and pull up this sword themselves (you can kind of see it in this shot) and the sword just slurps into the dirt even more out of spite. Seeing that there’s a bit of a time limit, Grandpa pulls this one out of his back pocket.

Yo, Grandpa’s not even possessed. Hey, remember that time that Grandpa nearly died giving Arthur Hawkins the last of his water back in Egypt? Remember that?

Like uh, you can definitely tell this was made by a different team that may not have gotten that cue card. It may have been lost in the mail. Either way, kind of a hilarious heel turn on Grandpa’s personality here, although it does make logical sense to save most of the kids from sacrificing one kid. It’s just...that kid is Joey...so...that’s like his adopted Grandson, right?

So Yugi does something very on brand for Yugi and invades a brain.

And like...obviously Yami and Yugi would say no to this. They would never do this. Not after all the dozens and dozens of times they have sacrificed the world and everything for their best friends.

But...maybe just this one time we can kill Joey? As a treat?

So uh...Yami hella vaporizes Joey with his new powers. Luckily, Joey Wheeler has Shaggy Doo energy and just...he survives it for some reason. I don’t know why he isn’t dead, maybe because the dragon made him stronger? Eh, don’t do the math (on any part of this episode).

So Joey gets up and is like “I know the answer to the riddle!” As the sword kinda melts into the volcano and Gramps is like “Well we’re dead, actually, so no one cares!”

And Joey’s like “Look!” and he hops onto the back of the Red Eyes Black dragon and reveals this random thing:

Because it turns out, that the dragon was the real problem and not this volcano with a sword in it.

Which youknow...could have been cool if this episode wasn’t so many insane plot points so quickly. Kind of a lot of episode here. This episode could have been a whole season of a show.

Like how long was Joey Possessed by Marik in S2? Like 5 or 6 episodes? And you can see how much more successful it was at selling the story although it was a lot of the same themes and ideas. Pacing is important.

And then Joey passes out from the suit juice.

Which is when we get one more Alexander cameo, just kinda watching them leave and onto the next arc of their little journey.

They sure did put a lot of eyeliner on Alexander the great, and, being real...he may have actually been wearing a hell ton of dope eyeliner when he was alive, so this could be historically accurate, for all we know. Those old marble statues used to be painted, after all. Maybe they had dope Yugioh eyeliner down to his cheekbones? One can wish.

And like if you ever get the time--seeing what those marble statues looked like with paint on it is so freakin goofy and fun, I love it. I love that for 600 years we thought those marble statues were supposed to be naked and white but it’s like, nah man--this guy’s just wearing a skin tight breast plate and when you paint it, it’s so garish it’s like a freakin clown outfit.

But anyway, that’s all for now! Hope y’all have a good weekend, and as always, here’s a link to read these in chrono order, if you just got here!

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

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