Jounouchi, who has witnessed Other Yuugi use his magical powers to put people in comas and asked why he didn't do it more: The occult stuff gives me the creeps! I hate ghosts!

Other Yuugi, a literal ghost haunting a ritual artifact standing right there: Don't worry Jounouchi, I'll make sure you're safe.

Rinse and repeat the whole series.

"And what happens if I don't find the answer within the time limit?"

["Then you also lose, boy! All of the remaining bombs explode!"]

["I swear, I will save you Anzu!"]

["Let's go! Game start! Fifteen minutes remain."]

["The white balloon blew up the first one, but the gondolas are all the same..."] "Are there any park staff members here?"

"Yes, what is it?"

Forbidden Memories We Finally Meet

no matter what you got me, i got you

I didn't realize it was the 11th

I'm always down for a Fushigi Yuugi rewatch, and 85% of that is purely Nuriko's campy af shenanigans. [x]

given all the commotion lately around AI and programs that, on their face, "act" and "speak" in human ways, as well as the looming threat of AI replacing artists and writers, i was thinking again about Kaiba's Atem hologram in DSOD... and how despite his detailed recreation, and his ability to control every aspect of the hologram, the hologram is ultimately less satisfying than the real Atem.

on one level, it points to a change in Kaiba's character - a character who finds it extremely difficult to trust anyone, who has been taught it's safer to be alone and keep other people out, abandons a version of Atem he can control from top to bottom, from algorithms to pixels - in other words, a "safe" version of Atem - in search of the real Atem - the Atem who is human like him, an Atem who is Other in relation to Kaiba's Self, and therefore ineffable, mysterious, unknowable, and "unsafe." An AI chatbot/digital avatar is safe; it will never hurt you. Your best friend is a full person with thoughts and feelings of their own; they might or might not hurt you someday, on purpose or on accident. Kaiba choosing the dangerous and the mysterious over the safe and controllable - for a relationship - is a step forward for him, a step that takes him further down the path he started on at the end of battle city, when he chose to put his faith in #friendship to help Yami win against Yami Malik. DSOD kaiba is deliberately and purposefully exposing himself to the possible pain of the Others - by pursuing a meeting with the real Atem, instead of a fake Atem.

in addition, "actually, technology isn't good enough to replace the real" is SUCH an interesting direction for a character who's made his mark on the world via science fiction tech genius inventions like lifelike holograms and neural networks and such. like. what other "tech"-y character! none lol!

i can be so normal about yugioh :)

yugi’s outfit is based on this:

the flower within the cage

Art meme - 6 old fictional crushes

I saw @slushy-sash post their impressive artwork the other day and I thought I’d give my rusty self a bit of time to sketch...

Guess I got bored halfway ;_;

It’s difficult not to compare with other artists, but I’m going to try and just be happy I managed to eke something out.

This was their post - go check it out!

So. Was in a server and talking about headcanon stuff, fic ideas, AUs, etc etc

And while discussing an AU with @pyarini , the idea of using Heba as a name for a reincarnation came up, to which I made some comment about how cute it would be for Atem to recognize it’s Yuugi, because they both mean game. To which she pointed out that it didn’t, and that Heba actually means “gift.”

Which made me think two things:

One: I seem to have been completely misled by the fandom to believe Heba meant game. (To be fair I had tried to look it up before, but could never find a concrete meaning, and figured I just missed something since everyone else was saying it did.)

And two: Oh…Why do we use that name in the first place?

I did some light digging and it seems there is nothing showing Heba means game, and within fandom, there’s nothing concrete showing where it originated from, though highly suspected to be a name someone liked and used in an RP for an Egyptian Yugi counterpart, which just got spread and used by the fandom. (The ONLY info I could find for it’s origins was Fandom Wiki, so if anyone knows any different please let me know!)

So here’s my thought process now: If it was randomly chosen by someone cuz they liked the name, I think I’ll just pick my own name for “Heba” and use that instead!

This was developed by Kanmani by saying “Maybe it should be Senet” To which I had the idea of using the name Sen, short for Senet.

Now, I know this seems silly as a name, but I think it’s fitting seeing how Yuugi literally just means “Game” in Japanese, and his Grandfather is named Sugoroku, after a form of Japanese Board Games. As a counterpart, to reflect it’s a version of Yugi just in a different time/place, I think it works well! (Plus Sen is a name already, with a few meanings, one of which is a thousand in Japanese, if people wanted to use it for a modern reincarnation as well!)

I’m not a newbie, but comparing my two years here to how long this fandom has been around, I know it would be silly to ask to completely change the name around or anything like that. I don’t wanna make it seem like I’m saying you shouldn’t or can’t use the name anymore! It’s a cute name, and I understand it’s got history in the fandom! I mainly wanna use this as my own nickname for a counterpart and explain where I got it from.

Buuuuut…I do invite anyone who likes the name idea to use it in your projects: whether it’s labeling art, comics, fics, etc!

I would love to see people joining in calling an AE Yuugi counterpart Senet/ Sen, and I know I’ll be using it myself for my projects :] ✨ It’s already been cemented in my mind, even if it doesn’t catch on haha.

"You can have it."

"You're really gonna give it to me?"

"Yup! If this card is that special, I'm sure it'll be put to better use in your hands."

"Hooray! Thank you!"

["He's the usual childish Yuugi... Where'd that other Yuugi go? It's hard to believe he and Yuugi are the same person.."]

Forbidden Memories The Blank Card

paying tribute to the ancient ships over on bluesky. if you need me I will be listening to the long-forgotten scripture (Fushigi Yuugi character songs)

SOMEBODY SCREAM (AAAAAAA-)