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I know everyone likes to shit on the Virtual World arc for dragging on so long, but it has that Yu-gi-oh charm of just being absurd, and I can't help but be charmed by it.
One of the villains entire motive for being a corporate hater is because Kaiba thinks pandas are the superior black and white animal, because he's a sixteen year old boy in charge of a multi-billion corporation. And now said villain has lost his body, decided to inhabit of the digital avatar of a penguin, and is dueling a teenage girl who has only dueled once in the show before for possession of her body.
Yu-gi-oh is such a good show guys.
#yugioh#yugioh dm#ygo#ygodm#seto kaiba#virtual world arc#yugioh is such a good show guys#like just watch it#soominwatches#i love this dumb show so much
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Okay, this might just be the most complex illustration I did all year. Of course, I haven’t done much all year, but still.
Have some edgy boys in the arcade.
(Also please note the arcade machine, it took a lot more time than it looks like)
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Year of the Dragon
#kisara#yugioh#ygo#ygodm#blue eyes white dragon#i had this in my drafts for a year lol#seemed like a good day to finish it#kill em with kindness WRONG!!!! BURST STREAM!!!#art tag
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happy birthday bakura!!
#yugioh#yu gi oh#ygo#ygodm#ygo fanart#ryou bakura#yami bakura#bakura#dark necrofear#duel monsters#duel monster#Yu-Gi-Oh!
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Little bit of practice with Marik
#marik ishtar#my art#marik#ygotas#ygo#ygodm#thiefshipping#Yu-Gi-Oh#yugioh#fanart#bakumali#hes so hard to draw because hes pretty#unlike bakura whos just a scruffy bastard man
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How to carry your...
(a guide by Katsuya Jônouchi)
#yugioh#yugioh duel monsters#duel monsters#ygodm#katsuya jonouchi#jonouchi katsuya#joey wheeler#anzu mazaki#mazaki anzu#tea gardner#ryuuji otogi#otogi ryuuji#duke devlin#hiroto honda#honda hiroto#tristan taylor#ryo bakura#ryou bakura#bakura ryou#myart
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assorted sketch dump because it’s been a minute
my Yugioh fixation has gotten worse lol
#phantalks#phantart#my art#artists on tumblr#sketch spread#yugioh#season 0#ygodm#jounouchi katsuya#joey wheeler#anzu mazaki#teà gardener#yugi muto#yami yugi#pharaoh atem#ryou bakura#theif king bakura#seto kaiba#sketch dump
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Bakura!! From school!!!
#yugioh bakura#ryou bakura#yugioh#ygo#ygo dm#yugioh duel monsters#ygodm#bakura ryou#bakura ygo#watercolor#traditional art#traditional fanart#classic anime art#duel monsters
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It's confirmed.
Yami is a baby
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their kiss, laced with the perfume of dahlias
Written for Femslash February 2024
Day 7. Dahlia
Title: their kiss, laced with the perfume of dahlias
Ship: Visionshipping | Ishizu/Mai
Word Count: 1,469
Universe: Duel Monsters
Rating: G
Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff, Holidays, Public Displays of Affection
For all the gravity with which Ishizu carried herself, there was an element of which had never felt real to her.
She was sheltered. Sculpted. A mouthpiece, an extension of her previous incarnation’s self and the wearer of the Millenium Necklace.
For example, she knew what flowers were. How they would be described botanically, what purpose they served in the ecosystem and even admire their beauty. She even had her favourites amongst the ones she had read of but text on a page and secondhand accounts, they couldn’t accurately depict the scent of a flower, or its touch.
And that was just a trivial example of the Plato’s cave that Ishizu found herself within.
There was so much outside of the realm of Ishizu’s lived experience. She could forgive her brother for wanting to live it. No one else could live it for him, after all. Only he could. That was, however, not an indulgence that Ishizu would give herself.
At least not until her duties were done and the ghosts of the past had been put to rest.
However, Ishizu refused to allow this to be a weakness, to even give a hint of it. She kept her mouth closed on all occasions and allowed the Millenium Necklace to wield her as necessary but there was one incident where her guard slipped.
She crossed paths with Kujaku Mai and that desire to feel real, to experience what was real, wafted through Ishizu as she caught the scent of Mai’s perfume in passing. They were going in opposite directions. Mai was on her way to the communal restrooms; Ishizu was on her way to her room and just that…
It was enough to weaken her and entice her.
“What a beautiful perfume.” Ishizu thoughtlessly said to herself, not even realising she was thinking out loud.
Not until the click of Mai’s heels on the hard flooring of the Kaiba Corp. blimp ceased and she turned around, laughing, amused, “Thank you. It's a Mexican perfume with dahlias. Quite an unusual scent, don’t you think?”
“Ah, yes, indeed.” Ishizu said and she would have liked for the small talk to end there.
“Have you ever been?” Mai asked. “To Mexico?”
“No.” Ishizu replied.
“I think you’d like it there. Just a hunch though.” Mai shrugged.
And now it did.
Ishizu held onto her sigh of relief. She did not want to drop her mask of mystery and mystique but she could tell Kujaku Mai had a keen eye for details on people. Just from hunches.
The fact that it was a dahlia based perfume… Well, now that was a funny trick of fate. Ishizu would have to admit because she had never seen a dahlia in real life, nor would she have begun to have guessed that was the smell of them but dahlias were one of the flowers she liked in theory.
It was every bit as unique a smell as her books had promised. It was fresh and crisp with a sharp undertone of bitterness to mix with the natural floral scent of the bright and eclectic flower. Ishizu liked it.
She did not allow herself, however, to admit she liked it especially on Mai.
Dahlias symbolised good taste and that seemed to be an apt association for Kujaku Mai: a woman often embroiled in what others might call opulence and luxury.
Mai was famed for her keen sense of smell, likely having hyperosmia as her now debunked strategy of cheating that Ishizu had heard about involved her lacing her cards with different perfumes. Forty cards to a deck, well, of course she would have quite the collection of perfumes to cycle through.
Still, that one little encounter, it survived surprisingly well in the every twisting, merging and unmerging of fate, like river deltas in perpetual flux because on the other side of it, Ishizu and Mai found themselves again. Several years later. Going in the same direction this time.
Mai was a globetrotting Duelist with her name chanted through electric crowds. Ishizu’s archaeology was famed far and wide, she was making waves in academia. It seemed only natural, somehow, that their paths would cross and the connection that they shared all those years ago would turn into a close companionship.
Especially now that Ishizu was free of those duties that had kept her weighed down akin to Atlas.
“See?” Mai giggled. “I told you that you’d love Mexico.”
Their relationship didn’t have a proper name. Mai didn’t want to be tied down and nor did Ishizu but they still wanted to be attached to one another. Both loved their country of origin and freedom as young adults on the other side of twenty-something to give that up.
However, lovers and girlfriends might be close but their holidays, like this one, were almost akin to honeymoons given that both ladies disavowed work on them.
“Yes, you did say that.” Ishizu said but she was almost too enchanted by her surroundings to reply - and she sounded just as airy. Her heart welled up with emotions as she added, “You remembered?”
“How could I forget?” Mai asked as she snaked her arm around Ishizu’s waist, pulling her in for a half embrace. “It was our first meeting.”
Ishizu was highly flattered by the reply as Mai walked her through the Sunday market. They were going to visit Xochimilco later, in the afternoon, and see the canals and listen to the music of mariachi bands playing for tourists like them but already, Ishizu was entranced by the more ordinary locales such as this marketplace.
These streets were festooned with traditional architecture and buzzed with commerce. People came and went in throngs, there was chatting and laughter, bargaining and purchasing. The smell of food was strong and made Ishizu’s mouth water as she was tempted by every street vendor or stall selling fruit picked fresh this morning in the wee hours of dawn. The hustle and bustle, the clamour of it all, absolutely enraptured Ishizu.
She wasn’t a smiley woman, not by a longshot, but her expression was open and light-hearted as she wandered the cobblestone streets with Mai.
The sheer joy and delight of it all, and underneath an endless azure sky, was a far cry from Ishizu’s upbringing. The desert was barren by night, the stone halls silent even during the height of day and so, she all but celebrated this moment to be amongst the sights and sounds, the smells, too.
As Mai picked something out from one of the stalls - this one run by a kindly-looking elderly lady and her middle aged son. She nodded, asking wordlessly for permission, to pick up a glass bottle and she beckoned for Ishizu’s attention.
“No way, I thought these weren’t made anymore.” Mai said, excited. “Look, it’s the perfume I was wearing when I met you. Must be our lucky day.”
Ishizu blinked curiously. The bottle was pink and multifaceted, with gold lettering on the front of it and attached as an old-fashioned, fuzzy squeeze. Mai paid for it and immediately gifted it to her.
“Do you want to try wearing it?” Mai asked, her voice dropping low to a whisper as she got on her tip-toes to talk to her.
“I would.” Ishizu replied.
Mai hummed as she went back down onto the balls of her feet. They shuffled off to the side, to a dip in the cement and a sliver of the alleyway between the old buildings that enclosed either side of the stone channel the marketplace inhabited.
Mai took Ishizu’s hand and undid the cap, having enough forethought to not use an asthmatic trigger in public lest it cause an issue. And so, she gently rubbed it on Ishizu’s wrist by taking off the cap and tapping it, coaxing out the liquid to spritz Ishizu.
The fluid of the perfume was cold on Ishizu’s skin. Runny, too, and of course pungent. Ishizu got a deep breath of it even from far away but when Mai recapped it, she took that as her cue. She drew up her hand to her face and closed her eyes.
She savoured it. Not just the perfume but all her surroundings. Ishizu was certain, she was in love. With Mexico, with her favourite flowers, and yes, with Mai. She smiled a small smile as her eyes opened ever so slightly.
“Thank you, Mai.” Ishizu said. “I love it.”
“I think it suits you, too.” Mai flirted.
Ishizu didn’t need to read minds to know what Mai was insinuating so she leaned down. Mai initiated a kiss and Ishizu chastely returned her affections. She felt the warm wind blow and their kiss, laced with the perfume of dahlias, was lost in the humdrum ordinance of it all.
#femslash#femslashfeb2024#femslashfeb#yugioh duel monsters#ygodm#visionshipping#ishizu ishtar#mai kujaku#kujaku mai#writing tag#clover and violets#clover and violets 2024#their kiss laced with the perfume of dahlias#crazy that the most iconic (probably) dm yuri ship is ellgible for my self imposed challenge
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Rin mentioned that seeing my style change after some break from the fandom would be nice so I thought I could see how I draw Malik now compared to before albeit in very rough sketches, lol.
(I'll make some...neater ones next time. )
#i'll have to draw him again tho esp since i'll be resuming some old works/comics..need to make him look good haha#malik ishtar#marik ishtar#yugioh#ygo#ygodm#doodle#my art#fanart#some sketchbook stuff#sketch
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Listen, I love the 😈+😈 dynamic these two have, but from time to time I just want to see them being just goofy little dorks ... they deserve the fluff.
#ygo#yugioh#my art#ygodm#digital art#marik#digital#marik ishtar#digital painting#bakura#thief king bakura#thiefshipping#citronshipping
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drew otogi for his birthday and used the opportunity to practice some background elements and shading
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battle city but its in sailor moon
original sailor moon screencap under read more!!
original screencap:
#yugioh#yugioh duel monsters#ygo#ygodm#marik ishtar#malik ishtar#yami bakura#leileilei#lei art#i think ppl should trace over sailor moon screencaps and make them have other characters genuinely its so fun
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GUYS
i have no idea why this isn't like a more popular thing it seems so obvious to me
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The Halloween Special Fic is out and will be updated daily!
Rating: Teen and Up
Chapters: 1/10
Warning/s: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Ship/s: Atem/Mutou Yuugi
Word Count: 3,691
Summary: “The summer seems sluggish until Yugi receives an email from Ryou, asking him to come and investigate a cryptid sighting he thinks might have resurfaced. Thinking it might be good fuel for the blog he runs alongside Joey, Yugi pitches the idea to his friend and starts to look into the sightings Ryou listed. But there’s something about this reawakened being—something that spurs him to look for more answers.”
#biblically-accurate writing#my writing#writers on tumblr#fanfic#yugioh#ygodm#yugioh au#dear mothman au#puzzleshipping#hurt/comfort#slow burn#cryptid!Yami#shadow demon yami#yugi mutou#pharaoh atem#yami yugi#jounouchi katsuya#joey wheeler#ryou bakura#amane bakura#(he’ll show up later but I felt like putting him in there)
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