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i meant for this to just be a sketch but i ended up spending a few more hours to make it look pretty

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ive read the argument that kaiba would stay in school to beat yuugi at grades, but i don't really think this squares. i think kaiba would see yuugi's "D+ SEE ME AFTER CLASS" on his math test and laugh his way to the administration office where he files his "i am dropping out of school and you won't stop me" paperwork and never steps foot in a high school classroom again.

like i think he went to high school as some kind of boring formality more than anything else. gozaburo seems to have had him in some kind of accelerated curriculum of languages, social studies, business management, and judging by DM, STEM as well (and being some kind of STEM prodigy just makes sense for him anyway, no matter the canon; he designed the duel disk!) so in the end he's just miles ahead of any high school curriculum regardless.

in addition, "beating yuugi at grades" is like... a perpendicular exaggeration of his competitive tendencies. first of all, he knows and acts like he is the smartest person in any room he walks into. he shows no signs of wanting to prove anything in that respect. he does not feel the need to prove he's smarter than yuugi because he already knows he is. second of all, "grades" is not the same as "duel monsters." grades are, in the end, a measure of how well you can take a test. Duel Monsters means something entirely different to kaiba--it is connection, passion, a vehicle of emotion; it is rising to meet the challenge of someone else, through an antagonistic/responsive zero-sum card game, with your whole being. a grade is something you can earn by yourself--a solitary victory. someone else can also "win" at grades and it has nothing to do with you. duel monsters is something you have to play with someone else, with an outcome constructed via interactions with other people.

in other words: he dropped out of high school the end

#kaiba goes to public school for an attempt at post-gozaburo normalcy #and then gets tortured to the point of insanity #the gozaburo is never ending but at least when he drops out he can wear his cool coats again

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Mai

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i love having mutuals who are the authority on a specific fictional character

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I'm too excited I can't keep this quiet, I'm going to C2E2 this coming Saturday and I know from experience I get really shy and lose what I want to say when I meet voice actors, so I make art to gift to them. It helps get everything I wan to say out. Dan Green will be at one of the booths and I hope to get a change to meet him.

This is the art I just finished inking for him and it's the most ambitious illustration I've done! I'll be printing this out to color with markers and colored pencil, but absolutely will be doing a full digital version as well. I just had to share this work in progress.

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cambrian seas

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my number one skill is being sooo cute and my number two skill is the ancient curse

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Apparently tomorrow is World Penguin Day. You know what that means.

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Book #25!

Fic: Apep Swallows the Moon

Fandom: Yugioh!

For: Me, the author!

A rebind of my very first bind - same fic, but updated with new skills, supplies, tools, typeset, and design sensibilities! This fic is about some horrible painful body transformations (weredragonism) and ritualistic axe killings in the woods at night, so I wanted the cover and the end-papers to reflect the bloody, uncanny, torn flesh feeling. I first cut a strip of the neon red slub and lay it across the (bradel bound) bookboards; once that was glued down, I tore up the scaly paper until I had the ideal shape for the cover. The end-papers are, of course, Crepaldi.

Typesetting details below the cut!

The fic also deals with ancient Egyptian myth and magic, so the typeset has ancient Egyptian elements, like a panel from the Book of the Dead where the gods kill the demon snake, Apep, that I used for the title spread. Apep is in the odd-page header of every chapter, but each chapter has a different hieroglyph in the even-page header, reflecting a key character from that chapter: the cat, the brother, and the Pharaoh.

BEHOLD! Demon snake!

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HAPPY 8TH ANNIVERSARY OF YUGIOH THE DARK SIDE OF DIMENSIONS🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

8 years ago even a few weeks before this game-changing gay movie was out, I knew my life as a longtime Yugioh fan, as well as my life in general, would never be the same. I owe the DSoD a bunch: I drew hundreds of pieces of fan art; I met awesome friends both online and in person; and most importantly, the DSoD was what significantly helped me get through hard times. 🥹🥹

I tried the pixel art style this time. I'm not sure it worked the way I had intended to, but I did my best😆

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Yugi Mutou icons 💕

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before you ship something stop and ask yourself... Is this otp material? Make sure your characters are:

Obstinate and inflexible in their actions

Terrible for each other in most circumstances

Poor communicators

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sometimes you have to search up a character on your own blog just to see what a real one is saying about them

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reason #276 that shrimpshipping is canon, their favorite monsters' names match perfectly... should we be shipping them too?

bonus:

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Borrowed identity

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Book #23! A second edition of Wish You Were Here! in Flieder Duo, because the lavender/grey/pink tones perfectly match these sunrise endpapers. Part of the fun was loading up this ancient typeset and fixing some stuff from before I knew what I was doing, like getting rid of the page numbers on chapter title pages. For my beloved @yuujoh !