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YGO GX Episode 180
Thanks to little_ribbon for the heads-up!

WHAT A WAY TO END (... LITERALLY, GUYS, WHAT THE HELL)
BUT STILL ♥

YOU CAN STILL SAY those three words that will make me walk on air:

BOKU

NO

TURN!


BECAUSE WHEN YOU SAY THAT I KNOW IT'S ALL YOU IN THERE! ♥

omg, Judai = SUCH A FANBOY (part 1). IT MAKES ME HAPPY TO SEE SOMEONE REACTING EXACTLY THE WAY I WOULD. ♥ "BLACK MAGICIAN! ☆_☆ BLACK MAGICIAN GIRL! ♥__♥" And I love how much pure fun Yuugi is having dueling with Judai. It's all about the love of the game. I love how Judai calls Yuugi Yuugi-san. ♥

I'M SO DAMN HAPPY TO SEE MAHAADO AGAIN OKAY

At 2:16 here, Yuugi and Judai do the cutest laughing-together scene ever in the history of all time (part 2). FINE I know there are probably other series in which a similar scene is more meaningful, but will I love either of the characters involved as much as I love Yuugi? Probably not.

Makes me wonder: if Yubel had been a boy all the way through and through, possession and all - I probably would have COMPLETELY SHIPPED the pairing. As it is, Yubel's character design reminds me of a freaky version of female!Yami no Malik, so.

And of course, the moment everybody (but me) has been waiting for (part 3): Yami makes his reappearance! And CUE FLASHY POSSESSION SEQUENCE, EXCEPT, ON BOTH SIDES.

HAHAHAHA SPIRIT MIRROR, WE MEET AGAIN ~ I remember it so well because it featured so very prominently in the EPIC Jounouchi-Malik-Yuugi DUEL OF DOOM.

... SUMMONING OSIRIS NEVER GETS OLD. EVER.
Although the ending was a massive "EH?!", but there was a cat in Judai's bag, so that makes everything okay. EEEE and an awesome scrawled card from all his friends.

shadow_of_egypt wins a WHOLE WORLD OF AWESOME for telling me about YUUGI'S RETURN IN GX. I'm just SO HAPPY to see him again. I HOPE THEY DUEL AND YUUGI KICKS JUDAI'S ASS. ♥

This means EVEN MORE to me because I recently started reading the GX manga (Volume 1 was just released in English in my country) and I ADORED it. IT'S A SERIES ABOUT YGO FANS, WHAT IS THERE NOT TO LOVE?! I kid you not, there are RANDOM FLASHES in Judai's memory about the LEGENDARY DUELISTS (cue Kaiba, Yuugi and JOUNOUCHI's silhouettes - PLUS MAI, EVEN), and his wanting to be JUST LIKE THEM. A duel takes place over, of all things, a BATTLE CITY DVD. ♥ And in the series it is a GREAT THING OF AWE to be in possession of a DUELIST KINGDOM VIDEO. I LAUGHED THE WHOLE WAY through the manga, especially when the main character just seemed to NEVER get his ass kicked. And also, there is a rival duelist named Chazz, which makes me LAUGH SO HARD because it gives me Blades of Glory flashbacks.

FANDOM CROSSOVERS WITH YGO
There's nothing quite like wandering around your non-YGO fandoms and finding YGO REFERENCES there. Or vice-versa! Check out Reborn's version of Screw the Rules, I Have Green Hair!

Gurren Lagann, in particular, seems to have more YGO crossovers than I realised! WHICH FILLS MY GL FAN'S HEART WITH JOY. These GL-styled YGO icons? UNSPEAKABLE LOVE, especially since I obsessed so violently over the series the Gurren Lagann art is so distinctive that I know the exact shots these YGO parodies were modeled on. Jounouchi = KAMINA LOLOLOLROFLOHGOD. And Simon = Atem and Yuugi, of course. AND VIRAL = BAKURA AND MALIK CRACKS ME UP SO HARD. GUYS GUYS GUYS. I know batshit crazy calls to batshit crazy across the gulf of different fandoms of different eras, but YEAH. ♥ AWESOME.

Here's a YGO-Gurren Lagann video that also puts a smile on my face. ♥ It's Underground, one of the many great tracks on the GL OST, and this YGO remake is amazingly faithful to the original GL video.

When I rule the world
EVERY DISPUTE will be decided by CHILDREN'S CARD GAMES.

... Except sometimes it feels like they already are being decided that way
I left my office for one meeting this morning and came back to find a status update on one of the cases I'm on in my inbox that made me think almost instantly of this line from this fic:

"But Kaiba-kun says that the last duel wasn't a fair duel,
and I don't care how many times we kick his ass,
so we're duelling again."

So of course my partner and I were, you know, not in the best of moods, despite the fact that we both knew it was coming and I'd been prepared for it and still.

This is one of the days when you just want to tell the other side:
JUST LIE DOWN AND ACCEPT OUR VICTORY ALREADY

So in response to this post, little_ribbon said she wanted to see more YGO stuff, but I knew she really meant SHOW ME YOUR PUZZLESHIPPING.

SO, MY PUZZLESHIPPING, LET ME SHOW YOU IT:

My Puzzleshipping doujin folder (plus edits), my Puzzleshipping art folder, my YGO canon screenshots folder and the Puzzleshipping screenshots folder.

... and I didn't even cap the OTHER folder full of Puzzleshipping art that I braved TERRIFYING DENS OF PUZZLESHIPPING for, for this.

( twitch. )

Left the office at 1.40am last night, and unsurprisingly, I feel absolutely awful today. I FEEL LIKE YAMI: KIND OF DEAD. Catching a breather now because I can. God, I am barely here. BUT:

THIS POST was GREAT BECAUSE SO MUCH GOOD STUFF HAPPENED IN IT. LIKE:

OH MY GOD THE MOST ADORABLE TSUNAFISH moment EVER. Getting into a discussion with Yami about NAMES. THIS is the sweetest 'What's In A Name' discussion EVER.

omg so great I will put it down:

Tsuna: You're still you with or without a name. It's kinda like if you took the label off a jar of jam.....just cuz it doesn't have a label that says strawberry doesn't mean it isn't strawberry anymore.
Yami: ...
Tsuna: I'm me and you're you and that's all that matters, right? We're here talking to each other...and the more we do that, I'll know who you are, even without a name. You're not a name, you're you.
Yami: Yes, but are you you if you don't remember?
Tsuna: I think so! I mean, just because you don't remember doesn't mean ya won't make the same choices. Maman told me that everyone has this thing called a soul. Even if your brain don't remember, your heart will, and your soul is still the same! The experiences you don't remember are just like fine tuning to your personality! You're rough without them, but you're still you, and you'll get back to that place after a little bit of time.
Yami: ...
Yami: ...that could be.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES omg Tsuna LOVE.

That kinda is why Yami is awesome ON HIS OWN, really, because all he has to do is EXIST AND ALL THIS AWESOME STUFF JUST HAPPENS AROUND HIM. I think, conceptually, he's so fascinating that EVEN BABY!TSUNA COULD HAVE A DISCUSSION LIKE THAT WITH HIM.

"YGO 5D" makes me think that the people who came up with the series name slipped when they intended to type, "8D". As in "8D! LET'S SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE WE CAN GET TO SWALLOW THIS SERIES!"

More YGO 5D artwork shows up! In which the main character's resemblance to both Yami and Mokuba is even more striking! Gods, he really does look like Yami and Mokuba's love-child. He has Yami's eyes. And Yami's glare and POSEUR 'TUDE.

This pleases me more than you could ever imagine. ♥ For all the wrong reasons, obviously, which is why I enjoy it even more.

This Jake Atlas dude REALLY. LOOKS. LIKE A BLOND KAIBA.

She? Reminds me of Amelda.

They are Noa's previously unmentioned Kaiba siblings, obviously! Just like how, in YGO-R, Pegasus mysteriously acquired a previously-unmentioned adopted son for the purposes of this thing purportedly called "plot"!

... clearly if I concentrate on drawing tenuous links to the VISUAL SIMILARITIES of the new characters to the old characters I CAN JUST PRETEND IT'S THE OLD YGO, WITH EVERYBODY IN THE SERIES AND EVERYBODY WORKING ON THE SERIES ON TWICE THE CRACK DOSAGE. I don't think I'll be able to have much of an emotional connection to any of the characters, but hey, I thought that about Hikaru no Go's Akira, and I am HAPPY TO BE PROVED WRONG ON THIS POINT ALWAYS.

Also, people should listen (by which I mean read) to this and this, really.

Just because you're dying of work doesn't mean you can't have fun. It's not as easy to have fun, because you have so very little time and energy to have fun with, but still.

Have the most productive thing I did LJ-wise ... this week!

tinted_glass was doing the Computer Voyeurism meme (her lovely choice of words, not mine - I wish I could do that), and I asked her to HIT ME WITH HER BEST SHOT, so she asked for my most guilty pleasure fandom folder.

So I was: *grin* How do I choose? *grin*

... by not choosing, clearly, and giving you JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING:

This is my Reborn: Gokudera-Tsuna CANON MOMENTS folder. Most of my friends into Katekyo Hitman Reborn are passionate Yamamoto/Gokudera fans (as is most of the fandom, urk). So naturally, I had to be Gokudera/Tsuna (because the things I love just fly in the face of fandom popularity). It's a very canon pairing, yet has what I like to think of as a lot of underground love. So I vengefully catalogue all the canon moments for my pairing obsessively. Think of it as my massive secret MY PAIRING IS TOTALLY MORE CANON THAN YOURS folder. ;)

My Gurren Lagann fanart folder is pretty extensive, but can't hold a candle to:

TALES OF THE ABYSS
One of my biggest and most epic fandom loves ever, I think. Abyss Everything folder, Abyss doujinshi folder, and Abyss fanart folder. ... God I was obsessed.

TOTAL SHAME FANDOM MOMENT: My lolcats folder. I AM SO ASHAMED TO ACTUALLY ONE, FIND LOLCATS HILARIOUSLY FUNNY, TWO, BE CRAZY ENOUGH TO KEEP A FOLDER OF MY FAVOURITES.

There is a place called fandomsecrets that is essentially Postsecrets, for fandom: and this is my FandomSecrets folder. I love the place! I watch it obsessively and save every secret that refers to any fandom I'm in!

AND FOR THE I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID THIS FANDOM FOLDER, here is my folder of pictures... of LIN'S CAT. I think it is HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY CUTE. I WANT TO HUG IT AND CUDDLE IT AND PET IT. Unfortunately it is MILLIONS OF MILES AWAY. She renamed it Milo, but I much preferred its former name: Glorfindel.

If you're reading this, you can ask me for aaaany screencap of anything on my (HOME) computer ( I shall be nice ), too. ;)

THIS IS SO AWESOME. I know I'm about a million years - i.e. three days out on this one (that's an eternity on the Internet, okay), but BOOK 19 OF THE RE-RELEASE YGO MANGA (see the left-hand side column, the update is dated 15th February)?

I. AM. GOING. TO. OWN. THAT.

IT'S ONLY ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME ATEM ART EVER.

Just like, I bet, ariesdraco will need to own Book 20. *grin* For the Thief King Bakura centrefold artwork.