Stand Up, The, Gay

In honor of the way LB1 and only LB1 made me feel.

guda doesnt know shit of fuck about any servant they summon like theyve heard Of people and when its soupar famouse people or stuff they’d learn in jp history class like kintoki or nobu they know a bit more but for a lot of servants theyre like whomst? it’s always the rest of chaldea staff delivering the exposition on whomstoever that is like dantes kept talking abt mercedes and abbe faria in prison tower and making it super obvious but guda had no fucking clue who he was. but servants are famous and naturally assume they’re known right? it’s a fair assumption for them to make that the person who summoned them knows who they are. but guda just doesn’t beyond the absolute basics and on top of that they’re not the type to pry into other people’s sad pasts unless they’re being dragged into yet another nightmare to play therapist, and it also just feels weird to read books containing the entire private history of someone you know personally, not to mention that they don’t have a lot of spare time to be reading history books and mythological cycles and classic literature anyway. so it’s like, a servant will be telling a funny anecdote like “yeah my wife used to-” and guda goes “YOU HAD A WIFE???”

This reminds me about how Hakuno knew about the life of Elizabeth Bathory in excruciating detail, but had never even heard the name Gilgamesh is their life.

Also known as the DPS Lumen build

He suffers

I got him nuked 20 times and we bonded 

This Barbie is a Japanese Food Expert

This Barbie is a Stew Expert

He’s just Emiya

im obsessed with the way they look like a stereotypical 2000s yaoi couple here

I love the comments on this video about how card game-focused Yu-Gi-Oh’s worldbuilding became over time.

“Ironically, despite Kaiba’s attempt to redefine Kaiba Corp as a game company instead of arms manufacturing, he turned Duel Monsters into the world’s weapon.”

“Can we take a moment to appreciate how customer friendly Kaiba’s products are though? In the finale of GX Jaden dueled Yugi, who was wielding a duel disk that was roughly 10 years behind his own model and they were still compatible”

“This video doesn’t even mention the time in GX where Kaiba fired trading cards into space that were designed by children so they could be bombarded by space rays and gain superpowers. The more you follow this series the more you realize that it’s also the story where a supervillain successfully reshapes the world in his image, died beloved, successful, unrepentant, and accomplished all his goals,  except for the only one that really mattered: beating someone in a card game.”

“Kaiba didn’t just change an entire city’s way of doing things, or even the entire world for that matter. He literally changed how villains try to conquer the world. He’s so influential that villains are still playing his game.”

“Something else that is both hilarious and terrifying in 5Ds: the cops play Duel Monsters to catch lawbreakers. In fact, the rules of Duel Monsters are so immutable to the law and order of Neo Domino City that the bikes called Duel Runners are able to remotely hacked by the police to force a duel, and losing that duel shuts down your bike. The rules of Duel Monsters sit above the police in terms of hierarchy, since if they could hack Duel Runners to force a duel, they could probably just shut down your bike remotely. I like to imagine Kaiba is sitting on his capitalist throne saying “If a criminal can beat you in a duel, then what authority do you have to catch them”, and just forces the police to adapt to his survival-of-the-duelist world that he made.“

“Without card games, people like dartz would be invincible“

6-page zine I made explaining xenogenders to someone who might not understand them!

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Do you think they gossip and talk shit about the people they see on the street while scouting in high places

i really can’t stress enough how much i recommend regularly engaging with older art– movies, books, whatever. like, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” and all that, but also, there’s just something really fascinating and kind of beautiful about reading something written by someone who lived so long ago and really connecting with it, recognizing the humanity of people who once seemed like abstract concepts to you

I started reading The Tale of Genji during the pandemic, figuring I might as well improve my mind during lockdown. It’s considered the oldest novel on record, possibly the first one ever written. Early in the book, there’s an incident where the main character has a crush on a girl, so he tries to sneak into her family’s property to get close to her, and along the way he runs into this ancient old grandma who can’t half see and who mistakes him for one of her grandkids. So she’s standing there going on and on about her digestive difficulties and whatever, and he can’t speak up because if she hears his voice she’ll know he’s not who she thinks he is, so he’s just having to stand there and nod and hope she’ll go away soon. And I’m reading all this and thinking that with a couple of adjustments this could be a modern day sitcom, and it made me happy to think that a thousand years ago someone was laughing at the same sort of stuff we laugh at today.

i read dickens’ great expectations in little fifteen minute installments on my breaks at work, sitting there dirty and tired and sweaty in a hot factory, and it made me think about how a hundred and sixty years ago there were probably tired guys in hot factories reading the story the exact same way, bit by bit, at their stupid jobs they couldn’t afford to quit and were damn lucky even to have, and they too were glad to read the next chapter of mr dicken’s latest weird little story about weird little people

in reading War and Peace I’ve discovered that “doing math homework at the dining room table with your angry dad” has been a common terror since the 1800s

i remember reading tom sawyer, specially the part where he gets chastized erroneusly for dropping the sugar and he just spends minutes sitting in silence sulking and fantasizing about how sad everyone would be if he died and reveling in the self pity of how lonely and misunderstood he is and as a teenager who did exactly that with my 14 years of age i was shocked that an adult in the 1800’s had managed to capture that so well

Remember all those memes about “what if we just pretend 2016/2020/etc never happened and never mention it again”? In 2004 BC, a refugee from Ur looked back on the past year and wrote: "May this year not be placed in the reckoning of years! May its number be taken down from its peg in Enlil’s temple, and may its name be unspoken, to far off days, to other days, and to the end of time.“

There’s another heartbreaking one from the same period in which a woman mourning her son’s murder specifically grieves for “my son who will never bring wedding gifts to his father-in-law’s house, my son who will never bounce a child on his knees.”

And some time between 2200 and 1900 BCE, a refugee from the destroyed city of Isin (now in South-Central Iraq) wrote this:

“This is my house, where good food is not eaten (not anymore). This is my house, where good drink is not drunk (not anymore). My house, where good seats are not sat in (not anymore) My house, where good beds are not laid in (not anymore)… My house, where no happy husband dwells with me, My house, where no sweet child dwells with me. My house, through whose doors, I, though jts mistress, never grandly pass- Never grandly pass, the doors of this house, In which I dwell no more. I- let me go into my old house, let me go in, Let me lie down, let me lie down! Let me go into my storehouse, oh let me in Let me lie down, let me lie down there, I- Let me lie down to sleep in my own house, It was sweet sleep I had there. Let me lie down in my house, let me lie down there in my bed, It was a good bed. I- Let me sit down on my own chair- It was a good chair.”

Just released Cardfight Vanguard Turnabout ch.1 in English.

You can read it HERE

Unfortunately I have no idea whether it is translated officially or not, and the only translation I found was pretty subpar. I didn’t bother cleaning it, I just translated, erased the dialogue, and typeset it.

Names are Firstname Lastname format because it isn’t Japan, but the commentator had it the other way around for some reason.

I’ll release chapter 2 if there’s enough interest and I’ll stop if there are official translations available somewhere. Please let me know.

On another note, can anyone get in touch with the YouthQuake scanlator? I’d like to work on that.

Volume extra from chapter 1 of Turnabout. The storyboards here are actually planned out by Itou Akira.

“The beginning of the story. In order to show both Kai and Gaillard in the color spread, we used a trick in which it seems like they’re facing each other despite them having cardfights in two completely different places.” (-Editor)

Still running an interest check on whether it’d be worth it for me to continue translating + typesetting Turnabout so please reblog the first chapter release if you care. If not, I won’t release the chapters publicly since it’s a pain and the first 3 volumes in Japanese are available online if you look hard enough.

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

I think they’re cute