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in another few hours the sun will rise☀️

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formerly winkle-pickers | twenty rarepairs in a trench coat

\(≧▽≦)/ Finally made some Ganondorfs to go along with the Gerudo redesign for my fic, Ten Thousand Year Elegy!

Elegy!Ganondorf is younger than our usual Dorfs and from a TOTK AU with no secret stones, so I redesigned his motifs (like focusing back in on the geometric OoT-era pattern, adding more of the Gerudo sigil in place of dragon themeing, etc.) Battledorf has been given armour that is significantly more practical for both battle and deserts also i just thought the hakama was cool, Casualdorf is more dripped out, decorated and dressed for wandering about being a general menace. And as anyone reading the fic knows, Elegy!Ganondorf basically always has a book in hand... >:}

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Chapter Fifty-One: “As Above, So Below”

Ten Thousand Year Elegy | Zelda BOTW/Yu-Gi-Oh DM crossover

The corpse of Goht itself was still half-buried just as they’d left it, so completely devoid of life that it registered as part of the Temple itself; some ruined sculpture telling just one single tale from the mighty span of the Forgotten Temple’s long, long life. In the scant weeks since the Temple had come down, the sparse vines within had grown heartily, blanketing many of the ruined shapes in foliage. And that was how they found Hylia. The giant statue of the goddess lay toppled on its side, cracks spidering over the folds of her robes and marring her face, though she smiled at them as beatifically as ever from her prone position. Leaves had begun to consume her, too; reflecting blue-dark in the faint lunar glow, tendrils and roots snaking into and widening the cracks. If no one came to trim them back, it wouldn’t be long before she began to crumble entirely. One thing Link had never told a single soul about, not even Zelda: he hated Her. Hylia. A hatred that had been born when his father had told him that drawing the sword from the stone was Her will, and a hatred that had grown as Zelda had sobbed and beaten weakly at the maddeningly still surface of the Spring of Power with her clenched fist. What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I - Link knew now that, in some ways, Hylia was Zelda and Zelda was Hylia. He knew he shouldn’t hate Her anymore than he should hate the most beloved treasure of his life. Still. A petty little feeling fluttered up in his chest at the thought of Hylia being eaten away by the vines, by the lifeblood of Hyrule itself. Serves you right. “Link,” Teba called. “Look. Back here.”

In which Link and Teba take to the sky to illuminate the secrets of the Forgotten Temple; while Zelda, Anzu, Paya, Riju and Eri venture deep underground to unearth the forgotten horrors of the Arbiter's Grounds.

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It was the artists for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Rare Pair Mini Bang who created the prompts for the writers this time around. And @sturionic wrote a wonderful and emotionally-complex Isono and Rishid Ishtar fanfiction. Thank you so much for writing for my artwork !

6100 words

“What will you do, when you go back to Egypt?” Isono deflects, taking the coward’s way out.

Immediately, Rishid volleys back: “What will you do when Kaiba has no more need of you?”

“I don’t like to think about it,” Isono says.

A glancing point of contact between two men who don't know where they stand, because to know it would be to change it.

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For the YGO Rare Pair Mini-Bang! @ygorarepairs

This is for @winkle-pickers' Puffshipping fic!! God the dynamic she gave them is so good, the prose is so flavorful and funny, I recommend the fic so hard!!

You can tell I haven't drawn Jou or Ryou much despite how long I've been in this fandom LOL but this was fun! Came out as cute as I was hoping it would, once I got a description of the scene I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it :'3

NOW GO READ THE FIC

YELLING ETERNALLY. HEL I LOVE THIS!! I want it to be known that Hel pulled how I imagined this scene directly out of my brain despite working mostly off drafts and unhinged ramblings, it is PERFECT. ಥ ͜ʖಥ Thank you soooooo much!! <3

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Chapter Forty: “The Laws of Polarity”

Ten Thousand Year Elegy | Zelda BOTW/Yu-Gi-Oh DM crossover

“Zelda,” Kaiba cut in suddenly. “What do you know about electricity?” “How granular of an explanation do you need?” Zelda volleyed back without a second’s pause. “Well, there’s obviously some understanding of electrical conductivity in Hyrule, as I’ve seen Link running around in a set of armour made from rubber,” Kaiba replied. “Does that mean you’ve also discovered electrostatic induction?” “Purah and I have been attempting to reverse-engineer the rubber armour, which was discovered at an archaeological site,” Zelda said. She was sounding more excited by the second. “You’re talking about the way electricity travels through materials, right?” And then they were off, exchanging rapid-fire questions and theories and terminology at a dizzying pace. By the end of the call, Zelda hadn’t even bothered asking why Kaiba had called her to talk about electricity. Scientists seemed to operate under another set of social rules where such a discussion occupied the same conversational niche as small-talk. The two geniuses said their goodbyes, and then Kaiba finally seemed to notice Anzu’s utterly nonplussed face. “What?” he said. After a moment, Anzu finally caved and vocalized the obvious. “Why did you need to talk to Zelda about electricity?” Kaiba stared at her as if she’d asked him something in an alien language. “Because I can’t assume that electricity works here the exact same way it does on Earth.” “And why do you…” Anzu sighed. “Never mind.”

In which Yuugi and Midna's first conversation since Zora's Domain goes as poorly as expected, Kaiba and Zelda creatively bend the limits of molecular chemistry and try not to blow up their friends in the process, and Ganondorf gets in touch with his inner horse girl.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kawai Shizuka | Serenity Wheeler & Mazaki Anzu | Tea Gardner, Jounouchi Katsuya | Joey Wheeler & Kawai Shizuka | Serenity Wheeler, Jounouchi Katsuya | Joey Wheeler & Mazaki Anzu | Tea Gardner Characters: Kawai Shizuka | Serenity Wheeler, Mazaki Anzu | Tea Gardner, Jounouchi Katsuya | Joey Wheeler Summary:

“I need to know your address,” Shizuka says.

“Um…like, my parents’ address?” Anzu replies, mystified. “They downsized and moved out to Saitama last year. If you need somewhere to go, I think Jou and Honda’s place would be closer…”

“No it wouldn’t,” Shizuka announces, “Because I’m not in Japan.”

Anzu nearly drops her phone. She plays a six-second game of hot potato, catching it and losing it anew with the tips of her fingers before finally managing to spare it a shattering impact with her apartment’s creaky wooden floor. “Shizuka-chan,” she squeaks, bringing it back up to her ear, “you need to tell me where you are, right now.”

“I’m at the…” Shizuka pauses, and then continues in hesitant but clear English. “John F. Kennedy International Airport.”

“What?!” Anzu screeches. She drops her phone for real this time.

Kawai Shizuka boards a plane to America without telling anyone. Mazaki Anzu’s cramped Brooklyn apartment gains another roommate. Jounouchi Katsuya spends all of his booster pack money for the next few months on frantic international phone calls. Missing is the why of it all, but Anzu is nothing if not uniquely talented at getting through anything one step at a time.

GO READ THE AMAZING FIC @sturionic WROTE ME!

I'm so happy you enjoyed it!! <3 Your prompt was an absolute delight, the mods really knew what they were doing when they matched us (*¯ ³¯*)♡

Anonymous asked:

Hi! Was just wondering what happened to Occam's Razor and your other fics on a03?

Hi anon! Don't worry, I haven't taken any fics down! I was getting a really high proportion of spam/bot comments on Occam's Razor and New Frontiers in particulare (Maybe bc they're my most trafficked/highest kudos?), so I made them available only to registered AO3 users for the time being. 🩵 Thanks for asking after them!

@dxmichelle @xokiddo MORE ENABLING YAYYYY YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST <3

YGO/Spider-Man crossover snippet #2: where it becomes obvious to Peter's new friends why he is consistently at least one hour late to everything in his life

An hour later, Ned’s phone lit up with an obnoxious yodeling ringtone. Ned scrambled and lost his balance, then gave up and answered it while laying on his back on the carpet. “Hi, Petey,” he said happily. “You on your way?” A pause. Ned sat up abruptly. “What? Again? Dude, for fuck’s sakes!” Another pause. Shizuka, Anzu and Mokuba leaned in shamelessly, trying to catch the other half of the conversation. Michelle took the opportunity to steal a donut from Mokuba. “Okay, I get it, you don’t want to bother May at work, but dude - yeah, I know - can’t you go to Mr. Stark’s? Oh, right, I forgot about the business trip-” Pause. “No you can’t come to my house or MJ’s house because we’re both at the Kaiba penthouse waiting for you to get here you idiot how did this happen again-” Michelle finished her donut and started eyeing Shizuka’s pile of pistachio fudge. “No. No you cannot just go home and patch yourself up - No it’s not okay-” Ned let out a panicked puff of air. “I’m gonna tell them. Yes I am. Shut up. I don’t care. Stay on the line or I’ll track you down and kill you myself.” He turned towards Anzu, Shizuka and Mokuba, taking in their wide eyes, and took a deep shaky breath. “Um…” “Peter is Spider-Man,” Michelle said through a mouthful of fudge. “What?!” “Eh?!” “Holy shit!” “Michelle,” Ned groaned. “Um. Yeah. Okay.” He paused to gather himself. “Peter’s Spider-Man and he kind of got stabbed and he has nowhere to go and if he goes to a hospital he’ll get ratted out to SHIELD and they’ll probably do creepy experiments on him and stuff so is it okay if he comes here and we try to stop him from bleeding to death,” he said all in one breath. “Okay,” said Shizuka. “Woah,” said Mokuba. “Peter blew up our apartment,” said Anzu.

now what is "how low can U go"

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HAHA ok so this one is a Kaiba & Anzu postcanon friendship fic but as with any friendships involving Kaiba Seto they hit a couple rough patches! Emphasis on the rough!

how low can U go

Anzu opens the door, takes one look at him, and then slams it in his face. “Mazaki.” Seto knocks rapidly and repeatedly, the terse rhythm of pent-up panic starting to release itself. “Mazaki. Give me two minutes of your time.” “You get no minutes of my time, you disgusting asshole!” Anzu hollers from the other side of the door. “Anzu,” Seto repeats. The knocking is turning into pounding. “I’m not leaving.” “I’m calling the police!” “Go ahead, and I’ll keep knocking until they get here!” “Aaaaargh,” Anzu growls in frustration, and opens the door a crack. “What the fuck do you want, Kaiba?” Seto notices with a pang that she doesn’t call him Kaiba-kun anymore, but he supposes he deserves it.

stubbornnnnn!!!! for the WIP game, obvi

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I'm laughing because you're going to LOVE the last line of this snippet:

You know when you can feel something starting to percolate in your brain - something stupid - bad news - not a good idea - horrible - but there’s nothing you can do other than just trying to hammer it back down every time it pops up, like some kind of incredibly frustrating whack-a-mole game where the only prize is not ruining your own life? Yeah. Honda Hiroto was in the blissful beginning stages of one such whack-a-mole game, the bit where you have no idea there are any moles at all, but later you’d look back and be able to pinpoint exactly where things started going to hell on a one-way bus. Quite literally on a bus. A private tour bus travelling through the Canadian Rockies.

I’m gonna be extra and ask for “I’m trash p2” AND TTYE 🥸

Thaaaanks!!! 😇

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LMAO GOING STRAIGHT FOR THE JUGULAR HUH

I'm trash p2

I don't think any Spidey mutuals follow me on this account lol, but: Have some Tony & Natasha needling each other <3

“Look,” Tony says, gesturing across his property. “This is the picture of domestic fucking bliss. Garden, two kids, shithead alpaca, porch to sit on and reflect on my dawning old age. Why the hell would I want to go back to climbing into a tin can and letting enhanced fuckfaces smack me around.” It’s a rhetorical question, so he states it, rather than asking. It doesn’t matter. Natasha has never once in her life grasped the concept of a rhetorical question, because she thinks she knows everything. Natasha shrugs. “I’m just saying, there’s maybe a middle ground between full-time Iron Man and removing yourself entirely from society by fucking off to the middle of nowhere and only showing your face in the city twice a year for Stark Industries shareholder meetings.” “I don’t even show up for those anymore,” Tony cackles. “I do ‘em remotely, and then when I’ve had enough I can just say the internet out here sucks and fake my connection breaking up.” “That doesn’t work as well as you think it does. Anyways, that’s not the point.” “The point, then, Romanoff,” Tony says, making little walking motions with his fingers. “Get to it.”

Ten Thousand Year Elegy

I was so torn between posting this snippet or a shorter Hondadorf one. But I really love Anzu/Kaiba bickering and Honda/Jounouchi sweetness so, here's one from the next chapter!!

“I can’t believe you’re willing eat plain ostrich legs roasted on a fire, but not the barbequed ones with the delicious dry-rub Link invented,” Anzu was saying to Kaiba. Kaiba huffed. “What’s confusing about that? Jounouchi just killed this one. It hasn’t been sitting out on a filthy rock in the open air growing bacteria for god knows how long.” The familiar bantering and bickering was sort of soothing, in a way. Even in a confusing and highly disorienting world where Honda Hiroto could suddenly use ancestral Goron magic, at least he could count on the unwavering constant of Kaiba choosing random nitpicky hills to die on. Jounouchi was sitting beside Honda, and was currently engaged in a spirited conversation with Yuugi about different ways they could season the ostrich next time, even though they didn’t have all the ingredients for Link and Aji’s dry rub. While Jounouchi talked through a massive and disgusting mouthful of food, he casually put his hand on Honda’s knee. No comment, no concerned look. Just: Hey, man. I’m here and so are you. Kaiba may have been predictable, but Jounouchi Katsuya was the one thing in Honda’s life that had always been as reliable as the sun coming up every morning.
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Chapter Thirty-Seven: “Goron Problems”

Ten Thousand Year Elegy | Zelda BOTW/Yu-Gi-Oh DM crossover

“Hello, Hylian-goro,” Biggoron responded cheerfully. “Can you see me, goro?” Anzu declined to answer his very obvious question and countered with one of her own. “What are you doing here, Biggoron?” “Hylians are so funny, goro,” the creature rumbled. “Always doing this, doing that. Why do I have to be doing anything? It’s a nice day, goro.” Having a very polite yelling match with an enormous rock ghost over the top of a volcanic ridge was the sort of situation nothing in life really prepared you for, but Anzu forged gamely on. “Don’t you have…regrets, or anything?” Biggoron tilted his head, his beady eyes blinking slowly. “What would I regret, goro? I never ruined anyone else’s tunnel or ate the rock sirloin a brother was saving.” “So…you know you’re dead?” Anzu tried. “Oh yes,” Biggoron said placidly. “Happens to all us brothers, doesn’t it? I can’t really remember the whole death business, though, goro. I went to sleep and then woke up here.” Anzu paused for a moment, trying to tamp down her frustration. “But you’re not supposed to be here.” “Of course I am,” Biggoron said. “This is where Gorons live, is it not? Run along now, Hylian. I have things to do, goro.” “You just said you weren’t doing anything,” Anzu said.

In which Link orchestrates a jailbreak, Zelda commits treason, and the nerd herd loses a series of logic battles against a giant invisible ghost Goron.

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Chapter Thirty-Six: “Rollin' Inn”

Ten Thousand Year Elegy | Zelda BOTW/Yu-Gi-Oh DM crossover

“Is your tin can lava-proof, though?” Jounouchi asked Link, frowning. “I dunno about this, buddy.” “Oh, don’t worry!” Link replied. “Whenever I fall into lava, I just activate the Slate’s teleportation function, and I can get out before I get any serious burns.” “Whenever you fall into lava,” Yuugi choked. Zelda shot him a long-suffering look, as if to say: welcome to my daily hell. “The only way to know is to try,” Anzu said. “That’s not true,” Honda replied flatly. “We actually don’t have to try. There is literally no obligation here to throw Link through an untested portal into a volcano. We could just walk to Death Mountain, like we’ve walked practically everywhere else.” He was summarily disregarded once again, as they all began to talk through the logistics of the portal, and how to minimize the possibility of being fried on their descent to Goron City.

In which the nerd herd throws themselves into an active volcano, Zelda once again loses the battle on not using the Master Sword as a kitchen implement, and Honda becomes an honourary Goron.

FINALLY BACK FROM HIATUS! And, I just noticed, only a few days after the two-year anniversary for this fic’s publication. WE’RE TOTK-COMPLIANT NOW BABEY!!!! sort of

it’s still canon divergent

but the LORE is mostly compliant

Anyways, more importantly: It’s Goron Time

Thief King Bakura, Ganondorf, and the mythology of Atem

A friend on Discord asked if there was going to be a connection made in Ten Thousand Year Elegy between Ganondorf and Thief King Bakura, namely because I very pointedly used the ‘King of Thieves’ moniker for G-dorf. (I think chapter 18 or 19 (the section just before Rito Village) is the one where he tells Yuugi & co, “In a just world there would be no need for a King of Thieves.”) Anyways, I really enjoyed responding to that question and talking about some of the over-arching thematic elements of Ten Thousand Year Elegy, so I’m gonna copy my response here too if anyone’s interested! (Buckle up for some Zelda/YGO crossover meta......)

There won't be a direct connection, no, but there's absolutely a thematic connection if you look for it (and will become more apparent over the course of the story.) I.E. Yuugi being forced to examine his own beliefs about TKB as they were filtered through the lens of Atem, who was a king and never had to face the sort of poverty that drives that kind of desperation. And that would mirror Zelda's perspective on Ganondorf shifting as well, because her whole understanding of Ganondorf and Gerudo history is based on A - history books written by the victors and B - coming from an imperial family that has had a vested interest in demonizing Gerudo for millennia.
I think it's going to get more apparent over time that Atem's absence is a core thematic element of TTYE - aka breaking down the mythology you construct around someone, the way that love and grief perpetuate those mythologies, and how to learn to love someone while in the process of examining who they actually were, especially when they're no longer around and you're just left with memories you're piecing togethere. I always saw TTYE!Ganondorf as kind of like a "second chance" for both Link&Zelda and the Yuugi-tachi, a way for all of them to move past the 'good vs evil' dichotomy that lacks any nuance, and understand all the people involved in both their stories as eminently human. It's kind of like Justice for TKB!!! brought about through a very long isekai adventure ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Woohoo, officially made my first foray into Thiefshipping!! I had so much fun writing these terrible kids. Gift exchange for @darkmagiattack ​ - thanks for the excellent prompt ideas, I’m such a hoe for arranged marriage fantasy AU’s 😂

Animal Husbandry

In the end, it doesn’t matter if the boys like each other, because Malik’s father needs Bakura’s father’s army, and Bakura’s father needs Malik’s father’s land. It’s a very mutually profitable arrangement, if you aren’t the one being forced to marry a rude little hellion.

The next time Malik and Bakura meet they are ten, and they end up fighting so badly that Malik ends up with a black eye and Bakura comes away from the encounter with the impression of Malik’s teeth in his forearm.

Their fathers are undeterred, and the marriage contract remains intact.

“He’s not so bad,” Rishid says, trying to comfort Malik.

“He’s awful,” Ishizu says, not looking up from her book. “Does make you two perfect for one another, though.”

Over the course of a decade, Malik and Bakura learn that marriage is horrible and annoying and generally a bad idea all around. On the other hand, it's kind of nice to have someone to set fires with. Arranged Marriage Fantasy AU

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