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Sucess! :D

Brain-eating ficcy obessingness begins: October 31st.
And ends (nominally) : November 17th

And it can probably use some editing, and I might end up redoing that last scene and I will go through and make sure it is properly cutesy and creepy. The ship that I don't even sail, Yugi and Ryou piloted their ownselves. >:P

And I've only just realized that I don't even have a title for this thing. XD

But I don't caaare!! Because in a stroke of brilliance starting at about six o'clock, I was able to finish! Finished finished finished! *spins in her lovely spinning chair*


...yes, I do have enough trouble finishing things to feel justified in this insane fit of glee. ;p Also, I will totally be inflicting this story upon my flist, once it is polished and possibly beta'd. >:D

But that will be sometime tonight, after said polishing and also after I reward myself for sticking to it, by embarking upon the Gaia-colored doom of the entire YuGiOh cast. Bwahaha!

For now, I must get myself dressed and haul my usually-lazy butt to the bank, for purposes of opening up a *gasp* debit-type account. Instead of, y'know. Living out of my savings' one. >.>;

High levels of squee :

omg, Yu-Gi-Oh! Egypt!! Left quivering and trapped because they only showed one! XD And they haven't even got to the good stuff yet! Had so much fun staring with the huge saucery eyes and mentally comparing things - and im-ingly comparing things. >> *apology where needed* I think that sucked every ounce of squee out of my brain. ^___^

( Minor squee-cut, in case of the vauge possibility of spoiling )

Then I crashed, all emotionally over-wrought and just so moody I figured I would be horrible company - didn't mean to worry anyone? ^^;;

But today, managed to get some things done. Like stopping by Home Depot to try one last time to find handles and knobs that will fit my desk. >.< Apparently they don't have them in that size at all.

Then, trying to find the Goodwill to drop off various things I just don't need. I hunted up instructions and everything, and then got lost. But I found it! It was the purest bit of dumb luck I ever remember getting. I drive and drive and it's the usual of thinking, 'Well did I miss the turn? But I haven't seen Lenox yet, I have to turn on Lenox... nope. No Lenox. Maybe I missed it, I should turn around and go back - maybe I even turned the wrong way on the first turn and it's behind me and %$#@'

So I hit a really tricky tangle - I ought to draw a map of this one spot, sometime? I don't think the roads overlapping in this area could be more confusing if they'd done it on purpose. Seeing where I am, I panic and think, 'Okay I have to choose - straight goes on forever, not enough turns, better turn now!' Taking my turn, I head down that way a bit - and see Lenox. Woot! I found Lenox, now I just have to turn onto it and - holy crap, it's the Goodwill!'

'This would so rock if it weren't a complete accident.' XD

Now I shall crash! And see what insanity my comments may/may not have wrought once I wake up.

Maybe a week or so back, a discussion came up in ptdc wherein shusu mentioned that Seto Kaiba is the foil to Yugi's hero.

Which got me thinking about the way things seem to work in the manga, and how a character's status as good or evil depends on what kind of friend they are. (Rather than how they behave outside of their friendships, but that would be another rant)

( The path of friendship? )

Finally! I have Yu-Gi-Oh!

There will be readings at work, because every. single. time. I get my hands on one of these, I can't just start reading right away. No, I torment myself with staring at the colorful cover. And peeking in a bit.

And then reading!

...From peeking, I believe Bakura may be stalking Yugi. >.> Surely someone should warn them of this, oh wait! That was Honda's job!!! And I betcha he didn't say anything. x.x Meanwhile, there is Otogi! I get to see how badly his backstory was screwed with! :o

-6 days until Egypt! *jitters*

You know, I like the anime of Yu-Gi-Oh. Really I do.

But I can't help feeling this scene got a bit butchered. When Joey objects to something Mai said and nearly falls off the railing?

( It goes something like )

I just woke up. Of my own volition. At 4:30.

Maybe I should pretend I'm planning on going to the mall everyday. Or the bookstore. since my body seems to have a 'wake up for books' presetting.

Or maybe it's just the anticipation of seeing Yugi depress himself senseless while Seto goes on to kick Pegasus's butt - oooh, and Mai should be back! Mai better be back, Yugi just blew his star chips on his Seto. Which does not sound wrong.

...great, now I'm picturing plushie!Seto in a crane game, and Yugi pestering the Pharaoh to win it for him. XD

ETA:

Seto: Games mean conflict. A combat between two enemies... It's the same for all of them! Cards... chess... the blood soaked wars of the human race... All these are different kinds of games... Do you know what God gave to people so they could play games in this world? A single chip... called life. When I threw my chip of life on the board... Yugi exposed his weakness and lost the game!

Anzu: That's not true, Kaiba! You're the one who lost! You say people's struggles are a game! That's totally wrong! Facing yourself no matter how tough things get... and keeping up the fight... that's what games are really about! You bet your chip of life as if it meant nothing! You lost to yourself! When you realized you were going to lose, you didn't have the courage to keep living! Listen... Real courage is protecting that chip you have in your hands... no matter what!

Now, what have we learned from this kiddies? *ignores the impossibility of responses* That's right, Anzu rocks.

Now, for the differances-list

( In which I go off the deep end on ranting tangents )

The bright spot of my day.

( YuGiOh: Duelist #5 - Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. )

Caramel Coated

This is the home of much Malik/Bakura, some general strangeness, and some fic recs that make me wonder why. ( Tiny spot of fic-rambling )

....now why was I making this post? Oooh yes.

She makes music videos. Now, some of the quality is bad? And once I have finally managed to download all of these very large files, I might come back to this and label spoiler-warnings? But none of that matters.

None.

A trailer for Battle City. "Requiem for a Dream" It is 7 minutes long, and it is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This is YuGiOh, this was Battle City, and nothing I can say can convey the drama and the beauty of it this well.

The actual show didn't portray it this well, what with the goofy lines and the inevitable commericial breaks. ;p

So much shock and <3 watching that video. So much flashing back to the best moments, and remembering what I thought at different points. I have hit nostalgia overload here. I'll just be going and watching it again, now.

It had been quiet at school. Especially for their school. No random murderers loose in the area, no gaming craze devouring everyone's life. No bullies or thefts (he found himself reaching into his backpack to be certain the Ring was still there) or mysterious anything demanding Yugi's intervention and thus the Pharoah's appearance

Not even so much as a new teacher whose insanity bordered on evil.

Jounouchi was loudly expressing his opinion that they were all going to die of boredom, and Ryou couldn't help agreeing with him. Not that he was going to say so with the teacher's attention being caught by Jou shooting off his mouth again. Instead he watched the small commotion as Anzu and Honda tried to get Jou to shut up, and shared a smile with Yugi before the other boy joined in.

No sense in getting detention himself...

***

Kaiba Seto stared down at his younger brother. "Mokuba, I know you mean well but..."

It was vaugely disturbing to notice that Mokuba's glaring had improved. Had to have, if it was getting to him. "I'm serious, Seto! You need to relax! You need to get out of this - office!" Also disturbing that he caught himself thinking it was cute, the way Mokuba glared at the place as if it had done something to him. Except, of course, that he was not even thinking the word 'cute'.

Mokuba seemed to notice that not-thought, however. Or maybe it was that tiny smile he was too tired to stop in time. "And you better hope I don't redecorate the place while you're gone! If you're gonna be living in here, this place needs a fridge and a game system that doesn't have anything to do with Duel Monsters and... hey - we could put a couple folding cots over there..."

'This is the point,' Seto thought to himself, 'where I wake up and realize I've been having some bizzare nightmare. Any minute now.'

"And then the desk can go over there, out of the way, and..." Mokuba's eyes were lighting up as he darted around the office, plotting the rearrangement of his big brother's life.

'He doesn't know what he's doing.' Seto told himself. 'He doesn't know what he's doing, and I'm still standing here listening to him! What is wrong with me?!'

"Mokuba!" He did not flinch, even if he had said that a bt louder than necessary. It was good that he didn't flinch. He didn't dare show weakness while Mokuba was watching him like some tiny horribly cute monster, just waiting for weakness to reveal that it had fangs the size of its own head.

Like Motou. And every freaking monster in his deck.

And he was comparing his little brother to Motou?!

"Seto?" Mokuba. Waving a hand in front of his face. "Hello in there big brother! You okay?"

Seto glared. "Mokuba. Get off my chair and put it back behind the desk." He waited to until Mokuba was wheeling the chair back into place to add, "And cancel the rest of my appointments for today. This place is making me claustrophobic, I'm going out."

He did not look back. Even if that did sound suspiciously like Mokuba stifling a giggle.

A couple of notes:

This is not entirely finished, and will be edited at some point.
It is (not entirely) Lacey's fault.
I was insane before I started and working on this has not helped. ;p
Any suggestions for songs for other characters? O:)

( You make the rockin' world go round! )