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Hi!

First of all, thanks for signing up! I hope that whatever you end up writing, you enjoy doing so.

So, my name's Damien and I like a lot of messed up, twisted stuff. In general, the more suffering and emotional anguish the main character undergoes, the better I like it. And I like all the bad stuff happening to chars I like so even though I am asking for characters to be put through hell, I swear it's not character bashing. I just like seeing them come undone and be broken right open.

General things I like: gaslighting, mob/group, emotional manipulation, addiction, blackmail, guilt, coercion, abuse of authority, hatesex, dub/non con. using people as a substitute, revenge themes. All of that is awesome and would make me happy as long as the narration doesn't normalize it. I like my bad stuff to have the creep factor emphasized.

Some are NSFW but there is absolutely no reason to write NSFW if you don't want to! It's the emotional damage that I like.

So, yeah. My favorite characters to see suffer are Kirihara, Ryoma, Yuuta and Mizuki

If you're looking for specific prompts, then I have a few under the cut. TW for various versions of the above mentioned tropes.

I am 100% fine with you ignoring the prompts if there's something you'd rather write! Really, I just want to see the characters I like be absolutely wrecked.

Terrible things rest here! )
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Dragon Child: My favorite gen Ryuuji fic. It's a what-if for if Ryuuji had solved the puzzle/won and how his lie with his abusive father goes afterwards. Told from Yami no Yuugi's POV.

Flames: Short gen piece about how three different chars see Ryuuji.

The Standoff: Ryuuji and Seto are not easy men to assassinate. Funny, verging on cracktastic, snarky. Ryuuji/Seto.

A House Divided: Kaibas always get what they want. Everyone knows that. Ryuuji/Seto, Mokuba/Ryuuji.

Playground Logic: Sort of an ensemble piece with Ryuuji introducing/discussing the other characters.

Think You Know: Short, minimalist piece. Ryuuji/Seto.

Leave A Pretty Corpse: Because after all, love is such a killing thing. Ryuuji/Seto, darkly self-destructive.

A Terry and Ryuuji Fic: It's a crossover between Batman Beyond and YGO. I don't think I can describe it any better than that.

Sunrise: Long, plotty fic about what'd happen to the world if Yami no Malik won. Seto/Ryuuji, warnings for character death.

150 Miles: Seto/Ryuuji break-up fic. Painful.

Painted Sky: Multi-chapter fic, Seto/Ryuuji, focusing on their drunken hookup and the consequences thereof.
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So let's talk about Ryuuji in the manga! First up, summary of the plot from @cairnsy.

SUMMARY OF MANGA CHAPTERS )
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Sir,

Void and Gemini found the following files on the computer of Dirk Strider, alias Timaeus. It’s obvious he knew his roommate’s real identity but they weren’t conspiring together! They were just having your typical blackrom relationship. He should receive a full pardon.

- Dragon





ROOM FOR RENT: Prime location, near two subway stops and a bus, comes with wifi, cable, fully furnished, $650 a week. I work from home and need a tidy, quiet roommate that’ll pay their rent on time and not come home drunk all the time.









TT: Don’t put your fucking blueprints for murder machines on the fridge.
uu: WHY NOT. IT’S MY FRIDGE TOO.
TT: Because when I come home from stymying yet another of your stupid plans, I don’t want to have to see your next plan when all I want is some Orange Crush.
uu: IT IS A GENIuS PLAN.
TT: It is a terrible plan, man. All of your plans are terrible. You should just give up on being a supervillain already.
uu: YOu WOuLD LIKE THAT. WOuLDN’T YOu. THEN YOu AND GOLGATHAS CAN JUST FLY AROuND. ALL DAY. WITH YOuR FANCY CAPES. AND STuPID GLASSES.
uu: LOOKING HEROIC. WITHOuT DOING SHIT.
uu: NOT THAT YOu DO SHIT NOW. EXCEPT FuCK uP. MY GENIuS PLANS.

TT: Dude, don’t tell me you’re jealous of our capes.
uu: I’M NOT. I’M GOING TO GET A CAPE OF MY OWN. AND IT’LL BE BETTER THAN YOuRS. AND BETTER THAN YOuR STuPID BOYFRIEND’S.
TT: He’s not my boyfriend.
uu: TELL THAT TO THE PAPERS.
uu: INSTEAD OF BOASTING ABOuT. HOW YOu FOILED ME.

TT: Man, I don’t need to boast. Everyone saw me kick your ass today.
uu: I *LET* YOu HAVE THAT ONE. TO LuLL YOU. INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECuRITY.
TT: Gotcha. And it’s your turn to wash the dishes.
uu: NO. IT ISN’T.
TT: Yes, it is. There’s a chart on the fridge.
uu: NOT ANYMORE.
TT: Ripping it down doesn’t make it not your turn.
uu: I AM NOT WASHING THE FuCKING DISHES.
TT: Then you’re not eating.
uu: FuCK YOu. YOu CAN’T COOK WITHOuT DISHES EITHER.
TT: No, but I can order delivery. You can’t.
uu: IT’S NOT MY FAuLT. YOuR FuCKING DELIVERY PEOPLE. ARE SuCH COWARDS.
TT: Last time you asked the guy if he was dinner.
uu: I LIKE MY MEAT RAW.
TT: And people don’t like being eaten alive.
uu: I HEARD YOU TELL GOLGATHAS. THAT YOU WERE GOING TO SWALLOW HIM WHOLE.
TT: Yeah.
TT: That is one talk I am not having with you, dude.
TT: Do the fucking dishes.




uu: I CAN’T BELIEVE. YOu HIT ME. WITH A FuCKING BARRAGE OF DIRTY DISHES.
TT: I can’t believe you left them in the sink for a week.
uu: I THOuGHT YOu WOuLD BREAK AND WASH THEM EVENTuALLY.
uu: I DIDN’T THINK YOu WOuLD *BREAK THEM ON ME!!*

TT: Then maybe next time you should wash the fucking dishes when it’s your turn.




uu: YOu ARE BEING VERY RuDE.
uu: AFTER SuCH ACTS OF TENDERNESS. YOu SHOuLD. BRING ME FLOWERS. AND A RING. AND A BABY.
uu: NOT AVOID ME.
uu: THIS IS VERY uNHEROIC OF YOu.





uu: DIRK HuMAN. STOP AVOIDING ME.
uu: I CAN HEAR YOu TYPING.
uu: I KNOW YOu’RE IN YOuR ROOM.
uu: I WILL SET THE APARTMENT ON FIRE IF YOu DON’T COME OuT.





uu: IF YOu DON’T. FuCKING TALK TO ME.
uu: I WILL TELL EVERYONE. THAT I AM LORD ENGLISH.
uu: AND THAT WE. HUMAN COPuLATED.
uu: SEVERAL TIMES.

TT: At least you’re getting the hang of blackmail.
uu: YES. I AM A TRuE. EVIL GENIuS.
TT: Which is why you never tried just breaking down my door instead of messaging me over Pesterchum.
uu: LAST TIME I DID THAT. IT FELL ON YOu.
uu: AND THEN I HAD TO FIGHT GOLGATHAS’ TERROR ON MY OWN. FOR A WEEK.
uu: IT WAS BORING. WITHOuT YOu THERE.

TT: Careful, dude. That sounded almost tender.
uu: FuCK YOu.
TT: You already did. Isn’t that the problem?
TT: Look. Come to my room. This isn’t the sort of convo we should be having over a messaging service.




TT: You ever think that we’re just killing time?
GG: What do you mean?
TT: Arrest the bad guy, send ‘em to jail, wait for them to break out, arrest them again. It feels like such a fuckin’ waste.
GG: What would you propose we do, Timaeus?
GG: Surely you don’t agree with the Zodiac that we should be using a more permanent solution! :o

TT: Nah. Just saying, wouldn’t it make more sense to keep an eye on them and block their plans as they develop instead of always having to play catch up?
GG: You mean espionage? I like the sound of that!!!
TT: Something like that.
TT: Shit. Fire alarm just went off. I think my roommate must’ve burnt something again.
GG: I thought you said he eats raw meat?
GG: Timaeus?
GG: Gtg, Mustache Signal just went up!!! Good luck with your roommate!





SHOPPING LIST:


  1. Onions
  2. Bread
  3. Olive Oil
  4. Lube WHAT’S THAT? If you’d been paying attention the other night instead of making wisecracks about human anatomy, you’d know. I WANT TO KNOW NOW. I’ll show you later.
  5. Condoms WHAT ARE THOSE? Balloons. You blow them up and hit people with them. They are a fearsome weapon. FINALLY. YOU ARE BUYING SOMETHING USEFUL.
  6. WEAPONS GRADE PLuTONIuM No. You can’t buy that in a grocery store. WHY NOT. Because. Besides, that falls under ‘work shit’ which means you keep it out of our shared places.
  7. CANDY. ALL OF THE CANDY. I DEMAND YOU BUY ALL THE CANDY IN THE STORE.
  8. GLITTER. I keep telling you, dude, glitter is not edible. IT SHOuLD BE. IT LOOKS EDIBLE. No, it doesn’t. DON’T BE SO SPECIEST. BuY ME MY FuCKING GLITTER. Fine. When you get a stomach ache, don’t expect any sympathy from me.










CG: WHY THE FUCK HAVEN’T YOU TURNED IN LORD ENGLISH YET YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT?
CG: BY SOME FUCKING MIRACLE YOU BEAT HIM EVERY TIME YOU TWO FIGHT.
CG: YET YOU NEVER FUCKING HAND HIM OVER TO THE POLICE.
CG: ARE YOU FUCKING LETTING HIM GO??????????????????????
CG: DRAGON SAYS SHE THIRD-EYE SAW YOU TWO HATE-KISSING.
CG: FUCKING SAY SOMETHING, TIMAEUS.
CG: ARE YOU BEING QUIET BECAUSE YOU’RE BUSY HATE-KISSING HIM RIGHT NOW??????????????????????????
CG: I HATE YOU SO MUCH.
CG: I HATE ALL YOU HUMANS SO MUCH.
CG: WHY DO WE KEEP SAVING YOU?????





GT: Dirk.
GT: Oh bugger i meant timaeus!
GT: This business of using our code names at all times is quite the botheration.

TT: Sup.
TT: Something on your mind, Golgathas?
GT: Ah well i heard the most ridiculous bit of malarkey from spider who heard it from fish hitler who says she heard it from hal who saw it all happening.
TT: So my AR’s a gossip. What else is new?
GT: Well... *pats brow with kerchief*
GT: I dont know quite how to say this and let me reassure you that i put no stock at all in the wagging of idle tongues but there has been some almighty gossiping going on about you and that supervillain we keep rumbling with!
GT: Of course i told everyone that if you are my best bro and crime fighting compatriot and certainly i would have been the first to know if you were dillydallying with the enemy but i guess i just wanted to hear it from you that its all complete balderdash.
GT: It is complete balderdash isnt it? That creature isnt your boyfriend! *laughs nervously*

TT: He’s not my boyfriend.
GT: Good! I feel quite the fool for having even asked such an asinine question.
TT: Archer calls it a caliginous relationship.
GT: A what now?
TT: Don’t tell me Spider’s never chewed your ear off about troll quadrants.
GT: Pardon me strider but last i checked you werent a troll!
TT: I’m not a bird either but you’ve seen me fly.
GT: Goshdarnit this is not the time for your flippancy!
GT: You cant be in any sort of relationship with that cad *hes the enemy*!

TT: He’s not very good at it. He hasn’t even managed to kill anyone yet.
GT: He always talks about how he killed his sister!
TT: Void says Muse isn’t dead. Just hiding.
GT: From him because he wants to kill her! CANT YOU SEE HES A VILLAIN?!
TT: Yeah, but he’s my villain. Lay off, Golgathas. I’ve got it under control.
GT: OUR VILLAIN. Were supposed to be a crime fighting team! The dynamic duo!!!
GT: Do you even want to fight crime anymore or just marry it!!!

TT: You’re being ridiculous. Of course I still want to fight crime. If he starts shit, we’ll stop it. Same as always. Nothing’s changed.
GT: Except youre in bed with the enemy! How do you know this isnt just some cunning scheme!!
TT: He’s not that cunning.
TT: Shit. I think my roommate's throwing a fit about something again.
GT: BLAST IT ALL STRIDER YOU CANT LEAVE NOW.
GT: STRIDER!!!!!







uu: THERE ARE PEOPLE. MAKING GAMES ABOuT uS.
TT: Yeah, I know. Some of the dating sims aren’t bad.
uu: WHAT?
TT: What are you talking about?
uu: THIS. FIGHTING GAME THEY MADE.
uu: I AM WELL ENDOWED. AND YOu ARE. FuNNY.
uu: BOuNCING uP AND DOWN LIKE A SQUEAKY HOPPING CREATuRE.

TT: A rabbit?
uu: ARE THOSE THE SMALL GREEN THINGS THAT LIVE IN PONDS?
TT: No, those are frogs and they go ribbit.
uu: HAVE YOu EVER FOuGHT THEM?
TT: No. Why?
uu: NO REASON.
TT: Tell me you’re not going to unleash a plague of frogs on the city.
TT: Cal?
TT: Son of a fuck.





TT: Easter’s long over, dude.
uu: WHAT ARE YOu TALKING ABOUT?
TT: The colorful egg on the table.
uu: WHAT ABOuT OuR BABY?
TT: …
TT: Our what?
uu: OuR BABY. THE FRuIT. OF OuR LOINS.
TT: …
TT: Are you telling me you laid that egg?
uu: NO. A TALL-LEGGED BIRD BROuGHT IT.
uu: THAT WAS. A REFERENCE TO YOuR HuMAN COPuLATION MYTHS.
uu: SEE HOW WELL I HAVE BEEN LEARNING YOuR WAYS?

TT: Congratulations. You get a gold star. Here. This is a gold star sticker. In fact, have two. One for you and one for the freakin’ baby that you didn’t think to even tell me about.
uu: I TOLD YOU NOW.
TT: You should have told me as soon as you laid it.
TT: What if I’d tried to make an omelette with it? Or thought it was a chocolate egg and tried to peel it?

uu: YOu WOuLD HAVE. EATEN OuR BABY?
uu: YOu SICK FuCK.

TT: I wouldn’t have known it was ours, dude.
TT: Fuck. You should’ve told me that it even was possible for you to get pregnant with an interspecies alien baby. I would’ve been way more fuckin’ careful about using protection.
uu: ARE YOu SAYING. YOu ARE NOT HAPPY. TO BE A FATHER?
TT: It’s not that.
TT: It’s just I really didn’t plan for this. Financially, I guess we’re doing okay. But how are we gonna raise a kid when you’re a supervillian and I spend most of my time fighting you? We’d need to stay at home with the kid, change our lifestyles completely.
TT: And nobody knows you’re Lord English. Even Golgathas doesn’t..
TT: Once they realize I have an alien baby with my roommate, they’re going to put two and two together.

uu: YOuR PARTNER. IS FuCKING STuPID. HE WON’T FIGuRE IT OuT.
TT: Golgathas isn’t that bad. Nobody is. What’s the kid even going to look like? Your alien form? Me? Your human form?
uu: HOW SHOuLD I FuCKING KNOW? IT’S NOT LIKE I’VE DONE THIS BEFORE EITHER.
uu: YOu’LL JuST HAVE TO. WAIT AND SEE.

TT: How long do we have before it hatches?
uu: PLANNING ON. MAKING A RuN FOR IT?
TT: No.
TT: We need to buy a crib, baby food, baby clothes, babyproof the house.
TT: Relax. I’m not gonna be a deadbeat dad.
uu: HA. HA. HA. IT WOuLDN’T BE. VERY HEROIC. IF YOu WERE.
TT: It’s not about heroism, man. Planned or not, this baby’s family. You don’t ditch family.
uu: SO IF IT’S FAMILY. WHAT THE FUCK AM I?
TT: The most annoying asshole in the universe.
uu: HAAA. HAAA. HAAAA. I WILL. TEACH OuR CHILD. TO BE EVEN MORE ANNOYING. THAN I AM.
TT: Impossible, man. Nobody can outdo you when it comes to annoying. Besides, I’m gonna be right there, raising our kid the right way.
uu: SO YOu ARE NOW RESIGNED. TO HAVING A KID?
TT: I guess.
TT: Maybe I’m just glad I’m not the one that had to lay an egg. That thing is huge.
uu: YES. IT IS. TO QuOTE YOu HuMANS.
uu: SIZE MATTERS.

TT: …
TT: That’s.
TT: You know what, nevermind. Right. Size matters.
TT: Now what? Do we need to take turns sitting on it? Buy it a heat lamp? Sun lamp? Bury it in sand?
uu: LOTS OF HEAT. AND GLITTER.
TT: Glitter?
uu: FOR ITS FIRST MEAL.
TT: …
TT: You know what, Gumshoe says there’s such a thing as edible glitter in specialty baking stores.. I’ll get some of that.
uu: WAIT. YOu’VE BEEN LETTING ME EAT. NON-EDIBLE GLITTER. ALL THIS TIME?!
TT: Hey, I kept telling you the glitter from grocery stores isn’t edible. You’re the one who never listens.
uu: FuCK YOu.
uu: I HOPE OuR KID HATES YOu. AS MuCH AS I DO.

TT: I wouldn’t be surprised.
uu: I WOuLD. NOBODY ELSE CAN. HATE YOu AS MuCH AS I DO.
TT: That’s so sweet, honey.
uu: YOu VILE SLuT. ARE YOu. INITIATING ACTS OF TENDERNESS?
TT: You’ll just have to wait and see.
uu: HAA. HAA. HAA. uSING MY OWN WORDS. AGAINST ME.
uu: I AM COMING. TO YOuR ROOM. YOu HAD BETTER BE PREPARED. FOR HARDCORE CuDDLING ACTION.





BABY NAMES:


Dave. WE ARE NOT NAMING IT AFTER YOuR ASSHOLE BROTHER. AND WHY ARE ALL OF YOuR NAMES 4 LETTERS LONG? EARTH HAS. A VARIETY OF LENGTHS. FOR NAMES.
Habit, I guess. Besides, all of yours are 8 letters.
SO? THAT IS CULTURAL.
Right. Like me having to read romance novels to the baby every night?
YES.
How about we compromise on 6 letter names?
THEN PEOPLE WILL EXPECT. IT TO BE A TROLL.
Fine. How about we choose the name when the egg hatches?
OR NAMES.
Or names. Having a list of baby names on the fridge would’ve been pretty fuckin’ hard to explain away if any of the others saw it.
LIKE YOu EVER. HAVE ANYONE OVER ANYWAY.
You keep forgetting to switch to your human disguise. I’m not going to get outed because you can’t remember to turn on a hologram.
I AM PERFECT. AS I AM. WHY SHOuLD I HIDE THIS BODY?
If you use the word ‘swag’, I am removing your Internet privileges.
FuCK YOu. AND YOuR WIFI HOGGING WAYS. WHEN I RuLE THE WORLD. YOu WILL GET NO WIFI.
If you ever ruled the world, everyone would be dead and I’d have nobody to chat to anyway.
YES. THAT WAY. I CAN ENSuRE. YOu AREN’T FuCKING. SLuTTING IT uP.
I’m not gonna stop Void from hugging me just because you get jealous.
WE’RE WRITING POST-ITS ON A FRIDGE. WHY ARE YOu STILL uSING CODE NAMES?
I’m not giving you her real name either.
ONE DAY. I WILL DESTROY YOu ALL. EXCEPT YOu. YOu ARE MY BABY MOMMY.
You’re the one that laid the egg, dude. Pretty sure you’re the mom.
I AM A PARAGON OF MANLINESS.
Then go do the dishes.
IT IS MANLY. DO TO DISHES?
Yeah. Why do you think I keep telling you to do it? My delicate hands can’t handle all that hot water and rough soap.
FINE. I WILL DO THE DISHES. BUT ONLY BECAuSE YOu ARE SO. PATHETIC.




uu: YOu LYING PIECE OF SHIT
TT: What now?.
uu: DOING DISHES. ISN’T MANLY.
TT: It’s still your job.
uu: I HATE YOu.
TT: Is that a come on?
uu: GET. NAKED.
TT: Already am, sweetie.




TT: Dude.
TT: There is a Labrador-sized dragon attempting to terrorize a public park.
TT: And the egg tank only has a cracked shell in it.
TT: I’m getting the feeling you weren’t exactly honest with me about that egg holding our baby.
uu: ARE YOu SAYING. YOu DON’T THINK OuR GENES COuLD COMBINE TO MAKE A DRAGON?
TT: I’ve seen baby photos of you.
TT: You didn’t look like a dragon. You looked like a snake.
uu: MAYBE YOuR STuPID HuMAN GENES DEFORMED IT.
TT: Right.
TT: Because I have wings and breathe fire.
uu: FINE.
uu: I LIED.
uu: YOu WOuLDN’T HAVE LET ME KEEP IT IF YOu KNEW IT WAS A DRAGON EGG.
TT: Still not letting you keep it.
TT: Zodiac’s going to deal it and Dragon’s going to adopt it.
uu: YOu NEVER LET ME HAVE ANY FuN.
TT: I was willing to raise a fuckin’ baby with you, man.
uu: THAT WOuLDN’T HAVE BEEN FuN.
TT: And yet I would’ve done it anyway. Think about that next time you want to bitch about Golgathas or me spending too much time with my hero buddies.
TT: I’m going to help Zodiac.




uu: STOP IGNORING ME.
uu: YOu DIDN’T EVEN WANT A BABY.
uu: WHY DO YOu CARE. THAT I LIED TO YOu?
uu: I’M A VILLAIN. LYING’S WHAT I DO.
uu: DIRK.
uu: DIRK HUMAN.
uu: IF YOu KEEP IGNORING ME. I WILL BE FORCED TO DO. SOMETHING DRASTIC.










TA: tiimaeu2, take a look at thii2. the code'2 fuckiing 2paghettii and kk want2 iit 2olved by miidniight.
TT: Nice try, Gemini. You don’t need to send me easily solvable shit to make me feel better about myself.
TA: whatever. ii heard you and Lord Englii2h broke off your kii2me2ii22tiitude and wanted to 2ee iif you couldn’t still code for 2hiit.
TA: iif you'd opened the fuckiing fiile, you would've 2een iit wa2 your own code from the la2t project we worked on together.
TT: Please tell me you’re not pity-blackflirting with me.
TA: fuck no. don't flatter your2elf. ii wouldn't blackfliirt wiith you iif iit wa2 a choiice between you and a fuckiing hoofbea2t.
TT: Good luck finding a hoofbeast with low enough standards to take a second look at you. I’m going back to work.




♀: Timaeus, I have a new co+stume design fo+r yo+u. No+ capes this time. I to+ld yo+u they were a bad idea.
♀: When are yo+u and Go+lgathas free to+ co+me in fo+r a fitting?
TT: Not for a while. I’m busy working on a new bot.
TT: Golgathas could see you separately.
♀: So+mething wro+ng with yo+ur partnership?
TT: No. I’m just busy.
♀: I see.
♀: If yo+u need so+meo+ne to+ talk to+ abo+ut failed co+ncupiscent relatio+nships, I am the clo+sest yo+u will get to+ an expert.

TT: Man. Does everyone know?
♀: In a wo+rd? Yes.
♀: It's all o+ver the papers. Haven't yo+u been keeping up with the news?

TT: Gossip columns are more your thing.
♀: I said the news, no+t the go+ssip co+lumns! CNN ran a special repo+rt o+n their predicted effect o+n the city if o+ne o+f its defenders is to+o+ busy hiding after a bad breakup to+ defend the city against his ex.
TT: Fuck that noise. I’m not hiding. I’m working.
♀: On what?
TT: Plan B.
♀: What's that?
TT: Hopefully, you’ll never have to see.
TT: Timer went off. Back to work.




UU: hello, brother! i know we haven’t talked since you tried to knock me off bUt i heard aboUt yoU and timaeUs and thoUght perhaps yoU coUld Use an ear. :U
uu: FuCK OFF. I DON’T NEED YOuR PITY.
uu: I AM GOING TO GET HIM BACK.
uu: IT WILL BE. A MASTERPIECE. OF DESTRuCTION.
uu: HE WILL BE SORRY HE EVER IGNORED ME.
uu: AND THEN. OuR GAME WILL START AGAIN.
uu: HE’LL SEE. YOu’LL ALL SEE.
UU: oh, bloody hell. and here i thoUght that perhaps yoU might have matUred a little!
UU: clearly yoU're the same self-centered little child that yoU've always been!!!!!!!!!!!

uu: I’VE GROWN IN WAYS. YOu CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE.
uu: AND THIS TIME. I’LL KILL YOu FOR KEEPS.




uu: DIRK HuMAN. THIS IS YOuR LAST CHANCE.
uu: STILL IGNORING ME? FINE.
uu: SEE YOu IN THE SKY. tumut.




TT: Timaeus, LE is on a rampage. He’s emitting a disintegrating beam from his mouth. The death toll is in the dozens already. Zodiac’s evacuating the civilians.
TT: Golgathas is not replying to messages and the Witch says she can’t sense his life force.
TT: Timaeus?

TT: I’m on my way.
TT: If shit goes wrong and I don’t make it back, tell Hal to activate Plan B.
TT: And thanks for never getting on my case about how stupid hooking up with LE was.
TT: Tell Dave to rap my eulogy.





Sir,

Plan B, the strifebot superhero known as Brobot, is fully functional and an excellent replacement for Timaeus. He has no emotional attachments or physical desire and is very loyal to the team! In fact, he’s even a better fighter than Timaeus was.

I think he should be made a permanent member of the team! Whether LE and Timaeus died at the climax of their battle or disappeared into an alternate dimension, it doesn’t look like Timaeus is coming back and without him and Golgathas, we’re two members short.

I also think you should let me build Hal a body. He does great intelligence and spywork but he wants a body and I could make him one! Or Archer could! And then we’d have made up for both our losses and have a full human squad again.

Jade Harley
fickle: adrian's mouth is a beautiful thing (king of kings)
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
fickle: (asian fairy tale)
You know what the world needs?

More art of chars of colors and more publicity for the art that's already out there!

There's been plenty of discussion about chars of color/non-white chars in fiction, so let's start promoting artwork. There have already been some gorgeous collections of artwork done via links in journals, but I think something that updates on a more regular basis and is easy to find would be fantastic.

My idea is to create a dA club that'll favourite the works of chars of color/non-white chars. Members can join and submit pieces, and every month, we can have a journal update that'll feature two or three especially talented artists. Why dA? Collecting artwork on dA means that the artists will always be credited and art theft can't take place, and that the artists will know that their work is appreciated when they see that it's been fav'd. It's also tidy, used by a lot of people and therefore has a lot of art to choose from. delicious would be easier if we wanted to collect artwork from all over the web but unfortunately, delicious doesn't have the same awesome thumbnails for viewers and notifications for the artists that their work is being collected.

Current names up for consideration: charsofcolor, chars-of-color, multicolorful -- the last is the idea of [livejournal.com profile] skywardprodigal, who pointed out that not everyone is okay with the term "chars of color" because they prefer to ID themselves as "non-white". If you've got ideas as to what other good names would be, please toss them my way! [livejournal.com profile] deepad has now suggested chromaticart and [livejournal.com profile] kialo would like the word 'reflections' to be in somehow.

Current categories to sort artwork into: fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk, modern, mythological, fanart: anime, fanart: literature, fanart: movies, fanart: tv, het couple, gay couple, lesbian couple, group pic, horror, urban fantasy. The last two were suggested by [livejournal.com profile] takishia. Again, if you've got ideas for other ways to categorize art, drop a comment!

Only rule I have so far is that if we fav a piece for the club, we will comment telling the person about the club and offering feedback on it at the same time, just to encourage the artist to draw more chars of color/non-white chars. I don't want to mod it on my own, and have already asked [livejournal.com profile] skywardprodigal to co-mod with me, but am thinking that more mods might be necessary because the more people who have access to the club account, the more people that can favorite work they find on dA that's club-appropriate. The other option is to tell people to note the club if they find something suitable but honestly, that's enough work that I doubt most people would bother doing that. Clearly, I need help with ideas for that as well!

This idea is just percolating in my brain still, so any and all feedback or ideas will be appreciated. Especially if you've had any experience modding clubs on dA before.

Edit: Added in two more name suggestions, and two category suggestions, all taken from comments.
fickle: (disney: esmeralda whee)
Crazily busy, but still, have a look at my desktop and 10 quick YGO drabbles.

Rules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn your music player on and turn it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabblet/ficlet related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterward! No matter how whacked out your drabble is. :)
4. Do ten of these, then post them.

Not That Girl, Wicked Musical, Mai/Jounouchi, Yugi/Anzu. )

Popular, Wicked Musical, Rebecca & Mai. )

Nazi Halo, Jack Off Jill, Yami no Bakura gen. )

Part Of Your World, The Little Mermaid, Cure Mermaid & Harpie's Brother. )

Snakes, Voltaire, Yami no Bakura/Seto. )

One Girl Revolution, Legally Blonde soundtrack, Varon+Mai, Jounouchi+Mai. )

Meant To Live, Switchfoot, Ryuuji gen. )

A Guy Like You, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jounouchi/Mai, Yugi+Jounouchi. )

if he tries anything, ani di franco, Mai/Isis. )

Head On Collision, New Found Glory, Ryuuji/Seto. )

Yellow Brick Road, Jack Off Jill, Leon gen. )


Rules:
Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun.
1. Go to your desktop and press the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key).
2. Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and doing a Paste (CTRL + V). If you wish, you can “edit” the image before saving it.
3. Post the picture on your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop if you want. You can explain why you prefer such a look or why it is full of icons. Things like that.
4. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktops as well.

The aliens already got me. )

Tagging: [livejournal.com profile] ego_chan, [livejournal.com profile] a_white_rain, [livejournal.com profile] pikachumaniac, [livejournal.com profile] fyretoppaaa, [livejournal.com profile] tes_aidan and [livejournal.com profile] xindanobodie.
fickle: (asian pride)
To celebrate Sri Lankan Independence Day, I'm offering to write people's names for them in Sinhala.



Above image is my name, written in Sinhala. If you want me to write your name in Sinhala, comment! Please spell your name correctly and next to it, in brackets, put how it's pronounced, since Sinhala has more vowels than English.

For example:

Fickle (Fick-el, rhymes with trick-hell)

And then I'll write your name and you can show it off. XD
fickle: (disney: esmeralda whee)
1) Pick up to 15 pairings you like.
2) Describe them in up to 15 words.
3) Get your friends to guess.


So, I rarely do memes but this one REALLY has been itching at me and I've been filling it out all over my flist, which means I get to give it a try. So, um, guess? XD It's no fun unless you play along! I picked a whole bunch of different canons, anime and TV and comics and movies, so most of you should have at least one fandom on the list you know.


    I bolded the unsolved ones so that they'd be easier to see. Fandoms left are HP, Greek Mythology, Batman, and two that if I tell you the fandom, you'll guess the pairings instantly :P

  1. It’s not about the love or even the sex. It’s about the blood and spilling thereof. Yami no Malik/Yami no Bakura, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] ceresi and [livejournal.com profile] perivates.
  2. Love isn’t, and never was, part of the equation. Even they can’t afford it. Ryuuji/Seto, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] harmonybunny114.
  3. A’s better than the one she replaced, but B isn’t. They’re best friends anyway.
  4. The two main male leads get married in the season finale and nobody’s surprised.
  5. The only word that describes their relationship comes from an alien language but it’s perfect. Tobias/Ax, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] katarik.
  6. Their greatest passion is not each other but the sport; it keeps them apart. Rocket/Sinedd, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] harmonybunny114 and [livejournal.com profile] brownie_utonium.
  7. She’s all that keeps him human and no human could understand her like him. Tobias/Rachel, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] ceresi and [livejournal.com profile] perivates.
  8. She is too chaste to surrender and too dangerous to force but common sense isn’t his strong point.
  9. A’s pure music, and B loves music in a way that’s nothing like how he loves people. Ryuichi/Tohma, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] yukirien.
  10. The two main male leads get married in the season finale and nobody’s surprised.
  11. Being beautiful isn’t the only thing they have in common but they pretend it is. Mai/Ryuuji, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] katarik.
  12. She’s the only woman that could ever equal him. That’s why it’ll never happen. House/Cuddy, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] perivates and [livejournal.com profile] yukirien.
  13. They were friends once. It’s the loser who dies laughing.
  14. It's never going to happen because they work together and the first rule is don’t fuck your partner.
  15. You can't believe the hype about either of them but they're both heroes when it counts.


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Who wrote 'em: [livejournal.com profile] fickle_goddess aka [livejournal.com profile] only_fiction

What it is: Rachel/Tobias, Animorphs. [used for thought speech]

What that means: Ten fics. Ten genres. Ten words or less.

Why you should try writing your own: It is so much harder than it looks. Really.

Why I'm crying on the inside: Because this really IS harder than it looks!

Other stuff I want to say: Want to see me do this for any other pairing other than the one I chose? Leave me a comment with the pairing and I'll do my best. I could use the writing exercise. XD Having actually written the meme results, NO WAY. Much too difficult to do multiple times. So only first five comments get to make requests.

Less than a hundred words of fic and I cut it anyway? )
fickle: (marik: eye of the hurricane)
When I first saw the images of nooses hanging from lamp posts, I thought it was some sort of evil backlash against Obama being elected the American president.

The actual explanation makes so much less sense. It's all the fault of Amnesty International. No, really.

I am filled with disbelief. I mean, seriously, EMPTY NOOSES HANGING FROM LAMP POSTS? How is that not incredibly creepy? Yes, I get that the point is to get people's attention but you know what? I'm not going to look at a noose and think, "Oh, hey, the death penalty's bad". I'm going to think, "Oh my god, who are they planning on lynching, I want OUT of this city right now!" And Germany does not have the most foreigner-friendly history either, which makes it all the more baffling that they'd do this.

I'm not black, I wasn't raised in America, and my first thought upon seeing a noose hanging from a lamp post near me would be "RUN!". Or possibly to call the police and report it just in case someone is going to actually be lynched there.

About the only bright side I can see is that the nooses came up last year, and so this isn't some strange form of racebaiting as a response to Obama.

Please note that I don't rule out that it's race-baiting. Just not as a response to him. Because argh, that's such a stupid gimmick.
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1) President Obama. Need I say more? No, I don't, but I'm going to quote parts of his speech at you anyway.

We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.


YES. So much yes. Bring on the stem cell research! Bring on the scientists in the white coats who wield the scalpels of knowledge! Bring an end to abstinence-only sex ed programs! And bring back the right to choose for those states that lost it.

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.


I can't even begin to express how much I love that. That, to me, is key. Being Sri Lankan means that I know way too much about safety overriding human rights, and I am so glad to know that President Obama will not send America down that pathway.

2) Hillary Clinton's going to double the US contribution to the IAEA budget. IAEA = International Atomic Energy Agency, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 and was smart enough to hire me. It focuses on nuclear energy and all its applications, and if the US doubles its contributions, most of the other member states will chip in more too.

I like this new administration.

THREE CHEEERS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS NEW CABINET!
fickle: (asian pride)
Today, I had yet another guy try to pick me up with the opening salvo of "Namaste".

The fact that we were in a crowded shopping mall is probably what saved him from being viciously savaged by an angry Sri Lankan girl who is absolutely sick of having people greet her with that.

If you see a white person, any white person, are you going to assume they're German and start a conversation with "Guten Tag"? Or French and say "Bonjour!" to them? No. So why see nothing except my skin color and think that I'll appreciate 'Namaste' as being your token proof of 'knowing my culture'?

Namaste is a Sanskrit term, used most commonly by Hindus and Nepalese for as a greeting. Sanskrit is a root language, like Latin.

How many of you go around greeting all white people with a Latin phrase or word?

India's huge. India has a lot more than just Hindus in it. So even if someone is from India, there's no reason to assume that 'Namaste' is the right greeting to use -- Muslims, for example, have their own greeting, which goes along the lines of 'salaam alaykum'.

I am Sri Lankan. Sri Lanka is an entirely different country to India, and we have very few Hindus. The majority of the country is Buddhist, and I have never ever heard anyone in Sri Lanka use 'Namaste'. Sri Lankans say "Ayubowan" (pronounced 'eye-oh-bo-wung', with wung rhyming with lung)

Cultural appropriation is one of those complicated things I haven't sorted out my feelings about, but I know exactly what I feel when people try to apply other people's culture to me, assuming based off nothing more than my looks that I am belong with that group.

So here's something that I can't believe I have to state explicitly: Not all brown-skinned people are Indian Hindus or from Nepal. Though I doubt that people associate 'namaste' with Nepal. However, if you're greeting them with Namaste, you're implying you believe they belong to that particular social caste/class and will therefore understand it, and give you brownie points for having tried to speak their language.

Here's a quick geography lesson for you. Asia is a huge continent. Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka all fall under what I'm talking about when I say South Asian. East Asian, for me, is usually China, Taiwan, Japan, Tibet, North Korea and South Korea. And South East Asian is Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore. Russia's a whole different story. That's a lot of countries already and I know I'm missing some.

Unless you actually know where someone is from, don't assume they're from whichever country is most in the news. Playing the odds is a great way to offend people and quite frankly, it's unnecessary. A friend of mine said: "It's like greeting everyone you've been told isn't a black American with 'What's up mon' as if all other Blacks are automatically Jamaican. Or automatically African."

Next time you see an East Asian or South East Asian person and want to spew "kawaii desu arigato!!!!" at them, or think you've spotted an Indian whom you can show off to with "Namaste!", don't. Just don't.

Go start up a movement to promote Klingon being taught in public schools instead. Or Vulcan. Or Bajoran. Or Romulan. Whatever floats your boat.

Just please, please, PLEASE stop it with the cultural misappropriation.

~Fickle, who is still brown but still not Indian.
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Whatever you're doing right now, stop. Go read Little Brother instead.

Little Brother is the best book I've read all year. This would have more meaning if it wasn't the start of the year, so let me rephrase that. Little Brother might be the most awesome book that I could possibly read this year.

There's an excellent summary of the book here, so I'm not going to hash over the book. Instead, I'm going to give you bullet points as to WHY you should read it.

  • The author references our culture. Flashmobs, Linux distros, game systems being cheap but the games expensive, livejournal, Flickr, everything. And he gets it right! You've seen what happened when the media tried talking about Anonymous versus Scientology. This guy actually manages to create a believable 17-year-old narrator.
  • It's about Homeland Security and what happens when safety trumps freedom. The title's a homage to 'Big Brother' but unlike 1984, this book is set in our times. Modern times. It's much easier to get sucked into this book because the protagonist is our age and deals with our tech, instead of being an adult with a forbidden love affair.
  • On that note, the book deals with the generation gap and how adults are more likely to buy into the scare tactics of the media. But it doesn't present all adults as rigorously inflexible. There are good guys amongst the grown-ups, and bad guys amongst the kids, and the way that he manages to make moral ambiguity and self-righteousness a major theme of the novel is amazing.
  • Awesome female chars. There's not just the standard love interest and the best friend chick, but also female chars with authority, female chars who are bad guys, and female chars who rock the geek world. They're depicted as being as much a part of the world as the male protag is, and the author's Net-savvy enough to even have the protag be wary of one girl that IMs him because the protag knows how many guys like pretending to be girls online.
  • Race issues! It's a bit of a throw away in that it's not a major theme of the book, but that's part of what makes the sudden discussion of them so fantastic to me. There's a quick convo between the protag and a friend of his about how the friend will suffer more if they're caught, and the protag acknowledges that yes, brown people have the scales balanced against them. It's a tiny little thing, not a major part of the book, but oh, how fantastic it is to se it acknowledged as a part of real life instead of glossed over or forgotten about.
  • Neil Gaiman, Scott Westerfeld, Brian K Vaughn, and I love it. I fully intend on buying copies IRL and making my friends read them. Since most of you are lucky enough to not live near me, I'm instead devoting the entirety of this post to trying to convince you to read it.


You know what else is awesome? The author himself and his thoughts on ebooks and sharing books/music online. His explanation for why he gives his books away for free online is quoted below, because it's just said so well that any attempt on my part to sum it up would pale in comparison to his original words.

I recently saw Neil Gaiman give a talk at which someone asked him how he felt about piracy of his books. He said, "Hands up in the audience if you discovered your favorite writer for free -- because someone loaned you a copy, or because someone gave it to you? Now, hands up if you found your favorite writer by walking into a store and plunking down cash." Overwhelmingly, the audience said that they'd discovered their favorite writers for free, on a loan or as a gift. When it comes to my favorite writers, there's no boundaries: I'll buy every book they publish, just to own it (sometimes I buy two or three, to give away to friends who must read those books). I pay to see them live. I buy t-shirts with their book-covers on them. I'm a customer for life.

Neil went on to say that... )


Love him, read the book, and spread word of the book around as much as you can. This guy is one of us. He talks about our technology, he writes about our world, and he's good at it. He's a geek to the core, and one who doesn't back down from tackling politics head-on. I'd fangirl about it more, but I'm going to see if he's written anything else.
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Let me explain, before all the Avatar fans on my flist wring my neck. You guys (especially [livejournal.com profile] a_white_rain) are always talking about how I should watch it. I saw it playing on Nick Toons, and decided to try it out. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the finale.

Under the cut is my recap of it, during which I jump to the conclusion that Sokka makes out with his sister, Azula's sister is Katara and elements in the Avatar worlds are seriously weird. Trust me, it makes sense in context! And if you keep in mind that all I know of Avatar is what I read from your entries and see on Fandom Wank.

Our story starts with... )
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I should point out that I used to have a Paid Account but let it lapse/asked people not to buy me more time as a protest against eljay, so now I only as many icons as a Basic Account can have, and am unable to change them without deleting all my old icons until I only have six slots again. My iJay version of this meme therefore looks pretty different.

MAH ICONS.

default oldest newest
saddest happiest angriest
cutest sexiest funniest
fave ship fave fandom fave animated
best quote best textless best stolen idea
use the most favorite

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 110
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 6
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: Nope. Eljay is not getting my money.
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: I hate Bush, girls rock, question authority, stop war, etc.
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Yuugiou, as the above table might've made clear. Wow.
AND THE SECOND MOST: Politics, if that counts as a fandom. If not, DC comics.
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Yami no Malik x Yami no Bakura.
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: Seems about 50/50. On iJay, I try to stick to other people's icons but here, I had no problem using my own.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: Oh yes. Check out [livejournal.com profile] icon_d or [livejournal.com profile] contrastingly.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: Yes, and getting better all the time!
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Fun!

DO THE MEME.



Just paste it twice and put the second inside
<*textarea>
paste here
<*/textarea>
without the *.
fickle: (disney: esmeralda whee)
I just joined [livejournal.com profile] iconaday, which is a 100 icon challenge community with a new theme announced every 48 hours. I'm basing all of my icons around YGO cards.

Why is this interesting to you? [livejournal.com profile] contrastingly.

[livejournal.com profile] nevita is taking the challenge at the same time that I am, using YGO villains, and we created and are modding the comm together. Basically, each day, we post the icon that we made for the theme, and talk a little about the process involved. It's a great way to pick up tips and since we're both doing it, you get exposed to two different styles and therefore, double the number of tricks you'd see otherwise! It's less formal than tutorials, but there'll be a max of two entries per day, each of which gives a quick rundown of how the icon of the day was created.

Join, watch, learn and snag icons! If you have any questions about the icon of the day, feel free to ask them as comments. I promise I'm not the type to jealously harbor trade secrets. XD
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!


My New Year got to a fantastic start. Kathy was over and we were watching Anastasia when the New Year rolled in, so we took a quick break to call people. And in my case, hop online to wish everyone on gchat or Twitter (Savior, Willow, Dani & Katarik) a Happy New Year. We'd made a flourless chocolate cake together and enjoyed it with ice-cream for her, and whipped cream for me, and after we finished the movie, we did Bleigießen, which told me that this year, I will make enemies, defeat my enemies, and have luck starting up endeavors. My parents came home while we were doing that (they'd been out at a party, for which I'd baked a flourless chocolate cake which the scraps of which were SO GOOD that I decided to make us one as well, hence Kathy and I cooking), and we took Kathy home. Then I came back and quickly wrote a Galactik Football fanfic to welcome in the New Year, posted it, found out that one of the commissions I'd ordered and paid for in September was finished, squeed over it, and went to bed.

The last day of 2008 was pretty good too. )

Happy New Year, everyone! May 2009 far outrock 2008 for all of you!
fickle: (smallville: pure luthor)
Avatar: The Last Airbender:
4 x Aang
3 x Zuko
3 x Sokka
3 x Katara
1 x Katara, Aang, Sokka, Zuko




(One Day, I Woke Up WHITE.)

If you've got no clue why I'm making icons saying that chars aren't white, check this out. I'm not even in the Avatar fandom OR the Earthsea fandom, and I'm headdesking pretty repeatedly.

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