"notorious card game lesbian"

"I have 5000 years of Ancient Egyptian knowledge." is an Atem bluff all-timer. you have three thousand years of being unconscious in a box learning nothing you little liar

trying to figure out whether this episode is implying Aileen has some kind of psychic mind control powers or something because if she doesn't then Anzu is. not actually in any meaningful danger? it just kind of looks like she's decided to do what a really tall hot girl told her to. and obviously I can't blame her for that because who wouldn't, but the narrative seems to imply there is a lot more danger and coercion involved here than "hey do this ballet pose for a bit" even though that's all that happened.

Sometimes when I feel bad about the plotting or pacing or dialogue in my yugioh fanfiction the greatest cure is to just go back and watch actual yugioh. I am great at this actually

the real reason I have never published any vision is that any time I start approaching conceptually "fake-psychic biker with an mtg obsession and self-worth issues x nerdy cult escapee who cloaks her ambition with an image of dutiful passivity" I end up sitting there like "god this is so cool. this is too cool to be a fanfiction. i should be sanding the yugioh off and selling this to the self-published lesbian novella crowd."

rivalship carnival date that very rapidly devolves into Kaiba trying to beat Yugi at literally any game booth, just one, and then going home with two dozen stuffed animals to give to Mokuba and the most pissed-off expression imaginable