Imperitum

I totally forgot to post this and share it with people,,

I did this in the car on the long drive to comicon lmao. It's kinda messy cause I was in a bumpy car LOL and I totally didn't feel like ass the whole ride, wheres my travel sickness buddies at

BUT STILL IT'S KINDA CUTE and it looks like he's vibing to music.. Even if I would've made the head movement slower and better if I had more time to redo it

chapter 5 - to have and to hold

Yugi is still confused.

“Silly boy. You enjoy this, don't you? Making me lose my mind over you?"

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

Felt like I really needed to be hugged and held close to someone all day but because I don't exactly have anyone to hug me or anything (aside from my yugi plushies lul) I took that energy and scribbled down the puzzle babies hugging instead LMAO

chapter 4 - to have and to hold

Atem has plans.

Atem was very strategic in every thing he did. This would be no different. 

Yugi's heart fell with the realization, because deep down, there had been a tiny spark of hope that maybe… just maybe… Atem had started to care. 

chapter 3 - to have and to hold

Yugi wakes up to a surprise.

“Y-You can't keep me here."

Atem’s dark eyes peered deeply into his. “Would you like to test it?” he taunted, words low and warm on Yugi’s cheeks. “I have some rope in the garage I could use.”

Yugi fidgeted against the wall. “You wouldn't dare.”

Atem’s eyebrow rose at the challenge. “Try me.”

chapter 2 - to have and to hold

Yugi struggles with the aftermath of breaking it off with Atem.

“You love him?” 

Yugi wrinkled his nose at the thought. “No.” 

“But you said he was the love of your life.”

“He is,” Yugi said as if it were obvious. 

“Then you don't love him anymore?” 

chapter 2 of "to have and to hold" will be posted tomorrow ♡ thank you for the overwhelming love for it so far!

here is a snippet:

“You love him?” 

Yugi wrinkled his nose at the thought. “No.” 

“But you said he was the love of your life.”

“He is,” Yugi said as if it were obvious. 

“Then you don't love him anymore?” 

to love and to hold - rated E

Summary: “Are we even friends anymore, Atem?” 

Atem's gaze drifted down to Yugi's clenched fingers.

For several painful heartbeats, Yugi stood there and waited for an answer. Any kind of answer that would tell him that Atem cared about him outside of the promise he'd made his grandfather.

When nothing came, his heart continued to shatter into a million pieces. 

tags: puzzleshipping, blindshipping, AU, romance, childhood friends, age difference, angst, hurt/comfort, atem is bad with feelings, yugi centric, yugi is kinda bratty, slow burn, one sided love, or is it?/ eventual smut, drinking, smoking, attempt at humor, happy ending, minor puppyshipping

Welcome to PuzzleJune 2026: ...To Explore The World WIth You!

It's another PuzzleJune and another month to celebrate our favorite soulmates! As always, this month is all about finding that creative spark to celebrate the amazing relationship between Yugi Mutou and Pharaoh Atem from Yugioh DM. Creative freedom is welcome in any way you want to share your interpretation of their love with writing, art, or whatever art you feel like expressing yourself with!

We want everyone who wants to participate to express themselves freely. You don't need to do a prompt every day. You can do one prompt a week, one prompt for the whole month, or pick and choose which prompts you want to use for your creative works. You may want to use multiple prompts for one work. No matter how you go about it, we want to see it, whatever it is! However you want to celebrate is great! This month is all about coming together to celebrate our favorite puzzleboys. The theme may be about travel, but your work does not have to be. Write or draw about whatever comes to you with the prompts!

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Special thanks to Rat King for the amazing art to celebrate this month!

Earlier on I did a bit of meditation (aka, sitting with drony music on low and trying to not think about anything for like 30 minutes) my dearest brain of whom I'm not on the best of terms with right now decided to gimme a very very vivid image of Atem sat next to me. So vivid I could almost touch, hehe.

Anyway the second I stopped doing sadboi brooding hours, I immediately scribbled down what I saw.