Yusei Doodles, For Morale

I LOVED roleplaying warrior cats with my friends as a child and one of my favorite roles to assume was the medicine cat. As the medicine cat I REALLY wanted to have actual herbs I could use, so I would forage and bring back plants that we could actually eat.

I was also paranoid, though, so we never ate anything if I had even a sliver of a doubt about it. We would drink the nectar from honeysuckles and purple dead nettles and eat wild blackberries. Never ate the juniper berries because we were so scared they were poisonous, lol

INGESTED not just chewed on to clarify lol. based on real responses from my groupchat

How I think about the original design vs the more modern equivalent

what the whole "please comment on fic you like, it will encourage more writing" vs. "fic writers shouldn't be writing for engagement and validation" debate fails to really grasp, for me, is that comments shouldn't be boiled down to "engagement and validation" in the first place. by which i mean: comments aren't payment for a service, they are communication and connection. they represent the audience reaching back.

i don't write just for myself. are you kidding me? the point of storytelling, to me, is to present certain narrative arguments and produce or encourage an emotional response to them. That communication is essentially useless if there's no endpoint, no listener. To me, there is no point if I'm not communicating with someone. When I write, I am talking to a reader. If you've read anything I've written, then I was talking TO YOU.

you are well within your right to consume fic as ~content~ and withhold your "payment" out of a sense that the writer should be satisfied at having created anything at all in an unresponsive void. but please be aware that it feels really good when you talk back.

"You were making Yugioh fanart again weren't you"

i forgot about school dress codes but they kind of stopped going to school when they're dueling...

yugioh cosplayers have truly unmatched energy

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver