User: insaneladybug Date: 2009-12-25 20:16 Subject: AUUUUUUUGH! ;____; Security: Public Mood: amused, alarmed, giggly Music: Santa Claus is Comin' to Town---The 4 Seasons Tags: fanfiction, manga, ygo

EWWWWWWWWW! Ew, ew, ew!

Yami Marik made it so Mai has illusions of feeling the pain when her monsters are destroyed. But she also sees illusions of Yami Marik's fate if his monsters are destroyed. So if her Amazoness decapitates Makyura ... **cries.**

... Though in all honesty, I'm actually glad to see the scene, and the contrast between what Mai's seeing and reality, because that makes the duel between Yami Bakura and Yami Marik not quite as creepy. (They showed Mai's illusion and then cut to showing what was really happening and the others wondering why she was screaming in horror, as it looks like a normal duel to them. o.o) I don't quite understand why, but in the manga their bodies fading into the darkness looks much creepier and disgusting than in the anime. I'd have to actually watch those anime episodes again to try to compare it, I guess. Maybe in the anime it looked a bit more like fading as opposed to really being ... amputated?

And in any case, this will serve to help me with a new creepy project: a series of connected but stand-alone vignettes where Yami Bakura is abducted by Yami Marik and tortured as Yami Marik attempts to "tame the darkness." o.o

I bet slashers love that line of his, right? XD

User: insaneladybug Date: 2009-12-25 08:24 Subject: Merry Christmas! Security: Public Mood: intrigued Music: White Christmas---Gloria Estefan Tags: cemeteries, christmas, death, fanart, music, ygo

Two sketches are up, including a Christmas-related one. http://www.side7.com/lucky_ladybug66/gallery/

Last night, we drove through the cemetery, because it was beautiful with people bringing candles and lighted trees and stuff for Christmas, and something freaky happened. When we were at the very back, driving past a creepy old shed, the radio went wonky. It started flipping to every station on preset, then went through some that weren't. We tried two more times to see if it would happen again, but it didn't. Hmmm.... Paranormal activity?! It could have been some kind of odd cross with a signal from a house just on the other side of the fence, but I'm pretty sure we were past the house and much closer to the shed at the time. o.o

And LOL, one of the stations it flipped to was playing the Rusty Chevrolet song. XD I love that thing so much. One of the best novelty songs ever.

User: wngdngl Date: 2009-12-18 22:19 Subject: Hobbies Security: Public Mood: exhausted Music: Nothung! Nothung! Neidliches Schwert! Tags: irl, music, soulcalibur

I've been writing a lot of little SoulCalibur blurbs, nothing good enough to post, but it's fun. I've also been listening to Wagner's Ring Saga. I can't say I'm quite an opera afficianado yet, but some of the songs are pretty catchy. It's especially good to follow along with the lyrics and a side-by-side translation.

Oh, and appearantly I suck at recognizing VA's. But then, if you have a hard time telling a new one apart from an old one, doesn't that mean the new one is doing a good job of being consistent?

User: insaneladybug Date: 2009-12-14 08:59 Subject: Merchandise Security: Public Mood: tired Music: Duke Devlin's Theme Tags: shopping, ygo

I collected quite an assortment of YGO memorabilia over the years, but though I enjoyed all sorts of various things, my favorites were anything featuring three characters: Seto Kaiba, Marik Ishtar, and Yami Bakura. Yami Bakura was the most difficult to find merchandise for, so locating any was especially a triumph. X3

- I have stickers of Yami Bakura from both lines (the big square stickers and the smaller square and rectangle stickers); amusingly, I have doubles for a great number of the stickers, but I have no extras for any Yami Bakura stickers. Definitely rare.

- A shirt with Yami Yugi, Marik Ishtar, and Yami Bakura. *Thrilled* to discover that at Wal-Mart. There were three of it when I first saw it, and when I went back in a week or so, able to buy it, there was only one. **hugs it.**

I'm still trying to get hold of the following:

- Yami Bakura pin (from the original line that just said Yu-Gi-Oh! on the bottom; not the one with characters in triangles. However, if there is a pin of him in that line too, then I want it!)
- Hexors #10 (with Téa) and #12 (with Yami Bakura)
- Staks Magnets #33 (with Seto Kaiba), #50 (with Solomon Muto), and #52 (with Yami Bakura)

And anything else unique with Seto, Marik, and/or Yami Bakura. I have a long list of some of my collection somewhere, but it doesn't seem to be tagged yet.

Please let me know if you know where I can get MINT copies of the pin, Hexors, and/or magnets (yes, I'm always checking eBay) or if you know of any other interesting merchandise especially with Yami Bakura (like those collectible marbles. LOL, what the heck? Thanks to eBay I know of their existence, as well as the fact that there is one with Mai. Other than that, clueless).

And I consider Thief King the same character; totally interested in any merchandise with him, too. Or heck, with Ryou Bakura! Though I don't think anything was made for him except a blue-haired figure in a Japanese set. ;__;