don’t base your personality on memes please don’t please for me develop actual interests even if it’s just something like pressing flowers or reading books please get a hobby that doesn’t have to do with memes please for humanities sake please i promise your life will immediately feel more whole and lively once you stop caring so much about memes and the internet yeehaw
Hey while we’re at it, maybe don’t base your personalities entirely off fandoms, either. Enjoy the company of people who don’t ingest the same media you do. Learn to talk about other things and appreciate people for being fun, polite, enthusiastic, generous, etc. Please, please, please learn to think of yourself and others in terms of qualities instead of strictly interests.
yeehaw
Don’t base your personality off of one thing in general. No, not because it’s “"cringey”“ (I hate cringe culture anyways) but because it’ll make it easier for you to interact with others and make friends if you have multiple interests!
For awhile, my only interest was psychology. And tbh in this small town I’m in, the only people interested in psychology were therapists. And you can’t hang out with your therapist.
I’ve yet to find a friend group but it’s a lot easier to talk to people now that my entire personality isn’t based around “the top 10 reasons why I hate Frued”.
(( this doesn’t mean it’s bad to have hyperfixations or special interests))
Remember in Yu-Gi-Oh! season 3 episode 24 when literal legend Seto Kaiba just…picks up his brother and yeets him right into Duke Devlin’s face? Just fucking obliterates him?
whenever someone writes Atem as cool and suave in any way I just think of the part in Battle City where he's dueling... Pandora I think? and Pandora is all like "if you lose i'm gonna cut your legs off" and Atem's like "you bastard i couldn't believe you'd shuffle your cards in a way that damages them. that's how i figured out you damage your cards on purpose. you are the worst kind of person to disrespect your cards like that"
atem is some kind of train wreck to watch a lot of the time, I know how you feel
I love that duel you mentioned, it stuck out to me a lot for the reason you mention amongst other things
like when atem, being a person who does not know how to do things like a normal person, gets lost in figuring out what to do to save a person from dying and awkwardly stands there
Yuugi doesn’t have that kind of issue
Another good one is the labyrinth duel, where Jonouchi gets frustrated with the mechanics and in response Dark Yugi uses the word “actuality” to mean “the narrative trappings the Meikyuu brothers have constructed to make their duel more difficult”
king of nerds
god i love duelist kingdom, he was so full of it and that duel was top quality awkward dialogue
Theory: most of the differences between Yugi and Atem’s personality are the result of nurture/enviroment, more than they are the result of some inherently different nature.
I don’t feel like letting google’s unholy eyes see me googling yugioh shit looking up a source rn, but I recall people passing around a certain statement. That, according to Takahashi, in some book or interview or another… if not for the Kul Elna massacre, Thief King Bakura’s personality would’ve been closer to Ryou Bakura’s. Or even that it was closer, before that event transpired.
The Bakurae are clearly intended, on some level, to be foils to Yugi and Atem. Even if they kind of suck at it because their writing is a hot bloody mess cough. So, parallels, huh? Let’s talk parallels. If the Bakurae can be said to originate from similar “starting points“… why can’t the same be true of Yugi and Atem?
Yugi has no fucking self-esteem, no self-confidence, and doesn’t reach out to people about his emotions because he’s been severely bullied, probably for most of middle school as well as in high school. He very well could’ve been a lot more confident and self-assured as a young kid, for all we know. But just a few years of intense, persistent, constant harassment and abuse by one’s peers … that’s enough to almost completely destroy a person. Even a formerly self-assured, outgoing person. His only protection from this is Anzu, and later Jounouchi and Honda. But by that point, the damage has already been done.
Meanwhile, Atem had probably never been fucking bullied in his entire life. His position within the context of his society was one of absolute privilege. It didn’t matter if he had the same autistic-as-hell special interest in games as Yugi. It didn’t matter if (as per the height and weight data in the Millenium Book and Gospel of Truth, and despite the actual manga artwork) he had the exact same small, childish, non-masculine physique. If you punch the Pharaoh’s son, you… are probably going to get a very severe punishment for that. If anything, Atem could’ve easily ended up sheltered from consequences that a more ordinary person (like Yugi!) would encounter in everyday life. Mix that in with some fucked-up demon magic postmortem for good measure, and you have a recipe for the cocky, self-assured little bitch whose sheer confidence in his ability to WIN is a danger to himself and others at times. (A trait that’s at its most extreme in the early manga, but can be seen even well into the Duelist Kingdom arc.)
Perhaps if their upbringings had been more similar, they would have been more similar as people, themselves. I think it’s interesting to think about.
i’m out of polite, out of gentle, out of understanding. i’ve signed each petition, walked in protest, went to marches. i called every representative, emailed, boycotted. i have volunteered every time i could squeeze it in, donated, got the word out, bent my head to pray about it.
i am not polite. i’m fucking desperate. we have done polite and look at how they responded. we all throw up our hands and say “how are we going to get out of this mess!” and i’m promised if i’m polite and wait until we can vote again we’ll surely see a turnaround. just keep your hands to yourself and wait it out. i’m lucky because my life isn’t on the line if i wait four months. i can afford to wait four months.
there are people out there. there are children out there. who can’t afford to wait four months. and we can all act like we’re shocked and scared and not my america but the truth is there’s nothing on this green earth i can do about it. i don’t have the individual power to stop it. i donate my last few dollars and skip lunch for it and bow my head to pray about it and email and call and raise awareness and we’re all watching, watching, complicit because we’re bystanders in this; watching, watching, horrified but unable to stop it.
i’m out of polite. there are children laying on mats on concrete floors and calling that home and you’re worried because when i said “if you think toddler detention centers are legitimate you can burn in hell” it comes off as unfriendly. i didn’t realize that this migrant crisis was about your feelings. also, you can burn in hell. the rest of us are burning ourselves up, because we’re calling, and we’re emailing, and volunteering and god. god. are you listening? because at this point, white-knuckled, on-our-knees, we’re praying.
fundamentally nothing will ever top this episode’s interpretation of atem for the remainder of the series and im so mad, they should’ve hired this animator to do all of memory world
