So: Some random things that have occurred to me whilst trolling-- I mean, trawling ff.net's Yugioh forums for blog ideas, things that are pretty much just little statements that I think you'll like, but that I can't imagine doing full essays over.
-Yugioh is essentially a ghost story. Very little fanfiction remembers this at all.
-If you gave Atem his own body and let him kill people, the original manga would be two steps away from a vampire story. XD
-Yugi is totally a Christ figure. O_o Which would make that vampire story kind of awesome, now that my brain is slippering down that slope.
-Spellcheck agrees with me that "slippering" is a word. Invid is disturbed by this.
-Oops, Spellcheck just changed its mind. XD
-Members of the fandom's nerd levels can be quite accurately described using the characters from the show. That guy over there, muttering about how fancards are always stupid and the duels are never written well? He's a Kaiba-level nerd. That chick you know who's dead serious about characterization and couldn't give a bee's behind about those trap cards? More of a Téa level nerd. (Téa's a nerd, just in a different way.)
-So can the roles we actually play in the forums (not role-playing, the way we comport ourselves.) There aren't enough Yugis.
-Honestly, there just aren't enough Yugis anywhere.
-All fanfiction ideas can be done well, but finding them is like topdecking: You can't rely on it. O_o
-Invid hates ff.net.
-I can totally understand. It needs some kind of "number of favorites" or something, or at LEAST some way that's better than communities for people to find skilled writers. (I mean, come on, the third forum from the top in the YGO section is summarized: "I like to hear more about Yami/Tea and any other couples if I like them. I don't want to hear any Yoai or Yuri. I can't stand that." I mean, wat. This is an entire forum?! Streamline your system, ff.net.)
-And here's one from Invid: If Yugi is sort of a Christ figure, then one of the basic premises of YnY (the story, not the blog) makes it sort of like a metaphor about Christianity: People can get really nasty when spreading the message of love and peace, missing the point entirely.
-I'm not at all sure how I feel about this revelation. No more deep literary analysis for YOU, Mister Invid!
(The really odd part about this is that Invid is the one who insists that Duel Tanks would be awesome in the same conversations with deep literary analysis that makes me uncomfortable.)
