Hey, folks! Just a reminder from your friendly local former DMV employee that getting dinged for a DUI sucks colossal amounts of ass for a very long time (think 3 years), and in most US states you don't even need to be convicted to get most of the penalties, because we live in a police state!

I hate that I saw this while I was excitedly realizing I have the makings for an old fashioned.

今年もよろしくお願いします！

Final fit check roundup! 2025 has been a year of some of the highest highs and lowest lows I've ever had, and I learned a lot about myself over the course of it. Nowhere is that clearer than my sense of style, which I spent the year exploring and improving. These are my top four looks of 2025!

Listen I don't have a tinder anymore, but if I did, one of these would be my first profile pic

You know if @mbtyugioh.bsky.social asked me for a picture in the JJ finale fit, we coulda avoided the thumbnail looking like I was getting caught by Gotham PD in the middle of history's worst bank heist. In all seriousness though, thanks for having me on one last time buddy. It's been a ride.

Marriage Boyfriend Homosex Things are really picking up this year🤔

Branded is so comically strong compared to other structure deck archetypes recently that, even though it's highlander and contains nombo cards, a single copy of the Fallen and the Virtuous wipes even the Blue Eyes structure lol

As an Edison player I got time traveler's whiplash up on reaching the eighth card in this list.

This was fun, and also having no access to anything resembling an engine in a 60-card deck really reminded me that Yugioh is the TCG for me.

Top/bottom is not a personality trait, a power dynamic, etc. Fan fic writers PLEASE I beg you, stop thinking gay sex positions are hogwarts houses. Nobody seems like a top or bottom in real life. It means nothing.

Just a reminder to anyone who needs to hear this: If you have weird, constant pain somewhere, go to a doctor ASAP.

Did an admittedly very fun Phyrexia draft with friends tonight. It turns out my biggest beef with MTG is that all the cards are named the same thing? Every creature is named something like Phallic Agitator and every sorcery is named Plunge the Toilet or Nasal Delving.

Oh cool. That's holocaust denial in a Facebook Yugioh meme. Sweet. And FB said it wasn't against their community guidelines? Even better! 🙃🙃🙃

So update on this. Plants do have a Poplar, and she's even a LV3 to make Witch a genuine starter for the deck... But she wasn't included??? Like don't get me wrong this card is assssss, but if there's a 5Ds card that performs the combo we clearly wanted people to play, surely we could have

So I'm working on building a battle box from the last five or six structure deck products and it's tough, because sespite Legendary 5Ds Decks being the best product of the year, the decks themselves suck unbelievable amounts of ass out of the box.

Anyway, Merry Qlistmas

And fucking free Palestine.

My thoughts and love to everyone for whom today is a particularly rough day, rather than a merry one. I hope peace and comfort are keeping you well, and if neither is at your side I hope they you find them soon.

The Nutcracker 🎄

Thinking about Him

I just spent 10 minutes having "Did Kira actually do anything wrong" discourse with a cashier at the grocery store.

it is cheap, practical, and medically and morally sound to give children the freedom to decide what puberty they experience. anyone who disagrees is either uninformed, misinformed, or believes that they, personally, have a superseding right to the bodies of children

because it matters, i want to say that "it should be legal for children to be prescribed puberty blockers" is the compromise position. we can, and will, construct a world where social and medical transition is an inalienable right for anyone of any age

The fact that I've had this bottle in my shower for months and I still haven't figured out the best robot girl joke to make is proof I could never cut it as a Bluesky transbian.

Ejae's demo of Your Idol is the only Christian pop I accept.

Rey, upon hearing that Romeo Santos and Prince Royce announced their tour together: "Oh damn, the Latina fujos must be going nuts right now"💀

Homemade some pasta with my family this weekend. Sister told me she needed me to beat a bunch of eggs. I said "That'll be easy. I spent the whole 2010s playing competitive Yugioh."

"This year, to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special." You uh... You didn't do that the first time?

I think I'm coming around on this, and ultimately I think serializing cards is just a little too on the predatory side for the benefits it brings. There are several conflicting forces at work here for me.

A Heart, Tainted By Evil A Soul, Redeemed By Companionship A Story, Unraveled youtu.be/x1M7zFqo54A

My take on serialized cards is that they're stupid capitalistic investment bait for whales, but at least they're stupid capitalistic investment bait that only whales would care about, keeping the whales away from the actual stuff worth collecting.

trans poly? whyd they put me on a card?

the necklace

This has been maybe the most exciting night in the last 5 years of Yugioh. These look incredible.

These all kick massive amounts of ass.

Oh these fuuuuck

I'm always a little exasperated by calls to reboot the DM anime, because I love modern card lore. With that said... Yugioh Sakamoto Days, where old man Yugi now runs the game shop and gets taken under the wing of a young aspiring competitive player who doesn't know who he is would kinda rip.

I'm working on a tableside guide to Yugioh for beginners using the Blue Eyes structure deck. If and when I finish it, would any of y'all be interested in a copy?

This interaction genuinely jumpscared me. It's like if my friend was at a party talking about how she picked up some chick at McDonald's, and we all laughed about it and a month later I woke up to some corpo in a Ronald mask next to me, saying "I think McDonald's is a great place to meet women🙂."

Incredible philosophical discourse happening over on MTG facebook

Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)

the king!

It would be nice to lose weight, but unfortunately I make a bang baller spaghetti.

I just found out about Lamiamon and Medusamon, and by god if I haven't found my two new genders.

Incredible manga page from Blue Exorcist

God Aspect of Circe just feels like a cheat code.