Location
"Meth Consumes" (rivalry and opposition)
Event Website
https://www.tumblr.com/platonicreaderinsertfanfic
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
22-8-2024 12:00 AM
End Date
31-12-2024 12:00 AM
Description
Aro Adventurer
Stolen Thunder and Fought for Friendship, 2024
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters
Prose
N/A
Collection of the Author
Rating: General Audiences
Tags: Reader Insert, Seto Kaiba, Kaiba x Reader, friendship, platonic, Yugioh, Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Monsters, Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters, high-tech, holograms
Creator's Notes: My "specialty" when it comes to publicly posted fanfic, is platonic reader insert stories, so I knew I wanted to write one for this exhibit—as I thought I was likely the only person who would submit something like that.
The entire Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, from Duel Monsters to Sevens, is dear to my heart, and has been since 2019. Although it is a whacky universe with magic, ridiculous high-tech holograms and 1990s technology existing side-by-side, with larger than life characters, it is also deeply sincere and fundamentally rules based and logical. (It helps I'm the sort of person who also enjoys playing the card game in Real Life.)
A story like Yu-Gi-Oh, which has a secondary function of selling a card game, encourages viewers to picture themselves in the world of the show. I think that is important, and most of the fandom beloved stories of our time fall into the same category. Hand-in-hand with this idea, I am a huge proponent of both dubs and localization. Viewers in Japan are watching the show set where they live and speaking their language, viewers in other countries should be allowed the same luxury. (Some circles of the internet will find my perspective on this matter to be highly scandalous and nearly blasphemous. Personally, I find I emotionally engage much more easily with dialogue delivered in my native language, like to be able to internalize characters' voices, and prefer if every attempt to imagine myself interacting with the characters doesn't have to begin with the highly unrealistic and out-of-character fact that I speak fluent Japanese for some reason.)
All of that blabbing was to say my Yu-Gi-Oh stories are set in America, happen after the conclusion of the original anime, and take into account 'fanart' of his own work published afterwards by the original manga author. The inexorable power of friendship is one of the most obvious and consistent themes of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, and so it feels like a natural place for me to write my own friendship centric stories, which enable the reader to feel, for a moment, they are part of the circle of friends too. (The reader characters are usually based off of Real Life people I know.)
Stolen Thunder and Fought for Friendship
"Meth Consumes" (rivalry and opposition)
Aro Adventurer
Stolen Thunder and Fought for Friendship, 2024
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters
Prose
N/A
Collection of the Author
Rating: General Audiences
Tags: Reader Insert, Seto Kaiba, Kaiba x Reader, friendship, platonic, Yugioh, Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Monsters, Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters, high-tech, holograms
Creator's Notes: My "specialty" when it comes to publicly posted fanfic, is platonic reader insert stories, so I knew I wanted to write one for this exhibit—as I thought I was likely the only person who would submit something like that.
The entire Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, from Duel Monsters to Sevens, is dear to my heart, and has been since 2019. Although it is a whacky universe with magic, ridiculous high-tech holograms and 1990s technology existing side-by-side, with larger than life characters, it is also deeply sincere and fundamentally rules based and logical. (It helps I'm the sort of person who also enjoys playing the card game in Real Life.)
A story like Yu-Gi-Oh, which has a secondary function of selling a card game, encourages viewers to picture themselves in the world of the show. I think that is important, and most of the fandom beloved stories of our time fall into the same category. Hand-in-hand with this idea, I am a huge proponent of both dubs and localization. Viewers in Japan are watching the show set where they live and speaking their language, viewers in other countries should be allowed the same luxury. (Some circles of the internet will find my perspective on this matter to be highly scandalous and nearly blasphemous. Personally, I find I emotionally engage much more easily with dialogue delivered in my native language, like to be able to internalize characters' voices, and prefer if every attempt to imagine myself interacting with the characters doesn't have to begin with the highly unrealistic and out-of-character fact that I speak fluent Japanese for some reason.)
All of that blabbing was to say my Yu-Gi-Oh stories are set in America, happen after the conclusion of the original anime, and take into account 'fanart' of his own work published afterwards by the original manga author. The inexorable power of friendship is one of the most obvious and consistent themes of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, and so it feels like a natural place for me to write my own friendship centric stories, which enable the reader to feel, for a moment, they are part of the circle of friends too. (The reader characters are usually based off of Real Life people I know.)
https://epublications.marquette.edu/fandom/Affirmationtransformation/rivalry/4
Comments
I wanted this piece to be obviously inspired by the Meth Consumes image, which I think I achieved, since the whole first half is a lead-up to the Reader Character attempting to have a Solid Vision™️hologram wolf smash through a wall!