Comments | arostine: Late Night Wikipedia Shenanigans reveal Ancient Mesopotamian Thiefshipping ;)

arostine

Late Night Wikipedia Shenanigans reveal Ancient Mesopotamian Thiefshipping ;)

Sep 17, 2011 02:22

This is the Burney relief. It depicts the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex.

( Read more... )

crack, thiefshipping, yu-gi-oh

Comments 25

halfthewords September 17 2011, 09:05:39 UTC

Well, to be more accurate, this is totally interpretable as Citronshipping.

I WENT THERE

arostine September 17 2011, 20:56:38 UTC

You're right! Closer in time period too, xD (Well, still about 500 years earlier than YGO) CLEARLY THEY SAW THE AWESOME OF CITRONSHIPPING *FROM ACROSS TIME*

halfthewords September 17 2011, 23:14:50 UTC

What year is YGO supposedly set in, anyway? I wish Takahashi had given us more concrete details because lsnlsdnf I'm writing AE Citron but I'm getting stuck on the detaaails. D:

arostine September 17 2011, 23:15:30 UTC

The Eighteenth Dynasty! :D! OMFG AE CITRON I CAN'T WAAAAAAAAAAAAIT.

Thread 14

budiamond September 19 2011, 06:56:30 UTC

I MISSED THIS ENTRY BUT I HAVE SEEN IT NOW AND I APPROVE.

arostine September 19 2011, 13:29:42 UTC

I'M GLAD. I CONTINUE TO MISS YOU. :(

arostine September 19 2011, 22:44:21 UTC

Also apparently Rinbo is falling out of love with Thiefshipping again. You must hurry up and get internet so we can write DystopianFuture!CrimeLord!AU. Because that is the antithesis of uke-Malik!Thiefshipping. It's Malik-wants-to-shoot-you-in-the-face!Thiefshipping.

Also I tweeted her my recs list and I think she might think I'm insane. >>

quasiroyale September 21 2011, 02:53:12 UTC

There's no way this is coincidence. :I

arostine September 21 2011, 09:41:20 UTC

Well, Takahashi had to research Ishtar to name the Ishtars after her, right...? /pretends OTP is canon

quasiroyale September 21 2011, 17:14:40 UTC

Yes, exactly. He knew what he was doing. He laid everything out for us to find. It's all there if we look hard enough. /pretends also :'D

arostine September 21 2011, 09:45:16 UTC

Also this is totally unrelated but I'm poking at your Domino University blog and OMFG MALIK IS A BIOLOGY MAJOR, ALL OF MY LOVE.

I'm a biology major too xD

Thread 7

(The comment has been removed)

arostine September 24 2011, 15:37:14 UTC

THIEFSHIPPING IS THE DESTINED PAIRING OF THE AGES, CLEARLY. Yugioh wasn't inspired by Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egypt was inspired by Yugioh.

Dunno if you read what I said to Sierra, but *The Rod and Ring is usually shown as being offered to a king, often one who is making a sacrifice*

!!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod-and-ring_symbol

I'm going to pretend in my head that Takahashi came across all this when he was deciding on what to name the Ishtars. And that all Thiefshipping subtext was intentional. O_O