Great Plains Studies major Anton Kaplan has been turning heads in lecture halls around campus over the last week with his new desktop wallpaper: a Blue Eyes White Dragon so sick that it distracts any student who sits behind him in class.

Kaplan created the wallpaper with the help of photoshop and the fine people at Konami, who created Yu-Gi-Oh!, the anime/manga/card game from which came the Blue Eyes White Dragon.

The wallpaper beautifully depicts the shimmering white dragon soaring high above the smoldering hellscape that was the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Its gleaming blue eyes, staring down loftily at the battlefield below. On the back of the dragon rides Seto Kaiba, whose disposition is just as haughty and detached as that of the dragon he’s riding.

The scene in the battlefield below is gruesome, with bodies strewn about between trenches as fire from both sides is exchanged.

“I just couldn’t take my eyes off of it,” said junior medieval and renaissance studies major Lydia Stephenson. “There’s just so much going on. At first, I just thought he was some dumb virgin nerd who loved ‘Yu-Gi-Oh,’ but then I noticed the battle below and how terrified everyone looked. It really made me consider the horrors of war and lead me to analyze my own mortality. It is a very poignant image to behold.”

“Students have been approaching me after class in tears,” Kaplan said. “They tell me things like ‘nothing in my life has touched me quite like your desktop wallpaper has’ and ‘dope wallpaper my dude,’ and that just makes it all worth it to me.”

Kaplan has made it a point in the last week to sit as close to the front of the class as he can – not so he can see the board better, but so those behind him can stare in awe at the magnificence of his new wallpaper.

“I just want to remind people how to feel again, and I think I’m doing that, one lecture hall at a time,” Kaplan said humbly with a small grin reaching across his face.

“Sometimes, I think art is all we have left.”