[ SECRET POST #4973 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4973 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 32 secrets from Secret Submission Post #712.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

04. https://i.imgur.com/Itv92ym.png

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, I just realized that, despite being a fan of Rumiko Takahashi’s stuff, I don’t think I ever actively participated in the fandoms (though I knew about some of the Sesshomaru/Rin drama thanks to friends who were in the fandom). I saw Ranma 1/2 when I was a kid, I was over Inuyasha when I got home internet access, I didn’t read Maison Ikkoku until I way later, and I didn’t really like Rin-ne. Also, I used to have a poster with this exact image hanging in my bedroom, so thanks for using it, OP, because it made me smile to see it. :)

[epicurean]

Huh. I missed the drama but I guess it was about Sesshomaru/Rin stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. On one hand you have people, who insist that what you endorse in fiction must always, without exception, mean that you endorse it in real life. On the other hand, you have people, who sincerely argue that a 19 year old having romantic feelings for an 8 year old and doing nice things for her so she would fall in love in him is objectively acceptable and not grooming, despite it literally being the definition of grooming. When these two groups meet, you have... interesting results.

[(Anonymous)]

19? Wasn’t he like 1200?

[(Anonymous)]

19 in demon years.

[(Anonymous)]

For all the drama that last secret caused, the Inuyasha fandom is damn small compared to other fandoms from the same period. It's had mini resurgence or two but it's calmed down again.

And the surviving fandom spaces? There's just something about some of them that freak me out.

It's like they've been frozen in time. There's been no evolution in the way they interact with the material. It honestly feels like they have been trapped in a cycle of the same content.

I know damn well that there are grown adults who still consider themselves fans of this series but it feels like they all moved on when they realised that it's outright impossible to have in depth discussions about this series when people are still screeching about shipping wars and people's self insert OC's who are going to have Sesshomaru fall in love with them.

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds genuinely horrifying.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a really interesting take. I don't recall coming across the Inuyasha fandom at all in the past 5-8 years, minus of course after the announcement of the new show. Just curious, but where do they tend to exist? Tumblr? Deviantart? Reddit? Somewhere else?

[(Anonymous)]

DA still has pockets of fandom. Reddit is just a hellscape and I visited the sub once before I hoped right out of there.
Most of the places I've seen are on sites like this one.

It's gotten to the point where I dont even look anymore because it's the same usual subjects creating the same drama

[(Anonymous)]

I just reread the manga out of nostalgia sake and I agree. The fandom spaces that remain are just really crochety grumpy folks who are too used to their headcanons to move on. Like even if the sequel took a big stinky dump over the original it doesn't mean you have been personally wounded.

Obligatory Yay Inuyasha secret! But...

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. I never interacted in fandom spaces for Inuyasha back around 2004 - 2007, so little me was out just making my own cartoons (first of my self insert OC with Inuyasha, later for Sesshomaru lol) and fic. It was only in the last three years or so that I actually started reading fic (archive specific)and looking at fan art (the long ass SessKag thing on DA lol), so I kind of missed the mark on when (or lacked the complete interest?) To have an in depth discussion about the series (undoubtedly I'm sure there are many things to discuss, and I think it could be interesting) but I'm surprised people can't have these conversations in fandom. Spaces and niches get carved out all the time. I'm surprised that didn't happen with this fandom, according to what you're saying here.

I guess it also depends on what you're looking to get out of this fandom. I just want to wax poetic about Sesshomaru, read fic, and maybe bitch about how annoyed I am with Inuyasha for treating Kagome like shit and for her not walking away from him (and honestly it's less a shipping thing and more of a plot/ why don't these characters mature thing -- it seems like the others do to some extent throughout the show). I don't care for shipping wars, as the show will go on and you can always ship what you want (the joys of fic). Oh well. We'll see what happens with this new addition.

[(Anonymous)]

It has always been a dumpster fire. I still remember the Kikyo bashing fics.

[shadowangel]

it was pretty darn awful, she will always be my fav character and the hate she STILL gets is so bizarre

[arashinoookami]

Considering that Rumiko Takahashi's first manga came out in 1978, and her works are very well-known in Japan, she probably created (or at least made popular) a lot of the tropes that are so common now.

[(Anonymous)]

Which doesn't elevate my opinion of her even the tiniest bit.

[arashinoookami]

Lol, fair enough.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just a crotchety old fandom hag who has dipped in and out of Inu Yasha fandom since 2001 ("Hong Kong" DVDs for the win). I've been lucky enough over the years to mostly fall in with fans who were reasonable (Loving problematic things isn't a personal reflection, and "Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's OK").

Current fandom with the sequel coming out IS a total dumpster fire right now, though, so I'm over here with my marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers making s'mores. And ready to cackle like a madwoman if Sess/Rin is made anime canon.