For the first time since 2020, I am feeling the urge to read InuKag fics again???
This all started in June when I FINALLY read the iconic "Freak Attraction" by our esteemed @artistefish (which is PHENOMENAL AND AMAZING BTW PLEASE GO READ IT), but then, just now, I saw that the Smut Queen herself, @keichanz had posted new smut...... 👀👀👀
Aaaaaand suddenly I went hunting for other smutty oneshots to add to my "Marked for Later" fics. For the first time in AGES. Like. Um. Holy shit????
[Ramblings about my "Inuyasha history post-2020" below cut. Tl;dr: I'm lowkey Shook that my love for Inuyasha and InuKag fics is finally, slowly coming back 🥹💕]
Here's the rundown: 2020 happened. I went into quarantine with my parents. I was determined to finally devour a BUNCH of Inuyasha fics I kept meaning to read, and at first I did with great gusto..... but..... as April 2020 crept along, my interest began to wane and depression seized a hold of me.
Then Yashahime was announced. The fandom imploded. I felt nothing. No interest, no worries, no intrigue. NOTHING. It would've scared me if I was capable of feeling it.
Oh eventually, I felt a mild amusement at all of the squabbling and ship wars and all that nonsense (and spawned a whole fucking series of memes as a result lmaooooo). But my love for the fandom/fics had more or less snuffed out. Which sucked for a number of reasons, not least of which were "shit, most of my WIPs are for this fandom fuckfuckfuckfuck" LMAO 🙃
Depressing shit aside, I dove back HARD into the Disney fanfic side of things, on top of other anime titles and old fandoms like Harry Potter. I moved on to other fandoms, partially due to feeling embittered at the Inuyasha fandom for already making my depression over my lack of interest EVEN WORSE with all the in-fighting over Yashahime (which btw, for the record, is NOT a particularly bad show. It's not a GOOD show, per se, I don't have any strong feelings for it either way, but it's NOT the Antichrist™ like fans were making it out to be, sheesh >.> It's just another mediocre sequel for a classic-but-not-particularly-amazing-original-series. Shocking, I know. Moving on)
The only thing keeping me sane about Inuyasha was watching it with my fiancé, from Nov. 2020-Sept. 2021. His delightful commentary breathed life into the series like you wouldn't BELIEVE lmao 🤣
Eventually.... I felt the desire to write again. But it was HARD. 😭
After Shameless was completed in April of 2020, I felt.... empty of Inuyasha fic writing. By a miracle, I managed to update my Big Three WIPs (An Unexpected Encounter -> June 2020; Inuyasha: Prince of Thieves -> July 2020 & Sept. 2022; and Shards of the Sea -> June 2021 & Sept. 2022), but the gaps between updates kept widening, and I only worked on them because they were already partially written/published. I even ended up archiving older ficlets into Tied Together and Bonds Across Time, but had to resist the urge to delete everything and start afresh SEVERAL times since 2021 (which, coincidentally, was around the time the fandom was tearing itself apart over Yashahime bullshit and by bullshit I mean innocuous junk people were losing their goddamn minds over ugh.... 😒)
The handful of other fics I punched out for other fandoms were small, and only posted briefly in the summers of 2020 and 2022.
The latter summer was thanks to my first InuKag written smut in 2 years: Sinful Symphonies.
So, yay! Finally getting a feel for writing again, both for Inuyasha and in general! But I still felt utterly detached from other Inuyasha fics, not because of the writers (are you KIDDING me, half of the reason it was hard to distance myself from the fandom was because of the AMAZING TALENT in this fandom ugggghhh 😭), but because of my personal, complicated feelings with the fandom and series as a whole.
But then I binge-watched the series by myself this May. And finally, decided to buckle down and read Freak Attraction, which I have been meaning to read LONG before 2020, and thus, it became my first Inuyasha bookmarked fic on AO3 in almost 3 years, and first "new" Inuyasha fave as whole since August 2021.
My last Inuyasha bookmarked fic on AO3 was on Nov. 1, 2020 (on ff.net, I read two small MirSan smut fics in August 2021, but these are outliers; I really could not bring myself to read more than those -.-).
My last InuKag bookmarked smut on AO3 was April 7, 2020.
My last REVIEWS I left for an Inuyasha fic (besides the aforementioned fics) were from June-August 2021 for a couple of updated faves (namely Keichanz's Iconic You Rescued Me, which was a ROLLERCOASTER OF FEELS, LEMME TELL YOU).
And now. NOW. AT LAST. THREE WHOLE YEARS after 2020 sucked the joy of Inuyasha fandom/fic from me.... I want to try again. I want to read more again.
Even if it's only a little bit, I would like to find joy here again. 🥺💕
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if we dumped enough red flavouring in the Pacific Ocean do you think the sky would go red
>:3
That's would be fuckin GLORIOUS
My the seas run red with the blood of our enemies
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~Delphina~
(just some fun random things on her and sir crocodile)
I love this picrew so much had to make Delphina on it
I was thinking maybe she should have vitiligo but I wasn't sure what do you guys think?
Also in addition here is some fun info on her as well:
Abilities: Zoan Fruit-Desert Rain Frog
Delphina has a special Devil Zoan Fruit that changes her into a desert rain frog. She can change into said type of frog, has a hyper scream that can weaken people, and she can also change size. She can be her normal five foot size or she can turn the size of a desert rain frog. Her body gets covered in a special enzyme that covers herself and her clothes which allows her clothes to shrink and adapt with her body changing. As a frog you wont be able to tell she has clothes. This enzyme can also hide things in her little body and change with her, without harming said item.
She can take a lot of heat, and can go longer than a normal human without water. However, much like devil fruit users, water can be dangerous to her if take in too much -she can drown a lot easier than other users as well especially if she is in her small form.
I was also toying with the idea that like the myth of if you touch a toad or frogs you would get warts- well i was thinking if someone touched her while she was a frog or she had that strange like mucus covering her body said person would turn into a toad as well for a short time as another defense.
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> I also think the story of Sir Crocodile and Delphina would be 'The Prince and the Frog' like reverse princess and the frog lol
>Sir Crocodile would probably carry her around as a lil frog in his pocket when she gets overwhelmed at people (also he is very protective of her and is just like nope you cant see or touch her thank you)
>Crocodile calls her little froggy, princess, croaky, potato, fairy (got this idea of potato fairy or individual names from these youtube videos by Ninja Frog
>Delphina calls him captain hook and crocky
>Sir Crocodile is extremely gentle with her probably the most gentle he is with anyone when she's feeling sick or depressed (though he will get a tad bit grabby with her and playful when he can tell she is in a good mood or being sassy)
>He also loves how squishy she is and round (her tummy and butt being his favorite thing lol)
>will grab her butt when she least expects it (of course after they are close and in a relation ship) she will kick his ankles and go on a squeaking angry rant (cause thats all she can reach and really do defense wise when hes standing)
>Delphina loves snuggling up in his chest and playing with this hair, tracing his scar along his face when they are cuddling (Will also just squish the man boobs just to annoy him >:P)
>they tend to annoy each other on purpose because they do love to see one another get riled up but they also love each other and would never cross the others boundaries
but yeah just fun lil rambles about them, still working on stuff though :3
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I'm rewatching the Shogun Steel lost episodes and I just... The more I think about how much and how agressively Kira is constantly preaching about "the absolute power" and how he is "the strongest blader in history " (my God I cringe even typing this), the more it feels like he doesn't even actually believe that and is, in a way, just trying to convince himself of it(?)
I mean sure, there's the thing with the generic over-confident arrogant villain trope, but after a while it just kinda comes across as so...i don't know, forced i guess(?), and there's only so many times he can say it before it all starts reading as him being incredibly insecure.
And I noticed that he (mostly) only started doing that after he gets his ass kicked by Zero - which was likely the first time he's lost a battle in years. It was quite a drop from the top, so naturally he would be shaken after that. Better get myself a stronger toy and start rambling about what a poggchamp I am, amirite~? Right?
Like, this especially shines through during the last battle; yes, while he's having the upper hand he's acting high and mighty again (while still parotting about power) but the second the battle isn't in his favour anymore he kinda starts losing it emoionally. And in the end he seems downright desperate because this already fragile idea, along with confidence (and probably a large amount of self-worth) is falling appart the further he keeps pushing it...
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