unfortunately you've stumbled upon my garbage sideblog with fandom funnies & gross drawings...always drowning in shipping hell and eternal shame. still solemn abt nejiten, currently gency
“I’m… such a fool. I’ve been so preoccupied with myself that Rin never even entered my field of vision. How could I call myself his friend? I’m sorry… Rin.”
((tfw you only wanted to do a short set about them, but it’s literally impossible because so much happened.))
And now, Shiemi was taken away by a weird part of the Grigori because she most likely has a link to Shemihaza, while Rin was sent to the past in order to find out about something he absolutely doesn’t want to know. ;_;
I hate when people who are new to a fandom/ship ask for fic recs and are IMMEDIATELY shut down by someone snarkily saying “Just go to AO3 and search then filter by kudos duhhhhhh 🙄”
Because that’s a fucking stupid way to find good fic.
Because sometimes, the most kudo’d fics??? Aren’t the best fics. Or even the most in character or canon-compliant. They’re just the fics that have been around the longest, that were written while the fandom was still young and the show new and these are the “fandom favorites” but they may not be all that great.
I want the fic that has half those kudos but spot on characterization that I wouldn’t find by searching for the “most kudos”. I want the fic that hasn’t gotten that much love and you’re screaming by the time you get done because holy shit!!! What an amazing fic!!! I want to hear what someone else liked and why. I want to take the path less traveled when it comes to fic because that is new and exciting and a breath of fresh air and a new take that, unfortunately, no one reads because when people look for fic, they go by kudos.
“Stranger still were the Monk and his apprentice, the Swordsman. Where they had met and why they had agreed to travel together are tales for another day.”