Ah-Duo and Sesshomaru's mother giving birth to their literal male clones 🤝🏻

It only took, I don’t know how long… But I’m finally able to look at Sesshomaru without having a visceral negative reaction where I’m screaming pedo/groomer in my head.

I apologise for asking this if it isn't something you want to talk about but do you know why there is so much hatred for Kagura from so many S*ssr*n shippers/HnY fans? I haven't seen HnY because I don't like sequels that take away the happy ending of the original so I only know a few spoilers through the grapevine, but the Kagura hate I've seen lately from some HnY fans reminds me of anti-Kikyou Inukag shippers from twenty years ago. But Inukag shippers are more supportive of Kikyou nowadays and fandom in general is less misogynistic than it used to be, so I don't understand why another woman being important to Sesshoumaru in the original Inuyasha series is so unacceptable that Kagura gets hate now. Even if people ship S*ssr*n, love isn't a finite resource? Sesshoumaru loving and wanting to avenge Kagura doesn't mean he can't love anyone else, it doesn't diminish his other relationships—especially because Rin was a literal eight-year-old child when Kagura was alive. It's not like Kagura was a yandere type who harmed Sesshoumaru or anyone else he cared about, either, after a while Rin knew she had nothing to fear from Kagura and was squee'ing about Kagura being in love with Sesshoumaru.

Again, I apologise for how long this question was and sending it on Anon, I just didn't want to get hate from S*ssr*n shippers or HnY fans. Kagura's my favourite Inuyasha character, so it made me sad to browse the Inuyasha reddit/tumblr and see people calling her a 'manipulative bitch' and such when I went looking for fanart and fic about her. It's especially strange coming from people who praise other former villain characters like Sesshoumaru, who did worse things than Kagura when he was evil.

hello buddy sorry this is late i literally did not see it??

but since i'm obviously on the opposite end of the spectrum in this situation & have only really been involved in the tumblr iy fandom for so many years, the only thing i know about any of that drama is that she's perceived as a threat to their yucky ship bc she was really the canon love interest for sesshomaru in the og series. and kagura is obviously the polar opposite of rin in literally every aspect. like, we have a demoness that was born from the body of the main villain who comes out the gate swinging on koga's entire family & is forced to beef with the whole inugang constantly and calls sesshomaru a bitch to his face the second time they meet. versus a cute lil baby who's a complete blank slate. so for people that don't care for her bc of their ship bias it's pretty easy to misinterpret her character & motivations and draw silly conclusions lmao. i'm not gonna say kagura isn't problematic in some ways but LITERALLY WHO CARES it's not that serious?? pretty much everyone in IY has done morally questionable shit. it's a fairy tale set in feudal japan, like. and it sucks that you're coming across negative bs when you're just trying to enjoy yourself in this fandom!! that happened to me too when i first got back into iy in 2020 bc i didn't know that kagura was like severely hated until i joined an iy group on fb (owned by you-know-who, unbeknownst to me) and saw all that weird shit lmao. but there's a lot of really great creators on tumblr, at least, that are anti-sr & pro-kagura, so i hope that you could at least enjoy yourself on this blog!! <3

Do you think Sukuna could have ever been attracted to a woman? Because it seems to me that he hates even contact with others (he cut off Jogo's hand for daring to touch him and killed Yorozu after she hugged him). Also, Gege makes a lot of emphasis that Sukuna is lonely and doesn't know love, that's why I have such a hard time writing something for Sukuna, because I genuinely don't see him feeling anything for anyone 😅

Your interpretation is valid, anon, but talking personally about the attraction thing- I think not wanting casual contact with someone doesn't automatically mean someone is asexual (saying this as an asexual) or that Sukuna is devoid of sexual/romantic feelings just bc we never see him make moves on a woman or man. Having personal boundaries and your bubble is important, especially for someone as prideful as Sukuna. Maybe touch is okay when it's on 'his' terms and no one elses.

There might be a myriad of reasons for not liking touch, such as a buried trauma response. Reminds me of when a guy casually touches Guts' shoulder from Berserk:

Or for another example, its a bit like how Sesshoumaru was depicted in OG Inuyasha, an apathetic, untouchable beauty. I don't think a character needs to have a fling onscreen just to prove their sexuality.

About emotional attachment though - Canon Sukuna is possibly sociopathic though just bc of some of the evidence shown as you said about love not being real ect, but then he is visibly happy to meet up with Uraume again.

When writing fanon Sukuna though, I think it's totally fine to make him as horny or lovesick as you like. If we all kept strictly to canon interpretation it would stifle the fun of fandom creation! ^^ If it makes you happy to write Sukuna as unfeeling then do so, but if you want him to be romantically interested in someone you can just justify it as another side to his personality we as the audience don't see because he's busy having fun wrecking shit.

I feel like me and the rest of the fandom are being gaslighted by Sessrinners and the existence of Yashahime itself when they keep on crying out that Sessrin was “obviously the intended canon from the start,” and “who else was going to be the mother?” And like…no? Before the existence of that dreaded Drama CD (which itself isn’t canon and just satire) there wasn’t a single hint or shippy subtext pointing toward Sessrin ever becoming a thing in the future. I legit went back and skimmed through all the episodes (even the Sunrise invented filler ones) and chapters the two appear in and no interaction between the two could even be taken as ambiguous, it’s all very strictly platonic. Rin didn’t even have so much a puppy love crush on Sesshomaru, she was excitedly shipping him with Kagura and yet shippers, Sunrise, Shiina and Rumiko wanna tell me she was an intended love interest all along and Sessrin antis were “just too blind to the truth?”

This is literal fandom gaslighting. The only possible hint that exists in the OG anime that I might give shippers is Takemaru in the 3rd movie comparing both Kagome and Rin to Izayoi, but 1: It’s not any actual shippy interaction coming from either Sesshomaru’s or Rin’s parts and only exists from the observations of an outside observer who mind you, is currently clearly losing his mind and 2: All the movies are non-canon, so just like the Drama CD they don’t count. (Though in retrospect realizing that Sumisawa directed all the movies like how he wrote the Drama CD and directed Yashahime it most likely was intended to come off as a “hint,” it’s definitely not an obvious one that normal non-pedos who don’t have lolicon brain rot would ever pick up on, I know I didn’t my first time around and was frankly shocked during Yashahime’s initial announcement that Rin was actually being considered a serious candidate for the twins mother)

So let me get this straight, all the shipping “hints” that even exist for Sessrin are all from non-canon material? Not the actual original manga or show itself? And Sessrinners still wanna insecurely scream at the top of their lungs on how “Sessrin is canon” and the fandom has to be forced to accept it? No, fuck that! I know gaslighting when I see it!

I agree wholeheartedly - through Yashahime, we're told by Sunrise and affiliates that the only valid interpretation of the relationship between Sesshoumaru and Rin is a romantic one. We're told that it was inevitable that they should get together, that there was no other option for the two of them, and that this is a GOOD development instead of a regression. If we point out that a romance between the two was unsupported in the source material, and that the interpretations we took from it were much more platonic, we're gleefully dogpiled by shippers who insist that WE'RE the ones who were drawing those platonic interpretations from nowhere. Pointing to specific scenes and interactions that indicate Rin is not Sesshoumaru's equal, that she obeys him like the child she is, that Sesshoumaru plays the role of a surrogate father, are points that are dismissed without counterevidence and a handwave, if not ignored altogether. There is no reason to believe that these two characters aren't meant to be a couple someday, you're just looking at this through the lens of WESTERN morality, and antis are committed to an insane moral standard.

What are you talking about? I don't see a gaslight. You're just crazy.

Honestly, at this point, it's a wonder that we bother to back up our opinion of the matter at all anymore. Obviously actual evidence from the manga doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you can SHOW actually happened in the story and how your interpretation can be drawn reasonably from the text. All that matters is whether a writer at Sunrise with a VERY clear bias toward depicting these types of grooming relationships managed to get HIS interpretation widely distributed or not. Because if you're part of the official entity that officially OWNS the IP, your opinion matters more, I guess.

RT shrugging and yielding to Sunrise's version of the relationship certainly doesn't help matters. Though she HAS (at last) come out and said that she personally viewed Sesshoumaru as a parental figure to Rin, I don't think that she ever cared one way or the other whether people shipped them. I speculated a while back that the reason we never got her stance on the matter sooner was because she didn't want to alienate ANY of her Sesshoumaru fans, because him being one of her more popular characters meant that her voicing an opinion on his relationship with Rin might mean some people would stop reading/watching Inuyasha altogether and it would hurt her bottom line. I'm more convinced than ever that this is the case, because she out-and-out AVOIDED questions about Sesshoumaru getting together with Rin when she's older up until after the first season of Yashahime, which she would only do because she wasn't going to make them a couple, but she knew that her friends at Sunrise might want to take a crack at it at some point and she didn't want to close that door. She only went ahead and finally gave her own perspective when it was clear the show was a major flop after the mother reveal, and there was nothing left to lose by trying to recapture some of her lost Sesshoumaru fans by showing them a little solidarity.

Not sure how successful a move that was, given I know a LOT of folks who are still very upset and not buying anything Inuyasha branded anymore. I guess the only ones who will really know for sure are RT and Sunrise, as reflected in their plunging profits.

Is the Yashahime manga good? I don't like Sesshoumaru and I really don't like Sessrin. Plus I hate Towa so like I have no idea if I want to pick up the manga. I like Setsuna. I adore Moroha and of course the OG gang. I don't know how to feel about MirSan kids BUT they are Mirsan kids so I'll like them anyway.

Anime of the day: Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi

Alt title: Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

Released: 2020

Best part about this anime: getting to see the OG Inuyasha character again. Worst part about this anime: literally everything else. Inyuasha is so nostalgic to me. I remember watching it before going to school in the mornings, and there is so much of its music on my playlists. So, when it came time to watch Yashahime, I just assumed it would be on par with classic Inuyasha. I was let down. It was my bad…. I should have done my research… Either way, this anime focuses around Sesshoumaru’s kids, Towa and Setsuna. When they were younger they lived together in Feudal Japan, but they are separated by a fire and Towa ends up in modern-day Japan and is raised by Souta, Kagome’s brother. Eventually, she meets her cousin, Moroha, who is Inuyasha’s kid; and Setsuan, her twin sister who forgot about her…. So, Towa sets out to fix Setsuan’s memory.

I’m writing an epic Inuyasha fanfiction about Sesshoumaru’s childhood

Titled ‘Memories of Days Gone By’ on AO3

I haven’t added a lot of tags, mainly because I don’t want to spoil or misrepresent anything from the story... but it also means that people won’t find it... 

I started writing this when I was 11, wrote some 50-something chapters then gave up... Now I’m rewriting it twenty years later, hoping that someone would be interested.

Short summary:

The year is 1206 and Sesshoumaru is a teenager in his rebellious phase. Soon, unforeseen circumstances force him to embark on a long journey, during which he becomes the coldhearted demon we know today. 

It’s very plot-heavy, and there are secrets and hidden information that is not explained, but can be deduced if one pays attention. There are a few original characters, but everything is centered around Sesshoumaru. There is no shipping, although there are romantic elements. 

As it’s about Sesshoumaru as a teenager, none of the OG characters will make an appearance, except for Inutaisho, Sesshoumaru’s mother and Inuyasha (mentioned). Needless to say it will not be Yashahime compliant. It is mostly compliant to the original canon, with some details changed to add more depth to the story.

aka. what if Sesshoumaru was a bit more complex than ‘demon warrior who wants to be the best and doesn’t talk’

*watch vid for peak nerd-ness* Sesshoumaru is my OG villain crush. This audio I found on TikTok was perfect. I can fix you, Sesshoumaru.

hello! i see you, with that kagura post saying she is the best character! i loved her and shipped her so hard with sesshoumaru! did you ship her wih anyone, or were you simply fascinated with her character? i feel like she was the one of the 'main' side characters that embodied good and evil so well. i wish she had a happier ending aaahhh

Many years ago, circa 2003, I definitely shipped her with Sesshomaru for no reason other than I just felt like it and it gained popularity within fandom spaces + the works were mostly well thought out character pieces. With the end of the manga series and eventually again with the anime actually getting a real conclusion (we could have had it alllll ♫) I had little resurgences of interest in it. Naturally the fanart was phenomenal.

She had a great character arc and was definitely one of the best developed and more intriguing characters. I think if I rewatched/read the series now I'd definitely find her one of, if not the, best characters. (Sango is up there too though, my OG fave. But also Kaede and Kikyo were top tier.)

°˖✧✿✧🌹SessKik Weekend 2022🌹✧✿✧˖°

Hey y’all!

We’re happy and excited to announce the very first SessKik Weekend, a weekend dedicated to celebrating the most prideful and beautiful pair in the Inuyasha verse — the lethal Demon Lord Sesshomaru and ethereal Priestess Lady Kikyo ⛩⚔️

More information and prompts will be published in the near future, but for now please save the date:

✨ April 29th — May 1st ✨

The tag we’ll be using for this event will be #sesskikweekend ! Please use this tag for your works, be it fanfiction, artworks, edits, etc, or @ us directly using @sesskik-weekend ♥️

For any prompt suggestions that you have, questions, overall ideas, don’t hesitate to send us a message or simply ask to join our SessKik discord ✧✿✧

Enjoying the flowers and snow ❄️

Sesskik X

Inuyasha vs. Ao3 tags 3/?

pt.1 pt.2

Bonus: Ranma 1/2 vs. Ao3 tags 1/?

Damn so Sesshoumaru deadass decided to downgrade? He legit lives in a dusty ass hut surrounded by people he doesn't even like?? At least call your mom up so she can put you and your """""bride""""" in her castle or idk dip into your connections. The clownery 🤡🤡🤡

What it feels like to be a Sesshoumaru fan atm

I'm honestly really thinking about doing a bunch of anti-sessrin posts, not only because it's gross, but also because I want to earn the badge of honour of an anti from being in their blocklist