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Talita

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I want you to be happy. I want you to laugh a lot. I don't know what exactly I'll be able to do for you but I'll always be by your side.

i think after they’ve been together for a while dean uses the confession scene in arguments. cas would be like “you’re so inconsiderate sometimes” and dean would go, “hey! you can’t say that to me, i’m the most loving man on earth!” and cas would be like “you’re the most ANNOYING man on earth”

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" I'm far away from you now, and you may only remember me from time to time, but I just want to thank you for that summer. When we ate chips and fries, and drank super sized coke. When we swam in the river in our clothes, and laughed like our troubles never existed. Cape Cod, 1985. The summer when I became a normal boy for the first and very last time."

- Banana Fish, by Akimi Yoshida

I adore these panels, so I thought it would be fun to paint them in my own style! I only cried like twice while making this. 🥺

Translation of Max Lobo's Notes (1998)

This is an extra published in 1998, that contains Max's memoirs of Ash and the future lives of all characters of Banana Fish.

(Translations credit to @enta_jinnai and @nakimooshi on Twitter, posted with permission. Edits / corrections are mine.)

Webtoons

Ok so hum…

I’m putting the “merman story” on Webtoon, you can find it under the title Tale by the Rivershore. This is a first for me, I’m not perfectly at ease with the platform yet but I hope it will satisfy those of you who want to read the whole thing more fluidily.

There is only the prelude for now but of course the rest will follow :)

TW: Animal death, cruelty

Sometimes I have to draw comics to cope with things. I read about this a while ago and it still breaks my heart. They smashed her eggs with a brick and she died of grief. The only message I have here is don’t be cruel.

From a Self-Described Neutral

Someone posted in the tag a couple weeks ago basically calling out neutrals to...idk, defend themselves? In the spirit of answering a “direct” address, I started writing this post but kept deleting because I didn’t really believe anyone wanted to hear from me and god knew I didn’t really want to get into it with anyone (hence the being neutral).

But now, I do feel compelled to at least express my personal views. It’s gotten too difficult to ignore the drama happening in the inuyasha tag despite my best efforts.

When news of the sequel first came out, I found myself most annoyed by the so-called Antis, who it seemed to me had automatically jumped all down the throats of anyone who was even speculating that Rin might be the mother and throwing around buzzwords like “grooming” and “pedo apologists.” Which. I can’t articulate how fucked up I think it is to accuse people of those things over a goddamn anime ship. I couldn’t blame sessrinners from getting defensive, those are serious allegations. I saw antis post photos of real, actual human beings who were child brides and child porn victims, often children of color, to what end?? Making an outlandish comparison to a fictional ship?! Just...what the actual fuck.

But then!! As the sequel continued to air, it seemed that a subset of Sessrin shippers got way more vocal than I’d yet to experience. I’ve seen others imply that they were always like this, or had been this rabid before when the original series was still coming out. I found myself very alarmed by their behavior, and the kinds of posts “justifying” their ship that just... turned my stomach to say the least.

What I simply Do Not Understand is why sessrin shippers have this insatiable need for their ship to become canon. When you try to use examples of sesshomaru & Rin’s interactions during the run of the show/manga as “clues” or whatever that they’d later end up together romantically...then that WOULD be grooming, what the fuck is wrong with y’all??

If you wanted them to be a couple after she was an adult, why on earth would you bring up anything to do with when she was a child? You should be doing everything you can to separate her childhood growing up in kaede’s village from whatever potential future she might have with sesshomaru. And because we only ever saw her during her childhood, y’all had like the perfect blank slate to turn her into any kind of character you want for her adulthood. She could be some super-intellectual courtesan. She could be a healer, with or without spiritual powers. She could become a badass warrior. The possibilities are literally endless, any of which could include a woman who chooses to go with sesshomaru on her own terms, instead of focusing on ways he “pursued” or god forbid “seduced” her.

I dunno man. I still consider myself neutral. As stated above, I do believe there are ways to tell the story under which the sessrin ship could be a healthy and acceptable one. But the ways sessrin shippers seem to focused on? Ugh. Nah. Creep me tf out. And the decisions that Sunrise seem to be making, where if Rin is the mother of the twins she was clearly still way too young for me to be okay with it. I Do Not Approve. And I have now officially contributed a big block of ranty text to the inuyasha tag, I’m a big fucking hypocrite lmao.

@shipperobsession I wasn’t trying to single you out, but since you want to get snippy with me...

An adult loving a child as a child, and then continuing on the love that child as an adult romantically is NOT a “natural progression.” The fact that I see so many sessrin shippers point out interactions between them while she was a child as proof they’d end up together as a couple...I don’t understand how you can’t see the problem with that.

I don’t begrudge shippers their happiness at seeing new content for their ship in the fandom. But man, if I was a sessrinner? I’d be fucking pissed at how poorly sunrise is handling it. (Just like I’m an inukag shipper who is pretty pissed at how they’re ruining their happy ending goddammit)

And I AM a neutral. I just listed any number of ways up above that an adult Rin could be with sesshomaru in an acceptable way. If you search my blog for sessrin I’ve reblogged plenty of pretty artwork featuring them as a couple when she’s grown up. Many of my favorite fics feature them as side characters together as a couple.

I personally never interpreted their early relationship as familial, so the idea they might get together years later has never been a problem for me. But you cannot have it both ways. If he loved and cared for her when she was a child, then any romantic relationship with her when she’s an adult is by definition tainted. If he left her largely on her own to grow up in the village as her own fully developed person who then began a new romantic relationship is really the only way it could work. And I know the anime has implied that feudal girls considered themselves to be “women” at 14, but we know better than that now don’t we? There’s no good excuse for sunrise to go that rout for Rin.