Just had a sessrinner try to tell me that Rin is a “young woman full of freedom and agency” in Yashahime.
Meanwhile, I’m looking for Rin’s agency in Yashahime and I’m only getting this
Sorry, sessrinners, agency not found, just like Rin’s 18th birthday.
Like, does this look like a character with agency??? Who acts out of her own will, because she is able to make her own decisions??? Who has her own goal in life other than apparently giving birth at 15??? because wow, I didn’t know that a young girl’s agency was located in her womb, which must be put to use as soon as possible by the adult man who acted as said young girl’s childhood guardian and parental figure. Much agency, so much freedom.
Rin must have surely chosen this, because who wouldn’t. In fact, according to sessrinners she should be GRATEFUL that she got to have sex at 13-14 and promptly have the babies of the HOTTEST DEMON IN THE LAND. After all, sessrinners only wish THEY got to fuck Sesshomaru, and theY just loooooooove self-inserting into a fictional child-preteen girl to pretend to do just that.
Can I get a yikes? Because there is shipping a problematic pairing with dark themes, and then there is sessrin, not just because of the horrible implications it has, but because of the way sessrinners apparently think it’s not only perfectly fine, but that the way it has been executed in Yashahime would be every 12 to 14 year old girl’s greatest joy in life.
Like seriously, I ship NARKIK. I LIKE dark ships, complicated ships, hero-villain ships, enemies-to-lovers dynamics and all of that (not that unhealthy dynamics cannot be developed and changed into something healthier and more romantic with the power of character development in fanfiction, because they can, but fanon dynamics don’t turn an canonically unhealthy relationship into a healthy one).
I have read some truly excellent whump, darkfics and hurt-comfort fanfiction. I’m not some kind of fandom moral purity crusader. But I don’t pretend ships like narkik are inherently fluffy, unproblematic or something to aspire to. Also, there is a pretty big difference between shipping a problematic FANON ship and having it happen in CANON and romanticized as something postive in a show aimed at young preteen and teenage girls in the same fucking age range as Rin.
That’s a big part of the reason antis are pissed at Yashahime and at sessrin not only being made canon, but in an absolutely horrific waythat screams child grooming, not because we just love to ruin sessrinner’s fun.
And also, if I don’t like the direction of a show’s plot or characterization for ANY REASON, I have as just as much of a right to talk about it as the people who like it. Sessrinners have no righ to demand that antis shut up and start singing the praises of sessrin just because of episode 15, and many people in the Inuyasha fandom have been criticizing Yashahime for being a badly animated, boring show with a nonsensical plot that needlessly ruined the original happy ending of beloved characters in Inuyasha months before episode 15 aired. So, no, people who don’t like Yashahime have other reasons to dislike it than just sessrin. Sessrin is just the worst thing about it, not the only thing wrong with that show.
Oh, and as a final note, I have NEVER gone into a sessrin post or blog to directly tell them than their ship is pedophilic trash, because I have the ship name blacklisted. I have never initiated an interaction with a sessrinner because both the ship and their attitude gross me out and I have no desire to interact with them or their posts.
Perhaps sessrinners would also benefit of blacklisting the “anti sessrin” tag or blocking antis, if they truly cannot handle differing opinions? Wasn’t that what that fancy little blocklist was supposed to be for? So you didn’t have to see the mean little antis’ post on the tags?
If you don’t like what I have to say about your precious self-insert pedo ship, go ahead and blacklist or block me, because you are not changing my mind.
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