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rant about one certain ship (especially the shippers).

obligatory mk and m27 spoiler warning.

I actually like kaishin, I shipped kaishin way before I shipped akam, and this reveal is pretty much a too-long-overdue part on aoyama because... well, 30 years of on-and-off serialization.

I get that many are mad. I, too, am so baffled that it circles back to hilarious. The relation makes sense story-wise and does not make sense profit-wise at the same time. Alas, kaishin is not the biggest detco ship in japan at the moment (kaishin got dethroned since around a decade ago, I'd say, they're still popular, but not to akam's extent in japan).

That said, a lot (but not all, love you all who don't participate in this) kaishin shippers are being so obnoxious in their anger. It's a gay ship, you know aoyama would never make it canon anyways. Just because kaishin was an "unproblematic" ship back in the day, before the cousin reveal, doesn't make it any more canon than other fan favorite ships. (Kaishin is one of the tamest, most vanilla, and mass-appealing gay ships you can find in detco, since both parties are still teenagers, technically, and both are written as cool™ protagonists who are rivals, and I stand by my case.)

Also: to the other side of the fandom, aka fans who insist on every fanwork to be canon-compliant and glorify the mediocre het romances aoyama's written into his stories, don't be homophobic while you're tapdancing on the cousin reveal. If you don't have anything nice to say, keep it to yourself.

Anyways, ship what you want. If you don't feel comfortable with kaishin being incest, maybe step away and clear your head and find other hobbies on the side. You can stop making content about them, or you can always ignore canon, and put that disclaimer in your fanworks, especially on ao3. Fanworks are fair game and free playground, you can play sand however you want. It doesn't make your works invalid. Just tag your works properly if you do mean them to be incest. They're fictional anyways, fictional morality does not translate rigidly to real life laws and morals and principles. To add, fanworks are simply derivative of the original, nothing you make is any more canon than the fanworks others have made.

To be honest, I'm more mad at aoko's mom and toichi being alive than kaishin being cousins. Stellar parenting, the bar was on hell that it actually drowns on hellfire now. No continuity no nothing, from early MK canon to current DCMK lore.

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i just noticed but isn't this the exact same tactic bourbon and vermouth used to trick camel and jodie into spilling about kusuda rikumichi...?

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does anyone else find it ironic that amuro's first ever appearance involved a case with estranged twins about to get married when furuya's one-sided sworn enemy turned out to be dating his own cousin all along

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talked long about this with bibi (not kpop bibi but actual moot and resident fellow rabid akam enjoyer) but bam yang gang by bibi (kpop) is sooo amuro... all whimsical and fantasy like, but when you get to his core, something is Just A Little Off

amuro is such a perfect crafted shell of a persona with all of furuya's edges shorn away to create a hollow shell for him to squirrel away inside and present to everyone, enemies and allies alike, all lovable and pretty words and pretty smiles and no substance no feelings, perfect practiced motions of a gentleman built right on top of furuya's unappealing arrogance and fury and intensity

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JUST READ WFA 64..... STEPH COMFORTING TIM IM SO MUSHY

also them acknowledging tim and dami's rocky relationship and tim's resentment but willingness to try, i love this webtoon so much

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i love morally ambiguous characters i love kind and good characters who sink deeper and deeper and find themselves toeing the lines and eventually drown in the guilt and consequences i love self-sacrificing and martyr and self-aware characters who will do anything and everything for their goals and end up distancing themselves from others i love characters who feel like they deserve punishment for dancing around muddied paths

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from 'My Item' to 'My Partner', we love a good character development here

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i really love how differently executed the Hunter's Association in Solo Leveling and S-Classes that I Raised.

on SL, the Association is obviously more stable and properly established. it should be noted that the ones on the top are high-ranking hunters who are reasonably experienced and well-learned in politics.

on the other hand, in TSCTIR, the concept of hunters and dungeons and awakened is still relatively new (3 years or so? compared to at least SL's 10 years, give or take) and the hierarchy is still on somewhat shaky foundation. sure, the S-ranked hold a large amount of influence and political power, but (at the very least in canon SK, overseas i'm not too sure) some are just relegated into mere figureheads regardless of age (canonically, Choi Sukwon and Moon Hyuna. in a way, hyh has high ass luck stats and scored with Seok Simkyung by his side). the Breaker Guild chapter with Moon Hyuna reveals more of this, and I appreciate the account of sexism incorporated into the worldbuilding, which is Very Much Valid in rl SK.

I didn't read the WN for SL, and the manhwa might have glossed over some things about the politics... who knows? but considering that dungeons and awakening have been around for longer, the governing system being more properly settled is not entirely outside of the realm of possibility.

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now i know why i love yoohankim so much: my favorite character of fate series of all time is emiya.

ultimately the cores of their stories are different, but the cynicsm, practical mentality, self-sacrifical tendencies that ruin their loved ones and eventually themselves, tired of neverending cycle of permanent existence and killing and witnessing deaths. ouch. the only difference is emiya has all of them packed into One, while yoohankim have their traits distributed pretty much evenly and balanced each other out with it.

and now i also know that i Crave hurt/comfort emiya-centric fics and that's the reason i scrolled so much through ffnet scrounging for fate fanfics of any genre to find a smidge of feelings, grief, acceptance, and eventual happiness in the collection of epic badass action-packed power fantasy throes.

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I wonder if Loid's "You can get tired from playing a forged role the whole time." is something that he regularly feels, and if the only consolation he gets from this thankless and dangerous job is the fact that the fragile status quo between the east and the west is kept intact so that another day goes by without any more senseless slaughter.

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i think i saw someone mentioning that orv is a big love letter for authors, fandom communities, and fictional characters, and this phrasing always lingers in the back of my mind.

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just read sctir manhwa ch 43 and it's really ... i suppose one thing that i like is that they give us more insight on ymw compared to the novel. hyj's superhero moment is really glossed over as 'hey what a wild dream you had right there!' and as mentioned by some tumblr posts it's a gross mischaracterization on hyj, but hey im willing to give the manhwa benefit of the doubt ... i just hope they wont take as much liberties in the future arcs, but it's a very brittle hope sighs

this chapter actually makes me feel for ymw more than the novel, though, since it's written in his pov instead of hyj for once

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hi, you can call me either jac or jia!

i created this blog to dump any of my current fixations, and to have more freedom interacting between various fandoms! camping on ao3 is great and all but nothing truly beats scrolling tumblr tags and headcanons and drabbles and sharing here 💗

if you're on staytwt you might or might not recognize me, I'm definitely going to dump just a bit of everything here ehe

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