#i miss my boooyyyysss !!!

[bitterflames]

there they are. a delicious triple-tiered anachronistic death god cake. i love them so much.

lowkey obsessed with kuro and shiro mujou. they're literally the 黑白无常 heibai wuchang of chinese folk religion, but re-imagined in a heian period japan setting so now they're shinigami, who were possibly themselves influenced by western concepts of the grim reaper (and kuro mujou's design reflects this, with his scythe). they're on like triple layers of folk religion psychopomp/death personification and i love it.

[thea-polis]

People are leaving the cherik fandom? What? Why?

HelllooOOOOO darlink anon! ❥ ❥

I can’t speak for anyone else in fandom, natually and obviously, but just from what I’ve observed, I would say it’s less people leaving and more people growing increasingly disinterested and getting interested in other things that are active and fresh and producing new content and shippable stuff. I imagine a lot of us were disappointed by X-Men: Apocalypse and how it didn’t open many new arteries of ideas and excitement and futures for OUR BOOOYYYYSSS. Not only was the overall tone of the movie depressing and downbeat, but it doesn’t give that many exciting futures or intriguing alternatives to pursue. I’m not a Steve/Bucky shipper, but if you compare XMA to Civil War, that film and the ending leaves open MULTIPLE interpretations of where those two characters could go. As I say, I’m not even a shipper, but I can think of several stories to spin out from that, just from what I’ve watched of the Captain America movies. XMA is a lot more close-booked.

And it’s natural for things to become stale if you don’t get original source material to keep reinterpreting and that keeps adding nuance to the universe and characters. Plus we didn’t get the unicorn-and-rainbow press tour that is Michael and James together, except for that GNS episode that was a spit and a slap in the face, and I think the whole package of everything leaves some of us feeling a little unenthusiastic, especially compared to the previous two new X-Men films (though I can only speak from experience from the previous one, since I entered the fandom after seeing XMDOFP and having missed the juggernaut that was post-XMFC, which must have been INSANE.)

But I think those of us who are still here are here because we TRULY cannot and will not get enough of these characters and the X-Men universe and franchise. There is a combination of things in here that do for us what other fandoms can’t do.

I am a certified Old Lady and have been through multiple fandoms in my life, and, though I hate to say it, it’s natural for them to die out in a widespread way. If the fandoms I was in years ago have produced new content lately, I haven’t seen it. But I am still nostalgic about them, think of them fondly, feel as though they are part of my soul and makeup, and occasionally go back and read the stuff that I can find, or that’s been imported over to AO3 from the 1990s (I told you, OLD LADY). But they can also come back around or have some sort of revival: The ST:TOS I knew and love wasn’t necessarily the same as what the new movie franchise gave us, but it rekindled interest, and a lot reemerged from the new films. I can see something similar happening with X-Men and cherik, since they have those same hallmarks of durability. People will always relate to this universe. In twenty years, we may get a whole new set of films, or whatever the popular medium is then, and suddenly the X-Men franchise will spark up again, and people will return to whatever remains of the fanfic and fandom from right now, while building out new fanworks.