#yyh talk tag

[anissapierce]

Being a 'kazu bleaches his hair but doesnt use toner n thts why his hair looks so damn orange' truther is so hard

[rhinocio]

what's up you cool baby

[hellboundhimbo]

so, late night hockey show thoughts: kuwabara’s dark tournament outfit is very funny to me, simply because of how over-the-top it is. like, where did he get that outfit??? why did he make it and why (iirc) did he save it for team toguro???? cuz there’s no way he just bought it looking like that, he had to have wrote that “health first” kanji on the back. even still, did he have it specifically for the tournament so he could look badass fighting the toguro team, or was it his “In Case I Ever Become A Shonen Protagonist” fit? so many questions, all doomed to remain unanswered.

either way, it’s cracking me up the middle imagining kuwabara packing for a death tournament and thinking, ah shit wait i gotta get my biker gang overcoat and boots. can’t forget those. incredibly important that these take up space in my tiny duffel bag. fuck toothpaste. looking totally awesome is my top priority. average teenage boy mindset.

[sealbee101]

I feel like the yyh community dosen't talk about sensui enough. Sensui is probably one of the best antagonist ive ever seen and it sucks no one talks about him hardly.

Sensui was a man of a justice system that was unblinded with obvious one sided ideals (demons = bad, human = good) it wasn't until that one night that completely made black and white turn to gray, his morality shattered, everything turning into a murky puddle.

Humanity doomed itself that night, turning the man who fought for it, to turning against it.

But it also made Sensui reflect, made him question himself, made him want to open his eyes and balance the scale as to why demons were so bad which led to Sensui down to opening the barrier between the worlds, if he could understand the same thing he'd use to hunt down maybe it'd put his mind at ease. himself at ease, maybe he'd finally understand.

[frogs-in3-hills]

no shut up because here’s my vision for yu yu hakusho giant fuckoff polycule. yusuke and keiko perpetually engaged madly in love thinking about kids but honestly really benefitting from the polycule because they won’t admit it but neither of them can give each other 100% of what they need. yusuke and kuwabara madly in love but it’s fighting as a metaphor for dating. keiko and kuwabara got a cute little qpr thing going. these three are the heart of things they go on cute dates and drag everyone along. kuwabara and yukina fairytale in love. keiko and yukina are together because yukina wanted to figure out if she’s Really into girls (she is) and keiko has some unresolved gender feelings that she successfully ignores by occasionally just being really butch. yusuke and yukina kissed once and it was just weird. yusuke and kurama dating but they just chill and don’t really do anything about it. yusuke and hiei friends with benefits for fun, training (for what???), and emotional release but they don’t really talk about it. kurama and hiei whatever the fuck gay shit is going on with them they’ve only known each other for like 10% of their lives but inexplicably have the vibe of two guys who have been fucking on and off for eight thousand years. kurama and kuwabara secret third thing (sometimes have the craziest makeout sessions and nobody really knows what’s going on there) (everyone who hangs out them them comes away from it feeling like they were the third wheel but can’t actually put their finger on why) and they did also have huge crushes on each other in high school. hiei is Not dating kuwabara because ewwww that’s his sister’s boyfriend……. kurama and keiko are not together but every once in a while he takes her out on the most beautiful romantic date ending with a chaste kiss on her cheek before he drops her off at home and they both think it’s really funny that yusuke gets kind of worked up about it. keiko and hiei don’t really have strong feelings about each other but once hiei climbed through their window with no warning because he wanted to hook up with yusuke and keiko was like “are you really gonna do that and not include me” and that was actually a really fun night. botan doesn’t get involved in the polycule because she prefers being an obnoxious third wheel & she doesn’t seem that interested in romance, and it’s kind of unclear how old she is anyways but if everyone was being honest with themselves they really wouldn’t mind if she wanted to join in. yusuke and botan would benefit from exactly one extremely emotionally charged slightly drunk fuck in like the empty bedroom at a house party or something. yukina has a crush on botan but she’s too shy to mention it. shizuru does not involve herself with any of these freaks but she’s gotta admit botan is super hot. can anyone hear me

[quiveringdeer]

tagged by: @marleysfinest

tagging: ANYONE!

Please feel free to tag but please make it a new post thanks!

Copped from twitter: Reblog this with four (or more) pics that expose your taste in men (or just blorbos in general)

apparently my type is

sunshine sweethearts with red/pink hair

blonds with cute noses

and misc who will look down on me and kill without a second thought 🤔

[timlets]

studio pirot slayed

[vonbirden]

It's been a long time since something had me genuinely stressed then watching the Dark Tournament arc for the first time. Keiko's monologue near the end sums it up so much, like what are they (young kids) doing here, let's go home - as she's watching her childhood best friend (WHO ALREADY DIED ONCE) get slaughtered in the ring in a tournament of demons. The way I appreciate the 'normal human / non fighter' characters who actually have sense and react like a normal child about horrible things. You forget how young yusuke and kuwabara are, and even with kurama and hiei being demons it's still hard to watch - especially kurama jesus christ the way he is always covered in his own blood by the end of the matches. Hiei is the only one kinda vibing, in his element, feral gremlin.

[fruiteggsaladit]

I'm so invested in an annoyed Keiko. A fed-up Keiko. A genuinely angry and Pissed Off Keiko. I'm so resistant to her having friends among the Urameshi team bc I want her to have beef with them just so I can feel enriched by her rage!

Mostly I feel it's most logical if she's pissed at Kuwabara for something - they know of each other from school and know each other through Yusuke. The others she knows too little to have strong feelings about (she doesn't even remember getting assaulted and nearly made into a demon by Hiei!).

Him disrupting the wake could have had consequences! What if he managed to knock over the items on the altar? Or even knocked the box so badly that Yusuke's corpse fell out a little? Or what if this was upsetting to Atsuko and Keiko grew angry that he wasn't behaving well (while she was, and she was Yusuke's best and childhood friend.)

She could be pissed off about something "stupid", but I'm very fond of the concept of her being Pissed and Right For It! Especially fond of Kuwabara "All women are queens!!!!" Kazuma having constant interactions w a girl who does not make it a secret that she dislikes him and he can't even say she's wrong for it. He wants to make up for it! But Keiko won't let him because she's uninterested in that.

These started as tags but then it devolved into yyh alternate universes concept so I'm putting them into the main text here:

We need more aus goddamit! #5

Abstract:

Kurama and Keiko know each other before Kurama knows Yusuke through a study group that was a guise for group date possibilities but then turned into an actual study group.

Kurama would be next logical target of Keiko's ire if one was to be making something up, a studious person who goes to a human school in the human world and who she knows through Yusuke and Kuwabara. Do you get more upset if a walrus stole your grandfather clock or if a fairy did it?

She could be upset with him for being smarter than her, and this appearing to be an effortless intelligence. Big fish meets bigger fish in a new pond sort of feeling. Regardless if they both needed to study in academic matters to get the results they wanted, Kurama getting better grades if they had the opportunity to compare could be an easy sore spot for Keiko.

Maybe it could be an after-school inter-school study session.... Noting his good results, Keiko compliments him, and Kurama is being a touch too humble and polite for Keiko's liking, doing the "It's not much, not really" routine four rounds more than necessary, and things quickly devolving from there.

Sudden inspiration from Saiki K: what if Kurama purposefully got himself good-enough grades instead of perfect grades so as to seem more like an average human boy who doesn't want to rock the boat in any way. Oooh, this would definitely piss off Keiko if she ever got close enough to realise! She believes in effort! She would not like this, I think she'd understand if given an explanation and accept it, but she still would not like that. Growing up with Yusuke, her first instinct might even be that Kurama would be getting average grades on purpose for the kick of it.

Kurama would know she doesn't like him or bears some grudge against him, and I don't think he'd mind it very much, but he would be impressed (sweatdrop kind) that she can keep a straight face for the most part while studying with him and the others in the study group.

Surprisingly and somehow that's enough to create a genuine friendship between them, which is a strange but pleasant surprise to Yukimura "You're the only Real One here" Keiko and a balm to Kurama's "my mum is fucking dying" and Hiei's "I'm enslaving humanity and am not noticing you being uncomfortable with it as a half-human with human family".

Does he reach out to her when shit gets real? No, but he won't do that even with Shiori, his mum, or Maya, a presumably childhood friend whose memory pertains to Kurama he erases!!

Boy does it feel awkard though to see her in the Hiei-Yusuke confrontation though! And when Keiko eventually sees him again and can recognise him.

[bwabys-scenarios]

Kurama NSFW Alphabet

!!REBLOGS APPRECIATED!!

warnings: breeding, reader is called princess/angel, fem!reader, creampie, period sex mention, biting/scratching

A/N: REQUESTS OPEN! I’m reviving the Yu Yu Hakusho fandom, please send in Hiei and Kurama requests 😭🙏❤️

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A = Aftercare (what they're like after sex)

After sex he’s quite tired, and he enjoys some soft cuddling before napping. He likes to bring a snack and drink to the room before you have sex, so if you need something after he can easily get it for you!

He’s also 100% up for a nice warm, relaxing bath afterwards where he gets to wash and caress you!

B= Body part (their favorite body part of theirs and also their partner's)

His favorite body part is his hair! He loves when you lovingly run your fingers through it, or when you give it a gentle tug when he’s got you under her. Kurama enjoys taking baths with you and asking you to wash his hair. You’re so tender with him, it just makes the red head fall in love even harder with you.

His favorite part of you is your tummy. He enjoys resting his head on it when he’s tired, or putting his hand over your soft flesh while he fucks into you, saying how he’s going to give you a baby <3

C = Cum (anything to do with cum, basically)

He prefers staying clean and doesn’t want to get you all messy either, so he ends up cumming inside of you most of the time! Kurama has a bit of breeding kink to, which only adds onto this.

He cums a decent amount, about 3-5 creampies is enough to fill you up perfectly. Though… he likes to stuff you full.

D = Dirty secret (pretty self explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

He has a few…

First, he goes crazy for your scent. He’s a bit ashamed of it, but he’s constantly pulling you in for hugs, just to smell you, especially during breeding season. He can’t get enough, sometimes all it takes is a whiff of you and he’s hard.

Second off, he is VERY interested in period sex. He already goes insane when you ovulate, but so far he hasn’t touch you when you’re on your period. He really wants to ask, he would love to eat you out!

He desperately wants to cover you in hickeys and love bites. He’d love to each you out and suck and bite on the fat of your thighs until they’re completely covered in his love bites…

E = Experience (how experienced are they? do they know what they're doing?)

When he was a demon, Kurama had his fair share of experiences with other demon women. He never had sex with someone he loved, just little flings to satisfy his urges.

As a human, Kurama is technically a virgin, and his human body is a lot more difficult to navigate. He’s surprisingly sensitive, easily aroused and easy to bring to an orgasm.

F = Favorite position (this goes without saying)

Missionary and doggy are the two positions he takes you in the mostly though missionary is the more common one. He only does doggy when he’s desperate/needy and needs to fuck right then and there.

G= Goofy (are they more serious in the moment? are they humorous? etc.)

He’s pretty serious, but sharing a few laughs and smiling is commonplace. Kurama enjoys holding you close to him, talking you through it and giving you kisses, so if a few giggles slip through your slips he won’t mind.

H= Hair (how well groomed are they? does the carpet match the drapes? etc.)

He keeps himself well trimmed, also yes it’s red! It’s very soft, just like his hair.

1= Intimacy (how are they during the moment? the romantic aspect)

He’s very romantic, and enjoys taking his time with you. Kurama is often very busy with helping Yusuke with detective work, so when he’s not doing that, he tries his best to make every love making session sweet and intimate.

It’s the little things, like holding your hand and kissing your forehead while he thrusts into you, whispering soft words of love and adoration in your ear when he leans down close.

J= Jack off (masturbation headcanon)

Kurama found out just how sensitive his human body was the moment he saw you. He’d never had much interest in girls, especially human ones, but felt his cock go hard the second you smiled so sweetly at him.

He had jerked off a few times before after getting morning wood, but this time he found himself imagining your hand slowly pumping his length, not his.

After that, he jerked off regularly, and once you two got together, he didn’t need to as often, because you let him fuck you when he’s horny instead <3

K = Kink (one or more of their kinks)

Overstimulation

Breeding

Period Sex

Lactation

Cockwarming

L = Location (favorite places to do the do)

Depending on the season, he’ll either only have sex with you in the bedroom, or he’ll fuck you anywhere. If he’s in rut… lord help your coochie 🙏💔

M = Motivation (what turns them on, gets them going)

He’s very scent based, so if he gets a good whiff of your smell he becomes very happy/relaxed, but it can also make his dick hard within seconds.

N = No (something they wouldn't do, turn offs)

He will never EVER hurt you during sex, it’s a big no no. And something he wouldn’t like done to him is being choked or slapped. He’s a very gentle and sweet lover, and he wants the same from you!

0 = Oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)

Oh my god, let’s just say he remembers a thing or two from his demon days. When his face is between your legs you’ll be having a great time.

That is to say, he much prefers eating you out than you sucking him off. Your taste, the way you moan his name and whimper out little pleas for him to keep going makes him go CRAZY.

P= Pace (are they fast and rough? slow and sensual etc.)

Oh he’s usually very slow and sensual. Like I said earlier, he prefers to take his time with you and show you how much he cares about and loves you.

Although if it’s during breeding season, all of that goes out the window and the only thing he’s thinking about is how much cum he can stuff into your pretty pussy before it starts spilling out of you.

Q = Quickie (their opinions on quickies, how often, etc.)

He’s not a big fan of quickies, again, he prefers to take his time with you. The only quickies he has are ones to satisfy you when you’re needy.

R = Risk (are they game to experiment? do they take risks? etc.)

He doesn’t take risks with his precious angel, no way. If he wants to try something new, he always asks you first and makes sure it’s okay. Your comfort is very important to him, because to him making love is almost like a trust exercise. You’re trusting him with your body, he would never break it.

S= Stamina (how many rounds can they go for? how long do they last?)

This guy can last as long as you want him to. He’s a complete gentleman, so when you get tired he’ll pull out and start aftercare.

Though, again, going into rut makes him a lot more ravenous. He can last several hours, until your leaking his cum onto the bed.

T= Toys (do they own toys? do they use them? on a partner or themselves?)

He doesn’t own any toys, and honestly he’s not interested in them for himself at all. He also doesn’t LOVE the thought of you having them, as he thinks he may not be pleasing you enough. With some reassurance that sometimes you need alone time or it’s to tide you over while he’s gone, he’ll come around and understand. He won’t tell you not to use them, as it’s your body, but he may be a little jealous or not understand them completely without an explanation.

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease)

He’s not a huge tease, but he does like getting you all worked up, especially when you’ve been a bit of a brat lately.

He’ll hold you in his lap, lightly tapping his finger against your panties while you squirm and beg him to touch you. “Can’t you cum with this? Such a needy little princess, perhaps I’ve been spoiling you too much.”

V= Volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make, etc.)

He’s not very loud, but you’ve known you’ve done something good when he groans softly, looking down at you with those emerald eyes while he calls you a good girl~

W= Wild card (a random headcanon for the character)

To learn more about human sex, he watched a lot of porn and did a lot of research. He got caught doing this not once, but multiple times by Yusuke. It wasn’t easy trying to explain that he wasn’t getting off to it, just trying to study so he could make you happy, but Yusuke still teases him for it even years later.

X= X-ray (let's see what's going on under those clothes)

Kurama is 6.5 inches long and pretty girthy. During the mating season he takes on a more animalistic appearance, his cock changing the most. He’s able to knot you, which he does QUITE a bit during this time.

He wears boxers, they’re usually navy blue or light grey.

Y= Yearning (how high is their sex drive?)

I think it’s about medium sized. He definitely yearns for you, especially when he’s away for longer periods of time, but he can usually just look at naughty pictures and videos you’ve sent him to get him through tough times. When he finally gets home, he’ll take you out to dinner then fuck you like he hasn’t seen you in years when you get home(he’s literally only been gone a week).

Z = Zzz (how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)

He falls asleep a few minutes after the final creampie! He makes sure to take care of you first if you need anything, because although he would never want to intentionally hurt you, he does end up scratching and/or biting you a bit too hard sometimes.

Kurama makes sure all of your needs are met before he pulls you in for kisses and cuddles!

[anissapierce]

In another universe yyh was published in a girl's horror magazine.... Different trajectory for the story entirely though

[spirit-detective-files]

Greetings, YYH Fandom!

We’re launching an event to celebrate our favorite characters. One week of every month will be a time to create all kinds of fan content dedicated to them.

Fanarts, Fanfics, Moodboards, Playlists, Cosplays, TikToks, Essays—any form of creative contribution will be welcomed and appreciated!

The first 4 events will, of course, be dedicated to Team Urameshi! Feel free to send us suggestions of who you want to see next.

First up is Yusuke Urameshi! His week begins a month from now on Saturday, July 1st. For the event, we’re using the tag: #sdf yusuke week. Please @ us in your posts so we can reblog them here and be sure to follow this blog so you don’t miss out on updates and posts.

If you are interested in collaborating with other creators and talking to other fans, join us over in Nerd Violence (18+) [link]

That’s all for now! We’ll be back with a reminder a week before Yusuke Week. We hope to see you there!

[yuyuconfessions]

"I've noticed that younger fans seem to have trouble connecting the dots that a lot of adults on this website were kids younger or close to the age of Yusuke when this series was originally airing back in the 90s in Japan and the 2000s in the west.

Although these fictional characters' stories ended for them at 18 it doesn't mean that Yusuke and the gang stop being important, interesting, or compelling to us. It also doesn't mean that we have to stop loving these fictional characters and their stories after we turn 19.

If you as a minor 14-17 or someone aged 18 - 25 thay feels comfortable shipping these characters, viewing art of them, and reading fic about them ESPECIALLY NSFW art/fic; but your skin crawls that people older than you are creating that content, then you need to sit down with yourself and ask yourself if fandoms that are literally older than your existence are places that you are ready to be socializing in.

Fandoms that are older than your existence will have fans that are MUCH older than you and they are making content and having interactive conversations.

Yu Yu Hakusho is not an Adult Only fandom but it is a fandom that is Mostly Adults.

I fell in love with this show when I was a pre teen. I'm in my mid 30s. The show's target audience is teenagers. But here is the thing: it's target audience was teenagers back in the 90s and 2000s and that's still most of its audience today because Togashi told a fun and resonant story that tends to stick with its audience.

If you can't handle shipping content or adult conversations (conversations about mature topics and themes not necessarily 18+/NSFW but these are definitely present also) about Yu Yu Hakusho then you should try to avoid adult spaces when searching for discussion or content and stick to spaces specifically for minors.

A space specifically for minors would have a ban against all 18+/NSFW content that is strictly enforced. It would not have an 18+/NSFW section at all.

Tumblr and most of the discord servers for YYH that I've seen are adult spaces. Because there is an expectation that while minors are allowed on the websites they must be over a certain age with parental permission because adult conversations happen here where minors could see them.

All of this to say: Unplug from the adult spaces if you feel uncomfortable with adult themes and content or 18+/NSFW content.

Talk to friends irl about Yu Yu Hakusho or find a minor focused space online to talk about it. Come back to the adult spaces in a few years.

This applies to the 18 - 25 crowd also. If you can't handle seeing someone ship these characters or if someone ships them in a way that you don't agree with and it's so upsetting to you that it's causing you a great deal of anger or distress then you need to consider if you really want to be in the Greater Online Yu Yu Hakusho Fandom at this particular point in your life. Or if maybe you want to filter tags on tumblr and drop sites that you can't filter to make your fandom experience more smooth.

If Yu Yu Hakusho has lasted 30 years then it'll last another 3 or 5 years while you get adjusted and engage with Yu Yu Hakusho in minor focused or safely filtered fandom spaces. Trust me. Yu Yu Hakusho will be somewhere on the greater internet when you're older and you've gotten better at self regulating your intake of content online and your response to seeing content online that you don't like.

Yusuke, Kazuma, Kurama, Hiei, Keiko, Botan, Shizuru, Yukina, Genkai and the rest will be here when you get back. That's the great thing about resonant media. It sticks around because people connect to it.

You can love them as long as you want to. They'll always be there. They're not going anywhere."

This mod would just like to add

No one shipping Yusuke x Keiko is sexualizing or exploiting minors; yes, even if the person shipping is 35 years old. These are cartoons, fictional, 2d drawings. If you want to play cute with "but they're 14!" No. Yusuke was created in 1992. He is 31.

If any of the above makes you, a minor, uncomfortable, then get out of adult spaces. Back in myyy day (que groans), any show I liked and looked at online had adult content, like Inuyasha or Naruto, even Teen Titans. I'd be 12 and see suddenly complete porn of Raven, and as a teen, I'd just exit out of it. Now, kids see things online, things they shouldn't see because the internet is NOT safe for kids without parental oversight, and their response is to... yell at the people making the content... for other adults.

If you wouldn't walk into Spencers and yell at the employees there for the vibrators, don't yell at adults drawing porn of Yukina and Hiei fucking. Exit out, or ask your mommy and daddy to put restrictions on what sites you can access. The internet is NOT your babysitter.

[fighting-these-demons]

My YYH Tags

These are the tags and ship names that I use for various yyh ships.

The colors have no bearing on the ships I just wanted to make them visually distinct from the ship members so I'm using rainbow order repeating

Yusukeiko - Yusuke x Keiko

Kuwameshi - Yusuke x Kuwabara

Kuwama / Kazurama - Kurama x Kuwabara

Kuwahi / Hieibara - Hiei x Kuwabara

Shizutan - Shizuru x Botan

Yusuhi - Yusuke x Hiei

Kurayus - Kurama x Yusuke

Kuwakina - Kuwabara x Yukina

Yukieiko - Yukina x Keiko

Keikobara - Keiko x Kuwabara

Keikotan - Botan x Keiko

Shizukina - Shizuru x Yukina

Yukikuro / Mukukina - Mukuro x Yukina

Shizukuro / Mukuzuru - Mukuro x Shizuru

KuraYomi / Yorama - Yomi x Kurama

Kazuyomi /Yomibara - Yomi x Kuwabara

Kuwakubo / Okubara - Kuwabara x Okubo

KiyoKazu / Mitabara - Mitarai x Kuwabara

Yusukeikobara / Fun Ot3- Kuwabara x Yusuke x Keiko

Yusukuwahi / Yusuhieibara / Chaos Ot3 - Kuwabara x Yusuke x Hiei

Yusukeikorama or Kurayusukeiko / Chill Ot3 - Kurama x Yusuke x Keiko

I ship other ships but these are the ones I actually talk about from time to time so.

Oh shit! I forgot to include:

Sakyzuru - Sakyo x Shizuru

Togenkai / Genguro - Genkai x Younger Toguro

[after-witch]

Okay, hold on because this?

You’re spitting nothing but facts. I’ve said this exact same thing on both of my previous blogs (not this one, not yet xmdkxkdnd) about how x reader just was not a thing in Ye Fandom of Olde. I don’t know if people really believe me or if I just sound like a hunch backed crone standing on her front porch waving her cane at the neighborhood kids, yelling at them to appreciate what they’ve got because back in my day … but it really was such an incredibly different landscape. There are certain aspects of it that I miss for sure and others I’m glad to leave in the past.

The completely random conversations between the author and the character(s) among them, GOD, the way that still activates every single one of my cringe reflexes. 😂 Actually my all time favorite fic had those for the first dozen or so chapters, but she thankfully left them in the fore and afterword, not haphazardly placed in the fic itself, so it was easy to ignore haha. I can laugh at it and maybe even look back at it fondly, but I don’t think I want that particular trend to make a comeback any time soon xmxmdnd

It’s kind of surreal in a way, finding someone who knows exactly what I’m talking about and sharing that mutual experience. I know there have to be more of us out there but I feel like a good chunk of them have probably moved on from anime fandom content so I’m very glad to have found you like this. 💕

I unfortunately got busy with one of my own projects yesterday and didn’t get a chance to read anymore of your stuff, but I’m really looking forward to diving in once I’m done. When I tell you I am 👀 eyeballing the hell out of your Sesshomaru fics cmdkxmdmd

Also, if I may ask, are you by any chance a fan of Yu Yu Hakusho? 🥹

"I don’t know if people really believe me or if I just sound like a hunch backed crone standing on her front porch waving her cane at the neighborhood kids, yelling at them to appreciate what they’ve got because back in my day … but it really was such an incredibly different landscape."

We can both be crones, in that case! But no, I completely get what you're saying. It was SO different. I am genuinely appreciative of the fact that "reader fic" is so popular and the distaste I see for it is mainly "it's clogging up the regular tags" rather than the absolute nastiness that used to be associated with any OCs or inkling of "hey I like these characters, wouldn't it be neat if they wanted me?"

OCs in general were considered taboo enough, but reader fic was just… not a "thing" back in the early 2000s, really, not in the style we know it today. When second person was used, it was usaully meant to be stylized (rather than today where the intent of second person is "reader fic," to pull the reader into the story in a different, visceral way) and second person fics would fall into the OC bucket.

Gosh on that note, I remember "Mary Sue Hunter" groups that would find any OCs on ye olde fanfiction.net and leave reviews with forms to determine how much of a "Mary Sue" someone's OC was.

If you were going to attempt an OC, it felt like you had to make them Super Super Boring and Normal and Ordinary and No Actual Characters Ever Fell in Love with Them (except maybe non-important side characters) in order to get people to leave you alone.

Not that there's anything wrong with writing characters who are ordinary but it rarely felt it was an organic decision from the authors, but rather a reflection of what was "okay" to write.

Fandom is so different now. As you said, there's some things I miss ("don't like, don't read" and "you're responsible for what you read" being the standard etiquette, for one...) but plenty that I don't, too.

Also, if I may ask, are you by any chance a fan of Yu Yu Hakusho?

Yessss. I love it. I have so many discarded OCs from my teenage years from YYH, they were all ridiculously self-indulgent ofc. I do want to at some point write a few yandere YYH characters, but I haven't gotten any inspiration for it yet.

[itsclydebitches]

The fandom reaction to this season is fucking bonkers, I’m seeing so many ppl talk about how this is their new favorite volume and the arcs are so good!! Ruby is fucking dead and the show is treating that like it’s a good thing. Ruby fucking died and her closest friends are happy about this?? How do you look at that and think it’s amazing???? RWBY fans baffle me

Got distracted by Ted Lasso for a couple of days, but I've gotta throw out a couple more asks before we hit the Volume finale tomorrow!

Yeah, I'm not at all confused by fans enjoying a major character "death" (that is, really a suicide allegory resulting in a likely transformation of some kind, not death-death) because that's a complex, compelling, emotionally charged arc for a character, particularly the protagonist. I still think back to kid!Clyde whose jaw was on the floor when YYH opened with Yusuke dying, or the feral phone call I made to a friend when I got to Ned dying in GoT (back when I enjoyed the books lol). The idea of taking a character who is presumably safe due to plot armor/genre expectations and going, "Actually NOPE" does have a certain kind of charm.

... provided it's pulled off well.

Which, you know, is the entire problem with Volume 9. Or the whole of RWBY, really. Awesome concept! Horrendous execution. It's potentially telling that - anecdotally - I think this is the most RWDE-charged Volume we've had in years? Meaning, regulars of the tag are posting more frequently, there are more occasional newcomers than I'm used to seeing, I'm coming across more posts that start off with the necessary (in this fandom) explanation that they still adore the show, but aren't happy with this, that, and the other thing, criticism posted in the wider community is receiving more consideration rather than just being mocked and downvoted on principal.

I mean, full agree, anon. I'm also seeing a lot of celebration for this Volume that I personally can't understand. But I'm also seeing a LOT of worries too, from critics and non-critics alike. I don't think disappointment in the writing will ever outweigh the praise - especially during a Volume where the bees became canon - but the mere fact that each season I'm seeing more and more fans drop the show, give criticism a fair shake, or actively join the RWDE tag speaks, I think, to RWBY's overall trajectory. Again, I'm on a Ted Lasso kick, so it's really easy to compare RWBY to this well-written, highly successful show. RWBY fans think their enjoyment is semi-universal, with critics being a vocal an inaccurate minority, but when you compare that to a show that's actively bringing in new viewers due to its success, knocking it out of the park each week with the character development, giving us FIVE queer characters in as many episodes, inviting criticism primarily in the form of "What we got was great, but wouldn't it have been even better if they'd done ____?" as opposed to, "What the actual hell was that?" ... it really highlights that a community enjoying a show isn't the same thing as that show being "good."