Youkai Play
I thought of the concept for this picture some time ago when I was working on a coloring book project for a friend. I really love the father/daughter relationship between Sesshoumaru and Rin. I know there are quite a few who like the idea of a romantic coupling between them, but I always thought that there was so much more potential on a familial level. Couples may break up, but blood is blood... even if it's adopted blood.
That being said, I then began to think of the interactions I've had with my own parents and the memory of being chased and caught by "the scary monster" (usually my dad) and subsequently being tickled and the like. While the result of my picture sides more on the scary side (he is a youkai afterall), it's still a silly, tender moment between an unlikely adopted dad and his equally unlikely little girl.
I know there are only maybe... 5 Sesshoumaru fans out there, so eveyone else, I hope you enjoy it
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I'm not a fan of SessxRin. She's his little girl, his daughter and it weirds me out otherwise, but it would be wrong of me to ban artwork that depicts them sexually, because I have a differing opinion. At least, that's what it really seems like to me.
Regardless, I'm disappointed with both sides of the controversy. Calling this a "witch hunt" is a gross overstatement and takes away credit from the cause, so to speak. I want to thump everyone on the head and tell them to stop acting like victims and then put together a real letter asking dA what their goals are as a website, especially regarding fanart. Then people can sign it without leaving inane, misspelled comments.
The damage is already done though...
I agree with you there. Banning because you're not a fan of something is wrong.
Unfortunately when people refused to act like adults things spiraled out of control. I left nearly a year ago, why? because I was being harassed in comments & through notes & DA ignored it. Just like the letter which several friends have sent to DA asking what's going on & why are things being deleted for no reason. So the one side has tried to be an adult.
*nods* Sad but true...
My problem is with losing the hit counts and the fav counts. It takes a lot of time to build those up and for some whiny little teenager to come along and say "eww" once and it gets deleted is kind of infuriating.
It's sad that trolls pushed you out of there a year ago and sadly I wouldn't be that surprised if it happened to me.
That's the sad part. Sometimes things were yanked without warning, so that the artist couldn't even get a screen cap of all those hits & faves. And that's basically why the artists got mad. I think rather than one report of "Eww... gross!!" one should have at least 3 before it's looked into & then a decision should be made to remove it & the artist should be given a chance to take it down. If they don't do it, then DA should do it for them after giving them a chance to do it themselves. I'm sure they'
re ways to amke thatt error page come up so something "offensive" can be covered until the artist deals with it.
*sighs* yeah... what can you do? But at least I'm here and so far there're no trolls here which is nice.
All the same, the rest of my borderline dirty artwork is out in the open for all to see. I'd rather it get pulled from the site than place it under a stupid filter or alter it to make it okay for people who shouldn't be on the site to begin with. There's such thing as artistic pride, honestly.
Good for you! You're right in that you should create what you want & if it's borderline ecchi, so what?
I just don't like it when the consideration doesn't go both ways. If you're so uncomfortable that you'll go out of your way to impede someone else's expression of their own values and fantasy by having their art (which they've worked hard on) removed, then who's really hurting who here?
All of this just makes me want to draw something completely explicit and rub it in their faces.
They are actually hurting themselves in the long run by being so narrow-minded & insisting on censorship. One day they'll wake up & want to post something ecchi , only to find they have no outlet for it, because everything's censored. Which is a sad place to live in if you ask me.
*nods* I hear you. A part of me wants to go back & post stuff like that & really get banned! *laughs* Only I won't because my brother's over there & I don't want him getting banned because of me. (IP address would be the same) So i left, continued in my own little world & basically did what i wanted to PLEASE myself.
You're right though, bragging about impeding someone else's creativity is just low. I can see it happening though. A week or so ago on dA, I had someone come along critiquing a picture. They apparently liked it, but had a few opinions on execution and technique. I explained why I did what I did and also where it needed improvements and thanked them for the comment. They were surprised that I accepted critiques so easily and told me about other artists who reject anyone else's opinions about their art and only wanted glowing responses. I explained that no one grows as an artist if they don't listen to people at least a little bit when it comes to constructive criticism. Apparently this was the okay for this person to unleash a barrage of critiques on my other art and I had to tell them to stop for the sake of my self-esteem (and my lowering opinion of their opinions). They stopped, but went into this long discussion about how they had no self-esteem and hated everything and everyone.
I can't help, but think that these pathetic trolls are from the same tree. They hate everything and everyone in their own teenage angsting lives and so they take it out on others, because everyone should feel as crappy as they do.
Oh yeah. The sad thing is is happens all the time. *sighs* That's nasty what they did though. I had someone complain over at DA that all my cged stuff was "bad" because i failed to have a black outline around everything and that i should stop doing it because I obviously can't do it correctly. WTF? So I can see the troll feeling the need to vent on your work, because it's better than anything they could do. ( times out of 10 those who are the nastiest, have NOTHING to back their words up with, nor do i think they realize how disheartening their harshness is. But in your case, they're being nasty because their lives are miserable is NO excuse!! That's just plain WRONG in 10 foot high capital letters!!
It's quite possible and also for the first time they've reached celebrity status. Think about it, they had people supporting their cause, without knowing the facts. Urd-chan has spam on her front page over at DA about pedophilia, why? because she had a journal complaining DA removed a mildly suggestive pic she did of Inuyasha & Kagome. You wouldn't believe what these trolls have called her in the forums. I got so mad I emailed DA saying I wasn't returning because they are now letting members bash each other without doing anything about it. And there's pages of that crap so it wasn't like a random comment. It's really terrible how bad it got and all because someone was having a bad day & decided to take it out on some innocent bystander. I'm just sorry, you had to deal with some of it yourself. It's not right. If you feel bad, talk to your friends and get support from them in a good way, not a bad way by spreading unhappiness. *sighs* I could rant all day about this, but I don't want to clutter up your pic with my venting. Sorry! ^^;