i started watching Inuyasha back in late 01 when i turned 16.  i got my first job then, and it had me working til about 2:30am on Saturday nights.  back then, i would smoke a bunch of pot after my shift with my co-workers (as you do..), and i would come home after and watch adult swim.  i never much cared for anime; i was into AS for the wacky funny comedy cartoons they had (Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and ATHF i think... and Sealab?  idk i dont remember, i was stoned lol).  But Inuyasha was always on right when i got home, and i started watching it.  It was just in the first or second season of the anime, and i got into it bc it was easy to follow (mostly due to the fact that they did a super long recap at the beginning of each ep, and had hella flashbacks), so i knew the story in no time.

i had read fanfic before of other shows (i wont get into which here, lol), but they were series which had tension between characters that got drawn out way too long (sometimes, never to be resolved...), and, having had my heart played with in the past, i could automatically tell that they were never going to put inukag together until the end, and i was rooting for them.

i went on ff.net to read inukag stories to fill my need for them.  but once i got introduced to sesshoumaru, i was obsessed with him.  i first saw him in his intro (you know the one), but i didn't know his character yet.  once they played his story line, i kind of fell in love with him.  it wasn't long (prob early 02) when i started looking for fanfic with him instead of inukag.  inukag was very popular, but a lot of the fics i was finding were lacking, and i wanted to read about sesshoumaru.  i can't remember any specific fic that got me into sesskag, but i quickly found that i loved the dynamic, and it was all over.

i discovered A Single Spark, and read anonymously until that sight became this one.  i continued to read ff.net for a while, but found dokuga was the place to be for my highly specific needs lol.

despite reading here on the daily, i never ended up making my own account until about '15, so i could read some member only content, and it wasn't until late last year (2019) when i actually took a stab  at writing.  now i love it, and try to write as much sesskag as i can.  i try to be active in the community, and interact on the various sites which help support my OTP with things like art and writing.

It's almost 20 years later, and that's creeping up on half my life dedicated to the sesskag ship (i never found another since that captivated me like they did XD), and i don't see it slowing down any time soon.

so that's my story!  i hope you enjoy my work, and the work of many others here who have been a huge part of my life over the years.

I also go by effinsusie on AO3 and FF.net.

You can also find me as susie on discord!  say hi....