#Shinsengumi swords

[purplehanfu]

Self-Indulgent Birthday Post

notes: It's my birthday- pay attention to meeee (again). List of all recaps

Everyone's handing out medals so I will too!

Event: Looking Hot Despite Terrible Terrible Wig

more behind the cut

Drama That Gave Me Nothing

Winner: Jade's Fateful Love

I spent a weekend watching all 24 episodes and I can remember literally nothing about this drama. FL swaps places with her sister who was supposed to marry ML. That's it. Wow.

I'm Wrong and I Just Don't Care

Winner: The Spirealm

Everyone else: "The Spy Realm" Me: "The Spire Alm"

This Drama Wishes It Were Men with Sword

Winner: Kimi to Yukite Saku: Shinsengumi Seishunroku

Despite being a drama filled to the brim with good looking guys of wildly varying acting ability, this one's not giving us the badgood of Men with Sword. I think MWS's special charm came from a combination of having zero budget, a bunch of new untested actors and a script whose complexity rivaled Game of Thrones.

kudos on styling this guy like a Biba ad though

Progress

Winner: Meet You at the Blossom

Instead of watching a man and a woman roll around on each other in bulky historical costumes, we can now see two men roll around on each other in bulky historical costumes. I call that growth. Seriously though MYATB has been giving us romance, whump, angst, and (for some reason) kites. I love it. Sidebar: I was meh on Li Le when I first saw him in the production stills but damn, the boy delivers!

Crimes Against Wang Duo 2024

Winner: Sword and Fairy 4

Obligated to Mention on My Birthday

Winner: Bloody Romance

GongZi, all those people you killed had it coming.

and in closing...

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[ayumunoya]

Still thinking about the scene where Okita beats Yamanami for the first time.

Yamanami looks so proud 🥹♥️

[epicdogymoment]

mmmnnnn i should write down what i was thinking about earler but so fucking tired sleepy

[risuwu]

rewatching shinsengumi crisis arc and thinking about another hijikata and itou centric fic as if my other hijikata and itou centric fic hasnt been on life support for over a year

[mistandbluemoon]

UECHAN AS YASUSADA????

[nissakii]

[Please use headphones for best experience~] POV: You are hiding in the Shinsengumi headquarters and can't get out, so you are waiting for a good moment to slip out. Still it seems those guys are not planning on stepping down for a bit-

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[shinsengumi-archives]

Unfortunately, most of the photos are missing and some of the pages weren't saved, but the existing text still contains detailed descriptions of the sword marks left behind by the Shinsengumi.

[shinkleitus]

When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2002), dir. Yojiro Takita.

Review originalmente postada: 16/Fev/2023 no Letterboxd.

Convencionalmente os filmes pautados sobre o Shinsengumi tem como protagonista os principais membros deste grupo. Neste caso, procurou destacar membros, como Kanichiro Yoshimura e Hajime Saito. O segundo é um dos poucos sobreviventes deste grupo, e o filme se molda em flashbacks do Saito e de outros personagens com envolvimento com o Yoshimura. O filme desfruta de um sentimento nostálgico dos personagens, toda uma aura do filme dispõe desta nostalgia. O que pode florear muito da visão que passa sobre a Shinsengumi. Dependendo do jidaigeki, a Shinsengumi é transposta como grandes vilões na História Japonesa, mas aqui, vejo uma atenuação ao contar sobre o grupo. Tem seus momentos de massacre, mas se foca mais a lidar sobre o sentimento do homem com o caminho do samurai. Se você espera que o foco seja a ação, talvez não seja esse filme, o foco maior é mesmo o drama. A relação da família, o amor, de como lidar com o novo Japão que está por vir, de homens que não estão preparados para esta mudança, e tendo sempre dúvidas de como lidar com o ocidente. Os dois personagens principais têm um show de atuação, mas o Kiichi Nakai, no papel do Yoshimura, é o grande destaque deste filme. Consegue transparecer a dicotomia de seu personagem, que muda dependendo da visão de cada personagem que estão tendo as memórias exploradas. Um homem que vive por sua família, tendo atitudes não dignas de um samurai, como a ganância por dinheiro, mas de todos, é o que mais segue o código do Bushido. Ao mesmo tempo que é um homem gentil, com um ar melancólico.

[nigiyakaken]

❛ they’re just gonna keep taking, and taking, until you’ve got nothing left. ❜

❝ ↪ @unmeiha submitted an ask !!

" Until you've got nothing left. . . " he finds himself repeating, leaning back against the wall before he slides down to meet where they've been sitting across the room. A brief moment of silence floods the room, so quiet that he swears he can feel it. He contemplates what it might mean, her statement, their battle, everything.

" Let them try! "

Confidence is loud as he slaps his hands over his knees before leaving them there to rest and shooting her a boyish grin. He still has fight left in him, he's still going to press on - so long as it's the right thing to do. So long as they stay on the right path.

". . .until the final swing of the blade takes me, I'll keep going. "

[ozzgin]

I was 100% thinking of the Shinsengumi when the brainrot struck, but let us assume a more generic, unnamed circumstance for this. Random, uh, elite group of swordsmen working for the shogunate in the Edo period. Here's the awkward, horny himbo I had previously mentioned. Content: female reader, historical setting, crossdressing, NSFW

Yandere!Captain commands his group with an iron grip. Many people in the Capital know his name, whether it's fellow warriors or petty merchants, and not without reason. His unmatched skill with a sword had even reached the ears of the court, and he was quickly appointed as the head of a newly formed group of samurai meant to maintain order in the city.

As if keeping hot-blooded thugs under control wasn't enough, he is now stuck with an even bigger issue: you.

"We can't have women in here", he declares with a grimace.

"I can pretend", you counter stubbornly, pulling your hakama pants up by the sash, almost in an act of defiance. "In fact, I don't see any woman here. I came to apply."

Yandere!Captain’s reputation does not only revolve around his intimidating strength. Among his underlings, he is known for being completely and utterly uninterested when it comes to women. Will he join his group for drinks after a long day of work? Absolutely. But that’s where the fun stops. When the others begin to slip away with smiling courtesans, he remains at the table with a somber countenance. It is a running joke that nothing can deter this man from his duty.

Thus, your presence at the headquarters should make no difference. He had to begrudgingly accept that you spoke the truth when you'd said you can handle a sword. It's not uncommon for women to keep a small tanto underneath their obi for additional protection, but your knowledge doesn't stop there. You arrived with your own katana and backup wakizashi, swiftly proving their worth upon your first city round when you slashed the arm off a street hooligan.

Well, that's one less worry for the captain. Except, to his great shame, it's not as simple as that. He is the only one aware of your secret, which means that he is the only one available outside of working hours. He was terrified to discover the hesitation in his hands when bandaging your ribs after a stabbing incident, or the halt in his step when he happened to find you switching to a night gown. Oh, how deplorable! Have his morals crumbled into nothing? His latest perverted thought nearly caused him to draw a blade across his stomach.

It is with this faltering confidence that he greets you before the bath one evening.

“You don’t have to do this”, you tell him. "I can wait until you're done."

His struggles haven't escaped your observant eye. You were initially amused by his rather obvious awkwardness; then, a certain idea insidiously made its way into your mind, impossibly tempting: for how long could he keep this façade?

You find yourself going out of your way just to tease your poor captain, perhaps secretly hoping he'll soon break down and give in to his yearning.

“They will become suspicious if you never join us. I do not care for your nudity. Undress at ease”, he says, throwing away his own towel and lowering himself into the hot water. “Get in whenever you want.”

If he insists.

You nonchalantly follow suit, sitting across from him with your arms resting against the rocky edge of the hot spring. You can tell his eyes have wandered involuntarily. His face is red, and he’s wearing a humiliated frown.

“You’re awfully quiet, Sir.”

His lips are pursed indeed. The tall man shuffles briefly, avoiding your gaze. A smirk crosses your features as you decide to approach him.

"In fact, I'd go as far as you say that you're in dire need of help."

To your surprise, he doesn't protest when your hands stray to his lower half, feeling up and down his erection. The small grunts escaping his mouth encourage you to pick up the pace, now equally aroused.

Soon, you feel his heavy arm wrapping around your waist, forcefully throwing you out of the water and onto the cold ground. You open your mouth to complain, but it's quickly shut back by his hot lips, suckling and biting in a desperate hunger to have you.

“It’s improper for a subordinate to take the lead”, he finally says in a low, breaking voice.

He can only hope no one else decides to use the hot springs, though that’s as far as his concern currently goes. He’s much too preoccupied with other pressing matters, holding onto your folded legs for support as he thrusts into you in a depraved, delirious need. His movements are jerky and erratic, with an almost predatory glimmer in his eyes. You wonder how often he imagined this happening. All of his shame and guilt, coming undone at once.

Days later, during one of the hangouts, you find him whispering to one of the courtesans.

“What, you suddenly have a taste for women now?” you question discreetly, unable to hold your tongue.

You’d hoped to be on the receiving end of any future lust-driven gestures from the captain, not some common worker.

He appears to hesitate, twiddling his thumbs and glancing away.

“I was just…asking how you properly please a woman”, he finally confesses.

If he’s going to continue fucking his subordinate behind everyone’s back, he may as well do a good job while at it.

[More Original Works] | [Yan!Swordsman Concept]

[dazzlingdisaster]

Hollydaze almost cleared! I'm really happy with what I've both given and received, so even though wintery depression is kicking my ass, I'm okayish. I've been working on some of the stuff for my Touken Ranbu themed accessories that I had put aside, and planning out more. I have already completed a large adorable hair bow that's themed after the maniac cinnamon roll himself, Yamatonokami Yasusada, and I did an interpretation of Izuminokami Kanesada's earrings that's a little more to my style, and right now I'm working on a much more classy and elegant hair bow that's themed after Kashuu Kiyomitsu. It's hard to do the Fabulous Bitch Himself justice, but it's fun to try. I do eventually want to do all of the Shinsengumi swords, - because they are my perfect little stabby slashy violent sweetheart boys, damn it! - and then I'm considering the Dategumi, because, it's them. I don't think any other reason is necessary. They're my OTHER perfect little stabby slashy violent sweetheart boys, damn it!

So uh, yeah, that whole crafting and sewing project has been a thing. So has alllll the random fandom writing, a few sentences at a time here and there between 15+ fics, because I guess that's better than not writing at all. I seem to have a lot of problems with coming up with better ideas that change the whole story at the one third or halfway mark, too... but! I won't give up, because I just KNOW these are great stories, if I can finally get them written right. And ofc all this is done while rewatching my favorite shows or listening to my favorite music, instead of me watching new stuff. I'm trying to make it to the point where I'm not like, bleh. It's just about distracting myself from the bleh until the brain chemistry stops being as fucky. Make brain less "AAAAAAAAAAAA" and more "ahhhh ☺️".

Also on that note, I ordered a bunch of stuff that I originally found because of an OC with ASD, but the more I looked at them the more I was like "I need these, I think, yup I need these". But I'm okay with it! Everyone needs an adorable but snarky androgynous neurodivergent goth with a sweet tooth, and said goth needs supplies to keep them happy, right? Right. And it's not like these things are restricted to just ASD, so, I should be a little bit of a happier Dazkitty very soon.

Now to get to the end of the year, and then to the next week, and the week after that... baby steps.

[dirt-str1der]

Chad

Thank god okita showed up to set things straight (wants to fuck up the new guy before they can have their silly little bromance)

[epicdogymoment]

[o-sachi]

Cowboy, Pirate, or Samurai? pt. 2 ₊⊹ Blue Lock Chars.

ଳ how the blue lock boys respond to, “would you rather be a cowboy, pirate, or samurai?”

ଳ characters; rin itoshi, sae itoshi, shidou ryusei, michael kaiser, alexis ness, hiyori yo, kiyora jin

ᯓ Rin Itoshi - Samurai

He'd find the question a bit stupid because is his answer not obvious? "Too noisy," he'd say about the pirate and the cowboy. Rin's more of a lone wolf—moving in silence and always planning his next move. I don't see him choosing anything else aside from the samurai. Also, I have a feeling he's not too fond of water, especially the wide and deep waters of the seas that pirates have to traverse. He looks like the type to have motion sickness, but he's too prideful to admit it.

ᯓ Sae Itoshi - Pirate

Have you seen that one official art? I mean... I think Sae has the qualities to be the leader of a ship. Our idea of that has probably been influenced by Jack Sparrow or Luffy—both having loud and vibrant personalities. But even though Sae is more of the silent and brooding type, he has the potential to be a good leader if he wanted to. Canonically, he is also a strategist which is something very useful to commandeer a ship. And as we can see in the main story, it's easy for him to get people to follow him purely through his reputation and skill.

ᯓ Shidou Ryusei - Pirate

Unlike Sae, Shidou will probably choose pirate entirely due to Jack Sparrow. He has seen the Pirates of the Caribbean once and vaguely remembers thinking, "He just like me for real," about Captain Jack Sparrow. So upon asking this question to him, the eccentric pirate was the first thing to come to mind. Oh and if he hears Sae's answer then he's just likely to copy him regardless of what he might initially thought.

ᯓ Michael Kaiser - Cowboy

Out of the three choices, cowboys seem to be the ones that are cherished by their people. They're viewed as the hard working heroes—fighting off thieves or whatnot in exchange for little to nothing at all. Kaiser probably imagines what it would be like to be needed by the people—to be loved by them. He might not be too interested in the whole saving-the-public part of being a cowboy, but he can't pass up the opportunity to be revered as the hero of the people. I love you, Kaiser :((

ᯓ Alexis Ness - Pirate

He'd grumble when asked about the question. "Why are you only giving me lame choices?" he'd retort. Obviously, he'd rather be a wizard. What's the point if you can't do the unthinkable? But he digresses. Pirates aren't magical in any sense, but they're the closest to doing the impossible. They travel far and wide over dangerous seas, collect treasures, and plunder other pirates' bounty. Plus, their bodies are built different to adapt to the tumultuous waters. When you put it like that, pirates seem to be in a different realm compared to the cowboy or the samurai. Even after that tangent, however—he'll still make it clear that he's choosing wizard.

ᯓ Hiyori Yo - Cowboy

"Cowboys have pistols, right?" Well, he's sold. It hardly matters that samurais have katanas or that pirates have literal canons—Hiyori thinks those aren't practical at all. Besides, we can't really blame him for being largely influenced by the shooting games that he plays back at home. He's quite confident that he'd win in every standoff he'd find himself in. Sure, he has never tried it in real life, but if he's hitting no-scopes in game then it should be the same thing, right?

ᯓ Kiyora Jin - Samurai

He probably doesn't really care for being a pirate or a samurai—like he doesn't see anything appealing about it. With that being said, does his replica katana collection and extensive knowledge of the Shinsengumi entice you? Well, it should. I dunno... but Kiyora seems like the guy that's super into swords for no other reason besides he thinks that they are "rad." He has definitely played sword fighting with his siblings when they were younger. He may or may not have pretended to be Okita Souji when he was a young lad.

[🐟]: Should I do the other characters?

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[shuttershocky]

FGO's approach to Noble Phantasms and just how far they've distanced themselves from the original concept is perfectly encapsulated with Okita Souji, a Servant that originated in a comedy comic.

Her actual noble phantasm was a flag that summoned the phantoms of the Shinsengumi to fight by her side, while Mumyou Sandanzuki was a skill of hers since it's just Okita's famous ability to cross long distances in a blink to deliver a sword strike.

However, FGO made the latter her NP instead, since it was easier to conceive as an "ultimate skill" within its limited combat system