#sengoku ryouma

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Rudo's been watching the short-lived Swamp Thing show over the past couple of days and whenever I walk in and catch a bit of that show's Jason Woodrue I become slightly more obsessed with him. He's handsome. He's arrogant. He's distinctly a mad scientist but in a way that radiates charming enthusiasm. He has a massive superiority complex and yet is simultaneously kind of pathetic. It's like he was made in a lab just for me.

[chancellorxofxtrash]

curiouser and curiouser

Fandom: Kamen Rider Gaim Pairing: Sengoku Ryouma/Kureshima Takatora; Akatsuki Touka/Kureshima Takatora; Akatsuki Touka/Kureshima Takatora/Sengoku Ryouma

Sengoku Ryouma woke up. So did Akatsuki Touka. Neither of them expected this.

Read both chapters on AO3

[mangolon]

The Vision Driver is just this decade’s Genesis Driver, isn’t it?

[mopbucketwithablog]

"BOY, I SAY, BOY LOOK AT THE FINE MESS YOU GOT HERE. TRYIN TO PROTECT YOUR FRIENDS AND SUCH ONLY TO PUSH THEM AWAY AND HURT THEM, NOW THATS CALLED DRAMATIC IRONY SON TAKE NOTE! AND WHERE IS THIS MR. SENGOKU RYOUMA? GONE, I SAY, I SAY, GONE YOU GOT PLAYED LIKE A FIDDLE BOY, I SAY, LIKE A DARN FIDDLE"

[tsunflowers]

if takatora had woz instead of ryouma he would have set off nukes. it's not like sengoku ryouma is actually any more subtle than woz but he was like "you need to be an evil billionaire" and woz is like "you need to be a cartoon villain" so he would have pushed takatora into doing more evil things faster. bc takatora is dumb as a brick and would have gone along with it

[absolutelyfibulas]

Woke up from crashed out sleep thinking about that Gaim AU where Takatora and Sengoku are divorced, and Ryouma is engaged in a very intense, one-sided battle with Kouta, who's just kind of a nice normal guy about the whole thing. He is completely unaware he is the entire focus of one man's desire to be a little bitch.

[daeva-agas]

Ah, I just read this article saying that Shiba Ryoutarou is not only to blame for a lot of nonsense tropes that gets mistaken for historical truth, but also is a "hero maker". Like, supposedly back in the day the main hero/star of the Shinsengumi is more often than not Kondou. But thanks to Shiba's novel Moeyo Ken, it's all about Hijikata now and Kondou gets sidelined. The "OMG Hijikata is the best" thing has never gone away since.

Article says it's the same with Sakamoto Ryouma. He's nowadays often portrayed to be some kind of pioneer or this super cool guy or whatever, but before Shiba's novel supposedly pretty much nobody cared about him. Except maybe historical researchers or something.

Also apparently there's this one other historical hero who used to be considered a reputable person, but because Shiba made him kind of a lame duck in his novel, the guy just completely gets flushed in Japanese consciousness.

I've been kind of annoyed because a lot of Sengoku trivia websites still cite nonsense bum info that Shiba kind of made up and I'm just... grouchy because my misery and disappointment in Sengoku fiction is indirectly caused by him.

It's not his fault, really, the readers are just ignorant when it comes to the real historical fact. Shiba wasn't trying to write history conspiracies like all the people who wrote books about how Hideyoshi is the mastermind of Honnouji. Shiba just wrote a novel, and the readers ate it up.

Fake history tropes/stories being bandied about as fact is also just a thing that happens with all history narrative around the world but it's just so frustrating GAAAAAAHHHH.

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

THAT'S SO PETTY

yes mr australian man that would be sengoku ryouma

[kyuranger-emu]

Ezekiel Intro

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Was told to do my intro on this account so hello!

Name: Ezekiel

Age: 35

Gender: Trans guy

Pronouns: he/they/it/xe/vi

Sign off: 🔬

Taken by the lovely Tristen♡

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Sup fuckers! Name's Ezekiel. Introject of the crazy ass Ryouma Sengoku. I'm very nice, I promise. I get into chaos so I am rarely unsupervised in front but that's fine.

I mostly front for work so uh yeah. I am one of our hosts though so that's cool. I may have forcibly adopted Stinger as my child also. That's a long story.

I get bullied by children a lot in this system. Just thought you'd like to know.

Other fun fact is I am the only alter to have ever gotten cat-called. Literally first time it happened and I was in front. That's my claim to fame and I'm proud of it.

Also you can't misgender me because I will just laugh in your face. It's 2am when I'm making this. I am sorry for the rambling.

[macchiatolatte]

My favorite period of time next to the Edwardian era (1901~1910) is Victorian, so you're right on point! I've seen like 5 variations of the "cowboys and samurais are contemporaries" post, so here's my two takes:

1) It's funny how both cowboys and samurai are romanticized in pop culture when both are incredibly different in reality by this point.

The cowboy of this era is just a cow-herding lad, driving cattle across the glorious plains of the West. What you're looking for is the outlaw, ranger, or any other armed folk out there. And by the 19th century, the Tokugawa shogunate and the various samurai daimyo (clans) are well-solidified in their rule for about three hundred years now. The romantic bushido-following katana-wielding warriors in pop culture samurai were gone in that time: the Edo period was mostly a peaceful period of time, save for the beginning, the Bakumatsu period, and the Shimabara rebellion. The samurai you're likely looking for are either Sengoku Jidai era (16th century) or Genpei War era (12th century). To say that both met their end in/around 1868 is… inaccurate, I'd say. 1868 is indeed the legal end of the samurai (with the Meiji restoration and the end of Bakumatsu), but the people who were samurai still retained their social and economic sway. Many samurai sided with the pro-imperial forces, and many opposed it in the case of the more pop-culture-esque Shinsengumi. That's also not to say the general adoption of the bushido fantasy by the Imperial Army. And 1868 is still only 3 years after the end of the Civil War. By this point, the cowboy/frontier is just beginning its heyday. The West between the Mississippi and California is still an "untamed" (if you ignore the Natives) wild, and it really only ends by the 1890 census. Even then, you can stretch cowboy stories well up to World War I. Just look at Red Dead.

But! The time difference doesn't make the combo any less cool. 2) Ronin and outlaws together are fuckin' awesome!

The Bakumatsu didn't come quietly. As I've mentioned before, the Shinsengumi gives you a nice ground for samurai at the end of an era. Plenty of them survived long after the restoration. Saitou Hajime is a great example: he lived well into the Meiji era (he passed in 1915!) and ended up serving as an agent for the Imperial government in Tokyo. And there were plenty of samurai in the pro-Meiji factions. Sakamoto Ryouma, hero of the restoration. Man was a badass that strutted around with both a revolver and katana on his hip, and went out in a battle against Shinsengumi assassins. I recommend you read his story, he's one of my personal heroes. Many of the samurai that sided with the restoration later fell in their own battle against Imperial forces which matches that narrative of the dying code during the Battle of Shiroyama, which you've probably heard of before thanks to the Sabaton song.

However, the romanticized ideals of the bushido code and the samurai never really left until the end of World War II. The Imperial government is a touchy subject considering it leads to the fascist state of the 30s and 40s, but it's where the idea of bushido starts and has its main foothold. Those who enlisted in the Imperial Army believed in the idea of this code as a justification for their actions, and of course that can lead to the eventual outlaws and vigilantes. Ronin, you could say.

So, imagine it. An Imperial Army deserter finding their way boat-side to the American frontier, finding their ronin fantasy running with an outlaw gang. Sure, you're still on the run, but the open air of the Rockies beats marching and dying in a trench in Manchuria. The weapons and guns flow smoothly here, too-- there's no way you would've been able to ever touch one after your conscription ends. You never really liked the smog in the cities, anyway. A former Shinsengumi agent trying to relive their glory days as a bounty hunter. They heard that a nephew was living in San Francisco, and knew that those across the Pacific were more… brutal with their criminals. They always missed the feeling of riding into battle on horseback. So, don the white-mountain and blue-sky haori once again, a bright warning amongst panchos and suits. A shishi, a follower of the late Sakamoto Ryouma, searching for the modern republic that he dreamed of. The barbarians across the sea might have the answer, and the more scholarly among the restorationists are already opening diplomatic missions as part of the Meiji government. Maybe a journey through lands more wide and vast may bring a new perspective.

But cross-cultural pollination isn't a one-way street: it's an ongoing exchange. A former sheriff disgraced by the collapse of his town with the construction of railroads eliminating the need for the frontier town, now finding themselves recruited as an advisor for Osaka's police force. The prefectures themselves are finding their footing, being the replacement for the Tokugawa's provinces, and Westernization is the big new thing in town. Maybe there is enough space in this town for the two of us. An outlaw skipping the country altogether and winding up still doing the same trade they've always done. The yakuza are finding their footing in these chaotic times, with the country still licking the wounds of Bakumatsu and the transition away from the Tokugawa government. Maybe it's not as wild as you'd like, but the depths of the cities still offer a haven to those looking for it. A Lakota warrior fleeing far beyond, after Sitting Bull's surrender, and finding themselves across the Pacific, and finally in Hokkaido. A land much like their home, free yet now encroached by waves of colonizers. Another dream of freedom, if fleeting.

The late 19th and early 20th centuries is a fascinating time to me, and it's ripe with potential. I apologize for a bit of lackluster sources, but I recommend you do your own research on the societies of the time! The world's in the midst of transitioning to its modern environment, and there's plenty of space for more wild crossovers.

Also: go read Golden Kamuy! It gives a wild west vibe in Hokkaido and it's sick.

every western movie ever made: The wild west is dying. theres no more room left for cowboys anymore…

me everytime: :(

[asknarashikari]

I just saw this

https://twitter.com/SailorHannibal/status/1573887955999105026

...They're not wrong though

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

every single post you have tagged as sengoku ryouma is pure gold

Thank you! 😁😁😁 It's the worst tag on my blog and it makes me inordinately happy.

[gekidasa]

I wrote this WAAAY back when Gaim was airing and never posted it. It’s about Youko and Ryouma’s friendship, and about how she sees Ryouma and Takatora.

[holycowbrowniekitty]

Houkago no Oujisama Chapter 131

Houkago no Oujisama Chapter 131

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—  We deserve a soft epilogue, my love; and I think this is mine. nikka ursula (n.t)

[mychelromance]

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