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rinn-crft: Ryoken went to prison after he blackmailed Homura...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:00:30 +0200

Ryoken went to prison after he blackmailed Homura with his RL account

Spectre knows Ryoken wouldn’t use the revolver but he wants his best friend to be comfortable with things he likes.

scratchface: Me: I love Kogami Ryoken Also me: Kogami Ryoken is a coward that would rather watch...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:00:31 +0200

scratchface:

Me: I love Kogami Ryoken

Also me: Kogami Ryoken is a coward that would rather watch everyone important to him die than admit to himself that his father was, is, and always has been wrong. He would rather blame fate, the Ignis, Yusaku, SOL, and himself than face reality and was fully prepared to murder thousands, including everyone that loves him, just because his megalomaniac of dad told him to.

Still me: He’s so handsome. I love him.

Yusaku, bursting into the mansion: Fight me, Revolver!

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:00:46 +0200

Yusaku, bursting into the mansion: Fight me, Revolver!
Ryoken:...
Ryoken: You know, if I knew this was all it would take to get you to reveal your identity, Playmaker, I would have given you my home address months ago

checkurselfb4umachuwreckurself: anyways, we already know from Spectre that 90% of the villainy in...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:53:47 +0200

checkurselfb4umachuwreckurself:

anyways, we already know from Spectre that 90% of the villainy in Vrains is saying the weirdest shit (that is varying levels of true) and hoping to get a protagonist’s reaction

“yeah I read your book that you base your life around. it kinda. sucks.”

“my mom is a tree”

“the Lost Project was my favourite part of my life. I miss the attention”

Me, after looking at VRAINS content for hours: okay, time to log off tumblr and think about other...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 21:00:41 +0200

Me, after looking at VRAINS content for hours: okay, time to log off tumblr and think about other stuff.

Youtube:

Me: okay, time to learn more about Yusaku.

fairy-water: kogamiryoken: “You have the wrong idea about me....

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:00:37 +0200

fairy-water:

kogamiryoken:

“You have the wrong idea about me. I’m not a good person!”

Husbando!

Yusaku: Do you guys prefer taking a shower or taking a bath?

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:37:18 +0200

Yusaku: Do you guys prefer taking a shower or taking a bath?
Go: Shower! After a tough training, a cold shower does wonders!
Aoi: I prefer bathing. After a long day, it's pretty relaxing.
Ai: I want to be showered with praise and love from my loyal followers!
Revolver: I bathe in the blood of my enemies.
Yusaku: ...
Yusaku: Why did I even ask

scratchface:It’s like the entire Vrains supporting cast is competing to see who can be the most...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:13:32 +0200

scratchface:

It’s like the entire Vrains supporting cast is competing to see who can be the most unhelpful at all times

"Listen Aoi, what people call “love” is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It..."

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:00:32 +0200

“Listen Aoi, what people call “love” is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, and then slowly dissipates into nothingness, leaving only regret and a shitty marriage. I did it, our parents did it. Break the cycle, Aoi. Rise above it. Focus on science.”

- Akira (via incorrect-vrains-quotes)

spacezeros: spacezeros: wanting and not wanting at the same...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:59:36 +0200

spacezeros:

spacezeros:

wanting and not wanting at the same time

a comic for asexual awareness week

bringing this back today for the start of pride month. still overwhelmed by how well this comic went down and with how many people relate. it’s easy to think aro-ace people are all totally accepting of their identities and really proud of who they are. i guess on websites like this you see a lot of people proudly putting their identity in their bio, a flag in their profile picture.

in fact i think a lot of aro-ace people really hate that part of themselves, hide it, and struggle for a long time to ‘accept’ who they are and feel any sense of ‘pride’. that’s the feeling i wanted to capture here. the disappointment, the loneliness, upon realising that you can’t feel what is such a wonderful thing. the embarrassment of not being ‘normal’, of being some random sexuality that nobody irl has heard of, and letting down those around you because you can’t be who they want you to be. how desperately you want to change, how desperately you want to feel. but you just can’t.

i know not all aro-ace people feel like this. i know lots of aro and/or ace people feel able to be in relationships, to feel closeness and have partners in other ways. but i think it’s important to be aware that some aro-ace people do feel like this.

the comments on this comic have mostly been great but a few have been very frustrating. a comment it got a lot was along the lines of ‘aw!! you don’t need to have sex to be in a relationship!’. you completely missed the point, hah. this is not a comic about sex. it’s about a lack of feeling, the lack of something beautiful other people seem to have. another comment that popped up a few times was ‘maybe she’s a lesbian’. well maybe lesbians and aro/ace girls have more in common than people think - maybe they both often struggle to accept that they feel no attraction to men, even though society has conditioned them to do so, sometimes spending years trying to force themselves to like men in that way, when they just can’t.

this comic is called ‘wanting and not wanting at the same time’ because she wants to love. but when it comes down to the reality, she can’t fulfil the requirements of that. she wants to love someone forever, to get married and have children and grow old with her soulmate, but she doesn’t want it with this person. or that person. or anyone she meets or will ever meet. a sort of catch 22, i guess.

hope that makes sense. thanks for listening, and have a lovely pride month ❤️

scratchface:I just plotted out the entirety of my vrains AU in a subway on index cards after a three...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:56:56 +0200

scratchface:

I just plotted out the entirety of my vrains AU in a subway on index cards after a three mile walk and that just about sums up my entire writing process

mood

aphobephobe: preoccupiedpepper: vaspider: holybikinisbatman: lestermygaard: excessively-english-l...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:40:26 +0200

aphobephobe:

preoccupiedpepper:

vaspider:

holybikinisbatman:

lestermygaard:

excessively-english-little-b:

I just… wanna remind people that asexuality was classed as a mental disorder by the DSM all the way up until 2013…. Because I feel like people don’t know this or like to ignore it because it doesn’t fit into their “asexual people don’t face discrimination” rhetoric.

Asexuality was only removed from the DSM in 2013. Please, know this and remember it.

asexuality is STILL in the DSM they still have a disorder that’s literally the definition of asexuality called “hypoactive sexual desire disorder” which is what they’ve always classified asexuality as. they just added a clause that said “if the patient IDs as ace it’s fine” but it’s not like the general population knows what asexuality is and people want to complain about how visibility is such a high priority for us jesus christ

thats a very good point. i knew about that distinction, but it bears repeating for people that see this post and arent aware of it

And that’s why we need the queer community to be like ‘no really we exist and it isn’t hurtful it’s quite fine they belong here with us, the other queers, who were just de-pathologized.’

*bang gavel*

I was going to college and grad school when the fight over this diagnosis being included in the DSM-V was going on.

If I remember correctly, the big push to keep it in the DSM came from the pharmaceutical companies who need this diagnosis to exist so that they can market a drug they are currently working on to treat “female sexual interest/arousal disorder”.

This diagnosis is so fucked up. It not only pathologizes Asexuals, it also pathologizes non-asexual women for having less interest in sex than men. This disorder literally used to be called “Frigidity” and feminist psychologists had to fight like hell to get the DSM to clarify that simply having a lower sex drive than one’s husband was not sufficient for a diagnosis.

The APA throws in that little disclaimer about being a “self-identified asexual” and the diagnostic criteria of distress, but they did the same thing before they removed homosexuality from the DSM.

A lot of people think that psychologists stopped considering homosexuality a disorder in the 1970s, but that’s not entirely true. They kept it in the DSM with a slightly changed name and a criteria that the person experience distress about being gay. This was used to justify “reparative therapy” for decades.

This diagnosis is just one part of the APA’s long history of pathologizing human sexuality, especially women’s sexuality. Women who deviate even slightly from the prescribed amount of sexual interest will find themselves labeled as either borderline or frigid.

Continued reminder that asexuality is still only listed in the desk version of DSM-V, and that many countries either use the ICD or an outdated version of the DSM.

do you think revolver deserves redemption

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:33:29 +0200

The short answer? Yes.

The long answer: Ryoken was raised by horrible people in an extremely unhealthy environment, and forced to make decisions no child should be forced to make at very young ages. Kogami and his assistants, all the adults involved in Ryoken’s childhood, tortured other children. Ryoken had to grow up knowing that everyone around him had the capacity, will, and intention to torture and starve kids.

Kogami raised Ryoken to be his soldier, filling his young, impressionable head with shit like: you have to save humanity, this is for the future, blah blah blah. Ryoken became Revolver at thirteen. Kogami dragged his thirteen year old son into his mad quest to destroy the very Ignis he brutalized six children for months on end to make. Kogami described it as “like killing his own child” directly to his own son’s face. If Ryoken hadn’t been exactly what Kogami wanted, who knows what Kogami would have decided to do to him. Between his guilt and his father’s penchant for violence, anything but complete obedience and devotion to his father’s madness was never an option.

Ryoken has done some truly awful things, but he did those under the direction of his dangerous, twisted, ruthless father. And while he took initiative into his own hands plenty of times, that was always based all the shit Kogami instilled in him.

But in the end, it’s not matter of if Ryoken really deserves redemption or not. What matters is that Yusaku clearly thinks so, and Ryoken clearly does not think so. The one harshest on Ryoken is Ryoken himself.

As an ace who really wanted to be a librarian as a kid, I am living for all these library ace asks. And I second the anon who suggested we call ourselves bookwyrms. Can we please make that a thing???

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:22:22 +0200

I made this for all of us

gloomy-optimist: It’s interesting hearing ppl be anti-ace in pride month bc I think a lot of people...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:57:58 +0200

gloomy-optimist:

It’s interesting hearing ppl be anti-ace in pride month bc I think a lot of people think about ace spectrum as just, not being interested, and that it therefore affects your life to the same degree as not being interested in like, horror movies or a new AAA game might. That it’s a simple “opt-out” of any sort of sexual experience or identity altogether, rather than another set of complex interactions with a highly regimented, scripted societal concept of “normal,” e.g. hetero nuclear family with clear gender roles

You’d think for a community that focuses so much on the topic of representation in media, it would be a little more obvious that like…in almost every story, romantic/sexual love comes up as a theme or sideplot, and in many of them, it’s presented as a critically important key to happiness or success. As a culture, we recognize that anytime a character is in the same room as another character with the chance for there to be sexual tension, then that sexual tension p much automatically exists by default (assumed straight, but if the character’s label is revealed as gay,etc., follows accordingly). When the lead guy meets a woman with more than a few speaking lines and a meaningful interaction, they are a Romantic Sideplot, to the point where a lot of romantic writing is frankly lazy or forced-feeling simply bc it relies on ppl expecting it as default.

And the thing is, that sort of interaction follows you in real life in a lot of ways. It often feels like meeting people starts with the benchline of “am I or can I become sexually/romantically interested in you?” before moving down the lines of other ways to relate. And while I personally never really fell in the “I’m broken, I need fixed” mentality regarding my sexuality (demi-, to be clear), I have felt alienated or kept at a distance in the process of trying to disengage with this unspoken norm, to the point of it kind of becoming my default. As I’ve gotten older, it’s gotten more pressing, and it feels like many spaces for adults come with the caveat of being related to potential sexual/romantic availability

And it’s hard coming to terms with the fact that the world has designated the “most important relationship” as something that’s counter to you in some essential way. Like it’s a bit of a cruel realization to recognize that you’re probably always going to be playing second fiddle or be a step down in status to the people you view as most important to you because your relationship with them is not sexual or romantic. Being ace-spectrum is not opting-out of wanting meaningful relationships, but it sometimes comes with the resignation that you may have to accept that.

But that’s why representation and community matter. There’s a lot more discussion about things like queerplatonic relationships, about very meaningful but non-sexual ways of relating to others, and it’s awesome to see it come up in media, even if it’s just fanfiction. The notion that something like love, or more specifically, devotion, loyalty, commitment, accountability, compassion, or the act of cherishing/being cherished, can still exist for you outside of the realm of romantic or sexual situations, is something I think everyone deserves to see and understand. And I think that’s worth including in the discussion alongside other LGBTQ+ topics

Bohman: These two set cards will decide the duel!

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:53:38 +0200

Bohman: These two set cards will decide the duel!
Playmaker: Are they BOTH Mirror Force?

neeeeeon:yall liked yusaku so here’s ryoken way too accurate

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:52:54 +0200

neeeeeon:

yall liked yusaku so here’s ryoken

way too accurate

scratchface: I very much still want to write a Vrains AU where Kusanagi is an ineffectual genius...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:45:06 +0200

scratchface:

I very much still want to write a Vrains AU where Kusanagi is an ineffectual genius supervillain and Yusaku is his bitchy hyper-competent assistant and Ryoken “Savior of Humanity” Kogami has to save the world from them every week.

Maybe bonus misanthropic AI!Yusaku…

I would read the shit out of this

Kusanagi: Did you have a good day at school?

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:00:44 +0200

Kusanagi: Did you have a good day at school?
Yusaku: That's not how school works.

checkurselfb4umachuwreckurself: phektrek: voicesofchaos: We...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:50:11 +0200

checkurselfb4umachuwreckurself:

phektrek:

voicesofchaos:

We have seen many prizes won and lost in Yugioh, including people’s souls! But this is probably the biggest prize ever! Yusaku won a house and Ryoken lost his house!

This is still the fufcking funniest thing because it has to take awhile to go to your boat garage and get the autopilot set up (or make spectre do it) so yusaku just stood there and just watched all this happen but hey free house

Ryouken said “okay let’s play hide and seek. close your eyes and count to 100″ Yuusaku, unfortunately smitten, accepted this, as he is far too patient with this man. By the time Yuusaku got to 100, Ryouken was already on the water, but hey, Yuusaku did “find” him