Sho Suzuki and Shinji Ikari should form a therapy group for middle school boys whose neglectful fathers have really weird ideas of how to treat humanity and also who are voiced by Casey Mongillo
Yk it genuinely pisses me off when ppl say Yut Lung did things only out of jealousy. Like I love the idea of him absolutely seething just bc Ash & Eiji are a happy couple but hello that's not all it was? I mean for a boy raised in this stupidly powerful mafia family he was given VERY little power. He was always below his brothers and anyone they worked with, used by them when it fit their needs. He's constantly placed as the weakest in the room. In a life of helplessly grasping at power, you get ahead by pushing others back. The only perceivable way for him to escape victimhood was to victimize others (i.e., Ash). Having control over Ash, the person Dino desperately wanted to get his hands on, gives him some control over Dino as well (let's be honest Yue is running circles around him half the time). Alliance with Dino gives him power over his brothers, allowing him to organize their deaths. Yes he's a scheming bastard and pretty evil and he went a bit further than just doing what he needed to survive. But that was the world he lived in, and frankly I applaud an abused 16-year-old clawing his way up to equal standing with the very same people who had hurt him for so long. Although I do think everyone should be validly pissed at him for shipping another kid right back to their abuser but ykw Ash was a convenient target that's not Yut Lung's fault. Anyway.
Hi everyone. Thanks for following this silly blog, I’ve been having a lot of fun running it. It’s time for another Not-Yut-Lung mod post.
Because Banana Fish is a series that’s a lot about sexual violence and how that affects survivors of it, and because so many fans of this series are also survivors, I thought I would post a few resources just in case anyone might need them. I'm focusing on survivors of incest specifically in this post—this subject is important to me personally for reasons I’d rather not get into; but for another thing, since this is a Yut Lung blog, and Yut Lung is a survivor of incest canonically, it feels fitting to do so here.
This list is nowhere near exhaustive. I've linked some organizations and advocacy groups that you can contact if you need help (for reasons including but not limited to incestuous abuse) as well as books and scholarly research on the subject of incest. And, although I'm focusing on survivors of incest in this post, I've also included a few links to more resources for all survivors of sexual violence.
Please note that a lot of the material I have included below the cut is potentially upsetting.
Incest is one of the most prevalent forms of child sexual abuse, with some studies estimating that incest accounts for up to 50% or even more of instances of CSA. It’s largely underreported for a lot of reasons, though, and generally no one ever wants to talk about it. As such, there are a lot of misunderstandings about what incest actually is, and what it looks like in real life. That can be really isolating for survivors. And as with surviving other types of sexual violence, there’s often a lot of shame involved, both internally after the violence itself, and externally from how other people treat and react to survivors of incest, and how people talk about incest in general. But, imo, Mme Gisèle Pelicot said it best: shame must change sides.
If you’re a survivor, of incest or any other type of sexual violence, it was not your fault. Not even if you feel like you did something to cause it. Not even if you didn’t say no. Not even if you didn’t fight back. Not even if someone else blamed you for it. Not even if any part of it felt good to you at the time—physically or emotionally. Not even if you didn’t run, or if you went back to the abuser later. Not even if other people have ever regarded you as a “bad” survivor for the ways in which you reacted to or dealt with or coped with that violence. The only people who bear the responsibility for sexual violence are perpetrators.
What is incest? Learn more about the meaning of incest.
Sexual abuse by a family member, otherwise known as incest, can have lasting effects on a child’s development and sense of safety. Having po
Incest by cousins has not been well documented compared with sibling incest. The purpose of this study was to describe the features of inces
Sibling sexual behaviour, despite historical and cross-cultural incest taboos and biologically driven incest avoidance, poses a persistent p
As the nation's nonprofit clearinghouse and comprehensive reporting center for all issues related to the prevention of and recovery from chi
Preventing child sexual abuse (CSA) through education and awareness, and helping adult survivors reclaim their voices and hand the shame bac
The Gatehouse offers trauma-informed programs, peer support, and healing spaces for survivors of childhood sexual abuse in Toronto and beyon
RAINN | The nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization
The Survivors Trust supports specialist rape and sexual abuse services in the voluntary sector. With over 120 member organisations across th
A few books I recommend:
- The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
- The Politics of Survivorship by Rosaria Champagne
- The Incest Diary ← this one is a memoir by an anonymous survivor of father-daughter incest, and is extremely graphic, just as a warning. I’m putting it here because I think it could help some people feel less alone, which is also the author’s stated goal.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali
even as a little girl i knew i only cared about the fictional characters who were effeminate men / in an incestuous relationship with their sibling / had been molested
im not christian but i do believe in the power of prayer. for this reason i keep a little homonculus in a dog crate under my bed which i have raised as a devout catholic. whenever i want something in my life to change i poke him with a stick and he clasps his grubby little paws together and starts chanting in latin. his prayers always go through because he has never known sin