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Gotei 13 Captains are funny because they're like:

-Proud noble aristocrat who broke the rules once and has sworn to never break the rules

-Sad lesbian who was promoted too quickly

-Blood Knight

-Mad Scientist

-Child Prodigy

-500-year-old who was going to die on his sixth birthday from disease but his parents made a pact with God to save his life, but Gid didn't cure the disease, he just made it so the man could never die and he's been coping ever since

-Slacker prodigy

-Wolfman

-800-years-sober Blood Knight

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a cool thing about writing bleach fanfic is that i have read certain parts of the canon so many times that i feel like i know it really well and then i'll realize there's something i have absolutely no clue about. today's example: in the wake of Ichigo storming Soul Society, how widespread was the knowledge that Urahara had been assisting him?

Aizen knew, obvs, for Aizen reasons, but some of the stuff he mentions, like Urahara's known base of operations being in West Rukongai-> the involvement of known Urahara associates Shiba Kuukaku and Shihouin Yoruichi and other clues probably had a number of characters such as Yamamoto, Ukitake, Kyouraku, Unohana suspicious. I feel like Soi Fon and Kurotsuchi could easily have put it together as well, but I did not get that vibe from them so either they didn't or they were just too distracted or in Kurotsuchi's case, he probably did put it together and just didn't care (or pretended not to care)

When the captains finally show up in Hueco Mundo, we learn that Urahara had been working with the Gotei for some time so obviously his involvement has been known at some high enough level of security clearance.

Did Byakuya ever officially report the fact that Ichigo Hollowified right in front of him, which may not have meant much to him, but probably would have been a big tip-off to Yams. On one hand, it does not feel very Byakuya of him to leave something like that out of a report, but on the other hand, I really feel like he just kept it to himself.

Would Rukia have mentioned Urahara in her debriefings after she was arrested? On one hand, I do not think she understood who Urahara was and would not have thought much of mentioning him. On the other hand, Rukia is a "snitches get stitches" type to the marrow of her bones and I feel like she would have intentionally wiped any mention of him from her narrative 99% on principle and 1% for the purposes of protecting Ichigo

If I were banished from Soul Society and hiding out in the Living World, I would use an assumed name, probably all the time, but AT VERY LEAST for the case of interacting with active-duty shinigami. The only person who actually did this was Isshin and I honestly believe he just changed his name for wife-guy reasons.

Ichigo did, very much, straight up tell Ikkaku that Urahara taught him to fight and it was quite clear that Ikkaku was fully aware of who Urahara was. Did Ikkaku tell anyone this or otherwise do anything with this information? I feel like he did not.

Does Ikkaku have a security clearance???????

I would not give Ikkaku a security clearance

If I were going 100% by the manga, I would assume that Yoruichi ghosted after they failed to arrest Aizen, given that she's still very much banished, but in Honey Dish Rhapsody, she apparently hung around with Soi Fon for a while. Is it possible that she had some meetings with the Gotei higher ups in the interests of re-establishing a relationship/working on getting the banishment reversed? My heart wants to say no, but Yoruichi often makes herself freely available to the Gotei in filler arcs, so who knows?

When the Advance Team first goes to the Living World, Renji goes to stay at Urahara's in the interest of "asking" Urahara why he put the hogyoku in Rukia (I assume "asking" is a euphemism for breaking his nose). I feel like this could be the natural follow-on to the idea that Renji just got handed a file of classified info related to this mission and is freshly Hot Mad at this dude he didn't know existed up until now.

Presumably, Rukia also could have given Renji a more detailed version of her time in Karakura in a non-official capacity

Presumably also, the Karakura kids could have gone around telling anyone who would listen about their Mysterious Shop Keeper Friend

I think the answer I'm leaning towards is that the Gotei higher-ups knew about Urahara's involvement and re-established communication with him, possibly in an obfuscated way so as not to run into trouble with Central 46 (fairly easy to do, since they were dead at the time). It's a pretty poorly kept secret, but on the other hand, Gotei op-sec seems to lean pretty heavily on the assumption that people who accidentally learn state secrets don't know what they are looking at and will most likely forget it in a day or two anyway.

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Ichigo and Orihime

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Princess With Her Sky

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happy birthday, momo

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Klub Q&A: Abarai Family Drawing Skills

Q784: Whose drawing ability does Ichika inherit, her father's or her mother's?

A784: The pictures she draws are closer to Renji’s, but Rukia and Renji’s drawing skills are about the same.

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I did a tutorial on how to do quirky portraits in a quick, low-effort style and then proceeded to spend one million hours making this.

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open arms

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Ichigo wouldn’t exactly call it cuddly, but there’s this way Orihime likes to touch him after they’ve had sex that’s not like any other way she’s touched him before. She nibbles, she bites. She nuzzles into his chest. She glomps. It’s like all her inhibitions have loosened her up into something mischievous and clingy—like she remembers, all of a sudden, that she likes him.

Ichigo doesn’t mind it. He likes just existing in her realm, an object for her to touch and maneuver and talk at.

Still, when she digs her teeth into his thigh, he can’t help but glare down at her out of habit. “Hey.”

Orihime kisses the bite mark she left and looks up, chin planted on his thigh, eyes deceptively innocent. “Mm?”

“I’m not food, you know.”

Orihime laughs and pushes herself off her elbows to sit up, her hair still mussed as she leans in to bite his cheek lightly. “What if I ate you, though?”

Ichigo snorts. “I’d probably be the most normal thing in your stomach.”

Orihime huffs, indignant.

Ichigo tugs her cheek between his thumb and forefinger, smiling. “What if I ate you?”

Orihime thrusts her chin out with an air of dignity. “You couldn’t handle a flavour like me.”

Ichigo laughs, tugging her into a gentle headlock until she’s safe within his embrace. When she looks up at him, he pinches her nose with his thumb. “Are you supposed to say things like that to the person you like?”

"What sort of things should I say?” She tilts her head up teasingly. “Should I only start conversations with you with...erm. Darling and pudding and stuff?"

“No pudding,” he tells her.

Her smile gets wider. “But darling is okay?”

Ichigo tears his gaze away from her, a hot blush rising to his cheeks, well-aware he walked right into that one. “You tease me too much.”

Orihime laughs out loud, delighted and gleeful.

Then, she bites his wrist in apology.

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They never do it at Ichigo’s for obvious reasons—namely his nosy father and his equally annoying sisters. But doing it at Orihime’s means she’ll step out after they’re done sometimes—and come back in with her plushies.

(He’s banned her from keeping them in bed when they’re doing things. The last thing he wants is Kon flashbacks).

“Enraku! Did you miss Papa?” She gently tucks Enraku into Ichigo’s arm, while the other one (Ichigo’s forgotten his name), sits in hers.

“I thought we were training them to sleep in their own beds.”

Orihime gives him a distinctly unimpressed look, then settles the octopus next to him as well. His name tag says ‘Uomaro.’ Ichigo breathes a sigh of relief. “I get lonely without them,” she defends.

Ichigo frowns. “What are you lonely for when I’m here?”

Orihime flushes, but he can tell by her shy smile that she’s pleased. Years and years of sleeping in an empty apartment means that some habits are still hard for her to kick. Ichigo sighs. He’s drawn a hard line at eating food in bed—another beloved habit of hers—but he’ll let up on this. Besides, banning food from bed in the past has meant waking up to an empty bed in the middle of the night, panicking that something’s happened to her, rushing out to the living room, badge in hand—only to catch her in the kitchen, a deer in the headlights with crumbs speckled all over her face. That, if anything, just makes him feel like a jackass, so maybe he’ll lift the food ban one day too.

I’m going soft, he thinks, watching Orihime gently tuck the covers around her plushies before climbing into the other side. Her bed is nowhere near big enough for all of them, but she makes do with a brutish determination.

“They missed you,” she sighs, setting her cheek on her joined hands over the pillow. “You've been so busy at the factory lately.”

Ichigo rolls his eyes, playing along. “Someone’s got to keep food on the table.”

Orihime rolls her eyes right back. “A likely story. I know you’ve been visiting your second family in the city, you two-timer.”

“Two-timer?” he repeats, unable to stop his lips from twitching into a smile.

“I watched a skit like that on Laugh Hour once,” she admits. “This guy—he has so many families with so many different women, right? So, one day, he walks into his apartment and just starts washing up and sitting down for dinner, business as usual, but his wife starts to look really confused by his presence. So he asks her what’s up.”

Ichigo patiently waits for the punchline.

“Turns out he walked into a random woman’s apartment because he finally lost track of all his families,” she says, laughing. Then, “It was really funny.”

“Mm-hmm.” He strokes the top of her head fondly. She takes his hand and kisses it, not deterred in the slightest by his apparent apathy. “So you wanted to try it out with me?”

A small smile breaks out on Orihime’s face. “It’s great when you play along. Tatsuki-chan always thinks you’re bo—well, she never believes me when I tell her you’re super funny, but you are!” Something about her smile suddenly turns mischievous. “Maybe you and your dad are more alike than you think.”

“You know what?” Ichigo declares, pushing the covers aside to stand up. “I think I am gonna go spend the night with my other family.”

“Noooo,” Orihime laughs, reaching out to grab onto his arm. “No, stop. I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” She puts a little weight into it, tugging him back into bed. “I’m sorry.” She laughs again when Ichigo falls back on top of her. “Ichigo-kun!”

“Say sorry.”

“I already said—” She squeals loudly when his fingers dig into her sides, his weight pressing her down until she’s trapped under him with nowhere to go, breathless, completely at his mercy. He tickles her again and she yelps, thrashing her legs until they get tangled in the blankets. “I’m sorry! Ichigo-kun…”

Ichigo all but drops his weight on her until they’re eye to eye, balancing himself on forearms. “I didn’t hear you,” he growls, biting the side of her jaw where she’s ticklish. She giggles again, and he dips his head to kiss the spot, sucking and biting until her breaths start coming out in pants.

Orihime tucks her hand against the back of Ichigo’s head but makes no move to really stop him. “Ichigo-kun, the children…” she protests halfheartedly, unable to keep up the bit when his mouth is doing all that to her jaw.

Ichigo picks up both plushies with his hand and throws them over his shoulder. They land somewhere in a distant corner of the room.

Orihime makes a mental note to apologize to them later.

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In the summer months, it’s way too hot to do anything remotely close-bodied, but he struggles to keep himself from touching her anyway. He’s not fully used to this—these casual glimpses of her naked back while she’s changing, the soft curves of her body, mildly damp with sweat. He always draws her a cool bath after—to apologize, maybe, for the way he’d surged in and drawn her away from whatever post-work ritual she’d been thinking of doing. She doesn’t exactly mind. She likes the water, and even though their knees bump when they’re getting settled in her creaky tub, he does too.

“I’ve always liked baths over showers,” Orihime states, hugging her knees to her chest. It’s the kind of conversation you make when you’ve got nothing left to say—when all the important things have already been said in some distant past. It reminds him of summers in his bedroom, of ranking their favorite Pokemon and noting the subtle changes in the weather.

(“I don’t know that one,” he’d replied, dumbfounded, when she said her favorite Pokemon was Tinkaton)

(“Spring!” she’d declared, when he tentatively asked her which season made her happy)

He’d been terrified that she’d find him boring in some way, back when he was still caught up in a neverending see-saw of whether or not to confess to her. Back at home, he was no poet, no flirt. No cool guy with a sword on his back and the weight of the world on his shoulders. The ordinariness of his own world had always infuriated him when he was younger, but Orihime is the kind of girl who asks things like baths or showers?, so he suspects they won’t be running out of things to say to each other any time soon.

“Don’t let the foam spill out,” he warns, eyeing the tip of their tub warily.

Orihime quickly swoops in and cups the heaps of foam into her palms. When her eyes flick to his, they glow with warmth, and then she’s leaning forward, gentle fingers painting his face with the soapy residue.

Ichigo closes his eyes and lets it happen. There’s a meditative almost-silence in the bathroom, the only sound being Orihime’s soft humming as she gives him a rich beard and a moustache to match. She stops humming and pulls away.

“You look great,” she laughs. When he opens his eyes, he notices curiosity seep into her features. She gives him a long, considering look. Then, “Have you ever considered growing a beard?”

“I can’t,” he grumbles, shy. “Most I get are these weird little wisps on my chin every now and then.”

“Oh!” Her brows furrow cutely. “But your dad is so hairy! Ganju-san and Kukaku-san too!”

“I'm probably more like my mother,” he replies after a beat.

He doesn’t mean to make it sound awkward. It’s just that they don’t talk about his mother a lot. Orihime has never asked, even if she’s probably curious. The weight hangs in the air for a brief moment.

“That makes sense,” she says eventually, her tone mild.

He takes a breath. “She liked baths, too. We used to do that together, the whole family, I mean. Yuzu used to love it.”

Orihime smiles. “Yuzu-chan does seem like the type to enjoy that. Has she ever been to an onsen?”

“Probably not. We did go to the beach, though, a couple of times,” Ichigo says, pulling himself out of the water to reach for the towel on the rail. “We should get out, I’m all soggy.”

“Okay.”

Ichigo pulls the towel off the rail and wipes himself down while Orihime rests a cheek on her knee and watches him. When he’s done, he glances back at her, holding a second towel out, the softer one.

She smiles when she accepts it.

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The part he loves most about sex is just being with her, no distractions. That’s not to say there hasn’t been the random Hollow interrupting them or anything. But they make do. It’s not supposed to feel normal, Ichigo thinks, but somewhere over the years, his two lives have blended into one. This is just who he is—there’s no mask he can wear and take off when it's convenient.

Orihime doesn’t have to bear it, but she does. It helps, maybe, that even the most abnormal is normal with a girl like her. She makes do. She rolls with the punches.

“What’s the best cake you’ve ever eaten?” she asks him, laid up in his arms with nothing on, her body bare and freckle-stained and familiar.

He opts for honesty instead. “You remember that time I went to train with those crazy folks up in the Soul King Palace?”

Ichigo figures the right answer would be, “Your cakes, of course.” Or at least, that’s what Dad says you should say to a girl. Yoruichi would probably recommend an innuendo about a different kind of cake. It’s not comforting to think about how inexperienced he is in the romance department, but it is a comfort to know that everyone has been encouraging him to say flirty things to Orihime for a while now. Somewhere along the way, he’s picked up a few hints, but he knows better than to flatter someone as perceptive as her without actually meaning it.

Orihime blinks obliviously. “During the war?”

Ichigo nods. “One of them, uh. Hikifune. The purple-haired one. She fed us with a ton of food—like, days worth of food. And then, at the end of it, she gave us some cake.”

“What type of cake?”

“I don’t know.” Ichigo shrugs.

“What did it taste like?”

“Like…just regular cake, I think. It was fluffy and creamy, but not too sweet. It was a bit sour, I don’t know,” he explains. “It was white.”

“Maybe it was a vanilla cake with lemon butter frosting,” she says dreamily, her eyes faraway and glinting. Then, she turns and prods his arm with a finger. “You should’ve brought some back for me. You know I love tasting new cakes.”

Ichigo almost bonks her in the head. Of course Orihime would whine about missing out on food. “We were in the middle of a war,” he reminds her.

Orihime frowns. “All I had to eat back then were the protein bars Urahara-san brought with him. I had sand in my mouth for weeks. But I guess I shouldn’t complain. You were getting stronger for all of us, right?” She kisses his cheek. “Thank you, Ichigo-kun.”

Ichigo can’t help but laugh inwardly at her complete inability to stay mad at him.

“I had help,” he tells her softly, running a finger along the creases on her arm, the places where the bedsheets had left their marks on her. He's so stupid fond of this girl that he feels a little helpless sometimes, but it's the right kind of helpless—the one without the tremors or the fear or the despair. The kind of helpless where you know help is coming. That she's been right by your side all along.

“I want to bake a vanilla cake with lemon butter frosting tomorrow,” she declares, touching his arm with intent. “Maybe you can tell me if it tastes like the one you had at the palace.”

Life with Orihime is like this, beginning and ending in unexpected locations. Ichigo figures he's taken her to enough places in their lifetime, brought enough battles to the doorstep of their life together. He's more than happy to let her take the reigns every once in a while—dragging him towards beds and unfunny variety shows and kitchens with something potent baking in the oven.

“I'll look forward to it,” he replies obediently, knowing she knows he means it.

He always does.

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My fanmade design of Beyond Fullbring or maybe BBS10th Anniversary Orihime Inoue

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YOU are a neurotypical cisgender woman. going about with your latte and such

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I have this love-hate relationship with whenever the Bleach anime tries to pad out canon events. On one hand: more world-building! Yay! I love world-building! On the other hand: it so often doesn't fit with/straight-up contradicts canon in a way that makes me insane. I know that usually when I get like this it means I've watched #46: The Worst Field-Trip Ever, but today I want to talk about

~The Lieutenants' Meeting from Bleach #227~

[rest under a cut because I am extremely Back On My Bullshit]

As you may know, the most precious chapter of Bleach (to me) is 0.side-B the rotator, the little flashback that appears in the middle of the Advance Team Arc (it's collected at the end of Vol 23) where we learn that Rukia's mission to Karakura was her first solo assignment and she was very nervous about it and didn't even tell Byakuya she was going, and also where Renji gets his promotion notice, but decides not to tell Rukia until she gets back. This was adapted not once, but twice by the anime, neither in the correct place.

The first time is in Episode 109, the final episode of the Bount arc. Even with 0.side-A the sand, it's not really long enough to make a full episode, but they intersperse it with some Kuchiki Manor hijinks and a bunch of Bount wrap-up stuff.

The second time, is episode 227, which is in the middle of the Fake Karakura town, although it's the first of a handful of standalone episodes and then the Zanpakutou Rebellion Arc, so I guess they were stalling for the manga to catch up. Anyway, it's completely re-animated for some reason, and the also added in Ch. 0.8, the Mizuiro flashback story and it still wasn't long enough, so they also threw in a Lieutenants' Meeting. This is exactly what I would do if I were a writer on the Bleach anime.

Bleach loves a Captains' Meeting, but Lieutenants' Meetings rarely merit screen time. There were during the Soul Society invasion arc, but those both seemed to be pretty ad hoc emergency deals. There was a third one at the beginning of the Blood War that never got animated, which was also an emergency one, and had a distinct "hang out while the captains have their meeting" vibe.

So what does a normal, no-wartime-exemption Lieutenants' Meeting look like? Citizens (me) demand to know!

First of all, back up. One does not simply smash cut into a Lieutenants' Meeting. Apparently, each lieutenant brings a report to the meeting, which gets run by their captain first. It's unclear if it's required or just a courtesy. In any case, they give us this Goofus and Gallant style juxtaposition of Hinamori delivering her report to Aizen, along with some calligraphy she's done. This is followed by Hitsugaya tracking down Matsumoto by the smell of her booze and demanding the report (she was too drunk to write it and apparently also too drunk to go to the lieutenant's meeting).

Okay, now we can go to the meeting! It's held at Squad 1.

Hinamori is...late. I would not expect Hinamori to be a person who is habitually late, but then I remembered that she was late to a meeting and knew a short-cut that time she found Aizen's fake corpse, so maybe she is habitually late. I suppose it's possible that Aizen dawdled over approving her report, but it's also very funny to me that a good half of the lieutenants have executive dysfunction, so I am going to assume that Hinamori is one of those people who is ready 20 minutes early but it's too early to leave and then she gets distracted and ends up 5 minutes late.

Back to the meeting!

Holy moly, it's the same room that they used for the Soul Society Invasion Lieutenants' meeting! Remember this place?

It's got the green paneling, the white-with-gold-diamonds frieze, the criss-cross windows that Renji jumped out of once, and the map of the Seireitei. Also, a drop ceiling with elementary school style fluorescent lighting, apparently!

The most exciting part, though, is this fantastic purple table and chairs. Obviously they need this because the Lieutenants' Meeting also features snacks, which is noted have been provided by Oomaeda. (Do you think he always brings snacks because he's rich and loves snacks, or do they have a rotation??) Perplexingly, since this flashback takes place before the Soul Society Invasion, did they...did they move the table and chairs out for the Emergency Meeting? So that it would look more serious??? Like. That is a big table. That would take some effort.

Aside: The room doesn't actually look like this in the manga versions of the Soul Society Invasion arc meetings. It's got the wood paneling, but the windows are different and it doesn't have any other details. However, it does look like this during the TYBW meeting. I guess maybe Kubo liked it and adopted the design??

Back to the meeting at hand!: Sasakibe gives Hinamori some grief for being late. Matsumoto's absence is noted and attributed to being hungover, which leads to Iba complaining about his hangover.

This is so unserious. I love it. I love all of them.

We skip back to Karakura Town for a bit, but when we come back, it is business time. Isane is reading her report to the group. Anyway, first order of business: Karakura Town needs a new resident officer. Apparently the previous officer was from Squad 4, but had to be relieved due to "cramps." The reporting is sort of directed toward Sasakibe, but it's not very formal because we keep getting interruptions from the peanut gallery, which is to say that Kira and Oomaeda then start arguing about cramps. There is definitely the vibe that Kira hates sitting next to Oomaeda and is willing to throw hands about anything.

Anyway! Kiyone volunteers Rukia for the position on behalf of her captain, and Sasakibe goes for it. Importantly, we get a loving close-up of my beloved Seireitei map.

More importantly, all of this is bullshit. Squad 4 doesn't station people in the World of the Living (except for Hanatarou that time). Karakura Town is Squad 13's turf, it has been since Isshin's day:

I don't even know what the anime was going for here. We've already met Kurumadani (Afro-san) by this point. I guess they wanted to have a reason to discuss this at the Lieutenants' Meeting? I guess so Hinamori and Kira would have this information to tell Renji later?? This really could have been smoother, Bleach anime!!

Let's move on to the next order of business, which is...Renji's promotion! Actually, first, let's consider a shot of the room from a different angle:

In case it wasn't obvious earlier, everyone sits around the table in numerical order. I'm honestly a little worried about that back corner with Hinamori, Renji and Iba and Hisagi across from them. Troublemaker corner. They got Nanao back there, I guess to keep the from cutting up, I spose. Yachiru is asleep. Matsumoto still hasn't shown up (nor will she, in case you were hoping).

Anyway, Isane announces that "the Captains' Meeting has chosen Abarai Renji, Sixth Seat of Squad 11." a) of all, why is this part of Isane's report?? And why isn't Shirogane here, anyway? You would think Squad Six would require a transition plan, but I guess he just noped out and left Byakuya in the lurch. (Real reason is likely because that would have required them to remember what Shirogane looks like and get him a voice actor. If the Bleach anime loved me, they would have done these things). AHEM! Also, what is this "the Captains' Meeting has chosen" bullshit? Captains choose their lieutenants, which Aizen mentions while gloating over Shinji in TBTP, and then Kyouraku brings up again when he bullies Central into letting him have two lieutenants. It is extremely funny to think about the other captains saddling Byakuya with Renji. They would never let the captains have a PVP mode, though, their hate game is worse than Tumblr's. I will be generous and say that perhaps what Isane meant is that it was announced at the Captains' Mtg, and since all the captains canonically love Renji, no one had any objections.

All the vice-captains love Renji, too--this announcement is met with delighted gasps. Wait, no, Oomada hates Renji:

I unironically love this, mostly because it sets up the Renji-Oomaeda beef from Diamond Dust Rebellion where Renji calls him an otter-face.

Oomaeda claims that Renji is "a punk" and "will scar the name of the Gotei-13." Granted, Renji does commit treason shortly thereafter, so he's not exactly wrong. No one cares though and Yachiru starts drawing on his head halfway through this rant.

And that's it! Altogether, this took less than 5 minutes of screen time, but hopefully this was very helpful and informative if you, like me, love to write fanfiction about lieutenants' meetings. Don't forget to include snacks!!

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@majiburger tagged me (thank you 💕) for this nice Get To Know Your Mutuals thing 🖤 so:

favorite color: i'm a black and white person for clothes and stuff, but my favorite color is actually purple.

last song: Senegal Fast Food, by Amadou & Mariam (part of my go-to urban walking playlist)

currently reading: R. F. Kuang! finished Babel this week and oh, OH! so, yeah, just started Poppy War now. (Robin my baby 🥺)

currently watching: haven't been able to pick something new since Severance, so I'm re-watching Ted Lasso because I missed them.

currently craving: we're approaching the June Festivals here in Brazil, which is one of my favorite traditions, so I'm craving the Festival's menu, mainly: all things corn-based. Seriously, they're delicious.

coffee or tea: coffee, i was raised in it, molded by it. but i do enjoy some afternoon and evening tea ☺️

- i'm terrible at these things so please, anyone who wants to joy the fun, this is an open invitation to participate 🖤🥰

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bleach video game where you get to play as orihime and your task is to clock in for your shift at abcookies but watch out! there are hollows threatening your town! ignore that and people will die, so you can either a) go out there and fight them yourself (people are safe, but your customers back at abcookies are getting impatient) or b) send uryu, chad or the big man himself (kurosaki ichigo) to do it. but if you send them, you've got to heal them after, and if you wait too long, they die, and like. the healing task can't be easy, the player has got to be frustrated doing it, because it should require skill of some sort that you gain with practice. over time, they should let you unlock new uses for her shields (like. maybe later in the game they should let you use it long distance like she does in canon or allow her to get to places back and forth faster by using her shield as a transport service). and most of the customers who come into the bakery should be familiar characters, like rukia, or urahara or keigo and they should all say character-consistent things while she serves them, and there should be some sort of collectible/stamp system, so you can try to collect "rare" characters whose chances of visiting are lower (like grimmjow or something). a half-baking, half-fighting game with really cute pixel style animation and a chance to live life in the shoes of a beloved character....omg klab pick up the phone!!!!

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Ichigo somewhere struggled with Urahara's training.

Orihime and Chad under Yoruichi's training:

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