#bleach reread

[violetnaps]

and the cat's the strongest

[transgendervelma]

Orihime can tell that Kon is actually not Ichigo despite being in his body, something Tatsuki doesn’t even think of. Not exactly shocked because Tatsuki hasn’t had any exposure to the supernatural yet, but it still shows orihime is very perceptive of peoples behaviors and emotions.

[cyellolemon]

Bleach art dump!! The hyperfixation you had from your 11 to 16yo never leaves

[vicioux]

ichigo and orihime zoomin'and climbing around soul society in ch 181

[bleachbleachbleach]

Kenpachi's Place

On the subject of "what people call each other" more generally, my favorite Bleach topic, Aizen is also kind of weird about Zaraki. He refers to Renji leaving the 5th for the 11th as Renji being "taken away to Kenpachi's place." Was he. Was he kidnapped. Is Kenpachi's Place a trafficking front.

Referring to Zaraki by title is a Choice, for sure. I don't know if anyone else does that (besides Ichigo), but I can think of many who do not, would never.

Referring to the 11th as "Kenpachi's Place" also feels like a Choice. It makes me think about Renji's question to Ichigo when they first meet:

[Bleach 054]

His meaning of is speech bubble is, "Which [number] Division are you affiliated with?" but the pronunciation is just "Where are you affiliated?" So there's already a sense, I guess, that the geographic question of "where" implies your divisional affiliation, and that divisions are thought of as places. Makes sense, given that all the divisions are meaningful geographic spreads in the Seireitei.

Is it still weird that it's "Kenpachi's Place" and not just idk, "the 11th Division"? I mean, I think it is, but it does speak to the unique tradition of leadership succession the 11th's got going on, and how intense the cult of personality is in the 11th, as a division whose nature is extremely tied to the nature of whoever its leader happens to be.

Aizen also never actually refers to the 11th as the 11th, so in order to make that connection we'd have to remember Zaraki's name and number from when he showed up at Byakuya's Place. Why wouldn’t he? Idk but I enjoy it as character info. (NB: Byakuya is perfectly happy to refer to Tousen purely by number, as "9th Captain" and not by any name at all, so there's a lot of different conventions out and about across the various captains.)

[kaelidascope]

I need to make a point of saying that contrary to popular belief, I do not read. I do not enjoy reading, I hate being asked to read things, reading is exhausting and a chore. I like to write just for the sake of writing. The act of writing itself gives me so much gratification just to be able to do it!

But if I saw this bitch in the wild at 300k+ words I would never fucking touch it LMAOO doesn't matter HOW good it is man that's way too fucking long

what the fuck was I THINKING LMAO THIS SHIT IS INSANE I WOULD NEVER READ THIS

Not saying I think MM is bad or not worth the read. I certainly think it is! But for like, you know, people who like to read. Not me LOL glad some of y'all literally will sit and re-read this shit regularly though. Y'all juggernauts for that

It's not even like I write topics that I don't enjoy. I certainly enjoy them, otherwise I wouldn't be writing them. But I like writing them, not reading them. But that's not exclusive to topics, I just don't read anything in general

[every-sanji]

[asexualcloud]

rereading past eps and watching ada simp for prospero feels like when your dying your hair it gets like really itchy and you just have to like poke your head right next to the hair being dyed so its somewhat like scratching your head but not really

[chainsawcorazon]

thinking about how thad might’ve felt when bart resurrected for clone booty, and despite all his desire to live, he’s probably either dead and erased from history OR waiting in limbo tryna figure out if he can replicate bart’s desire enough to finally escape back into the world of the living. what do you do when your enemy-brother-clone-the-thing-you-envy-the-most keeps finding a way back to life by sheer force of will, while you still grovel in the pit? he is dead but a god, he’s a white flash and committing crimes against reality. he’s finding pieces of his family (first his beloved, then his mentor and father figure), but you are not his family. he will not break the universe to find you.

he might have, if you’d been kinder, but what do you know about kindness?

[redmemoirs]

its missing them hours (again)

[glassedplanets]

"You ain't here to fight," Grimmjow says, low. He applies pressure; Ichigo tips his chin up to relieve it, and feels the atom-fine point dimple his skin anyways.

[x]

[violetnaps]

sorry what was that about kubo being a master of character design.

[transgendervelma]

Interesting to see this so early in the manga because it contradicts a claim I’ve seen floating around her that Ichigo submits to peer pressure when it comes to his friends trying to get him to display attraction to girls. Rukia still can’t get that juice box.

[goldenclasp]

am I crying?? no. you are.

[vicioux]

making the cutest faces nomming n' sleeping: masaki 🤝 orihime

[bleachbleachbleach]

[Bleach 093]

I laughed out lout at this panel, and I keep laughing out lout at it every time I look at it. [wiggle font] WHAT CAN I DO IF HIS CAPTAIN IS HERE? I SHALL RETREAT, FOR NOW. [/wiggle font]

WHO SAYS THAT.

MAYURI, THAT'S WHO.

It's funny because the way he says it implies that this is just Mayuri narrating for himself--he's not actually talking to Zaraki. Which, sure, you can say it's a manga convention because this information has to be conveyed somehow, but I prefer thinking of it as a character trait. Especially since it's a speech bubble, not a thought bubble (and I think works less well/somehow would feel more ridiculous as a thought bubble). Maybe Mayuri's used to taking self-dictation when he's doing experiments.

My Mayuri characterization has not historically come from... Bleach Chapter 93... but I honestly feel like I would revise how I write him based on this chapter. In my mind he's more sedate? Or like, garrulous and performative when he's on a tear about something or actively in that mode, but otherwise DGAF and less inclined to give info away for free (via self-narration, for instance) or to want to be involved. But this kind of makes it seem like the bar for what'll get Mayuri Involved is pretty low, and sure, let's self-narrate when there are other people in the room, who cares!

His self-narration is vaguely polite but extremely conversational. Mayuri uses the phrase "taichou-dono" to refer to Zaraki here, adding an honorific suffix, which in Bleach is mostly used by Rukia re: Kaien, though I think Ichimaru also uses it in reference to Byakuya when he and Byakuya and Zaraki have their weird inter-division conversation. I think it's being used as respectfully here as there, lol. The fact that it's self-narration is emphasized for me when he says "The Captain-dono has come, it can't be helped," because he uses the construction んだ which I feel like in this context conveys that he's explaining/processing something for himself (re: the self-narration; he's obviously not explaining Zaraki's arrival to Zaraki).

HE'S SELF-NARRATING.

IN WIGGLE FONT.