#wandenreich

[maounosekai]

Take 2 lmao

We got fear buddies As Nödt and Shūhei brainrot, now get ready for another set of buddy brainrot

[myahandthewolf]

[silvadour]

[jadeazora]

A new trailer and visual for Season 2 of Bleach!

The opening will be Stars from w.o.d.

[irlkisukeurahara]

ALL OF TYBW'S SINS ARE FORGIVEN BECAUSE THEY KEPT THIS INTERACTION

[littleeyesofpallas]

At this point I've basically long since run dry on Bleach funfacts, certainly out of any that have any real weight in the broader readings of the series. But I do have one not-so-fun fact still left up my sleeve --a real dead end nothing contribution... So buckle up, I guess? I apologize in advance if this ends up, like, I dunno, spoiling the aesthetic(?) for anyone. Feel free to just ignore this and move on if you're touchy about keeping your obsessive fandom experiences squeaky clean.

So, I noted back when I was combing thru Quincy terms, that it felt a little less than comfy that in addition to the general n*zi aesthetics Juugram's official title was in fact "Sternritter Grand Master" which felt, at the time, like an unfortunate coincidence that it would fall in line with the naming scheme of the K*K's nonsense titles like Grand Wizard/Grand Dragon, Grand Cyclops, Grand Magi and various other ridiculous sounding occultist LARPer horseshit they've cycled thru over the past century+. But I just kinda left it at that and didn't think to dig any deeper,

But then I was reminded that in the early days of the K*K one of their stated goals was to establish a white supremacist "country" inside the united states, and as they dabbled in this insurgency fantasy, they dubbed this goal of a secret, second, white nation within the confines of the USA, their "Invisible Empire"...

And although the word we hear throughout the TYBW arc is the German Wändenreich[ヴァンデンライヒ] from Wänden:“Walls” and Reich:“Empire/Realm,” the Japanese meaning underlying that term is [見えざる帝国]: “Unseen/Invisible Empire.”

In fact the white robed and hoods tradition stemmed from what were initially petty pranks(although they escalated very quickly in seriousness and danger) in which they would menace black communities and abolitionists by pretending to be the ghosts of dead confederates. In this capacity the imagery and language around them also evoked an "Army of Ghosts."

And although it was never properly addressed, there was always this vague issue of the Quincy's ages... Those with clear backgrounds like Juugram and Bazz-B seem impossibly old. And we see that As Nodt is recruited on what appears to be his deathbed --in a hospital, on life support and in fear of dying, with a bible on his bedside as if ready to be read his last rites-- and of course the Quincy genocide of 200 years prior.

And tangential to this, we see the brief, if mostly pointless, return of the three dead Fullbringers --Ginjo, Tsukishima, and Giriko-- who all seem to have retained their memories and powers across the borders of life and death. (We won't ask about how or why their fullbring items are still usable) Is it safe to speculate then that the Quincy are in fact a literal Army of Ghosts? It explains how they're able to go toe to toe with the shinigami in ways Uryuu's initial explanations of their skills would've suggested wasn't possible. (i.e. that they were describes as being regular flesh and bone humans and only their weapons are actually supernatural, and thus they are not capable of particularly extraordinary physical feats, or blessed with any superhuman durability.) And it also sort of makes more sense that rather than being a bunch of flesh and blood humans who survived losing the war, somehow spiritized themselves to get into the afterlife, and then hid for 999 years, that they could have just been humans who died first and were recruited as ghosts, having been spirited away into the shadow realm. Or Quincy that died with the full intent of reuniting as ghosts, having some kind of assurance that they would retain their memories and powers.

I like the former over the latter though, as it means the Ishida family really were the last living Quincy. But I do like the morbid idea of Yhwach commanding his army, Jamestown style, to kill themselves as the first step to them going to heaven. Only in this case the kingdom of god as they imagine it has to be fought for because the shinigami are already have a whole society there and need to be driven out first.

There is also a lot of "Knight" and "White Knight" imagery and titles evoked in the K*K's long history, and while that's absolutely vague enough to be handwaved on its own, it's definitely not not adjacent to all this....

(This has nothing to do with anything I just had already slapped the uniforms pic together and wanted to use it somewhere)

So to sort of loosely review everything going on with the Quincy....

Catholic inverted priest frocks, crosses, silver and exorcisms, holy eucharist angel wings&halo final forms, blood eucharist schrift, conversion based recruitment policies, the whole "one kingdom under god" shtick, miracle baby son of god christ figure, explicit mention of monotheism

but then also 5 pointed crosses/stars and pentagrams,

victims of a genocide with a dr.mengele nemesis, YHWACH-v-YHWH

inverted Hugo Boss uniforms, german themed attacks, skills and tools, crosses again, explicitly evoking the Schutzstaffel with Yhwach's royal guard, and nonsense blood purity eugenics b.s.... weirdly not touched upon "black sun" or swastika imagery tied to Ichigo

For some reason a few loose threads of what appear to be Loius XIV and his sun god apollo fixation, purifying light and sun and stars motifs

YHWACH having big Backbeard energy, the literal evocation of Backbeard, being a western ghost army

and now these mismatched crumbs of what appear to be deliberate K*K references: ghost army, invisible empire, grandmaster, etc...

Like... I don't think this makes them worse, or paints Kubo as some kind of crackpot racist --in case my stance on his use of n*zi imagery didn't make that clear-- but like... I don't know what to make of it honestly... It's as inconsequential to the actual message or plot as anything else, including the n*zi stuff, but it just feels weird knowing it's there? Just sorta loitering around in the background?? Also the Quincy are just such a bizarre clusterfuck of unfocused nonsense ""themes"" with like zero actual content just in general. Given everything that's in that slurry I think that might be for the better? Because any coherent message drawn from all of these influences probably couldn't have been any good...

[kurozero]

[almaadst]

Not everyone probably knows but I'm a huge Bleach fan and I am excited for every new episode that is released now - waited years for this to happen! ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡ My relationship with drawing for myself is kinda complicated so I am even happier that I was able to draw one of my fav characters from this TYBW arc which is Äs Nödt! I was really surprised by his Japanese voice actor! I always thought he would have hight pitch creepy voice but after a while of listening to his lower no emotional voice I get used to it and I will say this voice makes him even more.. 👀.. appealing to me (ノ▽〃) Other: Commission info Byakuya Kuchiki and Kazue Bleach crossover PLEASE DO NOT REPOST WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!

[isu-desu]

HAPPY 1 YEAR!!!!!

I cant believe its been a year since the start of daily As Nodt. thank you for all the support over the past year!!!

look at the difference from day 1

[ljohels]

[kuuchuuburanko]

hi and welcome to my post-war delusional slice of life adjacent bleach au

[my0vershareworld]

𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖…,𝕃𝕆𝕍𝔼!, 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖!

Pairing: Äs Nödt x GN!Human reader, Gerard Valkyrie x GN!Human reader, Giselle Gewelle x GN!Human reader

Genre: Fluff, Headcanons, Romantic.

CW: None.

Requested by @rambling-idi0t: Happy valentines babe!! Can I please request as nodt,gerard and giselle (separate) celebrating valentines day with their s/o?

A/N: happy valentines day to you too stupo. AND YK DAMN WELL I LOVE GERARD..DAMN U-

Äs Nödt

he never knew the day of love. he never receive such a love as yours. a warm and soft love. he never receive them before.

you are his everything.

the moment he heard the word love he felt guilty for not knowing this sooner (he'll remember it next year. he won't ever forget it too)

he felt really relieved when you said it's fine.

he get a little awkward because he still does not know what to do with this so called love day. you probably have to explain how to celebrate Valentines to him honestly.

but don't worry he'll know what to do and know when is gonna be Valentine.

for this year he might as well gave you something for his apology. like some chocolate and some flowers he found.

hopefully you forgave him.

Gerard Valkyrie

he's like Äs. he doesn't know what is Valentines day.

he'll be the type to express his questions on the day of Valentines.

he'll ask a lot of questions about it since he wanted to know the full detail of Valentines day. and he will find a way to impress you. like getting (stole) the best chocolate he can find. the most beautiful flower with a very nice smell..that he totally pay for.

he puts you above everything. you are very dear to him. you're like his majesty and he's the knight. and he will always and forever protect you.

Giselle Gewelle

she was quite confused when you mentioned Valentines day. she never heard of such a day.

when she heard of it she immediately got so excited. she wanted to do so many things with you.

she'll get you many many things just to bribe you so she can 'mmm' with you.

she view Valentines day as a good day for her to 'mmm' with you (horny asshole)

but she never view you as a toy like the others (Bambiette) she view you as something more important and something to protect and something to not take control of..unless needed.

[gj-morrowstrike]

Giselle Gewelle, Sternritter Z "The Zombie" of the Vandenreich from Bleach.

Figured she'd be fitting for the spoopy month.

[silvadour]

[jadeazora]

Some stuff I wanted to talk about earlier but couldn't. I was surprised seeing Shinji getting to unleash his Bankai here, it's gonna be pretty hype!

Familiar shots of our villains!

Them 😁 (Nemu and her cute hat with the little bow on it 🥺)

[irlkisukeurahara]

THEY DID IT!!! THEY KEPT IN ÄS NÖDT'S FLASHBACK!!!! WE FUCKING WON!!!! ÄS NÖDT FANS EATING GOOOOOOD