#bleach larp

[bleachbleachbleach]

I'm participating in an event tomorrow, so I'm sitting here reading one of the other speakers' pieces, feeling very provincial because I don't know what a "plenum of heat" is and also feeling kind of annoyed because I'm not convinced it's not just woo-woo nonsense, not quite willing to suspend my disbelief.

But then I was like, "but what if it's about Hinamori, though" and my brain was instantly like, "I'll accept this, sure, okay, post-phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty [1964], 'body-worlds as irreducible movements and relations,' sounds great, I'LL DO IT FOR YOU, GIRL--"

BLEACH LARP SAVES THE DAY

[el-yon]

oh, OH

i'm at a conference and there's a fantastic panel in which one of the presenters is talking about GUESS WHAT:

a contemporary reading of Maquiavelli's Centaur, authority, authoritarianism, and the man-horse relation in an in-depth study of equestrian clubs

do you have any idea how hard it's been for me NOT to bring up Kind And His Horse?! My larping has never been tested like this @bleachbleachbleach send help.

[cartoonsbyandie]

Character meme thing, vodka??

FINAL ASK! No more after this!

Unironically my favorite Black Org member. You can really see a pattern with my tastes in characters from this can't you--

Why's he my favorite? Because in this super scary, hyper-competent group of bad guys where everyone is crazy smart, crazy skilled, and/or just plain crazy, in the middle of it all is JUST SOME GUY. Just a generic thug. You tell me for one second that Vodka is part of the Black Org because he's super dedicated to inventing immortality or whatever. I don't know how or why he joined the organization but I refuse to believe it's for that reason. He's here for the Mafia LARP and was maybe told he could become immortal as a kinda cool bonus. And the Black Org higher ups just shrug and give him all the grunt work no one else wants to do.

AND HE'S GIN'S BEST FRIEND SOMEHOW.

Genuinely love how close he is to Gin, reminds me of Yachiru and Kenpachi from Bleach if you know that one. This is the guy Gin allows to follow him everywhere and call him partner. This guy. This moron who almost gave his fingerprints away if Gin hadn't been there to stop it. I love him. Never change.

[unohanadaydreams]

Pro tip of an obsessed crazy ass bitch with unhealthy copping mechanisms: whenever you are having an anxiety attack, where you feel like you can't breathe just think there are shinigami fighting closer to you and it's their spiritual pressure. It's gonna be over soon, they are just protecting you from a hollow even if you can't see them.

[littleeyesofpallas]

Ya know, a ways back someone had asked me if I had any takes on Yoruichi's tattoo --I forget in which ask, but there was a bigger question that I wound up answering and I sort of forgot about the tattoo part entirely. But at the time, I really didn't have anything to say about it anyhow, but I don't think Kubo had released that art of the original Gotei at the time. So as it happens there are some odd little adjacencies now, although not especially strong ones... but I figure I can squeeze a post out of it.

So originally Kubo did a little color spread of all the Bleach girls in swimwear at the beach, and that in turn got adapted into a dumb little filler thing in the anime based off some other omake. It's also shows up in Bleach Brave Souls.

(weirdly a different swimsuit specialadds a different, unrealted, tattoo on her right thigh??)

But in the body of the manga itself, she's never actually shown with it. In most cases we don't get a 100% irrefutably clear view, but there are plenty of moments where her left upper thigh is definitely visible enough that if the tattoo was canon it should have been visible. The most obvious contradiction being her first appearance in her human form on account of, you know... her being entirely naked for that...

Now, one of the most immediate evocations of the sun tattoo would seem to be Ichigo's "Black Sun" motif --although it seems like a "tribal" style tattoo, which would be solid black anyway, making it hard to really assume it's a deliberately associated color-- which is itself actually kind of weird because it started entirely meta textually as part of the pair of databooks, SOULs and VIBEs: the former being the manga databook, and the latter being the accompanying anime databook, together featuring the phrase

"the rain drags black sun down, but the rain dried by white moon".

But this actually conflicts with the manga's use of a black moon motif for Ichigo, and doesn't really appear in the text at all. In fact the only real association Ichigo has with the black sun in the story proper might be the tangential association with Yhwach calling him, "my son born in the dark" when Yhwach himself is associated with the sun and light, and his own mirroring of the black flame(?) motif.

Otherwise the only loose link between Ichigo and the phrase "black sun" is that zangetsu's crossguard in bankai is a manji/swastika --a symbol used in Japanese Buddhism, via Chinese Buddhism, via Indian Buddhism, but originally taken from Indian hinduism where it was itself a sign of the sun god Surya-- and the SchwarzeSonne:"Black Sun" rune was a part of Himmler's stupid esoteric LARPing horseshit he did in the N*zi party, where he just mashed up the swastika, Nordic runes(𐌔), the alchemical sol niger:"black sun", and the Arthurian round table concepts so he could have that dumb mosaic built into the floor of the Wewelsburg castle he had requisitioned.

Sorry i got off topic... point being: the BlackSun was kind of like a leveled up swastika as far as n*zi symbols go, so it kind of follows that Ichigo's devloping powers imply a black sun as the next step past swastika.

But like I said, that's a super loose correlation within the text itself. Rather, the black sun in Bleach actually seems to be a weird recycling of something Kubo did in Zombie Powder: The black getsuga tenshou's black flame motif being a kind of throwback to the black flames of Akutabi Gamma's Karinzanjutsu, and the Ka-rin[火輪]: "Fire Ring/Wheel" having a symbol representing the sun, thus the sword style's black flames making its symbol a black sun.

So what's the point in bringing all this back up if what we're asking about is Yoruichi? Well, Yoruichi may not have had any sort of identifiable sun motif herself, but her ancestor, Chika, does. His name can read as "1000 Sun", although in the context of Yoruichi and Yuushirou's names both having words for "night" in them, it makes sense that Chika's name should actually be read, "1,000 Days", or very possibly "1000th Day" since Yoruichi's name is clearly meant to be read as "1st Night" considering her birthday is January 1st.*

*Her overall gimmick is a reference to hatsuyume[初夢], a tradition/idea that your first dream of the newyear --taking into accounts that you stay up until midnight on new years, your first dream is on Jan 1-- is supposed to have some prophetic qualities. (Incidentally, Urahara's birthday is December 31st, and given his partnership with Yoruichi could imply he's meant to be associated with the Omisoka holiday? but I'm not getting into that here.)

Anyway... all that just to say that her sun tattoo isn't really canon but if it were, it might have something to do with her ancestor, Chika. Although given that their family crest features a moon and they have a night theme to naming, I'd assume Chika's name is meant to be kind of an outlier rather than directly reflective of any family themes.

I dunno, I guess that's not really much of anything actually, since the whole black sun tangent doesn't even link back around... I guess the only thematic link is that in rather literal terms a "black sun" might be most readily envisioned as an eclipse, which in both the Shihouin and Ichigo's cases would be a way of aligning the moon and sun motifs.

(Technically I guess Isshin's relationship with Masaki is a kind of eclipse, as its the overlap of her sun/center of the universe iconography with Isshin's own moon motif via engetsu, but honestly Isshin was never actually moon themed and his shikai just felt like a lazy tack on detail that Kubo gave no real thought or consideration to beyond it being a derivative of what Ichigo already had going on.)

edit: oh you know something i didnt think to mention in the first draft of this.... For a brief window where the soul king had been shown with all his limbs and then none and then we learned about the hand creatures and the heart, some people had the idea in their heads that Yoruichi was somehow or for some reason the left leg of the soul king?? I have no opinions on this as a theory other than it being silly

[thedeepweb]

okay i will not clog that person's activity with my thoughts on the matter. ugliest interior design trends. ranked by ethics + liveability

rustic vintage

i hope you cut yourself in your rusty metal sheets one day. i hope you get tetanus and die inmediatly. i hope you know your rich parents will die of disgust too at entering here. and on that train i hope the ghosts of the poor people your family exploited will haunt you. i hope you get a heart attack when told your gated community will be dismantled and become a normal neighbourhood i hope your neighbour paints their house bright purple. i hope your bleaching burns your hair and by god i hope your husband (or you if you're a business woman too #girlboss) has a crack of 1929 moment

2. orientalist pedobait/enjoyer of it - tied with

2 part 2. man cave

these 3 are the same to me. they're family/partners

3. "white minimalism"

this hatred comes in so many angles. minimalism started to secure the working class had good quality products at the cheapest price possible. it was meant to be a temporary solution for war expenses. from a chair to your cooking utensils, to your firm apartment with natural light. now 100 years later we're stuck with a minimalism that no longer focuses on ergonomy, no longer focuses on the people it should serve. minimalism today is but a mere ghost of a haunting past to the one who knows of its socialist begginings, and to the rest its just an eternal white wall. the worker can't even touch the walls, even if they offer to repaint them white and fill curtain holes before leaving, for the landlord gushes over the fantasy of dominating every aspect of the tennant's life. ethics aside, this is absolutely unliveable, how can you move freely in the dirtiest color possible. only solace i get is seeing rich people getting minimalist homes bc 1) i know the architech lied to them and overinflated the price 2) they report feeling lonely in there. it's but a drop in the ocean of misery capitalism has caused but well, i enjoy that drop

4. minihouses / chic vanhouse

perhaps in it's less sublimated hard on for poverty, the rich have found a new way to larp as a poor person, now in the upmost uncomfortable way possible. sole point is that by being smaller its less enviromental harm that the mcmansion and the white minimalism emporium. but it's ranked as high for how utterly nightmarish to human movility this design is. nothing more i can add, hope that ceiling fan kills you.

5. le mcmansion

top polluter in this list but it does win over not being able to move freely on your own house less you cut yourself or stain everything. the mcmansion is but a natural consequence of richness. much like royalty living in cold fortress, the new rich hide themselves from the poor in their low life expectancy house, expected from someone who wants the cheapest house possible.

6. "remodelled" old houses

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you-

[mezmer]

Still larping as a blonde because I'm afraid to touch another bleach treatment

[issela-santina]

calling this bleach blond angel out for staging a Jane Austen LARP by mind-controlling several humans who just wanted a business meeting, while his partner's demonic ex-colleagues surround the venue with clear intent to ransack it like a war zone

"genre-savvy" no i want a genre-unsavvy protagonist. scratch that, i want a genre-deluded protagonist.

i want a protagonist who is convinced until the last possible moment that they're in a lighthearted romcom--despite the proliferation of slasher murders. give me a soccer dad who is just so determined to enjoy family vacation, despite the fact the kids summoned an eldritch deity from the lake. a preteen who is experiencing a coming-of-age saga and annoyed their parents aren't emotionally present (the parents are distracted by a literal zombie apocalypse). endless possibilities

[bleachbleachbleach]

Matsumoto and The Mail

AKA Ultimately meaningless and incredible specific Bleach Headcanons

I am feeling 🙃🙃🙃 entirely overwhelmed (and also initially spelled "I" as "ai" so THAT’S WHERE WE ARE, LOL), so I’m going to take a moment and Bleach LARP my way into Zen and the Art of Not Murder, re: a minor but recurring annoyance in my present pile of RL fuckery. That is, I’m going to give it to Matsumoto, because I love Matsumoto and I am so much more likely to tolerate this behavior if it also makes me think about Matsumoto.

Let’s talk about Matsumoto’s approach to *mail.*

Matsumoto tends to send a bunch of letters all at once. Sometimes the letters are split up by topic, but sometimes the letters are really just a single thought filtered through a series of half-completed messages. It is not unusual to have seven or eight different letters from Matsumoto that the recipient then needs to collage back together.

To add to the mayhem, Matsumoto’s replies/follow-ups are generally not sent in the same thread/stream that began that conversation. If she sends a letter "attn: Shuuhei re: SC newsletter article" there’s a good chance it will not, in fact, have anything to do with the SC newsletter article. That’s under completely different header, and this is something else.

While Matsumoto makes use of denreishinki messaging, regular mail letters, and hell butterfly communiques, what kind of information, about what, is split across all of these different forms by some internal, incomprehensible logic of her own devising.

Matsumoto almost never replies to anyone else’s messages for her, and doesn’t seem to read them, either.

Matsumoto also constantly tells other people that she and they need to "work together" to "improve communication."

It's important to work with Matsumoto face-to-face as much as possible, because it's the only way to remember that you like her as a person a lot more than as a document. (Possibly why Hitsugaya and Matsumoto have agreed to work so closely with one another. Like, literally physically closely. Hitsugaya wants *zero* mail from Matsumoto.)

[unohanadaydreams]

Not related to Bleach at all but I’ve been rewatching Inuyasha and TF Armada at the same time, which has been hilarious due to the shared VAs.

First of all, Miroku is larping as an all-American tween who is deeply passionate about always being right and being the Autobot’s favorite pet.

And one of the episodes introduces a new Autobot and the kids are like ‘I don’t know about him, but maybe we’re being unfair, let’s give him a chance’ and the dude rolls up with the voice of Naraku. Just straight Naraku with some reverb. So even if you aren’t like ‘wow, Sideways is a sus name’ you know the jig. That thing is malicious and should not be trusted.

Jaken is an excitable helicopter who has a chronic giggling condition and is peak Lackey.

Kouga is a cocky airplane who prides himself on being Real Fast and Tough.

Like the type-casting going on here is legendary.

There are some other big ones. For instance Sesshomaru and Megatron share VAs and so do Carlos (one of the kids) and Bankotsu but those aren’t voices I clocked right off the bat because they are playing into their range (and also they reverb the FUCK out of Megatron’s voice. His cadence is the same, but the VA plays Sesshomaru like such a whispery waif compared to Megatron). Aaaand there are plenty of others but they aren’t as fun.

Like, I definitely watched Armada before I watched Inuyasha (I think I found Inuyasha in like 2004?) so I think this is the first time I’m realizing these dubs both came out in 2002 and that casts reflect that 100% omg.

[el-yon]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Thank you for being such a delightful and wonderful Bleach blogger. Your edits are always top tier — every time I see one, I spend so much time being awed by your ability to pick out the absolute perfect panels and quotes to pair them with. And I love reading your thoughts on characters and relationships and exploration of themes in Bleach. Whenever I see a post of that type and I think “wow, this person has made some really interesting points” it’s inevitably almost always from you. And that kind of content is the exact reason why I am on tumblr!! (btw your Valentine’s Day edit shot me right through the heart and I love it)

(´⌣`ʃ ƪ )

How this made me feel:

This was so kind and sweet, thank you! I don't deserve it 🥺

tho, really, thanks for sending this. I’m always happy (and surprised, but happy) when someone says that the stuff i write/make actually makes sense and has a ‘oh, feelings’ effect to it, because they come from a genuine place of affection in me. and I know a lot may get lost in translation since i'm not an english speaker, so i'm really glad when the message comes through !

You, Whipple, and B3 are such a huge part of the ~ Bleach experience ~, the fics, the tags, the deep-lore and the fun things, your attention to over-looked characters, and the Bleach larp 🖤 the fandom is so so lucky to have you! so, i am thrilled that my silly things are somewhat part of this Bleach experience too

brazil's valentine days is in june so this was my first time experiencing the february 14th in another country, and I got the best gift: bleach fandom kindness 🥰

you are the best, hope you have the nicest of things coming your way !! here's to another year of larping and no brain just bleach ✨

[bluejaysgonerogue]

this now lives in my mind rent free btw

also see: the biggest prank wars they do. Or one time they go do airsoft with all their gear for a weekend as a “training exercise” (price lost a bet and Soap got to choose where they trained for a weekend) and absolutely obliterated every person there.

people try to approach Ghost in bars and say ‘nice LARP dude’ which earns them a Death Glare. Soap and Gaz are laughing, Price just sips his drink.

See Soap finally convincing Ghost to go to a starbucks after a mission, so they drop their weapons and stuff (basically just their tac vests loose the grenades, flashes, and empty their holsters). The barista makes the name on both cups Ghoap. (Ghost likes an americano. They incorporate this into the game. Real Ghost is exasperated.)

Price having to deny he killed shepherd (everyone knows he did) after people start sending his character death threats for killing a perfectly good general that did So Many Good Things For The Flag.

Soap bleaches his hair on a dare and people call his cosplay shit. (“I’M THE REAL THING YE BUGGER WHY DON’ CHA CALL IT SHITE WHILE IM ON DUTY EH?” “Calm down Johnny.” “LEMME ATTEM-“)

They go to a live range in America for funzies while Laswell needed them in DC. (Price is in meetings with her) Some loudmouth calls them posers because they’re cosplaying at a range. The Boys decide to take turns on Ghost’s MCPR-300 at 400m. Everyone else there just watches in awe. Some idiot pipes up about how that “isn’t that far” so Ghost hits a target that’s at about 500-600m. Nobody gives them any more frack.

Metagame 141 where the cod games are in the cod universe

Soap posts tiktoks of ghost and everyone thinks he's just a really accurate cospayer

[self-loathing-angel-of-thursday2]

Beautiful Spouse’s Rewatch Thoughts SPN 08x11 LARP and the Real Girl 

“These titles are giving it away” “Same with all this shit. Can we skip the intro?” 🎶Lord of the Rings🎶

“Who was in the LOTR poster? You would know”

“Are we opening up a rift? Oh it’s As Above So Below except not equal” “These blood splatters man. They’re really funny” “What are we flickin’?” “Is it ever?” “What was that look for?” “I love how he flips right to the tattoo” laughter “what the fuck” laughter

“What the fuck? Texting and murder? That’s a leap” “You’re real good grief counselors. Holy shit” “I suppose..wait a second” “The fuck kind of question is that” “Jumping to conclusions quick” “Someone needs to go to web design school. Holy fuck” “They’re just elves” “That’s pretty fkn extreme dude” “Why don’t you huff some bleach while you’re at it?” “zoom enhance zoom enhance” “They both have arms” The guy who wrote this episode wrote for the winchesters too “How come none of the cops notice the badge shit?” “That’s one hell of a set” “what video game is that?” “That really depends on where in Michigan they are” Farmington Hills isn’t bad

“Oh yeah they’re good then” “Those pants fit a little too well for some random ass pants from a tent” “Isn’t fairy magic always bad?” laughter

Laughter “Jesus Christ” 🎶getting murdered in the forest🎶

“I don’t think it worked” Dean’s having a lot of fun

“No shit. Wouldn’t you?”

Sam wouldn’t be having fun

“Yeah he’s a dick” “Are we in some fairy den somewhere?” “the fuck” laughter

“Oh shit. I’m following.” “to be furious!” “At least it’s a real shield” “That line felt pretty forced” laughter

“It’s a song” “We shall” “He couldn’t have done…oh it’s Dean. Holy shit” “what the hell” “I enjoyed that”

[bobbybutterfly]

Sigh. What day it is of me avoiding updating my fanfic? Look I know no one reads these posts and thus no one cares. I just like LARPing an audience.

Anyway. New OC fellas.

I thought I would take a break today from Saki Sanobashi stuff today. It's very emotionally draining stuff and I have to keep an eye on my mental health. But an idea struck me and I just had to create.

Introducing Rusi (putting the name Lucy into katakana and then back into latin). She's an alt girl. I haven't decided yet if I want her to be punk or goth. Probably a mix of both. I haven't even started writting this story but I already love all my original characters for it. What I don't love is the picture but I can make a new one some other day.

As I mentioned I wanted to make one of the characters that actually gets out the bathroom. I need some hope in my life damn it!

So. About Rusi. She is supposed to be japanese. I think her makeup doesn't show her eyeshape well so you're alright if you mistaken her to be white. She also looks too old to be an 18 year old highschooler. For some reason she reminds me of Meg Ryan. I dunno. As I said I'm not a fan of this picture.

TW: self harm, suicide and bullying

She's a friendly weirdo. I imagine her to be autistic (like me!). She bleached her own hair and done a poor job of it as you can see. She custimized her school uniform as you can't see. She smokes in between lessons and doesn't give a shit about her grades. Years of trying her best ended in her getting burned out and now she doesn't want to do anything but hang out with her only friend (and also her secret crush)...

Quickly googles japanese girl names...

YUKI!

Rusi is a classic case of good girl gone bad. She regulaly does self harm and attemted suicide at least once before she met Yuki. Before Yuki she didn't have any friends so she didn't know that Yuki was actually kind of abusive towads her. The autism didn't help either.

At a certain point Rusi had enough of Yuki's mistreatment and decided to take her own life.

Luckily though she ends up in the bathroom, meets her soul mate, realizes what a bitch Yuki was and lives happily ever after.

Look. I got to go to bed. It's quite late here.

I hope you're taking good care of yourself and Bobby out!

BTW: Rusi is a nickname if it wasn't obvious and about her piereced ears, she has only one pierced because it was too much for her and it was done by Yuki.

[dopepoisonivyoncrack]

I'm like a quincy nun, writing sacred texts on beautifully ornated manuscript pages