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[Bleach 093]
JOE SHINIGAMI
IM LUV THEM
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I love the idea that all ghosts in SS have some amount of spiritual power
I agree, whether it's canon or not. Though LOL that makes me think about the "reiryoku ranks" that come up like 2 times but no one really knows how the scale works, and I feel like their system of measurement isn't fine enough to capture the average soul's spiritual power so if it were to be measured it'd just round down to 0 on their scale--you know, to reinforce the binary between Rukongai soul and shinigami/Seireitei denizen. In fairness, Joe Shinigami MD PhD who developed the scale was probably doing research about at what point Captain/VC reiatsu would negatively impact the resilience of their roof shingles or start corroding wires or something, so it would make sense the scale would be inadequate in capturing the opposite end of the scale. Underrated (underfunded, understaffed) field of research!!
Kind of relatedly, I will go to my grave telling about the other forms of otherworldly being/spiritual existence that exist in Soul Society that are just as extra to their world ("their" here meaning shinigami, as the dominant culture) as theirs is to ours--in addition to the elements that do fall into a reishi-based understanding of the world, and do intersect with shinigami/Seireitei life, but aren't necessarily fully captured by that system.
I don't personally read bankai negatively (well, Urahara's bankai hack is probably... not ideal, but he and Benihime have certainly got their own thing going, haha), so for me it'd be a both/and--like, you have achieved this personally meaningful understanding of the world/self/world-in-self and vice versa, and also you're a strange bananaspants person. Though admittedly having a predilection for bananaspantsery almost certainly helps in achieving bankai, so maybe our headcanons are not all that dissimilar. XDD
Thank you for this thread!
Self-care for the Soul: Hinamori's Edition
(Or, my 2am rambles on Hinamori that briefly touch on nonviolence while I lightly express some fandom guilt ft. one mention of Frankenstein and some Tobiume hc 🫠 Thank you @bleachbleachbleach for your encouraging words on this post! <33)
TL;DR: Much of Hinamori’s external life has been chosen for her. She thrives at exercising a form of internal non-violence of the spirit, where despite the lack of tools (as a Rukongai soul) and later in spite of the master’s tools (the Seireitei), she asserts her power through choice - choosing to love, defend, create - through which she fights back against the institution that created and enabled the violence inflicted upon her. This is in her nature, always has been since she befriended Hitsugaya to rescuing Hisagi.
"Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings." -Victor Hugo
Sometimes I feel like such a fake Hinamori fan because I worry that my interpretations discredit her character, which isn't what I want at all! With regards to Aizen and forgiveness, I get a sense that the popular belief is that it is in Hinamori's nature or best interest to come to reject everything about their relationship, that she would even hate him, want to enact some form of violence on him. And that's all fine! I mean, anything is believable if you come at characterization from the lens of “what would make a character do XYZ?"….but I just can't help but feel like this is us (or at least me) moving on without her - which is how Hinamori canonically felt post-Winter War (and I would go so far as to say she's been feeling like this for a long time, since before leaving for the academy).
Like, would it help Hinamori to hate everything about him? To reject all of him? What is she, someone who deeply values her relationships and what she gets from them as much as she gives, choosing to leave behind by doing so? So much of her (external) life happens to her: she has to enter the academy because her powers awakened, she was pre-selected to join the 5th division for a plan that started decades before her and would be put into motion a few decades later, and of course both stabbings.
Given this, I think Hinamori is someone who appreciates making a choice of what she's given, often internal, often against the status quo, and gains exactly what she needs. She chooses to befriend Hitsugaya despite the village's rejection of him (and finds herself a lifetime partner); she stays behind to give Hitsugaya a proper goodbye even though it'll make her late to the academy on her first day (to keep Rukongai close which feels especially important given Seireitei wants to neglect, forget what's outside their walls); she chooses to save Hisagi against his orders and years later she can look back and know she's brave); she chooses to defend Renji despite Byakuya's authority and Kira's acquiescence (and realizes that to stand up for what she believes in she may be the only one in the room left). And if she chooses to hold close the fond memories she created with Aizen and the lessons she learned from him, she'll know that under all his power laid her power too.
These choices she made are all born from her internal character and I think that's something she tries to hold onto (even when it feels like everyone is moving on without her, that the narrative is moving on without her, that fandom sometimes moves on without her).
And it's not because of the naivety or delusion that's so often attributed to her. It's this instinct to create, to save, to love, despite the lack of tools (and then in spite of the tools). I don't think it's far-fetched to believe that she, an artist who spends her free time reading (about history and fantasy, about the past and the future) would try to create what she needs, imperfect as it is. Hinamori has always been a "be the change you want to see" type of person.
Unlike Hisagi who fears his power in his own hands, Hinamori fears her power in the hands of others. In a way, it's a rejection of the Seireitei. In a way, it's a rejection of the institution that created and enabled the violence inflicted upon her.
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(Another reason why I feel like a fake Hinamori fan is because I don't think she needs bankai to tie up her arc or to prove/reclaim her power. Like I mentioned above, I think Hinamori does a pretty solid job of reclaiming her power outside of Seireitei's tools. Bankai feels almost like a resignation to me. It's hard to explain without needing 2000+ words and referencing Frankenstein, the internal/spiritual nature of nonviolence of a solider, and elaborating on Hisagi and Kaname because these two are very much part of the same conversation.
But anyways! My Tobiume hc plays into all of this. It's pretty much the same as the rest of the fandom's - some iteration of a phoenix + forest (I love the seagull cry when Tobiume releases and this imagery of being rooted deep in the earth with an expansive sky to soar above this middle space where the man-made sits), but I hc that she's never really been able to see Tobiume. That Tobiume always wants to keep just out of sight, perched high in the trees or a shadow over the sun to keep her wondering because Hinamori is an artist (who once had no brushes), a life-long learner (who once had no books), and I think it’d be neat if her inner world was something she created out of imagination and hunger for somewhere beyond her body and something beyond the constraints of their society. Another poem I associate with her is "Cherry Blossoms" by Toi Derricote:))
#and i love the hinamori question train at the end of this post!! those are some of my favorite things to explore in fanfic#shinigamiology#no brain just bleach#joe shinigami#joe shinigami md phd no less
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Yuki brothers spotted!! (ft. bonus Shino)
#bleach tybw#rikichi yuki#ryuunosuke yuki#shino madarame#in my heart somehow rikichi had at least an inch or two on ryuunosuke. but no#i feel like they did this joe shinigami best-of montage specifically for me (and b3) but then they took the orb charging sequence away???#why do you hate me tybw? what did i ever do to you?#anyway earlier there was a shot of rikichi messing around with his squad 6-branded spirit phone and I KNOW he was trying to call renji#whose phone was at 3% during the initial quincy incursion and quite possibly ended up getting left at the bottom of blood pond hell
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It's too bad series 8 of taskmaster starts off so slow/insufferable because I honestly think the last episode is one of the funniest in the entire show!
#(so far...)#Iain Stirling does tone it down a bit and is less annoying about half way through the series#I also think Joe Thomas and Paul Sinha seem to find their footing half way through and are consistently funny then on#Not to ignore the women I just think they knew their role and were funny since episode one!#series 9 is next.. I think this one is considered pretty good#however this is the only series with a contestant marked RED by shinigami eyes#What a relief that a British panel show only has one notably transphobic contestant! and a couple are even marked green!#They also had nonbinary comedian Mae Martin on for series 15. Neat!#Ah... just went through the contestant list and Frankie Boyle seems pretty miserable despite being marked green..#but hey! only two contestants out of nearly 100 is still pretty good!
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i do not care for any of the sternritters
#i had an easier time sympathizing with the arrancars and those guys were always two seconds away from beating the shit out of some kid#other than the fact that they're cartoonishly evil pseudo-nazis they are all so flat and uninteresting to me besides giselle and uh jugram#character bloat will always be bleach's number 1 flaw to me#we have already have the main cast + the shinigami + every other random joe we met in the story show up in the final arc#too many characters too many UNFINISHED UNDERDEVELOPED characters that couldve used fleshing out but we have to take a detour for every -#- dumb quincy as if i give a shit about any of them#and i am aware plenty of people like them and you do you but all of kubo's attempts to make them interesting fell flat for me#m
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leave me standing in the hall or let me enter?
part 5 of a Dan Humphrey playlist - best heard in order
tracklist and quotes under the cut
Boom Went the Boom ~ Joe Glazer
The wolf don't bother any more He starved to death right by my door
Alien Blues ~ Vundabar
I only talk to dogs because they don't understand me My teeth are yellow, hello world Would you like me a little better if they were white like yours?
Bum Bum Bum ~ Cass McCombs
They say, "Buy when there's blood in the streets Even if the blood is your own" So they employed men far away To turn against their home Centuries in the distant mist But it's not a dream No, it ain't no dream, it's all too real How long until This river of blood congeals?
Brazil ~ Declan McKenna
What have I become? I'm the face of God, I'm my father's son
Hold Me My Daddy ~ XTC
If this means war, why are we in it? Might've fired off a couple of rounds, I didn't mean to begin it. If these are the bullets that every father and son must chew, Well then hold me my daddy, I forgot to say I love you.
Ghosting ~ Mother Mother
I won't make noises in your stairs I will be kind and I'll be sweet If you stop staring straight through me And this is why I have decided To pull these old white sheets from my head I'll leave them folded neat and tidy So that you'll know I'm out of hiding
Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land ~ MARINA
I am not my body, not my mind or my brain Not my thoughts or feelings, I am not my DNA I am the observer, I'm a witness of life
Don’t Shut Me Down ~ ABBA
I'm fired up, I'm hot, don't shut me down I'm not the one you knew, I'm now, and then combined And I'm asking you to have an open mind (and I won't be the same)
Something In My Eye ~ Matt Berry
But here I am Grown I've come so far Alone I count the days Until I see you again
How Soon Is Now? ~ The Smiths
How can you say I go about things the wrong way? I am human and I need to be loved Just like everybody else does
My Own Worst Enemy ~ Lit
It's no surprise to me, I am my own worst enemy 'Cause every now and then, I kick the living shit out of me
Freakin’ Out On the Interstate ~ Briston Maroney
I'm walking back to my favorite place And I can feel them staring at me Baby, do you think I'm doing something wrong? And you got a lot on your mind And your heart, it looks just like mine
Kiss Me (I Loved You) ~ Father John Misty
I loved you I heard everything about you And maybe half of it was true
Arms Unfolding ~ dodie
hope i'm not tired of rebuilding cause this might take a little more i think i'd like to try look at you and feel the way i did before.
You Only Need You ~ Tom Rosenthal
You'll get me if you need me and you'll be fine if you don't You said it was arranged by love You have a lot of love to give out
Hello Stranger ~ Julia Holter
If you're not gonna stay Please don't tease me like you did before Because I still love you so
Night Terrors ~ shinigami
Growing up time moves faster than I can Sick and tired of lying to myself I cannot fucking stand this I'm sick of fucking standing On my own, on my phone
Mad World ~ Gary Jules, Michael Andrews
Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me, no one knew me "Hello, teacher! Tell me, what's my lesson?" Look right through me, look right through me
3 a.m. ~ Gregory Alan Isakov
give me darkness when i’m dreaming give me moonlight when i’m leaving give me shoes that weren’t made for standing
Everything Is Free Father John Misty
Everything I ever done Gotta give it away Someone hit the big score They figured it out
Rest Awhile ~ They Might Be Giants
I got rid of my jackets and coats I threw out all of my pants I got sick of my stinkin' clothes I had to get rid of them I'm not yet considering replacing them I'm only glad to be rid of them
Daddy Sang Bass ~ Johnny Cash
singin' seems to help a troubled soul one of these days and it won't be long i'll rejoin them in a song
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I got the shinigami eyes but it shows when someone's gonna get pregnant. I look at Joe
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I CHOOSE VIOLENCE!!! no. 4 - 6?
4. what was the last straw that made you block someone?
oh man it actually doesn't take much for me to block someone. if I find you mildly annoying (for whatever reason-- most of the time that has to do with me, and not you), you're getting blocked. the fastest that I ever blocked someone was when they showed up as red in my shinigami eyes extension. lmao. bye terf.
5. worst discord server and why?
I don't really join discord servers because of some past trauma involving group chats and stuff. I really just prefer one-on-one dm-ing. So, I don't really have an answer to this one, sorry.
6. which ship fans are the most annoying?
lmao. a very specific variety of webgott fans. the kind that liked to woobify web (like? why? why would you grind him down and remove all the parts of him that make him interesting? don't you want this stupid, pretty man to be INTERESTING?) at the expense of joe (gonna be forreal. it was borderline antisemitic, their characterization of him). I swear they were so. they were so annoying about it. they're not active anymore, they were in 2020, but they, I kid you not, hopped on other people's posts (usually folks who voiced that they found didn't really want to post about Web bc he just wasn't a personal favorite) to belittle them for the henious crime of... having an opinion that didn't match theirs?
oh I am getting dangerously close to just naming who these people are HAHAHAHAAH not like they'd care or even see this. I have them blocked, so 👀👀👀
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MY F/O INTRODUCTIONS
ONE PIECE
Monkey D. Luffy
Roronoa Zoro
Sanji
Usopp
Nami
Kiku
Yamato
Naruto
Deidara
DBZ
Vegeta
Fairy Tail
Gray Fullybuster
Erza Scarlet
Laxus Dreyar
MCU/Marvel/X-Men
Stephen Strange
Natasha Romanoff
Steven Grant
Marc Spector
Loki
Sylvie
Rocket Raccoon
Logan Howlett
Charles Xavier
Gambit
Anne Marie (Rogue)
Wade Wilson (Deadpool)
Cassandra Nova
Scott Summers
Agatha Harkness
Rio Videl
Vision
Your Turn to Die
Keiji Shinogi
Nao Egokoro
Rain Code
Fabuki Clockford
Halara Nightmare
Shinigami
Black Butler
Grell Sutcliff
Sebastian
Aot/Attack on Titan
Eren Jaeger
Reiner Braun
Hange Zoe
Levi Ackerman
Erwin Smith
Floch Forster
Connie Springer
Mikasa Ackerman
Doctor Who
11th Doctor
12th Doctor
BTTF/Back to the Future
Emmett Brown/Doc
Disney
Elsa
Rapunzel
Aladdin (live action)
Woody
Jessie
Buzz Lightyear
Ariel (live action)
Prince Eric (live action)
King Magnifico
Tarzan
Cinderella (live action)
Prince Kit
Judy Hopps
Nick Wilde
CSM/Chainsaw Man
Kobeni Higashiyama
Aki Hayakawa
Quanxi
TWD/The Walking Dead
Rick Grimes
Negan
Maggie Rhee
JOJO's Bizarre Adventure
Jotaro Kujo
Polnareff
Joseph Joestar
Mista Guido
BTVS/Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Willow Rosenberg
Rupert Giles
Spike
The Last of Us
Joel Miller
Ellie Williams
Steven Universe
Pearl
Lapis Lazuli
Jasper
Gravity Falls
Stan Pines
Ford Pines
Legend of Korra
Korra
Mako
Kuvira
Asami Sato
The Mummy
Rick O'connell
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox
Bleach
Shinji Hirako
The Bad Guys
Mr. Wolf
Gintama
Gintoki
Corpse Bride
Victor
Emily
Victoria
Invincible
Nolan Grayson (Omni Man)
Cecil Stedman
The Boys
Billy Butcher
Homelander
Mortal Kombat
Cassie Cage
Mileena
Jade
Li Mei
Kuai Liang (mk 1)
Lui Kang
Life is Strange
Chloe Price
FNAF
William Afton
Harry Potter
Remus Lupin
Sirius Black
Severus Snape
Lucius Malfoy
Bellatrix Lestrange
Newt Scamander
Queenie Goldstein
JJK
Toji Fushiguro
Blue Lock
Shoei Baro
Fall Out
The Ghoul
POTC
Elizabeth Swann
Will Turner
Barbossa
Jack Sparrow
Tomb Raider
Lara Croft
Jacob
MHA
Toshinori Yagi (All Might)
Shōta Aizawa
Kai Chisaki
Thriller/Horror
Patricia
Victor Frankenstein
Lee Harker
Joe Goldberg
Love Quinn
Familial f/os
Billy Maximoff
Steven Universe
Anne Boonchuy
Zuko
Gabi Braun
Finn Mertens
Denji
Harry Potter
Shoto Todoroki
#self ship#poly self ship#self ship community#self insert#self shipping#self shipping community#f/o community#f/o x s/i#f/o#ollie don't look
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do you have your own zanpakuto concept if you were a shinigami?
Alas, we do not! Self-insert is really far beyond our ken; it's not a way either of us have ever personally interacted with media, so the prospect of having a zanpakutou has never occurred to us! But if we did, my co-blogger landed on the real answer here:
Let's be real, if I were to somehow become a Shinigami, I'd probably be one of those Joe Shinigami that don't have a zanpakuto manifestation lol // Omg that's so real. Same
But I do enjoy reading about other people's OCs/self-inserts when they post about them on Tumblr. Do you have a zanpakutou?
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tagged by the always wonderful @shinigami-thighs to post the soundtrack from a movie that comes to mind with one of my favorite actors/actresses. 🥹
I don’t really have a favorite actor or actress, so I went with one of my favorite directors/studios!
I dun really have anyone specific to tag for this one, but if you see this and want to participate, consider yourself tagged!! ^.^
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Good morning, happy Thursday, who wants to read a fun idea I had about giants in Soul Society?
So! I was reading this @littleeyesofpallas post about wuxing symbolism and was particularly struck by this passage in a section about the gate guardians:
There is no central guard but conspicuously Kirinji's name comes from Qilin, but apparently according to official height he's actually not nearly as tall as Kubo's drawings always made him seem. Not that he was on the same scale as the gate guardians even then...
No, I said to myself, of course not. He's powerful enough to control his size, because I was thinking of the part where Grand Fisher claims Isshin is too small to defeat him and Isshin responds with a lecture on soul reaper lore:
Now, bodies are not swords, but maybe the same mechanic applies! It certainly applies to Hollows. Earlier in this same scene, Kon mistakes Grand Fisher for a Menos Grande, and Grand Fisher is insulted by the comparison, but it's the same thing. Menos are huge and scary, but when they become Arrancar, they shrink down and become scarier. [Aside: I think this is why the Yammy-is-secretly-Espada-0 reveal doesn't quite manage to hit. It goes against the lore Kubo has been laying down for ages]
On a meta level, this is just a shounen storytelling tactic where X is an indicator of strength, but then later on, it's like "Reverse Uno! Not-X is the real indicator of strength!!" That's exactly how this zanpakutou-size thing is used when it's first introduced.
Exhibit A: Renji, a court jester, being impressed by the size of Ichigo's sword:
Exhibit B: A handful of issues later, Urahara, an intellectual (lol), sets us straight:
Genre convention or not, I think it lends itself some interesting world-building. Among low-powered people, size is impressive, but as you scale the ranks of power, it's kind of pathetic. Weirdly large people are like the petty bourgeoisie of Soul Society power dynamics.
But that's actually the perfect niche for a gatekeeper! In general, your typical Joe Shinigami is going to be able to take on just about any rando from the Rukongai, but maybe not a particularly strong ryouka. Ganju was able to take on Yumichika, after all. A single shinigami wouldn't be able to take on a planned rebellion, like in the Bount arc, and they've got to, like, sleep and stuff. The Gotei could, in theory, have an entire gatehouse and a gate patrol, etc, but that they are perpetually short-staffed as-is. Instead, how about one medium-powerful gatekeeper whose size makes them well-suited for fighting groups of people (or siege weapons), and who is going to be intimidating overall?
Furthermore, it's implied that Jidanbou isn't actually a shinigami. He wears a shihakushou, but his axes don't seem to be a zanpakutou (he doesn't release them and is distressed when they are destroyed). His neighbors offer this comment on him:
It's not quite right, though: after all, many shinigami are from Rukongai, including Gin, who is the reason Jidanbou is being healed at the very moment this panel takes place. I think what this guy means is that Jidanbou is of Rukongai, which is to say not of the Seireitei.
So what is he, then? Here's my big idea: I think that the gigantism in Soul Society might actually be a reiatsu-developmental disability! It's always been my impression that growth, especially for powerful people, happens in fits and spurts, rather than linearly, and that furthermore, big changes in growth tend to coincide with developments in reiryouku. Somewhere, either in childhood or adolescence, someone's spiritual pressure grows more quickly than their control over it, which results in their body growing uncontrollably. They become very powerful "physically", but their strength is all in their mass/reishi, which takes most of their spiritual pressure to control. This may end up limiting the upper end of power they are able to achieve and some cases means they get cut off entirely from the other forms of power used by shinigami (connecting to a zanpakutou, kidou). I think this might be especially common in children from the Rukongai, who lack access to education and training. I can also imagine it leading itself to cautionary tales in the outer Rukon that if you feed your hungry children too much, you'll end up with a giant on your hands.
This offers one explanation to why Jidanbou is a giant and his brother Jiroubou is large, but not remotely on the same scale (the Souls Data Book lists his height at 7'7" vs Jidanbou's 32'5"). There are a handful of other shinigami of larger-than-human height, which could be a milder form of this, or it could mean that some sort of special training or medical intervention helped keep their growth manageable. I think you can squeeze in a lot of interesting character insights into this headcanon, from Hachi (8'5"), who perhaps worked exceptionally hard in an effort to control his power and ended becoming incredibly skilled at kidou as a result (interesting that he, too, is not actually a shinigami). Or Oomaeda (6'11"), who gets by a lot on his family's wealth and clout, but is definitely on the weaker end of the lieutenant power scale. In his case, his large size kind of speaks to his entire "thinks he's classy, but is really just gaudy"/can't-even-tell-how-outclassed-he-is-by-his-peers deal.
Then, as a counterpoint, you've got Hitsugaya: immensely powerful from a young age, and one of the hallmarks of his character is how in-control of himself he is, down to having developed an actual visible power bar for his bankai. Whether this is some effect of his personality, or whether it's an intervention on Hyourinmaru's part, his growth has been choked off as a side effect. He's the direct opposite of Jidanbou, who additionally seems somewhat childlike in personality (crying over his axes, for example, or his attachment to his extremely dubious "rules of the city"). To me, it's very sweet that their friendship might have roots in opposite expressions of the same reiatsu-growth-fuckup.
Much in the way that the Shiba use some sort of magic that's distinctly different from shinigami-kidou, I guess I really like thinking about other ways power might manifest itself in Soul Society outside of the shinigami-industrial-complex. And also the way the Seireitei may or may not try to control those powers."Guard this gate!" they say. "We won't actually let you live in the city or give you city wages, but you can have a cool outfit and, uh...do it for the exposure?"
#soul society worldbuilding#gate guardians#jidanbou ikkanzaka#soul society inventing new forms of ableism that are only accessible at the highest level of power. incredibly on-brand for them#toshiro hitsugaya#hachigen ushoda#marechiyo omaeda#this may or may not be relevant to zaraki (6'8") but that guy is in his own category#werewolves are also their own thing but i wonder if their size firmly predisposes them towards the 'melee' side of things#not sure we ever saw komamura do a kidou and his hex chart rating was p low#ngl even tho it's a little silly later on i LOVE it when the characters in early bleach have no idea how the worldbuilding even works#rukia-doesn't-know-what-a-quincy-is i am looking at you#like it's not graceful or anything but learning how the world works is a thing that goes along with character and power growth#it underscores how 'young' characters like rukia and renji are even though they are old by human standards#and also how soul society is not. uh. committed to the ideals of the free spread of knowledge and education#i just think it's neat! my favorite lil dystopian afterlife!!#the reason i read that wuxing post is bc i woke up this morning and missed troius and went to go scroll thru his blog and it was there#troius i miss youuuuuuuuuuuuuu i hope you're having a great day
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I wanted to think about the different, increasingly specific ways TYBW would affect Soul Society in its aftermath, especially the Joe Shinigami (and these guys weren't even true Joe Shinigami! they had seats and names and shikai! but who isn't a Joe Shinigami in the face of the Sternritter army). I love a Joe Shinigami any day, and I really hadn't thought all that much about him prior to writing that fic, but Katakura Asuka (and his extended family lol) will always hold a special place in my heart now!
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#soul eater#spirit albarn#lord death#shinigami sama#manga#shounen#atsushi okubo#atsushi ohkubo#joe buttataki
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Upside down Hoshi-dork Hoshino 😏
Just so you know, I definitely appreciate Joe Zieja now. Judgment happens to be the first thing I know involving him and when Fire Emblem: Three Houses happened, he's so into Claude. Even the upside-down meme 😂😂😂
#joe zieja#voice actor joke#judgment#judge eyes: shinigami no yuigon#judge eyes#project judge#issei hoshino#hoshi-dork#fire emblem: three houses#claude#claude von riegan#upside-down claude#funny memes#also i've seen upside-down joe zieja#might as well put hoshino upside-down#fire emblem
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