#knowing the basic premise of Bleach probably helps but i only read Bleach b/c i got obsessed with this fanfic author)

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If we may expand to anime fanfiction as well as gifs I need to add chapter 4 of "between tides" by @recurring-polynya to the collection

Grocery shopping appreciation post 🛒

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my bleach lore is, again, spotty But thinking abt my hollow faves makes me Sad b/c like werent they basically souls that couldnt cross over properly, festered and turned malignant.... then they had to eat other souls to evolve except not all hollows do, its only if u dont lose ur mind and sense of self, and i imagine sheer grief / anger / whatever tortured ur soul enough to be unable to peacefully pass was a major grounding factor that literally kept u going so basically arrancars? masses of negative energy ;( and u got guys that have literal tear marks permanently etched onto his face and doesnt believe in / understand the concept of love or emotions? like dam what is going on here? who hurt u?? and Just as he was abt to Get it, ichigo Kills him via asspull??? and has the audacity to complain and cry about it like "this is not how i wanted to win!11!1!1!!" stfu lmfao why r u screaming IM the one that should be Screaming 🥺

and like nnoitra, horrible guy as he is, literally i feel bad for him cuz remember when nel was like y do u fight so much and he was like cuz i wanna die like ok first of all, mood, but second - that is so sad. like can you really blame any of these guys for being so terrible? the whole premise of their existence is one big dumpster fire amidst shitpot circumstances.

like i read the wiki entry on hollows and yea the espadas and co are technically the bad guys cuz they teamed up w aizen whos not too great, but is it rly their fault tho? 먼저 손을 내밀었잖아. no one else was there. is it rly so wrong to take the only hand thats reaching out to u?? wtf were the shinigamis-the arguably good guys-doing while aizen was sweet talking all these tortured beings. its literally Their Job to help souls cross over into the afterlife and exorcise hollows in the early stages so they can be at peace and Not coalesce into a conglomeration of negative energy. im not saying its on the shinigamis to march into huenco mundo las noches where ever, and start making friends w the hollows or give them therapy or something but like?? isnt it kind of their fault espadas and shit even happened?? please correct me if i am misunderstanding.

also, because the evolved hollows that werent buried / exorcised / taken care of in the earlier stages are too dangerous and strong and mindless, they have to be killed?? what a joke. i mean, not all hollows are like that - nel, tia, starrk, etc - but a lot of them are too lost in the sauce and actively act out on their negative, destructive, and violent tendencies and dont want any "help" which makes sense, honestly, so they Are a Problem, and sending off shinigami to kill off such hollows sure is the easier solution but dam this is not right. arguably, hollows are the victims of a system that has failed them, and its not soul society's fault Per Se, theres problems in Any system but yea idk. what a clusterfuck. absolute god dam bithc of an unsatisfactory situation.

is aizen kinda bad? yea. is he charismatic and manipulative and smart tho? also yea. so it only makes sense that all these wandering hollows would take his hand - the only entity to approach them without immediately wanting to kill (although he will kill u maybe if u for some reason refuse to join him, or even later on when he decides hes done using you) especially if his ideals sorta coincided w their inclination for violence and destructive tendencies... and like nnoitra, u literally have nothing to Do. wandering some gloomy desert with no purpose or direction (which is despair in itself, i would know), with constant threats and dangers all around you, theres nothing to live for? that is so sad. at least when aizen recruited them, they were Organized and it came with some semblance? illusion? of Purpose and Direction.... starrk even literally said the espadas were his first / only companions and he even sorta considered them Friends like boy what? thats not friendship wtf u want to see real friendship i'll show you real friendship. how freakin lonely and full of despair and just plain sad were all these dudes!

remember how in fma, envy and greed basically said homunculi have no real meaningful bonds or friendship and thats what both of them low key desired, to have friends and love and support just like humans... ugh i cry every day thinking abt that and i bet its similar for the hollows too. some of them even banded together and formed loyalties in part, due to wanting that sense of togetherness.. probably... and its also why they probably joined aizen.. idk they might deny it up front but i bet thats all what they low key craved - purpose and companionship - whether they realized it or not. sure, some of them were sort of forced into it to avoid aizens wrath, or for practical reasons, like protection, Or they had their Own Agenda, but my point still stands. plenty hopped right on, and i bet some of them even knew they were just being used but they Still bought into it anyways to feel like a part of anything at all. like u rly think some shinigami approached u w.o his Own Agenda? he rly just wants to be friends? i think not. but they were still loyal af. ugh. so in conclusion hollows are allowed to be evil and bitter and destructive. am i saying its right? no. but do i understand it? yea..... so sad.. my bois....ㅠㅠ