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[mikansei]

from a doylist perspective i recognize why kisuke - like a lot of characters in visual media - doesn't get outfit changes often. 1: kubo and/or the animators would have to design & draw the new outfit, which would create more work for themselves for no narratively relevant reason, and 2: a single, consistent design gives a sense of continuity, helps with character recognition for the audience & helps with brand recognition for merch (hence: The Hat™).

BUT.

from a watsonian perspective i find it MUCH more fun to believe kisuke simply found one (1) outfit that he liked & bought a dozen identical copies of it b/c damn if that ain't relatable!!! when i have to replace something in my wardrobe i, too, simply wish to buy an identical version of that exact same thing forever! (which the fashion industry has decided is Fucking Illegal don't get me started lmao)

anyway i don't have a good segue but here's my (personal) headcanons:

💚 as per word of god, he's an incredibly picky eater whose favorite food is plain rice, so extrapolating a bit - maybe it's a texture thing. tight clothes BAD shirt collars BAD socks EVIL

🤍 after having his life upended by captaincy & his worldview upended by aizen's betrayal, he craves stability & is allergic to change - so he's chronically, stubbornly unadventurous in certain aspects of daily life. save the experimentation for the lab (and/or the bedroom)! stop trying to get him to wear socks!

💚 his hair covering his eyes, the hat & the fan are all ways to hide his face when he doesn't want to be Perceived - which is not the same as not being literally physically seen, so the hat & fan being so eye-catching isn't a contradiction (to him. he may or may not be aware how little sense this makes to anyone else)

🤍 he emphatically does not care to follow fashion trends - especially since they change so often in the human world. his outfit was perfectly fine & normal in the 1920s thank u very much! what do u mean that was 80 years ago? the '20s were like, last week!

💚 because he was punted out of soul society with nothing but the clothes on his back, some half-dead friends & a hougyoku, he's loath to throw anything away - so he's kept every gift he's ever been given, even if that gift is a really ugly hat. yes he WILL, in point of fact, wear it every single day for the rest of his life, yoruichi-san! (she & tessai have a betting pool. she is not winning)

🤍 the first black haori with white diamonds at the hem was a gift from shinji, hence why it looks like an inverted captain's haori - complete with insignia on the back. no kisuke does NOT realize that it looks like that, and he's bought eight more just like it since. (the visored have their own betting pool. kensei lost 40 years ago)

💚 (also he will not admit it on pain of death but he wears the haori b/c he got used to the dramatic Swoosh of the captain's haori & REALLY missed it. he can have a lil Swoosh. as a treat)

🤍 the fan was a gift from tessai which might make u think it's secretly an iron fan to be used as a backup weapon but it's not. it's literally just a mass-produced party favor made of cheap bamboo & paper. if everything's secretly a hidden weapon there's no mystique anymore! gotta keep 'em guessing sometimes~

#💚🤍💚🤍💚 #i don't really want to put this in The tag but tumblr doesn't have the 5-tag limit anymore so it is just going. where the fuck ever #kisuke #bleach #if the 'bleach' tag is anything like it was 5 years ago it'll be full of photos of dyed hair lmao

[serendipminie]

Picrew Tag Game!

I was tagged by @odeblr to cattify myself using this picrew! Thank you so much, Ezra :)

The blue spots represent the streaks of blue I currently have in my hair! The glasses on my cat self are almost identical to my real ones, so I couldn't not use them :)

I will tag @jongside, @faceglitchsworld, @solaysa, @snoos-tattoos, @seohosincerely, @toxicrevolver, @luvrli, @shadow-of-tea-and-tea, @littlebookworm69, @asoulsreverie and @chronosik only if you want! As always, if you see this and would like to do it too, feel more than welcome!

#tag game #tagged game #picrew tag game #kpop #lovely mutuals #for my mutuals #ezra ❤️ 🍂 #fanny🖤💎 #teresa🤍🌻 #obsidian🖤🎶 #fenris💜🪽 #li 💙🪐 #beedee💙🌸 #savannah💚🦚 #soul 🤍🥀

[jelly-o630]

I think one of the most insane things about being aro/ace is that because questioning amatonormativity is such a common part of this sexuality, I will happily read up on and accept ideas of relationship anarchy. Which makes the community that I’ve found most adjacent to the aro/ace community has been, of all people, the polyamorous crowd. At first glance you’d think we’d have nothing in common but oh my god polyamorous people are just the greatest. It’s like we’re on exact opposite ends of the same wavelength- same thesis, widely different conclusions

#asexual #aromantic #aroace #polyamory #relationship anarchy #aro #ace #pride #lgbt #💜🖤🤍💚 #asexuality #aromantism #arospec #aspec

[spidergvven]

November 24, bisan and kitty still alive 🇵🇸

#free palestine #cats #bisan #gaza #❤️🖤🤍💚

[glitchedcosmos]

* Danny phantom theme playing* he’s an ally~

#the flag is literally his colours of course he loves the aro community #💚🖤🤍💚🖤🤍💚🖤 #he’s not only trans but loves all the lgbtqa wooo #danny phantom art #danny phantom #trans danny phantom #danny fenton #dp fanart #danny phantom fanart #aromantic awareness week #aromantic #aro spec #aro art #aro stuff #aromantic spectrum #aromanticism #digital artist #digital art #my art shit #aro #aro pride #arospec #art #my art #dp art

[coolauntlilith]

Everyone's making Catradora vs Ballister x Ambrosius comparison posts.

All I saw tho?

(Excuse my blinds reflecting on my tv lol)

#its the 'has she/her pronouns but not cis and demanding to be seen correctly' thing for me lol #gender #transgender #trans #it feels so nonbinary or agender to me 💕 #💙💖🤍💖💙 #💛🤍💜🖤 #🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 #aunt posting #the good place #janet tgp #janet #nimona movie #nimona 2023 #nimona

[confetticlues]

you make life beautiful 💐☁️🌱🫧

#self ship #💚​✉️‧₊˚ love letters ˚₊‧🏠🤍 #scribbles! scratches! sketches!

[uncanny-tranny]

It's fine to be loveless as an aro. It isn't the end of the world, actually, and you aren't a threat, nor are you an annoyance. If others feel threatened by your completely loveless aromanticism that says more about them than it does about you <2

#aro #aromantic #lgbt #lgbtq #it's very weird to be in queer spaces that are pro-queer until aromantics (specifically loveless ones often) start to... exist in any way #it can be hard to remember that alloromanticism isn't the norm because there isn't a norm #alloness is an aspect of humanity but it is by no means inherent to your worth or your humanity #maybe i've talked about this before but: i still will say it 💚🤍🩶🖤

[gratefulnez]

The Monkees and The Beatles being friends is something that can be so personal

#the greatest crossover ever (in my opinion) #also I will never shut up about the picture of michael and george #my beloveds #the monkees #the beatles #michael ❤️ #michael nesmith #george 💛 #george harrison #peter 🧡 #peter tork #paul 🤍 #paul mccartney #micky 💚 #micky dolenz #john 🍋 #john lennon #davy 🩵 #davy jones #ringo 🥁 #ringo starr #60s #70s #80s #honey chats

[unreal]

THAT Barbie is AROMANTIC!

#made with online-image-editor com #not aromantic myself but GOD. I really felt it thru her character #aros are encouraged to input 💚🤍🩶🖤 #lgbt #aromantic #aro #barbie #barbie movie #the barbie movie #barbie 2023 #glitter gif #glitter #glitter edit #flashing gif #sparkle #sparkles #sparkle gif #sparkly #aesthetic #my gif #my gifs

[mikansei]

i got tagged by @bleachbleachbleach! hello 👁️👁️

5 things you can talk about for hours without preparing any material:

well. obviously an awful lot of aspects of bleach qualify, lmao.

1:

i love digging into the underpinnings of systems like kidou (why do they call out the numbers? are the numbers part of the incantations? are they part of the actual spells themselves? who numbered them? who created them?), zanpakutou (what does it mean that so few shinigami have zanpakutou spirits whose gender is opposite their own? does it signify something in particular? does society in-universe believe it signifies something in particular?), the ins & outs of how Soul Society, the material world and Hueco Mundo connect to each other (is SS superimposed directly over the earth of the human world, like the Wandenreich was hidden "in" SS, or is it in a physically different place? what does it mean that HM is "between" the human world and soul society? why is HM's moon "in the opposite lunar phase" to the human world's??? WHY IS THE MOON BACKWARDS KUBO 😫)

2:

a particular subset of that is trying to figure out how soul biology works. reiryoku is energy that can be utilized by the soul; we know what produces and regulates the energy, the hakusui (soul sleep) and saketsu (chain binding), which exist at physical points in the body, if not as discrete organs. how does reiryoku circulate? is it analogous to Quincies' blut vene/arterie? are there spiritual blood vessels? nerves? meridians? what's with the "reiatsu vents" that were mentioned in relation to 1 (one) singular kidou spell and then never again??? (i'm imagining them like the pinhole punched thru thermos lids - they have a small but very important job, b/c if they're not there, Shit Don't Work Right)

3:

also obviously, my Blorbo Of All Time, Kisuke 💚🤍💚🤍💚 (the rest of this is under a cut b/c i am SUPER DUPER NOT KIDDING about being able to talk for hours lmao)

there are precious few lines in canon that address Kisuke's backstory pre-TBTP arc, and fleshing out how he and Tessai came to be at Shihouin manor is certainly not an unpopular theme in headcanon and fanworks, but i fear i may have taken it to a very OTT level...

like, ok, listen. listen. if he was from rukongai (a common HC), most people there aren't really from rukongai, they're from the human world, right? so where was he from that he was platinum blond in Ghost Japan? obviously the easy answer is that people from all over the world end up in rukongai indiscriminately - but that wasn't as fun as deciding he was the son of Portuguese traders in Nagasaki during the tail end of the Sengoku era, and during the lead-up to the Edo era's isolationist policies, he was killed and subsequently wound up in rukongai. is that extremely convoluted YES, did that deter me in any way NO. i could not, though, find much information on what the Nagasaki dialect may have sounded like in the late 1500s, which i looked into even tho the fic i'm writing will be in English, not Japanese, and CERTAINLY not late medieval Japanese.

(i also looked up what the imperial era names would've been then even tho they're not going to feature in the fic in any way, shape or form. tenshou, bunroku and keichou, btw. this is taking up valuable space in my brain right next to the permanently-memorized-since-2002 lyrics to Hamasaki Ayumi's Dearest)

4:

FINALLY getting out of the worldbuilding and backstory morass into actual canon events(!!) - i could also talk for hours about Kisuke's motivation and reasoning behind early canon's Hougyoku Plot™ (keeping in mind that it's likely just an artifact of kubo's plot swerve at the end of the SS arc, where he'd probably started out intending Kisuke to be a villain in league with Aizen, and the late retcon meant Kisuke's actions no longer made any damn sense.)

anyway, my favorite element of canon here to play with is that most of what we know about it comes from Aizen's dialogue at the end of the SS arc. so what if Aizen wasn't being strictly truthful? even if he wasn't outright lying, he certainly could've spun things to sound much different, much worse, than they really were - and, of course, in ways that would make Kisuke sound terrible if he tried to explain himself and his actions. maybe stashing the hougyoku in Rukia's soul was never meant to be permanent (he invented the only non-fatal method of removing it himself, after all); it was just a way to keep it close to Ichigo, to awaken & evolve his powers, but still concealed. maybe Rukia's gigai was never meant to turn her fully human (he would recognize the name Kuchiki and know she'd be missed were she to disappear); it simply used a similar composition to Isshin's gigai, so that a shinigami soul with a "dose" of human would balance out Ichigo's hollow.

that leaves room for Kisuke to have still been using Rukia and Ichigo like pawns on a chessboard, so it's not like he's totally innocent and absolved of guilt - but it makes him guilty in a way that both 1. patches the plothole and 2. makes Aizen even more petty, spiteful and dickish, which is delightful to me. it also leaves room for Rukia's powers not coming back after she transferred them to Ichigo to be because of the hougyoku's influence instead of gigai tampering - subconsciously, she wanted to stay in the world of the living, and she knew she could only do that while Ichigo was still taking on her shinigami duties. the consequence of a magical wishing stone that grants desires is that it doesn't only grant the desires you consciously voice (which is ALSO delightful to me).

5:

i love finding ways to explain Kisuke's Weirdness. like, sure, maybe he's just a weird person - but with the power of projection on my side, he, too, can be ADHD and maybe autistic! has trouble making eye contact, so he wears his hair in a way that lets him hide his eyes, and starts wearing a hat and using the fan to hide his face even further! Only One Outfit Syndrome isn't just an artifact of the episodic visual medium, it's because he's so particular about the types and cuts of fabric he wears! his favorite food is plain white rice and his dislikes are "too many to list," for heaven's sake! he just like me fr!!!

as a rukongai street rat transplanted into one of the most prominent noble households in all Soul Society, i can only imagine he and Tessai adopted their default polite modes of speech under relative duress - if they were ever found to be out of line, the "proper" nobles (obviously barring Yoruichi, who wouldn't give a fuck) wouldn't hesitate to put them in their place. in Tessai this evolved into pure formality; in Kisuke it evolved into a mild, polite register that he pointedly refused to make any more or less formal - a.k.a. "just polite enough to piss everyone off" lmao.

also on the subject of speech, i found out where Kisuke's "atashi" comes from!! it's shitamachi ("lower city") dialect, the old working-class dialect of Edo/Tokyo. in TBTP he still says "boku," so he picked it up only after he and the Visored came to the human world (Karakura is supposed to be somewhere nearish to Tokyo) and set up the shouten. as far as i can tell, "atashi" is the only aspect of that dialect that Kisuke uses - other more common aspects, like turning the ending vowel sounds of adjectives into -ee or -ii sounds ("urusai" -> "urusee", "warui" -> "warii", etc.), are actually used in Ichigo's speech to make him sound like a delinquent tough-guy shonen protag, lol. how and when "atashi" went from working-class street hawkers' slang to a feminine pronoun used almost exclusively by young girls, i have no fucking idea lmao... (also i have no idea if canon bears this out in their dialect, but the Ishidas are totally yamanote in contrast, right?? high-class, well-to-do, prim and proper, Old Money™, etc etc - they gotta be!)

one more thing and then i'll actually end this post jdfksjdf but! years ago i saw a post from @saranel about why, at the beginning of the arrancar arc, Kisuke talked about the Visored to Isshin as if he didn't know them that well. obviously the most likely explanation is "kubo hadn't finalized their backstory at that point yet" lol, but filling in doylist plotholes with watsonian pavement is part of what makes fandom fun! and her theory (i can't find the post 😭 sorry) was that Kisuke'd had a falling out with the Visored at some point during their exile - probably, given the Visored's initial animosity toward shinigami, regarding Kisuke using the shop to help the shinigami in Karakura. this is SUPER juicy to me, because i can imagine how shinji, hiyori etc. would've taken it as a betrayal, a backstabbing, from one of the few people in their world they thought they could trust - and how kisuke never, ever intended it that way, probably didn't anticipate it could be taken that way at all, he was just trying to help out - everyone involved is walking away from that confrontation emotionally scraped raw and bleeding, and i am LIVING for it 🥰

i don't have a good conclusion here so uhh. if u read this far pls have a gold star for putting up with my rambling ⭐

#💚🤍💚🤍💚 #bleach #bleach meta #kisuke #kisuke urahara #urahara kisuke #which tag do i use lmao

[povertygoblin]

Safe in Fathers Arms

#mha #afo #all for one #bnha afo #afo bnha #all for one mha #dad for one #white haired izuku #bnha izuku #Kamino ward but DFO edition #Tosses this to my fellow DFO fans like im feeding ducks at a pond 🥰🤍❤️💚 #izuku midoriya #mha au

[putonyourbathingsuits]

"I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe[...]. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song."

Happy Birthday David Byrne (May 14, 1952)

#david byrne #talking heads #my gifs #DBedit #my edit #happy birthday baby I love you #♥️💕🤍🫶😘💓💘💖❤️‍🔥👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨💗💒💟🏩💌👩‍❤️‍👨💝🧡😻❣️💚🖤💛💞💜💙🥰😍❤️ #1k

[synnamonroll666]

THEY ARE ENGAGED?!?! 🤯😱

#mortal kombat 1 #mk1 #mortal kombat reptile #mk reptile #reptile #mortal kombat syzoth #mk syzoth #syzoth #mortal kombat ashrah #mk ashrah #ashrah #I didn't really know what the word meant until I looked it up. 😅 #I'm happy for them both! They both deserve happiness. 🥹💚🤍 #Now to make headcanons of myself worming my way into the marriage. 🤣 #They make me more and more poly each day. 🤭

[learnelle]

Colours of Ireland, France and Lithuania 🌈

#🏖I’m still on an internet break - this post has been scheduled since the 1st of Nov🏝 #three countries that are close to my heart 💚🤍❤️ #light academia #dark academia #travel photography #studyblr #cottagecore #aesthetic #Ireland #France #Lithuania #architecture #farmcore #grandmacore #fairycore

[feverdreamsandlucidnightmares]

In my experience as someone who is aro, the friendships I have with my friends who are polyamorous have always been so good and understanding and fun, and I think a lot of this has to do with how we exist outside the expectations of amatonormativity. I don’t really know how to elaborate on that, but my polyam friends have always been the most supportive of my identity and experiences and I appreciate them so much 💚

#this is based off my own experience so idk if other people have similar ones but yeah #a lot of the monogamous alloromantic people I’m friends with heavily deprioritize friendships when they are in romantic relationships #and that’s fine but it does impact the relationship you have with them #aromantic #aromantism #💚🤍🩶🖤 #polyamory #amatonormativity