shuffling on this mortal coil

let others praise ancient times, i am glad i was born in these

[tchaikovskyed]

an introduction

KA or kat (she/her)

27, malaysian

using this space to collect aesthetics, inspiration, and to yell about media I'm currently consuming or creating

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(finished) reading Le Morte D'Arthur over at Malory Daily

[pipstr]

DAY 2: Bankai

Rukia's bankai is the most beautiful one for me

[recurring-polynya]

I think one of Kubo's truly underrated design decisions is when he decided that the captain's haori came in SLEEVES or NO SLEEVES options, and that each captain just gets to pick. Like, you can just mentally run through the captains and their choices are all very obvious and correct. There's no easy axis to explain this one, aside from "would like sleeves yes/no?" and it's such a delightfully subtle bit of character-building. This is to say nothing of the fact that Zaraki chose sleeves and then ripped them off.

[recurring-polynya]

it occurred to me that the reason Zaraki's sleeves are ripped off is probably because he's wearing the haori he took off the corpse of his predecessor and didn't like that it had sleeves, which honestly only adds to the character-building aspects.

Now, the only official pictures I could find of Kenpachi Kiganjō are cropped in such a way that you can't tell if he's got sleeves or not. He definitely seems like a no sleeves guy. There are a few fanarts of him that also have torn-off sleeves. Fanartists can do what they want, I kind of assume they didn't have any source for that, aside from Zaraki's haori. The guy two-Kenpachis before him, Azashiro, had sleeves, so I suppose they could all be wearing his. The problem is that Kiganjō was enormous. Like, Zaraki is big, I know, but Kiganjō was 7'3" and 700 lb. I think it's kind of unlikely he's sharing clothes with any of them.

Anyway, I think the actual explanation is that Zaraki did not actually read his captain-onboarding packet and fill out the required forms, so they gave him the default haori (sleeves) and then he had to deal with it. He probably also can't check his gotei dot death email because he didn't sign the Responsible Computer and Hell Butterfly Use Agreement, either.

[tchaikovskyed]

still really baffled by how soul society functions and specifically the idea of them having "noble clans" - how do souls have children? surely they don't give birth normally? the logical conclusion is that they don't, and thus it is now my quest to figure out the funniest way souls can have children and a lineage. perhaps this might involve byakuya emerging from an egg.

[tchaikovskyed]

remember this? well it's a fic now

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@bleach-creator-network @bleach-week 🫶

[mangomonet]

daisy edgar-jones, shot by szilveszter mako for british vogue

[1oracle9-tann]

I very rarely keep up with Bleach but I like some characters enough to keep going back.

[sobcat]

Monday... WHATEVER!!!! WHATEVERR

[tchaikovskyed]

feeling really heartened that almost 12 years later people are still really into hirako shinji and arguably he is a thriving fandom subject... everyone is remarkably united in their love for this annoying loser

[thirtybythirty]

a man and his cat

[bodidarma]

Saint Catherine Crowned by Bartolomeo Veneto, c. 1520 (detail)

[morebleach]

[dykeferatu]

i’m not even that much of a pervert i can just find the eroticism in anything. doesn’t get me bricked up necessarily i just like to appreciate it.

[feenwege]

[tchaikovskyed]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hirako Shinji travels back in time to the very day that Urahara Kisuke gets promoted to Captain of the Twelfth Division. Time travel? Fine, he's not happy about it, but he can deal with that. Everything else that follows? Not so much.

written for @bleach-week 2026 - will hopefully post three chapters this week and then we'll see what happens (how far I can get in reading Bleach so I can actually use canon correctly) :~)

[sergwaynes]

Bleach Week Day 1 - Soul Society

[tchaikovskyed]

I’m writing bleach fics hahahhaha 

[tchaikovskyed]

it is both extremely humbling and also an attack on my very soul to be able to dig so far down into what essentially is my cringe teenage diary here on tumblr. and you know what? unfortunately at this very moment in time,

I'm STILL writing bleach fics hahahhaha

[noxidae]

Enough fanfiction where a guy emotionally neglects his wife because he’s gay. We need more of guy emotionally neglects his wife and then emotionally neglects his boyfriend because he sucks