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piece commissioned by @/shantlvs & @/_catteeth_ on twt

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Car ride with Lady vs with Dante 🎶🐤 || (Extra 🔥)

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I think they would've been friends

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Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei

Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best

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im so tired on everyone sucking marlon brando’s dick for his like 15 minutes of mumbling in Apocalypse Now when martin sheen is out here popping his whole pussy for 3 hours and 15 minutes

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that one uncle that dont play about his nephew

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I could be a good mother

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IchiRuki Transcends Romance

I want to finally give a formalized account on my interpretation of IchiRuki and the ending of Bleach.

Ichigo and Rukia’s relationship in Bleach is one that “transcends” traditional romance. It’s clearly apparent throughout the series that IchiRuki is the most well developed relationship, with those two having the most interesting character dynamic and on-panel chemistry. Kubo himself chose to focus on this bond the most, starting with their initial meeting with Rukia giving Ichigo his Shinigami powers to kick off the entire story, all the way up until the last chapter where they are still featured as the focal point.

We can see here it is implied that despite being married to other people, Ichigo and Rukia still consider each other to be the most important person in their respective lives. So why is it that they did not end up together? I believe Kubo deliberately had them NOT end up married to each other to emphasize the fact that their relationship goes BEYOND that of a typical romantic one.

I want to start off by saying I strongly disagree with the way Kubo decided to end the series from a pairings standpoint. Having said that, I want to point out some of the things I believe he was trying to convey.

Bleach is a Shounen manga first and foremost, which means romance was never going to be the focal point and Kubo has stated himself in multiple interviews that he does not want to focus on romance. However, that doesn’t mean that he would not put emphasis on important relationships between characters. Kubo likes to go for a sort of “Star Crossed Lovers” trope where two characters have strong, albeit not outright romantic, feelings for each other, but yet will be separated by the circumstances. We saw this with Gin/Rangiku where Gin dies just as he reveals his true intentions and feelings for Rangiku

and with Ulquiorra/Orihime where Ulquiorra fades away just as Orihime has finally made him realize the meaning of “The Heart”.

Kubo is very effective at writing these types of scenarios which create a sort of sad yet poetic vibe.

He does this in part, with Ichigo/Rukia as well, with their separations, firstly when Rukia decides to stay in Soul Society to repair her past relationships after Ichigo rescues her

and then again after Aizen’s defeat as Ichigo is losing his Shinigami powers.

The way these events are framed to show the magnitude of the moment indicates that Ichigo and Rukia consider each other to be the most important person in their respective lives. Of course then it would be extremely out of character for Ichigo to marry Orihime and Rukia to marry Renji, if marriage is to be considered the strongest form of a bond, which in the context of Shounen manga it is not.

Kubo has stated in interview that he considers Ichigo and Rukia’s relationship to be one that is more than friendship but different from that of lovers, which is not to say that it is less than that of lovers. Kubo had wanted to develop a unique, one-of-a-kind relationship for Ichigo and Rukia that carries more significance than traditional romance.

That is why in the final chapter it is still Ichigo and Rukia’s relationship that is given more attention in contrast with their respective marriages. I believe Kubo wanted something more for these characters, and so by deliberately having them married to other people but still putting the focus on their bond, he is emphasizing that what they have goes beyond the traditional romantic relationships they mysteriously developed with Orihime and Renji respectively.

Again, I don’t agree with the decision to do this, as I think it would have been much cleaner and a lot less convoluted if Ichigo and Rukia had just ended up together romantically, since anyone who paid attention would already be able to realize that their bond is much deeper than any typical superficial Shounen romance, but given what we got, this is the way I interpret it.

Another reason why Kubo may have ended the series the way he did was to have Ichigo and Rukia’s kids meet each other, paralleling the way they initially met in chapter 1. This is one of the things he was obviously trying to go for with the titles of the first and last chapters both being “Death and Strawberry”. And I think that it further enhances my interpretation as he wanted to show that Ichigo and Rukia’s bond is one that transcends time and persists across generations.

This idea is one that Kubo has hinted at before. A quote from this color page:

“When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.”

And at the end of the Fade to Black movie which he was involved with the production, Ichigo drops this quote: “If death really isn’t the end of everything, then that first time we met might not have really been the first time. For all we know, we might have been connected from way before that. I’m not really sure, but I think maybe once a bond is formed it can never really disappear. And if that’s the case, even if we forget everything, we’ll all be connected again somewhere in the future.”

I believe the intention here was to show the timelessness of Ichigo and Rukia’s bond, and that it will persist even after they are both gone. Once again, I think that it would have made for a much cleaner ending if they had just ended up together, but given that Kubo did not go that route, this is the only way I can make sense of the ending. Anyways, that’s the end of my ramblings and I hope this made at least a bit of sense.

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rewatching atla after like 10 years and zuko is so insanely pitiful

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Imo, atla has a bittersweet ending

Aang is sitting alone and wearing the air nomads clothes, his culture clothes, a necklace similar to GYATSO's necklace. I can't even imagine the emptiness and sadness he was feeling here

There are no airbenders in the crowd

All nation gathered..... except the air nomads.

No one else in the crowd wearing orange or yellow.

Aang won the war, but his people are still gone.

Yes, he has the Gaang, he has Katara, he has Momo and Appa. But he's still the last airbender.

This is so heartbreaking.

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Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

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I have tears in my eyes

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Some Bleach portraits

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