26/ she/her/ bi Author of the Bleach: Revisited Series, Nocturnal Waltz, Crux and other stuff. Professional procrastinator and casual bastard. She/her. Bleach Fanfiction Writer.
Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.
People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"
Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.
I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.
Fully formatted and laid out, with custom fonts for texting and Ichigo's 'fanmail'. Cover art is once again by the talented @peppertea💜 Link for zero-profit purchase is below the cut!
If past experience is any indication, some unhappy soul will report the link, despite my not taking any profit for this whatsoever. To combat that, I will update this link periodically if it is taken down. Shoot me an ask if it happens!
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Fate Unchained Hardcover
“apologist.” “critical.” y’all are doing too much. when my favorite characters do evil reprehensible shit I simply don’t fucking care cause it’s not real
reblogging because it feels relevant again after episode 5 lol
I have no idea how popular this opinion is, or if it is said often enough, but Bleach should have leaned in more to the Horror aspect of its supernatural theme.
Back when I started watching the anime, there were a lot of earlier episodes that actually kinda spooked me a bit (I was a kid when I watched it, so the Hollow screams scared me a bit, ngl). Then, after the whole Soul Society arc, it lost that horror edge in my opinion. It only ever really got it back more in the TYBW arc, and I think that's a shame.
Imagine how much more horrifying Aizen could have been. Imagine the true terror and despair the readers could have felt in the Ulquiorra and Ichigo final fight. The horrors that lie in the dark shadows of Las Noches, the things that lurk on the streets of the outer Rukongai. I mean, there was soooo much room to make it a bit more terrifying. I would have loved a more scary Bleach.
I know that in the anime, they censored a lot of the gorier parts of the fights and the like, but gore does not always a horror make. It should have been a bit more existential, but instead, there was more of a focus on battles. On individual fights. And that's not a bad thing necessarily, and it's not that Kubo lacks the ability to write fascinating and interesting philosophical stuff in his work.
It just should have been more horrifying.
Which might be why I'm dying for more Hell Arc. It looks like it has the potential to satisfy that itch I have. The strange and unusual decay in already corrupted souls. The despair of good captains being dragged to hell for the crime of being too powerful. A small child being able to drag souls there.