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bleachbleachbleach · 6 months

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Hello again, ti's I! I've hit a major stumbling block in my academy calculations (either the seireitei has an astronomical death rate 10x real world examples or I messed up my beginning calculation and have to do the whole thing from scratch ToT) but I have to ask: how often do shinigami stand on air in soul society?!

In the human world that's all they do, in heuco mundo I can think of several examples off the top of my head, but in soul society? I can think of *maybe* one example that isn't filler or film. Their buildings are built on a 2d plane for a people that can move in 3 dimensions. Do you have any memories or screenshots of people running on air in ss? Do you know if there's any explanation?

(Do either of you have memories of irl class exercises that involved multiple year groups??)

[DO YOU REMEMBER ASKING THIS, ALMOST A FULL YEAR AGO? LOL. Trust that we never forgot!]

whipplefilter:

What do we know about the atmosphere?

According to Renji, the Living World has a relatively low concentration of reishi in its atmosphere;

according to Ishida, Hueco Mundo is reishi dense;

and according to Byakuya, so is the Royal Realm.

What do we know about sky standing?

We've certainly seen shinigami stand in the sky in the Living World, no question. Until earlier this year I honestly assumed they could do this anywhere and didn't think about it, and it wasn't until a few months ago it occurred to me I couldn't think of any examples of this! (NB: In the time elapsed since I wrote this, we've gotten 999 examples of shinigami sky-standing in Soul Society in TYBW lol. ALL THE SAME--)

We also have a lot of examples where they are explicitly not sky-standing in Soul Society. Every battle that immediately comes to mind definitely takes place on the ground, to the detriment of the buildings and rooftops. (When I say "every battle that immediately comes to mind" I mean Hitsugaya showing up to fight Ichimaru in socks and Kira, Hitsugaya, and Matsumoto causing roof damage as they tear after each other after discovering Central 46 dead. Rumor has it there are other fights that happen in Bleach.)

The existence of Zabimaru Express also kind of makes it seem like it's not as second nature to sky stand in Soul Society:

[DiamondDust Rebellion]

-> Below the cut, 2 theories about how sky-standing might work!

Renji also ran down all the Soukyoku Hill stairs, which seems like maybe something that wouldn't have happened if he could have simply Tony Hawk'd it through the air.

I briefly trawled some forums that said that Quincy showed shinigami how to sky-stand in Soul Society, and that Vizard sky stand in Rukongai in TBTP, but neither of those things rang any bells for me. I would happily be tagged in someone else's post if you remember either of these things happening, though!

How does sky standing work?

We know shinigami are able to stand in the sky by concentrating reishi particles under their feet. But what… what does that mean…

Theory 1:

In order to stand on air, you need to be less dense than air. If you can gather reishi under your feet and sky stand, maybe reishi is less dense than air. If you gather enough of it beneath you, it can also suspend you. Kinda like… imagine the atmosphere as a liquid, and concentrated reishi like little air bubbles under your feet as you sky stand.

* Caveat 1: Of course, Shinigami are already made of reishi, but they don't float off into space in the Living World, so not all reishi is less dense than air. But I think we're asked to believe that reishi can take on multiple forms/states and cannot be described as any one thing with any one set of characteristics--shinigami are reishi that understands itself to be corporeal: It holds the memory of blood and weight and flesh. Free air reishi understands itself to be free air.

** Caveat 2: I don't think it makes sense for reishi motes to be knocking around with, you know, carbon dioxide and nitrogen and hydrogen and whatnot in the Living World, so I feel like the units of measurement when thinking about density/displacement don't even actually track in exact computational ways. Like, they can probably occupy the same molecule-sized space simultaneously. We know shinigami in their fleshy-reishi state of being can sit on beds and crash into buildings in the Living World, but they can't eat (easier to imagine interaction with a hard surface than it is to imagine the entire chemical process of digestion? if a shinigami was well-studied enough and concentrated hard enough, could they pull off an autonomous process in the Living World??). Regardless, we know there's various and ineffable forms of interaction between the physical and spiritual worlds, so maybe trying to separate them into discrete categories is the wrong move.

My theory about why sky standing might not work as well in Soul Society is because there's more reishi in the atmosphere and less more-dense-than-reishi Nothing, so it's more cumbersome to gather it under your feet effectively.

BUT THEN. THEN. Why is it possible in reishi dense environments?? I'm going to be honest with you, we just watched the whole Hueco Mundo arc (NB: again, this was like, last winter lol) and I have zero memory of anyone sky standing. I'm not saying it didn't happen; I just have no memory of it. I do have memory of Byakuya BUNNY HOPPING THROUGH THE DESERT, which sure is a Choice if sky-running on an even plane was an available option.

And then Byakuya spends a page and a half hypothesizing as to why they can't sky-stand in the Royal Realm:

[Bleach 628]

Something something Quincy blah blah, but the relevant part here is that Byakuya seems very certain that normally they can stand in the Royal Realm, and that this is due to the reishi dense atmosphere. Why he would be certain about this, I don't know, but I don't think he's just freeballing. Byakuya doesn't freeball. Maybe he aspires to be Soul Society NOAA incarnate, and that's why he wants to be friends with Hitsugaya. ANYWAY.

Why would Byakuya's whole spiel here be true? I don't know. If we're assuming it's easier to do in the Living World and not as easy in Soul Society, just based on how often we do or do not see them doing it--this throws a spanner in the works. Maybe they can sky stand in Soul Society, but it's distracting and tedious to sky stand. So if they're not worried about destroying human buildings/killing people, they just resign themselves to destroying the Seireitei on the regular and condemning Joe Shinigami to several lifetimes of new construction.

Theory 2: Solid vs liquid vs gas particle states

ippoddity: This theory requires us to review a bit of high school chemistry. To review, in order of reishi concentration levels, from low to high: Living World < Soul Society < Hueco Mundo = Royal Realm. Somewhat related to the previous theory, we can think about reishi particles existing in different states of matter, which relates to their availability for usage in situations like sky standing.

[particles in states of matter]

Let’s think of the reishi concentration in the Living World as existing in a gaseous state. In this state, particles are in the lowest concentration, because they’re constantly bouncing around in a free state. But, this also allows for skilled reishi manipulators to “grab” those free particles flying around and craft them into platforms to stand on, so they can stand in the air. So even though there’s overall a lower concentration of reishi particles (gas particles floating around in the big ol’ Living World container), they’re easier to scoop up and pack together into a different shape.

In Soul Society, reishi particles might exist in more of a “liquid” state. Meaning they are pretty high in concentration, but not as freely available to manipulate and use for purposes like standing in the air. Since there’s less freely available particles, we don’t see any shinigami sky standing. But for example, as seen in Ishida vs Mayuri, a Quincy can come on by and suck up the liquid reishi particles and craft them for their own use. Maybe there’s some kind of Quincy ability to apply energy to a reishi particle, so that it goes from a liquid to a gaseous state, thus “freeing” it up from the more dense state so that they can use it.

The most high concentration reishi realms are Hueco Mundo and the Royal Realm. Particles are the most dense in a solid state, and in this state, particles are the least available to use. This is why solid shapes are fairly stable and don’t go around changing very much. Solid states like all their particles to stay packed together, so they’re not available to use for other things (like gathering random particles to stand in the sky). If all reishi are in the “solid” state, then they can’t be grabbed and used for other things, like sky standing foot platforms.

I’m sure there are plenty of loopholes and exceptions to this theory, but it mostly holds up, at least until the TYBW arc I think?

Note: This theory is only half thought out, as my knowledge of chemistry and states of matter is loose at best. It probably doesn’t hold up well if you examine it too closely, but maybe you can get the gist of it!

#re: the second half of this ask--#at my united states high school PE class was multi-year--as were things like art and band #at japanese language school the undoukai was multi-year #i wouldn't be surprised if the academy had some kind of showcase that allowed for sparring across cohorts #after all what better way to scout for generational talent #shinigamiology #bleach headcanons #asks #no brain just bleach #zabimaru express

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karltomb · 1 year

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Solares houses are gorgeous, pleasant, ultra-energy-efficient, and low-carbon emitting. Designed to fully utilize the Passive House principle and can run on solely electricity, with no dependency on fossil fuels.

#energy efficient home design #green home design #multi unit

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 6 months

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𝔄𝔫𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔴 𝔚.𝔎. – ℑ𝔱'𝔰 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔗𝔬 𝔓𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔶

#Andrew W.K.#I Get Wet #It's Time To Party #Singer-songwriter #multi-instrumentalist #producer #motivational speaker and “professional partier”#currently based in New York City #New York #United States.#jackass #USA #Power pop #garage rock

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darehearts · 16 days

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good morning why do i hate happiness 🧍🏻‍♀️

#clearly i do bc why else would i decide to do a graphics #overhaul on my multi which i started being on for literally #48 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!! CRIES. rpers who do overhauls even tho #it will kick their butts unite with me on this post!! 😩✌🏻#***oh also my multi is bold1lygo in case yall wanna check #it out im lazy to promo it lol #tbd

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vintagehomeplans · 1 year

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Finland, 1956: Asunto Oy Ritokalliontie 7, Munkkiniemi

A four-unit apartment building with living room, dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms, and a bathroom in each unit.

Extra: This house on Google street view.

Nordiske Småhus by Helge Abrahamsen, 1958. (Oslo, Norway) —from my library

#1950s #finland #multi-unit #apartments

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emmaklee · 6 months

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Ponte City Apartments, Johannesburg, South Africa

ph Ryan Koopmans

#architecture #multi unit housing

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solradguy · 4 months

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I don't have many characters in Granblue that work well together yet because I just started playing so I've just been kinda smashing SSR dudes together into a party and seeing how it works out and I made a REALLY fun one that's like a masochistic glass cannon

Gran - He's kinda my ??? here in this build because there are SO MANY classes to make him that I'm still playing around with them all. But for this party I've got him as Weapon Master for that nice double attack buff, attack damage buff, and HP boost. He's got a dark axe equipped.

Lucio (grand) - His shield/heal ability is sooooo important to this build. Everyone in the party gets 2000 shield and recovers some HP each turn. Some multi attack boosts here too.

Lich (grand) - Oh my god Lich is so much fun lmao. This party's built around her insane mechanic. EVERYONE GETS POISON YIPPEE!!! No healing, but poison and other DOT effects heal the party for the damage they do instead. Somehow Lucio's healing works despite this..? Because the whole team is covered in stink gas, the enemy takes a huge amount of bonus damage at the end of the turn. Juicy.

Fiorito (holiday) - She melts her own face off and does like 6 attacks in one turn it's nuts. She's made out of tissue paper though, so if anything hits her before the healing brings her HP back up she dies lol

This party is super jank and not optimized at all, but I'm having a blast joining raids with it, exploding half my own HP, dropping an evil ghost-themed nuclear bomb, and then crumbling into dust the second anything sneezes in my direction

#textpost #The gacha keeps giving me dark units/weapons lol I have so many dark element things #One of the Percivals does burning damage (which would heal via Lich's ability too) and if I somehow got him I think I'd swap him #out with Fiorito. Her high damage is fun but it's a gamble hoping for the multi attack chance to kick in #She ends up dying a lot lol #At the level I'm playing at right now I'm not too bothered about making a fully optimized team tbh #I've only failed quests twice and it was because I tried soloing extreme difficulty dungeons

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theluckywizard · 7 months

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My illustration of Hawke and Rose Trevelyan for Monday's chapter of In the Shattering of Things, my multi-ship Rogue!Trevelyan long fic featuring Cullen x Trevelyan and Hawke x Trevelyan. Rose Trevelyan is looking melancholic at the Herald's Rest and Hawke is feeling a swell of compassion.

Excerpt:

The Rest, as it’s now affectionately called, hums with conversation, the scrape and squeal of wooden chairs against wooden floorboards and the ambient, wordless musings of Maryden’s lute. To my left there’s a raucous game of Wicked Grace underway between Hawke, Varric, and Bull, a shockingly large pile of coins at the center of the table and an equally shocking pile in front of Hawke. I’m startled to discover that he’s done away with his scruffy beard since I last saw him. He reaches a long arm behind him and drags over a chair for me between him and Varric. But I pretend not to have seen and drift past them toward Cabot who watches me under his great furry brow, appraising the situation.

“Your Worship,” he says. “Can I interest you in a distraction?” As observant as any barkeep should be.

“Maker, yes,” I sigh, propping my heavy, dejected head on my hand. “Please, Cabot.”

A bottle hits the bar beside me but it’s not from Cabot.

“You look like pain personified,” says Hawke gently, low enough that only I can hear. He leans on his elbows, dropping his head sideways to look at me. “Are you all right?”

“I’ll be fine,” I say in such a clipped tone that he turns around leaning back against the bar. Truthfully I’m not really sure I'll be fine. As close as I’ve been to death, I’m not sure I’ve ever felt closer, the recurrent flow of tears practically snuffing out the flame of my soul.

“Whatever it is Cabot is getting you, I can assure you that this is better,” he says, tapping the bottle with his fingernail. “Or if you just need to unload, we could go sit upstairs. You look like you could use it. Nobody in your state should drink alone.”

“Thank you, Hawke. I think I just need to think about other things. Or try anyway.”

“Distractions are my specialty,” he says with a dashing little smile. “Come, my lady, you can watch me take everyone’s money. And then you can give me yours too, if you wish.”

It prompts the barest snort from me and Hawke takes it as an affirmative, gesturing toward the table with his hand warm upon my upper back. I move along with him and settle between him and Varric.

Read the fic on AO3 🥰

#Garrett Hawke #Purple Hawke #Blue-Purple Hawke though #Warrior!Hawke #That's Leandra's scarf #Hawke x Inquisitor #Hawke x Trevelyan #Multi-Ship Fic #Cullen x Trevelyan too but ope #Dragon Age Inquisition #Dragon Age Fan Fiction #In the Shattering of Things #Rose is a hurting unit #Butt #luckywizardart

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