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Aaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!! I need more SasuIno content. They're literally my comfort ship!!!!!!! It's so frustrating looking for new content and seeing stuff you've watched/read a 100000 times guys please don't tell me I'm the only one still in this fandom 🙁😵😵😩💔💔💔

Is there SasuIno week???? Do I have to create one 👁👁

Would you guys be interested in SasuIno week?

Orihime appreciation

Because my virgo queen deserves love

Hmm NAH, I disagree with that last anon on some points. The first boy and girl introduced ARE always the first/and almost obsessively shipped, and they just so happen to be ones that bicker- mostly because the girl is the tsundere character archetype. Plus, the whole shipped because they bicker means that IR isn't even special- not one bit, because Ichigo bickers with A LOT of other characters- and what do ya know? He gets shipped with THEM too. Like Uryu, Grimmjow, and Renji.

Yeah, the "bickering couples" thing doesn't fit with Ichigo because he tends to bicker with everyone anyway lmao. It's much more interesting that Orihime is one of the only people he doesn't do that with, which makes their dynamic so much more unique and calls into question why he softens when he's around her.

So I think it just depends on the series, because there's always going to be different characterization/archetypes/narrative themes/etc.

My whole thing is that I think the Bleach fandom in general had a really warped sense of the set-up of the ships. Like, they saw it as a sort of love triangle, pitting Orihime and Rukia against each other to see who would "win" Ichigo's love, because, in their minds, Rukia was the obvious choice, so it was fun to dog on Orihime because of that, to laugh at how badly she failed in comparison, to treat her feelings for him as a joke or a waste of time. To portray Orihime as the obsessive ditz who relentlessly chases after Ichigo but doesn't stand a chance because he's already madly in love with Rukia. Literally, so many of their posts/essays I've come across over the years argued that very point: that Orihime and her feelings for Ichigo only existed in order to fail, to further prove how amazing IR was. It was more satisfying for them to envision Orihime as the big-breasted whore who chased after Ichigo and tried so desperately and pathetically to win his love while he only had eyes for Goddess Rukia--and of course, Orihime would be so bitter and despise Rukia as a result!!!

...But that's so backwards from what's actually canon?? lmao like, Orihime never made it a goal to get Ichigo to like her back, she never once thought to herself "I'm going to marry him one day/if I do this maybe he'll ask me out"--No. She didn't care about "winning" him for herself, all she cared about was that he was happy and safe. That's why she cries when he cries, feels pain when he feels pain, and then the pain stops when she knows he's not in pain anymore. Even in her own love confession, she doesn't wish for a lifetime where she is Ichigo's wife/where Ichigo will love her back (because she doesn't want to force her feelings onto him)--she simply wants (or knows) that she would love him in every lifetime, regardless of whether he returned the feelings or not, because she loves being in love with him! And even still, she keeps her feelings to herself, and never expects anything from him in return, nor pressures him to reciprocate.

And even when she acknowledges how important Rukia is to Ichigo, and even when she admits to being jealous--she still doesn't resent Rukia for it. She turns her feelings inward and blames herself, instead. She never takes it out on Rukia. On the contrary, she still cares about Rukia so much, still becomes closer friends with her just a short time later after confessing those feelings to Rangiku. And after Orihime goes through her low point of the arrancar/HM arc and develops into a stronger, more resilient character, that jealousy is never spoken of again, because she realized she had no reason to feel that way in the first place.

Meanwhile, Rukia is so supportive of Orihime. She's so supportive of Ichigo and Orihime as a couple--drags Ichigo to her side for him to make the vow to protect her, and then sighs and watches adoringly as Ichigo and Orihime share a cute moment after the Aizen battle.

There is no love triangle. No Rukia vs. Orihime. No bad blood, or vying to win Ichigo's heart. Just people within a nakama group who all care deeply about each other.

I've gotten WAY off topic here, but basically, the tldr is that I think people had a really distorted view of Bleach, and assigned certain tropes where they just didn't belong or fit with the actual story or relationships/characterization.

Quite a while ago someone on Twitter noticed that Cloud was slowly raising his sword when saying this line…

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