Polynya

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Alias(es):	polynya, recurring-polynya
Type:	fan writer, fan artist
Fandoms:	Bleach
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URL:	at Archive of Our Own at Tumblr FF.net (secondary)
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Polynya is a fan, artist and author who has been creating content in the Bleach fandom since at least 2019. She mostly focuses on RenRuki but also makes content for other ships and gen content.

About using her OC's, headcanons and recursive fanfiction/continuations of her work, Polynya states:

If you ever want to throw Polynya-verse references/OCs into your stories I would love that. You have blanket permission, you do not need to ask, but please, please, let me know, so I can read it? I have all these Squad 6 assholes, you can have them. Oh, and if someone ever wanted to make me fanart or playlists or moodboards, here’s your permission for that, too, I would lose my marbles.

Sometimes people ask to do continuations or expansions of my work, especially stuff from my short fiction collection. I usually say yes, but I do appreciate being asked first, because some of it I do have vague plans to do something with in the future.

polynya - Profile | Archive of Our Own, ^{Archived version}

Polynya often illustrates her own stories and creates fanart for other people's fics and Bleach fandom in general.

Notable Fanworks

Fanfic

See also POLYNYA FANFIC MASTERPOST, ^{Archived version} for a mostly-up-to-date index of the author's works.

• The Heart is a Muscle ([1]), a slow-burn RenRuki series that explores the development of their relationship in between big events in canon.
• Portions for Foxes([2]) a RenRuki canon divergence fic in which Byakuya dies in his battle with Äs Nödt.
• Squad Six is Jerks and other stories, ^{Archived version}, anthology of shortfics featuring RenRuki, other ships,and gen stories about either Ichigo's high school friends or the Gotei-13. Featuring a variety of AUs and tumblr prompts.
• a little in love now and then, ^{Archived version}, a RenRuki comedy of manners story, Hisana lives AU
• Brothers in Arms, ^{Archived version}, a gen fic about Uryu and Chad (and, indirectly, the rest of the high school friend group)

Fanart

• Inktober 2019 retrospective, ^{Archived version}
• Happy Birthday to the sweetest boy!, ^{Archived version}, fanart for Chad's birthday, 2020
• masterpost of all the illustrations from Call Me Back When the War is Over, ^{Archived version}, which are from the fourth installment of The Heart is a Muscle
• fanart for @kazeshini-s​, ^{Archived version}, specifically their fic The Epic Highs and Lows of Ghost Hunting, ^{Archived version},
• part 2 of RenRuki Knight x Princess art, ^{Archived version}, 2022

Other

• fanfic recs, ^{Archived version} tag on Tumblr.

Fanart and Recursive Fan Content

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

• [PODFIC] Not Broken, Just Bent, ^{Archived version} -- podfic of the first installment of 'The Heart is a Muscle', created by sakizar