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petronia1) Read TRC up to chapter 88, found raws for the rest. Started watching the Outo Arc in the anime and found it sort of boringly paced, as well as even more strikingly reminiscent of Kingdom Hearts. XD Has anyone else noticed how much the characters drink in TRC/'Holic? They're constantly getting trashed, it's amazing. Isn't this supposed to be a kids' series? XD Sometimes I've felt that North American censors would get a bit twitchy at scenes of sexuality or violence in the anime or manga I follow, but this is the first time I'm thinking it about (often underage) alcohol abuse. Sakura is so the party animal.
Of course, if I were constantly travelling between worlds I'd be sure to sample the local booze everywhere I go, but this isn't aboutFord Prefect me.
2) Three Invitations to a Far Reading, by Joan Houlihan
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supacat. Reviewer blasts several post-structuralist poets, essentially for being hypertext magnet poetry. What's refreshing is that she's discussing rules of composition (i.e. why is hypertext magnet poetry hypertext magnet poetry?), not blanket-attacking currents of lit theory. In fact she seems to accept that this type of writing calls for an alternate cognitive/reading strategy (and provides the most concise breakdown I've yet encountered of what life text looks like on consciously-induced adult-ADHD internets!skim mode), she just doesn't think it's better. More precisely, she thinks it's crap. XD
3) Caught up to Bleach anime. The bright colours they picked for the various bankai make everything look vaguely dorky - and Byakuya's Senbonzakura is pink, which completely lays waste to my ability to take his fight with Ichigo seriously. I mean, if you think about it, it's said to resemble falling sakura petals because it's all these tiny gleaming oval things floating and fluttering through the air, not because it's PINK. Poor Renji, that shit is just emasculating.
Speaking of which--
Ichigo: Bankai!
*whiirrrr*
Byakuya: ...
Ichigo: ...
Byakuya: That can't be it, it's way too small.
Ichigo: Listen asshole, it's not the size, it's how you use it okay.
I can't wait until Andrew and Shawn hit this episode!
I really needed the plot refresher - writing Aizen is hard. XD
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worldserpent posts her views on Bleach pairings. It's a synthesis of what we both think, really, was up til 4AM talking about it. XD I also said that I had the feeling Rukia was largely unaware of how Renji felt about her - if you assume Renji's feelings for her are romantic - because she's just specifically clueless like that as a matter of personality, so to me writing/reading fic in which they're an established couple is the fannish leap equivalent of skipping over 7-9 tanks of a 10-volume shoujo manga. I suppose the corollary is that I would read a good how-they-got-together RenRuki epic if such existed, and I usually don't read stories like that. (Nowadays if you want me to read an epic it had better be gen full-cast adventure/antics.)
I also read IchiRuki but the balance there seems more delicate in some ill-defined way. Many otherwise excellently-written and characterised fics leave me with a sort of not-quite-there ennh feeling (I used to get this with TezuFuji too but not to such an extent). I think on some level I don't want them to get together because it would "ruin their friendship", which has a 95% chance of being me projecting my own RL issues but it says a lot for how emotionally real the relationships in Bleach read to me, and anyhow shipping is always subjective.
What's interesting is that I am instinctively impelled to draw up the following chart:
Ichigo/Rukia --> Urahara/Yoruichi --> Clow/Yuuko
Where arrow represents increase in... uh. Personal power? Self-awareness? Self-realisation, again? XD In all three cases the method of relating is adversarial over and above a deep attachment, but there are differences: it's unlikely that Ichigo and Rukia are going to end up at approximately the same power level, and Clow/Yuuko aren't bound by obligation and choice of loyalty like the Bleach pairings (although they're not presented as constraining in an onerous way). As one moves right I like the pairing more wholeheartedly. I also like Yoruichi/Soi Fong but the dynamic is so unrelated - in the anime it reminded me of those Nobunaga x Ranmaru fluff fics Kristin had me read once XD - that it doesn't even seem to belong on the same diagram, unlike the Karakura Shoujo Polygon.
Eh, I should just give up and write Byakuya/Renji and... and Aizen/Ulquiorra or something. :D;; Except that would hardly reduce the effort of analysis. (The only thing that would cut down on said effort is Ikkaku/Yumichika, because I reckon the 11th Division can't even spell analysis with the right number of y's.)
P.S. In 200 years Yachiru will be grown up and then she and Kenpachi would have to get married, like.
Of course, if I were constantly travelling between worlds I'd be sure to sample the local booze everywhere I go, but this isn't about
2) Three Invitations to a Far Reading, by Joan Houlihan
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supacat. Reviewer blasts several post-structuralist poets, essentially for being hypertext magnet poetry. What's refreshing is that she's discussing rules of composition (i.e. why is hypertext magnet poetry hypertext magnet poetry?), not blanket-attacking currents of lit theory. In fact she seems to accept that this type of writing calls for an alternate cognitive/reading strategy (and provides the most concise breakdown I've yet encountered of what 3) Caught up to Bleach anime. The bright colours they picked for the various bankai make everything look vaguely dorky - and Byakuya's Senbonzakura is pink, which completely lays waste to my ability to take his fight with Ichigo seriously. I mean, if you think about it, it's said to resemble falling sakura petals because it's all these tiny gleaming oval things floating and fluttering through the air, not because it's PINK. Poor Renji, that shit is just emasculating.
Speaking of which--
Ichigo: Bankai!
*whiirrrr*
Byakuya: ...
Ichigo: ...
Byakuya: That can't be it, it's way too small.
Ichigo: Listen asshole, it's not the size, it's how you use it okay.
I can't wait until Andrew and Shawn hit this episode!
I really needed the plot refresher - writing Aizen is hard. XD
4) Also,
worldserpent posts her views on Bleach pairings. It's a synthesis of what we both think, really, was up til 4AM talking about it. XD I also said that I had the feeling Rukia was largely unaware of how Renji felt about her - if you assume Renji's feelings for her are romantic - because she's just specifically clueless like that as a matter of personality, so to me writing/reading fic in which they're an established couple is the fannish leap equivalent of skipping over 7-9 tanks of a 10-volume shoujo manga. I suppose the corollary is that I would read a good how-they-got-together RenRuki epic if such existed, and I usually don't read stories like that. (Nowadays if you want me to read an epic it had better be gen full-cast adventure/antics.)I also read IchiRuki but the balance there seems more delicate in some ill-defined way. Many otherwise excellently-written and characterised fics leave me with a sort of not-quite-there ennh feeling (I used to get this with TezuFuji too but not to such an extent). I think on some level I don't want them to get together because it would "ruin their friendship", which has a 95% chance of being me projecting my own RL issues but it says a lot for how emotionally real the relationships in Bleach read to me, and anyhow shipping is always subjective.
What's interesting is that I am instinctively impelled to draw up the following chart:
Ichigo/Rukia --> Urahara/Yoruichi --> Clow/Yuuko
Where arrow represents increase in... uh. Personal power? Self-awareness? Self-realisation, again? XD In all three cases the method of relating is adversarial over and above a deep attachment, but there are differences: it's unlikely that Ichigo and Rukia are going to end up at approximately the same power level, and Clow/Yuuko aren't bound by obligation and choice of loyalty like the Bleach pairings (although they're not presented as constraining in an onerous way). As one moves right I like the pairing more wholeheartedly. I also like Yoruichi/Soi Fong but the dynamic is so unrelated - in the anime it reminded me of those Nobunaga x Ranmaru fluff fics Kristin had me read once XD - that it doesn't even seem to belong on the same diagram, unlike the Karakura Shoujo Polygon.
Eh, I should just give up and write Byakuya/Renji and... and Aizen/Ulquiorra or something. :D;; Except that would hardly reduce the effort of analysis. (The only thing that would cut down on said effort is Ikkaku/Yumichika, because I reckon the 11th Division can't even spell analysis with the right number of y's.)
P.S. In 200 years Yachiru will be grown up and then she and Kenpachi would have to get married, like.
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Date: 2006-01-03 07:02 pm (UTC)IMHO, more so than in other manga adaptations, the a nime *really* only picks up in the fight scenes...at least when they *let* the fight scenes go on for more than a couple of minutes. And yeah, i couldn't help but be amuzed to no end when Sakura and Fai got shitfaced, prompting Syaoran and Kurogane to flee. Although the single most uncomfortable thing about the Outo arc was actually *hearing* Oruha. She's not supposed to be a flesh-and-blood(-...and voice) character!
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Date: 2006-01-04 03:47 am (UTC)I think you will enjoy the bit where Kurogane and Fai drink seriously, without the kids...
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Date: 2006-01-03 07:58 pm (UTC)That is SO EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING. xD
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Date: 2006-01-04 04:55 am (UTC)Byakuya is all about withering the cock. WITH A GLANCE.
YOU! YOU WRITE GOOD.
Date: 2006-01-03 09:24 pm (UTC)ON YORUICHI, SOI FONG, AND EVENTUALLY URAHARA:
Yoruichi doesn't pine, and she doesn't fall in love easily, if at all, so what she and Soi Fong had together was fleeting, was comfort, was exactly the sort of friendship that Yoruichi is used to ahahaha. I can see her having several of these simultaneously. I too enjoy Yoruichi/Soi Fong, but as you said this is not SOMETHING BIG AND BALANCED, the love+adoration is one-sided.
There is little to no canon proof that Yoruichi is now shacking up with Urahara, but what I like best about this dynamic is that Yoruichi chose him over all of SS, despite what it would do to Soi Fong. (DRAMA ENSUES) And though we're not clear on her reasons, part of it had to be this equality, this partnership in crime and in general badassness. She gave up a lot to be hajnging around the Shouten, eating his food. (DRAMA ENSUES)
WRITE IKKAKU/YUMICHIKA. They are married and gay and deranged and ready to die at any moment but enjoy the fun while it lasts,
Re: YOU! YOU WRITE GOOD.
Date: 2006-01-04 04:51 am (UTC)Urahara needs to get with the explainin', seriously. Mind you it's remarkably easy to write Urahara/Yoruichi with only veiled reference to past drama but it would make it easier if one knew anything AT ALL about said past drama, I mean what if he has a DEAD WIFE or something. If Byakuya could, anyone could.
...Speaking of lack of knowledge, I forgot to mention Gin/Rangiku, which might have something to do with the fact that I wrote 1000 words of it today (I'm as surprised as anyone). I've also got a Yoruichi/Soi Fong on the list, we'll see how that turns out.
Re: YOU! YOU WRITE GOOD.
Date: 2006-01-04 07:05 am (UTC)For instance I want her to do ME.No dead wife for Urahara! Enough past dark secrets as is! Head will! Explode! But for a while there I honestly had a theory he and Yoruichi were married, based mostly on Tesaai's comment about their being "relatives." I don't know what the crack I was smoking at the time was laced with, but it was pretty awesome.
Re: YOU! YOU WRITE GOOD.
Date: 2006-01-05 04:22 pm (UTC)I am trying to write a story in which I put myself in Aizen's position putting himself in Urahara's position. It is Special.
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Date: 2006-01-05 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
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