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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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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.