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petroniaThere is Bleach manga this week. (I am so sad.) 'Tis only fighting. But 'tis cool fighting.
...I like shounen manga battle. But I like shounen manga battle in ten-chapter doses, so the scene plays out at something approaching RL speed in my head. One shounen manga battle serialized over the course of ten weeks... not so much. Obviously I should've gone on to another series while letting the Bleach chapters pile up so I could read them at once, but that would require self-control on my part.
Clarifications re yesterday's dorky fan meta essay:
1) The bit about privileging pairing or character, expanded upon in comments. It's a bit chicken-or-egg, really, in the sense that if you tend to like characters for "OTPish" qualities (ex. nurturing devotion, big-R Romantic obsession), they can't have those qualities unless they're 1/2 of a pairing anyway. XD Whereas if you tend to be attracted to uncaring geniuses or Machiavellian villains...
2) Didn't explain the difference between the Bing'n'Becky examples and the Nat'n'me examples, although I was nebulously aware there was one. In the former case you generally have to switch premises when going from one pairing to another (you are either reading a TezuFuji or a TezuRyo unless you are reading a fic in which Tezuka actively chooses Ryouma over Fuji or something and that is the premise of the story), in the latter you generally don't because the OTP can be said to have an open relationship, even if it's only in an intertextual sense. That is, it wouldn't matter much to X if Y went off and slept with Z so why should it matter to me. =_=
...I like shounen manga battle. But I like shounen manga battle in ten-chapter doses, so the scene plays out at something approaching RL speed in my head. One shounen manga battle serialized over the course of ten weeks... not so much. Obviously I should've gone on to another series while letting the Bleach chapters pile up so I could read them at once, but that would require self-control on my part.
Clarifications re yesterday's dorky fan meta essay:
1) The bit about privileging pairing or character, expanded upon in comments. It's a bit chicken-or-egg, really, in the sense that if you tend to like characters for "OTPish" qualities (ex. nurturing devotion, big-R Romantic obsession), they can't have those qualities unless they're 1/2 of a pairing anyway. XD Whereas if you tend to be attracted to uncaring geniuses or Machiavellian villains...
2) Didn't explain the difference between the Bing'n'Becky examples and the Nat'n'me examples, although I was nebulously aware there was one. In the former case you generally have to switch premises when going from one pairing to another (you are either reading a TezuFuji or a TezuRyo unless you are reading a fic in which Tezuka actively chooses Ryouma over Fuji or something and that is the premise of the story), in the latter you generally don't because the OTP can be said to have an open relationship, even if it's only in an intertextual sense. That is, it wouldn't matter much to X if Y went off and slept with Z so why should it matter to me. =_=
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Date: 2006-01-23 01:12 am (UTC)Desire vs. self-realisation:
http://worldserpent.livejournal.com/154903.html
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