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moonwise ([personal profile] moonwise) wrote2006-03-08 12:28 pm
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Bleach-y ranty things and other schna

I have a nice new fashion accessory for the next 24 hours - a Holter monitor. After my father's scare in January and my mother's heart arrhythmias, I figured that getting a baseline wouldn't hurt. The nurse scrubbed the electrode attachment points with what felt like Brillo, so my neck is a world of ouch. :P

All three of my spanky new Love Drop doujinshi arrived within the last 24 hours. OMG pretty. But, I have to say that "Grey Rain" is kinda boring, maybe not so much if you can read it, but I can't read it.

Oh, and House last night? Let the shipper wars begin, because... yeah. The Odd Couple, anyone? Speaking of which, I'm going to "Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital" aka Frist Campus Center + Princeton U. Infirmary + Molecular Bio Building today for my friend's FPO.

Okay, so silly anime ranty stuff.



I've seen posted on several Bleach comms some disgruntled posts about how they feel the Ichigo/Renji angle is being played up in the filler eps. To which I reply, ARE ALL YOU ASSHOLES HUMOR IMPAIRED? First, teenaged boys communicate primarily by punching one another. It doesn't stop when the teenage years end, either. If you do not know this, then you must have put your head in a bag during high school.

Second, the animators writing the filler arc KNOW that there are slashers out there who like the idea, and they're having a little fun with it. How hilarious was it when Chizuru watched the two of them fighting with one another and muttered "Forbidden love!" It was VERY hilarious, that's what. You just know that Chizuru went home and wrote some RPS about it. See? Funny. However, fandom seems to have trouble with funny as a general rule, as evidenced by Vash's alcoholism.

Maybe I'd take the whining more seriously if Renji weren't so completely hung up on Rukia and if Ichigo had even of the vaguest clue which side of his dick to stroke to get it to work. I'm just feeling bad for poor ol' Ishida, who's warming the bench until the anime catches up to the manga.

Speaking of Renji, Rukia, and Ichigo, if you managed to get over the enormous Cheese Factor, wouldn't Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" make a great AMV for the three of them? I think so.

I did see the other day that a fanficranter got annoyed over the portrayal of our boy Renji as a dumb lummox, to which I sayeth "word." Renji is only dopey in one aspect, and that is his relationship with Rukia. Like most humans of the male persuasion, he does not know how to communicate with humans of the female persuasion, and so he puts his foot in his mouth. It's very cute and angsty, and it makes that moment in Ep. 70 where he crashes through the window all the more adorable.

It occurs to me that if Renji and Ichigo lived in the same neighborhood, they would probably have an ongoing war over who has more/better power tools, something along the lines of Tim Allen's grunting routine.

Okay, so that's all for now.

[identity profile] jaina.livejournal.com 2006-03-08 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Word to the Bleach rantiness. Dude, the fact that they used Chizuru as the "omg teh gay love" perspective character should say something--she's one of the most ridiculous characters. Maybe some of these are just too worried that their precious series about hot men banging each other with giant phallic symbols might seem a little too gay. (Though I completely agree with you re: Ichigo's dick. You made me sporfle out loud!)

I think that would be a fun amv. Cheesy, yes, but fun. You know, here's another area where Ichigo and Renji kind of match--Renji isn't dumb about his feelings for Rukia, just about what to do regarding them. There's no epiphany of love o anything, he already knows. Whereas Ichigo is kinda clueless about his feelings in general, but he at least knows what he should be doing.

[identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com 2006-03-09 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe some of these are just too worried that their precious series about hot men banging each other with giant phallic symbols might seem a little too gay.

You know, for all the yaoi potential in Bleach (and there's plenty of it) I see about as much het as yaoi in the doujinshi dept.! And a lot of the yaoi is the Allancar crew banging one another, which vaguely annoys me because it reminds me of a certain someone's comment that it's OK for characters to be gay as long as they're the bad guys. Of course, the hentai is nasty as anything, and I would never touch it b/c I'd feel like a child molester.

I'd make that AMV if I had any skill at all, seriously. :D
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[identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com 2006-03-09 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
He should ask Kon, he seemed to have figured out more uses for it while Ichigo was in SS.

I was SO hoping they'd animate the manga version of Ichigo's return home, but alas, I was disappointed.

Pandering to teh evol slashers, pssssh. More like "acknowledging that the slashers exist, and giving them something to grin about."

Did you find the rant?
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[identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com 2006-03-10 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Bah. Evils of yaoi, whatever. Bleach is a fun series in that no matter what the pairing is, you can find some kind of subtext for it... well, except maybe for that one Orihime/Kenpachi fic I found that exploded my brain just from the summary. O_o
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[personal profile] ghostfire 2006-03-09 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Not that I'm very far in Bleach, but the idea of an anime character writing RPS amuses me to no end.

[identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com 2006-03-09 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm waiting for the little coda at the end showing Chizuru posting her fic. XD
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[identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com 2006-03-09 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Renji's a dork, but he's a smart dork! Which makes him a nerd, which means we love him more. It's also shown in the anime that he gets very good grades, whereas Rukia tends to flunk her exams.

Yoruichi/Urahara/Soi Fong OT3! And wasn't that valentine just the cutest thing? I squee'd.

Aizen: you should update your icon to "evil uses hair gel." :D
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[identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com 2006-03-10 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds funny - I went looking for it, but I haven't found it yet.
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[identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com 2006-03-10 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Spasibo!

(I think that's right...?)