Weekend Fanworks Post

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Weekend Fanworks Post

 

The co-maintainers and I here at bleachness have heard you via polls and PMs and to answer the majority of members we’re instituting a Weekend Fanworks Post starting this coming weekend, February 5, 2011. Here’s how it works:

 

1. Fanworks—that includes fanfic, fanart, icon posts, AMVs and MMVs, food art, you get the picture—can only be posted on the weekend in the bleachness  community by community members under one general weekend fanworks post. Any member may start the post and on either day of the week—for example if no one has started a fandom works post on Saturday then anyone may start on Sunday. Whoever starts the post is please asked to tag it weekend fanworks post. There will be no fanworks post made on other days.

 

2. There is only one weekend fanworks post. Each fanwork (or a series of your own fanwork) is linked to the one post in a comment.  If you’re a member of capslock_bleach , then you know how these member posts work: one person makes an entry on wtf Wednesday and members add their contributions in the comments.

 

3. The exceptions to the weekend fanworks post are as follows:

 

a)      deebie’s work. This community started as a repository for my own fanwork and my fics are listed in the tags. I don’t cross-post my work anywhere else so I’m going to continue to post my stories and (bad) arts when I finish them.

 

b)      gifts to deebie.  This community has always been characterized by impromptu gifts and that’s part of what makes it fun. Now we know that I have particular tastes and so gifts to me may be Ishida-ish or pairing specific (RenIshi, IshiHime, IchiIshi) or sometimes it’s a fandom comic but as I’ve always said, this community has a flavor and it’s never advertised itself as a generic forum. Pick up any news magazine and it is characterized by its editors. You don’t expect The National Review to be like Mother Jones and even anime/manga forums outside LJ have their style (e.g. Bleach Asylum doesn’t allow hate clubs; Bleach Exile allows death and mutilation of characters in hate clubs). I’ve always loved surprises and personal gifts on the community. Art drawn specifically for me gets a treasured place on my website too. <3 Love me, please.

 

c)      long essays.  Essays are considered a form of fanwork by some, although essays are meant to stimulate discourse. Here, we’ll consider them both fanwork and discussion but consider them exempt from the weekend post. PLEASE NOTE THIS NEW RULE: While discussion topics and short paragraphs meant to encourage discussion may be posted any day of the week, long essays (such as those referenced with manga panels, footnotes to Freud, the DSM IV, major or minor works of literature—you get the picture) should first be cleared with me before being posted; please PM me, _debbiechan_ [note the underscores before and after my user name] so I can gauge the essay’s appropriateness for the community.

                                                           

d)       announced contests.  If you want to announce a contest on this community or have an idea for a contest to be held on bleachness  , please check with me or the other mods (aizome , vayshti  , nehalenia  , karenai ) via PM.

 

 

 

I’m still thinking about a fanworks rec post to coincide with the weekend fanworks post. Stay tuned.

Please feel free to ask questions. I'll update the user info with a link to this post.

ETA: THE NEW RULE: You can make personal fanwork recs in the fanworks post too. Now, go ahead, rec away, add links to your own artwork and feel free to ask members for suggestions to particular types of works you’d like to see or for links to those arts/fics you can’t find anymore in comments/subthreads to the weekend fanworks post.

 

New ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D CD cover

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warning: shipping

The new CD cover for the ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D song for the anime ED that had IchiRuki fans heats a-thumping amuses me. It's a predictably IchiRuki cover alright buuuuut ... well, look:

( what's Orihime doing thar? )

The ED was the talk of the fandom--shippy stuffs in Bleach usually are. ( #4 most discussed vid in film/animation Japan and other YouTube stats)

I do wonder if Hime's presence there isn't a deliberate ship tease. No doubt some parts of fandom may read that Ichigo may be looking at Rukia but his heart and the song belong to Orihime XD while the majority will read the cover to read like the famous 4chan post:

( Friendzoned )

Meanwhile, Valentine's Day is coming up--think that Sensei will give it a nod? Last year we got that pretty spread of the boys and their chocolates. The year before last we got Rukia's dewy-eyed "beauty of the heart" color page. The official release date for the next chapter in Japan is Feb 14 and so far there's no announcement of a Bleach color page, only that a new manga will have the lead color page, but I'm so hoping for a glimpse of Orihime hard at work making chocolates for the customers in her shoppe! Or do you think we'll get a Riruka love page? XD

Finally, a couple days ago Sensei retweeted a very cute tweet in which a sixth grader (in an earlier post I'd mistakenly identified her as six yrs old) made put in a question to an advice columnist about how to confess. There was a long answer in whichshe was told that she should know what love is before she confesses. Her love was compared to the feeling she has toward favorite foods or the feeling of sunshine.

Anyway, I do think it's interesting that Sensei seems to be considering the nature of love lately. XD As a perennial shipper, it gives me hope for squee material. I found it interesting that Ichigo seemed to realize that he wasn't "in love" with his Shinigami badge, merely "fond" of it--while Riruka, given her girly penchant for LOOOOVING things (and wanting to be "crushed to death," lol, by them) made them into minatures. Surely Ichigo feels more seriously about his Shinigami identity than Riruka feels about his "hotness!" Maybe this is a commentary on how girls can discount and trivialize something as serious as love. If so... *looks at dolly collection and goes ouch* Maybe there's more to Riruka. After all there's more to me than my dolly collection! *glances at Ishida-lookalike hubby* XD

ETA: Shippiness continues. <3 More about the CD from the IR FC at BA. Translation by melodymix  from infos on the site:

ROOKiEZ is PUNK'Dの新曲は、初のラブソング。ただ一人の女性を守るために、もがき叫ぶ男の心境をストレートに表 現した感動の一曲に仕上がっている。 ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D's new song is their first love song ever. The song has been completed into a very emotional piece about a man who is struggling and screaming his emotions out in a very straightforward manner, in order to protect one woman.

Bleachfest Spring 2011 is Open

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All pairing, all prompt, all ages bleachfest is now open for business. Don't know what a fest is?--click the Introduction Post. Already know what a fest is but what to know how this particular one is going to go--click the General Info and Rules link. And if you already know what you want to prompt--click the prompting post.



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