Bleachness

Hi guys. First order of business, since the ever-popular Nick Simmons Plagarism Scandal Post has dropped of the first page of this community, I've put a link to it over on the sidebar. No, we haven't heard from Viz or anyone else lately, but when we last heard from Viz, they were encouraging us to continue to post side by side panel comparisons between Incarnate and other works and to make overlays. So those of you who are still interested in doing so, keep that up! Thanks everyone for informing us of places where the Simmons story appears. My son was tickled to hear his mom's fanblog mentioned on thatguywithglasses. I think I'm over my anxiety now of being sued, and I'm no longer having nightmares of being licked to death by Gene Simmons.

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I welcome comments to this manifesto here before I link it to the user page. I could change some things depending on what sort of feedback I get.


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Please note the update post to the community rules here. Fanworks by community members may now only be posted in a Weekend Fanworks Post.

There were some from Nja at 2ch yesterday that were a bit confusing but 69 had something RICH today. Translations are at this post at BA.

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No Bleach next week because of a holiday. ANNIE'S BIRTHDAY. Haha.

ETA MOD POST: oh and now that I've my coffee and fixed the title of this post (Debbie should not type before at least one cup of Community Medium Roast) and read over much of the Bleach offerings from fandom this morning and giggled over a lot of the wank over Kubo's latest volume poem, I want soooo much to jump in feet first to the poetry discussion. Some of you don't know this about me but I'm a poet by profession--yeah, published in various journals, anthologies, used to give workshops and got paid to give readings before I gave up that glamorous life to homeschool my kids. Three degrees in literary nerdom too. Poetry is my turf and one of the reasons I fangirl Kubo-sensei so hard--he's an honest poet and what other manga-ka frames his story with GOOD poems, not the cheesy Hallmark variety but the magical resonant kind that one can turn over and over and each line illuminates the next. My Japanese is poor to non-existent without the help of my fluent friends but even in various translations Kubo's poetry rocks the casbah.

Some of the shipping wank the volume 40 poem has been inspiring amuses me because I admit it, I like to watch wank even though at times propriety and the little voice that goes "Deb, you're a grown-up now" tells me to look away. So many times I'm tempted to call out individual quotes of fan-dumb in here to refute, but then I think eh, don't be a show-off and a meanie. So I leave such exposition to my wittier friends.

In any event, I'm trying to establish a fair precedent here on bleachness --that is, we can and should encourage all discourse about ideas, arguments, even shipping arguments, anything pertaining to the source material but we should avoid personal attacks against individuals in fandom or against groups of fans. Disagreeing is not attacking. Just want to make that clear before people start commenting. I'm going to delete comments that start railing against this or that particular translator or any one specific person in fandom. Bash Hitsugaya all you want--he's fictional and can't be hurt, but as a someone with a fairly tough hide who's been knocked around in a few cyber Coliseum bloodsport tournaments, I'm telling you now--don't, just don't start that stuff here.

Maybe if I get really excited and get some time I'll prove with fancy academics how Ulquiorra's character poem is a traditional love poem. In the meantime, chill, people. It says that Ulquiorra desires humanity and human traits and it very strongly implies that he DESIRES one person, namely Orihime. The poem ALSO resonates with other themes for the Lust arc. The poem doesn't disprove Orihime's lust to be rescued, Ichigo's lust to protect, Loly's envy of Orihime, Ishida's pride of the Quincy, Yammy's gluttony for pieces of Hollow flesh or any other demonstrations of the Seven Sins that were shown in the Lust arc. The poem does specifically use a Japanese pronoun to show Ulquiorra's fascination with Orihime--something that many Bleach fans, including myself (my OTP is IshiHime and I'm still rooting for my archer boy to get the girl) saw years ago and argued to the staunch denial of other fans so that's why there's a lot of celebrating going on. And no, "I lust for everything about you" doesn't mean "I lust for everything you own" and exclude the person. That would be like calling all those lyrics, odes, pop songs and ballads that list a woman's attributes and repeat a refrain like "Every little thing about you" are REALLY written by fetishists who do not love a person but love her actual eyes, breasts or toes. You can't desire something in its parts without desiring its totality. So really, please, nitpickers, if was bad enough when you were going through Kubo's interviews to warp his words into the opposite of what he was saying, but this time, your efforts are laughable.

And that, my friends, was my mini-essay without examples, references, pictures, or paragraphs of support.

I encourage everyone to read the following,a really cool link provided by combandmirror  that may have been the source for Kubo's pissy unicorn and other animal illustrations to represent the seven sins in the endpages of volume 40:

In this wilderness are many evil beasts: the lion of pride, the snake of poisonous envy, the unicorn of anger, the bear of dead sloth, the fox of covetousness, the sow of gluttony, the scorpion with the tail of stinging lechery, that is, lust.
http://www.hermitary.com/articles/ancrene.html

Thank you to those of you who've told me you've received your prizes for the last bleachness contest. At this point, I'm still waiting to deliver prizes to vayshti , annieroo2 , and vesperh . If you're not one of those three people and were a winner in the last contest but haven't gotten your prize yet, please contact me. I'm always a bit scattered but I've been a little extra scattered lately due to extreme RL crazinesses. Those of you not on my f-list who heard me mention in this community that the husband was laid off right before Christmas, well, ha ha ho ho,the university made a "mistake" and he has his job back as we'd hoped. In other news, our seven year old daugher continues to have neurological issues and is scheduled for a routine brain scan. Please keep Sophie in your prayers. If you're Jewish and want to say a Mi SheBerach, her Jewish name is Tsofia Beruyiah bat Devorah v'Gershon.

MODERATOR'S ANNOUNCEMENT: PLEASE do not post hate lists or "reasons why I can't stand this character" posts in this community. Keep those to your own LJs. If your hate lists have particular artistic, humorous or literary merit, someone may end up linking them here eventually, but just don't chance that random bitching is going to be appreciated. I'm all for character-bashing (truly I am! Call Ishida a fag and see if I care!) The only thing that will earn you a ban from this community is if you bash a person by name, but please use common sense when posting and try not to stir up stuff with random character hate posts. Jokes and outrageous comments are fine as long you're not --well, obviously picking a fight with someone. I'll bother you about it if you are.

Also, don't hotlink from Japanese websites. Recently pictures from an IshiHime website were posted. You can see the pictures at BYPASS.


Chapter 318 "Five Pillars, Four Corners" up here now at onemanga.
U.S. scans of chapter 318 are out and you can get them at Bleach Asylum's chapter thread.
The chapter should be posted soon.



Meanwhile, WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME THAT devosama    draws such fantastic RenIshi art? Well, someone (thank you LAURA!) finally did and omg, will you just look at this:



There really needs to be more RenIshi art in the world. I only know of one doujin. T__T. Kaya, who is a wonderful doujin artist, has promised me one but it's on her long list. Oh btw, Kaya drew a sexy Ichigo for his birthday and you can see him here (Ichigo by bananakaya    )

Oh, and it's been a shitstorm for Bleach shippers this week. I'll admit it. I'm a fail!shipper. We all are sometimes. We should try to be fun!shippers and avoid the pitfalls but alas, fail!shipping is as much a part of shipping as doubt is a part of faith and hate is a part of love.
Amen.

Just a friendly answer since so many people keep asking is it okay to post this or that in here--IF IT'S BLEACH-RELATED, IT'S OKAY! Geebers, people, am I that scary? Now, I will remind you that this journal and community started off as my writing journal for my own Bleach fanfic and fanart and that it, bleachness  , along with my website is a primary hosting place for my fanworks, but I also meant for this LJ community to be a COMMUNITY of all things bleachness, that includes discussions, links to others' fanworks, general oohing and ahhing and squeeing and ranting about the manga and anime and voice actors and whatnot.


Ever since MY OBSCENE AND CARNIVOROUS SZAYEL was censored cruelly in this week's anime, I've been taking it out on people's grammar (honestly, dudes, you don't know how much I hold myself back all the time but when you have a BIAS, you are not a bias forum wastebucket, you are a biased forum wastebucket).

Oh yeah yeah yeah, there was a summary of 314 from lovely Annie today. 

I won the IchiRuki essay contest over at BA which makes me feel bad because 1) I was never a hardcore IchiRuki shipper to begin with (just a manga reader who thought the relationship was as obvious as a blue sky) and 2) Annie's going to waste postage sending me the prize when she already just sent me a bunch of presents from Japan out of the goodness of her heart. IN ANY EVENT, never fear, I will scan the IchiRuki doujin I'm getting for the prize and share with everyone andmelodymix will translate it! YEY!