When it never just rains....
Jun. 9th, 2012 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owned_by_a_catReal life can be a bitch! Truly. Even when matters go well, there tends to be a kink somewhere. Moving jobs, house, county and - finally - deciding to ditch job altogether and set up my own business all add up to RL fun activities. But they also effectively killed the writing muse. Fiction and non-fiction alike. For far too long. I suppose, writing all day long for a living just does that.
Then someone introduced me to Bleach. And fanfic. And the muse started to sit up and take notice. I've never really been a fangirl. Actually, I haven't written fanfic in over 20 years when I borrowed Mr Spock for a story I can barely remember but can probably find if I dig in the attic. Manga, though, is a completely different issue. It seems to take root in my brain. And the amount, scope and quality of Bleach fanfic available is simply breathtaking - to the point where it wouldn't suprise me if I never wrote another line.
That's not how it works, though. While Bleach prompts me to drabble, Brave 10 got me plotting and playing. There's actually a story in there, of a short-tempered samurai, a crazy redhead and some past. And then, when things were going so well,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
baroqueangel caught my attention with a Soubi/Ritsuke drabble... and now I'm reading Loveless by the stack! And before my Brave 10 story is even finished.
It just never rains...
Then someone introduced me to Bleach. And fanfic. And the muse started to sit up and take notice. I've never really been a fangirl. Actually, I haven't written fanfic in over 20 years when I borrowed Mr Spock for a story I can barely remember but can probably find if I dig in the attic. Manga, though, is a completely different issue. It seems to take root in my brain. And the amount, scope and quality of Bleach fanfic available is simply breathtaking - to the point where it wouldn't suprise me if I never wrote another line.
That's not how it works, though. While Bleach prompts me to drabble, Brave 10 got me plotting and playing. There's actually a story in there, of a short-tempered samurai, a crazy redhead and some past. And then, when things were going so well,
baroqueangel caught my attention with a Soubi/Ritsuke drabble... and now I'm reading Loveless by the stack! And before my Brave 10 story is even finished. It just never rains...
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Date: 2012-06-09 09:31 pm (UTC)You should also check out the anime. It's only twelve episodes, but it's worth it if only to see Soubi animated. *sigh*
I have to practically make myself work on my original stuff sometimes, lol. Fanfic is a definite drug. :-)
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Date: 2012-06-10 04:10 pm (UTC)I've started watching anime while doing the ironing - the one household chore I really hate - and last weekend I started on Loveless. It's so beautifully put together, I'm just in awe. And confused why it stopped?
Needless to say, not much ironing was getting done.
Soubi in a high-necked top, slinging spells around... yes, definitely worth leaving the ironing for.
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Date: 2012-06-10 09:20 pm (UTC)I would LOVE if they at least did some sort of OVA or something to bring things to speed, especially now that things have progressed so much in the story. Plus, I can never have too much Soubi in my life. <3