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Would You Like Some Salt With That?
May. 26th, 2017 03:13 pmI've been reading a lot of people's blogs lately. I don't know if this is a product of my pen-palling, but I find myself more and more drawn to the stories of people's lives and their various takes on things. This morning I ended up reading a mini-rant someone posted about a ship war in the Tokyo Ghoul fandom, and that inspired me to write my own mini-rant about the Trials and Tribulations of Being a Queer Otaku. I don't have anything particularly brilliant to say, but, what the heck, this is what blogs are for, right?
When I posted it to Facebook, a friend of mine came on and poked at the open wound that is my relationship to the ending of Bleach. She didn't do so intentionally, she just casually mentioned that she was find with Renji ending up with Rukia at the end because, for her, "it felt right." I don't even necessarily disagree, but in going back and forth with her, I realized that I might have been a lot better with that particular pairing (which absolutely had a foundation in canon, at least on Renji's part,) IF ANY queer couples had survived in tact. ( Read more... )
So, yeah, I might be less bitter about RenRuki--which I have always supported, even in my super gay fan fic--(I always make Renji bi), if the other queer characters in Bleach had not been so poorly treated.
But no one cares about that, but me.
In other, non-fannish news, Mason is expected home late tonight. I'm looking forward to hearing all the stories of Anaheim. I did find out that their team did NOT place at the competition, but Mason had not expected them to, so he didn't seem the least bit disappointed. In fact, he kept say, "It was so much fun!" I'm super-glad that we have somehow instilled in him this attitude. It will serve him well all his life, IMHO.
We're packing to head off to LaCrosse tomorrow early. Poor Mason will land sometime around midnight and then be bundled into a car around 7 or 8 am the next morning (or same morning, if it's after midnight, eh?) But, as I told him, he can sleep in the car.
It's nice enough out that I mowed. I have to say that--knock on wood--the yard is looking half-decent this year. Now I just have to keep it up, which is always the struggle, isn't it?
When I posted it to Facebook, a friend of mine came on and poked at the open wound that is my relationship to the ending of Bleach. She didn't do so intentionally, she just casually mentioned that she was find with Renji ending up with Rukia at the end because, for her, "it felt right." I don't even necessarily disagree, but in going back and forth with her, I realized that I might have been a lot better with that particular pairing (which absolutely had a foundation in canon, at least on Renji's part,) IF ANY queer couples had survived in tact. ( Read more... )
So, yeah, I might be less bitter about RenRuki--which I have always supported, even in my super gay fan fic--(I always make Renji bi), if the other queer characters in Bleach had not been so poorly treated.
But no one cares about that, but me.
In other, non-fannish news, Mason is expected home late tonight. I'm looking forward to hearing all the stories of Anaheim. I did find out that their team did NOT place at the competition, but Mason had not expected them to, so he didn't seem the least bit disappointed. In fact, he kept say, "It was so much fun!" I'm super-glad that we have somehow instilled in him this attitude. It will serve him well all his life, IMHO.
We're packing to head off to LaCrosse tomorrow early. Poor Mason will land sometime around midnight and then be bundled into a car around 7 or 8 am the next morning (or same morning, if it's after midnight, eh?) But, as I told him, he can sleep in the car.
It's nice enough out that I mowed. I have to say that--knock on wood--the yard is looking half-decent this year. Now I just have to keep it up, which is always the struggle, isn't it?