The Bleach Asylum thread is here

There's an announcement that there will be no Bleach the following week. *smiles knowingly*

lennan translated the spoilers beneath the cut

( spoils )

Ishida on the spine! He's really doing the bishounen thing.

( Pretteh pretteh pretteh )

So I had a request-basically for a friend on DA to do an IshiHime family pic, consisting of IshiHime toddlers. A boy that looks like a mini Ishida with Orihime's hair and eyes...and a mini Orihime with Ishida's hair and eyes....and I was VERY pleased with Panianime's results! She made it even cuter than I could imagine!!!!!!


I LOVE IT SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!


http://pamianime.deviantart.com/art/Ishihime-family-153195803

Here is the picture...enjoy teh epic cuteness!!!!!!

Title: To Follow Her Light
Author: Minerva
Pairings: Renji x Rukia (unrequited), Ichigo x Rukia, Renji x Byakuya
Rating: PG
Word count: ~720
Warnings: none.
Summary: Because of her, he was reaching higher than he'd dared to dream.


( this way to the fic )

Wow, thank you all so much for your feedback. Usually about 80-100 people participate in my useless polls but this last one may have been deemed not so useless after all because at last count, over two hundred people had participated. That’s roughly twenty percent of the membership of bleachness  . That’s a fairly high participatory rate--it’s been my experience with forums, fanclubs, and comms that most members are there to read/lurk, they are not there to comment or contribute or even check ticky boxes. Nonethess, the number of people who delurked to participate in this poll heartened me because I really did want your imput (I’m always curious about you quiet ones).

Thank you too for those of you who send private messages of support or took time to leave detailed honest comments in that Bleachness Feedback Day entry. The comments are already scrunched up by LJ’s formatting and I’ve decided not to reply to them all individually but to write this post in response to what I’ve heard from bleachness  members.

First, I’m glad to hear that an overwhelming majority of members are here for the discussion and that most members are happy with the character of the community as it is. That’s what I figured even though I’ve always been fully aware of members’ concerns and I’ve always had this or that problem myself with how this community has been developing in the past year.


1. I’m going to clarify the bleachness rules and guidelines to incorporate some of what apparently helped horusguard76  (her post here) understand the character of the community better. Namely this subthread here (Jenni, you should really be my lawyer). I’m also aware that, roughly, at least ten percent of those polled have expressed dissatisfaction with this community. Given that anywhere you go there’s going to be complaining and given that lately just about every BLEACH online site you go to is going to be complaining about the manga and its fans, I find that percentage reassuringly low. Nonetheless, I’m aware of what the concerns are--tone of discourse, tense threads not being diffused promptly or insults not being moderated well enough, too much repetition of shipping agendas. I’ll see what I can do about these issues.

2. I personally have had no issue with people posting fic and art throughout the week without my prior authorization or blessing, but I have considered that as the community grows, this might get to be a problem or may even change the nature of the comm. Even though other places like kurosaki_clinic  exist for bleach fanworks, I really like people sharing their stuff here. The poll shows people like it too. My co-maintainers and myself are going to discuss having a “one day a week only” event during which members can pimp their own fanwork or rec other fanworks in the comments section of one mod-posted entry. This idea came about because of this subthread in the feedback post. Any further ideas on this subject are welcome, but ultimately it’s my decision. Stay tuned.

3. None of the mods want to disable anonymous comments. Most of the anonymous posters here have been wonderful, and I’ve made some wonderful personal contacts from people who did not have LJ accounts and who first contacted me via anon post on bleachness . Because of the heavy trolling atmosphere of the Bleach fandom, though, anyone posting anon and making a challenging statement can be expected to be greeted with some suspicion by myself as well as the general membership; you may be only wanting to have discussion but you may be accused wanting to incite wank. There’s an explicit unfairness here to anon posters, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles. I may add this caveat to the bleachness rules and guidelines

Lastly, of all the hundreds of PMs and comments I read this morning (I started at 4 a.m. and wasn’t through by breakfast at 7), this one made me the happiest. If this community changed even one person’s mind about Orihime’s character, I’m all rainbows and sunshine today.

Please feel free to continue to add comments here or to the Bleachness Feedback Day entry about your thoughts and feelings regarding this community and always feel free to contact me, _debbiechan_ or the other modsjaina and karenai .

Title: Inconsolable
Genre/Pairings/Summary: 11th division shenanigans/Can "What is this I don't even…" be a genre?
Rating: This is pretty PG.
Note: I swear I wrote this with the Valentine's Day contest and prompt in mind. So I apologize for the distinct non-Valentine's-ness of the whole thing.

( Yumichika was inconsolable. )

( About Feedback Day )


Poll #1522243 BLEACHNESS FEEDBACK DAY POLL
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 239

I read this community because (check all that apply)

The character and personality of this community

What I'd like to see more of in bleachness is

What I'd like to see less of in bleachness

debbiechan should

My experience in bleach fandom includes (check all that apply)

In the interest of this weekend not being a wanky one because if it is, oh dear this weekend will be extremely annoying, I have a question I want to ask people. Anyone who has an opinion, go ahead and contribute it; if you disagree with me, let me just say: that's fine.

Question: Are Hollows inherently flawed? And by that, I mean that by their very definition and from their very creation, is there something that has doomed them?

I'm curious partly by my own conclusions from Bleach and partly by a very heartfelt comment from utahimelorelei on the volume 43 entry that said this, referring to the deaths(?) of Starrk and Lilinette:

Goodnight, you poor lonely souls. My heart breaks for you.

These pictures once again make me question the true "righteous" and "good" status of Seiretei and its captains. I already subscribe to the thought that they're more prejudiced and indoctrinated than right, but more and more, Kubo is proving this to me as well.


( whoever you are, what do you think? )


- Do you really think Aizen has Hollow powers? Gin?
- is Hollowification genuinely the way to break the upper limits of shinigami godhood?
- related: if that's the case, should shinigami power up?

- Should Hollows and by extension Espada continue to exist as they are, or should they just learn to be vegetarian?
- Is Zommari right? Is it not okay for Shinigami to "purify" Hollows?
- is there any "right" or "wrong" existence? Is the assumption that Plus souls have it better inherently flawed?
- Is there even any solution other than purifying them all?

and of course...

- How much of this is Soul Society's fault, anyway?

Warning for shipping.

( A lecture and 2 essay recs )

Title: The Thaw
Rating: PG-13 for mild violence
Genre: Family Dysfunction (and a touch of Romance, if you squint) 
Length: 4,670 words
Summary: After Aizen's betrayal, Rukia struggles with the weight of Byakuya's promise to Hisana.


( Rukia Kuchiki woke up dead. It wasn't the first time... ) 

Scans are out for volume 43. Image heavy, but I finally learned to thumbnail, so click to expand.

( Let's hear it for extraordinarily depressing pictures! )

The chapter is here at OneManga.

( I never thought I'd see this in Bleach.... )

lesleygallacher  is citing some community members in her PhD thesis and a forthcoming article and she's promised to share the article here when it's done. Her new comments on the topic are here.

Hmm, think she'd like a holographic Ukitake trading card? I have an extra one...

It's Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dream--no, it's Musical!Ichigo (keep clicking to enlarge) drawn by Kubo Tite for Code 003 currently onstage with new numbers and skits and a special Kenpachi/Unohana scene with lyrics by Kubo-sensei himself.

Thank you to Lucia of the BA IchiRuki FC where there are lots of tidbits about the musical to be found.

Script out, courtesy of lennan

From here

Script behind cut as well.

http://bleachasylum.com/threads/14230-Bleach-391-Spoilers-and-Discussion


( Full Script )


( Any Vizard fans out there? )

I really hardly ever look at the userinfo page but TODAY I DID AND this community is at 999 members, none of whom are bots, some of whom may be socks, and all of whom are certifiable, so here have a useless poll to celebrate:

Poll #1520494 CLIMAX OF THE LONG HUECO MUNDO ARC
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 189

Okay, boys and girls, so what's going to be the great climax of this Hueco Mundo arc (or Arrancar arc as Kubo-sensei calls it) when it wraps up in mid-July?

In other news,

( more )

This is what I believe to be Aizen's plan for the current arc.  I should tell you that it's a bit dated (from Nov. 16), so some parts could be wrong.

( Read more... )

Hey everyone, I was hoping you could all help me out with a fic of mine.  :>  You see, I wrote this a while back (not really that long ago but long enough) and I went back and read it recently, and I'm still plagued by the feeling that it's incomplete, or that it needs more "meat" so-to-speak.  Anyway, read if you have time, and I'd love any criticism you guys have.  I like my nice fluffy reviews and comments but they can't help me figure out what's missing.  x3

Thanks in advance, and the link takes you to the post on my LJ.  Love you all, bbz <3

Title:  Selfish
Fandom:  Bleach
Rating:  E for everyone
Length:  About 2000 words

uhm.. Is this allowed?

Looking for an Ichi/Ishi fic called Life's Lessons... I forgot who wrote it, *was it nehalenia?* Anyway, I haven't seen any updates lately and I forgot to tag it in my memories for easy reference... So, HELP!XD