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Toshiro: What do you get when you cross a rhetorical question with a joke? Rangiku: ... Toshiro: ... you don't get it, do you? Rangiku: Not even in the slightest.
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Toshiro: What do you get when you cross a rhetorical question with a joke? Rangiku: ... Toshiro: ... you don't get it, do you? Rangiku: Not even in the slightest.
Chapter 8 is here!!! Snippet: ‘I’ve set the guest room up for you, Rukia,’ Professor Shiba called over the noise of his girls, ‘you should be comfortable there.’ ‘Thank you,’ Rukia replied, then turned to Ichigo and grinned, ‘I’m not staying with you?’ Ichigo’s face turned a beautiful shade of pink but he rolled his eyes, ‘not unless you want to send my father to an early grave.’ ‘Rukia Kuchiki, murderer of fathers-in-law,’ Rukia sighed. ‘You’d be leaving the twins parentless,’ Ichigo chuckled, holding the door open for her. ‘Well that’s why they call me a Witch,’ Rukia laughed and pulled her bag inside. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13874358/1/Bewitched-Misdirected
The Woes of a FanFiction Author
Me: “I’m sorry I’m taking a while to write, work is really busy.” Them: “WRITE FASTER!”
WELL GEEEZ why the fuck didn’t I think of that? Hmmm... oh wow! It really is just that easy! All I have to do is just.. write... faster? OH MY GOD REVELATION!!!! YES NOW I MIRACULOUSLY HAVE ALL THE TIME I NEED TO WRITE!!! Housework = done work = fuck it, who needs income? family = they can fuck off friends = can get lost NOW I SUDDENLY HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD TO WRITE FAN FICTION THAT I DON’T GET PAID FOR! And it was all thanks to the Guest who gave me the golden advice to just... write faster!
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Day 2: Favorite Female Character
My baby 💕💕💕
Part 1
Rukia: Nobody thinks Ichigo is my boyfriend, okay?
Rangiku: Put your hand up if you thought Ichigo was Rukia's boyfriend.
[ Everyone raises their hand ]
Rukia: Put your hand down Ichigo.
Chapter 7 is NOW LIVE! TItle: Bewitched and Misdirected (Chapter 7) Pairing: HitsuMatsu and IchiRuki Rating: Teen Summary:
‘No thank you,’ Nanao sniffed at the very idea of breaking the rules and began to undress. Toshiro hastily turned away from the other girl and focused all his attention on Rangiku who was watching him from where she sat on her bad.
‘Whose owl is that?’ Nanao asked.
‘Toshiro’s, he just sent me a note inviting me to Professor Aizen’s party tomorrow night,’ Rangiku said with a hint of the smile she’d had on her face before Nanao entered the room.
‘About time,’ Nanao said briskly, ‘I was starting to think he wasn’t going to.’
‘So was I,’ Rangiku leaned back on the bed, staring down at the paper, her eyes flicking up to where Toshiro sat on the desk pointedly not looking in Nanao’s direction.
Links: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31065161/chapters/85159540https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13874358/7/Bewitched-Misdirected
If you’re trying to decide whether or not to write that self-indulgent fic that only you will like?
If you’re trying to decide whether you should read that favourite fic for the 17,000th time even though you have the whole thing memorized?
If you’ve never read/written fanfic before, but you think you want to try it?
I re-read Bleach recently and grew a new appreciation for Kyōraku I didn’t have before
fic writer: I need to spend months writing a detailed backstory justifying everything I actually want to write before I can write the good part
me (internally);
me (externally): have you considered just starting at the good part? It's called in media res. It's a whole thing.
fic writer: but I have to establish-
me: characters and tropes your readers are already familiar with? The concept of an alternate universe? The reason why two characters are in a relationship, even though your reader has clicked on a story labelled as those characters being in a relationship?
fic writer: but-
me: it's okay. This isn't school. You can still get an A in fic writing without all that stuff.
me: need a hug?
I feel personally attacked.
Do you ever think you'll stop drawing fanart? No offense it just seems like the kind of thing you're supposed to grow out of. I'm just curious what your plans/goals are since it isn't exactly an art form that people take seriously.
Ah, fanart. Also known as the art that girls make.
Sad, immature girls no one takes seriously. Girls who are taught that it’s shameful to be excited or passionate about anything, that it’s pathetic to gush about what attracts them, that it’s wrong to be a geek, that they should feel embarrassed about having a crush, that they’re not allowed to gaze or stare or wish or desire. Girls who need to grow out of it.
That’s the art you mean, right?
Because in my experience, when grown men make it, nobody calls it fanart. They just call it art. And everyone takes it very seriously.
It’s interesting though — the culture of shame surrounding adult women and fandom. Even within fandom it’s heavily internalized: unsurprisingly, mind, given that fandom is largely comprised by young girls and, unfortunately, our culture runs on ensuring young girls internalize *all* messages no matter how toxic. But here’s another way of thinking about it.
Sports is a fandom. It requires zealous attention to “seasons,” knowledge of details considered obscure to those not involved in that fandom, unbelievable amounts of merchandise, and even “fanfic” in the form of fantasy teams. But this is a masculine-coded fandom. And as such, it’s encouraged - built into our economy! Have you *seen* Dish network’s “ultimate fan” advertisements, which literally base selling of a product around the normalization of all consuming (male) obsession? Or the very existence of sports bars, built around the link between fans and community enjoyment and analysis. Sport fandom is so ingrained in our culture that major events are treated like holidays (my gym closes for the Super Bowl) — and can you imagine being laughed at for admitting you didn’t know the difference between Supernatural and The X Files the way you might if you admit you don’t know the rules of football vs baseball, or basketball?
“Fandom” is not childish but we live in a culture that commodified women’s time in such away that their hobbies have to be “frivolous,” because “mature” women’s interests are supposed to be marriage, family, and overall care taking: things that allow others to continue their own special interests, while leaving women without a space of their own.
So think about what you’re actually saying when you call someone “too old” for fandom. Because you’re suggesting they are “too old” for a consuming hobby, and I challenge you to answer — what do you think they should be doing instead?
#I love the fact I’m ‘weird’ for writing fic but some guy painting a team logo on his beer belly is normal
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This whole modern approach is also seriously undermining just how important fanfiction is - from a historical standpoint.
The concept of fanfiction formed and forged the earliest stages of literature in Europe. Because the majority of authors in France, Germany and Great Britain looked at that funky little Celtic dude Arthur and thought “hey, he’s neat. I wanna write about him”.
The entire concept of a book outside of religious purposes was born out of fanfiction in my country.
There is no “first canon” for Arthur where he came as the prince of Camelot, with his sidekicks Lancelot and Merlin and his endgame love interest Gwen.
Arthur was some random hunter when he started out.
Someone’s fanfiction made him a prince.
Someone else’s fanfiction gave him a round table.
Someone else’s fanfiction gave him Merlin at his side.
Someone else’s fanfiction gave him Morgana, gave him Gwen, gave him his swords.
And, to this day, we still write Arthurian fanfiction. Literally last year there was a movie adaptation that is, by all intends and purposes, fanfiction, because it wasn’t even close to a literal adaptation of the source material (The Kid Who Would Be King). Heck, BBC’s Merlin, itself an Arthurian fanfiction, remains one of the biggest fandoms that people today write for on AO3.
You were a joke in the middle ages if you tried to write your own stuff. Who’s interested in your stuff? You were only a respected author if you wrote fanfiction. The most famous medieval German authors are famous because they wrote fanfiction about some knightly OCs they created who served on Arthur’s court. That is the literary legacy of the middle ages. Arthurian fanfiction.
Yet somewhere along the way, this concept of “I find x story/element cool and want to elaborate on it more, shift the focus onto an aspect of this original source material” has gotten this “eh, it’s fanfiction” connotation and lost respect.
Even though this very concept is still being used - even outside of the actual medium of fanfiction - and it is still being used for the very same purpose it was used for in medieval times. Original movies often don’t get as much recognition as adaptations of existing source material that the audience is familiar with. People see a movie about a character they’re familiar with and seem more inclined to buy a ticket to see the 10th new interpretation of Batman or Superman or Snow White. How are these new interpretations of familiar source material that usually add to the lore, reinterpret characterizations and dynamics, any different from fanfiction?
But heaven forbid we call The Dark Knight Nolan’s Batman fanfiction. No, fanfiction is that silly thing that we can’t take seriously, but that new Joker movie, that however is high-end art.
SO IMPORTANT
This. Fanfiction is variations on an existing theme, simultaneously making use of and satisfying people’s existing love for a story that they’re happy to consume more of, and cultivating the synergy between an existing story/mythos and a new author who, in interacting with characters they’d never have created themselves, creates something that neither they nor any of the story’s previous tellers could have made all by themselves.
Fanfiction is the new whole being greater than the sum of its parts, and fanfiction is the story being made limitless, retelling by retelling, and it is wonderful.
It’s also worth noting that Batman himself only came into being because of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a series of books about an extravagantly rich foppish playboy by day, daring hero in disguise by night (I mean, loosely. He also fopped by night and heroed by day, but you get my drift). Written by a woman no less.
Batman is a transformative work with a modernised crime-fighting SP but also borrowing strongly from earlier comic books, and yet it is seen as definitive.
Coming back here to say that I think the derision for fanart also has some of its roots in our capitalist hellscape.
It’s the age old “If thing not make you money, why you care about thing?” that’s so prevalent in the system. Of course some people do make money with their fanart, but I think that is still part of the scorn.
It’s supposed to be something you do not just for fun, but for practice, people like this think. Once you’re good at it, you can drop it and make money by focusing on your OCs and original work!
I am a man on a mission, and that mission is reintroducing podficcing into the fanfiction community. Tell your friends.
(I spent 30 minutes typing out a text transcription and then Tumblr completely ate it and I saw white for a second so I’ll add an image description once I’ve calmed down)
Defo something that would be great to hear more of! If you’re someone who is into podfic’s then I highly encourage you to get onto Fiverr, that’s the first place I went looking for a podfic recording artist and there isnt a single one on there yet, it’s a very niche area :D
Title: Bewitched & Misdirected (Chapter 4)
Pairing: IchiRuki and HitsuMatsu
Rating: Teen +
Genre: Hogwarts AU, Drama, Romance, Friendships, Mystery
Summary: ‘And that’s all you value?’ she asked.
‘Of course,’ he chuckled, ‘what did you think? I valued her “assets”?’
‘You never know,’ Rukia shrugged as they rounded the corner and the portrait of the fat lady came in to view.
‘I never got to tell you all the things I value in you,’ Ichigo caught her hand and Rukia felt her stomach jolt. His cool fingers linked with hers and he tugged her around to face him. His deep chocolate eyes were alight with mischief and his smile was stupid and beautiful.
‘What?’ Rukia asked, having forgotten what he’d just said.
Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31065161/chapters/78984265 FFNet: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13874358/1/Bewitched-Misdirected
Title: Bewitched & Misdirected (Chapter 3) Pairing: @HitsuMatsu and IchiRuki Rating: Teen + Genre: Hogwarts AU, Drama, Romance, Friendships, Mystery Summary:
‘I’m not alone,’ Rangiku said, ‘I have Hyorinmaru.’ Nanao let out a strangled squeal as the bird flew over her head, his long icy tail feathers brushing the top of her hair and came to land on Rangiku’s shoulder. ‘Wait-’ Nanao’s head whipped around and her eyes found Toshiro who hastily glanced back down at his book. There was a beat of silence as Nanao absorbed the information and Toshiro willed himself not to blush while Rangiku made cute cooing noises at the bird. ‘I see,’ Nanao’s voice held a note of accusation toward her best friend as she turned back away from Toshiro.
Links:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31065161/chapters/78249878
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13874358/3/Bewitched-Misdirected
HAPPY ICHIRUKI WEEK TO @theseireitei <3 <3 <3
Title: Bewitched & Misdirected Chapter Two: Quidditch & Crushes {Rukia PoV} Pairing: @IchiRuki @HitsuMatsu Summary:
They lapsed instead into a slightly more awkward silence, as Rukia cast her eyes around the hospital wing looking for something else to discuss.
‘You’ve put together a really strong team this year,’ Ichigo sounded proud and Rukia snapped her eyes back to him. He was watching her thoughtfully before he tried to sit up.
‘You probably shouldn’t move, Madam Unohana will murder me if I hurt you anymore than I already have,’ Rukia fussed.
‘You worried?’ he smirked and Rukia scowled, again. ‘Besides I don’t remember you hitting the Bludger, but perhaps the blow knocked my memory.’
‘It was Ikkaku, but I asked him to do it,’ Rukia guiltily admitted.
Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31065161/chapters/77461859
Yo it’s HitsuMatsu ship week in The Seireitei Discord Server and I am very excited to release my new fic and the gorgeous artwork (open it up for best quality) I had commissioned!
This artwork is by the extremely talented and lovely @iz-stardust
The college AU fic is a prequel to my oneshot, ‘Dress’ (Ao3 | Fanfiction.net)
Title: Dancing With Our Hands Tied
Pairing: HitsuMatsu (also background/eventual IchiHime, RenRuki, ShuNao)
Rating: Explicit / NSFW
Summary:
But what started as a game turned into a joke, and eventually became almost routine, well into college.
They drank, they kissed, they laughed.
Toshiro hummed when they separated, but his forehead stayed on hers, catching his breath. They were in the dark end of the hallway, sitting on the carpet floor, their legs tangled together.
“I’ve missed this,” he murmured, words slightly slurred from what was surely the world’s strongest punch more than it was the beer they had now.
“Me too,” Rangiku admitted softly before reconnecting their lips.
Fuck, it was good to be back.
Links: Ao3 | Fanfiction.net
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New Podcast Episode!
Episode 27: Aizen Fan-Souling - We are not sorry!! A new episode is here!!!! The Seireitei Podcast accepts no responsibility for the amount of squealing in this episode. Seriously. None. We have a WHOLE Aizen reveal to talk about, Toshiro’s bankai (sort of) and Unohana, Isane and Rangiku being QUEENS while finally getting a reason for Rukia being as useful as a chocolate fireguard. This weeks fandom shout out is @kittiemitties for this wholesome post. Listen now on Spotify, Radio Public, Anchor, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Double Pod and YouTube!