State of the Mess: day 7

[wednesday_10_00]

I managed to get the living room straightened up last night, so today I'll take a break and then get to work on the mess in my bedroom tomorrow. This week has been really long and tiring, ugh. (OK, the living room still has a pile of boxes--because I'll need some of them for packing up books--and my sorted VHS tapes, but it's all out of the way and organized, and it's not like I burned a hole in the carpet or something, so I'm sure my parents won't mind.)

I brought some (shounen and shoujo) manga to work to put on the "free books" shelf that we have out in the hall. When I was sorting through my (BL) magazines, I found two duplicates (why??), so I brought those into work to throw into the recycling with a bunch of other papers. Some really thoughtful recycling worker pulled them out and put them on the free shelf yesterday, so this morning I noticed and threw them back in the recycling. Jeez, everybody I work with knows those books are mine, let's not mix the porn in, OK?

Now at least I know it's NOT safe to bring to work the BL manga I'm planning on getting rid of. I wish our recycling center in town would take paper, but they only accept newspaper and phone books, so I have to find someplace else to dump my books. Recycling porn is complicated.

A few years ago, I wrote this post about cats that reminded me of an old Bronze poster. I found that poster last night:



...and now that I've preserved that for posterity, I've thrown out the poster. Because I really, really do not like that series. I wish I could go back in time and tell my 20-year-old self to not bother with it, because those characters will NEVER be happy; in fact they'll just get more depressing and angsty as time goes on.

Speaking of stuff I read when I was 20, I found my original editions of Fake in a box, so they're now sitting on my floor while I decide whether to keep them or not. I'm getting rid of other duplicate manga editions, but with these I feel a special sort of nostalgia, like with my Fushigi Yuugi fansubs. It took me a whole summer to find these books, how can I throw them in the trash??

Comments

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Hee! I am loving these posts.

I'm really glad I was warned away from Bronze in time. I feel the same way about Ai no Kusabi and Mirage of Blaze. Just think of all the angst I was saved!

You know, I don't think I ever finished buying Fake in Japanese. I have it all in English, and I bought vol 7 in Japanese (I think that was back when the English translation was still incomplete), but I'm pretty sure I never went back and bought the others. And now I feel insufficiently motivated to fill the gap. Ah, Fake. (I also own the VHS tape, which I think I've never replaced with the DVD.)

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad I was warned away from Bronze in time. I feel the same way about Ai no Kusabi and Mirage of Blaze. Just think of all the angst I was saved!

Ha, I'm the opposite of you, I guess, because I was warned away from Ai no Kusabi and Mirage of Blaze. (I even owned the Mirage of Blaze DVDs, but I never got around to watching them, and then what I heard of the series later made me just get rid of them, unwatched.)

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

That was poorly worded - I was actually warned off of all three in time. :-) For which I am grateful, because from what I gather, any of the three of them probably would have activated and then totally failed to satisfy my mean/repentant seme moe. I would have been forever looking for a resolution I never got.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

That makes sense now that I look at it again. I don't know why I read it the other way the first time.

Speaking of repentant semes, I got Utsukushii Koto in my last order, so now I just have to convince myself to read it. I thought about starting it last weekend, but what if I love it and need the special booklet sequel immediately? I'm thinking I should save it until early December-ish.

(How mean do your semes need to be? I'm reading this (http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4403521819)--well, actually, the sequel (http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4403522661)--right now and I'm thinking you might like it. Only you probably have too much to read already. Never mind, forget I said anything.)

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Hee! If it's complete at volume 2, I'll add it to the potential shopping list. I have to have something new to buy! (I think an awful lot of the list is going to consist of catching up on things that I should have been buying all along in the last two years, continuations of series and such.)

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

I believe it's complete, yes. I had been hoping maybe it could be a good book for the plane ride to Japan, but it was too tempting, I guess. Now I'll have to get something else for the plane.

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

I feel so broken right now. Not re: Mirage of Blaze, which I can't make heads or tails of (but still own); however, I gazed upon ZetsuBronze with affectionate nostalgia while converting, and the DVD release of Ai no Kusabi is in my TRSI shopping cart waiting for a Media Blasters sale (or a great Black Friday deal). They're just so integral to my indoctrination into BL. I wonder how I would respond if I encountered them for the first time today.

On the other hand, I've always hated Song of Wind and Trees for the trauma and angst, so...there ya go.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

I can't say anything about Ai no Kusabi, which I've never seen, but my feelings of bitterness re: Zetsuai/Bronze come from the manga, and even then I thought about buying the new volume that came out a couple of years ago. I haven't watched the anime since I first got my hands on the fansub, and don't remember it well enough to say whether I would feel bitterly about that also, or whether nostalgia would make me look back on it with fondness.

(I have recently seen one of the music videos, because that's on a compilation tape I ripped when I first got my converter; it mostly made me roll my eyes and laugh at myself, so...make of that what you will.)

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

They're just so integral to my indoctrination into BL.

I don't think I've ever even watched the anime of Ai no Kusabi or Bronze (maybe I should, out of curiosity?), but I can understand looking on the vehicle of one's indoctrination fondly. I was just re-reading the Level C manga in English - not that I couldn't read it in Japanese, but English is faster - oh, so bad, but I could never get rid of my Japanese Level C volumes. It was the first thing I ever bought!

[spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com]

maybe I should, out of curiosity?

No. Never do this. At least, not Ai no Kusabi. The only redeeming quality it has is Koyasu Takehito's voice, if I recall correctly.

[chibkyo.livejournal.com]

And the animation, I think? Or maybe it was just the character designs.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I need to purge DVDs. I'll have to check and see if I have that.