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wednesday ([personal profile] wednesday_10_00) wrote2013-10-11 09:04 am

State of the Mess: day 7

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:

sorry for interrupting, I'll see myself out...

...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??

[identity profile] sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com 2013-10-11 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com 2013-10-12 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] chibkyo.livejournal.com 2013-10-12 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
And the animation, I think? Or maybe it was just the character designs.