While I'm waiting for my fat pots to spin down, I would also like to take a moment to note that bleach, while also a very charming manga I would recommend to just about anybody despite the evilness of its creator, stinks. I didn't get any on me, being protected with a lab coat and gloves, and I still stink; or at least, I can't tell if the smell of bleach simply lingers in your nose like some particularly tenacious Phantom of Smell or if it has really soaked into my skin and hair. *pulls out emergency perfume stick*

Also, since we're skimming on the topic of Bleach-the-manga, I would also like to note that between moonsheen's Ichigo-as-rock-star fics and tashigi's 'Renji and Byakuya are rock stars' pic, I am now being haunted by the spectre of the entire Gotei 13 as rock bands. (Zaraki == HEAVY METAL PAN PAN PAN, Byakuya + Renji == vaguely emo rock (ok, more than vaguely emo), Hitsugaya and Momo as (god forgive me) Hirakawachi 1-chome, Shunsui == ENKA, Ukitate == classical, Tousen == EMO EMO EMO, Aizen == Mr. Children or Scary Sony Producer from Hell... I could go on. Alternatively, Hitsugaya could be a rapper, or put him with Matsumoto and you'd be halfway to the Black Eyed Peas, but the image of him as half of Hirakawachi 1-chome makes me want to stab my mind's eye out more.)

(Edit: Also am too lazy to go for lunch, so am substituting with a muesli bar.)

So very quickly, for 31_days, Sept. 1st - theme: Here We Are.
( Bleach: Artistic Differences )