I'm judging you.

Bah, having a bad day is having a bad day >_>

--*pnish* work blog just announced that TUTI will be doing one of the aftershow talk events also for RH (on opening night!) so now I have to decide if I want to go to THAT one or the Eiji one with Besshi and Tecchan. I'm leaning more towards Tuti's, especially since I think it'll be easier for me to get to the theater early that day. HOWEVER, that's also the day there's going to be a big announcement on the Sabadamikanda blog at 7 PM >_> AND I DON'T WANT TO MISS IT, in case it might be announcements to take part in an event or something ;_; and then I'd be late... (but imma_holiday! You could see Tuti! :D)

--I asked a chick on AU auctions who I won something form if, instead of a furikomi she could do COD, since that's what I like to use, and she responded with (in English) "hello my name is mika ........no english" and then finished off the email in Japanese telling me she had written in her profile all she did was bank transfers and to please just do a bank transfer. Bitch >_> If I'm talking to you in perfectly legible Japanese, I don't expect you to know any English.

--our Japanese native speaker is LATE, so I'm having to man the phones. And to top it off, my boss isn't here, so everyone wanting to speak to either one of them, I have to tell to call back later. Someone just called wanting to place an order, but when I tried to explain that no one would be in until 10 AM (it's 10 now, I mean to say 11) she was all huffy going, "...Well it's 10 AM now." and when I corrected myself, she just said "Never mind, goodbye."

WHY ARE PEOPLE BITCHES? ARGH.

There's supposed to be a "big announcement" on the ShibaTora blog today. It better be good >_>

ETA: Okay, day is already getting better. Our Japanese guy came in, and Osamu-chan just appended this to an entry:

PS
今週のジャンプに
ロックミュージカルBLEACHが卍解SHOWで帰ってくる！
って書いてありましたね。
キャスト発表はされてないので、どこまで言っちゃって言いのか解りませんが、
今年の冬もまた白哉がやれる・・・・かも？
です。

PS: So it was announced in this week's Jump that Rock Musical Bleach Bankai Show is coming back, huh~ The cast hasn't been announced yet, so I don't know how much I can say, but...this winter I'll be able to do Byakuya again...perhaps?

Geez Japanese chicks have the longest sticks up their asses o_O As seen on the *pnish* comm on mixi:

Fangirl #1: Hi, I've only just come into *pnish* fandom. I've got a question for everyone: If anyone has a copy of "The 59th Proposal," could I possible get a copy of it? I actually recorded it once, but at that time I didn't know anything about *pnish*, and so I recorded over it, and am now really regretting it. If someone wouldn't mind copying it, I'd be more than happy to pay shipping.

Fangirl #2: Well I understand how you feel, but that presents a problem of copyright legality, and if we were to do something like that then it might affect this community's being allowed to exist. Please check out this site: http://oshiete1.goo.ne.jp/qa2206428.html

(the site is some poor Japanese girl stuck in America wanting to know if it's okay to ask her family in Japan to record a television show for her and send it to her...which apparently that's a BIG BIG NO NO, even though it's just for her. What.)

This whole fandom, this whole country is full of people like that--stiff blowhards who don't know the world isn't black and white, that there are gray areas all around, and that yeah, rules are there to keep people in line, but they're supposed to be a framework you build off of and not bars caging you in.

The chick wanted a fricking copy of one episode that is nowhere available to be bought. How the hell is that hurting anyone?

I absolutely do not get the feeling that any fans here for anything feel close to other fans unless they're already friends. It's such a cold, sterile environment, and makes me wish sometimes I weren't a part of it.

I'd rather be friends with all you guys from behind a PC than friends in person with most of these chicks (I say most--because there are some people who are definitely all about, "SPREAD THE LOVE! SPREAD THE LOVE!" and they're the ones who are fun to fangirl with).

Dear (fellow) RPSers:

Real Person Slash, that taboo of taboos, possibly trumped in squickiness by RPS incest and certain kinks involving lavender soaps and chihuahuas.

RPS is best used for the side of good, and justice, to explore and expound on possible relationships between real people, which sometimes turn out to be true, and many times don't--gay, straight, whathaveyou. It is best enjoyed between friends who ship your pairings, debated about between supporters of equally possible pairings, and wondered about by the populace at large who will one day, too, embrace it, we keep telling ourselves.

RPS is not best used for:

★Pushing your "canon" TeniPuri/Bleach/Sailor Moon/Any Other Anime Made Into a Musical pairing onto poor unsuspecting Japanese boys.
★Ever
★And I'm serious about that first one, people
★Really, it's ticking me off.

You really embarrass the lot of us who actually ship pairings that are somewhat supported SOMEWHERE by more than a touch, a glance, a smile backstage. Sometimes, we get lucky. Sometimes (usually with doubles actors) you spend a lot of time around someone, indulge in a lot of fanservice with them, and now and then you fall in love with them. It happens. It's called nature. Sometimes. Tsuchiya Yuuichi and Nagayama Takashi. Saitou Takumi and Aoyagi Ruito. Kimeru and Abe Yoshitsugu. Moriyama Eiji and Sano Daiki But I digress.

The point is, JUST BECAUSE YOU PLAY CHARACTERS 'PAIRED' IN CANON DOES NOT MAKE THEIR ACTORS AUTOMATICALLY THE MOST MARRIED COUPLE EVER. Souta is not** dating Naoya. Kaji does not** pound Yanagi's (or Endou's) ass into the mattress every night. And yes I'll even say it--there is no evidence that Takiguchi Yukihiro is romantically involved in any way with Seto Kouji..............................that we know of. Yet. WE'RE WORKING ON IT THOUGH. And umm, all those asterisks are my disclaimer. There's always the chance to be proven wrong ♥

But please, people, ship what you will, but ship responsibly. Bad RPS is like being an alcoholic--it doesn't just hurt you and make you look stupid, it hurts those around you who have to bear your crack pairings that you think are ZOMG CANON when we're all pots calling kettles black.

I ship what I ship, and you ship what you ship. But it annoys the shit out of me when people push actors together JUST BECAUSE OF THE CHARACTERS THEY PLAY. I "ship" (aka "think is cute and is more possible than any other pairing with the two") Date and Takuya.

Ohtori and Jiroh? Hell no. Because ZOMG NEWSFLASH they are not their characters. They got close through some means OTHER THAN DOUBLES :OOOOOO THAT'S INSANE! And not through any flirting backstage or any other crap like that, but, dude, people, did you SEE them during RJM2? The touching and hugging and flirting and general faggotry around each other?

That? Grounds for a pairing. It doesn't mean they're going out, it means people no longer can look at you weird for shipping it.

So please people, stop with the anime-canon RPS pairings without any support beyond THE ANIME CANON. I'll take back these thoughts regarding certain pairings as soon as someone writes a manifesto on them ♥ And for god's sake, stop thinking everyone automatically ships your RPS pairing of choice JUST BECAUSE it's from anime canon. I'm not gonna ship shit unless there's some backup for it, capice?

Wow, and yet again I HATE BEING A GAIJIN AND THUS OUT OF THE LOOP.

If you haven't seen the latest entry on oh_tuti, Tuti deleted his previous blog entry. Check here for further details on why.

Reading these comments, though, just really ticks me off, and I'm sure it's just cause I wasn't offended, being a foreigner, the way the commenters were since they're Japanese. If I'd been Japanese and knew all about this accident, I'd likely have jumped on Tuti, too, but still. Ugh, it feels like some of those girls just sit back and wait for a reason to snap at him for stepping too far outta line. It's his own journal, for crying out loud, he should be allowed to post what he wants--and he wasn't even thinking about that accident anyways, give him a break.

A few comments that really pissed me off:

トテさん素直に気持ちを書きすぎちゃう所ありますよね [There are times when you speak your mind a bit too freely.] <--WTF. NO SUCH THING. He never gets to express himself in real life like this, not to a rapt, waiting audience this way. If he can't speak his mind freely here, where's he to do it? At least it's not on the *pnish* blog!

相手の立場になって物事を考えられる人になって下さい [Please put yourself in the other person's position and become the sort of person who thinks things through.] <--asdfkjsdkfjsnfeksjnf there are just no words for my anger here.

*headdesk* I need to stop reading these...I can already feel another rant coming on ~_~ It's just, every time I see something like this happen with him, it makes me more and more worried he'll start closing up. As much as I love hearing about him going to see so-and-so's new play, I care more about the little things he thinks to post about, just the random thoughts he has. If he's going to be jumped on for offending someone every time like this, HE'S NOT GOING TO DO IT ANYMORE.

*moans* Tuti >_< WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?

ETA: I broke down and left a comment, though I feel kinda like I went deep and made a big deal out of it when it wasn't, but mrrr...this has really bugged me for some reason ~_~

■そんなに気にしない方が良いかもね

こんにちは、土屋さん
土屋さんが素直に、真面目に気持ちを書いて良いと思います、たとえどんな事あっても。
外国人なので、一体何が起こったかちょっと分からなくなってしまいましたが、なんだかそれでも皆はどう思ってるか分かるような気がしますね。
それでも、土屋さんが悪くないと思います。ちゃんと謝ったんじゃないですか？
気持ちが傷つくことは人間として生きることだと信じています。だけど、それを恐れず自分なりの考えることを伝える任務がありますきっと、皆に。
ここ、このブログは土屋さんのブログ。「勝手なかんじ」って。ここに覗いてる皆は土屋さんの考えることもっと知りたがるから、これからも自由に書いて続けて下さい。何があっても超えて、そして応援続けていきます！

[Subject line: You probably shouldn't worry that much about it
Good day, Tsuchiya-san.
I think that you should write whatever you feel honestly, and frankly, no matter what happens.
As I'm a foreigner, I don't quite understand exactly what happened, but even so I kind of feel like I understand how everyone is feeling.
But still, I don't think you were wrong. After all, you apologized and all, right?
I believe that to live as a human is to risk having your feelings hurt. But I also believe that we all have a duty to not be afraid of that and relate what we think in our own ways.
This blog is your blog. With that 'however you want'** feel to it. Everyone peeping in on this blog wants to know more and more about you, Tsuchiya-san, so please continue to write freely from now on. We'll get over whatever happens and continue cheering you on!]

** - "勝手なかんじ" is from the subtitle of Tuti's blog; I was further illustrating that it's HIS place to write how HE feels.