Bleach- IchiRuki, IshiHime, UlquiHime, ByaRen, etc.etc.etc.

Let's get this out of the 'way'- I am a girl. I read Bleach. No, those two facts do not automatically mean that I ship people, but...yeah, I do ship ^_^

My Bleach OTP:

IchiRuki. Ichigo x Rukia. Ichigo + Rukia. Howevertheheck you want to write it, KUROSAKI ICHIGO AND KUCHIKI RUKIA are together-together. I can and will provide my reasons for it in a bit.


What I think should happen with Hime:
Okay, no, let's get serious. I think she and Ulquiorra seriously would've had something going on, but Ulquiorra died. I support brief, evanescent UlquiHime, and definitely long-term IshiHime- and if you start telling me stuff like 'Ichigo likes her WAY more than Uryuu does!!!1111!1!!", I'll have to point out not-so-nicely that Ichigo literally NEVER notices Orihime, let alone her good attributes.
URYUU is the one that notices Orihime, compliments her, and actually LIKES HER. He SEES HER as MORE than a classmate. Ichigo simply DOES NOT NOTICE HER.

RenRuki or not RenRuki?
Not. Just not. I think they're like siblings; they grew up in Rukongai together, and yes- something might have come upon it, except Renji completely isolated himself from her during those forty years. It may not have been entirely his fault, but he certainly didn't help matters.
Side note- I found out recently that A) my martial arts sensei watches Bleach, and B) she also thinks that Renji and Rukia are siblings, as evidenced by how she named her two new puppies (from the same litter/batch!) Renji and Rukia. :DDD

Kaien/Rukia:
NO. NONONONONO. KAIEN WAS MARRIED TO MIYAKO. RUKIA IDOLIZED BOTH KAIEN AND MIYAKO. I choose to interpret this relationship as simply friend/sibling.

HitsuKarin:
It's so cute! It's total crack and they've only ever met in anime filler, but it's such a cute, good crack pairing!
Also, Karin is LITERALLY the only person who calls Toushirou by his given name. ONLY ONE. Even Momo doesn't...didn't...before she was horrifically attacked by accident and stabbed...but yeah. If I had to pick my favorite anime-only-filler-crack, it'd definitely be HitsuKarin.

Bleach!

Yeah, yeah, I know that I said I disliked fangirls, right? Wrong. I dislike rabid Twilight fangirls that faint and hyperventilate (not necessarily in that order XD). I am most definitely a fangirl. I'm a Bleach girl, and don't you forget it. But for any Bleach follower, I must confess something, if you won't hurt me.
*cringe* I'm...I'm just a pathetic girl...who watches the anime instead of reading the manga...and it isn't even the subbed- it's the English dub! I know, it's sad... but I can't ever find the manga without buying it (and even if I had the money, 30+ volumes is a lot :/) and I like hearing their voices. Even worse (if that's possible) is that I'm still only around episode 80, with the Bount arc...so apart from me following Bleach third-hand, I'm still not even caught up. But I'm working on it.
So, about my fangirlyness... I like the couples...and fluff.
So...my couples are:
Ichigo/Rukia (IchiRuki is here to stay, sorry all you IchiHime people. And you Rukia/Kaien people, remember Miyako!)
Byakuya/Renji (so much potential...)
Yoruichi/Soifon (hmm, can't decide who Yoru should be with, but I like her to be with Soifon. Urahara's just fine with his weird shop ;) besides, Soifon adores her!)
Hitsugaya/Karin (I like this pair, odd as it is.)
Hitsugaya/Hinamori (Although I won't say no to this-tee hee!)
Kyoraku/Nanao (so much flirting...)
Kyoraku/Ukitake (I saw this somewhere, and I thought 'why not?')
And that's all I can think of now...
Bleach characters that I like/possibly fear/am intrigued by:
Toshirou Hitsugaya (he's one of my favorite characters)
Yachiru (she plainly scares me...but I love watching her omake chapters when she messes with Byakuya!)
Nanao (I like her! She's nice and she has guts.)
Soifon (I don't know why, but I really like her. Could be due to the whole flashback/breakdown with Yoruichi?)
Yoruichi herself (I love her teasing...and if you haven't seen Byakuya as a teen interact with her, you should!)
Byakuya himself (I like him. That's enough.)

And I'll stop this Bleach rant now.
Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak. Thank you.
~~Magickless
Points to you (and maybe homemade brownies [if you haven't guessed, I like to bake a lot] too) if you recognize the quote! Too many people watch _____ ______ instead of reading it.

Hobbies

I read a lot... it's one of my main hobbies, although other than books, I have a love of manga (and anime!) and I'm on FF.net a lot. For those of you that don't know- FF.net= fanfiction.net, probably one of my favorites sites. It's up there with Youtube and Blogger, alongside Runescape (although that was a while ago...).
My reading 'likes and dislikes' are pretty spaced out. I'll read most fiction, and I especially like fantasy. I will read nonfiction sometimes, but I generally prefer fiction. I'll probably clutter my blog up with recommendations and reviews- but that's just me.
I write. I have a lot of works-in-progress now, meaning I have ideas, I just haven't written them down yet...at all...
As old-lady-ish as it sounds, I knit. I haven't made anything huge yet, like a sweater, but I have made scarves and cushions and I'm working on a bag right now. I sew too, but that's mainly designing my own T-shirts. I also make a lot of my own jewelry- it's fun and I can customize!
I might as well put it up here- another of my hobbies is staying up late. I don't know why, but I think so much better when I'm alone in my room and it's dark outside.
Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation. Darkness stirs, and wakes imagination.
Totally quoting from Phantom- it's true, I'm a phan- but it really describes how I feel.