So. Many. Communities.

[sincere]

Dear the Bleach Fandom,

Having spent all morning making a list of communities to include on a newbieguide, I feel totally comfortable saying that you have too many ridiculous communities. Do you really need a community for every crack pairing you can humanly conceive of? Characters who exchanged three sentences, like Ukitake/Ichigo? Characters who didn't even, and could only be shipped by playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, like Shuuhei/Rukia?

Just... make colorbars or something, and join a community like bleach_yaoi, bleach_het, or bleach_yuri.

P.S.: This fandom needs more girlsex.

Love, Kay

Comments

[hauntedreality.livejournal.com]

I have the same complaint with KKM. Do we really need a community for Shibuyacest? Do we really need a community for every character? Posts are super few and far between and it leads to a tremendous amount ot crossposting. It is a small fandom, why must it be so splintered?

Also, I totally blame you for me signing up to do a newbieguide overview of KKM.

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm in total agreement. There's so little point to making a community exclusively for a single pairing unless it's so hugely popular that it's going to get posts practically every day, or it's the only pairing you ship. It's unnecessary -- I'd rather join one comm that gets a dozen pairings and just read the ones that interest me, than be a member of eight different pairing comms which update only once a week. Bleh.

Bwahaha. XD It's the kind of obsessive-compulsive thing I like.

[hauntedreality.livejournal.com]

If they actually updated as often as twice a week I think it would be okay. Heh. It is more like a few times a year in KKM. Heh, Orihime makes great icons, doesn't she?

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

I think it'd be okay in a smaller series like KKM, but in Bleach it's ridiculous -- there are 26 captains and lieutenants alone, then let's say another 10 normal shinigami, then 10 Espada, then the 5 main characters, then 3 more of their friends... Even trying to cut down my list only to communities that updated more than once a month, there's still more than thirty of them on the damn list. And that's ONLY pairing communities.

She is awesome that way.