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Found a copy of Bleach, volume 13, lying on the floor at Savers yesterday. Picked it up and placed it on a table somewhere, but went back for it upon noticing someone with a cart full of other manga. Asked her if she was distributing them, and she told me she was just taking them (not sure if she was buying them or bringing them to be sent to another store). She and someone else accompanying her accepted the one book.

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Just to get this much off once and for all, let me just say that part of the reason I re-uploaded I Was Kagami Hiiragi (and by extension, why I chose that one first) has to do with bloodscorpionwhatever's refusal to acknowledge Japanese scheduling as it was shown all canon long.

To start with, the first of two times I brought the issue up with him a year ago, was in a review asking if he's aware of how the school year was shown to work. All he said in return was "...ok...", and I didn't know whether to interpret that as "Yeah, so?" or "Okay, got that."

Right before he posted chapter 9 of Crap Unread, that's when I left all of three reviews that elicited only rebuke. There were actually several reasons, and in hindsight, I can't say I was thinking too clearly, given how badly the story in question was still affecting me. I realized afterwards that I might have been in his face about the school schedule in particular, and even Chelle agreed later that having elaborated on it was probably condescending.

Even putting the big picture aside, I will never understand why he blatantly ignored how far apart the girls' summer activities and the break between school years are, juxtaposed by various things that can only take place during certain times of the year. True, Crap Unread is such a poorly written fic in general, but he already answered me that even if he were to start over, he would still maintain this blatant fuck-you to canon.

That being the case, I'd say it's a great thing that he lost all his work from up to a year earlier, and it would've been better still if he actually never did come back (which mariofan48 relayed from him in that forum thread that he wouldn't). Only way to do justice to that (and I've got someone to thank for emailing me copies of most of his work) would be to make certain corrections myself.

During that whole week that I uploaded everything I have of IWKH, I made a point of reading every word before posting each chapter (barring 26, for reasons I specified in an author's note there), so as to make any edits necessary. Only real issue was with Miyuki ending up in the hospital and missing a scheduled flight to France. Given how much earlier Kagami's beatdown upon her would have taken place in my new version, still relative to their graduation ceremony (which would take place in April, not June or July), she should logically be able to schedule a new flight. Better yet, said flight could've just as easily been scheduled much later on in the first place, if mainly to allow her to still see her old friends for a last few months.

If Blood confronts me by any chance about hosting his work after certain antics I've pulled on him, I very much doubt I will simply comply with him. Depending on what he actually does ask me, I might try to reach an agreement with him that would involve him starting Crap Unread over and actually acknowledging canon chronology for what it is. On the same token, though, I am open to the off-chance that we actually will reconcile (which happens between Kagami and Patricia due to unexpected circumstances late in Broken Dreams), in which case I might take down Stage One: Thwarted. But, this is all just in case; chances are good that he won't confront me in the first place, given how useless a removal demand would be if I already had the balls to taunt him with a blatant mockery of his current fic.