Yaoi Paradise (Yaoi discussion thread)

Posted 7 years, 4 months ago (Edited 7 years, 4 months ago) by SpaceSheepy

LOL that title is lame! I couldn't think of anything better... But anyway I wanted to make a thread to talk about all things yaoi because I am OBSESSED! I love talking about yaoi and hearing about it from others! Here you can share you're current favorite yaoi manga, one your reading, or would recommend, yaoi animes/OVAs you like, movies, boys love movies (as in the live action ones, those are great too XD) yaoi pairs you have (as in your own characters) otps, fan arts you've made, anything as long as it's gay tbh! XD there's a thread for yuri already so this is for yaoi only!

SpaceSheepy

@Animecafe102'sont lose this u dingleberry

SpaceSheepy

Damn plain Cheerios are great -w-

MathewMii

Yaoi is fun to look at every now and then, but the stories?  I do not like them... XP

However, I do have a nice collection of gay characters and I do have a few ships like Speeding Bullet (TF2's Sniper and Scout).

Kingstona

I <3 yaoi.. mangas can sometimes get a bit fluffy for me. Don't really watch the movies or many OVAs myself I am mroe of a reader because I feel like I can work the story in my head better. I have a few.  Most of my characters for rp are gay/ yaoi based ones though XD. I don't normally do many canon relationships. (also gallery has some of my men but not couples yet XP)

Caine

I'm kind of so-so about BL and yaoi as I'm not really the target group here (the undeniable fact being this content is mainly created by women, for women), but I'm really fond of some of the very first BL mangas right from the 70s! The Heart of Thomas being one of them, and its prototype story "November Gymnasium" is also very nice even if it gets kind of odd in the end. I haven't gotten around actually finishing any newer BL/yaoi content as far as I rememeber, but I'm currently reading Canis (I read The Speaker chapters of it first, fell in love with the art and figured I might as well go for it)! It's really hard to find actually nice and non-fetishy gay content though, same for non-tragic stories. As for live action movies, I have seen Death in Venice and Les Amitiés particulières, but both are rather old, tragic and have the kind of content that has a lot of problems and needs the viewer to be critical of things and keep in mind the context and age of those movies. They're apparently considered really important works in gay fiction though (especially the latter one) so I watched both to culturize myself a bit more. 

As a man who loves men myself I'm doing my best to create that kind of content though! Majority of my OCs seem to fall under the sexual minority group anyway haha 

Komason

Edit: Removed because I realize it may be in poor taste. Still shady though.

Myceliummadness

Gay man here, people ask me if I’m the uke or seme all the time. Nope, nope nope nope. Icky. Also please be careful, some books have some seriously fucked up shit in them.

mlm fiction is great, just don’t stereotype us and how our relationships work, basically.

SpaceSheepy

Otter_under_water idk how my thread got brought back up but lord I was cringey back then and this is embarrassing lol but I agree some of them are really messed up and I hate when a story is really good but then something fucked up happens and ruins it, and people are dumb if they really think the stuff that happens in Yaoi is always realistic, I think it's rude to ask someone if they're top or bottom uke seme whatever because one that's none of anyone's business and is very personal also many people don't take a specific role like literally that's really creepy to ask somebody though! Personally I'm just a fan of romance in general but for some reason tend to like bl stuff the most, but I've always been drawn to romance stuff. Some of he shit tha comes out for Yaoi isn't romance though and is just wrong and I wish those weren't the things people think Yaoi is because it's not but there's definetly an issue in the way a lot of yaois portray things that I wish would change