welcome to yaoi-con Do you wish you were in San Francisco last month for Yaoi-con 2015, breathing in the yaoi vibes, squee-ing with fellow fujoshi & fudanshi, and wandering through the cosplay? Well, you can dip your toe in the pool, thanks to videographers Mamuro5254 and SonicJKevin. Last year I enjoyed (and recommended) their Yaoi-con videos…
In gender rebels — when uke and seme switch: yaoi’s top 10 reversi manga, I ranted about the lack of reversi in yaoi and my desperate desire to know why, why, why?! Well, at this year’s Yaoi-con, I had the awesome opportunity to ask Tateno Makoto (creator of Yellow, Hero Heel, and Blue Sheep Reverie) why there’s…
women of the world love yaoi My favorite box on the WordPress stats page is the flags list — the hits on your site by country. Since my site’s all about stories of boys who fall in love and boys who have sex with each other — a rather taboo topic in many parts of the world…
a joyful yaoimas In Japan, where less than 1% of the population is Christian, Christmas really isn’t a religious holiday — and that’s great news for yaoi. On the surface, Japan’s Christmas looks a lot like the modern commercial American Christmas. Glittering lights, decorated evergreen trees, wreaths, presents with big shiny bows, reindeer, and Santa. Basically,…
Last month, pantasticpanda, a fellow yaoi-lover, nominated my blog for the Liebster Award. The Liebster’s goal is to bring a bit of extra attention to new blogs, and I thank pantasticpanda for liking my blog enough to want to help me share it with others. If you aren’t already familiar with this process, accepting the nomination involves: 1)…
WARNING: Um, so a few of the pics here are a bit more graphic than what I normally post. There was just no way around it. truth vs. fiction: fiction wins In Yaoiland, many deliciously, delightfully unrealistic things happen. However, it’d be boring to join yaoi’s critics in debating whether that’s a good thing or…
gentle? What is a gentle schoolboy yaoi mood? It’s when you want to read BL where highschoolers fall for their classmates, in stories that are emotionally easy to digest. In other words, you’re craving stories of sweet love and romance, without the darkness or angst of noncon, physical/emotional abuse, or taboo relationships. That’s right, these stories…
have you watched enough yaoi anime? Really? For a fujoshi/fudanshi, is that possible? If you like to see your boys onscreen but your list of “happy ways to spend an afternoon” doesn’t include tracking down yaoi anime for purchase or download (both of which have their challenges), then you need aarinfantasy’s yaoi video collection. Aarinfantasy, one of the biggest online…
Alright, I admit that video clip isn’t yaoi, sadly, but I can’t help using it — after all, a dish that can inspire this much enthusiasm, in both anime and yaoi manga, is worth trying out, right? a curry of your own I hope my first curry post convinced you that Japanese curry is a…
hey baby, I’ve got some tasty curry at home… wanna come over? More than shoujo’s chocolate, in the world of yaoi, curry is an effective tool of seduction, a way to get into a man’s pants. Thus, it’s something yaoi taught me to love —after all, I always root for characters’ successful seductions. Before I read manga,…
too hot to handle? The reversible (or switch or reversi) couple is probably my favorite pairing. When a couple trades sex roles — the pitcher becoming the catcher and vice versa — it’s such a pleasing violation of yaoi conventions. If there’s one basic move in yaoi that both ratchets up the sexy and pushes gender boundaries, it’s the act of throwing the roles of seme…
the joy of yaoi 