Ai no Kusabit was a trip, I can't imagine what it was like to read as a 14 year old who had very little exposure to yaoi and BL, at 14 I was giggling over sex scenes in fantasy novels. also, SUPER DRIVE!!
omg gravitation i had a secondhand store i went to for books and they had gravitation volume 3 and i recognized it was yaoi and bought it immediately without knowing anything about the series and i open it up and it was just like Blond being like "you don't know me ... i killed a man" and Pink being like ":O" and i was so confused
@Aondeug @Pukjie Ainsel I think the manhua you guys are talking about is Han Seung-Hee and Jeon Jin-Seok's One Thousand And One Nights! I read it in college. Borrowed it from the same person who lent me the end of Godchild so my suffering could finally be complete. That was some good, good gothic nonsense.
Has there been any movement on changing the thread title, or??? It might be good to change it to something that doesn't imply it's only for ladies?
Sorry I see people being upset about it and my reaction is "must change so no one hates me" but idk I'm just here to be nostalgic about manga
@paintcat I do own and love that manhwa*, but I think Aon and I were talking about a different one, with a girl crossdressing instead of a boy. Though crossdressing was super common in the manhwa that got translated in the mid/late-2000s, that's for sure. *I remember being so relieved by the happy ending, I was braced for upsetting (as opposed to cathartic) amounts of angst. The middle volumes were ROUGH.
I just..haven't seen anything about people being upset? No one has contacted me? All I've seen is a post by someone else saying that people are upset. I changed the title anyway to be a combo of the words fudanshi and fujoshi.
I haven't been liking the notion ppl seem to have that their being silently unhappy, and grousing in vent thread vagues and skype, should somehow magically convey itself to the person doing the thing that's bothering them. On a site full of autistics. Yeah. Not going to work, sorry.
Sorry, my anxiety did a Panic. But yeah if people actually want to changed, can they say something?????? I'm not too fussed either way but my brain equates people not liking something about a thing I participate in as being the same as them hating me. Because that makes sense, thanks brain
Oh my God, I thought vent threads weren't supposed to be a form of communication with other people. Isn't this the kind of thing we used to make fun of Ray for doing in CDC? Open letter to anyone, if you've got a complaint about me or my material, for the love of fandom please take it up with me directly or post on the relevant thread. If you want to complain about stuff without expecting action to be taken, go ahead and use your vent thread all you want. I'm not combing through vent threads looking for feedback. I refuse to let myself be paranoid about people going behind my back, otherwise I would never post anything at all. So those are the rules for me! I changed the thread title for the peace of mind of the posters who were getting upset that unknown people were upset. Dear A Tiny Mushroom's brain. Please don't worry about the problematic contents of this thread. It's likely that I created this thread unknowingly during the big kintsugi drama blow up of '17. Many people were upset and hurt due to things not related to this thread and apparently arguments and personal attacks were flying back and forth in the vent threads, to the point where it looks like people were using them as a primary source of communication? When people are upset, a tiny slight annoyance like the threads title which could normally be passed by turned into yet another reason to make them feel bad along with all the other Bad that was happening. I'm pretty sure that the people who were upset have calmed down about the whole thing along with the rest of the drama. Little annoyances always seem 10x worse when someone is upset. If someone feels attacked, they will see threats in things that wouldn't normally bother them very much, luckily that kind of perception changes with a person's mood. Nevertheless, I changed the title and added some new material in the first post so everything is fine now.
So hey here's something non-drama related: An article about (male; there doesn't seem to be much info about the ladies) homosexuality in pre-modern Japan. In case anyone's interested.
I LOVE KILL ME KISS ME SO MUCH OMG It didn't have much actual m/m content (there were two gay gang members who were v cute together but weren't major characters), but the female lead was a yaoi fangirl who wrote fic for a zine so there were amusing bits related to that.
me, under a pile of possibly gay letters and other writings: IM SO HOT AND BOTHERED RIGHT NOW. PILES OF PAPER TRAP A LOT OF HEAT APPARENTLY
