/bl/ - General BL

>>5886
That Oberon looks great, I'm in the same boat as you, being into Fate but not having stuck with F/GO long enough to see him. Guess it would be a money willing thing since I similarly love his design and the bait and switch thing he has going on. That being said I would never throw money at a figure/merch for a character and property I'm totally unfamiliar with, I would at least watch the anime since a good design isn't enough to outweigh a personality/characterization I dislike and that seems like a way to get burned.

kek

I don't play the game but this is pretty cute

>>6011
based, a fan of it.

>>6012
It's objectively the best pairing in the show.

Is Ahiru no Sora worth watching?

>>6360
What are the other translated manhwas? We might be able to give you our opinions on them. Also, wow, can't believe your local library has Killing Stalking out to loan haha. Personally, I didn't read Killing Stalking, but it is pretty foundational for BL manhwa's increase in popularity and if you're alright with the subject matter, go for it.

>>6362
Killing Stalking has a super cool premise and I like the early chapters a lot, the direction it went didn't get with me but I'd still rec checking it out if you're interested.

Seconding what other Manwha do they have?

>>6362
>>6363
I don't remember what they have exactly, but I'll check next time I'll go to the library.

>>5859
Kek that first pic is so cute

>>5868
different artist, but same theme

Maybe not the best setting as much as something I'm curious to see, but I've been reading about Brazil recently and think a BL featuring malandragem culture would be cool.

2 things: fandom bl comes about because most people like the plot and characters first, and they like to see two realized characters get together. A lot of actual bl is too short or one of the characters in the main pair isn't fleshed out that much. Fandoms naturally pop up for popular series with a setting and plot to play around with, the fujo potential is merely a bonus. This is why certain danmei like mdzs blew up, because it has a plot and other characters in addition to the main pairing, so it got a huge fandom.
The second factor is sometimes fandom really likes a certain guy and wants that guy to either get dicked down or dick another guy down. People have to be really endeared with one of the characters. Look how popular Gojo is, for example.

I think everyone here provided good points and I don't have much to add on it. But I will say that I prefer to call it shipping, and I dislike that my OTPs are not canon and I need to rely on fanfic and fan art for them. I wish actual canon BL had a quality as good as my favorite OTPs and their series.

When I was a kid, and I first got into shipping and yaoi, looking up quality fan art and fanfics of your ships was easier and lots of the fan art looked good and the fanfics were alright. Although it could also be that kid me simply had shit taste, hence perceiving these fan works as good lol.

Now as an adult, looking at fan art and fanfics of my ships is disappointing at best, enraging and upsetting at worst thanks to all the ameritard political discourse getting in the way of fandom. All fan arts and fanfics have to be annoying gendie slop now and extremely ugly and low quality. I'm not even kidding when I say all the fan art of my childhood ships on Tumblr was deleted!!! I remember some of it vividly and it's not there anymore. There's still some on Twitter though but untagged and hidden so you gotta dig for it. Or archived on Pinterest.

The plague also hit real BL and now it's all cringe woke shit about coming out and old moid yaoi and ✨ realistic✨ art styles and designs (read sterilized) and even MORE boring slice of life stories.

Another annoying thing is all the fan artists and fanfic writers stopped doing it for the love of the game but instead do it for money or going viral and the chance to publish their own work one day, which killed their passion. Everything is tropey and safe AU bullshit now.

I still prefer shipping despite the negatives because as others said, the characters are written better with more interesting crazy stories around their bond to justify it and give it more weight, something about them being in danger and caring for each other's lives, or having positive impact on each other's lives in serious situations makes it more interesting and addictive.

I like Hikaru ga shinda natsu, but the childhood friends thing to justify their crushes is kinda boring since the supernatural stuff doesn't push them together. The real Hikaru died and now Yoshiki sees the monster as a mere replacement to cope. I like the monster falling in love with a human for treating him nicely thing, but it's still underwhelming and pales in comparison to my favorite OTPs now and from my childhood who had bigPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>6334
Some examples, prepare to cringe:

I used to love Ninjago when I was a kid and would ship many characters together, my favorite was Kai x Lloyd despite the age gap. I didn't realize the older brother younger brother dynamic back then but still liked it anyways. Finding fan art for it was so easy back then and nobody cared that you shipped it that much. Nowadays it's all "um this is pedophilia!!!" moralfagging so the fan arts were wiped off the face of the internet or just hidden because of this. And are all replaced by quirk chungus family dynamic tumblr shit.

I used to ship Eli x Junjie from Slugterra because I liked their plot and dynamic. Basically Junjie was mind controlled by a zombie slug for 20 years since he was 16-18, and Eli freed him from it and helped him get back home. Junjie waa grateful to Eli and bonded with him over this and their shared love of slugs and the sport around it. And the two would have training scenes together and had a special move where they shoot together at the same time to merge their attacks. I was obsessed with them and browsing fan art back in the day was so easy. Now it's all deleted and Eli is either shipped with the new Mary Sue and Gary Stue characters, or with the designated female love interest, or worse, poly shipping bullshit. All because Junjie is physically 30 something while Eli is 15-16 and age gap bad. Even though mentally he's still a teenager and didn't get to actually properly grow up anyways. Found the only surviving fan art on Pinterest thankfully but in potato quality.

Another ship I enjoyed was Hawkeye x Hulk/Clint x Bruce, specifically the Avengers: Earth mightiest heros adaptation where the former is the latter's tardwrangler. They had a cute dynamic teasing and annoying each other while also caring for and helping each other and being glued to each other. I vividly remember some pencil and paper drawing from Tumblr of them on a fishing trip having sex in a boat but of course it's probably gone now. Sad times.

Point is all BL, whether original or shipping, became boring unfortunately. Things changed to the worst. It's especially painful that my current OTP is obscure. Was obscure when the show aired, sitll obscure now years later because nobody cares about this show. So I'm all alone in my autism.

With the continued popularity of things like Country Humans and other attempts to bishie-fy countries do you think Hetalia is to blame or is there just something innately appealing about humanized countries?

>>2080
Well drawings of humanized countries have always been a thing. Like all those old political cartoons.

I love amecan!

I watched Love is a Poison and like it a lot, unfortunately I have very predictable taste and I ended up being super invested in the evil dad and his sleazy lawyer lackey. They gave huge vibes of having fucked at least once, specially with the reveal of where the lawyer knows the second lead from and the ending where he gets called his "dog".

I heard a while back that the anime Yuri!!! On Ice had a live-action NSFW parody, Does anyone know where I can find it??

I finally watched 10Dance and I have NEVER felt more blueballed by an ending. Everything else about the movie was immaculate, down to the lighting, cinematography, and actors. Why couldn't they make an original end for it instead? I wanted to see them retire in Havanna full of passion and life. If not that, I would have settled for some kind of flash forward to the competition at least.

Props to Ryoma and Keita for selling the mutual longing and pining so well. I could watch them for another 5 hours easily.

>>6311
Kek it looks a lot better in manga format

>>5747
All we have now is the game and endless MMO greed. I'd love to see the manhwa continue.

>>5749
The reddit is a cesspool only good for occasional memes imo, but that's the case for most series so I don't know why anyone would be surprised.

I have mixed feeling about Apollo x Leonidas

It's pretty the most toxic Ror ship since in canon Leo hated Apollo's gut and likely very abusive to him if they get paired, somewhat like BatJokes vibes of toxic enemies-to-lovers ship.

At the same time, it's a goddamn guilty pleasure..I should hate that ship but goddamn it I can't stop looking!

>>5756

I want Leonidas punching Apollo's abs, him getting ahegao and make him beg like a slut he's always been.