/bl/ - General BL

>>4839
>Lord/retainer
>Mentor/mentee
>Characters who are like visual mirror images or counterparts, especially hero/villain ones
>Power couples
>Rivalships
>Age gap
>Monsterboy/human, I especially like a guy with a monster on a leash under his control by some contract like SebaCiel
>Plain dude/hot dude (hot dude is simp for plain dude, plain dude is unimpressed with hot dude or oblivious)
I like reverse so I'm usually not picky about who bottoms/tops, but I usually have a preference towards balancing out the power dynamic. Like, if one guy raised the other, I'll probably prefer him bottoming, but it's not a hard and fast rule.
There are also some dynamics, like human guys topping monsters or heroes domming villains, that I'm more keen on seeing just because of how rare they are, even if I like the roles in reverse just as well.
I think I have some more rules of thumb:
>The more obnoxious a guy is, the more I want him to get his ass destroyed
>The sadder, older (including immortals) and angstier a guy is, the more I want him to get his ass destroyed, preferably by a much younger guy
>Smug sluts, S types, and mentors are great for power bottoming

>>4839
This applies to both BL and my ships from non-BL media, but
>This one super specific dynamic where one (preferably wealthy) guy seduces a repressed, uptight guy into doing evil shit or something otherwise against his moral compass. I prefer if the uptight guy is the seme, but it's not a requirement.
>Two characters too emotionally constipated to properly communicate what they're actually thinking or feeling. Bonus points if they're friends beforehand. Whoever is more in denial or more prideful about it should be the uke, but again, not a requirement.
>One character who's WAY more enthusiastic about the relationship than the other, who is more reserved. This one can really go either way. It really depends on the specific story and characters.
I'm pretty lax about seme/uke roles. As long as it isn't written in a way that feels completely OOC or otherwise illogical, I'm okay with it. I do have ships where I think it makes more sense with specific characters in specific roles, but if the opposite is done well, I'm open to it. I've noticed that in doujins and fanworks of my OTP, when people reverse their roles from my preference, they're more likely to misinterpret the overall dynamic (or at least, it's very different from the way I see their relationship).

>Are you okay with riba or only fixed positions?
I don't care about who is topping but I'm very particular about the dynamic/personality being faithful to character portrayals in canon. Most of my ships are riba and I imagine them this way when coming up with my own scenerious/making my own content but when it comes to consuming stuff other people make I gravitate towards one fixed dynamic that generally misenterprets the character's personalities/dynamics the least. Positions don't matter but mischaracterisation is a huge turnoff.
>Do you usually like the uke more or the seme?
about 50/50
>Do you like ships where the roles are obviously defined? Or pairings where they are more ambiguous?
I like both if they are written well.
>Are you a Snake, Slug, Frog, Snail, Geeko, or Turtle fujo?
frog

>>4171
I'm watching this for the first time (just finished season 3) and while I see the vision I just can't get invested in the show in a brainrot kind of way.
>>4176
The Sopranos.

Apart/Heisuke from Sakamoto Days is a super recent one for me, total brainworms. I'm a sucker for deeply disturbed dude/super sweet but pretty dumb guy and their interactions, though brief, were really fun imo. I hope the anime can instill the vision for some. Or better yet, remind the mangaka that Apart exists. C'mon Suzuki where is he?

Igarasu x Akane

authors comment:

よく、ドラマとかで「生まれ変わってもまた愛し合おう」みたいなセリフがありますよね。
それって、本当に実現できるんでしょうか。

死んだあと、宇宙のすべての生物にランダムに生まれ変わるのだとしたら、「また出会って愛し合える確率」はどれぐらいでしょう。
何しろ地球の細菌とバクテリアだけでも500穣匹(5×10^30匹！)いると言いますから、宇宙全体ともなれば、何億回・何兆回生まれ変わっても出会うのはムリそうです。
もし、わずかな確率で出会えても、人間で言う「愛」みたいな共通の概念を持った生物として生まれて来ないとダメですよね。
何も感じない草や木のような生物に生まれ変わっても、お腹がすいたらすぐに共食いしてしまうような生物でもダメで…

そう考えると、全くゼロとは言えないけど、ものすごく低い確率だと思います。
「愛の力でまた巡り会える」って最後まで信じてるほうが幸せかな…。

>>4489
Shounen Meguru absolutely broke me! It's all I ever wanted with the level of tragedy and how gruesome it is, I hate how tiktok got to it though

>>4333
Was deleted due to issues with hosting, we still have a shota thread on /flf/ just don't post nsfw.

I really love age gaps and the bigger the gap the better but I think I stick out since I'm a die hard fan of younger seme, so the uke would be 55 or pushing 60 and the seme is 17. one of the best tropes for me is the seme would have a crush on his father's friend! Or fuck it, he can fuck the dad as well. Just sperging out

>>4438
Same, I really like the father's friend x son trope and doubly so for old man uke. I equally like it when it's like an old college professor who has one of his student's come on to him.

Various of things in my younger years eventually yaoi-pilled me, but I think fanon yaoi has impacted my taste in anime media the most, one of the first ones was picrel Kizami x Kurosaki from Corpse Party (an osananajimi kind, albeit one that doesn't end pretty). People created great yaoi of them on tumblr and ff.net that truly tickled the fujo in me, and inspired me to learn to draw anime boys better. Funnily enough, when I checked back, Morishige x Kizami is the most popular yaoi Corpse Party ship.

Hetalia yaoi doujinshi was I think the first lewd yaoi I stumbled upon, my reaction was very much akin to Kagami reading Gauron x Sousuke haha.

Ragna X Jin from BlazBlue is what truly incest-pilled me and I still read fanfiction of them from time to time (Their dynamic as well dubcon/noncon fanfictions probably impacted my tastes greatly). A great pair for if you wanna read about an insanely obsessive little brother. Brothers entwined in a fate that cannot help but keep binding them together. Pretty easy to see why even the games themselves joke about their very incestuous bond.

As for actual yaoi anime, I remember watching SukiSyo on YouTube which bewildered kid me at the time, I don't remember much of it, but I should eventually watch it again.

In the end of it all I am mostly a fanon fujo, though I still indulge in canonically yaoi stuff from time to time.

>>4381
>Ragna X Jin

Great taste for hatefucking.

I actually haven't played Corpse Party and from an outsiders perspective I assumed it had a very male fandom. Interesting gateway series.

>>4382
Yeah Corpse Party in the end is still mostly anime girl fanservice in the end, quite a few yuri-bait and panty shots of the female characters. So while its fanon was my gateway yaoi I'd only recommend it if you can sideline those things for the anime guys.

>>4316
>the boss has to be comforted by the subordinate and feels ashamed to be taken care of by someone 'lesser' than him
I'm really into this, but worse, I like an OP monster having to let a human take care of him. Making something that feels superior be vulnerable for once and accept that there's some feelings in common or that are actually worse for him and he shouldn't carry that alone. Or even scaring the human with their always reliable OP partner being bedridden and at the mercy of a curse or injury, something they could never imagine before. Trying their best to patch them up and haul them around, repeating this mantra that he's the toughest guy ever, he'll be back on his feet in no time, nothing could kill him, right? ~~And then that unfaltering belief gives them the strength to recover because magic.~~

When it flips the other way around it's "how is this thing being so gentle with me right now?" You can have the non-human fuck up caring for the human in some way and scramble to try and fix things. Cultural misunderstandings are easy to bullshit, like the non-human thinks the human is avoiding them, acting cold, rejecting their company, shutting them out. The human just has a bad cold and isn't aware the non-human can't catch it.

There was post I saw recently, where a long-lifed creature was faced with the idea that if they slept like they normally would, their human partner might die in the years before they woke up again. He struggled to admit this troubled him, because he was proud and supposedly very powerful. A little human no longer being there could cause him pain that no healing spell would fix. Obviously the answer was to confess his anxiety so they could help him wake up every day and be together as much as possible before the inevitable.

I might be straying a bit, but the answers in this thread are super varied already. I think the catharsis for me is when a couple communicates. There were some webnovels I read where the MC is piling up burdens on himself and never fucking tells anyone what he's actually thinking and trying to achieve or feels about anyone, and when you're in the midst of this you really want that moment where he breaks down and admits it all to someone. Some novels you're lucky and it's a male deuteragonist, but others the guy barely gets to tell a girl half of what's hapPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I'm not good or experienced at fics, but I want to write h/c with a character who has amputated limbs and/or was raped. The fic will be sweet and go into his recovery. I'm going research and writing a rough draft but does anyone have any recs for that sort of story?

>>4319
Great taste, especially the mutual h/c-two fucked up individuals helping eachother is so fun.
>>4321
>OP monster and human
Yesss I love this dynamic, especially when the monster is dehumanised and their human partner is the first one to treat them like a person.

>>4100
she had a single uke gintoki doujin that was Takasugi x Gin + Hijikata x Gin called Hanbunko (Halfsies)
you can read it on mrm: https://myreadingmanga.info/paraiso-harada-gintama-dj-hanbunko-eng/

>>4105
School AU settings, huh.

Harada sensei dropped this new year's illustration and she has them wearing the classic yaoi colours. Beyond based.

>>4268
and one frostiron comic

>>4269
pics made me think of vid

akishinji edition.

there is something so romantic about men beating each other up. i think it's the intense emotions they feel for each other during the act that does it for me

>>4232
Who are these two?

>>4238
NTA but I'm pretty sure it's Sou and Shin from Kimigashine