/bl/ - General BL

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

>>4223
These two are so close to being a cute couple, I'd love to see what this artist is up to now.

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

new cute art dropped! i wish we got luka too

>>4209
we got luka too!

This is legit the first time since SAO and Priest that I ended up enjoying a story from Korea. Is there hope again? I got into this for the setting and the show-don't-tell attitude of the videos not the gay stuff so the gay content was a surprise to me and a nice extra, same as the pretty artstyle.

Viki becomes more unusable with each year with their tagging system and site look. It seems nobody can design websites for user-friendliness anymore.
https://www.viki.com/categories/country/all/genre/bl

The Untamed isn't even classified as BL there - perhaps they don't want to piss off China lol. Pathetic.

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 miss the old type of trap where he was still ambiguous enough to be believable as a guy. Once you start drawing them with boobs/female hips, I can no longer believe that they're male. In older shows, characters like Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho were feminine enough that the Filipino dub accidentally made him female, but that wouldn't happen nowadays. Or Haku from Naruto would probably be seen as just a guy if the episode released now. As another example, I believed Ranmaru from Pokemon Conquest was a girl when I was a kid, but I don't think I'd make that mistake now. I think it comes from anime girls becoming more and more hyperfeminine, so it's harder to blur that line, so they just draw girls now instead of trying to be creative.

>>4032
Agreed, I used to think they were cool for their androgyny, when now they are usually just waifus with a "boy" punchline
I don't anticipate mainstream traps returning to tastefully androgynous boys, so I'm hoping on a breakthrough in traps that act extremely macho
Inosuke isn't really a trap, but he's along the lines of what I would like traps to be more like! The idea of someone looking exactly like an anime girl but being a gruff and tough macho man on the inside is hilarious and fits right into gap moe appeal