/bl/ - General BL

>>6685
Oooh, Whiplash the manhwa; very intriguing

Twink death

If you like fucking crazy bottoms who are obsessed with the top and controls the relationship, I recommend "Even in your Death" by Jinan. You might see the alt translation title "Die in my arms" from scanlators. It really pulls on the heartstrings and I feel a lot for the top. The bottom is hilariously insane but I can't help but to love him.

>>6768
The plot is non-existent except for the true route and in the true route the BL is non-existent except for its bad ending.

About the characters the delinquent actually ended up being the sweetest cinammon bun of all shockingly enough, I fully expected him to be the rapist archetype (but he does become that in his bad ending which might be the worst in the entire game), the other 2 LIs are both unhinged in different ways so it depends if you like their type of crazy. I think you really need to enjoy the characters in this game otherwise you'll find it very boring.

>>6769
Thank you nona for the very detailed reply. I tend to like unhinged love interests but always depends on how they are written. It got an English fantranslation recently so been thinking of starting it.

>>6768
Really fucking boring sadly.

>>6752
Please post photos once you're back!

>>6757
I'll see if I can take interesting pictures! However I planned to go there on Friday and she will get interviewed and explain her job on Saturday so I'll that.

>>6766
Many thanks!

>>6663
Thank you! Yes, they're adorable ♡ Nendos may be my favorite type of plastic figures, "1 coin" mini figure and scales a close 2nd and 3rd.
>Sugarbunnies
It's a binder! For stickers, according to the site I got it but I'm planning on using it for ship prints that fit or maybe as a diary for my BL watch/read/vn list

>>6681
>Nendos may be my favorite type of plastic figures
Same! I try and limit myself when it comes to chibi figures since they can pretty quickly take over one's space haha
>maybe as a diary for my BL watch/read/vn list
That's such a cool idea!

Are ブロマイド I see in online shops printed on bromide paper?

>>6710
Yeah I thought it was odd that the mangaka was a man I mean okay I guess it exists but it's rare.

Anyway does anyone know of any good upcoming BL anime?

>>6761
This is the only one airing in summer.

>>6753
AI is trained from real people but it also overuses certain sentence structures way too often and in ways that humans wouldn't. Humans aren't using 'X did Y, in the way that Z' or 'it's not X, it's Y' 10 times per chapter. It tends to repeat the same point in different wording or make scenes that don't connect to each other.

>>6753
You can tell when sombody is an AI "artist" it's obvious if you actually look at the art and pay attention to details like buttons and hair strands. In the same way if you actually pay attention to the word flow and sentance structure it becomes obvious if someone is an AI "writer" if people don't notice they either don't care, aren't paying attention, or are young and haven't read enough to be able to spot inauthentic prose.

>>6747
If I didn't give a fuck about my writing and had nothing else to do I could probably do a 2k fic a day especially if it's basic shit like first kiss, love confessions, ect. Works that aren't complicated and don't require fact checking the source material. If they are posting longfics daily that's a major red flag. Though it's also important to keep in mind some people finish a story in advance and drop it in large chunks over a few days.

>>6758
>You can tell when sombody is an AI "artist"
that was not the point I was making. I was comparing how real writing gets accused just as blindly.

That said. I have never encountered AI written fanfic ever myself because I simply filter to specifics constantly outside of what is popular. AI fanfiction that I have seen is bad in a way that is irrelevant to talent or ability to structure unique prose. It just sounds braindead. Which is different from being bad. It's structurally sound, just empty

Faith No More has some pretty gays songs

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.

>>6334
>even MORE boring slice of life stories
I don't know whether these are more prevalent than in the past, but my tolerance for them sure is lower than when I was younger.

>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
Yeah, I hate the drive to monetise EVERYTHING in nerd/niche spaces. For example, Youtube was better when it wasn't offering content makers money.

I finally started reading Heaven's Official Blessing after letting my physical first volume rot on a shelf for nearly a year. So far it's just the introduction, I can't keep up with the characters' names yet but I should get used to them eventually. The setting reminded me of a less serious version of the 12 Kingdoms because they're based on the same mythologies/legends, so I'm already enjoying it so far.

>>6632
I used visual guides to remember who is who.

I've reached 1/3 of Imperfections and I'm giving up. This novel is so boring.