/bl/ - General BL

>>4136
I've already seen LOGH. Thanks for the Ai no Kusabi rec though!

Okay, hard mode. Rec me a BL Japanese novel/light novel that is actually written like it's not literature for retards (like most LNs). It 1) has to be longer than 1 volume; 2) can't have an anime adaptation; 3) is not a (middle)highschool story; 4) Yukio Mishima doesn't count.

If anyone wants a collection of dysfunctional somwtimes fucked up stories Stroboscope is pretty interesting but uneven.

https://mangadex.org/title/944d89ce-55ba-47fe-aa28-b0d8cb32a17d/stroboscope

I'll start:
>what are your favourite h/c scenarios?
My favourite is when a character becomes very delirious from a serious sickness/injury and has to be soothed and calmed down, and the other character has to take care of them and nurse them back to health.

>What type of characters do you love to see suffering?
I don't like hurting wholesome sunshine boys, the best victim is an egotistical asshole. It's great seeing such characters who hate to be weak being forced to be vulnerable in a state of pain. Especially when they suffer so much they break and do a personality 180 to become pitiful and they have to slowly build themselves back up again with the help of their love interest.

>What relationship dynamic do you like best?
I like it when there is a power imbalance between the hurt person and the comforter- like master/ servant, boss/subordinate,etc It can go either way- the boss has to be comforted by the subordinate and feels ashamed to be taken care of by someone 'lesser' than him, or the other way around where the subordinate is suprised and embarassed to be looked after and helped by their superior who they didn't expect to care about them. In the end,their relationship ends up changing and becoming more equal due to the incident.

>What are your favourite h/c scenarios?
Fanfic only abuser x victim ships. I'm a huge fan of manipulative men in general. Not a fan of seeing it much in canon because few series make it a point to actually have dynamics like this that aren't trying to be an after school special
>What type of characters do you love to see suffering the most?
Strong characters. Specifically characters who constantly put on a face and aren't actually bad at what they do. Like Shouto Todoroki is actually insanely good at what he does. But I do love throwing him into a blender. Pic related are from Tales of Graces and I recall just reading a ton of fanfic of them that ignores the end of the game.
>What relationship dynamic do you like best in h/c content?
Stockholm Syndrome will always, always be the best. To me anyways.

Generally the first fanfic I'll read. Huge fan of blackmail so damaging there's no way for that person to actually recover. Not so much a fan when the lack of comfort outweighs the hurt dished out all the time. At that point it's simply torture porn without end and I find that fucking boring, just as much as I find far too much fluff and cuddles for comfort with no hurt so much more boring

>What are your favourite h/c scenarios?
Rape recovery. Not so much focusing on the assault itself, but the character having their life seeminly ruined, withdrawing, and the othe party reaching out and going out of the way to help is the perfect h/c imo.

>What type of characters do you love to see
Every character suffering in their own way is great, but my favorite ones are comic relief characters who tend to be the butt of the joke. Especially since it naturally lends itself to grim dark suicidal thoughts since they'd perceive the rest of the cast to hate them, until the other half of the ship let's them know that they are valued.

>What relationship dynamic do you like best in h/c content?
Mutually beneficial h/c, I love when one character is suffering and is getting help, but then it's revealed the character who is giving the comfort is just as broken in another way so they are also healed through the interaction.

>Any h/c scenes from media which you enjoyed?
I would need to think on it, I mainly engage with h/c though fanfiction so I'm not sure if any official media has ever scratched the same itch.

>>4256
I haven't used it but anything is better than buyee lol. So no surprise shipping fees or anything?

>>4257
As far as I've read, it's a bit cheaper, gives you more days at their warehouse and just says the price front and center with no surprises. They have a calculator on their site for you to see how much shipping would cost. So yeah, no surprise shipping fees as far as I know.

>>4256
Alright my order has arrived, overall a very positive experience with it! They were very fast and reliable and they gave me a free coupon inside my package, which btw was very nicely secured. I definitely can recommend it if you need a proxy service.
The only issue (that I didn't have but a lot of people complain about it) is that they don't offer refunds as soon as your order is processed, the only refund is if the item never arrives to their warehouse. They also don't open boxes or check the authenticity of products sent by sellers, so it's something you gotta be sure of before buying. It's a cheaper proxy so no photos of packages or more options for packaging (besides the dimensions the workers seem fit) makes sense. I recommend it if you nonnas want something simple and reliable, but you gotta be sure of what you wanna get.

>>4307
Lamias are under-rated, the idea of one who curls themselves up when they're shy or embarrassed around another boy is very cute.

Thoughts on Analog horror kun? (I actually don't know if he's meant to be that, but he looks like it)

>>4312
Slenderman/12 year old girl might develop a crush core.

>>4300
Sorry that makes more sense. I guess I should have formulated my post differently, since I was talking about the usage of aroace in general save for the latter part of my post.
I am retarded and never read that series so I didn't know. I guess in that case her post does make sense, assuming that the aroace part refers to the alien alone and the homo part to the two others. I am not reading it so I don't know if that's what she says or if she implies that the other character was ace as well.

Besides the reasons I already mentioned an issue I have with aceness in fiction is that it always happens to gay characters, see >>4302. I haven't heard of a het series with this yet. A series where the character remained ace I mean.

>>4304
I wrote that when I was going to bed so I kinda forgot people use it for more than dumb discourse oops. But yeah, if you use it to post art and/or to expand your brand then there's no issue with that. This mangaka however using it to call her work "aroace" and to say her work is not "queer baiting" is wild, I dunno if she was always like this but the Twitter vermin got to her very quickly.

>>4306
>assuming that the aroace part refers to the alien alone and the homo part to the two others
I'm pretty sure this is what it's about because she said the eldritch guy can't feel love or something.
Aroace is a weird term to use here, but she probably picked it up from twitter discoursers.

Bravern ED

Superior fujoshi vocaloid honestly.

>>4292
Holy cow nonna, there's so many that's a whole treasure trove. Thank you for sharing! What defunct DJ site are they initally from?

>>4294
Most of the zip file names are based on the name of the website I grabbed them from. Other than mrm none of the sites exist anymore, maybe except one blog (the folder with scans in the name) that had you interview to join them kek (still technically dead due to lack of activity).
I'm glad you are enjoying the djs nonas. Maybe I should share my dmmd collection next (which is smaller compared to my yoi coll but still has djs from some websites that don't exist elsewhere in the interwebz anymore), I used to be brainrotted about these fandoms around the same time so I immediately downloaded any dj I found back then kek.

>>4292
Thank you so much!

Based on a post in another thread have you ever reported a story amd how did you do it? I ran into a really gross self-insert pornographic "Original" work a few days ago from an underage person and the comments on it seemed predatory but I didn't know what to do about it.

Also what do you think about the fact that Ao3 allows original works in the first place? It seems cool that someone could keep all their writings in one place, but every time I open the tab it's just the most grotesque works from people who don't seem to write fanfiction at all. There is good BL fantasy stuff in the tag but I feel like I need a shower after opening it.

>>3815
As long as the originals never overtake "fandom" as the reason for going to the site I'm fine with it, but you're right about how 99% of it is just fetish/wank material (with tens of thousands of hits to boot, lol).

As for reporting:
open fic
scroll all the way down past the comment box
click link "Policy Questions & Abuse Reports"

AO3 went down for maintenance just as I was getting to the good part of a multi-chapter longfic. What misfortune… They said it'll be back in a few hours but still.

>>4254
>that Rai is the "true route" when Asato makes the most sense thematically and in terms of characterization
Right? Rai had the most choices, the longest route, and the most CGs, if my memory serves me right. It's so odd. They made the "true route" the least BL-like.
>I thought Bardo was the most fun character-wise
>I think he should've had more stability and maturity than what he displayed
That was my problem with him, too. It felt like I wasn't looking at the fun, 40-something geezer he was introduced as at the start of the Ransen arc anymore, even if it was all an act to begin with. His writing could've fit him if he were a decade or two younger, but then it wouldn't make sense for him and Rai to be so tightly tied together. That's why I'm not a fan of their routes even if they're fine as side characters like they are in Asato's good end.
>Was Asato your favorite character overall?
I would say yes. I like it when two characters struggling with similar things find courage in each other and move on from their painful pasts together. Him and Konoe being so close in age also makes it the most natural out of all, as boring as that makes me. The parts of the story with him and Kaltz were also very good.
I have to agree that Leaks is among the best overall characters, though. Every time he was on screen I kept smiling from how dramatically evil he is, he really put me back in the early 2000's. Firi was a bit annoying, but his "betrayal" scene was crazy good, so I can't say I dislike him.

Should I start Lkyt or Hashihime first?

>>4287
I'd say hashihime but I'm very biased and never even played Lkyt.