/ffs/ - Fujo Fandom Sperging

What I do is pretty much:
>Read original BL works/stories.
>Make fanart and pairing art of the characters from the fandoms I'm in.
>Almost all of my ships are M/M.
>Plan on making a doujin.
>When I rarely go to anime cons I make sure to check out the BL section and see if I can like something so that I can support my fellow fujos.
>I'm currently writing an original BL story.
what do you think you're into that makes you less of a fujo
I can't offer myself to buy things online from foreign countries and currently can't affort merch. I have a fandom I love to death, but I have absolutely nothing psychical from it. But this is absolutely not a problem for me since I don't care about psychical things (unless you can read them) and I don't care at all about merch. It makes me feel like less of a fujo though. And I wish I had a bigger doujinshi collection, since I have only 5 for now.

I'm an old fujo and admittedly I don't usually read or seek original BL works, as I'm kinda picky with what I enjoy and tend to prefer slash or just making up original stuff of my own (is the term 'slash' even in use anymore?)
I also rarely indulge myself in physical merch due to lack of time, money, and otaku activity where I live, but I never felt any less fujo for any of these things.

>>2277
what makes me fujo:
>read original BL manga
>watch BL anime (but this one is a bit rarer cuz i don't have much time to fully dedicate myself to anime watching, reading is easier and more time flexible but of course i still enjoy watching anime)
>read BL visual novels
>consume fujo creations (songs, fanart) on the internet for my fandoms
>obsess with shipping male characters in any piece of media i like
>draw yaoi and draw my favorite ships
>make my male plushies kiss
>RP yaoi if i can
>ship irl people i know
>use BL as nemonics to help me remember my classes
>yaoi trolling, for example make yaoi art of some dudes from a discord server i don't like to annoy them
>go to yaoi sections of local manga store, don't care if people see me kyaa or blush irl
>ship literally everything and anywhere, ship abstract conceps, ship historical figures, etc…

what makes me less of a fujo:
>i like yuri and het ships (not as much as BL though)
>i like moe anime because they're relaxing
>some of the stuff i'm into has much bigger male fanbase so less female presence
>overall i have interests that do not revolve around yaoi too

idk what that makes of me

>>2280
mnemonics*

>>2279
>(is the term 'slash' even in use anymore?)
Haha, another old fujo. I'd honestly just refer to myself as a slasher if it didn't lead to online confusion with horror film fans. I tend to just think of 'fujo' as both BL and slash, but I guess people would disagree with that. I think I'm a rotten girl for both!

>>2277
>What actions and/or interests give you a boost to your fujoness
Screaming when I find a new ship in a show. Just wildly screencapping and searching for doujin and fics and getting obsessed. The initial obsession for a ship may fade, but it's always imprinted on my hearto.
I think that's one of the defining traits of a fujo/slasher that makes me relate to other fujo/slashers, just loving a ship so much it imprints onto you forever. Like an infection.
I love actual BL works too, but being a shipper is the major part for me.
I really want to get into buying merch, which isn't a part I've really been into it. I annoyingly don't live in an area with a lot of cons.
>what do you think you're into that makes you less of a fujo
Liking and shipping western stuff, aka live action TV shows, comics, etc. Also being a het shipper, loving male/shoujo otaku type stuff and loving hetero hentai too.

More:
>Almost exclusively ship m/m
>Read a boatload of fanfiction, have a folder with 556 fics saved
>Write fanfiction
>Have gigabytes of fanart
>Play BL visual novels
>Buy zines
>Read doujins
>Find something to ship every series even if I have to reach.

Less
>Don't like ikemen or any show that feels like it's pandering to a female demographic
>Watch and enjoy a lot of fanservicey harem shows
>Don't read original BL works
>Don't really like sexualized men or pwp

>>2282
> I tend to just think of 'fujo' as both BL and slash, but I guess people would disagree with that. I think I'm a rotten girl for both!

Same, Love western and anime shipping and I feel like the distinction is even less used now than it was back then, fujo is just the catch-all term.

>>2279
>is the term 'slash' even in use anymore?
It has gone the way of the forward slash and to this day I am so mad its use in programming has doomed us to the shittiest fucking ship portmanteaus.

I wish we had a weeb equivalent of "preslash" because it's hard to find and "gen fic in all but name that leans strongly toward my ship" isn't exactly something you can search for. Some people still use the tag on Ao3, bless them.

>>2282
>I think that's one of the defining traits of a fujo/slasher that makes me relate to other fujo/slashers, just loving a ship so much it imprints onto you forever. Like an infection.
This is so true. OTPs are always there just waiting for the sleeper activation code.

>>2277
more
>read/write fanfic
>mega autistic about OTPs and NOTPs
>physical doujins/zines
>check this website every day

less
>don't read much original BL anymore
>not completely immune to hetshit/yuri

NO TRUE SCOTSFUJO REEE
>MULTISHIPPERS REEE

More a fujo:
>Most porn (or hentai/doujin/fanfic if you want to get technical since i don't like 3DPD) i consoom is yaoi.
>I don't ship anything besides yaoi, maybe 1-2 yuri ships but absolutely no hetshit.
>I'm very adamant about my fujoness and frankly don't give a fuck what people think of it
>Unironically "fangirl squee" over my favorite ships
>Whenever i indulge in otaku media, if there are two attractive bishounen that interact at least once i'm already imagining them fucking in my head.
>Similarly, for every ship i have i bring out the ol' reliable the second i start shipping it (ao3, myreadingmanga, gelbooru)
>I love playing yaoige

Less of a fujo:
>I read x reader fics of dio brando and just him
>I'm very selective about my ships as far as my interests go (autism)
>Don't really read BL manga unless the plot captivates me because i just like seeing guys fuck
>Lot of scrotey interests or stuff with a gender-neutral fanbase
>I'm a huge visual novel player, and the majority of those are scrote-leaning to various degrees, even if it's just for the story.

>>2277
I'd say I'm a moderate fujoshi but I've been one for a long time, I guess that's what happens when the very first books I started reading by myself when I started primary school were CLAMP manga from the 90s. I ship some male pairings I really like, I like M/M art online very often, I buy and read BL manga, I used to read slash fanfics, etc. I keep that shit to myself more than before now, but I'm also very lucky to have fujo friends irl so we talk about BL sometimes. I try to pass for a normie but I suspect a coworker who's around my age is a fujoshi and guessed I'm one. At the very least I know she knows what yaoi is and she knows I know what it is.

More:
>Check AO3 and read fics every single day
>Also check this site every single day
>Thousands of images of my various best boys and OTPs saved. They make up most of my camera roll
>Autistically obsessed with my favorite characters and ships, spend too much time thinking about them when I should be doing ~responsible adult shit~
>I'm genuinely deeply invested in the dynamics of some of my ships, but for others I kind of just ship them because I want to see my boys get plowed (no climax, no fall, no meaning)
>Several fic WIPs in my notes and docs

Less:
>Much more of a "slasher" than a fujo, honestly. I know jack shit about most popular BL media, because it doesn't appeal to me
>Yuri and femslash fan. I do lean more towards m/m shipping, but I do still enjoy girls kissing a lot
>Enjoyer of "male gaze" anime/moeshit
>Can never relate to my friends posting their favorite anime men. But I still love and support all of my fujo sisters, even if our tastes are wildly different

there's definitely more points to be made for both of these, but I'm tired and will be taking a nap now. Long day today. I'll dream of my OTPs fucking hard and rough, though.

>>2287
>But I still love and support all of my fujo sisters, even if our tastes are wildly different
True words of wisdom.

>>2279
>I don't usually read or seek original BL works, as I'm kinda picky with what I enjoy and tend to prefer slash or just making up original stuff of my own
I'm the same way. I prefer finding BL elements in other works and then read fanfic or doujinshis about it. Tbh I actually discovered pretty late how huge the original BL market is it was just something I never had any interest seeking out. I'm not against reading them but only a few of them appeals to me probably because I prefer stories where romance isn't the focus.
>is the term 'slash' even in use anymore?
The term slash had semi fallen out of fashion when I started getting active in fandom but it's still the term I prefer to use even though no one in my age group uses it. I only followed old fujos when I first used social media so it's the term that just seems more natural to me. Yaoi feels to "crude" and has been memefied, BL sounds too commercialised so it's weird to use it for fanworks and m/m ships is awkward to say out loud so slash is imo the best term. I also use femslash when talking about f/f pairings.
>I also rarely indulge myself in physical merch due to lack of time, money, and otaku activity where I live
I also relate to this lol. I never been a big merch collector in general because of lack of money and an otaku scene where I live. I'm also just not fond of small trinkets like those flat acrylic key chains and chibi plushies which seems to be 90% of all merch made for fujos or maybe I'm not looking hard enough idk.

I think it's only western fujo who get caught up on whether shipping f/f makes you less fujo or not, because JP, KR, and TW seem to all genderbend and pair the spares like crazy and the lingerie is really cute. I think the bigger difference is if you consume mainstream f/f content or stuff made by other women, because they do feel very different. I think fujo art is more about domestic activities, dressing up, and feeling softness. Reminds me of 90s shoujo when the protagonists (male ones even) got a new outfit every title page that was never seen again.

Personally I feel more guilty for not reading BL very often or being put off by what seems to be the most common and popular types of BL. I've always been into genre fiction so I need horror/supernatural or fantasy themes going on to pique my interest, and it's easier to read an existing series with those and go "and then he was his dragon". I still skim summaries and read odds and ends of college professor romances and arranged marriage in the country, but there's a lot that leave no impression on me and I quit after a few chapters. I feel more like I'm in my own world than any kind of standardized consumer of gay mangos who knows what is going on with the genre.

How do you guys feel about wanting to see male characters get pegged? I've had fujo friends who wouldn't think anything of seeing a married character and going "yeah he's pegged, look at that little bitch", and it was fun honestly, but when I come back into wider fandom I realize some people would be repulsed by the inclusion of a woman or sex toys. I don't think it's a compromise on making the character do gay stuff, because we were simultaneously shipping him with his childhood friends while the wife was out of town, but it's definitely a more canon compliant sexual fantasy than I remember people writing as teens. In the end we still wanted a dude ahegaoing in a pool of fluids but I feel like the older crowd is trying every character combination for that. On a less stellar note, I've also seen younger fujos trying to drag the term pegging and strap into m/m ships and why the fuck are you talking about pegging when you already have penises?! You have the equipment, where are you attaching this thing?! Just use dildos and beads like a normal rotten brain.

>>2277
tbh, i'm a normie casual with super vanilla taste.