/wes/ - Western & Alternative Style

>>1675
>>1676
That's funny, all the recommendations say to start at All Hail Megatron because it apparently picks up at this point.
>literally the 100th episode of G4 MLP
*shudders* yeah this is the vibe it gave off from what I saw, I already didn't like what they did with Ultra Magnus, Megatron, Arcee and the Unicronians, so maybe I won't bother at all.
How about the other comics like Dreamwave, IDW2 and the clusterfuck that was US/UK Marvel? I'm enjoying Skybound a lot, the 90s edge is fun.

>>1677
I can only speak for Marvel.

It's great. The art style will be off putting and I thought that some arcs were a little bit slow, but it's genuinely so good. Well written, and the art will grow on you once you get used to the jank. I read the US version.

IDW2 I attempted and dropped it 2 issues in. It's in the Calarts/Steven Universe inspiration era and you can see it in the stiff art and how it feels like twinkly pastel code music would be playing in each scene. It bored me, and had all of IDW1's late problems bundled into a comic with less impressive art.

>>1674
The Spotlights are good (except Arcee's). And Sins of the Wreckers and Last Stand are pretty interesting. But the mainline series are hit and miss. Mostly miss. But if you like fanfic-y tropes, then MTMTE and the Lost Light, have some moments. I don't regret having read them, but I wouldn't read them again. Mostly it was a negative experience.

But the art is very good! Alex Milne's art really carries the series.

Last season sucked. Are we ever getting another creek episode?

>>1626
I dont think there will be another episode of them, unless there is something they want to make fun of involving a gay couple. The only episodes of them are great tho

Yamaguchi Kappei's Kyle is so cute.
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm46144860

>>83
OP here, rising from the dead.
Personally, I hate it. It was cute at first but everything about it annoys me now. The author is a classic SJW tumblrina and that ruins her work for me!

Penny Arcade isn’t a bl but I was so happy seeing all the gay fan art that came with the poker night remaster kek.

>>67
Glad to see someone else appreciate this! Avialae was my first western BL webcomic and it's still so good everytime. Great art! It really helped solidify to me that I like media where the protagonists feel isolated. The couple is cute too [spoiler] and they're vers [/spoiler].
>>101
>>73
This webtoon was one of my faves as well! I felt so sad when the author decided to stop it, it's very funny to me bc her motivation was literally "the anatomy and plots of yaois suck so I need to do it better". Last I checked she was writing an original story that was inspired by the death of her friend and the MC is a heartthrob (for women) who looks so much like Jotaro KEK. I wish she would at least reveal the plot but I think she kinda doesn't want to acknowledge this comic at all anymore lol.

Hooky is not a BL but the author was into gay shipping (you can find some of her old tweets about Free!! in Spanish on her twitter) and I adore her gay side couple! I also liked the plot of the story but I am biased as I grew up with this lol.

I also really liked 2 Slices! Slow, slow, slow burn and weirdly woke at times but you can just ignore it tbh.

This is not fiction is on-going but I quite like it! The art styles nice and yes it's also a slow burn but I quite like it and the humor.

If anyone has any recommendations that were not mentioned in this thread already (I've read a lot of them lol) I'd love to hear it! I used to have a whole list of BL webtoons I used to read before the discord server I used as a notes app got deleted. Sad!

>>1495
The OG killers were not just 'gay' they were lolcows of entertaining proportions.

Also, Hitchcock found the homo to be so important in the film, that he specifically cast gay actors and told them 'You're playing boyfriends', because they couldn't say it out loud due to Yank censorship.

I watched if… (1968) today for historical context around the very early Japanese BL scene and as example of homosexuality in an old influential movie. I didn't watch it with fujo glasses though. It was long and weird. Malcolm McDonald's annoying character is very similar to his future iconic role as Alexander DeLarge. The movie still kept me entertained. Maybe I will watch it again with the commentary track one day but kind of meh to me. My favorite characters were the Whips / the prefects who caned the main group.

>>1663
You can watch the whole movie on Youtube, here's a pretty well-known scene. Homosexual actions were illegal in the UK until the Sexual Offences Act 1967, one year before the movie came out.

>>1111
I remember thinking Saw would be an interesting setting for a BL story but the movies don't do much for me personally.

Recently saw Scream for the first time and I was pleasantly surprised by how funny it was. I also was thankful I didn't have the twist of there being 2 murderers ruined. Time to read every Billy/Stu fanfic

Can't believe there's only one incest fic but I'm grateful, though I expected the prisoner be brutally raped by cops works.

ignore the 5.6 rating on imdb, Drown (2015) is kino
>psychotic love triangle between three Australian lifeguards
>mc is a closet case skinhead with sadomasochistic tendencies towards cute boys
>lots of swimwear and sport rivalry, like Challengers minus the hetero elements
>cute boys beating each other up
>lots of say gex
>tragic elements and some really good shots
the audio is total dogshit though and as far as i know there is no option for subtitles so you'll have to replay a lot of scenes to understand wtf they're saying to each other, it's on amazon prime

I watched My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and it was pretty good. It was definitely more like a slice-of-life film and admittedly I looked at spoilers just to make sure it wasn't a sad ending. I sorta regret that and I need to stop looking at spoilers, but I also didn't want to watch a tragic gay movie and the vibes of the first half of the film scared me into thinking it might end badly kek. Omar and Johnny are pretty hot together and their chemistry is palpable from the get-go. Omar's a cutie-pie despite acting reckless/sorta scummy the entire film and I like that Johnny (who is, yes, an early Daniel Day-Lewis) is clearly head-over-heels for him in spite of the shit Omar gets them into. I recommend the movie if you're into more chill, slice-of-life films with somewhat subtle commentary on being gay during the '80s and in the Thatcher era. also, I really like what they do with Tania, Omar's cousin and potential fiancée…

Hermann/Newt from Pacific Rim is one of the only western ships that consistently holds my interest of time. I don't know why it resonated so strongly with me, most of the time I bounce off of live action stuff.

>>1632
I love Sheith! No other ship has ever made me as feral as they have, and to this day they're still one of my favourite ships of all time.

>>1568
So I finished the trilogy. I generally like it but there's a moment where I got annoyed at how retarded one of the protags was being even though I acknowledge it's a character trait that has been established before. Pacat comes off as a more oldschool western fujo who takes direct inspiration from ~problematic BL~ as opposed to your average western modern day 'queer lit' writer.

>>1568
It's because of Kurahana's cover art for the Japanese translation of the books, isn't it? Because in that case it's the same for me except I read the first volume just one or two weeks because the first trailer of FE3H dropped. Too big to be a coincidence.

>>1652
i mean, captive prince was available for free on livejournal 10+ years ago. she is definitely an old school fujo.

>>1646
Just doing my duty, nonnie.

>>1645
I've tried my best with The Idiot but they're nothing but retarded simps. If Dostoevsky cut out half of the side characters' yapping and replace it with Myshkin and Rogojin interactions I might have given it another shot. Alas.

>>1648
Ganya slander. This man did not make a public spectacle of himself in increasingly humiliating ways just to be called a yapping nobody. Include more scenes with him at the expense of the rest though and you have yourself a novel.
Really though, I do love a classical blond bishonen who is elegant, sophisticated, educated, polite, so on and so forth, only to be almost immediately exposed and humiliated as a jackass and get repeatedly owned for the rest of the book while he tries and fails to maintain his "above you" demeanor, if only he could stop himself from having mental breakdowns and publicly chimping out every five minutes. Everything always goes wrong for him. It is always his own fault. I love a pathetic failure of a man, especially if he's repeatedly described as beautiful.