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Here's my list in no particular order.
Crazy
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Summary: Sy's girlfriend worries that she's lost him. Can he convince her otherwise?
Why it should be included: Breaking your own heart by jumping to conclusions resonates with me more than I'd like to admit.
The Arrangement
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Summary: (from the author) "When you're friends with benefits with the hottest guy ever and get baby fever."
Why it should be included: Any story that includes sexy time with Henry is worth the read.
Waitin'
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Summary: Defining your relationship with Sy
Why it should be included: A short and sweet little bit of fluffy Sy angst.
The Finish Line
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Summary: (from the author) "You meet a handsome, mysterious man while running a marathon. What will happen when you realize he’s a lot closer than you think"
Why it should be included: Adorable meet-cute and the aftermath.
Widow's Pique
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Summary: (from the author) "Penny is a 41 year old mother of one, existing day to day in the normal world until a chance encounter changes everything, for everyone."
Why it should be included: Henry is stranded and gets help from a single mom and her young son. It's a whole series (23 chapters so far) about meeting, building a relationship, and the struggles along the way. The main character is a plus-size lady. The author includes some great inspiration photos of beautiful, curvy ladies.
the nearness of you
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Summary: (from the author) "He’s nothing less than a piece of fine art himself, and you can’t help but prove it to him when he models for you to sketch. Museums tell you not to touch the art, but they don’t say anything about making the art touch itself."
Why it should be included: It's a really beautifully written combination of art and intimacy that's different from anything else I've read.
Unnoticed
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Summary: (from the author) "He had watch her grown up. He had seen her transform into a beautiful woman, with a strong will but insecurities. Despite being away from time to time, he had fallen for her, hard. She on the other hand, had seen him become a big, strong man. But deep down she knew he had a soft side. She had fallen, hard, for him too. Another thing they have in common? The believe that the other will never feel the same. Will their feelings for each other always stay unnoticed?"
Why it should be included: 1. Plus size main character 2. Brother's friend (one of my favorite tropes) 3. Mutual pining (another favorite trope) 4. It's a series :)
cardio
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Summary: (from the author) "For Henry and you, cardio doesn’t mean running and you like that. VERY MUCH."
Why it should be included: You all know that interview. This story expands upon it ;)
Pineapple
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Summary: (from the author) "Lately you feel depressed and Henry will do everything in his power to make you feel a little less shitty."
Why it should be included: Fluffy, caring Henry as the best partner you could imagine if you were depressed.
Surrender
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Summary: (Prompt) "How is it like to be with the Captain in a nutshell."
Why it should be included: A quick, sexy Sy drabble.
The Veterinarian and the Werewolf
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Summary: (from the author) "Jessie struggles to make connections with humans her greatest friends are animals."
Why it should be included: Henry is a werewolf. Need I say more?
Prisoner
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Summary: (from the author) "ENEMIES TO LOVERS (SORT OF) - Henry Cavill is a respected Norman baron who has been tasked with finding Lady Thomasin, an ill-tempered Saxon noblewoman, and returning her to London so the king can marry her off to a cruel Norman invader. The two grow close during the long journey, and Henry puts his own life in danger (more than once) to protect the woman he loves."
Why it should be included: Henry, history, angst, fluff, smut. This story has it all.
Thank you for this amazing list @ysmmsy . So many great stories and writers.
Some of them have deactivated sadly, but I'll tag the ones who are still active
@peachyvulpixie @thehunterintrenchcoat @cavillsthighs @greensleeves888 @diegos-butt @writwroteerased @pussyverson @henryobsessed @write-r-die @emyearns
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Can you draw Nasha and Justin? Your own versions!
my cutie pies <3
#ask dot#my art#don’t repost#ftreboost#ft fanart#nashi dragneel#nasha dragneel#justin fernandes#nashi x justin#nasha x justin#jerza#nalu#fankids#fairy tail
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🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that? 🛼 ⇢ describe your latest wip with five emojis 🥑 ⇢ you accidentally killed somebody, which mutual(s) do you text for help?
for the ask game!!
🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that?
Probably around a 7? Maybe even an 8. I've done editing professionally so I'm pretty confident in it when I really dig into it; I know I don't always catch everything, because editing your own work is difficult, but I like polishing my work!
🛼 ⇢ describe your latest WIP with five emojis
💫🥺💞🍆👀
🥑 ⇢ you accidentally killed somebody, which mutual(s) do you text for help?
Well. I mean. @archi-pelago. Because we live together. I'm mutuals with my other two siblings who live nearby, too (although I'm not gonna tag them so as not to bother them with the notif ping), so like...definitely them. Anyone else I trust is too far away to actually help!
[ writers' truth & dare ask game ]
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WHY do you like Josh Barnett so much? No one likes him that much
well that's categorically untrue.
1) i do enjoy mma, even if i don't shit post about it ever
2) bloodsport is always so fun, cuz it's taken so goddamn seriously that it's embarrassing and i am unfortunately fascinated by people who seemingly aren't in on the joke that they're telling
3) he's large
#asks!#does he have a large norse tattoo? yeah#but he hasnt said anything overtly fascy and white nashy (that ive seen. i coulda just missed something)
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Hey Charlie. I have some weird asks for you, too! 💜
62. seven characters you relate to?
76. what’s your favorite potato food (i.e. tater tots, baked potatoes, fries, chips, etc.)?
Hey Nashi!
Let's dive in!
62. Seven??? That I relate to? I don't think I can come up with seven. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I don't necessarily see myself in the characters I like. I appreciate their circumstances, applaud their choices, root for them, love them. But do I see myself in them? Not often.
(Is this weird? That I don't "relate" to characters? It feels weird!)
I can give you one: I love Iris from The Holiday. She's so selfless and genuine, even while being completely screwed over by an unrequited love. While I'm not from England, nor am I a newspaper journalist, I do see her as being just as down-to-earth as I am.
76. Favorite potato food??? Again, asking the hard hitting questions here.
I. Love. Potato. Foods!
I won't go into all the various ways, but just know that I felt so bad about not being able to answer your first question appropriately, that I really sat down to figure this out.
If I had to do away with all ther potato foods, and if I could have these anytime I wanted without necessarily having to make them myself, I'm picking crispy, smashed roasted baby reds, with a garlic/parm/parsely sprinkle.
(But I'm glad I don't have to give up cheesy au gratin, crispy hashbrowns, loaded mashed, German potato salad, perfectly french fried, or even gnocchi!)
Thanks for keeping me company!
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shit now i actually wanna answer questions about the horizon characters again !!!
#ask away#send me some#horizon#original characters#horizon: nexus#eli drakes#meghan cerne#amy trace#adam smith#flare#erik thompson#leila fawkes#steph nashi#lauren nashi#mind you i don't reckon many people know anything about them#hmmm#what to do about this predicament
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🖊+ your choice(s?) from Tyrael gets fired AU
So there's a whole slew of people from TGF AU that I don't think have cropped up on the blog yet.
Mainly the D2 player characters, one of which is the Assassin. Nashi.
Nashi is your standard Viz'jaq'taar, duty-bound and clever. She kills people and she does it well. There was even some question at first as to why she was present in the battle against the Three - had she really come to fight Diablo? Or had she come because of the mages growing ever-stronger in the party?
Tyrael chose to trust her, and Nashi helped save the world.
They grew kind of close, in that brief period where they were fighting the Prime Evils. And after Tyrael was thrown out of Heaven, they grew closer.
Tyrael got closer with everyone after that for sure, but there was something special about Nashi. They understood one another. They understood sacrifice and risk, duty and doing what's right. It was nice to have someone to talk to who really got it. Cain just wanted to understand Heaven, to know more, but he didn't understand Tyrael. Leah understands him better, but as a daughter might, not as a friend. Or whatever Nashi was.
Unfortunately, she understood her duty a little too well, and Tyrael has been known to go against what is Correct in favor of what is Just.
He couldn't tolerate watching a friend slay a friend, even if Isendra had far over-stepped herself. Nashi may have been right to kill a woman she had traveled and fought with, for she had grown reckless with power. But Tyrael was just as right to put her to the sword in kind after she used a bond as close as kin to do it.
After all, Li-Ming was just a child, and it was not her fault Isendra had placed her on a path the Viz'jaq'taar would take issue with.
#asks#answers#OCs#Nashi#a complicated Assassin#Tyrael#TGF AU#Tyrael pre-Leah probably wouldn't have stopped her#but post-Leah Tyrael took one look at grubby crying Li-Ming#and immediately fought his best friend to the death for her#the dad genes are strong in this one
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🍃🌺🌙 If you receive this you make somebody happy. Go and send this to ten of your followers who make you happy or somebody you think needs cheering up. If you get it back even better🌙🌺🍃
Thank you my sweet Possum. Love you!
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Tamiyo?
Pre-phyresis? Smash! Phyrexianized? Absolutely Smash!
#thanks for the ask!#honestly if Tamiyo can compleat me i count that as a win#i was gonna make a comment about ghost tamiyo but i don't wanna try to figure out how connected to nashi she is. but still smash. probably
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Hi Nashi! I hope you're doing well 💕
I love the bookshop pictures you share, and I have a question for you if you feel like it:
One of Henry's characters (or the man himself) takes you on a date to a library or a bookshop you've always wanted to see. Where would you go and with whom?
Hi Maja! I'm doing good, thanks for checking up. Hope you're good, too 💜
I love your question! Thank you so much for sending it 🥰🤗
My initial thought was August because he's my favourite character but after thinking about it again I changed my mind. So this is what would happen...
Geralt of Rivia knows I'm a bookish woman and after I helped him out of a tricky situation he wants to treat me to something book related.
So what does he do? He takes me to the oldest library on the continent. Access is limited to just a very exclusive group of people who have proven worthy of being around all the beautiful, precious books. Geralt is one of them of course and his friends are welcome there, too.
I roam around the majestic building all day, between the sky high shelves and on galleries packed with the most amazing books I've ever seen. I am stunned by the variety of books. There are magnificent grimoires, poetry books, volumes of religious writings, fairy tales and legends, history books that reveal events to me that happened aeons ago and books filled with songs and humorous pictures.
Geralt just sits down in one of the many comfortable armchairs, puts his feet on the small table in front of him which causes the elderly, taciturn library to raise her eyebrows and crinkle her nose. The Witcher is lucky that she has a bit of a crush on him. He doesn't get scolded and can watch me bury my nose in book after book, cheeks red, eyes shining, in peace and quiet, a self-satisfied smile refusing to leave his lips all day.
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More OC questions!!! For Kumiko 💞💞💞
17. What are three moments in their life that impacted your OC the most?
14. How comfortable are they relying on other people, and what situations would change their comfort level?
11. How are they seen by people around them - family, close friends, colleagues, or strangers?
Three moments that impacted her life? Okay, first of all her father's death. It was sudden and unexpected and sent her and her mom into a spiral of panic and low income; they had to quickly move to a smaller apartment and she had to learn how to cook from scratch because her mom had to work overtime to make ends meet. Second, the positive answer from Ryonan High to her demand for an artistic scholarship: she thought she would have to be enrolled in Shohoku, the least expensive school, but the art professor of Ryonan fell in love with her art and decided that no matter what they would have to get that girl into the school. Third, her practice game girls vs boys at school: everyone was surprisingly kind to her and her team mates trusted her on the field. That was the first moment when she thought that happiness could be a thing.
She relies on people, but only over specific things. For instance, she knows that if she needs random information on whatever, Hikoichi is her man. If she needs to be silly real quick, she'll get her best friend and shenanigans companion, Sakura. If she needs someone to throw hands for her, her cousin Kaede. If she needs comfort, her captain Tomoyo. She never thought she could trust someone, but she ended up doing it. Sendoh was the utmost surprise, and her source of relaxation: he's so easy to talk with. Even though she will not trust him to arrive on time, but she doesn't consider it an issue: she will just schedule differently (they actually planned that, if he dies before her, she will arrange so that he can arrive late at his own funeral).
She's the Reliable Friend. She may crack an inappropriate joke or panic for half an hour straight, but she'll do her best to find the solution; and even if she doesn't, she will have her friends' backs. She's also a source of hidden knowledge, because she gets curious about a lot of things and she'll do research (aka: ask Hikoichi to do it) and so she'll always have a start for a weird conversation. Oh, by the way, did you know that deer have a cross shaped bone in their heart?
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for the emoji ask game! 🤯 (what's a genre you struggle with as a writer?)
if u ever feel like posting anything i would love to read it 👀
[fanfic writer emoji ask game]
🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer?
I feel like I struggle with anything that isn't inane slice of life, hurt/comfort, or abject tragedy. My worst is definitely PWP, if that counts as a genre? Huge respect to people who can, but I feel quite unskilled at writing explicit content in the first place, much less explicit content for no other point than to be explicit.
If that doesn't count then I'm gonna say pure fluff, and only in part because the characters I write don't usually have personalities particularly well suited to it. It's just not something I feel good at.
👀 Tell me about an up and coming WIP!
(idk if the emoji there was intended as part of the game but I'm gonna run with it.)
While I don't exactly have plans to post anything any time soon, I am chewing on a concept that may end up as a fic (possibly?) about Sephiroth in the far far future, finally free from the grip of the Lifestream and Jenova and slowly putting himself back together.
As he reassembles his memories, he starts getting flickers of recollection about how he was cut loose from the Lifestream in the first place, and he knows that someone did it intentionally and with the goal of helping him, but he can't remember who it was. When he tries there are just flashes of red and violet, heat and fire glinting off silver, the smell of leather, speech in a rhythm he can discern but words and a voice that he can't. It comes to a point where someone else (Cloud, actually) says this person's name, and all Sephiroth can hear is static.
The void left in this person's wake becomes an all-consuming ache that, eventually, leads Sephiroth to go against every ounce of judgment he has and return to Gaia, hoping to find who it is he's missing, and why their memory was taken from him.
#ask game#FF7#the concept is Sephesis btw#if that wasn't obvious#I feel like it's obvious#nashi writes
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oh np. Mainly it's text posts. I know lots of original posters don't use community labels at all which sucks for the rest of us. Specific most recent was the one about dom/sub behavior to fuck/be fucked. That's a fairly mature post to come across. I believe you can add community labels to posts you reblog so even just that to anything that you rb that may be mature would be helpful.
yeah sure. I don't usually think about it, but I'll keep an eye out.
#ask#anon#nashi post#something i noticed is that a lot of people react poorly to having a community label added to their post#which is understandable when the thing isn't actually mature but i see a lot of people getting mad when the label is perfectly reasonable
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A Quick History of BL
As someone who wrote a thesis on this very subject a few years ago, here is the short version of how BL has evolved throughout the years. For the new comers ❤
a minute of silence for the original form of this post that tumblr decied to not save right after I saved it
I am going to go with a chronological approach. Unfortunately, I cannot put everything in one post so if there’s any questions about this or that aspect of the history of BL that you want to know and it’s not talked about here, you are welcome to ask me directly :)
Context and influences - Japan in the 60′s
Before the US forced Japan to open its borders to the outside world in the 1800s, homosexual practices were common place between budist monks, samurais and kabuki actors. During the Edo period (1600s to 1800s) there was a very rich amount of poetry, art, books (such as Nanshoku Okagami (The Great Mirror of Male Love) by Ihara Saikaku) and codes of conduct about how to have a good master/aprentice relationship, kinda like the greeks if you know what I mean. However, with the arrival of western influences, in order to become a more “civilized” country, it was all put in the closet.
Yet, in the 60′s Japan started to pick it up again through literature about young androginous beautiful boys (aka bishounen). On one hand, in 1961, the novel Koibitotachi no Mori (A Lover’s Forest) by Mari Mori was published. It tells the story of a young and beautiful 19 year old worker and a half french half japanese aristocrat, and their tragic romance. On the other hand, Taruho Inagaki wrote Shounen ai no Bigaku (The esthetics of boy-love), an essay on aesthetic eroticism (of which he wrote a lot of). All this was know as Tanbi (lit. aesthetic) literature. It generally refered to literature with implied homosexuality and homoeroticism such as works by Oscar Wilde, Jean Cocteau, etc. And of course, Mori and Inagaki.
In chinese tanbi is read as danmei (term used to refer to BL novels in china today, ie: The Untamed it’s all connected friends).
From the birth of Shonen Ai to Yaoi - 70′s to the late 80′s
Around the beginning of the 70′s, shoujo was being revolutionized by the Year 24 Group, a generation of women manga authors (mangaka) who started to explore new themes. Among them, their interest in tanbi gave birth to a new subgenre: Shounen ai.
Their most known manga were:
Kaze to Ki no Uta (The Ballad of the Wind and Trees) by Keiko Takemiya, and
Toma no Shinzo (The Heart of Thomas) by Moto Hagio
Their stories are characterized by having suffering eurpoean bishounen in boarding schools, living an idealized perfect love (meaning passionate) that, despite the tragic end of one of them, lives forever in the other.
As this genre starts getting popular, more and more fans of these stories start making their own self published manga, aka doujinshi, of the genre. It is around this time that the term Yaoi is coined. Meaning “YAma nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi” (no climax, no fall, no meaning). Basically PWP fanfiction, for the most part. Doujinshis could be considered an equivalent of fanfiction in manga form. It is also here that the term Fujoshi (aka Rotten Girl, for liking rotten things) starts being used to refer to women readers of yaoi.
With this rise in popularity come the start of the commercialization of the genre. Which meant the publication of magazines dedicated solely to yaoi/shonen ai/BL. The most popular yaoi manga magazine at the time was June. The common trait of their stories being the therapeutic power of the love between the mains. The traumatized character would heal throught this newfound love.
Most of the stories at this time happened in the West (Europe or the States) as the exploration of these dark themes intertwined with homosexual romance and homoeroticism still feel safer to explore as a foreign concept. One example would be Banana Fish (1985).
Commercialization and Yaoi Ronso - 90′s
As more publishing houses pick the genre up, the term Boys Love is used to include every type of manga about homosexuality made for women.
The increasing amount of BL series sees a changes in its themes:
the start of the “gay for you” trope where one mantains their heterosexuality despite being in a homsexual relationship,
the uke/seme dynamic (mirroring hetero realtionships) also relating to physical appearence (one being more feminine, the other being more masculine),
the use of rape as an act love (sexual violence has always been present but here it becomes a staple),
anal sex as the only type of sex,
older and more masculine men start to appear
they now happen in Japan
Good examples of the presence of these themes in manga are Gravitation (1996) or Yatteranneeze (1995).
However in 1992, Masaki Sato (a gay activist/drag queen) wrote a letter in a small scale feminist magazine attacking yaoi and pointing out how it “represented a kind of misappropriation or distortion of gay life that impacted negatively upon Japanese gay men”. The female readers of yaoi responded, defending the genre as a means to escape gender roles and explore sexual themes that was never meant to represent the realities of gay men. This is know as the Yaoi Ronso (Yaoi Debates).
The debate ended with both sides understanding more of each other, with mangakas starting to include queer views in their works. It also started the academic reasearch of BL.
Yet, it is a debate that has been restarted more than once, as it is still relevant despite the evolution of the genre.
more on this on another post
Globalization and coining of BL - 2000′s
By the beginning of the 2000s BL is being sold all over the world (like all manga), and has become a stable industry. We could say it has finally become it’s own genre.
Some of the most well known manga series, to us (in the west), of the time are:
Junjou Romantica 2002
Koi Suru Boukun 2004
Love Pistols 2004
Haru wo Daiteita 1999
all of these have anime adaptations for the curious ones
We also start seeing short anime adaptations or special episodes of the most popular series, with questionable themes, such as: adoptive father x adoptive son (Papa to Kiss in the Dark 2005), father x son’s friend (Kirepapa 2008), etc...
However the themes remain more or less the same. Junjou Romantica’s love story starts with a non-con sex scene by the older one (masc, seme) to the younger one (more feminine, uke) addressed years later in the manga btw. Koi Suru Boukun’s love story is triggered by aphrodisiacs and rape. They’re still very present in the stories but slowly going away. A mangaka that represents this era could be Natsume Isaku (Candy Color Paradox 2010).
Change is slow in Japan. Even though the voices of LGBT+ people started to be taken into account in the genre it is not until later that we see it reflect in the mangas themselves. However, we can already see the start of this in Doukyusei (Classmates) (2006) by Asumiko Nakamura. Also Kinou Nani Tabeta? (2007) which is actually part of a more mature genre: Seinen.
It is my personal (subjective) theory that the BL of this era was the one that got popular outside of Japan, which is why we see lots of references to the themes, tropes and dynamics of this time in today’s BL series.
The LGBTzation of BL and the rise of webtoons - 2010′s to 2020′s
Slowly but surely LGBT characters and themes enter the scene of BL. Existing simultaneously with the previous tropes and themes, we start seeing a shift in these stories. We now see:
characters that identify as gay or some type of queer
discussions about homophobia
more mature themes about life and romance
At the same time as we get the usual love stories with the usual themes, a new trend starts to take over. And we get simultaneously, cute, sometimes questionable but light love stories:
Love Stage 2010
Ashita wa Docchi da! 2011
Kieta Hatsukoi 2019
More profound stories and darker or more complex themes:
Blue Sky Complex 2013
Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai 2011 (mafias)
Given 2013 (suicide)
Hidamari ga Kikoeru 2013 (deafness)
And others that adress the queer experience in a more mature way (which might actually fall into the Seinen genre)
Itoshi no Nekokke 2010 (slice of life, queer characters)
Smells like Green Spirit 2011 (two ways to deal with a homphobic society)
Strange 2014 (relationships between men)
Shimanami Tasogare 2015 (an LGBT group helps a closeted gay)
Old Fashioned Cupcake 2019 (you know this one 😉)
Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu 2020 (the end of the world)
As queer stories are explored, BL mangakas and mangakas from other genres start to consider more stories about queer people such as the Josei Genderless Danshi ni Aisaretemasu (My Androgynous Boyfriend) (2018) by Tamekou, or the Shoujo Goukon ni Itarra Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi (The story of when I went to a mixer and there were no women) (2021) by Nana Aokawa.
Still, we can see two realities live side by side. Doukyuusei gets adapted into an impactful animated movie in 2016, meanwhile Banana Fish gets an anime adaptation that keeps the homoeroticism but not the homosexuality.
For those who might be interested. Here are some of the authors that represent the first half of this era, where they start to include newer points of view:
Scarlet Beriko, HAYAKAWA Nojiko, KURAHASHI Tomo, OGERETSU Tanaka, Harada, KII Kanna (Stranger by the Sea), etc...
And authors that while keeping classical themes break the stereotypes in a subtle manner:
CTK, ZAKK, Jyanome, Cocomi, Hidebu Takahashi, SUZUMARU Minta, etc...
Mangakas also no longer stick to one genre only. They explore whichever of them they want, from BL to Seinen to others.
ie: Tamekou,
or Asumiko Nakamura
The curious case of Webtoons
With the digitalization of mangas, throught Renta and Lehzin, it has become easier (and more expensive) to access these stories. Korea makes and appearence with their webtoons. Through the lack of piracy protections and the majority of them being digital, manhwa (korean webtoons) sees a rise in popularity. Through the digital medium the influencee can be the influencer.
However, like many other East Asian countries they have consumed BL, without hearing about the conversations about BL. So they end up mantaining the older themes and stereotypes that newer BL is trying to leave behind. Therefore, we end up with a mix of old and new, ie:
Killing Stalking 2016
Cherry Blossoms After Winter 2017
Painter of The Night 2019
Additionally, it is also thanks to the easy access to internet that Omegaverse, with its higher dramatic stakes (that parallel hetero dynamics), enters the mangasphere in 2016. It has grown in popularity ever since.
With the Thai BL Boom of 2020, Japan rediscovers its own BL market and starts investing in it more. Which is why we get live action adaptations of BL manga that was popular years ago (Candy Color Paradox was a manga from 2010), the more recent ones (The End of the World With You) or new anime adaptations (Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai in 2020).
more on this in my japanese live action BL post
What has it become now? is it BL? ML? or Seinen? Or is it all just gay manga?
It is clear that Shoujo manga (with BL, Josei and Seinen) is exploring queer themes such as gender and sexuality more and more. Japan is interested in this conversation, not only in manga (Genderless fashion). Which brings up the current question in BL studies: Does it make sense to keep these categories?
As a response to BL, ML (Male Love), which is made by gay men for gay men, started happening (around the 70s too). And Bara (gay manga porn) in response to Yaoi. However both gay men and women read BL and ML. We also see other themes being explored through BL, such as friendship (in BL Metamorphose), food (in Kinou Nani Tabeta), male relationships of all kinds (in Strange), and different queer views on life and its challenges (in Shimanami Tasogare). More and more what is LGBT and what is BL is merging, the line is blurred.
Conclusion
BL has been in my life for longer than it hasn't. It is through shoujo and BL that I have come to understand people and romance.
It is flawed, like everything else this life, but it's flourishing in many ways.
The genre feels old and new at the same time.
We can still find shounen ai/tanbi elements in more modern manga (All About J). Or the gay for you in a new light (Itoshi no Nekkoke). Or more educational manga on queer issues (My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame). BL has around 50 years of existence but it is also being born anew in Thailand and Korea.
BL manga will continue to evolve in acordance to Japanese tastes, as it is still a local market. Hopefully the korean webtoons that get popular will be the more daring ones in their themes. Who knows where it will go from here? The only thing we know for sure is that it will continue to change. Isn't it exciting?
A post on the evolution of live action BL in Japan is coming, to complement this post. As well as a more detailed explanation of the Yaoi Debates and gay manga.
#history of bl#bl post series#I feel like I left too much stuff out#I hope it makes sense#honestly I would really recommend reading some of those manga#they're super interesting#soon it'll be 20 years since I started reading BL#my gosh#if theres anything anyone wants to know more about#I'd love to write more :)#yaoi manga#bl manga
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I have to ask, Thunder Junction is supposedly a villains set first, yet most of the characters we've seen so far seem at worst neutral. There's some notable exceptions (Ashiok, Kaervek, Oko, Rakdos, Eriette), but I wouldn't call Vraska or Nashi or Malcolm and Breeches villains. Is the term sort of being deliberately stretched to accommodate more characters? Or is it being used in a more "not a hero" sense?
Vraska is an assassin. Nashi is a ninja. Malcolm and Breeches are pirates. They have all quite literally committed crimes.
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Nalu Week! Family pt 1 (all head canons below (so you don’t have to read my handwriting))
Natsu
Usually Cooks
Lucy ties his hair and they sometimes wear matching accessories.
Wears Alvarez-styled clothes nowadays
A bit more relaxed
Took to parenting the the worst (surprisingly) his kids are growing and he struggles with change
Desperately wants a closer relationship with Nashi
Still a natural with kids though
Lucy
Has several successful book series
Pregnancy was terrible to her health but she endures despite her family and spirits worries.
Can now summon 5+ spirits at once
Does everything to hide her aging and can be insecure about her appearance
Took to parenting like a duck to water despite her anxiety (her spirits are a huge support)
Is currently trying out shorter hairstyles
Lucy won’t let her kids get guild tattoos until they’re 16 and she will die on this hill
Happy
Best Uncle
Enabler
Started going gray and pretends to have ailments he doesn’t have to get sympathy and more fish.
Eats so much fish
Is closest to Eleanor
Nashi (the trial child)
Middle name is Iris
Has Natsu’s hair that won’t obey the hairbrush
Wants long hair but finds it too hard to maintain
Is a 4th gen dragon slayer
Is incredibly anxious about hurting loved ones with her explosive power
Inherited her anxiety from Lucy
Butts heads with Natsu cause he doesn’t understand it
She trains with Erza (Natsu tries to hide his hurt, struggles with his daughter changing)
Adores Erza
Natsu bombarded her with his hobbies at a young age (fishing, brawling and getting dirty)
Is a tomboy but still total mommy’s girl
Oblivious to Griege’s crush
Her jacket is from Alzack and Bisca
Eleanor (the black sheep) (get it? From the Beatles song?)
Middle name is Layla
Takes after her paternal grandmother, but no one knows this and draws on the obvious similarities to Zeref
She is uncomfortable with this comparison (If Natsu overhears any comments it’s on site)
Insists on carrying Happy everywhere (will get into fights with her brother over it)
Sleeps with Happy
Is friends with everyone but doesn’t have many she’s close to
Goes to Lucy with her problems (another mommy’s girl)
Loves the Strauss siblings (especially Mira and Lisanna)
Not sure what magic she wants to learn
Always asks Lucy to summon Aries to go play
Haru (the accident)
Celestial Wizard
Middle name is Igneel
Has Zeref’s cowlick
Is in a cat phase rn (used to be a dragon phase and Natsu is gutted it’s over)
“Loke is the coolest zodiac!”
Sunglasses are a gift from Loke (Natsu hates it)
Wearing cat ears (Happy loves it)
His leopard print shirt is a gift from Laxus (Lucy hates it)
Is a Natsu clone
Endless energy
Hyper-fixates
Loves to read
“Did you know…”
Tries to follow Natsu on missions
Asks Happy to fly him everywhere (gets into fights with his sister about it)
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