/report!: yaoi, yaoi everywhere

[rageprufrock]

Come one, come all (no, seriously), /reporters! After several geologic eras of my incubating whatever disease killed Gwyneth Paltrow in Contagion, we're finally back to Sunday evening posting! This week mklutz and I are joined by Lianne Sentar of Sleep Is For The Weak to talk about yaoi, boys love, some of its history, some of its many questionable and delightful facets, to give the curious or the nostalgic recommendations, and then we spend some time advocating mklutz's future career in audio porn.

(Fair warning to listeners, as a natural result of the subject matter, we talk quite a bit about dubious consent and nonconsensual sex.)

Right-click here to download or click here to stream online to listen. And, as always, you can subscribe to our RSS feed here.



• Read Bukiyou na Silent here. (NC-17)

• Read Haru wo Daite Ita online here or here. (Exuberantly NC-17; attempted non-con later in the series.)

• Buy Wild Rock here.

• To purchase FAKE, go here, to buy Eerie Queerie, click this, pick up Antique Bakery here.

• mklutz's manga-ka of choice is Naono Bohra.

• To check out manga-ka Toko Kawai, click here. Specific titles of Toko Kawai: Cut (dark but satisfying); Cafe Latte Rhapsody (super sweet); In the Walnut (amazingly classy)

• Check out Tyrant Falls in Love here and Little Butterfly (by same mangaka as Tyrant and Bukiyou na Silent, super sweet) here.

• Approach Maiden Rose with caution here.

• For those ready to try Japanese Drama CDs, here's the SUPER BEST OMG English-language sharing forum and community for BL drama CDs.

And! Last but definitely note least: to look into these Tokyo Demons shenanigans, click here.

Comments

[bikitchi]

There's a shoujo-ai series that's psuedo like this except it's a whole school that fucking objectifies the female population to the point that they're just chattel of the male population. The women are literally 'objects' - whatever weird system the school sets makes women have some sort of spirit weapon where male students can fight one another with the weapons literally from the female student's body.

Cue protagnist - new female student that is given the same 'power role' as the norm for males and her dream is being a knight and it's all really fucked up and terrible and men try to beat the shit out of her all the time as she tries to protect the female population. She views all girls as princesses.

Wow, I had totaly forgot this actually existed until this weird memory flash.

[(Anonymous)]

My best friend recently got linked to that by her bf and stayed up all night a couple of nights reading it (she is a terrible person and has terrible taste :P). I like to bring it up every time she gives me crap about my yaoi manga collection (which is admittedly from a while back now).

The above comment is me, whoops

[cunninglanguage]

I need to stop flipping between browsers.

Re: The above comment is me, whoops

[bikitchi]

It's pretty terrible and I read a few chapters thinking it would get better and it didn't.

[(Anonymous)]

Hm. Revolutionary Girl Utena?

[bikitchi]

Nope, this one was more... recent. I'll have to search for it.

[bikitchi]

The shoujo-ai series I mentioned is Shitsurakuen. Super non-explicit non-con/abuse/terribleness.

I didn't realize how crazy dark it would be but I didn't read the preface properly.