/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]

Oh man, so YYH was my intro to teh gei luv (fuck yes Kurama, used to love me some Youko Kurama x Minamino Shuuichi and that says way too much about me, oh god) but I remember that the system of yaoi/shounen-ai/lime/lemon math system of 'x' and '+' being the whole way that I understood how what I only knew as 'yaoi' and would later relearn as 'slash' portrayed pairings in the summary/notes/whatnot in fic.

I remember that HP was my first foray into Western slash since I was much more of an anime nerd and that was my limited teen worldview and being confused by Harry/Draco or Draco/Harry because where was the 'x' or '+'? How do I know who's the top right away?

I remember thinking... Argh, this slash is inefficient; where be my plus or multiplication symbol?

Also. Might be my favorite podcast not just because that amazing discussion of the female gaze but also it hit so many nostalgia points with me.

[elqiao.livejournal.com]

YYH ♥ Seriously, so much nostalgia!

[bikitchi]

I might need to marathon it soon. SO AMAZING.

Forever I will remember Youko Kurama's VA saying "bang" and my tween heart going AFLUTTER. I wanna say it was during his tournament fight with Karasu.

Jesus, last time I saw it was over a decade ago.

[elqiao.livejournal.com]

I sadly never saw the anime - I got introduced to it along with other slashtastic shounen manga series by my cousin when I was a kid. Oh Yoshihiro Togashi, you used to be so good... and then you got so lazy XD