documenting the BL fan experience
There was a time when most cons were cancelled and merch wouldn’t ship due to some trade b.s. Not to mention I was a queer child with secret interests that I didn’t want my family to know about (still is that way). So the internet…
BL gives me solace but as a person who needs to recharge from ALL real life things and people. From the very beginning, I separated myself from fiction very strictly and BL is simply one of the art forms I enjoy. Fujoshi are so stigmatized…
The only ship wars were like “Naruto is married to Hinata, how can you ship him with Sasuke, that is cheating!!1!1” but ship wars were strictly between groups that preferred X ship over Y ship. Omegaverse was something exciting and scary, not grounds for trans discourse (I am trans and I love omegaverse.) There was drama but never SJW puritan flavored. People called Orochimaru pedobear and moved on, didn’t harass Orochimaru stans (like me) for “condoning” pedophilia or whatever. AH I MISS THAT.
— 21, They/Them, Cambodia
I use BL as a good litmus test to find out if my acquaintances are homophobic or not because these are well written stories with well written smut and there’s no reason to be dismissive of it unless you’re homophobic, at least in Asia. I…
Fanart of Kakashi and Iruka from Naruto kissing in the hokage office on a break. It felt soft and warm. At the time I hadn’t dated anybody and was a known prude who kept my confusion to myself. But seeing them felt reassuring somehow. I…
