documenting the BL fan experience
I think most of the people that like BL that surround me are also part of the LGBTAQ+ community, and we are pretty chill about it. I just have two friends that are really involved with original BL stories. Most of my friends like reading…
When I first started, it was mostly stuff available only in Japanese, and nowadays there’s a lot of translations, and also different source material. Also I have a lot of friends in the world that make fanmade stuff, so it’s cool we can connect by…
My friend used to talk with other BL fans via forums. When I started liking it, on the internet, I was mostly by myself, liking and reblogging stuff on tumblr, not really interacting with anyone. In real life though I was a member of a Hetalia cosplay community, and when we met we usually talked about Hetalia ships, but I was pretty shy with it at the time, since my OTP was not a big one.
— 27, She/Her, Chile
