documenting the BL fan experience
I used to get very mad and confused at people who shipped enemies/rivals like Yugi/Kaiba when I was a kid (lol). I think I was in denial about liking it though. I liked seeing male characters together because I liked men. I feel like a…
I think French BL fandom is pretty chill still, thankfully. I have seen anti-adjacent takes from some folks who are younger than me but we have a lot of well-established institutions that defend and promote BL especially through an LGBT/queer lens. We have a convention…
I think it was kind of the stereotypical idea that people have in mind when they’re denouncing BL— teenagers, mostly girls (and/or people who identified as girls at the time) who were very loudly into this stuff, having fun, and not really caring about the way it looked to others. I remember people on deviantart getting so mad over “yaoi” and “yaoi fangirls.” It was very fun and honestly mostly harmless.
— 27, He/Him, France
