I’m quite grateful for pirated stuff still because that’s how I access even more titles from my country, as opposed to published BL that are mostly US/Euro-centric in its distribution. I do subscribe to Futekiya, but find other publishers a bit too unaffordable at the…

I think here in the Philippines the more mainstream BL fandom is into Thai BL now, but there’s a large following of the “traditional” Japanese BL manga/anime since a lot of us grew up with general anime/manga. — 29, She/Her, Philippines

My identity makes me a bit more critical of the portrayal/manifestations of queer experiences in BL. Though when I turn to BL for escapism, the realistic portrayals hurt a bit more since I’m reminded of the real-life challenges of being a queer person. In reverse,…