Is Mecha BL Sci-fi not a thing?

[ElijahRyne]

hi guys i'm new here

Yo? Weird place to say that.

 

[AstaVanderspeigle]

I remember there was this one popular story on RR that got shitstorm because the MC was bi and kissed a guy. The backlash was mainly because it the readers didn’t think there would be homosexual development. I don’t remember if the MC was tagged bi or not though.

But a RR user told me that as long as I explicitly state it’s BL most users will simply roll away do their business. No matter which site, you’ll always meet a troll/bigot who gives you a bad rating just because.

Also Mecha BL like Gundam or Code Geass doesn’t exist yet, I think? There are a lot of interstellar, but not all have the MC as a mecha pilot or it gets pushed to the background for romance development or the story focused on MC’s/ML’s Gary Stu constitution too much ?

I’m kinda interested in your world building though. I also have a Mecha/Ancient China Civilization/Interstellar travel BL idea (that hasn’t even a word written lmao)

Joining now would be perfect as we have BLwrimo event going on this Month. And Easter BL watch party.

I'm sorry for the late reply. Things got hectic over here.

I was able to post the story in three, and it got pretty a lot of reads (for my understanding lol). I explicitly wrote that the MCs are gay characters, so it worked, for now, I'm crossing my fingers.

Exactly, there is a lot of space opera BL and not mecha specifically. I read a lot of trad and indie publishing MM books, and sci-fi is limited to there. And nice, it sounds like Iron Widow, I love the book to the point I got the paperback. I think is worth to be written.

I don't have Discord. Thanks for the invitation tho

 

[Golden_Hyde]

I don't know whether there are a decent number of BL stories in Royal Road, but for the platform that heavily caters to LitRPG fictions, I'm more worried that your story won't get enough tractions in terms of readings and favorites.

But as others said, you had to be mindful on the frequency of the seggs, otherwise yes, Moderator John will be hollering into your ass

 

[Ellieporter]

Its a very uncommon and rarely seen trope in writing. After all, who would want to see 2 young men kissing after a hard and challenging battle that almost killed them?

 

[AstaVanderspeigle]

Its a very uncommon and rarely seen trope in writing. After all, who would want to see 2 young men kissing after a hard and challenging battle that almost killed them?

Right? Who will think about that?! Me? The same way a hero gets to bang the love interest (a girl) after almost dying in a hard battle. Who wants to read that? Same shit, same shit.

If you know it is not for you, just skip the topic and keep lurking around in another thread. Oh, wait. You are the type that can't do that, that's my hard guess.

 

[tiaf]

Its a very uncommon and rarely seen trope in writing. After all, who would want to see 2 young men kissing after a hard and challenging battle that almost killed them?

Excuse me, do I not exist??

Edit: WHY DID YOU CHANGE YOUR PFP TO THIS?? Seriously, I almost thought this was some clueless straight male comment until I saw ElliePorter -__-