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I prefer the old anime style, to be honest. The cuter, moe-blob styles freak me out sometimes. I want my old shoujo "eyes as large as your face" back... But I think Utena wouldn't have worked as well with a modern anime style. One of the features of pre-2000 shoujo was that it tended to make...

Gender bender GL and "normal" GL are really different, so that makes sense. There are some men who try to write it to "get around" their discomfort with writing women (by saying the MC is really a guy in a woman's body), and sometimes it's for self-insertion into lesbian fantasies, so... The...

GB GL are always more GB than GL, so they have a totally different flavour. I also filter them out... Although I wrote one myself for an anthology, so it's a bit hypocritical now. :blob_sweat: Anyway, changing GL and BL to f/f and m/m would definitely be a little helpful, if not necessarily the...

I apologise for getting heated and potentially making people feel like they're being attacked. This is not the case. I want to reinforce the fact that, although many BL fans try to view me as someone who doesn't belong in the fandom anymore, I am still here as a part of it, as I have always...

There are actually people in the BL fandom (a lot when I was younger, not sure how openly they'll admit to this mindset now) that believe that just liking BL makes them allies to queer men. I remember people making digital badges showing off that they were fujoshi and so weren't homophobic...

I think that Josei and Seinen really tend not to be used here all that much anyway, unless someone's really trying to make a point about their work. They would definitely be the last genre tags I reached for, even if I was writing non-LGBT+ fiction. I'd also be pretty put off by tagging...

Seinen and Josei anime and novels are actually quite different in tone and tropes compared to Western media aimed at adult men and women. The differences can be subtle, but they're not always interchangeable. We actually don't have "shoujo" and "shounen" here at all. I do not know why. SH...

I didn't appreciate how toxic the BL fandom was until I was more or less thrown out for liking GL a few years ago. I get the feeling that a lot of people aren't standing in a place where they can see it for what it is.

But that's how all writing sites work. Wattpad is known as a place for (mostly trashy) romance aimed at teenage girls. RoyalRoad seems to have become a place for mainstream hetero fantasy and LitRPG. I feel like SH was designed with Asian-inspired English webnovels in mind, so it's not really a...

I'm not saying that their issues with it are wrong or anything, I just think that it's more than the label that's a problem. (Then again, there are queer men who like BL for various reasons as well. It's a complicated matter.) I can probably knock together a very quick genre definition today...

There's actually not a lot of hatred of BL in the GL community - that's also a myth. I asked that question in the 2019 Yuri Garden Survey, found here: https://forum.novelupdates.com/blogs/the-yuri-gardens-2019-survey-report.2337/ GL fans hold some frustration towards BL because it stifles GL...

But a lot of Western gay fiction is written in the same tone as BL, just with slightly less dedication to seme/uke. Like I said, you get a lot of really good gay fiction without stereotypes or cringy power dynamics. You also get a whole lot that's definitely written for the author's fetish for...

Yeah... I don't know why I enjoy the miserable misunderstandings between these two so much. :sweat_smile: It's also pretty sad from Razour's perspective. He believes that turning Lyre down is the right thing, since he doesn't want to date someone else with PTSD, he thinks that Lyre is a...

The Halloween party scene? A bit like this, really:

Just part of the outfit~! This costume was based on what he actually wore to Razour's Halloween party, but I deliberately just went with however the artist interpreted my description. The only thing I asked her to change from her original sketch of it was Lyre's shoes, because they were quite...

... You know, the one I thing I always hate about the "yuri vs yaoi" debate is the judgy, nasty crap fujoshi say about queer women under the guise of talking about a genre. Relationships between women are plenty adorable, deep and passionate, thank you very much.

Ah... They're not for me, personally. I find them to be condescending, since they insist on trapping us in this teenage-like "coming out" experience forever, and they just don't reflect my experiences as a queer woman. My life is about much, much more than just gaining the approval of straight...

Descriptions are definitely something you want. If the love interest isn't attractive to you, or can't be made to sound attractive to you, then the romance doesn't really have much draw or tension. It's not always just about the sexual appeal of the physical. It's the soft qualities too, like...