I think it's harder to pull chemistry and tension w/ gl so there's less impact to hype it up and it's less memorable, also some yuri fans come off as holier-than-thou w/c puts off potential audience w/o giving it a chance first. Like there's tons that are great, and most are even healthy rs, but evenso I can't even remember one at the top of my hea...... 1 reply
Well, lots of girls do it, I don't see why guys won't. Isn't there even a joke on how girls are so good at tracking a person's socials that a friend could point to some random guy at some random party on a social media post on some far away country months ago and they can still have his socials by evening of the same day? It's just a joke, but I've...... reply
When I was younger I only had this one outdated app that allowed me to look for manga to read and it was so limited to "popular titles", one story that I was not able to forget there is honey x honey drops because it was like reading those asian dramas but smuttier, I read it again a few years ago and couldn't make it past 3 chapters, it's so awful...... 1 reply
learn not to rely on leaderboards for recos fam, coz most of em sucks ass and yeah lots are buff x buff, which I too am not the biggest fan of -- but we also have tons w/ trad dynamic still on too, there's just better and wider options for all. I wouldn't trade this timeline just to get stories with purely stupid/doormat mcs or incest/pedo plotline...... reply
Accountability, specifically asshole ukes getting punished appropriately and not just getting away with the plot simply coz the creator or readers relate to their toxic ass, same with semes ofc but it's getting called out often anyway; nowadays it's the ukes that are being hailed as "baddies" for the same shitty personality and motives.
Also FLs (...... reply
Is it just me or is like 90% of BL pairing nowadays usually consists of older bottom x younger top? I really can't complain, I have favorite pairings that belong in this category, my only insignificant issue is it (sometimes) generate overly puppy-semes which can get pretty boring for me. I also understand that it's like retaliation to the former yaoi trend of the reverse coupling where it's the top who is older and has more power.
But really, it's starting to feel like the big-tit uke trend 2.0 wherein the authors are really just in it to emphasize the uke as replacements for the female readers, by that I mean, since the market for these works are usually women who are nearing their middle age, or maybe the author themself is one, they might've leaned more into this for relatability?
Again, nothing against this, I just like getting insights on trends. For instance that big-tit uke trend can be correlated to the body positivity movement at the time + that ahegao meme where busty hentai characters were subtly incorporated to jokes, so the marketing for publishing those works were effective for a while but not really for long. And yes, there are still beefy ukes nowadays but rarely do I see one with pecs that can be mistaken for milking tatas lol.
I genuinely like that more BL pairings are older, god knows how rampant ageism is in queer communities irl, so to create stories that treat this development as normal and beautiful is good in my books, I'm just wondering why the older one gotta be the bottom almost everytime?
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