
note: fujoshi/fudanshi behavior on real men is suuuper creepy.
Source: gay man who loves bl but knows how to separate fiction from reality

one year later but
yes, i don’t want to dismiss or say ‘it didn't happen’ but a lot of the girls-people i knew in HS who shipped their classmates weren’t even into anime, in fact they thought geeks were gross. i get the ‘girl who shipped guys in hs = fujoshi’ but the ones i and some acquaintances encountered in HS just wanted a gay friend after watching High School Musical, the ‘gay best friend’ trope used to be really popular. what i mean is, some were definitely fujoshi, but many weren’t

MC is traumatized and living under permanent fight/flight mode aka drowning in neurotoxins
Pink hair friend has a horrible home life which likely made her be a bad person, so we can't blame her for being a bitch but also are happy she gets what she deserves
the mother needs to die a slow and borrible death though what a horrible "parent"
why must they shover unecessary romance into every story
it would be 1000x better without it