The Birth Of My Love For Yaoi

my love for yaoi started maybe 9 or 10 years ago, I remember I started shipping sasunaru (even though I never watched Naruto lol) and some other ships always including two boys, I never knew the term 'yaoi' so I looked it up and Junjou Romantica, Loveless, Love Stage, Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, Gravitation, ETC. would pop up, I started with Junjou and it ......   2 reply

My cousin was watching haikyuu text chats which got me into them and eventually led to me reading fanfics after one of the youtubers i used to watch (tendous’s chocolate icecream) linked an explicit part of the story that was shared on their wattpad. Eventually I heard of BL but thought it was going to be too much compared to my fanfics, in short......   reply

My sister was watching Yuri on Ice and I asked what she was and she said bl and from then on we started sharing manga and anime   2 reply

My love for yaoi started at a very young age i was about 10 or 11 and smut wasn't anything i was new to but yaoi and bl manhwas literally changed my life i started reccomending it to my sisters and my very close friends now it's become a drug that i can't get out of my system and i don't wanna go to rehab. booty   2 reply

My homophobic ex friend told me not to read bl. I did the exact opposite lol, I fucking hate her, but thank you for this. Without it I would have never known much about the LGBTQIA+ community either! So thanks bitch (︶3︶)＝凸   reply

I only read shojo manga back in middle school and had quite literally never heard of bl (I remember some of my friends talking about it and my dumbass self who has always lived with a very conservative family didn’t understand how two men could be in a relationship... like legit). Maybe it’s because I was a super hardcore reverse harem/otome ga......   reply

It's in my acc., but okay. I'm a female so I guess the major factor for me was being in a class with only dudes all throughout my entire junior/senior high. Like, ever since I can remember, I've been always fascinated with friendship between men, and then boom! I saw Given's PV before the series was released. That might've pulled the trigger.   reply

My first yaoi was Yarichin bitch club and my favorite character was and still is Jimmy/Fujisaki   1 reply

I was in middle school (I think) and I was reading shoujo. Then, I got so annoyed with the common tropes and went on to reading smut and josei. I remembered my sister at the time was into yaoi so I tried it out and that’s when it started. Although, I’m more obsessed with yaoi compared to how my sister was back then. Side story: When I was lit......   reply