Tbh the yaoi fandom is mostly just a bunch of het women so that's where the problem is. They put this sort of expectation on gay men when it's absolutely not like that in reality. I find that the best BL works are those made by queer people who actually understand how queer relationships work. Het women usually try to use top and bottom as some sort of twisted gender role cause they don't understand how queer relationships work

i don't really care about top and bottom tbh

i just let my imagination run wild XD

look at these idiots, i love them hahahah

Tbh the yaoi fandom is mostly just a bunch of het women so that's where the problem is.

Gross generalization, absolutely not true.

Anyways, why hasn't the yuri fandom have any special name? It still blows my mind. Or am I out of the loop?

I've seen the term Himejoshi/Himedanshi (姫女子/姫男子) being used to refer to fans of yuri/GL, though I haven't seen many use it to refer to themselves much? I like both yuri and yaoi so I guess I'd be more like a rotten princess or something.

Ack, this idiot couple is cute.

I usually avoid anthology stuff because too short, but I'd really like to read a proper length series with this dynamic.

EDIT:

Just checked, the author is also writing that running series with all the death flags. What a stark contrast in tone

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Ah yes.. the Fujoshi shipping wars, definitely something they do and not something I do with Yuru Yuri, I'm not enraged when someone "mis-ships" my ships, nope NOT AL ALL! lmao.

Yui x Kyouko otp, right? Ayano can go kiss a duck!

And Sakurako better fall off a cliff, so Himawari can find someone better!

These are fightin' words.

The credits page made Natsume dead to me for all eternity.

Ain't her fault that she's right.

Anyways, why hasn't the yuri fandom have any special name? It still blows my mind. Or am I out of the loop?

I've seen the term Himejoshi/Himedanshi (姫女子/姫男子) being used to refer to fans of yuri/GL, though I haven't seen many use it to refer to themselves much? I like both yuri and yaoi so I guess I'd be more like a rotten princess or something.

There's also this:

Really putting the "idiot" in "idiot couple".

I don't understand fighting over ships tbh but each to their own. As unhealthy as it is, I do find it cute that this couple will fight over literally everything. XD

zokoi posted:

However, I just noticed that BL fangirls fight about this much more than GL and het.

Have you never seen people having shipping wars over series like Love Live or Madoka? Believe me, Gl shippers can be just as vicious. It's true that at least yuri fans care less about who is top and bottom (and I personally think it doesn't matter), but more who is with who.

Het women who like yaoi or fantasized gay men, are usually called "fag hag".

Not a fan at all of yaoi or the fetish people that come along with it. I do like gay romances though. I think if this was about a yuri otp pairing, would have enjoy this more. I see the yaoi otp stuff as very fetish-y and unlikeable.

Lovely. How haven't I read this already.

Siiigh ship wars can be really brutal and this oneshot didn't even touched the skin of it.

(For the sake of clarity, ABC are fictional chars and XYZ shippers, X ships AxB and no reversal, Y ships AxB but also AxC, Z ships AxB and no reversal but is more extreme about it)

I've seen Z doxed X online and forced X to apologize publically because X followed Y or commissioned Y for an art of AxB because of reasoning like "you're not supposed to befriend with/commision art from that heretic".

It's pretty crazy.

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wow, i didn't know this anthology was on dynasty!! i have a copy irl :D it's a fun read! something idk if anyone pointed out here is that the yaoi ship's names are "sea" (umi) and "air" (kuu) by the kanji, which makes the arguments funnier imo!

anyway, yuri shippers do have top-bottom debates on the jp side (possibly kr etc as well but i can't read those), especially in fandoms like umamusu which have a lot of ex-fujoshi. i'm very happy to see my otps regardless of who's on top, but i do still have preferences. so like A/B is great and fun, very appreciated, but B/A is so good it knocks me the fuck out