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silvershadow1711 · 4 months ago

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I wish I liked all the other yandere things that are popular. I've loved the yandere trope for decades- the first fanfic I ever posted online was a yandere fic- and it's so cool that this once niche character trope that was almost exclusively resevered for female characters now sees just as much (if not more) use in male characters AND has such a thriving community of fans.

And YET... none of it's for me. None of it appeals to me. I've played the VNs and read the web comics and mangas and original stories on tumblr and with the sole exception of Binary Star Hero, I haven't enjoyed any of it. I'm not saying it's bad- most of it is damn good, and it clearly comes from a place of passion and I will always admire the people who make these things and put them out into the world, but I'm once again reminded of being in my late teens/early 20s and looking at otome games (before there was really a market for them in the west), staring at an endless ocean of interchangable, ambiguously-aged anime pretty boys and just feeling an ever growing sense of hopelessness as I thought "There is not a single character design here that I want to look at for an extended period of time..." God, the way I latched onto "Starstruck Love" because it was the ONLY piece of otome media I could find that featured yandere boys- y'all don't know how spoiled for choice you are these days.

To be starved for content when you're surrounded by content sounds crazy, but imagine going to a buffet and every single item on the menu is seemingly custom tailored to be something you don't like. There is one dish you find appetizing, so while everyone around you is loading up their plate, you're nibbling on your cookie, savoring it, yes, but trying to make it last... because god only knows when someone is going to bake another cookie like that again.

#not art #ramblings #me desperately clinging to Maynard in “The Cinderella Contract” like a piece of driftwood in the ocean #just because he was over the age of 25 IN THEORY #pub encounters was a lifeline #and I get it- people are targeting that 18-25 demographic #and most people LIKE young and conventionally attractive characters #but god DAMN is life sad if you don't #and of course the only kind of media that regularly designs characters *I* actually find appealing...#...are made for gay men #i just want something that's not “generic shonen/shojo anime”#like. do you understand how feral I went seeing different nose shapes in AoT?#“an anime where every character doesn't have the same upturned button nose and eyes that take up half their face?! inconcievable!!”

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kensatou · 6 months ago

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good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ終わった終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレ��★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★★★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

#'this is my old man yaoi masterpiece' <3333 #soooooo cute she is SO excited and pleased about it and so giddily interacting with international fans about it #and marvelling to japanese fans like: did you guys know about this??? old man yaoi \o\ \o/#psttt michiru-sensei you want to do a severance doujinshi soooo bad. please.#meanwhile foul thing from jp twitter this week is the man boasting about how he made deepfake p*rn of his girlfriend's best friend #because he couldn't stop thinking about her #and also he thought he was being such a Good Boyfriend he actually told his girlfriend about it #and he was furious she was furious #he was like women........ i'm doing this for the good of our relationship but women never understand our (men's) sacrifices #you know all those doombait articles about how japan is going to go extinct #maybe that should happen.#anyway. let old man yaoi heal you until then.#michiru sonoo #manga #yaoi #twitter #old man yaoi #queer #gay #long post #lgbt #japan #japanese

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artemishuntest · 4 months ago

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“we’re in a polycule but every month we vote someone out” isnt that just what nora does with kevin every time she writes a trilogy

#aftg #tgr spoilers #aftg tgr #aftg tsc #tsc #like i don’t know man what if this is a decade long prank on The One Who’s Always Ejected From The Polycule #kevins these men’s gay awakening but never their gay continuing like damn #raise ur hand if you’ve had a homoerotic situationship with kevin. now lower your hand if you’ve done anything about it #is kevin even aware #does he think that’s just what male friendships look like #i mean riko was ‘intense’ so #kevin: wdym you and ur bro haven’t made a blood pact #all for the game #kevin day #kerejean #kandreil #kevjerejean

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 2 years ago

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i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

#jeeves and wooster #i want to watch tumblr go rabid i want to watch ao3 overflow with jeeves/wooster fanfiction #yes obviously the fandom EXISTS but it's a cozy little neighborhood #a handful of talented artists and writers doing their best to keep their charming little village going #but i'm tired of cozy i want this fandom TRENDING #I WANT TO SEE THIS ON MY DASHBOARD PEOPLE #i swear to you if they made a shiny new tv series tumblr would absolutely obsess over these characters. good omens levels of obsession #it's just such a great dynamic! the good-natured overly-trusting bumbling idiot in constant need of rescuing!#the stoic all-knowing genius who quietly masterminds mayhem in order to protect this one moron he's devoted himself to for some reason #jeeves as a morosexual is just such a beautiful interpretation of the original text #wooster as a happy-go-lucky himbo who stumbles his way into a relationship with a protective caring and supremely competent mastermind #the angst and social complexities of a same-sex cross-class relationship in turn-of-the century london!#oh AND half the stories are about jeeves helping wooster get out of engagements/desperately avoid marriage #two men who live together constantly scheming to maintain their bachelorhood. this is quite literally the main plot point #the gay subtext is there! the gay subtext is there and very ripe for picking!!!#this thing is LOCKED AND LOADED we can pounce literally any time

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the-patchwork-girl-of-oz · 8 months ago

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Boq looks so happy when he’s with Fiyero 😭

#they’re boyfriends your honor #wicked #boq woodman #fiyero tigelaar #wicked movie #boq x fiyero #fiyero x boq #tincrow #fiyerboq #mlm #gay #two queerly made men

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derpwithit · 9 months ago

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Fiddtober day 1 and 2- cowboy vampire ^^

Credits to @justindarnellcomedy on insta for the audio!

#hes a vampar #yee haw #this audio was made for him #fiddlestan #implied #stans not in this one but its his car #gravity falls #gay men with yellow eyes #fiddleford mcgucket #fiddleford hadron mcgucket #fiddtober #gravity falls fiddleford #vampire #cowboy #its spooky season #the stanleymobile

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yukipri · 11 months ago

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For curiosity's sake...

#marvel #deadpool and wolverine #x-men #venom #deadpool #poolverine #cherik #symbrock #poll #movies #reblog to reach more voters #poll is a result of me having thoughts while walking and realizing i legit don't know the answer #i am usually not a marvel person and i dun really go here but curiosity is what it is #and each of these have had their Gayness spotlights on Tumblr dot com #please vote based on gayness of movie #not just which movie u like better/which ship is more established etc #actually u know what after making this poll #i think personally it might be D&W for me #the reason is because all of them are pretty gay BUT #with regards to a ''gayness to other stuff like plot'' ratio #D&W tilts the furthest gay #the others are gay but also have a decent amount of other stuff happening that is unrelated to the gay #for D&W i feel like the whole thing was an excuse for D and W to be gay and there was very little other plot #or rather the plot's sole purpose was to give D and W reasons to have very gay scenes together? am i making sense #anyway that need not be your criteria for 'gayness' since that was not specified in the poll #not meant to bias the votes but this is my current thinking #i made the vote and voted all pretty gay

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hikarikokumi · 6 months ago

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Old Men Yaoi these days..

no matter what they could never make me hate you Inho♥︎ (Young il)

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silkhy-john · 3 months ago

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Me and my best friend who is also my boyfriend EXCEPT we’re not gay:

#pegoryu #persona 5 #‘gay’ here to mean men attracted to men #just to clarify #for the game with a LOT of homoromantic and homoerotic subtext surrounding the MC persona 5 really just… took it nowhere #At first it made me angry #but now it just makes me sad #anyway here’s to the different transformative creatives who saw it through lol

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artplague · 11 months ago

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multiversal "same crush" situation

(if I had a nickel for every queer mutant* with the hots for a Wolverine this year i'd have two nickels. which isnt a lot, but it's weird it doesnt happen more, right?)