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Paragraph breaks can make or break your story's flow. @pppppiamo will be presenting a talk on teasing paragraphs and making them break up (or come together).

Tune in at this time!

Check out the full Banquet schedule here.

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After the slow burn build up to "I love you!", what happens next??? Moonpearl will be presenting a panel on writing established couple romance at the BL Palace Banquet at this time~

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Please welcome Jinz and Mr Jinz back again with their 18+ podcast chatting about BL~ 😏😏 They're the first scheduled program at this time!

Check out the full schedule here.

P.S. All the cards have been made by Gloomee 🥰

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For the final session of the Banquet, it's BL and chill with tiaf~

Watch-party will start at this time, with BL to be confirmed!

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Get ready to take notes to ensure your survival — ars will be hosting a panel on infinite flow novels!

Countdown to panel start here~

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We're excited to announce that Heart will be hosting another kopitiam (conversation) session again this year!

The session will be held at this time, don't miss it out!!

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July patreon with the most popular boy 🌭

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BL Fire Anthology Update

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry for the BL Fire Anthology~!

We're now accepting anthology title ideas. Please submit them by 21st July!

🔥https://forms.gle/7xFukNtcTSDkyrfy9 ✨

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一周客人 (Weekly Guest)

作者：一束香菜 (Author: A bunch of coriander)

Jiang Mai is a socially anxious. After graduating from university and working in the city for two years, he returned to his hometown for personal reasons and opened a pet shop as his own boss. Jiang Mai likes small animals very much. Because it is a small city and there are no other pet stores nearby, his business is very good and he has many regular customers. Today, the "weekly guest" came again. Carrying a lively and active Pomeranian. - Bian Rong is 1.9 meters tall, dark-skinned and rough-looking. In the eyes of outsiders, he is a silent but honest man. He recently fell in love with someone. He is the owner of a pet shop near home. But at the same time he had a worry. ——He is afraid of small animals. Especially dogs.

Raws: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=8691003 

Translation: None

Shou MC: Jiang Mai | Gong ML: Bian Rong

Setting: Modern China

A short cute story (28 chapters)!! I think the summary above does a good job of saying what this story is about, it has an episodic nature, of the ML coming to the MC's shop, and then the MC going to ML's business, and the two slowly getting together, all with some cute pets in the background 🥰🥰🥰

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under the sea 🐟 𓆝 ⋆.

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SAVE THE DATE!!!

More details coming soon! Stay tuned!

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Call For Newsletter Submissions

The next BL newsletter will be coming out this month, so please submit any interesting BL-related items from the last three months below:

If you have a finished or updating novel with over 20k words, you can fill out the CHIBI FORM to have a chibi of your main couple drawn and included in the newsletter banner!

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I went to Citrus Con 2025 last weekend and it was fun! I really need to go through all the resources available 😳 and it really makes me want to write BL...except I have other things I need to do 😭

The most fun panel I attended was The Ultimate BL Quiz hosted by Rotty! Even when I didn't know the answers (which was most), it was still fun, and being able to recognise something was also a nice highlight.

The most thought-provoking panel I attended was Working Together in a Dying World hosted by Ms Boba, which talked about issues that can affect collaboration (the "drama triangle") and how to make working together better (the "empowerment triangle").

The best thing was to just feel all the BL vibes in the Citrus Con discord server 🥰🥰🥰 I'm glad this convention exists and I'm looking forward to next year!!

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We've found our new home in the snow! Don't forget to register for 2026

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Currently reading

穿为逃荒难民后 (After becoming a refugee) (farming!🥰)

I Became Famous After I Became a Parrot in the Movie Star’s House (cute and fun)

Reborn to Strive (making money~)

Bias (a little angsty 🥺)

The Favored Minister (interesting...)

和糙汉邻家哥哥恋爱了 (I fell in love with the rough guy next door) (funny and also cute)

恋爱脑小夫郎他又来啦！(The love-brained little husband is here again!) (as you can tell by the title, there's a cute shou~)

我靠种田当上校长 (I became a principal by farming) (farming!! 🥰🥰)

一周客人 (Weekly Guest) (cute little romance)

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I've been proof-reading Salted Fish lately, and as part of the process, I've also been re-reading the comments people left... 🥺🥺🥺

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I'll Be in Your Care

Author/artist: kazumaro

Seishuu, a hardworking young man from the countryside, just moved to Tokyo to attend university. Due to some circumstances, he's now working as a housekeeper at Ginzou's house, who turns out to be a hopeless adult. Now that the two started living together, will their life go smoothly?

Link: https://tapas.io/series/Ill-Be-in-Your-Care/info

Gong MC: Seishuu | Shou ML: Ginzou-san

Setting: Modern Japan

A cute story (webcomic), highly recommend! It's fluffy, slice of life, with some angst family elements, overall very cute getting together story, and then progressing to their relationship and living together 🥰🥰