Anonymous asked: Have you ever watched Gravitation? I heard that it's usually most fangirl's introduction to yaoi.
I have not watched Gravitation but back in the DAY like probably 10+ years ago I had the 1st couple manga of its series.
I personally got introduced to yaoi through Fake. I remember 10+ years ago when I was reading Gravitation I definitely thought Fake was better and purposely didn’t buy any more after I got the 1st 2 in one go.
From what I remember Gravitation is about a sugarery kawaii spaz who wants to be a rock star has a best friend in the band who is in love with him but falls for some famous writer who has as much personality as a rock with a scowl painted on it. I think at the end of one of the manga Ukey-pukey ~faints~ while blabbing how in love he is with writer guy. I remember thinking, “I thought gay romance would have more originality then dime a dozen trashy lusty love novels. But noOOOOOoOoooo the ~girl~ faints and spends all their free time thinking about their lover, god fucking damnit.”
Well to be frank I don’t think Gravitation is bad it’s just really cliche and lackluster. Maybe Fake isn’t much better, but I definitely had that loyalty back then.
When I have the time I think I’ll do a proper review of Fake and of Gravitation, since those are prominent in getting folks addicted to yaoi.
Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on "A Nerd and A Bully", an obscure yaoi webcomic, only exclusive in DeviantArt?
Like I really hope the author is pulling my leg when she says she’s a native English speaker and 21. I REALLY REALLY HOPE SHE’S 16 AND IS STILL LEARNING ENGLISH AS HER SECOND LANGUAGE CAUSE THE DIALOG IS EMBARRASSING AND THE STORY IS A DISASTER!
Fuck I mean the last less then stellar deviantart comic I read the merman and the surfer but it at least had a comprehensible story. In this one its hard to figure out what’s going on half the bloody time.
This “bully” guy gets into a super fancy private school despite trying to intentionally fail out of the entrance exams. His roommate is the “nerd” who happens to get the BEST scores. When they meet his roommate is with their cousin. When the cousin asks to help bully with his bags, bully loses his shit and smacks her. Then Nerd beats the fuck out of bully, which I’m not going to lie, caused a round of applause from me.
The nerd has this childhood best friend who visits him and is gay for him. He quips that the room they got is “Nice, I guess that’s what you get for having such great scores.” When umm hello you don’t get rooms based on how good your scores are and if they did the bully just confessed to intentionally trying to fail. So shouldn’t he be dorming in cramped janitor’s closet where the smell of anomina is so strong you’re frequently passing out? The childhood best friend gives him room transfer papers cause he wants bully out and wants to room with nerd instead. Bully is back and forth on this idea, even though it would seem like an obvious decision since every time we pop into his head he’s going, “OH I HATE DAT NERD SOOOOOO FUCKINGGGGGGG MUCHHHHHHH HNNNNGH!”
We find out later he was nearly expelled for this fight because nerd ~blabbed~ about it, but his grandfather BRIBED the administration into making him stay there. Apparently his grandfather intentionally had him room with nerd so that nerd’s smartness will hopefully rub off on bully? Also he meets like 5 other people who are inconsequential to the story. The bully crashes at some person’s shed to avoid staying in the room with nerd. Then nerd accidentally finds him and they both spontaneously decide to become friends, “Friends that still hate each other.” However bully continues to be the personification of all things assclown and nerd is sick of it. Yet bully gets ~sick~ magically so nerd tries to take care of him and feels bad. Turns out bully is not sick he just had a panic attack and as soon as he’s lying down in bed with the source of his panic attack he’s fine? What the fucking fuck shit?
The art has improved a good amount from its first few pages thank god. The artist has a problem with flat heads, and really poorly inserted screen tones though. All same bodied, and a bad case of same face makes it hard to tell the different characters apart. The consistency isn’t good but at least it looks as if they’re trying to improve. The art can be unintentionally hilarious though. Such as this number right after an attempted serious and melancholy flashback.
The dialog is really just fucking awful. Lots of bad English grammar/semantics to the point I have to re-read a lot of the lines to get what they were trying to say. Using lines like, “He’ll crush you like a mad dog.” You mean crush you like a bug? What the hell!? Oh and how about “There really is a reason I’m gay.” Is there a contest for the worst ways to introduce a character’s sexuality? Cause this line is a good contender for the gold. Gay pandering is obnoxiously forced and feels out of character yet with how shoddily writing this story is, is there such a thing as “OOC”?
The bully’s character is just fucking repugnant. He’s a horrendously egotistical brat with a violent temper and must get what he wants right nowwwwww. He physically harms people who try to help him, he treats everyone else like peasants to his grand wealthy background, and tries to force nerd to teach him to fight by trying to rip up an essay he’s writing. Whenever he’s not doing something outright he’s just moping like the crown prince of whining. Oh how unfair his roommate is or how the private school his grandfather is bending over backward to keep him in is mean for holding him accountable. Admittedly he gets beat up a lot for the bullshit he does but he doesn’t seem to be learning anything. The nerd character really has no characterization to speak of so I’m not even going to touch on that.
I’ll confess I like the idea of a nerd who’s stronger then a bully and that the nerd is going to be the “top” which counterdicts how you THINK a story like this is set up. It’s also intriguing how the both of them were orphaned but still end up coming from very different backgrounds. Yet the story is just awful.
TL;DR
It’s a shoddily pieced together story about a nerd and bully in a private school who try to get along but fail.
Anonymous asked: what do you think of TJ and Amal?
Hahaha I’ve been putting off talking about TJ and Amal because I don’t know exactly how to EXPLAIN what I think of it.
I’m going to try my best to put it into words.
TJ and Amal is a story about a guy trying to get to his sister’s graduation after he’s on rocky terms with his parents after coming out to them. He is joined by someone he recently met TJ on his cross-country trip. Then they kinda ~fall in love.~
I have to confess I heard the reason the story came about because the author was going to enter this “perfect yaoi couple” competition or something. The author entered a skinny stoner dude and a short bulkly Indian dude as a joke. So the idea came out of an attempt to troll the stereotypes of the yaoi genre and that gets a huge THUMBS UP FROM ME!
While shaky at the start the art is pretty dang good. The pencil and style fits the story exceedingly well.
The characterization is jaw-droppingly amazing. It’s easy to tell the author really loves the characters and enjoys coming up with quirks and fleshing out every little detail of their life. It is very realistic in dialog, story, and characters. One thing that gets me is the mannerisms the characters have. Like TJ rubbing his eyes while talking or Amal pulling on his fingers when he feels awkward. It’s so real to life and something that’s so rare to in see in webcomics it’s awesome.
It’s a very good read and I enjoy it yet I can’t bring myself to LOVE TJ and Amal and I’m not positive why that is. Since it would seem to be EXACTLY up my alley.
I’m going to try to decode why I’m not writing love poetry to TJ and Amal. I think what it comes down to is that I’m not in LOVE with the characters of TJ and Amal. They are characterized fantastically but I feel as if I met them at a party or something I’d be like, “Pfft that Amal guy is so oblivious and TJ is not as funny as he thinks he is. Not bad guys but not people I want to hang out with.”
Since I’m not infatuated with the characters that unfortunately drags the rest of the story down since it’s so character centered. It just makes the story…boring for me. Not a lot really HAPPENS! Though TJ’s mysterious past and his motives are intriguing. WHY DID HE DELETE ALL THOSE VOICE MESSAGES!? TJ WHAT ARE YOU UP TO?
Allow me to do some nit-picking though. Sex in the story doesn’t feel as REALISTIC as the rest of the story and it throws me off. For instance when they first have ~relations~ Amal has unprotected Oral sex with TJ. I’m sitting there thinking, “You’re flashing back to when TJ told you about the hamburger incident but RIGHT BEFORE he explained that he said he didn’t know when he lost his virginity cause it was a fucked up part of his life.”
“You’re putting a dong in your mouth that has a history of not knowing EVEN WHERE ITSELF HAS BEEN AND YOU’RE DOING IT UNSAFELY, WHEN YOU’RE A DOCTOR!? WHAT THE FUCK!?” I could tell you horror stories of people who had unprotected oral sex so it skeeved me out and felt out of character to me.
Then the next day they get condoms and have MIND-BLOWING SEX. Like when you first start having ~relations~ with another person that’s not the best sex, since you’re still learning about each other sexually. I mean it’s exciting but it’s not the BEST you’ll ever have. So it felt like this was dipping into fantasy when really the story builds itself up as SUPER realistic so it detracted from the story for me.
TL;DR
It’s a great comic, with some of the best characterization on the market. Though since I’m not in love with the characters, I’m not in love with the story. I feel like the sex can be a bit non-realistic in the realistic story but overall it’s very well done. One of the best gay romances in webcomics.
Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on no. 6?
Okay this got accidentally deleted before hopefully this time it will stick.
Preface: I’ve watched the anime but have not read the manga. Below will contain spoilers.
I thought it was pretty good!
It’s a story about a utopian hyper-modern society where a boy Scion finds out how it’s not all it’s cracked up to be with the help of a guy named Rat. There’s some homo romance in there, very light but it’s there. (There’s more gay romance in no.6 then utena but everything has more gay romance then utena ziiiing.)
The story is nothing original but the characterization is pretty good. As the story progresses a lot more layers are peeled back and we learn a lot about the characters and they’re sympathetic for the most part. For instance I thought it was a really neat reveal that tough guy rat turns out to perform female roles in plays for his living. I also enjoyed when Scion insisted he needed to become stronger to defend himself, so he doesn’t always have to be dependent on Rat for protection. That he wanted to be EQUAL to rat.
EQUALITY IN MY BOY LOVE!? OH IF ONLY THIS COULD BE A REGULAR THING!
Toward the end things unraveled for me a bit. Mostly nit-picky stuff.
Such as calling Rat one of the “forest folks” seemed odd. I mean it’s a sci-fi story and you pull out a term that implies he’s some kind of wood nymph? Out of place!
Safu become some kind of all powerful connection to the “power source of the world” smacked to me of cheesy anime. OH NO G/F OF MINE TURNS OUT TO BE THE HEART OF THIS ALL POWERFUL SOURCE OF POWER THAT DETERMINES IF THIS WORLD FLOURISHES OR DIES!
I also couldn’t suspend belief when Rat and Scion are “brought back to life” at the way end by Safu who should have been dead at the point? It seemed like a real cheap ploy. Like I had a feeling it was going to happen since we really didn’t have proper time to mourn for them.
TL;DR
Sci-fi story with a pinch of boy love with excellent characterization. The ending wasn’t as good as it could have been, but overall quite enjoyable.
not-fun said:
that’s a hot water bottle GOD GET YOUR SPECIES RIGHT YOURE AN INSULT TO ALL THE WELL KNOWN ANTHRO DOUCHEBAG FURRIES OUT THERE
Oh my god I lost my vaginal pipe in a skiing accident okay. Just because I don’t have a vaginal pipe anymore doesn’t make me any less of a douchebag!!! Ohmygod why are you so hurtful!?
Anonymous asked: Are you a furry? No offense meant, jw.
Haha no offense taken! No I don’t identify as a furry. While I poke fun at furry fandom at times I respect the community.
If I WAS a furry? Hmmm I dunno maybe I’d be a Geko or a anthropomorphic douchebag.
So majestic!
Anonymous asked: Why are you calling someone a bitch? Fictional character or not, it makes you sound like a pig. Also, since when is it okay to fetishize someone's sexuality? I thought you were vehemently against that, and that was the purpose of your blog? By you enjoying Utena, you're adding to the problem and being a hypocrite. Do you condone the rape scenes in that, too, just because it's "well written"?
HAHAHAHAHA oh my god. You are REALLY grasping at straws anon. You really haven’t seen any of my stuff since this anon debacle have you?
Friggen tumblr how did you get so preposterously self-righteous? It must be really stressful getting worked up all the time when people jokingly use the word bitch when it doesn’t even reference an actual person but is used as a hyperbole to express frustration. Your blood pressure can’t be good.
1st off I throw the rape word around like Candy, I swear constantly, and I make numerous jokes about how yaoi fans are preteen chronic masturbators. Yet I used the word bitch once and oh that’s too far? I have used far more offensive jokes, would you like to hear one?
Why did the woman cross the road?
TO GET TO DA KITCHEN! OH HOO HOO HOW STUPID WAS THAT!?
2nd off If you click the link of “Why is this pink-haired bitch a car” its a reference to a guy with the glasses review which was linked in that sentence. It’s too bad you didn’t click it and find out. Too busy getting yourself huffily offended I see. I link the review because it better talks about how pretentious the movie is. You best rush over there and call THEM the pigs for demeaning a fictional character like that! HURRY HURRY I’LL WAIT FOR YOU TO COME BACK!
3rd off I make jokes all the time about how I love lesbians! You can say it’s funny cause it’s a counter-point to all the gay dude stuff I make fun of. You can say its funny cause I’ve identified as a lesbian in points in my life and make the connection I love MYSELF, OTHER WOMEN, and my SEXUALITY. You can say its funny cause it’s a cliché that lesbians can be so fetishized. You can say it’s not funny and I respect that too.
Are you really getting bent out of shape for the line “Ahhhh Utena! Infamous yuri manga/anime/movie with very very very very little actual lesbianism”? It’s a joke that an anime KNOWN for being yuri has little actual yuri in it not even a kiss. For shits sake you could argue the anime was a friendship story not a lesbian romance it’s so little on the romance. Yet the anime’s sole identifier is usually “YURI!” (The movie has more but I digress.)
You really haven’t a clue if you thought my blog was about “being mad people fetishize a sexuality.” Sometimes I’m annoyed that the writers of yaoi know nothing about actual gay culture and I make jokes that some yaoi fans fetishize the gay dude sexuality, but that’s certainly not the point of this blog. This blog makes fun of poorly written yaoi and specifically rape=love yaoi. If that wasn’t clear with the rapeiskawaii title or how I’ve outright stated it in these anon asks like 5 times already.
You can fap to whatever you want internet, I’m not going to police your gentiles.
I certainly do not condone rape even if its fictional. What the fuck. My blog is to make fun of,
“I ONLY RAPED YOU SO YOU WOULD NOTICE ME CAUSE I’M TOTES IN LOVE WITH YOU” “That’s so sweet of you! Let’s date!” - styled plot lines in yaoi which have become a cliché.
If there is rape in a story that is treated like it’s a disgusting horrible thing and is used maturely to build characters/tackle difficult issues then yeah that’s a much better use of it and it won’t be on my blog as the butt of a joke.
Rape happens in real life and it shouldn’t be off-limits to people who want to write about it fictionally. The thing is people should treat a serious subject like this responsibly.
It’s like a story that treated a heorin addiction like the healthy way to adapt to a troubled life and nothing bad will happen to you if you become addicted to incredibly dangerous drugs. That’s not a realistic/sensitive/responsible way to deal with that very serious subject therefore rape=love is not a realistic/sensitive/responsible way to deal with that very serious subject.
I didn’t LIKE the rape in Utena but it was dealt with sensitively/responsibly and made sense for the characters. The character Anthy is repeatedly raped by her older brother Aikio. Aikio’s utter control he wields over his sister even going so far as to sexually abuse her regularly explains why Anthy is so submissive, dependent, shy, and eager to please because her brother INTENTIONALLY made her that way through a series of gruesome acts. Aikio’s dominance issues coupled with the fact he’ll RAPE PEOPLE in order to manipulate them makes him an incredibly repulsive villain. In the end through Utena’s protection and selfless sacrifices, it makes Anthy realize she’s WORTH something. When she realizes this she cuts her piece of shit brother OUT of her life and moves on. It is a beautiful thing to see someone once so forced into feeling worthless and co-dependent stand up for themselves. So I think it was a wonderful character arc even if it included some really awful things.
I don’t know how many times I have to say it.
“You can write about rape as much as you want, but I will make fun if you write about rape as if it’s the reasonable thing to do if you want to express your “true” and “selfless” love to someone.”
Actually that’s not true as I’ve stated before the point of this whole blog is to get uke Rick Santroum to like me.
(Art is not by me. Real artist unknown.)
Sorry I keep replying to these but this one was so hilariously backwards I had to. (Hopefully this will be my last one.)
Anonymous asked: What's your opinion on utena?
Ahhhh Utena! Infamous yuri manga/anime/movie with very very very very little actual lesbianism.
To start off let me say that I have seen the anime and movie but have not read the manga.
(Warning this post may contain spoilers duhhh.)
I really enjoyed Utena!
Let’s not pull any punches though. Utena can be PAINFULLY pretentious and stuffed to the point of exploding with symbolism to the point of weeping. The movie is INFAMOUS for that stuff. Why is this pink-haired bitch a car!? They have a problem with flowing long hair. Like in the movie Utena has short hair, but it spontanously gets really long for ~dramatic scenes.~ To be frank I don’t mind pretentiousness if the show has a good sense of humor about it and the anime defiantly showed that. It’s sense of humor was just completely ridiculous and out there that it would catch you off guard and was genuinely funny.
The art is pretty nifty. The atmosphere/architecture is very enjoyable, if a bit overdone in the movie. I dislike the same face/same body thing going on but otherwise pretty neat.
I like the character of Utena. Head-strong, courageous, but naive is kinda a cliche in anime, yet I think it works very well in this situation. I personally identify with a woman bucking against gender norms, and admire the strength it takes to risk themselves to defend somebody they hardly even know.
Anthy is a mysterious and perplexing character but also sympathetic at times. It was a bummer to see Anthy only start to stand up for and defend herself until like the LAST SECOND in the anime. The movie however gave Anthy more more guts.
I thought it a very powerful moment in the anime when Utena loses Anthy to Touga and tries to tell Anthy, “You don’t have to go with him you’re your own person!” to which Touga goes, “Go on tell her you’re just a puppet to whoever wins you.” Anthy then parrots Touga and leaves with him making Utena realize that the only reason Anthy told her she wanted to have friends and lead her own life was because Utena told her she should want that. It was heart-tugging to watch Utena realize her hard work and her hope for Anthy to be revealed to never really existed.
The anime has a lot more characters in it all trying to adapt to adolescences only to botch it up in various ways. Kinda incest heavy in a few of them. My favorite of them was Nanami and Touga. Nanami is the popular drama queen younger sister of Touga who is the popular womanizer of the school. Nanami can’t really bring herself to trust other men and since childhood developed a growing obsession with her older brother who she considers the perfect man. Nanami does some spiteful things out of jealousy to keep her brother by her side, and Touga is not below doing some awful things to Nanami in order to keep her a certain distance away. Throughout the show Nanami is treated like a comic relief and a popular girl stereotype and it is powerful to see her revealed to be something more. A deeply insecure vulnerable woman who’s self-esteem is based on her brother’s affections but once her brother drops her and claims the two of them aren’t related she’s utterly destroyed. I love a story the reveals deeper sides to characters we just thought were goofball window dressing.
Touga is supposed to be one of the “prince” or female romantic object ideals but cannot really be a “prince” to one woman because his heroic selflessness lends him to looking out for every woman.
On the flip side we have Anthy’s brother the main antagonist and the other failed idea of a “prince.” Who is only appealing on the outside. Confident, strong, seductive but inside insecure, selfish, manipulative, and petty. The other idea that if a “prince” is yours and yours alone he is not going to live up to the romantic standards because he thinks too much of himself.
So despite some of its pretentiousness some of the allegorical bullshit can be quite interesting and enjoyable. (Once you piece it all out.)
The story can be quite repetitive with Utena dueling people all in the same pattern and we all know she’s going to win easily. In fact the dueling pattern happens twice in the series. The sword fights can be interesting but they are all done in pretty much the same fashion so it gets yawn-worthy quickly.
TL;DR
Overall though it’s a pretty amazing series of people coming to grips with adulthood in a modern fantasy setting. I am of the opinion that the series was better then the movie but the movie can be enjoyable too, if a bit hyperbolic.
Anonymous asked: Do you recommend any good yuri anime/manga/comics/webcomics?
I made a post about good/bad lesbian themed webcomics awhile back here.
I don’t know any good yuri manga unfortunately, but I enjoyed the Utena anime series. (Though that’s very very very very low on actual lesbianism.)
A friend also linked me to Oniisama, which looks good (but I’ve only watched a couple of episodes so I can’t vouch for its overall quality.)
If anybody has anything else to recommend I’d love to see it!
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(and creepy creepy hands.)
