Hey, fellow BL buddies! ･:*+.\(( °ω° ))/.:+
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who’d notice BL was getting a bad rap on SH. Luckily, we are small but mighty! Reading all of your replies fills me with hope that we can create a fun and open space to express ourselves on SH. Harem and isekai better make way, haha.
Onto the questions:
1) I am one-hundred percent down for competitions and anthologies. Especially anthologies. I’d love to help write and design for some of them, and I know a few artists who might be interested, as well. Perhaps in the future we can print zines for the anthologies too!
2) I was already a romance junkie and otaku before I discovered BL in fifth or sixth grade, when I was in my Vocaloid phase and came across a Len x Kaito doujin on Tumblr. I was kind of confused at the time, thinking,
Why is he putting the ice cream there?? What are they doing??? Oh boy, haha.
By seventh grade, I was hooked.
My camera roll was now filled with shippy yaoi art and I was watching Sekaiichi, Gravitation, and Junjou Romantica on my tiny IPhone 5. I didn’t even delete my history then, how naive. I wrote fics, I read fics, and I dabbled in some originals that never even made it out of the spiral notebooks.
Ten years later, I’m still as passionate as ever about this genre, and proudly call myself a Fujo
Some BL stories touched me so deeply that I couldn’t help but be inspired to write my own, in the hopes that I too could express something of such depth.
So I found SH and Foxaholic, where I share my own stories.
As for sub-genres of BL, I like dark, psychological stories or teeth-rotting fluff, and I always prefer slow burn. Oh, and I’ll pretty much read
anything. ABO grossed me out when I first heard of it but now it’s grown on me.
Anyways, super pumped for future BL activities here on SH~
☆Make BL great again!☆ lol
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