I actually read boyxboy story's on wattpad too. But i still come here to read yaoi. I like reading, wether it is with drawings or only with words. There are many boyxboy story's on wattpad, but the most are either badly writter (which is a turn off for me) or not hot enough for me. So i still come here to read yaoi. Although there are story's on wattpad that are really good.
Anyway, you too have a beautiful day and summer if its summer at your side! And happy reading!~
The exact same thing actually happened to me! I used to read yaoi manga every single day, but the I found fanfiction and it was just so well done and amazing that my love for manga fizzed out. I try to every once in a while, but I have realised what makes a good story and whatnot, and there are just so many things, manga, fanfiction, books, movies, that don't cut it anymore. A lot of yaoi manga make me cringe too, and i have great trouble in finding ones I actually like. My homebase is Archive Of Our Own, but I have tried Wattpad many times. I just never seem to find any good stories there, no matter how much I try! They're all either weirdly paced, badly written, have a bad story, are unrealistic or have any combination of these aspects. On AO3 I have found so many amazing stories, and I've even started buying real physical (lgbtq+ themed) books. I wasn't very active in the community, but I deemed myself a somewhat seasoned fujoshi, after reading hundreds upon hundreds of yaoi manga, but now I'm past my prime. I still read some yaoi manga, just for the sake of variety. I don't even read as much fanfiction as I used to just because of that. Now I try to switch between reading gay fanfiction, yaoi manga, drama cds, gay books and gay movies. As many forms of media as I can, as gay as they can get, in short. I feel like fanfiction is often seen as the scum of the earth, that it's just badly written smut by thirsty fangirls. Now, that might somewhat be the case, but it's so much more than that. I have read thousands of fanfics and can with confidence say that I have read things on professional level. There are stories with such high quality that it still blows me away to this day just the sheer quantity of it. I definitely think that fanfiction is underrated, and quickly labelled as something bad, because it can be so much more. This is the internet, and while there are a lot of shit people and shit content, there are also a LOT of talented people with amazing content. You just have to give it a proper try, is all. With everything. It might not disappoint you as much as you thought it would.
Lol. It's true it is hard to find good books on Wattpad, I had encounter bad ones myself, but the good ones out there are truly good, I have them saved in my Archives. I don't also read on just Wattpad, I find books on goodread too. I haven't read much fanfics. Not much of a fan, but I like reading Stereks and maybe Harry/Draco.
Well I always crave some good books! Would you mind telling me your username so I could check them out? And I really just accidentally stumbled upon Haikyuu fanfiction and became enamored with them. I have an evergrowing list of my absolute favorites, though it's on a note and not somewhere online. I've tried some other fandoms as well, and I have found some good sterek fics too. Well, I could probably ramble about this for ages so I'm just gonna stop myself here, hahah
Well, obviously you won't know me, but I was one of the people obsessed with yaoi mangas. I would comment frequently on mangas and here. But I have been gone from this place for so long. Cause guess what?! I moved on from Mangago to Wattpad. I know!! Like what?! From mangas to books with lots of words?! Yeah, that is right. I do occasionally read mangas, but not the romance ones, ones like Black Haze, Hongdo, Black Butler, and D. Gray Man. I come back for these. Anyway, how did I start reading books with only words. Well, I got interested in Chinese BL novels. I don't know how, but yeah, I started getting interested in them.
I started first being interested in reading Feng Yu Jiu Tian novel. I never had the chance to read it though, but that got me searching for other chinese novels. I was really interested in The Legendary Master's Wife which was obviously a gay chinese novel. Then, with me searching for more novels, I found Wattpad, and there was a translated chinese novel on there, so I had to sign up for an account to read. From reading this Chinese novel, I found a lot more boyxboy books on Wattpad. I am on it everyday.
I do occasionally come back to reading mangas, but I don't read yaoi mangas anymore. Why? I don't know, now yaoi mangas make me cringe when I read them. But I am not going to say they are bad. I used to obsess with them, but after reading boyxboy novels that are either on Wattpad or are published to be sold by authors, I just find yaoi mangas not for me anymore. So I would like to say bye to everyone in the yaoi manga community, but like I said I will continue to read mangas that are not yaoi or romance. Bye guys!! (●'◡'●)ﾉ Have a beautiful day and for those of you in summer, have a beautiful summer!!