Question for discussion: have you noticed certain characteristics in the kind of pairings you enjoy or tend to ship?
On a completely shallow and IRRATIONAL note, I've discovered I cant really enjoy a BL sex scene if the seme's hair color is lighter than the uke's. They can both have light hair or dark hair but if the seme has dark hair and the uke has light hair the sex scene just wont work for me!!! That doesnt mean I won't read dark-haired-seme/light-haired-uke manga but I probably will skip any smexin. I know I know my brain is broken. (I also read yuri/shoujo ai and straight pairings but this weird hair color issue isn't a problem for me in straight or girl/girl ships)
Also I tend to like childhood or best-friend pairs, pairs where one character is very devoted or pining, or pairs involving atypical gender roles (e.g. tough and manly uke in BL, or a crybaby guy in straight pairings) I also like reading about fucked up dysfunctional pairings but in that case both characters have to be fucked up. Not a fan of stories where one character is a total asshole and the other character just gives in and goes along with it.
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I like slice of life, working couple (so I want my seme and uke to be appropriately manly). It's even better if the uke is mentally insecure about gay relationships (coz that usually lead to angsty plot progression and I love angst).
I'm not too picky about my couples actually. As long as they're not too girly. I'm just quite picky with plot and the mood ambience in the manga.
I know what you mean, I love ukes with brown hair, but in general I love guys with brown hair, so that's probably cause. It's not a dealbreaker for me, but I definitely prefer the ukes to have brown hair and the seme can be lighter or darker, I don't really care. I also love semes that are really devoted to the uke from the get-go or possessive of them.
Ive been reading lots of BL manga but I'm hankerin for some good girl-relationship stories (can be Yuri/Shoujo Ai or even stories with great female friendships). Recs plz? For female friendships, I love ones like Kanae and Kyokos relationship in Skip Beat, and Chizu-Ayane-Sawako in Kimi no Todoke. And Im already reading Tamen de Gushi and Magan & Danai.
Also Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun is like crack to me so any recs for hilarious 4 komas or just pure comedy would be awesome. Thanks y'all
I only started reading BL manga earlier this year but I've already noticed some common tropes.
1) seme is half-white... bonus points for being half-French
2) seme and uke are "brothers" (but not REAL brothers) who grow up together
3) seme is a straight player but gay only for the uke
4) in love triangles, the douchebag is almost always the one to get the uke
5) rich handsome seme, poor normal uke
6) seme is a rapey asshole, uke goes along with it because he dont love haself
7) seme and uke hook up thanks to alcohol and angst afterward about ~what it means~
feel free to contribute to this list!!
cackling at seme chin!!! that's not something i've noticed yet actually but maybe i still havent read the "right" manga
If I can't have you no one can have you
Yaoi hands
Self lubricating buttholes
Family of 8 boys will not have a single straight one
A company full of men, all gay
If you're famous you're also possessive
If you're yakuza you're also posessive
I'm sure there's more
I think it's pretty much "if you're a seme you're possessive" lmao
omg the self-lubricating anus kills me tho. I've had my fair share of buttsex (shame me IDGAF) and even with lube it hurts like hell.... don't even wanna think about having a raw meatstick shoved in me. Shudder.
Lol yeeeah quite often...theres a few that aren't. But the actors ans the yakuza are often the two that go overboard
Oooh another one, a seme is always prepared to have an uke tied up at any given moment without struggle bam full bondage gear
Ugh yeah I don't think yaoi should be a how to Manuel lol
Oh right
Don't touch my stuff *grabs uke*
Suppose it's part of possessive but...there ya go
Snickers
in threesome or more (lol) they make it look like that double penetration is easy.. like "hey i wanna put it in too! *puts it in without any prep >.< )
uke is always the ugly one, with insecurities, with problems
seme always have a massive fat d*ck.. haha! i didnt see any manga where the uke have large size or at least same size with seme.. the uke always have mini thin d*ck.. lol
Um.. Not really.. I think it depends on the mangaka too.
Well, I still agree some with you.. HA+
Lol its stuff that's common in the genre, not a rule hehe. The better ones don't have a lot of these
BTW I like your creative topic, Kanye.
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they get into a fight, seme is jealous, he pushes uke on the bed and gets all rapey (because there's no other way for a person to show their feelings), uke screams that he doesn't want it that way, seme gets depressed, uke feels sorry for him and they make love. - this was part of least 1/4 yaoi that i've read.
oh, and you can freely have sex in your office or in the empty classroom, nobody's gonna come ( ̄∇ ̄")
in threesomes they also make what I call a sandwich where the most uke-like person is at the very bottom, the second uke is inside him and on top of him is the most seme like person who is also penetrating the middle person. I've always wondered how the person at the very bottom doesn't feel pain from two other people on top of him with their full weight. If it were me I'd be crushed so bad I wouldn't be able to breathe
and oh this has nothing to do with the topic but Kanye, didn't know you read yaoi lol. Don't you already have Kim and your kids? They're not enough? XD
No STDs for gay people
if you are half white and you kiss somebody on the lips - everybody thinks it's a weird foreign greeting
most of the time girls are dumb whores/evil bitches that just want to steal your gay boyfriend
uke: "you don't have to be so gentle with me, i'm not a woman" often while losing his anal virginity ( ̄∇ ̄")
I am cracking up reading all this comments xD
There are other points too
Uke is always so thin and actually has curves like a girl while seme is all buff
Once seme finally gets ukes ass there will be some other person appearing to hit on uke and seme getting all jealous and fucking things up or having sex, like talk people!
Uke will always be like stop! No! But seme doesnt care no means yes
When you give poor uke new clothes and do his hair other than usual he will look flawless and them seme wouldnt want anybody to see his preacious uke looking so good like that
Uke tries to be the seme(which is very rare one) and fails :)
The uke/seme gets lonely/wants attention and so they have sex or do other sex related things with the rival of the main romantic lead to make them jealous.
Also misunderstandings. There are always lots of misunderstandings. And no communication between the two leads. They never talk about their problems with each other. Most times I feel like going in the manga and acting as their psychologist.