Should I put a "BL" label on my comic?

@joannekwan Joanne Kwan
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:16:40 +0000

@joannekwan wrote:

The same thoughts crossed my mind when I created my series Heavy Horns.
Reasons I decided against it: I do feel the label cheapens a series, and some people I'm sure use it as "bait". When I see a series marked as such thoughts of countless terrible yaoi and bl inundate my head, equivalents of those cheap Harlequin romance novels. And I hate a lot of tropes that I see in much of those stories. Another reason is my characters are adult men, even though I affectionately refer to them as my boys on occasion. To me, couples in "bl" are teenaged boys with either one or both just discovering their sexuality. Just my thoughts.