Why is BL more popular than LGBT comics in tapas

[mariamyakubu767]

You were saying..? Oh..look what I found..🤢🤢

[mariamyakubu767]

You were saying..? Oh..look what I found..also they were in the recent category..Lol..so..yeah..proved you wrong..

[BlairFujin]

What about those? Apart from looking like fluffy romances - what's wrong with this? As for "heteronormativity" in couples... maybe two out of these fall into feminine x masculine... but are you saying that more femme presenting gay gays can't date more masc presenting ones?
Are you just against anime artstyle? Is that it?

And how are those works any different that those under the LGBTQ+ genre posted on tapas?

[mariamyakubu767]

Dude..that's not the point..the point IS straight bl authors need to educate themselves and stop pushing these type of tropes and stereotypes because it gives a false impression and misinforms people how gay relationships works..it's like a white author writing a black story and putting harmful stereotypes..I have no problem with straight women writing gay stuff but..please at least do it right damn..

[BOMB]

And you just hit the nail on the head, what mariamyakubu is talking about is what has been traditionally published. And pushed out. At least I think that's what they are talking about.

Maybe the genre is moving away from that stuff, but if it is (in my opinion from what i see) it's a new move, and it's a slow one.

I won't say I can't find stuff that breaks the norm, but it takes a lot of effort. For every 10 comics or books that play on the old stuff, there may be 1 (if I'm lucky) that doesn't, and it's a scavenger hunt to find it. Either it's a soft cuddly love story or its basically pron, anything in the middle is like a Unicorn, (in my experience)

[BlairFujin]

Ehm... some of the stuff I've shown is nearly 10 years old
I mean... is there loads of crap? Yes, but that's the case is every single fiction genre but it really feels like when it comes to BL people tend to have some unrealistic standards or just base their opinion on whole genre on some piece of random niche porn someone's posting to their pixiv and ended up on a pirate translation website...

[Lensing]

Opinion:

The majority of readers is not interested in realism

[BOMB]

24 books (from your collection) over the past 10 years....vs how many of the stuff were talking about that has also come out over the past 10 years.

[CarltonIsaac]

Opinion:

The majority of readers is not interested in realism

I concur, Escapism is the reason we look for fiction.

[mariamyakubu767]

You haven't replied to what I just said..how do you think black people would feel if a white author writes a story about them but includes harmful unrealistic and insulting stereotypes..?

[BOMB]

I completely agree, but I don't want realism as much as I want more variety. Sure gay guys can be soft and unabrasive, and they can be hyper sexual and rough. That's fine, but let's get more of the stuff in between the two extreme ends of the spectrum.

[thepenmonster]

A like for the morning LoL

[BlairFujin]

I could bring out more but I've already made enough of a mess I'll have to clean up in the evening
And are we then going to do the same math for straight romance?

[BlairFujin]

And what BL stereotype have you been harmed by exactly? In what way? Teens acting cringy online?

[Lensing]

And there is nothing wrong with wanting, reading or creating stories with more variety.
But that doesn´t change that the majority of readers doesn´t want it

[BOMB]

We could yes lol but straight romance has a whole host of tropes and cliches they could let die. Just because we have an issue with some things in this genre doesn't mean we don't think other genres are perfect. I don't. We're just discussing BL genre at the moment.

[BOMB]

That's not a bad point, or it would be if I was the only person who wanted more variety. I'll assume maybe the main population of readers is fine with what they currently get, but does that mean those of us who want something different should just be ignored out right.

If a sandwich shop makes all their sandwiches with meat, they don't have to make vegetarian options. But it would be nice if they did.

It would be nice if we got some more variety in BL stories.

[Freemints30]

Damn look at a lot of romances, very cute and well written I believe at least, "your wings and mines" was pretty good comic made by a creator here. Good stuff

The creator is a pretty neato person and on the fourms alot...,Wonder how they feel to see this from a rando who just made an account who never read it and want to pick fights this morning as an example of "EVIL ST8 Wymen fetsishing the poor gay men". not sure about the other stuff cus dont read premium. I read alot of gay romance by gay dudes and they are honestly just as either funny or cringy.. or disturbing if that your cup of tea.

You guys do know this person has been making BL is fetsishing thread before right? This aint he's only one and shows off pretty much decent comics. You guys do know this may be bait you all fell for

[BOMB]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Who is the person you're saying is baiting people and how.

[Freemints30]

They made a thread like this before. Except it was deleted as trolling cus no one responded and low key made fun of them. Mostly more inflammatory. Still is.