Don't take me alive
Today I'm wondering if I should inquire about the café visiting practises of Japanese BL-fans. Those sort of specialized cafés seem really marginal. Like Swallowtail, a "butler café", Edelstein, a café buildt on the concept of a European boarding school for boys, or B:Lily-Rose, which I guess you could call "a host café".
At Swallowtail the waiters apparently are dressed like butlers, clad in tailcoats. I suppose they're actual guys, but I'm not sure. What makes butlers suitable for a café on the "maiden road"? Is there sizzling sexual tension between them? Do they exchange deep and ambiguous glances while passing each other with their trays? Or will they throw down your long awaited coffee and cakes to embrace each other in wild abandon? I simply don't know.
Edelstein employs male waiters to portray boarding school students. I've heard it's supposed to be like a classroom or a school cafeteria, and punters pretend to share their lunch. Yet, the recruitment form made no mention on the sex of potential waiters. I don't have to ask what the appeal of boarding school boys is for fans of BL.
B:Lily-Rose is to me still the weirdest, as the hosts are girls dressed as boys. If chicks are supposed to drool over them, that kinda takes the need to stick to hetero out of the running as a plausible explanation for the popularity of BL.
Well, anyway.
The dog isn't here anymore. Having her over was nice, but after finding dog hair in my granola today, I'm kind of happy about not having a dog. At the shops my sister fiddled with dog treats, looking crest-fallen.
We used to wrap up treats for our dog at Christmas. She loved getting presents and knew how to open the packages. One Christmas as we left to the cemetary, my sister stayed behind so the dog wouldn't eat our Christmas dinner, but when she came out of the bathroom, the dog was just about to open everyones presents (she couldn't read, the poor thing, so she didn't know they weren't all for her).
I suggested that she could get presents for Lumi, the dog who stayed over, and she said she'd thought about it, but realized that Lumi didn't celebrate Christmas. The poor dog's a Jehowah's Witness like her owner! There's nothing wrong with being a Jehowah's Witness, I'm all for it, but I couldn't take not being able to celebrate Christmas!
At Swallowtail the waiters apparently are dressed like butlers, clad in tailcoats. I suppose they're actual guys, but I'm not sure. What makes butlers suitable for a café on the "maiden road"? Is there sizzling sexual tension between them? Do they exchange deep and ambiguous glances while passing each other with their trays? Or will they throw down your long awaited coffee and cakes to embrace each other in wild abandon? I simply don't know.
Edelstein employs male waiters to portray boarding school students. I've heard it's supposed to be like a classroom or a school cafeteria, and punters pretend to share their lunch. Yet, the recruitment form made no mention on the sex of potential waiters. I don't have to ask what the appeal of boarding school boys is for fans of BL.
B:Lily-Rose is to me still the weirdest, as the hosts are girls dressed as boys. If chicks are supposed to drool over them, that kinda takes the need to stick to hetero out of the running as a plausible explanation for the popularity of BL.
Well, anyway.
The dog isn't here anymore. Having her over was nice, but after finding dog hair in my granola today, I'm kind of happy about not having a dog. At the shops my sister fiddled with dog treats, looking crest-fallen.
We used to wrap up treats for our dog at Christmas. She loved getting presents and knew how to open the packages. One Christmas as we left to the cemetary, my sister stayed behind so the dog wouldn't eat our Christmas dinner, but when she came out of the bathroom, the dog was just about to open everyones presents (she couldn't read, the poor thing, so she didn't know they weren't all for her).
I suggested that she could get presents for Lumi, the dog who stayed over, and she said she'd thought about it, but realized that Lumi didn't celebrate Christmas. The poor dog's a Jehowah's Witness like her owner! There's nothing wrong with being a Jehowah's Witness, I'm all for it, but I couldn't take not being able to celebrate Christmas!