saramir's post was very interesting. I'm always all over posts like that. And like I mentioned there, there's also the Canadian show Lost Girl, where the lead character, Bo, is a bisexual succubus. ^^
I'll be reading Witch Eyes too, for rachelmanija's bookclub. I've got several LGBT YA books already and this one looks very interesting. ^__^
When Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy comes out, you should watch it for Benedict Cumberbatch being the gayest little ginger spy ever.
I completely agree. It drives me mental if I want to watch something with LGBTQ it's ABOUT that, not like if you go to an action film there will be romance on the side. It's never not the main focus. It's hard to explain.
Jack is awesome. Arthur's ass. Oh yes. Very much yes
ah, yeah. i heard about B.Cum in TTSS, and that was a real pleasant surprise. ♥ i don't think they're showing the movie here at all, but i'll definitely pick it up when the DVD comes out.
It's never not the main focus. -- exactly. i get that it's important to have stories that do that, if it wasn't for slash-centric fanfiction i probably wouldn't have understood my own sexuality until college, but those stories usually only get people who are LGBTQ and are already LGBTQ supporters (also fujoshi--obviously not the same thing, as i've heard there are a lot of fujoshi who find gays irl scary =_=). we also need stories that would captivate the general audience because of its really cool plot or whatever, and just happen to have a hero or heroine that's in a same-sex relationship with someone.
i'm really glad you watched no. 6 and liked it. aside from being just very visually pretty and nuanced, the handling of the relationship was exactly the reason it worked for me too. i loved the quiet swell of how they developed and how, despite the very subtle hinting at first, it was never made explicit at the start, how they they felt for each other, and yet, it took its form wonderfully and became this constant thread amidst all the crazy and the chaos. i think it was a very brave move on the author's part to be almost sneaky(?) about the romance because i know it got a lot of fans of shonen genre to open up to a different relationship dynamic than they were used to and yet, one that didn't fall into the really polarizing stereotypes (UGH don't even get me started about the frustrating tropes of bl/yaoi animanga). apparently a lot of folks, especially a lot of dudes, who would normally not go near a series featuring a gay romance watched this and went huh that was actually pretty neat and i think it is largely because it was not
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here is a city with really skeevy politics and this kid wants to take it down, etc, and btw, these guys tend to dance and kiss and die for each other sometimes -- dammit, mirai, that's beautiful.
basically, YES to everything you said. when you recommended No. 6 to me, i'd told myself i would watch it when i get the time. i hadn't been fully invested in the idea because i wasn't aware that it was canonically shounen ai, and had thought it was going to be one of those shows that makes you ship the two boys SO FUCKING HARD but doesn't actually give you anything more than endless ust and ambiguous eyefucking. ngl, i still go gaga over things like that, but i thought, wth. i still have Merlin atm; it gives me more than my fair share of that.what really got me to watch this series was one of my guy friends spazzing about it on plurk one moment, and then going all, "OH MY GOD HE ACTUALLY--WHY--BUT--AGH--okay moving on," complete with a screencap of Shion kissing Nezumi, and then proceeding to spazz about the latter episodes later on
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Hi again! Ahhh thanks so much for linking to my post!
Oh man, that floating book club sounds AWESOME. I will definitely check it out and pass it on. It's so strange to me finding out that less than 1% of characters in YA lit right now are on the queer spectrum, because most of the YA lit I was reading when I was a teenager (and now, really) involves queer characters in leading and/or supporting roles. Guess I put myself in my own little bubble sometimes and I'm reading almost exclusively that less-than-1%, haha. Argh, literary world, somehow I'd expect you to fail better at these things. :-/
you're welcome bb. and thank you for such a lovely and insightful post again. ♥
isn't it? i haven't read much YA, but the ones i have mostly (if not all) feature LGBT characters, so it was also a surprise for me to find out that there are only so few of them around.
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I'll be reading Witch Eyes too, for rachelmanija's bookclub. I've got several LGBT YA books already and this one looks very interesting. ^__^
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i am hoping to find at least a few of the titles found in the LGBT list rachelmanija linked to. *fingers crossed for the next bookshop trip*
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Happy book shopping! :-)
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I completely agree. It drives me mental if I want to watch something with LGBTQ it's ABOUT that, not like if you go to an action film there will be romance on the side. It's never not the main focus. It's hard to explain.
Jack is awesome. Arthur's ass. Oh yes. Very much yes
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It's never not the main focus.
-- exactly. i get that it's important to have stories that do that, if it wasn't for slash-centric fanfiction i probably wouldn't have understood my own sexuality until college, but those stories usually only get people who are LGBTQ and are already LGBTQ supporters (also fujoshi--obviously not the same thing, as i've heard there are a lot of fujoshi who find gays irl scary =_=). we also need stories that would captivate the general audience because of its really cool plot or whatever, and just happen to have a hero or heroine that's in a same-sex relationship with someone.
OH HELLO, DAVID. ♥
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-- dammit, mirai, that's beautiful.
basically, YES to everything you said. when you recommended No. 6 to me, i'd told myself i would watch it when i get the time. i hadn't been fully invested in the idea because i wasn't aware that it was canonically shounen ai, and had thought it was going to be one of those shows that makes you ship the two boys SO FUCKING HARD but doesn't actually give you anything more than endless ust and ambiguous eyefucking. ngl, i still go gaga over things like that, but i thought, wth. i still have Merlin atm; it gives me more than my fair share of that.what really got me to watch this series was one of my guy friends spazzing about it on plurk one moment, and then going all, "OH MY GOD HE ACTUALLY--WHY--BUT--AGH--okay moving on," complete with a screencap of Shion kissing Nezumi, and then proceeding to spazz about the latter episodes later on ( ... )
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Oh man, that floating book club sounds AWESOME. I will definitely check it out and pass it on. It's so strange to me finding out that less than 1% of characters in YA lit right now are on the queer spectrum, because most of the YA lit I was reading when I was a teenager (and now, really) involves queer characters in leading and/or supporting roles. Guess I put myself in my own little bubble sometimes and I'm reading almost exclusively that less-than-1%, haha. Argh, literary world, somehow I'd expect you to fail better at these things. :-/
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isn't it? i haven't read much YA, but the ones i have mostly (if not all) feature LGBT characters, so it was also a surprise for me to find out that there are only so few of them around.
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