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fluid identities
So I got kicked out of the yamane_ayano comm because an umihana posted some of their unreleased material on nihonmaru. Ironically enough, when I registered on their forum, umihana was already taken, so I had to choose a different username, and went with ichirinnohana. I'm sure this happens to everyone. I try to keep my internet identities somewhat ( Read more... ) -
does it work with pictures too?
Mirror neurons
When learning how to do something by actually doing it, our brain makes new connections, new routes for information to travel. This research shows that apparently the same neural pathways form even when seeing pictures of someone else doing it!
Another reason why yaoi affects me the way it does? Are we actually growing and learning ( Read more... ) -
new men in Japan
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links to essays on yaoi
So this bookmarking here for follow-up - a library of sorts.
Mizhelle D. Agcaoili's excellent EXPLORING THE FEMALE CONSCIOUSNESS IN BOYS’ LOVE MANGA: THE REAL, THE IDEAL, AND THE DESPISED SELF
Yaoi for Parents, A Crash Course in Boys’ Love by Shaenon K. Garrity- Part One: History
Musings on Yuri (and Yaoi) from a translator, Eugene Woodbury
Gay ( Read more... ) -
komix
Hey so lately I've been hunting around various comix - non-japanese, and sometimes even non-yawi (!)
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musings on Fight Club
This started from my part in a thread on aarinfantasy about yaoi/homoerotic themes in Fight Club...
I think there are yaoi themes there, but they are part of a more general breaking down of what it is to be male, existing in modern hierarchies of power and estrangement, and in a reclaiming of living on their own terms.
For sure the process - and ( Read more... ) -
yaoi
So it's been awhile now that I've become obsessed about this genre, with a selection of my favorite mangakas, male and female. (But by far mostly the latter.) Checking for updates now means I have to check back over what I do have, to avoid downloading scanlations twice... Thank you to everyone who does it, for all your hard work... I love you all ( Read more... )
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