welcome to yaoi-con Do you wish you were in San Francisco last month for Yaoi-con 2015, breathing in the yaoi vibes, squee-ing with fellow fujoshi & fudanshi, and wandering through the cosplay? Well, you can dip your toe in the pool, thanks to videographers Mamuro5254 and SonicJKevin. Last year I enjoyed (and recommended) their Yaoi-con videos…
women of the world love yaoi My favorite box on the WordPress stats page is the flags list — the hits on your site by country. Since my site’s all about stories of boys who fall in love and boys who have sex with each other — a rather taboo topic in many parts of the world…
Last month, pantasticpanda, a fellow yaoi-lover, nominated my blog for the Liebster Award. The Liebster’s goal is to bring a bit of extra attention to new blogs, and I thank pantasticpanda for liking my blog enough to want to help me share it with others. If you aren’t already familiar with this process, accepting the nomination involves: 1)…
What was it like at Yaoi-Con? Well, Mamuro5254 will be more than happy to show you, in this video that demonstrates what happens when a videographer with serious skills, equipment, and love for yaoi is set loose in a crowd… The video highlights some of the con’s best cosplay and includes an artfully edited dance performance…
SonicJKevin put together a fun, funny video of cosplayer play from the weekend, including his moments with Reika. I think you’ll enjoy…
Cosplay? At Yaoi-Con? Surely you jest… Okay, okay, here are a few of the fun folks wandering around the con… Want to find your own? How about a little game of Where’s Waldo? Here gather the cosplayers, standing in line for Yaoi-Con’s Cosplay Contest and Masquerade. What? They aren’t all dressed up? Of course not… this…
This weekend at Yaoi-Con, the winner for both for comedy and overall best AMV was Vivifx’s “Ship Happens”, and let me just say, watching this in a ballroom crammed full of fujoshi and fudanshi… well, I’m pretty sure they heard the laughter up on the hotel’s 9th floor… In truth, I’m not usually that into AMV’s, but if…
What? Yaoi doesn’t have any male fans after all? But I was so looking forward to meeting them! Well, it turns out that if I do they won’t be “fundashi”, because (as I recently learned) the name for male fans of yaoi isn’t actually “fundashi” — despite the fact that you can search for fundashi on the…
beloved foods of manga and anime… Watching boys grilling yakiniku at the table, munching on the mysterious “melon bread” (was it really melon-flavored?), joking about curry-flavored soda, how could I keep reading those scenes and not become curious about food in Japan? Driven by this curiosity, I gradually learned about Japanese foods, which quickly led to cooking them. Honestly, the ingredients, cooking techniques, kitchen toys, and…
Isn’t shipping Legos is a bad sign? At a family gathering, the clan’s children were happily watching “The Lego Movie”. As an involuntary viewer, I, on the other hand, was discovering that I had underestimated my capacity for experiencing boredom. And then, when Good Cop/Bad Cop was onscreen (yes, his head spins around inside his helmet, and he…
the joy of yaoi 