In this post in crimsonevening (members only, sorry) remote_45 asked how we all got into yaoi and why we like it. Whenever this topic comes up I end up thinking "I really should sit down and write out my thoughts on the subject" so here it goes.

( Yea gods, I talk a lot! )

I'm co-maintaining a new community with toshirodragon and I thought it might be a good idea to let people know. :)

paintedshoji is an anime and manga focused desktop wallpaper community. Any genre goes, shounen, shoujo, yaoi/shounen-ai, yuri/shoujo-ai, whatever. Fanart based wallpapers are accepted so long as the poster is the artist. Because my co-maintainer and I are coming at this from the yaoi/yuri angle the community is friends locked and adults only.

The difference according to tokagemusume via Metaquotes.

[Edit to add: The original post that spawned the Meta.]

'Cause some friends and I could use a smile:

A new fragrance for men.

[Knowledge of YAOI terms required to get the joke.]

Wow, I seem to have lost about six hours....

But I got smut out of it. Bishie smut. Male on male action smut. Threesome smut. Demon smut.

Yu Yu Hakusho gay bishie demon threesome smut, YAY!

Okay, I should consider sleep now, seriously.

This image dedicated to joisbishmyoga, who puts up with far too much crap from reviewers, wikinger_elfe who I just met and spent some time fangirling Hiei with in toshirodragon's journal, and all the other cool YYH fangirls that I've met through LiveJournal.

I'll hop in the bandwagon for this one. And expand it a bit.

• I shall list 15 fandoms I'm involved with.
• You shall guess my favorite character/person and my favorite pairing/One True Pairing.
• I shall update the list by:
  • putting the fandom with correctly guessed characters in bold
  • putting the fandom with correctly guessed pairings in italics

( See the list here. )

Yes, I have a new webcomic addiction, a couple actually, but this one is the one that I managed to read from start to current today. Schism could be called cyberpunk I guess, the 'net crashed, taking a lot of data and technical knowledge with it in an event called the Schism. Post-Schism society has strict control of net traffic and computers, to the point where there is no such thing as user performed hardware upgrades or wireless connections.

The other new addiction is Friendly Hostility, the sequel to Boy Meets Boy (which is completed).

All of the above contain male/male relationships (subtle at this point in Schism, not at all subtle in the other two).