I also like yaoi, but yuri has plenty appeal of its own and needs all the love it can get. Plus it's fun to discuss yuri with everyone. I feel like the BL community has mostly abandoned the Danmei Room...
Moon pearl you are late to the action. Most of the Bl people have transitioned to disc~~
I see them there but not that often... ask obaa sama where the Bl lovers are right now
It's not as fun or as convenient if the whole community goes off-site, though... It means newcomers won't be able to find everyone easily, so things stagnate.
Sigh... that’s the prob. I understand
So let’s rejuvenate the place ? Ask the spoiler givers to stay and make posts. Many are active and all~~ they are just in lurker mode that’s all....
Most of my time and energy belongs to cultivating the Yuri Garden, so it will probably have to fall to others to help the Danmei Room. I have things I've been meaning to drop off there after my exam on Wednesday, though, so I'll do what little I can~!
It might also be that the BL community has outgrown the need for the Danmei Room, though. Maybe you can bump into each other anywhere and everywhere on the forum now, so it's less desperately needed?
You say that but if you look at the stats released recently by pornhub, looking up 'lesbian' was one of the most popular searches and ranked #1 among women.
@Lonelycity lolol same.. I think one of the reasons I kinda got into yuri in the first place is so I could be like "I like both yaoi and yuri, everything's interesting" in case someone asked me about it xD it is true though, but I'm more into BL xD it surprised me that you're also more into yaoi, why is that? Sth like sheer number of BL vs GL?
I don't know how much to trust Pornhub's stats, to be honest. There aren't a lot of women using the site (only about 27%, if I remember correctly?), and they don't seem to have put much/any effort into investigating how many of those are gay or bi women.
On the other hand, we do have a lot of women in the Garden.
I don't understand how that makes their stats unreliable? Well of course it only applies to their community of course which means people who watch porn AND bothered to subscribe and precise their gender (and how many of those might be transexuals or something).
Women tend to go elsewhere for porn. It's been found that those who do like watching live action porn tend to go straight to female-orientated directors and pay for it. Erotica and Tumblr (before the downfall) were also hotspots for female sexuality.
Also, since the majority of women are straight, it makes a very big difference if your little community happens to be women who like women anyway.
Actually, I Googled a whole bunch of questions after seeing the Pornhub year review yesterday and stumbled across a bunch of pages that pointed to this stuff. I'm sure studies were mentioned, but I'm going to have to drag them out of my phone's search history, and I've been procrastinating on reading this essay for my exam, so...
"Literature in the age of Terror". Essentially the themes of the sublime and terror/horror in Romantic literature during and around the French Revolution.
Ooooooh that's a nice theme!!! When you say essay do you mean literary ones or does it include stuff like pamphlets and whatnot published by the revolutionary themselves? Like Sieyès' stuff.
I'm not allowed to write an essay without secondary reading - essays written by published scholars on our field on the subject. So I'm trying to find and read relevant pieces so they don't tell me off for only thinking on my own~!
But it's English Literature, so we only study literature that was published in English. That means Blake, Anne Radcliffe, some philosophers, etc.
The British lived in terror. Originally Britain supported the revolutionary movement, before they turned to guillotines and the like. Then the monarchy and the nobles lived in fear that the people would rise up against them, and they implemented heavy censorship of anything deemed to have a revolutionary spirit. People were also shaken that such an unthinkably horrible thing could happen in their own time.
@Katsono It was a really bleak and tense time. Writers began having to create metaphors and fictional words to code their messages in, because the government would arrest you for the slightest hint of something it didn't like.
(Like what?)
@Lonelycity That's me. Life's too short to like only "normal" things.
@Lonelycity It's fine if you don't like these things too. Rather than being unique, I just think that if you enjoy something, it's not worth suppressing that to try and fit in.
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