#the disease is old men yaoi

[hoetao]

do you ever feel like you just have to Keep Producing Posts. feels like getting the disease out of the system kinda.

[crowkniife]

They’re going to talk to their exes

[chibigrimmreaper]

"the portrait glassred drew" is so junmei coded its unreal. im frothing at the mouth.

[shadowfear-art]

Nika's Skin Madness au

(Toon Transformation but acts like a slow progressing madness sickness...)

Cross guild trio are after a group of thieves that owed them only to find their mangled bodies in an underground cavern.

It appears to be an abandoned blasphemous version of a 'Nika temple' and Crocodile being the one to catch a curse (or blessing, according to the creepy locals) that was placed on the area.

Before the fever his motor functions were a little off causing a clumsy-like behavior, mildly frustrating Crocodile. Buggy swears he hears distant random noises when these accidents happen (cartoon sound effects) a few other crew men can hear them too.

on the ship ride back Buggy and Mihawk have to watch as their loved one is deteriorating from this "disease"...

Reads like doomed old man yaoi but happy enough ending

[one0p1nk]

Describe your friends in one sentence!

Note// Long as heck post ig. Phrases or quotes in a nutshell count as sentence right/lh

Yami// "Sobs,,, PINS, HELP???"

Beth// "Ah, baked goods aight."🌸

Klai// "Mhueheheheheheh" >;3😇

Joe// "EHHFBDBDBHDBDBDHDBDBDBBDB, MY BBGs omg;;;" 😭🥺 *proceeds to doom yaoi them*

Tae// "I fight with my demons all day and all night guys. Yippeee!!"🫶✨️

Sam// "Wh- why do I have a "yapper of the year" reward???"/ih

Sleepy// "I have eepy disease." ☺️☕️

Four// "take a break."🔫💥💥💥🥰

Skye// "I'm not o'glorious." *proceeds to girlboss gatekeep anyway*/pos/lh

Fifi// "Imma adopt you." (Fifi Plz no-)

Orange// "Hello." *does the sailor moon pose*lh

Anwyll// "omg pretty boys... now kiss-"🥰 (🫶🤝)

Mandi// "Hee hee hoo hoo, omg a spider- help." *gets helped to kill it*/ih

Kory// "I miss my wife guys,,, sobs,,, I'll come back soon---" *leaves in ant runaway*/ih

Lupi// "I'm not going to comedy jail again!!! You won't catch me!!!"

Emma// "Spill the tea, I'm listening babygurl."✨️💅

Al// "giggles giggles,,, brainrots everywhere and anywhere hee hee".

Clown// "I love my wifes and hubbys ill protect them with my life." 🐺🤡/ih

Boris// "I love old men. And old men kissing."/hj

Nakki// "Crazy? I was crazy once."/ref

Meito// "I have the urge to eat Isabela cake I'm sorry." (Literally edit a drawing of her getting bitten JDBDBFBFBF;;; just you wait I'll draw Lolo like a pirulín or something/lh)

[naiokenx10]

this is what happens when the ceo of throwing random men into a ship gets possessed by the old man yaoi disease

[meatwormsupreme]

Hello! Savvy intro post (for the fun and joy of it)

(read my carrd for a more compressed version of this info here :3)

This blog is intended primarily for reblogs, but also occasionally for silly things I make that I don’t know where to put otherwise… I have a main art blog where I post my own drawings (@wasteworm)!

I use #jamtag for any post that brings me a lot of joy, essentially a save/fav tag, as well as #jamcreations for the things i’ve made.

You can call me Jam (or James)… Though some may know me as Evan and that works fine too, I’d just prefer only people I’m close to use that name.

I use any pronouns, but he/him primarily! I will throw rocks at whatever ‘gender’ is. I am like if a zombie and an alien had a fucked up and absurd spawn.

I like a shitton of medias, including many different movies, shows, books, videogames, but I especially love SAW a very (un)normal amount. I enjoy a lot of horror media overall, fuck around and find out which. I love woobifying old men and toxic yaoi (within reason, of course).

I also really love the social sciences, space, bugs (and slugs), most of the worlds beautiful creatures, collecting items, CHERNOBYL AND THE COLD WAR, anatomical diagrams (anything to do with anatomy and dissection really), diseases and infection (and general health conditions), and a lot of other things I am a mental hoarder.

I also really really really LOVE MY GF ^_^ the Soup ever… My one and only eternal sidekick and warrior. They are the best and I smooch them gayly. @wizardofsoup let’s go 2 space 2gether ^3^!!!!!!!

Okayyyy thats all :DD thank you for reading if you did!!! 😗

[girlytips]

I feel like japanese people DO reclaim words/insults (ie: the word fujoshi, regardless of your feeling on the community itself.) To argue that reclaiming isn't something japanese people do is kind of orientalist and othering.

It's a common misconception that "fujoshi" has been reclaimed when it still has the same negative meaning, being "unmarriable" and "rotten" for their interests in fictional content. For people interested in BL and yaoi topics, the term "BL fan" is commonly used by those who don't want to align themselves with the meaning of fujoshi instead. Most "examples" of Japanese reclamation are like this- insults (not slurs) that some people use because they agree that they fit the bill while people upset by stereotyping use a different word (otaku to wota, fujoshi to BL fan, etc).

I get a lot of comments from people who are not from Japan claiming that pointing out cultural differences is "othering", which in my opinion seems a little more disrespectful than simply mentioning that cultural differences are present between Japan and the countries I typically get readers from. When doing my own research for years in this community, I prioritize the voices of Japanese people who wear the fashions originating from their country. This has been especially true when we wrote our big article on the history of stereotypes in Girly, which was reviewed by a Japanese friend who has been in the menhera (mental health support and art) movement and wearing Girly for over a decade, and used Japanese sources by actual Japanese people almost exclusively. It's not dehumanizing to say that some cultural practices surrounding words, specifically slurs, are present in English speaking cultures but not Japan and need to be noted in order to have context.

That being said, we do get bothered by the fact some people seem to think that it's dehumanizing or racist to point out that certain practices are not present in Japan and we have even been told that the practice of reclaiming slurs for groups you belong to isn't a cultural or linguistic trait but instead a "human trait". The implications that unless Japanese people conform to Western conventions of language evolution, they are "others" or just not exhibiting the "natural human behaviors" surrounding slurs seem far more racist to me than simply acknowledging that the cultural practices surrounding slurs and the amount of respect (or lack thereof) given to mentally ill people in Japan should be taken into account.

This issue seems to coincide with the fact that until this whole "landmine isnt offensive because people use it" line of thinking by westerners looking to profit off of whatever tags are most popular at a given time, the fact that Japanese society sees mentally ill people as undeserving of the little respect even other minorities get in Japan and are seen as a fetish or a disease was well known and well discussed in communities surrounding anime, jfashion, manga, and Japanese games. However, as soon as an instance of this discrimination, fetishization, and lack of respect is "cute", suddenly people are acting like Japanese people can do no wrong and cannot be a part of the problem so long as they are attractive and fashionable. It is incredibly infantilizing to say the issue can't be a big deal anymore just because Japanese women can be part of the problem and can do no wrong. The willingness of the non-Japanese communities surrounding Japanese art and culture to turn a blind eye towards a deadly social issue that they've been openly discussing since the 90s just because they have realized that it's not just old men who are contributing to an ableist society really speaks volumes to me when it comes to whether or not a lot of people who consume Japanese culture care about Japanese people who aren't celebs or influencers.

That's my two cents on the topic. The blog has been mostly running in queue and reblogs by my friend over at girlyholic while I've been busy in my personal life, but I should be back to running the blog full-time by the end of next week. - ribon

[ge]

🎭— the title webtoon used for tang bo in the eng tl is so painful to me it hurts like fr. i didnt even know you could translate titles so weirdly but ... its alright

anyway, i recently got into some new media (lie, its an old ship i used to like), and i cant help but notice i have a recurring pattern of person a "silly/sunshine man who is either actually insanely dangerous/one of the most powerful men in the show/media" and person b "the nonchalant/grumpy guy who has to deal with the affections of person a (he likes it its ok)". ESPECIALLY if they're old man yaoi / middle aged man yaoi..... maybe i do indeed have a type

except this time at least person a isnt DEAD!!!!! although he did almost die... thrice.... and is severely injured... but we take the W

anyway live laugh love tangchung dangcheong <3

how did they even come up with shadow hand thats like not even close to the literal translation.. dark = shadow i guess but where did hand come from ..there are only so many ways u could translate jon (존) and hand is not one of them.... and wasnt the title they used for him in the asura tl shadow lord... just stupid im crying

i must say my tastes vary but at the moment im connecting some dots between the media im interested in currently and realizing 'old traumatized men that are so in love w each other with such a passionate desire that it borders on self destructive co dependency and obsession, were war buddies that went through massively tragic circumstances that ended up in one or both of their deaths' might be my thing....scratches ass.. isnt always and doesnt necessarily have to be old men but i fujo out more often than not i cant help it its a terminal disease

[theophagie-remade]

Do you like good omens? Bkdk coded old men yaoi (dramatic), some good lesbians, and funny stuff there.

I did watch the series when it came out, but... I don't remember anything about it adkkfgn shitty memory disease. But in general I'm a bit iffy with angel/demon stuff unless it's tackled in certain ways, so it wasn't exactly my cup of tea to begin with. I have seen some crossover art around though, I'm happy that people are having fun with it :3

[mlynar-nearl]

Młynar n Toland got me so fucking unwell I’m writing for the first time in 8 years, old men yaoi really is a infectious disease. 😔 Got infected from your fics, godspeed.

[kharmii]

From the tags:

Conservative people can be sexual deviants. We either don't advertise ourselves politically or else we are low key about it. I'm the outlier because I don't gaf and I'm out of my got-damned mind.

"Unreserved Scientific Claims"

We're talking about something that's an ongoing human science experiment. How many of these surgeries were performed on amials first? How many lab animals were given hormones of the opposite sex? Is that even possible? We're still in the 'fuck around and see where this goes' stage. Oh look! Does that 18-year-old have brittle bone disease from starting hrt too young? Did he die from a perforated colon getting his rot pocket put in? I suppose that can happen. Load up the next batch of 13-year-olds!

This is why the right needs to start engaging in their own lawfare. Since we can't charge the ghouls who do 'gender affirming care' with crimes against humanity yet, at the very least, the victims should be able to sue them into bankruptcy and permanent ruination. Just because mentally ill trans people existed throughout history, it doesn't make mutilation ethical.

Also trans people are not a "trend", and by the logic that God gives us a "perfect body", why do people have to wear glasses or hearing aids or why do people get cancer.

False equivalency. If you don't treat cancer, the person will decline and die. Even with treatment, they still might die. A trans person will just develop as normal without treatment. With proper therapy, their minds should heal from whatever dysfunction, usually a comorbidity with being autistic or whatever personality disorder they are afflicted with. Treat those first and the trans issue should sort itself out along the way.

-And yes, trans people are perverts. It's common for men to dress up as women as a kink. Most of the women on this site reading yaoi have a kink more than a condition. -And the founders of the trans movement were all mentally ill dysfunctional people.

ETA: Also, it makes sense that identical twins -genetic copies of each other- would have the same scent and flavor. I'm sure there are variables that might cause a slight difference, but the blueprint is the same.

This Kind of Shit

(Sung to the tune of Blame it by Jamie Foxx) "....Blame it on the ADHD got me acting silly, blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-aspergers. Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-a-aspergers...."

DISCLAIMER: People been telling me that just because I'm into a guy hauling out his huge meaty man-drill to frack for oil in his own twin brother's ass, it means I'm not allowed to criticize other shit. *throws hands up* Excuse me! Last time I checked I'm allowed to do whatever tf I want. It's the internet! I find it offensive that dumb-ass monster-fuckers and abo enthusiasts are allowed to criticize me for enjoying something that is seen as morally reprehensible in the context of it happening irl, and yet I'm not allowed to, say, complain that morbidly obese two-dick werewolf cumflation porn is fucking stupid.

I'm inspired to write some things that a lot of people might find extremely offensive, but I'll put it all under a cut. Read or don't read, idc. First of all, it has been.....what? A week? Two weeks? Every day for however long, the same user keeps 'liking' my old dark!fic doujin post from like a year ago. -Not sure if it's a glitch, or if the person is making a point of 'unliking' the post, then 're-liking' it every single day, but it has been showing up on my activity every day for weeks.

The person doing it doesn't even post Subway Bosses, or they haven't been recently. They're into a Genshin Impact ship that reminds me of Emmet/Volo because of the coloring. I wish I was into it because the Trainwreckshipping tag is slow lately, possibly because a bunch of crybully antis took a joke ship that a handful of people are into and made it into a moral issue. Emmet wanting to fistfight God and getting Volo instead is ABUSE yo! Now the timid people are afraid to post about it for fear of being *gasp* bad people!

Side note: Some of the people who hate trainwreckshipping are the same people who woobify Volo for supposedly being indigenous coded, like similar to Ainu people. Wrong-o. The Diamond and Pearl Clan people are indigenous coded. Volo is more like an immortal remnant of a forgotten people who worshipped gods millennia ago that nobody modern has heard of. The song Temple of Ekur reminds me of him, like he could be all, "I come from the bloodline of Gilgamesh who was seeded on earth by space aliens!" (Gilgamesh because he traveled to the underworld to retrieve a friend who perished in war whose corpse he callously threw over the edge of a wall during the heat of battle. It's a parallel to Volo going to the distortion world to communicate with Giratina).

Anyway, I made that particular post a year ago when Blankshipping was still fun but just starting to get overwhelmed with doggie-dick mutilation, bad-outcome pron. I was kind of excited about that particular doujin because I hadn't been exposed to a lot of unpleasant content yet, so it was an exciting variety, like oooooooo.....a bit on the dark side! Now lets go back to healthy, feel-good posting because it wears on the soul to constantly wallow in misery and negativity. A year later, and blankshipping is still doggie-dicks and mutilation pron. -Stuff like this:

Side note: Dog-fuckers need to play twincest a lot smoother. I like 'fuck my own brother' smut as much as the next degenerate, but I'm not going to write one guy getting sentimental and romantic about the scent of his own brother's ass, especially since it would smell the same as his own ass because identical twins are genetic copies of the same person. That's why I write poly or fluff with a slight touch of incest. If Emmet was to have a/b/o coded undescended testicles and womb rerouted into his bunghole, it would have to be by choice, the way transgender people mutilate their own genitals irl. Dogs are idiots irl though. A male dog will go crazy over the scent of his own sister's heat and pound incest puppies into her in a hot minute.

-Aaaaaaand that is the crux of all this gross crap in fandom. The worst of it is transgender mutilated genital coded from people who glorify transitioning, even though it's outright hubris for a person to take the perfect body god gave them and butcher it so they end up with a wound that constantly smells of death and feces as their body desperately tries to heal something it sees biologically as an aberration...a wound that needs to heal but for some reason, the trans individual chooses to keep it festering. There's a Twitter showing the grotesque consequences of real people who have mutilated themselves and suffer the consequences in the worst way possible. People need to read this to know what is going on with this horrific trend being pushed in the gay community.

I feel bad for them. They've been tricked into doing something to themselves that is a horror beyond comprehension. Many of them will walk around smelling like rotting corpses who shit themselves before death (not to mention they take hormones they have no business taking that give them symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar). The people doing these surgeries and/or condoning this culture should be punished severely for these science experiments on humans. History will not look kindly on this. What ever happened to 'trans' people just being cross-dressing perverts with normal genitalia? Why was that so wrong?

Anyway, I think a lot of the creepy gross content in fandom lately is probably trans coded, but in the way that doesn't make it look good.

[translations-by-aiimee]

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Chapter 2

Original Title:  二哈和他的白猫师尊

Genres: Drama, Romance, Tragedy, Xianxia, Yaoi

This translation is based on multiple MTLs and my own limited knowledge of Chinese characters. If I have made any egregious mistakes, please let me know.

Chapter 2 - This Venerable One Lives

"My heart is like still water / Unexpectedly, the spring pierced through the cold night. Could it be the gods' pity of valley grass / For fear of the cold and windy earth?"

The clear and crisp opera singer's voice reached his ears, the words resembling jewels, but it made Mo Ran's head ache. The blood vessels in the side of his head were throbbing.

"What is this noise? What creature is making this sound? Come here and let me beat the bastard off the mountain!"

After he finished shouting, Mo Ran was suddenly hit with a shocking realization.

. . . Wasn't he dead?

Hate, pain, hurt and suffering all caused his chest to hurt. Mo Ran snapped his eyes open.

Before dying, all the feelings associated with it blew away like snow in the wind. He found himself lying on a bed. It wasn't a bed on Life-Death Peak; this bed had decorations of dragons and painted phoenixes. The wood had a heavy smell of makeup, the old bedding faded pinks and purples embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water. It was the type of bed a prostitute would sleep on.

". . ."

Mo Ran lay stiff for a moment.

He knew where this was.

This was a tile-place near Life-Death Peak.

This "tile-place" could be better classified as a brothel, coming from the idea of roof-tiles "coming together and separating," referring to the guests and prostitutes uniting then parting on good terms.

When Mo Ran was young, for a while he was very promiscuous. He spent over ten days every month sleeping at this brothel. However, this brothel had been sold when he was in his 20s and turned into a wine store, so how did he wake up in a store that hadn't existed for many years?

Could it be that he was so cruel in his lifetime and hurt countless young men and women that the King of the Underworld sentenced him to be reincarnated in a brothel and work to bring in clients himself?

His mind reeling, Mo Ran unconsciously rolled over.

Only to be met with a sleeping face.

". . ."

What the hell! Why was a man sleeping next to him?

And a naked man on top of that!

This man was young with soft facial features. His appearance was delicate and cute to the point it was hard to tell whether he was male or female.

Mo Ran's face is still but his heart is racing. He stared for a while at the pale sleeping face and he suddenly remembered.

Wasn't this the male prostitute that he liked when he was young? The one named Rong San?

Or was it Rong Jiu?

It doesn't really matter. That's not what's important. What mattered was that this man was supposed to contract a venereal disease and died many years ago. His bones should already be decayed.

However, at this moment, he was alive, tenderly nestled on his side, the blanket pulled down, his shoulders and necks exposing an arrangement of bruises, bluish and purple.

With a sullen face, Mo Ran lifted the blanket and glanced down.

". . ."

Whether this man is Rong Jiu or Rong San, let's go with Rong Jiu, his figure was covered in small welts made from a whip, and around his pale, jade-like thigh, were several red strings wrapped tightly.

Touching his chin, Mo Ran sighed to himself: What an interesting boy.

He looked at this exquisite rope work, this skillful technique, this familiar picture.

Did he fucking tie this himself??!!

He is a cultivator of immortality and seemingly has a taste rebirth. At this moment, he couldn't help but start to doubt that he seemed to be truly be alive again.

In order to confirm his thoughts, Mo Ran found a bronze mirror. The bronze mirror was badly worn, but in the dim yellow instrument, he could still see his own face.

At the time of death, Mo Ran was thirty-two years old. It's been a while since he saw himself, but the face of the man in the mirror at this moment was the face of a child. He saw a young man’s arrogance in the handsome eyebrows. But the appearance was of someone who was fifteen or sixteen years old.

There was no one else in the bedroom. So the tyrant of generations in the realm of cultivation, the bully in Shuzhong, the emperor of the human world, the lord of life and death, bit the bullet after a long period of silence, and honestly expressed his inner feelings.

"Fuck."

This exclamation awakened the hazy Rong Jiu.

The beauty sat up lazily, and the thin embroided blanked draped on his body slid down her shoulders, revealing a dazzling pale chest. His frame was caged with soft long hair. He raised a pair of peach-blossom eyes, seeming sleepy and dazed, rimmed with a tinge of red.

"Um... Young Master Mo, you're up so early today."

Mo Ran said nothing. More than ten years ago, he really liked androgynous figures like Rong Jiu, but nowadays, as the thirty-two-year-old Lord TaXian, how could he ever have thought this was attractive? His brain must have been kicked by a donkey to find a face like this pleasant.

"Did you have a nightmare because you didn't sleep well last night?"

This person has already died, is that enough of a nightmare for you?

Rong Jiu picked up on his silence, and that he was in a bad mood. He got up out of bed, came to the carved wooden window, and hugged Mo Ran from behind.

"Young Master Mo, why aren't you paying attention to me? What's got you so stunned, ignoring everyone?"

Mo Ran went blue in the face holding in his remarks at the hug. He wanted nothing more than to peel this bastard off his back and slap him ten times over across the head but he held himself back.

He was still a little dazed and didn't understand the situation.

After all, if he were really born again, he was still engaging in certain activities with Rong Jiu yesterday, and he woke up with a bruised nose and swollen face because of it. This kind of behavior is no different from suffering from mental illness. It is not appropriate, completely inappropriate.

After Mo Ran collected himself a bit, he asked casually, "What month and day is today?"

Rong Jiu was taken aback, then smiled and said, "The fourth day of May."

"The thirty-third year in the cycle?"

"That was last year, and this year is the thirty-fourth year. Young Master Mo is really a noble man who forgets things, always living in the past."

The thirty-fourth year. . .

Mo Ran's eyes darkened, his thoughts zooming around in his head.

The thirty-fourth year Mo Ran was sixteen years old and had been recognized by the Lord of Life-Death Peak as a long-lost nephew for just over a year now. Because of this, he went from being a mangy stray dog that can be easily deceived to a phoenix in the branches.

So does this mean he has really been reborn?

Or was it all a big empty dream happening after his death?

Rong Jiu smiled. "Young Master Mo, you must be hungry and disoriented. You don't even remember the days. You stay here, I'll go to the kitchen and bring you some food. How about the fried flatbread?"

Right now, Mo Ran had just been reborn, and he still doesn't know how to deal with all this, but there should be nothing wrong with acting like he used to. So he recalled his romantic persona from back then, endured the nausea, and put on a grin as he pinched Rong Jiu's leg.

"Sounds great. Bring me a bowl of congee, too. You can come back and feed me."

Rong Jiu put on his clothes and left. After a while, he returned with a wooden tray, on which was a bowl of pumpkin congee, two fried flatbreads, and an extra side dish.

Mo Ran was a bit hungry and was about to grab some bread to eat, but Rong Jiu suddenly pulled away his hand. "I'll feed it to you," he said sultrily.

". . ."

Rong Jiu picked up a piece of bread and sat on Mo Ran's lap. He wore a thin robe, and he didn't wear anything underneath. His slender thighs were spread apart and pressed against the Mo Ran's skin. He couldn't help but rub on him ambiguously. The attempt at seduction was clear.

Mo Ran stares at Rong Jiu's face for a while.

Rong Jiu thought this meant he was getting aroused, and said, "What do you always look at me like this? The food is getting cold."

Mo Ran stayed quiet for a moment, remembering the good things that Rong Jiu had done with him in his last life. He slowly rubbed the corner of his mouth with a sweet smile, with an incomparable smile as he recalled the things that Rong Jiu did behind his back.

As Lord TaXian, he had done a lot of disgusting things. If he wanted to, no matter how disgusting it was, he could do it. This right now was nothing more than improvisation. It was basically child's play.

Mo Ran leaned back on the chair comfortably, and smiled: "Sit here."

"I'm. . . I'm sitting right here."

"You know where I'm telling you to sit."

Rong Jiu blushed, tripping on his words: "So hasty. Young Master Mo won't at least wait until he's finished eating...Ah!"

Before he finished speaking, he was forcibly pulled up by Mo Ran, moved forward, and pressed down again. Rong Jiu's hands shook, and the bowl of congee fell to the ground. As he panted, he added in a low voice, "Master Mo, this bowl..."

"Leave it alone."

"That. . . Shouldn't you eat something first... mm... ah..."

"Aren't I eating right now?" Mo Ran held his waist, flashing a pair of dark eyes. The charming face of Rong Jiu and his exposed neck was reflected in his pupils.

In his past life, he was especially willing to kiss those blushing lips when they were together. After all, this young man is pretty, cute, and can say things that made his heart move. It would be a lie to say that he never felt anything towards him at all.

However, knowing what Rong Jiu did with his mouth behind his back, Mo Ran felt that this mouth had a foul smell and he no longer had any interest in kissing it anymore.

There are many differences between the thirty-two-year-old Mo Ran and the fifteen-year-old Mo Ran.

For example, when he was fifteen years old, he knew gentleness in his love affairs, but as a thirty-two-year-old, there was only violence left.

After they finished the act, he looked at Rong Jiu, who was breathing heavily and was so exhausted that he had passed out. With a pair of dark eyes filled with undercurrents, he narrowed those eyes, looking like he was smiling sweetly. He looked good when he smiled, his pupils extremely dark and deep, and, from certain angles, they seemed to be smeared with a layer of luxurious dark purple. At this moment, he smiled and grabbed Rong Jiu's hair. He dragged the unconscious man by his hair to the couch, and picked up a piece of broken porcelain from the ground, hanging it over Rong Jiu's face.

He always avenged himself for the smallest of offences, and this was no different.

Thinking of how he helped give Rong Jiu business in his previous life, how he even wanted to redeem him, and how Rong Jiu threw himself at others behind his back, he couldn’t help but squint his eyes and place the sharp ceramic shard on Rong Jiu's cheek.

This person's business depended on his face and body. Without his face, he was nothing.

This pretty man would have to live on the streets like a dog, crawling on the ground, kicked by boots, run over, scolded and cast aside, ahh... Even imagining it gave him a rush of excitement. Even the nausea of ​​knowing he had just fucked the man had disappeared.

Mo Ran's smile became even more lovely.

Adding some pressure to his cheek, a trace of bright red blood oozed out.

The unconscious man seemed to feel the pain. With a hoarse voice, he groaned softly, teardrops still hung on his eyelashes, looking pitiful.

Mo Ran's hand suddenly stopped.

He thought of an old friend.

". . ."

Then, he suddenly realized what he was doing now. He froze for a few seconds, and finally slowly lowered his hand.

It was really just his habit of doing evil. He had forgotten that he had been born again.

Right now, nothing had happened yet, the cruel act hasn't been committed, and that person. . . hadn't died yet. Why should he walk the old, cruel path again if he has the chance to start over?

He sat down with a foot on the edge of the bed and casually played with the broken porcelain in his hand. The fried flatbread still on the table caught his eye. He brought it over, peeled off the greased paper, and started eating, mouth getting covered in crumbs, and lips greasy.

This flatbread is the special dish of this tile-place, and it really wasn't that good. Compared with the delicacies and delicious meals he tasted later in life, this was almost like chewing wax. However, after the tile-place was shut down, Mo Ran never tasted those flatbreads again. At this moment, the familiar taste of the flatbread returned to the tip of his tongue came back to him.

Every time Mo Ran swallowed a mouthful, it made the reality of being reborn seem more and more plausible.

After he had finished all the bread, he finally recovered from his initial confusion.

He really had been reborn.

All the evil in his life, all the actions he could never erase, hadn't yet happened.

He never killed Uncle and Aunt, he didn't massacre the 72 cities, never deceived his Shizun and family, didn't get married, didn't. . .

No one was dead yet.

He smacked his mouth, licking his white teeth. He could feel the tiny joy in his chest rapidly growing, a kind of excitement that churned like a stormy sea. He was a brilliant man during his lifetime and had dabbled in all Three Forbidden Techniques of the human world. He was sufficiently proficient in the other two Forbidden Techniques, however, despite his intelligence, he was unable to master the final technique, "rebirth."

Unexpectedly, things that he couldn't ask for in life were coming true after death.

All the unwillingness, depression, and loneliness in front of him, all these unreconciled emotions, still resided in his chest, the events at Life-Death Peak lit by the firelight and the scene of the army's siege were still fresh in his mind.

He really hadn't wanted to live at that time. Everyone said that he clashed with everyone and it was his fault that his friends and family were driven away. In the end, he felt like he were a walking corpse, bored and so lonely.

But something must have gone wrong for him, a heinous person like himself could actually get a chance to start all over again.

Why should he ruin Rong Jiu's face in order to avenge some old grudge from the past?

Rong Jiu loved money most of all. Not paying him for this encounter and stealing some silver ingots would be enough. He didn't want to ruin his life over this.

"I'm going easy on you, Rong Jiu."

Mo Ran said with a smile, his fingertips moving and the porcelain was thrown out of the window.

Then, he helped himself to all of Rong Jiu's valuables and put them all in his own pocket. He figured this was a good time to clean up, so he slowly tidied himself up and left the tile-place.

Uncle and Aunt, cousin Xue Meng, Shizun, and. . .

Thinking of that person, Mo Ran's eyes softened instantly.

Senior Brother, I have come to find you.

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[rametarin]

And further thoughts about the yaoi paddles.

If you’re under 20, and just now learning that fandom seniors in their late 20s, 30s, 40s, even low 50s, used to run around slapping eachother on the ass with yaoi paddles in anime and comic conventions after anime became a household media staple, you probably have.. questions.

You’re probably thinking, “Wow!! It was really lawless and anarchistic back then, wasn’t it! They never heard about personal space or sexual harassment laws! SOCIETY must have been SO different, back then!”

NO. I cannot stress enough, the Yaoi Paddle phenomenon was borne PURELY because the demographic MOST LIKELY to protest and be wet blankets about everything fun and sexual and admittedly VERY SKETCHY sometimes in fiction, and ALWAYS bad in reality.. turned off and said virtually nothing. Wokesters that’d protest about the environment and sexual assault against women would take off their Problem Glasses by night and act like paddling was harmless, contextually acceptable behavior.

Yaoi Paddle shit appeared because something absolutely magical happened in scifi and fantasy fandoms. It survived purely because boys didn’t complain, or their complaints were not taken seriously. I promise you, I assure you, if you grew up in the late 80s, your night time TV was INUNDATED with heavy handed messages about how sexual harassment (always male-on-woman flavored) was wrong, even proxy or indirect violence to women (tossing rubber gloves in their lap) was wrong, and to never, ever, ever do that thing or they’d rub your nose in it and consider you mentally diseased until the day you died.

Fandom was always niche, with sci-fi and fantasy stuff being off in its own little corner. Conventions, before the internet was king, was one of few places where more rural, disparate suburban and city-definition isolated geeks, nerds and dreamers could get together and just cut loose. Comic books, novels, video games. All that GOOD shit. But if you knew a girl in the 80s and 90s, you knew a girl that knew a girl that was getting them to be less tolerant and “more conscious and aware” (80s and 90s parlance for Woke) and when that happened, a new persona was created. A new bunch of dialogue options, created.

Suddenly they didn’t say stuff like, “Ew. Why is this character dressed like a SLUT? Typical male writers. Like we’d ever draw ourselves in this or put ourselves in this.” Because that’d be a personal, subjective opinion. Instead, the option to say, “It’s endemic in our western culture that male chauvinist authors and writers in a patriarchal system exploit femininity in media and reproduce misogynistic culture.”

And so assured this was true by mob mentality AND the idea that learned, educated, acredited and tenured academics had this opinion, they were scientists, and so they were right, permeated. Suddenly girl-fans had outlets to have justified apprehension for everything they saw and didn’t like or, if they actually liked it, STILL interpreted it through their lenses to be on, “the right side of history.”

It made fandom miserable and a sausage fest for a while, if only out of fear of driving away female friends. You couldn’t share that shit unless you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that your female peers and friends wouldn’t disregard you like a “typical misogynistic western male” for enjoying that stuff.

Sentiments and peer pressure thoughts emerged. Like, “The comic industry is hostile and cruel to women that try and enter it, and they exploit the image of women for cheap dollars.” So they simply weren’t interested in comics- mostly- unless the comics were written by women and sold with that virtue in mind. In which case, you had boys glowingly mentioning just how much they liked this authentically written adventure by this female comic author. Isn’t that just so special? Not like those horrid anti-woman cigar smoking old man stories, right?

There was always something to nag and get vitriolic about with the media. That’s part of why the Whedon brand of feminist writing got so popular in the 90s. it was low hanging fruit of peppy “sassy” girl characters doing girly things. They weren’t like “other” girls written in comics and cartoons. They were actually girly. Not idealized infantalized children, like those horrible white men write, you know.

Well. Things were looking really bleak for the forseeable future. Lots of boys just felt like comics and cartoons were lost to girls that weren’t specifically into them, and that meant more sausage fest conventions or hobbies, and signing off hope on those things being respected and accepted on the merits of what they are and were. The girls had embraced serials-filed-off radfem rhetoric and lenses, sometimes without even knowing the origins of where those truisms like the Male Gaze even came from, just assuming it was true and indisputable. And it complimented their insecurities, so they’d embrace that shit until they couldn’t anymore.

And then.. something absolutely miraculous and amazing happened that blindsided this whole vitriolic culture.

Anime.

And amazingly, every complaint that a lot of nerdy girls had about the very much sanitized, policed and made PG writing and characterization of characters in western comics and cartoons, just... fucking up and vanished. Seemingly within a fucking YEAR, the entire social culture of Problem Finders, finding everything wrong about these stories, the characters, the writer and the company that produced them being misogynistic male chauvinism, dried up. Those voices quieted, or were shut out of the groups.

Media from Japan was some of the most infantilizing, sexist, tittelating shit compared to mainstream American comics and cartoons and video games, and girls fluttered to it like flies to shit. We had Buffy basically subverting boogymen that a bunch of girls had been taught were still relevant after the 1950s by fighting crime in melee combat with men, and winning, while wearing jogging pants and cracking sassy, like Lola Bunny being a “tough girl.”

Japan had doe eyed, waif bodied ballet dancers that basically farted iridescent glitter, hearts and all the symbols and shapes of the Lucky Charms, riding unicorns and fighting evil in cute outfits. Being childish and not at all mature or professional to show how womanly and competent they were, basically being overgrown 11 year old girls fresh off the playground swing set.

And the fangirls loved it. Those nagging voices that would speak up and remind them about misogynistic, male chauvinistic “societies” and culture? Just.. they fucking VANISHED from the mind for AN ENTIRE GENERATION. I’m not exaggerating. Tolerance and fun and innocence was back again. The problem-glasses felt too ostracized and alienated, or didn’t even want to wear them anymore for personal reasons, and the Radfem Baby Wokes just seemed to grow out of that collective hysteria and pretend it never happened and never existed.

That’s why the very EXISTENCE of Yaoi Paddles at conventions was just so fucking bizarre to those of us that lived up to that point. After, “Stay in your own personal space, boy. DON’T even TOUCH a GIRL unless she VERBALLY AND PUBLICLY CONSENTS or it’s proof you’re just living up to this misogynistic, objectifying society’s evil history!” was drilled into us, day on the playground by day on the playground, by women with axes to grind and good-boy sycophants performing sharing those sentiments for brownie points, it was so fucking surreal to IMAGINE girls just running around sexually assaulting and physically assaulting random strangers because they thought they looked like cute, gay men.

It wasn’t that they didn’t know any better beforehand, it’s that they COMPLETELY put those sentiments away and up and decided, as girls, it was okay to violate male autonomy because they weren’t women, and “it’s okay to paddle a yaoi boy ^.^!” With NO self-awareness whatsoever.

The very fact it existed is testament to how attention starved boys were for girls approving gaze and playful interaction, that they’d tolerate some pocky fingered little cow stranger smacking them on the ass with a plank of wood because it was a socially acceptable way to just interact with girls in their lonely assed fandom and interest. It was an acceptable way to meet girls and positively interact. That’s the degrading bullshit boys said virtually nothing about at the hayday of yaoi paddles, purely to be welcoming to girls in anime and hentai approving spaces.

WE GREW UP hearing and watching horror stories and boogymen stories about true crime and sitcoms and crime shows about evil evil men violating the personal space of women for lewd and lecherous reasons. We had it drilled into our heads that the tolerance for boys and men doing that was negatives, and the general sentiment was men caught doing that (to women, or children of any sex) were effectively free game for any violence you personally felt like unloading on them, confident that in such outraged rape and sexual assault hating times, juries would excuse that passion as a defense.

So if you look back on the era of Yaoi Paddles and think. “WOW. That must be like driving cars before they invented seat belts and cough medicine before they invented the drug safety and scheduling legal system!”.. NO.

It was not like the 50s-70s, where many of the rules hadn’t been written yet so it was anarchy and chaos. Yaoi Paddles existed almost PURELY because girls HAD no rules if they didn’t want to respect them. The Yaoi Paddle phenomenon flew in direct opposition to how interactions were supposed to go, and ABSOLUTELY NO ONE would tolerate the reverse; no cis straight man could walk around randomly smacking women on the ass with a plank of even foam in pantomime, or ‘floating hand’ pretending to be a perverted character. The double standard was GLARING. The Double Standard was a fucking bugbear that had grown from a tiny screaming goblin and was now hanging upside down from the ceiling, roaring.

But because it was GIRLS inflicting it on BOYS, absolutely no party cared enough to raise a stink about it. The Radfems kept their mouths shut, because boys were the recipients. The Radfem Sympathizers really wanted to spank boys, so suddenly they couldn’t find their problem glasses and instead put on their neko ears. The boys were either stoic and amused by it or really wanted to be seen as cool and not buzzkills, so they tolerated to reveled in it.

Many times when you hear about things that happened either when you were a child just too young to really personally experience a thing, or before you were born, we’re quick to assume it’s a medieval place and the people were so uncultured as to have never pondered the social problems of spanking one another on the ass unprovoked. Violation of personal space, personal sovereignty- all that. That was NOT okay at the time. It happened because fujoshi decided it was okay and nobody argued with them to not do hat, or they were told to stop and did it anyway.

And as I’ve laid it out, that is the most bizarre and surreal element to the whole thing. They DID know better, but felt it didn’t apply to THEM because they were girls, and a girl slapping a boy on the ass “as a joke” didn’t mean anything- because it wasn’t happening TO them, FROM a man.

And irony of ironies, it was NEVER okay, EVER, throughout that entire era, for the reverse to be a thing. It was very specifically and exclusively not. As a man if you ran around slapping cute looking girls with the Yuri Paddle, you goin’ to either juvy hall, or prison, boi. Both sexes knew it. And yet, yaoi paddles STILL became a thing.

[hcpefulmarshmallow]

Komahina

Ship Rates

NOTP || Just no || Meh || Neutral || Good Potential || Ship it || OTP || JUST FUCK ALREADY  

I spoke about this one a while ago, but there are a lot of new people since then, and I’ve refined some of my earlier points, so… *cracks knuckles*

 First of all, promise you’ll read to the end, guys. I’m not trying to hate on the ship – but I will say that it doesn’t deserve to be the go-to ship for the fandom. AAHH OKAY BEFORE YOU KILL ME, it’s not because because I think it’s worse than that. It’s because I think it’s better. 

 Komahina is treated like this inevitable thing because, to some degree, canon implies it. That ofc, the two main men, all but confirmed super duper not straight, should wind up together. But if that’s your view then, in my humble opinion, you’re missing the point. 

 I don’t base how I feel about this ship off their main character/s status, and only a very little in part off that confession scene. I think that rushing these two into a relationship misses the whole entire mark of what this could grow to be. Grow, being the key word here. 

 I don’t think we can dump these two in any old coffee shop, and expect a beautiful romance to blossom. While the attraction is there, it’s not the driving force between them. At first, it’s all about understanding and identity. Hajime just doesn’t get Nagito, but he wants to. It’s not inherently romantic, but it’s a valuable emotion nonetheless. But Nagito also frustrates him to no end, (and so say all of us). This ultimately drives Hajime to do some pretty nasty things to him. Such as abandoning him in the beginning of the second chapter, tied up and unable to eat. I’ve spoken before about how much I hated that punishment, but that was the icing on this very bitter cake for me. Also, abandoning him again during the Despair Disease thing, when Nagito said, in the only way the disease would let him, that he wanted Hajime there. Just because he said some things Haji didn’t like. Despite…having the liar’s disease. Come on, Hajime. You’re smarter than this.

 Oh, but don’t think our protag is the only idiot in this scenario. What draws Nagito to Hajime is the fact that he feels like they are very similar, which is both a compliment and an insult. It’s implied multiple times that Nagito has a way of sensing talent, so it’s very possible he sensed from the beginning that Hajime had none. In fact, he says as much outright. Being (in his own mind) an untalented nobody around wonderful, untouchable talented Ultimates is incredible for him, but also exhausting. He wants to establish some kind of interpersonal connection, and along comes someone who is actually on his level, and seems to make an effort with him. For Nagito, that’s mind-blowing. And somewhere along the line - and here, we have the best thing about this whole damn ship that everybody misses - that became more important than talent. At the end of the OVA, when Nagito wakes up, we have that adorable parallel of Haji standing over him, just like Nagito at the beginning of DR2. And Nagito recognises Izuru first - but then corrects himself to Hajime. And thereafter, despite Hajime claiming that he is both Hajime and Izuru, Nagito continues to acknowledge Hajime over, oh, the LITERAL EMBODIMENT OF TALENT. I could write a whole other post on that. In fact, I may have.

 But I digress, because Nagito pulled his fair share of bullshit, too. Aside from literally trying to kill everybody, and providing on a silver platter an opportunity for Teru to begin the killings, knowing he was the most vulnerable - Nagito repeatedly shows instances of not quite getting how his words can hurt. Which, by itself isn’t his fault, but he also shows no remorse or desire to change it, either. He’s constantly putting the consequences of his own beliefs on others, and Hajime often cops the brunt of it. You know, Protag Privilege. And pardon my own personal headcanons, but I feel as if, after the whole Neo World thing is over, Nagito will ultimately take out a lot of his guilt and frustration on Hajime, too. Who better, than the Reserve Course nobody who did what he never could, surpassed Nagito himself, who may be trash but still technically has a talent, became Ultimate Hope, survived until the end, thrived, and wasn’t drawn in to Monokuma’s trickery like he was? 

 So, yeah. This isn’t exactly what you’d call a natural relationship. Like I said in the last one of these, I’m a sucker for ships that come from individuals improving themselves personally, whether that improvement is inspired by the ship itself or not, and coming together to make a great couple. I think that a lot of their issues come from the same place of low self worth, abandonment issues, and generally just feeling like the scum of the earth. They could do one another wonders, but as we’ve seen, they can also do one another a good disservice. This isn’t an effortless ship, and it’s not a given. The attraction is there, but they would need to sort out their personal issues, and the roadblocks between them, in order to forge a functioning, healthy relationship. Attraction is good for a one-shot or two, but realistically, it can’t see a relationship through the long term. And Danganronpa is nothing if not realistic, amiright. (That was sarcasm, in case you missed it.) However, assuming they can work together and work on themselves, I do believe there is so much good they can give each other, and so much happiness they can find together. 

 This got longer than I meant for, so tl;dr: Komahina make a better, believable, genuine couple with faults and pitfalls than they do a yaoi doujin. Give the ship some credit. 

[rchanscandy]

rchanscandy’s webcomic recomendations!

I don’t normally do this but I’ve been reading a lot of really awesome webcomics and I wanted to tell y’all about them and stuff because damn I found some real gems this past month. I also need people to scream about them with so heres my list in no particular order under the cut! (the comics are hosted on either smackjeeves or tapastic or both)

Lazy Snow Leopard

An utterly lazy god, an anthropomorphic personification of the Snow Leopard, rests upon his favourite tree, when suddenly woken up by a thrown stone. The thrower turns out to be a young admirer of his former self. The youngster persuades the lazy god to begin a quest for fame, glory and world salvation. While the one concerned would have preferred to just lie down and go back to sleep.

Notes: This one has me dying of laughter, I love everything about it; the art, characters, just all of the yes

Helix

A street rat is given a second chance when he is dragged from the gutter and into a new life. Will he accept his position at the side of royalty, or fight every step of the way? -Rated M for sex (M/M, consensual), violence, nudity, language and dark themes.- Warnings: -References to child abuse and sexual abuse.-

Notes: The art and story is absolutely mesmerizing, I couldn’t stop thinking about this one after reading it for a long while. Can’t wait for more updates!

Novae

Novae is a historical romance with a touch of the paranormal and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer. A connection forms between them and their relationship blooms, but when the body of a fellow astronomer is found on the steps of the Academy of Sciences, their lives are entangled in ways they could never foresee.

Notes: There are not a lot of pages so far but I’m already in this for the long run. I’m a sucker for historical romances, especially gay ones and this is just beautifully executed. 

Boned

A story about being nice to birds and having safe gay sex.

Notes: The description pretty much sums it up xD. Such a good read and really intriguing characters, I enjoyed this a lot. (NSFW)

Mismatch

Mismatch tells of the bond between two rivals who slowly discover they have more in common than they think.

Notes: Only 5 pages in and I was immediately hooked. The art style is so cute and I absolutely love the premise! I can’t wait for more!

Grey Eyes

Mike Lawson finds himself on the strange world of Dwal. But now the ancient Gate won't let him back through. Mike must try to find his place in this strange new world, and perhaps find it to be better than the world he came from. A fantasy/romance with a touch of mystery. 18+ for adult language and situations.

Notes: The character designs and the art are so cool, hell everything about this is freaking cool and I need more!

Almost Touching

Wyatt's got a huge secret and Aiden is a nosy bitch who becomes intertwined in it. Though he doesn't seem to mind much... boyxboy

Notes: I got sucked in by the pretty art style and stuck around for the interesting story and lovely characters. (NSFW)

Avialae

Avialae is a webcomic about a gross bird boy and his nerdy wannabe ornithologist boyfriend--I mean neighbor who helps him out during the painful and bloody process of growing wings. 

Notes: I just absolutely adore this one, it has really interesting characters, a unique premise, and just...birds man. (NSFW)

Rainbow Mansion

Watch the drama unfold as 14 contestants come together at the Rainbow Mansion in hopes of becoming the Rainbow Champion! Hearts will break, the tension will sizzle, and only one will have a chance at eternal glory. Or, like, at least a quip in the tabloids and a book deal? (M/M)

Notes: This is one of the best and most hilarious fucking comics I’ve read in a long time. I love the way it’s set up (a cheesy bad reality tv show) and the characters (all of them) are fucking fantastic not to mention the art is on point. (NSFW)

Handcuffs

Yrkki sold drugs to a stranger guy. That wouldn't be nothing new for him, but this guy was a cop.

Notes: Beautiful art, beautiful men, and a story that keeps you on your toes, whats not to love? (NSFW)

Demon House

Tula is a student just trying to get through her senior year of college. Little does she know that her new rental is inhabited by demons. Juggling her social life and these new roommates should be no problem.

Notes: This comic is a blessing. I absolutely love all the characters and the art is so well done, not to mention the hilarity that ensues. Definitely one of those must-reads!

Demon of the Underground

Pogo is a big-mouthed but small-framed young thief who falls through a hole in the ground and finds himself in a brutal underground world where survival is based on strength and intimidation. His only hope for escape is his telekinetic ability - and the help of a stray ferret named Annie. Urban fantasy/paranormal/LGBTQ

Notes: I’ve been following this one for awhile. First off, the art is fantastic, and I’m in love with that in itself. Second the characters and story are so interesting and unique...I’m dying to know what happens next and discover more!

Aimatos

Boy meet boy and together search their origins

Notes: This story is so cute and the art is beautiful and I’m gonna cry I need more. (NSFW)

Thistlewine

Markus is a reclusive witch living in the woods. He stumbles across a surprise one morning that changes his entire life. It's gay.

Notes: I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love this comic. It’s so fucking cute, the characters are adorable, the art is adorable and well drawn, and every time it updates I get so freakin excited you have no idea ahhh just go read it!

No Way

NO WAY is a web comic, a story about fantasy world and Academy, where many creatures study together. But first and foremost this is a story about a vampire and an elf who were betrothed to each other and who now have to live and learn together. Yes, this is a story about the relationship between two guys, basically, although the other characters are there too. Also in the future in the comic are planned explicit scenes of a sexual nature, so there is a limit 18 + But, basically, it's still a romantic Comedy and fairy tale.

Notes: Everything about this, the characters and the art and the story are fucking phenomenal. It’s got some of my favorite character designs ever by far. Highly recommend this one, such a good read and a feast for the eyes! 

The God in the Field

The age-old story of Hades, Persephone, and a love that causes the seasons (with a yaoi twist.) Disclaimer/Content Warning: Anyone familiar with greek mythology will know that they are in for a ride. This comic will contain kidnapping, a coercive relationship with unequal power dynamics, and various other scenes from the underworld that Hades presides over. It will contain NSFW scenes and scenes rated 18+. Please be forewarned!

Notes: One of the most friggin beautiful art styles I’ve come across in a long time. I actually caved in and bought hard copies of this one it was so beautiful. I love everything about this gosh I can’t even put it into words.

Les Normaux

Les Normaux follows the lives of a bunch of supernatural beings living in Paris after a human wizard named Sebastien moved to the city. 

Notes: The premise and characters in this one are so unique and the art style is so cute. Actually everything in this is cute, and funny, and just a good time in general. Highly recommend this one.

Indigents

Dakota and Kennedy are thrown together in a world ravaged by a single disease. Fast spreading and corrupting sanity, civilization was razed to the ground. For those fortunate to have immunity, life isn't easy. Avoiding the diseased is one thing, but without law and order those left take complete advantage of a world they can now build for themselves. Stranded together in the ghost of the country they once knew, Dakota and Kennedy fight through whatever obstacles lay in their path, seeking peace and quiet and maybe something to eat.

Notes: I really like the way the story is going, not to mention the art is hella nice. Highly recommend this one, especially if you like apocalyptic themes and such.

Wham, Bam!

Harvey is nothing. He's a nobody. Trapped in a small Texas town where nothing ever changes, doomed to waste away in the scrub brush and withering sun, he figures the best he can do is keep his head down and stay out of everyone else's way. After all, who would be crazy enough care about a deadbeat redneck like him? Then one day an old Dodge rumbles into the parking lot of the gas station where he works, and Harvey learns that some folks wear their crazy like it'll never go out of style. It's amazing how much your life can change in just four days. [WARNINGS: explicit content, strong language, depictions of violence, TW for homophobic attitudes/language (later on). 18+ only please.]

Notes: I am in love with this art and storyline. It’s so unique, I don’t think I’ve read anything quite like it. Not to mention that the title itself grabbed me in for the hook before anything else.  I can’t wait to see more!

Moonflower

Sometimes, home can be a person. A sheltered young mutant meets a soldier who's seen far too much for his short life. A process of learning and healing begins.

Notes: The art is so pretty, reminds me a lot of avatar the last airbender in terms of style. I’m super excited to see where this story goes as well, the characters are super interesting and really cute!

Hendrix and Julian

Hendrix and Julian are natural enemies- a cocky jock and the school's gay punching bag, but will all that change after one cold night alone in the gym cupboard? (NSFW)

Notes: I’m usually not a fan of the whole bullied falling for bully plot but I really really love how this story goes. Not to mention the nsfw scenes are really good and the art is just yesssss.  I highly recommend this one!

Aspera

Nine young adults with different backgrounds all end up in the same area in Paris. What started off as another semester at art school takes a turn when the differences of the group's lives finally meet. A story of lgbt love, friendship and finding yourself. Warning for blood, violence, sexual content and drug use in the upcoming chapters.

Notes: The art style is cute, the characters are cute, the comic feels super relatable and down to earth and I just really love the whole thing overall. I always get so excited when it updates!

Countdown to Countdown

Iris is a young man with the gift to bring pieces of artwork into reality. 5 years into an apocalyptic outbreak, he's holed up in a lab that shelters "problem" children. Between his failed experiments, deteriorating mental stability, and being ridiculed by other members of the lab, he doesn't think life could get any worse. Life agrees to disagree.

Notes: This comic is so friggin beautiful. The story is hella interesting and the setup is like that of a video game which I think is really super creative and interesting to experience. The characters and the world they are in are really fun and interesting and just overall this is a really well done comic, I’m always excited for when it updates!

Heartstopper

Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...?

Notes: The title of this comic is the most accurate thing.  This comic has my heart stopping because of how dang cute this is. Seriously, there are parts of this that have me screaming on the floor.  The art style is so cute and airy and totally fits the mood of this comic and the characters are so adorkable and just...aughhh go read it seriously!

With Great Abandon

With Great Abandon is a queer romance set over the course of a year in London. It's the story of Harry and Russell's differences, similarities, and relationship. A hopeful and kind story. Also food and comics.

Notes: This comic made me cry (good tears).  The story is so down to earth and realistic, not to mention so cute.  Also the art and colors are just on point and I really appreciate this comic aesthetically. It just completed and I was very satisfied, you should definitely give it a read!

Age of the Grey

When the unseen war between heaven and hell finds itself bound to the plane of humans, several kids discover themselves caught in the middle. The almighty angels of heaven and the wicked demons of hell battle for their kingdoms, a revolution that could mean the end of humanity, and when god and the devil decide to take it into their own hands, only chaos can follow.

Notes: This is such a cool concept executed with such bold and expressive art. I love love love the characters and its so cool to see how the art continues to improve over the course of the story! Definitely recommend this!

Behind these Birchwood Walls

Adrian Pembroke's parents put their foot down after his teenaged mischief turns into a run in with the cops. He finds himself shipped off to Mercier Preparatory Academy, an elite boarding school. Miserable and feeling utterly out of place, Adrian soon lands himself into trouble as usual. He is rescued from his own antics by Acario Ambrose, the resident golden boy of Mercier. Appearances are deceiving, and Adrian learns a great deal more about both himself and his new friend than he ever bargained for.

Notes: I love this so much, it started out a bit slow but as soon as the story got going i was on the edge begging for updates. The art is amazing, I have no idea how this artist is able to be so consistent with their painting style throughout, its amazing! 

Ingress Adventuring Company

Saving the world is a pretty big deal, but what do you do once you’re done saving the world and no one needs you anymore? Do you become a magic professor? Do you study a convoluted thesis that no one understands? Maybe you relive the glory days by starting up a one-man adventuring party to gather mystical artifacts for people who may or may not pay you. Or, if you’re Toivo Kissa, you do all of those things.

Notes: I fell in love with the premise and art at first sight. It’s absolutely adorable and the main character is so precious I love him so much. I cannot wait to see where the shenanigans go. 

Ambrosia

Alphor, a countryside apothecary, comes to the capital city for work, where he has a chance encounter with his estranged childhood friend, the wizard Selfrid. The same childhood friend who confessed his love for him ten years ago, before they separated. They resume their friendship, as though there was no confession, but such feelings can't be forgotten that easily; they are torn between the bitterness of a crushed first love and the comfort of a friendship they don't want to ruin again.

Notes: This comic is so damn pretty i can’t handle it. I love the setting and all the little world elements added into this comic. Definitely a bit of a slow burn if you’re into that but oh man will it be satisfying if the main ship finally sails. 

Sunkissed

When Stephen, a quiet bookworm from Oregon, gets his admission letter from the University of Hawaii at Manoa he was anticipating some life changes. What he didn’t anticipate was meeting Alex, an upbeat and easygoing local who offers to be his guide around the island. After that, it’s love at first sight. Through ups and downs, they’ll bring out the best in each other in this story of love, growth, and self-acceptance.

Notes: If you want a sweet heartwarming story about 2 cinnamon buns falling in love with each other then this is the comic for you! Seriously, every little tiny moment in this comic just makes me scream because its too cute.

Dissent

A cursed prince must rely on a witch to free him from an enchantment. But witchcraft is banned, and the two young men have little in common. As love blossoms between them, can they overcome their own prejudices, save their nation, and find a cure... before it's too late?

Notes: Everything about this comic i just love love love love. The story, the art, the characters, everything! It tugs at your heartstrings in ways you don’t even expect whilst dealing with a suspenseful situation. I’d gush forever about this one but I don’t have enough room.

Guard Dog

BL about people living in the post apocalyptic world where being infected by a zombie won't immediately turn you into one, but it can give you some troubles... and some extras

Notes: By the same creator as Handcuffs, which is also on this list, I knew when this came out I’d love it too. I was not wrong. Cute gay bois in the apocalypse, what more can you ask for? Definitely a must read!

The Sun Prince, the Saint, and the Changeling

When Tomas stumbles into unexpected feelings for his friend Matthias, he dreams about a fun, uncomplicated summer romance. Instead, he discovers that he doesn’t know his friend nearly as well as he thought he did, he knows himself even less, and when your family has connections to the Holy Roman Empire, nothing is ever simple. When summer comes, Tomas finds himself drawn into a mystery spanning two years and three hearts — one of which is his own. 

Notes: This is one of my all time favorite comics. I am a sucker for lgbt historical romances and everything about this comic from the story, to the art, to the world building is just so beautifully done. Cannot gush enough about this one to do it justice, just read it. 

Abel & a Dead Man

Jim lives an ordinary life until the day he's supposed to die. Abel is a Soul Collector who decides to let Jim live and asks him out instead.

Notes: Such a unique graphic art style combined with one of my favorite grim reaper x supposed to be dead person premises, I highly highly recommend checking this out.

Life Outside the Circle

The heartwarming tale of two men who find love in the Finnish countryside.

Notes: This comic is way too cute I cannot handle how cute it is everything about it just makes me scream because ahhhh it so CUTE!!! Just read it and you’ll understand what I mean.