yaoi musings

[resonant]

I've been looking at yaoi scans. I never saw so many neckties in my life. I think I can safely say that there's very little American pretty-boy art that features neckties. If I develop a fetish for neckties, I'm blaming Japan.

Yaoi has been rather a revelation to me. I used to think I wasn't much turned on by visuals. Evidently I'd been looking at the wrong visuals.

And did I ever claim that I needed my smut to have a narrative? I've spent the last three days obsessively downloading pictures of characters I've never heard of speaking a language I don't read, so I guess I was wrong about that narrative stuff.

I'm now consumed with a desire to see Ray Kowalski drawn manga-style. I think that style of art would be perfect to capture the sidelong grin and the badassedness. I'm picturing it now: Fraser's tipped-back head half obscured by Ray's tattooed shoulder. Sheets clutched in the hand with the bracelet on it. Little wedge-shaped panel of the Stetson hitting the floor.

Fraser's a big guy, so I wonder why I'm convinced that he'd be the one who ended up with the big round eyes.

Comments

Manga recs.

[halimede.livejournal.com]

I second the Fushigi Yuugi rec (it's an epic fantasy sort of thing) and would like to add Kodomo no Omocha to the list: Very hyperactive, spunky girl as protagonist, very silly and very gut-wrenchingly well-plotted and executed at the same time. Sort of like a younger Buffy on speed without vampires.