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

[jack-pride.livejournal.com]

I don't think they *know* about the existence of DS in Japan.

I'm in Japan! I know of DS... of course I'm actually Canadian. ;) But still, don't I count? *g*

I'd have to say that there's no DS manga because my (Canadian in Japan) manga-obsessed friend would have used it to get me into manga otherwise. *g*

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think they *know* about the existence of DS in Japan.

We do. Just... not the yaoi artists, it seems. In Japan it's still in the middle of Season 2 (pity us!!), and even at that it airs only on national satellite TV, so no, not many people know about the show, and *no one* has seen the new Ray yet - unless they bought it on tape somewhere.

So I'd say the chances are pretty slim of any Japanese DS yaoi being out there. There are fans of the show though. Some very enthusiastic.

The only two places I know of with any kind of DS fanart are:

http://www5.big.or.jp/~miyano/
(According to her Japanese text, a bit slashy. A bit. I like her RayK...)

and

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/wakka_world/due_w/due_menu.html
(With even less yaoi element. And it's seoson 1 only. But her Japanese comments are hilarious!)

I'm not much of a help because I don't know a thing about yaoi. There are those who read both slash and yaoi, so you might ask one of them.

Oh, and Squidlet? I for one am not offended. At least in your context, and especially I guess since it's written, not spoken. "Jap" used to be used as derogatory but I don't think many people nowadays remember the feeling - younger generations anyway. It might still sound insensitive to some, so if you want to be really PC, uh - what was the new term, Jpn? Or is that maybe just the Olympics... (Sorry for mixing up threads!)

-sakana

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Squidlet? I for one am not offended. At least in your context, and especially I guess since it's written, not spoken. "Jap" used to be used as derogatory but I don't think many people nowadays remember the feeling - younger generations anyway.

then there's (at least part of) my answer. :-) thanks. [makes a note, but probably won't begin using the term herself]