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akhirnya drama ini sampe juga ke TL gue hahahah OKAY BUCKLE UP TL GUE biar gue ceritakan sedikit hasil skripsi+tesis gue yang fokusnya ke creative fandom, BL, dan identitas seksual.
My theory is, BL adalah escapism yang memungkinkan perempuan untuk menikmati romance tanpa unsur objektifikasi perempuan (bc ofc all the characters are men)
That's part of the appeal I guess
"Trauma apaan deh hidup gue baik2 aja."
Buddy we live in a highly patriarchal society, trust me we're not okay. Gue bukan cuma ngomongin trauma kekerasan atau pelecehan seksual bagi para penyintas, gue ngomongin pengalaman hidup kita sebagai perempuan.
Sesimpel kalian ngelihat bokap yang ngga pernah bantuin house chores di rumah, sesimpel kalian harus bantu nyokap masak cuci piring etc tapi kakak-adik cowok boleh leha-leha sepanjang hari libur.
Itu "trauma sosial" kita. Kita dianggap less.
Karena temans, percayalah bahwasanya BL=Escapism itu cuma permukaannya aja.
"Tubuh cowok" itu "aman" buat kita. Bebas dari "trauma perempuan", baik secara seksual maupun sosial. Makanya dia jadi media yang ideal untuk cewek2 mengeksplor hal2 yang "tabu".
"BL=Escapism buat fujoshi itu tapi bener banget sih."
Para fujoshi mungkin banyak yang setuju soal ini. Buat orang2 yang konsumsi dan ngeship konten BL tapi homofobik, mungkin memang benar buat mereka ini adalah escapism. Tapi gue ga setuju kalau digeneralisir ke semua. Kenapa?
Bro banyak dari kita yang ngomong "haid" sama ortu aja tuh ditegur loh. Dibilang ga sopan. Belajar kespro aja tabu njir. Banyak banget cewek2 yang nggak pernah paham tubuh dan seksualitasnya sendiri karena mempertanyakan itu aja hukumnya haram dalam masyarakat kita.
Nilai-nilai apa? Ya macem2. Dari yang sesimpel "Wah pokoknya cowok harus ngurus anak juga kayak di omegaverse ini!" sampai melek gender dan seksualitas, dan yang jelas, tidak akan homofobik.
Kalo homofobik, ya berarti buat dia BL memang cuma escapism.
Oh, ternyata gue suka dinamika pacaran begini karena menurut gue ini dinamika yang ideal. Oh, ternyata gue suka cowok yang begini di fiksi, tapi amit2 ya kalau ketemu irl yang begini.
Guys itu semua adalah bagian dari kamu mengeksplor tubuh, seksualitas dan pengalamanmu.
Kalau BL=Escapism=fetishizing itu adalah jawaban kenapa cewek2 suka BL, terus kenapa banyak banget BL yang sfw? Kenapa ga semuanya aja isinya eue doang? Kenapa banyak cewek2 straight yang juga demen banget BL no eue?
Karena kalau memang BL cuma escapism, creative fandom yang berfokus m/m ship nggak akan seramai dan sekaya ini.
Konsep escapism sebenernya datang dari bu Judith Butler (yang gue yakin orang pada banyak tau lewat teori performing gendernya).
Konsep ini pernah dipakai buat jelasin bahwa cewek2 konsumer BL, karena banyak dari mereka straight, pasti suka BL karena mereka berfantasi terhadap pihak cowoknya, dan "tubuh cowok" itu, buat para cewek, adalah "media yang aman".
Ini penting ya, terutama poin kedua.
okay so i see people in the replies disappointed about this gaiden being a “bait” so let me just say this: this movie wasn’t a wlw bait. it was a 3rd-person view of a relationship in which one girl pines for the other who is still struggling to understand emotions let alone love
Jadi demikian ya penjelasan panjang kenapa semua ini tidak sesimpel BL=Escapism, dan kenapa discourse "yang suka BL udah pasti fetishizing" honestly needs to die in a ditch.
Stay tuned kapan2 kalo mood gue jelasin gimana BL menjadi media aman untuk komunitas queer.
Terus hubungannya apa sama penyuka BL yang straight?
Bukan cuma escapism, tapi BL dipakai sebagai "media yang aman" untuk "mengeksplor", untuk "memahami" tubuh dan pengalaman perempuan sendiri. Oh, ternyata gue suka model eue begini dalam fiksi, tapi kalau irl gue geli.
"Terus yang tabu apaan? Homoseksual makanya tabu?"
Oh bukan. Itu beda lagi kalau kita ngebahas bagaimana relasi BL dan konsumernya yang queer. Ini gue masih ngomongin yang straight.
Yang tabu itu adalah untuk cewek2 mengenal dan mengeksplor tubuh dan seksualitasnya.
Persis kata OP pokoknya. Tapi terus masalahnya jadi: "Berarti BL itu fetishizing cowok dong? Secara spesifik, cowok gay? Brengsek dong?"
Nah bagian ini adalah discourse yang sebulan sekali diangkat di komunitas fandom bahasa inggris dan gue sampe bosen lihatnya hmph
BTW LAST WORDS: dengan alasan yang gue bilang di thread di atas? Kalau lo anti-shipper berarti lo otomatis MISOGINIS asal tau aja, karena berarti lo against perempuan mengeksplor dan memahami diri sendiri. kthxbyw
"Jadi bener dong, kalo "tubuh cowok aman" berarti escapism?"
Ngga sesimpel itu. Dunia ini patriarki dari zaman nabi Adam kayaknya. Yang berarti, cewek2 tuh nggak punya media, nggak punya bahasa, nggak punya sarana mereka sendiri untuk "menyampaikan", untuk "memahami".
A3! DESIGNERS WHAT THE FUCK YOU NEED TO FUCKING CHILL THIS IS BRILLIANT AND ALSO THE FIRST TIME I REGRET NOT GETTING THE LIMITED EDITION BECAUSE OF FUCKING PACKAGINGS?????
Yang barusan ini dari The Laugh of Medusa-nya Helene Cixous ya, kalau mau tau lebih banyak silakeun baca.
Intinya, perempuan itu "terperangkap" dalam tubuh mereka karena nggak punya alat untuk mengekspresikan tubuh dan pengalaman mereka.
Kalau BL buatmu ngga cuma sekedar escapism, kalau kamu pakai sebagai media untuk memahami diri sendiri, maka nilai-nilai yang ada di dalam diri kamu bakal berubah. Kamu juga pasti sadar kok.
Yang berarti, untuk bisa "memahami" dan "menyampaikan", kita harus pakai media, bahasa, sarana yang dibuat oleh laki-laki. Yang tentunya nggak bisa sepenuhnya kita pakai, karena yang bikin kan nggak hidup sebagai perempuan. Ya hasil bikinannya ga bisa encompass pengalaman kita.
fyi fandom studies dan queer studies itu dalem dan asik banget, udah banyak banget kok riset soal ini. buat yang mau riset soal BL, tabrak, berjuanglah kamu pasti bisa. buat yang penasaran, coba deh mulai dari baca2 teori gender dan fandom. asik kok.
fandom studies dan BL udah berkembang jauh pesat gengs. tesis gue tahun 2018 aja udah pakai teori yang beda lagi. jadi pembahasan di atas jangan dianggap mutlak ya. inget tiap riset itu ada limitasinya. riset skripsi gue waktu itu belum intersectional,
minagi tsuzuru: taichi, as your senpai i will give you the nicest role and she’ll be doing what i have always wanted to do
taichi: cool i can’t wait!!! what is it tsuzuru-kun?
tsuzuru: getting very rich off of marriage scams. Plural.
jadi ini pun nggak bisa dipakai untuk menggeneralisir fujoshi pasti begini, atau semua perempuan pasti begini. ini cuma insight untuk yang pengen tahu kenapa ada yang bisa jadi fujoshi, dan biar aware aja kalau ini tuh ya fenomena sosial aka bagian dari masyarakat.
That entire dance scene was silent in the movie, but in actuality, as written in the bonus short story, all that was in Amy’s head was “I love you Violet. I will pretend that it’s love as a friend, but it’s really not. I love you. I love you.” Over and over and over.
so
@kalengjelek
recommended me to read “Hatsukoi Catharsis” which is a BL manga about a romantic asexual (referred to as nonsexual in the manga) and his struggle to reconcile being in a romantic relationship with a non-ace and finding happiness.
I’m in love with this.
.........ya Allah gue baru pulang kerja 😂 ngeri juga woy jangan follow gue ya biasanya gue cuma ritwit ship bl problematik (eak)
sekalian disclaimer dulu ya thread ini cuma konklusi singkat dari skripsi gue tahun 2014 jadi udah satu dekade yang lalu.
tl;dr let’s stop calling Violet Evergarden Gaiden as a wlw bait because it’s really not, and a story about a woman pining for another is as important as two women getting together. The End bye
so is this gaiden movie a wlw bait? nope, it’s not. So this entire gaiden movie? Is a story about a woman who sold her freedom and her entire life to protect her adopted sister, but also? It’s about a girl who pines for another girl who’s still learning about emotions.
reading the comments made me salty but let me just say this:
The female protag accepts, sympathizes & supports his gay husband wholeheartedly like a life partner would. No difference from you accepting and supporting your gay friend. You know who else does this?
Actual fujoshi.
In the short story as well, Violet still calls herself “a Thing”. She still isn’t seeing herself as humane enough. If Amy had actually confessed, Violet would not have the capability to understand what it means. Emotions are something Violet is still learning!
3rd-person being the audience. it’s canon that Amy was in love with Violet. they didn’t blatantly say it in the movie but they did put it in actual words in the bonus short story they gave as a tokuten for watching the movie.
“let the artists grab their money” sure that’s fine, but they should also be self-aware that they’re making money off another IP and that it’s a very grey area, and that commercializing fandom space and works might even lead us to capitalization of it one day so.
As someone who graduated with a thesis on how asexuality is expressed in fanfictions, I am actually dumbfounded at the sheer idiocy, ignorance and malice from these kids. You have no idea how much fan studies researches have contributed in so many fields, have you.
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During the New Year’s Sleepover we had to do a presentation on what we like and mine was on Categorizing Oniichan Characters according to Isu.
I’m translating this into English and letting this into the wild cause
@moonsterm4
said it might be helpful.
Therefore: A thread lol
menyambut datangnya Ramadhan 1441, mari apresiasi akhi Guy yang senantiasa mengingatkan kita untuk tidak telat sahur ataupun subuh
(thanks
@chisaiist
)
Yang kemaren bilang "wow menarik ya fan studies terutama BL" kalau mau baca2 bahan akademik soal BL dan fans, ada listnya nih.
Skripsi gue banyak referensi ke Mizoguchi Akiko terutama yang Reading and Living Yaoi, udah tergolong tua sih tapi lumayan buat base terjun ke sini.
Suggested reading for the history of terms, content and usage of BL, yaoi, danmei, gei komi & bara
note even when yaoi is used in these papers (usually pre-2010), it's often synonymous with BL, not used to differentiate between sexual intensity of narratives.
The United Nations Security Council has just voted 13-1 in favor of a humanitarian cease fire in Gaza 🇵🇸.
Unfortunately, that single "no" vote was a US veto, meaning one government is blocking peace.
Full breakdown:
Countries voting for a cease fire:
🇨🇳China
🇷🇺Russia
i think the “feminist” word should be scraped off your brand if your interviews are this tone-deaf and, frankly, shows how lacking your knowledge is about feminism in regards to JP culture
BL Manga Artist Aiba Kyoko on Industry Demands, Artistic Growth, and Writing About Young Carers
We were able to sit down with Aiba for a gregarious conversation about writing relationship dynamics, greater awareness of LGBTQ+ issues, and her latest work.
@ifiregress
sama2! betul banget, di thread ini aku cuma ngebahas topik skripsiku aja tapi pas tesis aku lebih fokusin lagi khusus untuk queer aseksual, dan bener2 seru nganalisisnya. (nulisnya tetep mau metong sih)
Aaalllsso i caught up with gakuen babysitters and i just want to say i’m still not over this scene in the OP cries hayaryuu is REAL and they make very good oniichans to the babies
i’m going to strangle people in the replies saying “cool but what about rurouken” i am so fucking tired can’t you guys count a win as a fucking win for once
@deffo_jiaer
@waferchoco94_GO
halo maap nyamber kebetulan lagi sekrol terus liat. kemaren aku pas minta tolong beliin tiket westlife juga pake livin punya nyokap, tapi bisa masukin data diri aku sendiri (tiket atas nama aku dan email juga emailku, jadi e-ticketnya nanti langsung ke aku). moga membantu yaa
is it so hard to say HEY MONONOKE DID A GREAT THING!!! GREAT FOR THEM!!! THEY’RE SAYING OUT LOUD THAT THEY DON’T WANNA KEEP THIS GUY ON BOARD BECAUSE HE’S AN ASS!!! NOT MINCING WORDS!!! THAT’S A HUGE WIN CONSIDERING JAPAN’S ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY!!!!!!!
yuki: villager c what role are you giving yourself
tsuzuru: ...............a planet dweller
yuki:
tsuzuru:
yuki: so a villager
tsuzuru: A PLANET DWELLER
I think OP already realized that this is (slightly) incorrect but I got excited because this is one of the tropes that got adopted & flourished in fandoms across languages just like omegaverse. I’m firmly of the opinion that people SHOULD go crazy in interpeting the tropes! 🧵
I hate when people misunderstood the Hanahaki disease trope😭
Like no you won’t die because your crush rejects you, you will die because you DONT CONFESS IN TIME, the whole trope doesn’t depends on if you get rejected or not, it’s whether you CONFESS or not
gue:”senpai data shipping fee yang ini di mana ya”
senpai:”oh cari di BL”
gue:
gue:”BL”
senpai:”iya BL”
gue:
gue:
gue:”BL...?”
senpai:”lah lo belom diajarin BL? kemaren perasaan uda ngerjain shipment”
gue:”.....maksudnya di BackLog..?”
senpai:”iyalah,apaan lagi BL selain BackLog”
Hi, I’m opening commission because i really need extra dough for daily survival until July ends! RT really appreciated, and if you don’t want a commission but are kind-hearted and want to help me, the link to my ko-fi is on my profile (you’ll get a free drabble!)
there's a sociological reason for this on how writing fics is one of the ways women can explore their sexuality which is still a taboo topic in many places, & how exploring them thru writing men bodies is one of the "safe" choices but idt you're ready for that with that attitude
WHAT 💀 I HATE YOU STUPID YAOI FUCKS SO MUCH THAT BOY TILL AIN'T EVEN GAY MIZISUA IS LITERALLY CANON I CAN'T STAND YALL YOU DON'T DESERVE THIS IMMACULATE DOOMED YURI
if someone who happens to be fujoshi fetishizes queer people irl then it’s that individual’s problem. not because they’re fujoshi. and also a huge part of mankind ships celebrities, why aren’t you on their asses? :/
It’s OmiTsuzu day and I can finally tweet this!!! 😭😭 Back to my standard pining!Tsuzuru and Omi who knows and likes him back but is still scared of having someone to treasure.
Story by me, comic commissioned from
@mahesanarasimha
. Thank you for this beautiful work 😭😭😭
I’m all for people defending the female protag for not fetishizing her husband but a bunch of replies/qrts i saw was like “she’s fujoshi but” and i’m just like. why does this feels like implying fujoshi would fetishize their queer friends?
enjoying BL and being a fujoshi doesn’t mean i look at my actual gay friends and fetishize them, and honestly i’ve never met a fujoshi actually doing that. instead of “i bet our friend A tops B” it’s like “hey which one would top, the fork or the spoon lolololol”
so i arrived at my grandma’s place back in my childhood hometown and apparently my really old Terriermon plush is still being used AND in good condition!! (my younger cousins are still using it and taking care of it ahaha) Anyway so i just had to take a pic of it with makorin
when i said fafner has strong female characters, this is exactly what i meant. even with such a large cast and “choosing” as its main theme, its female characters were the ones whose choices pushed the stories forward, changed and built the world, and brought hope.
One easy way to tell agency is well, what has this character done? How do they affect the story?
As you list the results, think about your verbs. Is it:
She saved
or
She was saved?
Female characters are often the object of a sentence, which shows their lack of agency
actually has nothing to do about the news itself, but some of the replies/qrts reflects the biggest difference in fandom culture i’ve seen in english-speaking fandom vs asian language/cultured fandom when it comes to leak or posting spoilers.
In what may be the first case of its kind, YouTuber Yoshida Shinobu was arrested for posting unauthorized play footage of a new Steins;Gate game. Its creator NITRO PLUS explicitly forbids posting play footage so as not to leak spoilers.