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[darkelf105]

I find myself in possession of a yaoi short novel.  I do not know how this happened and I am not sure how I feel about this. I am attracted to yaoi with the part of my brain that just notes if things are pretty and shiny and does no actual critical thinking. Somehow,  putting the magic of yaoi-land into a text-based format seems, erm, wrong? I really, really do not want to spend the length of a novel reading stuff  based on yaoi-land premises. Is it wrong that I find the genre (well some of the genre, there are some things in the world of yaoi and bl that I will not wade into) okay as comic/primarily visual medium but inexcusable as a novel?

Neil Postman is correct, I think: medium is the format is the content.  Well, I horribly butchered that, but ya get it right?

Just musing, carry on then.

Comments

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. a lot of stuff in my manga is okay because it is manga but if it happened in a book or even on tv I would not like it at all. By tv I mean non-anime of course!

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the whole uke/seme thing isn't quite so, erm, enthralling, when there are no naughty pictures to distract your puerile mind.

[vieve-kethrun.livejournal.com]

Meh. Sometimes it trasnlates well. It depends on the novel and what the authors trying to get across. Written media can also be a great deal less (or more) graphic than picture-yaoi. 'S a good openning point if you're startin out and its a helluva lot more work safe.
I wouldn't want to read a bl novel anyway. The translations are sort of simplistic and awkward.