LEP 27.4.

I was gonna post this on Tumblr and decided it was too spicy but since I am once again moaning the lack of yaoi in my fandoms, even of characters whose ships I don't really even care about, I really do think that all the complaining about people's lack of attention to female characters and only focusing on ships that the dislikers of such things can characterise as "any two guys" ships means that there's just plain less art of any kind now.

Like I thought brainless seme/uke bishonen porn was an unavoidable scourge on fandom but my favourite character's tags are full of porn of them with the Hot Sexy Girl from their game/show, rather than them with any of the "low-hanging yaoi ships" everyone complains about. Pixiv had a total of twenty works crosstagged with both "BL" and "Xenoblade 3", for example.

I guess I'm glad the het fans are eating well. And, granted, I do also like those ships, I just think the porn is low quality and OOC for the most part. But there's not even low-quality OOC boy/boy porn available for me to be disappointed by.

Further complaining about the same topic.

Like IDK if the complaining about the "fetishisation of queer men" just results in there being less porn of men, that's not exactly the progressive victory people act like it is. The hiding of male subjects from pornography is shit I get from mainstream porn already, and it was the one thing that was unequivocally, inarguably good about the proliferation of yaoi about every property ever.

And it's not like the straights are stepping up to make porn of men (the thing I want to see) because the conventions of straight porn are incapable of representing men as desireable. That's not the point, the point is almost invariably the gratification of a male audience, and that male audience isn't interested in looking at other men. Gay porn, at least, likes looking at men.

This is also not something GL and yuri can give to me, because again, those genres do not give a shit about men!!! And those fucking genres also have been dealing with backlash over being made to gratify a male audience, but just like with BL, I question if trying to make that distinction is even useful if the thing the genre does is represent a specific kind of subject as desireable and erotic, regardless of who the audience looking at that subject are.

The effect is that there just is no porn of men where they look like they're having a good time, because I am 100% not getting that from straight stuff. Men in hentai are fucking boring. They're barely characters. They almost never act like they're actually enjoying themselves, and at worst are taken over by a porn personality so they can become a fucking machine made of flesh to adorn yet another female subject.

It really does feel like everyone is going "well all porn is for men so we don't need to see men enjoying themselves in porn", and if there are men enjoying themselves in porn then we can't have that, that must be fetishisation.