You're right on the nail.
Answer: Because storytelling, when you weed it down to its roots, is a POV. The author's point of view, the protagonist's POV, the unreliable narrator's POV, and ultimately by extension, YOU the reader. Now this is where it gets exciting, a writer needs to market that POV using the basest ingredient (i.e. personality, te...... 3 reply
I’m sure it exists somewhere but it’ll be a different type of media aimed at different ppl (ugly b*stard genre in h*ntai comes to mind, and there may be equivalents in bl). Tho, as an aside, the ugly b*stard shit is generally misogynistic in that it’s abt humiliating (often r4ping) the “beautiful woman”, and that too is a self-insert thin...... reply
I'm glad someone said it. Like, i need more ugly seme troupes i swear. I can't even remember the last time i read a story with an ugly seme, or if i even read one. That's how nonexistent they are. Respectfully, i still love our hot semes, but i NEED, and i WANT, an ugly seme x beautiful uke troupe.
(If someone can recommend me one that'll be much...... 2 reply
I think for me, we portray the semes as our ideal partner. The one who is perfect, but imperfectly perfect. They are just imaginative boyfriends. reply
yes. if you're reading yaoi as a straight woman (which most yaoi readers are) the bottom is your self insert and you want the top to be someone you find attractive. its a bummer but the authors have to consider the taste of the common reader base if they want their work to sell reply
I like it when the uke is pretty and gorgeous I get disappoint when the uke is not as good looking as seme if the main plot of the story is being ugly i can read it and as long as the story is good I am reading anything but there is just too much of a story with average looking uke 1 reply
not necessarily imo. most prolly because people loves perfect seme so they'd put everything good to the seme except great attitude. also, so they could be redeemable or smth. idk reply
