Finding good BL is so hard I wanna quit reading it so bad but I keep telling myself “just one more, maybe this one’s gonna be a masterpiece”
I need to be freed 2 reply
Tbh
The entire mawha / manga sub is just fucked
The amount of action , bl , gl , fantasy and other genres
That I read are all giving me the same story over and over again
IM SICK AND TIRED
Every story is just the same old boring thing
I NEED MORE NEW STUFF. OK?
I DONT NEED TO KNOW THE THE MC GET ISEKAI AGAIN
I DONT NEED TO KNOW THE ML IS ...... reply
See this is the beautiful horses side (BL from Ridibooks), and that is the stinky bull side (BL from L*nzhin), Beautiful horses stay in Ridi and ugly beasts stay in L*nzhin. 2 reply
Real talk? It's pretty balanced I think. Especially if we are talking 'BL industry' as in comics, books, shows, movies, etc..
Slightly lengthy reply underneath, but lemme cook.
If we are just talking comics tho: It's honestly not all the same, you just need to stop looking at the trending bullshit who's selling points are good art and more fucki...... 1 reply
Yah, a lot of BL has become formulaic (but literature in general has been about chasing trends for a while now). My guess is that it's because manhwa artists (at least those that use online reading platforms) depend so much on popularity to ensure they get a decent income, so going for the type of story with the same type of characters and the same...... 1 reply
I have hope and Im looking forward to the future.
Yes, the most popular BLs have plots and powerful figures that resonate with a lot of people despite having very toxic male leads and SA. It’s a bit harder to find storylines that aren’t like these for the subset of us who are too vanilla ahaha. But there are a lot of new manhwa coming out that ...... reply
it's the same plot with a jerk seme + naive uke wrapped around a diff artstyle handed over to u like it's brand new lol and authors get their bag from doing that bc the readers are.. well.. goons! and they eat it up every single time, it goes over and over again like a fucking carousel ride and as long as ppl/readers tolerate it, i don't think it'l...... 1 reply