Comments on: Why This Gay Man Is Creating Yaoi http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/ For all your Yaoi emergencies... Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:31:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alex Woolfson http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-241 Alex Woolfson Sat, 31 May 2008 19:11:35 +0000 http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-241 Ah, yes, the dreaded raised eyebrow of judgment. Fear it! ;-) I'm glad you found this post interesting. Yeah, it does seem a little contradictory to encounter intolerance from folks who are into something as outside of mainstream's norms as yaoi, but the truth is, I've only encountered it a couple of times. As I've said here and other places, the vast majority of yaoi fans I've met and interacted with are completely delightful. And it's interactions like that which keep the enthusiasm up for a project that, frankly, takes a fair bit of time to reach completion. <--- (feels like running a marathon somedays pant, pant) :-D As for LiveJournal, I do have an account there -- but only to check out other people's accounts. I haven't posted or anything. But I did friend you -- alexwoolfson is my account name -- so if you want to friend me back, it'd be cool to check out that post. :-) Be well -- and I hope you continue to enjoy the site. Alex<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('241','Alex Woolfson'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('241','Alex Woolfson','Ah, yes, the dreaded raised eyebrow of judgment. Fear it! ;-)\n\nI\'m glad you found this post interesting. Yeah, it does seem a little contradictory to encounter intolerance from folks who are into something as outside of mainstream\'s norms as yaoi, but the truth is, I\'ve only encountered it a couple of times. As I\'ve said here and other places, the vast majority of yaoi fans I\'ve met and interacted with are completely delightful. And it\'s interactions like that which keep the enthusiasm up for a project that, frankly, takes a fair bit of time to reach completion. <--- (feels like running a marathon somedays pant, pant) :-D\n\nAs for LiveJournal, I do have an account there -- but only to check out other people\'s accounts. I haven\'t posted or anything. But I did friend you -- alexwoolfson is my account name -- so if you want to friend me back, it\'d be cool to check out that post. :-)\n\nBe well -- and I hope you continue to enjoy the site.\n\nAlex'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Ah, yes, the dreaded raised eyebrow of judgment. Fear it! ;-)
I’m glad you found this post interesting. Yeah, it does seem a little contradictory to encounter intolerance from folks who are into something as outside of mainstream’s norms as yaoi, but the truth is, I’ve only encountered it a couple of times. As I’ve said here and other places, the vast majority of yaoi fans I’ve met and interacted with are completely delightful. And it’s interactions like that which keep the enthusiasm up for a project that, frankly, takes a fair bit of time to reach completion. < --- (feels like running a marathon somedays pant, pant) :-D
As for LiveJournal, I do have an account there -- but only to check out other people's accounts. I haven't posted or anything. But I did friend you -- alexwoolfson is my account name -- so if you want to friend me back, it'd be cool to check out that post. :-)
Be well -- and I hope you continue to enjoy the site.

Alex

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]]> By: ButterflyFomori http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-240 ButterflyFomori Thu, 29 May 2008 15:26:05 +0000 http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-240 Sorry for the structural mistakes in the above comment! (Typing on stream-of-conciousness = embarrasing mistakes.) I also wanted to clarify, so as not to make you think i am pathetic, that i DO have valued friends that are sweet, supportive and open-minded beauties, but they are not of the art-words-reading-yaoi-raving-obsession type. (Speaking of obsessions, I am so damn in love with brackets and hyphens.) **Off to read more of your articles.**<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('240','ButterflyFomori'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('240','ButterflyFomori','Sorry for the structural mistakes in the above comment! (Typing on stream-of-conciousness = embarrasing mistakes.) I also wanted to clarify, so as not to make you think i am pathetic, that i DO have valued friends that are sweet, supportive and open-minded beauties, but they are not of the art-words-reading-yaoi-raving-obsession type. (Speaking of obsessions, I am so damn in love with brackets and hyphens.) **Off to read more of your articles.**'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Sorry for the structural mistakes in the above comment! (Typing on stream-of-conciousness = embarrasing mistakes.) I also wanted to clarify, so as not to make you think i am pathetic, that i DO have valued friends that are sweet, supportive and open-minded beauties, but they are not of the art-words-reading-yaoi-raving-obsession type. (Speaking of obsessions, I am so damn in love with brackets and hyphens.) **Off to read more of your articles.**
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]]> By: ButterflyFomori http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-239 ButterflyFomori Thu, 29 May 2008 15:20:37 +0000 http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-239 *Le sigh* Damn society trying to pigeon hole people! Why so many boxes and why are they all square? Heeeelp! I make a conscious effort (fight, more like) to retrain and keep my brain running on i-am-who-i-am-so-explore-and-embrace-it-all thought patterns. Rock on, my friend, rock on. You mentioned in another post to myself to 411 my friends on the Yaoi911. I only have online friends (real life, I'm surrounded mostly by people I hesitate to share myself and my subculture views around for fear of that freakin' ol' raised eyebrow of judgement. NOooooo! Not the eyebrow! Aaaaahhhh!) <a href="http://mightymaeve.livejournal.com/12906.html" rel="nofollow">This</a> This is the best I can do for you! :) If you have a Livejournal.com account and friend me (MightyMaeve), you'll see my little entry on you fabulous site and more! If not, let me know, and I'll send you an email of what I wrote.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('239','ButterflyFomori'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('239','ButterflyFomori','*Le sigh* Damn society trying to pigeon hole people! Why so many boxes and why are they all square? Heeeelp! \r\nI make a conscious effort (fight, more like) to retrain and keep my brain running on i-am-who-i-am-so-explore-and-embrace-it-all thought patterns. \r\nRock on, my friend, rock on. \r\nYou mentioned in another post to myself to 411 my friends on the Yaoi911. I only have online friends (real life, I\'m surrounded mostly by people I hesitate to share myself and my subculture views around for fear of that freakin\' ol\' raised eyebrow of judgement. NOooooo! Not the eyebrow! Aaaaahhhh!)\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mightymaeve.livejournal.com\/12906.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">This<\/a> This is the best I can do for you! :) If you have a Livejournal.com account and friend me (MightyMaeve), you\'ll see my little entry on you fabulous site and more! If not, let me know, and I\'ll send you an email of what I wrote.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> *Le sigh* Damn society trying to pigeon hole people! Why so many boxes and why are they all square? Heeeelp!
I make a conscious effort (fight, more like) to retrain and keep my brain running on i-am-who-i-am-so-explore-and-embrace-it-all thought patterns.
Rock on, my friend, rock on.
You mentioned in another post to myself to 411 my friends on the Yaoi911. I only have online friends (real life, I’m surrounded mostly by people I hesitate to share myself and my subculture views around for fear of that freakin’ ol’ raised eyebrow of judgement. NOooooo! Not the eyebrow! Aaaaahhhh!)
This This is the best I can do for you! :) If you have a Livejournal.com account and friend me (MightyMaeve), you’ll see my little entry on you fabulous site and more! If not, let me know, and I’ll send you an email of what I wrote.
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]]> By: Alex Woolfson http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-151 Alex Woolfson Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:40:56 +0000 http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-151 Ald, Thanks for the encouragement -- it's much appreciated! And you are definitely not alone -- there are lot of us. ;-) Alex<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('151','Alex Woolfson'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('151','Alex Woolfson','Ald,\n\nThanks for the encouragement -- it\'s much appreciated! And you are definitely not alone -- there are lot of us. ;-)\n\nAlex'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Ald,

Thanks for the encouragement — it’s much appreciated! And you are definitely not alone — there are lot of us. ;-)
Alex

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]]> By: viceroy http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-150 viceroy Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:22:16 +0000 http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-150 hey I’m gay and like yaoi to, as a matter of fact it was the first form of gay art i find, but I still like it a lot. I'm also make some yaoi webcomics wanabe, and I found out that most of my readers are girls, so I was feeling very lonely, glad to see some guys who like yaoi as well, I'm totally support your cause. Keep the good work ald<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('150','viceroy'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('150','viceroy','hey I’m gay and like yaoi to, as a matter of fact it was the first form of gay art i find, but I still like it a lot. I\'m also make some yaoi webcomics wanabe, and I found out that most of my readers are girls, so I was feeling very lonely, glad to see some guys who like yaoi as well, I\'m totally support your cause. \r\n\r\nKeep the good work\r\n\r\nald'); return false;">Quote</a></div> hey I’m gay and like yaoi to, as a matter of fact it was the first form of gay art i find, but I still like it a lot. I’m also make some yaoi webcomics wanabe, and I found out that most of my readers are girls, so I was feeling very lonely, glad to see some guys who like yaoi as well, I’m totally support your cause.

Keep the good work

ald

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]]> By: Alex Woolfson http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-146 Alex Woolfson Fri, 18 May 2007 04:53:51 +0000 http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-146 Hey Press, Glad I could offer a little encouragement and let you know that you aren't alone. ;-) I actually have the first story ("A Shot in the Dark") ready to post online, colored and lettered and everything. So keep checking in -- I'll be posting it in sections (first just the colored pages, then finally the fully lettered pages, both with the usual [hopefully interesting] commentary about the process) over the next couple of months. So hopefully I'll be able to add another comic to the list of yaoi stories you like... And I'll also be posting up the character designs for the 2nd comic in the book, a sci-fi story: "Artifice" which Winona is doing the pencils for as well -- and I think you'll like what you see there, too. Cartoon boys in their underwear -- whee! :-) Thanks for commenting! Alex<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('146','Alex Woolfson'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('146','Alex Woolfson','Hey Press,\n\nGlad I could offer a little encouragement and let you know that you aren\'t alone. ;-) I actually have the first story (\"A Shot in the Dark\") ready to post online, colored and lettered and everything. So keep checking in -- I\'ll be posting it in sections (first just the colored pages, then finally the fully lettered pages, both with the usual &#91;hopefully interesting&#93; commentary about the process) over the next couple of months. So hopefully I\'ll be able to add another comic to the list of yaoi stories you like...\n\nAnd I\'ll also be posting up the character designs for the 2nd comic in the book, a sci-fi story: \"Artifice\" which Winona is doing the pencils for as well -- and I think you\'ll like what you see there, too. Cartoon boys in their underwear -- whee! :-)\n\nThanks for commenting!\n\nAlex'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Hey Press,

Glad I could offer a little encouragement and let you know that you aren’t alone. ;-) I actually have the first story (”A Shot in the Dark”) ready to post online, colored and lettered and everything. So keep checking in — I’ll be posting it in sections (first just the colored pages, then finally the fully lettered pages, both with the usual [hopefully interesting] commentary about the process) over the next couple of months. So hopefully I’ll be able to add another comic to the list of yaoi stories you like…

And I’ll also be posting up the character designs for the 2nd comic in the book, a sci-fi story: “Artifice” which Winona is doing the pencils for as well — and I think you’ll like what you see there, too. Cartoon boys in their underwear — whee! :-)
Thanks for commenting!

Alex

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]]> By: presser_kun http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-145 presser_kun Fri, 11 May 2007 21:21:45 +0000 http://www.yaoi911.com/why-this-gay-man-is-creating-yaoi/#comment-145 Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only gay man who liked yaoi. I sort of resent the stereotypical view (there are so many!) of -- of, well, anybody, really. But the view I'm thinking of here is that stories of sweet love between boys isn't for gay boys, gay men, or much of anyone but straight women. I'm gay, proud, and a yaoi-lover. Thanks for encouraging me, even though that wasn't your intent! peace, press<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('145','presser_kun'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('145','presser_kun','Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only gay man who liked yaoi. I sort of resent the stereotypical view (there are so many!) of -- of, well, anybody, really. But the view I\'m thinking of here is that stories of sweet love between boys isn\'t for gay boys, gay men, or much of anyone but straight women.\n\nI\'m gay, proud, and a yaoi-lover.\n\nThanks for encouraging me, even though that wasn\'t your intent!\n\npeace,\n\npress'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only gay man who liked yaoi. I sort of resent the stereotypical view (there are so many!) of — of, well, anybody, really. But the view I’m thinking of here is that stories of sweet love between boys isn’t for gay boys, gay men, or much of anyone but straight women.

I’m gay, proud, and a yaoi-lover.

Thanks for encouraging me, even though that wasn’t your intent!

peace,

press

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