Join hosts AuthorCarola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media critici...
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.
In this month's episode, hosts Amanda and Carola run from their issues and into the arms of their favorite bad fictional men. We discuss the social aspect of loving not so great fictional men, why we keep going out of our way to say fictional and the implications of calling a fictional man "babygirl".
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2:25:18
The Performative Angst of Early BL Fandom
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.
In honor of Halloween Month, join hosts Amanda and Carola in a trip down memory lane where we discuss how edgy and problematic early fandom was, the need to prove yourself in fan spaces and the lingering scars from years of trying to act tough.
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2:35:55
Queer Representation in BL and Yaoi
This episode is sponsored by: Filthy Figments! Check them out for diverse and smutty 18+ webcomics! filthyfigments.com
In this episode, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss the history of queer representation in early BL and yaoi, how far we've come when it comes to queer representation and where readers can find the representation we are all so desperate for.
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2:10:02
The BL Con Scene
In this episode, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss the yaoi and BL con scene including it's past, present and discuss the fact that BL fandom has always been part of convention culture.
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.
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1:36:02
The Hetalia Episode
In this month's episode, to celebrate our birthdays: we're finally talking about Axis Powers: Hetalia, the fandom, the shipping, the less than stellar fan behavior and whether this titan of early fandom is worth watching!
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Join hosts AuthorCarola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support
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