# What posters here are yaoi/yuri/slash fanboys/girls? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-here-are-yaoi-yuri-slash-fanboys-girls/295213 "2005-03-18T22:05:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-here-are-yaoi-yuri-slash-fanboys-girls/295213/1 "2005-03-18T22:05:02Z")
On a thread about [Romances or attraction between humans and non-humans](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=305862) some yaoi fangirls came out of the closet, myself included, (you know what I mean) to defend the pairing in Trigun. Well, when I say some, I mean Tremorviolet and myself. She said: > [@tremorviolet](#): > > (OK, I usually refrain from spreading the slashy goodness on this board but I just couldn’t resist…) Why? I wouldn’t feel constrained not talk about my favorite non-hetereo pairing if I saw a (hypothetical) discussion entitled “Who is better for Heero? Relena or Sally?” There must be more fans of non-hetero romances here, considering the……Hey! Look over there! PS [Slash](http://scifi.about.com/od/tosadultslash/index.htm) =any references to male/male romance in popular western culture. [Yuri](http://www.shoujoai.com/)=any references to female/female romance in popular Japanese culture. [Yaoi](http://kaworu.com/) =any references to male/male romance in popular Japanese culture. Alternately, this could turn into a "You know you’re a (non-hetero fandom) fan when: thread. Same result. Examples: Yuri: [Your sole reason for playing the Sims is to establish lesbian couples you randomly find subtext in everything you see, commercials, TV boxes, children’s shows…and if there aren’t two female characters, you look for proof that the one there is a lesbian instead. You fly into a violent rage when someone suggests Utena and Anthy aren’t gay. Xena and Gabriel… need I say more?](http://www.shoujoai.com/forum/topic_show.pl?tid=26272) Yaoi: Gay men ask you for sex advice - and you’re a straight woman. And you know the answer. You know you’re a slash junkie when you receive spam with the heading ‘Slash Mortgage Payments’ and your response is ‘With who?’ 😛 PSS I will post to this list later. I need to go soon. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-here-are-yaoi-yuri-slash-fanboys-girls/295213/2 "2005-03-18T22:21:46Z")
We’ve kinda done this kinda recently, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=297673&highlight=yaoi) and one I started, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=298155). I tend not to go on about it much on this board because it’s much more general and there are plenty of boards just for the fangirls. It’s the type of obsessive thing that bores the general reader… ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-here-are-yaoi-yuri-slash-fanboys-girls/295213/3 "2005-03-18T22:35:22Z")
Ohhhhh. Speaking of which, what are those sites you go to? I usually lurk on [shoujoai.com](http://shoujoai.com) and…what? I’ve been reading Digimon fanfition on [fanfiction.net](http://fanfiction.net), I’ve forgotten what forums I used to go to to discuss yaoi. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-here-are-yaoi-yuri-slash-fanboys-girls/295213/4 "2005-03-18T22:54:46Z")
Well, I mostly read original yaoi works, not doujinshi (as far as manga goes) and it’s tough to get info. [Aestheticism](http://www.aestheticism.com/) is a good resource tho’ it’s not updated a lot and I also belong to the AMLA (Aestheticism ML-Alpha) Yahoo group although traffic can be erratic. [Slash-kun](http://www.fou.com/e-yaoi/index.html) runs an info site with release dates and reviews and is also a penpal of mine. Plus there are a bunch of scanlation sites (you can find a list at Tokudane) and some of them have message boards. For fic, the only anime pairings I like are Gundam Wing, so I lurk on the [Gundam Wing BBS](http://www.gwaddiction.com/phpBB2/index.php). Dacia has one of the best [Gundam archives](http://raygunworks.net/main.html) around but it’s all yaoi, not yuri. For slash, I’m currently obsessed with Stargate Atlantis and belong to two Yahoo groups and lurk on numerous Live Journal communities. But, I guess I don’t really spend much time discussing yaoi/slash, I just read it… ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-here-are-yaoi-yuri-slash-fanboys-girls/295213/5 "2005-03-18T23:21:16Z")
I love yaoi. Wonderful, lovely yaoi. Fangirl, By the way.