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Our Bad Taste in Fictional Men
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The Performative Angst of Early BL Fandom
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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 ed…
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Queer Representation in BL and Yaoi
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This episode is sponsored by: Filthy Figments! Check them out for diverse and smutty 18+ webcomics! filthyfigments.comIn 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 desperat…
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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 an…
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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! Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelfImportant Links:https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/Our 18+ Discord: https://disco…
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What's in a Name? MLM Romance vs. BL vs. Yaoi & Shonen Ai
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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 episode of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss naming conventions in the boy's love and …
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An Intro to BL Gaming with Special Guest: Blerdy Otome
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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 are joined by the super talented, Blerdy Otome, to discuss …
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The Nakamura Asumiko Special
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In this episode of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola talk about the career of famed mangaka Nakamura Asumiko, the perils of recommendations in especially early yaoi fandom and the performative angst that was a huge part of 2000s fujin culture. Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/Support The Show: Patreon.com/theyaoishelfOur 18+ Dis…
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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 of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss piracy in BL fandom, the death of …
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Purity Culture with Sam Aburime
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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 We're back with our first guest of the year: Sam from the incredibly important Fujoshi.Info and of several ac…
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Queer Shipping in Western Fandom Spaces
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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. We're back! Join hosts Amanda and Carola as they discuss the queer shipping side of some of your favorite We…
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In this month's episode and the final episode of 2023, we're gonna talk about hauls, haul culture, capitalism and what turned hauls from social fun to social performance. 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 …
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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. This month, hosts Amanda and Carola are here to talk about a very "serious" condition: Fujin BrainRot. We're…
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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.Let's get spooky! Join hosts Amanda and Carola in a very long and very informative conversation about villain…
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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, Amanda and Carola talk about a podcast favorite: Antique Bakery by Fumi Yoshinaga. …
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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, Amanda and Carola go back to their roots to talk about BL fanfic, writing conventio…
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Representation in BL and Yaoi
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An Intro to BL Scholarship with Special Guest: Dr. James Welker
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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, Amanda and Carola are joined by famed BL and queer media scholar: Dr. James Welker, …
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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 talk about their experiences writing BL and yaoi, the "glamo…
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In this episode, hosts Amanda and Carola talk about their blindspots in the wide world of BL and yaoi fandom and discuss haul culture, overly enthusiastic fandoms and being in the right headspace to try new things. For more visit: theyaoishelf.com Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spot…
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The bell's ringing, class is in session! Today, your hosts are ready and eager to talk about school life BL, high school and university AUs, why school life series are still top of their class. 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 cr…
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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, we're talking about fluff; why it's good, when it can be bad and why Amanda specifi…
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Vintage BL Titles Worth Reading
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The Ultimate Fujin Gift Guide
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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. Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, …
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Problematic Content with Special Guest: Peachie from The Church of BL
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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. [This episode is sponsored by YiggyBean Books: https://yiggybean.com/] This week's episode is all about prob…
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An Intro Into Spooky and Horror BL
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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. To celebrate October, we're going over some spooky and horror BL and ask the age old question: is this fetis…
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Side Characters and RarePair
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Today in honor of Carola's 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, we're gonna talk about side characters and rarepair! 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. Follow u…
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Is this Fetishization? With Special Guest: Dr. Thomas Baudinette
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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 episode, Amanda and Carola enlist the help of very special guest and literal BL Scholar, Dr. Thomas …
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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 episode, to celebrate us both being older, we're going to talk about the site's we left behind on ou…
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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. Today we're going to talk about tags, tagging and whether this is indeed fetishization? Follow us on Twitter…
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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 episode hosts Carola and Amanda talk about queerbait: the who, what, where and why and ask in their …
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This episode is sponsored by DLSite Garumani! Please use our special link: https://dlsite.jp/e3fr2bx _ And enter the code ‘theyaoishelf’ to receive 30%off on your first purchase when you register! Thank you to DLSite Garumani for sponsoring the show! In this episode, hosts Carola and Amanda discuss why many fujin are not so straight anymore and the…
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Seme and Uke: The Trope to Rule Them All
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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. In this episode, Amanda and Carola discuss seme and uke: the characteristics, the tropes and why it may not b…
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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 episode, Amanda and Carola talk about some of the tropes, roles and more in fanfic that we absolutel…
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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 episode your hosts are joined by literal fantastic BL scholar Aeri of Queerioes fame to talk about a…
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In this episode, we cover just how we became the fujin that we are. We talk shipping wars, our first series and the things that made us into the proud elder fujin we are today. 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 …
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FINALLY. We're gonna do it. We're talking Gravitation. Let's go. 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. Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/…
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Psychological Abuse as a Trope in BL
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TRIGGER WARNING: if talk of emotional abuse and manipulation isn't your thing, you get a pass to hang out with a cookie and some juice and sit this one out. In this episode, hosts AuthorCarola and AichiYume talk about psychological abuse as a trope in BL and yaoi: why it happens, can it ever be good (in fiction) and if its so bad, why do we keep co…
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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. In this episode, let's meet our hosts that will guide us through another mythical season talking about BL, ya…
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TRIGGER WARNING: if talk of fictional noncon (lack of consent) is triggering to you, you may wanna sit this episode out. In this episode, hosts MommaluvsManga and AichiYume talk about noncon and dubcon in the BL space. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support…
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Join hosts MommaLuvsManga and AichiYume on a talk about headcanons, fan culture and when it's okay to just have a creative fan imagination. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support
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FujoCon 2021: Proper Fujo Etiquette Panel
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Recorded from our FujoCon panel learn how to be the very best possible fujin with Aisha and Amanda! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support
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Minors in Adult Fandom Spaces
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In the current drama of the Internet age: there seems to be a war waged between minors who seek to make the internet safe and adult fans who wish to continue making content made by them and for them. Just how did we get here and what happens when children try to play around in an adult toy land? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.…
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TW: frank discussions about abuse and trauma Well, let's talk about it. Why are so many semes in BL/yaoi so damn abusive? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support
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Here we go. We tackle the elephant in the room. Join hosts Aisha and Amanda as they finally conquer the topic of representation, the merits of minding your own business and talk about this tricky subject. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support
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They're all over "mangatube" and a quick and easy content source but are hauls are harmless as they seem? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support
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This episode is sponsored by Rotten Blossoms! Thank you to the Rotten Blossoms team for working with us and we're honored to have them help keep the lights on for The Yaoi Shelf. Stay tuned for a special message from our sponsor during this episode. Welcome back! It's Season 2 and in light of some...recent events, hosts Aisha and Amanda are going t…
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In the Season 1 Finale of The Yaoi Shelf: join Aisha and Amanda in a spirited talk about why folks still hate on Fujos, what we can do about it and the merits of listening. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support
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Some fans do literally the most. Join hosts MommaLuvsManga and AichiYume in a frank talk about fan works, fanfic, fan art, doujin and how to be the best possible fan creator. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support
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You love it, you hate it, it's an at times necessary part of BL fandom: let's talk censorship. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelf/support
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