Seems like that time of month again because Anglo fans are ranting about the use of seme and uke in series, again. In ASIAN BL!
What is it about being American that even marginalised groups will cling onto the worst 🇺🇸 values and drag them into BL fandom spaces which they feel entitled to colonise in their own image?
Its useful to know the history and meaning of these terms to avoid frustration or the word heteronormative getting thrown around in an attempt to evaluate them from an irrelevant Anglo context. Relax: uke and seme express non-normative masculine aesthetics not that one's a woman
Credit for the image of the classic ōdō, BL’s “noble road” celebrating difference and variety in masculinity, belongs to yamada_mkra on Twitter
Research Note from The BL Fan Project of _queerioes on Twitter and Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/bl-fan-8-42766914?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare