#yaoi fandom

Hey everyone,

Some of you might remember me as Boxer & Rice or Truhania or Lord Truhan—part of the old DBZ Yaoi/BL scene since the early 2000s. Back when Gohan x Trunks ruled fanfiction archives and doujinshis came scanned in potato quality... I’ve been quietly archiving, preserving, and sharing DBZ yaoi treasures for over 20 years.

But like many of you, life hit hard around 2020. Burnout. Illness. Real-life chaos. The site stayed up—but I wasn't there anymore.

Until now.

🔧 The Website Has Been Completely Overhauled

✔️ New Name: DBZ Yaoi BL Hub ✔️ New Mission: Curate & restore the best of DBZ Yaoi/BL history ✔️ New Additions:

1000+ fanfics, doujinshis, fanart — all being re-verified, restored, or remastered

Watermarks removed, summaries fixed, formatting restored

New scanlations, legacy reposts, and unreleased works coming weekly

New navigation, search, and eventually comment/like systems

3-Star community vote system to highlight top-quality fanfics

🎯 What We’re Preserving

Gohan x Trunks / Truhan

Goku x Vegeta / Kakavege

Rare pairs, vintage doujinshi, and 90s BL nostalgia

Scanlated BL comics, legacy art, and digital archaeology

Fanfiction from defunct sites like Saiyan Hideaway (thanks Ma Ginia!)

🤝 How You Can Help

Share your saved content, old fanart folders, or forgotten doujin scans

Comment, upvote, and help highlight fanfics you love

Join the Discord to shape our 3-Star archive

Be part of the DBZ yaoi resurrection 🔥

🌐 Website: https://gohanxtrunks.net/dbz-bl/ 💬 Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/hykH8dw

🕰️ And There’s More — The Yaoi Time Machine We’re also expanding to preserve the entire era of classic 90s–2000s yaoi/BL art: Saint Seiya. Gundam Wing. FF7. Ronin Warriors. Evangelion. Only gorgeous art. No dumps. No filler. Just fandom memory, curated with love.

📣 Let’s build the ultimate legacy yaoi archive together. Not just for DBZ fans. But for anyone who believes fandom is worth preserving. We’re live through 2035 and beyond. Let’s plant the seeds now.

Tag your artists. Share the link. Leave a comment. Even one like, one message, one scan can ripple.

Let’s restore the BL fandom’s crown jewels. Together. 💎

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✨ Reblog if you want to preserve DBZ yaoi history. 🖤 Like if you believe fanwork matters. 📦 Archive before it disappears.

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Fujoshi or fujo: term for female fans who enjoy any media works or fanworks with romantic relationships between men, typically yaoi; a fujin woman. Achillean/vincian: queer attraction to men (QLM); man or man-aligned folk loving men or man-aligned folx (MLM/NBLM/MLNB/NLM/MLN); man-loving queer (MLQ).

Sangwoo:*tilts his reading glasses down as he puts his newspaper down* what was that? Call the cops?

Bum: w-wha? No I want m-

Sangwoo: say there was a break in at my home and I managed to capture the criminal by defending myself?

Bum: sangwoo that's not funny you murder..

Sangwoo:*lifts up newspaper* yeah I know

Bum: .......

Taking Advantage of A Fandom

I watched the show, and haven’t read the comic. However @absolutebl posted a terrific commentary on this issue a while back:

From my perspective, BL and by extension, yaoi, is a uniquely Asian sub genre of erotic romance.

Alice Osman is a British creator who wrote a young adult LGBT+ romance comic. So the comparisons made seem ‘convenient’ for ‘marketing purposes’.

I personally resent the accusations lobbed against fujoshi of fetishisation, because it’s rooted in anti-woman rhetoric and I won’t have my tastes dictated to me. Everybody has opinions, but not all of them are valid.

BL is full of problematic tropes, just like regular M/F romance… and I’ve been reading romance and erotica for forty odd years. But these tropes are part of romance as a genre, and these tropes reflect our lived context. To single out BL/Yaoi as unique is nonsense. The tropes exist because the reality exists. Storytelling exists to allow us to find empathy for one another.

There are some good academic pieces out there, that debate this far better than I can. What I can tell you is that the internalised and externalised misogyny regarding BL content, is quite painful to me. Somebody always gotta rush on to tell women what they can and cannot enjoy. Dictate their sexuality and shame them for their pleasures.

We literally can’t have a damn thing nice, without some bozo trying to make us feel bad because we like it. Chile, I’m too old for that shit. We are allowed to like what we like, and enjoy problematic media just like anyone else. We are people too!

And lest you think otherwise: homophobia and transphobia’s roots are in anti-woman thinking and policies. That women do it to other women… well, it’s nice to be somebody’s favourite pet isn’t it. You get a padded cage, and the best kibble.

Osman benefits from the BL label, even though her story isn’t in my opinion BL. But criticising and alienating potential readers within the BL fandom seems to be a bit of a sport across ‘BL’ as it’s being broadly defined here. Because throwing shade on fans happens too much… by too many creators both Asian and Western.

Which is interesting, because the global market consuming this content is HUGE. You don’t understand the numbers of people reading Painter of The Night. I believe last year, it was more than all the people who bought romance novels in the West COMBINED. So if you think the Western authors don’t know the market for their stories are pale compared to what BL is doing on a global level, I should encourage you all to get interested in the business of BL. There is a lot of money and soft power in it.

But because it’s a FEMALE audience interested in SMUTTY stories, well… it’s a PROBLEM. Even in the countries of origin.

I get that we should analyze the problematic tropes in BL/Yaoi, but that’s what storytelling is for. I’m not for false equivalencies, because I personally disdain most Western content… and where do you see these types of stories in profusion from Western creators? No place. That’s where.

Maybe Osman has feelings because her story is no Painter of The Night. Maybe somebody asked her one too many times about our smutty stories… and what we got was shade and salt.

I did watch Heartbreaker on Netflix, and it was cute but I don’t feel compelled to rewatch it, the way I do say KinnPorsche or Love In The Air. I haven’t been moved to hunt down the comic to find out what happens next, the way I did when I watched that last scene of Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather.

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This Wank Wednesday, would you like to hear our thoughts on yaoi?

Under the incorrect assumption that the members of the Fandom Wank community wanted to hear them, a fan named bohemianfaerie once decided to share her "thoughts on yaoi," and did so at great length. While Fandom Wank is long gone, the phrase "my thoughts on yaoi" remains, an eternal reminder that sometimes the only one interested in your opinion is you.

Learn more about fandom history on Fanlore!

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