Rotten Apples

And so the chair creaks, and the sirens sing their song. Sorry. We don't know how to edit audio.Also, Shrek? Shrooms? No. Just danmei. 🤷‍♀️ Join your hosts Mimi and Kiki for a deep dive and many tangents into the thriving world of Chinese BL media. The hype is growing, but why? How's it different from the rest? What's the big deal? Find several of your answers here at most.Trigger warnings as usual for sensitive, NSFW content, some of which involves problematic relationship dynamics. Please watch your step.

What do cartels, the laws of thermodynamics, and BL have in common? You guessed it: fanfiction. Join Kiki and Mimi, neither of whom has yet confirmed who is who but it's anyone's guess at this point, for a 2-hour deep dive into the good old tropes and familiar icks pervading the literature we all call home.Our three years MIA do not count. (It's called method acting.)Note: Our mics broke and we're literally having tea in this episode, so please excuse the crap audio quality and random blips this time around. Listen on headphones if you can.Regular TWs for explicit content apply.

No discussion of BL (boys' love) or yaoi is complete without an uncomfortable foray into A/B/O dynamics. No one knows how it works, least of all the content creators. Flip your browsers to incognito boys, because the Omegaverse is back. Stay for unsolicited insight into your hosts’ questionable kinks.The omegaverse isn't without its own set of real-world controversies. TW for references to non-consent and rampant, systemic misogyny.

BL, yaoi, shōnen-ai, MLM, bara—various Western abbreviations and Japanese terminologies exist to blanket a niche subset of homosexual media. Join us to learn what led two young, otherwise innocent individuals to descend into a spiral of uncontrollable lust that continues to shadow our daily lives. (And to NOT learn who between us is Kiki and Mimi. We forgot to introduce ourselves. Good luck figuring that out.)**This episode is 27 minutes long, and we mention 30+ minutes in the recording. We can't edit it out without sounding even more like actual n00bs than we already are.