manifestoonmoralmanlove

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Do you have another blog we could follow?

The closest thing I have is a Twitter. It was orginally for the blog but I have since just made it...bullshit I like more or less haha. I'll admit I rarely post my own thoughts or content on there. But anybody is welcome to follow.

I have been off and on working on writing projects. If I ever decide to post any of it, I will probably mention it here or on the twittersphere.

Thanks!

#ask

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Idk if you'll see this but fwiw I think you're way too harsh on yourself. I found this blog/your riff site when I was a teenager, it exposed me to good queer media and taught me how to be safe and made me feel less alone by showing me people like me and helping me to understand myself, and I will genuinely forever be so grateful for your influence on my life. I would never have followed you if you were truly a bully. I hope you find peace & happiness <3

You may be right, that I am being too harsh on myself. It is a classic Faps trait.

I deeply appreciate all the kind things you've said.

I am on the road to peace and happiness and I'm certainly doing much better than I had in the past.

Thank you for your kind words. I wish you all peace and happiness too! <3

#ask

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Hello all,

As you all have noticed this tumblr has been posted on less and less and with less and less effort put into the posts.  While I still personally enjoy queer media, my interest in reviewing, critiquing, and writing about it has dwindled significantly.  

I will no longer be posting here, however I have created a google drive of a lot of the material that I had created since the start. This will include some reviews, an episode of the parody OVA of Okane ga nai, the Papa to kiss my ass parody, and some of the comic riffs I have created.

You will notice that it is far from a complete collection of the riffs I have done. At this time I have decided NOT to include any of the webcomics I have riffed.  It is possible I may change my mind or include some of my favorites but looking back at the early blog is well, embarrassing for me. While I think that some of the points I had back then were valid and worth discussing, how I went about it was immature and sometimes cruel to small creators.  I was a troll.  I was a bully.

While it is probably worth very little at this point, I am sorry for the way I behaved at the start of this blog.  

I will write a more thorough retrospective of my time with this blog and what it’s meant for me below.

I started this blog back in March of 2011. I am not going to get into specifics, but that was very fraught time for me.  This caused me a great deal of anger, bitterness, and frustration.  The way I used to cope with these feelings was find easy targets.  What appealed to me about mlm, queer, and BL media was how badly I wanted these things to be a respite from my life.  However a lot of the content at the time was highly problematic and it made me feel angry and unsafe.  Yet I was also quite young and other things had compounded it.  There was a lot of internalized misogyny, taking media too seriously, and a kind of a misunderstanding and repulsion of non-con and kink fantasies.

A part of me is very ashamed of the way I had behaved.  A part of me looks back and sees a sad an isolated child failing to cope in healthy ways, and it makes me sad to look at them.  What I am trying to do is forgive myself.  It is a reminder that I am capable of cruelty and the only one capable of stopping myself from going down that dark path again.  

Now TO BE CLEAR I am not using this as an excuse for my behavior. Because there is no excuse.  

Also I may be being MELODRAMATIC about a time where I made juvenile mean-spirited jokes about amateur gay porn comics.  But hell, I don’t think it is unusual for emotions to be brought up looking back at almost any time in your life, especially a decade long blog that I poured countless hours into.  

I learned very harsh lessons but there was more during that time.  I learned a lot about comics, story-writing, media analysis, Japanese culture, queer culture, gender, sexuality, and probably a bunch of other stuff.

It is also illuminating to remember that time and how similar it is to what we see online.

When I look at social media now, I can’t help but see my younger self full of misplaced rage, reflected in the tweets of antis, and in the bad-faith combative way many twitters users behave.  I was most certainly not some kind of forerunner, but I was on a wave that would bleed into the online culture we see today.  My mismanagement of my anger was not unique to me, and forms of it persist in toxic ways.

Now it is possible that some of these bile spewing people on twitter are not all young people with horrible personal situations.  But I can’t help but see glimpses of that sometimes.  

I remember Natalie Wynn on JK Rowling talking about while the trans young people who vomit hateful threats at her all day are wrong full stop.  That so many of them have nothing…absolutely nothing.

I guess if there was one thing I would truly like to see come out of my blog is for people to see my story and perhaps reflect on themselves like I have.

The early times on this blog were not about a scrappy little queer standing up against heterosexuals trying to milk gay male sexual exploitation for profit and personal sexual titillation.  That’s so absurd that it makes me cringe to type it but it was a part of how I felt at the time.

What it was, was a disempowered person bullying other disempowered people.  I was picking at wounds, which in the moment feels good, feels powerful.  But in the end it only makes a bigger wound.

I guess what I’m trying to say a lot of what you can do with social media can bleed into mental self-harm. Please be aware of this and I wish you all a very good mental health. <3

#end of an era #blog over #google drive #riffs #comic riffs #video riffs

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Correct

#reblog #gay shit

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Ever feel as if working is fucking you?  Get revenge on working by making work fuck itself!

(Also idk what kind of boxer briefs gives that kinda boner room but I’m here for it)

From Work X work

#work x work #bl cover

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Just love the title

From King of Masturbation

#King of Masturbation #renta is a treasure #bl cover

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Working on Duolingo and came across this.  Which I think is a cute homage to to..

Because the brother’s husband in this case is in fact Canadian.

So Kudos Duolingo!

#my brother's husband #duolingo #cute

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Don’t you hate it when you get a job at a company where the rule on the books clearly states nobody over a 7 and then your manager is a 7.75.  But like he gets away with it because he’s the manager?

UGH!

From My manager’s so hot it’s against compliance!

#My manager’s so hot it’s against compliance!

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

My nonbinary siblings.  We are no longer enbies, we are now gal-guys!

From Gal guy! Come have some pervy fun with this dirty young man.

#Gal guy! Come have some pervy fun with this dirty young man #renta is a treasure #bl cover

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

You’re a renta book.  Don’t be coy. You were shaved down there for SEX reasons!

From I was shaved down there...for medical reasons!

#renta is a treasure #bl cover

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Don't forget Happy Shitty Life! It has way more chapters now and those two are definitely assholes towards each other haha

I fully thought I included that on the list! Oops! I may have added it and removed it because I wasn't caught up or something. Haha my bad.

But yes also for asshole on asshole check out Happy Shitty life!

#ask #response #asshole on asshole #happy shitty life

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

I saw your post where someone asked about some asshole on asshole bls, and i lowkey read and loved all of them, do you know some more maybe??

I'm glad you liked it so much. I don't know if followers of this blog have noticed but I have been reading a lot less BL as of late. I am going to toss out a few more. I don't think they're as on the nose as the previous list but I'll give it a shot!

Jealousy - I rec this one a lot so sue me. The tangled game one twisted guy plays in order to get with the Yakuza boss. TW: Violence, Rape, Gang-rape, Suicide, Sex Work, abusive behavior, Organized Crime, Basically everything

Same Difference -a comedic story of two arrogant businessmen battle for each other's love and who gets to top. In my opinion it started off good but then deteriorated into tropey stuff. TW: Dub-con

His Favorite - a comedic story of the popular high schooler dating the least popular high schooler. The popular guy is pretty arrogant and the less popular guy is pretty sassy. Tropey at times, contains tsunderes but enjoyable. TW: Sexual harassment outside the main couple

Simplified Perverted Romance - A story about a masochistic delinquent and the guy he ropes into his sex stuff.  To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of this story.  While the seme is petty, jealous, and shallow the bottom is straight up abusive.  He rapes him and then manipulates and blames him into staying with him. TW: Violence, rape, abusive behavior

I Shall Never Return - This is a bit of melodramatic early 90s cheese. I will say MAYBE A STRETCH to consider this asshole/asshole.  However one is clearly a self-interested asshole at the beginning. The other isn’t so much as a straight-forward asshole, but he doesn’t communicate, copes poorly, and cheats.  So it’s a bit less of asshole/wilting flower but more like asshole/self-pitying, self-interested jack-off? IDK TW: Gang-rape, rape, abuse, suicide, dub-con, slut-shaming

Samejima and Sasahara-kun - I wouldn't call this asshole/asshole. But it is extremely dumbass/dumbass which I think is a related and beloved genre. Two co-workers very awkwardly stumble through a relationship.

#sort of recs #jealousy #happy crappy life #I shall never return #same difference #simplified perverted romance #Samejima and Sasahara-kun #his favorite

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Someone has gotta make a BL title generator.  All  you need to do is:

Any Well-Known Predatory animal

X

Any Well-Known docile cute animal

I for one will be pre-ordering:

Amorous Alligator done gonna fuck this Chinchilla.

Braggadocios Bobcat is hunting a squirrel boy for his tender balls.

Slutty Snowy owl eats (and by eats I mean has sex with) a teacup pig boy (in his ass.)

This Sexual Boa Constrictor rails a goldfish why not.

The most frail deer boy child gets a right and real rogering by a tall monitor lizard man wearing a hat.

Can’t get enough of this Falcon Bastard fingering my littlest butt hole. Oh by the way I am a Penguin person.

From: Tiger on the prowl for a sensitive hamster

#Tiger on the prowl for a sensitive hamster #renta's treasures

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

I love this discussion of consent.

From When you wake up Tomorrow

#When you wake up Tomorrow #consent

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

...Hold is a common euphemism for sex in Japanese as I understand it...so like don’t touch him, don’t even come near him, but he asks to please be railed within an inch of his life? ....Just do that across the room without touching him?  So are we getting sex toys involved what is this shit?

Or does he literally mean hold like hug him...if so that’s even more confusing.  TSUNDERES GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!

From Don’t come near me, don’t touch me, just hold me.

#Don’t come near me don’t touch me just hold me

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

When I was cruising amazon I found a bunch of yaoi coloring books.  Which when I first encountered, thought it was a weird oddity.  But now?  The concept of it is fine...but...the amount of them that are using an artist’s work without even mentioning what series all the art belongs to?  No less...oh I don’t know asking permission to use their work?  And making money off it?

Despicable!

Fucking wow and fucking stop

#buy with your earth dollars

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Always here to pair off two total morons.

The loser and the airhead

#loser and the airhead #bl cover