Girls who like Boys who like Boys – Ethnography of ... - Yuuyami.com

portion of non-sex fics. So on ff.net, Saiyuki has 1750 fics,
probably about 900 or more of those fics are gonna have
sexual contents - and as I told you I don’t want to read
about sex that much. So 25% of the rest will be shit (marysues
or self-insertions), so then you have 400 left, and
amongst those: bad grammar, bad plot. So in the end you
don’t have that many good fics left to read, and that’s in a
fandom where I like the pairing. So in a fandom where
there’s fem-slash, and that doesn’t appeal as much to me,
it’s not worth it to trudge through all this stuff.
Yuri’s preference for yaoi over het (heterosexual) and fem-slash is a very
straightforward one: as a heterosexual woman, her enjoyment is derived from
a story plotting out and focusing on male reactions; fem-slash is obviously
female-centric, and het, in general, focuses more on female reactions. “When I
have sex, I focus on the guy, and so, whenever I read something, I want to
focus on the male.”
Yuri’s preference for yaoi extends to the Harry Potter fandom, which
unites many slashers who came to it from both Western and Japanese
fandoms. She explained to me that the fandoms she preferred were often ones
in which a dominant character became submissive. This is interesting to me,
because that is generally not what I focus on, more on which can be found
below, yet some of Yuri’s and my fandoms intersect. It is in a way a part of
the source text on which Yuri focuses, much like I will focus on different but
very specific aspects and details. It is that subtle and balanced power play of
dominance and submission, or the Japanese seme (top) and uke (bottom)
respectively, which is not simply sexual but goes beyond that, to which Yuri
is pulled. In her own words,
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