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...I belittle boys' love? *blinks* Dang, I better go tell my Guardian boys that I care nothing about their relationship, which I've spent years/50+ chapters building. While I'm at it, I'll go back to the Uni and tell all my old professors to take back my A+s in LGBT literature. Because I obviously find it trivial and insulting. Guess that goes for you two, Sasuke and Naruto. Might as well tell Graham I've returned my slash fangirl membership card and am ready to learn all about the wonders of NaruSaku.

Screw that, I'm going to go read some Love Mode and then write some V-Day Guardian boi pron. Need slashy assurance stat.

/end lamer sarcasm

Why yes, being snarky is what I do best. Must you ask. XD

In all seriousness, making fangirls think ~~fight~~ tops all.

ETA: They actually managed to wank themselves. No,

quebelly, I wasn't in the middle of the arguement just the vessel. ~~Unless you count the part where I played in F_W and made a total ass out of myself by forgetting about the sockpuppet style. But you didn't read that.~~ Still, damn. I got nothing.

ETA4: I'm calm now. I think.

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Just like to point out that I never once suggested Loveless was cute. As a matter of fact, I referenced the relationships as akin to master and servant. And I did expect it to generate a reaction. I know the consquences of posting something opinionated/controversial. I have done it many times. I doubt I will learn my lesson. Just learn to pair out more of the snark in my pieces so they don't seem as vindictive unless they are intended as such. Now, I didn't expect someone to assume something so off-the-wall as to reduce the entire post to one narrow-minded viewpoint. I should have deleted that post when I saw it, but I have issues with censorship. That's why this post is open.

That said, I stand by my opinion that people should not nudge others toward the series with the promise of kyute boys love. Because that's what they do. And that's what rankles me so. Pretentious...if you want to call it that. But that's just the way I feel.

I started reading the series because of the gay and the brain-freezing weird. I haven't been disappointed on either count yet. I rec Loveless to anyone who likes BL, because that's what it is. No one has gotten mad at me for misleading them yet, and I think I have created several fans (some were posting about the manga on my journal the other day, when that crud TokyoPop edition came out).

No, you didn't say it was cute. But you did say it was shoujo, which it very, very isn't, and she said it was a mystery, which is like saying that the Sherlock Holmes series is a string of odd-couple buddy novels.

Also, I would say that any anime or manga with underage-looking catboys would be creepy by definition. I've read several manga with that sort of theme, and most of them make Loveless look like Mister Roger's Neighborhood. I would assume that anyone looking specifically for gay catboys would be aware of that, and wouldn't be stunned by the themes in Loveless at all.

Also, it seems to me as though Ritsuka wants to love Soubi in a sweet and non-threatening way, but Soubi wants to be pwned on the one hand and master of his domain on the other. It hasn't really been non-con or BDSM-lite since the second volume. Well, any more than that weird fighting system requires it to be.

I would do better than those goth boys, and say that Loveless is my favorite gay love story, period. I liked the part a few chapters ago when Ritsuka gave Soubi a house key, which Soubi then used to let himself in and rescue Ritsuka from his crazy mother (after almost going to sleep in the lap of a tellingly and metaphorically restrained Ritsuka). Cute scene all around. And by "cute" I mean "bizarre."