Side Characters and RarePair

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. [This episode is sponsored by YiggyBean Books: https://yiggybean.com/] This week's episode is all about problematic content so we had to call in a very special guest: Peachie! Peachie's Hiding Places: https://linktr.ee/cobl Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf Follow us on Instagram: TheYaoiShelf Our 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg/aJSt4WZkDz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. To celebrate October, we're going over some spooky and horror BL and ask the age old question: is this fetishizing gay men? Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf Support the Show: Patreon.Com/TheYaoiShelf Discord: https://discord.gg/aJSt4WZkDz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support

Today in honor of Carola's 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, we're gonna talk about side characters and rarepair! Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.    Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf Support the Show: Patreon.com/TheYaoiShelf DISCORD: https://discord.gg/aJSt4WZkDz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.   In this episode, Amanda and Carola enlist the help of very special guest and literal BL Scholar, Dr. Thomas Baudinette, to talk about a topic that has been part of the fujin experience for years: is this fetishizing gay men.   You can get Dr. Thomas' book here: https://www.press.umich.edu/11510904 And follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/tbaudinette Support the Show: https://www.patreon.com/TheYaoiShelf Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.   In this episode, to celebrate us both being older, we're going to talk about the site's we left behind on our fujin journey.     Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.   Today we're going to talk about tags, tagging and whether this is indeed fetishization?    Follow us on Twitter: TheYaoiShelf  Patreon: Patreon.Com/TheYaoiShelf  Instagram: TheYaoiShelf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.   In this episode hosts Carola and Amanda talk about queerbait: the who, what, where and why and ask in their recurring segment, is this fetishizing gay men?    Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/theyaoishelf Patreon: Patreon.Com/TheYaoiShelf  Instagram: TheYaoiShelf   Where else can you find us?    Amanda: Blog- amandaactually.com          Twitter- https://twitter.com/AichiYume                  Carola:              Twitter- https://twitter.com/AuthorCarola             Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/authorcarola --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support

This episode is sponsored by DLSite Garumani!  Please use our special link: https://dlsite.jp/e3fr2bx _   And enter the code ‘theyaoishelf’ to receive 30%off on your first purchase when you register!   Thank you to DLSite Garumani for sponsoring the show!   In this episode, hosts Carola and Amanda discuss why many fujin are not so straight anymore and the tricky relationship between pop culture and gender and sexuality.     Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.   Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelfMore places to listen- https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelfFollow us on Instagram- TheYaoiShelf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support

Join hosts AuthorCarola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.   In this episode,  Amanda and Carola discuss seme and uke: the characteristics, the tropes and why it may not be so toxic after all.     Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.   In this episode, Amanda and Carola talk about some of the tropes, roles and more in fanfic that we absolutely love and see little to no shame about!     Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf More places to listen- https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf/support