Webcomic: It's Always Raining Here

Another cutsey teen-love webcomic!

It's Always Raining Here is about two awkward gay guys fumbling through unrequited romance.

Carter Brooks, seventeen years old, has just come out of the closet. His first priority: get laid. Unfortunately, there's only one other attractive gay kid around. His name is Adrian, and he hates Carter.

The webcomic is a lot like The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, or Tripping Over You, in that it's light and amusing, and it's much more about the relationship between the two than the sex. (In fact, there are no explicit sex scenes.) There's lots of humor, and it's easy to fall in love with the immature-yet-mature teenage cast.

At 82 pages (as of this moment) it is incomplete. It updates once a week (so far, very reliably!) I would highly recommend this comic. It's not gonna change your life, but it's great.

Webcomic: Starfighter

Today I'm here to talk about Starfighter.

I hate Starfighter.

But it's growing on me a little, and a lot of people seem to like it, so I feel obligated to mention it. So. Starfighter. Science fiction yaoi webcomic in which men come in two varieties: super-aggressive assholes and super-intelligent pansies.

Lots of D/S. Some rape? Maybe / sort of? It's difficult to tell if the bottom is consenting or not, and the top makes it pretty clear he doesn't care.

You know how some stories have this top who's intensely dominant? And at first he's an asshole, but then you get to know him better, and it turns out that deep down inside he's secretly this nice guy with a lot of angst. Like Edward Cullen, or Mako from Legend of Korra, or Atros from Teahouse.

This is not that story. This is the story of an asshole, who deep down inside, is an asshole. And I like that.

Different Categorizations of Guy-on-Guy: What Do They Mean?

Today I'm gonna be talking about a few different terms that are often, but not always, synonymous.

On this blog, I talk about a variety of things related to gay men, from webcomics to art to books (and, in the future, yaoi). While you're likely familiar with some of these, you might not know them all!

Feminism Friday: Girls Who Hate Girls (or, "An Appeal to Slash Fans")

I have noticed a disappointing trend recently, and I feel something needs to be said.

It seems every time I step into the world of a slash fanfic, I'm confronted with a reality in which females (a) no longer exist, or (b) are now bitches, cheaters, and rapists. I'm not sure which is worse.

Recall that, in slash fanfiction, the author takes two characters – often with female love interests – and makes them gay together. For example, let's take Harry Potter fanfiction. In the books, Harry and Ginny are together. When writing a slash fic, the slash fan handles this in one of three ways:

(1) Harry's relationship with Ginny is ignored.
(2) Harry's relationship with Ginny isn't “real” - they aren't really in love, they just think they are.
(3) Ginny is an evil, whorish bitch.