/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10999787]

Does anybody here know any literary or Western books that are equivalent to Japanese yaoi? I'm looking for the best.

[Anonymous No.10999795]

>>10999787
Satyricon
The Aeneid

[Anonymous No.10999798]

I heard Lord of The Rings is a good one.

[Anonymous No.10999805]

The Iliad is lewd as hell.

[Anonymous No.10999858]

>>10999787
The Thomas Mann book, oh god I can't remember what it was called. Set in Vienna... Hmm

[Anonymous No.11000018]

>>10999787
>yaoi
best

[Anonymous No.11000026]

>>10999787
>>10999858
Death in Venice.

Although you could read pretty much anything by Mann, almost everything he wrote had homoerotic subtext of some kind.

Also there's a lot of homosexuality in Nabokov's Pale Fire.

[Anonymous No.11000069]

>>11000026
>mfw western slav twink
>never spent time on beach teasing older men
end me

[Anonymous No.11000127]

>>11000069
I'm literally a slav femboy, I'm 25yo and still get mistaken for a girl a lot of the time. I have almost no bodily hair etc., fem genes are pretty great.
Unforfunately I'm also a virgin because I kept looking for a true romance instead of mindless gay sex...'ve dated three guys and went nowhere with it, my only sexual experience is sucking off a bicurious friend which wasn't even good because he was uncomfortable so i couldn't get into it. Finding a real homo relationship is still way too difficult desu senpai.

[Anonymous No.11000160]

>>11000069
>>11000127
where in slavlandia though

[Anonymous No.11000170]

>>11000127
post boipucci

[Anonymous No.11000196]

>>11000127
woah are you literally me?
I'm 22 and all that even down to the sucking a friend is literally me
>>11000160
Hussite land, but moved away

[Anonymous No.11000276]

>>11000160
Croatfag here

[Anonymous No.11000401]

>>11000276
your place seemed nice last time i tourismed there, well the capital atleast
to think ur only 3 hell holes away

[Anonymous No.11000491]

>>11000276
...
Imaš discord?

[Anonymous No.11000534]

>>11000491
Nop, nisam nikad koristio to. Imam dojam da svakih par mjeseci likovi prelate na novi chat program, pa nemam volje više se zajebavat s tim. Sad sam antisocijalan ;_;

[Anonymous No.11000584]

>>11000534
>Imam dojam da svakih par mjeseci likovi prelate na novi chat program
Tehnički gledano nije tako ali posve se slažem da se mijenjaju nepotrebno često.
Ozbiljno, hoćeš da malo barem chatamo? Mail valjda imaš...

[Anonymous No.11000587]

>>11000584
>>11000534
>>11000491


post boipucci

[Anonymous No.11000697]

>>11000127
26, but haven't sucked dick since 4th grade. Y'know "playing house." Also femme.

[Anonymous No.11000698]

>>11000697
post
boipucci

[Anonymous No.11000710]

>>11000698
I posted my Goodreads in a Bolaño thread, but no pics of boi pucci. The camera broke on my phone, so I'd need a friend to take lewds of me.

I'm even wearing my best panties today, too...

[Anonymous No.11000729]

The Carnivorous Lamb
The Folding Star
At Swim, Two Boys
Maurice

[Anonymous No.11000809]

>>10999787
The Picture of Dorian gray is GAY AS FUCK!

[Anonymous No.11000834]

Good thread.
Now post boipuccy

[Anonymous No.11000841]

>>10999787
>equivalent to Japanese yaoi

So made by a woman for herself and other women and depicting the author's sexual and romantic fantasies? Pic related.

[Anonymous No.11000877]

>>11000587
>>11000698
>>11000834

[Anonymous No.11000916]

Disgusting faggot, kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.11000960]

>>11000026
Death in Venice is more like PG shotacon

[Anonymous No.11001064]

>>11000916
angry "straight" guys who hatefuck are fun

[Anonymous No.11001074]

>>11000841
Yes exactly!

[Anonymous No.11001093]

>>11001064
>tfw no angry "straight" guy who hate fucks me

Rec some poetry or prose anon

[Anonymous No.11001104]

>>11000026
>its a "pleb thinks the protag from Death in Venice was gay" chapter

[Anonymous No.11001120]

>>11001104
Of course he was. Mann himself wanted to fug some boys and wrote about how hot his adolescents sons bodies were in his journal.

[Anonymous No.11001126]

>>11001104
Everything Mann wrote was super gay

[Anonymous No.11001140]

I will use this thread to ask if I should read Mary Renault, even though I'm not gay.

I'm just interested in the story of Alexander the Great and his successors, and wanna read some historical fiction based on it, but I'm not sure if Mary Renault's books are good for someone who is not into that scene.

[Anonymous No.11001505]

>>11001093
i have none sorry

[Anonymous No.11002149]

>>11000127
>>11000196
>>11000276
>>11000401
>>11000697
>>11000698
>>11001064
>>11001093
>>11001120
>>11001126
stop being gay
you're making me uncomfortable

[Anonymous No.11002160]

>>11002149
no

[Anonymous No.11002171]

>>11002160
y-yes

[Anonymous No.11002182]

>>11002171
(no)

[Anonymous No.11002197]

Guys I'm alright with you also being gay but stop being massive faggots, this is /lit/ we have standards here.

[Anonymous No.11002225]

>>11002182
why

[Anonymous No.11002277]

>>11000127
>>11000196

Well at least post where you live ffs.

[Anonymous No.11002286]

>>11002225
because
>>11002277
Canada

[Anonymous No.11002346]

Books:
Captive Prince
Death in Venice
Our Lady Of The Flowers

Webcomics:
Sakana
Always Raining Here
TJ and Amal

^^^^ works that gave me a BL-esque fix.

/cm/ has a regular /cmlit/ thread. Go stink it up with your lit-posting. Also /lgbt/ has /wcg/ (webcomic general).

[Anonymous No.11002366]

>>10999787
anything by thomas mann

also city and the pillar
seme kills the uke

[Anonymous No.11002401]

>>11002225
because you must learn

[Anonymous No.11002425]

>>11001120
>>11001126
Tadzio was the protagonist's idealization of beauty made manifest. He considers him godly and pure. Never once does he make any sort of sexual insinuation or advance. It's incredibly reductive to write it off as gay and pedophilic. But what else should I expect from a board whose deepest """""understanding""""" of beauty is "I wanna put my dick in it"

[Anonymous No.11002489]

>>11002286
>mfw a leaf posts near me

[Anonymous No.11002503]

>>11002425
This does not change the fact that everything boils down to "would i like to put my dick in that?"

[Anonymous No.11002506]

>>11002425

How many layers deep does your closet go? Are you hiding behind the broken tennis racket and nonfunctional mouse trap? Death in Venice is most certainly about lust AND the other things you mentioned

[Anonymous No.11002514]

>>11002506
Nuh uh purity is the antithesis of sexuality. Se is dirty doncha know.

[Anonymous No.11002517]

>>11002506
>twitter reaction gif combined with smug dismissal

[Anonymous No.11002519]

Stop this yaoi bullshit. You should be reading high-level gay literature, which is a very patrician art.

[Anonymous No.11002523]

>>11002401
learn what

[Anonymous No.11002529]

>>11002519
It is entry level faggotry anon, let them be on their journey.

[Anonymous No.11002535]

>>11002346
>Always Raining Here
you are my friend
>>11002489
darn right

[Anonymous No.11002563]

>>11002535
>you will never caress Killua's legs

Proof, that god does not exist.

[Anonymous No.11002611]

the REAL question for this thread:

What yaoi is actually good? 99.9% of the stuff has the laziest writing imaginable.

Kii Kanna is the only BL mangaka I've found that I can stand in years.

[Anonymous No.11002628]

>>11002611
Obligatory Harada sensai.


plsdonthurtme

[Anonymous No.11002643]

>>11002514

But what about purity of the mind, hmmm?

>>11002517
>smug dismissal

All dismissals should be smug. Fite me irl

[Anonymous No.11002658]

>>11002643
>purity of the mind
Impossible, all life is impure. The only purity in this universe is non-living matter.

[Anonymous No.11002661]

>>10999787
Merciless Gods

[Anonymous No.11002686]

>>11002628

I like Harada's work, but I can't really enjoy it the way I enjoy other BL. The relationships are too fucked up to sustain my interest over more than a couple chapters.

[Anonymous No.11002692]

>>10999787
yeah we have one
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trump-Temptations-Billionaire-Elijah-Daniel-ebook/dp/B01AX111Q2

[Anonymous No.11002693]

>>11002658
>all life is impure

That's a pretty broad statement bucko

[Anonymous No.11002702]

>>11002686
A valid opinion if there ever was one.

I tend to be more forgiving of bad narratives and dialogue if the sex makes my penis feel funny.

[Anonymous No.11002717]

>>11002693
>That's a pretty broad statement
For a narrow mind, perhaps.

[Anonymous No.11002743]

>>11002506
>Death in Venice is most certainly about lust
Please provide at least 1 (one) piece of textual evidence to support this claim.

[Anonymous No.11002746]

>>11002743
>So the confused one wished for nothing else except to pursue that object of his desire at all times, to dream of it in its absence, and, after the manner of lovers, speak tender words even to its shadow. Loneliness, foreignness, and the excitement of a late and deep rapture enticed him to allow himself to do even the most bizarre
things without blushing or feeling shame, such as when he had, returning to the hotel in the evening, lingered before the beautiful boy's door on the second floor, pressing his brow against it and unable to part from it, risking to be caught in such an incriminating position.

:)

[Anonymous No.11002756]

>>11002746

[Anonymous No.11002769]

>>11002425
You’re a fucking retard anon. You realise those are intellectual justifications procured by Aschenbach to try and avoid the implications of his feelings. We are shown that his love for Tadzio is far from detached, disciplined or “aimed toward the good” of the boy. Since the attitude toward beauty is obviously pagan Greek, and the story makes reference to both Symposium and the Phaedrus, Aschenbach’s love for Tadzio is almost explicitly pederastic. An interesting thing to note is the resemblance of his attempt to sanctify the infatuation in his head with the noble, selfless pederasty described by Pausanias in the Symposium, and the selfish, intemperate and debauched reality: Aschenbach decides against warning the Polish family of the cholera outbreak. Passive murderous indulgence, his final moral degradation. Finally, the story is rather transparently Nietzschean, and all the Apollonian rigours of Aschenbach’s disciplined persona fall apart, and he ultimately succumbs to both his passion and his disease after the orgiastic prophecy of giving in in the dream.

Don’t open your mouth on shit you don’t know like this again, you fake classicist and moralist.

[Anonymous No.11002784]

>>10999787
Jean Genet -- Our Lady of the Flowers

[Anonymous No.11002788]

>>11002769
Most of what you said is very intelligent and directly addresses the topic in question. Yet why did you feel the need to include those first and last sentences? Is it because you are butt hurt?

[Anonymous No.11002796]

>>11002788
Just engaging in the appropriate rhetorical style. Didn’t you start off with insults and insinuations, my friend?

[Anonymous No.11002829]

>>11002796
I'm just an innocent bystander anon :3

[Anonymous No.11002836]

>>11002829
It sounds like you need to be punished for your interference.......

[Anonymous No.11003207]

>>11002425
It isn't reductive, I don't think you know what that word means, it's a fact it is a gay-pedophilic book. To say that isn't dismissing any Platonic or intellectual content of the book.