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Have had an email from an Irish freelancer who wants to do an article on yaoi and would like to talk to someone who writes it. I write yaoi but not 'western yaoi.' Yaoi has no rules. ('Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the yaoi law'- which is so commonsense to the Japanese themselves that they never seem to discuss what's permissible or not: or at least not in public where a gaijin can read them.) Western yaoi does have rules, which change depending on who you're talking to. Anybody here know any western yaoi writers who'd like to talk about their writing? The only 'pro' fanwriters, as it were, that I can think of write slash.

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S/he doesn't /have/ to talk to a western yaoi writer. Going by the letter s/he knows very little about yaoi and wants to know more. But if the article's going to reflect the English yaoi scene accurately it should have the pov of the average English yaoi writer, and the average yaoi writer, face it, doesn't read Japanese, may never have seen any Japanese yaoi, and has probably gotten her notion of the genre from other English fics in a western fandom setting. I'm not typical, is all.

And it's me s/he wants to interview. I just don't want to be interviewed. ^_^

You're not typical, but you're very, very good, and you can represent level headed clear eyed-ness in a way very few people can. Besides, I think there are enough interviews of 'Western' pov. I'd like to see something represent the Japanese literate English side for a change.

As for not wanting to, not much anyone can do about that. LOL!

But. You are making the life of ano hito much more difficult. You should just siddown and be interviewed like a good, articulate yaoi fen. The CPM site, in fact, cites you as "eloquent."

(Ngh. I have been fainting from sticker shock over there just now. Not in this life.)

CPM?
(Cardio-pulmonary massage. Clothesplay manga. Canadian Prime Minister. Chronic pre-menstruality. Catholic papal missions. Critical post-mastectomy...)

CPM = Central Park Media. More specifically, the Be Beautiful manga site.

Yes, what she said. (Lookie (http://www.bebeautifulmanga.com/faq.cfm).) But your collection was interesting.

(...Communist Party Manifesto. Chinese Peoples' Maocracy. Chief Privy Minister. Caius Publius Maximus. Crashing Pumpkins Matinee...)

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