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Okay, okay, I will admit that I do quite like yaoi, but don't be mistaken, I'm no rabid fangirl. Nor am I some illiterate 7-year-old writing one direction fanfiction on wattpad.

It would be an advanced game with multiple outcomes.

You'd play as an orphaned boy named Halwende, or Wen or short. You lost your family in a car accident not six months ago, and were supposed to be staying with your uncle, but he didn't want "To be saddled with some orphaned filth, even if he is my sisters son." He paid for you to go to a large boys' home nearby. Upon your arrival you are stricken with the absolute splendor of the manor, that once housed three warring clans interlocked by wedlock. You're given a room to yourself, but your fellow orphans and disowned boys visit often. Seems like a perfect time to get 'busy' eh?

But there's something odd in the house, from odd happenings, objects disappearing, and vanishing rooms.

That's the gist of it.

Sound good? Bad?

As in you don't know what yaoi is, or you don't know what it's reception would be like?

I'd advise googling it with safesearch turned ON.

NO IMAGES

Leave my forums alone, Ameya!

It's guyxguy stuff.

Not as bad as it sounds.

Not that it sounds bad, but...

You've made awkward an art form. 

It'll probably be played, just as long as too many people aren't offended first.

Oops! Used your account.

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We need different computers. 

Listen ... in both of my games (rated 7/8 and placed well in contests) you have the option to be straight, gay, lesbian, or just totally ignore the idea of romance all together. No one has ever protested it, more than one person has admitted that they appreciate the option regardless of their sexuality. If you want to make a shonen-ai story, go for it. 

If you want to make a yaoi (which strongly suggests a more sexual story than just a "gay romance") on the other hand, well, sex has to be done tastefully here for you to get away with it. My suggestion? Don't get too graphic (regardless of the genders of those involved,) and it should be fine.

I didn't plan on getting very graphic, but thanks for your input!

Fair enough, but "yaoi" is not typically the term used when you plan to be subtle, haha.

I guess you're right.

You've called yourself a fangirl more than once, by the way. Fan of ... what, if I may ask? (Aside from WC.)

Jesus.

Doctor Who

Supernatural

Tons of Anime

Tons of Manga

Darren Shan books

Mlp Fim

Probably more but I don't want to overload this post.

No wait I'm not a jesus fan

Oh?

*winces* You're a My Little Pony fan AND a Warrior Cats fan and you're 19 years old?

Don't diss it til ya try it man. Both me and my sister grew up with WC, and it just kept on going, so we never stopped, and really I thought the whole brony movement was very strange thing for a while. Then an old friend of mine confessed to being a brony, and for quite a while I bugged them about it until one dark and stormy night my insomnia was acting up and I had nothing to do. I watched it. I was addicted.

For the most part it is, but that doesn't make it bad.

I don't think "trying it" is an option here. For what I know of bronies, once you are in the fandom, the nickname stays with you forever.

It does.

The term is hardly ever one of endearment.

As much as I hate to admit it Orchid has a point. 

"19"

Yes, 19. I was born in 1996, so, 19. 

Look at my  writing, and look at my sister's writing. Do we seem like children to you?

Just because we like a book series or a cartoon, we are automatically dubbed as autistic or pedophiles, or we are accused of lying about our age!

My sister deals with daily torment for her appearance, and it isn't easy attending school in America with both OCD and Bipolar Disorder! We both need the happy atmosphere from cartoons, it's a way of temporary escape. What can't you understand about that? Huh?

"Look at my  writing, and look at my sister's writing. Do we seem like children to you?"

Yep, pretty much. I'd place you around the 14-15 year-old mark, at tops.

Dude leave her alone. She's furious now, and I have to live with her.

Do you just derive pleasure from trolling people, for current lack of a better term? Did you even read her post through? We're going through finals in AP classes, four tests today and four more tomorrow, so she's more than a little on edge. Can't you just walk away?

Ah, who am I kidding?

You've gotta get your rocks off somehow, right?

"Doesn't believe two WC/MLP fans are 19" =/= "Evil troll who jacks off to the tears of children".
 

You aren't helping your case you know.

If you really read what we've been saying, you would understand that we are in almost constant stress due to our real life problems. My own ocd, chiari malformation, albinism and sterility.

My sisters severe bipolar disorder, ocd and near deafness.

We need something to fall back on when we're tired, and a bright and happy kids show can be some form of a stress releif. The fantasy worlds of WC and Darren Shan can be that, too. Something that can distract us, even for a little bit.

I'm sure almost anyone can understand that.

You know, you choose to be stressed out. If you honestly wanted to, you could make yourself not stress out.

I have insomnia  - so I choose to enjoy the extra time that I end up being awake for before I finally manage to fall asleep for about 3-6 hours, instead of complaining and being an ass about not getting enough sleep the next day.
I have vision problems - so I choose to enjoy what I can see, instead of whining about what I can't.
I have watched my parents divorce - so instead of focusing on the fact that I could have stopped it, I choose to enjoy the parent I get to be with.
I have had to be torn apart from friends that I've made five different times by moving to another house - so I choose to enjoy the time I get with my friends, and remember the good times, instead of bitching about the friends I've lost and remembering the sad times.
I have had a friend call me to come over to a specific place in tears, and when I did, I found her clutching a knife and her own throat slit and blood pooling around her - so I chose to mourn her as is proper, and then continue to live, finding the little things in life that provide joy, instead of living in depression or bitterness.

With those reasons, logically I should be more stressed out and depressed than you, but I am not. Why? Because I actively choose not to.

Yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

That's true for some people, but for others it just isn't. I can't choose to not stress over the fact that the tests I'm taking now decide whether I can go to college or not. I can't not stress over my deteriorating hearing. I can't help that I worry over my sister's problems. 

My sister can't help worry about me. Not since she found me with a knife about to do what you described, there are bloodstains that will not come out. We don't bitch about our lives, we worry about them. Ameya, my sister, is having a hard time finding a job because of what she looks like. 

I have a hard time keeping a job because of the urges to make everything as neat as possible. Sounds good at first, but trust me it gets old. 

We're watching our mother get older and older, some even before her time thanks to our uncle-he-who-must-not-be-named. In short, just last month he was in a hit and run. He ran. He stole the poor victims wallet, but not before spitting on the corpse.

We're watching our father loose his memory, slowly.

I'm not trying to create a pity party or some kind of competition, but you can't just assume the problems of others can be solved by just choosing to be happy.

Oh now look what you've done.

Jesus.

*shrugs*

Doctor Who

Cool.

Supernatural

Meh.

Tons of Anime

Tons of Manga

Favorites?

Darren Shan books

Meh.

Mlp Fim

plz no.

Now you're just being sassy. XD

Sooner or later, someone will find this post and dub it "Gay as balls."

This is pretty damn gay.

So fucking what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

It's called being infuriated. Orchid is too angry to differentiate between seriousness and a joke.

She's gay herself, takes most pokes at homosexuality as a challenge.

I'm just going to apologize here, before this madness continues.

Orchid, I am very sorry.

I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or not.

I'm going to make the possible mistake of assuming that you are.

Thank you. I guess I should apologize as well, overreacting and all. Please at least take a look at the actual books and show yourself before you judge them and the fanbase. Both are quite good, but have spawned some truly awful fan creations, this site being a wonderful example. Don't judge the fan by the fandom and don't judge the fandom by the fan.

Sorry about Orchid. 

I plan on doing something like that later on as well.

Um ... what? What do you mean "more appropriate"? >_> You didn't have to travel back in time to write Through Time, I'm sure Briar's never been a slave boy, Endmaster is not actually a bard or a necromancer (despite what his fans believe,) Madglee (probably) never killed a cop, and I am not a witch bent on conquering the world. Isn't it a little narrow-minded, or even sexist, to suggest that a lesbian is better off writing about romance between women rather than men? 

... "Better received"? Why? I don't know anyone here who's expressed any discomfort at the idea of reading about a gay guy being with another gay guy and people have complimented me for allowing that in my stories. 

Nope! I'm actually a Norse winged kitsune, currently living in a haunted mansion in a spirit village. Easy mistake, I know.

It's a joke, Kiel. This site is mostly hetrosexual males. 

"This site is mostly heterosexual* males." Is it? The growing population of WC fangirls makes me less sure about that and ... are you really sure everyone you know here is being honest about their gender?

What makes you sure it's only a joke?

Because it's a pretty funny joke. 

And becuase Killa's not retarded. 

No comment on the other question?

Humor is subjective and I never said he was.

I ignore questions to which the reply can basically be the same, lol

So ... the answer to "is this site really mostly heterosexual males?" is "Killa's not retarded"? Alright.

No, te answer is, who says all the warrior cats are really grills, and who says female hide their actual gender. We've literally only had the opposite. :P

As in, theirs no argument made for baseless demographics right now that cant be used in the opposite direction, lol. The general assumption is that there are mostly hetrosexuals on the internet. 

I'm not talking about the internet in general, just this site. I wouldn't have posed the question if I didn't have a good reason.

People seem to really like confessing things to me.

If you have super secret information, you can write about them. Not someone who does not have your super secret information, lol. The assumption here is that Killa does not know your super secret information, unless he confessed that to you as well. :P

Great, except that I wasn't replying to Killa's comment when I said that.

Oh right, you were , replying to me, who does have your super secret informations. Srry

You're familiar with people lying about their gender or, alternatively, not being completely honest, so it would stand to reason (to me) that you wouldn't just assume only one gender has ever done it on here ... and, considering you've been criticizing me for doing something you found presumptuous and illogical, that strikes me as funny.

Has ever? Certainly not. Only one we know about. Which stands to assume that it's usually not done by the other sex (on this site) unless, of course, youre basing it on super secret information

'Certainly not,' and 'usually not'? Back-pedaling, are you?

... "We've literally only had the opposite. :P"

"so it would stand to reason (to me) that you wouldn't just assume only one gender has ever done it on here .." Has ever? Certainly not. It's usually not.

Responding to your post doesnt count as backpedaling, lol. 

You said: "We've literally only had the opposite. :P" You were stating it as a fact. You didn't say "I've only ever heard about guys doing it," you actually said that we, as a community, have literally only had guys lie / be deceptive about their gender here.

Hmm, actually, first part may pnly be mostly joke, second part 100% obvious joke. 

Is this some sort of Viagra joke or something?  XD

Yuri, on the other hand...

She's planning on it, if you're serious. If it's a joke, Aman says you're late to the party.

Nah, Kiel's always super serious. That how he can write paragraphs attacking other members on random stuff. :P

... Are you seriously still sore over that conversation?

It's an ongoing thing with you, ha ha.

"Ongoing"? I'm "always super serious" and continuously attacking other members? =\ Hmm. Odd that several people have commented on my good sense of humor, or that many people have said I'm helpful and nice, and that you've only been acting like this around me since that conversation, even though we used to have normal conversations and got along fine ... but hey, maybe you're right, all of those people are completely wrong, and I'm just constantly being a dick to everybody. :P

The CYS community is lucky to have you to defend it from horrible, horrible people like me. Bless you, Aman, bless you. 

This whole comment, like everything else I say, is totally serious. Really.

If you weren't so serious, you wouldn't have to fake having a wife.

My God! You're right! I'm an unlovable monster and my whole life is a lie brought on by my utter lack of humor... *sob*

It's okay, Kiel. Your body pillow loves you.

My sexy body pillow. <3

http://a.tgcdn.net/images/products/additional/large/f488_creeper_body_pillow_sleep.jpg  Jealous?
 

Me, defend cys? heaven forbid. 

Now, now, no need to be so modest.

You're funny when you want to be. When you're having a bad day or someone says something that offends you, you tend to quickly get into the Sar-par-do stance and quickly enter internet scuffles, or pull the loose thread that they follow.

Dunno what the 'Sar-par-do stance' is, sadly, Sent. And, truthfully, I have a lot of bad days which don't involve any internet scuffles here or otherwise ... but you're suggesting I tend to be confrontational when someone says something I find offensive? o.o Gasp! ... How ... normal? xD Why am I the only one being called out for this kind of thing, again?

Because you're famous for your mucho sar Sar-Par-Do... Which is Koreanese for "Sarcastic Paragraph Internet Boxing".  There's also Aggaido, which is "Aggravating internet boxing" where you spend the entire time blocking their arguments and not getting pissed, knocking your opponent off balance and pissing them off. And then there's  Wav Maja, where you bombard your opponent with graphs and real life information and... You know, I think I need to stop making up words so I can focus on important things...

On a real life Martial Arts note, I want to learn drunken boxing (Which shouldn't be too hard to find, that's probably the only boxing they have in Wisconsin) so I can combine the movements and balance with Aikido somehow and really piss people off.

How dare he not pick up on every subtle nuance of conversation, even though most communication between humans is nonverbal.

Waitaminute...

Nothing on the web is verbal, Malk. I think you meant non-written word or whatwver the term for that would be. :P

You're arguing semantics and you bloody know it. :P

Not arguing, youre 100% right that non-text is more important then the words. Dunno what we'd be arguing about otherwise

Irony: Or better yet, do like the elcor and prefix every statement with the intended emotion.

I do love the Elcor race. Mainly because of that "desperate plea" line, it gets me every time.

Sheesh Orchid, you and your sister's lives sound like a country song.

Write whatever you want if it's going to bring some sort of modicum of joy. It can't hurt at this point.

Good luck I guess.

Yaoi is gay porn. Just putting that out there.

Not always, I said yaoi, but It'll be more shounen ai.

Just a romance story, not porn.

Yeah I'm aware, I didn't say I was going to read it. I was more or less just telling Orchid to just go ahead and write whatever she wants since:

1. We already got a shitload of shitty cat porn on here so two dudes kissing is sadly an improvement.

2. She said she wasn't going to get graphic so it probably isn't going to be porn anyway. Probably will be more like one of those "lesser" Japanese names for it. Lime? Cantaloupe? Hadouken?Whatever the fuck they call it. My point is, she probably isn't going to have a graphic sex scene explaining how some dude's dick is going straight into some other dude's ass.

3. For some reason Kiel got his panties in a bunch about some harmless comment Killa said which then caused Aman to jump on his shit resulting in a hilarious derailment. Instead of adding to the chaos, I uncharacteristically decided to contribute directly to the thread by providing a supportive comment in Orchid writing endeavors since it sounds like her real life (and her sister's) is pretty crappy.

Wait. She said she'd tone it down?

Okay, cool. It's just that... yaoi doesn't exactly imply "toned down".

If she's going to do it she might as well go all out.
 

Ehh. In all fairness, shonen-ai fangirls seem to use the word "yaoi" a lot even though they don't actually mean it. I am not sure why, but I assume those fans are not from Japan and either do not understand the connotations or have been around people who use it incorrectly.

At least she didn't misuse the word "shota"

I remember one guy on another forum called himself "Shota Lover" or something like that. He claimed there was some anime or manga character with that name and that's why he used it and got all pissed when he found out what everyone else thought it implied.

He ended up reregistering under a different name. Lol.

xD That's kind of hilarious.
 

Dont really want to search it up, soooo, what does it mean?

^ This

It's the male version of lolicon which I assume you probably know is porn involving little girls.

So basically the guy calling himself "Shota Lover" looked like he was into little boy porn and everyone figured he was a pedo.

While I do know the difference, it seems like a minor one, and anyway 'yaoi' is better known that 'shonen ai.' 

I'm not from Japan either, but I've learned the language from my half uncle, who lived there until age 32. 

oops used the wrong account. Again.

Do you know how expensive good computers are?

We share one Windows 8 (It sucks.) and one mac. I use chrome, and Orchid uses firefox. Problem is, we forget to check the browser.

I know fully well how much good computers cost.

Can't argue that the conversation is amusing, probably doubly so from an outside perspective. You needn't worry about the state of my underwear, I was going to go commando today anyway they're fine.
 

You're welcome! =D

(In all seriousness, though ... I guess I have been a little on edge lately for several reasons, none of which I am sadistic enough to bore you people with.)
 

Maaaybe, maybe not. ;)

Damn, dude, sorry. That sucks. No pain meds are working for you? You might want to see your doctor. There could be a reason. I've been in a lot of pain lately myself. May need surgery. Part of those details I mentioned that I said I wouldn't mention. xD I might be. Who knows? This thread did cheer me up.
 

We can do better than that.