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((Possibly, but at the same time because Jou is such a main character people are probably to busy pairing him off with Seto or Yuugi/Yami/both or Honda. They'd have to think about Jou and Rex and there might not be enough to motivate a lot of people to just think about it, even I never did until it randomly came up in this weird chat. Rex probably doesn't figure into most roleplays I'd think ^_~

And Karma, you wanted people to pick second characters so you wouldn't be the only one. Look at us roleplaying our second characters. So umm...whatever happened to ENDiety huh?!? razz ))

BlueEyesPlatinumChckAct: Hum...delayed layover, how irritating. At least there's ranting in here to entertain me. *smirk*

I think your grammar/spelling gets even more atrocious when you are angry dog, which is wonderful, I love that my presence can have such an effect on people. You can't expect me to believe your criticism when you are so subjective to my words and actions mutt.

Last I checked though, the elderly aren't worth much, but glad to see that loyalty is one of your more marketable traits. Nobody wants a treacherous pet. *sneer*

dinOmite: heh heh, you'd better learn to control yourself and keep your hands off me DOG, heh heh. You might get a bigger surprise than you can handle, heh heh.

((Oh, good point. XD However, you also must consider the many fans, like myself, who just love whoring Jounouchi out to any and all characters. I don't think Mai has as many of those fans. Personally, I have considered Ryuuzaki/Jounouchi before, and thought it was amusing, but never thought on it as much as in this thread.
Oh, burn Karma! XD))

mongolbunz: augh, like you have tha t mcuh of an affect on me kaiba!!! your just to arogant for ur own good!! you just wait till school starsts again...
srsly shut the hell up rex! no one calls me dog but kaiba!! i doubt you could ever surprise me in a fight you scrawny little b*****d

((AHH, I hate the friggin interwebs!! It deleted my post by saying I was signed out, I wasn't. Ugh...to paraphrase. 1. Even if whoring Jou out is something some fans do, I don't think any high percentage of the entire base would truly do that. But, back to the even, Rex is a known but still rather minor character, and a dislikeable one at that - in spite of my personal love for him. 2. There might be a yaoi base, but YGO is shonen, and the majority of the base is probably not into yaoi. But the proof positive? Go to ff.net and you'll find 4 Ryuuzaki/Jounouchi stories total. You'll find 10 pages of Mai/Jou. I think it's a pretty good indicator what people tend to think about.

Burn indeed! You had better get on it!))

BlueEyesPlatinumChckAct: *smirk* Only I can call you that huh? See I'm having a hard time believing in your hatred for me when you attribute nicknames as mine and mine alone.

And sure dog, see you when classes start next term. Just try not to drool on me, that's one token of affection I'd rather not receive. *sneer*

((Aww, you make Kaiba feel so loved Jou razz ))

dinOmite: heh heh, sorry loser. Didn't realize that was your lover's pet name, heh. So dork, who bottoms? heh he heh!

((I'm going to try one of the 4 stories. 2 sound TOO weird, possibly not even pairing based, and most likely written by people who are not native English speakers. The other doesn't give enough description to entice me in, it could be empty fluff, and I'm not in the mood for that. I'll hinge my entire opinion of this pairing on the one story.))

((Now now, it's high school boys too, just not your jocks and what have you. And true most of the writers are female, but in general the yaoi fanbase is still relatively small. Most women are not into it.

I was discussing whoring Jou out razz . That way, yea, there is only one Mai/Rex story. But I mean again it's main/minor vs minor/minor, so that's actually less of a proof, the categories aren't even the same. And I'm just using ff.net here, it doesn't use multiple spellings of the characters so that argument also doesn't work here. He's just K. Jounouchi on ff.net. FF.net is half the reason I know Japanese names you know, or else I'd never be able to find fics ^_~))

dinOmite: Now now, heh, no need to be all offended mut-oh wait, heh heh, my bad. That's private right? heh heh heh. Seriously though, heh, at least he's rich right? Nothing to be ashamed of, heh. At least on your end. Seems like quite the step dad for moneybags though, heh heh heh heh heh!!!

((New search style? It's the same as always...where are you?!? Is ff.net special in AZ? Hahaha.

Anyhow here's the search result: http://www.fanfiction.net/anime/Yu-Gi-Oh/10/0/1/1/0/1067/1101/0/0/1

I read Love thy enemy, it was meh...if you read the other 3 let me know if any are worthwhile even somewhat. A message sounds TOO cheesy ridiculous and I just don't know if Real Dinosaurs would be interesting. Again Dirty Little Secrets doesn't have enough of a descrption for me, so yea, let me know what you think))

((I know a lot of people online, and people who are intrigued offline, but only a couple who are actually into it and pursue it. Girls are just far less likely to be into guy on guy the way a lot of guys are into girl on girl. Probably because woman are still much more likely to be into monogamy, so fantasizing about two other people is not going to be that much of a turn on. Online is deceptive, because online is attracting all the people who aren't finding large groups offline. I know maybe a dozen or so people who are attracted to yaoi (again, not counting conventions, which are obviously drawing in people from all over the country who are into that, not a reliable sample), the rest are indifferent at best, disgusted at worse - they usually don't care what I'm into but it's just not something they are interested in themself. And then a lot of people have issues with yaoi because they just in general link it straight to sodomy, and I know several guys (straight guys) who are into that. Not really any girls. There's just a lot of elements working against it, and I understand it.

California isn't that liberal, it's diverse - but diverse and liberal aren't the same thing. It's mostly democratic, but democratic and liberal really aren't as similar as politics would have you believe. I mean gay marriage is still illegal here, and that's actually not surprising considering. There is CA as is and there is CA as portrayed, and if people knew the first better they wouldn't be so surprised when things about us seem so contradictory to the second.

Well you said a few comments back that Ryuuzaki/Jounouchi would be likely to have a following on the basis that a lot of people - like yourself - whore Jounouchi out to everyone, so mostly I was addressing the argument that just because a character perhaps gets whored out, does not mean they end up in atypical pairings.

Yea I dunno what Kaiba is going to say either...he's currently "busy" with his meeting, that flight delay has passed, yada yada.

One of the things I've said that I preferred about ff.net, versus say adultfanfiction, is that you can search by characters. You don't need a search function. Just pick the series you want, go to the series...and at the top of the page you can select characters (up to two) who feature in the story (doesn't mean all the stories are pairings, sometimes they are friendship, etc etc, it's just the easiest way to find pairings), and you can even select rating (K, K+, T, M or all...or all but M), genre (angst, mystery, drama, etc etc), story length, and complete or in progress. And it's been like that for years. I have only used the search function once to try and find a story I had read in the past and couldn't find again - and you're right, that search function sucks. And always has, it's pretty much the same as several years ago. It's easier to just go into the series you want and fill out qualifiers there. Perhaps since it's been years you just forgot you don't use the search function, you go to the series. And yes, they only have the Japanese character names. It makes sense to just pick one because it means labels are less likely to be split.

Love Thy Enemy was mostly just Weevil mocking Rex about a crush, so it's pretty much one sided.))

((Yea, I mean I don't know too many people who mind it especially, and the few who find it revolting don't care that I like it, but there is definitely no majority, and I think you definitely have a skewed sampling of people. I mean generally people end up making friends with people with similar interests, so obviously the people you'd befriend would be more likely to be into that. I personally have way too many interets, so I befriend a lot more types of peoples - athletes, musicians, classicists, plus the random myriad of people I meet in the work enviornment who aren't even taylored to any of my specific interests. I think because I have multiple personalities I tend to encounter a wide assortment of personalities. I mean if you can name 200 people who are into yaoi, well, maybe you should send more here... razz

It's more liberal than a lot of states, but I mean it's huge and diverse. So the idea of us being "one" thing is ludicrous. We are too big to be a one. Unlike some of the smaller states that can just have a mass mentality. Some people are hippie liberal, others are straight laced conservative as can be. And some, like myself, fall in the middle. Currently, we have a republican govenor, so many of the reforms and current decisions in our state are from a more conservative stand point in many ways. We have a large number of Catholics and Mormons influncing several things in the state. I mean if you evaluate CA as SF, or even large parts (but again not all) of the bay area - it's liberal as heck, but take the whole rest of the state into consideration and it becomes quite complected indeed.

Strange is good... razz

I guess stalemate trumps abandoned roleplay, haha. I'll force Kaiba on soon, Jou is getting more abuse than he is, so he's not as pissed and shamed.

Yea, I got onto ff.net sophmore year of college? So I've been searching this way 4 and a half years now, I never even thought to use the search function because the main page was just so efficient.))

((Yes, yaoi fans are highly concentrated to anime, however I doubt they'd make a majority, or even close. It's like BDSM, there are a lot of people into it - particularly in the gay community - but not a majority, not even close. I think the reason YGO has a heavier yaoi fanbase than would be likely for a shonen series is because it has too many non-masculine male characters that aren't balanced off in any way by substantial female characters. Unlike say Naruto and Inuyasha that have several main female characters that you can manage to arc around. The only main female character in YGO is pretty much cast in as a cheerleader. If you aren't into yaoi, there is nothing to fetish in YGO the way there is in other series. Jou and Mai are practically the only possible het couple the show really presents that one would be interest in...ok you can be interested in Yuugi and/or Yami no Yuugi and Anzu...buuuuuuuut yea... razz

Yea, CA is just the way it is because of it's size, I mean it's 3 times the size of most states at least. We are bigger than many countries both in size and population. The idea of having a group personality in any large enough area is just ludicrous.

I dunno that I can have Kaiba give Jou a reason, but we'll see...I think Mai would be much better suited to that *pokes Karma*.

Yea, the search engine has probably mostly been abandoned because with such a good one built into series why would it be necessary? Pretty much it's only good if you know the title and series of the story you are looking for and do not want to scroll through the entire listing to find that one story.

*wary of story*...ok as the friend I'm supposed to chill with is currently passed out (at her own home, she hasn't been sleeping lately, probably because she has to share a room with her 15/16 year old brother - which is not cool) maybe I'll check it out, after I get out of my workout clothes, shower and clean my room - assuming she's still out by then. Guild just trumped shower so I could rest my sore little leggies razz . Found a really pretty place to go hiking today. Anyhow random, umm...haha, oh yea. Making me think of that awful Seto/Jou in prision with tea time and wtf story that I never managed to finish, it was just too ridiculous. The writing wasn't even bad it was just way to over the top for me. But I'll glance through this and see if I can handle it. Actually, I rather love Rex/Weevil - like a lot. It's just because I rather hate Weevil I never really manage to search that pairing.))

BlueEyesPlatinumChckAct: W-T-F! You are absolutely disgusting dino-freak! Leave us out of your sick and twisted fantasies, or at least do us the curtsey of not sharing them, I for one don't need to know that you're in love with me or something. I assume the dog agrees.

((Uhh...all I got for now? It's kinda hard because I'm talking to myself, hahahaha... xd ))

((Yea...maybe we should move this convo over to the Halloween thread, we totally failed at trying to keep that alive for a whole year into the next Halloween...we could bring it back!!! rofl ))