BLBL NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 2022
Welcome all to the November 2022 edition of the Brilliant Library of Boys Love Newsletter! \(≧▽≦)/
(Less than two months left in the year!!!)
The contents of this newsletter are as follows: (click on the titles to jump to that section!)
- Secret Santa
- Updated cover for the BL Summer Anthology
- Newly completed BL novels on Scribble Hub (October 2022)
- BL author news
- The banner chibis
- OG BL novel recommendations
- General BL News
- Fun corner
- Housekeeping for BL Palace
- Acknowledgements
1. Secret Santa
1. Visit here for the list of prompts available and also the rules in the image:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b6QA9mrv6PAMezEcvMNpBDuy19Q6Au3INNqbB70Au-U/edit?usp=sharing
2. Message oofcat with your chosen prompt and remember to say whether or not you want to be an anonymous writer!
The soft deadline for stories is 20th December 2022 and the hard deadline is 1st January 2023! Have fun~
2. Updated cover for the BL Summer Anthology
Thank you again to all the readers, writers, and commenters on the BL Palace's summer anthology, Golden Gaytimes! While Commenter Team Vanilla Ice Cream won the commenting competition, Writer Team Eclipse won by engagement on their stories! Killokii has updated the cover to reflect Team Eclipse's victory!
If you haven't checked out the anthology yet, go have a read, support the BL Palace authors, and find some new favourite authors to follow~!
3. Newly completed BL novels on Scribble Hub (October 2022)
Here are the novels that were completed in October 2022!
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Revenge of the Honorable Prince by K_Jira68.6k | 46 ch | Boys Love, Historical, Romance, Supernatural From a prince to a consort, Xue Lan was sold by his nation as a token of their peace treaty. He was bullied, tormented, and eventually died with resentment. Before his death, he unleashed his wrath and dragged everyone in sight with him to hell. Never did he expect the blood he spilled would call forth the embodiment of sin. He bought his second chance to live, vowing that he would destroy his nation and the empire which were responsible for his undeserved death. Xue Lan: "I want them fallen, despaired, and enslaved." A certain demon: My master is so cute~ |
4. BL author news
No author news this month 🥺🥺🥺
5. Who are the chibis?
Did you see the chibis on our heading banner? Do you know where they come from? Such a mystery~ 😏😏
In every BLBL Newsletter, we dedicate a corner to showcase our staff's incredible artistic talent and give a shout-out to a handful of beautiful BL couples from novels featured on our very own Scribblehub! σ(≧ε≦ｏ)
This month's chibis are courtesy of these lovely and hardworking artists: Killokii and tiaf!
Have you read enough BL novels to guess which books these cute and adorable chibis are from? There's no punishment for guessing wrong! But if you guessed correctly before the big reveal you might just receive a cookie! 🍪🍪🍪🍪
Now, drum-roll please! 🥁🥁🥁
These are our Summer Anthology mascots from Golden Gaytimes !!
Did you like these chibis a lot? Would you also like to have chibis of your BL characters drawn? If you have a finished or regularly updating novel with over 20k words, you can fill out this form to have a chibi of your main couple drawn and included in the newsletter banner!
6. OG BL novel recommendations
None this month (ノ_<)
7. General BL News
The manhua for Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation/Mo Dao Zu Shi is being released in English - hat tip to bafflinghaze
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Dr Thomas Baudinette's lecture on Thai BL, Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture, is available online! - hat tip to bafflinghaze
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Japanese gay men's attitudes towards 'gay manga' and the problem of genre is an academic article that looks at how many gay men in a variety of contexts view BL as a much more realistic representation of male-male love. - hat tip to Jayduph
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Intro to ”BL with AKIKO” : Who is Akiko and why is scanlation bad? - Akiko is a Queer Visual Culture Theorist who is starting an English channel to bring her research done in BL to an English audience! - hat tip to Jayduph
8. Fun corner
An upcoming GL historical short film will be released soon. Very, very interesting and looks super grand 🥺 - hat tip to Ruelin
9. Housekeeping for BL Palace
Please directly DM the account or message bafflinghaze in order to get something posted or retweeted on the BL Palace twitter account. This includes:
- promotions of any original BL novel, either yours or a recommendation
- fan or official artwork of any original BL novel, either yours or a recommendation
- Any tweets about more general BL news that you think should also be retweeted
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10. Acknowledgements
This Newsletter was brought to you by the following people: bafflinghaze, oofcat, RedEmber and tiaf!
Please give another round of applause to the lovely artists who made this month's BLBL Newsletter chibi banner: Killokii!!
And finally, thank you to all those who submitted items for the newsletter!
And with that, we are done! Hope to see you on the next chapter of the newsletter!
And as always—
come to me prompt submitter
Excited for secret santa :)
Ai Long Nhai