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Myou...how horrifically disturbing. Nothing more here.
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Also for your entertainment;
shounen-ai: Technically speaking, shounen-ai is a form of professional manga, or comic book. Translated, it means 'boy's love.' Not 'boy love,' which could indeed be interpreted a number of ways, but boy's love, as in the act of loving and being in love without the involvement of females. In other words, shounen-ai is a professional genre devoted to relationships between a pair of fairly young, usually handsome men, and all their trails and tribulations. Therefore, the term doesn't apply to fanworks (doujinshi, zines...) at all.

yaoi: Yaoi is the actual Japanese term for fan comics. Unlike the english/american world of comics and copyrights, Japanese mangaka tend to enjoy and encourage the creation of elaborate works by their devoted fans. A fairly large percentage of these doujinshi pieces tend to explore romantic relationships that the artist or artists (known as a circle) wish had occurred or feel could still happen outside of the documented plot, and, naturally, some of these stories are fairly graphic (yaoi is actually an acronym for 'yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi' - 'no peak, no point, no meaning,' which should give you some idea of the general content of such work.) So yes, most yaoi is... shall we say, directed at an adult-only market.

Now:
"This-is-what-a-life-of-crime-will-do-to-you" Attack!
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zorander wrote: Also for your entertainment;
shounen-ai: Technically speaking, shounen-ai is a form of professional manga, or comic book. Translated, it means 'boy's love.' Not 'boy love,' which could indeed be interpreted a number of ways, but boy's love, as in the act of loving and being in love without the involvement of females. In other words, shounen-ai is a professional genre devoted to relationships between a pair of fairly young, usually handsome men, and all their trails and tribulations. Therefore, the term doesn't apply to fanworks (doujinshi, zines...) at all.

yaoi: Yaoi is the actual Japanese term for fan comics. Unlike the english/american world of comics and copyrights, Japanese mangaka tend to enjoy and encourage the creation of elaborate works by their devoted fans. A fairly large percentage of these doujinshi pieces tend to explore romantic relationships that the artist or artists (known as a circle) wish had occurred or feel could still happen outside of the documented plot, and, naturally, some of these stories are fairly graphic (yaoi is actually an acronym for 'yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi' - 'no peak, no point, no meaning,' which should give you some idea of the general content of such work.) So yes, most yaoi is... shall we say, directed at an adult-only market.
Technically, yaoi does exist in the professional manga market, just as shonen ai exists in doujinshi. It's technically the nature of the relationship. Just because something has bishonen in it, for example, does not qualify it at shonen ai or as yaoi. There needs to be a love thing going there! Either love or sex, which is what essentially differentiates them. It's the difference between a romance novel and a pornography magazine. Yaoi and shonen ai are definitions of content, not of marketing. The same thing applies to shoujo ai and yuri.

By the way: Doujinshi is the official term for amateur comics, but it's also come to mean fan comics. Yaoi can be original; it doesn't have to use copyrighted characters.
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Ah, well, i'll have to point that out to the website i got the info from then (if i can remember where i got it).

:P Dont ya love these random info bits?! :lol:
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THE MUFFIN! (Dun dun dun...)

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The Cheri-stealer! and stuff of nightmares!
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Pfffttt... I've seen much worse. I mean MUCH worse. This doesn't even come close to some of the sick things I've seen.
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Lemme try this again... It's SB!
"Irregardless" and "Over exaggerated" are NEVER CORRECT EVER because they are redundant
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.
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<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>FUEGO!</span>
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And here's some death and destruction for ya... I knew that purple dinosaur was evil! Now I have clearly doctored photos as proof!
"Irregardless" and "Over exaggerated" are NEVER CORRECT EVER because they are redundant
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.
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The Banana... OF DOOM!

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Ok, no more evil, now I've got something fun... Yes I have lost my mind, thank you very much, and if you ever find it tell it its vacation is over and it has been for the last six years.
"Irregardless" and "Over exaggerated" are NEVER CORRECT EVER because they are redundant
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.
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my monkey pwns you all!
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Aw come on, you gotta admit evil Barney was pretty good. Now this one's... different
"Irregardless" and "Over exaggerated" are NEVER CORRECT EVER because they are redundant
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.
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