I’m getting back into BL/yaoi and feeling nostalgic about some of the stuff I read back in high school (2008-2011ish) – I have certain images in my mind’s eye but for the life of me cannot remember the authors’ names! These are also really cringey stereotypical-old-yaoi things that I’m trying to find, because I was reading them in high school lol. Does anyone know what I’m talking about:
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do not judge me lol but there was an anthology about femboy catboys. it did the cliche trope about “buy this catboy as a pet and also have sex with him”. I know, cringey, but the art style was really cute. the anthology contained various chapters in the same universe about different catboys.
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idk how to describe this any better but there was a yaoi manga author back in the day (00s?) who had a very smooth, clean artstyle. She was kind of guilty of same-face syndrome for the semes and the ukes (eg. all the semes had a look, all the ukes had a look) but they were pretty same-faces haha. The ukes were rather fem and there was definitely at least one story where someone wore lingerie. I remember this author being relatively prolific but for the life of me I cannot find her again.
EDIT: I answered #2 on my own through increased sleuthing – Minami Haruka