So, Apparently I've Got A Rep

[przed]

The Sweetie frequents The Beguiling, the coolest comic store in Toronto. One of the guys who works there, Chris, is both gay and wise in the ways of yaoi manga, so he's always reccing stuff to the Sweetie that he thinks I might like. (Pete, the owner of the store, doesn't get the whole yaoi/homoerotica thing, but he's also a willing enabler.)

A couple of weeks ago, the Sweetie's in the store and Chris has a new rec for me...

Chris: Hey, I think your wife might like this manga, Antique Bakery.
Sweetie: Oh yeah?
Chris: Yeah. It's not as dirty as most of the stuff she likes, but it's better written.

Let's stop and contemplate the fact that the gay comic dude thinks I'm dirty. (Am I proud or ashamed? I have no idea.) Not to mention the fact that he doesn't think much of the writing in the ones I do like.

So, next time I'm in the store, I flip through Antique Bakery and it's not my thing. Three guys running a bakery and nary a gun or a sword in sight. (I may or may not like my yaoi "dirty" but I definitely like it with violence and mayhem involved.)

Tonight, the Sweetie makes his weekly trip back to the store. Both Chris and Pete are there...

Chris: So, did your wife check out Antique Bakery?
Sweetie: Yeah. She doesn't think it's quite her thing.
Pete (Yelling from the back of the store): I told you. It's not dirty enough!

Okay, so now the straight guy and the gay guy think I'm dirty. Plus, the Sweetie was laughing so hard he failed to defend my honour and inform them that it was not the lack of said dirt but the lack of swords and guns that failed to float my boat.

Good thing I'm not easily embarrassed or I'd never show my face in the store again.

Comments

[shaw012145.livejournal.com]

I trust you are going to set them 'straight' next time you go in.

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

You certainly do need to put them 'straight' on what you enjoy and why you didn't like the new one he rec'd.

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

So, Oh Knowledgeable One, any recs? I like Kizuna, Target in the Finder and Jazz, but would love more swords and mayhem to go with my yaoi!

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Good lord. Right, that's the best story I've heard today--this week in fact. Go you!

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Honestly? That is one of the funniest things I've ever read, bar none. Maybe you just need to think of your reputation and/or taste as not so much "dirty" as "sexually charged". That just sounds so much more *genteel* somehow. ;-)

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Have you read "Unsigned Blade?" (My icon is from that.) I read it on yaoi_daily and I don't know if it's licensed in English. It's got PLENTY of swords and mayhem, as it's a samurai story, where the seme is a former killer who has become a doctor, and the uke is a killer who wants to reform. They are unbearably gorgeous and there's blood and gore enough for all. I suspect our tastes are nearly exactly the same (Gorgeous Carat G&J, Black Knight et al. I do like Kizuna, but I like the secondary pairing, because they're yakuza.)

Can I have a T-shirt too?

[(Anonymous)]

Hon, it's a compliment. As far as I'm concerned, there aren't enough dirty women in the world. I aspire to be one... so GO YOU for already being one!
Nads

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

Look. You've got to go in there and straighten them out, or they're never going to rec you the right stuff! Suggest you explain with examples their pea-brains can get: Boromir, Alatriste, and so on.