Aestheticism
| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Aestheticism |
| Owner/Maintainer: | tanbi |
| Dates: | 1996 – ? |
| Type: | rec, reviews, news, translations |
| Fandom: | BL, shoujo, and josei manga |
| URL: | tanbi at LJ http://www.aestheticism.net/ http://www.aestheticism.com/ |
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Aestheticism was a website (and formerly a zine?) that covers BL, shoujo, and josei manga. It was the premier source of information for English-speaking "yaoi" fans as of the late 90s. The site was notable for its adherence to Japanese word usage (for example, 'yaoi' vs. 'BL') and for its information on older works from the 80s and 90s. Aestheticism was a sponsor of the first Yaoi-Con.[1]
Aestheticism contains news related to yaoi/BL, detailed articles about various aspects of yaoi/BL and its fans in Japan and the United States, translations, recommendations, and lengthy introductions to and summaries of famous manga, anime, and novels. It also hosts a fanfic archive and manga exchange/shop. In the late 90s, proof of age such as a credit card number had to be provided to access mature content on the site.
The site went down possibly due to old error connection, worm attack,[2] ISP issues[3] or relocation of servers;[4][5] posteriorly it was reportedly became inaccessible to its maintainers.[6] The domain.net url only works on the home page, with the others not accessible, while the domain.com site is only accessible through the archived version of the WBM.
About
Aestheticism!Bringing
yaoi BL shounen-ai anime manga doujinshiany two (or more) guyz to the west for seven years!That's us.
We first started nattering about (yaoi BL etc etc) on paper seven years ago this month, online a year later, and now we have an lj so as to natter more conveniently. Also to tell you about updates to our Aestheticism webpage, where we natter at length about yaoi/ BL/ yesyesall that. There's a bunch of us and we talk about things that interest us which we hope might interest you. Our focus (for now at least) is largely on the Japanese version of the m/m phenomenon, but we make forays into China, Korea, shoujo, shounen, and occasionally home-grown products as well.
Please feel free to friend us and leave comments.[7]
Web Content
Content
Community Info
- The trading post is intended as a classified listing service for yaoi and slash fans. You can post ads to sell or trade any anime/manga related goods. To a lesser extent you can also list items which you think might be of interest to other yaoi fans, such as fantasy novels, slash fanzines, etc.
- The following items are absolutely not allowed to be listed here.
- Live-action or photographic adult material.
- Bootlegged or pirated material.
- As always please exercise caution when conducting transactions online. All transactions you conduct based on information obtained here are at your own risk. Please read the disclaimer located at the bottom of each page carefully.
- Catagories
- Artbooks (0) - artbooks
- Doujinshi (0) - Doujinshi
- DVD, CD, & Tapes (0) - anime dvd, soundtracks,
- Manga & Anthologies (0) - Manga & Anthologies
- Miscellaneous (0) - Anything that does not fit in the other catagories
- Catagories
- Live Journal
- LJ User Info
- AMLA - yaoi/slash discussion list
Quick Links
Affliated Sites
Links
- Visitor's Entrance
- Cybershoppe
- Fanfic Archive
- Virtual City
- Member's Entrance
- Yaoi-Con 2001
- Enter Visitors' Site
- Sequential Tart article on the history of the site and paper zine
- A 2002 Sequential Tart interview with Mimi about the site's history.
- Aestheticism's LiveJournal account
- AMLA (Aestheticism ML-Alpha), a yaoi and slash Yahoo!Groups discussion list
- Ebay and personal sale posts can be posted at Aestheticism Trading Post[1], a classified listing service for yaoi fans.
- Columns
- Jeanne's Addiction: Musings of a recovering Tokyonite.
- Letters From Tokyo: Writings and reports by our oversea correspondents.
- Nora's Soapbox: A Western fan's view
- Katchan's Corner
- Fanfic Spotlight: In-depth fanfiction review, hosted by Nora and Katchan
- Kitty Litter: Our resident feline's mad rantings. Readers beware.
- Guest Columns
References
- ^ Tammy Lee (2004-05-02). "Atsukamashii Onna - A Convention to Fit a Need · Yaoi-Con with Tracy P." Sequential Tart. Archived from the original on 2004-11-11. Retrieved 2006-04-27.
- ^ "temporarily due to the ISP being stricken with a worm". Archived from the original on 2001-05-13.
- ^ "Welcome to Aestheticism". Archived from the original on 2000-09-20.
- ^ "Important: www.aestheticism.com will be down for 2-3 days". Archived from the original on 2001-01-24.
- ^ "Aestheticism, Cybershoppe and Yaoi-Con Websites will be down". Archived from the original on 1999-01-25.
- ^ tanbi (2009-04-02). "Esu vol. 1-4 BL Novel by Saki Aida". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 2012-12-06.
- ^ tanbi (2004-10-08). "User Info". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 2005-02-01.