Boys' love
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Boys' love, also known by its abbreviation BL, is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for a
Mari Mori, whose tanbi novels laid the foundation for many of the common genre tropes of shōnen-ai
The manga artist group Clamp, whose works were among the first yaoi-influenced media to be encountered by Western audiences
Otome Road in Ikebukuro became a major cultural destination for yaoi fandom in the 2000s.
Artwork depicting a seme (top) and uke (bottom) couple
Omegaverse
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Omegaverse, also known as A/B/O or α/β/Ω, is a subgenre of speculative erotic fiction.
Boys' love
…Love have the couple form a family unit, depicting them cohabiting and adopting children. It is also possible that they marry and have children, as in Omegaverse publications. Fujimoto cites Ossan's Love (2016–2018) and other BL television dramas that emerged in the 2010s as a "'missing link' to bridge the gap…
Omegaverse supposes the existence of a dominance hierarchy among humans, similar to wolves and other canids in fiction.
Early works of Omegaverse fan fiction featured Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, actors who starred in Supernatural.