No climax, no point, no meaning.

2025-05-28

Japanese fans of gay romance have the best terminology ever. Firstly, "fujoshi" and "fudanshi", rotten girl and rotten boy respectively, self label for fans of GL and BL. Secondly, the word "yaoi". Even if you don't know much about japanese pornography, you've likely heard of yaoi. You might have heard it contrasted against "yuri". But yuri means "lilly", as in the flower, whereas yaoi actually is a shortened version of the phrase 山なし、落ちなし、意味なし, "no climax, no point, no meaning".

I'm not a fudanshi myself, although I may be a hime-danshi. So I can't really claim to be a fan of yaoi. To be honest, it doesn't do anything for me. Fujos go in the same category as mecha and tokkusatsu fans in my head, that category being "otaku which I highly respect, even though the subject of their fanaticism doesn't do it for me". I gotta say, this phrase, "no climax, no point, no meaning" really works for my sensibilities. In fact, I just made a rather long youtube video which pretty much covers this subject. I'm choosing not to link that youtube video here. I appreciate things which exist even though they have no climax, no point, and no meaning. I suppose this is nihilistic. I find that the world is not nihilistic, the social world that is. There is no rebellion or hard-fought battle against the powerful forces of nihilism. The forces of meaning are the ones with power. No where can you go to escape meaning. There is nothing but powerful organisations trying to impose their meaning onto you and onto everything. Or if not meaning at the very least a sense of meaning. Denying meaning is denying power to those forces. Nihilism remains true in the same way anarchy remains true. You can say you're my king or my boss, and while you can be correct about that, you're also incorrect against the backdrop of physicalist anarcho-nihilism. That is to say, kings and bosses are not natural or physical phenomena, because meaning is not not a natural or physical phenomena. These are social phenomena. Not to say they aren't real. Of course. You guys already get that. But the yaoi of the world is I think a good reminder of this. Despite every nation, every corporation, every social power insisting on their legitimacy through a generation of meaning, nihilism still remains trivially correct, and there's nothing they can do about it.

This phrase also reminds me of a slogan by the noise band gerogerigegege, "Fuck compose, Fuck melody, Dedicated to no one, Thanks to no one, ART IS OVER."

In the spirit of all this, I would like to propose a less meaningful future for this blog, and for my general output as a guy. I would like to "Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it." as Guattari once put it. After all, I have already given up on life. So I'll write some stream of consciousness bullshit about whatever anime I am watching or some such nonsense.