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<Center> <font size="+2"> | <Center> <font size="+2">Fantastic new resource, The Boylove Library </font><br>[[File:News icon.jpg|30 px]] by Staff Writer - March 23, 2024</Center> | ||
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An | *'''An impressive new asset for the online BL community that brings the richness of literature to our lives.''' | ||
''' | Recently spotlighted in [[Fawnlet Magazine]] Issue #3 March, 2024, | ||
an exciting new and much needed resource for Boylovers has gone online, '''[[The Boylove Library]]'''. Currently the library has two sections, one for books and the other for magazines. The library is still in the process of collecting literary works about boylove and boylovers and welcomes book donations in the form of PDF files from the BL community. The great architects of the library have significant aspirations about what it someday could become and envision a huge collection of written works in the future. Everything freely downloadable. | |||
BoyWiki staff had the opportunity to chat with Zoomzoom4, | |||
a popular DJ from [[WIRED-PM Radio]] and the driving force behind this valuable project. Here is what he had to say, | |||
{{Quotation|'''BoyWiki:''' Why start a library? | |||
'''Zoomzoom4:''' All my life, I have had a love of reading. I guess you could say, even at a very early age I already knew that I was a BL. That is, book lover. My mom had a humongous collection of books, hardcover, and from the time I could barely walk I was trying to read them. In elementary school, it was always such a treat to ride my bike to the book store down the road and see what new stuff came out that week. I would do this every Saturday. | |||
As a teen, I remember I'd go to the library at UNLV, and it was humongous, 4 stories tall, I think, and with SO MUCH stuff, just everything, anything, and more. I'd get lost there. And then even when I became a student there, I'd actually go there at 1 or 2 in the morning, with a bottle of liquor in my bag, and find a super isolated desk in one of the little study rooms, and close the door and get shit-faced and read. | |||
So I ended up throwing the books away. That's right, I put them in a black garbage bag, took it to the car and drove over to a dumpster on the other side of town. I know you're thinking, that must have been horrible, having to do that, having to dispose of something that I spent a lot of time and money building, growing it. Then, just to be forced to trash it. But I was consoled by the knowledge that I could still own these books. I could still have them, read them, enjoy them. I would just not have them in physical form. They'd be on my computer, on my tablet. If I wanted to have any kind of "BL Library" I could just easily do it in the digital world. Pus, if the books are in digital format and live online, in the cloud, it would be so much easier for me to share them with other boylovers who I know will | More recently, I would purchase non-fiction books about boylove -- physical copies -- and before I knew it, I had a little collection on my hands. I remember thinking to myself, that many people sort of end up building their own libraries, or at least that how it looks, simply because they've collected so many books. Like with my mom, for example. She had her own little library at home. And I realized that the library I was building consisted entirely of boylove books. And so I thought to myself, I'm building a boylove library. And of course that was followed by a mental "lol" ... because I wasn't "trying" to build any kind of library of BL books, it just so happened that I was buying and reading alot of them. And I thought it was so cool that they were physical books. Having actual books, published books, that are about boylove, is awesome. | ||
But the problem with physical books is, they're not easy to hide, especially when you have a lot of them. And at that time in my life, I was looking at having to move back in to my parents' house. And my brother lived there too. So in that scenario, I started to think of my BL book collection in a different light. It became more like, "How can I most effectively hide this?" As everything in a boylover's life becomes, when he's facing an upcoming major compromise in his privacy, and ability to keep things private. | |||
So I ended up throwing the books away. That's right, I put them in a black garbage bag, took it to the car and drove over to a dumpster on the other side of town. I know you're thinking, that must have been horrible, having to do that, having to dispose of something that I spent a lot of time and money building, growing it. Then, just to be forced to trash it. But I was consoled by the knowledge that I could still own these books. I could still have them, read them, enjoy them. I would just not have them in physical form. They'd be on my computer, on my tablet. If I wanted to have any kind of "BL Library" I could just easily do it in the digital world. Pus, if the books are in digital format and live online, in the cloud, it would be so much easier for me to share them with other boylovers who I know will appreciate them. | |||
But of course, I wasn't really trying to make any kind of BL book collection. Or was I? | But of course, I wasn't really trying to make any kind of BL book collection. Or was I? | ||
As I gave it more thought, it | As I gave it more thought, it occurred to me that there really was no place on the internet that touts itself as a library of BL books, with a comprehensive collection of both fiction and non-fiction, plus every BL magazine that has come out over the past few decades. | ||
So why not create one, myself? It's not too extremely difficult, tech-wise, and even still, I've got some very smart friends who could help me with that stuff. | So why not create one, myself? It's not too extremely difficult, tech-wise, and even still, I've got some very smart friends who could help me with that stuff. | ||
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'''Zoomzoom4:''' The big, over-riding vision when it comes to the BL Library is comprehensiveness. I want it to be full, complete. Whatever title a reader might be thinking of, I want to make sure we have it. Every BL book ever published, both fiction and non-fiction, and every issue of every magazine ever published. | '''Zoomzoom4:''' The big, over-riding vision when it comes to the BL Library is comprehensiveness. I want it to be full, complete. Whatever title a reader might be thinking of, I want to make sure we have it. Every BL book ever published, both fiction and non-fiction, and every issue of every magazine ever published. | ||
Our plan for the future is to expand our offerings to include other media such as videos -- both fiction and non-fiction -- and radio/streaming podcasts with topics relevant to BL and boylovers. With regard to the videos, when I say "fiction" I'm talking about | Our plan for the future is to expand our offerings to include other media such as videos -- both fiction and non-fiction -- and radio/streaming podcasts with topics relevant to BL and boylovers. With regard to the videos, when I say "fiction" I'm talking about Hollywood movies where boylove, or man/boy relationships of some similar kind, are depicted. There's not very many, to be honest, but there's a few. More than you might think. | ||
And then also, the "non-fiction" videos, which are mainly educational and informative about boylove and minor attraction in general, have come mostly from YouTube. | And then also, the "non-fiction" videos, which are mainly educational and informative about boylove and minor attraction in general, have come mostly from YouTube. | ||
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'''BoyWiki:''' Anything else you want people to know? | '''BoyWiki:''' Anything else you want people to know? | ||
'''Zoomzoom4:''' Yes, the BL Library will be hosting a fair at the parking lot of the old Sears and Montgomery Ward that closed down. There will be food, games, prizes, face painting, and more family fun. Oh yeah, and the first 500 boys aged 8 to 12 who come totally and completely naked, their parents will have their rent/ | '''Zoomzoom4:''' Yes, the BL Library will be hosting a fair at the parking lot of the old Sears and Montgomery Ward that closed down. There will be food, games, prizes, face painting, and more family fun. Oh yeah, and the first 500 boys aged 8 to 12 who come totally and completely naked, their parents will have their rent/mortgage paid for by the city for two years, one year of free groceries at Tom Thumb, and automatically entered into a drawing to win a new 4 story house in Elmwood Estates. | ||
See you there! | See you there! | ||
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*Of course, the last part of that was Zoomzoom4's little joke... DJ's, go figure! | |||
All in all, The Boylove Library is a wonderful addition to the online boylove community that someday may rival the [[:Category:Ancient Greece|Greek boylove collection]] in the Great Library of Alexandria. | |||
*'''[https://www.bl-library.org/ The Boylove Library (Website)]''' | |||
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by Staff Writer - March 23, 2024
Recently spotlighted in Fawnlet Magazine Issue #3 March, 2024, an exciting new and much needed resource for Boylovers has gone online, The Boylove Library. Currently the library has two sections, one for books and the other for magazines. The library is still in the process of collecting literary works about boylove and boylovers and welcomes book donations in the form of PDF files from the BL community. The great architects of the library have significant aspirations about what it someday could become and envision a huge collection of written works in the future. Everything freely downloadable. BoyWiki staff had the opportunity to chat with Zoomzoom4, a popular DJ from WIRED-PM Radio and the driving force behind this valuable project. Here is what he had to say,
All in all, The Boylove Library is a wonderful addition to the online boylove community that someday may rival the Greek boylove collection in the Great Library of Alexandria.
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