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This is legitimately one of my fav quotes from him

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kitchen nightmares was a good show

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Its midnight and all i want to do is make beans and eat beans and dissasociate with my beans

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Tag Game: Hopeful Little Queer Shows 🌈

I was tagged by the lovely ladies @dramalove247 here, in this game that started with this wonderful post by @soypim.

This is a hard one for me. If you'll indulge me, I will probably write way too much in an effort to explain myself and in the process divulge way more information than the game originally intended or really that's necessary. But that seems to be my way with these things.Or really in general, if I'm honest.

I am not what you'd call a hopeful person. If anything I'm very much on the other end of this particular spectrum. I always think the sky is falling and the odds are never in my favour and if the worst can happen, it will happen. I fake it better than most, and by doing that, the occasional spark of hope will worm its way in. So when I first saw the original post in my dash it got me thinking: what gives hope to even the most jaded person? And there are a couple of things. The first one applies not only to media but to the world in general. Kindness. I truly believe that this world needs more kindness, and through that so many other things will work themselves out, and if not, we would at least be in better company when we have to face whatever hellish day the world throws at us. And the second is representation. And in that, ql is the most hopeful place to be. We can get pretty cynical even in ql, because we live in a capitalist society and rainbows and kitties do not get things done, money does. There's money in this market, and if there wasn't, there wouldn't be hundreds of ql series produced each year. That is a fact. Of course, just because there is money involved doesn't mean there isn't love being put into it, or kindness, or hope. So I made this list with all the above in mind.

Seven Days

Starting at the beginning and on a more personal note. My first bl. This is the bl that led to all the other bls and to the wonderful world of queer love stories and this fandom. I found this film and I loved it since the first minute. Right after I got used to the hair. My head was blown. What do you mean this is a thing? Asian cinema was nothing new to me, but to find this? It was like a new window opened in my life and now I needed to see the full unobstructed view. And so started my journey into watching every bl that was ever made and the ones that were airing. Also, it was what started my undying love for japanese bl.

Kinou Nani Tabeta / What Did You Eat Yesterday?

I wrote about this show when the second season ended and I was very much in my feels about it. So I'm not going to go over it again and instead just take a quote from it that says what I wanna say.

"If this show was a meal then the absolutely right ingredients were found, they were put in the hands of the best cooks and everything was prepared with love and care. This show that I love, was put together by people who love it, and couldn't not make it. This is what I believe. It's my kind of faith. (...) When there is love in something, real care and empathy in the making of something, you can feel it, I believe. And I feel it so much watching this show."

She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat

The fact that this show exists and that I got to see it is a miracle. I think I found ql and this fandom because I was meant to watch this show. It healed me, it gave me hope and it filled me with joy. These women mean everything to me. Their kindness above everything else. Just like in WDYEY, there is love in the making of this. There is empathy and kindness being put into every frame. If anything can give me hope, it's that.

Koisenu Futari

My little aspec heart was so happy the first time watching this show. And it exemplifies to me, how important representation is. Because I felt seen in a way that I hadn't before. Because that was me. Because I thought there was something wrong with me before I found a word for it. I thought I was broken and destined to be lonely forever. Because I don't want what 'normal' people want. So, to see that reflected back to me in such a beautiful way was life changing. But there's one other thing about this show that gives me even more hope. And that is the character of Kasu. His growth gives me hope. Because those people are the ones we can reach. (and that ql can reach too) They are not bad people, they just don't know that there are different ways to love and to be happy. But if we can talk to them, if we can bring them into our little worlds, and show them empathy and compassion, I believe we would get that back and this world would be so much better because of it.

Cherry Magic

They just keep making versions of this and it makes me so happy. Less than a year after we watched Achi and Karan get married, gay couples were allowed to legally get married in Thailand. Am I saying that CM was the reason? Of couse not, I'm not completely delusional. And it certainly doesn't explain Japan, they've been here before anyone else and gay couples in Japan are still waiting. But if this story, that on the surface has a preposterous setup, but that is full of kind characters keeps getting made, including a musical last year, maybe I can hope that things will change. Slowly but surely.

Love In the Big City

This show got made. That's it, that's the reason. It got made in all its queer glory. Without hiding anything. Despite the protests and the haters and a country that is not ready for it, it got done! And it is beautiful.

Cherry Blossoms after Winter

Last one and as in the beginning, this one is a bit more personal. I mentioned this one in a different tag game and why not use this one to tell the story that I didn't then. So at a time in my life when my agoraphobia was at its peak and if I was awake I was anxious and more often than not on the verge of a panic attack, I watched this show. No particular reason, it was on my list of the bls I wanted to watch when I first discovered bl and it was due I guess. And I can't explain it, but it was the first time in a really long time I felt calm. I felt the anxiety leave my body while I was watching it. I have no idea why. Maybe their softness, maybe it was Haebom, my beautiful boy, maybe it was the colouring or the pace, not rushing but also not letting me escape, maybe it was the ost that still has that effect on me today. Or maybe it was a cosmic fluke and I was due for a rest. Regardless of the reason, it happened. And I'm so thankful it did. Cause it gave me so much needed joy and rest and it gave me hope that even at my worst, there must be something in the universe that can make me feel joy.

There are a lot of other shows that give me hope but these are the ones that I wanted to share today. And before I shake off this mushiness that apparently decided to visit me this saturday morning, I wanted to mention one other thing that gives me hope. And that is this little corner of this hellsite. This fandom is full of kind humans. People who,for no other reason than the love for this media and the people in this fandom, take their time and effort to make it all so much brighter. The funniest people, I swear to god. The gif makers and the meta writers, and the translators and the people who teach us about the different cultures we see on our screens. The people who post about the shows and why they rewired their brain or made them scream and cry and throw up. The people who share all the pretties and the gossip and the happy moments in between. The people who are so very normal about their shows. The people who are kind in the tags. Y'all make me happier and more hopeful every day I'm in this little corner of the internet.

Ok. Now I really need to stop with the mushy and the happy cause my cats are starting to look at me funny. It's been too long since they've seen me frown or scream. Tagging some folks to play or just to share the joy and the love. @colourme-feral @thisonelikesalien @troubled-mind @nabi-unveiled @hyeoni-comb @littleragondin @abstractelysium @yannig @emotionallychargedtowel @he-is-lightning-in-a-bottle @watchthisqqq @watchingblsnowandforever @italianpersonwithashippersheart @incandescentflower @obsessedferalgremlin @porridgefeast @sorry-bonebag @thirstkanaphan @mikuni14 @pickletrip @purlpeiris and if you see this and want to play consider yourself tagged here ➡️@ 💜

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Pages for the Hannigram zine🔪❤️💔🩸

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Usually don't post these things but have ya'll seen Bryan Fuller's insta story...

Clearly you didn't because no one posted about it so...

Laughing so hard I can barely breathe right now

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people thinking Will is poor as an elite fbi consultant who is the author if a book used in training annnnnd is a leading professor at the academy??? babe he earns around $290k a year with the high profile cases. wake up my man is just a simple man leave him alone with the poor accusations!!

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The pleasing and delightsome animal "dog" is a sort of bespoke pseudowolf engineered to hang out with you

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it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free:  pouring river water in your socks

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Stuff

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What we left behind: Looking back at Star Trek Deep Space Nine

I LOVE the fact that even in the documentary it's all subtext saying, 'Of course, everyone is absolutely straight. Bashir and Ezri get married, let's all pretend there's nothing even remotely queer in any of the seven seasons'

And then Andrew shows up.

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when your stomach is really mad at you and you're not sure which one of your fourteen unhealthy lifestyle choices is causing it

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saw someone tag a post about the guillotine with ‘say what you want about it, france never had another king’

pop quiz! what did france have after the revolution—perhaps a sort of super-king?

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maomao is my favorite "not like other girls" style protagonist bc for one shes a girls girl through and through. to the bone. and two she's just a weird little freak. absolute lunatic. they have the whole "omg she's actually beautiful and everyone falls for her when she's all made up" trope but the punchline is that she does not fucking want to look like that. she actively puts dirt on her face every day bc she does not want to be perceived as attractive (mostly out of fear of being used for sex work though at the same time she has the utmost respect for women who do sex work like she grew up in a brothel those are her sisters). she's Sherlock level smart and solves every mystery so fast but goes "well thats none of my business. anyway back to testing poisons on myself" she has the 2nd most powerful guy in the nation head over heels in love with her and is like "man this guy is weird around me what's his deal. I guess he's fine though because he gives me rare medicines and has no dick" fucking ICON i love her. also she once slapped someone so hard they fell on the floor. 10/10

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maomao when every important figure in the empire keeps asking for her help

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loaf with mama