#2023 agenda

[carnetist]

We are happy to introduce you the new 2023-2024 Digital Planner! Keep yourself organized with this hyperlinked planner that offers monthly and weekly views. Fan of free spaces and timetables? This planner is for you. With more than 24 additional templates, we have created this 190 pages planner with students and professionals in mind. We know everyone is different so we have given you more than 10 cover pages for you to use, change, and interchange. We are more than happy to be part of YOUR journey! Give it a look, see if you like it and if you have any questions please reach out!

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Happy planning,

Carnetist

[my-boys-love-boys]

Agendas I Plan to Get Behind in 2023

tall!Chay

PremBoun

MingKit supremacy

Yai slut era

baby dom!Wayo

JediRay (this pairing needs love)

cuddle whore!Pat

ChayKim

Step-siblings Kiyoi & Aoki

Sean needs to learn not to be a little bitch

ace!Arthit

MarkKit deserved better

BOW BEFORE EARTH!!

Let Fort write season 2

You call that a kiss?

[paste-n-paper]

2023 planners are here!

I'm so happy to be able to offer custom 2023-2024 dated planners just in time for the holidays.

I've made so many parts customizable: cover paper, thread color, Sunday or Monday month starts, and both English and French language options!

I also have dozens more papers that aren't listed on the site if you don't see the perfect one. Just send me a note and I'll work to find what you're looking for.

These make wonderful gifts, for a friend or for yourself! Check out all my customizable stationery items on my site, link in my bio.

[storkmuffin]

my secret hidden high priority new year's resolution for 2023:

when my dad says something shitty to me about me smack him the fuck down immediately without reservation so hard his eyeballs pop out of his head

[hag-lad]

2023

MATH AS A LEISURE ACTIVITY

CHESS AS A SPORT

INVENT YOUR OWN FIELD OF STUDY

GROW OUT YOUR HAIR

CAUTION TO THE WIND

DANCE IN THE SUN, SING TO THE MOON

STATEMENT SOCKS

WRITE ALL THE TIME

SCARS ARE STRONGER THAN SKIN

RESTORATION

[kaaiiine]

So I made a lil' something... it's nothing much just a 2023 school/year agenda/calendar, but I liked how it turned out, so I figured I could share it with whoever wants it. I do want to warn people that eyestrain is very possible with a few of the pages due to high contrast and/or lots of colors. Enjoy!

link

[royalarchivist]

Fit: Did I steal anything else before I have to go to work? Did I steal anything else from you?

Phil: Just my heart.

Fit:

Phil: Anyway—

Fit: Phil, Phil, Phil, Phil. Calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down. You need to calm down, you- I don't know what they're putting in the— Alright, I'LL SEE YOU LATER PHIL! YEP. I'll see you later! See you later.

Phil: [Cackling] I was like, "What's the thing I can say that would absolutely try and fluster Fit?" [Laughs] That's the first thing that came- [Laughs too much to finish his sentence] Yes. [Fist pumps] Yes. Just testing him. Just testing him. I wanted to see if Pac got brought up in the conversation, I wanted to see if he'd be like, "Hey, I'm- I'm sworn- I'm- I am taken—" I wanted to see if he'd say it, but he didn't. He didn't.That's interesting, Fit. That's interesting. Roommates, right? How far does the rabbit hole go on this one? Just roommates? Just roommates?

[lyumera]

TF Secret Solenoid gift for @theblueblazes !

A lovely excuse to draw TFP Soundwave/IDW Rodimus :)

Hope you enjoy your gift and best wishes for the New Year!

Thank you @secretsolenoid-revived for organising the event!

[taitavva]

"he's totally flirting with me" (pego voice)

[joscribbles]

can’t spell ‘spider’ without ‘pride’

[carnetist]

Hi Everyone!

Carnetist is so pleased to present you the dated Digital planner 2023 with a January start. Keep yourself organized with this hyperlinked planner that offers monthly and weekly views. Fan of free spaces and timetables? This planner is for you. With more than 24 additional templates, we have created this 190 pages planner with students and professionals in mind. We know everyone is different so we have given you more than 15 cover pages for you to use, change, and interchange. We are more than happy to be part of YOUR journey! Give it a look, see if you like it and if you have any questions please reach out!

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THIS 2023 DIGITAL PLANNER

If you try it, we would love to hear your thoughts on this planner.

Happy planning! :)

Carnetist

[takesfew]

Johnshi as texts

[thearchercore]

not to be delulu on main but this week we had (checks notes)

• rbr lestappen post on main

• charles arriving at the paddock right behind (almost with) christian and were spotted casually chatting and laughing. oh! and the drive to survive crew was there

• max inchident tiktok on the main rbr account

• christian horner defending charles in interviews instead of their own driver

• ferrari not showing up to celebrate charles' podium as the only team so charles had to celebrate with red bull instead

• the podium video of charles on the ferrari account being only 10 seconds long because it misses any clips of the ferrari team congratulating him (because they, in fact, haven't)

• charles being chatty with an rbr employee during the podium ceremony

• charles and max acting out this week, in general

• also carlos not agreeing to work with charles in lap 1?? lol (alexa play youre on your own kid by taylor swift)

• also a rogue f1 journalist tweeting "i don't want to believe the rumor that they told me now in the paddock. no." and logging off, brilliant.

do guys see what im seeing

[moonkhao]

HIDDEN AGENDA PILOT (2022)

[absolutebl]

TOP 10 BL Trends of 2023

This is just me with my analysis hat on. 

1. 2023 = the year EVERYONE went outside their lanes

Everything went topsy-turvy this year in BL. 

For example, Korea gave us agonized yearning and outright queerness (The 8th Sense, The New Employee) while Japan served up soft office workers and tender family (Our Dining Table). 

The BL world went askew for a while, especially in the spring of 2023. 

Not that we still didn’t still get Korea’s soft angsty bubbles or Japan’s “what are you doing and why does it hurt?” kink-fests. But there were quite a few BLs that made us chronic watchers sit up in confusion and wonder if Korea was dabbling in Taiwan’s territory or Japan in Thailand’s. Then they fudged the kisses and we were like... okay, back in familiar territory. 

In contrast, Thailand stayed course-correcting for the damage they’ve done in the past with tropes (2022) and self referential meta criticism (2021), but also almost aggressively returned to their BL roots after last year’s series of shockers. Certainly, they are reexamining those roots, transplanting some, aerating others. But they really went back to classic Thai university and high school BL and pulps in a big way in 2023. 

Taiwan is always difficult to gage because they produce so few but they seem to have stuck with what they do best with no deviation while producing more this year than they have in ages. I’m happy for that, why change a good thing? But there is a tiny part of me that really wants them to hit it out of the part with a quality piece soon. For me, We Best Love still reigns supreme, but I would really like the HIStory franchise to give us that level but longer - like a happy version of Your Name Engraved Herein. I think Taiwan has the chops to give us something as good as The 8th Sense or Old Fashion Cupcake but in their style, and I would like to see them exercise their talent for good rather than just profit. 

I know, what a very odd thing for me to say. But if any BL is going to break into the mainstream American market, I genuinely think it’s most likely come from Taiwan. 

Vietnam and the Philippines are falling behind, in general. They just didn’t bring out very many shows in 2023, and what the brought out tended to fub the endings. This is forgivable in Japan (because of their style and quality) but not what watchers want in the lower production value propositions. In other words, if you do a pulp, you can’t mess up the ending (by romance standards). that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. 

2. The Office Romance Dominated

After years of Thailand serving us an endless (and slightly bland) buffet of university (and a few high school) BLs, this year Korea was basically like...

Ofiice. We like the Office. It’s cheap to film we can use grown up actors, acting (mostly) their actual age. 

And yeah... it totally worked. 

To be fair, Japan has always given us office live action yaoi from the beginning (they had the source material) but this year everyone else, including Thailand, seriously started playing in this setting. 

3. Boys Danced with Boys

The darling @heretherebedork​ was a big fan of this one, and I rather like it myself. Prior to this boys dancing together was very very rare in BL, but this year we got way more than our fair share. It was lovely. 

Never Let me Go

My School President 

Bed Friend 

The Day I Loved You 

Step by Step

Be Mine Superstar

Tie the Not 

Dangerous Romance

I think there were a few more. These are the ones I remembered to write down. 

4. Getting (even more) Meta With Tropes 

BL has been getting more and more meta over the past few years but this year they really focused in on tropes specifically. Calling out their own biggest and most favorite tropes in a massive way, especially Thailand and especially GMMTV. 

Like they tunneled in on damaging tropes with Bad Buddy and the like over the past 2 years, and now they are just having fun with us. 

I mean they just started the dancing trope and already they are calling it out? That’s like rapid-fire regurgitated meta there, GMMTV. 

5. Cameos are the norm now 

Taiwan has always loved cameos but in the past the other countries have been show and steady with only one or two a year. (Unless Japan does a parody.) 

This year Korea got in on the game.

Korea rarely starts trends but they do adopt smaller and lesser known existing ones and make them super popular. 

This year they did that with cameo couple appearances, even borrowing a few of Thailand’s pairs (TutorYim and MaxNat traveled north). They did it so much I stopped tracking. Love Class 2, Why R U?, and Jun & Jun were the heaviest hitters. 

Taiwan, of course, came back swinging. Kiseki was the gum-ball machine of pair cameos. (In Taiwan mafia = gay.) 

6. We are entering the cross pollination age

The number of remakes picked up or started this year was startling, not just countries revisiting their own content (Thailand, Japan) but countries revisiting OTHER countries stuff.

Lemme explain...

Korea has started remaking Thai content (Why R U?) alongside cameo'ing Thai pairs.

Thailand is doing Korean IP (My Dear Gagster Oppa) and has 2 Chinese ones slated for next year. 

GMMTV acquired a lot of Japanese IP (Cherry Magic, Ossen, and My Love Mix Up) - and then had problems distributing it. 

This is probably the most surprising trend for me. Especially the Japanese stuff. I would have thought these properties well outside of Thailand's price range (even GMMTV's) not to mention Japan’s legendary IP issues (I swear I typed this pout before the pulled TayNew’s excellent Cherry Magic). 

Also why not option some of the older popular manga instead? Bet that's much cheeper. (I did see a NEW Thai translation of Finder into Thai, which is 90s yaoi, so I have my fingers crossed on that front.)

I shouldn't be too surprised. 

Thailand is running out of y-novel content. Their publication industry is just not robust enough (I was just talking to a friend about this at length recently). But I didn't think they had the funds to option, especially from Japan. 

Perhaps the option deals are for peanuts?

7. Korea got cheeky

I’m not sure quite how else to put this. 

After finally figuring out boys can kiss, Korea started to do not just higher heat but playful higher heat, with more aggressive word play and linguistic innuendo, like they are entering their racy rom-com teenage years (Why R U? Love Class 2 and Jun & Jun in particular.) 

I guess: Welcome to your BL teens, Korea? 

It’s cute of them. I am very much enjoying it. 

And now that comedy is warming them up, we get to see them play with actual queer burgeoning physicality in shows like The 8th Sense. 

It’s nice. I like seeing Korea stretch its wings. They still stick to their bubble, but that bubble seems to be expanding. 

8. The Amnesia Trope is back

And I, for one, would prefer to forget about it. 

9. BL got trendy 

I’m not quite sure how to articulate this category but basically we started seeing a lot of “modern” romance trends out of the west (like a/b/o) show up in our BL. Not a ton and sometimes quite small, but there has a been a steady rise of things like: no seme/uke, femme gay, out gay, condom use, messy gay. 

We also got an increasing range of sub genre frameworks (like mafia, office setting) that’s moved BL pretty firmly (even in Thailand) out of school and into the workplace, whether actual working is involved or not. 

It’s not to the point where it feels like we get more non-school BL than school BL (if I include all countries in this assessment).

Japan, in classic Japanese fashion, quietly started moving in the opposite direction. It’s what they do. 

10. The Vampires are coming 

This is an announcement trend, which I don’t usually report on but it’s so CLEAR. 

So last year we had a spate of announcements of possible Omegaverse (2 from China, 1 from Japan, 1 from Thailand - the only one that’s happened). 

This year we got 5 Vampire (or vampire-esk) Thai BLs announced including one from GMMTV. 

Whether all 5 will actually get made is unlikely, but having had (basically) none prior to this (Kissable Lips), I’m pretty confident that we will get at least 2 of them. And I wouldn’t be surprised if at least one other country made one as well. (Side eyes Taiwan with interest.) 

Final thoughts

It feels like we are also seeing a decline in BL (both by quantity and quality) from Vietnam and the Philippines. As you all know, I don’t track or really watch either of these two very closely. But it feels like, now, no one else is either. 

I think we have likely seen the BL heyday already in both places and their industries are now on the decline. 

We might be witnessing a thinning in the players in the BL field. 

FYI we had approximately 

136 BLs in 2023

Previous Years

2022: 117

2021: 95

2020: 62

2019: 40

2018: 30 

2017: 44 (China’s last gasp)

2016: 27

2015: 17 (50% micro)

2014: 17 (50% micro)

And that’s it! Let me know in the comments if you’ve spotted any additional trends you want to call out.

Last year, 2022′s trend report

2021′s Trend report

Last Year’s Stats & Predictions

(source) 

[il-predestinato]

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