#Taiwan cherry

[ayanos-pl]

カンヒザクラ（寒緋桜）

[petitworld]

Alishan National Forest, Taiwan by William Lai

[thistransient]

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

I would like to appreciate and honour my still persistent cold, which is why I present to you probably the most typical and very intimate act-of-service: You have a fever? Here, have something cool and you'll be fine tomorrow.

Extra points are awarded for personal rubdowns by the partner/love-interest.

Between Us

Love Mechanics

My Secret Love

The Eclipse

Because Of You

Ai Long Nhai

Cherry Blossoms After Winter

Fahlanruk

Favorite acts-of-service (Part2/?) as part of my favorite bl-tropes-collection in no particular order.

[respectthepetty]

It's the communication

It's the honesty

It's the understanding

These are the reasons I love My Tooth Your Love.

[g12xxx]

Upcoming series trailer I have seen:

Last twilight - This is the series I am most looking forward to watching.

Cherry Magic (Thai remake) - The trailer looks interesting and I haven’t seen the OG Cherry Magic.

Jun and Jun - I just hope that it’s good because there has been some great KBL this year.

The Jungle - Trailer looks ok but are the women the main characters too? Or just side characters? I hope that they have a lot of screen time and we get to know characters. Will I watch it? Probably not but we will see.

Kiseki: Dear to me - The teaser looks good and the plot.

[wonderalph]

Taiwan's Cherry Blossom

[halliescomut]

2022 BL opinions

Now...I suppose I'm decently new to BLs, not the general concept, but I've only been super actively engaged in watching eastern BLs for about a year...I think I started around February, but I can't be sure. I can be sure that I started with Gameboys, and I still adore that show. Anyway....someone here (if I can find the post I'll tag it in edits) shared a chart for you to put your opinions on...and I love to share my fully subjective opinions....so this is a scatter graph of all of the eastern BLs I watched in 2022. This is NOT limited to ones that came out in 2022. It includes anything I fully finished before posting this, so Remember Me is included even though it's last few eps were in 2023. So here you go...

I know everything is super tiny, sorry about that...so I've also included my excel sheet:

Now, for some caveats! When marking technical quality, 90 % of that grade is behind the camera, it's writing, it's sets/ production design, costumes, storyline/plot, all of that. Actor skill can improve quality...good actors can elevate a poor script, so it may add points, but 'poor acting' doesn't take them away for me. Anything that I found to be just mid as far as production value started at one, then points were added or deducted based on good plots, quality writing, costuming, etc.

I am honestly super easy to please as far as enjoyment, there's very few things I just flat out dislike, and if I did...I didn't finish the show, so it won't be here. I tried to be kind of harsh here, because if I wasn't then almost everything was going to be 7 or above. Mid for me is 0, if it's positive I liked it, if it went into the negatives that's something I don't necessarily regret watching, but I definitely won't be recommending. If it got above a 5, that's something that's going to get recommended, and it's also something likely to get a re-watch.

In terms of shows that are known to be problematic as far as themes...I'm generally not here to yuck someone's yum, these shows get made because there's an audience. If it had story elements that reduced my enjoyment that obviously does deduct points. But I'm also not going to find some things as disagreeable as someone else might. I also try my best to be cognizant that these shows have a long history in their respective cultures and there are tropes or common story points that either are problematic, or can be problematic. So when I'm watching I'm trying to take these shows as they are, not viewing them solely through a western lens. That being said there are some tropes that I have no issues with that many other BL fans absolutely despise.

[ayanos-pl]

カンヒザクラ（寒緋桜）

[petitworld]

Alishan National Scenic Area, Taiwan by Potsen Tseng

[thistransient]

[shoebanfoo]

[arcusnoel]

Sweet Sweet Berry!!'s Idol !

Li Bao, From Taiwan Kassie, From Ivory Coast Aja Nikki, From Philippines Noëlle, From France

[cedescedes]

Cherry Blossom Lane, Taiwan

[zhuhongs]

jacaranda season is to ME (and other incredibly sexy cursed to live in socal this one is for u charlie or live neutrally in places where the tree is native to) as sakura season is to the japanese...