#bl premise

[heretherebedork]

The Ex-Morning

Look, I love the meta commentary of Krist and Singto playing exes and I don't care about much else but also ADULTS!!! Gay adults!!! CAREERS! They're playing ADULTS, damnit. Thrilled. @absolutebl I am simple and pleased.

[lurkingshan]

I am surprised that some of my besties are surprised that this story is going to very dark places. May I remind you that we began our tale with Myungha getting drugged and forced into a life or death game without his consent, Yeowoon’s suicidal ideation and depression, rampant bullying and homophobia, and family trauma. This was never a light story!

[pharawee]

The official pilot for Khemjira just dropped and it's much closer to the novel than the old Khemjira Will Survive project. I was actually a bit doubtful before if Mandee could really pull this off but now I'm super excited again.

[yellowocaballero]

hyped for claude story, just from the little blurb and ur tags it looks like its gonna be hysterical

I'm gonna be real man. Is there tight plot? No. Is there anything other than dialogue? Of course not. Is it fast paced? You don't even need to ask. But it is the unwilling recipient of months of my insanity, and for that purpose I admire its resilience. It works because it is also the story of one boy slowly descending into absolute insanity.

I think people sometimes think of Claude as the comic relief and 'only sane man' in the leaders. This is untrue. He's fucking nuts. Imagine if a Japanese-American read a lot of websites on Japan and decided to move to Japan, pretend he was fully Japanese despite obviously being half-White, had been there the entire time, and became Emperor of Japan. He's living his best Dancing With Wolves life. My first decision of the story was that Claude probably didn't call himself his white people name/alias in his head, and that ended up changing a lot. I think if you take a different perspective of him, and decide to understand him a certain way, he becomes absolutely the most bugfuck and interesting character in FE3H.

All three House leaders pretend to be good people and, in fact, are actually pretty shitty people (except for Yuri, who pretends to be a bad person and is an actual angel). Claude is selfish, self-centered, and apathetic. Claude here is actually worse than in canon - for actual reasons that will become clear around 75k into the story. Weekenders was about somebody who saved lives but doomed souls; Rosetta Headstone is about somebody who saved souls but doomed themselves. I think the ending of both stories reflects that.

Anyway, meanwhile Byleth is living her New Game+ and she is killing it.

Also, transcript of that text under the cut - it's a bit long for alt text.

Byleth walked through the door. The bucket of water fell on her head. She had been absolutely drenched. 

Byleth had blinked at them, water dripping in rivulets across her hair. Most of the class was laughing their ass off, even Khalid. An absolutely atrocious first impression on their teacher, but the students had successfully won dominance. They had driven away their first teacher in tears and they could do the same to this one. Every student in the class either hated to work (Hilda and Marianne, for surprisingly identical reasons), hated being told what to do (Leonie, Lorenz, Lysithea), or went along with the rest (Ignatz and Raphael). There had been no intention of bowing down to an authority figure. What were they, the Blue Lions? Bootlickers?

“Is there a leak?” Byleth asked. 

The laughter died. Everybody stared at Byleth. Byleth tilted her head. 

Slow, tremulous, Ignatz pointed at the bucket. Byleth looked down, squinting.

“Oh. Why was that there?”

Straight faced, Hilda said, “Maybe the custodian left it.”

“Okay.” Byleth had walked forward, taking her place in the front of class. She bowed, a little stiff and awkward. “Hello. I’m your teacher. Please treat me well.” She looked up, eyes crinkling faintly in what Khalid would come to recognize as her edition of a smile. “I’m happy to be here.”

The tone was set. Byleth was unflappable. 

Salt in her coffee? She drank it all without flinching. Hidden alarm clock set to ring during class? She found it instantly. Frogs labeled 1, 2, and 4 in the classroom? Byleth sadly noted that 3 must have been eaten by a hawk, and she spent the rest of the class delighting over her shiny new frogs. Watching her feed the frogs little worms was adorable. It was so cute that the pranks stopped. Nobody could stomach it anymore. She was too innocent. 

Khalid, famous for his honest, straightforward, and upfront nature, hated liars. And Professor Byleth was stinking of deceit. Nobody was that adorable. She had a plot and he would sniff it out. 

[wanderingwriter87]

i have like two paragraphs written on a mirror garashir AU that i titled "swallow me whole" and i know that title must be from a song lyric but i forgor which song

[iguessitsjustme]

Thought about putting a third option of Black pretending to be White but that lasted all of 5 seconds and wasn't the main twin deception of the show.

[pickletrip]

One Room Angel slowly swept into my life and took me by surprise with such an interesting premise and great characters. So, even though it was from Japan, and I know how Japanese shows might end up, I chose to stay and find out what happened to the angel and how Kouki would change.

Did I expect the angel to disappear at some point? Yes.

Did I want the angel to disappear? No.

Did it make sense that the angel had to leave? Yes.

Did I end up smiling halfway through episode 6 only to realise this is the last episode and this is the time the angel would disappear? Yes...

What a beautiful and evocative show that touched upon the themes of communication, misunderstanding, death, loneliness and identity. Here I was expecting a cute little show with an amnesiac angel but I was given social commentary and responsibility packed into a short but effective narrative. It's not a show I would watch when I'm bored because it has the tendency to hit you with dark humour when you least expect it. But it's a show I'd recommend to anyone interested in delving deeper into Japanese filmmaking and narrative style.

I'm truly thankful and happy that I had the opportunity over the last 6 weeks to enjoy this show even though it constantly ripped my heart out. Hats off to these great actors and everyone who worked on this show.

[bl-recs-and-reviews]

Zenra Meshi - Naked Dinner

Futa Ichijo, who likes to eat naked as a way of relieving stress after work, one day gets caught by Mahiro Miki, the owner of a fruits and vegetables store. 

watch the trailer here

[forkaround]

WE NEED MORE CHICK FLICK ESQUE BLS!!!

Like yeah BLs are kinda chick flicky but they are not. They are romance stories. Romance =/ necessarily = to chick flick. We need the comedy of errors, we need three dimensional, layered characters, we need happy, dynamic characters, we need the push and pull of a romance, we need the character development of chick flicks. In this essay I will...

[alien-ally]

ehaa and one more thing i gotta say. the first thing i notice about shows esp kbl and jbl is the voices of the characters. actors technically ig. it's lowkey a selling point for me personally. kiyoi, in utsukare, yoh in mpw, seonyul in lt, etc etc. then probably comes ost. love for love's sake has me sold on both.

[bl-bam-beyond]

ONE ROOM ANGEL (2023, JAPAN)

Episode 3

Koki (UESUGI SHUHEI) gets a visit from his mother and Angel (NISHIMURA TAKUYA) has to hide in the closet (is that a metaphor for something? Probably not)

Once she's gone Angel has curiosity about the past of the man he's living with. Koki opens up.

Angel is sympathetic and kinda absolves him. More or less. His heart skips a beat.

Koki has been alone and so unhappy not living but mere existing. But Angel has brought companionship and understanding and Koki is...

Has Koki fallen for the young boyish angel? Does Angel feel it too?

Bonus: And Next Week

@pose4photoml @lutawolf

[lurkingshan]

Why did Sunset x Vibes promo itself as a sexy adult bl only to deliver blushing maiden and angle kisses? What is going on here

[batshikns]

so you know that one 80's-90's yaoi style people parody from time to time? i found it.

[pharawee]

Last Meal Universe was announced yesterday, today we get a cute pilot trailer. 🥰

[seri-tonin]

I could write whole essays about kavetham (<- hasn't even gotten past liyue yet)

[glowingreverie]

.