#bl with lots of kisses

[absolutebl]

Hi I'm new to the BL world, I watched Love in the Air and Secret Crush on You and I don't know what to watch next. I don't like to watch shows with sad endings and the shows that I plan to watch are:

Semantic Error

Cutie Pie

Kinn Porsche

But I don't know what order to watch it in, I've heard that Kinn Porsche is a little on the rough side since it's like a mafia type show so I don't know if I should wait until after I watch my other series or just watch it now. Also do you have any other BL recommendations? Preferably ones with happy endings. I've been debating on watching My Only 12% or The Eclipse but I know there's a lot of angst despite the happy endings.

Sorry for the long ask, any help would be great. Thank you

Did you like LITA & SCOY? Since you mention them, I'm going with yes.

Should I assume you want stuff in that vein? 

So we are talking messy gays, very high heat levels, and no particular need for plot or consent?

Semantic Error is one of my absolute favorites but it doesn't hit... any of that. It's a tight clean little story, lower heat leaves (always from Korea) and not very messy.

Of those 3, I would go:

Cutie Pie

Semantic Error

KinnPorsche

KP is... a lot, it does everything the 2 you mention does though + added fight scenes, kink, and utter chaos. If you end up liking that I have a watching rec list specifically for it since it onboarded so many new BL fans. 

Some others in your wheelhouse?

TharnType (the orig of this style of BL out of Thailand) 

Why R U?

HIStory 4: Close to You

Oh! My Sunshine Night

Big Dragon 

Generally you’ll be looking to Thailand and Taiwan for this kind of BL. 

If you also ended up liking Semantic Error:

We Best Love 

My Beautiful Man 

HIStory 2: Crossing the Line

Lovely Writer

Addicted: Heroin

HIStory Obsessed

My Day the series 

These all have great chemistry but are not high heat. FYI heat and chemistry are not the same, heat has to do with the acts depicted on screen, chemistry with the actor’s abilities to portray physical, emotional, and mental connection with each other.  

Both My Only 12% and The Eclipse are kinda the opposite of SCOY and LITA. They are a lot of story and character development and some angst, but much lower heat levels, and pretty clean narrative structures. They’re heavier: 12% deals with the death of a parent, Eclipse with suicide.  

They do both have very good chemistry though. 

Here’s more stuff on this topic:

Rec Lists 

HIGH HEAT BL 

11 BLs with the BEST Chemistry

10 GREAT Chemistry BLs to Binge right NOW! 

Some of these have not been updated with 2022 content yet. There was A LOT to keep track of this year. 

Explanations & Discussions 

Heat & Angst in BL + Terms Explained 

Giving Good Kiss in BL - Defining Chemistry 

BL Actor Age Dynamics & CHEMISTRY on screen 

Heat Versus Chemistry, Cool Versus Cute 

Workshopping High Heat in BL

Why Such A Limited Range of Sex Acts in BL?

Queer lens (from the director) and chemistry (from the actors) in BL 

That’s A LOT but I hope it helps you. And please once you’ve watch a few more and want more recs, I am always happy to help! 

[mahealinskis]

Just dudes being bros and kissing each other on the lips

[maxescheibechlinichacheli]

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

[snarkspawn]

Happy Valentine's Day @pharawee 😘

[thescrumptiousstuffs]

Some of my fav moments from the OST MV “Let’s Try” for Only Friends

Sang by the talented Khaotung Thanawat

10/08/2023

[bunnakit]

what if we were two lovesick fools kissing on a rooftop and one of us was wearing a baseball mom tshirt

[bisepunk]

A sweet bite before sleeping🍓

[kdramaxoxo]

After 12 episodes of TharnType I need a break from boys.

[morathicain]

Haterant- Callout post - Hello:

So apparently there are SandRay fans on twitter (haven't seen the take here, thank the gods) who hate the RayMew kiss. Not because Mew was manipulating and using Ray to hurt Top and without having feelings for him while both were on drugs and drunk, which Ray had started, BUT because they perceive both as bottoms and they think two bottoms kissing each other is BAD and YIKES and it would have been better if Top and Sand kissed WHICH WOULDN'T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE PLOTWISE YOU DIPSHITS!

Fans of the ship really out there vomiting up the worst of takes although we fought for years to move on from the Top/Bottom take (and Jojo himself has bludgeoned the damn take in his shows).

Ngl but those fans are more toxic than any of the characters on the show and have proven with this that they don't care for the plot or the characters but only their faves and ships (oh, also apparently they say SandRay are not popular? What?????)! It's truly sad how little reading comprehension is in the last braincell of some of them and how much disrespect for an intriguing story and the characters' background stories and development.

Please, just stop watching the show, nuances are wasted on you, thank you.

(plus this might just NOT be your kind of show - and that's okay)

(this also includes the ones who demand more sweet SandRay scenes and are outraged that they fuck up and that they're such a mess and no soulmates - we were never promised a sweet rom com but exactly the toxic, complicated mess we're getting now - live with it and stop watching! it's okay if it's not your kind of show - there's no need to watch just because your faves are in it)

[lgbtally4ever]

SOME OF OUR FAVORITE Korean BL KISSES! Enjoy!!!

[blfanfest]

Twins the Series

[petrichoraline]

"...but I still remember the touch of his kiss-"

"Mr.Nueng, stop it."

[kinnbig]

help i’m thinking about Tong and getting emotional again 🥺

[harapeveco]

A shoujo manga account that promotes shoujo mangas made a post about knk and int which is great bc more recognition! but also funny bc I often forget Comic Gene’s demographic is women so yeh technically speaking both int and knk are shoujo manga djfjejdkkd