#doomed by the narrative or doomed by yourself

[absolutebl]

Just a Big'ol List of all My Top Rated BLs of all time!

Here are the only ones I have give 10/10 to:

Color Rush - Korea

I Cannot Reach You AKA Kimi ni wa Todokanai - Japan

Light On Me - Korea

Our Dating Sim - Korea

Semantic Error - Korea

Seven Days AKA Seven Days: Monday-Thursday AND Seven Days: Friday-Sunday (2 parts) - Japan

To My Star - Korea

Until We Meet Again - Thai

We Best Love: No. 1 For You AND We Best Love: Fighting Mr. 2nd - Taiwan

I also adore the A Man Who Defies The World of BL (AKA Absolute BL) series. But I consider those more like parody than actual BL.

The 50 BLs I've given 9/10s:

A First Love Story - Korea

A Tale of Thousand Stars - Thai

Bad Buddy - Thai

Be Loved In House: I Do - Taiwan

Blueming - Korea

Century of Love - Thai

Cherry Blossoms After Winter - Korea

Cherry Magic (Thai remake) - Thai

Cherry Magic AKA 30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii - Japan

Cosmetic Playlover Japan

He's Coming to Me - Thai

HIStory 2: Crossing the Line - Taiwan

I Feel You Linger in the Air - Thai

Jun and Jun - Korea

Kiseki: Dear to Me - Taiwan

La Pluie - Thai

Laws of Attraction - Thai

Long Time No See - Korea

Love For Love's Sake - Korea

Love is Science? BL Cut - Taiwan

Love Tractor - Korea

Lovely Writer - Thai

Minato Coin Laundry AKA Minato Shouji Koin Randorii - Japan

My Beautiful Man AKA Utsukushii Kare - Japan

My Personal Weatherman AKA Taikan Yoho - Japan

My Ride - Thai

My School President - Thai

Nobleman Ryu's Wedding - Korea

Not Me - Thai

Old Fashion Cupcake - Japan

Our Dining Table AKA Bokura no Shokutaku - Japan

Our Youth AKA Miseinen: Mijukuna Oretachi wa Bukiyo ni Shinkochu - Japan

Oxygen - Thai

See Your Love - Taiwan

Step By Step - Thai

Sugar Dog Life - Japan

Takara-kun and Amagi-kun -Japan

ThamePo - Thai

The Eighth Sense - Korea

The Heart Killers - Thai

The New Employee - Korea

The Rebound - Thai

The Sign - Thai

Unintentional Love Story - Korea

Unknown - Taiwan

Wandee Goodday - Thai

We Are - Thai

When it Rains it Pours AKA Futtara Doshaburi - Japan

Wish You: Your Melody in My Heart - Korea

Your Sky - Thai

My rating system:

10/10 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED faithful to tropes, happy ending, good chemistry, few flaws, high rewatch potential

9/10 ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED probably a few pacing issues or one flaw

8/10 RECOMMENDED some concerns around tropes (like dub con) or story structure but still satisfies as BL

7/10 RECOMMENDED WITH RESERVATIONS i.e. isn’t quite BL, convoluted, not strictly HEA, too short/long, or chemistry issues

6/10 WORTH WATCHING BUT FLAWED probably around the ending or in narrative structure/cohesion or censorship

5/10 WATCH IF YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO but don’t expect much, it’s a hot mess

4/10 FATALLY FLAWED but still basically BL, however… do we want to support this kind of behavior?

3/10 I DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM WATCHING AND NEITHER DOES IT

2/10 IT'S DEPRESSING they killed the gay, save yourself

1/10 IT'S AWFUL, I WATCHED IT SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

Notes on the current state of the BL Spreadsheet of Doom:

Currently contains: 818 BLs.

DNF'd BLs: 82 (or almost exactly 10%) they would all like be gerring scored of under 4/10 if I completed them.

Can't find: 69

Currently airing or in progress: 20

Unrated: 171 (just over 20%)

These shows are, by definition not included in the rec list, but might later once I finish watching them.

[pinknnight]

my poor girl trapped in a cage :(

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

Daniel Brühl as Ernst Schmidt THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX 2018・dir. Julius Onah

[mmmrat]

Did you guys see? the sun fell out of the sky last November 30

Scar calls Grian the light of the server once and i fixate on it forever

"YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO WATCH"

[jtt-033-1613]

you’re serving cunt scully? you’re doomed by the narrative and your serving cunt?

[buttered-milky]

sauron becoming the melkor parallel in his relationship with celebrimbor. Sauron becoming the devil of a Faust-and-the-devil pair.

When he’s hurting Celebrimbor he’s hurting a parallel of himself. He’s seeing himself and going “I have to fucking kill that. I have to kill that brutally”

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I love Matt and Wilson’s dynamic so much. Like I have so much rage toward you. Somehow you keep getting in my way. No matter how hard we try to stay apart and exist in our own separate worlds, we always end up back together. I want to destroy you. I would take a bullet for you. I have to hold you accountable even if that means destroying my world. I can’t put our past behind us.

[dread-full]

Jeanette Winterson, 'Why be happy when you could be normal?'

[ghostdrinkssoup]

I had an epiphany about doomed by the narrative vs cosmically linked ship dynamics so now this venn diagram exists. please add more if you think of any I feel genuinely insane

to clarify: cosmically linked means there has to be some force in-universe that ties the characters together, such as time travel, soulmate indicators, AUs, cosmic nonsense, etc. this has to be literal, not metaphorical. fantasy/sci-fi settings also don’t automatically mean the characters are cosmically linked. these tropes often coalesce with doomed by the narrative but not always!

doomed by the narrative means that the characters are inescapably and inevitably tragic. they usually have the same energy as ancient greek myths or shakespearean drama. as such, they cannot have a happy ending together — it’s either downright tragic or ambiguous. there also doesn’t have to be any cosmic nonsense involved for the ship to be doomed

[lovelyrottingcrows]

Doomed by the narrative together... platonically (I can talk about them for hours but nobody has the patience including me so I'll settle on 'besties')

They're actually so silly it's carving out my insides and causing me excruciating pain that my mortal body is not capable of processing

idea or inspiration ig??

I love nagitos hair and skinny ass legs and how chiaki is leaning to him they're adorbs

[jmej]

i dont think anyone was ever as doomed by the narrative as ford pines was

[thefawnfallacy]

if I wasn’t meant to be romanticising the relationship between Cain and Abel to the point of blasphemy, then why are they the perfect example of doomed siblings meant to see each other in everything?

[redstringredeye]

Sorry Sam, coffee theory law states that Celia cannot legally drink coffee while actively investigating the Magnus Institute. I don’t make the rules

[vinyls-and-valentines]

I hate how hard it is to come up with character names because how am I supposed to make character playlists that make me even more insane about my own OCs WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO PUT THEIR GOTDAMN NAMES IN THE PLAYLIST TITLE??!

[natequarter]

[narvin voice] exercises my free will cutely to do exactly what i just burnt down the world to avoid

[hylaversicolor]

i think THE number one thing that gets me about ocelhira actually (nine year gap era specifically) is that you go into it expecting one thing and end up with the opposite bc like. the whole thing happened bc kaz tried to rip off the illuminati and failed catastrophically right. of all the backstories in mgs kaz's feels the most human. and then ocelot is this untouchable mysterious almost inhuman triple(+) agent spy with all the answers and information up his sleeve. and then as time goes on and the farther that they get from big boss the more you realize that the situation is opposite. kaz is actually the ruthless one. ocelot is actually a bit pathetic. it's so good.