#doomed by the narrative or doomed by yourself
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absolutebl · 3 days ago
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Just a Big'ol List of all My Top Rated BLs of all time!
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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.
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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.
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pinknnight · 3 months ago
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my poor girl trapped in a cage :(
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deepdwellingsteamboat · 8 months ago
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Daniel Brühl as Ernst Schmidt THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX 2018・dir. Julius Onah
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mmmrat · 6 months ago
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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
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"YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO WATCH"
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jtt-033-1613 · 6 months ago
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you’re serving cunt scully? you’re doomed by the narrative and your serving cunt?
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buttered-milky · 7 months ago
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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”
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kingofmyborrowedheart · 2 months ago
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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.
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dread-full · 3 months ago
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Jeanette Winterson, 'Why be happy when you could be normal?'
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ghostdrinkssoup · 6 months ago
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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
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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
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lovelyrottingcrows · 1 year ago
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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')
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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??
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I love nagitos hair and skinny ass legs and how chiaki is leaning to him they're adorbs
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jmej · 9 months ago
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i dont think anyone was ever as doomed by the narrative as ford pines was
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thefawnfallacy · 1 year ago
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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?
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redstringredeye · 1 year ago
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Sorry Sam, coffee theory law states that Celia cannot legally drink coffee while actively investigating the Magnus Institute. I don’t make the rules
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vinyls-and-valentines · 3 months ago
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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??!
#making romantic songs platonic is my specialty and visatori cu plumb in ochi by alternosfera and zid by om la luna are literally my latest#ocs. the martyr and the person who most cherishes them#bitches aren't even doomed by the narrative they just choose to doom themselves the moment they meet eyes in every universe without fail#they could be born in completely different solar systems and somehow they'll still find each other#they are not soulmates. the universe has not ordained this. they have perfectly good matches out there AND YET. every. single. fucking. time#they manage to drift together for a fraction of a second and latch onto eachother like baby sloths with separation anxiety. they make the#gods froth at the mouth. they have a liege-devoted knight relationship but they both believe themselves to be the knight. one is always#fated to die young and the other is fated to outlive everybody they care about. they kill each other in at least half the lives they lived#because they trust no one else to know their will better even though they do not remember any of their previous lives. they drive me nuts.#i have become the god of mysteries. he is me. stop killing yourself gayboy it automatically transfers ownership of the revolution to my#representative and she's scary! she's gonna take your plan and add a 20 year projection of ways to improve it! i need you to step up and#force her to make sensible decision PLEASE#anyways. this is part me rambling part me leaving myself a note to add this songs to a playlist that may or may not exist in the future#boo rambles
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natequarter · 7 months ago
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[narvin voice] exercises my free will cutely to do exactly what i just burnt down the world to avoid
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hylaversicolor · 2 years ago
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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.
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