#make it gay you cowards

[merelymatt]

I only have one note for you Rian Johnson. In the next one Benoit Blanc needs to be at least 500% more gay. I've now seen Glass Onion twice, once in a cinema and once on Netflix, and both times I had to explain afterwards to the heteros I saw it with that Benoit Blanc and Hugh Grant are husbands. Yes despite the PR push. No I do not know the character's name, Blanc is gay married to Hugh Grant now thank you very much, that is my second note if you'll allow me that Rian Johnson.

Both times! "Oh I loved Hugh Grant's little cameo, but I didn't really get who he was supposed to be?"

You gotta shut these reactions down next time Rian Johnson. The rule of show don't tell is officially suspended. There must be no room for doubt. 500% gayer at minimum. Everything else just keep doing what you're doing, darling, loving your work

[theprincessofabsolutelynothing]

I’m making a list

[absolutebl]

You're in filmmaking and working on your big dream BL production, your writer is one of the best, you got decent budget, interested sponsors, a great director, a professional crew. Now, you gotta cast your actors, the mains and maybe a sidedish. Who would you chose and why? Which criteria would you apply for example age, appearance, acting style, experience, ability to create chemistry, on-screen charisma, name recognizability? Which actors would you pair and why? Make it country specific.

MY ULTIMATE FANTASY CAST + BL MASTERPIECE!

If I could have any BL in the world. What would I pick? 

I kinda already did this here: 

TOP 10 BL PAIRS + What They Should Play Next - I chose SamYu for the gay Descendants of the Sun, but you threw the door wide open on this one so I am pushing it. (I also did Crazy BL Actor Pairing I'd Love to See ) 

I hold by those picks but I’ll reboot the game a little. 

Now, you gotta cast your actors, the mains and maybe a sidedish. Who would you chose and why?

(SamYu - We Best Love) in a Taiwanese production of Hospital Playlist. 

So Hospital Playlist is a true ensemble piece with 5 leads, but the anchor relationship would be these two. In case you were in any possible doubt as to my ultimate bias.

(L-R: prudish pediatrician, arrogant heart surgeon, comedic general surgeon, neurotic OBGYN, warm & brilliant neurosurgeon) 

Hospital Playlist is not just one of my favorite Kdramas, it’s one of my favorite dramas of all time. I love a medical drama, it has multiple solid romances all ending happily, it’s about older characters, there are complex stories and GREAT side characters, food is vitally important, and it’s ultimately extremely comforting. It’s sadly het, tho. 

So I want Taiwan to do the queer version. And I want it to get the proper treatment the way Taiwan sometimes does with their het stuff, like full on 20-30 episodes. 

Hospital Playlist only it’s 5 queer surgeons, paired as follows: 

Sam plays the funny single dad general surgeon (his husband left him alone with their adopted son, yadda yadda) 

Yu is the kind hearted brilliant neuroscientist. I’d like to see him play a warm nerdy character for a change. 

(Spoiler, these two characters are already besties who once moot-pined and eventually end up together.) 

Lin Yu (OuWen from Love is Science) plays is the arrogant heart surgeon. Of COURSE HE DOES. Slayed by the military boy in the end, of course. Honestly we can pair him with Anderson Cheng again as Sam’s younger brother, but I’m not married to that pairing. 

The OBGYN has to be our neurotic chaos bi character (that comedy writes itself) and I would cast Bruce He in the role. Because, he has dimples and I love him in everything and I am shallow af. He can have all the crazy exes up the wazoo. That’d be fun. I don not care who he ends up with. 

I’d turn the rich prude pediatrician character into a lesbian who I want played by Aviis Zhong, because she hasn’t played enough lesbians yet. Never enough lesbians. 

I want her slow pining desperate younger love interest (AGE GAP!) to be played by Tannie Huang (DNA Says Love You bestie). I think they would kill it. 

I want the older administrator of the hospital adopted lesbian mom of the group to be Tammy Darshana Lai (Encore Martha). And I want her to be having her own life, quandaries and relationships. 

Which criteria would you apply for example age:

I’d like it to be older characters in general. I love a high school drama but I’d like something more relatable to me, and more meaty for the actors to sink into, where being queer is there, and important, but there’s other life shit going on (ex spouses, children, career hiccoughs, side interests and hobbies). 

Clearly I’m picking all over the place on actual actor ages, but the main characters would all be in their late 30s at least. The support cast of residents and students and patients so forth would be many other ages. 

I’d like the Love is Science? team to direct (Tsai Mi Chieh & Chang Chin Jung). 

Appearance, acting style, experience, ability to create chemistry, on-screen charisma, name recognizability? 

I want mostly pretty because, as already mentioned, I shallow af. But I also want broad queer rep and diversity. So trans characters, butch, femme, various creeds and colors, all of them - in complex, capable professional doctor roles and positions of power. I want it to look like the Philippines vomited queer rep on this hospital. 

It’s my fantasy medical drama, I’ll queer it up if I wanna. 

I think Taiwan in general has a realistic, highly physical, slightly comedic acting style that would suit Hospital Playlist very well. (Probubly better than Korea’s style did, quite frankly.)

All the actors I chose (but Yu) are experienced and established. I think Avis and Bruce are big enough names for major draw. And SamYu as a pair are a big enough deal to pull the BL audience in spades. A show like this could take off international well and easily. Authentic queer rep is one of Taiwan’s strengths and this kind of show could showcase that for truly broad appeal, like Asia’s version of Queer as Folk, only a million times BETTER. 

Did I sell you on it?

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[theriseofgay]

Tatort Saarbrücken

[blankinsidecards]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; the movie Baby Driver (2017) would’ve been a nearly perfect film if Ansel Elgort’s character was played by a woman. no other changes. narratively , it would’ve made way more sense. and the love story with Lily James’ character is already so gay, just commit to it

[themostineptthateverstepped]

Okay, hear me out. John Hughes had the Brat Pack, right? And they did a ton of movies together.

What if a new Brat Pack forms from the cast of Stanger Things? It would be like Stranger Things AUs, we'd just keep throwing everyone together and it would be awesome.

(except we might hand the reigns over to David Jenkins, you know because he has the balls to make it queer)

[gunstellations]

a little family

[afrobunnie]

Just a complaint I have with the language I've been seeing in this fandom.

I understand genderbends. I like them myself as they were one of the things that helped me unlock my identity. However, it was my understanding that genderbends were best utilized in fandoms that were sausage parties. Aka a genderbends best habitat is with media that has an extremely male dominated cast. Resident Evil is very much NOT that kind of franchise.

There is a damn good variety of women in this franchise, and some have multiple appearances where you can get obsessed over them. You also can play as them! It genuinely looks like people are avoiding having to interact at all with these women characters when they decide to genderbend the male leads.

[rascal-rose]

idk if someone else has already said this but i really wanted to thank you for keeping the body/facial hair (and body type) on your genderbends, ive never seen anyone else do that before and it gives me so much comfort🥹🥹, ik it probably isnt what you aim for but GNC trans people in general give me SO much comfort and seeing your art really makes me feel so seen, thank you so much 💗💗

Ahh! This was such a lovely thing to receive! I'm really happy I can help others be seen in my silly doodles, rather on purpose or not

and hey if peppino and anton can be hc'd as trans men, I don't see why peppina and antonietta can't be hc'd as trans woman :)

[byler-is-endgame7]

milevens leaving the fandom as soon as we get a byler kiss

[squeeshh]

The bright year of 1977. ⛱️🥼🧪✨

#antijamesmarcus #fuckyouandyourleeches💥🔫✨

[absolutebl]

Hi absolutebl, our most reliable source of all things BL ;). Such a big fan of your blog, and thank you so much for contributing to the fandom in such a healthy and positive way. Sorry for the long ask: but do you by chance have any thoughts on "bromance" as a genre? Like, do you watch it? Do you have recommendations? Are you a fan of it? I'm sorry if it's an inappropriate question (you are absolutebl after all, this might not be your cup of tea). It's just that sometimes I find myself drawn more to the chemistry of some current bromance series out there than the currently-airing BLs (but that's just my preference. Maybe I just prefer the low heat, old school types). I mean, I actually do like high heat BLs, but some bromance series really just blow me away with plot and chemistry that I don't mind the romance as subtext only (I just finished Japan's Kei x Yaku and Korea's Beyond Evil and both just BLEW ME AWAY. It was intense in the best way. And China's Untamed will always be a special favorite). Any thoughts? Thank you in advance!

BROMANCES 

Hi and thank you, I'm flattered!

Ah I have watched some, but in general since we have so many more actual BL options now, I don't bother anymore. They mostly just piss me off either way.

I tend to intentionally ignore them - censoring the censors, so to speak.

I have a few posts tangential to this though: 

Devil Judge & Korean Bromance Stuff 

BL fandom picked up on Devil Judge, why? 

devil judge, hallyu wave bromances, & non BL K-dramas

BL tropes deployed in The Devil Judge (2021) 

Devil Judge... is it queerbaiting?

Word of Honor & Chinese Bromance Stuff 

Word of Honor 

Chinese mf censorship, fight me

Mainland China Censorship Be Like… 

Some of the ones I guess I’d call bromances that I’ve watched:  

Untamed (20 ep BL cut) 

Word of Honor 

S.C.I. Mysteries (actually one of my first BLs/bromances in general) 

Find You In The Crowd

Love is Not Easy to Have

Swinging Blossom

The Fairy Fox

Beloved Enemy

His Cat

Till Death Tear Us Apart

Advance Bravely (this is more just censored BL)

Mr. CEO is Falling in Love with Him (same as above)

Legend of Long Yang

Customized Companion

Glass Heart

Past Youth

River Knows Fish Heart

Guardian

Mermaid's Jade

Broken Youth

Youth in the Breeze

Capture Lover

Precise Shot

Every Moment that I Think of You

My Esports Genius Brother

In Your Heart

There’s a bunch of early stuff out of China that is just barely censored, in that they don’t kiss (like the ghost boyfriend series), but it’s a lot more obviously gay than post 2016.) 

I don’t keep track of the bromances from Korea (like At A Distance, Spring is Green) or Japan (with a few exceptions like Silhouette of Your Voice which is a yaoi adaptation) because they piss me off even more than China. It feels so cowardly. Or those wish side nods like Moment at Eighteen  

It’s pretty simple...

if, if the characters were het and would have kissed in the drama under those circumstances, but they don’t because they are a same sex couple - I get really mad about it. 

And I’m unable to get over that anger. Because the anger feels justified. 

All that said, if you are someone who really doesn’t mind the great long con tease with no pay out these are the ones I liked despite myself: 

Recommended Bromances (in order) 

Word of Honor

The Devil Judge 

The Guardian (super under appreciated but a TON of fun) 

Untamed 

S.C.I. Mysteries (if you like police procedurals)

Advance Bravely

Capture Lover

River Knows Fish Heart

Precise Shot

Beloved Enemy (IF you come out of yaoi and don’t mind some seriously triggering tropes) 

Legend of Long Yang (this is kinda the precursor to Untamed & WOH) 

I have not seen Japan's Kei x Yaku (I had spies reporting in on it and decided not to bother, since it was also difficult to get hold of). I have see Korea's Beyond Evil and I am afraid I didn’t get the bromance subtext as much as you, and others, have. I guess the actors didn’t work for me? 

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[spacedlexi]

thinking about clem vi and minnie

[derpinette]

one way for a music performer to earn my full respect is if they carry out acts of self mutilation on stage

[eremin0109]

So I'm playing Kiwami 2 rn and you know what pisses me off? The fact that they made Kiryu all worried about Sayama who's essentially a stranger to him at this point (not to mention a fucking COP at that) and made him pick her up when she got dizzy and shit because they wanted to set up romance between them or whatever WHEN in kiwami they literally added in that fucking pier scene where Majima gets shot in the fucking gut and pummeles down into Tokyo Bay and Kiryu just fucking LEAVES HIM THERE LIKE???!?!?!?!?!?!?! Were they afraid that Kiryu rescuing Majima and cradling him in his arms was gonna look gay as fuck???? Otherwise it just doesn't make sense (not to the story, not to Kiryu's character).

[thewingedwolf]

im coming out as a jon snow/young griff shipper. if we have to go the “jon fucks a relative” route i want to go for the only fun route and that’s jon’s lil twink4twink ass finally finding a man who isn’t looking for a top and isn’t trying to kill him only for that man to be his half brother. go big or go home you cowards.