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wen-kexing-apologist · 8 months

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A Must Read

So glad @waitmyturtles brought my attention to this Teen Vogue article about purity culture. This is the start to a very good conversation about queer sex on screen, and as your resident “writing academic papers about sex in Only Friends” enthusiast I say everyone who watches queer media and BLs specifically should read this.

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #heartstopper #alice oseman #only friends the series #only friends #ofts #i told sunset about you #i promised you the moon #itsay #ipytm #gameboys #thai bl #pinoy bl #western bl #teen vogue #k-ci williams #if you’re lurking on tumblr I’ve got some friends who wanna chat Lolol

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hughungrybear · 10 months

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Somebody tell me if this is worth watching. I have an Amazon Prime subscription that I barely use (my mum and big brother use it more lol). I rarely watch Western BL. I think the only Western BL that I liked is Heartstopper.

So, please, for those who have read the novel, is this worth watching?

#western bl #amazon pride video #red white and royal blue

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yohankang · 5 months

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so many dramas that should be my favorites this year and yet. nothing hits

#like?? we had evilive. the worst of evil. the killing vote. vigilante. (still need to watch final eps of 3 of them but shh)#and somehow i couldn't get into any of them????#tbh i've only seen like 15 dramas this year...#in 2019-2020 i only watched thai bls lol so i won't talk about that #but 2021 was crazy good for kdramas and 2022 had some of my favorites too #but this year??? :///#i mean i absolutely loved d.p. 2 but that's technically a 2021 series #my favorite this year is probably bloodhouds... there's hardly any competition tho (if i don't count d.p.) (everyone please watch d.p.)#eh. is it the time to come back to western shows.#(i binged 2 seasons of loki last week tho and i wasn't impressed asdfghjhs is there no hope for me)#okay but do you guys have shows that like. blew your mind this year?#k.txt

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bunnakit · 5 months

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sometimes i think about the fact that bill and frank (the last of us hbo) never got to see a world where marriage equality exists and it makes me unreasonably emotional

#the last of us #the last of us hbo #bill and frank #hbo tlou #tlou hbo #sorry bl friends but episode 3 of tlou is one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen in mainstream western media

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daisyachain · 5 months

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There are works which are not [genre] but works made that have read a lot of [genre]. YJ is not an anime but it is a cartoon that has watched a lot of anime. MTMTE is not a comedy but it is a space opera that has watched a lot of sitcoms. I’d like to learn the term for a work that is deep in conversation with a genre without belonging to that genre even as a hybrid. Specifically works that address, lampshade, satirize, employ genre signposts without obeying genre conventions.

#or another example. oofuri is a sports manga and it is also a bl and that’s perfectly fine #ao no flag is a romance and is not a bl despite hitting a lot of the bl tropes. it is a manga that expects you to know what a bl looks like #and it consciously evades that classification. the resolutions it chooses and the framing it uses aren’t right. aren’t the same #MTMTE is comic (hah) but unlike a true comedy the resolution never comes from irony or fun or a twist #discworld is a deadly serious fantasy AND a pure comedy because every book’s resolution is a trick of irony and deception.#each book is a 400 page joke that ends with a hell of a punchline.#MTMTE on the other hand resolves its arcs in a very straightforward way #there’s not necessarily a gotcha or a ‘you thought!’ even the plot twists are an act of drama rather than cleverness #so while MTMTE has a sense of humour it’s just a story with jokes rather than a comedy #I know I know Greek comedy blah blah in this post I’m using the modern sense of the term #kelsey rambles #or Star Wars—it’s a space western action series that has watched a lot of samurai movies (OT) and some wuxia (PT/EU)

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spirit-of-anime · 6 months

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Stranger - by Kuku Hayate

#Stranger #Kuku Hayate #BL manga #mangacap #western #yaoi #yaoi manga #a beautiful & original short BL story

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firstkanaphans · 10 months

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Top 9 Favorite Shows

I was tagged by the lovely @blmpff and am in the mood to make lists. Full disclaimer: "favorite" is not synonymous with "best." You have been warned.

Not Me: I rewatch this show at least once a month. An absolute masterpiece

My School President: My emotional support idiots

The Eclipse: AkkAyan, my beloveds. Would literally die for them.

Light on Me: My emotional support idiots, but in Korean

Love in the Air: Yeah, the fact that this show made the list irks me too. MAME, my most beloathed.

The Warp Effect: Still not over how fucking phenomenal this Thai sex comedy was. P'Jojo, I'm on my knees

GAP: My emotional support idiots, but in lesbian

Semantic Error: I'm a simple girl. You give me an autistic main character, I stan

Bad Buddy: Took my BL virginity and I have no regrets

#these are all bl/ql adjacent because i haven't watched western tv in literal months (and i'm a better person for it)#tagging whoever wants to do this because i always need new recs #thank you for tagging me mags!#tag game

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forkaround · 2 years

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I’ve heard pointed out that BLs are popular because the actors are attractive…. Isn’t that the case with any entertainment??? Hot people are more popular than not people…. What point is there to be made here? It’s the actor’s job to look attractive….

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gennianydots · 9 months

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Overflowing with joy knowing in the next month I’m getting:

1. Red White and Royal Blue the movie 🇬🇧🇺🇸

2. Only Friends the series👨🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻👨🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻👨🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻

3. Ahsoka the series🌌⭐️⚔️

4. Dangerous Romance ❤️📚

5. Man Suang 💃🏽🪘

#my gay star wars heart couldn’t be happier tbh #star wars and bls #asian media #western queer media #star wars #sw ahsoka #star wars ahsoka #red white and royal blue #red white and royal blue movie #ofts #only friends the series #only friends #man suang #dangerous romance

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romanceyourdemons · 3 months

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just fucking learned the screenplay for call me by your name (2017) is written by james ivory. of merchant ivory fame

#other takeaways from that wikipedia scroll is it was very popular among straight chinese women who ‘perceived it to be’ a western bl #which okay that’s an invitation to a conversation #but it’s also one of the funniest sentences i’ve ever seen #ryddles

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kikiswords · 5 months

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just had the most insane thought

#thinking about how asian bls in general employ a more of a female gaze to their couples #and oh my fucking god its true its the female gaze #like. its so different than the “oh they're gay? oh now they're fucking” approach that western gay shows (involving adults) take up #oh god i need to rant about this more to a friend i need people to understand this

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hughungrybear · 29 days

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Apparently, it is not fetishisizing if she does it. Well, that's a bit hypocritical, ain't it?

Source: Twitter

#heartstopper #i used to like this show #seriously wtf #asian bl #western bl #and the hypocrisy of Alice Oseman

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pateretfilia · 6 months

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PATERETFILIA Indie dual muse rp blog for Angel and Handsome Jack from the Borderlands series. OC, Crossover, & AU friendly. Heavy topics and triggering content present and tagged. See pinned post. Follows from @markershub.

#borderlands rp #scifi rp #sci fi rp #fantasy rp #space western rp #crime rp #cyberpunk rp #star wars rp #star trek rp #crossover rp #indie rp #bl rp #bl2 rp

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what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew · 6 months

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Product placement is literally winning

i got an oishi green tea drink cause even if it isn’t the exact drink it’s still the Thai BL brand

Bonus points for having Zoro from One Piece on it