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twig-tea · 7 months

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A question for you because you seem like one of those people who has watched everything: how did you get started watching bl, and what are your ultimate favorite shows?

Double-barrelled! I'm honoured.

How did I get into BL?

The short answer is that ~2016 the YouTube algorithm served me up Lovesick and I immediately went EXCUSE ME WHAT IS THIS and looked up everything else available and watched literally everything I could get my hands on (which at the time was easy because there was only a handful compared to today, but it still felt like a wealth of content to enjoy).

The longer answer is that I used to be really involved in GL (I was the secretary at the first Yuricon in North America in 2002 or 2003) and then BL manga fandom (was in a scanlation group for awhile) through ~2006? so its extra hilarious that this wasn't my route in; I apparently took a break right before they started making live action versions in Japan. But when I got into Thai BL it was fun rediscovering these tropes in a new medium and through the lens of a new-to-me culture, noticing how they differed and how the genre had matured (and how it hadn't), and on catching up on the stuff out of Japan, seeing some of the manga I read over a decade ago come to life! So I mention this history because it's definitely a part of why I stayed (and probably why the algorithm found me relatively quickly).

I only started tracking things in a spreadsheet in 2020 (and it's not nearly as comprehensive or useful as @absolutebl 's), but I did try to backfill the highlights of what I've seen and I have over 550 rows on there, fwiw. I'm a completionist so I do try to watch everything, though that's getting more and more impossible these days.

Ultimate Favourite Shows

This question is so hard. I know you didn't even give me a limit but you have to understand @lurkingshan, I can't choose favourites, I have a draft top ten list that has been blank for 3 years because I can't commit. Okok. I'm just going to list shows as they come to me (not in any particular order):

Thailand: Until We Meet Again, He's Coming to Me, Diary of Tootsies, WhyRU, Ingredients, Not Me, Secret Crush on You, I Told Sunset About You & I Promised You the Moon, Triage, You're My Sky, Make it Right, La Pluie, My Ride, Bad Buddy, My School President, Laws of Attraction, Moonlight Chicken, Dear Dr I'm Coming for Soul, To Sir With Love/Khun Chai, The Eclipse, Midnight Museum, Lovely Writer... Grey Rainbow [ducks, hides, runs away]

Japan: Doushitemo Furetakunai (no touching at all), Kinou Nani Tabeta (What did you eat yesterday?), Our Dining Table, Takara-Kun and Amagi-Kun, Old Fashioned Cupcake, 7 Days (mon-thurs & fri-sun), His (miniseries & movie), I Want to See Only You, Kieta Hatsukoi/My love mix-up, the Cherry Magic Movie, Life~Senjou no bokura/Love on the Line, 180 Degrees Longitude Passes Through Us, Given (anime is my fave version), Tokyo in April Is..., Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese, Utsukushii Kare/My beautiful man

Korea: Our Dating Sim, Semantic Error, The Lover [BL side], Color Rush, Blueming, Cherry Blossoms After Winter, Love Class 2, Made on the Rooftop, Discipline Z, Light on Me, To My Star (yes both seasons), Strongberry (faves are Long Time No See, Confidential Coffee Break, and A First Love Story), Sing My Crush, Just Friends?

Vietnam: Goodbye Mother, Hey! First Love, Nation's Brother, You Are Ma Boy, Follow My Sunshine, FOOLs, Tien Bromance: My Small Family, Love Bill

Philippines: Gameboys, Gaya sa Pelikula, Boys Lockdown, Cheat [warning: horror], Your Home, Better Days

Taiwan: Be Loved in House, My DNA Says Love You, We Best Love (1 & 2), HIStory (Crossing the Line is my fave, and second fave is...Make Our Days Count [ducks, hides, burrows into ground]).

Other: Summerdaze (short from Singapore), Stay Still (Hong Kong), HeHe and He (Hong Kong, final season in progress but s1&2 are so funny) and the bromances/difficult to categorize: Scumbag System, Word of Honor, The Untamed, Guardian, Coffee Prince, Bromance (Taiwanese), Great Men Academy, Mr Queen, Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, SCI Mystery

*deep breath* ok I'm stopping lol narrowing it down any less than this gives me pain so I won't try. Also I'm sure I forgot something obvious (and Tumblr was eating drafts of this at various points). All I can say about this list is it's under 100 and that's the best I could do.

Thanks for the ask, and to anyone who made it this far thanks for reading!

#thank you for the ask!#multi bl #rec list #i remain a parody of myself and unable to choose favourites #thank you for coming to my ted talk #ask game #typed so i can stop thinking it

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squeakygeeky · 2 years

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Vietnamese BL Industry

This is my attempt to make a little bit of sense of the production side of Vietnamese BL. As a tiny bit of background, BL is very popular in Vietnam, especially Thai BL, but it’s hard to get the budget to produce it. At the same time, it attracts international attention, which isn’t common for Vietnamese media. A lot of actors have actually appeared in multiple BLs but Thai-style imaginary couple co-branding doesn’t seem to be much of a thing. Maybe a little playing with that in promo for a specific series, but that’s it. MDL doesn’t include Vietnamese shows so that made this...fun.

@absolutebl and @heretherebedork already have guides to VBL here and here that describe some of the series mentioned, so check out their blogs, and also feel free to ask my for anything from recommendations to speculation.

A note on names: Vietnamese names go family name - middle name - given name, but a lot of time western name order is used in credits. But also family names aren’t used that much and sometimes are left out even of credits. What is used varies from show to show. So I’m about to be wildly inconsistent and just use whatever I happened to see in whatever credits I was looking at when I made notes, and I was too lazy to include diacritical markers, which often get left out in the credits anyway.

Ho Si Hau/O2 Production

Ho Si Hau has been making BL since at least 2017. In around 2020 he discovered actor Ba Vinh and proceeded to cast him in pretty much everything he’s made since and shows no signs of stopping. O2 is his own production company, but he also directed You Are Ma Boy for D GROUP Media. He has a few actors he works with repeatedly (and I think is their agent). It’s been a rough road (including him being repeatedly accused of fraud and oversharing a bit in his emails) but he’s managed to harness the power of international crowdfunding. He is absolutely a BL director and just desperately wants to continue making more and more BL. I can’t remember him ever including trans or lesbian characters. His works are generally pretty domestic, although he does have one high school series and one in the planning stages. He seems to be trying to explore some interesting themes, like including a temporarily disabled character in Want to See You, touching on the lack of gay marriage with Mr. Cinderella, and some stuff regarding filial piety and child abuse in Nation’s Brother, but a lot of this has been getting lost in execution. Loves a faen fatal way, way, way too much. Based both on behind the scene footage he does seem to workshop his actors for intimacy and the results speak for themselves.

Want to See You Mr. Cinderella You Are Ma Boy The Most Peaceful Place is Your Place Nation's Brother The Ring Goes Missing Ngày Em Đến Active Boys

Oril Nguyen

Oril Nguyen works mostly with MCV, which produces a lot of things other than BL, but also directed Tien Bromance Extra: My Small Family (we’ll be getting to Tien Bromance in a second). He’s been directing BL since at least 2017. He’s somehow even more domestic than Ho Si Hau and has directed two series where the leads have an adopted child, My Monster in Law 2 and Tien Bromance Extra: My Small Family. My Monster in Law is also notable for including a couple that got legally married in New York prior to the events of the series. He includes trans side characters but no lesbians come to mind. His works are generally light and funny, although I’d say there’s a bit more to Follow My Sunshine and The Promise. Very good at directing intimacy and must also workshop his actors.

The Promise Beef, Cupcakes and Him Hey Rival, I Love You! My Monster in Law Hey! First Love Tien Bromance Extra: My Small Family Follow My Sunshine

Nguyen Huu Tien

He’s not BL director, but he did direct queer movie Bridge of Destiny, which he did not appear in. He has his own production company, Duoc Si Tien. Yes, this is the Tien Bromance guy. He’s one of the leads in Tien Bromance and Sea Him. I think he at least partially self-funded those. He really loves film and playing with genre and also seems to like attention and appears on reality shows, so I feel like that explains a lot. Expect anything from him to be absolutely wild. Just bonkers. Appears to have a horror movie called Hanh Phuc Mau coming out soon. He’s acted twice in series with Huu Tai, but that’s less co-branding and more that he really likes to work with Huu Tai, who he also cast in Bridge of Destiny.

Thu Ha/Team RL

Director of the excellent Stupid Boys, Stupid Love and then the connected You Are My Sunshine and You Are My Stupid Boy. Stupid Boys, Stupid Love included a GL couple with a butch character. The first of those seemed to have the highest production value and was the best one. The Star Always Follow You is coming out soon from Team RL, presumably with the same director and definitely using familiar actors, including the BL couple from SBSL/YAMSB being paired again. The two most recent series suffered from low production quality. Low heat, but good chemistry and the low heat works for the cute high school settings.

Huy Hung/CifTV

CifTV’s production is fairly low budget and they do a lot of chat based shows instead of live action. Their live action series are also low budget and range from ok to truly terrible. Huy Hung directed My Little Sister, an actual GL, for them and was previously an editor for CifTV’s Neighbor Guy, Roommate, and My Brother. My Little Sister is high school and stepsister’s trope but not as bad as I was expecting based on those two facts and my other experiences with CifTV. Huy Hung also directed the unfinished GL School’s Out Let’s Date Now for TBR, but is most notable for directing My Lascivious Boss for Pap, which had a relatively decent budget and script and which I really like. Great range of gender and sexuality representation overall. Not good at directing intimacy, expect dead fish kisses, if any. Works with Nam Mario from MLB a lot.

Danny/AB Studio

Danny writes and directs, wrote Fools, didn’t direct it. Directed Stage of Love, Vietnam’s only uni BL (unless I got my vocab wrong and it was set in high school). AB released one episode of The Letters, but nothing else BL since then and were last co-producing a het highschool series. Would love to see them back on the BL side.

609 tv

I don’t really know what to put here. They don’t produce BL technically? They mostly make commercials and movies that basically function as public service announcements about stuff like HIV and PrEP (I assume this gets them funding), aimed at a gay male audience. One of these, Hy, was screened at the US Consulate. Si was depressing, don’t watch it. Threesome Game was fun. Handsome Doctor, a medical cross-dressing comedy promoting feminism and mental health treatment, featured a bunch of familiar BLish tropes for some reason despite not being a romance and having a straight (but gnc) female lead, and made no sense whatsoever as a thing that existed, but I adored it and wish had gotten past two episodes.

Holy Thang/YoungLife TiVi

Used to work with 609, has his own production company now. Directed Football Guys, A Love Song for My Beloved, and Memory. I’ve only seen A Love Song for My Beloved and it was bad. The only VBL director I am actively avoiding.

#vietnamese bl #bl industry #o2 production #team rl #ab studio #mcv media #duoc si tien #609 tv #younglife tivi #ciftv #finally posting this to distract myself from coughing fretfully i guess

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save-the-data · 3 years

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TIEN BROMANCE EXTRA: MY SMALL FAMILY | s02e01

Full Episode List

What am I to you? My life partner, always.

They are back! Tien and Tai have the most natural chemistry of any co-stars. These two now have starred as lovers in three different shows in the Tien-Tai universe, and it just shows how comfortable they are together each and every time. Also I love them as characters.

#vDrama #Tien Bromance Extra: My Small Family #Tien-Tai Universe #Duoc Si Tien #Huu Tai #Romance #Comedy #Family #Life #Vietnam BL #BL Drama #Vietnam #Web Drama #Gay Characters #TB:MSF EP GIF #LGBTQ+

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felialione · 3 years

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Noblesse

Bienvenidos al cubil!!!

Ya es viernes y la fantasía lo sabe!!! XDD así que hoy vamos a hablar de un webtoon maravilloso que tiene cerca de 10 años de haber comenzado a publicarse pero que espero que pronto se vuelva increíblemente popular debido a que hace unos meses comenzó a transmitirse por Crunchyroll la serie animada. Yo por desgracia no he podido ver el animé, pero leí el manghwa o webcomic y... debo decir que lo amé profundamente.

Así que vamos allá.

Escrito por Jeho Son y con el arte de Kwangsu Lee, se publicó por primera vez el 30 de diciembre de 2007 y concluyó el 7 de enero de 2019, en la plataforma webtoon de Corea del Sur, donde actualmente se publica en varios idiomas, en el caso del español, va cerca del capítulo 390 y todos los días hay un episodio nuevo, si quieren leerlo (por favor háganlo), lo encuentran aquí.

Podría parecerles una historia algo larga, pero créanme vale la pena 100%

Sinopsis.

Directo de Webtoon: Rai despierta de un sueño de 820 años y comienza su nueva vida como estudiante en una escuela fundada por su leal sirviente, Frankenstein. Pero sus días pacíficos entre otros estudiantes humanos pronto se verán interrumpidos por atacantes misteriosos conocidos como la "Unión".

Opinión.

La serie está llena de personajes hermosos que tienden a perder la camisa, así que sí, mucho fanservice, pero no se dejen engañar, ese no es el atractivo, ese es el bono extra.

Rai, el protagonista, es un inmortal taciturno y solitario que aparece en un ataúd donde durmió durante 820 años ¡pero no le digas vampiro! eso ofende a su especie, ellos prefieren ser conocidos como “Nobles”. Casi no habla, normalmente asiente o lo dice todo con una mirada que el resto debe interpretar, sin embargo, cuando abre la boca es contundente. Con sus enemigos generalmente no pierde el tiempo en discursos, pero una de sus frases típicas es “¡De rodillas!” ¿Por qué? bueno, eso lo aprenderás en el transcurso de la historia, pero de entrada, puedes darte cuenta que alguien con tanta clase, tan poderoso y tan directo, por su puesto no permitirá que nadie lo menosprecie ni lo “mire hacia abajo”, por lo tanto, les enseñará una lección a los que sean tan tontos como para cruzarse en su camino.

Frankenstein es... bueno ¿quién no tiene noción de la historia de Frankenstein? así que sí, este personaje tiene fundamentos en aquel excéntrico científico polaco, si, recuerden que Frankenstein era el doctor, no el “monstruo”, aunque esta versión tiene su propio estilo, trasfondo y desarrollo, así que no crean que ya conocen a Frankie por que no es así. En cuanto a su personalidad es tan sarcástico y tan sádicamente genial, que verlo apalear, destazar, empalar, devorar y destruir hasta el recuerdo de sus enemigos, es un deleite indescriptible. Si han visto la serie de Dr. House, Diagnóstico Médico y aman al doctor brutalmente honesto, le darán un lugar en su corazón a este científico “blasfemo”, “rebelde” y “desquiciado”.

En esta serie hay nobles, hombres lobo, mutantes, científicos locos, gente tecnológicamente modificada, humanos normales, idols, una escuela privada de jóvenes prodigio, una pandilla de bravucones resentidos de una escuela pública, agencias secretas del gobierno, conspiraciones, tecno genios, mujeres hermosas, hombres todavía más hermosos, poderes asombrosos y devastadores, villanos feos, villanos odiosos, villanos adorables, villanos que se vuelven héroes... en fin, como decimos acá: hay de chile, mole y pozole para todos los gustos.

Con excelentes secuencias de acción, grandes batallas, armas formidables, mucha sangre, algo de mutilación (recordemos que estamos hablando del webcomic, no de la animación, la cual espero que sea todavía mejor) y hasta la simple y sencilla vida diaria con ramen instantáneo, videojuegos, juegos de mesa y reuniones con los compañeros de escuela, por supuesto con un toque ocasional de comedia cuando ves a los orgullosos, poderosos y ancestrales nobles intentando adaptarse al mundo moderno y teniendo tortuosos enfrentamientos con las cerraduras electrónicas, los teléfonos celulares y extraviándose en la gran ciudad.

También hay momentos muy conmovedores, lecciones de vida, amistad, bromance y a medida que conoces la historia detrás de los protagonistas, solo querrás guardarlos en tu bolsillo y protegerlos para que no vuelvan a sufrir nunca y sí, a veces odiarás a la humanidad, pero todo este conjunto es lo que hace buena a la historia.

También hay una pequeña sidestory titulada “El Viaje de Rai”, que igualmente encuentran en webtoon pero en la versión en inglés. El arte está exquisitamente logrado, las ilustraciones, desde los fondos hasta el detalle en los personajes están a la altura de los grandes mangakas de nuestras series favoritas.

Conclusión.

Si están leyendo Noblesse, seguro que esperan con ansia que den las 21:00 para leer el nuevo capítulo, si ya lo leyeron completo (en otro idioma), seguro que son fans igual que yo y podremos compartir la caja de pañuelos desechables tanto para las lágrimas de risa como para los momentos que te rompen el corazón y bueno, aunque Rai es maravilloso, no lo incluyo en mi harén porque bueno, Rai pertenece al mundo jajaja, pero les advierto, Frankenstein es mío (?)

Si no conoces esta serie, ¡corre! ¡deja lo que estés haciendo y ve a darle una oportunidad! me lo agradecerás.

Y bueno, eso es todo por hoy, nos leemos el domingo con la traducción de la novela de Cenizas de Amor y el próximo viernes (espero) con la recomendación de otro mundo fantástico, posiblemente de otro comic, tengo uno en mente que merece un espacio en el cubil, pero por supuesto, si tienen sugerencias, háganmelo saber y me dará gusto sumergirme en nuevos mundos.

Si les gustan los temas de los que hablamos, regálenme un like!!

Saludos felinos!!!!

#Noblesse #Mangwa #manga #comic #novela gráfica #hombres lobo #vampiros #mutantes #científicos locos #frankenstein #webtoon #review #reseña #recomendación #Raizel #animacion

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doorajar · 2 years

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So interesting: tiny little dramas, four and then two episodes. Did the productions not garner enough sponsor interest to fund longer series ?

Ive finished the first two already; now on to You Are My Stupid Boy …

…What a sweet little trio—incredibly, spread out over three seasons. Miniature portions, like the most exalted haute quisine. French influence on a former colony ? Very enjoyable, in any event. You guys are the best possible BL tour guides …

And then three Tien Bromance Extra Story episodes, with more from the Sea Him couple and their son, and others. Sweet.

#stupid boys #you are my sunshine #you are my #stupid #boy

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absolutebl · 3 months

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any bls with found family trope?

a ton!

#found family #found family in bl #taiwanese bl #thai bl #vietnamese bl #bl with found family #cozy bl #bl domesticity #gay domesticity

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absolutebl · 8 months

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Please do you have recommendation for bls that involve child rearing. I liked Our Dinning Table and Close Knit (not a bl but a LGBTQ movie) thank you. I like Bls like Moonlight Chicken, Eight Sense, Bad Buddy, Love Tractor, Until We Meet Again, Cutie Pie, Unintentional Love Story, My Love Mix Up. Thank you.

BLs Featuring Tiny Families

There really aren't many. Vietnam and Taiwan tend to be the only ones who offer this with any regularity, and they just don't produce many BLs over all. So slim pickings.

Off the top of my head?

Our Dining Table, Japan - of course, the kid is not just present but the primary driver for the relationship

HIStory 2: Right or Wrong, Taiwan - until ODT came along this would have been my first pick. Out gay college kid accidentally becomes a nanny to his arse professor's adorable daughter. Bonus points for the first mention & depiction of legal marriage equality in a full length BL. Detract points for seriously neglectful parenting. Add points back for lovey high heat action. I like this one a lot more than most do. But I also like teacher/student taboo trope.

Monster in Law, Vietnam (same pair as Hey Rival I Love You) - I ended up dropping this so I don't if it even had an ending, certainly didn't seem to be heading that direction

Papa & Daddy, Taiwan - slice of life gay domesticity set firmly in a realistic queer scene in Taipei that I quite enjoyed but one of the leads switches between seasons 1 & 2, season 1 ends on a cliffhanger

Tein Bromance EXTRA, Vietnam - a spy/mafia/assassin ended up coupled with a teacher (from one of the shorts in the first "series") and they adopt a child. It"s interesting @heretherebedork can tell you more, they like this series better than I do.

Plus & Minus (side couple), Taiwan - one of the characters in the side couple is a single dad, they quite cute

Love is Science? (side plot), Taiwan - sometimes your family is a confident gay man being the responsible dad of his disaster bi’s one night stand’s baby, the baby mommy, and the disaster

Thailand will nod in this direction but so far it's never been key or a plot driver, all the ones I know from Thailand are mentioned in this post from a couple years ago:

I can't think of any more that have happened since then.

So far Korea hasn't been brave enough, but they don't really acknowledge bisexuality (and that seems to be the work around everyone uses) also they v conservative around notions of family and outness...

China edged into it with Word of Honor, but that's gay dad's "adopt the childlike adults in their sphere".

I'll try to update it with the content from this ask and then repost for ya.

#asked and answered #families in BL #ask the spreadsheet of doom #vietnamese bl #thai bl #taiwanese bl

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absolutebl · 3 years

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Vietnamese BL Master Post

(As of middle 2021)

I hesitate to call this a master post because there just isn't that much BL out of Vietnam, although it does seam to be increasing. So this is more a starter pack.

V-BL is kinda chaotic to keep track of, since My Drama List doesn't include Vietnamese dramas, although this BL Drama wiki does. I haven't bothered with a history section because it only goes back a few years.

V-BL In General

Typical Format: shorter series of 6-8 short episodes (15-20 min each)

Weaknesses: stiff acting; bad subs; limited cast; immature industry; roughness seems to be funding related; pacing problems; no makeup/wardrobe staff; physical/verbal abuse played for laughs; unsophisticated stories where plot often involves coming out struggles or conflict easily settled through conversation.

Strengths: simple but close, clear, bright cinematography; visual editing in post is pretty good; original content; interesting twists or new takes on very old tropes; a certain restful simplicity of style; really good visuals/presence of gay domesticity.

Heat level: expect some kissing and more casual physical touch than Korea but no more than that, about on par with Thai BL pulps. Unlike most BLs, one night stands and sleeping together early in a relationship is common.

Quirk: It's best to know the Vietnamese language title (for SEO searching reasons) if possible.

My Sky - BẦU TRỜI CỦA KHÁNH (2017)

Foundational Romance Tropes? One night stand, secret idol romance, badboy/goodboy pairing

This is a 5 episode series and could have been a twisted one night stand goes gay romcom, with the bad boy being an idol. Instead it gets seriously dark and has an unhappy ending. Here’s the plot: idol hits ordinary boy with his car, takes him home, both get drunk, sleep together. Boys end up going to same high school. Seme bullies and stalks uke. Discovers uke is being abused by dad, rescues him, and gets hurt. Confesses love to uke and they shack up together. Cue cute gay domesticity. (I hope this will become one of Vietnam’s signatures.) However, idols cannot be gay so ends sadly.

If I were you, I’d just watch through 4 episodes, not number 5 (the final). RECOMMENDED with reservations as 4 episodes, NOT RECOMMENDED all 5.

(on YouTube)

The Ring Goes Missing - (2018)

Foundational Romance Tropes? Enemies to lovers meets forced proximity with a boss/employee power dynamic

This BL microfilm is a lot closer to what one might expect from BL for Thailand's neighbor. It’s a cheerful little story of a man who accidentally falls in love with his housekeeper. Or from the housekeeper’s perspective, the sinister story of the jerk who employs me as a cleaner, accuses me of stealing a ring, threatens my education, and then suddenly falls in love with me. It has a few BL-specific tropes but it’s mostly just a romance that owes it’s story more to the early BLs out of China than anything else. RECOMMENDED with serious reservations around pacing, but it’s the best rep of early Vietnamese style.

(on YouTube)

Goodbye Mother - THUA ME CON DI (2019)

Foundational Romance Tropes? LTR + hometown coming out

This movie is a lot like Love of Siam, only even darker. It involves a man going home to visit his father’s tomb, with his boyfriend in tow, then deciding not to be out. Triggers for bullying, high heat, death, and gay bashing. NOT RECOMMENDED unless you like it dark.

(on Netflix)

Tien Bromance (2020)

Foundational Romance Tropes? horror

A series of short episodes exploring different horror tropes with a gay subtext. Episodes may or may not be linked. They have the same cast in different situations, and somehow implies that the main character, Tien is in the mafia throughout, and he always ends up with the same boy. Very confusing NOT RECOMMENDED.

Tien Bromance EXTRA (2020)

Foundational Romance Tropes? slice of life gay domesticity + mafia

Same cast but not really a spin off of the previous series. This is one sort of story (there isn’t much of one) featuring gay domesticity in the mafia. The main hero from the first series and his lover are the same actors, and they have adopted a child from one of the previous installments. Nothing happens, but it’s adorable domestic nothingness RECOMMENDED with reservations.

(both are easy to find on YouTube)

Follow My Sunshine - SAU VẠT NẮNG (2021)

Foundational Romance Tropes? Friends to lovers with a nerd/jock pairing

Vietnam’s take on a classic Thai BL pulp set in high school using all the same... everything basically, except language, length, and blue shorts. Uke nerd pines after popular straight seme who is also his best friend and (eventual) roommate. Seme is dating a girl and oblivious until some other boy pay’s attention to his uke, then gets jelly, has bisexual identity crisis, smooches uke, goes hot/cold. Fake out unhappy ending, so you must to watch all the way past credits on the final episode. RECOMMENDED with reservations.

(on YouTube)

Hay Rival, I LOVE YOU! & Monster in Law - ME CHON DAU CAO - Hay Rival, I LOVE YOU! 2 (2021)

Foundational Romance Tropes? Rivals to lovers with a nerd/jock pairing follow up series of domesticity

Features two of my all time favorite narrative elements so I forgive it stiff acting and terrible subtitles because it still managed to be sweet and cute. THe first installment when they get together is only 30min long but the followup is a full series. It picks up 3 years later with the two characters married with an adopted daughter and is basically just adorable trials of gay domesticity. Like Vietnam’s take on Papa & Daddy. Utterly charming. RECOMMENDED.

Because it’s Vietnam and the SEO is terrible here’s the watching order + links to YouTube. (Not yet finished as of June 2021)

Hey Rival, I LOVE YOU!

Mẹ Chồn Dâu Cáo Tập 1+2 I Phim Boy's Love Đam Mỹ Tâm Lý Tình Cảm Hay 2021 IBest Gay Short Film

My Monster In Law 2 I Episode 3 I Best gay short film / Gay Drama / Boy's Love Movie I Gay Best Kiss

Nation's Brother - ANH TRAI QUOC DAN (2021)

Foundational Romance Tropes? One night stand + forced proximity with a boss/employee pairing

You can’t expect high production values out of Vietnam, but this one was, if nothing else, decently acted and very earnest. Basically a grumpy duty-bound guy sleeps with a young man who turns out to be his sister’s tutor. Through consistently egregious acts of adorable domesticity, they fall in love. RECOMMENDED.

Nation’s Brother, Most Peaceful Place, and You Are Ma Boy all share cast and other staff.

(on YouTube)

Most Peaceful Place Is You & Most Peaceful Place (2021)

Foundational Romance Trope? Reunion (second chance)

Originally a short series consisting of only 3 episodes about miscommunication and second chances that was fundamentally cute. It ended on an adorable mutual kiss (I love me a mutual, like Ingredients). Afterwards, they actually seemed to communicate with each other about both sex and their relationship, which is so original in BL I gave it extra credit and praise. (Which I later detracted, see next section).

Unfortunately, for the story (fortunately for the length) they tagged on a second season of another 3 eps. It was fine, but with serious pacing issues and some plot drag. Since they aired in the same year and there’s only six total I feel like they should be judged as a whole. So RECOMMENDED with serious reservations around plot and pacing.

Nation’s Brother, Most Peaceful Place, and You Are Ma Boy all share cast and other staff.

(on YouTube)

You Are Ma Boy - EM LÀ CHÀNG TRAI CỦA ANH (2021)

Foundational Romance Tropes? Enemies to lovers with a Tom & Jerry pairing

This one pleasantly surprised me. It’s about an idol who falls in with the staff of a local cafe and in love with the adorable (stroppy af) manager. The subs weren’t good but the characters and production was some of the best out of Vietnam. I got a case of serious second lead syndrome, but this one is very trope happy and fluffy, with a perfect little ending. Most enjoyable. Of the triumvirate this is my personal favorite. RECOMMENDED.

Nation’s Brother, Most Peaceful Place, and You Are Ma Boy all share cast and other staff.

(on YouTube)

My Lascivious Boss - ÔNG CHỦ, ĐỪNG ĐẾN ĐÂY (2021)

Foundational Romance Tropes? One night stand + secret identity with a boss/employee (grumpy/sunshine) pairing in a cafe setting

This out of nowhere little gem combined BL with genuinely queer representation. The leads absolutely CRACKLED on screen together and their zinging prank+flirting was a joy to watch, even if there wasn’t enough of it. While it did have pacing issues and some questionable content at the beginning, MLB’s unabashed queerness carried it though and ultimately elevated it with camp. It never felt like mockery or punching down, it felt joyful, and very new wave BL. It’s as if Vietnam is starting a process of handing out HEAs to all the letters of LGBTQ+ in BL style - I like that. Everyone deserves an HEA. While I enjoyed You Are My Boy slightly more, MLB’s unabashed queerness makes it a stand out Vietnamese BL. It helps that it was given more length than most BL out of Vietnam with 10 episodes of about 15 min each for a total run time of 2.5 hours. (Full review here.) RECOMMENDED.

(on YouTube)

ALL BLS OUT OF VIETNAM

That I have watched and rated, by date & then rating out of 10 as of June 2022.

2017 My Sky BẦU TRỜI CỦA KHÁNH - 2 2018 The Ring Goes Missing - 5 2019 Hey! First Love AKA My Sky Dam My hoc Doung - 5 2019 Goodbye Mother Thua Me Con D - 3 2020 Stage of Love - 6 2020 Sea Him TienTai universe - 5 2020 Tien Bromance EXTRA - 5 2020 Tien Bromance - 1 2021 My Lascivious Boss ÔNG CHỦ, ĐỪNG ĐẾN ĐÂY - 7 2021 You Are Ma Boy EM LÀ CHÀNG TRAI CỦA ANH - 7 2021 Nation's Brother - 7 2021 Hay Rival, I LOVE YOU! - 6 2021 Follow My Sunshine SAU VẠT NẮNG - 6 2021 Stupid Boys Stupid Love YÊU ĐI SỢ GÌ - 6 2021 Monster in Law Mẹ Chồn Dâu Cáo - 6 2021 Most Peaceful Place Is You - 6 2021 You Are My Sunshine - 4 2021 Fools - 4 2022 Next Door Crush - dnf 2022 Mr Cinderella Xem trọn bộ Mr Cinderella - 8 2022 The Promise - 5 2022 You Are My Stupid Boy - 5 2022 Want to See You - ?

(post inspired by @thebatwiggler’s question here)

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absolutebl · 3 years

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From the khun both's neighborhood post that you added images to, what show is the third picture from, im asking for science

Well.... if it's for science!

Tien & Tai & their adopted son, from Tien Bromance EXTRA (the spin off from Tien Bromance) a Vietnamese BL-ish(?).

You don't have to watch the first season, in fact I recommend against it. It won't help EXTRA make sense. Season 1 is a series of different horror stories all told with the same (somewhat) gay main character Tien + love interest Tai, exploring different horror tropes, each chapter a timeline reboot. It's VERY ODD.

In fact, the whole series is utterly nonsensical.

All you need to know to watch EXTRA is:

Tien is in the mafia or similar,

he lives with Tai,

and they have an adopted son.

That's also the entire plot. But they sure are cute together. Vietnam does gay domesticity beautifully, no matter what. If you liked Papa & Daddy you might enjoy it. But it is... odd

#vietnamese bl #vietnamese web series #tien bromance #tien bromance EXTRA #asian bl #asianbl #for science

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squeakygeeky · 2 years

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Okay, so imagine you have two characters you ship so you decide you want to write a bunch of angsty darkfic to torture them. It happens. But you like exploring different genres, so you start with horror and each fic puts the characters into a different horror/thriller/suspense subgenre, but you have a running storyline throughout. Your tags get used in a meme because they’re like, ‘vengeful ghost, axe murder, torture with snakes, gangsters, amnesia, bowl cut (threatened), mutual pining, adoption, happy ending.’ You’re having a great time, but then one day you suddenly look up from your keyboard and exclaim, “My god! What have I done?”

Then as an apology to your own characters you write a bunch of absolute fluff where they get to just enjoy being two gay dads to their adopted son. You draw in some new readers and they’re confused when one of the dads comes home with a stab wound and the other dad just sews it up like this is normal. The old fans are like, oh yeah he’s a mob boss, don’t worry about it. The tags on this fic include, ‘parenting, drag, light stabbing, homophobic teacher, kidnapping, family dinner, bodyswap.’

Then imagine this, but as an actual Vietnamese webseries. This has been my 100% complete and accurate review of Tien Bromance and Tien Bromance Extra: My Small Family.

#tien bromance #tien bromance extra #tiến bromance #vietnamese bl #dược sĩ tiến

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squeakygeeky · 2 years

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Husband/wife language in Vietnamese BL

Chào các bạn! Today I’ll be looking at times in BL when a character in a gay relationship is referred to as the wife. To be honest, I thought this one would crop up more given that it gets used by IRL same sex couples in Vietnam (but don’t ask me how commonly nowadays, this is what I need someone else to chime in on) and that it gets used in Thai BL (and Vietnamese BL copies Thai BL, sometimes literally). Also, the one source in English I found on Vietnamese-language LGBT+ literature does talk about its use in some stories with gay couples, but that’s barely relevant. BL is BL. And in BL it only shows up in My Monster-in-Law as far as I can tell.

chồng = husband

vợ = wife

In that show, Cường is the husband and Jackie is the wife. They use these words constantly with each other and everyone else around them uses that too, and it’s never questioned in any way whatsoever. This is despite the fact that Jackie is supposed to be Vietnamese-American (but it’s not like the show tries to use that seriously for characterization, it mostly comes up in him mispronouncing words like actually using ‘weasel’ instead of ‘husband’). They are a legally married couple which is very unusual for BL, but this is a super dumb sitcom. Basically the whole premise is that Cường came home with a male wife (linguistically totally possible) with no warning and Jackie gets treated by the mom the way a daughter-in-law would, leading to various shenanigans.

There is a really interesting contrast with Tien Bromance EXTRA: My Small Family, which also has a long term couple raising an adopted child. It also even shares Oril Nguyen as a director. But in this one I only caught the word ‘chồng‘ and that’s only used once from Tài to Tiến. Tiến does get the more masculine pronoun ‘anh,’ but even though ‘em’ is used for Tài, and he does all the cooking, there’s no use of ‘vợ.’ Later when they come out about their relationship to Tiến’s aunt, Tiến says Tài is his ‘bạn đời,’ which is life partner and gender neutral.

As a side note since both series have kids, the daughter in MMiL calls her dads ‘Jackdy’ (instead of Daddy Jackie) and ‘ba Cường’ and the son in TBE:MSF uses ‘ba Tiến’ and ‘ba Tài.’ ‘Ba’ of course is dad, so even if there’s linguistically a wife, there’s no mom. Except that one time in TBE:MSF when this happened:

That’s Tiến in the dress, not Tài, mildy traumatizing their poor child, who earlier was sad about not having a mom.

The only other time I caught husband/wife language was not in an actual BL but in a reaction video where the actors from My Lascivious Boss were joking around about who was the husband and who was the wife in relation to some characters, so that’s why I know it does get used in a casual joking way as well, just not so far in an actual BL.

Do I think the lack of ‘vợ’ in TBE:MSF is deliberate? Yes. Am I sure what it means? No. I just felt like this was something worth pointing out to you all, and I guess if you want further speculation send me an ask. Do I think we’ll see a man getting called ‘vợ’ in a future BL? My guess is no, given that it’s only shown up in one series, which started in 2017, which in BL years is a forever ago, and given that it’s a post Bad Buddy world. But who knows? VBL is still chaos.

Anway, ‘chồng’ and ‘vợ’ function as pronouns, I hope you’re not surprised at this point.

Note: I don’t recommend My Monster in Law. I do somewhat recommend Tien Bromance EXTRA but you really need to have the full Tien Bromance experience, and that is not for the faint of heart.

#vietnamese bl #don't learn vietnamese with squeakygeeky #Tien Bromance EXTRA #my monster in law #mẹ chồn dâu cáo #mẹ chồng chàng dâu

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save-the-data · 3 years

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TIEN BROMANCE: MY SMALL FAMILY | s02e09

Full Episode List

No only one more episode for this season. This season has been an improvement over first, since that was more just short escapades compared to one story one episode, but each has had a tie-in with the previous season. I love the Tien x Tai Universe, these two are just natural playing boyfriends and husbands.

Loved how Tai was like, so you misunderstood now back to talking to Nam, and Tien’s like you freaking kidding me you made me think you have cheated and we haven’t had sex since he’s been here....now off to the bedroom.

#vDrama #Tien Bromance Extra Story S2 #Tien-Tai Universe #Vietnam BL #BL Drama #Duoc Si Tien #Romance #Family #Slice of Life #Gay Characters #Asian Drama #Vietnamese Drama #Drama #Vietnam #Tien x Tai #TB:MSF EP GIF #LGBTQ+

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TIEN BROMANCE EXTRA STORY 2 | Official Trailer

No matter what they are family, they are both each others life partner.

This season explores that family bond even further with battles against homophobic relatives, jealously and societal pressures.

Five episodes in total. Starts next Thursday night (15th) and is uploaded every other week.

15th April

30th April

15th May,

31st May

and 15th June

#vDrama #Tien Bromance Extra Story S2 #Tien-Tai Universe #BL Drama #Romance #Family #Gay Characters #LGBTIQ+#Vietnam #Drama #Huu Tai #Duoc Si Tien

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TIEN BROMACE: MY SMALL FAMILY | s02e08

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Love this family unit. All three of them survived trauma to be together, deserving of love since they were denied that growing up with Tien losing his parents, Tai having to hide his sexuality and Do unfortunately seeing his dad murdered. But that in turn taught them that life was precious and to not waste a moment, just grasp happiness and love whomever you want.

Furthermore, Do is such a sweet child and the way Daddy Tai is so proud of his son is adorable to watch.

This season has been an improvement on last, however each episode has a throw back to a previous episode and explored by expanding on either a character trait like Tai ‘wickedness’ or a situation, for instance the homophobic teacher in today’s episode.

#vDrama #Tien Bromance Extra: My Small Family #Vietnam BL #BL Drama #Romance #Life #Family #Huu Tai #Duoc Si Tien #Vietnam #Web Drama #Tien-Tai Universe #TB:MSF EP GIF #LGBTQ+

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gay domesticity for the win

adorable tiny families in BL

From Vietnam

Tien Bromance EXTRA - a spy/mafia/assassin ended up coupled with a teacher (from one of the shorts in the first "series") and they adopt a child.

Monster in Law - (same pair as Hey Rival I Love You) - I ended up dropping this so I don't know if it even had an ending, didn’t seem like it was going to

From Taiwan

HIStory 2: Right or Wrong - until Our Dining Table came along this would have been my first pick for BL with family. Out gay college kid accidentally becomes a nanny to his arse professor's adorable daughter. Bonus points for the first mention & depiction of legal marriage equality in a full length BL. Detract points for seriously neglectful parenting. Add points back for lovey high heat action. I like this one a lot more than most do. But I also like teacher/student taboo trope.

Papa & Daddy - slice of life gay domesticity set firmly in a realistic queer scene in Taipei that I quite enjoyed but one of the leads switches between seasons 1 & 2 and season 1 ends on a cliffhanger

Love is Science? (side plot, sometimes your family is a confident gay man being the responsible dad of his disaster bi’s one night stand’s baby, the baby mommy, and the disaster)

Plus & Minus - one of the characters in the side couple is a single dad, they quite cute

From Thailand

All these are brief depictions and not plot drivers.

Ingredients the series (also features a cat baby)

My Engineer

A Chance at Love (x2)

Oxygen

Paint with Love

Bad Buddy

My Ride

From Japan

Our Dining Table - of course, the kid is not just present but the primary driver for the relationship