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absolutebl · 1 year

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BL Second Chance Romances (AKA Reunion)

BL shows with a getting back together or reconciliation trope?

Happy ending!

No cheating/infidelity

I’m partly putting this out to you all because I know there are some from places I don’t track that might qualify.

This is what I got:

Just Friends? (Korean short) - sort of, highly recommended

The Summer Pasta Recipe (Korean short)

Table Manner (Korean short)

First Love Again (Korea) - one of them remembers past lives so it’s a reunion for him

The Yearbook (Thailand)

On Cloud Nine (Thailand) - I question whether this can be called happy

Dear Doctor I’m Coming For Your Soul (Thailand) - it’s a reunion for one of them for supernatural reasons

HIStory Obsessed (Taiwan) - a magical rebirth version of this

DNA Says Love You (Taiwan - kinda, but it’s an underrated gem of a show

His (the movie) - but not really BL (no tropes) and it’s Japan so... the ending

The Most Peaceful Place is My Place (Vietnam)

Individual Circumstances (Korea) - DEFINITELY! It’s entirely a second chance romance. It’s not my favorite but it will hit all the buttons.

Jack o’Frost (Japan) - sort of, but it’s amnesia trope driven

Our Dating Sim (Korea) - ABSOLUTELY and it’s WONDERFUL

2nd Seasons that operate on this trope

Love Sick 2 (Thailand)

To My Star 2 (Korea)

We Best Love: Fighting Mr 2nd (Taiwan)

Short Story Project's Coffee Shop (microfilm Youtube series in the same cafe setting with the same main character) ep 3 installment "ESPRESSO" is a BL. It stars BoyTod from Ghost Host, Ghost House and is a reunion romance. It’s quite cute.

Coffee Melody’s Christmas special that no one asked for. it’s basically a reunion romance, but mostly just domesticity. It cute but dull.

A case could be made for Triage. I left out all the “pining since childhood” mumbo jumbo since that’s kinda a different trope.

Updated March 2023, no intention to keep updated. Add a comment if you find a new one.

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#BL Reunion Romances #bl reconciliation #reunion romance #thai bl #taiwanese bl #korean bl #Just Friends?#The Summer Pasta Recipe #strongberry #Table Manner #First Love Again #The Yearbook #On Cloud Nine #Dear Doctor I’m Coming For Your Soul #DNA Says Love You #Love Sick 2 #To My Star 2 #We Best Love: Fighting Mr.2nd

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thencomethecherryblossoms · 3 months

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Thinking about Boston and Nick’s last scene again

#I think being hit by a car would hurt less #the way they ended still fucking devastates me #if we ever get an only friends s2 #we need a bostonnick reconciliation :)#or I’ll just die :)#bostonnick #only friends #only friends the series #ofts #thai bl #thai boys love #gmmtv #gmmtv series #gmmtv bl

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bl-bam-beyond · 1 year

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STARSTRUCK (2023, SOUTH KOREA)

Episode 3

Moments Between Friends Seo Han Joon (KIM IN SUNG) and Jo Yoo Jae (ZUHO)

@pose4photoml @lutawolf

#BL POST #SOUTH KOREAN #BL SERIES #My GIFS #BEST FRIENDS #ANGER THEN FORGIVENESS #A BIT OF VIOLENCE #ARGUMENTS #RECONCILIATION #MYGIFSET #MyGIFedit #STARSTRUCK #IT'S LOVE...IS IT ONE SIDED?

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negrowhat · 5 months

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Top 5 bl first kisses of 2023 AND top 5 bl makeouts ✨✨✨

Hi Mira! Ok so Top 5 first kisses and top 5 makeouts, not love scenes but 2nd base. Got it.

Top 5 First Kisses for 2023

PalmNueng's first kiss in Never Let Me Go. This series carried over into 2023 so it counts! Palm volunteering to kiss Ben's flavor out of Nueng's mouth after Ben threw Nueng under the bus was grand. I just enjoyed it. I enjoyed all of PalmNueng's kiss, but the reason behind the first one was astounding.

TinnGun's first kiss in My School President. With all the build up surrounding that kiss I expected NOTHING but perfection and GemFourth DELIVERED! It was amazing. It was perfect. Tinn had been waiting for that kiss for forever and I'm sure his lil sockies were knocked off because mine were.

JimWen's first kiss in Moonlight Chicken. Another LONG AWAITED first kiss! Because they did not kiss each other until the last ep even tho they FUCKED each other in the first ep. 8 LONG ASS EPS and boy was it worth it. Their first kiss was equal parts sweet and horny and honestly AND NO ONE WAITED FOR THAT KISS LONGER THAN WEN DID! EarthMix's kissing skills have gone up in value since ATOTS.

TewGuy's first kiss in My Dear Gangster Oppa. We love an emotionally-charged-confession-preceded first kiss. ALSO IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME THAT GUY KISSED TEW! MeenPing are good at kisses in general but their first kiss was so GOOD.

YaiJom's first kiss in I Feel You Linger in the Air. It was perfect. It felt like a romcom kiss. So magical, so sweet and the buildup before it was nice and steady and tense.

Top 5 Makeout Scenes of 2023

JengPat's "I own this place" Makeout in Step By Step. SCREAMING about Jeng whispering "It's ok, I own this place," in Pat's ear when Pat protested to doing anything in that restaurant's kitchen. And when he lifted Pat onto the counter?? KNOCKED DOWN ALL THE INGREDIENTS? THE PAPER TOWELS TOO??? WHEW!

Chen Yi and Ai Di's makeout that was rudely interrupted by Fan Ze Rui getting STABBED in Kiseki: Dear to Me. Chen Yi had finally got his lil gangster boo and they was GETTING TO IT! Chen Yi flipped Ai Di over onto his back with EASE and the kissing was fucking KISSING. AND THEN BAM! BAD NEWS!

Nail and Him's very first makeout scene in For Him. The blue lighting????? Him stopping to make sure Nail was still ok with everything??? The undressing of all the jewelry?????????

YaiJom making out in the tub in I Feel You Linger in the Air. IFYLITA had some of THEE best tub scenes out there. They ruled intimacy for the year.

TewGuy's reconciliation makeout scene that was RUDELY interrupted by Boss in My Dear Gangster Oppa. Guy's hands on Tew's neck??? The way that makeout scene mirrored their first one? Guy having to take a breather???? No it was so damn good.

ASK ME MY TOP 5 BL ANYTHING FOR 2023!

#gmm at with their first kisses this year #never let me go #my school president #moonlight chicken #i feel you linger in the air #my dear gangster oppa #for him #for him the series #kiseki: dear to me

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ahgasegotarmy116 · 7 months

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Semantic Error | A Jeon Jungkook Series | Chapter 4

Based off of Semantic Error (bl) by J Soori Summary: Jungkook asks to spent time with y/n as friends Pairing: Techie inexperienced fem!reader x Artist fuck boy Jungkook Word Count: 1.2k~ Warnings: Nothing really, Jungkook is just being annoying and flirty a/n: This is just a tiny bite of the story since I haven't updated it in almost 5 days... oops. I'm spending time at my sister's house for the next few days but I should be able to work on posting more on Monday :) Read from the beginning

Days after my reconciliation with Jungkook I find myself thinking of the possibility of asking him if he would consider working on the game with me again but that would require me to swallow my pride. I'm not really in favor of that option so I decide to wait until he brings it up... if he brings it up.

I could always put up a flyer in the visual arts department asking if anyone would be interested in joining. I'm saying it here and now, I will never crawl back to him, if he sees that I'm still looking for a designer and ends up being interested then he can beg me to be a part of the project again.

Either way as long as I get a new one by the end of the week then I don't care who I work with. As long as they have a good work ethic and their character design doesn't suck and they can keep to deadlines and... well maybe it might be a bit harder to find someone to fit the bill than I thought it would, knowing that people tend to be very unreliable and unpredictable creatures. I don't want to go through what I went through with Hana cancelling on me again. I guess the only way to really try to find someone is let people know about it.

Calculating all the pros and cons of what the result might be depending on my methods I decide fliers with my contact information would be my best bet. I'll just place it on some sort of bulletin board and hope for the best. If that doesn't work I'll resort to some sort of digital announcement. Opening the program I plan to use I notice that I've received a friend request on sns. Pulling it up I'm greeted with a follow request from Jungkook which I find strange but I accept it nonetheless. Soon after I get a DM from him in my inbox.

'Hey pretty, I didn't realize you had social media, I guess this means we're friends now that we're following each other :)' I roll my eyes at his pathetic excuse at flirting.

'Last I checked you followed me, I haven't followed you yet' I say putting him in his place.

'Yet ;)' shit I should've just ignored him.

'Come on y/n just follow me, I promise my account isn't some narcissistic blog or anything, plus next time we see each other I want to take a picture with you and post it! I like posting pictures of my friends!' he says and I can feel his smile through the phone and I roll my eyes at the thought.

'You have to ask for my consent before posting anything' I reply ultimately giving into him since there's no harm done with clicking a single button.

'Okay I got it. Hey can we meet up in the library tomorrow? I wanted to spend some time with you. I know you end up spending a lot of time in there anyways so I just thought that maybe we could study together, especially since we taking Chinese together' he says waiting for my permission to give him another place to annoy me in.

'What makes you think I would want to study with you?' I say hoping to brush him off.

'y/n I'm your TA , I've see all of the work you've turned in' he teases.

'What's that supposed to mean?' I ask offended at what he's implying.

'It means that you write like a child. Plus your accent when you speak isn't the best either. I could tutor you if you'd like ;)' he responds, simultaneously offering his help while also insulting me.

'Pass' I say frustrated with his attitude.

'I'm sorry I didn't mean it, I just like thinking about what you might look like while you're responding to me. You probably have your brows pinched together looking utterly offended and maybe even blushing from embarrassment'

'I'm not embarrassed!' I retort.

'Why don't you look in the mirror pretty, I've got you blushing without even being there don't I' I get up frustrated, determined to prove him wrong but to my disgust I see my cheeks with a light dusting of pink.

'Fuck you' I reply indirectly confirming his suspicions.

"Anyway do you want to meet after the class you have after Chinese?' he suggests.

'Aren't you in that class too?' I question annoyed by the memory of him taking my spot for the second time that day.

'No I dropped the class, there was no way I was gonna stay in it and bring down my gpa, I just wanted to annoy you for a bit' he admits.

'Do you have another class after Chinese?' I ask curious as to what he'll do while I'm in class.

'Oh no I'm done for the day after that :)' he sends

'So you're just gonna wait around for me until my hour and a half class ends and then spend even more time studying together? Don't you have something better to do with your life?' I question, confused as to why he would do that.

'Not really, I just wanna spend some time with you. I wanna be friends remember?' he send with no hesitation.

Is this what friends do for each other? Waste a whole day waiting for your class to finish just to then tutor them afterwards just because you want to 'spend time with them'?

'You Jeon Jungkook are an enigma' I respond not bothering to acknowledge his continued efforts to establish a friendship with me for some odd reason.

'Thank you? Anyways what's your answer pretty?' he prods, not satisfied with my evasion of his proposition.

'First off stop calling me that, second I'll be there from 3-6 are you prepared to stay for that long?' I question trying to get him to rescind his invitation.

'Yep, I'll make sure to clear my schedule, see you then pretty ;)'

I groan audibly at his antics and close out the app. I guess this whole flyer situation can wait until tomorrow since he's given me a splitting headache from all of this. Who knows maybe he'll bring up the game tomorrow so I won't have to make them or swallow my pride, therefore making him come crawling back to me since he seems so eager to spend time with me.

Taking a deep breath to clear my mind I decide to go to bed early to prepare myself for the mystery this is to be my day tomorrow. My days used to be the same week to week, month to month through out my life with minor changes to my class schedules since I've been in college but ever since Jeon Jungkook decided to walk into my life it has been anything but ordinary.

I'm used to scheduling things down to the very minute and that has worked well for me. It's set me up for success in my schooling but also as an adult. My life is what some people might call boring but I find peace in my calculated existence. Whereas Jeon Jungkook rolls with the punches and lives in chaos. My world is in black and white and his is in color, my life is routine and his life is creative. Why has someone like him taken an interest in me when I'm the exact opposite. Why can't he just leave me alone? I guess the real question I should be asking is why can't I get him out of my head?

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mahoromouse · 28 days

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thinking about the majority western vs japanese reactions of bl fans to bucchigiri wherein there was more of a focus on the concept of arajin's "redemption" on the western side while the japanese side focused more on something like mutual "reconciliation"

#bucchigiri?!

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chalkrevelations · 8 months

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ok, wow, Dangerous Romance. WOW.

Looking at the preview for next week, dare I hope that someone has heard my mutterings about has realized how badly Bad Buddy dealt with bullying and its fallout and is actually going to do some of the cleanup and reconciliation work that BB almost completely leapfrogged over?

Hold on, I might need to sit down.

Because, listen. I love BB as much as anyone, it was probably my real gateway into Thai bl, but it's always bugged me how much that show and this writing team - the same team responsible for Dangerous Romance - allowed the execrable behavior by Pat and the Engineering Backup Hobbits to disappear down the memory hole once the romance storyline kicked into gear, and how much the show was allowed to get away with that, to the point that Wai's concern over Pat's apparently - from the outside - sudden obsessive interest in Pran was seen as intrusive and inappropriate and the rest of the Architecture Backup Hobbits were seen as trash friends for being unhappy to suddenly learn that Pran was dating someone who was responsible for repeated physical assaults on them, rather than Pran's consorting with Pat being seen - at. all. - as the friendship betrayal that it was.

Y'all. I saw someone recently making the argument that Pat was better than Kanghan because sweetheart Pat would never really punch down, and I was like, "I don't think I can even deal with this right now" and just kept scrolling. Because I've posted before about how Pat and the rest of Engineering essentially are Kanghan and Nawa and Third Backup Hobbit, what is this J's character's name that I can't remember right now, gdi? Pat and the Engineering Backup Hobbits are manifestly responsible for starting 95% of the physical altercations that we see in BB, and the other 5%, the bus stop altercation - although we know Wai was pissed about the video uploaded to the Internet, I don't remember that we're ever actually told who threw the first punch. Pat's reputation at the school - ALREADY, and how long has he even been there? - is that he's the guy who makes life miserable for Architecture students. Pat is responsible for siccing the other three on Wai in the first place, including an attempt at aggravated assault that they end up accidentally committing on Pran instead, and wanting to get humiliating video of Wai to upload to the Internet, just as Kanghan attempts to do to Sailom in DR. Pat sits back in the booth at the bar, fuming over a rebuff from Pran and lording it over Wai's humiliation - at his job - which is presented by Korn as a night's "entertainment" for Pat, in much the same way Kanghan sits on his trash-panda throne in an unused room of the school and lords it over his schoolmate subjects while Nawa and Third Backup Hobbit lock Guy in a closet and work over Auto, as well as attempting to get Sailom fired from one job and poisoning his ability to do another job.

And it's extremely subtexutally suggestive that Pat is, in fact, punching down when he goes after Wai, who's a scholarship student and, while not the only character we see working at a job, isn't working at a family business as Pa and Pran do. We learn that he needs to be able to balance his extracurriculars and his studies because he needs to keep his scholarship, and all of that is suggestive that he's not as well-off as the rest of the students, and that he can't retaliate or protect himself in any meaningful way when he's harassed on the job because he likely needs the job in the first place because he needs the money for things his scholarship doesn't pay for. If Pat and the rest of Engineering get him fired with their stunt at his workplace, he could potentially not be able to afford school, which could change the entire path of his life. So yeah, Pat punches down, along with Korn and Chang and Mo, just like Kanghan does, along with Nawa and Third Backup Hobbit, gdi, hold on ... Max, that's his name. Just because Architecture in BB generally do a better job of physically hitting back than Sailom's crew doesn't mean that Engineering aren't just as much bullies as Kanghan and his lackeys.

And I'm pretty excited to see that Sailom is going to attempt to make Kaghan not just behave about it but do some work to make reparations and build better relationships. This is why I'm always a little baffled at people who cite the pacing as why they're giving up on the show - we've gotten plenty of hints that none of the real issues are solved yet. That possessiveness that has Kanghan pulling Sailom away from everyone else by the wrist is going to come back and be an issue. The fact that Sailom basically indentured himself to Kanghan's family to pay off his own family's debt - that has the potential to come back and be an issue. No, everything's not solved yet - we're only halfway through.

#kanghan krittin #sailom homchan #pat napat jindapat #bad buddy #dangerous romance #loveblogging ep 6 #kind of?

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ppeonppeonhan · 5 months

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Best 2023 BL Career Evolution: Mark Pakin

Every year, there's a BL actor who goes from being a scene-stealing minor character to an impressive and captivating lead. Last year, it was our beloved Neo, and this year it was his Only Friends costar Mark Pakin.

Mark debuted in 2021, and even though I first saw him as a supporting character in Bad Buddy...

I didn't really notice him until I saw My School President in 2022. As the bff to one of the main romantic leads, it was his first major step towards a romantic pairing.

Later that year, he took it a step further, dabbling in intimate scenes in The Warp Effect with a trans and open relationship love story.

With just those two roles, I knew he had the charisma and range to be a lead, so when I saw him play yet another supporting minor character (a het one, no less) in Moonlight Chicken this year, I started to lose hope that BL casting agents would ever give him a chance.

Then...Only Friends happened. Range isn't even the right word. That kid has multitudes.

The way he portrayed Nick with such heartbreaking earnestness and desperate passion was incredibly impressive considering he just debuted two years ago. There are lead actors with a decades worth of filmography who could never.

I'm happy to see him wrap up the year with Last Twilight, even though his role is minor (and het), I'm confident he's going to nail the inevitable reconciliation scene he's meant to have with his distrustful brother. He's really delivering on portraying an older sibling who is trying to be both supportive and patient in spite of the emotional toll his brother's sudden blindness has taken on him, and the frustrating loneliness of living in the favorite child's shadow. They chose the right actor for the job.

Here's hoping casting directors and his management are taking note and lining up meatier roles for him that are worth his time -- and ours.

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#bl drama #bl series #thai bl #thai drama #mark pakin #bl actors #bad buddy the series #my school president #the warp effect #moonlight chicken #only friends the series

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bengiyo · 9 days

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Tadaima, Okaeri Ep 6 Stray Thoughts

Last week, Hikari took his role as big brother very seriously. He was adorable, but had to be taught that he was still allowed to like his own things. Unfortunately, he worked himself too hard and got sick, leading to our first instance where our dads had to split parenting duties to handle both kids. Later, they visited the Fujiyoshi family home again, where the reconciliation continued in the form of a gift of a kimono to Masaki. We left at Masaki deciding to go home and see his uncle.

Oh good. We're bringing everyone to Masaki's hometown.

Get you a man that admires you the way Hiromu does for Masaki.

I love Matsu's observation that our dads have mellowed out from where they were. That really is the dream outcome for me with all the BL boys. They should be content with their lives.

LOL! MASAKI CALLED HIM RIGHT OUT ON FORGETTING HIS OWN BIRTHDAY.

Sometimes Hikari is too adorable. Wow.

Every week I am restored by the way Masaki and Hiromu talk to each other and wait for each other to say what they need.

Oh ho, a cousin. I'm excited to see Masaki's family angst.

These outdoor baths always look so relaxing.

ENGAGED?? I feel like we should have prepared the group for this!!

Wow this guy is being rude on purpose. Sir, you can catch these hands.

Okay, it was an informal thing mostly said as a joke that Masaki forgot about. I'm okay.

Love that I have no idea what being an omega means here in terms of Masaki needing to be protected. Omegaverse girlies, please feel free to explain.

Omegaverse girlies, are any of the other characters in this show obviously betas to you all?

Kick his ass, Yuki!!!

Destroy him, Hiromu!!

Wow, this is our first episode that didn't resolve its issues completely within the episode. Now I'm lingering here wondering about where this thing with the cousin goes. I'm also hoping that Yuki and Matsu make more progress on this trip. I do not like this cousin and he needs an ass whooping.

#Ben watches #tadaima okaeri #japanese bl #bl series

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isaksbestpillow · 1 year

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Bokura no shokutaku episode 1

It's happening!!!!!!! I am now going to post my thoughts.

I’ve been hyping this up to my spouse for months, yet when the day has finally come he thinks the show is called Nakanaori shokudou (Reconciliation Diner), where did I go wrong

I miss cooking!! I too have mostly been living on supermarket food this year. I can’t wait to get my health and life back and get back in the kitchen.

I’m like five minutes in and the itch to fansub this is so bad. I’d translate omae here to dude.

The dialogue is delightful! I like it lots.

I love them your honour!!! Now kiss etc.

I used to make onigiri for my spouse every night to take to work the next day. It's a love language.

I love this cooking scene and the space between them. It’s like when you’re oddly comfortable with someone but you don’t know how to be in their space yet. Excited to see that space grow smaller episode by episode.

He doesn’t wash the rice cooker lid, oh no!!!!

The casting is fantastic! I vibe with the awkward chemistry. The kid is great, too.

I’m watching this on tv, and in case you’re wondering what us bl viewers are target customers of in terms of ads, it’s suppon kurozu (soft-shelled turtle black vinegar), hair growth extract and pills for back pain

So glad there are proactive people like Minoru in this world for the rest of us.

It’s over already????? I swear the hair growth extract ad felt longer than this episode.

Something lgbt happening in the preview!!!

They're gonna be a family!! I cry

I loved it so much!!! Everything feels so familiar. I’m home!

#bokura no shokutaku #our dining table

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absolutebl · 10 months

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This week in BL - I am all over the place, But Laws of Attraction is Phenomenal af

July 2023 Wk 2

Being a highly subjective assessment of one tiny corner of the interwebs. Organized by which ones (in each category) I’m enjoying most.

Ongoing Series - Thai

Laws of Attraction (Thai Sat iQIYI) 1 of 8 - Icky picked it up but it’s not airing for me until Sundays so I held this post specifically to watch and talk about this show. Stars the pair from To Sir With Love with the same production team. IT’S SO GOOD Y’ALL. A morally corrupted trickster lawyer with a tragic past, sad eyes, and a beautiful smile that he uses like a weapon. Meets paladin martial arts instructor from other side of the tracks (who is out, at least to his baby sister). Corrupt police. Spoiled rich kid evil. Ambitious politician. Tragic death. Terrible subs.* This show is very like Manner of Death but so far it is a much better/tighter story. It’s NOT BL but it is fucking phenomenal. And you shoudl watch it. Not wait to binge it. WATCH IT. On a global scale this might be the best thing currently airing featuring gay romantic leads. Its really fucking good. It’s Lawless Lawyer but more complex character motivation and gay af. Fuck yes please and thank you. FINALLY. Triggers for violence, beatings, death & torture depicted on screen. Like MoD they are not holding back. (* A lot of the familial names they are using are not gendered in Thai but translated as such, like “nephew”. This one is gonna go down a lot easier if you know some Thai.)

Step By Step (Tues WeTV & Gaga) ep 12fin - 2 years pass and no one’s hairstyle changes? Srs. Them meeting again = hella AWKWARD. Both still pining & hurt. NO SINGING. The reconciliation scene was great. I enjoyed that on the “do over relationship” they went with phi/pom (instead of the super formal khuns). So cute and so much more relaxed. Also lots of neck kisses! Charming final ep. It’s only flaw being they dropped the side couple, but I wasn’t really into them anyway. Ultimately? This is what Boss & Babe should have been and could we please have Up lead out another BL? I miss him and he only gets prettier. Full review below.

La Pluie (Sat iQIYI) ep 12fin - I adore the tiny little baby GL thread that we almost got. And I wish we had had more of it throughout the show. The side couple turned out to be good too. Emotional crying kisses are my favorite. Sunshine netted himself an earnest serious romantic boy, we likey. As for the main couple? Well... Tai’s search story arc was dull and dragging in a final ep and it felt bloated and slow as a result. It was a good confession reunion with Tai figuring all of his shit out, not surprising but fine. Kind of a a weak final ep. Full review below.

Hidden Agenda (Thai Sun GMMTV YouTube) ep 1 of 12 - JoonDunk are back and we have all seen this a million times before, but Thailand never executed a successful formula it didn’t want to repeat a million times over, drunk bathroom and everything. Welcome (back) to Thai BL (and back and back and back). Basically they just added glasses, a new 1-shared-brain-cell friendship group, and different uni departments. Ah GMMTV, forever trying to recreate the magic of 2gether. But also I’m enjoying it. I’m a simple person. (Hi Jamie! Still in college since 2018 I see.) Anyone else notice that Chinese phrase that they did not translate for us? Mmm hum. Cute. Still... NO SINGING.

Low Frequency (Sat iQIYI) ep 2 of 8 - Thames is in coma and getting slagged off on the socials. It’s moving a bit slowly but the premise is interesting despite the poor quality of the execution.

Dinosaur Love (Sun iQIYI) ep 3 of 8 eps - Major trigger for self harm depicted on screen in part 2/4. I skipped it. Then there is assault and verbal abuse. I told you Ultimate Troop is NOT to be trusted.

Be Mine Super Star (Mon Viki) ep 2 of 12 - Look, I don’t really mind this show but I also don’t like second hand embarrassment and I sense a metric butt ton incoming.

Be My Favorite (Fri YouTube) ep 8 of 12 - I was not best pleased with this episode. Ya’ll round the tumblr-sphere seem to be enjoying it but I have officially hit the wall on Kawi. There is not enough booze for me to cope with his shizz. I may be alone in this. But gotta say how I feel... Unlike him. Trash watch here.

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

Tokyo in April is... AKA Shigatsu no Tokyo wa (Japan Thurs Gaga) ep 5 of 8 - Poor Ren, he feels compelled to take on the burden of protecting everyone from sexual assault because he blames himself. And he can’t even talk to his boyfriend about it. Oh fuck me the pair of shoes at the door. And neck kisses? TOO MUCH. Argh. Japan. Why must you hurt so good?

Stay By My Side (Taiwan Fri Gaga) 3 of 10 eps - It’s a very cute show. All the tropes and archetypes with no fuss or attempts to be clever, just executing them (sometimes over and over again). Even hiccoughs as a result of flirting! I haven’t seen that one in ages. The show feels old fashioned as a result. Nostalgic. I’m good with that.

Tie The Not (Pinoy YouTube) ep 6 of 8 - Sad boys still sad now drunk. (Noooooo shoes on bed! Argh.) Finally kisses! Also good ones for a large portion of this ep. Plus hair pulling. And verse rep! And after sex convo. Then side dishes have a whole proper gay ax covo about top/bottom. Everyone say thank you Philippines! get down with your queer selves!

Stupid Genius (Vietnam Fri YouTube) ep 6fin - I believe this was the final episode. It was cute. This is a standard sort of semi-crappy VBL high school drama. Enjoyable in its floppy friendliness, weirdly like a queer after school special promoting education. Dead fish kisses but fine for what it is. 7/10

Minato's Laundromat Season 2 AKA Minato Shouji Coin Laundry Season 2 (Japan Thu Gaga) 2 of 12 eps - Activate cohabitation trope. They okay bfs. Minato not as frustrating this week, but still frustrating for me and Shin. Next week = cute outfits and dumb miscommunication yay!

Vian the series (Vietnam YouTube ) ep 11 of 12 - again it didn’t show up on my dash in time for this. I’ll pop it into next week.

It’s airing but ...

House of Stars (Thai Mon iQIYI) 12 eps - I bounced at ep 3. Will binge if told it is worth it at end.

Stay (Pinoy YouTube) 7 eps - It’s mostly English & set in LA (shudder) so I’m not bothering.

Stay With Me ... NO I WILL NOT! And you can’t make me.

Ended This Week

Step By Step Series Review

This was Thailand’s answer to The New Employee, and everything I loved about that show I loved about this one. This was an office romance between stern boss and sweet subordinate that felt more authentic to an office environment than previous Thai BLs of this ilk. And that authenticity added tension to the narrative and character development (how novel). Now that might be because it has western source material, or it might be because it is actually kind of old-fashioned (it’s been years since I worked as an office grunt). I also really enjoyed the brothers’ relationship, and kinda wished they hadn’t attempted (and failed) to give said brother his own side BL. That one flaw made it a 9/10 for me. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

La Pluie Series Review

This BL takes to task the fated mates trope and what it means to have love chained intimately to predestination. It’s about how faith in destiny before choice diminishes the authenticity of emotion, relationships, and connection. This is a high concept to examine through the lens of a BL. By activating + examining the soulmates trope this show is challenging a foundation of romance: the idea that there is one person meant to be your one romantic partner all your life. This means that we, as viewers, spend much of the show worried about it having a happy ending, and that’s the source of both its brilliance and tension: would the narrative have the strength to truly challenge its own romantic core? But, ultimately, all this elevated complexity was executed in a somewhat shaky manner with the narrative derailing into some serious pacing issues and characters manipulated by miscommunication. However, with good chemistry and decent acting all around, plus some excellent high heat and representation of consent and a few other rare tropes, this one has to (like it’s sibling show My Ride) earn a 9/10. I enjoyed it even as it made me think, so despite its flaws: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Next Week Looks Like This:

Starting:

7/19 Wedding Plan (Thai Wed YouTube & iQIYI) - It's Mame and she's coming for our GL. She's such a misogynist IMAGINE what we will get with a GL side dish? It's going to be absolute carnage. To crane your neck as you drive by the car wreck or not? That is the question. Me? I'm wallowing in the guts. Trying to decide to trash watch or not...

7/20 Jun & Jun (Korea Thu Viki) - From 2022 I CAN’T FUCKING WAIT! So excited for this one.

2023 forthcoming BL master post (see comments, some are inaccurate, NOT KEPT UPDATED)

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS

FYI roselle juice is made from hibiscus (a flower) so technically neither a tea nor a juice. (Hidden Agenda)

Tie the Not = all the verse rep this ep. I love this for them.

The giggling was SO DAMN CUTE (Step by Step, na?)

We all guessed it but it was still fun. (Stupid Genius) Also miracles of miracles, two actors who actually look like they could be brothers play brothers.

First time I’ve seen faen translated as significant other. (Laws of Attraction)

THE PAIN! (Tokyo)

(Last week.)

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babyangelsky · 2 months

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BL Challenge 2k24 ✨Day 11✨

Hello and welcome to @negrowhat's 15 Day BL Challenge! Full challenge can be found here.

Breakup that Should've Stayed Broken Up: ShinPeach in Bake Me Please

♡ gif by @bunnakit from this set

Ohhhh yeah, I'm still here. I never left my table at the Salty Spittoon.

I am sorry to this man (Ohm bb ily) but Shin SUCKED. Not only was he bad at communicating and at feelings in general, he had an ego the size of the sun and he was rude and belittling to everyone around him, including his friends of multiple years.

He called Peach's dream STUPID (and never apologized for it by the way), made him cry on multiple occasions, made him quit his job on multiple occasions, insulted his intelligence and his talents, accused him of stealing a recipe that HE DID NOT EVEN CREATE, he pushed him, it goes on and on! The disrespect that shows to the man you claim to love! Unacceptable.

♡ gif by @bunnakit from this set

Yes, he has his reasons for being the way he is and they're valid, but that doesn't give him the right to treat people like trash. And even though being with Peach might have begun to change him for the better, the onus is not on Peach to fix Shin and run interference between him and the rest of the world.

GO TO THERAPY, SHIN.

I was so glad when they broke up and it looked like Guy—sweet, kind, supportive Guy—was going to get to shoot his shot. And he did, he just shot it too soon. I truly believe that if he'd waited a bit for Peach to get over Shin, he would've had a much better chance because he was the better option and he was right! There!

♡ gif by @bunnakit from this set

Then things started heading for a reconciliation between Shin and Peach, which was annoying enough on its own but fine. Whatever. But then I started to get the sinking feeling that Peach wasn't going to get an apology and was going to be made to be the one to apologize instead.

AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED? GO ON. GUESS.

Peach might have been good for Shin, but Shin wasn't good for him. Peach deserved a boyfriend who at the very least respected him, his feelings, and his dream. Like Guy!

I still haven't watched the special episode that came out a while back out of pure spite. Not even the allure of a Guide love scene involving some flour could make me watch it.

Shin and Peach should not have gotten back together and I will die on this hill. Call me Lot's wife because I am a pillar of SALT.

#BLChallenge2k24 #bake me please #bake me please the series

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bl-bam-beyond · 2 years

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BOYS' LOVE: A LOOK BACK

Out of nowhere after a vacation together Itou Akira decides he loves Nishi Yuuki (RAIKU) too much. That their relationship is fruitless so he ends it. Leaving Yuuki crushed. And back on the white line from their high school days.

Meanwhile in an effort to live a normal life, Itou begins dating a female co-worker who happens to be a girl from his high school days that asked him out back then but he was with Yuuki. He then marries her. Long story short...Itou realizes he can't live without Yuuki and tells his wife. She slaps him a good one. They divorce. He actively searching for Yuuki. But to no avail.

Seeing a poster of a vacation spot Yuuki wanted to go with him he decides to go on his own.

While there he sees a tourist (WAYNE SONG from TAIWAN & HIstory 3: MAKE OUR DAYS COUNT) waiting. Perhaps he thinks it's Yuuki.

The tourist is join by a male companion (HUANG CHUN CHIH from HIstory 3: MAKE OUR DAYS COUNT)

Note: See even Japan thought they got a raw deal.

Yep it's Hao Ting & Xi Gu (OKAY IT'S NOT THEM JUST THE ACTORS THAT PLAYED THEM IN A CAMEO)

After watching the happy Taiwanese Tourist Itou Akira (SHIRASU JIN) bumps into someone. And apologizes. Only to come face to face with...

Yep, Nishi Yuuki (RAIKU) his former lover and the man he seeks.

Yuuki still hurt but not over Itou Akira turns away

Akira chases him calling out I LOVE YOU. Yuuki wallops him

And again. And leaves him there but Akira is determined to get his man back.

He grabs him and holds on proclaiming his love and that he will never let go again. Yuuki struggles to get loose from his ex. Soon he gives up and cries admitting he's tried for years to give up on Akira but he couldn't. They reconcile. The story ends with them getting married and being accepted by Itou's family. As Yuuki's mother already accepted her son and his relationship before Akira broke his heart.

#BL- BOYS' LOVE #LIFE~LOVE ON THE LINE #2020 JAPAN #My GIFS #A LOOK BACK #HEARTBREAK #FORGIVENESS #RECONCILIATION #CAMEO BY LEAD ACTORS OF HISTORY 3: MODC #TAIWANESE TOURISTS #JAPANESE TOURIST #GIFS by ME #CONCLUSION #REWATCHED

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ginnymoonbeam · 3 months

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For the BL Romance Trope Ask Game

8 & 16.

Thanks. Rose💜

Thanks for the ask! For May/December I have to choose Lu Zhigang and Sun Boxiang from H3: Make Our Days Count. In BLs with a significant age gap, we usually see one of two dynamics: the older man has been living abstracted and avoidant of personal relationships and feelings until the younger one comes along and wakes him up (see Old Fashion Cupcake, Minato's Laundromat, H2: Right or Wrong), or the older man is badly scarred and wary until the younger man's persistence makes him dare to open up again (Moonlight Chicken and this pick.) Both versions can be great, but as a scarred and wary older gay myself, I'm especially partial to the second one. Boxiang smashes into Zhigang's life with teenage obstinacy and teenage lust, and most importantly with teenage hope. He not only brings Zhigang happiness in their love, his determined hopefulness leads to Zhigang's eventual reconciliation with his family. That's what it's all about.

Boy Next Door, to me, means an ordinary, unassuming, kind, and reliable person paired with someone who at first overlooks him as a possible love interest. I think there's often an implication that the other person is more popular, or a celebrity, or otherwise a bit elevated in some way. They may be surprised to realize the Boy Next Door's feelings for them, and they are certainly surprised to discover how much they rely on him. I had to think for a while to land on this, the best example of Boy Next Door I've seen in BL: Su Ye Chan of Love Tractor. Just look at him! He's perfect.

Ask me!

#ask game #history 3: modc #history 3: make our days count #love tractor

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telomeke-bbs · 1 year

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OUR SKYY 2 x BAD BUDDY x A TALE OF THOUSAND STARS – PA AMONG THE CALLBACKS

So how's everyone doing now that two of the four OS2 x BBS x ATOTS episodes have aired? 🥰 I'm treating this as a four-part miniseries because it's just easier for reference, although the fourth episode may possibly be solely an EarthMix vehicle (but I'm hoping it'll be crossover BBS x ATOTS all the way to the end 😍).

Ep.1 and much of Ep.2 were a really fun romp while Director Aof and his writers laid the groundwork for developments to come, and part of that fun was all the callbacks to the original series, lighting up the screen every time they made reference to scenes, plot points, themes and ideas in BBS and ATOTS.

These were loving gifts to loving fans, recreating some of the beloved originals' magic, while also distracting from the story-seeding going on. Some were visual callbacks, using similar onscreen vocabulary to recreate almost verbatim beloved tableaux from the original series, while others were more abstract, requiring you to think about the reference.

There are far too many to list in entirety (including some up at Pha Pun Dao after the crossover got fully going), but here's a sampling of callbacks to BBS from only OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1, that came in thick and fast one after another:

Kicking off the series with Wai, panning upwards from his shoes to his face – the same in both BBS and OS2xBBSxATOTS;

The Archi-Engine face-off at OS2xBBSxATOTS (that isn't quite what it seems) references a similar face-off at BBS Ep.1 [3I4] 7.38;

Louis crashing into Wai with news of Pran's (purported) fight with Pat (OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1 [1I4] 3.51) is an inverted replay of Safe crashing into Pran with news of Wai in a fight, that Pran at first thinks is Louis getting into trouble (BBS Ep.1 [1I4] 2.22);

PatPran's discussion behind the red backdrop at OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1 [1I4] 5.32 is of course a callback to their reconciliation backstage at the end of BBS Ep.8 (complete with red curtain drop);

Pat going "I signaled you to punch on the left, but you punched on the right" (OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1 [1I4] 8.46) of course echoes his "I offered you this cheek, but you punched me on this cheek" (BBS Ep.1 [4/4] 5.14);

Pa interrupting PatPran's kiss (OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1 [1I4] 9.45) calls out to BBS Ep.7 [2/4] 10.76 and Ep.7 [4/4] 7.50, and in turn gets called out and captioned by Pran at OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1 [1I4] 9.51; 😂

Pat, Pran, Ink and Pa's in-room sukiyaki (OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1 [1I4] 10.25) is callback to their hotpot in Tinidee (BBS Ep.9 [2/4] 0.17);

Ink peeling and feeding shrimp to Pa (OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1 [1I4] 10.28) is not only a Thai BL trope semi-subverted in its appropriation for GL 🥰, but is also a callback to their hotpot semi-date at BBS Ep.8 [2/4] 0.59.

But really Ink and Pa (especially Pa) turning up with the sukiyaki at OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1 [1I4] 9.47 was also a callout to Pa's own treatment as a character in Bad Buddy.

(above) Our Skyy 2 x Bad Buddy x A Tale of Thousand Stars Ep.1 [1I4] 10.04

It bears repeating that Ink as a character in BBS subverted the evil ex-girlfriend trope, turning out to be a supportive bestie instead of vengeance-bent villain. Pa's character also subverted another stereotype, but a lot more subtly.

Pa's line at OS2xBBSxATOTS Ep.1 [1I4] 9.47 especially ("Sukiyaki delivery!") brings us back to all the times she turned up to help her brother and the storyline along in Bad Buddy, usually by providing some help and/or delivering something. A list of examples:

Doing chores for Pat (highlighting his princeling status in the family), including delivering his laundry (Ep.1 [3I4] 2.40);

Driving Pat around in the earlier episodes (more spotlight on Princeling Pat), which then turned into a rescuer role when she and Pat saved Pran from Korn, Mo and Chang (Ep.1 [3I4] 1.49);

Delivering contact lenses (and the gift of clear vision) to Pat at Ink's photoshoot (Ep.4 [2/4] 4.02);

Delivering Pat's ranat ek mallets to him just in time for his audition as Riam (helping to clear the way on the road to PatPran's couplehood, Ep.7 [3I4] 1.38).

The extraneous character, who exists only for exposition and in service of the main couple's storyline, plagues many a BL drama (and this is a fate that falls particularly to any female supporting characters in the cast list, since they're mostly unnecessary to the romantic narrative of a BL, which is romance-driven). Director Aof certainly started off Pa's portrayal looking like she would be destined for a very similar trajectory. But as BBS unfolded, this set-up (like so many others) got rapidly turned on its head, and Pa, just like Ink, got to tell her own story too.

There's more in there than they had time to recount (e.g., Pa's refusal to help Ming in the family business, despite his recognition of her talent there) but most importantly Pa got to play Ink's love interest, iconoclastically breaking so much new ground. In 2023 GL drama is now a thing, and we have InkPa (and Director Aof) to thank for a lot of this.

Ink and Pa also saved Bad Buddy from failing the Bechdel Test, which (it must be said) isn't the best measure for how successful a show is at representing women – it's a rather low bar for that, but shamefully so many shows (especially BL ones) fail it regardless (KinnPorsche comes to mind). But I think BBS passes with flying colors, not least because Ink and Pa's characters were treated with such respect when they could so easily – especially Pa's character – have been given perfunctory template treatment, and turned into cardboard dispensables instead of the believably-rounded characters we got in the final product.

BBS draws a line under this within itself at Ep.5 [2/4] 4.42 when Pa cheekily says "Use a delivery service" with reference to Pat's new drumsticks, because she was not much more than a delivery service herself in the first five episodes, supplying information to aid the unfolding story of PatPran's relationship.

Thus, Pa calling out "Sukiyaki delivery!" in OS2xBBSxATOTS is a reminder of how she was lifted from the usual purgatory of flatly-rendered supporting characters, and given a story arc of her own. Symbolized by her glow-up at the start of BBS Ep.7, Pa was eventually unveiled to us as more than just a colorless wheel in the works, and given her own bit of spotlight as a character worthy of attention in her own right.

Just another example of Director Aof doing something quietly revolutionary within the 12 episodes of BBS! 😍

#bad buddy pa #pa jindapat #wish we knew her full name though #bad buddy #our skyy 2 #our skyy 2 x bad buddy #patpran #our skyy 2 x bad buddy x a tale of thousand stars #os2 x bbs x atots

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