I’ve been watching Weak Hero, which is very much in the vein of shounen anime “these guys are obsessed with each other while they beat each other up/beat up people together” but more realistic about how that violence plays out. All of which is a big departure from the BLs currently on...I would love a BL that is more fully enemies to lovers. More serious Bad Buddy?

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Sweet Tooth Good Dentist: I nearly screamed when Mim showed up in this episode—I saw her in the background before Yada introduced her to Gugg and went oh no rip this poor boy. ViewPoon will never be reality...

As for the actual main couple, I’m a little surprised how quickly the love triangle was resolved, but also it’s clear there’s a lot to work out with regards to both Sant’s financial situation as well as whatever happened to Jay. I feel like there might still be more to learn about Jay and Captain’s friendship as well, so I hope Captain sticks around and not just because I find Jimmy absolutely hysterical in this role.

I was having a conversation with a friend about what I’m watching recently and I was like I’m not watching anything, which is just empirically untrue, but compared to like the end of last year when I had a show every day, this is nothing.

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My Golden Blood: I’ve been referring to our watching party for this show as our weekly self-flagellation because I don’t think any of us are really enjoying this but all of us are just invested enough to want to see how it shakes out. My only bitch is Nakan, and I’ve reached the point of being irritated with the main characters where I’m like maybe we just let him do his evil plan. Let him eat all the humans or whatever. It’ll hopefully mean I see less of Joss’s dick.

Sweet Tooth Good Dentist: I always had a feeling that Jimmy would do great in a role where he gets to be unhinged, and I was right. Captain is both very stupid and very weird, and Jimmy is absolutely killing it. He’s so much more entertaining here than in any other project I’ve seen him in except maybe Bad Buddy. This moving into a genuine love triangle is going to be fun because I haven’t seen one of those in a hot minute (I don’t count ThamePo because Po was not aware that a love triangle was happening). I don’t really know where this show is going longterm, but I do like the characters a lot and am willing to see where they take me.

Once again I have been very busy and unable to keep up with shows regularly, although I did have enough time to watch all of The Pitt, my quarterly non yaoi show. I’m finally somewhat back on track, and have just watched the most recent Break-up Service, which is also not yaoi but did feature a storyline this week about a bl actor in a fixed couple who wanted to quit bls so he could openly be with his boyfriend.

It’s an interesting storyline for a GMMTV show to do, given how they are maybe the preeminent fixed-couple company and get a lot of criticism for their fanservice and such. The central conflict of this episode was that Aungpao’s character was in a fixed couple with Prom, but was secretly dating Drake. It’s not said outright that he is contractually forbidden from publicly dating, and it’s also referenced that if he was in a straight movie there would be a focus on shipping with the female lead, both of which I found interesting because the straight fanservice aspect tends to be ignored by people who want to criticize BL fixed pairs.

It did have me thinking about the difficulty of dating as a fixed couple actor; there are certainly those who do have partners we know about (Love and her boyfriend, Inn is not exactly public-public with Tie but it’s well-known, Pond Ponlawit is dating Jamie GMMTV). I don’t know how much they’re asked to not date publicly a la idols versus just wanting to keep their private lives private and protect partners from blowback from delulu fans, and I don’t know if there’s really a good answer for it, because fans will be insane either way. I do think Inn gets away with it partially because he entered the fixed couple with Great while already in a semi-public relationship, but the amount of insane hate Bright got for having a girlfriend well after having left GMMTV in addition to not having been in a show with Win for several years—well, I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to date in the view of fans.

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A friend of mine was texting me updates from Awesomecon this weekend, which included a BL panel that was self-admittedly slightly out of date—notable couples included MewGulf and BrightWin—which was very charming to see. It’s actually really interesting to me how rapidly the QL landscape has changed, even just over the last couple of years. There’s been a clear increase in financial investment across the board, as well as being able to attract more experienced actors who in the past might have shied away, largely because being a BL actor was seen as a step down or something.

On the GL front, I saw a tweet that was like, we finally have girls no thanks to THAT company (in this case GMMTV), which did make me roll my eyes. The GL landscape has been pretty barren across the board—it’s hardly limited to just one company—which I think is due to a combination of factors. To me, it’s just funny to specifically mention one company that is actively building its GL pairing roster and has been working on it for a couple of years now; I think people underestimate how long it actually takes to get a project going, from pitch to casting to writing.

This is not to say that they have a good balance, because they demonstrably don’t, but I also appreciate that the GL couples at GMMTV are not just femme4femme, which has honestly been my biggest complain about most GLs that exist. This too has been changing, as have the stories that GLs have been able tell (for some reason, there was such a preponderance of woman in a comphet relationship but secretly yearning for x girl stories that tend to play out in similar ways), and that’s really great to see.

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I’ve been so wildly busy the last few weeks that I’ve barely had time to keep up with what’s airing, let alone finish the several shows I’ve had on the go. A true trial for the dedicated fujoshi.

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Perfect 10 Liners: The last couple of episodes have just been so sweet—I like how quickly the potential misunderstanding was resolved between Faifa and Wine, because it tracked with their personalities. Not enough Tay for me, but we can’t have everything, I suppose.

The issue with Faifa’s mom was, as per, resolved pretty quickly, but that’s because a show can’t really devote 10 episodes to the therapy that would actually be required to unpack everything that’s gone on in that relationship. I think the mom is actually an interesting character—to me, it seems clear that she loves her kids and is fully aware that she has failed them on many levels, but doesn’t even know where to begin fixing it.

I’ve been wildly busy and also sick over the last couple of weeks, which means I’ve had neither time nor energy to keep up with most things and have instead been rewatching whatever makes me feel the most comfort at any given time. This includes one specific episode of Marry My Husband, which has me craving rebirth revenge content so badly that I wish I could reach into the future and pull out the completed Reset series with Pond Ponlawit and watch it now. At least they’re chugging along on filming.

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Perfect 10 Liners: I’ve seen so much hate for Yotha over the last couple of days because of what we learn about Faifa this recent episode and I don’t think it’s unfair, necessarily, but I also think it underestimates that Faifa is really good at putting on a front and also that their entire family is bad at communication. I do think Yotha is right to worry about Faifa not knowing how to properly be in a relationship (I think his real concern is Faifa won’t be able to prioritize well) but he’s also wrong about it generally, which is a really interesting place for his character to land.

I think this back 2/3rds of the show have been much stronger because Yotha and Faifa’s storylines inherently go together and complicate each other. Faifa is such a Director New character—he loves characters who put on a cheerful and happy front to keep everyone around them happy, it shows up in so many of his shows that I’ve seen.

A lot of my shows in the last week have had queer angst to some degree or another, which following last week and the general consensus that it has become less important to modern bls made me go, yeah, we are still here. It hasn’t left.

Earlier today, a tumblr post crossed my dash that was about the phenomenon of seeing overt homophobia portraying in media being a thing that happened in “the past” and how 2000s/2010s being too recent to be considered “the past” by most people, but if you go back and look at shows from that time, there is so, so much homophobia. Entire characters were created where the joke was essentially, “he is slightly effeminate in x way.” Because that’s what it was like! Things have changed (in the US) so rapidly over the last decade alone since marriage equality passed that it feels anachronistic in both directions.

One of the interesting things about watching especially Korean and Japanese BLs is feeling a little like I’m looking at something from the past. Very few couples in those shows are openly gay to anyone aside from their close friends or family, and sometimes not even that. There’s a very real sense of danger to the prospect of them coming out. Thai shows I feel like have never had quite as much of this, though there used to be a lot more uncertainty about being out that still appears sometimes (Ossan’s Love does this, which is actually what triggered this whole thought).

Anyway, the point is that it’s interesting to look at as a trend, and in another life I would be writing a paper about it, but instead I’m putting it down here, in my fujo corner.

Last weekend, I had an interesting conversation with several gay (male) friends of mine who are not media studies or internet discourse pilled the way I am about queer media and the depiction of queerness in tv and film. It started with discussing Queer as Folk, which one of my friends had not seen but had been watching with his husband, and how it has not aged particularly well for a variety of reasons, but something all of them agreed on is that they are tired of queer media where the conflicts are primarily about being queer.

This is actually something I’ve felt for ages, and it’s something that has shifted particularly in Thai BLs over the last few years. When you look at the upcoming shows across all the production companies, they are largely about things other than being gay. And that’s super cool!

That being said—I mentioned how I’d noticed in Asian queer media (specifically Thai shows), the characters operate on this baseline assumption that anyone could be queer. There’s rarely the “well, I don’t know if he’s into guys” angst, more the “I don’t know if he’s into me.” I honestly think that’s kind of nice in a lot of ways, but I do also understand the desire, especially when it comes to GLs, for the characters to be explicitly gay and operating in a gay space. I think there’s room for both to exist—The Heart Killers might be a good example, because Kant at least says explicitly that he prefers men at one point and while homophobia appears in that show, it has nothing to do with the main relationship arcs or the primary conflict.

All of this has been interesting to contemplate, especially over the last few days with the latest episode of Perfect 10 Liners, since a while ago someone bemoaned the fact that New Siwaj was no longer making shows about queer angst and wondering what that meant for the BL landscape. Personally, I think it’s just that Director New is in his 30s now and is interested in other things; he still loves to show coming of age and first love, but homophobia is no longer the primary issue his characters face. I think it’s missing a lot of nuance to say that shows exist purely in a fantasy world free of prejudice—some might, like We Are to a degree—but so many shows engage with existing as a queer person in society, just in more subtle ways than they used to.

Did you have a good Valentine’s? I spent a lot of it in various vehicles, so mixed bag, but I did get to watch the new ThamePo. Relatedly, I’ve been thinking about the idea of conflict in narrative and the way people seem to be resistant to it. Specifically, I keep seeing these tweets on my FYP that are like, if they separate Thame and Po I’ll kill everyone and myself/breakup is coming (in the tone you’d use to talk about dire political news)/idk you get it, it’s all very parasocial but towards a work of fiction. And I just keep thinking that if any single BL has earned its episode 11 (or episode 12 since this is a 13 episode show) breakup, it might be this one, since the possibility, circumstances, and reasons for one have been telegraphed since the literal first episode.

I don’t know, I do know why the episode 11 curse is a joke and why it’s frequently annoying to people, because sometimes the conflict isn’t earned, but there’s this weird reactionary take of, there can’t be conflict, really, that’s bad writing (or something). Which is related to how people seem to think that a character making a bad decision is bad writing. Sometimes it can be! But often times it is in service to the character. We should let our characters make bad decisions and do shitty things. We should let our couples encounter speedbumps along the way to their HEA. Because that’s a) better narrative and b) reflective of reality. Idk, man, it’s just a vibe I’ve gotten lately.

Because I’ve been traveling (again), I’m very behind on shows rip.

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I’m in a weird mood lately and am trying to find the right Valentine’s vibe show for this week, which has instead led me to rewatching High School Frenemy, because I guess nothing is more romantic to me than unrealized potential.

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Perfect 10 Liners: As per usual, the parental stuff is resolved a little too easily, but in some ways that’s part of the escapism, I guess. But aside from that, I really loved this ending for Gun and Yotha, and thought it set up Faifa’s arc really well.

It’s kind of unfortunate for ArcArm that there’s such a natural way to transition from part 2 to 3, because it makes their story feel kind of like an anomaly, but I do like that they’ve still been around and continue to contribute to the story. I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Klao and Warich either, those fucking disasters.

Now that I’ve returned from a wedding weekend away where, among other things, I attempted to explain the plots of Cutie Pie and Jack & Joker to my unsuspecting friends. Aside from both being bananas, one thing both those shows have in common is that their main value is the chemistry between the leads.

I’ve been thinking about chemistry generally, because it’s such an ephemeral concept, though generally when chemistry is either really good or really bad people agree on it. To me chemistry is defined by a few things:

• General comfort working together in a scene—some actors are just more relaxed or in the zone with others and it comes through in their performance. Earth Pirapat with Mix comes to mind.

• What I refer to as “banter chemistry”—when their conversation sounds natural and flows well. Obviously part of this is just acting ability, but I feel like you can tell when the actors have spent a lot of time talking to each other outside of work.

• The power of the fondgaze—some people are just built to gaze longingly and/or hornily, but sometimes an actor is just much better at doing it opposite a specific person. Or gender. Namtan Tipnaree I’m looking at you.

• Physical comfort—related to the first bullet, this just is how at ease the actors seem in scenes that require them to be physically intimate. Obviously, if a production has intimacy workshops/coordinators, this is likely to be better! But you do also have to trust your partner.

• Being able to convincingly kiss each other—this is another thing that can vary depending on production since some directors/companies prefer less than, say, Domundi, where everyone kisses tongue first. But even when kissing in a way that real people would, some people just aren’t convincing, and the vibe is very that they are not enjoying it. Contrast that with Boss and Noeul, for example, who always seem to be genuinely enjoying themselves when they make out.

The thing is that a lot of these bullet points can be conquered by just being a good enough actor or having enough charisma to get through any awkwardness. Pond Ponlawit could probably have chemistry with a brick wall. Yoon of YoonTon was actually dating that man when they filmed Unforgotten Night and when they touch each other it looks like they’re being held at gunpoint.

I’ve spent the last five days recovering from a cold, which I used as time to catch up on my endless line-up of shows (they just keep on multiplying), and yet more just keep popping in. As the poets say, the years start coming and they don’t stop coming.

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Perfect 10 Liners: You gotta have the episode of people fucking up and miscommunicating. This one to me was better done than most, because it pulled on all the previously established triggers for Yotha (and Klao). It’s been interesting, because I’d say the show skews toward Gun’s POV—like, we don’t really see what Yotha gets up to at the bar aside from some brief scenes, including the one this week.

I say it’s interesting because Gun is the much more obviously sympathetic character—he’s very sweet and genuine in his desire for Yotha to be happier—but I still think they’re doing a good job making me understand how Yotha gets from point A to point B even though I feel like I don’t know him as well. Which is deliberate. Part of this arc is us, like Gun, slowly getting to see Yotha put more and more of his guard down until he gets to the version of himself we saw in the ArcArm storyline.

I’m a little late today because I’m fresh off a bachelorette weekend and am thus also running behind on most of my shows. Could I have watched them on my plane rides? Yes, but instead I watched High School Frenemy again.

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Perfect 10 Liners: This week’s episode had me in pieces. I just love the Yotha and Gun dynamic so much, it’s truly for me in a way that the previous arc wasn’t. This turning into a bet about overcoming fears wasn’t what I expected (I can’t remember if it was in the trailer) but I’m loving it. I also really loved Arm in this episode, especially in the entire scene where he just watched Yotha lie his way into being Gun’s buddy. He could have blown up his spot, but instead he let young love fly. Beautiful.

Your Sky: I mentioned last week that Domundi’s real strength has always been the chemistry between their actors, which is true, but it’s also that their actors aren’t afraid to kiss nasty. I saw Thomas’s tongue so much in this episode. Kong’s mouth was visibly swollen from how much Thomas was kissing him. The verisimilitude cannot be beat.

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Fourever You: We’re heading into the last couple episodes and I’m a little concerned about how they’re going to fit what I remember from the trailer into the last episode. I do love the information we’ve gotten about Johan—every single one of the older guys in this show is a pathetic simp and that’s the best. The very brief bit of Typhoon and Tonfah from episode 15 had me once again wanting to shake the screen until Part 2 comes out because what is happening there, seriously. I know I could look it up, but I want to go in unspoiled!

Perfect 10 Liners: I want to put Yotha under a microscope. What a weird little guy! I love him dearly, and I love Gun—I think their relationship is working better than ArcArm for me because, in part, I see what they bring to each other’s lives and they are both visibly so much happier around each other. I have the feeling this will be my favorite arc of the show, even though everything we’ve seen so far of Faifa and Wine has been very charming.

It’s New Year’s Eve (or Day)—pass the yaoi.

This was the year I joined My Drama List, among other things, which is bad mostly because it provides me with the stat of how much time I’ve actually spent watching B/GLs 49 days, 13 hours, and 7 minutes. Most of which was over the last year and a half. That’s a total of 1,770 episodes over 189 shows, 168 of which I have actually watched to completion. Much like the stats on Steam that tell me how many hours I’ve spent Skyrim, this is knowledge I feel like I’d be better off not having.

Looking at this list now, I’ve actually seen fewer shows from 2024 than from 2023, although part of that is shows that are still airing and shows that started in 2023 but finished in 2024. As it is now the last day of the year, I can no longer put off my year-end review, so I shall start with:

Did Yuletide bring you anything good? Mine brought me fic for We Are and Time of Fever, so I came out of it pretty good. It also brought me the finale of Spare Me Your Mercy, which I will get into later because woo boy. What a show.

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Fourever You: The slight uptick in Arthit and Tonfah has been great for me—Arthit in particular is so funny and loves annoying his friends, which thrills me. We finally, finally got the backstory for when Hill first fell for Ter, and it was predictably both so omg Hill you pathetic homosexual and omg Hill you were so sad before Ter. Truly Pond was the perfect pick for the part, because the flashback sequence required an actor who can convey an entire emotional journey using only his eyes, and no one is better at that than Pond Ponlawit.

Perfect 10 Liners: I knew that Yotha and Gun would have me by the throat, but boy, they really, really got me. Perth and Santa have great chemistry imo, and Santa is so sweet and cute as Gun that you totally understand why Yotha is head over heels and also completely unable to recognize or deal with it. It remains absolutely hysterical to me that Junior is playing Perth’s younger brother when he is a full, like, seven years older and is the oldest member of the main cast, but Junior is very charming as Faifa, so I let it slide.

Lately I’ve been thinking about my mental delineation between BL (genre) and BL (industry) shows, spurred by Spare Me Your Mercy which feels difficult to categorize as BL (genre). It turns out I’m a strict textualist in that I think of BL (genre) in the very old-fashioned traditional way of “this is a romance genre, generally youth-focused” whereas yaoi applies to all. Love in the Big City is not a BL (genre) but it is yaoi to me. For example.

I do keep going back to LITBC because it’s obviously one of people’s favorites of the year but something against me rebels against it being labeled a BL both because it is not, in my opinion, a romance (BL [genre]) nor was it made by people who are in the Bl industry or who set out to make a BL. I’m making assumptions on that second part, obviously, but I don’t feel like it was made with that thought. I think if you wouldn’t call the original novel BL, you maybe shouldn’t apply it to the adaptation.

And it really is just semantics, but the difference to me matters largely because people will compare a show like, idk, Cherry Magic to LITBC and to me it’s comparing apples and oranges, even more so than it would be to compare Cherry Magic and Kinnporche. Expecting them to deliver the same kind of story does a disservice to both.

To be clear, I’m not saying that I’m right here and I do understand why people list it as a BL. This is just how I think about it.

As it’s the end of the year, people have been posting about their BL superlatives, which is something I might have to devote a whole newsletter to. In general, I think it’s been a strong year, which is partially because there are more shows in general, especially from Thailand, but also there’s been a lot of investment of money and talent into what’s being produced. Now we just gotta get the GL industry on the same level. I have so many ideas. HMU.

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Fourever You: This show continues to thrill me. This week’s episode finally gave us the backstory for Hill and Ter, which, while a little goofy with how the two Very Bad Things happen literally on the same night, was obviously wildly well-acted by Pond and Ter. I know people find these two boring, and I get it because they have the most stock-standard kind of romance of the bunch, but for me it works because of the performances.

Perfect 10 Liners: This week taunted me with the Perth and Santa scene at the beginning…I’m very ready for their story to start. I’m really glad that the show has kept the frame narrative going! It’s fun, and it’s a great showcase for Book especially. Book is, in my opinion, underrated specifically for his ability to hold his face in ways that make him look younger/older/different. It’s partially styling, sure, but he also holds himself with a naivety that comes through in his facial expressions. The contrast between “present day” Arm and the flashback was so good.

Note: I thought I’d sent this on, like, Wednesday, and since I didn’t and since I also didn’t watch that much this week due to Holidays, this will take the place of this week’s Fujo Corner.

‘Tis the season, by which I mean it’s the time of year when production companies start releasing pilot teasers for their upcoming shows, and the belle of the ball, the star on the tree (if only for the fact that they’re the biggest production house) is GMMTV. This year, instead of splitting it up into 2 parts for spring and fall, they showed all the trailers for 2025 at once, which meant that I woke up at 5 a.m. to watch a 4 hour long live stream. And yes, it was worth it.

The ~theme~ this year was “Riding the Wave,” which turned out to mean riding the T-wave and Thai “soft power,” which in this case meant that out of 20 shows previewed, only one was confirmed for sure Heterosexual Romance (I Love “A Lot of” You). They are leaning into the queer market, hard.

Some trends: Shows that at one point might have been either gen or ensemble (Dare You to Death or Mu-Te-Luv, for example) now have bl couples in them in place of a heterosexual romance. There were a lot more genre bls, and a lot of fantasy/supernatural shows specifically. A sharp decrease in school romcoms, which means that people who attack GMMTV for that specifically will need to find something else to complain about.

I’m rushing to squeeze in this letter now because tomorrow is GMMTV25 and that might require its own special edition of this letter. I’ve been trying to find a show to watch on my own that I don’t want to subject others to, but keep bumping into ones other people want to watch also, like The Secret of Us and Petrichor, the latter of which just started airing and looks, at the very least, engaging.

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Jack & Joker: I feel like anything I could say is almost irrelevant since the finale airs tonight, so the main thing I’ll say is that there’s no possible way for this show to redeem itself after introducing Squid Game style murder sports, so really all it can do is keep itself from dropping lower in my esteem. Good luck on that one.

As an act of love, earlier this week I made a supercut of the EarthNew aka WaiApo storyline from Water Boyy, a show that made me feel like I was actively losing my mind when I skim-watched it last year. I had genuinely blocked out a lot of the storylines except for the fact that Wai is homophobic because his dad started dating Wai’s best friend, who was on the swim team his dad coaches along with Wai. I still unfortunately find this hysterical.

I would never in a million years want to see a remake, but I am curious about how differently it would be made now. That might be a fun thought experiment for another time—who would GMMTV put in their remake? I’ll have to think on this.

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It’s been a week—pass the yaoi.

I don’t know what you all did on Wednesday, but we buckled in and watched all of Star in My Mind, which to be fair is one of my personal comfort watches anyway. I am feeling a bit blitzed by content—I also started Family by Choice with my mom in addition to all the shows below—and yet I’m still like, I need a new show. I’ll admit that the recent discourse around Thai vs Korean vs Japanese BL has me feeling belligerent about watching the KBL/JBLs on my list, which is unfortunate as there are a lot I want to see.

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As of this writing, I am between watching episode 7 of High School Frenemy and episode 9 of Jack & Joker, so my energy is that of a feral chihuahua trying to get at a second bowl of food. In case you’re wondering.

Last week, I mentioned that I’ve been thinking about the various things that make a scene sexually explicit, because within the realm of “high heat” BL or BLs that have been given an NC-17 (seriously iQiyi, please explain your rating system to me) there is huge variance.

So how to actually rate the content of something? Well, here are the levels:

If I’m honest, what I really want to write about today is Conclave, but this is a newsletter for fujo news, and while I personally would read the problematic blasphemous yaoi for Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in that movie, that only exists in my head.

Apart from Conclave, what I’ve been thinking a lot about is the irritating Thai vs. Korean (vs. Japanese vs. Taiwanese) BL fight that was happening on Twitter this week because of Love in the Big City (now on Viki). I have more than a few complaints about this, starting with how I think calling LITBC a BL is like calling Queer as Folk or, like, Angels in America a BL.

This is of course a semantics thing—I am more inclined to accept general queer narratives in manga being called BL, whereas when it gets applied to TV or film I get more irritated because in those mediums I think BL has a different connotation and by extension different audience expectations. I think I’m right, though—like, while a manga about queer male life would get the BL tag, I doubt people would call the recent Tim Drake Robin run BL despite his relationship with his boyfriend being a main story element.

When it comes to using BL as a descriptor for TV, it’s a term that became used specifically for shows focusing on romance and often youthful romance. Not that I think LITBC isn’t romantic, but calling it a BL under those expectations is misleading at best. It’s a disservice to the source material, which is an award-winning novel based on the author’s experiences as a gay man in South Korea, and it’s a disservice to the genre of BL television, which is not trying to accomplish the same thing as LITBC.

I was going to make a joke here about how I’m so clever, this is the pilot and proof of concept like Thai bls do, and then I started thinking about how interesting it is that Thai production companies air their pilots to the general public. In American television, that’s generally kept to the shareholders/production company/etc. with maybe a few test audience viewings. It’s an interesting model for generating buzz and gauging interest, especially since unlike with American pilots, these are shows they’ve already decided to make.

In any case, this is in fact my pilot letter. There’s a lot going on in the bl/ql/gl sphere these days, which some people complain about but I think is absolutely magical as someone who grew up clinging to any scrap of queer media I could get my hands on. And most of it was extremely low budget and often fucked up and sad, and I ate it up like candy. Yesterday, I was talking with some friends and going “kids these days” because wow, you can watch entire gay romcoms on YouTube now, and there’s enough that you can actually choose what genre you want to watch. That’s incredible! I don’t get not being grateful for and amazed by that.

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