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One of my roommates is from China and neither of us speaks the other’s language but lately when she’s in a chatty mood she comes into our kitchen and shows me these douyin Matt Damon x Ben Affleck RPF videos and puts her theories about how Ben has been pining for Matt into google translate for me to read. fujoing out transcends language barriers

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"Hope" by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour

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I too watched the hbomberguy video and went straight to Twitter, whereupon I found that James Somerton had mentioned danmei in one of his videos and it made everyone mad, so I went looking and. yeah here's a full transcription of his just completely incorrect coverage of cql and mdzs from "Hollywood's (Gay) China Problem" so you don't have to watch it and give him views:

"The 2019 fantasy series The Untamed, featuring an unlikely bond between a man with magic powers and a stoic prince, started an online craze over the pair's implicit romance, but the show's promotion focused on its portrayal of Chinese traditional culture, a push consistent with Chinese communist party propaganda.

The show was... Queerbait-y. But the novel on which it was based [shows a picture of the fanmade cover for The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation made by fan translator team Exiled Rebels] certainly was not. That featured a very explicit love story between the two main characters, but was self-censored when adapted to meet the censorship guidelines of the Xi Jinping government. But it didn't matter. Like so much queerbaiting before, people saw through the weak veneer of heterosexuality. They "took the bait", so to speak. The series has accumulated a total of 9.5 billion views in China as of this summer, and had also received an international release via Netflix. It was described as a global phenomenon, taking off like no BL series before it, making its way all around Asia and with the Netflix deal, all across Europe and North America as well.

Tencent, the Chinese streaming platform it originated on, saw 2.6 million new subscribers to the service when it was released. And WeTV, an app that lets you watch BL content anywhere in the world, saw growth of 250% while the show was airing. In January of 2020, the cast members planned to embark on a multi-city, worldwide fan meeting tour. Cities included Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Macau, Kuala Lumpur, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York... But it was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Even the Chinese government has endorsed it. The overseas popularity of these romantic sword-wielding heroes is often highlighted in Chinese media coverage focusing on the massive overseas streaming numbers and its ability to build a growing appreciation of the charm of Chinese culture."

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Why reconciliation wouldn't ever happen between Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian:

1: Because Wei Wuxian has learned he can want more and better for himself without anyone's permission to reach out for it when and if he wants it. He doesn't want or need Jiang Cheng in his life.

2: Jiang Cheng doesn't have the empathy or understanding to reach out to Wei Wuxian to bridge a thing since he doesn't get or want to see Wei Wuxian as an equal or a person with just as many feelings of importance as his own. He will never understand that last point.

3: They never saw or viewed the other as a "brother" due to their own stations as well as Jiang Cheng through Madam's Yu's influence seeing him as nothing more than a servant that got arrogant and belittled Jiang Cheng constantly and simply caused problems out of spite towards them.

4: Wei Wuxian vastly cares far more about Lan Wangji and never wanting him to be demeaned cruelly the way he knows and unfortunately had to see Jiang Cheng demean Lan Wangji several times just because he does know it would upset Wei Wuxian.

5: Jiang Cheng had no sort of empathy for the Wens themselves and continued to frame it as Wei Wuxian being selfish and leaving him despite Jiang Cheng having gained a safe answer secured position because of Wei Wuxian's talent.

6: Jiang Cheng doesn't know how to not be resentful of Wei Wuxian since as long as he has known him. Their ideals were never and have never been the same.

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Mobei Jun is like yaoi distilled he's so extremely yaoi because there's no reason for him to exist besides for sqhs enjoyment.. he doesn't even have a personality or a character arc in pidw just huge tits and he's mean. Truly a being with no end no climax and no meaning. The purest seme

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So do seahorses read fpreg.

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i would like to personally thank supernatural for existing just so that i can sit here, 18 years after the show first aired, and watch a thai bl with canon omegaverse

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the funniest thing about pit babe the series, the first omegaverse show, is that not only did they not say that it is omegaverse until the episode 1 aired but they didn't even explain what it is in the episode, they just assumed we are all fucking degenerates and just will know what is happening and they are RIGHT

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gonna tell my kids this was pit babe the series

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Lan Xichen is the most eligible young master, Lan Wangji is second…. etc etc etc. BUT the main question is, who actually compiles these lists? Is there a ‘Sexiest Man’ list magazine? Do ladies run it? Do elders run it? Where are their meetings? When are their meetings? Who hosts them? What is the frequency of these meetings? Where are the results published? Or announced? QUESTIONS QUESTIONS….

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As soon as I can revive him from the dead the wedding is BACK ON !!!!

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Hey please don’t lie to people it’s not very nice :(

lie to your relatives lie to your landlord lie to your boss lie to the cops lie to people on the internet because it's fun

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I (26 F) divorced and banished my husband (29 F?) because she killed my dad but we're both really sad about it. So I had her kidnapped and now I keep her secretly in the back rooms of my palace. AITA?

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I love Qi Yan because she’s like, hehe I’m faking all these disabilities, I’m so evil for that, and then she literally collapses every other chapter because she’s literally dying and chronically ill. King, you’re disabled and evil, two things can be true.

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he's a scholar, he's a prince, he's nonbinary, he's an 80 year old man, he's a lesbian, he's the highschool pretty boy, he fought a pack with wolves with his bare hands, he could be knocked over by a strong breeze, he killed your father, he loves you more than anything, you want to eat him alive, you want to crawl inside his coffin and die with him, he's ruined your life, he's the best thing that ever happened to you

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qi yan is literally planning to kill her wife and is still somehow a better husband than lu zhongxing