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Ohhhh some of my favourites here.....

Tag Game: Hopeful Little Queer Shows 🌈

I was tagged by @my-rose-tinted-glasses thank you! 😘

What a cute and interesting game! We all love our toxic and problematic blorbos and love stories, but we also need a little hope-bringing romances for balance 💖 I decided to limit myself to BL series I like, choosing as themes things related to hope, like kindness, happy endings, change for the better, maturing while retaining a childlike joy of life, overcoming life's difficulties – but also one's own weaknesses, facing one's traumas and doing something about them, healing, closing certain chapters of one's life and starting new, better ones. Also, giving oneself and others a chance, forgiving oneself and others, allowing oneself to grieve and forgive for redemption, allowing oneself to be happy and the presence and support of good people, when hope seems lost..

Our Dining Table One of the best comfort BL series, filled to the brim with hope, change for the better, healing, "therapy through food and eating together," kindness, compassion, understanding and love

Semantic Error Both characters must overcome their prejudices, habits, adversities, and change, ultimately creating a wonderful relationship between two seemingly completely different people

The Untamed One of the best stories anout hope in the world, about a group of teenagers full of life and hope who collide with a ruthless and brutal world that destroys some of them, literally kills others, leaving those who survived traumatized, full of regret, anger, and a need for revenge. The series gives them a second chance to right their mistakes, to redeem themselves, to have no regrets this time, to lead the next generation, and make the world a better place for them

High School Frenemy Saint's hope for being Shin's boyfriend again is so strong that it could power a small town for a year. Besides that, the entire series is made up of stories about overcoming one's own weaknesses and fears, about leaning on other people, about providing and receiving help, and about growing up and healing

Love For Love's Sake Hope and giving yourself a second chance and allowing yourself to be happy are the quintessence of this series (plus it's a wonderful fandom experience that gives ME hope 🥰)

The Eighth Sense Same as above: this series is about hope, second chances, and healing

Old Fashion Cupkace A lovely series about giving yourself hope for love and being carefree, even childish, and breaking social norms in adulthood. Also, hope for getting a hot middle-aged man lol

Perfect Propose Hope for all of us slaves of capitalism 😩

To Sir With Love Hope for love between the main characters when it seems everything is against them, plus the selfless help of good people

Century of Love In fact, the title itself is about hope, which in the series takes new, unobvious forms, just like in life – and the result is still the happiness of two people 🥰

Beyond Evil I can't describe how I feel when I think of LeeDong Sik's broken, bloody, raw, shattered heart, in which a tiny spark of hope for finding his sister still stubbornly smoulders. And how this combination of extraordinary vulnerability and stubbornness affects the lives of everyone around them, how it turns his partner into his (hehe) partner 😉

Maybe Revenged Love will make it onto this list when it ends 😊

Tagging - but no preassure! @troubled-mind @wanderlust-in-my-soul @italianpersonwithashippersheart @pickletrip @alien-ally @nevermindsuga @pinkkop @watchthisqqq @delesaria-blog @benkaben @biochemjess If I didn't tag you because I failed you, feel invited to join this charming game, let's spread some hope-punk!

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Ohhhhh seeing him without glasses and wet.......thirst...

40までにしたい10のこと 40 Made ni Shitai 10 no Koto (2025) | EP 3

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Want

I bring you gladsome tidings of a woman who needle-felts creatures from the Luttrell Psalter.

That is all.

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I'm here for it....

Because so much of the world we have seen in the ep is full of despair and hanging by your fingernails and using, the first truly joyful scene we get at the end of ep 1 - her teaching him how to write his name and the rest of the note (because he's never gone past 3rd grade) is just such an unexpected balm...

Something I love in this is what really makes her shine is the pleasure of teaching someone who, unlike her students, wants to learn - it's really not a romantic scene in the traditional sense and neither is thinking that way (she's swore off feelings and he is in the industry; for neither is this a thing atm) - what comes across is happiness about teaching and learning.

But also he noticed about her cut when her scum cheater fiance did not! And you can tell he kisses her on utter impulse and she shoves him and they are both stunned and awwwwww

This is a relationship that, if it happens, will be utterly outside the proper pale - the age difference (15 years), the class difference (her fam is upper echelons and he's a host with no father and 3rd grade education), social (her family is very conservative). In RL the ML actor is only half-Japanese but even if they don't reflect this aspect (he doesn't know who his father is in the story, so it can go that way), there is enough to create 17 scandals. But - the thing is - and that is why jdrama love stories truly hit when they do them - the narratives excel at showing not at why this is a relationship that is healthy or desirable for the viewer or that these people you'd like in RL or w/e, but why this is something two truly damaged people need.

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Ep 4 - Kesihi - now repeat after me I only like Tojo san........

Really he has infinite patience with his self conscious overthinker of sn older lover....

They are so cute its sickening....

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And i give you Wenlang, proof, if needed, that being an alpha doesn't make you intelligent....... this man is as dumb as a rock...

Wen Lang getting schooled but,

After all that berating from the doctor but does our guy get a clue?

From the looks of this face, he can really get an award for missing all this cues.

You really know how to choose’em Gao Tu🫠

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I’m sure that tomorrow, and the day after and five years later, I’ll grow even fonder.

🧁 OLD FASHION CUPCAKE (2022)

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Pay rise....now

Veynai walking in on his boss Thada and Armin kissing RESET (2025) | Episode 8

(for @spoonfullofdream)

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I want to abduct Kosuke and rush him back to Toyko.....his mum is the worst....as grandma says, no way of saying no....

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In ep 3 Tojo is bent over the desk managing various crises whilst a worker comments on his commitment. Keishi takes a lingering look...at his back and ass...

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Love is like a poison (2024) 毒恋～毒もすぎれば恋となる～

Episode Two.

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My current take is that Chengyu is smart, and he’s worried about what Wang Shou is going to do. I think he ran back in that intersection because he is concerned that WS is going to mess with Chi Cheng.

I don’t get the vibe that Chengyu has unresolved feelings, but more that WS is a pile of unexploded ordinance and he’s trying to figure out how to diffuse or deflect the mess.

I’m guessing whatever we know about the past was a lie and Chengyu knows at least a portion of the truth, and he’s worried that getting out will be worse…

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The CCuwei company Slack must be off the rails. I can only assume the whole company is aware of the drama and spends half their day spilling the tea.

WSW walking funny today, looks like Lan Su wins the office pool

All hands alert from Li Gang, do not engage Chi Cheng today. There was 'a spat'.

Chi Cheng returns from his business trip at 4:45 today! If you see him heading to WSW's office, clear the floor.

New client tried flirting with WSW. He was totally oblivious, but damn, now I know what you mean by the Chi Cheng murder eyes.

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Another cute episode. I don't get the fuss over the non-kiss. I only knew they kissed at that point in the manga because I'd read it, but this is ep 3 of 12 so maybe it would have felt too soon. The fact they didn't do it is not automatically homophonic. I'd reserve judgement on that.

I think he did want to kiss Tojo and did pull back, perhaps because he wants Tojo to want to kiss HIM and not just because the poor man is clearly desperate for connection....

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utsukushii kare : the eternal

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Ep 8 - nooooo, why??? I was so sure he was going to say 'I know'......WHY is he leaving? I don't understand....