#7 Days Before Valentine

[hirmienworld]

November 2023 BL'S lineup

Last update: 07/11/23

November 2023 looks packed with new BLs, seriously, it's like they all agreed to air around the same time. There will be a lot of competition.

Twins - November 3 - TRAILER

2. Middleman's Love - November 10 - TRAILER

3. Last Twilight - November 10 - TRAILER

4. A Breeze of Love - November 10 - TRAILER (region locked)

5. Beyond the Star - November 11 - TRAILER

6. Playboyy - November 16 - TRAILER

7. Pit Babe - November 17 - TRAILER

8. Bake me Please - November 19 - TRAILER

9. 7 Days before Valentine - November 22 - TRAILER

10. VIP Only - November 24 - TEASER

11. The Sign - November 25 - TEASER

12. Cooking Crush - November 26 - TRAILER

13. The Whisperer - November 26 - TRAILER

14. For Him - November 30 - PILOT

15. Sahara-sensei & Tori-kun - November 30 -

Ending in November:

If it's with you - November 1

I Feel You Linger In The Air - November 3

Dangerous Romance - November 3

Venus in the Sky - November 4

I Cannot Reach You - November 6

Kiseki: dear to me - November 7

You Are Mine - November 10

One Room Angel - November 30

Scheduled for November but without a date:

Night Dream - TEASER

Boyy of God - TEASER

[respectthepetty]

Nice to know the black x white dynamic is just as strong as ever in the first quarter of 2024.

[pharawee]

"Q, after I make my wish I will fall asleep, and when I wake up you won't be here, right?"

[heretherebedork]

One of the most amazing things right now is the variety of BL...

There's Last Twilight about healing and accepting life changes and how to handle grief and how to love each other and be there for each other and invite new people and experiences into your life.

There's The Sign being a fantastical exploration of mental illness, mythology, masculinity, love, trust and trauma all wrapped up in beautiful colors, goofy policing and fantastic characters.

There's even 7 Days Before Valentine exploring what it means to be given power you could never imagine to try to rediscover a love you have to realize you never truly had or understood and how important self-reflection is and how people unwilling to do the work will never grow.

And then there's Pit Babe where my entire hope is to see a pregnant dude somewhere in some background shot because come on just one, just one dude, no attention brought to him, just a dude with a belly please, please, you're giving me alpha and enigmas and breeding schemes and I need this, come on.

[save-the-data]

BL's Still Waiting to premiere in 2023

These release dates are taken from MDL, so with a grain of salt. Although some have been confirmed with official trailers and statements.

China

Japan

One Room Angel - Oct-19-2023

Sahara-sensei & Toki-kun - Nov-30-2023

South Korea

Bump Up Business - Oct-20-23

Wuju Bakery - Nov-?-2023

A Breeze of Love - Nov-10-2023

Taiwan

VIP Only - Nov-24-2023

Thailand

Pit Babe - Nov-17-2023

Beyond the Star - Nov-11-2023

Y: Journey: Stay Like a Local - Oct-14-2023

Shadow - Oct 31-2023

Twins - Nov-3-2023

Playboyy - Nov-16-2023

My Dear Gangster Oppa - Oct-26-2023

7 Days Before Valentine - Nov-22-2023

The Sign - Nov-25-2023

Last Twilight - Nov-10-2023

Cooking Crush - Nov-30-2023

The Whisperer - Nov-26-2023

Cherry Magic - Dec-7-2023

Bake Me Please - Nov-19-2023

Middleman's Love - Nov-10-2023

For Him - Nov-30-2023

Boyy of God - Nov/Dec-?-2023

[singto-prachaya]

So I was looking at my personalized airing calender and thanks to @pharawee for telling me MDL has one. But damm it's really no sleep November. Yeh Shadow has the first 7 eps on October 31 so I will try and bing that. But everything else? Let's hope most aren't on the same day. And from all of those there's 3 I wanne gif. Those Playboyy gif will most likely never see the light on my tumblr.

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

Original title: 7 Wan Kon Valentine | 7 วันก่อนวาเลนไทน์.

[blmpff]

✨ Various Tropes: Back Hug (2/?) ✨

TITLES IN ORDER: 1. Long Time No See (2017) 2&3: History 3: Make Our Days Count (2019) 4: Where Your Eyes Linger (2020) 5: Be Loved In House: I Do (2021) 6: Love Mechanics (2022) 7: The New Employee (2022) 8: Love Class 2 (2023) 9: Pit Babe (2023) 10: 7 Days Before Valentine (2023) 11: Dead Friend Forever (2023) 12. Love For Love's Sake (2024)

[red-hibiscus]

BL characters I relate to most as a mentally ill gay trans man

Daisy from SCOY

Surprising no one, I, a trans person, relate to Daisy. They're outgoing and seemingly don't care about how people view them. They know they're visibly queer and they normally don't mind it (from what I see). But at the end of the day, society does affect them. They're hesitant to believe Touch genuinely cares and is attracted to them despite Touch being an absolute green flag who is very direct with his flirting. Even after, Daisy was worried about people would view their relationship with Touch and tried to become Day, a more masculine version of themself. Impossible of course and they broke down emotionally exhausted. I feel that so much because I also don't believe it when people, especially cis gay men, are attracted to me. I've caught myself trying to change my behavior to be more masculine (as I'm a bit on the nonbinary side of things). It's bad, but I know how Daisy feels.

Wang from 180 Degree Longtitude Passes Through Us

As a 26 year old trans gay immigrant in a country that doesn't want me, I have a shit ton of pent up anger that has been building up since I was a child. I've calmed down over the years, but I can still be stubborn and argumentative when it comes to politics and human rights. I'm also a linguistics major, thus an academic.

Wang is so much like myself and like a lot of people around me. Like me and Wang would be close friends irl I know it. We're young and stubborn. We're angry at the older conservative people around us, too much sometimes. So he lashes out. Many of his points are correct, but they're not hitting. Partially because the people he's talking to don't want to change, partially because he himself is stubborn. People like us yearn to be free, to be ourselves and to learn. Wang has a passion for the humanities like myself. Yet he knows society really only cares about STEM fields. I've compromised and am getting a master's in computational linguistics. Even though really I just wanna learn as much as I can about sociolinguistics.

Karl from Gaya Sa Pelikula

I haven't watched GSP in a hot minute, but I do remember feeling very seen.

So in the show Karl has his gay awakening, tries to internally and externally deny it, and eventually let himself be free to feel everything and be himself (at least in private).

Now I didn't have a gay awakening, but I guess you could say a trans awakening. In middle school I felt different, I suspected maybe some flavor of LGBT, but wasn't sure and I was too afraid to think about it too hard. Come high school I secretly wanted to join the LGBT club, but was afraid. Then I was essentially adopted into the LGBT club and dragged into the friend group during lunch because I was a loner like everyone else. At the time still "identified" as a cishet woman. As time went on people started to suspect. "Why are you in the club?", "why did you cut your hair", "why do you dress like that?", "your voice is low for a girl haha", etc. Much like Karl, I was not ready for any of that. I was still struggling to make sense of it all and come to terms with it myself. So I kept rejecting it and every time it hurt.

I kept rejecting it until I couldn't. Until someone I resonated with so much came out as trans and it clicked. My trans awakening was complete. I became able to be more myself, but only in private safe spaces. I wouldn't come out and live as a man until after high school and it was terrifying.

Adachi from Cherry Magic

I've only watched the jpn ver, but I'm sure that character remains the same.

I'm anxious and used to be quite shy. Now I'm just awkward. I'm really bad at seeing the good in myself cause I feel like I'm wandering around aimlessly in life. Not that impressive. So when people compliment me I think "haha they're just being nice" (refer back to me never believing people are actually attracted to me).

Adachi is the exact same. He has the same routine every day. Just going through the motions and not really thinking anything of himself. But then Kurosawa comes along and the ability to read minds. Adachi then realizes "wait, someone I respect so much actually loves me? And thinks I have a lot of good qualities? Makes me wanna cry." And me too Adachi. I'd be the same.

Jared from 7 Days Before Valentine

Jared, my precious baby, is described throughout the show as kind, but weird and different. We later learn that he has dyslexia, and honestly he seems to be somewhere on the autism spectrum. Even if he isn't, he has a behavioral difference people pick up on and then shun him for it.

I too was seen as kinda weird growing up. Maybe it was the autism, maybe it was the social anxiety. Probably both. And then of course there was the gnawing feeling that I was different than everyone else and it turns out it's because I'm trans.

So when Jared said that people didn't talk to him because he wasn't like other people it hit me so hard.

Myungha from Love For Love's Sake

The whole show is sad yet cathartic for me. Myungha is depressed yet spends his time comforting others. He has a hard time loving and receiving love. If you give him a fictional character who is very similar to him he will love them and see all the good, but he doesn't see it in himself. Relatable as hell.

I have an incredibly hard time being honest with my emotions and letting people love me and express attraction. Mostly in a romantic/sexual context. Dpdr is cockblocking me. So dating is hell, but I'm lonely and yearn to not be.

Probably if you put me in a situation like Myungha I'd also go "yep, that right there is my blorbo" and then not realize that all the things I like about the person and make me care about them are things I have.

Honorable mentions:

Both Akk and Ayan from The Eclipse

Nozue from Old Fashion Cupcake

Oh-Aew from I Told Sunset About You

Cher from A Boss and a Babe (I headcannon him as autistic)

Amber from DNA Says Love You

Uea from Bed Friend

Mitsuomi from Restart After Come Back Home

Jao from SCOY

Maybe I'll make another post for those later

[piningintrovert]

The fact that 7 Days Before Valentine ends 7 days before Valentine's Day makes my brain so unbelievably happy like y'all don't even understand lol finding this out has bumped the series up several spots on my watchlist XD

[myahyeahey]

a lot of great bl series now airing

and then there is playboyy 💀

[hirmienworld]

February 2024 BL'S lineup (updated: 05/02)

Anti Reset - Taiwan - TRAILER - 02/02

City of Stars - Thailand - TRAILER - 02/02

Perfect Propose - Japan - TRAILER - 02/02

Online in Love - Philippine - TRAILER - 09/02

1000 years old - Thailand - TRAILER - 14/02

The Outing - Thailand - TRAILER - 15/02

My Strawberry Film - Japan - TRAILER - 16/02

A Secretly Love - Thailand - TRAILER - 17/02

To be continued - Thailand - TRAILER - 19/02

Unknown - Taiwan - TRAILER - 24/02

Wedding Impossible - South Korea - TRAILER - 26/02

Ending in February:

Love for Love's Sake 01/02 Sahara-sensei to Toki-kun - 02/02 7 Days Before Valentine - 07/02 Pit Babe - 09/02 The Sign - 10/02 For Him - 15/02 Cooking Crush - 18/02 Playboyy - 29/02

[respectthepetty]

One Room Angel, Love for Love's Sake, and 7 Days Before Valentine had main characters die by suicide because they felt they had nothing left to live for and believed they were not important enough to live, only to give them all a second chance to realize that their existence is important.

When the narrative is kind to even those who don't think they deserve it.

[pharawee]

"This version of you is much more gentle."

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

You know what is really bothering me about these last couple of days in Thai BL land?

Yes there were a lot of tears, but none of them were mine. (the exception being cherry magic. that sequence of Karan taking care of Achi and then being heartbroken. My heart wasn't ready)

These are my personal and maybe unpopular opinions so just let me explain. Spoilers galore as usual. We had some heavy episodes this week. Starting with 7 days before valentine and ending with the sign.

7 Days Before Valentine Look, was it heartbreaking? Sure. Did I feel sorry for Sunshine? Nope. Not even a little. Because for 8 episodes we've seen a selfish, self centered human being make a mess of the world without an ounce of remorse. Just picking people off one by one for his own selfish desires. So even if this episode was actually good, because he finally confronted his selfishness, I was watching wearing a big neon sign saying - you had it coming... the world's smallest violin etc... Also we know he's not actually gone so. (this is the recurring theme of the week btw)

Pit Babe I mean Pavel did a great job and this show is doing a great job at showing men being vulnerable and crying. But let's be real. Charlie is not really dead. We know that. Omegaverse or not, this is Thai bl and we don't play that here.

So the idea to leave the audience in the dark is an attempt at a cliffhanger but ultimately void of any real suspense. If the audience were to be let in on the plan, I'm sure there is one, then we could've felt Babe's suffering in a more profound way. Because, in my opinion, that would be more powerful. We could've seen both sides of this and felt bad for both of them. What's the point of leaving us in the dark? Am I suppose to gasp next week when Charlie appears? When what will actually happen will be that as soon as we know Charlie is alive we will get angry at him for making the person he loves suffer and next at Babe because they will get right back to the papa and mamma talk before the I'm sorry leaves Charlie's lips.

Twins I mean, there wasn't really a lot of suffering left to be had here. I was the only one suffering due to the fact that this show really waited until the last episode to make Sprite come clean. And to top it of, making First feel even more like a door mat by forgiving Sprite so fast. What a waste.

Last Twilight I've already said my peace about this show a couple of times. I did feel Mhok's pain. Him alone crying outside the house was heartbreaking. But the problem is how it happened. Idiotic. The catharsis didn't have the time to actually be cathartic for Mhok. The noble break up was not noble. So in the end I cannot emotionally connect to any of this. They threw Mhok's nightmare in there in case we'd forgotten about his baggage, or maybe because they had, so that sudden confession of Mhok had diminished impact as it was followed by the break up which of course is the real heartbreak I guess.

The Sign What is up with the editing of this show?

I already said somewhere last week that I thought the editing of the rescue was terrible because it was not done as to invoke any emotional impact. The same happens this week.

What the hell was that cut after Phaya woke up? We had like 15 seconds of them looking at each other and Phaya reaching out before they cut to Dr ican'tkeepupwiththenamesatthispoint and then to the police story line that let's be honest, it's taking space from everything else that's more interesting and it's not giving us anything of value in return. Stop putting everything but kitchen sink into shows if you can't manage it properly. If you don't have space for these stories to breathe and give me something I'm missing in the main story lines. Look I love that Phaya got up from his hospital bed and immediately went for it, but I mean what am I suppose to feel about it? The show is not letting us settle into any one emotional state long enough to feel anything at all.

And, I'm really asking. Is anyone at all interested in the police investigation? You can have a police investigation as backdrop to a story. But if you're also gonna take it upon yourself to have this massive mythological, past and present lives star crossed lovers story, then something's gotta give. Maybe just make it a case that doesn't also span generations and brings secrets and lies along for the ride.

I'm so mad at Thai bl at the moment. Not you Cherry Magic, you are my precious ray of sunshine in the middle of all this rain. Please be good till the end.

[Thank you @twig-tea for being my proofreader. You're the best. 💜]

[heretherebedork]

I mean, he is very right.