#Chinese BL

[guzhufuren]

"Love is the answer written by time. 💖"

Team of upcoming chinese wuxia BL The General's Son wishes everyone a Happy Valentines Day with a message and a new still!

Drama from the director of Word of Honor will have 24 episodes, 18 minutes each, and will only be broadcast internationally. Original script. Currently in post production stage.

Synopsis: "General Li's family were killed on New Year's Eve. Li's youngest son, Li Jianwei, as beautiful as jade and spring flowers, escaped death, but disguised himself as a female courtesan and went to Wei Mountain to seek revenge. Under rough but kind young master Chen Xiaoxi's lively and sunny appearance his face looked like that of a devil's. Unfortunately, fate played a cruel joke on him. What will happen when the two meet on the Wei Mountain?"

[lurkingshan]

I've been holding back on heavy criticism because this is a scrappy little show that seemed to be trying its best on a low budget and under censorship, but lord. Last week I expressed concern because they set up a final plot that could only end in either violating the premise or delivering a sad ending, and they chose to go with the latter. I'm not even strictly opposed to sad endings, but this one was so nonsensical and unearned that it really pissed me off.

Absolutely nothing about the plot of this show holds together. It made up lore as it went along and contradicted itself constantly, it shied away from dealing with the mains being stepbrothers for most of the show but then had it matter at random moments (like when they wanted to suddenly have a plot about violent parental homophobia), it never actually depicted the romance, leaving all physical intimacy implied, and after all of that nonsense, all we got is a sad ending where the characters separate, queer suffering is romanticized, and the time travel loop is inexplicably broken because the show decided it was time for that to be true. I told @twig-tea that I can only assume the show was written and edited by AI, because I can't imagine actual humans thought this made sense.

I regret that I was bamboozled into thinking this show had anything to say or even a coherent story to offer, and I do not recommend that anyone else watch it. It's not really a bl, it's definitely not a good drama, and it absolutely was not worth my time.

[demonictreegremlin]

[happypotato48]

This Is A Gay Asian Rant About BL Comments Made By Some Queer Westerners I See Sometimes.

So you know of those gays (usually white) that made dumb tiktok dancing to list of countries that legalized same sex marriage and list of countries that discriminate against LGBTQIA+ poeple as a way to say something racist. yeah i kinda got the same vibes from some comments regard how asian BL is homophobic just cause they don't live up to queer western standard. look, i'm not saying that some BLs and their creators don't deserve criticism regard how they capitalized/exploited queerness for an easy cash grab.

But people need to understand that Asian countries despite recent progress are still very much culturally conservatives. so when people says that thai bl is homophobic and all the characters looks like bunch of straight guys, which is true for some olders thai BLs i'm not gonna denied that. but after all this time and newer BLs generally being very queer and most of creators being out queer themself and poeple still making these comments, i'm annoyed.

And don't get me start on the actors. you don't know them! why are you making assumption and calling them queerbaiter just cause they acts in bl. like maybe they're straight, maybe they're not but what they're definitely doing is making queer content for you know, queer people here. so when you made halfass comments about their sexuality what do you think that made other queer people who still in the closet feels. and when you add the nationality to that, "these thai bl pair are this and that, this korean actor is so ungrateful for his bl past", etc. when our societies are still very much still in progress regard LGBTQIA+ acceptance. it make us living here feels fucking awful like somehow we're lesser queer than people in the west just cause we don't have citibank at pride or some shit.

And the shittiest in my humbled opinion are comments regard censored chinese bls. people do know like, that the creators making these bls are risking their livelihoods for this. that these shows getting make at all are miracles. yes it sucked that they're censored but they're still very much queer shows making by queer people who want to express thier queerness despite the chinese government being the chinese government. when people dimissing these shows as not belonging in queer media, you're also dimissing their creators and audiences as not belonging in the community.

Look what i want to say is that we're trying our best over here, and maybe our best are not up to your liking. the ways we talk and express our queerness maybe still can be perceived as problematic by western queer standard. but these media are our house and you're the guests. for people aren't shitty we appreciated that you're here engaging and loving our media, this is your home too and you're welcome in it. i can speak for myself that i very much love being here on tumblr and interacting with people from all over the world who love BL. but for people who are being shitty sometimes about asian bl.

YOU'RE THE GUESTS, BEHAVE!

[optimistwithdepressivetendencies]

the juxtaposition of koreans turning bl into bromance cause this genre “doesn’t guarantee financial success” and chinese doing everything they can to bypass censorship in order to produce bl is so funny to me

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"YOU'RE NOT JUST A FRIEND TO ME. I REALLY LOVE YOU." // CHENG-HSING AND SHOU-HENG

Emily Palermo What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado // 盛夏光年 Eternal Summer (2006) dir. Leste Chen // Amy Hempel Sing to It: New Stories // @/tullipsink desperation sits heavy on my tongue // Richard Siken Litany in Which Certain Things are Crossed Out // 盛夏光年 Eternal Summer (2006) dir. Leste Chen // Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vanessa Bell // R.F. Kuang The Burning God // 盛夏光年 Eternal Summer (2006) dir. Leste Chen // unknown // 盛夏光年 Eternal Summer (2006) dir. Leste Chen // Fernando Pessoa A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems // June Gehringer I get so jealous of euthanized dogs // unknown // 盛夏光年 Eternal Summer (2006) dir. Leste Chen // Lucy Dacus Hot & Heavy

[heretherebedork]

I cannot believe I have been gifted with two Deaf love interests airing at the same time. A true gift from the BL gods. Thank you.

[25shadesoffebruary]

Is it really that bitter?

Bonus:

[naofina]

[chaos0pikachu]

everybody being like "how did xiao bao not realize huai en is a dude?" y'all don't watch enough c-dramas where the female lead rolls up to the sword society streets in a high bun in a full beat of makeup and all the relevant hot dude chars approach her like she's ginuwine & they're justin timberlake full on "fo'shiz! fo'shiz! what's up my sworn bromie?" like this is equality looks like people wake up and embrace it

[tls123]

It's alright. Gege is here.

MEET YOU AT THE BLOSSOM — episode three

[guzhufuren]

Xiaoxi and Jianwei in details (The General's Son)

[impala124]

The finale made me want to turn back my time and never watch this show in the first place🤷

I've been holding back on heavy criticism because this is a scrappy little show that seemed to be trying its best on a low budget and under censorship, but lord. Last week I expressed concern because they set up a final plot that could only end in either violating the premise or delivering a sad ending, and they chose to go with the latter. I'm not even strictly opposed to sad endings, but this one was so nonsensical and unearned that it really pissed me off.

Absolutely nothing about the plot of this show holds together. It made up lore as it went along and contradicted itself constantly, it shied away from dealing with the mains being stepbrothers for most of the show but then had it matter at random moments (like when they wanted to suddenly have a plot about violent parental homophobia), it never actually depicted the romance, leaving all physical intimacy implied, and after all of that nonsense, all we got is a sad ending where the characters separate, queer suffering is romanticized, and the time travel loop is inexplicably broken because the show decided it was time for that to be true. I told @twig-tea that I can only assume the show was written and edited by AI, because I can't imagine actual humans thought this made sense.

I regret that I was bamboozled into thinking this show had anything to say or even a coherent story to offer, and I do not recommend that anyone else watch it. It's not really a bl, it's definitely not a good drama, and it absolutely was not worth my time.

[khaotungthanawat]

@pscentral event 30: friendship ↳ jin xiaobao, jinbao, and zhaocai // meet you at the blossom [ insp: ★ ] @asiandramanet creator bingo: typography

[maybe-boys-do-love]

just a friendly note to the BL fandom on here that plenty of people enjoy queer-oriented shows like love in the big city and mainstream shows like spare me your mercy and classic BL approaches like Cooking Crush. Plenty of people see the queerness, the strengths, the value for viewers in all these shows.

just a friendly reminder that a work is not less queer because no one is protesting it. That’s not a legitimate metric across vastly different cultures. The differences between politics, religious majorities, and manners across QL producing countries is absolutely massive.

just a reminder, if we wanna talk about capitalism, that the whole idea of a work being better or worse, queerer or less queer, more valuable or less valuable based on it’s reception in numbers (either higher or lower) is not something Marx and Engels would be into, since they ascribed to exchange value over use value. The labor put into the work is where it’s at—and all of these shows had plentiful hours of (queer) labor put into them! But not everyone who talks about the wrongs of capitalism on here is actually interested in the finer details of how capitalism operates, the full political and economic realities of the companies making these shows, nor the individuals who are forced to fight for change within capitalism’s global structure.

just a friendly reminder that queer sex, queer kissing, queer love, and queer marriage are part of and entwined with a larger humanist struggle for agency and cooperation, and queer creators are allowed to adapt their works and connect queerness to those broader political questions, and the work does not become any less queer because it lacks nc scenes or marriage plots.

and just a friendly reminder that a simple BL romcom is equally as queer of a story as a story about HIV. They’ll have vastly different narrative structures serving different emotional goals, and they’ll likely have different audiences. Yet, somehow, like me when I wake up in a different mood every morning, they’ll still be gay.