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10 BLs That Shook Me
@trribledelight asked for "BLs that made you think or learn smthg or shook you culturally? Eg the political considerations in Not Me..."
Let's get the rough ones out of the way first, shall we?
1 2gether
Green. One of the most egregious reps for punching down humor against femmes in BL (and there sure are a lot out there). Seriously GMMTV? Must you?
At the time we all watched this because there wasn't anything else to watch, and it's been a long time since I bothered with a rewatch, but Green is one of the reasons I just can't with this series.
I'm not knocking the actor, but the character and how the other characters behave around him, and the director with regard to this aspect of the plot and portrayal was rough going.
What shook me was how casually homophobic 2g was. It was just so odd to watch a gay romance gloss over and degrade queerness. I was like, wait, aren't they supposed to me on our side?
(Ah, the before times.)
2 Fish Upon the Sky
Shall we address the head wrap in the room? This BL has some of the most shockingly racist content I've seen in a long time. Also punching down humor. I fast forwarded through it and I still don't want to think about it. GMMTV should be throughly ashamed of themselves... Again. I was shook, but in a bad way.
Okay, now for the ones that shook me in a good way.
3 Until We Meet Again
I watched this early in my Thai BL journey (while it was airing) and I had no idea what to expect. Frankly, you could watch it now and still not know. It's just very unusual for a Thai BL.
The plot twist about how they each ended up reborn. Just so brilliant. I still can't get over it. So simple. SO CLEVER. So punishing for the families.
Fantastic!
4 Secret Crush On You
This one kinda shook me all along but that Daisy & Touch scene. It lives on in my head rent free forever. Just because it was so beautifully sweet and genuine and kindly towards a femme character.
I still don't like this BL.
But I love that scene in it.
5 My Beautiful Man
I went on a JOURNEY with this show. Mostly because I didn't think Japan had it in them to land something this complex. But they managed it beautifully by not shying away from the delicious messy ugliness of it all.
Possibly the greatest final episode in all BL.
And from Japan. Usually so bad at endings.
I remain gobsmacked.
6 Unknown
I shouldn't have been shooketh by this one but I really was.
The style of it while staying so down home and gritty.
How old school Chinese BL it felt yet it still managed to be very modern BL about it.
The execution and quality of the acting.
How it was aired (available in YouTube?! we NEVER get that from Taiwan!)
Also the pair branding. We haven't gotten this level of pair brand from the leads in a Taiwanese BL since SamYu.
I'm was absolutely riveted by everything about this show and its production.
I loved seeing it. I hope we get more BLs like this from Taiwan as a result.
But I ALSO hope they realize that a big factor in the popularity and the success of this show was in distribution.
It's what's for dinner.
Along with the stepbrother trope.
KOREA'S SUPRISES
I watch a lot of Kdramas as well as BL, and have done for a really long time. I'm riveted by Hallyu, from an entertainment industry perspective (what I wouldn't do to get my hands on some of their proprietary data). I also listen to a ton of Kpop.
Therefore, Korea dominates the P'ABL gets shooketh list because I had (and have) more expectations firmly in place around Korea's media product sfyle than anyone elses. Even before they started to make a big play into the BL scene.
My favorite BLs from Korea, like Semantic Error and Light on Me are EXACTLY what I expect from them, manufactured perfection. But I was also shook more times by Korea than other BL nations because I had such rigid expectations.
7 Color Rush
Yeah yeah. But it starred an idol. It started out pretty and stiff and everything I was expecting and then the concept hit me up side the head and I never recovered from the CLEVER of this show. I'm not used to my Kdramas or my BL being this high concept and SMART about their sanitized perfection.
8 Blueming
What with the 8th Sense and others since, Blueming seems to have been somewhat forgotten about. But at the time, I was shook by the down home grit of this show. By the actual pain from the characters. By the higher heat concept. By Korea actually going THERE.
And then these babies came along...
9 The 8th Sense
I just didn't think Korea had it in them. Yes, I realize now that it was a bit navel gazey, and we were weighted heavily towards the seme and his pain. I would have liked a better balance between the leads, but that's in retrospect.
At the time I couldn't believe it. A KBL dealing with mental health?
And can we talk about those sex scenes? How insanely comfortable the actors were with each other? How easy in each other's personal space? I've not seen anything else quite like that from Korea. It's super rare. I had assumed they, culturally, just didn't do casual intimacy, or if they did, it wasn't allowed on screen.
Of course now I know the CAN do it, I want more.
10 Love for Love's Sake
Okay, lots to unpack with this one. A genuine isakai BL, in the original sense of the term. The death twist didn't shake me up, but the execution, acting, open gayness, and a couple other things did. Enough to make me still think on this show with fond surprise and affection, despite its undercurrent of darkness.
I like to be shooketh.
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#Thunderbirds Are Go#Up from the Deep#TV21#Colonel Jeff Tracy#I remember when UFTD first aired#I was shooketh#HE EXISTS
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This episode man
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I just played back my reaction to the final scene with Buck and Tommy and my god, the way I leaned back into the couch and my breathing picked up the closer Buck and Tommy got to each other.
Now I'm lowkey terrified of the heart attack I'm gonna have when it's Eddie.
#911#911 abc#911 on abc#911 season 7#911 s7#911 s7 spoilers#evan buckley#eddie diaz#tommy kinard#911 buck#911 eddie#911 tommy#buddie#911 buddie#buck x tommy#when I tell you my bi-fi was off the charts#I was sitting on the couch all calm#then buck and Tommy started getting closer and I lean back into the couch#then my heart starts beating out of my chest#and the way I screamed when Tommy leaned in to kiss buck#girl#i was shooketh#and then my mom killed the mood#but screw her#that was...wow#I truly have no words
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WOAH THIS SHOW JUST TURNED YURI???
#jellyfish cant swim in the night#i was shooketh#that ep was hella gay#good for them good for them#they're really cute tooo
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Ooooho 🫨 what I would give to watch My Stand-In episode 4 for the first time over and over again. I need it to be next Friday immediately
#my stand in the series#my stand in#mingjoe#joeming#bl drama#thai bl#i was shooketh#left speechless multiple times#Ming deserves none of my respect but he has so much of it for keeping his promise to wait
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Me watching the Tears of the Kingdom trailer and hearing Mathew Freaking Mercers Voice for ganondorf: Oh fuck oh shit oh no sir please not like this oh god of fuck sir please daddy sorry dadd-
#i was SHOOKETH#IM WEAK#I JUST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH-#botw#tears of the kingdom#ganondorf#mathew mercer
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Right so we did shirt signing at school today and one of the boys who’s always said stuff to me like you’re so beautiful and I love you which yknow very random, he wrote ‘You’ve been the one since day one love L’ (obviously L isn’t his actual name but yeah) and it kinda fits since I only moved to this school two years ago
And I’m very confused by this I don’t know what to think. Does anyone have any ideas?
#help a girl out#prom is tomorrow#do I ask him about it#what do I do#I was shooketh#he sat down in a chair to do it#he was so serious#my friend saw him writing it and I could see her thinking#what the fuck as he was writing#and her eyes were just getting bigger and bigger#it was jokes
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Was just casually watching bridgerton when I noticed...
...these motherfuckers are the same guy.
#merlin#bridgerton#bbc merlin#what in the what#i was shooketh#rupert young#he looks so different without a beard#and the luscious curls
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So i was out with my spouse at a birthday dinner for a friend of his and one of the guests starting talking about "alphas and omegas" and like an long-term denizen of the internet, My head whipped up because I was not expecting *that* phrase in meatspace and I immediately asked for clarification.
Because I thought "omegaverse" as the natural association with that particular turn of phrase. However, I was in fact wrong. He was talking about Star Wars trading cards. My spouse has no idea how close he was to learning about my specific ship hyperfixation and how I view their designations as either alpha or omega dep on the fic.
#for real y'all#i was shooketh#because it's not a phrase you hear in the wild#not typically#omegaverse
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LETA
why’s your name leta? who named you that
so queenie and tina had fandom during covid, and i wanted to join but, if you havent seen fantastic beasts, tina and queenie goldstein are sisters and they didnt have a third one so they gave me another character, leta lestrange and ive stuck with it since :)
i dont mind one bit
whats funny is that i didnt watch the movies till like last year sooo
#yall know that scene with her flashback with newt#SHE LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE ME#I WAS SHOOKETH#VERY SHOOKETH#low-key got very scared
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i don't know whether i was more shocked about sam shoving a guy or dani getting up in someone's face
#ted lasso spoilers#like sam my sweetheart??#on the other hand dani is the sweetest ray of sunshine#i was shooketh#sam obisanya#dani rojas
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#meme#transformers g1#i was shooketh#different time in deed#it might've been the exact first episode (was definitely within the first three episodes)#that series was so ableist that it hurts to think about#tfp and tfa really doubled down on the transmisogyny towards Starscream#beast wars was also pretty sexist towards Black Arachnia#but //wow// g1 really doubled down on just. everything.#there's also the fact that the Starscream Problem™️ Exists and that i refer to it as that like wow people are not nice to them#that one clip about the autobots laughing at implied Starscream abuse is so unnerving and it makes my blood boil
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BRO
EDRED CALLED EMMA BY HER NAME.
NOT MELINDA.
HOLY SHIT
#unicorn: warriors eternal#unicorn warriors eternal#edred#emma fairfax#melinda#melinda the sorceress#uwe edred#uwe emma#uwe melinda#edred the warrior elf#genndy tartakovsky#adult swim#unicorn: warriors eternal spoilers#uwe spoilers#I was lowkey expecting edred to go full Melinda! when emma came back into the cosmic realm#but no#he straight up just went Emma!#i was shooketh#I mean it makes sense considering last episode he finally acknowledged that she wasn't the melinda he knew#but to hear him actually acknowledge her by Emma was shocking to say the least#I guess that means that in season 2 he's gonna try and actually get to know emma#and then he's gonna get conflicted when he ends up falling for her and feels like he's betraying melinda#they probably won't go that far though#I just like the edred x melinda relationship#at least what we've seen of it so far#I do hope we get to see how OG edred and melinda got together though#only time will tell
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I SAW SOMETHING SAY THAT IF YOU GOOGLE BARBIE EVERYTHING TURNS PINK AND I THOUGHT THEY WERE JOKING BUT–
IT??? DOES??? TURN EVERYTHING PINK???
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He's exactly one tablespoon of Alec and Magnus each.
#i was shooketh#matt likes to have his beard like this too tho#magnus bane#malec#shadowhunters#saveshadowhunters#alec lightwood#alexander lightwood#headcanon#solid advice
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