#binge-worthy

[anewwriter3]

Why When the Phone Rings Should Be on Your Watchlist

Netflix’s When the Phone Rings has taken the K-drama world by storm! With a blend of suspense, mystery, and romance, it’s not just a show—it’s an experience. But what makes it so irresistible? Let’s dive in. What Critics Are Saying Renowned K-drama site Dramabeans calls the show “a masterclass in building suspense” with its unpredictable twists and cliffhangers​ Dramabeans. Critics highlight…

[jadeannbyrne]

A Time-Traveling Tale of eGirl Love: Why Outlander is Netflix’s Period Drama Crown Jewel

Saddle Up As I settled into my plush California king-sized couch (because even eGirls deserve a throne), armed with a chilled glass of wine and a bowl of ridiculously over-buttered popcorn, I pressed play on Netflix’s Outlander. Let me set the scene for you: the world outside fades away, the lights dim, and the gentle glow of my screen pulls me into a time-traveling odyssey that even a Paladin…

[joncronshawauthor]

Listen to Punks Versus Zombies (1-24) - FREE zombie survival audiobook

🎸 Punk’s Not Dead…But The World Is! 🧟‍♂️ Join Tommy’s Thrilling Fight for Survival! 🎤 Brace yourself for an adrenaline-fueled, gore-soaked adventure as Tommy and his punk band battles hordes of undead while on tour! 💀 When a zombie apocalypse strikes, Tommy, Laila, and Micky must navigate a crumbling world fraught with danger at every turn. Can they make it back home to Philly alive? 🌎💥 This…

[fatphobiabusters]

This is such a great video for anyone who has BED. I strongly suggest watching this video even if you just want to learn more about binge eating disorder or learn how to help someone who has said disorder. This person always makes sure her videos are fat positive and anti-diet culture. She makes amazing ED recovery videos for multiple types of EDs, so check her YouTube channel for her other videos if you have a different eating disorder!

-Mod Worthy

[lana235]

𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐢 𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐢 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐢 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫

[thecrownnet]

TheCrownNetflix "All one wants is for that girl to find peace."

[absolutebl]

Hey ABL. Just sent my doctorate for examination and for the first time since 2019 I have WAY too much time on hands. Can you suggest some binge watches? Got into bl last Feb so stuff before that would be great. Warmly, M

CONGRATZ!!!

10 Older BLs Worthy of a Binge Watch!

(in no particular order, prior to 2022)

1 Seven Days: Monday-Thursday & Seven Days: Friday-Sunday

Japan 2015 (grey)

Never doubt my ability to recommend this show. One of the best live action yaois ever made, with perfectly structured angst, fantastic characters and acting, and no problematic tropes (rare in Japanese BL). The leads have excellent chemistry although it’s low heat there’s still some really cute mutual kisses.

2 To My Star

Korea 2021 (Viki)

In the mood for something more grown up? TMS is a touch quirky to get into, but utterly charming once it hits its stride. This is the ultimate grumpy/sunshine pairing plus the most appealing light-filled kitchen of our dreams.

I don't like season 2 but others do. It is very clever.

3 We Best Love: No. 1 For You & Fighting Mr. 2nd

Taiwan 2021 (WeTV)

How about a uni + office BL? Brilliant acting saved this show from a messy (pretty classically manga) narrative with a lot of angst. You have to buy in to a yaoi aesthetic with this one, accept that things move fast and occasionally confuse, but that everything will be okay. It’s the ultimate pining seme meets the ultimate tsundere uke. WBL successfully manages to combine the best elements of Korean, Thai, and Japanese BL as it exists right now. Couple that to the insane chemistry from the leads, and we have one of the greatest BLs of all time, cooking higher heat to a recipe I doubt anyone else will ever be able to replicate since only Taiwan is this flexible.

4 He's Coming to Me

Thailand 2019 (YouTube)

With only 8 8 eps and from GMMTV this is short, high quality and bingable for Thailand. Boy and ghost boy fall in love, must solve ghost’s murder. Peak pining but also pretty tame, features my favorite sweet but important coming out sequence in all BL. The third in my precious triumvirate of unbeatable Thai BLs, that are only nominally BL because the story, acting, and production values are so good.

(Together with Until We Meet Again & A Tale of Thousand Stars - those 2 are longer so I don't consider them as bingable, but if you want something to get really stuck into? Go to town.).

5 Color Rush

Korea 2021 (Viki)

A unique paranormal twist elevates this classic high school drama into a pitch-perfect allegory for the queer coming out experience and one of the best BLs of all time (I will fight you on this). Here's my battle essay.

Original trigger.

(Don't bother with season 2.)

6 HIStory 2: Crossing the Line

Taiwan 2018 (Viki)

Lin Pei Yu directs this sports romance (volleyball) with a good boy/bad boy pairing, and my hands-down favorite of the HIStory franchise. There is no clear seme/uke. Ostensibly it's high school set but Taiwan doesn't care about age appropriate actors. It's a very soft sweet romance with some ridiculously easily overcome conflict. There's great kisses but it's medium heat. The side dishes are the stepbrother trope but they’re very tame, and there’s no other triggers. It's not just my favorite of the franchise, it’s one of my favorite BLs with a perfect happy ending.

(The second H2 is also pretty good.)

7 Cherry Magic

30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii AKA Cheri Maho

Japan 2020 (indie subs)

The sweetest fluffiest magical realism BL, packaged as a pinning office romance, very low heat (practically chaste) but the cutest. It’s truly great.

8 Light On Me

Korea 2021 (Viki)

Korea does an elegant pastiche of traditional live action yaoi but all tropes are cleverly deployed to bolster one of the most riveting love triangles ever put on screen… and I don’t like love triangles. LoM strategically tailors classic BL tropes to 2 different semes resulting in pristine pacing, plot, and character development, explicitly serving narrative (not just to tick boxes). LoM is a master class in trope drops. (If you write fanfic or romance you should study this show.) Full review.

9 Be Loved In House: I Do

Taiwan 2021 Viki

A cute classy office set BL with a few plot raised eyebrows, but no other concerns. ALL THE TROPES plus a general sweet softness that’s pretty rare from Taiwan, who usually prefer to go hard, but all their signature domesticity.

10 Lovely Writer

Thailand 2021 (YouTube)

Thailand criticizes itself and the BL industry while simultaneously giving us classic seme/uke with great chemistry in a one-two punch of “we love it, but are we supposed to? and must we think this hard, yet enjoy it SO MUCH?” This show won’t appeal or make sense to those who don’t already have at least some Thai BL watching experience. What Lovely Writer does, at heart, is reexamine Thai BL has done to queerness, but in a very gentle way that has more to do with Thai BL growing up than any actual queer authenticity. It’s not parody or pastiche, but it is self reflective and trying to correct for some chronic mistakes. Whether it is ultimately successful in this matter is going to depend on the watcher’s relationship to BL and queer identity. But that’s what makes this show beautiful, interesting, and thought provoking. And I, for one, applaud the effort even if I didn’t personally connect to the characters.

If you wanted 2022 included here's my top 10 from 2022:

[sailingfireshipz]

Just hit season 6 of my The Mentalist rewatch.... & OH MY GOD, it's such an amazing show. i can't believe i had forgotten this gem. This was peak television gold & I'm consumed with how well written, acted, & executed the entire Red John plot over the course of SIX seasons without it getting old boring or stale. How just when you thought you knew they pulled the rug & revealed Red John was 10 steps ahead the entire time. Ugh, literal art in motion. If you've never seen it i highly recommend it!

[spookyhotmess]

Me and my Mr Spooky binge watched FALLOUT and it was AMAAAAZING 🤓😍😁

[sunmaylight]

I started Traum in FGO

My gosh things went down fast. Going to try not to spoil. But in case, going to ramble in undercut

Mysterious Servant in the beginning, give me your name or face! Cause you could be a potentially important character later in Traum!

Person who is “weaker than a Caster currently,” are you Charlie? That is one Servant I do not know when he shows up and I will laugh if the EX luck of Guda actually made this happen right away

[cilil]

Ok so I'm somewhat pissed at myself because I didn't get the stuff done I wanted to get done this evening, but at the same time I can't be mad because I spent the last few hours being fucking hooked on some damn good fic on AO3.

I don't get to read a lot these days, much less randomly browse and scroll around, and I didn't even realize how much I missed my obsessive fic binges. Shout out to one giga chad author casually dropping a damn amazing long fic that made my day

[fitforestfairy]

Feeling unworthy and self sabotage while trying to achieve fitness goals

Do you ever feel like you don’t deserve to succeed in your fitness goals?

Like it’s just a “vanity” thing or simply you don’t deserve good things or to feel good about yourself. Maybe you spent so long feeling bad about yourself that is all you know and you think there’s no point in changing or you feel it’s impossible to change.

And as soon you start to see progress you unconsciously (or sometimes more consciously) sabotage your progress. It could all be due to an underlying feeling of unworthiness, apart from different mental health conditions that may be going on. In my case, my BPD plays a huge role in the perception I have of myself and my black and white thinking can lead to feeling like a failure if I don’t do things perfectly. Depression and anxiety are big issues for me, and body dysmorphia as well.

I think it’s one of those mental aspects of fitness and weight loss that can lead to self sabotage and it’s nowhere nearly talked about enough.

This is a gentle reminder that no matter how you’ve felt your whole life or the whole past week or day, you deserve good things. You deserve happiness and success. You deserve to be healthy and to feel good in your own skin. And you deserve to be at peace with yourself and take care of your mental health as well.

[ilguna]

babe…i’ve spent my past time reading every piece of finnick you’ve posted. i recently downloaded tumblr again after like 3 years and i have NOT been able to put my phone down. your writing?? amazing!!!! everything you post is just amazing and i legit cannot stop reading-

😏 that’s what i like to hear. honestly there was a period of time where i didn’t use tumblr but i had an account lol. and AHHH im glad you like my writing so much!! that warms my heart 🥰. if you have any requests, my inbox is open!!

[advestager]

hi, which version or versions of the nibelungenlied have you read? are there any you would recommend?

omg, anon, i have no idea what i've done to deserve such a cool question because i've only ever talked about this book in reblog tags, but thank you for giving me a chance to gush about the copy my baba got me for xmas!!!

this edition is (according to what i was told) the first time both the nibelungenlied and the klage have been published in a single book in english, and as a language nerd (as well as one for the material side of literary history) i absolutely loved it. every other page, the footnotes explain not only the translation choices but also the manuscript ones, as there are several fragments with subtle differences (the going theory is that the story was written down by retellers rather than whoever might have been the original author[s], so it's less exact than it might have been with, say, chaucer) and whobrey had to decide which to treat as his 'canonical' version. he occasionally talks about what previous translations have done in contrast and explains why he agrees or disagrees with those choices (and if they match what his own work has gone with), as well, which was an absolute treat. i already had half a mind to go back to studying german when i'm done with italian, but this book definitely bumped it up in my list because i'd like to see (admittedly likely in about ten years, lol) how the english translations differ from whatever version might exist in modern german.

this version also comes with a glossary of locations and characters at the end, though it is spoilery as hell so depending on how much you know of the story sometimes it's better to just stay confused a little while ��� and, if it makes any difference, it bears saying that other than my background as a dragon age tabletop player (which was the reason baba thought i'd like the story) i'd never had any contact with anything closer to the subject matter of the nibelungenlied than your average silmarillion fan, and i still managed to come out of it having understood it with no problem.

if you do end up reading it, please let me know what you think!!! i need other people to get my extremely loud feelings about this ridiculously melodramatic middle high german soap opera

[joncronshawauthor]

🧟‍♂️🎸 Listen to Punks Versus Zombies - A Post-Apocalyptic Survival FREE Audiobook (Episodes 1-32) 🎸🧟‍♀️

🧟‍♂️ Survive the Zombie Outbreak with Tommy and His Punk Rock Band 🎸Join Tommy and his bandmates as they fight their way from Berkeley, California, to Philadelphia in a desperate attempt to reunite with his family. But zombies aren’t the only danger lurking in this terrifying new world. As they journey across the ruins of America, they’ll face unimaginable challenges and discover the true power…

[gramarobin]

I must keep these around. Delish, for gluten free. Good gf cookies are hard to find.