#bl date

[belzenefff]

Happy Birthday Edmond!

Edmond’s birthday blast day 5!

Today’s prompt is birthday sweets! So why not let Eiden treat Edmond to a sweet date!! But little do they know, someone is watching…

[specterthief]

my #1 elitist opinion is that if you are creating something that presents itself as a parody or subversion of a specific genre you should be thoroughly familiar with genuine examples of that genre

[superbat-love]

The artificial sunlight of the simulated world was glaring, warm against Clark’s skin as he struggled, yet again, to make sense of the nonsensical dating sim he’d been trapped in.

Every time he woke up, the same pastel-colored town greeted him, with the same NPCs repeating their pre-programmed lines. This world operated on rules he didn’t fully understand, forcing him to navigate a harem of girls whose affections he was supposed to win. However, his attention was fixed on only one person.

Bruce Wayne.

Except, in this world, Bruce wasn’t really Bruce. He was nothing more than an arrogant NPC love rival challenging Clark for the harem’s affections, only to meet an untimely demise in every so-called "happy ending." The worst part? Bruce didn’t remember who he truly was. He was just a shell of himself, programmed to antagonize Clark.

This time, Bruce had cornered him in an empty classroom, playing his assigned role to perfection. "You’re such a fool," he sneered. "You think you can win?"

Two dialogue options blinked into existence:

[Leave me alone.]

[I’ve already won.]

Clark didn’t choose either. Instead, he leaned in and kissed him. It wasn’t a calculated move; it was pure instinct, a desperate attempt to reach the real Bruce buried beneath the programming.

The air shimmered unnaturally, and a new text box flashed before them:

[ERROR: UNKNOWN PATH. CONTINUING MAY CAUSE SYSTEM INSTABILITY]

Bruce froze, his lips parted in stunned silence. Then he abruptly shoved Clark away, his eyes filled with confusion and disbelief. "What the hell are you doing?" he snapped, though his voice wavered, uncertainty threading through the anger.

"If breaking the game is what it takes to save you," Clark said softly, his voice steady even as the ground beneath them trembled, "then so be it."

[??? Route – Unlocked]

[fanfictionroxs]

Fadel angsting in jail thinking his boyfriend is forgetting him meanwhile Style turning into Sugar Daddy Pro Max for his babygirl

[absolutebl]

Of My 50+ Favorite BLs these are the 10 I rewatch the most

So you could call these my favorite comfort foods. Everything on this list got a rating of 10/10 or 9/10 from me.

10 Most Comforting BLs

(for me, in order of most recently rewatched at the top)

Our Dating Sim

Korea 2023 Viki (watch the series not the movie)

This is a perfect short form KBL, an office set reunion romance featuring geeks that really suits 8 eps with no fluff and no chaff. Just comforting and yummy. I adored every aspect from the casting to the pristinely simple premise to the quietly smooth execution. Sure it’s low stakes, but that makes it high domesticity and extremely warm and gentle. This is a fuzzy blanket of a story - a cozy BL. It lives in my rewatch pile and you know what’s best about it? Every single episode is in that pile. There’s no skipping with this one, it might be good natured and calmly sweet but it’s tight and the pacing is excellent.

Cosmetic Playlover

Japan 2024 Gaga

The most recent release on this list, it came out this year and I've already rewatched it 5x. I love this little show. It's a classic office BL about the older workaholic who loves his job and the younger upstart who unexpectedly loves his boss. It’s a hyung romance where everybody is extremely earnest and sweet and pretty about everything. Except our seme, who is slightly unhinged and a little obsessed in all the ways one likes best from Japan (if one is me). Plus the kisses are good! Utterly charming unexpected gem of a show. What fun!

Jun and Jun

Korea 2023 Viki

A delightful office romance about an ex-idol who joins cubical life only to find his new boss is his first love. Other boys are sniffing around too. Operative word being "sniffing" as much of this romance involves smell. With a snappy (sometimes even raunchy) script, enjoyable sides, a pretty as peaches cast, and decent chemistry this show made up for in style what it lacked in substance. I like fluff. I loved this. I smiled every moment I was watching. My only caution is this is for fans of the BL genre only, I don’t think it’ll work for anyone else.

My Personal Weatherman

AKA Taikan Yoho

Japan 2023 Gaga

This style of live action yaoi really only works from Japan. Basically: boys who fell in love in college end up living together but are so repressed they don't realize they're in love. It's higher heat than we usually get from Japan's HEA stuff, and that aspect is also very well done, but it leaned into the "why don't they just talk for fuck's sake?" trope which is only exacerbated into undiluted frustration by the fact that they're already fucking. It's great, but watching requires more patience than usual, even for Japan. That said it's also bruisingly romantic. Emphasis on bruise.

Unintentional Love Story

Korea 2023 iQIYI

OMG the plot! Uke forced into a totally understandable betrayal, falling in love despite himself, put into a corner he can't get out of, the AGONY, the PAIN in those gorgeous eyes. Gah. Okay, so: A boy loses his job due to trumped-up corruption charges accidentally discovers his ex-boss's favorite artist, now a recluse. Evil manager offers him his job back, if he can convince the artist to rejoin society. Instead, they fall in love. I found the artist a bit stiff and reserved but Gongchan (maknae of B1A4) is a fucking GIFT - he carried this show (which I do not expect from the idol element). He was luminous with extraordinarily expressive eyes, just drown in the emoting abyss. The external conflict, social tension and pressure is complex and beautifully executed, plus Korea gave us legit side dishes (NOT a love triangle, hally-fucking-luya). All that said, when I rewatch this it's usually just the second half, but WHAT a ride.

Semantic Error

Korea 2022 Viki

Sexy older boy discovers pouty younger boy has outed him as a slacker, starts out bullying him, accidentally falls madly in love instead. Korea hits it entirely out of the Parks by doing a university BL with everything we expect from BL just done exactly right. Korea's signature quality executed perfectly with added bonus good story, great pacing, stunning visuals, and fantastic chemistry. You cannot ask for more from a BL, let alone a KBL. Another one where the rewatch is mostly just the second half.

Old Fashion Cupcake

Japan 2022

This show had me from the moment they broke the egg yolk with the chopsticks in the opening credits. It’s about a younger man with a long cherished crush on his boss (ten years older and going through a mid life crisis) who decides to save and seduce said boss with pancakes. It’s wholesome, comforting, sexy, and a very necessary narrative about still having hope, interests, and openness to affection at any age. It’s a stunningly filmed late-in-life comg of age/queerness story packaged in a subtle critique of expectations around masculinity, love, and loneliness… and it’s beautiful.

Yes yes. But the bit you know you want to rewatch is that long shot with the bite kiss. YOU KNOW you wanna.

Seven Days

Japan 2015

Ha! I faked you out 'cause this wasn't at the top but of course it's on the list! 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). Older boy dares the hot af younger one to date him for a week. Turns out they both like it... A lot. The leads have excellent chemistry although it’s low heat there’s still some really cute mutual kisses.

Takara & Amagi

Japan 2022

I gnawed on my knuckles and squealed a lot with this show, but a rewatch is way less tense. Reserved cool kid must learn to communicate to keep the tiny disaster nugget he’s madly in love with. It is beyond charming: soft and gentle, packed with cuteness and high school angst, thirst, & yearning.

We Best Love

Taiwan 2021 WeTV

WBL successfully managed to pick up and combine the best features 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 to a recipe I doubt anyone else will ever be able to replicate since only Taiwan is this flexible. It's basically every classic BL trope bombarded at us in two parts, rapid fire, one after another. Rewatching this show reminds me of everything I love about this genre. It is the genre in pure concentrated form.

The End!

I think it's no accident that none of these are Thai, part of a rewatch for me is the brevity of the show, longer stuff does get rewatched, but not as frequently.

(source)

[itsallaboutbl]

I have strong feelings... That I need to tell you about. Dai, I'm in love with you.

[gunsatthaphan]

(*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡

[khaoala]

As for someone who doesn't know what he wants, like me, I'll just be looking for it for a while.

Alright. But if you ever need my help, you gotta let me know. I'm here for you.

Thank you.

FIRST KANAPHAN as KANT PATTANAWAT and KHAOTUNG THANAWAT as BISON AECHITPOL episode 12 of THE HEART KILLERS

[thebroccolination]

JUN: "REMEMBER WHEN YOU TOLD ME GASLIGHTING IS A PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE LOVE LANGUAGE? WELL, YOU DID."

Episode five might just be my favorite (ha!) episode so far. I fully need Jun to continue being an architect of pure chaos while Po reciprocates by being a mature adult. I loved the sheer number of times Jun tried to actually, textbook-accurately gaslight Po about Thame's interest in him.

Jun: Thame doesn't like men. Po: He serenaded me. Next.

ROUND ONE: Po | Jun

Po: He's interested in me. Jun: As a coworker. Po: Bitch, he recited my phone number to my face.

ROUND TWO: Po | Jun

Jun: What makes you think he's jealous? Po: I can see?

ROUND THREE: Po | Jun

Jun: You're deluding yourself. <3 Po: No, I'm a grown-ass adult with relationship experience, you actual cartoon villain.

ROUND FOUR: Po | Jun

Thame: Oh. :') Po: GIVE ME YOUR PHONE RIGHT NOW

ROUND FIVE: ThamePo | Jun

[thamepo]

Is this a date, by the way? This is the same as usual. It’s the same? I’ve been looking at you adoringly. Didn’t you notice?

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

… I could stay awake just to hear you breathing Watch you smile while you are sleeping While you're far away and dreaming ~ I don't want to miss a thing by Aerosmith

My Beautiful Man: Eternal

Bed Friend

Our Dating Sim

The Day I Loved You

A Breeze Of Love

Semantic Error

Living With Him

Tokyo In April Is...

His - Koisuru Tsumori Nante Nakatta

Choco Milk Shake

Favorite "Let-me-watch-you-while-you-sleep-moments" (Part 2/?) as part of my favorite bl-tropes collection.

[heretherebedork]

I love when fake dating occurs in a totally isolated place where no one else could possibly see them or interact with them in any way so the fake dating is only for their benefit because that's what fake dating is about.

[mysterygrl20]

KOREA | Sweetheart Service

"A service that promises to help with anything… Does that include a boyfriend too?"

Two men begin a fake relationship, but unexpected feelings start to get in the way.

Get ready for the sweet and slightly dangerous “contract romance” between Yooha and Minwoo 💘

Coming May 2025 on Strongberry’s YT channel

[itsanidiom]

OFFICE BLS RANKED BY THEIR ABILITY TO MAINTAIN THE VENEER OF APPROPRIATE WORKPLACE BEHAVIOUR

Because I saw @sorry-bonebag's tag and had to.

Here we go! Disclaimer: I'm not going to list every Office BL™ these are just the ones I've seen. Sorry if your fav is missing! Let's start with our lowest scorer that definitely sets the tone for the bottom of the barrel.

CHECK OUT - The veneer is tracing paper if not completely transparent. Fucking in the office. Yeah. That's an HR violation for sure. Thankfully your company is too small to have an HR department. But you're definitely getting fired by your boss who is also your boyfriend who you are also cheating on.

BED FRIEND - The veneer is only considered opaque because everyone else in the office is blind as hell. HR is pretty sure you two fucked in the office bathroom, but they have no proof so could only give you a warning.

LOVE MATE - Veneer is 1-ply. I mean, if the whole office ships it, is it truely an issue? HR thanks you for keeping things PG.

WE BEST LOVE: FIGHTING MR. 2ND - The veneer is definitely paper thin, but it's 2-ply. At least you avoided fucking in the office. Just a good smack in the face and some mutual sexual harassment. HR win...I guess.

HISTORY4: CLOSE TO YOU - Veneer is getting a little thicker, but depends on the light. Rooftop and in-office grandiose love confessions aside, HR thanks you for keeping your higher heat make out sessions off business hours. Still, gossiping about your romantic interests with your coworkers is grounds for a warning.

OUR DATING SIM - Veneer is about as thick as the space between your legs through which HR can see that you're literally holding hands in the office right now, stop it.

STEP BY STEP - The veneer is solid. Mainly office stuff happens in the office. HR approves of this boring as hell vibe. Still, you get marked down slightly because you did almost get down in the company parking garage.

CHERRY MAGIC - The veneer is a wholesome thickness, but no kissing in the company elevator. HR slap on the wrist for sure. We don't care how quickly the doors closed. There is CCTV in that elevator, sirs.

JUN & JUN - The veneer is currently in the process of being painted on so we'll have to wait and see, but it's looking pretty thin so far. HR has their pens ready to write up the report.

OLD FASHION CUPCAKE - The veneer is solid, but HR saw you hugging in the coffee station. Thank you for waiting until you were off work hours to make out, I guess. Enjoy your fancy desserts.

ROOMATES OF POONGDUCK 304 - The veneer is there. HR heard some weird noises over the zoom call, but we're just going to ignore those for now.

[fanfictionroxs]

The genre is "My gay ass fell in love with an assasin and I don't give a fuck (please just get them out of jail)."

[pharawee]

"You'll see something nice there. Trust me."

—FOUREVER YOU · เพราะรักนำทาง · Episode 05 Bonus: