#bluemings

[impvriities]

(st ♡) HONG SANHA * @bluemings​

"si no vas a volver a lea por lo menos hazme caso y únete a mi team de periodismo deportivo, a ti te gusta eso de las camaritas y todo eso ¿n...” ‘ ¡animal! verde con dientes que vive en el agua, nueve casillas ’ interrumpe, casi un grito en su inicio, bolígrafo en mano y completamente recostado en el sofá del domicilio de los hong. apenas estaba de visita y ya había visto al matrimonio discutir para luego ganarse un discurso, haciendo hora hasta que apareciera jiho y convencerlo a salir de ahí, que la cena familiar era mala idea. “sanha, estoy hablando. ¿no estás drogado, no? pensé qu...” ‘ ¿no será serpiente? a ver cuánto tiene s e r p i e n t e ’ comienza a enumerar. ‘ ¡puede ser! a ver cocodrilo ’ vuelve a interrumpir, contando en su mano hasta que escucha el sonido del ascensor y reconoce figura. ‘ ¡justo a tiempo! jiho, tenemos que ir a eso importante que me inventé justo ahora y estoy utilizando de excusa, así que vamos, hombre, muévete ’ y coloca de pie, caminando rápidamente en dirección de su primo antes de que entre en la boca del lobo.

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*     bluemings      ♡     𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗪𝗔 & 𝗝𝗜𝗛𝗢

‘ no esperaba verte por aquí. ’ fueron aquellas las primeras sílabas que abandonaron sus labios cuando distancia fue lo suficientemente escasa como para que pudiese escucharle con claridad ‘ perdón por esa actuación, capitán, pero los entrenamientos por aquí no son tan exhaustivos como los tuyos. ’ la diversión inundo su tonalidad, iris brillando cuando sonrisa se apropió de sus labios al mismo tiempo que dejó un pequeño golpecito en contra de uno de los hombros del contrario ‘ dime —— ¿qué es lo que te trae a esta clase de partidos? ’

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

“How long has it been since you and me? Hugs and kisses. Blankets and snuggles. Our sparks smoldering without a fireplace. Losing time is not losing you. It strengthens my yearning for you.” ― FIDELIS O MKPARU

The Eighth Sense

Addicted the Series

Love In The Air

Nitiman

Wedding Plan

Be My Favorite

My Only 12%

Hidden Agenda

Sing My Crush

Blueming

Favorite cuddles (Part 3/?) as part of my favorite bl-trope collection (no particular order)

[loveisactivated]

Keep stroking my hair.

[jimmysea]

Dry off before you come out. Don't get water everywhere.

LET FREE THE CURSE OF TAEKWONDO (2024)

[chicademartinica]

The Hwang Da Seul megaverse

[absolutebl]

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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[sugarmint-dreams]

botanical library 

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my shop

[how-to-be-a-tree]

"I WANT IT, I GOT IT" BABIES

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BL Webtoons/Manhwas and their live adaptations

Video credit for this beautiful montage ☝️ @blwemlng on Twitter 🙏🙏

[ahxiang]

TWO YEARS OF BLUEMING Mar. 31, 2022 - Mar. 31, 2024

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

"The ocean is for contemplating things bigger than we are, and helping us to feel humble. And the beach is a place for raw honesty." - @twig-tea

For @twig-tea 💙

[dramadramallama]

there's a little somethin' somethin' in Hwang Da-seul's works that is hard to pinpoint, but hits—very strategically and precisely—at what I personally delight in.

is it the bitterness, in all these stories, highlighting the sweetness? the fact that the characters appear incredibly fragile? made of many, many, very, very thin layers that make it hard to parse them?

something about the grey areas, the gaps in the story line(s) remaining untouched: merely suggestions, but it paints an image, like seemingly random lines in a rough sketch; either you see the bigger picture (or you don't), either way—it's fine, it doesn't really need to be more detailed. not sure if it's a signature move, or just making the most of the production budget...

but idk it never feels unpleasant, like an itch that you can't scratch; it's just a sensation that's there and that's it. like I said, hard to pinpoint.

(although i do love the longer runtime in Let Free The Curse of Taekwondo, which did absolute wonders to the storytelling. you can definitely feel how fuller it is compared to her earlier works. i already look forward to what she can do next.)

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

"Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." — William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

Blueming

My Tooth Your Love

Be My Favorite

Why R U

A Shoulder To Cry On

Ghost Host Ghost House

Unintentional Love Story

Happy Merry Ending

Cherry Magic The Movie

Between Us

My favorite scenes by the sea (Part 2/?) as part of my favorite bl-tropes-collection in no particular order.

[loveisactivated]

Forehead kisses

[colourme-feral]

PARALLELS IN BLUEMING (2022) AND LET FREE THE CURSE OF TAEKWONDO (2024) Other parallels