#congrats on differentiating between fiction and reality?

[pipkrakes]

FYI semantic error and city boy log are produced by the same production team. Both are fictional BL-stories. One just happens to be filmed in a more creative way. It’s an acting job which doesn’t affect Jaejun’s idol activities at all and he auditioned for it by his own will.

anon are you the same person who was vagueposting about how it was 'thinly veiled homophobia' to suggest korean men could possibly be uncomfortable with homosexuality... city boy log fans come experience korean society challenge

anyway yeah I'm aware they are both fictional projects and that one is more overtly scripted but it's completely disingenuous to suggest there aren't MAJOR differences between semantic error and city boy beyond mere 'creative filming', and furthermore INCREDIBLY naïve to say that taking a fairly explicit queer role 'doesn't affect jaejun at all' as an idol, let alone a boundary-blurring kind of project like CBL

korea is still overwhelmingly homophobic as fuck and that's just how it is. that's the reality of the framework we all still gotta live in and it DOES affect everybody. sure, plenty of groups are trying to get a boost from having a member do something moderately gay, but no one in omega x would even touch mouths with another dude while in-character; jaejun is playing a character based on himself that has his same name and same job and knows the same real life people, and also explicitly is like 'yeah i got fucked crazy by a man last night'. 1000% their team had multiple meetings about it.

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@solvola (whom I apparently can’t tag?) replied to this post:

cool motives still pedophilia/rape/abuse/etc. congrats you've played yourselves better luck next time. stop shipping fictional violence and rape thanks Nope, I’m fully aware that I’m very much for people being able to write fiction portraying things they don’t condone in real life. Other than people who want to control fandom and other people’s writing and thoughts (because let’s face the truth here: the goal of all of this is to prevent people from even thinking things you guys deem unacceptable, and you’d be delighted if we’d make certain thoughts a thoughtcrime and also were able to detect those) I’m aware of the fact that a) there’s nothing morally reprehensible about differentiating between fiction and reality, and b) that humanity has always used fiction as a way to explore, deal, and cope with things that are taboo in real life/the storyteller’s respective society. It’s a very basic fact of literary science, sociology, and anthropology. But don’t let the facts distract you.  Screech as much as you want, you won’t succeed. @j2asndh, @rhodanum, @uniwolfwerecorn, @janiedean