#em post

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After seeing how grouchy Garfield is about the cold, all I can think about is Kenta curling up against Kim’s side in the winter months, when Kim doesn’t really feel like it’s cold at all, compared to winter back home.

“If you say anything, I’ll kill you,” Kenta mutters as he slips his hands underneath Kim’s shirt, chasing Kim’s warmth.

“You could never,” Kim replies, running a hand through Kenta’s hair, pulling him close even as he squirms away from his mate’s icy fingers. Kenta wraps his arms around Kim, squeezing, and Kim knows he’s thinking of the times he’d tried and failed before—to kill Kim, that is.

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Context: jjkimine is the Pit Babe novel writer

extra context is I’m on the fucking ground

[le-trash-prince]

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4MINUTES (2024)

[le-trash-prince]

It’s been two days and I am still thinking about You know I am not kind. There is just so much of ART’s character wrapped up in this line.

[le-trash-prince]

I know this website has been shared in BL fandom before, but I just want to pull some information from fujoshi.info that I think can be really enlightening in regards to how TERF rhetoric is used against BL fans, namely the idea that BL fans are straight women or that BL is made for the consumption of straight women.

I grew up having things like this said to my face as a young queer by people who knew I read BL, and it made it that much harder to accept both my gender and my sexuality, which, ironically, BL helped me to process. So I have little patience for these kinds of statements regarding BL. They are invalidating of many people's queer experiences.

Here is my stance: BL is made for BL fans. It's not made "for the hets" or "for people who aren't queer." It's made for BL fans. That includes us queers. We are and have always been part of the audience that BL is made for.

BL authors and fans come in all different shapes and sizes. Trans men and cisgender men both read and produce BL media. Based on multiple surveys of queer BL fans the majority of fans, male or female, fall on the bisexual spectrum. (source)

There is more, in the link above, about BL demographics, under the "Misconception 2" tab, that I think is well worth the read.

Second of all, I think the idea that "some BL is made for queers and some BL isn't" is just a repackaged TERF talking point that BL is made for straight women. Let me be clear: I am not implying that people who say things like this are TERFs. But you are parroting TERF talking points and propogating their ideology by implying that the people for whom these shows are made must not be queer.

Under gender critical ideology, trans men in fandom are treated as ‘hetero sexual female fujoshi’ who consume too much ‘sexual gay male content’ only to later ‘come out as “gay trans men”’ (Anti-fujoshi 2023). Gender criticals refer to trans men (and by extension fujoshi) as ‘homophobic’ due to their belief that trans men are heterosexual women forcing their way into authentic (i.e. cisgender) gay male spaces (Anti-fujoshi 2023). (link)

Unfortunately, this concept has long since been picked up by people in the queer community who think they're fighting homophobia... and TERFs love it.

I hate fujoshi but we’re even more astounded how [social justice warriors] [took] our statements as some pro-LGBT agenda […] [and] swallowed our thinly veiled gender critical statements […]. We’re ‘transphobic’. (link)

Here are examples from fujoshi.info of TERF talking points regarding BL fans being cishet women. These are quotes from actual TERFs, and I am placing them under a cut because they can be triggering, even though this is only just a sampling. But statements like these are the roots of the idea that BL is made for straight women, and I want people to understand the implications of what they are saying.

To keep my conclusion above the cut, I just want to say that it is dangerous to play into this agenda by making claims about who BL is made for. KinnPorsche was made for me. Pit Babe was made for me. Kidnap was made for me. Queer people have always been part of the BL audience, whether the series reflects what any given person considers to be "an authentic queer experience" or not.

"Yaoi is made only for women by women and seeks to commodify MLM identities and love while oppressing them and denying them their rights. “Fujoshis” are not friends of queer liberation."

"the idea that we should just let cishet women have a fetish for gay men at the off chance they might be gay or trans is fucking insanity"

"No fujoshi is a proper LGBT advocate. They are all straight women pretending to be bi."

"Fujoshis just started calling themselves non binary and gay trans men and most of you just fell for it huh?

"[fujoshis] refers to specifically cishet women who only consume and create m/m content because they view it as something sexual because it is taboo and don't care about actual gay men, along with blatantly hating gay women [...] We cannot dilute what the term fujoshi means and the severe homophobia that mindset is rooted in."

[le-trash-prince]

every now and then i think about the fact that charles leclerc is canonically kim's former teammate

[le-trash-prince]

wait I found pics of the Pit Babe cast and producers meeting with their soon-to-be-sponsor Lactasoy

how do y'all imagine that sales pitch went down like did they talk about pheromones in the board room or

[le-trash-prince]

Who would you want to be in a new ship with?

Pooh: P'pon, P'pon Pavel: Ping. Pavelping! Sailub: Lee Asre! Pon: Pooh! Ping: PingPavel Nut: Everybody. Everyone. Thank you darling Michael: MichaelPop Topten: Nut Supanut, hahahaha! Garfield: Lung Sailub Benz: Lee Asre! Pop: PopMichael Lee: S Vorarit

[le-trash-prince]

The thing is, I do have negative thoughts and criticisms of the things that I watch or read, but I don’t often feel compelled to share them, and I don’t think this makes me intellectually inferior or vapid.

I think it’s quite easy, in fact, to recognize the flaws in a piece of media. And I don’t owe it to the public or to strangers to make sure that they know that I know that something that happened in a show was poorly executed or that an actor had weak delivery.

If I really feel like talking about something I disliked, then I will, but “it’s important to be critical of the media we consume” doesn’t mean I have to do so in a public forum, and I don’t get why some people act like doing so makes them smarter than the rest of fandom. Frankly, I think what bothers me more than the negativity is the pretentiousness around it.

[le-trash-prince]

To be blunt on this topic:

I 👏 do 👏 not 👏 care 👏 if 👏 people 👏 don’t 👏 like 👏 a 👏 show! I don’t care if you don’t share my ship or stan my fave! That is not what we are saying!

What I fucking care about is:

Pretending your subjective opinions are objective truth.

Refusing to meet art on its own terms and insisting that if it doesn’t do what you want it to, it is a failure.

Acting like queer Asian shows should prioritize Western tastes—YES, even if you are a POC. We are still Westerners! We still have Western, English-language speaking privilege across the globe, and it would be nice if we could stop acting like everything should be about what we want. I cannot believe how difficult it is for people to understand this point.

Making broad, sweeping claims on what is and isn’t queer. It is valid if you do not feel seen by a piece of queer media. But that does not make it less queer or less meaningful to other queer people. You can dislike a show without making it into the Death of Queer Art. Again, your opinions and feelings are real, but that does not make them objective truth.

Also! The double standard of “I’ve seen an increasing number of posts on BL tumblr lately” without mentioning what those specifics are just so that you can just make up what stance those people had. But if other people reference multiple posts without linking or tagging anyone, they are being rude and vague posting instead of, I don’t know, airing out their thoughts on their own blog.

People are not going to remember every post they see and bookmark it in case they come up with a response later. Not everything has to be a dialogue! We do not actually owe anyone a conversation.

I have said it before and I will say it again, but the majority of people complaining about holier-than-thou criticism on BL tumblr lately are actual queer creatives who wish people could approach a story on its own terms. Pretending like that makes us capitalists just to make us look absurd is a take and there’s a reason so many people had something to say about it.

[le-trash-prince]

I will never be over Kenta's face in this moment. Like you just know this is the first time he's seen Tony hit Babe, and he can't believe that Tony would do it. You know Kenta was taught that the abuse he endured was something he inherently deserved - because he could never be "as good as someone like Babe." So how can Tony do the same to Babe? Kenta doesn't understand yet that violence is something Tony uses to control people, and the moment Babe steps out of line, Tony turns his violence on him.

I love that they show this moment so early in the series because it gives us a glimpse underneath the mask that Kenta had not yet perfected at this age. Every other time Tony is violent towards someone else in the series - towards Kim, towards Way, towards Babe - it lets us know that this expression is just beneath the surface.

I feel like Tony's death can be traced all the way back to here. "Please stop, Father. Don't hurt anyone anymore." This man has wanted to say that for years.

[le-trash-prince]

Q: How is S2 gonna be? A: ss2? it's แซ่บ (ssaeb = spicy) as usual pitbabe gotta be spicy of course but i don't know how much i can say bc i only got a glimpse of it. butttt there's gonna something new, different, i dare say. anyone who requested anything that they want to see, you'll see

So we're getting mpreg. Got it. Thanks Pavel 👍

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[le-trash-prince]

How to respond to affection from your boss, ft. Jeff

Receive affection

2. Don’t respond

3. Just leave

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