#its going to be gay I PROMISE

[salthien]

gay bugs! as promised!

touch starved vessel gets to be impatient and politely request affection when they crave it. i don't think quirrel would mind much.

[aposemetric]

have you ever wanted to find out which Actually Gay™ anime character you are? have i got the diagnostic quiz for you! this quiz is long, varied, and has 26 different possible results. there is fashion. there is bloodshed. there is overly personal questions.

Let me, Dr. Gay Anime Bitches, assign you a gay anime bitch.

[rynli]

me: I should write the one-shot that lives in my head about Harry applying for a job

brain: you will write a whole casefic about Harry realizing being a cop already killed him once, acab applies even to Kim, and he needs to quit if he wants to get better

[gunsatthaphan]

~ Monthly BL Breakdown: April 2024 ~ 

🌷 Happy May!!! ☀️

Disclaimer: ALL shows can be streamed here or here, as well as on Youtube and other platforms. For more info on where to watch what, check out this post! 

New breakdowns are coming at the end of every month - feel free to add stuff! -> previous breakdowns

What came out this month? (green = seen/currently watching)

🌟 Love is Like a Cat - April 1st (South Korea / Thailand) 

🌟 We Are - April 3rd (Thailand) ✅

🌟 Memory in the Letter - April 6th (Thailand) 

🌟 Living With Him - April 11th (Japan) 

🌟 Gray Shelter - April 11th (South Korea) 

🌟 Beating Again - April 13th (Thailand)

🌟 Blue Boys - April 15th (South Korea)

🌟 At 25:00 in Alasaka - April 18th (Japan)

🌟 GMMTV2024 Part 2 (lineup event) - April 23rd (Thailand) ✅

🌟 Boys Be Brave - April 25th (South Korea) 

🌟 CHANGE2561 2024 lineup event - April 25th (Thailand) ✅

🌟 My Stand-In - April 26th (Thailand) ✅

🌟 City Boy Log Vol. 3 - April 30th (South Korea)

New series & movie announcements

🎥 The Fridge - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 Flavor of Us (starring Benjamin B., Dome W. & others) - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 Children's Day - Date TBA (Taiwan)

🎥 Blue Time - Date TBA (China, possibly censored)

🎥 Bad Guy My Boss - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 Oriental Magician In The Ent. Circle - Date TBA (Taiwan)

🎥 Under the Oak Tree - Date TBA (Vietnam)

🎥 Invitation - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 The Love Matter - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 I Saw You in My Dream - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 I Wish You the Best - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 Impression of Youth - Date TBA (Taiwan)

🎥 Meet You at the Blossom - Date TBA (Taiwan)

Other news from the BL world

❗️ The production company Studio WabiSabi announced that their actors Boun N., Prem W., Santa P., Sammy C., Yacht P. and Stamp P. have terminated their contracts and will no longer be artists under the company on April 15th. Shortly after, GMMTV announced the 6 of them as newly signed artists, along with the disclosure that BounPrem's upcoming BL Vampire Project is now being produced under GMMTV, who now also own all broadcasting rights; WabiSabi will function as a co-producer. New S. stated on Twitter that the decisions had been long in the making, as well as the fact that WabiSabi no longer functions as a management agency for actors and is now a mere production company. He also denied the rumors that the company is shutting down. Shortly after the transfer of the Wabi Sabi actors, actor Fluke Jeeratch (formerly Pongsakorn) joined GMMTV as well.

❗️ The Filipino BL Gameboys is getting a third season. An air date has not been confirmed.

❗️ P Ekkapop and Pan Jirachot, the lead actors from Kiseki Chapter 2, have announced a new project together. Details are unknown.

❗️ Actor Barcode Tinnasit has announced his departure from his agency Be On Cloud.

❗️ After some confusion, the Korean production company Studio X+U announced that their upcoming series Fragile - which was initially advertized as a Korean SKAM remake - is in fact not connected to the Norwegian web series and is instead a standalone series, which focuses on the life of a group of teenagers. According to ZUM News, there was supposed to be a Korean SKAM remake based on the Norwegian original, which was however cancelled due to unknown reasons. Fragile was created as a substitution.

❗️ GMMTV held their 2024 part 2 event on April 23rd. The following BL projects were announced:

The Heart Killers (starring FirstKhao & JoongDunk)

Perfect10 Liners (starring ForceBook, PerthChimon, JuniorMark)

Heart That Skips a Beat (starring EstWilliam)

Revamp (starring BounPrem, formerly known as Vampire Project)

Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist (starring MarkOhm)

The Ex-Morning (starring KristSingto)

❗️ The production company CHANGE2561 held their 2024 lineup event on April 25th. The following BL projects were announced:

This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans (starring SailubPon)

Goddess Bless You From Death (starring PavelPooh)

I’m The Most Beautiful Count (starring PingSupanut)

Pit Babe Season 2

Upcoming series & movies for May

👉🏻 You Made My Day (starring Tar A. and Bom T. from I Will Knock You) - May 3rd (Thailand)

👉🏻 Inverse Identity / Upside Down - Mary 3rd (China)

👉🏻 Wandee Goodday - May 4th (Thailand)

👉🏻 A Balloon's Landing - May 10th (Taiwan)

👉🏻 City of Stars: Special Episode - May 10th (Thailand, cinema release)

👉🏻 The Time of Fever (Unintentional Love Story spinoff) - May 15th (South Korea)

👉🏻 Blossom Campus - May 16th (South Korea)

👉🏻 OMG! Vampire - May 19th (Thailand)

👉🏻 Manji Reverse - May 24th (Japan)

👉🏻 My Biker 2 - May 28th (Thailand)

[elysiuminfra]

i love it (sarcasm) when other trans people act like conservatives when trans and nonbinary people don't conform to their standards of transness. its all "gender is what you make of it" until someone performs gender in a way you don't like and then its all youre not trans enough / youre mentally ill / you're TOO much of a freak. its all fun and games until a trans woman doesn't want to voice train, or a lesbian uses he/him pronouns, or a nonbinary person looks "too much like their agab" heavy quotation marks, or someone uses neopronouns. "gender doesn't matter!" until it does, apparently. like who cares. who actually cares this much about anything. i just want us to live.

[robertwaltons]

i love this website because every time i come on here i get shown a post that’s like “i just started reading frankenstein and it’s gay as fuck?” like buddy. you don’t even know how gay it is Going To Get

[thegreatyin]

finally doodled the doomed victorian yaoi

[elmville-daily]

Was NOT expecting a Chuck Tingle reference this episode. I should not have been surprised, but I was far too comfortable in my little bubble to realize that people outside of Tumblr absolutely know about him

[violentviolette]

me every single time I enter this tag

[drizzit]

Adventure leads you into the world. Love brings you home.

very excited about brie and the borrowed blade ´ཀ`

[cringelordofchaos]

I'm all for analyzing character parallels, especially w these two bc i believe there are things to be taken out (yes, I am delusional, yes, I will make a whole essay if needed) but this feels really oversimplifying

Edit (13/4/2024): I used the word delusional incorrectly. Being delusional is NOT about overanalyzing character parallels, it is so much more serious than that. I'll make sure not to use the word like that in the future

[hugduckhesgay]

random fluffybird

[nobledragonflying]

The (Estimated) Timeline of Esther Finch

Hey everyone! The history of Esther Finch as shown in the show pissed me off a bit trying to figure it out, but I think I got something down to explain it.

What is known and my own thoughts are under the read more!

What we know:

Esther was one of the pioneers of Port Townsend

She was married

Husband, name is unknown. Has brown hair, beard and mustache. His eyes are a dark brown or black.

He cheated on her with a red haired, blue eyed woman

- Esther killed both of them by using her magic by putting them in the air and then dropping them

Esther summoned Lilith in some sort of ritual, allowing Lilith to make her immortal, but not have immortal youth.

Esther at one point got a giant snake that she feeds little girls to as a means to remain young.

She was chased out of town with pitchforks and torches because of the sacrificing of said little girls.

At some point she was able to return to town, as that is where we find her at the start of the show

She had also gotten Monty in the interim, her crow familiar, though there is no mention of how that came to be.

My ideas/theories:

Esther was probably a Protestant in her early life, based on the dull clothing we see her in during the animation sequence of S1 Ep8. Her hat was also out of fashion/date by the 19th century, with braids being far more in style at that time

Esther was probably born sometime in the early-mid 1820’s, based on the fact that American expansion to the west began in earnest around the 1840’s, with the California gold rush starting in 1848

She likely had many siblings, as was normal at time, though there isn’t any mention of them, so she likely wasn’t close to any of them. 

This is also in tandem with the fact that she was an original pioneer of Port Townsend, probably being one of the first people to settle the area. She would have been married to her husband at the time, with him mostly likely taking her out west with him for better opportunities

The woman that the husband had an affair with also wore a blue dress with a white apron over top, giving an interesting mix of Ariel from Disney’s The Little Mermaid and Belle from Beauty and the Beast. The animation style does not help in this regard. 

When Esther does the ritual to summon Lilith, she appears differently to her in the animation than in her memories. Appearing to have grey-blue skin, long wavy blue hair, a blue “skirt” and gold jewelry around her neck, wrists, arms, hair and waist. This is either due to the memory being distorted, as it is the Cat King telling it, or Lilith appears differently to other people.

Esther also appears to be the same age as she looks in the show when she does this ritual, with the animation making her have more wrinkles and having the same actress play her in the memories.

The giant snake that she feeds children to is black and dark blue in the animation, while red in present day. This could be due to a number of reasons, up to an animation/communication error. It could also be due to:

The color being distorted be the characters imagining/telling the story 

That the snake's coloration changed overtime due to it being continuously fed children. 

It could have also not been fully grown in the past/at a different life stage, with its colors changing as it got older/moved to a different life state.

Esther was then chased away with pitchforks and torches, with the townspeople burning down any house she stayed in. I do not know why she chose to stay instead of going somewhere else, but we do know that eventually she is able to rejoin the town without any hostilities, even some people that seem to like her.

She also got Monty at some point, no idea when or how that happened. He seems to be her familiar in some way to her, though she doesn’t treat him well. 

An interesting detail to note about Esther is that she is friends with the police, with them. This goes in tandem with the fact that she kidnapped a black girl, which is one of the most likely types of people for police to not investigate or try as hard to find. 

Esther knew what she was doing and purposefully picked someone that is less likely to get the help needed to find her, certainly not by the police, who are friends with Esther. 

In conclusion:

Esther Finch's life is not really known, nor does it need to be for her role in the show. She is a villain and everything in the second section is speculation based on her character and how the show presented certain aspects of her life. Anyone can add on/expand on what they want, if that is headcanon or if they have a deeper knowledge of history than what was only surface level research that I did. 

This is just a show that is really good and this is just something to get my thoughts out on, not a thesis paper. Have fun, I hope you learned just a little bit of history and about the show that I have been able to compile. 

Also, a visual representation of the timeline that I put together!

[sickly-sapphic]

I feel so bad that, at the moment, all of my posts and content are so rage-focused. Like... that's not the only thing I want to be bringing to the table.

All my educational posts stem from annoyance and aggravation at misinformed people and bigots. Everything seems to relate back to a deep, deep hatred for how I'm viewed and treated in the world.

I really hope that someday, somehow, I feel more love and compassion towards myself. Enough so I can make celebratory posts and bring more joy to the table.

I don't want misery to be the root of all my work and effort.

[emathevampire]

A Reconsecration in Blood and Twilight

Happy Pride to everyone, but especially to my beloved prince in horns Askalaphos and his blackguard, Solar, an NPC from our Ravenloft campaign.

Once a devout paladin of the Morning Lord, then of Mother Night after his death, corrupt rebirth, and subsequent fall from grace as he pursued power no matter the cost in the pursuit of vengeance against Strahd... the aasimar blackguard Solar now learns what it is to be true to his own heart as the newest disciple of Askalaphos, a fallen demigod son of Ares and former slave to the Abyss slowly regaining his own spark of divinity and sense of purpose as he seeks an escape from the mists of Ravenloft. None of this would have been possible, however, had their mutual annoyance friend Rixa not been dead-set on saving the both of them from themselves, despite their belief that this was a hopeless cause... or if they had not joined forces to save her in return when she was captured by her nemesis. A long and dangerous road still lies between them and victory over Strahd, the Dark Powers, and the corruption that stains their very souls, but walk it they shall... after all, nothing worth fighting for is ever easy.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hour 14 of taking a break from art for the sake of my tendons: i am Wailing and Keening and Scratching Forlornly At My Tablet