#when their whole page is asian characters with asian features but no bullying them into deleting is more worth it

[ishikawayukis]

call me a boomer but i think we should go back to not being able to have internet 24/7, because people simply forgot what common decency is just for the chance of having a hit tweet or a viral moment

[bubbipond]

Ranting this late in the day should be a crime but I am exhausted by the people in the BL/GL community.

Have any of you seen those videos on YouTube that are like basically talking about the persons least favorite pairings? I just watched one where they said force and book look too similar to play love interest. I’m sorry but the way that is insanely racist and just not true??? Then I saw in the comment section of a different one people saying that Phuwin should stop acting in bl’s because he obviously dislikes kissing men. Then the rest of the videos are just really bullying these actors. Listen, I’m all for criticism, but these videos aren’t constructive. Normally they are just mean and vile.

There are pairings that I don’t love so I don’t watch them. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Kinnporsche but I promise you I do not go around saying mean things about Mile or Apo. But let me address the ones that I just find extremely rude.

Number one Force and Book look nothing alike. I have never had an issue telling them apart because they have such vastly different features. I think a lot of criticism for them stems from their original series being super annoying and Books character irritating a lot of people. That wasn’t a Force and Book problem that was a writing problem. There is a long history of racism in Asian communities. Where a very popular joke is you can’t tell them apart. I’ve heard it in real life, in the K-pop scene, in anime and dramas, and now in BL, I guess. Now don’t get me wrong, there are actors who I feel would play brothers amazingly because of similarities. But Force and Book are not one of them., at least not in the case of being “almost twins” like this person was saying.

Moving onto the Phuwin comment, I think this one is so stupid because he does not have to take BL jobs. Actors stop doing these all the time. Pairings dissolve and new ones come around all the time. Also pairings dissolve and the actors stop doing BL’s as a whole. We have seen it countless times. so if he really didn’t want to have to have intimate scenes with a man, he definitely does not have to. Now let me say, I do understand the critique about the way he kisses but I don’t agree with it being just blatantly because he is kissing a guy. If you watched him in the non-BL series he has been in, where he has had a partner who is a woman, you would know that’s just how Phuwin kisses. If you were really trying to give good criticism, that has to be paired with you paying attention. If you watch how he talks and how his mouth moves, whether he’s in a show or talking in real life, his mouth movements when he kisses makes sense. Also keep in mind, and this is not a slight at him, but he has very skinny lips. So when he’s kissing Pond whose lips aren’t big, but they’re bigger than his obviously it’s not going to look like he’s doing as much. But to try and low-key say that he has some repressed homophobia because you don’t enjoy his acting is weird. Also keep in mind, and I’ve joked about this before, this pairing almost always end up playing characters where Ponds character is seemingly more into the relationship than Phuwins characters. Not that his characters don’t care, but it’s almost always pond being the character that has an egregious amount of affection for Phuwins character.

I honestly don’t normally watch videos like these, but I clicked on it just because they were discussing a lot of popular pairings. and in my head, I was just like oh you’re doing this for views. There is no way this is for any other reason when every pairing you have chosen to talk about are highly popular pairings. You mean to tell me out of all the ones do you want to talk about the ones with the biggest fan bases and I’m supposed to believe that you aren’t just trying to get views on your page?

This is coming from somebody who doesn’t even particularly love half of the pairings this person discussed. But something I have noticed is that in a fandom/world of media dealing with oppressed peoples, there is bigger critique than in its counterparts. Because not only are these shows about a group of people who have long been suppressed due to sexuality, but it’s also about a group of people who have history of racism against their cultures. It is okay for a series to not be the most expressive and beautiful and extravagant series on earth. It is okay for things to be mediocre at best. Because even the LGBTQ+ community have very very boring stories. That does not make the stories unworthy of being told. We are allowed as a community and as queer people to have media the same way as everyone else. But instead, we get these very dismissive and low-key weird and social relationships in media.

Okay thank you for coming to another TEDTalk…I hate a lot of you and a lot of you are weirdos. (:

[sevenofsorrow]

be more chill: book vs musical

here are my initial thoughts about the differences between the book and the musical, having just finished the book. obviously spoilers for bmc are below. please be aware i haven't read the script yet so this isn't in depth. the plot: very different. the thing that bothered me most was the time differences between the book and the musical. in the book rich tells jeremy about the squip at the halloween dance and only because he's drunk. the party where rich sets the fire is not at halloween. they changed a lot of small things like this in the musical. ALSO brooke isn't the one that offers jeremy a ride in the book. it's a girl called anne who they basically cut from the musical. jeremy: in the book, his parents haven't split up. his parents are actually fairly adequate parents. he doesn't abandon michael in the same way he does in the musical and even though they have a brief argument, they don't stop being friends. in the book, he doesn't just sign up for the play because christine does. he's been in a handful of school plays and he's really good at them- i feel like removing this from the musical stripped a layer of his personality. he isn't afraid to take the bus. he keeps highly detailed humiliation pages of each time he feels humiliated (this might be in the script idk). he also really doesn't want to upset his mom and tries his best to hide all the bad stuff he does (sneaking out, stealing her car, doing ectasy). he's a little melodramatic sometimes and i don't really find him very likeable honestly- in the book moreso but not really in the musical either. he also keeps going after christine even when she says no ugh. ALSO JEREMY IS A FURRY, HE SAYS HE LIKES GIRLS BETTER WITH CAT LIKE FEATURES AT LEAST TWICE. jeremy's parents: his mom exists in the book!! or she hasn't left his dad at least. his dad is a bit of a slob but is in no way a bad father- i feel like making him useless in the musical is a bit unfair as he implies that jeremy's dad is pathetic once his wife leaves. jeremy's mom is a little strict but she's pretty good too. once he tells her about the squip, she sends him to therapy. jeremy's dad keeps asking if he's gay though which made me a bit uncomfortable throughout the book. the squip: written a lot better in the book. i feel like the musical entirely missed the point of the squip in the book. the point of the squip is that it doesn't do anything "bad" or "evil", it's just trying to get jeremy what he wants. it even changes its final goal when jeremy asks him too. once the squip releases its failed jeremy and it's job, it completely shuts down. it tries to bail him out in the end by suggesting they use its information to tell christine everything that happened (more on this later) and telling jeremy to get a 4.0 version of the squip because it will be better. the whole point of the squip is how reliant people become on technology, it's not meant to be evil or anything. IT DOESN'T TRY TO TAKE OVER THE SCHOOL BECAUSE THATS NOT IT'S GOAL!! michael: a douchebag in the book. he's much better in the musical. in the book he has some creepy fetish for Asian girls and basically doesn't really care about all that much. he's not really a good friend until the final scene either, though he's not a bad friend either. i wouldn't be able to tell he was jeremys BEST friend if they hadn't made it clear though. michael also has technology that unblurs boobs when they're blurred out on TV too in the book. he also doesn't have a panic attack in the bathroom, he literally just hooks up with a girl. again he's much better in the musical. rich: very similar in book and musical but there are some notable differences. firstly rich only starts talking to jeremy because the squip told him to and he only bullies jeremy in the first place because the squip told him to. basically rich does everything the squip tells him to without even questioning. he doesn't set the fire because of the squip either. he gets really drunk (the squip can't function when people are drunk) and sets fire to the house. intentionally, the book reckons. in the musical they say he was sober and the squip made him but that's not how it is in the book. also jeremy doesn't go to see him in hospital after the fire and we never get any mention of whether rich survives, just that he's in intensive care. same with jake. ALSO HE HAS A BELLYBUTTON KINK??? christine: she's... honestly kind of a bitch. she says that you can date but still see other people. but i do see her point in that she keeps telling jeremy she won't go out with him but he keeps trying anyway. when he tries to convince her to go out with him on stage she completely shuts him down. she's a lot better in the musical too because she's a lot more likable there. in the book it's hard to like her or jeremy or give a shit about them ending up together. she's just a typical "popular" girl really. the finale: it's completely different in the musical and book. in the book the squip isn't evil at all so it convinces jeremy to confess his love to christine on stage during the play so that they'll go out with him. the squip is certain this will work. obviously christine says no and the squip panics and shuts down because it didn't think she would say no. jeremy goes outside and mopes. michael convinces him to tell christine the whole story and the squip agrees. so the squip relays the whole story to jeremy and he types it out. that's how the book ends. we have no idea what happens to jeremy and the others. is rich alive? who knows. final thoughts: the musical writes a lot of the characters better (michael, christine) but fails to write a lot more of them well (jeremy's parents, rich, the squip, chloe). overall i think the musical misses the entire point of what the book was about (just a normal kid who started relaying on tech to get by) and blew it into a bit of a sob story about jeremy. i think it's hard to compare the two because they really can't be judged by the same standards. they're two entirely different stories, just featuring some of the same characters. the book has a better story but i understand why they had to change it and up the stakes more for a stage performance. i think the book is different because we view it specifically through jeremy's eyes but in the musical we see it as an outsider, an onlooker. i think it works a lot better that way. the character writing is much better but the plot is a lot more heathers-esque. overall i'd definitely check out the soundtrack if you haven't already but don't read the book and expect the same story.