BL Drama Lovers Club

Tina:

It's my birthday today! Happy birthday to me! :D

All these years have been wild with watching BL and reading fanfics and doing all sorts of things.

Here's to more BL watched, more fanfics read! :)

Happy Birthday!

dora:

Happy Birthday!

Thanks Dora! ^^

dora:

The Spirealm is scary but also so good!

Ah. That's the thing. I can't handle scary right now (maybe some other time). But good show indeed. Gripping and exciting.

Sammy’s Children’s Day

I know a lot of people are frustrated by the ending and feel like it was just a set up for season 2, but I loved it! This show didn’t have me in its hooks right away, but it presented complex characters in complicated, layered, and emotional situations. The actors did a great job showing a range of emotions in a subtle, restrained way. We saw who they were and how they got to know each other, and we could sense their feelings pretty early on. Still, we had questions and wanted to more. Each week I understood more about the characters but also still wanted to see how the situation would play out. There was violence but it wasn’t the heart of the show.

The heart of this show was two people caught up in lives they didn’t have much control over, trying to make the best of their situations. They were drawn to each other and continued to move in each other’s orbit. There was tension between them, and it was palpable. We also knew that Liu Yi didn’t understand his own feelings. So we’d wait and hope, wanting them to both finally acknowledge what’s going on between them.

Waiting for the confession, the confrontation, the realization of love between two people is nothing new in BLs, but with this situation and these characters, it felt like I was discovering this kind of story for the first time. Each week I was left wanting more, but each week still gave me something precious. I needed to keep living with these characters.

The ending didn’t give us enough, but to see how frantic Liu Yi was to find Chang Xi, and to see that moment when he found him and they kissed passionately, that gave me life! When Liu Yi was taken away and said wait for me, I knew that whether or not we got season 2, I could write the rest of the story in my mind. So I was immensely satisfied.

While everyone in the fandom talked about who was top and bottom, we don’t actually know how their sexual relationship would turn out. But I liked how the gangster character was vulnerable and the student character was assertive and went after what he wanted. We need characters who don’t fit in the same box all the time.

To me this was a great slow burn. It was also the first show this year that really moved me emotionally. I loved some other shows but didn’t feel “moved.” I guess I need more than a few special moments for that. I need a whole world where these characters live, a world that I care about and that draws me in each and every week, a world filled with interesting developments and lovable supporting characters. And a world where multiple moments touch my heart.

This was a 9/10 for me. I absolutely loved it.

I want to do a test

Tiffany:

I did, already 2 birthdays celebrated, plus yours and mine and maybe a few more to come 🥳 which day is yours ? (if you don't mind me asking)

Day 12 Sometimes it's on mother's day. What day is yours?

Oh I just your comment to Dora!

I wanted a photo for the May birthday club, but I couldn’t find the right thing. But I came across this one.

Venus’s Groom

In case you need a “V” for the alphabet challenge, here’s my assessment. I know LeurArcane (sp?) dropped this one, but for me it was the train wreck I couldn’t look away from. Think Eye Contact but poorly made. The story is a slap and kiss lakhorn about twins. Everything about the story is formulaic, but like they took a bunch of soap operas and threw them together. There is violence and non-con behavior, including rape. The couple still falls in love, although they have no chemistry in my opinion. The acting was terrible. The editing even worse. It was 50 2-min episodes, but for YouTube they made it into 10 episodes approximately 10 minutes each. That might explain the weird and jarring cuts. It is cheaply filmed and has this flashy opening sequence that doesn’t go at all with the show. Whoever made this show should quit now. It was that bad.

Still, I kept watching until the end. It wasn’t satisfying because I never cared about any of it, but I was weirdly fascinated by the bad quality. Plus it was only ten minutes or less a week. I gave it a 6.0 because anything less I’ve claimed isn’t worth finishing. But it has a low rating for a reason.