GL Drama Lovers Club

 chirisu:

Yes please. Doesn't matter if not from MDL countries.

Let: https://letterboxd.com/film/let/
BDSM

Love Lies Bleeding: https://letterboxd.com/film/love-lies-bleeding-2024/
Doping on steroids, drugs, and murder

 AthenaTheStorierX:

Let: https://letterboxd.com/film/let/

My comments:

Not bad. Not bad. Handled intensity well and I really do think i know Mia (our MC). A little irked at how the bdsm was spontaneously done between the final(?) couple, but at least the other girl was attentive and cared.

 AthenaTheStorierX:

Love Lies Bleeding: https://letterboxd.com/film/love-lies-bleeding-2024/

My comments:
Not really my gig i suppose. Everything was too impulsive. I liked the moments when Lou had and executed a plan (such as clean up), but not really much else.  Though, several members of the club say they liked it.

 chirisu:

drugs and murder is a daily occurrence in Western media. I am not sure if it's that escandalo haha

Ehhh. I still feel like this sticks out, at least amongst the material I watch. Maybe it's the tone or the degree to which it was shown? idk.

 chirisu:

https://kisskh.at/list/1gnOoWo4

BL: 

• Love Syndrome (Guy 1 arranges the rape of Guy 2's brother, so Guy 2 rapes Guy 1 and they enter into a relationship full of toxicity and domestic violence)
• Big Dragon: (Guy 1 get jealous and decides to drug and rape his rival. Guy 2 anticipates it, and switched the situation so that Guy 1 is drugged and raped instead. They enter into a romance)
• Fahlanruk: Domestic violence
• KinnPorsche: especially with the second couple (kidnapping, torture (which leads into BDSM?), stockholm syndrome) 
• Hit Bite Love: Kink - especially amongst high schoolers

BL and GL:

• Probably several of the Club Friday dramas. (can be watched independently. also, based on true stories)

Misc:

• Raise de wa Chanto Shimasu: kink (of various natures), open relationships (including some partners who are cheating), straight guy fishing and "turning", stalking

 Clatherious:

watched a lot of BL but not so much GL what are some top recommended ones?

I liked Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko a lot. And watch The Handmaiden movie if you haven't!

 chirisu:

quoting what's probably the most tame word from your post.. thanks... I'll see those, eventually.

I'll start with KinnPorsche since I dropped it back then when it aired. I guess right now it won't be as escandalo as back then in 2022. how time changes everything.. for the worst?

KP is one of my favs

 AthenaTheStorierX:

For me, it's not. Goes back into the subjectiveness. Stalking is a big trigger for me.

Stalking irl is horrible, I can totally understand that. Never happened to me, that I know of.

It goes without saying that I don't wish for the things depicted in these movies and dramas to happen irl, to anyone. 

It's just that, maybe if I watch a pinku film once in a while is not that bad compared to consuming outright porn... because lately I've been watching some of that and let me tell you, it's pointless. Nothing screams "I don't know how to have real sex/relationships" than watching porn (tbh I don't know how to relationship/sex bc I never had that... lol) and also, the addictiveness of porn needs to be (and has been) studied.

That being said, unrelated but I don't think ABO Desire is that bad now that I watched an ep. Although I think one guy is a black flag.. apparently not rare in Chinese BL dramas huh, who'd have thought. (This goes back to our falling out in the Discord server... iyryr, where r = remember).

Thanks for the recs once again. ^^

Imma go watch Call Boy now... it's not GL nor BL (or there are some BL scenes..) idk what to expect, wml

 AthenaTheStorierX:

Hello! 

Well if you watched Deep Night (BL), there is a second GL couple involving the ML's mom. They also have a miniseries sidestory already out that runs the same timeframe, and an upcoming full-length drama.

Reverse 4 You is a well loved fantasy one.

Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko for a fun romcom

Couple of Mirrors is one of my ultimate favorites. Censored tho, fyi.

Unfortunately, there's not much I'd recommend in the GL fantasy sphere yet, especially among the MDL countries.

thanks i've got them added