Gay shit I watched - everything under 100 minutes

mlm. ~13 minutes

Music video. Not really worth watching, but good production quality. 

Spoiler: not a happy ending

mlm. ~20 minutes

Besties are scared to confess to one another. It's sweet and standard.

mlm, I wouldn't call this a BL. ~48 minutes

Boy accidentally drowns friend who just came on to him and then gets haunted in drama class.

It's dark and original and I guess I would recommend it.

mlm. ~7 minutes

High school graduation confession to bestie.

wlw. ~7 minutes

Photographer likes student, who doesn't remember kissing her while drunk.

mlm. ~30 minutes

Masseur meets very horny client and gets swept into a dysfunctional relationship involving cheating and mean-ness, but it miraculously results in actual healing for the both of them.

cw: consent issues

mlm. ~40 minutes

Abused gay sex worker gets involved with mafia tailor/undercover cop. Meh.

T. ~19 minutes

Depressing short about a trans girl getting bullied and arguing with her female self on whether to kill herself or not.

mlm, wlw cameo. ~40 minutes

Dudes have been frenemies who crush on each other for forever, and now it's time to fess up about the crush. Short and sweet. Good teasing dynamic. Terrible theme song.

mlm. ~55 minutes

Dudes end up in same hotel room near beach. Uh yeah that's pretty much it.

wlw. ~35 minutes

Besties to lovers. One is more invested than the other. Not very interesting, but they're both very pretty.

spoiler: not a happy ending

mlm. ~40 minutes

'Ugly' gay boy gets rejected, discovers make up, then a green flag boy, ditches make up.

Low quality indie short film.

mlm. ~90 minutes

Adoptive brothers in debt, one goody two shoes, one madman who's head over heels for him and willing to do literally anything to protect him.

Low budget. Watchable and forgettable.

Idk it feels like one of those things that people feel they *should* watch, but don't actually enjoy.

It's crumbs of representation, but crumbs is better than nothing I guess. I was looking through the 'nonbinary main character' MDL tag, which gives a grand total of 5 results. Besides 'I'm The Most Beautiful Count' (which is a very fun show, would recommend), this was the only entry that was actually available to be watched.

I feel tired and invisible. It feels like even the crumbs aren't made for me to watch, but to educate cis people.

mlm. ~55 minutes

Strangers become roommates, and then they start liking each other, but they're also emotionally closed off.

mlm. ~34 minutes

indie short film. It's alright. Not really special. Not really worth it.

Dropped halfway

mlm. ~48 minutes

This is half comedy, half horror. The horror is derived from the boss character pursuing the main character. I couldn't finish this, because it played into the 'predatory gay' trope too much and it felt homophobic to me.

mlm. ~14 minutes

Tiktok series. It's sweet and basic, but the format frustrates me.

Censored mlm. ~95 minutes

Bromance about shooting competition. The source material is gay.

cw: They are brothers, but then they aren't.

wlw. ~30 minutes

It's sweet and standard and indie and low quality. She's an author, her fan becomes her roommate, she hides her identity.

mlm. ~90 minutes

Heartbroken abused guy comes to live with friend and her little bro, little bro likes him but he's still trying to get over ex. Authentic but boring.

Part of the 'My Universe' collection

mlm. ~19 minutes

High school romance. With homophobic parent that fucks things up.

mlm. ~10 minutes

Meeting a cute stranger in the cinema.

wlw. ~50 minutes

JPC media. Heartbroken girl takes ill-fortuned vacation and meets helpful girl.

mlm. ~90 minutes

They're neighbors. There's a granny. It's sweet. Has a queer indie feel.

Secondary pair was together in high school but got outed and separated, reconnect.

cw: the framing device is some random girl telling us these two stories, and for some reason the series has to start with her having sex with a guy and us watching that and personally I really hate it.

mlm. ~60 minutes

Bullies and homophobia, but also attraction and a gay relationship. It's not terrible, but it's also not good.

mlm. ~42 minutes

Heartbroken tourist x hostel owner. I thought it was sweet and worth watching.

Spoiler: not a super happy ending.

Not technically mlm. ~80 minutes

Empress dowager time travels and occupies some dude's body, and falls for a guy. Honestly campy and fun.

spoiler: not a happy ending.

wlw. ~5 minutes

Feels like a trailer.

wlw. ~5 minutes

7 year relationship falling apart.

wlw. ~20 minutes

Roommates got together, one is an annoying YouTuber, they break up and get back together. It's watchable.

wlw. ~24 minutes

Talking about how budding relationship fell apart because of miscommunication, reconnect. Nothing wrong with this, really, just so short that I have a hard time connecting.

mlm. ~25 minutes

Besties are in love with each other, but each time loop that they confess, one keeps dying.

wlw, GNC. ~70 minutes

I do recommend this one, but only because there's not enough GL to go around, especially with butches in it.

Dance school students. Badass lesbian does streetfighting.

cw: I think this one had consent issues. And it does have violence and toxicity.

wlw, GNC, mlm. ~77 minutes

Tomboy, friend and heartbroken lady on a roadtrip. It's watchable. 

cw: fatphobic.

wlw, mlm. ~19 minutes

One straight, one lesbian, one gay couple negotiating a kiss. It's alright.

mlm. ~14 minutes

He likes his sister's bf.

mlm. ~10 minutes

College boys falling for each other, one has HIV.

spoiler: not a happy ending.

mlm. ~54 minutes

Thai tourist company promoting Thailand through BL. Short and sweet. Standard. Watchable.

mlm. ~20 minutes

high school love triangle

wlw. ~50 minutes

Low quality indie. Girl pressures barista into teaching her how to make coffee. This one was pretty watchable.

mlm. 56 minutes

Low budget silly little show about a cat who turns human. Enemies to lovers. There are better things to watch, but you could watch this I guess.

Apparently part of something called 'youth in the breeze'? Idk still working on it.

wlw. ~50 minutes

One of the better indie GL miniseries, plot-wise, but that's not saying much. Fortune teller x lady whose death she predicts.

wlw. ~20 minutes

It's fine, just a bit boring. Nothing much happens.

censored mlm. ~70 minutes

He gets transported back in time, meets guy who wants to kill his emperor ancestor. It's okay. I like the aesthetics and the drama. The plot is full of holes, but I guess that's not the point.

wlw. ~30 minutes

Very boring, but other than that, nothing wrong with it.

wlw. ~19 minutes

High school bestie crush with zero resolution

wlw. ~10 minutes

Gay pining, meeting up after long time.

mlm. ~7 minutes

Just tropes.

mlm. ~13 minutes

Dude's cat turns into cute boy. More of an advertisement for cat food than a series, and I mean that fully seriously.

wlw. ~7 minutes.

A whole wuxia in seven minutes. The costumes are pretty.

wlw. ~45 minutes

They were roommates. Utterly forgettable, but hey it's GL.

mlm. ~22 minutes

Jock and nerd like each other, but won't admit it.

spoiler: not a happy ending.

wlw. ~48 minutes

introvert x extravert, some cheating, nothing really happens.

wlw. ~30 minutes

Touch averse girl gets sudden roommate. It exists I guess. Low quality.

mlm. ~95 minutes

It's sure gray. Their lives suck, one is a douche and the other is a grey blob. Nobody in this series appears capable of talking to people in their life without sounding like they hate them. Production quality is low but acceptable. I'd need more scenes and less abrupt time skips and flashbacks to feel like this is complete. As of now the plot feels confusing.

cw: parental abuse.

wlw. ~9 minutes

Friend comes to sleep over in her bed every day. Utterly forgettable.

wlw. ~30 minutes

Booksmarts girl makes bet to get partner, goes to marriage class, fails on date with guy, goes on date with girl, says she doesn't care about gender, just likes this girl.

It's not like you'll lose a lot of time watching this.

intersex, sorta trans, sorta mlm, sorta wlw. ~80 minutes

Girl finds out she's intersex, gets forcibly transitioned (literally kicking and screaming) to male, leaves her bestie and boyfriend for a couple of years, then comes back as a guy to re-establish those relationships. I'm going to keep using she/her because it's made abundantly clear she doesn't want to be a guy.

The people who wrote this have never met a trans or intersex person because that's simply not how any of this works. If they wanted to tell a story like this, I wish they'd just framed it as a magic transformation, rather than pretending it's actually based in reality.

This hasn't managed to spotlight the actual issues intersex people face, or advocated for them in any way. A ton of unnecessary misery plus a miserable ending to really hammer home that people who exist outside the gender binary (like me <3) will never be happy or find a place to belong in this world. Thanks, I hate it.

Real life isn't as endlessly miserable, I promise!

Don't watch this. The romance at the start is cute but it's not worth it.

mlm. ~7 minutes

Just a bunch of pining. Low budget.

wlw. ~6 minutes

She broke up with boyfriend to go flirt with bartender bestie. It's just kinda low quality. Meh.

mlm. ~14 minutes

He kidnaps powerful guy, powerful guy kidnaps him back. Then they turn out to be related and then more wild plot twists.

This is wild and dramatic, and that's definitely fun, but the production quality is abysmal. From China though, which is a miracle.

wlw. ~48 minutes

H'our channel indie miniseries. Not very impressive. Two babysitters live in same house and fall for each other.

mlm. ~10 minutes

He meets a cute guy. That's it.

mlm. ~90 minutes

Secret gay wedding, oh no parents show up and they perform several unfortunate switcheroos. Over the top attempt at comedy.

Part of the 'My Universe' Collection

mlm. ~7 minutes

Boy meets boy at bus stop. Low quality indie.

mlm. ~15 minutes

Advertisement miniseries, indie. Essentially, a BL shop employee gets new a colleague who is cute. Feels unfinished.

wlw. ~20 minutes

Friends kiss, but don't communicate, then one gets a boyfriend and pretends nothing mattered.

Spoiler: not a happy ending.

mlm, T. ~31 minutes

High school dude has fuckbuddy. Oh wait she's trans and she actually liked him.

spoiler: not a good ending.

mlm. ~40 minutes

Their parents remarry and these strangers suddenly have to live in the same house. The pretty boy discovers the slob is his favorite author, and agrees to teach him romance.

Yeah. It's as trashy as you expect it to be from the title.

mlm. ~25 minutes

Guy sees a cute doctor and is determined to win him over.

wlw. ~17 minutes

Lesbians on holiday. One suspects cheating.

spoiler: not a happy ending

mlm. ~17 minutes

Basketball besties like each other.

mlm. ~24 minutes

So forgettable that I do not remember what happened.

mlm. ~23 minutes

It exists

mlm

Really slow, nothing much happens. YouTuber goes to massage parlor and meets awkward masseur. It's mostly awkward silences. They don't mean 'that' kind of a first time.

mlm. ~44 minutes

Indie low budget. Just tropes. Not really worth watching.

wlw. ~20 minutes

Production value, acting and writing are just not good. Plot is barely there, but is probably its strongest point.

spoiler: not a happy ending

mlm. ~26 minutes

He crushed on friend, but oh noes a conniving girl shows up.

wlw. ~15 minutes

Prospective actress needs to practice kissing, essentially. Low quality indie.

wlw. ~11 minutes

Girl misses her ex and tries to use friend to replace her, but friend is in love with her. Low quality indie.

wlw, GNC. ~90 minutes

Disjointed attempt at two underdeveloped butchfemme love stories. Don't recommend.

wlw. ~30 minutes

Confusing. Non-linear

wlw. ~5 minutes

Girls like each other and kiss at the end.

wlw. ~18 minutes

High school romance. Forgettable. Low quality.

Spoiler: not a happy ending

mlm. ~80 minutes

Dude gets bit by vampire and their blood unexpectedly gets magically intertwined so they can't be more than a couple feet away from each other at all times.

The vampire is very silly. It's low budget. There's an AI fight scene at the end, and I kind of regret watching this because of that.

mlm. ~26 minutes

Besties (who both already have girlfriends) to lovers. Forgettable.

mlm. ~45 minutes

This should be a horror story, but is presented as a BL.

Dickbag actor doesn't want a BL partner, but does it for the money, hates his partner for classism reasons, but comes around by the end.

I watched the censored version because this would be way too much for me otherwise.

The dynamic between the guys feels wrong, and the way they essentially do sex work because otherwise they'd die also feels wrong. Maybe the discomfort with this is the point of this miniseries, but idk then why do they appear to get a 'happily ever after' while still stuck in this shitshow? How come their reservations about doing this are suddenly gone? Are we supposed to think this is okay, or not?

wlw. ~9 minutes

Girl crushing really hard.

mlm. ~20 minutes

Bf is sick, bf cheats, he meets new guy. Forgettable. Not worth it.

mlm. ~40 minutes

Struggling idol trainee's ex boyfriend shows back up. They get forced to live together and debut together. It's meh. Kinda boring.

mlm. ~80 minutes

He finds out his long lost ex-boyfriend is also his mysterious uncle, and that he wants to get back together. A low budget mainland Chinese microseries.

wlw. ~15 minutes. 2 episodes.

Girls who like each other and kiss at the end.

wlw. ~13 minutes

She crushes on her colleague, who was also her college friend. It's meh, but it's from China, so the fact that it exists is pretty miraculous.

mlm. ~20 minutes

Room organizer is a dick and kills client's emotionally important plant, then tries to make it up to him by buying a plastic plant and getting drunk with him.

Don't watch this.

wlw. ~10 minutes

Tiktok series. Shy bodyguard x slandered superstar.

wlw. ~14 minutes

Just two college girls falling for each other, breaking up, seeing each other years later and getting back together. It's not good.

mlm. ~30 minutes

Abused guy seduces rich guy to get himself a better situation. This show is a mess, sorry.

mlm. ~19 minutes

No engsub (I speak Mandarin). Simple roommates to lovers.

spoiler: not a happy ending.

mlm, GNC. ~80 minutes

Major consent problems. Abusive. Guy gets dumped by boyfriend, dies, reborn 9 years ago, tries revenge, falls in love again. They all look pretty queer, so that's nice.