Firstly if you're gonna watch this DON'T watch it on Youtube, I did 1st time and so many of the eps have bits…
I found the episodes on DramaCool next to unwatchable, with very bad quality video and subs, so I watched the first few on Youtube, until I came up to eps that were several minutes too short. But I found a playlist on Dailymotion that seems okay so far. At least they're not cut down the way the YT episodes are. EDIT: Let's see if MDL accepts the link to the playlist: https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x6pqk2
Can someone tell which country's VPN can be used? And maybe The VPN app too. Thanks
It's called "Free VPN". Only the first ep was free to watch, the rest require a paid account on iQiyi. I'm told it's free to watch via the app, though, but I haven't tried that myself.
Woke up early to see if the Irozuku subs were up yet, and decided to plug in my headphones so I wouldn't disturb my neighbours. But only minutes in I realised that I was laughing so hard that I was probably waking them up anyway. XD
In general I agree with what you are saying. But Art didn't out Mew, in his live which happened in Oct 2018. Mew…
Yes, people who have open minds and who watch BL sometimes forget that what we see in the BL series is a fantasy and that what we think and feel is sadly still pretty far from how people in general think in real life. Queer people still get ostracized, discriminated against, and subjected to homophobia and violence. If you're out and not firmly and sucessfully established, it can seriously affect your career and your prospects. Even just rumours can do that. They said it pretty well at the end of Gaya Sa Pelikula -- everybody should come out on their own terms, and shouldn't be forced, but when they do we should be here for them and support them fully.
And yeah, definitely. Things that may be totally gay coded in one culture may not be coded the same way in another. It changes with time, too. There are lots of early photographs of western men from the late 1800s and early 1900s that we immediately assume today were gay, but who weren't necessarily gay at all, because the way they pose in the photos wasn't considered odd for straight friends at the time. Some of them probably were, of course, but we really can't tell just from the photos. And a lot of the countries around the world that are conservative and homophobic today were a lot more open about gender and sexuality historically, before the European colonisers arrived and imposed their worldview on them.
And I agree about someone's sexuality not being immediately and irreversibly defined by single, isolated acts. Especially younger people like to experiment and try things, which doesn't necessarily mean anything except that you are curious and open-minded. Not everybody knows who or "what" they are right out of the box.
In general I agree with what you are saying. But Art didn't out Mew, in his live which happened in Oct 2018. Mew…
If those are indeed his exact words, then it's not all that ambiguous, I agree. I'm still not sure I'd equate it with a clear statement like "Yes, I am gay/bisexual/pansexual", but it's a lot less ambiguous than a general "love has no gender" which is basically just deflection -- it says nothing about your personal preferences, but still looks supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.
As for actors who have used those words, the only name I can give you is Jeff Satur, who said it in an online PsychoMilk BL actors meetup out of the Philippines, so they were speaking in English. But I've seen others say it too fairly recently (in English or subtitle translation), though I can't give you any names at this very moment, because I suck at names and who said what.
In general I agree with what you are saying. But Art didn't out Mew, in his live which happened in Oct 2018. Mew…
It may be an assumption people make, but dropping vague, ambiguous statements is NOT the same as coming out. I hear a lot of Thai (and Pinoy) BL actors say things like "love has no gender"; it's almost a BL catchphrase now, which has the benefit of supporting LGBT+ love while in fact being entirely non-committal. Nobody deserves to be publicly outed or forced to out themselves.
Damn the rise of popularity of Cherry Maho Their 1st live started with 6K+ and ended with 3K+Their 2nd live started…
I'm so happy for them! More people need to find CM. Though I do feel kind of smug that I was a fan from ep 1 (but I didn't join any livestreams, since I don't understand Japanese).
Mean (if we're talking about the same Mean) has left BL. (Then again Perth said that too, but maybe he just meant…
Well,it's pretty obvious from the results of LBC 2 that Mean's heart wasnt in it. It looked like he was doing Tin because he was contractually obliged to, but really didnt want to.
I agree that some actors just click, whether the roles are romantically involved or not. And it's usually obvious when they don't, unless they are super professional.
Can someone tell which country's VPN can be used? And maybe The VPN app too. Thanks
I use Chrome with the Free VPN browser extension, it has Thailand as an option. No ads, slowed down my connection a bit but not enough to influence the playback.
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EDIT: Let's see if MDL accepts the link to the playlist: https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x6pqk2
Only the first ep was free to watch, the rest require a paid account on iQiyi. I'm told it's free to watch via the app, though, but I haven't tried that myself.
I'm sorry I missed the watch party, though.
They said it pretty well at the end of Gaya Sa Pelikula -- everybody should come out on their own terms, and shouldn't be forced, but when they do we should be here for them and support them fully.
And yeah, definitely. Things that may be totally gay coded in one culture may not be coded the same way in another. It changes with time, too. There are lots of early photographs of western men from the late 1800s and early 1900s that we immediately assume today were gay, but who weren't necessarily gay at all, because the way they pose in the photos wasn't considered odd for straight friends at the time. Some of them probably were, of course, but we really can't tell just from the photos. And a lot of the countries around the world that are conservative and homophobic today were a lot more open about gender and sexuality historically, before the European colonisers arrived and imposed their worldview on them.
And I agree about someone's sexuality not being immediately and irreversibly defined by single, isolated acts. Especially younger people like to experiment and try things, which doesn't necessarily mean anything except that you are curious and open-minded. Not everybody knows who or "what" they are right out of the box.
As for actors who have used those words, the only name I can give you is Jeff Satur, who said it in an online PsychoMilk BL actors meetup out of the Philippines, so they were speaking in English. But I've seen others say it too fairly recently (in English or subtitle translation), though I can't give you any names at this very moment, because I suck at names and who said what.
Nobody deserves to be publicly outed or forced to out themselves.
I agree that some actors just click, whether the roles are romantically involved or not. And it's usually obvious when they don't, unless they are super professional.