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Where can I find this teaser? Asking for a friend. ;)

Mean (if we're talking about the same Mean) has left BL. (Then again Perth said that too, but maybe he just meant he won't play a gay character anymore.)

What a wonderful interview! Thank you for sharing it!

Thanks a lot!

Well, glad to hear they are not completely beholden to MV, at least. It seems like a shit company to work for.

Thank you! She sounds awesome. And it makes her scenes with Supot a lot more poignant.

Oh, I totally feel you. I had to take a break from BL for a couple of days after watching the ITSAY finale, and the only thing I managed to follow it with was GSP. ITSAY kind of broke me in the best of ways.

Exactly. The message should be "Don't give up, don't despair, it may seem bad but it will get better. Find the people who will stand by you and have your back if your own family won't, because they are out there. Have faith, have courage."

I was surprised to see dramas on the list that are not in fact BLs, like The Boy Next Door (which is a spoof with two straight boys) and The Untamed and Guardian (which are only BL if you squint very, very hard while wearing anti-chinese-censorship glasses and using our imagination, lol). But I guess it's a list where anyone can add shows themselves? I tried to add Love Sick 1, which is a BL, but I can't see if it made it on to the list.

What a good place to start! Just don't think of it as your benchmark for BL dramas -- not many of them are as lovely as this.

That girl is going to go far, mark my words!

Would you mind telling me more about Prim's background and her involvement with the protests?

I agree, Enzo and Darwin did a stellar job, and their scenes in episode five before everything went to hell are among the best I've seen in BL.

And it's not like the suicide rates are negligible in the LGBTQIA+ community as it is.
Some of the BL dramas we've seen may be very superficial and trite, or even full of harmful stereotypes, but we do still need stories that treat gay love as *romantic* instead of tragic, perhaps full of struggles, but in the end triumphant. I personally believe that normalising gay love will help a lot more in changing opinions and ending homophobia, while still giving hope to young people, and nice entertainment to the rest of us.

Hot shirtless guys is a totally valid reason ;)

You're never going to make everybody happy, lol. That's the problem with a global fandom!
Sometimes I get chills when I think about how we can sit in our own rooms all over the world and share an experience like this!

I'm new to BL since late summer this year, and I am a little freaked out by certain aspects of the fandom. Maybe it's a cultural thing, maybe it's an age thing.

Since I live in a country that doesn't produce any BL at all, I really don't get the toxic competitiveness. I'm just happy that we're getting more (and different flavours) of BL.

So how does that work? Are you uploading the videos to that site or do we need to watch them separately on our own end? (I've never done anything like that and I don't know that site, sorry if it's a stupid question)

I must say that Kian's childishness and pettiness (in this ep) is getting on my nerves. And jealous tantrums isn't enough for me to feel any chemistry -- to me it still looks like bromance but with added possessiveness. And considering the preview, how can Kian justify his sulking at Aron buying foodstuffs from a neighbour (even if she was pretty), and then going to bring another person into the house? He obviously feels entitled to everything, including the house and dibs on his friend, but doesn't think any of it applies to himself. I don't find him cute at all. (Aron seems very likeable, though!)

They had only just started to figure out that they were in love when they were killed off. It was too soon.
I get what the creators were trying to do, a heartwrenching message about how homophobia literally kills and destroys families. I'm just not happy that they had to kill the boys to do that. It feels to me like it was a drama for the homophobic parents, and not for the LGBTQIA+ community, and not for the BL fans. I would not recommend this series as a BL to anyone -- and certainly not to any young person struggling with their sexuality and the fears of what their friends and family are going to say or do if they dare to come out.

I also think the description is misleading, or even outright wrong. This is NOT "a tender story about innocence, friendship, the beauty of awakening desire, acceptance and how time heals all wounds." It's a story about how homophobia destroys lives.