GayinYourArea

my interpretation of how a bl remake of "boys over flowers" might progress: jun seo, a new student from a modest background, enters the lives of a tight-knit group of three wealthy men, sun hyung, ho young, and jung woo. he becomes entangled in their world of privilege, power, and romance, discovering that his attraction to them threatens to disrupt the group's dynamics and challenge his own understanding of love

100 more bls? bring on the cuteness overload!

glad i could help

it is homophobic, and i hate them for stripping the source material of its identity

it's an excuse. chapter 42 of the manhwa reveals that seung won didn't/doesn't "like" ji yu. the "dating advice" charade was a clever guise to spend time with his true love, hee su

"i don't like ji yu"
"why did you lie?"
"because i wanted to keep hanging out with you" (chapters 42-43)

words have power and cause harm. calling a friend "ugly" makes them self-conscious about their looks and damages their self-esteem. that's not how i treat my friends

"Will seeing a straight storyline make you burst into flames or something?"

why does it bother you that i value gay-centered stories? do you burst in flames reading my comments?

"straight" stories dominate media. introducing "straight" storylines in spaces or platforms created for non-straight experiences and relationships perpetuates this dominance

keeping the main character the same while introducing the "straight" storyline no one asked for suggests tokenization. representation should be meaningful, not a box to check

"why are you so ugly?"
"what about you?"
"i'm way better looking than you" (episode 1, 12:52)

using a character’s appearance as the punchline of a joke is not only unoriginal but also contributes to a culture of body-shaming. media has been doing that for years, calling a character "ugly" or "fat" for cheap laughs. this kind of "humor" doesn’t sit well with me, and it didn’t make for a great start

to be honest, the "adaptation" barely resembles my beloved manwha. its script falls short in creating engaging, complex characters, i'm not getting the heartwarming feeling i'd expect from a gay romance

the cringe-factor in episode 1 doesn’t inspire confidence in the rest of the drama, and i can't say, "it's an enjoyable bl." there are 9 episodes left, which means there’s plenty of room for things to get worse. if the drama splits its attention between the gay storyline and the forced "straight" storyline, it won't deliver a proper bl/gay drama experience

yes! please, bl gods, grace us with more bls from jun seo! his beauty and talent are a gift to the world, and more bl content from him will bring balance and joy to all

is there a video interview or behind-the-scenes clip of the actors mentioning their memorable moments? could you please share the link? i'd be interested in watching it

this might be the first time i’ve seen someone try to fight so-called "islamophobia" by enthusiastically listing valid reasons to be terrified of islam

preventing child marriage isn't a product of western influence, it's a fundamental moral imperative. what you believe your "god" said is irrelevant to me. i don’t follow your religion, and i don’t need a religion to tell me what’s right or wrong

things are getting worse. the reality of politics is that the two major parties, republicans and democrats, have become indistinguishable in their flawed ideologies. they don't have a clear vision for improving the lives of citizens, and their focus on birth rates is questionable/problematic. they should consider shifting their focus towards the alarming suicide rates. what good is an increase in population if people struggle to carry on under the current regime?

enforcing laws to increase population growth would violate people's right to make personal decisions about their lives and future, they'd be immoral

the global korean diaspora, within south korea and elsewhere, continues to have children of korean descent/origin. should these korean people of different nationalities relocate to south korea, they'd increase the country's population. that or the country will learn to adjust to a smaller population

on a personal note, i'm not a people person, and i don't have a problem with every race/ethnicity equally disappearing in a century

"If you want to know why the birth rate in South Korea is the lowest worldwide, around 0.68 children per woman, then watch this series. It answers all your questions"

i'm not keen on watching the drama, could you spoil the producers' thoughts on the matter for me?

being a proponent of childfree living, i have my theories as to why birth rates are falling, and i'd like to know the factors these producers believe are relevant in south korea's context

"Forcing them to have more children?"

that'd be a reason not to have children, more children would be unwanted

i found the zombies, joon han (aaron park), hak joo (alex), jun sang (sam su), and the father-son dynamic between squad leader sang heun (yeong man) and soldier jung jin (gyeong sik) to be the drama's saving grace

gyeong sik's shift from fondly calling yeong man "pops" after receiving a gift from him in the past to making the difficult decision to shoot zombified yeong man in the present packed a greater emotional punch than the forced, brainless "romance" featured in the drama

gyeong sik saw that yeong man succumbed to a zombie bite, there was no "saving" him and he was going to get shot at some point. what did gyeong sik do? he mustered the courage to shoot his father figure himself. he wanted yeong man's final moments to be free from the brutality that accompanied human-zombie encounters. and he'd rather shoulder the agony of the act than let anyone else hurt yeong man. 18:02-20:48 of episode 8 were my favorite moments

thank you for hearing me out, my friend <3

the people asking, "what's wrong with adding a straight storyline for success" have answered their own question. gay stories are treated as incomplete or not good enough on their own. otherwise, no one would believe gay stories need a "straight" crutch to succeed

before long, we'll have fake "bl/gay" content where gay love stories take a back seat to "straight" stories that eat up most of the screen time for numbers and "success"

"if it took adding in a straight couple to make this show more successful what’s wrong with that?"

what's wrong with us finding something wrong with it?

40 minutes doesn't mean more bl. it might be 10 more minutes of "no homo" and "we can’t be together because reasons" that squeeze in a last-minute "straight" plot

a 40-minute runtime isn’t the flex we believe it is. secret relationships' adaptation has managed to be gayer than whatever's going on in heesu in class 2's straightwashed adaptation with a shorter runtime of 30 minutes