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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz-YITLZvJw with eng sub

Trapped and Crossing the Line (about a school volleyball team) are the best HIStories https://kisskh.at/26354-history2-boundary-crossing

I have to admit I don't quite get Win/Kavin. It's only been 3 episodes though, I might warm up to him. Win was better in 2gether, Bright is about the same in both, I think.

2gether is a silly, fun bl, not a bromance. Bright and Win's acting didn't suck, but unfortunately the writing went downhill toward the end of season 1. That high five is the culmination of eveyone's disappointment. With a little more thought, it would have been easy to make the show suck less. I watched a few new reaction videos on youtube recently, and it still made me laugh, like before.

Well, he is also delusional LOL, so there's a distinct possibility that's one of the reasons he's into her.

Just off the top of my head, I'd say the script suggest Thyme senses Gorya doesn't abandon imperfect things, she deliberately took back the shoe Thyme destroyed. Thyme is like that shoe, he said, in that interview Gorya saw while he was waiting for her to show up for the date, that he has a lot of flaws and he doesn't think that girls can stand him.

[Edit] Forgot to say they also showed the shoe stitched back together, drying outside Gorya's window at home, and now she's going to get Thyme who is waiting for her wet like a drowned rat. Maybe she should hang him out to dry outside her window too 🙂.

The male lead regards very few people as fully human, he's weird that way. Pretty much only his friends and sister are 'real people' to him. The similarity in the behaviour of the sister and the female lead help humanize Makino to the male lead. He thinks real people, who I like and who like me, fight back.

Someone called him a cringe lord, it's so true, that's basically the essence of his character😁.

I was 99.9% percent sure you didn't think you literally rule kisskh LOL! A lot of people here are perpetually upset about any and all less than adoring comments, and it's a bit tiring, so my comment stemmed from all of that.

If someone has something negative to say about Bad Buddy or anything related to it, there's no need to take it to heart. Try the "like water off a duck's back" approach instead. Much healthier, since it's not up to you to allow or dissallow anything.

"I don't think the actors make as much decisions as we assume."
True, I mean are we forgetting there's:
-the contract they are under, which would legally require them to do certain things. (promotion/fan meetings etc. this can possibly extend to even subjects they are allowed to talk about)
-the general pressure, expectations of the production company for the actors to do/not do things, even if they aren't under legal obligation to comply. (again what the actors should or shouldn't discuss in public, and even what kinda physical appearance is acceptable, I mean just look at Kpop for example, insane diet and excercise expectations there.)

Ohm embraces his physicality, while Nanon is more of a character actor. Nothing wrong with either approach as long as it's their choice.

LOL It's Pakorn Thanasrivanitchai, nicknamed Tul, I guess. He's in Together with Me and Manner of Death. He's amazing enough, so you weren't entirely mistaken in your original statement.

According to the statistics 0.3% have dropped it, so that's not a likely reason. Not everybody that likes the show rates it at 10 or even 9, people have different scales of rating, not everyone is as single minded as you guys 😉. It's pretty much only the Untamed that is 9 or over, and it was dropped by 2.8%, so 8.8 isn't a low rating.

That fist bump was such a non-issue. Maybe people are just remembering their dissapointment in the aggravating cases of overly prudish characters, who run away from affection in mortal fear of cooties, or because the script writers can't write themselves out of a paper bag. That's not what this fist bump was about. It was totally fine.

I'd absolutely hold that grudge, if I were her. I'd never choose to live next door to the asshat in question though. The whole incident would constantly be at the back of your mind poisoning you, which is what happened here.

In my opinion it was mostly episodes 7 and 9 that didn't flow so well, the rest of it is good 😁.
1. The confusing time jumps (instead of making clear it was a week or too later, not months or something, they phrased it as 'the start of the second year' and 'last performance'),
2. Kinda silly writing (getting a jackpot and showing up to "save " Pran and the gun/police/Wai incident). Some people seemed to have trouble with the sequence of events in the last scenes in 7, I just wasn't a fan of the writing tbh.
3. Some bad English translations that made it a bit difficult to read the situation correctly.

What I was pointing out was that Mame isn't representative of all female authors cis, straight, generally non-LGBTQ+... Saying it's LGBTQI+ versus Mame is a false dichotomy.

Mame with her style is, however, a representative that has too much power in what gets produced, that is true. The production companies deserve a kick in the butt for not seeing the stupidity.

Of course everyone is best represented by members of their own community!

Mame isn't representative of female authors though. She is more of a Yaoi author. It's the Yaoi tradition that brings the stupidest parts, like the general refusal to write three dimensional LGBTQ+ characters, the seme/uke obsession, the rapey vileness etc.

You're welcome, just nerded out a little on literature and gender studies. 😀

If you google: bl boyslove academic research, you'll get plenty of results. Also, google offers you a link for 'Scholarly articles for bl boyslove academic research' if you do google that. It's this one:
https://scholar.google.fi/scholar?q=bl+boyslove+academic+research&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

If you take a broader look at the subject, you could google things like women and mm romance reading (1.) or a bit more generally ideas about the fault lines between gay and straight, I dunno , "culture" I suppose (2.).

1. A consumption of gay men: navigating the shifting boundaries of
m/m romantic readership
https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1234&context=etd

2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1466138118758112
boundaries between heterosexuals and homosexuals in public spaces

Also :
a newspaper article by a professor, with a pic of 2gether lol, The Evolution of “Boys’ Love” Culture: Can BL Spark Social Change?
https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00607/

The boys’ love phenomenon: A literature review
http://www.jprstudies.org/2017/04/the-boys-love-phenomenon-a-literature-reviewby-agnes-zsila-and-zsolt-demetrovics/

If you can appreciate imperfect/flawed characters, then you'd definitely like this. Even though it's popular, I also was doubtful of the whole F4 concept, until I finally watched some. The main stroryline is actually entertaining. It's like a modern fairytale, so some aspects of the story remain unchanged from version to version. This one looks to be the best one so far.