TianQi

I dropped it at first because I just thought it was a little too low budget and the other actors weren't a match for Luo Yunxi, but I picked it back up anyway. It's nothing special and a little disorganized, but Luo Yunxi (his beauty and his acting skills) and the fact that each episode is only about 20-25 minutes make it an easy watch. It's also a pretty simple plot, unlike other Chinese costume dramas that get easily overladen and complicated with so many plots and characters.

Watch for Luo Yunxi. Don't expect much else from this.

My thoughts exactly and his acting was good here anyway.

Mark is so damn cheesy and I am not lactose intolerant. ^_^ I'm loving every bit of this. There are too many d*mn people in this show, though. lol Can someone post a chart or give me a list of who's who for reference. I try to pay attention, then I forget everything when Kim/Copter get back on the screen. lol

THANK YOU. In my mind, I was screaming, "Wrap it, boo!" lmao

Happy birthday!!

I noticed that too! Such a tender moment.

By straight, I mean, *self-identifying* as straight, not being straight in reality. He demonstrated his affinity for women at several points of the show. A lot of people aren't straight, but make the choice to live their lives in a heterosexual identity because of societal pressures etc. Is he straight? Probably not. Is gay? Imo that doesn't matter because he was prepared to give up exploring that aspect of his sexuality until circumstances changed.

I didn't project my own experiences, but rather took him for how portrayed his own self.

Also, I 100% enjoyed this series. It's ok to find alternative ways of looking at things that we enjoy as well. :)

Hope that made sense. lol Sometimes my feelings don't always get as well-interpreted as I'd like.

I get it too, I just like the original title much much more. lol

I should have put "straight" in quotations. I meant not willing/not able to accept his sexuality as it is. What I mentioned is just the lived experience of many (dare I say most) of us (gay guys) like the rest of most of the things in this series...except the end. I do really like, however, that De's brother was accepting and that De was open with him. I think that was a huge factor in De's own self-validation, though even if that scene may have seemed subtle.

It's not that I necessarily wanted that ending, it's just that I think it would have made for a more heavy tone. I'm perfectly content with this ending. Everyone deserves to live happily ever after.

This was an incredible masterpiece. It had the tone of early 2000s, gay, indie coming-of-age films that I absolutely loved. If I were to have a criticism, it'd be that I would have been alright with the "sad" ending of them just going their separate ways off to university. Since this series went the more 'realist' route instead of fluffy BL-fantasy, seeing the more realistic storyline of most gay men's lives in that situation which is: your straight bff may be 'gay' for *you*, but it's not gonna go anywhere because by the time he's brave enough to truly own up to it, you'll both be done with uni and far away from home. Their getting together at the end was blissfully beautiful, but with all the tragic realism throughout the series, having a 'sad' ending would have really accented the weight of all the points of fear, self-denial/acceptance, sexual confusion etc. that gay men experience all the more intensely.
I don't mean to make it seem like there's no light at the end of the tunnel for young gay men, just that it usually won't ever come from your 'straight' childhood best friend as so many of us at that age so often think.

Also, random thought: the word-for-word translation of the title of this series which is 'Translate My Love With Your Heart' fits it WAY better than 'I Told Sunset About You' on so many levels.

Me too. I was actually glad they didn't give him more screen time to grieve over not getting Ou'er cuz that would have REALLY put me through it.

I'd add that people very often reject things like foreigners or LGBTQ+ people out of ignorance, fear, disinterest, or even hatred, sure, but Ton has alluded to three of these (so far). Not understanding the habits of foreigners and rejecting them because of it isn't the exact same as sexual orientation/sexual identity, but there is a decent amount of similarities.

The whole situation is absurd because Ton is so in denial and three gay guys are consciously going along with it. I get that Chon likes Ton and doesn't want to disappoint him, but letting oneself get carted off to a massage parlor alongside two other gay guys is just as ridiculous at Ton encouraging them to do it anyway, imo. I don't know about that last part of what you wrote, though. Lhong paid people to rape Tar in TTS. This situation is quite the removal from that.

That that's even known information really warms my heart tbh.

Their accent when they speak Mandarin is the light comic relief I desperately need during all this sadness.

Every time Adachi says "Eh?" I just wanna hug him....which is a lot. <3

Is the webnovel BL?

Human sexuality is often given an oversimplified context and that shows in the way that a lot of people approach it, so even within the context of a single culture, non-queer people have a lot of contemplation to do before they arrive at the simple conclusion. "they're only different because of who they love". They shouldn't need to do that, but society sucks.

Well, not everyone who says that is. When people say they don’t understand people, they often mean that. Substitute “gay” with “foreigner” and it’s quite a common statement as well especially here in Asia and as unacceptable as it sounds, can really be taken at face value a lot of the time. I still think that Tohon’s character is an absolute tool and I don’t know why it’s come off that I’m trying to defend him, but, no.

It comes off like they're *all* douchebags here...like...not just one of them. Poor Earth.