Sometimes...just sometimes, I imagine myself in their situation, and wonder what I would have done. Probably just…
Seriously, I do not have the skills to survive an dystopia like this. It's probably safest for everyone if I just stay in my room! At least I won't get in the way.
Is it due to how Tilan forget what Emperor did to her???
I feel like maybe I would prefer the darker version of things in the book ? I read the summary of it and boy! It sounds really intense, lol. Maybe too intense? But I don't know, I'm struggling through the sugarcoating right now. I preferred the less romanticized part of the show so I think maybe I would've liked the tragic book better.
Is there a reason Fang Zhu is allowed to touch the emperor's woman anyway he likes🙄
I feel a bit miffed by that too. I'm so used to other shows making it explicitly clear that the emperor's harem is the MOST forbidden place ever and NO ONE but the emperor can ever touch these women. Like they sent them to monasteries when the emperor died. They didn't even have a normal life after the emperor was done with them. It was so unfair and severe. This show looked at that and just thought, "LOL!"
So this is a video about a couple of things, including BL adaptations and China's crackdown. It's interesting.…
They do make interesting videos but I kind of still had some issues with certain things in the video. 1. They actually got information about The Untamed wrong, which makes me think that at least some of their sources were not great! lol 2. I disagree that the bl adaptations made in China are queerbaiting because that is such a privileged perspective to look at them with? This is content made in a country that specifically has laws against them. So not only is the content revolutionary, but it's also radical and does in fact generate positive representation in very limited spaces. Also, the actors involved in these shows are repeatedly having their careers sabotaged, as is. Imagine if they made it more explicitly gay, what would happen then? I just don't like the moral high ground of standing on the outside of a dire situation and demanding sacrifice from those within who would be putting themselves in danger by doing more. It's just not fair and everyone should only make the sacrifice if they choose to by their terms. 3. The video was clearly written by someone who hasn't lived through or within a dictatorship because if they had, they would know that dictatorships don't really get to people through religion or tradition or anything! They only need those devices in their formative years when they want to cease control. Once they do have power and start to show the extent of their cruelty, people no longer fall for propaganda. They just don't have the power to fight it anymore! All that said, I liked that they acknowledged the fact that not all people in China have something against queer content and also the popularity of BL there. Plus the idea that it's not an ideological reason behind the government's pushback but a statistical one was very intriguing in the least. As for their sources, I don't know, but maybe they have a list of them in their patron or somewhere else?
I'll put my next comment in spoiler but it's not a spoiler...
So this is a video about a couple of things, including BL adaptations and China's crackdown. It's interesting. A bit depressing but also not. Idk, watch at your own discretion. https://youtu.be/zIsQ502N0fg
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This show looked at that and just thought, "LOL!"
1. They actually got information about The Untamed wrong, which makes me think that at least some of their sources were not great! lol
2. I disagree that the bl adaptations made in China are queerbaiting because that is such a privileged perspective to look at them with? This is content made in a country that specifically has laws against them. So not only is the content revolutionary, but it's also radical and does in fact generate positive representation in very limited spaces.
Also, the actors involved in these shows are repeatedly having their careers sabotaged, as is. Imagine if they made it more explicitly gay, what would happen then? I just don't like the moral high ground of standing on the outside of a dire situation and demanding sacrifice from those within who would be putting themselves in danger by doing more. It's just not fair and everyone should only make the sacrifice if they choose to by their terms.
3. The video was clearly written by someone who hasn't lived through or within a dictatorship because if they had, they would know that dictatorships don't really get to people through religion or tradition or anything! They only need those devices in their formative years when they want to cease control. Once they do have power and start to show the extent of their cruelty, people no longer fall for propaganda. They just don't have the power to fight it anymore!
All that said, I liked that they acknowledged the fact that not all people in China have something against queer content and also the popularity of BL there. Plus the idea that it's not an ideological reason behind the government's pushback but a statistical one was very intriguing in the least.
As for their sources, I don't know, but maybe they have a list of them in their patron or somewhere else?
https://youtu.be/zIsQ502N0fg
When it's like this I just don't understand what they are saying and get very confused!