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You're worked up by the quotes at the link provided by akdage?

What quotes at your link am I supposed to be offended by?

I like it, too, partly because it's an original approach for a BL.

Episode 1:
Interesting.
Seems this could go in a zillion different directions, and I'm looking forward to watching as it unfolds.

I assumed the documentary feel would continue for the entire series, so I'm surprised we've already hit day 100 by the end of the first episode. Maybe it will jump back and forth between before/during/after the documentary filming commenced?

It's certainly original.
I'm on board. :)

I cannot wait to see mama spot her boy with another boy's tongue down his throat and go into a major, over-the-top stroke-out. :D
The mom in the original version's acting was hilariously bad. I hope this time is more convincing. Clutching the chest and fake-fainting won't suffice this time around.

Perhaps projectile vomiting...?

"The toxic nightmare begins..."

I AM. SEATED.

They had better not be overselling just how dirty/nasty/vicious/sexy this is going to get.
If they are, I will slug a bitch.

Based on the preview, I suspect Azuma has had it with Kuji's asexual/aromantic act.
His, Azuma's, backtracking every time, after asking Kuji things like "do you want to get married some day," or "was the older dude a hookup?," or "I love you...but that was a 'report,' not a confession (which is just sad), is obviously wearing on him. He's sick of swallowing his emotions and pretending Kuji's coldness is okey-dokey with him. It's not.

Plus, it's been clear from episode 2 that he would REALLY like Kuji to f**k him again.
Sometimes, Kuji strikes me as a bit of an emotional sadist, withholding sex/affection out of some twisted pleasure doing so brings him.

First of all, go police someone else's speech.
You'll get nowhere doing that with me.

Second of all, here is the sentence in which I used the terms "aromantic" and "asexual:"
"Kuji is an emotionally damaged, asexual aromantic, and Azuma is pathetic.

I defy you to identify the negative connotation to ace or aro status in that statement.
I asserted that Kuzi is "emotionally damaged," but nothing in that sentence links the emotional damage to being asexual and/or aromantic. Where is the "insult?"
The vast majority of emotionally damaged people are NOT asexual or aromantic. Your claim to victimhood status, at least as it concerns anything I wrote here, is bogus.

Studies show approximately 1-4% of humans are ace and/or aro.
That figure applies regardless of sexual orientation, so why are you trying to define it as specifically a gay thing (Please don't use "queer" when addressing me. I consider it a slur equivalent to "n****r" for Black people).

Are you suggesting that Kuji/Azuma are/may be ace/aro in the script? If so, I agree that may be the case, but I said so before you did.

Sure, Jan.

Except that I had never heard of this actor until I saw this article, so how did I have a parasocial relationship with him?.

I posted a comment about how fake the article is, plus an observation that I believe the dude's had a nose job, an assessment that may be incorrect, as I've said.

Since then, I've replied to replies.
If, to you, that's "exactly" the same as forming a parasocial relationship, hanging out on multiple SM websites, and engaging in endless criticism/discussion/arguing, then you are full of shit, which is clearly the case.

Are you one of this guy's parasocial girlfriends/fangirls?

I was 100% on board during eps 1-3, but somewhere around 4, it began to sink for me. But obviously, I don't hate it so much that I've dropped it, which I don't hesitate to do when warranted. So something's keeping me around.

Well put.

Who has a big, western, humped nose? I don't know what you're on about.

I care, and apparently you do too, having commented on it.

I care because it's gross and weird that, especially in Asia, and especially in Korea, performers feel pressured to hack off and/or rearrange what is already a perfectly fine nose on an attractive face, and turn themselves into an android-looking copy of every other plastic surgery victim/celebrity.

And that phenomenon, especially in Korea, translates to a culture-wide obsession with having plastic surgery. That many of the procedures are explicitly intended to make lovely Asian faces look more "Western," indicates a sad level of internalized, anti-Asian appearance attitudes.

A great many MDL admirers of this series in these comments would beg to differ with you. They think these dudes have a wonderful, fully-aware, healthy relationship, and they wish they had such a love of their own. lol

As I wrote somewhere here, that is a sad indicator of the quality of their own intimate lives, or lack of, and what they think they deserve.

That's one of the simple, casual definitions, sure.
But it's not as simple as that.

I comment regularly on FB and MDL, but that's about it.
The Cnetz, Knetz, etc. who frequent multiple social media platforms, obsess over celebs, form parasocial relationships with them, discuss them endlessly, criticize and argue over them, and often drive them to suicide, are a whole other breed.

They are on MDL, FB, IG, TikTok, Twitter, WeChat, Telegram, Snapchat, Reddit, Douyin, Kuaishou, Weibo, Quora, Threads, Line, Xiaohongshu, and a zillion other sites, all day, every day.

Those are the Netizens I refer to regarding "fans" and their "armies."

No one is "a gay," Michael, any more than you are "a straight."
I am gay.
You are straight, or so you claim.

Listen...if you're struggling with your own, internalized homophobia because you find yourself longing for dick, as seems likely, I can refer you to some excellent support services online.

Let me know.

One of the few things more pathetic than a simple, garden variety homophobic bigot, is a Christianist, idiot Bible-beater who thinks he knows what he's talking about. That would be you.

To clarify, are you surmising that my two-year-old self "knowingly rejected god" even though I was carted to church and sunday school from practically the moment of birth?

I knew already by the age of three or so that I was NOT like most other boys, and that not being like other boys was a bad thing, thanks to m*th*rf*ckrs like you, Michael. I didn't know enough to call myself gay, or "fag" or "queer," which would have been the terms back then, but I definitely knew something was up. And so did my parents, who promptly did all they could to suppress my differences. Thus, my depression began at that time. Does that please you?

Your attempts to prove the universe is black/white are only embarrassing you. But that's OK with me, so please continue.

Why did you repeat the first two paragraphs, which were part of an earlier, dim-witted comment you made?

Stop writing "very likely," as though you are making scientific deductions. Doing so only makes you sound dumber than you are.

No, I am not closeted. I came out 30 years ago, after decades of struggle and self-hatred. I am divorced and on very good terms with my ex, who has been remarried for 25 years. I am also on very good terms with my very cool grown son and two daughters. All of these people are highly intelligent, non-bigots.

I will spell it out for you: I am not 100% gay, but I am far more gay than straight. Does that blow your mind? :)

You seem to be some kind of really stupid bigot trying to sound intelligent, and failing.
You have no idea what you're talking about.

But, I'll toy with you...
Is it your theory that all straight men think exactly like you? (God help us.)
Is it your theory that all gay men think precisely like me?
What difference does it makes what happens to any of these theoretical characters when they're 80 years old?

What about all the men who land somewhere along the continuum between one hundred percent gay and one hundred percent straight? That would be most men. Do they think like you or like me?

I suspect I know where you're headed with this, but I want to watch you make an ass of yourself trying to get there, first.

Glad to hear it. :D