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I think I can help here. A lot of gay men are a bit put off by the way some BL fans are always proclaiming "See? You don't need to have smut to have a good BL!" or if someone mentions it would have been nice if there had been some physical sign the boys were actually attracted to each other, you often get something along the lines of "Then don't watch and go back to TharnType if you want porn!"

That's slightly exaggerated for the sake of drama, but you've all seen posts like that.

Sex is part of sexuality, and if you've had to struggle to be accepted, it's disappointing or even upsetting to see people rejecting any outward indicators of that sexualty. Many BLs (almost all, until recently) are actually about straight guys that make one single exception for one single guy.

So when people want stories that strip characters of their sexuality and leave only cute boys that are cute to each other, that is fetishization - it's reducing them to objects exploited for titillation, even if it's desexualized. It's no less dehumanizing than porn, and it's also implicitly taking a position that gay sex is dirty.

You've explained your position to me in a way that makes sense, but it can come off as exclusionary, like "BL is ours, you have your own gay stuff to watch". Which actually isn't true. There's a huge amount of gay porn, but very little gay romance, and it is a bit of a zero-sum game. If you can make a bromance that's less likely to offend conservative audiences and make money off it, then why make something more explicitly gay? BL actively reduces the amount of gay romance there is, so like it or not, it's ours too.

There was a time when there was more gay representation on cinema - but it's completely disappeared due to a desire for access to Chinese markets - that's why there are no gay action heroes and there will never be a gay Star Wars character. Except C3PO.

Also, there are times when we're made to feel like there's something patriarcal or oppressive about having a fixed sexuality - but being 100% gay is a thing. We actually have biological differences from straight men, some superficial (hair whorls in opposite direction, index finger longer than ring finger) to not superficial (stonger sense of smell, differences in brain structure). So the idea that sexuality is fluid is just another means of denying our existence (fluidity is a sexuality in itself, not a lack of it).

What happens if the edits are incompatible? They'll probably reject them all. Excellent! That means I can sabotage you all! [cue evil-sounding organ music]

I see what you mean. They should allow that pull-down to be left blank.

I'm guessing a lot of people don't like the pacing, and especially don't want to be shown that the couples they love are played by actors that aren't actually dating in real life and may not like their jobs.

You can edit the MDL entries - you have to change it and give an explanation. I got the incorrect number of episodes for Brothers corrected.

I didn't think of that - I believe you're right. That actually makes good sense as a rule of watching BL - "If it makes no sense, it's probably a product placement."

I think that's about right - but shouldn't you be proud of a highly admired brother rather than it making you resentful? I didn't exactly have a happy childhood, and I'm capable of jealousy like everyone else, but I've never let it cause me to be rude to anyone. Again, I get why things are the way they are in the story, but I think they went a little overboard. They left room for character development, but Mork being in love with him needs to be believable.

Have you ever been out with someone who was rude to a waiter? That pretty much kills any desire I have to associate with them. I think Mork seems to understand why Pi thinks he set him up with the photos, but Pi hating him because he's friends with his crush is strange and self-absorbed. They need to show us positive qualities of Pi pretty soon, because so far, all he's got going for him, ironically, is that he's good-looking.

It might be nice for them to rewind and show us what was going on with them the whole time. There's a play that was also a movie Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead which was Hamlet from the perspective of two very minor henchman characters - something like that.

Michael Kiettisak is killing it on Call It What You Want - he'd be a great partner for Earth. He's only been in CIWYW for maybe 5 minutes of run time, but you feel it.

This is so good that the 7.5 it has right now is criminal. I was expecting something silly and shallow like Lovely Writer (I mean the BL critique element), but this is f@#$ing dark as f@#$.

The acting was phenomenal, the pacing was perfect, the atmosphere claustrophobic and oppressive, I'm really blown away and so excited about this. This is a good day - not only did I get Neo, but now this.

It was bad. But the budget for this is probably extremely low - and I'd rather have the bad green screen than super-bad sound like amateur productions do when they use real streets.

Do you mean Earth? I don't see a Heart involved.

I'd be willing to bet $1M that the toxic breed of fans would say "This is so boring! James is creepy!" The chances of them seeing themselves in this critique = 0.

It definitely said that. Depression can cause the kind of deadness he describes, but that's curable.

He really is. I don't like Pi, but I thought Phuwin did a great job playing him, and he seems to have good comic timing. I think Pond managed to portray Mork as a really compelling lead - I love him. Seriously, I love him. And Neo.

I think the writing was a little overboard with how awful Pi was to Mork. It makes it hard to believe Mork would be interested in him. But it's only ep 1 and there's a lot to be excited about here.

He was not bullied by Mork, and he was absolutely awful to him. He also assumed that his brother would for some reason trick him into going to the mall? That's pretty seriously ungenerous to your own brother who is trying to help you.

Being bullied is terrible, but it doesn't make it OK for you to treat people poorly. I get that Pi has to be obnoxious because it's the plot - the lesson will be that beauty is on the inside, and Mork will bring it out in him. I just think the writing took it too far, and it's hard to see why Mork would be interested in him at this point unless its a phyiscial attraction, which would make no sense for the theme. Pi's not even really very nice to anonymous Mork in the texting.

I don't blame Pi for being upset the night he was at the club, or even that he assumed Mork set him up - but he still treats him like crap the next day after Mork gives him an incredibly sincere apology. He automatically disliked Mork from the beginning because Mork is a friend of his crush. That's self-absorbed and immature, and he didn't even give Mork a chance, even though he was so relentlessly kind to him.

I don't hate the show or anything - I'm actually really excited about it and I really like Phuwin, I LOVE NEO!!! and I am excited about Pond - Mork is one of the most compelling leads I've seen.

It's "affective disorder", which is mood-related like depression and bipolar disorder. I don't know if someone made a translation error or what, but it didn't make sense, plus this has never been mentioned before and is weird to introduce in the last ep.

Brothers is incredibly cute and very positive and affirming. It avoids tropes like problems caused by implausible miscommunication. When people have a misundertanding or fight, they talk it out - when they behave unreasonably, they apologize. If you watch it, you won't be sorry, although it could take a couple of eps to get into. The actors are not experienced, but they get way better as the series progresses. It's clearly aimed at younger viewers, but it's enjoyable if you're older, too.

I love it. I look forward to it more than anything else right now, and I usually tend to like darker series like History4.

I thought an affective disorder was depression, bipolar, etc. To have no feelings for anyone is psychopathy, isn't it?

How does someone else expressing their opinion in a discussion forum prevent you from enjoying something? Is the series now ruined for you?