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For the First Quarter of 2025 

In General:

• I love writing reviews and I am happy to receive polite feedback! I write mainly for myself, to sort my thoughts and find words for them, but I'd also like my published reviews to be helpful for readers.
  
• Top/Bottom dynamics and all the tropes that go with it is just heteronormativity in disguise. 
  There's already enough heteronormativity in het romance, I don't need it in BLs.
• If something is called "cringe" I'll take it as a recommendation. In most cases, the "cringe" is either really funny or a "cringe" character is just weird and different.
• I'm always looking for good dramas without romance. Please recommend me some! I hate it when a (het) romance is forced into otherwise good stories.
• English is not my first language. I don't mind if anyone points out mistakes I make.
• Ceterum censeo GagaOOLalam addendam esse.

I crosspost my reviews to:

• Pillowfort, all of them, but slowly, because I usually edit them a bit and write a short synopses myself.
  (Really, if you're tired of modern social media, have a look at Pillowfort. It may be small, but people are friendly and willing to hear about your current obsession.)
• Letterboxd, all of the titles that have an entry there.
• serializd, only those series I have watched sind 1 May 2025.

About my reviews:

• If you want to say something about a review of mine, do leave a comment or send a PM. I am happy to talk about them! I also like to hear constructive feedback.
• Inspired by his post on Pillowfort by CorgiTeaTime, I often use these questions in reviews: "Was it good?", "Did you like it?", and "Would you recommend it?" -- because yes, these three questions have different answers most of the time.
• I don't like it that I have to give star ratings if I want to post a review, so take them with a grain of salt, please. According to this comment by Ji-N3, both overall rating and category rating will be optional with the next update. Hope that will come soon.
• Since I have to rate everything, I try to rate titles within their genres -- e.g. Thai BLs will not be held to the same standard as Korean crime/mystery dramas; short films and low-budget web series cannot be compared to 50-episode-long C-Dramas.
  I also notice that I tend to rate more according to the question of "Did I like it?" -- and I am often very lenient.
• Obviously, everything is just my point of view. Things I find grating might be loved by you -- and vice versa.
• Ceterum censeo GagaOOLalam addendam esse.

Fannish bio:

• Started out with Japanese manga, BL and not, ages ago.
• Read my way through slash fanfiction of too many fandoms. From ca. 2005 mainly western fandoms, because I got tired of the same old top/bottom dynamics.
• Rediscovered Asian content through a throwaway comment in a Marvel fanfic.
• In summer 2021, was astonished to find that there are now live-action BL dramas, was sad to find that the top/bottom-trope is still a huge thing. (Although in the last two years, it's become less prominent in most BLs.)
• Started writing reviews on Viki in 2022, created an account on MDL in December 2023.
• Did my own rewrimo (review writing month) in November 2024, I kept track here and posted a summary here.
• Ceterum censeo GagaOOLalam addendam esse.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to comment or send a PM.

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(btw imo gaga MUST be added ...)