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bl-bracket · 1 month

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Congrats to Kinn for winning Horniest on Main in a BL!!!

In our first regular bracket after the long hiatus and the Build-a-BL polls, we sought to ascertain the enteral question of who is the horniest on main? While many competed, only one, Kinn from Kinnporsche: The Series, was declared to be the most penis delirious and the most horny on main!

There were several close calls this bracket, with one exact tie in our losers bracket! Which brings me to the second point, this was our first time doing a losers bracket! Characters had to lose twice in order to be completely kicked out, giving many characters who had tough matchups early on a second chance to progress farther. The result of this means that for the first time ever we have a definitive second place, a winner from the losers bracket! He faced their champion and remained victorious. While he could not claim the final crown, his win and horniness levels deserve respect! It is of course none other than Boston from Only Friends!

Real talk though, this has been so so fun and I enjoyed this greatly! I missed running these types of brackets and it was very encouraging and fun to see that all of y'all are still interested in these silly little things! Currently, we still have a bonus round for what BL drama is the horniest on main, and after that we'll be voting on our next bracket topic so stay tuned!

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neuroticbookworm · 1 year

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*deep breath* FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Alright, I'm gonna make my case for the Bad Buddy Rooftop Kiss. This is probably gonna be the most personal I've ever been on this hellsite.

Let's get this out of the way. I loved Kinnporsche. I honestly did (even though it might not look like it since this is the second time I'm passionately campaigning against the show). I loved it so much that I made my very busy best friend, @tonysteve25 who is planning their wedding, make up the time to talk to me so I can rant for two hours about the show (no need to judge me, I know y'all are equally crazy)

I'm gonna strip the plot to the basics and then build my argument, so if I end up reiterating a lot of themes that are already discussed, apologies in advance

Bad Buddy is, at its core, a Romeo and Juliet retelling. Set in a fairly conservative Asian country, and produced by a media industry whose brand of storytelling often involves an AU-esque setting where homophobia does not exist. We are shown time and again that Pat and Pran's friends and family do not have a problem with them being in a same-sex relationship.

So the conflict comes from the history their families have with each other. As a South Asian cinephile, I've watched this trope play out so many times with heterosexual couples that I'm sure it has unwittingly become a part of my brain chemistry. Oftentimes, the reasons why the families are feuding are so over the top that every shred of relatability gets thrown out the window.

In Bad Buddy's case, the reason is kept simple, albeit childish in the beginning. A business rivalry between the two families, and as a result, the boys are also pitted against each other. This simplicity gives way to a lot of levity in the beginning, but as the story progresses, the real strength of this narrative starts seeping through. This show is relatable. Almost too relatable.

The constant pressure to outperform the other in every way, be it academics, sports, or romance; the expectation on Pat to follow his dad's footsteps and match his achievements, even in a dumb singing competition; the guilt that permeates every moment of joy they feel in their relationship, because they are always aware that they are actively disappointing their parents; the quiet, painful realization in the later episodes that they will never be accepted into each other's families, no matter how hard they try; the revelation that the root of the conflict came from a scholarship stolen from a woman, to satisfy the expectations of a patriarch.

Every statement above is the reality of so many Asians living their lives right now. I personally know couples who have been cut off from their families for over 20 years because they don't approve of their love/marriage. I have peers who blindly follow the career path charted for them by their parents because it is easier than resisting and doing something they actually like. A lot of us are left feeling unmoored and struggling to define our self worth in the real world, after we leave academia, because that is all we are ever taught: your grades indicate how worthy you are.

Now, I know not a single word above argues why the kiss is the best, but I'm getting there. Stay with me now. Many people more talented than me have argued the specifics of the kiss, the reasons why it grabbed us by our throats the first time we saw it, and why we are still on that rooftop with them. The reasons submitted in the poll describe it so eloquently, beat by beat (edit: I found out that it was witten by @tiistirtipii, here). @respectthepetty begs us not to disappoint Pat again here, @lurkingshan dives deep into the character analysis and why the kiss is the perfect culmination of narration, pacing, and the characters' journey here, @waitmyturtles explores the importance of foreplay, the 'how did we get here' before the kiss, here.

What I want to draw attention to are two things. One: how this kiss was executed in such a way that all of their deeper struggles are woven into the microexpressions, so when you rewatch the show, all of the added context makes it so much more heartbreaking.

Let's be clear here, Pat and Pran did not get a happily ever after. They did not break all of the chains that were weighing them down. Pat went on to follow his father into the business (who also followed his father into it). They have to keep their relationship a secret, with no end in sight. Even in the end, the audience is shown only a hidden, reluctant acceptance from the parents, not an open love.

Pat and Pran's relationship will always be bittersweet. And the kiss shows it. The fact that the kiss was the very last shot to be filmed is no coincidence. The actors know how it ends, they have already performed it. They also know that the characters in this moment know it too. They have lived all their lives playing their families' games, they know that if they take this leap of faith, then they are willingly giving up so many little moments in life, even something so mundane as entering each other's house through the front door. And we can see it, see all of it clearly in Pran's face. Pran, who plans every detail of his life. Pran, who is also in love with his rival for who knows how long. And then we see it in Pat's face too, if only after a moment, because that's the way he is. Pat, who has looked at Pran all his life as a rival, a bandmate, a secret friend. Pat, who is the only one who can completely understand Pran, his anger and grief and devastation, because they only have each other in this wretched game. We see his face fall, and we see confusion cloud his happiness.

This kiss is the perfect summation of their relationship, shown at the very beginning of it. They can have desire, but be riddled with guilt. They can have happiness, but only in secrecy.

Two: how this kiss did more for Asian queer representation than we can ever comprehend.

I was not present in the Tumblr trenches with y'all when the show originally aired, but I've read many, many posts about how it broke the internet. Western media often fucks up queer characters because they don't write fully fleshed out characters who happen to also be queer. They place enormous emphasis on the character's queerness, and end up writing a stereotypical cardboard cutout in the shape of a queer person. Complex queer representation is hard to come by, add Asian into the mix and the pool gets laughably small.

In the episodes leading up to the kiss, we see the characters get fleshed out, their struggles explored, but they are also deeply rooted in the middle class Asianness of it all. I know it is ironic to say that other shows from Thailand are less Asian than this one, but the struggles of a queer mafia boss/rich businessman/heir to the corporate throne protagonists can sometimes be a tad out of touch for the general populace, and we can only feel so much nostalgia for our school days before we are tired of the saccharine sugar high.

When I saw this kiss for the first time, my eyes teared up, not because these gay characters are having a hard time, but because I could feel their pain, irrespective of my sexuality. I knew deep in my bones how a kiss can simultaneously feel like freedom and a lifelong trap. And I'm sure so many others felt it too. The kiss went viral because it was a perfect representation of so many struggles of Asians and the diaspora (and beyond), and it happened to be queer.

I don't know how the results will tally up when the clock runs out, but I hope we can chalk up a honest-to-goodness happy ending for them, if only in a silly Tumblr poll.

cc @bl-bracket, here ya go, a very long and rambling campaign propaganda

#bad buddy #bad buddy series #bad buddy the series #patpran #ohmnanon #ohm pawat #nanon korapat #aof noppharnach #bl bracket #bl bracket for best kiss

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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ranchthoughts · 1 year

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an impassioned defense of the Bad Buddy episode 5 rooftop kiss

aka, last minute propaganda for the @bl-bracket best kiss competition.

Firstly, a literature review:

@kenmakaashi writes about the imbalance we usually see in long-term pining stories that is not present in this kiss (and how that relates to Bad Buddy’s overarching dismantling of imbalances).

@lurkingshan writes about episode 5 of Bad Buddy as a whole, as Pat realizes and re-contextualizes his relationship with Pran, and how the kiss catalyzes the rest of the series.

@miscellar and @aikinn write about the emotions Pat and Pran bring into the kiss, and how important the stubbornness of both characters is to their journey.

@telomeke-bbs breaks down the moment between the two kisses here, writing about how this represents Pran’s head vs. heart, and how he cedes to his wants, if only for a moment.

@neuroticbookworm writes about how the kiss perfectly encapsulates the emotions and experiences of Pat and Pran, and its greater resonance to Asian and queer Asian communities.

And now to add my two-cents worth:

There are a lot of dichotomies, opposites, tensions in Bad Buddy, and this episode rooftop kiss perfectly encapsulates all of them, while looking forward to the eventual resolution of these tensions through the rest of the show.

Firstly, the opposing trajectories of Pran and Pat's journeys to (queer) self-realization: Pran, who knows he is gay and has known about his feelings for Pat since at least high school; and Pat, who is just realizing he is queer and that he is into Pran and has been for some time.

The first few episodes of Bad Buddy show us more of Pran's story: we learn about his crush on Pat, we see how Pat’s casual compliments and downright flirtatious behaviour affected him, we watch him silently cry after Pat says he has a crush on Ink and then outlines all the reasons someone (Pran) should like him. Pran has been keeping his love for Pat, like a lot of his emotions, repressed and hidden for a long time now (see these posts by @lurkingshan (here) and @telomeke-bbs (here and here) for more on Pran's personality and emotional guarded-ness).

Episode 5 switches it up: now we get a closer look at Pat. As @lurkingshan wrote, episode 5 is about Pat realizing things – that Ink doesn’t like him; that, going by Pa’s Patented Four Ways to Tell if Someone Likes You, he probably likes Pran; that he is indeed jealous of Wai which confirms he likes Pran as not-a-friend. (see @grapejuicegay’s amazing post for why it took Pat so long to work out how he was feeling here).

In episode 5, we watch their two arcs collide: Pran continues to repress and not act on his feelings, while getting increasingly frustrated at the liberties Pat seems to take with them (Pran performing the song they wrote together in high school, and Pat being mad about that); while Pat has speed-run his realizations and is now full to bursting. In all the ways Pran is quiet and hidden, Pat is open and loud. Once Pat realizes he is in love with Pran, he can barely hide it. He comes close to spilling it in the scene where Pat fights with Pran and Wai outside the dorm (amazing meta on that scene by @shortpplfedup and @functionalasfuck here and here), and he lets it free up on the rooftop at the end of the episode, outlining their past history and what Pran means to him and confessing he doesn't want to be friends. Pran says "You have got to stop doing this to me" (Pat makes it so hard to stop loving him, to keep those feelings repressed and hidden), and Pat finishes his queer realization arc by kissing the boy he loves. Even the way the first kiss happens emulates their respective arcs and personalities: they get close to one another, in each other's space but not making a move, and then Pat is the first to break the tension and go in for the kiss. The hidden and the open collide.

We see this conflict, this tension between hidden and open, play out again in episode 8, when Pat keeps posting things on Instagram and toeing the line of secrecy and him and Pran fight about it, or in episode 9 where Pran indulges Pat and stages the public confession and claiming on the stairs (meta about that scene by @kenmakaashi here). These moments also exemplify the care and understanding Pat and Pran have for one another: Pat is willing to hide things and pretend to break up with Pran (firstly to get Wai to talk to him again and then at the end of episode 11 so they can hide from their families) to make Pran happier and more comfortable, and Pran is willing to be more open (allow Pat to post on Instagram, stage the claiming scene on the stairs, etc.) to make Pat happier and more comfortable - it's all about compromise, the middle ground. In the end, also Bad Buddy ends up somewhere in the middle between open and hidden: Pat and Pran are open about their feelings for each other and are happily in love, but they remain hidden from their family and friends, unable to be fully open.

Secondly, this kiss exemplifies the genre tensions inherent in Bad Buddy, between BL romcom and romantic tragedy. Over the course of the series, we the audience are not sure which genre, and specifically which genre-typical ending, Bad Buddy will follow. See my posts (here and here) and @chickenstrangers (here) on genre and tragedies and Bad Buddy.

Pat, over the course of episode 5, has realized he is in a romantic story. His interactions with Pran slide into context: those were tropes of the kind we see in romantic series (looming over someone, forced proximity, etc.). @chickenstrangers talked about this here: to Pat, this kiss is the classic confession kiss in a romcom or BL. After that type of kiss, the characters get together, the series will soon end happily (or there may be some episode 11 shenanigans before they ultimately reach a happy ending). Pat keeps the kiss meaningful and emotion-filled but short and sweet; to him, this will be the first kiss of many.

But to Pran, this is a different genre of story. Pran has known he is in a romantic narrative from the beginning (he’s had a crush on Pat since high school, if not before), but he doesn’t think this is a romcom. Pran looks at their family situation and recognizes another type of story: star-crossed lovers tragedies like Romeo & Juliet and Kwan & Riam. Pran says it himself, every time they are together, bad things happen (like Pran getting transferred). To Pran, this rooftop kiss is their last kiss, could only ever be their last kiss. Because of that, he can’t help but to lean into it, go in for a second kiss, to make it count. In this edit by @movementsofmylife they liken it to pre-nostalgia (“knowing you’re going to miss a moment once it’s gone and it makes you sad and desperate to hold onto or recreate it even when you’re still in that moment”). Pran thinks this is the closest he will ever get to having Pat and being happy because to him, the tragic ending to their story is inevitable.

In this kiss, the two genres Bad Buddy flirts with (BL and romantic tragedies – which will it emulate in the end?) come to a head. And it seems by the end of this rooftop scene that "romantic tragedy" might be the winning genre of the series: Pran walks away in tears, leaving Pat behind. For a moment, Pat was so caught up in the euphoria of being able to confess to Pran and having Pran reciprocate back that he forgot they live in a world with their parents, but Pran's tears, his leaving, and his avoidance of Pat through the next episode bring the barriers to their relationship back into focus. But there’s hope in this kiss too: Pran reciprocated. He’s spent half a lifetime repressing his feelings for Pat, he’s so good at denying his feelings… but we’ve seen how Pat is starting to wear on him. Despite it all, Pran can’t fall out of love with Pat, and despite it all, he can’t resist going in for another, deeper kiss. He might be able to walk away at the end of it, but we've seen the effect Pat has on him. Pat’s unrelenting good nature, the way he helps Pran at every turn (even when they are supposed to be enemies), and his sheer stubbornness and determination have gotten to Pran, and might give them a different ending after all.

In the end, Bad Buddy does end up somewhere between a BL romantic comedy and a tragedy: Pat and Pran are still together, but are trapped in a glass closet, still hiding from their family and most of their friends. It’s not a purely happy ending, it’s not a solely tragic ending, it’s somewhere in between, somewhere more realistic (there are a lot of queer people living in similar glass closets). Just like the rooftop kiss(es), Bad Buddy has something sweet, something hopeful, something joyful, meeting some melancholic, something fearful, and something hidden.

Finally, in the rooftop kiss scene Pat wears a shirt that says Baseball Mom, which is objectively hilarious but also deeply meaningful, and if that isn't the Bad Buddy Brand™ I don't know what is. See metas on Pat's Baseball Mom shirt by myself (here), and on Pat's shirts as a whole by @chickenstrangers (here), @thegayneurodivergentagenda (here), @respectthepetty (here), and @dribs-and-drabbles (here and here).

Bad Buddy is a funny show, but it doesn't hesitate to explore deeply emotional parts of the human (and especially queer) condition: intergenerational trauma (meta by @waitmyturtles), glass closets and homophobia (through a tale of feuding families), and more.

The episode 5 rooftop kiss scene brings together all the threads of Bad Buddy: the central characters, their personalities, and their history together; the external forces that threaten their love (their families' feud, their faculties' feud); the show's intertextual references to other narratives and genres (Romeo & Juliet/Kwan & Riam, BL, etc.); among others. I've focused here specifically on three opposing tensions in Bad Buddy (hidden vs open, romcom vs tragedy, and humour vs. emotional/allegorical meaning), and how this kiss scene shows them all as the opposing forces they are while hinting towards their future resolution, which is neither one nor the other but rather somewhere in the middle.

And really, Bad Buddy overall is a show that refuses to do one or the other (the way it both subverts BL tropes and is a BL, or its handling of seme vs. uke, come to mind), instead finding a more realistic middle ground where real nuance and meaning lie.

vote for Bad Buddy in the Best Kiss poll!

#bb #bb meta #ranch thoughts #bad buddy #bad buddy meta #bl bracket

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lurkingshan · 1 year

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I can’t believe it is even necessary to write this post but I’ve been in the @bl-bracket final tags and apparently it is!

Y’all. My friends. My pals. My blogs I don’t actually know but I’m sure are run by lovely people. Please be serious for one second and consider Bad Buddy episode 5 aka an absolutely perfect episode of television aka the best episode of any bl ever.

This episode is all about Pat’s journey through his queer awakening. It’s about him finally realizing what these feelings he’s been having for Pran for years actually are. It’s about him recontextualizing everything they’ve experienced together with that new lens, and finally understanding that they fell the fuck in love in high school and never got the chance to act on it. It’s about him finally comprehending why he’s so desperate to be near Pran all the time and why Pran sometimes looks at him in a way he doesn’t get. It’s about him finally catching up to Pran who has understood all of this the whole time because he has always been clued in to his own queerness and hyper aware of what he feels for Pat.

And as soon as Pat understands, literally at the first possible moment, he acts on it. In a way we rarely see from characters in romance dramas at all, let alone bl. Once he realizes what these feelings are he goes straight to Pran wearing his heart on his sleeve, clarifies what they are to each other, kisses the hell out of him, and invites Pran to kiss him right back. And it’s a great kiss. A fantastic beat for beat physical manifestation of the emotions Pat and Pran are processing as well as an excellent high heat kiss between two actors with amazing chemistry. Anyone who was there in fandom when it happened will never forget it. We were stunned! It was unprecedented!

If that wasn’t enough, the show gives us the immediate aftermath of the kiss, when with zero dialogue Pat and Pran react exactly as they should - Pat heaving a relieved sigh and giving Pran that exhausted and exultant smile, and Pran looking at him with nothing but sadness. Because Pat is still catching up. He’s reveling in something inside him finally clicking into place. But Pran? Pran has already thought this through from every possible angle and he knows exactly how impossible this is. Everything that’s going to happen next is on their faces as we pull back from the kiss. This kiss, and everything it represents, is the catalyst that drives the narrative from here on out.

There is simply no better executed kiss in any bl drama, period. Nothing else comes close when you consider the character work, the perfect pacing, the narrative importance, and the technical mastery that went into it. It absolutely must be given its due.

#bad buddy #bl bracket #GO VOTE FOR PAT AND PRAN #shan shouts into the void

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waitmyturtles · 1 year

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I’m sure folks have already posted about this, but I’ll just chime in to say, regarding the BL Bracket on Best Kiss:

I’m personally praying for a final playoff run between Old Fashion Cupcake vs. Bad Buddy/rooftop ep. 5 first kiss. CCing @wen-kexing-apologist, @lurkingshan, and @shortpplfedup, my/our consensus is — FOREPLAY. While the kiss itself is important, the bigger question — the one that y’all think about when you’re in this situation yourself — is how did we GET HERE?

Both scenes have INCREDIBLE FOREPLAY. If I’m not mistaken, BOTH scenes are one long continuous shot (with the BBS scene taken with multiple cameras, and the OFC scene with one handheld camera). Both with incredible actors and acting. Both with rising heat and anticipation. Both with negotiation and interplay of emotion.

At least with OFC — if you hadn’t read the manga, you may not have been sure how that scene had ended. With BBS, at least the first time I saw that scene — I wouldn’t have necessarily known that Pran was catching onto what Pat what going towards until the very last second, that very last “mai.”

The kiss is not just the kiss. The kiss is everything that happened before that moment. And I sure hope that all of us voters hopefully keep that in mind as we VOTE FOR BBS EPISODE 5 TO WIPE THIS COMPETITION CLEAN continue to see how the bracket plays out.

(All of this cc @bl-bracket!)

#bl bracket #bl bracket: best kiss #bad buddy #old fashion cupcake #pat x pran #pran x pat #nozue x togawa #togawa x nozue #patpran vs nozuetogawa #i mean #saying bad buddy and old fashion cupcake in the same breath gives me such joy

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respectthepetty · 11 months

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Porsche getting out of this BL Bracket was a shocker, but Kim, Vegas, Tankhun, and Tay still going strong is showing me that KinnPorsche IS Gender Envy City.

Every single character in that show was serving cunt 24/7.

Gaslight. Gatekeep. Gang Boss.

Girl Boss.

#kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #gender envy city #they understood the assignment #every character said “you will be envious of the feast I'm serving”#and they were right #you either wanted to be them or be with them #bl bracket

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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gillianthecat · 1 year

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I submitted a bunch of names to the upcoming bl bracket on bisexual swag, but I was not doing words very well and didn't add the reason why. So if you have a campaign statement for why any of these characters have the most bisexual swag in BL feel free (i.e. please help me do what I couldn't) to submit them again and include it.

Choi Yu Na - Semantic Error

Khai - Theory of Love

Ji Woo - To My Star 1&2

Zhou Shu Yi - We Best Love

Vee - Love Mechanics

both Yuzuru and Seiryo - Seven Days

I don't necessarily think all of these have tons of bi swag, but I want to give them all a chance in front of the voters, because I love them all, and many of them are from less popular shows so I didn't know if they'd get other submissions.

#semantic error #theory of love #to my star #we best love #love mechanics #seven days #bl bracket #for the record i'd probably vote for yu na #bisexual swag

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watchingblsnowandforever · 1 month

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Gmmtv is so out of plot for series 😭😭

I like the initiative though. Reminds me of the build-a-bl

#gmmtv part 2 #gmmtv 2024 part 2 #series plots #build-a-bl #bl bracket

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thegayneurodivergentagenda · 1 year

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The bad buddy kiss: momentous, layered, contextually driven, earth shattering, genius, soul crushing, lips crushing , amazing , heavy, laden, metaphorically and symbolically destined to be forever while physically apart

The kinnporche kiss: aita for keeping my (30 sth M) boyfriend (30 sth M) handcuffed to me and only let him go when it is coincidentally too dark to survive? [I'm the mafia and he's in debt to me and also probably somehow related to me if we ever get a season 2]

DO YOU SEE THE ISSUE?!

#its not you it's the show #bad buddy #bl bracket #kp

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iamdarthbader · 3 months

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Inspired by recent @bl-bracket poll results

#bl bracket #khaotung thanawat

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littleragondin · 11 months

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Best Siblings in BL - A Proposed List

I am incredibly excited for the Best Siblings in BL Bracket, it's hands down the one I had waited for the most. Consequently, I have submitted quite a few options and I am thinking why not share them all here. Consider this pre-propaganda for the ones that will be picked up for the bracket!

The ones I can see win this:

Yang and Tian from To Sir, With Love.

On paper, they had everything going against them: their respective mothers hate each other and try to turn them against each other, their father treats them unfairly differently, one of them is keeping a huge secret, the other falls for his brother’s fiancée … And yet!! they turn out to be the most loyal brothers we have ever seen in BL. They clearly adore each other, they protect each other and do whatever they can to make the other happy. Yang keeps Tian’s secret, encourages his hobbies and passions, and make sure he knows he’s loved, Tian defends Yang from their father, worries and fusses about him, and is always in his corner. They are simply wholesome and their love is top tier.

Minoru and Tane from Our Dining Table.

How could you not fall for the adorableness of this sibling duo? There is a huge age gap between Minoru and Tane, even further complicated by the fact that Minoru had to step up in taking care of his baby brother after their mother’s death. And yet, despite the difficulties the situation causes, both boys love each other so much. Even when Minoru is tired or frustrated, he always try to do his best by his brother. And Tane is just the sweetest (and most realistic tbh) little six years old I have ever had the joy to see in a BL. The scene where Tane babbles about poop curry and Minoru answers without listening until it finally clicks? peak sibling behavior.

Ton-hom and Long Pao from My Only 12%.

The two of them were fantastic older siblings to Seeiw. While he seemed a little closer to Ton-hom, they both always were there for him during the whole run of the story. They always looked out for him and took care of him, and it was obvious that he felt safe to tell them thing. They both provided comfort and gentle advice every time he needed it, helping him take responsibility for his mistakes but still ensuring he knew they were here for him. The gentleness that permeated through their relationship in every episodes really made them a strong contender for best siblings imo.

The underdogs I still would love to see go far:

Livy and Mikey from Rainbow Prince

The twins in Rainbow Prince have such a lovely, sweet relationship. They love and trust each other, and distance clearly hasn’t affected this. Also they share a beautiful duet song about how they’ll always be here for each other, and I think that has to count for something!

Kiw and Seuadao from My Secret Love

They were such quintessential little sisters, the both of them. They were bored with their older brothers’ antics in the way teen siblings often are, yet ultimately very invested in them working out and being happy. I’m sending them as a unit because the way they teamed up for/against their brothers was adorable – and they resemble each other a lot both in character and in their relationship to their respective brother.

Diao and Dao from Rakdiao

While they may not look like it at first glance, with their constant bickering and dramatic antics (hello sitcom writing), or the way Dao steamrolls her brother’s boundaries and Diao’s temper tantrums, they actually are quite a sweet pair of siblings. Diao came to live with his sister so she could keep her home after a breakup, and he worries that he may not be able to do so and will cause trouble for her. Dao wants he brother to find someone to build a family with, and even if she teases and mock a little, she worries when he gets in trouble and knows his worth. They do love each other, in their bizarre, over the top ways.

The ones I would really be happy to see win - the UWMA propaganda:

Dean, Don and Del Wongnate

I think those three deserve a spot in this list because their dynamic is just SO interesting. Don and Del have a maybe more classic relationship to each other, they are only a year apart, grew up together, and they are obviously very close despite how different they are. And then there is Dean, who just came back to live with them, whose shadow obviously loomed over them all their life, who is their older brother and isn’t sure he knows how to be, and they all have to adjust to the new dynamic at home this leads to. What makes them so good in my opinion is that they actively try to make this work, they want to be good siblings to each other. It’s sometimes clumsy (Dean telling Don he cannot go out because he shouldn't leave Del alone), it’s sometimes plain sweet (Del being heartbroken that Dean stops eating breakfast with them??), and it’s just very loving in the end.

Intouch and Ahn Chatpokin

The women in Intouch’s life love him very much, especially his older sister. In always trusts his sister with his secret, and Ahn while worrying for him, always protect and take care of him, and she never reconsider his role in the life of her daughter. She was already a teen when he came into her life, she sang to him when he cried as a babe and held him when he cried as a young man, she tried her best to shield him from their father, and she should never have had to bury her baby brother so young.

Korn, Krit and Kard Ariyasakul

Maybe the least focused on siblings of the show, I think they actually do deserve a place in that Best Siblings selection too. Korn, on top of everything going on with his father, always stand as a shield between his violence and his little brothers. He hates it, but he will sacrifice his dreams and aspirations so his brothers can follow theirs. And that love is entirely reciprocated, both Krit and Kard being here for him when their father hurt him, Krit ready to let go of his dream of becoming a cop to alleviate Korn’s burden, Kard naming his sons with the names both his brothers chose when they were young. Those three brothers loved each other so much, and my heart breaks every time I think of Krit, grown up and a father himself, telling Pharm "I don't have any brother left..."

I am, very obviously, missing a lot of really good siblings from really good shows, but those are the ones I love the most across all the shows I have seen. Can't wait to see everyone's submissions and reasons!

#is is going the be the poll I have the strongest opinions about so far lol #as you can see - again - I truly adore siblings #could write about them all day #BL bracket #To Sir With Love #Khun Chai #Bokura no shokutaku #Our Dining Table #My Only 12%#Rainbow Prince #My Secret Love #My Secret Love the series #Rakdiao #Until We Meet Again #UWMA #words

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bl-bracket · 1 month

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Horny on Main Finals: Kinn (Kinnporsche: The Series) vs Boston (Only Friends)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Kinn: "Despite his entire fucking home and mafia compound being straight up invaded by the minor family, his life threatened, his brothers' lives threatened, his beloved bodyguards' lives threatened, several dead and more wounded... this man is immediately down to fuck when his boyfie says "give me your gun". Dickstracted. Dicklirious. Dickmatized. Time and place, ya horndog! See also: every other scene with Kinn."

Boston: "Literally the slut of the show even if they could have had him score more ass not gonna lie still he got 5 on screen sex partners with sex scenes with all of them, needless to say more? that boy is horny 24/7 and only thinks with his "magical dick that turn everybody gay" as invented by my friend Joni literally the main conflict of the show starts cuz this horny bastard cannot deal with his ex hook up actually liking his nerdy virgin friend

So I think this is enough as a presentation and if it isn't look up his tumblr hashtag to see for yourself"

#bl bracket #bl drama #bl shows #kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #kinn #kinn theerapanyakul #boston #boston only friends #only friends #only friends the series #ofts #h.o.m.#finals

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theoryofarson · 10 months

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My disillusionment with democracy began when minoru n tane lost the best siblings poll

#bl bracket

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evaristelonely · 11 months

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gender envy bracket is so weird (to me personally, not in general) because the only person towands whom I feel any sort of gender envy rn is Neo (whenever I see his half-naked photos)... why can't I just be sexy masc gremlin from the start, why do I have to take a long route...

#bl bracket #gender envy #neo trai #i can't be only one experiencing this #right?

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lurkingshan · 1 year

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Fandom choosing cutesy fluff kisses over meaningful, narratively significant, character defining ones is gonna be my villain origin story

#bl bracket #if kp beats bb we riot #shan shouts into the void

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gillianthecat · 1 year

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VOTE PAT & PRAN

My current hyperfixation has been doing the number crunching for the Best Kiss bracket:

Pat and Pran got 499 votes (68.4%) in the semi-finals, against Nozue and Togawa. In the 4th round, they got 503 votes (73.1%) against Vegas and Pete's Hospital Kiss. So fairly consistent numbers there, it seems they can pull about 500 people.

Kinn and Porsche got 453 votes (60.1%) against Jaeyoung and Sangwoo in the semi-finals, so less than Pat and Pran have been getting. But in the 4th round, they got 647 votes against Vegas and Pete's First Kiss! Now, that was still only 55.9% - that poll had 1,158 voters, which is I believe the largest by far of any of the Best Kiss Bracket polls.

All of this is to say, at first I thought Pan and Pran didn't have a chance against Kinn and Porsche, but now I believe they maybe do! It all depends on why those 647 people voted for K&P in the 4th round. Was it an internal KinnPorsche the Series fandom battle, and many of them might not bother to vote in the finals, or even switch allegiance to Pat and Pran? The relatively large numbers of voters for that poll, and then many fewer for their semi-final poll, might indicate that.

Or is it that there is more love for Semantic Error than for Old Fashion Cupcake, which is why K&P got fewer votes in the semifinal, but that effect won't transfer well to the finals?

If I reverse engineered it correctly @bl-bracket did give Pat & Pran 1st seed, and Kinn & Porsche 2nd seed, which means that P&P got more submissions. They've been pretty spot on in their seeding so far, so going by that, there is a good chance!

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It's also interesting to me that both kisses in the final are heartbroken, "I love you desperately but the world makes it impossible, we can't be together" kisses. Maybe it says more about the popularity of those two shows than about people's preference in kisses? But I do think people like kisses with stories behind them. And maybe Romeo & Juliet type stories, where the lovers have to fight the world to be together, are more likely to become fandom obsessions.

all gifs from @actually-yikes gorgeous gifset of this kiss

#VOTE PAT & PRAN #best kiss bracket #campaign propaganda #except its more just me being a dork about numbers #bl bracket #bad buddy #tumblr polls

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