Favourites "OH" moment ?

‘Oh’ moments, I adore those moments! 🥹

So let’s see, five ‘oh’ moments from this year, number one has got to be Jae Young in Semantic Error, he looked up and the light bulb went off so fast, dude looked breathless.

The dual ‘oh’ moment of Koichi and Mitsuru in Eternal Yesterday is definitely number two, they were hooked from the second they saw one another.

Number three is the moment in The Eclipse when Ayan realized that Akk actually liked him back and they weren’t just teasing each other anymore.

Number four is Amagi adorably blurting out his ‘oh’ moment in the very first episode of Takara Kun to Amagi Kun.

Finally, five would have to be Win’s ‘oh’ moment which he then spends the next two episodes of Between Us denying lol.

Ask Me My Top 5 BL Anything 2022

Kakeru and Yamato

Mitsuru and Koichi

Haruhiko and Rio

Ooo, I like these options!

Kakeru and Yamato

Kakeru and Yamato are fantastic, they love each other so deeply and it was really fun for me to watch them work through their feelings for each other as they progressed from friends to lovers. There are so many different structural set ups I love in romance stories. I love the freaks, I loved the fucked up people, I loved the contradictory characters, the happySads, etc. But something that I look for when I’m watching these shows is friendship. Sure these characters love each other, sure they want to fuck each other, but do they like each other? Do they have fun together? I think for me to really lean in to a relationship in a show, they have to sell me their connection either through their affection, their devotion, or both. Teh and Oh will almost certainly break up and get back together about four more times before things get sorted, but I believe there isn’t really anyone else for them. Their connection is magnetic. Pat and Pran have fun, they compete in everything, they wrestle, the goof off. Kakeru and Yamato were friends first. So while I am much more of a happy for now kind of person, I at the very least believe they will make it quite some time together because they like each other and they love each other. 

I appreciate greatly when a couple is able to communicate, and so while I wish they hadn’t gotten interrupted quite so many times throughout the show, I did enjoy the fact that they were constantly attempting to talk to one another openly and honestly about what was going on. I love Yamato backtracking when he thinks he’s made Kakeru uncomfortable, and Kakeru immediately telling him that isn’t the case. I love every iteration of the quiet, reserved boy whose emotions don’t usually cross his face gets some time alone with the loud, bubbly boy whose emotions can never quite be contained and their tension just starts melting away. I love seeing Yamato smile when he’s with Kakeru. 

Also shout out to these boys for one of the best kisses of the year. Thank you, Yamato for finally kissing your boyfriend, interruptions be damned. 

Mitsuru and Koichi

Perhaps the most important thing to me about Eternal Yesterday is how intensely it solidifies the love between Mitsuru and Koichi. Koichi always walked closest to the street, because he knew their walk was dangerous and he didn’t want Mitsuru to be the one to get hurt. Koichi died far too soon because he was protecting his boyfriend. And Koichi lived again because the love they had for each other brought them back. Koichi withheld his own peace, his own rest, to be there for Mitsuru until he could come to terms with Koichi’s death. Mitsuru loved Koichi so much, Koichi was able to take form once again, Mitsuru loved Koichi so much he almost willed him back to life. He loved Koichi back in to his body, he loved Koichi back in to warmth. Koichi was sunshine, and Koichi was tired, and Koichi was slowly fading from the memories of everyone else around him. But Mitsuru held on. Mitsuru held on for dear life. He held on so tightly for so long. And Koichi let him. Because Koichi knew how loved he was. Because Koichi loves Mitchan just as much. 

I know some people think the ending of Eternal Yesterday is tragic. But I don’t think it is. I think it is melancholy, but I also think it is beautiful. Five years later and Mitsuru has not gotten over Koichi’s death. And that’s okay. Because I do believe he’s made some sort of peace. Who knows if he will ever love someone as much as he loved Koichi ever again, but how beautiful for him to know for certain how much Koichi loved him in return. 

Haruhiko and Rio

At risk of you taking away all of my electronics until I can exert some modicum of self-control, I think I need to rewatch The Pornographer series. You’d think for a relationship that started out with as many lies and manipulations as it did, that they’d have a less healthy/mature relationship, but alas. I think they are genuinely good together, and I did really enjoy watching their relationship progress. I don’t know why the scene where Haruhiko finally catches on that he is re-writing Rio’s previously published novels stands out to me so much as The Scene between them. Maybe I think it is a really good indicator of their base personalities, and the way they will function together. Rio may be trying shit, but Haruhiko is studious, he does pay attention, and he will eventually catch on to the bullshit Rio is pulling and call him on it. 

Despite the fact that I do think Haruhiko and Rio work well and I’m happy where we leave things with this series.  I don’t think Haruhiko and Rio’s relationship stuck with me as much as Rio and Kido’s did, mostly cause we have so few shows that actually dedicate as much time and energy in to showing an old relationship that didn’t work as we do here. Usually we get a shitty ex, occasionally we get a lovers to friends scenario. Rarely, extremely rarely do we get an entire prequel series that explores an old relationship and provide so much rich context for who they are as people, how they got to where they are in life, and why a different relationship will work where theirs failed. 

And on top of that I think I am just so much more intrigued by Rio’s life and psyche as an individual than I am to his actual relationship with Haruhiko, though to be fair so much of that psyche does inform how they interact. Rio’s just a fucking freak who faked an arm injury so he could guilt trip a hot boy in to hanging out with him, and I had a lot of fun watching him try Haruhiko 2: Electric Boogaloo on another boy, since it seemed to work out so well the last time.

Send Me a Ship and I’ll Share My Thoughts

they’re just babies oh my god they’re just stretching out the time thinner and thinner until you can see through them both and every moment they hold on is a new and more horrible kind of hurt and they can’t make themselves let go, they can’t imagine letting time snap back because it would tear them apart and they can’t think about that, they mean the world to one another and their worlds are drifting apart and if they keep stretching time like this sooner or later it’ll drag them over the edge into the abyss in between, and they’re just so young. my god. this is their first time being in love. this is their first time feeling these things. this is going to be their first time having sex and it’s going to be so fucking bittersweet, not in a high-school-sweethearts nostalgia way but like a real tragedy. all these firsts and they all smell just a little like death. they fell in love so slowly, so sincerely, and found such peace and warmth in one another, and a rainy morning and a speeding truck and it’s gone, it’s time, the clock is ticking down. they’re holding on and it’s killing them both and they never even got a chance to fall a little out of love. they never got a chance to grow apart or break each other’s hearts or make this easier on themselves by doing what first loves always do. a stupid cruel knife twist turning a first love story into a last love story and it isn’t fair it isn’t fair it isn’t fair

Just stumbled upon this drama Eternal Yesterday binged it and it was excellent in every way but heartbreaking at the same time 😭

I've been quietly watching Eternal Yesterday because I'm sure the ending is going to hurt, but every episode I'm reminded that ONLY Japan could pull this plot off.

I don't even know how to describe it, but there is always a vibe to Japanese BLs like something...sinister(?) or voyeuristic(?). Neither of these words fit, but I don't know how to describe it. But it helps elevate the show's plot to an almost psychological horror level. And if there is one thing the horror genre does well is presenting a queer allegory.

Another example - Kabe Koji is fun but there is an underlying presence of...something throughout the show. A certain kind of tension? An intensity, maybe? A bleak feeling? I DON'T KNOW!

It's in all of the Japanese BLs though (Old Fashion Cupcake, Minato's Laundromat, Takara-kun & Amagi-kun, even Cherry Magic). It's a vibe.

Back to the point, because of Japan's vibe, this show is good in the strangest way. I fully expect for it to not have a happy ending, but it has this level of emotion and apprehension that is fascinating. Once again, it makes it feel like a queer horror allegory (Frankenstein, Psycho, It Follows), and only Japan could pull this off.

Japan and horror at its finest.

Eternal Yesterday (2022)

Guess who’s watching episode three of Eternal Yesterday yet again?

It’s maybe my favorite standalone episode of any drama, and definitely my favorite confession scene, even managing to beat out Kiyoi’s tearful, furious eruption from My Beautiful Man. I’ve even come fully around to the kiss. 

I just love everything about it: Koichi’s obvious desire to make the trip fun for Mitsuru in spite of his clear reluctance, Mitsuru’s skittering glances at Koichi whenever he isn’t paying attention, everything coming to a head in the tent followed by Mitsuru bolting, Koichi following, and both of them confessing, the way Koichi’s hands shake when he reaches up to grasp Mitsuru’s shoulders...the way that soft, tentative first kiss floors both of them, and how happy they are that they now know they both feel the same. 

I just adore them so much. 

am i watching a show about a dead guy ressucitating through wanting to fuck his boyfriend

Ok, hear me out

I was just minding my own business when I realized that

Eien no Kinou or

Eternal Yesterday (2022)

One of the best bl series I’m watching turned out to be the lone Japanese series I’m watching…

Eternal Yesterday, is a lovely series, (fairytale-like), with two gorgeous, wonderful lead actors, who give us all the feelz that the creator and scriptwriter of this series wanted to depict.

You will not be disappointed. It is a little more than an average bl, because there are comments made, and implied, about gay issues. Not a lot, because it’s only 8- 24 minute episodes, but they’re there.

The final two episodes haven’t been released, yet, and I’m reticent to watch them, because 1) it might be too painful and,

2) I don’t want it to end.

It’s on GagaOOLala and on Rakuten Viki.

Spotify Wrapped BL Couples Edition (pt 2)

Put your top 100 (101) songs on shuffle and assign the first ten random songs you get to a specific BL couple, doesn’t have to make complete sense to anyone but you. This is harder than it sounds, trust me.

No need to tag anyone, just have fun trying to match random songs to your favourite (or least favourite) couples, and yes, not entirely canon couples count too ;)

1: Youth by Daughter - Dew / Pob

2: Touch by Sleeping At Last - Tian / Phupha

3: Who Are You by Aquilo - Puen / Talay

4: Meet Me in the Woods by Lord Huron - Mitsuru / Koichi

5: TV by Billie Eilish - Win / Team

6: You Are The Reason by Calum Scott - Xiang Hao Ting / Yu Xi Gu

7: My Oasis by Sam Smith & Burna Boy - Puth / Kaeng

8: Where Do Lovers Go by Ghostly Kisses - Pat / Pran

9: Ocean Eyes by Billie Eilish - Cake / Eiw

10: Blame by Grace Carter & Jacob Banks - Kim / Porchay

So, I had a lot of fun trying to match songs to couples the first time I did this so I decided to try again, I skipped any songs I already got and made sure to pick couples that I hadn’t used yet. Again, it was harder than it sounds lol. If you wanna try this, tag it with spotify wrapped BL edition so I can check out your list :D

So, eien no kino (Eternal Yesterday) finale....

I'm trying to deal with it....Too much feelings (why I am like this?😭).

Find me listen to this music theme of the series and trying to not feel a fucking thing anymore.

Yeah this is one more villain origin story for me... New level of sadness accomplished.

“so, are we... like that?” “yes.”

eternal yesterday, ep3.

So I just finished watching Eternal Yesterday😭😭😭. Thank goodness Utsukushii Kare 2 episode 1 is out and full of feel goodness. I can go re-watch it to get me out of the sads.

Did Mitsuru decide to have sex with Koichi because he knows Koichi is taking life/energy from him, so this would either 1) keep Koichi "alive" longer or 2) he could give Koichi life while ending his?

Because the discussion that happened about Koichi having so much to live for while Mitsuru was feeling some way about his life made it seem like he was fine with exchanging his life for Koichi's.

Koichi x Mitsuru | My Oasis