BL Drama Lovers Club

The On1y One - episode 10

I was so going to come here and behave uncivilised then I saw a spoiler for next week's episode so I will take a raincheck on the cussing out lol.

I definitely see why this series needs and is getting a season 2 and based on that spoiler I saw I am not sure of this season having a happy ending.

Regarding the teacher's story I will refrain from giving comments for now.

Okay so I got bored tonight and I remember some asking about maybe a group October Challenge so I made this sample which would be the first 15 days and tell me what you think and if you are all wanting to do it? :)

 RXinw:

Addicted Heroin Thai remake - episode 6

I am not amused in the slightest.

Why not? Specific things? I've been thoroughly enjoying this series, including the latest episode.

 Emrys:

A new challenge is always welcome! Thanks for creating it, must have taken some time to do this.

You are welcome and yeah it took awhile, but I was bored so it was fun making it and also wanna give credit to my bestie(Mignon toi) for helping me think of some of the questions. :) ♡

 RXinw:

I am not amused in the slightest.

The original Addicted series is horrible enough, I can only imagine the Thai remake being the same or worse. :(

Ever since I deleted most series from my plan to watch list (mostly BLs and het dramas), I have been watching a lot more interesting series. Those happen to be GLs. They are better in some ways than BLs, especially since I have seen my fair share of BLs until now so the novelty has worn off quite a lot.

I'm trying to say that BLs aren't really my cup of tea anymore, even if I do still follow a few series (mostly JBLs). I think that BL has its place in one's life, but at some point you could try something else too. Watching only BL is not a good idea, there are many other good genres out there.

This is not addressed to anyone in particular, I just wanted to rant about my journey with BL so far and how that journey has reached an end. I still like the series I like and that won't change, but my watching of BL itself has ended (mostly). The latest BL I watched was Hidamari ga Kikoeru and I think this is one of the few BLs I watched this year. It's a good series to end my watching with, but of course, I still have a few BL series in my ptw list.

I am trying to watch Word of Honor but making modest to no progress. I also dropped a series of BLs and het dramas (not on my account anymore). I feel like watching dramas by itself is something I don't want to do as much of, compared to the past 2 years. I found much more interesting activities I can do (mainly reading books and watching movies), so dramas take a backseat to everything else. Not being top priority, I can sift through my almost all GLs ptw list and find something nice to watch every time.

This suits me the best and while I still have to finish series like 23.5 and GAP, the short Japanese GLs fit me so well and I also appreciate the fact I can finally see myself in the series I'm watching. With BLs, I can't relate for the most part with the relationships because it's gay and not lesbian. While with watching GLs, I can directly relate to the relationships, although it's scary too, sometimes. Maybe due to internalized homophobia or biphobia but I avoided to watch lesbian media for so long because of this. Or maybe I avoided only some types of lesbian media or lesbian media in large quantities. In any case, now I can watch/read lesbian media with no problems and I can finally find something to relate to in this world, when it comes to romance. It's not that I can't somewhat relate to het dramas (like Sunshine by my Side), but that's very far and few in between. Also GL is like the best in all countries, including South Korea. I used to avoid SK dramas because of how artificial they all seemed to be like. Not anymore when it comes to GL dramas though.

All in all, I'll probably post here much less than before considering I don't watch BL as much. I planned to watch Kidnap but it depends on whether I will ever get into the habit of watching Thai dramas again. Thai dramas have longer episodes and I don't have time to binge watch them or even watch only one episode a day/week. I feel like the time for Thai dramas has passed for me and now I'm only interested in J-dramas. The occasional C-drama too, but it highly depends on my mood. I even stopped watching Thai dramas with my faves in them. Ever since Cooking Crush, Gun Atthaphan's dramas just don't reach out to me as much as Not Me did or any other past drama of Gun's, but at that time I was at the beginning of watching dramas so everything was new to me still. I tried watching The Trainee and didn't get past the first episode. I don't know if I'll watch Gun's next drama, but I might? Who knows.

I'm eagerly awaiting for GMMTV 2025 event, as much as I like to see the trailers and tentatively decide if I want to watch anything. I want Milk Pansa to have a main role again. Gun Atthaphan too, but if it's BL, I don't want to watch it, sorry.

tl;dr I'm not watching BL as much anymore (except for some JBLs) and I don't think I'll ever get back into it as much as I used to in these past 2 years. The stories are sometimes repetitive too and have way too many NC scenes lately. I blame that on KP to be certain. Anyway, it's been nice while it lasted. I'm sure that if I see a really good series and it happens to be BL, I'll most likely watch it. But that's rare and I can't muster the mood or will to watch series that already finished airing for some reason. I even dropped some JBLs I didn't like? Usually JBLs are good but ehh, not everything they release is engaging and fun.

See ya around everyone, I will most likely go with monthly challenges and I'll lurk if I don't have anything good to say about anything. It's been nice being in this group and seeing everyone talking about their fave series. Cheers!

 Emrys:

See ya around everyone, I will most likely go with monthly challenges and I'll lurk if I don't have anything good to say about anything. It's been nice being in this group and seeing everyone talking about their fave series. Cheers!

I am glad you got to experience the BL magic but for some all good things must come to an end but you have already found your next drama adventure in the form of GLs so I know you are getting to experience a whole new type of magic. BLs will be here if you ever decide to watch again so is the club.

Cheers to you as well! 

 FortPeatForever:

Okay so I got bored tonight and I remember some asking about maybe a group October Challenge so I made this sample which would be the first 15 days and tell me what you think and if you are all wanting to do it? :)

I was not ignoring your post lol just trying to tick off watch objectives for this week lol. 

I like the idea of a Halloween Challenge as well. I think it will be fun. I will definitely participate when time allows me lol.