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Copy A Bangkok just decided to rerun this on their YT starting July 1 (but judging by the subs on the trailer, they didn't put any extra effort into it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH8pOWt4pqk

The title song even goes "You're a red flag but I'm colourblind" 😂 I guess some people are voluntarily colourblind 🤭

There's only one episode out so far and nothing like that happened in the episode.

I get what you mean, but the novel is several years old and came out long before they filmed RL... It just happens to play right into our fantasies about what might happen behind the scenes on a BL set

OMG thanks for letting me know, Viki just pushes you to the next episode before the end

I mentioned it because they are listed above as legal streaming platforms for the series.

THIS!!! Saying that strong male friendship is "queerbaiting" when it never pretended to be queer is just perpetuating toxic patriarchal masculinity. We need MORE media depicting strong, close male friendship. That does not in any way stand in opposition to gay media, if it's not a case of a censored adaptation of a same-sex romance.

Spare Me Your Mercy

I'm assuming it will be on Viki where it's not on Gaga... i. e. most of the world

Unfortunately not in the Americas, Europe, Oceania, the ME or India

That's standard procedure in C-dramas.

Even though Gaga calls this a BL in the synopsis on their site, this has not been marketed or publicised as such in Japan. It's an LGBTQ drama, not a BL. Depending on your preferences, this is not necessarily a bad thing, but if you are looking for a cute Japanese BL, look elsewhere or adjust your expectations.

Yeah, you may have a point. This is basically prostitution, and there's often a very blurred line between prostitution and coerced sex, since many sex workers probably wouldn't resort to it if they had any other choice. And romanticising either is very icky.
I think Thai BL was worse in the early days, on the whole, but there seems to be a resurgence of the toxic tropes recently.

There's plenty of wholesome BL with no grape or even a trace of dubcon. And judging from the trailer it's not even grape but a transactional thing... But yeah, it's probably not super wholesome. And I guess by now we have to accept that Longlee likes these roles, or his management does. And a subset of the BL fandom does as well, or they wouldn't continue making this kind of BL.

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I use an adblocker ;)

No subscription needed, just some virtual travelling

Well said. Talking sh!t about others in order to prop up your own faves actually does them a disservice, it just makes everyone think that those faves can't shine with their own light. I've seen good and bad from every country. We can just be happy that there's a plentitude on offer and something for everyone.

They're what now 🤣

It's listed now