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#the internet and you #abraham ethernet #net meister 4089 #scott the woz #stw #scott the woz fanart #scott wozniak #tiay

[constant-humorliation]

assume things about me based on my search history

#tiay #today i asked you #bored

[rosesinmyeyes]

had a dream u came back. now get the fuck out again mf

#tiay

[piningintrovert]

Tonight, Ren didn't go back to his own home. The next day and the day after that, too. Ren stayed in my bed, sleeping beside me the whole time. I don't know why, it's just... with my eyes closed or open, Ren is there. That alone is enough, and nothing else matters. The only thing that matters to me is Ren.

Sakurai Yuki as KAZUMA & Takamatsu Aloha as REN TOKYO IN APRIL IS… (2023), dir. Ishibashi Yuho 

#tokyo in april is... #kazuma x ren #shigatsu no tokyo wa... #tokyo in april #shigatsu no tokyo wa #tokyo in april is #sakurai yuki #takamatsu aloha #jdramaedit #jdramasource #bl drama #mjtag #userbillkin #lextag #tonanons #userspicy #raemakes #s:tiai #tiai ep4

[onett64]

The internet stood me up babe! what do i do!?

#scott the woz #scottposting #in my tiay slump right now #did you know that net-meister and his occasional lover captain dial up are the only canonically gay scott the woz characters?

[bisexualboysbroadcast]

“every time you touch me i feel warm too.” 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡im putting my entire heart into a canon barrel

#ciara watches tiai… #tokyo in april is...

[scottst-ash]

everybody remembers larry tesler from the internet and you. he’s one of the characters from that classic video with characters. but despite his hunble appearances, there’s a lot more than meets the eye about this computer guy. in this deep dive, we’re getting to the bottom of the most pressing question in feature-length high school productions about the internet: why does larry tesler go around always telling people his name?

he’s trans

#scott the woz #this voice #i think the fact that larry is a real fuckin guy and if i recall correctly the only real fuckin guy #in tiay makes this a lot funnier

[khaotungsfirst]

THEY ARE SO BOYFRIEND

#im only halfway through i’m scared of what’s to come #ali watches #tokyo in april is #tiai

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

ive been contemplating maybe adding little "supplementals" to oop in the form of like, mini-chapters from the pov of in-universe documents... they wouldn't be required reading or anything, itd just be extra details for people who are interested, and also a way for me to throw on some lore salt when i don't want to bog down the regular chapters with a bunch of exposition. like a transcribed copy of a hisuian legend, the abstract of laventon's report on the plates, notes from the ginkgo guild, etc. also bc the one doc i'm writing now has a dumb writing trick in it that i want other people to laugh at with me. but idk... it might be too much work and/or just distracting for readers

#the nemesis speaks #jailbirds au #i dont think theyd be frequent? idk #it might also work better as a totally separate linked fic like how i did TIAI and its associated docs #but eh. i kinda don't like that format here #im just thinking out loud rn mostly

[ascianasahi]

shb spoilers i think

i think it would be cool if graha had his entire upper half excluding his face crystalized, idk if its just a layer of crystal or if its his entire body but i think he may shatter at any second

#graha tiai is my faforite #shadowbringers spoilers #shb spoilers #i think it could be deemed as a spoiler so im spoilering it for the people who dont want spoilers for shadowbringers they wont get the spoi #ya

[pixelated-jellifishi]

veiay uddenlysay otgay naay bsessionoay ithway igpay atinlay elphay

#heart eyes <3 #tsiay llaay iay antway otay oday #tsiay eryvay unfay #miay eryvay iredtay ghuay #miay lowlysay ettinggay etterbay taay peakingsay tiay

[triedpklove]

forever heartbroken i had to sell my alt j 10th anniversary tickets because when i bought my tickets it said nowhere the venue was 21+ GRRRR

#if they do a TIAY 10th anni tour at least i’ll be 21 bt then

[yo-sostenible]

El tramuntanasaurio, nueva especie de reptil fósil encontrada en Mallorca

Un esqueleto fosilizado muy bien conservado ha permitido describir a Tramuntanasaurus tiai, un reptil herbívoro que vivió en un ambiente tropical durante el Pérmico, hace unos 270 millones de años. En aquella época la actual isla mallorquina estaba unida al supercontinente Pangea. Personal investigador del Museu Balear de Ci��ncies Naturals (MUCBO) y el Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel…

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#dinosaurios #Tramuntanasaurus tiai

[bengiyo]

We are headed into our final Drama Shower show of the season. How do you rank the shows we got this season and how are you feeling about the direction of the project?

What is Drama Shower and Why Does It Matter?

Before we get into rating these shows, I want to do a breakdown of what this is. To give you a sense of how big a deal Drama Shower is, fans are regularly updating a Wikipedia page for it with relevant links to follow the project. Also, there is a dedicated MDL page for it.

Drama Shower is a dedicated half-hour programming block on MBS, a Japanese broadcaster that is over 70 years old, in conjunction with Kadokawa, a Japanese publisher and holding group, that plays BL content at 1:30 am on Fridays. The project's main producer is Kaoru Azuma, who is a self-described long-time BL fan. He wants to show that BL can do a variety of stories in genre, and has recently stated that he wants to produce original content through the project as well.

We originally had six shows air through year one: Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss!, Senpai, This Can't Be Love!, Takara-kun to Amagi-kun, Eternal Yesterday, Candy Color Paradox, and Jack o' Frost.

I originally reviewed these shows as overall a mixed bag, but showing great promise. I liked that they got more comfortable with depictions of m/m intimacy over time. I thought Mr. Unlucky was legitimately funny (9), Senpai never found its footing (6), Takara and Amagi mildly squandered their premise (8), Eternal Yesterday was extremely poignant (10), Candy Color Paradox had ambitions that exceeded its talent pool (7), and Jack o' Frost was a really strong finish (9.5).

MBS seemed to enjoy the performance of this project enough to continue it for another year.

For me, I think it's very significant to give BL itself a time slot to see how audiences are responding to BL as a concept compared to the pitch of individual shows. I'm really encouraged by MBS doing this. Even if you don't care about the name MBS, you have interacted with their content, because they are also behind Full Metal Alchemist and Haikyuu! anime adaptations.

Rating Year 2

I actually liked the way year 2 started, even if I'm a bit mixed on the end. I really loved opening with Tokyo in April is... I liked that they had BL trying to be topical. I think the show unfortunately conflates some things it shouldn't, but I loved TIAI and I loved Ren and Ryunosuke's experience being gay men. I liked the changes they made to the source material. This show was dark in a way that it owned, and I really like that. I gave it a 9.

We then moved to My Personal Weatherman, and that went over well for the people who like to see really hot people go at it with each other. I actually enjoyed how much Yoh and Segasaki actively misunderstood each other even as they were speaking to each other. I don't know that they exactly completed their story, and I suspect that there may be a future outing for this show. Despite enjoying it, I think it didn't get all of its pieces together fully and gave it an 8.5.

We then crossed over into uncertain territory with One Room Angel. Despite enjoying a lot of what was going on in this show, I don't actually think it's a romance. It's my understanding that the angel character is a lot younger in the source material, and so they may have been a little shy about how much they did with these characters on screen. I also don't think the storytelling was balanced between the leads. However, because I am susceptible to complex stories about grief, I gave this show an 8.

Now, we have Sahara-sensei to Toki-kun. I hated this show so much. I think it makes the unfortunate mistake of asking me to care about how homophobia and public perceptions impacts people through its flashback drama, but then does nothing with that in the front. It sucked so hard, and I'm really disappointed because I thought this show had some of the most potential, and I thought Toki was one of the most watchable characters Drama Shower had produced. I ended up giving it a 4.

Our next and final show (I think) for this outing is called My Strawberry Film. This one will also be in a high school, but I know little about it, other than we may have a GL plot in it.

So, overall I'd give Drama Shower an 8. I think fans of BL, and especially Japanese BL, should continue to show up and support it. The fact that we have a dedicated programming block is important. The fact that none of these shows has felt like a retread so far is super important. Drama Shower is varied. There is something in here for almost everyone. Drama Shower is the biggest commitment to BL we've had from a distributor other than GMMTV's ongoing BL slate. Taiwan has Vidol doing is four projects, but Drama Shower is the first time I know of that a Japanese distributor has focused on BL in a meaningful, ongoing way. We should stick with it.

#answered #Ben writes #japanese bl #bl series #drama shower #tunku shower #mr. unlucky has no choice but to kiss! #senpai this can't be love #takara kun to amagi kun #candy color paradox #eternal yesterday #jack o' frost #tokyo in april is... #my personal weatherman #one room angel #sahara sensei to toki kun #my strawberry film

[lurkingshan]

On Guilt, Sexual Assault, and Me Too in Tokyo in April Is…

Content warnings for this post: rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment

Following TIAI’s fifth episode, I’ve been discussing with friends @bengiyo, @shortpplfedup, @ginnymoonbeam, and @wen-kexing-apologist what the show is doing with the sexual assault storylines. Given Ren’s own past with Kazuma and his interpretation of what happened back then, and given that he is now being placed at the center of a story about addressing a sexual predator in his workplace, there is some fair concern about what they are trying to say with the juxtaposition of these storylines, whether we are meant to read them as explicitly connected, and what we are to make of Ren being centered in a story about women being sexually harassed and assaulted. 

In chatting more with @bengiyo, we had some ideas about this we wanted to share (what follows is something we wrote collaboratively). Full disclosure: we have both read the manga this show is based on, and know where this storyline goes in the source material. That said, the show is diverging fairly significantly in tone as well as some of the pacing and story beats, so we are really just talking about what we’re seeing in the show at this point. So, here are a few questions we are pondering:

Why is Ren, a third party, centered in this Me Too story?

Given that this plotline is about Sanada harassing and assaulting women in the workplace, why is Ren, who has not been among Sanada’s victims, the one who is being asked to address it? 

We think the show actually seeded this fairly well. It was established in the early episodes that Ren is incredibly talented and well-respected within both this office and the wider industry. He leads the art department and is perceived as one of the most important people in the company, most notably when he all but carried the company through the marketing fiasco with the canceled ad campaigns. His coworkers like and trust him and look to him for guidance. We have seen him be the one to step in before when Sanada was misbehaving–intervening when Sanada was hazing Kazuma–and one can assume that is not the first time he’s been an ally to others in the office since we first met Ren and Sanada as they were fighting about another office skirmish. 

Ren is also an openly gay man, which makes it more likely that his female coworkers might trust him with something like this. He is not a threat to them, but he has the positional power necessary to take the risk of raising Sanada’s behavior to executives and can maybe actually get somewhere with it. We know from Ren’s conversation with Maeda that she did try to report this on her own, and as is all too common, she was dismissed and pushed out so that management could protect the senior man instead. While we might typically prefer to have the women who were victimized more present in a storyline like this, it makes sense that they need a powerful ally to do the heavy lifting on their behalf, and Ren is the best positioned character in this story to do it.

And the way we’ve seen Ren handle this situation so far affirmed that decision to trust him. He has put himself primarily in the role of a facilitator. He has been trusted with privileged information that he has divulged to no one (including Kazuma), he has used his connections to find them a lawyer and put them in contact, and he has reached out to another colleague who can help connect them with other affected victims to join them in building their case. He is doing all the right things, and while the story is centered on him, he is not centering himself in the situation.

Is Ren consciously connecting his interpretation of his first time with Kazuma with Sanada and viewing exposing Sanada as a path to personal redemption?

We are a firm NO on this one. It’s important for us to recognize that Ren has deeply sublimated his feelings about what happened with Kazuma ten years ago, and he is currently in a very different headspace about that relationship. While dealing with Sanada may inspire some complex emotions and act as a catalyst for Ren to open up more with Kazuma, there is nothing in the story telling us that he is explicitly connecting his past with Kazuma and the current situation in his head, and certainly nothing that makes us think his actions here have anything to do with a desire for personal redemption. Ren is helping his colleagues because he is a good person who has the power to do something, not because he wants to absolve himself of an old crime.

As far as Ren has reacted to this situation, he’s only focused on gathering resources and information, and connecting the victims to each other and representation. He is not speaking about this with Kazuma because that is privileged information and Kazuma reports to Sanada. When Ren thinks about Kazuma in this episode, it’s only about how long this separation between them existed and how he’s held the pain of that for so long.

Throughout this episode, each time Ren spoke to another man about the Sanada situation, his friend or colleague asked about Takizawa after they had resolved the discussion about Sanada. There is a line being drawn between Ren’s situation and Sanada’s, but the line may primarily be about the way SA elements have historically been used in genre as a way to advance romantic narratives for men. In this story, Ren and Kazuma’s relationship is broken at the point at which Ren and others believe that Ren assaulted Kazuma. This show presents SA as a gross violation and a crime, and so a stark comparison to the miscommunication inherent in the Ren-Kazuma relationship.

What are we to make of the juxtaposition of these story threads?

So if the Me Too storyline is not meant to be about Ren’s redemption (which is not something he actually needs, because he did not harm Kazuma in the way he thinks he did), then what are we to take from the way these two stories are playing out in parallel? The most important thing Ren is still holding back from Kazuma is the truth of what happened ten years ago and the guilt and shame he’s been holding ever since due to his false interpretation of the events of that day. He will only be able to let go of that by acknowledging what he believes to be true and finally hearing Kazuma’s truth in turn. The catharsis he needs is not about redemption, but rather an honest conversation between them to confirm what he is already starting to feel–that they have loved each other all along.

The Me Too storyline may contribute to that by giving Ren some space to reconsider his ideas about their first time together in juxtaposition to the stories he is now holding for his colleagues. He’s kept that locked in a box for so long, but being so directly confronted by other stories of sexual assault could give him the space to gently ease that mental door open and think about the differences between how these women feel about Sanada and how Kazuma clearly feels about him. That this is unfolding in parallel with him getting more comfortable and secure in his relationship with Kazuma is not an accident–it is in fact the very combination of the two that will allow him to unlock the box and build up his courage to finally address it. Don’t forget also that Kazuma’s mother has re-entered the story, which acts as a further catalyst for Ren and Kazuma to finally clear the air about exactly what happened ten years ago.

(I know we’re in BMF hours on the dash now, so tagging a few friends who’ve been watching along with us so this post doesn’t get lost: @troubled-mind @blmpff @wanderlust-in-my-soul @rocketturtle4 @nieves-de-sugui @colourme-feral @waitmyturtles)

#tokyo in april is … #shigatsu no tokyo wa... #japanese bl #shan shouts into the void

[bisexualboysbroadcast]

imagine being someone’s north star, someone’s sun, someone’s compass??? can’t relate.

#but you know who can? ren #dfhjlptdsaqcbnmlyvd can’t believe im done. it was perfect #ciara watches tiai… #tokyo in april is...