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beingjellybeans · 6 months

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Comfort and Delight at Cafe Mary Grace in Arcovia City

There’s a place in Arcovia City where comfort meets culinary delight, and where the warmth of a home-cooked meal embraces you like a hug. Recently, my boys and I enjoyed a brunch escapade at Cafe Mary Grace’s picturesque 63rd branch. About Cafe Mary Grace Cafe Mary Grace traces its roots to its founder’s passion for baking that dates back to 1983. Mary Grace Dimacali, the creative force behind…

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absolutebl · 9 months

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Top 10 Cozy BLs!

Our Dating Sim made me realize we have a new sub genre of BLs happening right now: the cozy BL.

I decided to invent/identify/name this new BL category because... I can. I crowd sourced (here in the hellhole) opinions of how to define it and what should go on it. The collective brainstormed and elected the following qualifications:

low angst

low stakes

high domesticity

a central relationship that is more cute than anything else

extra points for found family

AKA BLs that make you feel happy and comfortable.

These BLs leave you feeling warm and safe, like a hot water bottle. I will list them in order of my personal preference when in the mood for “cozy.”

1. Our Dating Sim

(Korea, Viki)

Did I create this list for this show? Yes I did. It defines this category. It is a very low stakes, high domesticity, extremely warm and gentle second chance at love office romance.

This is a fuzzy blanket of a story that perfectly suited KBL’s short-length tendencies. The pacing is... muuuuuah... chef’s kiss.

2. Seven Days

(Japan, grey in 2 parts Seven Days: Monday - Thursday | Seven Days - Friday - Sunday)

Popular first year Seiryo has a policy of going out with any girl who asks… for one week. On a lark, third year Yuzuru tests to see if that policy also applies to boys. Seiryo agrees that it does. Along the way they accidentally fall in love. Possibly my favorite BL of all time. It’s very gentle with us and its characters while still having that Japanese emo edge to it.

A master class in quite yet riveting cinema.

What, you doubted me? OF COURSE it’s on the list

3. My School President

(Thailand, YouTube)

GMMTV gave us a classic high school set Thai BL with tropes like messy boys singing their feelings that made this one Love Sick for the modern age with all the gentle sweetness and pining ache, but none of the dated damaging tropes or issues. Yes, we’ve seen it all before, but I still ADORED this, and that’s partly what makes it so comforting. Who let my BL be this wholesome and funny?

4. See You After Quarantine?

(Taiwan, Viki)

Be you never expected lockdown to be comforting? This under appreciated gem is Taiwan’s answer to Gameboys and is just as charming and adorable yet still as quintessentially Taiwanese as one might hope. It features a Japanese love interest and the cutest most confused disaster gay. Slow burn because the two have almost no actual screen time together and yet manage some truly amazing chemistry plus sweetly caring and earnest. Honestly how does Taiwan do it?

5. Ingredients

(Thailand, YouTube)

At the time (during lockdown) many of us referred to this as our “emotional support grocery store advertisement.” If all you want is two soft boys being domestic, cooking together, cuddling on the couch, cat sitting, and babysitting - just put this on and be comfy.

6. What Did You Eat Yesterday?

(Japan, grey)

Basically the grown up version of Ingredients. Emotionally repressed, grumpy, salary man shows his hair dresser husband his love by cooking amazing meals. That’s it, that’s the whole show. There some queer fam drama, and blood-fam coming out drama, but mostly is husbands cooking and eating together and it’s great. Is it BL? Not really. Do we care? Not really.

7. The New Employee

(Korea, Viki)

This one is queer comfort, explicitly. If you aren’t queer you might not find it as warm and engaging. A near pitch perfect office BL with conflict derived from that setting. Also featuring found family and a lesbian bestie. Sweet & innocent (and out) Seung Hyun scores the office internship of his dreams. On his first day at work he gets into it with his cool reserved (and also v gay) boss.

As you do.

But things get romantic pretty darn quickly.

As you gay.

8. En of Love: Tossera & Future the series

(Thailand, YouTube)

Tossera = Younger boy wants to court older boy and does and… that’s it. No really that’s the WHOLE STORY. There is actually no angst, drama, or, indeed plot. But are they the softest bois ever to BL as a main couple? Yes, yes they are.

Future is... exactly the same thing.

Are we mad about it?

Nope.

9. Oxygen

(Thailand, YouTube)

Softest seme in the universe sings his affection to the older boy at the cafe. Let the slow burn courting commence. Oxygen uses every BL trope in the playbook for one of the gentlest lowest angst BLs ever made. It’s a hyung romance (younger boy courts older boy) but very very earnest about it. Am I biased? Sure. This is probably one of my biggest comfort watches.

10. Our Dining Table

(Japan, Gaga)

Lonely salaryman and talented cook gets accidentally adopted by a college kid and his little brother. It’s a quiet cozy little parable of found family alleviating loneliness. Possibly too slow for some but definitely high up there for me with the best of what Japan can do (like Restart After Come Back Home), it’s only flaw (if I dare say such a thing) is that it is not really “romantic.” Lovely & sweet but the romance beats are being used to build a family relationship, not just couple intimacy, it’s OK with me, but not totally BL.

For me one of the hallmarks of cozy BL is that as a chronic rewatcher I find myself starting to rewatch these ones even as they are still airing. Oxygen was an icon of this (also my first watch-along and the reason I realized I really had a passion for BL)

Shorts

Summerdaze - Singapore & Korea, YouTube

The 8.2 Second Rule - Japan, YouTube

A First Love Story - Korea, YouTube

Some More - Korea, Gaga

Quite a few other Strongberry offerings.

More like this?

Top 10 Most Romantic BLs for Valentine’s Day

Top 20 Softest Couples in BL

Top 10 Cutest BLs

Fluffy Sweet Soft Thai BL

10 BLs Best Enjoyed with Hot Tea & a Roaring Fire

MOAR RECS?

From the blog comments. If I agree I gave it a description.

Boys Lockdown (YouTube) - actually on this list because it go so many votes by everyone else, I haven’t watched it.

My Ride (GaGa) - Thai BL grew up with this pulp - a truly lovely and special little show featuring the extremely rare pairing of sunshine/sunshine AKA a cinnamon roll couple. Mature explorations of relationships using one of the softest, sweetest and most innocent friends to lovers vehicles. Kindly, overworked doctor meets broken-hearted motorcycle taxi driver in an “other side of the tracks” slow burn romance. The support cast is excellent, making for great friendship groups and family dynamics. With honest queer rep that adds to, but doesn’t impede the story, and genuine conversation about the nature of class, wealth, and classism, not to mention communication, honesty, and respect for boundaries, you can’t go wrong with this show. In other news, I am a sucker for a single dimple. Full review.

Takara-kun to Amagi-kun (Viki & Gaga) - yes, high school angst but so sweet about it. Review here.

2 Moons 3 Ambassador (grey) - I love this odd little pulp, it’s oddly satisfying for all it’s awkward cheese-fest. Maybe that is why I like it. Review here.

21 Days Theory (YouTube)

About Youth (Gaga) - A truly lovely little coming of age high school BL with a classic YA low drama but high angst and an earnest depth. Full review here.

Ai no Kotodama (Gaga)

Be Loved In House: I Do (Viki)

Cherry Blossoms After Winter (Viki warning dub con) - it’s here because a lot of people (like me) love it, but there are objections. Review here.

Cherry Magic (Japan, indie subbed) AKA Doutei dato Mahoutsukai ni narerurashii - the sweetest, fluffiest, most charming bit of adorable ever, full of found family and pastry and serious slapstick, the characters are utter spazzes, but so cute about it. Still that aspect makes me a little tense so I don’t find it as cozy as others do.

Craving You (Viki)

Destiny Seeker (grey) - see 2 Moons Ambassador

DNA Says Love You (Gaga) - particularly the last few episodes.

La Cuisine (GaGa) - sweet and kind of pure show, and like Thai desserts perhaps requires too much patience for a layperson. Because of the pacing and the focus on the bad girl character, I did dock it. But if you like stuff in the Oxygen vein, then this show is for you, and far better than most Thai BL pulps. That said, I suspect that I enjoyed it more than many would. Full review.

Meet Me Outside (Gaga)

Meow Ears Up (Gaga)

Mr. Heart (Viki)

Mr. Unlucky has no Choice but to Kiss (Viki)

Nitiman (Thailand YouTube) - This Thai BL pulp had sympathetic characters, a solid tsundere uke redemption arc, and a fantastic pining seme who yearned without bullying, grooming, or gaslighting. Plus when they were together, they were ridiculously soft. But it also had a realistic portrayal of university life, bisexual awakening, and friendship groups. Ending is okay but a victim of lockdown.

Old Fashion Cupcake (Viki)

Ocean Likes Me (Viki)

Roommates of 304 (Viki)

Wish You (Korea - Netflix or Viki, you want the movie version) AKA Wish You: Your Melody in My Heart - low stakes high pining romance about a pianist who falls in love with a busker who is on his way to being the next big idol.

There was quite a lively discussion coming up with this list, since everyone defines cozy differently but I am not alone in my top 10 choices, these mostly got the most votes.

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chromantisch · 11 months

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This really hurt. Not just because it's painful to get your heart broken or because of how unbearable it can feel to love and want impossibly. But because I feel Minoru's shame so so deeply, because I have been ashamed just the same.

This is certainly not the first time that media in general or even a BL tackles internalised homophobia and the shame it breeds. But this just struck a nerve for me. The terror of feeling like you've crossed a terrible terrible line. Obsessing over it until you feel like you need to apologise and somehow make it okay again. Just the damn shame of feeling more than you feel you should. And the self-hatred of having made the other person uncomfortable, when in reality that might not even be the case. The yearning to touch again and the impossibility of ever doing it again. Wanting nothing to change because that would be worse, despite how unbearable it feels.

Yutaka himself reassures Minoru that he is okay, but that doesn't mean much, because Minoru can barely hear it. He is so lost in feeling ashamed for having crossed a line that he doesn't even really get that he barely did so. He can only focus on letting go, indulging one last time and then closing everything off, never letting that attraction come to the surface again or manifest in physical contact.

And the thing is, it being the same as before, doesn't even mean not touching. It might not happen all that often and every time they seem to be a bit overwhelmed by their own desire to reach out. Still, the flashbacks within the episode make it very clear that they do touch from time to time. Listening to shame and fear and never touching again is not going back to it being the same.

At the same time, both Minoru and Yutaka acknowledge how difficult, how impossible, it feels to go back to it being the same as before. Maybe because the before they agreed on never really was that way. Maybe because increasing the distance just spurs more shame and fear and never lessens it. Or maybe because touch lingers and when love isn't as unrequited as one thinks, not even never touching again can really erase it.

#our dining table #this fucking show #so warm and so sad and so comforting

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ineffectualdemon · 1 year

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Just found out that a really cute manga that I love has a live action adaption

Its called Our Dining Table and is a super sweet story about a shy lonely salary man who has issues eating around others meeting a man and his little brother who have their own struggles relating in part to food

Together the main character and the two brothers make food together and bring joy and comfort to the other’s life with the MC and the older of the two brothers falling in love

It's very very sweet and charming and the manga is one of my go to comfort media and based on the first episode the show is a very faithful adaption

Anyway first episode english sub is here:

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#our dining table #show recommendations #comfort media #manga

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beingjellybeans · 9 months

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Home-cooked delights for Sunday Brunch at Mom & Tina's Libis

When it comes to finding the perfect spot for a cozy Sunday brunch, Mom & Tina’s new branch in Libis hits all the right notes. As a food blogger and a devoted lover of comfort food, I eagerly anticipated the new store opening of this delightful bakery café chain founded by the talented mother and daughter duo, Belen Torres and Tina Santos. What started as a hobby quickly blossomed into a popular…

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torosdottir · 7 days

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genuinely i am so surprised that more people would be comfortable eating at a restaurant alone than going to a concert alone. eating at a restaurant alone sounds awkward but just in a boring way. like when ur at home do u sit at the table in silence while u eat? wouldnt u rather be doing something? whereas a concert alone is like. u dont have to watch out for someone else u dont have to worry abt losing them or whatever u can just do ur own thing. plus there r always friends to make at concerts if u want someone to chat with or to hold ur place in the crowd or smthn!

#im thinking perhaps its an effect of the 'more than one of these' button #like that anyone comfortable going to a concert alone is also comfortable travelling alone or dining alone or whatever #but idk its still surprising that of the ppl who r only comfortable with one there are more for dining than concert

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respectthepetty · 1 year

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Wednesday is such a full day of great shows, yet all I can think about is it is one day away from Our Dining Table Thursday.

I just need my two guys falling in love with each other while making food and sitting around to eat it.

I just need them slowly unveiling themselves to the other, and the other graciously accepting those revelations with kindness and care.

I just need their softness and their little looks that mean so much.

I just need it to be Thursday!

#our dining table #bokura no shokutaku #yutaka x minoru #Why is it not Thursday everyday?!#Who do I have to bribe to get all the episodes NOW?!#I just need my comfort show with my comfort characters

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absolutebl · 1 year