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respectthepetty · 1 year

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Semantic (Color) Error

Sang Woo and Jae Young are color-coded boys in love.

So what are their colors?

If you thought red and blue, you'd be WRONG!

The opening credits and scenes declare what they are:

Their colors are blue and green.

Sang Woo is a blue boy. He is confident, stable, and intelligent.

Jae Young is a green guy. He is lively, hopeful, and easygoing.

He even draws Sang Woo in his color on the wanted posters.

The only reason Jae Young wears red is to bother Sang Woo.

Jae Young borrows most of the red items from his friends.

He begins wearing red when looking for Sang Woo before he is aware Sang Woo hates the color *the "SINNER" jacket*

When they first meet, they both wear black, but Jae Young is backed up by his fake red. *the "DIE BITCH" jacket*

Black tends to be their neutral color.

When they're hiding out in the clothes, they are neutral in black with their colors behind them until the red light comes on, referring to Jae Young's fake red that bothers Sang Woo.

Exchanging colors

While at the bar, Jae Young is upset at Sang Woo for ignoring him, so he plays darts with his fake red and Sang Woo's blue.

He rescues Sang Woo, and they have a tender moment. The next day, Sang Woo tries on red.

And Jae Young picks up blue even though there is a red outfit he could wear.

But Sang Woo doesn't like this (because he has the fake red), and retreats into a dark blue while Jae Young remains neutral black. *see the barrier that divides them demonstrated by the wall behind them: Sang Woo in the darker color (wants to remain in the dark about his feelings) and Jae Young in the lighter color (because he is aware of his feelings)*

However, Sang Woo can't truly let Jae Young go and continues to use Jae Young's fake red when he usually uses black. *remember Jae Young placed a red pen on Sang Woo's shelf after the bar incident*

Sang Woo realizes he made a mistake and goes to see Jae Young at the restaurant. He is still in his blue, but now he is surrounded by Jae Young's real color, green.

Jae Young rejects him, but Sang Woo tries again, this time fully understanding how important Jae Young is, so he wears Jae Young's green to reflect that.

After this, Jae Young incorporates Sang Woo's blue into his wardrobe.

The two become closer, and eventually kiss.

Each is highlighted by the other's color: Sang Woo in Jae Young's green, and Jae Young in Sang Woo's blue.

But, per usual, Sang Woo is confused and goes to Jae Young's studio in Jae Young's fake red while Jae Young is in neutral black.

Jae Young makes Sang Woo realize what he has been feeling (no fake red anymore, but pure green). EDIT: @grapejuicegay spotted that when Sang Woo agrees to the two-week trial period, he does so in a blue and green thumbs up sweater.

Sang Woo decides to be honest in the same shirt he wore the first time he yelled at Jae Young and showed him emotion - the merged green and blue flannel shirt.

After that, Sang Woo is in love and in Jae Young's green

Until Jae Young tells Sang Woo he got accepted into an oversees program, then both boys are struggling with their feelings and retreat back to their colors *Sang Woo's beloved blue bike*

But all ends well, and they merge their colors and love together with a hint of fake red (blue bedding with green pillows)

And the Semantic (Color) Error was fixed!

#semantic error #semantic error the movie #jae young x sang woo #the colors mean things #the cinematography #color coded boys #blue boy #green guy #fake red

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gunsatthaphan · 2 years

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#hits different.

#to my star #to my star 2 #tms 2 #jiwoo x seojoon #semantic error #jae young x sang woo #korean bl #bl drama #😭#sorry for the pain lol but im in my feelings again #jdkfhgkjdf

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theflagscene · 1 year

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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

#ask game answers #bl ask game #love a good ‘oh’ moment #semantic error #eternal yesterday #the eclipse #the eclipse the series #takara kun to amagi kun #between us #between us the series #jae young x sang woo #mitsuru x koichi #akkayan #takara x amagi #winteam

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conscbgb · 5 months

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He has been free for 2 seconds and his entourage has already said "Get back at it man" 🤣😂😅

I really hope his entourage/fans/industry won't push him to do things he is not into anymore...I would be really really happy if SE s2 would happen BUT only if he is comfortable in acting in it not because he feels preassured in being part of it...

For the moment let's remember when that day they showed up at the set and totally ate it!!!

#park seoham #kactor #semantic error #jang jaeyoung #jae young x sang woo

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yinyuworld · 4 months

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The moment he felt that all of that was lovely, Jaeyoung realized that he had a crush on Chu Sangwoo. It had happened before he could tell in what way he was so special and different from others. The sight of Sangwoo running towards him, or no, the fact that Sangwoo was running towards him was as magnificent as the night sky itself, made Jaeyoung feel frightened.

When had it come to this? He didn’t know when he had started to fall in love with that tactless, silly, unpretentious, and unyielding person. That’s because it had come on as slowly as clothes that had gotten wet by rain. When he came to his senses, he was already in this state. Thinking that he would get tired of him after sleeping together once was such a huge pipe dream. Jaeyoung had rather become more desperate for Chu Sangwoo after spending the night with him.

✨ this quote is from book Semantic Error by J.Soori 저수리

📌 Park Seoham and Park Jaechan in Semantic Error

#semantic error #jaeyoung x sangwoo #jang jaeyoung #chu sangwoo #kdrama #park seoham #park jaechan #korean bl #lgbt #asianlgbtqdramas #저수리 #jeosuri #시맨틱 에러 #jae young x sang woo #sang woo

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emotionallychargedtowel · 1 year

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the pursuer-distancer dyad & how it applies to the world of BL

Not too surprisingly, since I have a psychology PhD, I notice a lot of examples in my BL-watching of psychological concepts related to relationship dynamics and sometimes individual characteristics. I also probably like BLs because I’ve sought them out in part because they present an opportunity to do some complex thinking about relationships and how we approach them.

A quick thing to note: BL characters are, of course, not real. But their stories resonate with us because they have some kind of relationship to reality. There’s a continuum from very realistic and highly relatable, to heightened for effect (this can make it easier to see certain things clearly, so they can still teach us useful things about real life), all the way to highly unrealistic stuff where we can relate to it because unusual experiences symbolically stand in for something else (see the classic “sure, he’s a murderer, but he’s my babygirl” phenomenon).

This post is about pursuer-distancer dynamics in relationships. I’m going to explain the concept as quickly and simply as I can, then talk a little bit about BL tropes and specific examples. I hope that if I keep writing about stuff like this, this is a post I can link to for background info in the future.

Most of the stuff I’ve seen on pursuer-distancer dynamics stems from Harriet Lerner’s work. She’s a Bowenian family systems therapist with a feminist bent who has written a lot of incisive but accessible books for popular audiences. Family systems theory is a way of looking at relationships as complex systems in which our patterns of behavior are interrelated. Hopefully that last sentence will make more sense after I explain further. For now, let’s dive in.

Here’s Lerner introducing the concepts of pursuers and distancers with a bulleted list from her book The Dance of Anger, excerpted below:

PURSUERS

• react to anxiety by seeking greater togetherness in a relationship.

• place a high value on talking things out and expressing feelings, and believe others should do the same.

• feel rejected and take it personally when someone close to them wants more time and space alone or away from the relationship.

• tend to pursue harder and then coldly withdraw when an important person seeks distance.

DISTANCERS

• seek emotional distance or physical space when stress is high.

• consider themselves to be self-reliant and private persons—more “do-it-yourselfers” than help-seekers.

• have difficulty showing their needy, vulnerable, and dependent sides.

• open up most freely when they are not pushed or pursued.

Sometimes we see these roles happen in clear-cut ways similar to what Lerner describes. But they can also show up in more complex ways. Roles can vary both between and within relationships. In other words, you can be a distancer in one relationship and a pursuer in another, and you can be both a pursuer and a distancer in different areas within the same relationship.

In healthy relationships that aren’t under any particular stress, pursuing and distancing would still happen. But partners would be free to engage in either as needed in a flexible way instead of being stuck in entrenched roles.

Side note: there’s a difference between pursuing in the sense of wanting to be in a relationship with someone and pursuing a partner emotionally in an established relationship, just as there’s a difference between distancing yourself from a potential partner and distancing yourself from an established partner. I’m including a shot from Semantic Error above because it has a quality that not very many BLs have: the seme seems like he’s be a pursuer in a relationship, and the uke seems like he’d be a distancer.

So, why do we get caught in these entrenched, interrelated roles in relationships?

Lerner sees them as a sort of unspoken deal that we make with people we’re close to because deep down, we want to avoid acknowledging certain needs and the emotions that come with them. It’s a fairly universal thing that human beings both crave intimacy and fear it. But this is hard to acknowledge. It’s tempting to disavow either our need for closeness or our need for independence.

As Lerner puts it:

Emotional pursuers protect emotional distancers. By doing the work of expressing the neediness, clingingness, and wish for closeness for both partners, pursuers make it possible for distancers to avoid confronting their own dependency wishes and insecurities.

It goes both ways. Distancers can convince themselves that they don’t have a need for closeness because their pursuer is holding all of the neediness for them. Pursuers can convince themselves they don’t have any desire to avoid intimacy because their distancer will hold that for them.

Not only do we make these unspoken bargains within relationships, but our tendencies to pursue or distance inform the partners we choose in the first place. Those of us with a tendency to pursue may gravitate to partners with a tendency to distance, or vice versa.

So, what’s the alternative? Lerner writes that relationships are healthier and more honest when both partners can acknowledge both their need for intimacy and their need for independence.

Before I move on to BL-specific stuff, a couple things to note. First, the way in which pursuer and distancer roles are complementary is a pattern that comes up in a lot of other relationship roles. There are a number of ways in which we sort of delegate certain relational tasks or emotional states within a relationship and disavow those they have assigned to the other person. Second, the tendency to pursue or distance is related to other factors, such as attachment style, and I may get into some of those in other posts.

So, on to BL tropes. Let’s start by looking at maybe the most foundational BL trope, the seme/uke pairing. I honestly think I’m still working on fully grasping that concept. But of the varying definitions I’ve seen, I much prefer ones that define the seme as the person doing the pursuing and the uke as the person being pursued (rather than putting it in terms of semes as “aggressive” or making gross assumptions about topping and bottoming). It’s pretty obvious from the use of “pursue” here that the idea of a pursuer/distancer dynamic readily applies here, although it doesn’t map on perfectly.

So, what do Lerner’s ideas about pursuer/distancer dyads tell us about the ways BL dyads negotiate closeness?

It helps to explain the appeal of tsundere characters as ukes. Not as a fictional character, but their appeal to a seme. Watching a BL with a sweet seme and a grouchy uke, you might look at that seme and say, “poor thing, too bad he has to like someone who’s so grumpy” and see him as fully and sincerely seeking as much intimacy with the uke as he can get. But why did this person who’s supposedly so interested in intimacy fall for someone so prickly? Pursuers find distancers appealing because they can chase after them all they want and while, hopefully, they’ll catch up to them at times and experience some intimacy, it won’t be too easy. If it was too easy, the pursuer would 1) get more intimacy than they bargained for and 2) have to admit to themselves and their tsundere that they need distance sometimes too.

The reverse is also true. A uke can better afford to distance himself, or push a seme away, because on some level he trusts the seme to continue to pursue.

One thing I didn’t get into above but that Lerner points out: when a pursuer gets fed up with pursuing and not “catching” their partner enough, they tend to engage in what she calls “reactive distance.” This isn’t like when a pursuer calmly and authentically gets in touch with their need for independence and acts on it, making their approach to their relationship more balanced. It’s when a pursuer feels rejected and, well, pouts. I can think of a few examples of this in BLs but the first one that comes to my mind is from To My Star 2. (Spoilers ahead!) Seo Joon spends most of the season doing a serious full-court press to try to get Ji Woo back. In the face of a lot of rejection, some of it distinctly mean-spirited, he just keeps trying. And then, suddenly, he doesn’t. He takes his camper out to the woods where he has no phone reception, and when his management can’t get in contact with him, Ji Woo panics and is afraid something terrible has happened to him. But when he finds him calmly drinking a beer beside his camper, Seo Joon’s manner has changed drastically--he’s cold and dismissive. He still actually wants Ji Woo back. But he’s gotten to the point where he’s hurt enough to get into reactive distance mode. Later in the show, he does something similar. When Ji Woo finally wants to reconcile, Seo Joon is reluctant (for a little while). Chasing Ji Woo (while Ji Woo distances himself) was easier than dealing with all of the questions that come with reconciling with him, like whether he can really feel safe resuming a relationship with someone who ghosted him for a year. (I should note that there seems to be reasonable disagreement about who the seme is in this relationship, if indeed there is one in the strictest sense, but Seo Joon is definitely a pursuer in the family systems sense.)

There are other ways, besides choosing a distancer as their object of interest, in which a pursuer can build in safety mechanisms to make sure their pursuit doesn’t result in more intimacy than they can handle. I’m thinking of Utsukushii Kare here. I have a lot of thoughts here that should probably be in a separate post. I’ll just say that Hira and Kiyoi are both intensely ambivalent about intimacy and that despite Hira largely pursuing Kiyoi and Kiyoi mostly acting as the distancer, they turn those roles inside out and backwards and randomly trade positions. Honestly half my reason for writing this is so that I can pull all of these ideas into an Utsukushii Kare post later because they are a great example about how these dynamics can turn into a tangled mess.

I’ll leave it at that for the moment. As I said above, I’m planning to pull from these ideas for at least one in-depth post on Utsukushii Kare and if there’s interest and I have the time and energy I’ll try doing something similar about some other constructs that apply to BLs in a useful way.

#BL drama #psychology of BL #family systems theory #pursuer distancer dynamic #semantic error #to my star 2 #utsukushii kare #jae young x sang woo #seo joon x ji woo #hira x kiyoi

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daikunart · 2 years

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''ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ʟᴜᴄᴋʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ʟᴏᴏᴋɪɴɢ ''-ꜱᴀɴɢᴡᴏᴏ

#i totally don't miss them #semantic error #SE EP7 #jae young x sang woo #kiss scene #korean bl #jaeyoung x sangwoo #darkscene #park seoham #park jaechan #Clowngifs

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thedooristhebluecushion · 3 months

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Love for Love's Sake is a darker Semantic Error, in this essay I will…

#I love them both don’t @ me #semantic error #jae young x sang woo #love for love's sake #myung ha x yeo woon

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captnswilson · 2 years

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Endless list of my favorite bl drama couples → ♡ Jae Young & Sang Woo from Semantic Error ♡

#jae young x sang woo #semantic error #bl drama #bldramaedit #mine #fav bl drama couples

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ppeonppeonhan · 1 year

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My 2022 Spotify BL Dramas Wrapped Report

I was just curious how a Spotify wrapped would look if the data it was gathering was about my love for BL, soooooo here we go!

(Also, I have Photoshop templates if you want them.)

This data is based on the viewing of 26 BL dramas, across Thai, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, Swedish, British, and American content.

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respectthepetty · 2 years

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Yes, he is

#my beautiful man #utsukushii kare #semantic error #kinnporsche the series #kinnporsche #hira x kiyoi #jae young x sang woo #vegaspete #vegas x pete

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geekygirl24 · 6 months

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BL Prompts - Chapter 43 Links

Prompt from TroisZKG: Oh hey! Someone else had the same feeling. Well this time I want Wu Xie and Xiao Ge of the same Lost Tomb Reboot. First verbal 'I Love You' from Xiao Ge. Wu Xie then realizing that he hadn't been listening very closely to all the other declarations that Xiao Ge had made in the past (unvoiced but through his actions). Thanks!! https://archiveofourown.org/works/46279000/chapters/129730333

Prompt from HKG-BKK: Haaha my prompt was supposed to be a LitA one, but I think they're the new Win-Team these days? So let's switch to a different story around… The Eclipse!? Ah might I add: Still a good ending tho? With Ayan "saving the day" / having his back!? Maybe… Some students wanna pay Akk back for what he did (if possible don't let Thua be present in the story, I'm still too cross with him to bare him, but ofc you can if you like). Thanksssss https://archiveofourown.org/works/46207009/chapters/129479305

Prompt from Luxurykitty0617: Nsfw au where Shigu's boyfriend, haoting gave him an interesting proposal where his bestfriend, bo xiang, comes over to fuck his bf, shigu. And haoting is okay that, with him watching the two. shigu does not want to admit it but he find haoting's bestfriend rather hot. https://archiveofourown.org/works/46255276/chapters/129549946

Prompt from MisTResShawnie: Sang Woo & Jae Young are a work pair that are tasked with designing the new line of androids/AI. Of course Sang Woo is only concerning with optimal functionality while Jae Young believes it's just as important to give it a personality. Please describes some.of the antics that Jae Young comes up with. Feel free to decide if they are an established couple or not, but for sure Jae Young is definitely interested in Sang Woo. https://archiveofourown.org/works/46231810/chapters/129611761

Prompt from Anonymous: Utsukushii Kare Eternal Prompt: Hira's still around wanting to talk to Kiyoi once more and therefore sees Kiyoi being struck down by Shitara. Rageful & protective Hira ensured. Maybe with a little bit of a Hira caring for Kiyoi at the end? https://archiveofourown.org/works/46179736/chapters/129669817

#the lost tomb #wu xie x zhang qiling #the eclipse #akkayan #history3: make our days count #xi gu x box xiang #semantic error #jae young x sang woo #my beautiful man #hira x kiyoi

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