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respectthepetty · 5 months

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Dear Taiwanese BLs, never stop giving me the "blinding light of love" moment.

I love a good old fashion color exchange but something about a blinding light appearing out of nowhere to signal the feelings are out in the open, people are thinking clearly, and the love is exposed just hits the spot.

Or you can give me that sweet sweet heart bokeh effect

#Taiwanese bls #the lighting is speaking to me #kiseki: dear to me #plus and minus #HIStory 4: Close to You #HIStory 5: Love in the Future #We Best Love #My Tooth Your Love #blind me with love #or give me the heart bokeh effect

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stormyoceans · 2 years

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EVERY SINGLE BL PRODUCTION COMPANY REALLY SAID 2022 IS THE YEAR WE'RE MAKING THESE BOYS GET MARRIED AND THAT'S ON GOD

#AM I EVEN REMEMBERING ALL THE ONES WE GOT IN 2022 #AND THE YEAR ISN'T EVEN OVER YET #i know we got other marriage proposals in the past years but like #2022 has been insane #enchanté the series #cutie pie the series #cherry blossom after winter #plus and minus #star and sky #my secret love #love mechanics #vice versa #old fashion cupcake #thai bl #japanese bl #taiwanese bl #korean bl #bl shows #m: txt

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negrowhat · 1 year

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I think Office Romance is my new favorite Genre...

BONUS:

#our dating sim #the new employee #the director who buys me dinner #old fashion cupcake #cherry magic #roommates of poongduck 304 #we best love #we best love: fighting mr. 2nd #plus & minus #plus and minus #bed friend #a boss and a babe #gap the series

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heretherebedork · 6 months

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And Kiseki continues to play pokemon with BL cameos. Update your pokedexes!

#kiseki dear to me #taiwanese bl #taiwan bl #kdtm #kiseki: dear to me #plus and minus #taiwanese drama #taiwanese series #taiwan drama #bl drama #bl series #asianlgbtqdramas #asian lgbtq dramas #the pokedex of bl cameos grows ever bigger

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thecasualfkfan · 2 months

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#asian bl series #thaibl #korean bl #taiwanese bl #japanese bl #2gether the series #bad buddy #old fashion cupcake #my beautiful man #cherry magic #semantic error #history 3: trapped #history 2: crossing the line #plus and minus #we best love #your name engraved herein #tumblr polls #any type of aisan bl #yaoi-manga-manhwa-live action-anything

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brazilian-whalien52 · 6 months

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I choose characters that date older men with a big age gap. Yes, I am fully aware that some of them aren't actually old (some are even below 40), but I took in consideration the age compared to their love interest and the way the character act. For example Minato acts like an old men and he has a really big gap compared to Shintaro, the same as triage. But the preference while choosing (with the limited slots) were those, that's why for example lovely writer didn't show up, although you can still vote in other)

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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 1 year

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"How a gentle touch can throw my entire self off track. How a short touch can melt my heart. How time stops for a brief moment and all that matters is you and me." ~ me

(Touching Lips Part 1/? in no particular order)

Love In The Air

Ghost Host, Ghost House

Be Loved In House: I Do

A Tale Of Thousand Stars

Minato Shouji Coin Laundry

Love By Chance

Plus And Minus

Light On Me

My favorite bl-tropes collection

#love in the air #lita #ghost host ghost house #be loved in house: i do #a tale of thousand stars #minato shouji coin laundry #love by chance #plus and minus #light on me #thai bl #japanese bl #taiwanese bl #korean bl #asianlgbtqdrama #myedit #multibl.edit #multi bl #bl tropes #thelipsthataretouched

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blmpff · 1 month

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HANK WANG igs 20.03.24

#fluff is fluffing uwu #hank wang #taiwanese actors #be loved in house: i do #plus and minus #plus & minus #cast #long haired wonders #blmpff

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spicyvampire · 8 months

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All they do is guess star in other Taiwanese bl instead of doing BLIH 2

#first #plus and minus #now #kiseki dear to me #be loved in house i do #be loved in house

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markpakinarchive · 9 months

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PLUS & MINUS dir. chiang ping chen

#plus & minus #plus and minus #*#tdrama #taiwanese drama #asiandramaedit #asiandramasource #dramasource #asianlgbtqdramas #boyslovesource #bldramaedit #bl drama #dailyasiandramas #m: fu li gong x zheng ze shou #m: plus and minus #i forgot how beloved fu li gong is to me but upon rewatching and seeing how shy he is/gets around ze shou... he is the boy of my heart

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lurkingshan · 6 months

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Talk to me about noble idiocy! I know it is one of your most beloathed tropes... what makes you dislike it particularly? Are there examples or variations that you find more tolerable? Or ones that you feel are especially egregious?

Wow, what a gift. Thank you for inviting me to rant about my beloathed, noble idiocy.

So first, what is it? Noble idiocy is a very well worn drama trope that in its barest definition means that a character does something stupid for ostensibly noble reasons. In most dramas, it shows up in the form of one character destroying a relationship for the other person’s “own good.” It is usually justified under the notion that the noble idiot is trying to protect their beloved, and it most often shows up as the final act conflict in romances. As a drama viewer, I hate this trope for so many reasons.

Let me count the ways:

The trope is predicated on the notion that the noble idiot knows what is best for their partner and is entitled to act in their interest, usually without their consent or knowledge

It’s also a trope based in a failure or outright refusal to communicate, which is always a frustrating thing to watch

Committing an act of noble idiocy is a breach of trust in a relationship that is hard to believably come back from, as it requires deeply hurting the person you claim to love and feeling righteous about it to boot

It’s also just infantilizing and shows deep disrespect for one’s partner and their agency to make their own choices

Most dramas don’t actually hold the noble idiot to account, uncritically accepting the notion that they believed they had a good reason for what they did and thus should be easily forgiven

Consequently, an act of noble idiocy often destroys any faith the audience has in the relationship and the inevitably tacked on happy resolution falls flat

The trope is very often used cheaply as an easy shortcut for conflict when a drama is running out of steam or isn’t sure how to fill its runtime, and thus tends to feel false and sometimes even like a complete violation of character

So yes, noble idiocy on my screen is an automatic groan for me and usually takes a drama down in my estimation because it’s just such a lazy, overused trope. But there is a spectrum and some versions are more palatable than others. For instance, if the noble idiot has extremely well-established reasons to think they are not good for their partner, the drama has been naturally building to a break, and the partner is well aware of what is happening and why, I find that much easier to swallow.

A good example of this take on the trope is Just Between Lovers, a kdrama about healing from a traumatic incident and its aftereffects. Gang Doo, the male lead, feels he is holding his girlfriend back, and so he takes a job that will send him away for awhile to give her a chance to move on. She doesn’t want him to leave, but she is fully aware of where he is going and why. So while she’s frustrated and hurt as she watches him go, she isn’t left wondering what went wrong or thinking this is about anything but his trauma, which she already knew about. She knows it is because he loves her so much that he is leaving. As a result, their reconciliation was believable.

The next step down is the just plain stupid variation, in which the noble idiot doesn’t realize there will be fallout for their failure to communicate their intentions when they decide to abruptly leave their partner. This version showed up in Because This is My First Life, a kdrama about a contract marriage, when the heroine, upon falling in love for real with her husband, decided she didn’t want a fake marriage anymore. She decided to end the relationship and take a short time away so they could start fresh. The problem? She didn’t tell him that’s what she was doing, she just left him with no explanation. The male lead, a neurodivergent person who had struggled to open up to her in the first place, was deeply damaged by this abandonment. It’s an act a person claiming to love him would never do. Because of that, I can never love the drama wholeheartedly or trust in that relationship, which really pissed me off because until that final act of noble idiocy, it was a lovely and thoughtful romance.

By far the worst version of this trope is what I call the needlessly cruel variation, where the noble idiot outright lies to their partner about their feelings and intentions as a way to make a clean break. This usually takes the form of claiming not to love them anymore, and it is fucking infuriating. Plus and Minus is a great exemplar of this version of the trope, and it’s the reason I start hissing every time it comes up. After pursuing a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Li Kung bows to homophobic familial pressure and ends their relationship by claiming he misread his feelings and does not love Tse Shou after all, leaving Tse Shou confused and destroyed, having just lost both his lover and his best friend with no warning and in the cruelest way imaginable. It was out of character for Li Kung and absolutely untrue to their relationship dynamic. That the show then tried to tack on a fluffy happy ending after that unbelievable breach of trust just made me even more angry and I will honestly never forgive it.

There are others that fall somewhere along the spectrum—A Boss and a Babe, for instance, lives somewhere in the gray space between the second and third variation, as Cher told Gun he was leaving him because they were not compatible and told him not to look for him, and failed to communicate that his intention was to finish his degree so that they would become more compatible. It was cruel in that there was zero reason for him to not just tell Gun what he was doing, but it was based in Cher just being low (high) key stupid about other peoples’ emotional needs rather than him intentionally setting out to break Gun’s heart.

And then there’s something like We Best Love, which starts out giving the impression that we are dealing with noble idiocy before peeling back the layers to reveal that both Shi De and Shu Yi had been tricked into thinking the other abandoned him, and it was actually Shu Yi’s dad who interfered to keep them apart and confused. Shi De was definitely an idiot for never talking to Shu Yi to confirm the breakup and trying to defeat his dad on his own, but he never actually nobly dumped Shu Yi in the first place. It’s an interesting twist on the trope that starts as infuriating and becomes more sympathetic as it’s unraveled.

In conclusion: I really do despise noble idiocy narratives on the whole. But that doesn’t mean it’s a completely useless trope, and there are dramas I love that have deployed milder versions of it. It can and has been used effectively in a way that supports character and leads to relationship development. It’s just so rarely the case that I instinctively recoil from it, and I wish drama writers would stop and think 12 times before deciding if its use is really necessary or compelling in their stories.

#drama tropes #noble idiocy #just between lovers #because this is my first life #plus and minus #a boss and a babe #we best love #shan answers

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asiandramas-takeover · 6 months

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This is insane!!!!

#kiseki: dear to me #kiseki dear to me #be loved in house i do #history 4: close to you #history 4 #history 3 #history 3: make our days count #plus and minus

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gabrielokun · 6 months

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#Plus & Minus #Plus and Minus #正負之間 #Gabriel makes stuff #Cheng Tse Shou #Max Lin #Fu Li Kung #Shi Cheng Hao #Cheng Tse Shou x Fu Li Kung #Taiwanese Drama #Taiwanese series #Taiwanese BL #BL Drama #BL series

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respectthepetty · 2 years

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An appreciation post for Taiwan always delivering the domestic bliss, never letting a house or bed go underutilized, and for understanding the value of a basic white shirt.