#restart: answered

[absolutebl]

BLs to Recommend to Your Queer Friend

I put these in each bracket in levels of accessibility, as in “how easy I think they are for a non-BLer to enter into” without explanations of genre needed. 

Bleeding Heart Romantics 

Semantic Error

Bad Buddy

A Tale of Thousand Stars

Earnest Queer

The New Employee

My Ride

Drama Llama Indoor Kids

Our Dating Sim

Cherry Magic

My Love Mix Up

Repressed Arthouse Aesthetic 

Old Fashion Cupcake 

Love Life On The Line

Restart After Come Back Home

Hot Mess Gay Babies

The Eighth Sense

Moonlight Chicken

Hawt Mess Kinky Fuckers 

Bed Friend

KinnPorsche

My Beautiful Man 

Bonus Round: 

Adventure bois with a side of queer

Manner of Death

Not Me

Long Time No See

3 Will Be Free

He’s Coming To Me

From @mestizashinrin who asked me: 

“recommend a queer person to first start in BL”

(source)

#asked and answered #recommended bl #top tear bl #queer bl #gay bl #Semantic Error #Korean bl #Bad Buddy #thai bl #A Tale of Thousand Stars #Old Fashion Cupcake #japanese bl #Love Life On The Line #Restart After Come Back Home #Our Dating Sim #My Love Mix Up #The Eighth Sense #Moonlight Chicken #KinnPorsche #Manner of Death #Long Time No See #3 Will Be Free #He’s Coming To Me

[darth-sonny]

i'm new here and i just want to know WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH BAD ENDING PRIME LEO

wtf wtf Kraang- Leo- kraang and leo hdusifayudsifsui WHAT????

can ya like summarize everything in like 5-6 sentences cuz GOOD GOD WTF IS GOING ONNN

i'm so confused and grossed out and also a bit intrigued but mostly confused and- wtf???

PRIME LEO AU

[in 6 sentences]

At the end of the movie, after Leo sacrifices himself, Kraang Subprime (the guy that the boys fought in the final act) is tasked by Kraang Prime (the alien eldritch horror who created the Kraang species) to break Leo to make him Their Host.

Leo gets saved from the Prison Dimension by his brothers, except there is something wrong without him, but he falls into a month-long coma due to an extraneous amount of severe injuries on his body.

Hazy Months Arc: After waking up, everyone can tell that Leo is different, but some of them (Donnie and Casey, with a touch of Raph) are in denial about it being anything serious, and chalk it up to PTSD and head trauma – this goes on for six months.

Prime Arc: It culminates into the reveal that Leo has been possessed by Kraang Prime, who takes over his body and locks Leo away in a dreamworld; this then leads to Prime fucking off to find the key to restart the invasion and the family having to stop Them

Post-Prime Arc: Leo manages to break free from Prime and lock them away, but the psychological effects are in full effect; here, Leo comes to the full and horrifying conclusion of what exactly Prime did to him, which is... not pretty.

Healing Arc: As the name suggests, this part of the story is when the healing starts; Leo starts to get better, the family learns to give Leo his space, and everyone begins the journey towards a happy ending, though there are some moments.

#bad end: a deviation from the prime arc; here prime succeed in getting the key and restarting the invasion – this is the aftermath #kirby: a deviation of the post‐prime arc; here prime managed to have one last laugh and used leo's body to create kirby ‐ their hybrid kid #hope this helps #sonny answers #prime leo au

[piningprecussionist]

Eh. Don't worry about showing Blaze or whatever he's called now. I'm a bit of a tattletale myself so I have no right to complain.

Also apologies that you don't like my energy yet it's not uncommon, and understandable.

- 💠 (ooc\\ yes I'm aware those were internal thoughts and this is intentional that they can hear them :3)

...

(Oh fuck that, actually. What the hell??)

*Kim stares down at the new message with a fair bit of dread, blinking rapidly.*

(How did they know that? How are they doing that?!)

*She looks around nervously, despite knowing that Blaze is the only other person in the apartment, at the moment. She taps her fingers on the desk, repeatedly and quickly, trying to work out the burst of nerves.*

(This isn't like with Doc. This is-)

*Kim looks concerned, for a moment, before grimacing and rubbing at her temples as pain flares up yet again.*

(I need to stop doing that. Whatever that is. At least that one wasn't as bad as- Kim, stop it. You're getting distracted.)

*Taking a somewhat shaky breath, she turns around in her chair, expression a little haunted.*

(( @matthewpatelaskbox ))

Hey, Blaze? Do you- come look at this, please. And the last ones, actually.

*While she waits for him to walk over, she types out her response, though she doubts the necessity of the act as she does.*

I think I'll be doing just that, honestly. And... no need to apologize, I guess. On reflection, whatever's up with you might be... marginally less invasive than some things that have happened before. Maybe. Although if you're freaking me out on purpose, continue to apologize actually.

#ooc: movie night over! can respond to asks now :3c *has been letting this one ruminate in my mind also* #ooc: fucking love that btw. this shit is part of why I make Kim's thoughts part of the replies <3 #💠 anon #pine.txt #asks #anon #rp #kim pine #sp comic #spvtwtg #spto #spvtw #GAME OVER! RESTART...? #matthewpatelaskbox #ooc: answers i give that may minorly fuck with how things are tbh. i need to make my GO!R timeline note.... #ooc: doc's last ask would be placed before this canonically- i nearly had it like kim was just remembering him but i think with the way i + #+wrote her before- his last ask preceding most things makes sense to me #ooc: actually kind of pissed off rn. idk why this was in the queue- I scheduled this to post FIRST- before the accidentally posted one #ooc: sorry abt that :/ if id caught it i would have forced it to post sooner

[pixlokita]

I know it's like- 12:30 am where I live (at least in NYC) but...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BESTIEEEEEEE!!!! WISH YOU NOTHING BUT HAPPINESS AND LOVE 🩷✨🥳

Thank you choco ;-;💖🍰 aaaaaaa bless you thank you 💖💖💖💖

#pix answers #dawg not my app breaking and restarting my phone 😭 #-quickly gives you cake slice also-

[silliestsakura]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers 💚

an ask from my mother yay! :D

1 -> ermmm ca(r)ts! (cats)! i like fluffy calicos :3

2 -> pinterest haha! it was my tiktok before i got tiktok frfr🙏

3 -> rendering.. eyes,,,.. sometimes i try harder than other arts to make the eyes extra pretty>

4 -> (biased) satoru gojo‼️‼️🔥😭

5 -> @cloudymistedskies @thewinterpillarhashira>>>>>> these two critters❄️🍃

#kura answers #cries in gojo fan😭 #also i cleared a lot of my phone storage to play genshin just for it to fuCKING CRASH AND FREEZE MY ENTIRE PHONE AND RESTART THE WHOLE DOWNL

[can-of-slorgs]

are you the one with the nt series where sloth is all buff and hanging out with the user's twinky oc? there was something also about sloth turning into a snowbunny? was that you or another guy?

do you know what i'm talking about if it isn't you... because if not this is embarrassing...

Anon I have no idea what you're talking about.

I haven't publish (nor read for that matter) anything NT related in maybe a decade.

Now, that said... The what comic about dr sloth's twink??

#vin answers #anon im sorry i have no idea what youre reffering to JHASDKFASD #i only got my retail neo account back after years of not being able to enter it like 2 weeks ago and just restarted my neo fix like a month #listen; i did not want to be known as the “babygirl sloth” artist in the neotag by any means #at least not before being an actual artist that is #not this early HJFFJSK #but the existence of whatever anon described only fills me with dread #and probably makes me rethink of whatever i did draw and how it can be taken completely serious by some....... individuals #that or it gains me death threats for making a space dictator into an egirl in some shape or form #i have to come clean..... i haven't read the dr sloth plot lmao #i started it and never finished i have no idea what he even does in neopets #an now im too afraid to actually read it HJDFHJSD #anyways thanks you for the ask anon i..... i do not know what to do with this information #but i do not what to claim ownership of said cursed arts #but it did give me the idea to make a random image of my grundo lad making a thumbs up next to dr sloth #and just having an upper text “DR SLOTH” and bottom text “AND THE TWINK” #its just hilarious to think about

[bob-no-escape-ask]

Do you know Noah's family?

Oh. That struck something...

#bob no escape au #ne bob mod #no escape bob au #no escape bob mod #ask #we're answering asks a little differently now.... #as in i dont care about tryna make a pretty looking and cohesive thing rn. #in fact i may just up and start over sometime... but i wanted to answer this ask first #i want to give yall the opportunity to question the args involvement in the lore #up until i decide wether to restart the blog entirely or whatever else #so... use your time wisely i guess?

[fooltofancy]

baffling palette jumpscare

#... what were u doin #'swooshies while my brain was restarting' i think. is the answer.

[absolutebl]

hi there 🖐🏼 what are your recs for bl movies with great acting?

BL Movies with GREAT Acting

Specifically Movies? Do KBLs that were cut into movies count? Hum, I'm gonna make a judgement call given how few actual movies I have to work with and say if it holds as a "movie going experience" I can count it. I should say in order to really push this into the superlative acting space the BL aspect on many of these is... light.

His

Japan 2020 Viki

His is about being a grown adult and still struggling with coming out as gay. It addresses the consequences of life choices disingenuous to identity. Nagisa turns up on Shun’s doorstep with his precocious daughter in tow. This is a touch confusing to Shun since they were each others first love and ended badly. Shun has retreated from society, rejecting the world before it can reject him, already brokenhearted because without Nagisa he never had a reason to fight. Nagisa went the opposite way, tried to pretend to be something he was not and ended up with a daughter he adores and a wife who hates him. The acting is killer, Miyazawa Hio is sulky in the best possible way, the filming is beautiful and the setting unique and interesting...

I'm not wild about the ending. Moody arthouse smackdoodle is going to pretend that "ambiguous" is somehow unique and special rather than bog standard commonplace for narratives of this type. But endings are my hangup, not yours?

This is not really BL (the prequel was), so few of the tropes are used. You do not need to have watched the prequel.

Your Name Engraved Herein

Taiwan 2020 Netflix

This movie is fantastic but it is also seriously depressing. It’s a self acceptance journey that goes emotionally array on the alter of history, but if you wanna wallow in high quality acting and serious gay drama, this’ll do it. I would say it's not really BL, no real trope drops at all.

Okay those two I chose more on the strength of the acting than BL. These others are not going to be at the same standard/style.

If you want moee of the above level of drama, things get very sad in the BL world, so Love of Siam, Dew, Eternal Yesterday, Goodbye Mother, etc...

Restart After Come Back Home (Risutato wa tadaima no ato de)

Japan 2020 Gaga?

Atmospheric study in rural Japan meets complex family dynamics built on a romance framework of city boy meets country boy, grumpy/sunshine. It’s beautiful and icy sweet. Slow moving in places but ultimately worth the patience, low heat, low angst, and stunning. The acting is a touch stiff, in that Japanese reserved way.

This is the only BL movie, as a movie, that I could pull. There are others, I jsut don't think the acting is good enough.

So here are some highly rated short bingable series that are movie length (1.5-2.5 hours) but not really movies - BUT with killer acting. So they still might satisfy the itch. I places them in order of acting and filming quality, not my own personal preference.

From Japan

Old Fashion Cupcake

Tokyo in April is...

Life: Love on the Line (director's cut)

My Beautiful Man

I Cannot Reach You

Seven Days

From Taiwan

Red Balloon

We Best Love (esp part 2)

About Youth

HIStory 2: Crossing the Line

From Korea

To My Star

Long Time No See

The New Employee

Where Your Eyes Linger

More like this?

I want to shout out The Eighth Sense here too. It's longer than movie length but so well acted.

(source)

#asked and answered #BLs with great acting #movie bls #best bls #best of list #His the movie #Your Name Engraved Herein #Restart After Come Back Home #Old Fashion Cupcake

[mcondance]

I JUST FUCKING MOANED OH MICHAEL

#i’m restarting this shit #michael michael michael #my top song of 2023 this shit is so fucking serious for me #r&b perfection. #that voice….. that voice…… i could shout #AND ALL YOU GOT TO DO IS NOT ANSWER MY CALLS WHEN I’M TRYNA GET THRU. #THAT MAN SAID KEEP ME WONDERING WHY. WHEN ALL I CAN DO IS SIGH #Spotify #[michael]

[darth-sonny]

oh god Prime made himself look like Leo so the fam so the fam will believe they are fighting LEO, maybe when they realize its Prime they might ignore it, but they are so gonna have issues aka nightmares on them ACTUALLY hurting Leo instead of prime post-prime!Leo

It's less Prime taking on Leo's form to mess with the fam (although that is a bonus, do not get them wrong) and more like "We did not have a body before this whole situation so why not take on the Host's body since we're here??"

And, in the fic (if I ever get the manuscript down) proper, there is a scene in which Raph goes in to power punch-jitsu Prime with his ninpō, only to freeze bc the person who's staring back at him is Leo and not Prime (very much inspired by that scene from S1E9 from Legi Monkie Kid)

#prime's goals aside from restarting the invasion: #1) keep leo as their Host and under their control #2) fucking mess with the fam #in that order #sonny answers #prime leo au

[isfjmel-phleg]

😱

#random personal stuff #Struggle Wednesday: Trapped at the Reference Desk Edition #featuring! sluggish computer that refuses to load anything because the coworker who previously used it thinks you log out by restarting #AND phone call from a student wanting us to magically solve a database error that I never heard of until just now #AND all my colleagues who might know about this have dropped off the face of the earth #it's fine I will be fine #but why do people with questions I can't answer wait until the 1 o'clock hour to pester us #and maybe I need to corner coworkers before they leave and ask what today's crisis is and how to address #because I am not IT I do not work with the databases I just interlibrary loan the books #and I would not be stuck at this desk if it were not for a rude student last semester antagonizing my boss at closing time #(long story how it all connects but that's where the change in scheduling started) #anyway I wish that student a very pleasant become a better person who is actually considerate of others

[thekrows-nest]

Wait a damn minute-

Did Ezra and Krow bang????

Ehehehehehhehehehehehehhehhehee

@restartheartvn and I talked a bit about it and... basically yeah.

Krow is one of many, many yan's who has gone to Exra for advice on the wham bam shang-a-lang since Krow knows Ezra has a lot of expertise and... well. Ezra is a VERY hands on teacher. :3 Blaire ALSO joined in on the fun to give Krow advice on how other bodies work. Good times were shared by all.

I can also proudly say that Krow has been the best at keeping up with Ezra. *lipbite*

I wasn't kidding when I said his stamina is ridiculous.

After all that though, Krow very much devotes himself to Dove.

#krow asked and answered #naughty krow #the krow's nest #restart heart ezra #restart heart blaire

[freakywizard]

hiii r&m anon here again!!! i noticed you mentioned liking season 7, so i was wondering if you had any favorite or least favourite episodes, plotlines, all that jazz. season 7 debrief, if you will. would love to hear your thoughts!

ram anon gracing my inbox once again (always a pleasure)

huge rant below the cut (talking about rick and morty triggers the longwinded newspaper art critic in me sorry)

s7e2 and e4 were the best episodes in my opinion. absurd, darkly funny, overall just so perfect. i was especially excited about s7e2 since the rick/jerry dynamic has intrigued me since episode s3e5. i love that that episode basically just confirmed Rick and Jerry may be foils but are also perfect complements? they can only understand / appreciate each other when they are literally existing in each other's flesh? i try not to wax poetic about ram but this episode was tempting meeeee

and re: e4, i think this show's writing is at its best when the writers come up with a stupid concept and treat it seriously. i love that this episode saw the concept of 'what if corpse spaghetti' through to the end. classic dark comedy, absurd, wacky goodness. lovee it

one thing i do hate about this season (as well as seasons 5 and 6) is the number of callbacks to 'old' rick and morty. s7e3 and s7e8 were some of the worst episodes this season, mostly because they just reused old plotlines and developed them in the least interesting ways possible, imo. did the mid gag from s3e5 really need its own episode? it really did not. i think that this is one of the worst consequences of the show becoming less episodic and more serialized - the writers just endlessly milk the early seasons to recycle into plotlines, one-off gags, whatever. the self-referentiality and meta humor of newer seasons will always, always grind my gears severely.

also, s7e7 was almost unwatchable. it reminded me of s6e2 in all the worst ways - just dedicating an entire episode to a SINGLE movie reference, doubling down on the singular reference as the episode drags on. god that episode sucked. so boring, annoying, unfunny.

i have extremely mixed feelings on s7e5. On the one hand, I'm still annoyed that the backstory from s3e1 is even canon, and Rick is yet another entry in the long tradition of flawed male protagonists turned into a nihilistic depressed shitshow by the death of a wife. it's such a pat trope, imo.

HOWEVER, i really like how this episode developed Rick. I'll always be a fan of ruthlessness and revenge plotlines, so im biased. but i've come to appreciate Rick Prime as a villain, as a testament to how much Rick hates himself -- there's a version of himself out there that would torture himself across the universe by killing off his own loved ones, just to try to prove his own superiority? it's all very mindfucky but im super into it. Rick C137 killing Prime with his fists, all while Prime goads him? it was such a cool scene. i love when the show does selfcest

i also still have mixed feelings on the evil morty and his growing prominence in the series. it was nice when he was just a little treat, but it became clear in s4 the writers were aware of fan expectations for the character. i can't help but wonder if that's shaped the way they're writing him, especially giving him the centralized role in the story of possible-future-final-antagonist? that being said i've always liked evil morty, he's a fun character to watch on screen. although i'm extremely cautious of my enjoyment. he's already starting to feel like a fanfic rip-off of himself a little bit (that one line where he said 'well, they don't call me good morty' was so bizarre. evil morty was the fandom name for him, and the writers adopted it and made it a diegetic epithet for the character???????)

s7e10 was refreshing after a long season of Morty getting sidelined. I love how this one starts with a classic rick and morty set-up (what if *weird thing* in *random place*) but turns it into existential horror? really cool. i don't think it was the most subtle way to do morty character development, but it was interesting enough that i was invested. also, rick pinning morty's picture to the pinboard. so good

overall my reaction to this season is 'we're so back.' it was LEAGUES better than s5-6, which i think are like the ram dark ages. i don't think s7 was the best season yet (as some are suggesting) but I think that this season marks a positive turn for the quality of writing in the show.!!

here's my episode ranking in ( i mostly did this for fun)

E2

E5

E4

E10

E6

E1

E3

E9

E7

E8

Basically, e7 and e8 were irredeemably terrible. e9, e3, and e1 were mid/fine. e6, e10, e4, e5, and e2 were all varying degrees of peak rick and morty.

other mics. thoughts:

i felt like there was a lot of long, no dialogue, sad music montages that felt like references to the famous scene from s4e8? the one from s7e4 comes to mind immediately. but there were another few sprinkled in

s7e3 rick telling a scientologist "worship how you want" ??? he would not say that. who let that slide in the writing room?

the fight scenes and gore were all really well animated!! since s3 the animation has only gotten better and i love the gore

i actually love the new VAs. they're different from roiland, obviously, but i honestly think they're both doing a better job. the performances are more naturalistic, and less grating? i thought the change would weird me out, but it's subtle, and i like it

Rick canonically bad at eating pussy in his youth

#thank you for sending this ask ram anon i love feeling my brain melt #sometimes rick and morty eletrochemically neutralizes something in my brain and it sends me into a frothy mouthed coma where i cant stop- #-thinking or talking about it. so #i also happen to be a big fan of yapping #^_^ #im having thoughts of restarting my ram sideblog #lex answers

[i-drop-level-one-loot]

Restarted my island (again) on New Horizons, ha

Thinking about making a second blog so once that island looks rad as hell, I can share how nerdy it is.

Planning on making a horror/monster themed island, with scary movie references, and OC references. Cringe as hell, but life is too short to worry about that lmao

So unless Nintendo releases a new animal crossing before my island is set up, expect me plugging that blog in the next year ❤️

#i have no friends to play with lol #i like to imagine getting really big as a creator #and having people want to come over and vibe #answer some one on one questions and just vibe #acnh #restarted my island #monsters #just an idea