Top 10 shows of 2025?

Top 10 characters of 2025?

Top 3 tropes of 2025?

Did you read any good books in 2025? Any you would recommend?

Who are your top pair brands?

Oh dear lord. This is cruelty that I helped create. :P

Top 10 shows of 2025?

/sobs uselessly/ Must I? Must I? These are in no order. I refuse to order them.

1 Desire.

2. Khemjira

3. Love Begins in The World of If

4. Therapy Game

5. Reset

6. Revenged Love

8. 10 Things I Want To Do Before I Turn 40

9. Ball Boy Tactics

10. Top Form

Top 10 characters of 2025?

This question should be illegal. No specific order because I am just really hoping I can remember any that aren't on air right now.

Thee! He is amazing and glorious and a gift every time he is on my screen.

Tanaka Keishi! He was my beloved in that entire show and just a plain gift. So sweet, so gentle, always trying so hard and never giving up... Love him.

Gao Tu! MY MOST PRECIOUS CHILD. I love him so much and I wish we could get as special episode about his happily ever after.

Mek! He has a special place in my heart.

Inthu! Oh, my precious little fortune teller who finally found a soft landing and a safe place with his doctor.

Hioki! I love him almost as much as Watarai does but don't tell him that.

Mashiro Kosuke! Oh, this baby boy deserved the world and luckily managed to get it. What a beautiful man.

Ramil! The victim who proved that everyone will blame the victim if they react with anger and isn't that just sad? Love him so much and glad there were other people who saw him for who he was besides the people writing the show.

Saenkaew! MY HISTORICAL BELOVED BOY.

Bua! Just rewatching this moved him onto this list, honestly.

Top 3 tropes of 2025?

LIFTS!!! I swear this has been the year of 'lift him like he weighs nothing at all' and it makes me SO happy.

Dancing continues to be a wonderful trope even if the dance-specific BL was a letdown.

It was hard to come up with a third trope but I think it might be embracing the red flag. I've really been eating up these toxic yaoi shows that choose to be toxic and embrace it entirely, not trying to pretend they're all green flags but going 'yay red flags!' and I love it. Is this truly a trope? No, it's more a production choice but screw it I hope it continues forever.

Did you read any good books in 2025? Any you would recommend?

Books? Did I read any books? I reread Shogun! It was still brilliant. I read ThamePo and that was a lot of fun. I read a bunch of mangas and I don't really remember any of them so they were good but not great... I also reread a few Tanya Huff series and The Fire's Stone continues to be my favorite canonical fantasy polycule.

Who are your top pair brands?

See, this one is hard because it's like 'based on the actual shows they created? based on vibes? based on historical performance?" so let's try... a bunch of categorizes.

Vibes: DaouOffroad. I adore them. Just... pure vibes, good acting, every single show has issues but I like their brand and them as, well, as much of them as people as a very uninvolved fan can know.

Trust: AouBoom. They have not let me down yet. They always manage to be enjoyable and talented and to help carry shows I would otherwise rate even lower. I love them.

They did it!: JimmySea for making My Magic Prophecy and finally using all their talent to make a BL I enjoyed from start to finish that was just wonderful. I knew they could do it and they finally DID do it. YAY!

Pure Talent: PondPhuwin because Me and Thee is a brilliant piece of work and I don't think anyone else could do that the way they've done it. Second place goes to JimmyOhm from The Next Prince because Ramil and Paytai were brilliantly done in a show that did them a disservice and that no one else came out looking good.

Wit Phutharit has been in more BLs than some of my faves and I have to say, I would kinda love to see him as a protagonist in a BL with a mature couple or even a well done age difference… *chef’s kiss*

It may look like a small number to some people, but to me, it means something else.

It means this quiet story, with all its silences, pauses, and things left unsaid —

has found real readers.

People who stayed. People who gave it their time. People who felt something.

And that matters more than numbers.

Like how can you be so super talented and then we also have the same taste in music?

This show is actually being subbed by furritsubs so check their subs if you want an accurate translation! I'll keep on making translation notes about the parts were gaga subs infuriate me while they come out :)

よろしくお願いします / よろしく yoroshiku onesgaishimasu / yoroshiku

My take: Nice to meet you

This is a very common greeting that, in this case, literally means "please be kind with me" but that in no way it would ever be translated as this. It can be translated in many different ways since there's no equivalent in english. For example, in the next picture I'd translate it as "Please take care of me" (since he's signing up to a hike, I think)

いや、新鮮だな iya, shinsen da na

My take: Wow, this is refreshing

There's an emphasys on how this is a very unsual sight. For the salesman it's refreshing to see such a change of pace from Takara who probably tends to avoid people

いいじゃ、先輩がじきじきに面倒みてあげるわさ ii jan, senpai ga jikijiki ni mendou miteageru wa sa

My take: It's fine, his senoir is personally tending to him

The salesman is a lot more playful and is constantly teasing Takara and I'm mad Gaga doesn't want us to know this

なんかあったら先輩に連絡してもいいですか？ nanka attara, senpai ni renraku shitemo ii desuka? なんかって？ nanka tte?

My take: -Is it ok if I contact you sometimes? -Like for what?

The literal meaning in this case is not "trouble" but "something". As in, "is there's something (I want to say/that is happening/I want to show you/...)", hence why Takara asks for clarification as Taishin could be refering to a lot of things

そうですか sou desu ka

My take: I see

Again. Can be translated in many ways. In any case, here he's understood he's not welcome

例えば、俺がそういう人間だったらおまえなんかとっくにやってるわな Tatoeba, ore ga sou iu ningen dattara, omae nanka tokku ni yatteru wa na

My take: For example, if I were a person like that I would already have gone after someone like you