15 Day BL Challenge 2K24
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Day 3: Side Dish that Should've Been the Main Course
PureFolk from My Gear and Your Gown. I couldn't even tell you wtf that series was actually about because it was a total snooze fest for me BUT PUREFOLK THO??? A treat. An actual treat. Pure was an unapologetic slutty bisexual man, slanging the D to anyone who asked. Girls and Boys were CLAMORING to get at that pint-sized playboy. And with the mentality of "Relationships are stupid" who would've thought he would fall so hard and so fast for our sweet boy Folk? And for someone who claimed to hate love he was so sweet on Folk. Like completely enamored, it was disgustingly cute.
I just love that Pure was open and honest with Folk, when he declared that he was no longer for the streets and only wanted to be with Folk. Pure even let Folk go through his phone! AND THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE??? I just enjoyed them and by the halfway point of the series I was skipping any scene that didn't have Pure or Folk in it. I needed a full-fleshed out series for them and not whatever tf the main plot was about.
Mark and Ou Wen from Love is Science? First of all, it's not a BL, but it should've been. It's not like the series was bad, I just didn't care about the main couple...at all. I tried. I did. Like super hard. The old couple was cute tho, but I was only invested in Mark and Ou Wen and Joanna (when her story intersected with theirs). Mark was such a hilarious character, the boy had me cackling with his antics. Ou Wen was our cool and suave elegant man who wore expensive suits and cared a great deal about love.
The series gave us Mark's bisexual awakening (which he handled very well). We got to see him fall head over heels in love after Ou Wen valiantly saved him from being beaten up by one of his fling's relatives (I think). They gave us Ou Wen's valid doubts about if Mark was serious about him, and his fears of being perceived negatively by the people around them. They gave us a surprise pregnancy and the struggles with deciding to abort or co-parent, glad we got the latter simply because they were such a fun trio. We even got Mark's coming out to his parents. They just had a superior storyline (and better chemistry). Also the eps were too long for such a minimal amount of Mark and Ou Wen.
