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There’s a commonplace anxiety about how well BL represents queer men’s experiences.
It’s, in fact, an anxiety BL has depicted from the outset, with fantastical BL fictions clashing against the live-action boys’ messy realities.
BL is not a realistic genre, these depictions acknowledge, it’s just romantic fantasy.
Yet, BL is a fantasy that looked at the harshness and tragedy that pervaded queer mens’ experiences and stories…
And instead imagined hope for them, believed affection could be just as compelling as pain, and forced open a place for their happy endings.
When BL references its own novel and manga origins in series, it often contrasts the romantic cheesiness with characters who struggle to imagine queer love as any kind of positive possibility for themselves to experience.
Repressed by social societal attitudes or beaten down by hardships that marginalization increases for queer men,
The characters experience the BL fantasy (as unreal as it might be) and the attitudes of the often younger generations who engage with it slowly chipping away at their closets, their irony, their defeatism, their self-neglect and hatred…
Until they are liberated--not unto some perfect fairytale ending, necessarily, but to a love and life that brings them deeper fulfillment than they had been allowing themselves to imagine was possible.
Meanwhile, those who have fantasized about them through BL fictions learn to respect and appreciate their full humanity instead of the dreamy romantic leads they had idolized them to be.
Meta-Referential BLs Pictured
The Shipper (2020)
Love Sick (2014-15)
Absolute Value of Romance (2026)
The Boy and I Who Will Break Up in 100 Days (2026)
actually you know what this show really IS gonna be very similar to the shipper i think. like the shipper also comes off as a ridiculous over-the-top comedy - and it is in many ways! - but also it’s deeply, DEEPLY a show about grief. and everything about the first episode of cat for cash tells me that that’s the main theme of the show
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Now that I know P’Mui directed both The Shipper and Thamepo, it’s impossible not to see the through line between the two. Both offer incredibly nuanced takes on fandom—about how it can heal, but also how it can destroy. The fact that things haven’t improved much in the past five years is disappointing, especially considering that even the fictionalized solution presented in today’s episode wouldn't work in real life. Fans are just as unlikely to forgive a past relationship as they are a current one—even if that relationship happened long before the idol was actually famous.
Centering Oner as the villain here—turning that press conference into a painful humiliation ritual rather than something necessary—was incredibly brave. And also incredibly enlightening. Fanatical fan behavior is never going to improve as long as these companies are complicit in it and the fact that GMMTV let this show air on their network gives me hope that maybe things might start to change. The first step, after all, is admitting there's a problem.
