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may be a danmei vs boys love differentiation but always v interesting coming across discourse on this on the chinese side since the approach & meaning-making process seems so different! random comment on weibo under a video of a peking university professor speaking about danmei
the link to the video weibo.com/tv/show/1034:50141… and its (ai) translation/transcription
things i have had to pretend to like (as in, stay silent in conversation) since i started grad school: zohran mamdani, japan, abbott elementary, eeaao, electoralism, kamala harris
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explicit rape scenes from movies always end up on porn sites because they are very similar in that they both present women's degradation for the voyeuristic titillation of the male viewer. porn/film industry are connected. actresses are coerced into nudity just like women in porn
i wanted to check out this very popular ongoing turkish dizi (daha 17) for alleged homoeroticism but the first episode was so bad it was practically unwatchable! anyway, i pushed through by skipping everything except for the main storyline between the brothers and well, yes!
i’m only saying this is an extraordinarily fertile ground for queer interpretations otherwise the show is bad but they’re interesting!!!
fascinating how people have been claiming they are being “queerbaited” (western corporate framework) by this queer-coded asian tv show precisely because they were able to engage in a queer reading of the material (as intended!) and only now are they having their aha moments
Director Park aware that some viewers even interpreted #FourHandsTwoSonatas through a “Boys’ Love” (BL) lens. and his respond to this was ㅡ “It is an indescribable happiness and a source of gratitude for all our production team members that viewers are enjoying the drama through their own diverse perspectives. I am simply thankful that they have filled the spaces between the writer’s text and the visualized scenes with such rich interpretations.”
through his reaction to these remarks, we can see pio feels differently, that he misses his person, mourns the life jeongyo could never have, his “potential;” yet, he still benefited the most from his disappearance as intended and he never once set the record straight publicly
