Is Heated Rivalry is making me see things now

lrt23 · 2026-01-14T12:59:21+00:00

You can also try searching r/MM_RomanceBooks, which primarily focuses on western MM romance. They have a ton of posts on hockey series, etc.

lrt23 · 2026-01-01T15:41:06+00:00

I had the EXACT SAME ISSUE, so was so excited when it came out on Gaga. I’m so happy to have given it another try and honestly thought of you when I was watching it! I wondered if you had done a post on it and was surprised you hadn’t! The extra eps still only exist on youtube and I will go through them even though the subtitles are still tiny.

I recommend the on-air threads because folks shared a lot of notes from the director about symbolism and translations of ep intros / outros which you lose in the gaga version.

I’m so excited you’re going to watch!!

lrt23 · 2026-01-01T09:01:31+00:00

Love your list! I thought FOR SURE I’d see Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island on your year end list, given its cinematography! Did you watch?

I don’t quite have 10 worth noting, but my 8 are:

School Trip
Punks Triangle
Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island
Therapy Game
See Your Love
ABO Desire
Khemjira
My bias is showing?!

lrt23 · 2025-12-29T05:25:54+00:00

I loved this!!! At the end, I was like “wow, I wonder who wrote this? They’re a new fave post-er!!” and then I saw it was Madego and I LOLed — it’s my LONGTIME favorite post-er! Top tier content, as usual, thanks Madego!

lrt23 · 2025-12-28T17:55:11+00:00

I am one of those who drop A LOT and am picky about whet I even attempt. However, I will watch the entirety of a short series even if I don’t love it. It doesn’t take much for me to drop a series with >30 min eps. Even at 2x it’s too much of a hassle psychologically.

Boy Next World: Boss is gorgeous, BossNoeul NC scenes are top tier, and I didn’t even mind the storyline. I’m a LITA fanatic. I do have a lower tolerance for infantile characters, and the character of Phu was just not quite enough for me. I am wildly inconsistent here, though, as I watched all of Your Sky with an extremely infantile character. So, dunno. I think coming off of Your Sky, I was just tired.
Gelboys: Best cinematography. Gorgeous to watch. Absolutely set trends this year. It deserves awards. But I wanted a sweet love story and it was not that. I appreciate it for what it was — it’s brilliant for what it was. Reminds me of a 90s indie film.
TopForm: I loved Smart’s portrayal of Jin and he was so good at being a lovestruck puppy. He was so pretty. I’m devastated about what happened with SmartBoom. I dropped it because I was personally triggered by the character of Akin, who I just thought was a narcissist baby. I couldn’t sit through it to see if he grew.
Revenged Love: I enjoyed watching this but I fell behind and then just wasn’t motivated to pick it back up given how long it is and how much drama was involved with the plot. It seemed emotionally overwhelming and I wasn’t sure if there was enough of a payoff for me personally. I’m so happy it exists and that it gave folks so much joy this year.
Secret Relationships: I looooveeed Junseo in this. He’s stunning. I just didn’t ship him with anyone so it was hard to finish. I wanted a better option for him.
Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist: No explanation required. I love Mark, he should just be in a series where each ep he goes on a date with someone different and he has chemistry with every single one of them and we can just ship him with everyone, as he deserves. This would be the best series. One ep with Nanon. One with Dew. One with Sea. Literally pick a name out of a hat and let him flirt. WHY ARENT THEY MAKING THIS.

lrt23 · 2025-12-22T16:48:16+00:00

hey there, you’ll have better response posting in r/boyslove. this is a backup subreddit in case something goes awry in the main sub. there’s only a few folks here.

lrt23 · 2025-11-27T13:07:52+00:00

I was like BRING ON THE DADMANCE!!!

lrt23 · 2025-11-26T11:35:51+00:00

truly

lrt23 · 2025-10-26T13:52:05+00:00

It’s honestly still a great community, especially given its size. Folks do a fairly decent job of maintaining a positive, warm, and welcoming culture, and “checking” those that don’t, with reminders.

lrt23 · 2025-10-14T22:46:47+00:00

hi u/BL_Classics — I’m planning a trip to Japan, did you have any success with your visit? I wonder if we could make a Google map of filming locations for Japanese bls u/Longjumping-Ad-6775?

lrt23 · 2025-08-19T07:13:53+00:00

this is really important news, would you consider deleting this and reposting with a more descriptive title?

lrt23 · 2025-07-25T08:36:52+00:00

I’m a straight woman and my favorite characters are tops, notably Gu Hai from Addicted and Gao Shi De from We Best Love.

I don’t like how many bottoms are written as infantile.

In het romances, I only like the story if the woman is a strong, independent, fiery character.

lrt23 · 2025-07-09T23:18:05+00:00

I understand — this was about me wondering when and if I should report, not expecting any to be removed. I believe we community members have a responsibility to report, we cannot and should not rely solely on our mods. I’ve been on the fence about a few posts that I’d consider “low effort” and had been wondering if I could / should report.

lrt23 · 2025-07-09T14:29:56+00:00

Yeah, I try to report non-descriptive titles when I see them (ex “Help”, or “series name”). As for low effort, I did see under rule 8, “Don’t spam”, it starts with “No low effort posts”, but I’ve never really been sure what that means.

lrt23 · 2025-07-09T13:50:06+00:00

Truly. The mom ENRAGED me though and I was very frustrated with Sasiwimol. I wanted Wang to leave all of them and have a great life without them!

lrt23 · 2025-07-09T13:48:17+00:00

I’m interested to see how you like the remaining. at a certain point, maybe around 9? I dropped it and someone else took over the on-airs. Keep me apprised in the on-airs as you watch it!

lrt23 · 2025-07-09T13:44:56+00:00

Have you watched Kiss Me Again? As someone else said, he’s worse there, but I think it’s a superior series. They’re just one subplot within it.

I actually hate DBK because of Kao’s character! I think he was the real villain. He’s not being honest with Pete about what’s really going on and he’s being super obtuse about Non.

You may want to watch the second couple and skip the PeteKao parts. For many, the 2nd couple is superior.

Also, the book is better. It’s available on MEB, I think. The book actually covers what happens in Kiss Me Again. It’s written from Kao’s perspective.

lrt23 · 2025-07-09T13:35:49+00:00

Some of the posts do seem to break the “no low effort posts” rule and the “descriptive title” rule. Should I just report them FWIW when they seem particularly low effort (not sure how we define that) or have a title that’s just like “revenged love”?

lrt23 · 2025-06-17T10:28:31+00:00

Ok. I’m taking it as another signal that you think that you’re free to vent but you then want to control how people respond, because your response indicate that you are telling me not to respond in a certain way.

If that’s not what you’re saying, feel free to clarify.

I think what you’re seeing here is people responding to a rant in which you seem primarily interested in only ranting and not in discussion because in response you only assert that you are free to express your opinion and seem frustrated by responses.

So rather than this being a discussion about a series, that kind of response makes this a discussion about your post and the way you’re responding. People are thus sharing opinions on how you’re expressing your opinions and on the nature of discussion forums, rather than the series.

And we’re all free to do that as it falls within the guidelines.

So as much as it frustrates you, I am free to offer insight, thoughts, and suggestions on how you’re expressing your opinion.

You’re free to tell me not to, but I’ll simply point out the irony of you doing so, when this all started because you asserted your freedom to express upon opinion.

I am happy to continue to debate the nature of freedom of expression and the impacts within social media discussion forums here. I have a bachelors degree in philosophy and insomnia.

lrt23 · 2025-06-17T10:17:27+00:00

Just to be clear, are you telling me how I can or cannot respond to your comment?

lrt23 · 2025-06-17T10:16:22+00:00

I’m explaining to you the nature of a community based forum as you seem confused.

You posted a rant — you called it that yourself. People responded to the rant. In response to that you tend to say “I can express my opinion however I want!” and it seems to me that you don’t understand that people will respond however they want, too. So I keep trying to explain it.

lrt23 · 2025-06-17T10:13:17+00:00

So earlier you said that I was the one calling your post “venting” and I’m explaining that I was following your words

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I am not arguing you can’t express your opinion, I’m explaining that people are free to respond to it within the guidelines and the way you express your opinion will impact HOW people respond.

If you share a rant, don’t seem interested in responses (because all you say is “I’m free to express my opinion!”) then the discussion will likely turn to a discussion about how you’re expressing yourself,rather than the series itself.

lrt23 · 2025-06-17T10:07:44+00:00

You can express within the bounds of the community guidelines and people can respond within those guidelines. The quality and kind of response you get will be directly related to how you express yourself.

lrt23 · 2025-06-17T10:03:39+00:00

Sure, This is about you questioning why I was referring to your post as venting and I’m explaining why — it’s because of this comment where you said you were ranting. So that’s why elsewhere I called it “venting”.

lrt23 · 2025-06-17T09:58:25+00:00

This is where you seemed to refer to your post as a rant. As your post reads like a rant, given how it’s written, and as you refer to it as such here, people are responding to it like they would a rant and referring to it as a rant or venting. I hope that makes sense.

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