Love isn’t just about youth and firsts. For many of us, love isn’t something that happens in our twenties. Sometimes, it shows up long after we’ve settled into a life we didn’t mean to build, after the routines, the work, the quiet loneliness, and the quiet comfort.
Continue reading “10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
The world often feels much smaller than it is, especially when it brings people together in the most surprising ways.
Continue reading “Stay By My Side After the Rain” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
The second season of I Became the Main Role of a BL picks up exactly where the first left off. Only now, the stage is set, not for introductions, but for deeper entanglements. We already know Yuichiro and Hajime. We’ve rooted for them, laughed with them, watched them stumble their way into something that looks a lot like love. Now, we get to see what happens when the confessions are out in the open, but the growing pains of a new relationship are just beginning.
Continue reading “I Became the Main Role of a BL Season Two” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
Life is like a photograph with a focal point and a blurred background. Sometimes we’re so focused on what’s happening to us, or within us, that we lose sight of what’s unfolding around us.
Continue reading “Depth of Field” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
Relationships are complex. They aren’t perfect, but they require communication, trust, and understanding.
Continue reading “When It Rains, It Pours” Series Review (Ep.3 to 7)
The hardest person to face is often the one staring back at us in the mirror.
Continue reading “Call Me by No Name” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
It’s easy to lose yourself in a relationship you’re attached to, even when it becomes clear that the bond holds more meaning for one partner than the other.
Continue reading “When It Rains, It Pours” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
Boys’ Love may have fallen under the business model of Yaoi, with its softcore porn over plot in many recent Thai series. But happily Japan skipped that memo, continuing to put out thought-provoking series that take the established BL genre to new places. Using pre-existing notions of what to expect from a series where two men kiss, and applying the societal views on the character’s specific circumstances.
Continue reading “Love is Like a Poison” Series Review (Ep.4 to 12)
It’s easy to get lost in our own lives—to become so consumed by what’s happening to us that we feel like we’re drowning. And the people beyond the waves? They become distant, even frightening, especially when one of them shines like a beacon of light, someone we’re afraid to approach for fear of extinguishing their brilliance.
I wasn’t expecting to be so thoroughly entertained by a Japanese remake of a Thai live-action adaptation and yet this show checked all the right boxes!
Continue reading “Love in the Air: Koi No Yokan” Series Review (Ep. 3 to 8)
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