March in Media

Tv series

GAP (GL)

I've been watching this slowly because i like it so much i don't want it to end! This is so good and it might be the best gl drama i've watched. I really like the bossxemployee/sunshinexgrumpy dynamic

Blank (GL)

Western GL fandom cancelled this before it aired because it has a 16 year age gap. I don't mind it if it's well done  and I actually really like this series, it's very realistic in tone.

Pyramid Game

I'm halfway through, haven't finished it bc i want to binge it bc its so intense. I will post analysis of this later because I'm really invested in this drama. It's about bullying in an all-girls school. I really love the portrayal of complex female relationships

My Strawberry Film
This was marketed as BL but I don't think it's one. There's only 2 episodes left and no progression of romance for anyone. But I watched it because it's beautifully directed and it's interesting to see how the 4 young people deal with their relationships with each other.

Takara-Kun & Amagi-Kun (BL)
Cuuuuute! I usually don't watch high school romance but this was exeption because I was looking for something sweet and I heard this one was great. I think I prefer Japanese BL, it's just something about how they are directed that feels natural.

+and finished Cherry Magic anime, which I really enjoyed. I'm looking forward to the next BL omegaverse anime Okaeri Tadaima airing next month.

Film

Drive-Away Dolls

I already made a post about how much I loved this movie. More fun and sexy lesbian films!

Games

Amelie
Yuri visual novel, and i didn't know it was horror i freaked out! i love how it plays the same story but from different POV it adds to the horror, not many choices but they dictate the story so i went back to the story to go further, lot of repetition which was sometimes kinda annoying. But i loved how the story revealed more of itself and that the story got longer and more complex the further i went into the game.

I'll definetely be playing more yuri visual novels in the future!

Quarter year fandom goals

3 months of this year have passed. The goals are just something I wanted to set myself to find new works to be interested in and deepen my involvement and joy in fandom. Let's look into how i have succeeded in my new year's fandom resolutions:

• Watch vintage bl/gl: i finished reading Ai no kusabi in January. Next on watchlist: Revolutionary Girl Utena and Kaze to ki no uta (probably later this year)
• Play queer games: i played Amelie. On list:Lip Trip, National Park Girls, A Summer's End, Life is Strange. All wlw.
• Fan content: i've been reading more fanfiction. Mostly 2ha and Jinx. Actually for the first time in my life I've read more fanfiction than actual books 😭. I also rediscovered gemasteria's danmei podfics on spotify (highly recommend!). I like listening to them while commuting or cleaning.
• GL: i haven't read baihe yet but i binge read a lot of gl manga in February. I've gotten into gl dramas as well. Also I'm part of a gl discord so i have a new online community i enjoy :) I've gotten many new recommendations through it and I love that I'm finally part of a community that appreciates GL <3
• Queer films: i would say almost half of the films i've watched are queer, mostly wlw, films.

Lately I've been reading a lot of Jinx zombie apocalypse AUs inspired by this image. As someone who was obsessed with the Walking Dead
I'm also inspired to write my own fic inspired by it but i just don't have the time now 😭

• i've gotten into omegaverse from a new thai bl Pit Babe and from fanfiction. My introduction to the genre was the manwha Love is an illusion, which i hated so i stayed away from the genre but luckily i've found some good alternatives
• Second genre I'm slowly getting into is cyberpunk/dystopian anime (inspired by ai no kusabi). I've watched Ergo Proxy and Cyberpunk Edgerunners (not finished yet). Watchlist: Texnolyze, Pluto.I'll probably watch more later this year when I'm working on my scifi novel.
• i've only bought one danmei this year(Peach Blossom Debt) bc i'm really broke ;_; but i really want to start collecting bab and qjj. i'm on the library waitlist for thousand autums and priest's novels.
• Reading 2 books: Little life and Imperial Uncle (both mlm). I've been reading really slowly this year but I don't mind. My goals was to read less with more intention. I pick more carefully what I read and right now I like to read longer works.
• Classics: Atm reading Lolita. The only work that was originally in my 2024 reading list was War and Peace, so I think I will still try to read that later this year. Before that I think I might read the collected short stories of Kafka.
• Excited for Interview with the Vampire S2! I read the novel last year and this year my goal is to finish reading second part of the series: Vampire Lestat, which I so far enjoy even more than the first book.
• Fandom: Still battling with my tiktok addiction, it's a very toxic for fandom,  one part of me wants to be part of all the fun and memes but theres just too much toxicity in fandoms these days. Jinx is the most popular manwha right now and i love the story but the fandom seems to hate it and Jaekyung.... let me enjoy my toxic story in peace! I've also noticed that bl manwha fandom tends to be more illiterate and young whereas danmei fans are usually more mature (except for some new puritan tgcf fans -_-)
• Good news is that i made an irl friend who also likes anime and bl! We might be going to a con in May!

• My current obsession is mostly GL and BL dramas and kpop girl groups (I really got into IVE, I'm also excited for ILLIT's debut)
• Other new artist's I've been into: Tommy Heavenly6 and Peggy Gou

I fell into the Wonyoung hype... I'm completely obsessed with her

Writing

• Extra goal achieved:I continued one of my fics which I hadnt updated for long
• I submitted my poems for a writing competition!
• Beginning of my novel is finished. First part is completely drafted

Goals for the next quarter:

• Finish my 2ha fics
• Finish my novel during summer holiday
• Write my own short films (I already have ideas, I just need to learn more about screenwriting)
• Finish books I already own instead of buyng new (or loaning multiple books from library and not have the time to read them all)
• I've watched so many series and films these past months I don't actually have a long watchlist anymore. There's a couple films I'd like to watch (Love lies Bleeding, Man Suang, and Who'll Stop the rain) and series I'm interested: Shogun, Blue-eyed Samurai, and 3-body problem. Then there's tons of BL series that are praised like Old-Fashioned Cupcake, Candy color Paradox, Only friends, Moonlight Chicken, Love is better the next time around... but honestly I'm much more into GL and I have less and less interest in real men lmao so the story has to be really good for me to be interested. There's lot of new GL dramas coming out this year so I think I'm gonna focus on them but I'll check out some BLs every now and then.