I felt left out of the tag game so here I am, standing in front of my fellow tumblr peeps, asking them to love me to listen to me ruminate about my top 10 posts from 2024 😊
1. Day 27: Top 3 15 BL Kisses? 570 notes - Nov 14 2024
I’d like to send a formal apology to @slonekaru for disrespecting their prompt!
This was day 27 of the 15 Day BL Challenge (don’t worry about the numbers in that sentence 😅) and the prompt actually asked for your 3 favourite BL kisses but I just kept thinking of more great kisses and in the end I settled on sharing 15, which was good because you’re only allowed 30 GIFs in a tumblr post and that is exactly how many GIFs the post has 🤯😅
I’m glad so many people enjoyed this compilation and agreed with me on these kisses being some good ones 😊
2. Dr. Kan is sitting on a Y Chair in a series Y 128 notes - Dec 15 2024
This was the most random little post but apparently people enjoyed learning this little tidbit of knowledge I had rattling around my brain. I will do my best to supply you with more random knowledge in 2025.
I am still waiting for my experience as someone who studied Civil Engineering to come in handy with all the BL boys studying engineering 😅
3. An Ode to the The Sign NC scene 106 notes - Jan 9 2024
This one straight up got me sent to horny jail but I persevered and found a way to bring this masterpiece of an NC scene to the masses with my running commentary. Another thing I aspire to be more often: Horny on Main™
4. Trash-watches and what do you do with your negative opinions? 93 notes - Jun 10 2024
This was sparked because of my frustration with people hate-watching shows. It frustrates me to no end when people are engaging with a piece of media entirely in bad faith and with the intent of criticizing it to hell and back with not much nice to say. It resulted in some interesting conversation about what is the best way to use tumblr when you have something negative to say or criticism of a piece of media.
I think my conclusion about this is that if you’re engaging with a piece of media in good faith and aren’t doing it just to hate on the show you should probably be fine but it’s always good to consider how the fans of the piece of media will feel when they come across your post or comment. And if in doubt maybe leave you’re negative opinions behind a cut and make sure people are warned about your approach, then people themselves can decide whether they want to see it or engage with it. I don’t think not tagging the posts is a good way to solve this but then again I’m also a big fan of tagging things properly.
At the end of the day just be kind and mindful of other people, and then just do what you feel is best.
5. Why do more people watch BL than GL? 39 notes - Mar 9 2024
Want a full essay on theories of why people watch more BL than GL?
It’s been 10 months since I wrote this and I’ve become more and more sure of my theories since then. Whenever I see someone talk about why they don’t get into GL much it always falls into one or more of these categories.
If I had all the time and resources in the world and was still in university I would legit make a research project out of this because I find it so fascinating.
6. What trope do you enjoy and wish to see more of? 37 notes - Nov 11 2024
This is day 24 of the 15 Days BL Challenge.
I’m just a sucker for some form of “hurt/traumatized character with low self-esteem who thinks they’re unlovable or damaged goods and then they’re proved wrong by their romantic interest".
One of these days I need to check how many of my favourite BLs fit into this category because I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s most of them.
7. Spare Me Your Mercy: Good but could’ve been amazing 34 notes - Dec 26 2024
I really liked this show and had so much fun watching it but I also had a lot of thoughts on what it could have done better if it had a longer runtime.
I honestly think I understated how much I liked the show in this post. I wish I’d spent more time talking about all the things I really like about this show but I still agree with the majority of the points I make in the post.
8. World of BL shout-out 31 notes - Dec 11 2024
This post is so short but is a very important PSA so let me just leave it here as well.
For anyone who’s struggling to figure out on which sites a BL is airing and whether it’s geolocked in certain regions:
World of BL usually has really good intel
9. What’s a hill you’re willing to die on when it comes to BL? 28 notes - Dec 16 2024
This was day 59 of the 15 Days BL Challenge (the numbers make less and less sense the higher you go).
My hill is a pretty simple one:
Actors don’t owe their fans anything!
10. What dramatic scene really stuck with you? 28 notes - Nov 30 2024
My final post is day 44 of the 15 Days BL Challenge and it’s about the scene where Sky’s getting assaulted by his ex and Prapai comes to his rescue. It’s a really hard scene to watch but at least Gun gets beaten up at the end. Yay!
Wish I could check if any of my mutuals haven’t been tagged in this yet because I definitely saw a lot of people do this tag game right around the new year. If we’re mutuals and you haven’t been tagged in this consider yourself tagged!!!
kianamaiart
stormborns
dededos
tangentwithtanner
dailybridgerton
gummygunk
blakekathryn
theartofmadeline
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