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[spicyvampire]

HEATED RIVALRY (2025−) 1.06 "The Cottage"

[chefgrc]

[lizzkit33]

My MBTI either comes out as INFJ , ISTJ, or INTJ

[heretherebedork]

I love them both so much. They're both so deeply fucked it's not even funny. Which makes it even better. Min Joon talks about his misery but still does everything and Jin Hwan is struggling with their past in an entirely different way. And then the backstory of how Miin Joon always did what he thought Jin Hwan wanted and, when it hurt too much, simply left. And how he always pushed down the things that made him unhappy rather than face them or mention them, would rather simply hold back and be unhappy until he couldn't cope any longer.

These two are gonna destroy me and I will love every second. Preview for next week looks glorious.

[heretherebedork]

They're gonna be amazing. One going on a queer journey that other... I suspect the other has a better idea of his own queerness.

[heretherebedork]

He's just autistic and rigid, Yooha. I promise. He cares! He really does! He just doesn't know how to express any of it because he tries to follow rules he's constantly making up to try and keep up with the rest of a world he doesn't understand.

And then we get out tiny, sad and lonely boy because he doesn't know how to express himself and tries so very hard but never quite manages it and, again, I am just shading him very tenderly under the autistic umbrella and knowing that Yooha will learn to understand him just as much as he'll learn to communicate with him.

(Watching Minwoo watch Yooha with his friend was physically painful because it was watching him watch them interact and realizing that he could never do what they do, casual and comfortable, easily talking and asking about each other in a way that doesn't come naturally to him. Absolutely beautiful and painful.)

[heretherebedork]

It's very FUTS coded but in a good way because he actually rejects him and gets to be upset when he finds out the truth and walks away and doesn't get all his boundaries stomped constantly and has friends! @absolutebl I found another tiny Korean BL! Connect

[obsessedferalgremlin]

Excuse me??? Um.... why did I not know the Sweetheart Service guys were the guys in Tide of Love??? The kind toxic seeming spicy show???? Hello????? Like I literally got 1 minute in and went "hey this voice is familiar" like you're kidding right?!?!?!

[slonekaru]

So he's spending way more than $2,000 per session on him if he's paying someone to track him

Oh, he knows. And doesn't seem bothered

[slonekaru]

Hello

[thisautistic]

i think this would fix me

[simple-smiles-no-lies]

The first episode just dropped!!

Go watch tide of love 🇰🇷

Their vibe is completely different from sweetheart service and omg i had my heart in my throat watching this!!

This BL series features a BDSM angle of a forbidden love bound between obedience and possession.

[slonekaru]

Tide of Love is very spicy, especially for a KBL.

I feel like I'm seeing Victorian ankle!

[spicyvampire]

This guy has the funniest typecast on the planet, this is the 2nd time he is playing "sweet guy getting paid money to date rich asshole guy" this year, but this time around instead of barely kissing the rich guy until the very end, they are throwing him right into BDSM

[thisautistic]

[thegleampt2fromtheglowpt22001]

[uservik]

i think this whole thing with richard siken right now is proof that queer youth are so far removed from the aids epidemic and the consequences it had on queer elders. for them aids isn’t a lived experience, it’s not something they went through, the perception of it now comes from media and it’s seen as this navigable, preventable, even curable thing instead of a systemic attack on queer men that wiped out hundreds of thousands.

our queer elders are so low in number because in the mid-90s 1 in 15 queer men had died in the epidemic. doctors refused to touch them. men were dying in secret and begging their friends to break into their houses and erase the evidence that they were gay so their families didn’t know. they were dying alone.

richard siken lived and lost through this and poured everything he went through, his pain, his loss, his ability to love, into his poetry and to see people making a mockery of it now, to see people— queer people, at that— trying to ridicule him for being bothered that his work is being decontextualised to apply to a ship is so, so disheartening.

[natsumisato]

Your eyes look the same as they do when you eat something delicious. Don't be stupid. I see it now. Thank goodness. I thought you hated me. No, I don't hate you or anything.