There’s this genre of BL that’s sad but not a tragedy, playful but not a comedy, and has meaningful drama instead of the flashy kind.
Sometimes it’s just a guy who just got cheated on and dumped after an 8 year relationship meeting another guy who’s been kicked out and is now homeless.
Sometimes it’s a boy who hasn’t left the house in 5 years, who’s one sided crush is leaving him behind and sets him up with a roommate to watch over him.
Sometimes it’s two boys who cross paths at a bus terminal and then the rest of their lives intertwine.
Sometimes it’s a masochistic yakuza boss and his silent impotent bodyguard trying to figure each other out and somehow find happiness.
Sometimes it’s a man who sees the mostly beautiful pair of hands on a stranger and can’t help but invite him to a hotel where he waits for him blindfolded.
Sometimes it’s a werewolf who trusts no one except the man that killed his ex-lover.
Sometimes it’s just a kid who loved his older neighbor so much he proposed. And now, years later would do anything to get him to take his love for him seriously.
Sometimes it’s a straight man and a gay prostitute slowly falling for each other despite all of the rules forbidding it.
Sometimes it’s two men holding onto the pain of losing those close to them, who find each other again and the pain doesn’t go away but the fact that they have each other makes life brighter.
Sometimes it’s a boy in the drama club who falls in love with a boy thinking he’s a girl.
Sometimes it’s someone wanting to redeem himself from his past mistakes and move on from his first love... only to find himself being confessed to by a boy who looks like sunshine.
Anyway, I really love this genre ♡ I love to read it when I’m feeling something I can’t always put into words
