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I know a way. Should we give it a try?

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Your recs have been amazing for someone new to BL!! Do you have any recommendations where the more 'stoic', 'bigger', 'taller', 'masculine', ect... guy is the one to bottom? 🙈

Hey Anon! Thanks ❤️! As far as stoic, bigger, taller, masculine bottoms? This type of dynamic is a bit hard to find because BLs as a whole like to stick to a certain aesthetic when it comes to top x bottom dynamics. Like some of these stans hate if a designated bottom looks "too masculine" but they also complain about them being "too feminine" too. It's really weird. And they hate when a top appears to be "too cute."

And some of these BL ships want to market themselves as being verse but a lot of fans ain't having it (Por and TeeTee from Domundi can tell ya) so some of these recs check some of the boxes but not all of them.

I have to mention PoohPavel first. They are the ship who fits exactly what you're looking for. Pavel has faced a lot of backlash and disrespect because his characters have been the bottoms in the two series he has with his partner Pooh. Pavel is older, bigger, and very masculine so people automatically want him as the top vs. Pooh who is this cute, tall, slim bubbly boy. They are pushing against the BL norm and are proud about it. They're so cute together and they really adore each other.

Goddess Bless You From Death (Thailand). This series is about a senior inspector named Singha who is freshly back to work and thrown into a serial killer case with a supernatural element and he meets a young artist named Thup who can see ghosts and is seemingly at the center of these killings. Thup only seems to feel safe when he's with Sing. Singha is a very manly no-nonsense cop and Thup is just the cutest bean who needs protection.

Pit Babe 1 & 2 (Thailand). This series starts off as an omegaverse series. Babe is a top racecar driver and is also an alpha who only likes being topped by other alphas. His problem is that he hates the way they smell until he meets another alpha named Charlie who has kind of been stalking him. He's immediately drawn to the cute bespectacled boy and they begin their whirlwind romance while Babe's adoptive father Tony tries his best to kidnap him and force him to breed with an enigma so they can have extra talented super children to sell on the black market. Babe is all the manly tropes big, muscular, and strong and he also likes to be railed every which way by his cute nerdy boyfriend.

Now I will say that s2 essentially abandons the Omegaverse dynamics. And also the character dynamics change a bit too. IMO they make Babe seem like the weaker of the two in s2 compared to how he is in s1 which I didn't like.

Also I'd love to mention another pairing KimKenta who meet in s1 but don't take off til s2. Kenta is a henchman for Tony who is also happens to be his adoptive father as well (Tony adopts a bunch of people). He's big, muscular, and strong and the silent type. Kenta is a Korean racer hired by Tony to race on his team. He is smart, quick-witted, and sharp as a tack. He's a tiny guy but boy does he pack a punch. Kenta is so used to being a shield and a weapon that he doesn't know how to handle a person trying to protect him.

Sammy's Children's Day (China). This series is about a young finance student named Chu San who gets into the mix with a dangerous triad gang leader named Liu Yi. They are from two different worlds but can't seem to stop seeking each other out. Their dynamic is kind of like CharlieBabe's from Pit Babe. Chu San is this adorable, glasses-wearing, porcelain skin kid. Liu Yi is this rugged, tan, violent guy who is skilled with knives. Chu San has the strong desire to take care of Liu Yi and maybe be more than just a little brother to him.

Every You, Every Me (Thailand). This series reads more like an anthology series. That follow two people who fall in love in every universe. Different characters, different settings, different professions, and different circumstances. I'm including it because the main actors kind of switch off as top and bottom throughout the series. So you get to enjoy both of them take on that role.

SunTiny (Thailand). This is actually a spin off of Y-Destiny. And it follows Sun and Nuea as they hit a snag in their relationship. Sun is a very big and muscular guy and Nuea is this cute little effeminate boy who enjoys fashion. I'm including them because in the series they essentially swap bodies so Nuea does top Sun but the ship is still SunNuea...if that makes sense? Visually the big one bottoms.

A Dog and A Plane (Thailand). Prude flight attendant Kanit hires a vulgar EMT named Toto to help him catch his boyfriend cheating. And of course a romance begins to bloom between them. This is a fun grown up series so far because it's still ongoing. I'm including them because Kanit is bigger and more muscular than Toto but he is the bottom in the relationship.

And lastly I have to suggest an older retired ship named MaxTul. And the reason I'm including them is because they're both the big, strong, and muscular manly-man type. So a variation of what you're looking for but not quite exactly it.

Together With Me. A uni series with a group of THE messiest 20-somethings on the planet. One night, besties Korn and Knock get drunk and have some FIRE sex but Knock has a girlfriend and he says he's not gay. So it's pretty interesting to watch their friendship fall apart because Knock refuses to leave his girlfriend and Korn refuses to ignore his feelings for Knock. That's just their story, everyone in the friend group is just as messy tho...believe me.

Manner of Death. Oh this series is actually PEAK. It's about a doctor named Bun who returns to his small home town and runs right into a murder case where his best friend is the victim and who he thinks is her boyfriend is the prime suspect. His name is Tan. Now Tan is just a teacher/bar owner but he does have his secrets too. Bun is going to have to work with Tan if he wants to find out who killed his best friend.

Like I said, these recs aren't exactly what you asked for but fall within the spectrum of what you asked for. It's hard to find what you're looking for because it's not a common ship dynamic.

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Anybody that thinks gay couples (real or cp) who are verse/switch are “cringe”, you’re a fetishizer.

And yes this is about MaxNat in Suntiny, I have not watched it yet but I’ve .. seen gifs.. and if you don’t know the story the characters switch bodies so Nat is playing the top and there are people that said it was cringe and weird to see Nat as the top because he’s smaller and younger so he has to be the bottom… It is always so clear when somebody has no idea what it’s like to actually be queer, been around queer people, or be in a queer relationship, and you need to never engage with queer media again if you can’t possibly open your mind to the reality that many, many queer couples are verse and you cannot tell what someone likes in the bedroom based on the way they look or act, and I believe more couple pairings should switch if they want to but for some reason grown people on the internet cannot handle a fictional couple switching…

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This Week in BL - Wild Times (But Not For Sorn)

Organized, in each category, with ones I'm enjoying most at the top.

June 2025 Week 3

Ongoing Series - Thai

Knock Out (Fri WeTV ) ep 6 of 12 - I continue to very much enjoy this show, all of the couples have great chemistry, the plot is entertaining, It’s a solid sports romance and I adore a sports romance. Nothing not to love.

My Stubborn (Sun iQIYI) ep 6 of 10 - No no no. Sorn is supposed to suffer. This is not acceptable. Do not just give in like that! Oh thank goodness, yay! Confrontation, make him suffer, Junbaby! You go sweetie! Good. Good, suffering. More suffering is needed! Tai make him suffer too!

Reset (Mon iQIYI) ep 3 of 10 - Did Thada just buy his man a plastic bowl so he could eat his ramen as they walk down a street? Interesting choice. Also “workcation” = v modern word… so Thada must also be on a Reset? I do love that Thada is putting all of his cards on the table so quickly, definitely one who feels like time might run out and he has to get it right this time around. Thada is treating a relationship with Armin exactly the same way that Armin is treating his acting career. As I think you could probably tell, I am enjoying this very much. What a good show.

Memoir of Rati (Fri Netflix or YT) ep 1 of 12 - I was resistant to picking this one up, despite my love of both pairs. The title, intro music, and setting make me nervous that we won’t get a happy ending. That said, I am particularly interested in this time of Thailand‘s history and the complicated diplomacy that went on. And holy heck can GreatInn serve up some stellar chemistry.

My Sweetheart Jom (Fri YT) ep 6 of 12 - I continue to enjoy this more as it gets more plot heavy and convoluted. To be clear, that’s not normally what I like in my BL and certainly not what I expect from Thailand, or that Thailand does well. But there’s something about the way this show is paced that I'm enjoying more now than at the start. And we should be in the soggy middle. So, I guess... well done little show?

Pit Babe 2 (Fri iQIYI) ep 8 of 13 - Kenta Kim kiss! Yay!!! Chris’s epic eye rolls make me happy. However, this plot is Very Silly Indeed and I am very entertained. What a vroom vroom full of nonsense this is.

I Promise I Will Come Back (Mon WeTV) ep 5 of 10 - Oh what a lovely first kiss… touch… and so forth. I love this! It’s actually kind of special. How unexpected. (Ep 5A if you just wanna watch the moment.) I’ve said it before, there’s nothing wrong with the acting in this show. It’s the general story and script that’s troubling me. But my goodness all 3 leads are great.

The Next Prince (Sat iQIYI) ep 8 of 14 - It has been a bumper of a week and I’m grumpy, and unfortunately this particular show is bearing the brunt of it. I’m sorry, but the main couple are just so one note and it’s becoming quite trying. Something has to actually evolve with their characters, ya know? Now the sides …. very nicely done, give us more of them. 

The Bangkok Boy (Sat Gaga) ep 9 of 12 - It was a decent episode. But I’m really not sure about this show as a BL. It’s making me increasingly nervous.

Boys in Love (Sun iQIYI ) ep 7 of 12 - Just as I suspected, lots of nothing happening. Sports day. Whatever. (Always been Blue Team myself… just FYI.) 

SunTiny (Tues iQIYI) ep 1-2 of 10 - Look here, there’s a lot to like about this show. I like the idea of messing with standard misconceptions of top/bottom, and I LOVE it when the fandom hets and their dumb ideas of sex get the vapors. Blow their tiny minds, boys. Please. 

However, I am a little crushed that it takes a bodyswap for us to have a femme top. I hate bodyswap narratives. It’s one of my least favorite tropes. And I’m not sure this particular pair has the acting chops to carry this off. No skin off of MaxNat - good chemistry and decent actors, but to act like another person in your own body genuinely requires a level of physicality and verbal execution, a new way of holding the jaw and face to make believable. It’s not something that’s easy to do. Max is doing a slightly better job at it. He is certainly better at facial nuance and tone shift, but his physicality remains the same.

I love that this show is absolutely gonna mess with the worst of the fandom. That makes me really damn happy. Although it is dangerous territory for this pair to enter into and not a subject matter I expect Thailand to handle with delicacy. I do love all of the jockeying with linguistics and verbal pronouns and such. That is fun.

As of now though, I remain torn. It's gonns have to prove itself.

Eye Contact (Weds WeTV) ep 6 end? - I don’t like anything that happened at the back end of this show. And I’m not going to forgive it. I don’t like where the characters went. I don’t like where the relationships went. I don’t like what was done with the story arc. I don’t like the choices that were made by anyone. I am, to put it simply, cheesed off. The GL couple is the only good thing about this and they got practically no screen time. I’m tempted to say that this was originally slated to be a 12 episode and it stopped halfway through.

Summary

A promising start for a craptastic but delightfully edgy pulp derailed abruptly in the second act by miserable disconnected story arcs full of dysfunctional relationships, poor life choices, and every trigger in the book with no payout or attempt to resolve or address the resulting trauma. Including mine. I am seriously displeased. 3/10 

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

Ball Boy Tactics (Korea Thurs iQIYI) ep 3 of 8 - They. Are. So. Cute. I love them so much. No notes, absolutely my favorite thing airing right now.

Sweetheart Service (Korea Fri YT) ep 7 of 12 - How delightful that the sides got some love. That was charming. They went on a date. They are so damn adorable. Meanwhile our leads are the bestest boys. 

Moon and Dust (China YT) ep 5 of 6 - Yay biting! Oh this show is so ffed up and I love that. It’s so good. It’s so warped. It’s so good because it’s so warped. I am scared (for me and the show) but so pleased.

He is my rabid dog child and I LOVE HIM. Let him fuck bite his brother if he wants.

Revenged Love (China Mon Gaga) ep 1-4 of 24? - A remake of 2015's Falling in Love with a Rival. From China ON GAGA? What alt-reality IS THIS? No idea on the length, MDL says 24 but at 45 a pop, I'm wondering if that's correct, because that would make this the first full length CBL we have had since... well, Advance Bravely. But also, see the next section, this could be shut down at any moment.

And now, some thoughts:

It is so like its source, absolutely unhinged CBL. Snake fighting. So much smoking. Money throwing. Gifting boys. Gang rp. UNHINGED. What the actual?

At least this time the seme is established queer out the gate closet? Our baby boy is a bit of a loser. And the meat cute was way more modern BL. Of course seme is also truly evil, he’s openly queer and this is CBL so he must be corrupt in all ways. (I don’t make the rules the CCP does.) 

Of course I LOVE the doctor. (Also the psycho baby brother from Moon & Dust, did you clock?) I don’t think I’ve ever loved a character this much this quickly since Film was last on my screen. He is glorious.  

Anyway, I have no faith in this ending in a satisfying manner, or indeed ending at all, but boy am I enjoying this WILD ride.

Depth of Field AKA Hishakai Shindo (Japan Fri Gaga) ep 1-2 of 6 - The actor playing Hayakawa was in one of the Kiss shorts! Neat. Well we know he can certainly kiss a boy. Meanwhile, this is warped, a little creepy, and sort of messed up. And exactly what I expected from this IP. I like it, as I usually do with stuff from Japan. I’m making no guarantees on where this is going tho. Remember, never try to predict Japanese BL. Safer on the psyche.

The Sparkle In Your Eye (Singapore Sun Gaga & Viki) eps 9-10 of 12 - characters aren’t talking to each other or telling the truth. It's very sappy and heart wrenching and tiring. 

Important word on the CBL we are enjoying right now.

WRITERS ARRESTED! China’s Danmei Crackdown (also stuff on SmartBoom breakup, and the unprecedented popularity of GL pair LingOrm's Photo Shoot)

This has happened before. I said a little while ago that the CBL industry & online behavior keeps giving me 2016 vibes and that time period seems to be repeating itself. (Maybe all these do-over time travel BLs lateIy have been trying to tell us something?) I know this new spate of uncensored CBLs are only being distributed internationally but I still don't see how we can expect this to end well, especially Revenged Love. We are in Heroin Addicted territory and the dejavu is strong with this one. I am going to keep watching on the "get it while you can" theory, but I now wish I'd been bootlegging Moon & Dust. Revenged too. I may set aside some time to do so for... reasons... I recommend you do the same.

That's not what he said. So petty Tencent CCP WeTV.

It's airing but......

I Became the Lead in a BL Drama 2 AKA Zoku BL Drama no Shuen ni Narimashita (Japan Gaga) 6 eps - While I am intrigued by the manager side couple, I can't be arsed to add this to the weekly rotation. I may binge once it's done.

The Ex-Morning (Thailand YT) 10 eps - dropped half way through ep 3. I was just angry at it, at GMMTV, at the script, at the characters. That's not healthy for any of us. If rumors are to be believed, I'm feeling great about this life choice.

Season of Love in Shimane AKA Ai no Kisetsu: The Season of Love (Thai) 8 eps - Sequel to Kiseki Chapter 2 which I intensely disliked. I won't watch this.

Mission to the Moon (YT) 12 eps- Watching but I can't keep track. Too short, too many, too YT. I will report at end.

Loy Kaew First Love (Fri YT) 6 eps - Dropped at ep 4. Ended this week, trigger warning on that ending. Not recommended.

Next Week Looks Like This:

2025 Line Up

6/27 The Promise of The Soul (Taiwan Gaga) 12 eps - Have I mentioned recently how much I hate bodyswap?

BL Announced for 2025 - PART 1

BL Announced for 2025 - PART 2

20 BLs Announced for 2025 That I'm Really Excited About

GMMTV 2025 Line Up - My Totally Biased and Wildly Flawed Feels

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS

This is from a KBL short called Wrong Number, has the actor playing the older brother bartender in Sweetheart Service. So far v cute. But one can't trust Sukfilm to end well.

I am pretty sure this is not an accurate translation. But I kinda LOVED it. (Sweetheart Service)

It's all about the doctor character. He is giving me LIFE. (Other people too, presumably, being a doctor and all.)

Revenged Love.

Yeah yeah. I like to see it. I'll take my cute femme top anyway I can. (SunTiny)

No but seriously, that kiss (I Promise I Will Come Back).

(last week)

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—SUNTINY · หรือ…อลวนที่พรหมลิขิต · 17 June 2025

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Nuea, may I do it, please? SUNTINY หรือ...อลวนที่พรหมลิขิต

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This is the summer of drowning in a constant deluge of BL content