r/boyslove • u/blmodbot fubot • Nov 01 '22

Recommendation What are you reading/watching? Recs, Reviews, and Chit Chat - November 2022

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BL Manga: A past mod's masterlist; actual recs have flame emojis (Format: Google Doc).

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BL Drama: A rec guide for beginners, compiled by some r/boyslove users. (Format: PDF)

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u/moosy85 Nov 22 '22

(post got removed, so made it into a comment as suggested) Due to work circumstances, i paused all BL watching as i kept binging them, and you know, i needed to earn money, ugh, so inconvenient. I now have time again.

Tips on which good ones i have missed in the past six months that are complete or near completion? I love Thai, Korean, and Taiwanese BLs. I don't care about the platform. I've been fine with anything from the typical high school and uni BLs, to work stuff and action, including kinnporsche (was that over six months ago? I recently finished it anyway). I loved bad buddy (but i think that might be older than six months)

I do need trigger warnings for rape.

Anyone who can help me? I've been scrolling through this reddit for hours but i keep running into exciting announcements of future ones. But i want to binge some recently completed ones! Or is there a website i haven't found yet??

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u/moosy85 Nov 24 '22

Awesome thank you!

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u/suzabellajones Nov 26 '22

I second those recs and would add Old Fashion Cupcake (slow burn between 30- and 40-year-old office workers who go out for desserts, hard to describe its perfect low-key vibe) as one of the best of the last year, can’t remember if it was in the last 6 months or not!

But mainly wanted to flag that the hookup that kicks off Love Mechanics involves one of the guys being so drunk he thought he was with a different guy, and he has a shower of shame afterward. It feels very rapey to me so I mentally replace it with the first hookup scene from the earlier, less popular Love Mechanics series, which is more of a consensual/mutual drunk hookup that they both seemed happier about afterward.