EarthMix's cameo in Ossan's Love Returns!
The two will appear as staff members at Moonlight Chicken, a Thai restaurant that Haruta and Maki visit. The restaurant's name is a play on the drama ``Midnight Series: Moonlight Chicken,'' in which they appeared, and the characters are said to be reminiscent of that drama. [source]
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QUEER JOY
Sometimes I coast into this happy, glowing daze, and when I trace all these golden filaments around me to their source, I find my little shining harbor of queer love in media.
As a kid, I only knew queer stories run through with anguish and regret and shame. Reality echoed the same. The gnarled pain of AIDS lingered in everything, and I learned the term “gay panic” from headlines when it was used as a defense for murder.
I started reading the end of novels and watching the last scene of a movie or TV show. Generally, if the queer characters didn’t die, their happiness did.
When I was a teenager on the cusp of realizing my queerness, I craved stories about queer characters who not only got to live at the end of their stories, but queer characters who got to fall in love without punishment. Who got to the last page or the last scene and got to rest in bliss.
I watched shows like Queer as Folk in secret. I sought out any hint of queerness in shows around the world. I wrote queerness in fic where I wished it had been in canon.
When I watched Until We Meet Again in 2020, I couldn’t believe it was real. I devoured SOTUS after that, and Dark Blue Kiss, and Gameboys, and I Told Sunset About You. These queer stories where no one died. Where no one was punished by the narrative for being queer. Where no cruel, underlying message told the audience, “Only agony awaits the deviant queers—as it should.”
That’s why I never take this new era of queer media for granted. It’s what I always dreamed of having when I was young.
It’s queer joy.
And I’m grateful for it every day.
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Hayashi Kento is gonna be on Jounetsu tairiku this week!!! It's a long running docu series that follows different professionals in their craft. I might sub the episode depending on my pain levels.
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The finale of Ossan’s Love Returns was absolutely perfect. This whole series was. I still can’t believe it exists, but I’m so grateful for the love and attention and effort put into it.
Easily the best BL overall I’ve ever seen in terms of production quality, script, acting—everything.
They took what worked in the first series, tweaked or outright overhauled what didn’t, and listened to their most passionate fans when it counted.
Absolutely marvelous.
100/10
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