No but srsly I am baffled how this page is not more popular? This is literally a collection of A+ recipes for discourse??
ESPECIALLY this part
Just a few months ago I was whining how we need someone to do proper research about the whole BL industry, shipping culture, fandom behavior and history to disprove all the false or outdated assumptions that constantly get thrown at shipping culture and BL fandoms, while positive aspects get ignored completely.Ā
AND NOBODY TOLD ME there is already this huge ass collection of all kinds of academic researches on this page including links and sources and documentation of how queer-phobic and sexist the whole anti movement was and still is??
They even go into psychology of why a lot of women like m/m or f/f content, nonbinary genders and why many gay men actually like romantic BL over hypermasculine āgay comicsā
(note: this does not mean we donāt have issues in fandom and industry! We should be aware of them as well and fix them but shooting at the wrong people doesnāt help anybody)
I was sent an ask a couple of days ago about a video that has been circulating where GG allegedly talks about what he looks for in an ideal partner. The video claims that GG is straight and gives examples of moments where he supposedly asserted his straightness.
The video opens with a comment that is framed as an interview response, where GG says, āfirst of all, female, right?ā
This generated a lot more asks on the topic of bisexuality, bi erasure, etc. (many of which I havenāt gotten to yet). But the discussion has been really annoying me because something about that clip didnāt sit right with me and hasnāt from the very beginning. The fact that there is no context whatsoever to the response GG gives has been nagging at me for a couple of days now.
When someone removes context from something, 99 times out of 100 itās an attempt to intentionally mislead.
I decided to investigate. With the help of the indispensable @knivescharade - who truly made this all happen, I did nothing but point out the issue - I think we can come to a verdict on the matter.
Xiao Zhan said in this interview from 190803 that he wouldn’t hide it if he were in a relationship. He can’t exactly be open about it either, though. Therefore, fans assume that he might show his love through his songs. As far as I know, there were four times within the last year that Zhan-ge changed the lyrics of love songs - possibly to better fit him and his lover.
190712 Fanmeeting: Kepler
Changed the last line,
“我也只是一颗寂寞的星星” I am only a lonely star → “我深爱着一颗寂寞的星星” I am deeply in love with a lonely star
191124 Our Song: Green Light
Changed
the lyrics so four consecutive lines started with Y, B, X, Z. He also
uploaded a selfie that same evening with the caption “was it good to
hear?” - maybe referring to the rap part since Yibo is a rapper but gg himself is a vocal… (see more)
200112 Our Song: Summer Breeze
After they sang this, Zhan-ge got asked why he insisted on singing that song. This conversation was cut from the actual episode, we only know about it thanks to fans who took voice recordings.
He sang a few lines of Summer Breeze
in an earlier episode, too. Here, at minute 58. That time, he changed the lyrics slightly.
The moment the wind blew was full of loneliness → the moment the wind
blew past your face full of loneliness
200119 Our Song: Tempting Heart
He didn’t change the lyrics of this song but I still think it’s worth mentioning because again, he got asked why he chose this
song and again, his answer didn’t make it into the episode. You can tell by the lyrics that this one is a bittersweet love song. And Zhan-ge afterwards says that he sung it before but he didn’t understand the pain in it back then… implying that he does understand it now…
200126 Our Song: Stars in the Sun
Translated version. Changed the lyrics so that they were directed at someone younger - instead
of someone older as in the original.
