I think about this scene a lot. There is something so wholesome that Team simply waited for Win to come back. He didnโt assume that Win was gonna abandon him. He waited despite not being able to get ahold of Win. The level of trust required to truly just know that Win will show up for him. I also think itโs a nice scene because in so many BLs, the characters are so quick to give up at every little thing. Which is what I expected here. Yet Team just waited and told Win he was okay and just wanted to sleep with him. He didnโt get angry at Win and truly just was happy Win was finally there. Win felt so much more guilty about this than Team would have wanted him to feel.
Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs
Oh hey I need this for a research paper Iโm writing, thank you!
i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:
โโfandomโ is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular cultureโ
Jenkins, Henry. โStar Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.โ Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85โ107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691. ย
there are even some earlier works in fan studies but thatโs what i have ready to hand.ย
Don’t forget Love For Love’s Sake nearly had all the romance content cut from it, the director had to fight to keep it from becoming a bromance show.
They spent ONE YEAR searching for Cha Yeonwoon’s actor, that’s almost unheard of in any sort of media, least of all in the BL genre, development blocks tend to kill any show/film chances of getting made. That dedication got us Cha Joowan.
Taevin went for it, he was looking for a BL role after having his queer storyline scrapped in The Penthouse, so he made a mission to get the role of Tae Myungha.
