The Conversation
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It’s our 3rd Annual Very Important Internet BL Awards and we’ve changed up our whole shit! Ben and NiNi talk the best things we watched all year.Episode transcript available here.00:00 Welcome00:55 Introduction: It's Awards Season Once More
It’s our holiday special (because it's a holiday somewhere in the world)! Ben, NiNi and assorted friends of the pod look back on 10 years of BL as a genre and talk 10 shows that define the genre for us.Episode transcript available here.00:00
Ben, NiNi and Shan discuss a weird year for QL and look ahead to 2025.Episode transcript available here.00:00 Welcome00:55 2024 Headlines: Industry Consolidation06:49 2024 Headline: Self-Censorship13:52 2024 Headlines: Vertical Format Micr
Korea swung big at the end of the year and hit it out of the park on both the queer romance and queer life drama fronts. Ben, NiNi and Shan talk Let Free The Curse of Taekwondo and Love In The Big City.Episode transcript available here.00:00
More takes on the office romance, now with bonus miscommunication! Ben, NiNi and Ginny talk Ayaka Is In Love With Hiroko and At 25:00 In Akasaka.Episode transcript available here.00:00 Welcome01:16 Intro02:52 Ayaka Is In Love With Hiroko10:4
The pulps are evolving in what seems like two distinct directions, and we have some thoughts on that. Ben, NiNi and friend of the pod Twig talk We Are and Knock Knock, Boys!Episode transcript available here.00:00 Welcome01:15 Introduction05:
It's a mailbag episode!Episode transcript available here.00:00:00 Welcome00:01:15 Introduction00:02:10 Inbox: Surprises of the Season00:07:07 Inbox: Does Categorization Matter?00:11:42 Inbox: BL Fatigue?00:15:51 Inbox: The BL Bubble00
Queer truth is on back on the menu, just as we were starting to get FAMISHED. Ben, NiNi and Shan talk Marahuyo Project and No One Cares For An Old Man's Underwear.Episode transcript available here.00:00 Welcome01:15 Introduction08:40 Marahu
Summer didn’t give us a lot to say, but we ALWAYS got something to say. Ben, NiNi and Shan talk a highlight of the season, Twig reports from the field, and we award summer’s Girl Who Tried.Episode transcript available here.00:00:00 Welcome00
School's in at GMMTV, but we gotta put two series in detention for not fulfilling the assignment. The actors were charming, but the finishes were...rough. Ben, NiNi and Ginny talk 23.5 and Only Boo, the merits of high school stories, and the sp
Second chance romances, long-term pining, and their roles in queer narratives are our JAM, so we gotta talk about how two Japanese BLs should have been 10s but absolutely flopped for us. Ben, NiNi and Twig talk Love Is Better The Second Time Ar
It's been awhile since we checked in on Taiwan, and the latest offerings have really run the gamut in terms of quality. Ben, NiNi, and Shan sat down to discuss the state of Taiwanese BL via two recent shows, Anti Reset and Unknown.Episode tra
In our Spring Lagniappe, Ben and NiNi and friend of the pod Twig answer some questions, drive-by some pulps, and award the season's 'Girl, You Tried'.Episode transcript available here. [https://www.tumblr.com/the-conversation-pod/751828830310
Japan is churning them out almost faster than we can keep up, so we dedicated a whole grab bag episode to give them the attention they're asking for. Ben, NiNi, Ginny and Shan talk what's working and what's not in Japanese BL as we discuss Saha
BL is really leaning into genre in a big way, and we're too big nerds to let that go uncommented upon. Ben, NiNi, Ginny and Shan talk some successes and failures in genre blending over the winter season in Playboyy, 7 Days Before Valentine, Dea
Thai BL has been suffering some...performance issues lately, so we're diving into why these shows can't seem to keep it up. Ben and NiNi talk Last Twilight and The Sign with friends of the pod Aiden and Captain Hands.Episode transcript availa
Japan said it's GL time and we said YES. Ben, NiNi and Ginny talk Chaser Game W and She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat.Episode transcript available here. [https://www.tumblr.com/the-conversation-pod/749112935687847936/lets-go-lesbians-a-j
Another day, another Japanese sequel. Ben, NiNi and new friend of the pod Twig talk Ossan's Love, being influenced by fandom reactions and Old Man Yaoi.Episode transcript available here. [https://www.tumblr.com/the-conversation-pod/7484861902
GMMTV's OGs came out to play! Ben, NiNi and Shan talk Cooking Crush, Cherry Magic Thailand and how a decade of experience makes a difference with Off/Gun and Tay/New.Episode transcript available here. [https://www.tumblr.com/the-conversation-
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Welcome back, it's spring! Winter once again left us with a lot to ponder, and ponder we shall. Ben and NiNi tease what's in store this season.Episode transcript available here. [https://www.tumblr.com/the-conversation-pod/747218135483121664/
Ben, NiNi, Ginny and Shan look back at 2023 and ahead to 2024 in QL.Episode transcript available here.00:00:00 Welcome00:01:15 Introduction00:03:24 Question: Holding back takes for the podcast00:05:39 Question: Under-discussed topics
The Second Annual Very Important Internet BL Awards are here! In Part 5, Ben and NiNi award standouts that didn't quite fit into the QL genre but were just too good to NOT award.Episode transcript available here. [https://www.tumblr.com/the-c
The Second Annual Very Important Internet BL Awards are here! In Part 4, Ben and NiNi award 2023's Best of the Best.Episode transcript available here. [https://www.tumblr.com/the-conversation-pod/740530190357331968/the-viib-awards-2024-top-ti
The Second Annual Very Important Internet BL Awards are here! In Part 3, Ben and NiNi get nerdy in the episode we look forward to most all year.Episode transcript available here. [https://www.tumblr.com/the-conversation-pod/740421559761747968
The Second Annual Very Important Internet BL Awards are here! In Part 2, Ben and NiNi award the 2023 ships with real wind in their sails.Episode transcript available here. [https://www.tumblr.com/the-conversation-pod/740330360977702912/the-vi
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