Comfort is not usually what I look for in a story but See Your Love was very much a comfort show for me (it spanned 2024 and 2025 but I always count by what year a show ended in). I feel happy just thinking about the characters.

39 BLs that finished airing this year. Also 4 GLs and 2 other QLs (both poly in this case.) Also watched 4 BLs that aired in prior years. If you count the full list, it's 49. Then I'm watching 3 more that will end in December, so my total year tally should be 52, unless I binge another older show.

This is me politely asking you all to review this skeet and, as a result, think twice before engaging in "smell-this 'activism.'" DID YOU SEE THIS AWFUL THING THIS AWFUL MAN SAID HOW ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE GUY, ISN'T IT HE TERRIBLE OK, so... why are you his street team? Why are you signal-boosting?

Head 2 Head is a pretty light show but it's a good time, and the besties side plot is starting to get its hooks into me. I love when both characters are Aware of what's between them and slowly circling the drain

Speaking of Khemjira, time for rewatch episode 5! #gbkhemjira

Newsletter sent! Brief reviews of two shows and a book that I loved this fall. www.vbruth.com/media-roundu...

What if I just watch burnout syndrome ep 1 again? And again every day until ep 2 comes out?

I am happy with my presents 💖 So much GL, so much genre, more earthmix comedy, a lot of fucky situations The biggest sickos.yes AND the biggest "oh no please do not" came in the GL segment, so win some lose some, but overall I'm excited for the number and range of GL

GMMTV showcase really is the closest I get to how Christmas morning felt as a kid. - Up way too early - So many hopes and inevitable disappointments - A few things that were exactly what I wanted - Favorite gifts often ones I never thought to ask for - Odd mix of giddiness and letdown by the end

Khemjira rewatch ep 4! Time to wrap up the Payos mystery and the first phase of the story. #gbkhemjira

good morning everyone look at my exchange gift-fic!! thk foursome for everyone, what a blesséd day (chin hands) archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Without downloading any new pics, what's it like to date you

Learned a marketable skill set with the idea of doing some consulting to supplement my adjunct teaching income... life blew up, teaching became not viable, company I was consulting for wanted to hire someone full time and now that's my career

I love all four of the cast OSTs and MVs for Khemjira, but damn Mantra goes so hard

make fun of chiaki all you like, but if the story wasn't telling us that ae and enaga are the same person I am not sure I'd have clocked it

For years I've supported Juntos, a community-led, Latine, immigrant org in Philly that does deportation defense, community care, and leadership development work. Right now they are campaigning to prepare for 2026. If you're able, donations would be so appreciated! secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...

The problem is, when it's Saturday I'm watching too many shows, but Monday-Wednesday there is nothing new and I'm bereft Anyway I started two new shows today

The SeaKeen childhood worsties to lovers BL is fun and cute and is also giving me the Bad Buddy rewatch yen something fierce

make bad art!!! it's better than making no art!!!

Khemjira rewatch, ep 3 let's go! Janis does such a lovely job reflecting the style of expression and mannerism Namping established for Khem. The way she holds her shoulders, the way her eyes move... she doesn't carry any of the heaviness modern Khem does but she feels so recognizable #gbkhemjira

I did not sleep well last night but I DID finish a fic draft, which is very satisfying

The other day folks were talking about western m/m fandom name problems, the ed steve tommy of it all, and I was gearing up to be VERY smug "well maybe you should move out of anglophone fandoms" and then I remembered how one of the ohms went from one fluke to a different fluke, and I shut my mouth

Khemjira Rewatch Saturday is on Sunday today... I make the rules. Ep 2 here we go #gbkhemjira

Thinking about the common thread between good books that I've DNFd... most of the time I can only really invest in a story if it's relational.

The LL Bean boots are so good at keeping water out, unless you lose your balance and stumble too deep and then: foot soup

welp I started three new BLs today (one was an accident) so I guess you could say I'm back on my bullshit

Glad to see we're all losing our shit over the burnout syndrome trailer

When a character finds themself in a lie that's getting out of hand my instinct is always "is there any way you can just make the lie true and then never have to face up to it" Unfortunately I do not think there's any way enaga punks triangle can actually become two people but god I wish there was

4 countries, 4 BLs that live rent-free in your heart 🇯🇵: The End of the World With You 🇹🇼: History 4: Close to You 🇹🇭: Moonlight Chicken 🇰🇷: Sing My Crush

In final book edits and delighted to report that the word count is hanging right around 69k.

Love when I do actually find out news via Destiel meme, the system is working as it should

I'm doing this. Khemjira Saturdays aren't over until I say they're over.

Doing my yearly writing sumup (do please ask me about my spreadsheet) and once again data affirms that writing more fic also helps me write more original.

shrieking with joy at firstone's Wednesday Addams costume (tle is being Thing on his shoulder)

Two episodes into Me and Who and it is SO funny. Also a huge collection of my faves from disparate corners of the BL universe: Big & Park with Poppy, Tommy, Keng & Namping, Paper, and I am promised Seng at some point? And maybe others I have forgotten?

What if this Saturday I just start Khemjira from the beginning and pretend it's airing all over again

Sometimes you abandon a fic mid-scene, certain that it's gone off-course and you're going to have to rewrite half of what you have so far, and then you come back to it a month later and go "oh actually this fucks"

KHEMJIRAAAAA

Solemnly going through all my servers and muting the khemjira threads until I can get back this afternoon and watch it

Did you want to read a Heart Killers foursome fic, heavy on the brotherstuff? If so this is a gift for YOU as well as for me: archiveofourown.org/works/71536801

When a boy uses his work-appointed boyfriend's hand, sleeve, etc as a fidget toy...

Just caught up on The Wicked Game and this wealthy ex situation is the gift I didn't even know to ask for

A bunch of Atlantans arguing over whether Joss and Gawin should or should not visit Waffle House while they're here was an intersection of stages of my life I didn't expect

It's nice to be known for something...

Look sometimes this statement is hyperbolic but I do think Khemjira ep 10 made me feel EVERY emotion

Newsletter update! How the book has changed since my initial idea, as told through a sequence of working titles. www.vbruth.com/working-titl...

Finally finished When Destiny Brings the Demon and congrats to it for actually making the mandated framing narrative actually feel like a satisfying ending to the story we experienced. One of my top het cdramas of the year - not without flaws but thoroughly charming and with epic chemistry.

thissss it's so tasty everyone watch khemjira

BL fandom doesn't lend itself to hyperfixation very well, but Khemjira is bringing me closer than I've been in a while

It would be so cool if I could actually sleep tonight