Womxnly 玫瑰少年 is a song sung by Jolin Tsai 蔡依林 from her album Ugly Beauty released in December 2018. It won the category of Song of the Year at the 30th Golden Melody Award 金曲獎 in 2019. This week Jolin sang this song on Japan’s The First Take and she also became the second Taiwanese singer to be invited to sing on this Japanese YouTube channel. The spelling of the English title with the x is to emphasize gender equality (see link to the story behind the song below).
(more…)June 9, 2023
June 3, 2023
Random Ramblings on BL Novels – Ancient Mouse-Cat Series 古代鼠貓系列 by Er Ya 耳雅
I’m currently immensed in the ancient Mouse-Cat series of BL novels by Er Ya 耳雅. For those of you not familiar with the Mouse-Cat 鼠貓 characters in Chinese literature, they are a couple of Chinese knights-errant during the Song Dynasty told in the classic 1879 Chinese martial arts novel, The Three Heroes and Five Gallants 三俠五義 (later republished in 1889 as The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants 七俠五義). The two characters, mouse and cat are the nicknames given to Bai Yutang 白玉堂 who is the youngest of the five gallants known as the Sleek Rat 錦毛鼠, and Zhan Zhao 展昭 who is one of the heroes, the Southern Hero 南俠, also known as the Imperial Cat 御貓. These ancient mouse-cat BL novel series are the ancient equivalence to the modern mouse-cat in the S.C.I. Mystery Series by the same author, Er Ya 耳雅, with nearly all the same characters (not surprising since they are all characters adapted from the 1879 novel but with the addition of BL elements) but here set in ancient time during the 11th-century Song Dynasty.
(more…)May 23, 2023
Loveholic 撲火 – A-Lin
New song from A-Lin, another beautiful ballad. Only audio version available at the moment, waiting for MV…
(more…)May 19, 2023
The Wanderer 麋鹿 – Fish Leong 梁靜茹
First single from Fish Leong 梁靜茹 brand new album, The Wonder of Wandering Life 麋鹿…
(more…)May 18, 2023
La Pluie ฝนตกครั้งนั้นฉันรักเธอ (Thai Series OST)
La Pluie ฝนตกครั้งนั้นฉันรักเธอ is a 12-episode Thai BL series that premiered on April 29, 2023. It is adapted from the novel of the same name, also translated into English as I Loved You That Time It Rained, by Eddy. Two songs from the OST has been released, both sung by Boy Sompob.
May 7, 2023
Our Skyy 2 (Thai Series OST)
Our Skyy 2 is a 16-episode Thai anthology series which premiered on April 19, 2023. They are 2-episode epilogues for each of the 8 Thai BL series that aired in the past year or so: Star and Sky: Star in My Mind แล้วแต่ดาว, The Eclipse คาธ, My School President แฟนผมเป็นประธานนักเรียน, Vice Versa รักสลับโลก, A Boss and a Babe ชอกะเชร์คู่กันต์, Never Let me Go เพื่อนายแค่หนึ่งเดียว, Bad Buddy แค่เพื่อนครับเพื่อน, & A Tale of Thousand Stars นิทานพันดาว.
April 28, 2023
Lovely Villain 親愛壞蛋 (Taiwanese Series OST)
Lovely Villain 親愛壞蛋 is a 9-episode Taiwanese drama series that premiered on April 21, 2023. There are four songs from the OST.
April 27, 2023
Kashimashi Meshi かしましめし (Japanese Series OST)
Kashimashi Meshi かしましめし (translated as Boisterous Meal) is a new 10-episode Japanese drama series that premiered on April 10, 2023. It is adapted from the manga series of the same name by Okazaki Mari おかざき真里. This drama has a gay male character as one of the 3 main leads with the other two being female characters, so it has a LGBTQ+ storyline but also not really a BL series as such. Below are the two theme songs…
April 26, 2023
Datura 曼陀羅 – Zhang Zhehan 張哲瀚
Well, this is a pleasant surprise! After just releasing all 7 songs from his Deep Blue 深藍者 album, here comes the first single from his forthcoming new album. It looks like the new album will have songs based around four Datura flowers.
(more…)April 24, 2023
【廚娘香Q秀】Taro Blizzard 冰乳酪芋泥雪貝／芋泥乳酪蛋糕
Taro Blizzard or Taro Snowy Cake 芋泥雪貝 has been a very popular on-trend cake in East Asia the past year. Basically it is a petit four sponge cake sandwiched with sweetened taro paste and mochi. However outside Asia, mochi filling is not that easily available, the method used here in this cooking video used cream cheese instead of the mochi filling so that makes it easier to replicate at home. If you want to make taro paste (should be available ready made in larger Asian supermakets) yourself, I have a recipe in my older post.
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