I know he left but the mental link is still there?
And also watching mainstream straight shows with queer MLS is

.
Like I liked love in black hole with Hangyul and seola but I still feel like they gave off autistic girl and her gay best friend vibes instead of two ppl that totes want each other carnally. If I had written it that's what it would have been.
Would still recommend it though if u want something fairly light and short and scifi without "we have to save the world!!!1!!!1" bs
but u probably won't like it because it's idol acting.
Anyway it goes to show how even I as a queer person am influenced by my knowledge of an actor's sexuality. Despite being "woke" I'm still sitting there going "Yeah yall wouldn't hook up irl."
I can still find the guy attractive and unlike most cis straight women if he's bi like Lee Joon then I'm obviously still into him because trans. (Transphobic bi ppl exist but I can dream yall

)
And if the plot is interesting I'm still watching it but I just...don't

get swept up in the romanceee

the way the straights do.
Like I got pretty emotional with light on me. (That's probably mostly because of my own closeted queer kid for all of high school trauma though.)
Love in black hole was...like pretty good?
I like the unintentional autistic rep (a lot of autistic/etc ppl like unintentional rep better than intentional representation because it often turns into autism 101 for the normies i.e. the good doctor western version/centers a neurotypical character's feelings about taking care of a nd person i.e. sia's horrible autism movie music/a barrage of ableist jokes i.e. the big bang theory.) and seola and Hangyul are okay actors.
And it only has 1 intimate partner violence scene where her ex shows up at her house drunk but the guys are there to help handle it without coming off as knights in shining armor and it's mostly just yelling.
...but I was absolutely still aware that I was watching at least 4 queer idols act out a straight love pentagon.
Sf9 Lee Jay hoon is the 2ml and he's been talked about on here a bit. I think he pings.
The third male lead is Bae 173 doha. Also pings. (And there's a invading your personal space scene with him and seola that I definitely wasn't a fan of.)
The 2fl is ki hui hyun from Dia but she's probably straight/most ppl here don't care to check?
Like obviously if queer actors can't play straight roles then they won't make money especially in korea but it just sucks that these ppl can't play queer roles because there aren't a lot of them/their company doesn't want them doing bls/gls are still in their infancy in korea.
Also the shipping that goes on with straight couples in mainstream shows is very off putting to me. Like I say that as a bl shipper.
Straight ppl going omg!!!1!!1!!

at imho fairly mild kissing scenes but then bitching if there's too much sex.
And then praying that these 2 ppl who probably have barely talked to each other at an award show once before this will get married and have pretty children is just so fucking weird and hypocritical.
Like there are problematic bl fans but the way the homophobes will beat us into submission and call us delulu losers over even ships/couples like Leo and Xiumin but then go turn around and use the most thread bare of evidence as proof that their straight kdrama ship from a show that's like 10 years old is real is sooo fucking annoying.
Ah sorry soat this turned into a rant. I've held back for a long time...