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6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS
The Untamed was produced the ntext of a eply homophobic society, and th had to adhere to strict Che censorship regulatns. The productn team seems to have fought for the most romantic terpretatn of the show uld get away wh, and recently released a special edn re-ed of the show that’s jt an even more homoerotic ed of all the scen between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian — all the moments of touchg, hand-holdg, and oglg they weren’t able to sneak to the fal cut. Gay pictur.
The producers slipped some cheeky ancient gay porn to a book that Wei Wuxian tricks Lan Wangji to readg and… somehow, that passed censorship. This isn’t the only “gay picture”: a later scene, Wei Wuxian wak up his bed and looks fondly at a drawg that (prumably) his younger self scribbled to the bedame of two boys holdg hands and kissg. Rabbs are doubly signifint Che mythology as a symbol of queerns; the Che god of homosexual relatnships is lled the Rabb God.
The seri’ foc on s ma characters’ relatnship wh each other has led to be also classified as part of the danmei nnon, a genre of Che lerature that foc on the homoerotic and homoromantic relatnships between male characters. Further allns to queer Che subtext clu the nstant portrayal of rabbs, an animal many Che fans noted wh ep LGBTQ+ signifince, as the rabb is seen as a symbol of queerns ferrg to Tu'er Shen, otherwise known as the Rabb God, a Che god/guardian of homosexual relatnships.