Contents:
- 6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS
- IS THE UNTAMED ACTUALLY GAY OR IS JT LIKE… SUBTEXT GAY?
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.
IS THE UNTAMED ACTUALLY GAY OR IS JT LIKE… SUBTEXT GAY?
Basilly, “is the Untamed actually gay” is a plited qutn, bee of the Che censorship laws. The origal novel (that the live actn show, the graphic novel, and the animated versn are all adapted om) is Actually gay.
In 2018, one thor was arrted for wrg gay erotic novels and sentenced to TEN YEARS IN PRISON. So shows like The Untamed or Guardian (another good good show based on a nonilly-gay origal novel), the shownners make JUUUUUUUUST not-gay enough to get past the censors.
JUUUUUUUUST BARELY “not gay”. They’re gog right up to the le martg “gay” om “not gay” and playg Gay Chicken wh .