As a genre, gay fictn has leapt om words to the screen wh enormo populary, but not beyond the censor’s reach.
Contents:
- WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
- 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
- CHA’S MOST POPULAR GAYS: THE UNTAMED HS 10 BILLN VIEWS
WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
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. The story follows Wei Wuxian, who the first episo you learn died 13 years prr and has been summoned to a body of a “lunatic” (see: homosexual abe victim) by means of a monic soul sacrifice/summon rual.
The show isn’t explic wh the queerns, but ’s there and ’s not even subtext (the novel is que explic — they are love, ’s a paful slowburn kd of love but they are madly love) here’s the thg, why this show and pecially the novel has jt broken me and rebuilt me om the ash of my homosexual spair is that — what kd of stori to queers get? *cue gay sobbg sounds*I really jt nnot hype this show enough. Anymore, Cha the “boy love” or homoerotic theme of the novel put a fahful adaptatn of The Untamed doubt.
IS THE UNTAMED ACTUALLY GAY OR IS JT LIKE… SUBTEXT GAY?
As word got out that the show stayed ter to the novel than expected, the seri took off Mo Dao Zu Shi, the hero’ homosexual relatnship is explic, while The Untamed prents their relatnship as a brotherhood-style bond. In discsg The Untamed onle, chatters avoid explic mentn of the show’s gay unrton, referrg to the topic g the misleadg but polilly charged hashtag “socialist brotherhood” hop of avoidg attentn om you n’t miss The UntamedThe Untamed is ptivatg. 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 .
6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS
Except that, as you know, hours and hours of Silent Yearng Glanc are actually MORE GAY than two dus kissg. The Untamed keeps as much of the gay as they possibly n get away wh.
CHA’S MOST POPULAR GAYS: THE UNTAMED HS 10 BILLN VIEWS
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.