Contents:
- 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
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.
6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS
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 . 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.
Anymore, Cha the “boy love” or homoerotic theme of the novel put a fahful adaptatn of The Untamed doubt. 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.
CHA’S MOST POPULAR GAYS: THE UNTAMED HS 10 BILLN VIEWS
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 origal novel featur a homosexual relatnship between two central characters, Wei Yg and Lan Zhan, and the story is set a pre-morn fantasy realm. While the pictn of the homosexual relatnship central to the novel has proven a problem visual adaptatn, given Cha’s overall nservative attu towards LGBTQ+ issu, the element of Daoist magic key to Modao Zhi‘s narrative also reprents a cultural trope that was once nsired taboo morn Cha.