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
IS THE UNTAMED ACTUALLY GAY OR IS JT LIKE… SUBTEXT GAY?
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.
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”.
6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS
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. 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.