The Coalies & Other Stories

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I will not read them in a Canon-Divergent AU.
I will not read them in Third Point-of-View.
Not in a Crossover! Not in Genfic!
Not in Shipfic! You let me be!

I do not like them in Fanart.
I do not like them even in the Fic of My Heart.
I will not read them in fic of my NOTP.
I do not like them with my OTP.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!
I do not like my DNWs!

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Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking for canons that meet the following criteria:

Chinese, Japanese, or Korean
Live action
M/M, those sanitized danmei adaptations, or something with a lot of subtext where requests will be m/m or m/m/f
Historical w/ political intrigue, mystery/crime, and/or fantasy/magic/ghosts/monsters

DNW: canons with a tragic tone, canons where the nominated character(s) died and stayed dead, slice of life or plain drama type genres

I just started watching The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, and I love it so far. History 3: Trapped was fun, but I'd have preferred a bit more arc plot or crime solving and a bit less super goofy humor. I loved Kingdom (the historical Korean zombie show, which is not BL at all), but I didn't ship anything enough to request fic for it.

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Nirvana in Fire is excellent historical political intrigue with a lot of slash potential! Most of the nominated characters stay alive.

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

You might like Love Is More than a Word. It's a censored gay cdrama, historical, 12 episodes long. About a newly appointed magistrate who's illiterate and a little bit clueless (but with not-bad instincts) and the hot genius scholar in town he makes friends with. Mysteries are investigated and cases judged. Some of it is goofy humor, though, and a lot of the plot is Gu She and Tao Mo being romantic but not quite romantic. And the ending's a bit of a cliffhanger.

Alternatively, maybe Ancient Detective. As the title suggests, it's about a detective wandering the jianghu. He's trying to solve a case involving his dead father. Along the way he acquires some trusty companions and solves a few other cases. It's not an actual censored gay romance, but Jian Buzhi and Zhao Wohuan do have a lot of sexual tension imo. It is 24 episodes.

Both are up on Youtube I believe, and Ancient Detective is also available on Viki.

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

SA
I forgot to rec Winter Begonia! Also very good. It's another sanitized gay romance, and it's historical, set in the 1930s. (Is that historical enough for you?) It's about an opera singer and a rich and kind of powerful businessman bonding while facing their own separate struggles and intrigues, the opera singer facing opera-world scheming and petty sabotage, the businessman facing issues like bandits and relatives that may be committing treason. I've only watched about half of it but what I've seen is great.

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

It's Vietnamese, but I have a feeling that the Tự Tâm music videos might be relevant to your interests? Historical fantasy with a m/m/f love triangle that piles on the twists, accompanied by good visuals and production values.

https://youtu.be/Ri5Jl11TGTk
https://youtu.be/4GuR_g75ufY

There *is* character death and there is a tragic tone to it, but it's a type of canon where that's easily worked around because there's canon resurrection, and... reincarnation & time travel OR dimension travel(??), depending on your interpretation.

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Guh, I messed up the links and accidentally linked a lyrics video instead. Correction -

https://youtu.be/Ri5Jl11TGTk
https://youtu.be/5d6IiLmjQYg