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My Country: The New Age sounds up your alley. It's Korean though. It's great and angsty (and a bit slashy if you're into that)

Your Name Engraved Herein - In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

...and continue to obsessively nitpick it a bit longer, and/or consider adding another fandom.

Happy Together - Lai (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and his boyfriend, Ho (Leslie Cheung), arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong, seeking a better life. Their highly contentious relationship turns abusive and results in numerous break-ups and reconciliations. When Lai befriends another man, Chang (Chen Chang), he sees the futility of continuing with the promiscuous Ho. Chang, however, is on his own personal journey and, ultimately, both Lai and Ho find themselves far from home and desperately lonely.

Cherry Magic is such a cute show, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants something light-hearted and sweet to watch, even if you don't get fannish about it. It's also pretty short for a TV series - the main storyline is 12 half-hour episodes (the two special episodes are kind of their own thing) and you can watch it for free on Crunchyroll. It's live-action Japanese BL; here are what the characters look like:

https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/50897/cherry-magic/characters

The Long Ballad is in the Tang Dynasty, but while I like it a lot, it's not what I'd call historically accurate (if that matters to you.)

The Story of Minglan (Northern Song Dynasty) is really good too.

Seconding the rec! It's just such a feel-good show, and adorable, and I'm definitely fannish about it.

+1

And though this may not be a draw for everyone, it has Jang Hyuk (one of my favorite actors) being dangerous and hot in it.

I was going to suggest a bunch of additions and then realized you meant gay men only.

The Green Knight's canon gay is pretty tenuous - people requesting Gawain and the Lord probably want gay, but I wouldn't pick it up for gay, since the gay is limited to the Lord kissing Gawain for a bet and Gawain looking freaked out and bolting.

Nobody nominated the women in The Nevers?

Wait, who's gay in Westworld? I remember Westworld being painfully straight.

(Also, is this list men only? Because if women also, Motherland: Fort Salem fits)

Fly me to the Saitama - Sophisticated gentleman Rei returns from the US to spearhead a revolutionary campaign to liberate Saitama from Tokyo-centric persecution.

Ghosts, the new CBS comedy. It hasn't been explicitly stated, but Isaac (who dates from the Revolutionary War) is obviously gay.

SC

Whoops, I just realized that you already included the movie haha.

Well, I'll try my best to be a little less biased first.

Tale of Tamamizu (Japanese Mythology) was recced last post as a kitsune trope inversion story - kitsune falls in love with a young lady, but chooses to become a lady in waiting and serves her instead of going all evil on her instead. Along the way the kitsune is somehow also a loyal daughter to adoptive human parents. Worldbuilding is nominated, so things to muck around with there! An otogizoshi, it's still nebulously Heianish. Available as a short translated piece at https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/item/rb00013653/explanation/otogi_01

Good ole Heike Monogatari/Tale of Heike is back in the tagset this year, with only Taira no Shigemori ~~but who else do you need!!~~ If you want late Heian and Genpei War era stuff with a Still Good Heike Boy, then this is for you! Plenty to dig into here, especially with Shigemori's dad being the erstwhile Big Bad.

Veering back into China, there's the Chu-Han Contention RPF. Hoorah interregnums! You've got a peasant emperor who establishes the Han dynasty, opportunities for lots of strategic genius stuff and loyalty porn, and plenty of history to dig into. I'm very excited to see requests for this. GIVE US A REASON TO READ AND WRITE, NOMINATOR AND OTHERS!

Staying in the Chinese warring states veneer, you've got the pretty perennial Chi Bi/Red Cliff nomination and, this year, San Guo the 2010 TV AND San Guo Yan Yi. Nobody nominated San Guo Zi so we can't have a historiography-off, but hey, can't have everything. Zhuge Liang sells himself, so I won't shill for him here. The Yan Yi nominations look interesting, with a slightly larger cast!

For your moment of ~~zen~~ Dao, the Zhuangzi is back on the menu after a billion years hiatus. This one is super fascinating, as the nominator has posted a promo post with their favoured translation, one with localised names. So much potential for some witty stuff here, and the translations out there are fabulous. Here's a Wikipedia copypasta (with a different translator than the one the nominator chose, I believe) of a famous bit:

南海之帝為儵，北海之帝為忽，中央之帝為渾沌。儵與忽時相與遇於渾沌之地，渾沌待之甚善。儵與忽謀報渾沌之德，曰：人皆有七竅，以視聽食息，此獨無有，嘗試鑿之。日鑿一竅，七日而渾沌死。

The emperor of the Southern Seas was Lickety, the emperor of the Northern Sea was Split, and the emperor of the Center was Wonton. Lickety and Split often met each other in the land of Wonton, and Wonton treated them very well. Wanting to repay Wonton's kindness, Lickety and Split said, "All people have seven holes for seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing. Wonton alone lacks them. Let's try boring some holes for him." So every day they bored one hole [in him], and on the seventh day Wonton died.

— Zhuangzi, chapter 7 (Mair translation)

Alas, no Tang Dynasty Poets this year ): Or any RPF Asian poets, as far as I can see! Maybe the Manyoshu will come onboard next year or something.

BUT I can give you a 1% return on your Tang investment by shilling for Edo Era Japanese Intellectuals, copypastaing from the promo post: tl;dr: Shibukawa Shunkai/Yasui Santetsu REJECTS his family occupation of COURT GO PLAYER to go scramble around the whole of Japan as its first OFFICIAL ASTRONOMER! Along the way he pisses off SUPER GO GENIUS Dosaku, and intrigues SUPER MATHEMATICIAN GENIUS Seki Takakazu, underappreciated by modern mathematics but certainly appreciated by you. Somewhere along the way Tsuchimikado Yasutomi, whose name alone is worth a fic and whose title of DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF DIVINATION is just begging for fic, has to be convinced that the imported Senmyo calendar from Tang China ought to be replaced by the one Santetsu's coming up with.

There's also Edo Era Japanese Go Players RPF, which contains a set of very easily Google-able famous Go players with some fabulous opportunities for foe-yay and also just Edo worldbuilding. I lack the strength to shill for it in this comment, alas.

NOW BACK TO CHINA. There are a couple of Chinese TV series based around the Qing dynasty Qianlong Emperor's court, such as 如懿传 | Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (WHAT an English translation) and 延禧攻略 | Story of Yanxi Palace. If you have the stomach for the episodes, I hear Ruyi's pretty good and has great costuming, but I haven't sat through one of these in a l o o n g time.

Alas, my knowledge of Korea and other bits of Asia is wildly lacking, so I can't help there.

There’s also Chang Ge Xing/Legend of Li Changge, if you’re open to webcomics. (The Long Ballad is the TV adaptation of the web manhua).

Wrong names for the movie Antique - it's Korean, so it's Jin-hyuk. And while it has a canon gay character, it doesn't feature a canon gay relationship. (But I absolutely recommend the movie to anyone looking for a comfort watch with food porn.)

Is Someday My Fic Will Come happening this year? And does it always happen after Yuletide?

What do you mean, "after Yuletide"? Like in January?

Logan Delos is bi.

+1000, would love to write for this fandom again

It's always ongoing and linked at the bottom of the letter post, coalie: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/205385.html

I think it's an ongoing challenge - so you can write fic for it at any time! If it's not Yuletide time, you can just put your fic into the NYR collection!

The gay character has a French boyfriend. He sucks, but he’s there.

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