How I discovered TGCF (And BL in General)
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
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I get asked this question all the time, so I thought I'd do a little storytime video explaining how Hua Cheng and Xie Lian became the loves of my life!
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Read the TGCF manhua here! bit.ly/3lNvoTa
This is a little unrelated to the video but I rlly wanted to ask if the manhua is currently on hold? If so- is it because the artist is taking a break or are they just taking their time to do the next chapters? Whatever the answer is I respect it since Starembers art is extremely gorgeous and I don’t mind waiting for the nexts chapters. Side note : I really love your videos and thanks so much for posting content for the fandom!!! You were the reason I decided to give TGCF and MXTX a try and I honestly don’t regret it at all. Keep up with the great work ❤️❤️❤️
I have to thank you for introducing me to Bilibili comics so thanks Kictor!
If it's possible can you say where to buy it ?
Hello. This is kinda unrelated but have you watched the “Sharing this eternal life” HoB anniversary song? I know it’s older but like it’s so romantic and I think it would be really cool to see your reaction for it!
"I'm not into historical fantasy, whatever...." Well that sure backfired, didn't it 💅
it sure fuckin' did
That's true 😂
this is a little _too_ relatable..
Gather round chilldren, grandmother Kictor is telling a story! 🍿
I’m here
@@suckmyballs554 Welcome Viv, careful around the fire place :)
@@speciman2.0 thank you :)
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@Chris Fuentes Hey there, cookies are on the back table 🍘
My straight brother was the one who recommended me TGCF. He was surfing Netflix and started watching it without knowing it was a BL. He said he was blindsided by the sudden sexual tension between Xie Lian and Hua Cheng but he wasn't against it. He found it really interesting too. I hardly go out my way to watch anime because I'm kinda done with it. I'm glad I listened to him because I love this series and all the other ones too.
everyone say "thank you Kictor's dad for enlighting Kictor on gay ships via x-men" :'D
Thank you so much Kictor's dad.
When I heard kictor say that I realized that first ever ship in American movie I imagine in my childhood was x-man and and that one dude his covered in red light or something from same movie lol at that time as a child I thought hey these two sure look cool and handsome together lmao 😂
Just imagine how MXTX would feel should she know just how inspired and happy her works made people? I always thought I was a little weird for being obsessed over her novels, but Kictor talking about it helped me understand it’s a lot more than an obsession, it’s inspiration, it’s comfort, I thank you - I still have a weird relationship with TGCF, some of the best and worst things that have happened to me happened because of it, but it’s still so beautiful and I’m faithful to the story forever.
Imagine if she didn't disobey her mother's wishes and became something else, we wouldn't have had these beautiful stories 😭😭
I love MXTX so much!
"It's inspiration, it's comfort" you couldn't have said it better!! I'm so thankful to have found out about tgcf and the world of mxtx ❤❤
I discovered I was gay when I was 10 years old, when I realized that I loved the idea of Sasuke and Naruto being together. That's what got me into shipping and eventually got me into reading fanfiction in the family computer and reading Yaoi manga lol. I discovered danmei through my cousin who was visiting from China and she introduced MDZS to me around the time MXTX started releasing the chapters for it back in 2015 on jjwxc. I've been in love with Danmei ever since and as a gay Chinese man, I really couldn't ask for more.
OMG! Me too! I ship Naruto and Sasuke tooooo!!!
I still don't know my sexuality because I read Bl , Gl straight romance
@@strxwberry._kisses If you still don't know it yet, don't worry. You could go with the flow. And don't put a label on it, maybe you'll find out later.
I'm straight but I discovered BL thru SasuNaru 😁
i discovered TGCF accidentally.
i downloaded bilibili because of a another story
and i saw TGCF cover and i was like
DAMN THIS ART IS SO GOOD
then i open it and instantly i got hooked by the art and the story
and i cant get enough
then i finally i found you.
THANK YOU for the useful information about TGCF
more power for the gayssssss!!!!
Same thing happend to me
Omg same!!😃, I downloaded it because of "touch your world" and eventually stumbled across TGCF
@@Novelsiast same touch your world is now over tho so sad miss bai lu xie cheng
@@dazaisimp710 I know 😭, now I don't know what to look forward to on Thursdays 😥. And TGCF is on a long-term hiatus, So I'm just reading other Manhuas in the meantime 🧘
@@Novelsiast can you tell me some of them so I can make my Thursdays better too pls not forcing
Though I do love the usual wacky and silly editing style of Kictor's videos, I do love how chill and genuine her videos can be too. Like, just sitting and talking about BL like she's explaining her life story is just weirdly entertaining lol. The fandom definitely wouldn't be the same without you Kictor
Weirdly enough, it was the Percy Jackson books that started the pipeline that would lead me to TGCF, since that started my love of mythology based fantasy stories . I randomly discovered the donghua while scrolling through Netflix and found that it was a beautiful looking animated fantasy series (which I can never get enough of) , and then discovered the novels and manhua shortly afterwards and found it was basically everything I ever wanted in media. Though my gay content enjoyment came from consuming WLW content, which started with watching Sailor Uranus and Neptune compilations and the WLW rep in Western cartoons
I had seen the donghua in Netflix but let it slide
I've been reading the entire Percy Jackson series and the the movies Starting reading them to encourage my grand-kids to read more. I've always felt they were more adult themed then young adult. Either way I'm like most on Kictor's YT page. We have a love for donghua, manhua and manga.
what's WLW?
@@mango_float5666 women loving women
My journey this rabbit hole started a long time when I was like 13-14 I had accidentally discovered no.6 with that it lit an extreme interest with Bl anime and manga. It went far into shipping characters who weren't together . Its been a long journey from that time and I have enjoyed it especially yuri on ice. I was able to discover a lot amazing people and create wonderful friendships. Even with heaven's official blessing I had found that accidentally and I fell in love with it. Now I've watched and read all the mxtx works and now I want more 😅 Bl has honestly been a huge part of my life and has helped me discover a lot about myself that I probably wouldn't have discovered. I want to thank you kictor for making an amazing channel! It's honestly the best! It's amazing to have a place where I can fangirl to my hearts content and meet people who understand the awesomeness of this amazing series!
Honestly this reminds me of "how I meet you mother/father" conversations 😅 but thank you kictor for the new video! It's really heartwarming hearing how you got into this Fandom and how you started your journey! 🥰🥰
ahhh kictor seeing you talk so passionately about these stories you like and the love you have towards this community felt so heartwarming! i felt very identified with your experience that i even shed a tear HAHAH being able to say wholeheartedly that something makes you genuinely happy is so askdjskaidfj i can’t even describe it, but it is an incredible experience. it’s been a year now since i got into danmei and my hype for it keeps growing and growing (also thanks to this amazing community). i’ve had the opportunity to met rey too and through them i came across your content and other amazing creators/artists like happy, i’m very thankful to meet you guys! :)
I agree 100% !!
the first time I heard about tgcf was the "explaining the plot of tgcf to my friend" video you made. And I just have to say, after that I kinda fell down a rabbit hole of tgcf. It's literally the only thing on my UA-cam home page. So thank you so much for fueling my new addiction.😅
Hahah I’m glad you’re enjoying it! :)
mdzs was my first danmei but lets talk about tgcf, i pretty much got into it because of netflix. they added some few animes and donghuas including tgcf. the banner preview featuring sanlang and xielian looked interesting so i decided to give it a watch. thats how i am now.
I was just browsing Netflix and I always saw Heaven Official's Blessing but passed over it so many times because I wasn't used to the Chinese language in anime. Instead, I watched the movie Nezha, which I didn't know was Chinese until I started watching it. Afterwards, I thought wow that was really good, hmm might as well watch that show I kept passing over. At first I was like wow this is kind of boring, but the ending of the first episode had me hooked with the song One Flower, One Sword, and I liked Fu Yao and Nan Feng. But watching it further and San Lang and Xie Lian are interreacting, I'm like wow this is kind of gay. And then with the longing looks and San Lang's flirting and I'm like this is realllly gay. I was so caught off guard because I didn't think China made content like this, and by that point I was so engaged in their relationship and the ending had me so hooked I had to know everything about this series. I felt so blessed to know that there was not only a manhua, but also a book being translated into English that waws being released in a few days at that point. Not only that but finding out about Mo Dao Zu Shi, and Scum Villian too??? SO here I am now, learning mandarin, I've already read all the books, read all the manhuas, watched all the shows including the untamed and I've been hooked with so many more BLs on billibilli too. I'm so glad I fell into this rabbit hole it's helped me so much with my depression. :)
I discovered tgcf when it came on Netflix and it was in my recommendations so I was like "eh why not", best choice of my life. I discovered bl with bl comics. Then I watched yuri on ice and I was like " Now I wanna ice skate''.
I first got into gay ships (and eventually realized I liked them so much in part because I was gay) when one of my friends in high school convinced me to read No. 6. I adored NezuShi and just spiraled from there. I got into TGCF specifically because of tumblr. I kept seeing gifs and stuff from the Untamed so I decided to give it a shot and loved it. I was partway through reading the novel when Heaven Official started showing up the same way, it didn't take me nearly as long to decide to watch that too. MXTX's works have been my hyperfixations ever since.
One word: *Curiosity*
Fun fact: Junjuo Romantica was the first yaoi Manga I've read, followed by Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, and etc...
If ya ask if I regret it?
The answer is...
Nope, no way in hell, its thanks to that I discovered MDZS, TGCF, 2HA, SVSSS and so on... 😂😂😂
Love the fact that you are a Frostiron fan! My sister got me into that particular ship, and I love the chaotic fun of it. One of the best things about ships are the different types relationships that can happen. It’s so interesting! I absolutely love it.
hi kictor :D
i actually first discovered TGCF on Netflix! finished the donghua in about 2 days then was like “hey, there’s also a novel!”
then came the angst. however i definitely don’t regret it tho :’D
Same
You summed up pretty much why I'm gravitated towards non-straight stories these days. The lack of sexism and weird power differential between the couple makes me feel like their relationship is more pure and made of genuine love, acceptance and respect. Also the reason why I like shows where a girl or boy cross dresses (circumstantial) and the opp sex falls for who they are platonically. I love the Taiwanese drama Bromance for this reason (not a Bl but more BL than many BLs, also a very convincing cross dressing from the FL)
3:27 Oh Kicktor! I wish you'd have had someone to guide you and tell you that what you were really looking for was Shonen-ai's stories not yaoi, that would have saved you so many headaches
Same here - started with Free! in January 2021 and I'm addicted to anime/manga/webnovels since (almost exclusively BL). TGCF is a true blessing in my life, the best story I've come across and I can't get over it for so many months now. I'm going to be 34 next month and so many doors I never even knew existed opened for me during this exciting journey. And you Kictor, you just make me so happy. I'm so glad you exist :) Your goofing around is just too cute and sooooo contagious.
I got into TGCF because I had an assignment to do in my Chinese Civilization Class in College, we had to do an essay on everything related to something we like in the Chinese Culture, it could be: books, dynasty, movie, Chinese women empowerment or anything. Everyone did something pretty different and I was so scared to do something somebody already did so I decided to search for a movie or a series to watch on Netflix that can be good to talk about in an essay. And it was on Netflix that I came across the TGCF’s series and I completely loved it from the start. Then I told myself “hey, maybe I should do an essay about this, it could be cool”. Our teacher was a big fan of Chinese culture, and I was too (still am). I did pretty good on my assignment (I don’t remember the mark I got tho but I know I passed) and I was very happy!
Sorry for my English, I’m French and I’m still working on it ^^’
I really love this channel so much because unlike other "big channels" it doesnt feel like a computer making bad scripts that only 5 year olds would like it actually feels like something genuine and the person doing it is exited about what they're doing. I also feel so happy whenever a new video is posted, and thank you kictor for posting such great content!
I found out about TGCF through The Untamed drama series. I loved it so much that I couldn't think about anything else. So, I found out that there are two more novels by MXTX.
And I've seen a hell of a lot of comments on social media saying that TGCF is actually much better than MDZS. Back then I didn't believe it and thought - this can't be! But after reading it, I can say with confidence that this is the best story I've ever read so far. And it is so inspiring. I mean, as soon as I look at all this wonderful merch that I now have, I can't help myself, my heart starts filling with warmness.
my story was that I started watching miraculous ladybug and wanted to read some reveal fan comics, stumbled upon gacha club, made my way to fnaf, mha, and naruto, found heaven official's blessings on Netflix, UA-cam somehow figured out what I was watching on another site, got in mo dao zu shi, got bored one summer night and decided to binge Scum Villain's then spent the next 4 days reading the novel. After that I delved deeper into Danmei and gradually found out about other Danmei novels. (I'm missing a few things but this pretty much some's up most of my journey).
A feel like a certain part of my life started for the first time EVAH when I found MXTX's writing and it hit me like a tidal wave of primal creativity and happiness. I started with The Untamed, but within a few episodes googled, what happens in the end. I came across what actually happens in the book with multiple flame emojis - and that day I downloaded every chapter I could find online. I don't know how else to describe it - it definitely cracked open a huge happy place in me. I feel like MXTX is my spirit animal. I'm sure others feel the same way. This wasn't too long ago and I'm just starting to look for community to obsess with about this. I'm still at the stage of WHERE CAN I FIND STUFF... Kind of late to join the party but everything comes in the right time.
Can I just put it out there that it's so darn awesome that you're a channel that revolves so much around tgcf, and us mxtx fans are mad lucky to have you, the reactions, analyses and everything 😩
How I got into tgcf started with me finding the untamed through YT recommendations, at the same time I have a friend who knows MXTX's works (bless her ♡♡), she sent me mxtx memes and art, including tgcf stuff despite me not knowing much about it at the time, xcept dat Hua Cheng HAWT 😂 I saw the donghua on Netflix, watched that, got sucked into the hualian pit and now I'm here with the rest of y'all ✨
your enthusiasm is so contagious!!! i've been struggling to finish tgcf (due to attentional problems), but whenever i watch your videos i feel the urge to continue with the story just to keep watching the rest of your videos without being spoiled XD
My very long story:
Undertale au's was actually my intro to gay ships, at first I started reading fanfics and they were both boys but I was like I see one of them as a girl which is absolutely dumb (and now makes me now cringe at when people change the gender of one of the characters to make it straight), after a while I just stopped seeing one of them as girls and since there were so many au's I started shipping them so lots of ships. Flash forward 4 years my obsession is still there but I want to try watching MHA because everyone was talking about it, so I watched it ship the heck out of tododeku then down the rabbit hole of gay anime (free, yoi, no.6, given) then manga and eventually manhua but still no signs of tgcf until I saw a tik tok about the donghua, breaking down the scene where xie Lian gives Hua Cheng his hat, then I immediately went to go watch it absolutely hooked down another rabbit hole then boom mxtx galore. And then I found you and you quickly became one of my, if not my number 1, favourite youtuber
I get you kicktor! I never thought about bl relationship and then I suddenly found about marvel gay fandom like forstiron, stony etc but it was not enough. EVERYTHING CHANGED when I found out YURI ON ICE - the first anime, canon gay and sport drama. Then I found out about TGCF through those gorgeous arts of starember😳😍 - it's a inseparable part of my life, it's like oxygen now I can't live a moment without TGCF.
You're such a great person! I'm also reading the TGCF novel atm and i'm at book 2 now. I need so much time. 🤣❤️
Ahh Cherik. That was my fandom awakening too.
It actually just shows us what an amazing person you are😆
You found your Yuri at a cosplay convention and then yall dated irl thats the fucking cutest thing ive ever heard
your story on how you found bl just idk made me happy just to see someone who found bl and made them happy, btw im glad you got introduced to bl before yoai cause yoai tottaly ruined the 25% left of innocence ive ever had left at a young age 😂
I fell into this glorious rabbit hole that I never want to leave, surprisingly, thanks to UA-cam. The first episode of the MDZS donghua was in my recommended the Thumbnail art hooked me and I’ve been obsessed ever since. 😊
"I still wasn't genuinely obsessed to ship them yet"
*looks at the wall behind Kictor*
I basically discovered TGCF on Netflix. I moved to stay with my grandmother temporarily due to the pandemic. Since my grandmother has a smart tv and internet, my Aunt told me to log her Netflix account so we could watch movies. Some time after i logged in, i was searching for anime's to watch during the pandemic, and then i saw Heaven Official's Blessing. I added it to my list without knowing anything and i didn't watch it until the first days of December 2021. I decided to watch the wbole series and was obsessed. After i finished watching the first season of the donghua, in February i found the manhua and novel and started reading it. Since i had classes i only managed to finish the manhua only and left the novel unread. Until the end of March when i found your channel and started watching your content did i decide to finally finish the novel. I finished it around the mid of April. After that i was really obsessed. I found the other MXTX novels and their donghua's and decided to watch them until i fell deeper and deeper into the Danmei hole.
Lol the coffin scene. When I was reading it, Xie Lian was embarrassed, I was embarrassed for him. I had to stop a bit out of embarrassment for him. Pacing around the room with hands on my head. 🤣
Your eyes do light up when you talk about it ^^
Somehow I could almost hear Hua Cheng in the back saying *you will never find anyone who is sincerer than me in the whole world* 😳
Your story and happiness made me tear up. And then to hear myself mentioned was like wow 😭 I'm so glad to be able to support you as you achieve your dreams ❤️
It has been so long I can't remember how I discovered bl as a whole but my TGCF obsession started with me just clicking on a random anime to watch during my work break in September.
So far I've seen the 1st season twice(unheard of for me), watched all the available second season eps in both subbed and dubbed, read all the books on kindle (plan on buying the physical copies asap), and am all caught up with the manhua. Now I'm in limbo waiting for the new stuff which youtube took notice and lead me to this channel.
For me it was Netflix. I was the kind of person to find a series, watch one episode, then never watch the rest for the rest of my life. It happened with The Untamed too. BUT, I was really bored, so I decided to watch two episodes, which turned into three, then four, then the entire show in the span of a week. Fast forward a few weeks, I’m on UA-cam and I see a crack video for The Untamed which I watch and see the main comment has a link to the source book. I was bored and had nothing better to do so I decided to read it. It took me two days. That got me into MXTX and especially TGCF which is now my obsession which is not going to go away any time soon.
My friend kept posting in her Wattpad conversations about "TGCF"so I thought `hey why not give it a try?` and so I did and I barely lasted a moment before I became uninterested when they were explaining Feng Xin and Mu Qing. 2 years later I come back and still see it on my library and I think again `let's try to get thru this whole thing` I fell into the MXTX hole and I can't leave and I'm not about to
I saw really pretty FengQing art on Twitter during the time where those ship dynamic memes were popular. They were being posted a lot as enemies to lovers and I was SO intrigued. When I looked into the novel the plot sounded really interesting and I was really endeared by dumb romantic Hua Cheng, so I decided to give it a shot without spoiling too much. Fell head over heels in love with Xie Lian and Hua Cheng's relationship. I was about to start book 3 when I found your channel, and someone left a comment on one of your videos about FengQing being canon at the end and oh man ... I was so happy. I really thought it was gonna happen. I was poppin' the biggest bottles. My reasons for even getting invested in this series ... Canon!? 😳I got to the end of the books and extras and realised it was a JOKE comment, DAMN IT! 😤😖😩😭
At least AO3 was there for me in my hour of need! ❤
i got into tgcf because my best friend and I watched the untamed, and our other friend told us about tgcf and i had watched it and then got into the manga:)
6:42 its incredible how much I relate to this part. When I first got into danmei I had trouble believing that the relationships in it were canon because of all the fanfiction I consumed about non-canon ships.
Listening to you talking about this with so much excitement is making ME all excited!
I love Heaven Official’s blessing! I’m into BL and really wanted to read an Asian fantasy in that genre for years. I devoured the first season as well as Vol 1 and ordered vol 2. The art, the story, the characters, it is just amazing. I’m also a novelist who’s been planning to write an Asian BL fantasy so this is perfect inspiration.
I just kept seeing stuff on TikTok and I love handsome men, but it really opened my eyes on the writing style. I envy that honestly, I’m still reading tgcf(for the first time) and I’m on book 3 soooo I’m REALLY excited for what’s to come!! 😤🥳😂
After being in the modaozushi fandom for 4 years, I finally found a person I could talk to about it and fangirl with. I wonder if in these moments I look as happy as Kictor talking about tgcf, because the amount of joy the mxtx works bring me is indescribable
the music of yuri's at the nationals is my solo music in ice skating.
I love your passion talking about this! Great job explaining the feeling of obsession and love concerning these stories. Been there done that... a lot hahaha
Such an amazing journey!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing that Kictor! And YES your eyes definitely glisten when you start talking about TGCF. I'm thankful for that Xavier x Magneto ship comment from your dad. I'm thankful for the amazing Stitch! Stitch you gotta teach us how to talk about TGCF and recommending to friends without spoiling XD.
I discovered TGCF after I got obsessed with Gran master of the demonic cultivation. As I wanted knew more things like that story, I looked the others MXTX works and I just loved TGCF. I read all the books in one week 😆♥️
BL ships found me when I was 10, I got into it (like really understand what’s going on) when I was like 13/4, all thanks to kpop then animes followed haha. MXTX’s works weren’t the first danmei I read but her works are the one that lingers. I got into MXTX fandom when MDZS was still in early translation period and I checked and refreshed the browser everyday to see if the novel is updated then I found you when I was looking for TGCF reactions. Thank you for sharing your story, it is so relatable and feels like having a friend to gush danmei together with. Thank you 🙏🏻
For me it definitely started when I watched the anime Descendants of Darkness on the syfy channel. If I remember correctly that channel would play anime on Monday nights and toonami played anime on Saturday nights. From watching that anime I began to ship Sasuke and Naruto as well as Suzaku and Lelouch. Before discovering the world of bl I was really into Beast Boy and Raven from Teen Titans.
The way you met stitch is so cute!!
The way I got into danmei was through the untamed. I had seen some pictures on twitter of wwx when it was airing in 2019, and saw people crying over it lol. I thought it was another queer baiting show (which I was so tired of) and to make it worse one of the characters dies! so I stayed far away form it. Later in 2021 one of my friends on tumblr (which is still alive btw lol) was watching it so I decided to give it a shot. Then *blink* I watched the drama, read the novel, watched the donghua, listened to the audio drama. I haven't been able to resurface lmao
I decided to read tgcf when I saw the cute little hualian chibi art with the umbrella and the bunnies, and saw all the pictures of the live action. I thought it looked so beautiful and didn't know anything about the story before reading it. It ended up being my favorite novel by far and then later I discovered your channel!
Your channel has really helped me be more open and less embarrassed about my interests (which no one should be! but I have trauma lol). I feel like your channel has created a safe space to be free to talk about the content we enjoy. So thank you!
Kictor, I want you to know that what you do is important. I'm in a difficult situation, but your videos bring me so much joy and make me feel less lonely and scared.
My mom actually saw the MXTX novels in a Books A Million in June when we went for my senior pictures. It was MDZS and She stopped me and said ‘this looks right up your ally!’ I pretty sure she was talking about the Chinese aspect of it since I love learning about Asian culture and she knows I watch anime and listen to k-pop. So we bought the first 2 books of MDZS and the last time we went I got TGCF cuz i started watching your Chanel and wanted to actually read it! So my mom got me into this awesome fandom and doesn’t even realize what she just started for me!
You're a hero, you embrace this dream with arms a heart wide open. Thanks for sharing your story.
ever since I was a child, I always thought chinese and japanese culture was absolutely beatiful and always wanted to see an anime that was historical and stuff. then, soon after watching a few anime, I became a fujoshi (Naruto x Sasuke was the ship that made me obsessed with bl). in 2022 january 23, I watched the newest episode of Sasaki to Miyano (it's a really cute bl anime, I recommend it)and wanted more cute bl anime to watch. I googled "cute BL anime list" or something, and there was TGCF and MDZS which were what got me into the danmei fandom. I found your channel, watched almost if not every video of yours that didn't have any spoilers, downloaded Bilibili comics and now that is my life.
Personally I’m not completely sure how I got into this fandom, since it’s kind of a blur now. One moment I was looking at romance animes, some gay stuff popped up, I got addicted, wanted more, searched for quality bl series, found MDSZ, then TGCF at my stepdad’s mother’s very religious house (the Netflix screen flashed the different series). Just by looking at th image I thought it was gay. I was so thirsty for a new bl series. I discovered that they had books, scavengers the internet, devoured the books within days but at night when everyone was asleep. Im a very fast reader and when I like a book I swallow it like a vacuum cleaner I’m glad that MXTXs books are encouraging more people to read. I was actually getting worried because not enough people were reading. But I’m so happy that people are excited to read something so good.
I was into anime since I was little as I grew up watching it with my dad back in the late 90s/early 00s, but when I was around 14, my boyfriend and I got really into shipping gay relationships in order to get the good gay content we baby gays needed - tumblr was DEFINITELY the place to go for all of that. I fell in love bl when I discovered no. 6 and then following that yuri on ice really sold me on how much I loved it. I finally felt able to find anime and manga that showed people like me without being flooded with awful stereotypes. I found mxtx through a small business I liked who made pins for mdzs and that was really the beginning of the end. I'd never heard of danmei before that and now tgcf has become my spin and I've discovered the joys of fandom all over again!
I remember back in the early 2000’s when we still had dialup 😂 there was a website that was just a library of anime clips and most didn’t even have subtitles then! But the way I was introduced was Gravitation. Then way followed was people writing fan fiction from Digimon, Yu Yu Hakusho, role playing cross overs til we reached our current point 😆. But yes I absolutely agree, the relationships and how they develop is what totally hooked me. And in a lot of Chinese comics there is much censorship so you end up with huge focus on the character growth.
I watched a few episodes of the untamed (recommended by my sis), then watched Heaven official’s blessing following my friend’s recommendation. I thought TGCF was abt forbidden love and love triangles so when I found out it was the exact opposite I was surprised. In the end, I was frustrated that ep 13 had no kiss scene so I read the novel.
I was used to watching anime, but mostly shounen. My first sports anime was Free which also led me to YOI (my first BL) and YOI is, to this day, my fav anime. After that, i just had to watch all BL to ever exist... which led me to TGCF. Since then, YOI and TGCF have been my all-time favorites, both these stories literally changed my life in many many aspects. I read all 8 TGCF books in 13 days, I would only read all day every day from start to finish. Anyway, bc YOI Ice Adolescence got cancelled (*crying in the corner*) i ended up getting recommended your videos, only to find out you're a YOI/TGCF freak like me. I love your channel and the energy.
I found TGCF when I just was advertised the first book on my twitter feed and by chance looked at it then fell in love with it and am going through the books as they are releasing in english (just finished reading the dice cup scene)
Kictor! You are so sweet! The was you smiled so bright when you got onto talking about TGCF and your channel and the Kicflips was just so adorable! I had the biggest smile on my face because of it! How I found TGCF and Danmei was a complete accident. I saw TGCF on Funimation one day and thought, "huh, their cute" and watched it on a whim. Tho, I've been into BL for a long while I'm not too sure how I got into that! But I'm for sure with you with getting into Haikyuu and sports anime for that connection they have. On a side note, THANK YOU for making this big and happy and supportive Kicflip family here on youtube! I will forever be greatful for it 💕💕
I love how much palpable passion we can feel from you here 🥰 I literally stumbled upon it while browsing online for new books to read, I found the first volume of MDZS topping booksellers charts everywhere and took a leap of faith. Now I am in so deep there is no longer any saving grace for me ahahaha, but I am sooooo happy! Beyond the romance, these characters have so much depth that I genuinely find comfort in their everything.
ALSO I AM UPSET that you used to get bullied over pronunciation. You're trying and learning and that is wonderful.
Man, I got into BL when I was about 16, when I first started reading fanfiction. At the time I had no clue what my sexuality was (or if I really had one, being on the asexual spectrum makes that weird idk). But I found that I enjoyed romantic plots no matter the gender and BL was something so different tonally from the typical romance that I read, and found it could be extreamly indearing. When TGCF first popped up on my radar, it was after a friend had watched the untamed and I had a been accumulating a list of stuff to watch. Just so happened that at the top of that list was TGCF. When I finished watching it, the untamed was next, to which neither of us realised it was the same author... we laughed our faces off when we found out.
I randomly found the first MDZS novel in a book store. When I bought it I knew nothing about it, except that it is a Chinese fantasy novel. I learned Chinese for 2 years and just got curious about Chinese books; I didn’t even know it was a BL.
A fateful review on Goodreads said „I don’t want to be dramatic, but I would literally die for WangXian“ and that was enough for me to go „huh, this WangXian dude seems pretty cool, I‘m going to buy this!“. It was my first experience with BL ever and now I am completely obsessed - it’s safe to say that danmei has changed my life and it continues to make me incredibly happy every day. I‘ve made some wonderful friends along the way.
I empathize with you a lot when you say you light up when talking about danmei/TGCF. :) Your videos are great!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. You are a good storyteller.
I actually got into anime very young, I would turn on the tv and see anime translated to my language for kids to better understand. I got into bl a long time ago too, so my recommendation was already affected by that, then one morning I saw a video of yours, I felt happy seeing someone talk about something that they really enjoyed and because of that I wanted to check what it was about. At the same time I was browsing Netflix to binge watch something then I saw heaven officials blessings,so I decided to binge watch that, I was hooked immediately. So thank you Kictor for introducing me to this lovely thing called tgcf and by extension mxtx as a whole❤️.
This video was so sweet! I am so happy you found this fandom and that it makes you so happy and passionate!
I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanna recommend you a BL!
It's called Sasaki to/and Miyano
I think you would really like it, since it's kind of like Yuri on Ice. It focuses on the relationship and development of the two main leads and it's SO CUTE!
We have Miyano as a feminine looking fudanshi (BL lover), and Sasaki as a sweet older senpai and their interactions and the way they fall in love are so adorable and different from many other BLs in the LGBTQ+ animes!
I actually found danmei through a Fugou Keiji Balance: Unlimited discord server I kept seeing these pretty chinese guys and asked about them and learned about MDZS from that and was told to watch the donghua before reading to have an easier time recognizing the character started watching it and was blown away immediately had to read the book and now I'm in deep lol I just finished Global Examination and loved it. Danmei got me back into reading after Sir Terry Pratchett passed away and I'm loving every moment.
My goodness Kictor your enthusiasm makes me smile so much. I have the youtube algorithm to thank for may walk into MXTX with Mao Do Zhu Shi via the Untamed. I started reading TGCF which makes me laugh literally every time I look at it. MDZS has my heart right now but thank you so much for your channel.
I heard about TGCF after I watched a video called “What Your Favorite MXTX Ship Says About You” (yes, I specifically watched that for Wangxian). I looked it up and was intrigued by the mythological elements. However, I saw your “What entering the TGCF fandom is like” video, and that was what pushed me to watch the donghua on Netflix. Some odd months later, I own the first two books, and Xie Lian is my comfort character (yes, I know that won’t bode well for me 😂).
For real, though, if it weren’t for your video, I wouldn’t have had the push to watch TGCF. Thank you so much!
My entry into the BL world was thanks to Yuri On Ice. Although, my reason for watching was because of my love for skating. Then I thought these two were made for each other, but the comments were full of homophobes. I started with Junjou Romantica by asking if there are animes in this category if there are people who love it like me. I didn't even know what a Yaoi was. At the end of the anime, someone wrote that I'm going to watch MDZS now. So i entered the world of MXTX and i can't get out
My friend had told me about TGCF a while ago and I watched a few episodes of the donghua and wasn’t too interested but decided to go back to it. When I finished the donghua I was obsessed and just yesterday I finished the manhua. I recently found your channel and your passion for the series has made me get even more into it. I have recently just bought the first book and can’t wait to read it. I have read a lot of BL stories in the past but nothing has been able to move me like the way TGCF does!
There's a thing called mm or gay romance. Tons of genre. I started reading manga/yaoi 20 years ago and have been writing and publishing gay/mm romance for 10 years. It's not all from overseas. The connection is still key, though you'll find some in the genre are a bit higher heat.
Do you publish under your name or on an online site? Would love to read your stories.
I'm so happy for you!! TGCF is also the best thing that happened to me these years
I randomly saw the TGCF donghua on Netflix, liked the art and the summary, and happened to be in the mood to watch something new. That was pretty insane. Unfortunately I haven't finished the books yet though. I'm a mdzs main on Twitter now though. Lol
I can’t at your first anime being Free *wheeze*🤣🤣🤣
I discovered TGCF a long long time ago. On tumblr one of the people I followed started rebloging tgcf stuff, mostly from the donghua because I think it was during the time the donghua was just released. And I went “yeah ok looks cool” and never even bothered to search up the name🤣. So I was aware of it’s existence but I had absolutely no idea wtf it was about (I didn’t even know it was gay). Than I think almost a year later I was searching TCF (Trash of the Count’s family another amazing novel please give it a try it’s just wow) on TikTok and as I kept scrolling down I started seeing tgcf videos, due to the abbreviations being similar, and I realized “oh this is gay” and still proceeded to not even bothering to search it up. Listen I was too preoccupied with TCF to get into anything else. I also got a message on insta where someone read TCF as TGCF on one of my posts. But than The Untamed happened. My UA-cam started getting floated with The Untamed and WangXian video for some reason I don’t know why. I thought “this looks pretty cool but the can’t really be gay right?” BOY WAS I SHOOKETH WHEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT THE NOVEL. And than I got really into MDZS and started getting fanarts and incorrect quotes that also included SVSSS and of course TGCF. At first I thought “Oh they must be kinda like ORV TCF and SCTIR. Like the holy trinity of danmei” but nope they were all written by the goddess that is MXTX. And I had no fucking clue about svsss but for tgcf I was like “Hey I know this one”. So I went back to that person on tumblr where I first discovered tgcf and looked at all their tgcf posts. Than I looked it up on UA-cam and the one who really pushed me to read it was you Kicktor. The way you fangirled so chaotically, the absolute love and excitement you had when you were talking about tgcf all gave me that final push to actually start reading it. I read the manhua first, pulled an all nighter because STAREMBER OUR LORD AND SAVIOR!! I screenshoted so many panels dear lord. And I started the novel immediately after that, read it in less than a week, got sick with a fever after reading book 4 because it fucked me up that bad, spent over 3 hours trying to find the extras until I found them and poor Mu Qing’s back yard 🤣, and crying daily because the official books aren’t in my country. Hualian owns my entire ass. I have never gotten this into a novel ever since TCF and that is a big one believe me (my entire tumblr is 90% TCF 10% whatever else I post, TCF is basically my life). Mxtx is just amazing, I’ve read the entirety of tgcf novel, manhua, watched the donghua waiting for the drama, I’ve read the entire mdzs manhua, will watch the donghua and read the novel when I have free time because I have some major exams these months, and I’m currently reading svsss that I impulsively started during class🤣. And I would like to thank you Kicktor because you and your videos really were one of the major reason I started tgcf and fell into the danmei hole. I always look forward to your videos and your crazy fangirling. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️
I fell into MXTX when a suggested video for Mo Dao Zu Shi popped up on UA-cam. So I started watching the episodes and it was hard to follow so I thought I will just read this book so I can better understand the donghua better. LORD HAVE MERCY!!!! It tore me up!
So I looked into the other books and read TGCF next. It took me about a week to finish because I couldn't put it down. I was reading it at work on my breaks and lunch, when I got home it was the first thing I did. I stopped long enough to eat and bathe but then I was right back to it. I have never been so shook by anything in my life. Then I read SVSSS. These novels have changed me and I think in a good way. So believe me when I say I feel exactly what you do. And I have made so many new friends on Facebook groups that love talking about these. I'm thankful for that because no one in my area even knows what the novels are. I dragged my son into watching Heaven Officials Blessing with me and he loves it now too. The first thing he said was "yeah, I ship them mom. "
I was on Netflix, I was bored, I saw it was a donghua so I watched it
Did not expect it to be so good
Same I got into gay ships, specifically Stucky and Cherik, I read yaoi and bl. I didn't know why I was obsessed with it, but then I saw MDZS post in recommended topics and I now can't get out of this. Thanks to tgfc I've found myself reading Yuri and other sapphic stories as well
I have no idea ... I loved anime like ever since young and when I was 14 -15 I accidentally saw my first Yuri show citrus then I got more and more content . So I started reading manga and it leads me to manhua and boom accidentally Mdzs manhua came I was so obsessed with it I search about it found it was a novel and then I just stuck in this mxtx masterpiece then came to svsss and tgcf well it was all worth it .... Now I can't spend a whole day without seeing mxtx characters and they just made me who I am , it taught me a lot ...I am so lucky ..🥰🥰🥰 thank you kictor I love your content
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Oh my god, that’s literally me - I also accidentally got into this through tumbler and frostiron..
Made me remember “off the record” fanfic
Saw the cover of vol. 1 sitting on a shelf in a comic shop. Didn't understand a thing about it or what Danmei was (I thought it might have been a publishing company). Bought it anyway. Hooked. I actually thought XL was a real bride initially so it was like *BAM* surprise BL. I love the series so much.
I also discovered... this (there's a lot, not just danmei) when I was a teen. And since I'm ancient it was in ancient times when the first lord of the ring came out... ah... Gilmorn by Tiamat, I'm forever grateful. So that got me into fanfiction. Then it changed to Drarry but also I started obsessively watching yaoi and reading bl manga, and then there was the Queer as folk phase and well now, here I am... still team Drarry with team Wangxian on the side 🥰😅
I am so addicted to hualian now and since I found you out recently I have started binge watching all your uploads .. it's so much fun ..Thank you ❤ ....
I never thought I would be so much into BL romance being a straight womam . 😂😂
The first half of this video is local girl discovers transformative fandom. I got into tgcf after getting into mdzs which I think is a lot of people's experience. I can't judge you for really getting into tgcf through the coffin scene, seeing as how I got into mdzs when I learned about the bathtub scene XD
I was a fan of anime all my life. When 'Heaven Official's Blessing' came out, I was a bit sceptical about it, because Chinese donghua are usually of worse quality than Japanese anime. But then... it made me feel something special about HuaLian relationship. I've never watched any BL content before (in fact, I've been carefully avoiding it), so I didn't think that there's romance between these two and they're just very good friends who want to protect each other.
And then I read the manhua.
And then found Kicktor's channel.
And then I read the book.
And after that I couldn't feel the same about TGCF anymore. I just fell in love with the story, with characters and their relationships and with the canon ship. It was TGCF that changed my mind about BL novels particularly and BL generally.
I am very grateful to Mo Xiang Tung Xiu for this wonderful story, to Starember for the amazing manhua and to Kicktor for being Kicktor and being the heart of the TGCF fandom.
Thank you.
I am little older so I learned of BL from CLAMP's CardCaptor Sakura Manga between Toya and Yuki :) As for how I found out about TGCF, I just saw Heaven Offical's Blessing book 1 on a table at Books-A-Million in Dec 2021 but didn't buy... then went back a week later and bought it. Never heard of it before that day the same day I started reading it I found Kicktor's channel :) I wish I had friends....
I got into BL from Deep Ocean (it’s a Thai novel, if it has English ver., I think you’ll like it) . I found MDZS fanart in twitter as I was studying Chinese, then I started reading it. I have finished reading MDZS and SVSSS. Now I reading TGCF in Chinese ver.// I really like TGCF ,especially ShiQingXuan师青玄, he’s so cute. (I’m not good at English.👉🏻👈🏻 )
I very like your chanel💕
thank you for sharing your journey! mine was quite different. i got into danmei since high school. and i was reading novels on my phone in my dormitory (that was several years before TGCF came out) and so because of the amount of media i've consumed, i got this quite high standard of what's a good enough danmei novel for my own taste. and several years later during my undergraduate studies at UIUC, i began to read TGCF when it's firstly official releasing on jinjiang (晋江文学城) at that time TGCF only had about 60-ish chapters i think. and i stayed up whole night finishing reading all the available chapters. and then i began to wait for the newest chapter along the time TTTTTT and TGCF is such a highhhhh quality danmei novel in my standard. i love it sososososo much.