Cuz Time Traveling And Queer Romance?? Fuck Yeah Give It To Me! - Tumblr Posts

I'm obsessed with how Be My Favourite queers the straight narrative so beautifully. The show literally starts off with a straight romance cliché (lead doesn't get the girl, regrets it for the rest of his life until he goes back in time to fix things) and if you hadn't read the tags or the synopsis you could be 100% forgiven for thinking it was just another straight time travel romance. Heck, even Kawi, the literal main lead, and Pisaeng, his actual love interest, think they're in a straight time travel romance for 7 and 1/2 episodes.

You can literally see the two opposing narratives fighting with one another, the "tradional" romance narrative fighting against its queering and maintain the status quo and then slowly coming undone as it becomes clear that the queerness was always there it had just never had a chance to flourish.

Be My Favourite is making a very pointed statement about queer narratives and queer visibility in media and I love love love love it.