Just wanna let yall know that SOME heartstopper fans on twitter are comparing heartstopper...

if they read the novel they'd say otherwise. while heartstopper is cute, tgcf is so damn beautifully written that it simply cannot compare. I SAID WHAT I SAID

I FREAKING AGREE WITH U BRO

Both are good but tgcf's novel is something you don't move for years after finishing it. The plot is unforgettable and it grows with you, the love, the struggle, the pain, happiness and the emotion felt from it just couldn't compare.

Both are good but tgcf's novel is something you don't move on for years after finishing it. The plot is unforgettable and it grows with you, the love, the struggle, the pain, happiness and the emotion felt from it just couldn't compare.

hmm.. idk about that. I've watched and loved heartstopper but I've moved on to a different bl show in less than a month.

tgcf however... I've finished reading the novel 3 years ago and let's say the reason I'm reading this manhwa because i still haven't moved on

Wait why is the author problematic ?
Personally I think that both are really good stories but don’t have anything to do with each other, like I can’t really understand how to compare them bc they’re are totally different things, so it’s really weird imo that there are people who try to compare them

K (initial of my fbf) didn't put the other reasons but one of them (i think?) is that Alice Oseman doesn't want to describe Heartstopper as a "yaoi" or even "BL". I mean, Alice not wanting to describe Heartstopper as a "yaoi" is understandable because there's not a smut scene there. But saying that it's not a "BL" is just crazy. Like, what would you call it if it's not a BL then? Just "a romance between two boys"?? That's literally what BL is, though?

At this point, I actually think she doesn't even know the difference between "yaoi" and "BL". MUCH WORSE, THE MEANING LMAOAOAOAO

Btw for people reading this and you don't know the difference of the two, i'm gonna explain it for you.

I know many people thinks YAOI and BL are the same but they actually have differences

BL is a short term for "Boys Love", meaning, a romance between two boys.

While yaoi is a Japanese term for manga that features sexual romance between men. In the West, yaoi is used more generally to refer to any anime, manga, fan fiction, that focuses on romance between men. (searched this on google btw so it's clearer)

So basically, Western people sees yaoi as a romance between two men (no sexual acts) but in Asia (specifically Japan) we see it as a sexual romance between two men.

I don't even know who came up with the meaning that it's ONLY a romance between men (yaoi meaning for western people) ಠ_ಠ

Btw the reason why she doesn't want to describe it as yaoi or bl is because she thinks that "yaoi and bl are genres that fetishize and eroticise queer men in a really bad way" BYE WTF

they need to read some actual BL novels like 2ha, tgcf, and mdzs those are so amazingly written

i don't think she's in a position to say that given the fact the she's the one who literally wrote about romance between two guys when she's a girl lol

i agree with y'all lol she needs to read a REAL BL