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Rotten Apples

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Frequency: 1 episode/167d. Total Eps: 8

Welcome to Rotten Apples 🍎🍏🪱! We're your hosts, Kiki and Mimi, two somewhat-matured fujoshis (a.k.a., female fans of yaoi and boys' love) nearing their mid-twenties. Yes, we do need help. From the latest BL manhwa chapters, to NOTPs and fandom culture, to the complex, evolving relationship between homoerotic media and the real world, we promise our commentary captures it all. Chances are you're here because you're just like us. That must suck. Join us for extremely irregular updates on the days corporate America has released us from indentured servitude. Please be 18+, we're begging you.

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Ep. 8 | BL Review 04: Roses and Champagne, by ZIG and Ttung Gae

Season 1 · Episode 8

Friday, August 8, 2025 • Duration 52:21

Many forms of love exist. We support this. Many sorts of holes also exist. And that, goes without saying. All's fair in love and war.

Travel with us to the cold, Napoleon-proof land of Western Russia where we dissect a dysfunctional couple and someone also almost literally gets dissected. It's like decently okay in the end though, kind of. This is Russia, you know.

TW: toxic manipulation, graphic violence, drugging, non-consent. Please do not listen if you're not 18+.

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Ep. 7 | The Deal with Danmei

Season 1 · Episode 7

Saturday, July 26, 2025 • Duration 01:23:23

And so the chair creaks, and the sirens sing their song. Sorry. We don't know how to edit audio.

Also, Shrek? Shrooms? No. Just danmei. 🤷‍♀️ Join your hosts Mimi and Kiki for a deep dive and many tangents into the thriving world of Chinese BL media. The hype is growing, but why? How's it different from the rest? What's the big deal? Find several of your answers here at most.

Trigger warnings as usual for sensitive, NSFW content, some of which involves problematic relationship dynamics. Please watch your step.

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Ep. 6 | BL Review 03: The Black Mirror, by Muhwa and Sugeun

Season 1 · Episode 6

Thursday, July 10, 2025 • Duration 01:02:28

How many times does Kiki mention inappropriate cigarette disposal practices in this episode? Certainly not enough to indicate any subliminal interests...

Welcome to our third BL review, where we explore one of the genre's most iconic horror comics. From gaslighting galore to twisted notions of self-motivation, everyone in this story is a terrible human being and we are here for it.

TW: toxic manipulation, dubious consent at best, graphic scenes, and lots and lots of death. Please do not listen if you're not 18+.

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Ep. 5 | Find Your Fix-It (or Don't and Wallow, for This is Also a ✨Thing✨)

Season 1 · Episode 5

Saturday, June 28, 2025 • Duration 02:07:48

What do cartels, the laws of thermodynamics, and BL have in common? You guessed it: fanfiction. Join Kiki and Mimi, neither of whom has yet confirmed who is who but it's anyone's guess at this point, for a 2-hour deep dive into the good old tropes and familiar icks pervading the literature we all call home.

Our three years MIA do not count. (It's called method acting.)

Note: Our mics broke and we're literally having tea in this episode, so please excuse the crap audio quality and random blips this time around. Listen on headphones if you can.

Regular TWs for explicit content apply.

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Ep. 4 | BL Review 02: King's Maker, by Haga and Kang Ji-young

Season 1 · Episode 4

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 • Duration 39:29

Why is pasta made of chickpeas nowadays? We're not ranking SEO, that's for sure. Join us in our chaotic deep dive of Haga's and Kang Ji-young's popular BL manhwa King's Maker.

Make sure to check out King's Maker on TappyToon. TW for pedophilia, insinuated incest, sexual content, and coercion.

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Ep. 3 | Into the Omegaverse!

Season 1 · Episode 3

Thursday, June 23, 2022 • Duration 58:38

No discussion of BL (boys' love) or yaoi is complete without an uncomfortable foray into A/B/O dynamics. No one knows how it works, least of all the content creators. Flip your browsers to incognito boys, because the Omegaverse is back. Stay for unsolicited insight into your hosts’ questionable kinks.

The omegaverse isn't without its own set of real-world controversies. TW for references to non-consent and rampant, systemic misogyny.

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Ep. 2 | BL Review 01: Payback, by SamK and FujoKing

Season 1 · Episode 2

Thursday, June 9, 2022 • Duration 44:52

Why is Song Myeong-shin such a bitch? Join Kiki and Mimi for the second episode of Rotten Apples and our first-ever installment of our BL review series, where we try and fail to answer all of your burning questions. Make sure to check out the English translation on Lezhin.

Toxic, content is toxic, as is the BL genre generally. TW for depictions of non-consent.

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Pilot | The Gateway Dr*gs That Led Us into Yaoi Hell

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, May 30, 2022 • Duration 27:51

BL, yaoi, shōnen-ai, MLM, bara—various Western abbreviations and Japanese terminologies exist to blanket a niche subset of homosexual media. Join us to learn what led two young, otherwise innocent individuals to descend into a spiral of uncontrollable lust that continues to shadow our daily lives. (And to NOT learn who between us is Kiki and Mimi. We forgot to introduce ourselves. Good luck figuring that out.)

**This episode is 27 minutes long, and we mention 30+ minutes in the recording. We can't edit it out without sounding even more like actual n00bs than we already are.

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