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#love is better the second time round #best use of a shirt in drama #miyata was DETERMINED

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#reminder #remember #be witness

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the evolution of the phrase "回家"

Qian telling little Yuan to go home

Qian telling teen Yuan to go home together

Qian saying "let's go home" to adult Yuan

Qian asking Yuan to come home

And Yuan all grown up and finally taking charge

#screams #unknown the series

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These were coming for my throat

#love is better the second time around

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KOI WO SURU NIDOME GA JOTO (2024) | 1.03

#IF YOU LIKE ME DON'T APOLOGISE #i am haunted #HAUNTED #by this line #love is better the second time around

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Adam Siao sat there in that top 3 seating for almost 2 hours and continued sitting there and LEFT A BRONZE MEDALIST. (AND WITH A 2 POINT DEDUCTION)

Don't forget your crown, King.

#figure skating

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I think you should know that here instead of being sad for poor Yuan I was thinking "Oh @respectthepetty is gonna love this!"

EFF THE RED THREAD! GIVE ME THE BLACK BRACELET!

@imlivingformyselfdontmindme, I looked absolutely feral this episode because my smile just kept getting bigger like a comic book supervillain, and it's all because of the colors and that damn bracelet.

Yuan, who has been the lighter one, just could not get his self sorted out this episode as he started to unravel. He kept getting darker the closer he got to revealing his secret to Qian.

Once he got down on bended knee to cuff Qian, I truly believe Qian had to have a moment where he knew.

Then the shots of Qian!

He, in his darkness, was opposite of the light-people, but unlike with Yuan where he is in the shared space with him, with these people Qian was isolated from them.

Even the background helped show the division between Qian and the other light-people in his life.

And after that moment, for Qian everything existed in grey when it came to Yuan.

Biggest smile - Yuan had on the pink shirt after the confession.

And even though Yuan tried to meet Qian where their story began (in the red), Qian would not budge.

But even then, the red lingered.

For both of them.

Qian can't go back to his darkness BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE TRUTH NOW!

Yuan's confession has already changed him.

And it has changed Yuan who continues to sit in the light and the dark.

Even when Qian finally comes home, he isn't completely dark.

And Yuan defends Qian's action as the bright light glows behind him in his back shirt.

And this is the part that got me: Both of them, without each other, are isolated. We saw it the entire episode, but the final scenes reinforced it by boxing them in. Yuan, in the grey, mixing their colors once again

and Qian, trying to get back to the black.

But they are both still connected by that red thread of fate!

I'm praying that Qian slipped that black bracelet onto Yuan's door and not Lili because if the girl I hooked up with a few years ago was right, a black bracelet is a way to wish the receiver good luck like the Mexican red bracelet is given as a gift to protect a person.

If Qian gave Yuan that bracelet, it means he still wants the best for Yuan. He still wants Yuan to be safe even if Yuan is in the "dark"

Things have changed. Qian is lighter. Yuan is darker. But that red thread still connects them.

And what Qian doesn't realize is that that black bracelet represents Qian. It will become a part of Yuan, and he will carry it wherever he goes just like his love for Qian.

And he'll still have it after four years of separation.

That bracelet, and his love.

#unknown the series #punching my pillow in agony #i started at episode 6 of kiseki and i start at episode 6 #WHEN WILL I LEARN

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In Defense of a Sucky Person

San Pang sucks.

He says shitty stuff and does stupid shit, but . . . he is a good guy.

Qian lives in San Pang's parents' rental, and they keep the rent low because Qian lives there (which is probably due to him being San Peng's friend). San Pang also reminds Qian to give Lili and Yuan their New Year's gift, plus he brings the gifts because he knew Qian would forget.

Each time Qian ends up in the hospital, San Pang is there to comfort the younger siblings and lecture Qian about how his pain is not his own, but his family's. PLUS he pays for the hospital bill.

He is there even when Yuan ends up in the hospital. And he always brings food with him!

He shows up! Each and every single time no matter the occasion.

And he steps in before Qian can become aggressive. Just like at Qian's graduation when a boy was hitting on Lili, before Qian could yell at the child, San Pang asked the boy boring questions to get him to move along.

He serves as the middleman in ALL of Qian's conflicts because Qian has always left him to do that. When Qian left the first business meeting, San Pang reminded their business partner that Qian would always pick his family over everything else.

Even when they were arguing at work, San Pang tried to calm both of them down before the whole business collapsed.

And when Qian snapped at everyone in the office for trying to take care of him, San Pang stepped in to calm Qian down and remind him that Yuan told them all to do that.

San Pang thinks of Qian as his brother. He does worry about him. He states that often. He does care about him. He also tells Qian that. Which is why San Pang wants Qian to be happy. It's why he does the heteronormative shitty thing and tries to set Qian up with women because he thinks a girlfriend could make Qian happy after Qian has spent his entire life taking care of his siblings, and his siblings thought it was a good idea too when they were younger!

Which is why he questions Qian after seeing him in bed with Yuan.

San Pang has been there, for everything. He was there to pick up Qian for work since he wasn't answering his phone! He shows up whether he is needed or not. He remembers when Qian forgets. He pacifies when Qian would fight. He questions when Qian would rather shut down. Yet Qian trusted him enough to tell him that Yuan was gay.

Even though he treats Lili like a kid, he is the only one who actually questions her and includes here in the conversations. Qian is the authority and Yuan defends him, but San Pang sees that both Qian and Yuan are the same - stubborn. Yuan didn't even tell Lili he was skipping grades.

So even though he knows some serious shit went down at that party, he is disgusted by Qian's actions, especially after Qian told him not to go after a BLEEDING Yuan.

Because San Pang was right! Qian and Yuan are stubborn. San Pang saw what was coming, and as sucky as that conversation was with Yuan, he was once again serving as Qian's middleman. He knew that if Yuan confessed to Qian that it would not go over well.

Yet San Pang still showed up for everyone when shit hit the fan. He showed up for Lili by taking Qian food. He showed up for Qian by offering him suggestions on how to handle the situation instead of shutting down and isolating.

And he showed up for Yuan.

San Pang sucks.

But he found a way for everyone to get out of this impossible situation without more blood being shed.

San Pang doesn't understand Yuan's romantic love for Qian, but he does understand Qian and Yuan. He knows that Qian needs time, and Yuan needs distance. This conversation isn't easy for him. But San Pang has always been the middleman because if not for him, Qian would be so much worst.

And he was.

So as much as San Pang sucks, he is a good guy who is trying to save his friend from being the worst version of himself and destroying Yuan.

So with Yuan gone, and Qian turning into himself, this outcome between him and Lili makes sense because he was the only one to ever include Lili in the conversation.

San Pang sucks, but in a family abandoned by the very people who should have been there for them, it matters that he always shows up.

Even when shit sucks.

#i will not take any san pang slander #in a chinese family the role of a mediator is the most thankless #you ask all the questions have all the answers but nobody wants to listen to you #he loves them ALL #and practices the chinese way of prevention is better than cure #长痛不如短痛! #he is the one having the difficult conversations #hes not running away #hes not being an ass #he is being a FAMILY MEMBER #no san pang slander allowed!

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there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop by vinay krishnan

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Apparently, I'm cute when I'm drunk. She said that was my special move.

QUEEN OF TEARS 눈물의 여왕 (2024)

#i wheezed #he is really cute #queen of tears

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The type of parents who argue that simply putting food on the table and keeping a roof over their kids' head is sufficient parenting are always so shocked when their children no longer want to deal with them once they've got their own place and can buy their own groceries. Like what else did you expect to happen? You told the people who had no other choice than rely on you for food and shelter that asking for any more than that is unreasonable of them, and then they don't go to you for anything once they can get those some other way. What would they go to their parents for?

They've got food at the house.

#yes this #someone needs to tell my mother this #but its pointless anyway because she doesnt get it

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Babe finally managed to plant a real kiss! And that little sniff of Billy's - followed by a hasty escape, thwarted by Babe! Gosh, Billy's neck got so, so red!

#billybabe #i'm too old for this #but i am SCREECHING #TOO MUCH FANSERVICE IS NOT GOOD FOR ME #what is that shyness nong billy patchanon #and that boldness nong babe tanatat

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Tharn never speaking or responding besides with physical affection because he's already determined this is impossible and so he just wants to love Phaya as thoroughly as he can right now without facing the future he's already given up on because he cannot let the people he loves suffer even knowing how much they will suffer losing him... rough. Rough, y'all.

#this #this part i died #the sign the series #he is saying goodbye with every look #phaya is just so happy but #BUT

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Alright, we’re coming up on the end of what, so far, has been a fantastic, compelling story in The Sign.

Now BL, particularly Thai BL, as a genre has been largely soft, fluffy, happy ending stories or shallowish dramas of varying fluff level. (which are all great. HUGE fan of entertaining dramas with easy happy endings) There aren’t a ton of tragedies. And there aren’t many that deal with a storyline as different and layered as this one.

Given what we saw in the fan reactions to the end of a certain recent genre-defying series, (NOT talking about Last Twilight which I didn’t finish and therefore have no opinion on) I’m worried about nasty and out of scale reactions to an ending that is sad.

Watching a series that is decidedly not a fluffy rom com and then getting upset if the ending isn’t a neat, fluffy rom com ending, is not reasonable or fair to the creators and it is ultimately pointless feedback because it’s not an assessment of how well it was executed, merely a statement of dislike of the subgenre. Which is unhelpful and uncalled for.

There is nothing wrong with intelligent criticism. But personally not liking how a story ends does not mean it was poorly executed or objectively bad. Please Please Please, keep that in mind when The Sign ends. Because here is my concern: this is an industry that is heavily influenced by fan feedback. If the loudest fans are indiscriminately negative and rip the series apart, we won’t get more things like it in the future, potentially better things. No series is perfect and this will likely be no exception. But please, give due credit to the things that were done well, and keep your criticism reasonable and relevant.

For instance… an objectively disappointing ending might be: Chalothon wins. Phaya and/or Tharn die, the cycle of tragedy and sabotage continues and nothing changes. Because then what was the point of telling this part of the story? This would be deserving of criticism.

Another point of interest: characters making decisions that frustrate you does not mean the characters are poorly written or that the narrative has a moral prerogative of any kind. A marker of a poorly written or underdeveloped character is inconsistency, none of the characters in this story so far have been that.

The objective we’re all hoping for is obviously: Chalothon is defeated and the cycle of tragedy is broken. BUT part of the tension is the uncertainty of whether they will manage it. How? And what’s the cost going to be?

That tension and uncertainty is why we’re all on the edge of our seats right now. It’s a hallmark of good storytelling.

Honestly a heart rending but objectively great ending could be: Chalothon is defeated but the cost is excruciatingly high. Phaya and/or Tharn die. They don’t get their happy ending in this life but they end the legacy. They break the cycle. And they get to start again in the next life. They will finally get the beautiful love story they deserve untainted by sabotage and hate and tragedy. We just won’t get to be there for it.

Devastating. But that would be a gorgeous and emotional story. (they did say the special ep is a standalone… 👀)

Good stories are SUPPOSED to give you emotions. It usually means the delivery was effective. I expect following the finale this weekend, we will all be either elated or bereft. Neither of those are bad things.

#the tag that said #i feel people who dislike it should have dropped it ages ago #YES #Just drop the show if you don't like it!

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THE SIGN (2023) EP. 5 // EP. 11

#tharn's safe place #phaya's chest #and a posessive thigh over him #this bird's mine #snakey #the sign the series

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#i'm not a slasher vid girl #serious i cried during severance in panic #so i have been following dff thru gifs #and the last 2 episodes have been #WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY BABY BARCODE #vs #wtf man how did barcode get SO GOOD #dff #spoilers #dff spoilers

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Billy & Babe having fun while preparing for today's event! Wishing you luck, boys 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

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#excuse me #the use of this song just dealt me a ton of damage #billybabe