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WARNING: OPINIONS BELOW

not to bring up old amd major fandom discourse but...

okay so watching the atla live action drove me back into my 2010 zutara era, and reading all that zutara fanfic made me think of klance (the other blue/red ship we should have had) so i was reading klance fic which made me realize i forgot most of the show and made me want to rewatch the show and im about to finish season 2 again and guys??? omg????

ok i was a klance girly thru and thru like everyone else but in the early seasons like 1 and 2 (and i realize what i'm about to say is blasphemous but bear with me) allura and keith had HELLA chemistry. like they had bonding moments and had like...a lot of deep talks and skinship (like the ep where they thought they were being tracked by zarkon, or the ep where allura gets over some of her galra hatred for keith's sake, etc etc) and were honestly more compelling than allura and lance or allura and shiro. maybe it's because i'm no longer a child/i'm looking at it through a more critical lens but the dynamics are totally different than what i remember in the early seasons.

OBVIOUSLY IT'S MEANT PLATONICALLY IN THE SHOW but the chemistry is real platonically or romantically. and for fandom that ships anything with a pulse, this ship really should have been more popular.

i think ppl were just so obsessed with wanting gay characters or characters with specific sexualities that they glossed over characters that had real chemistry. and only sticking to the skinny characters was whack. lance had hella chemistry with hunk and but i think y'all are too fatphobic to properly appreciate him. i blame the show for making hunk the least fleshed out of the main characters. hunk is more than comic relief!

also? y'all butchered my boy keith in fanon. he's got way more personality in the real show than in fanon, which like i understand that usually fanon characters have less personality but the difference is wild. canon keith is not nearly as withdrawn or moody as he is in fanon, he's just kind of a grumpy guy who knows what he wants and is incredibly determined to get it. he's not as emo or depressed (or repressed) as fanon makes him either

for the record, i'm still klance for LIFE but omg have a little fun sometimes. bi keith supremacy.

also, unrelated and completely off-topic sidenote, stop writing spanish into your fics if you can't speak it. i can't speak it even i can tell yall on some gringo shit. use italics or <brackets> like they do in comic books and webtoons. way less cringe.

#tell me how blasphemous is this post scale from 1-10 #klance #voltron #voltron legendary defender #i'm telling you we deserved one (1) kiss involving keith #could've been allura or lance idc #ALSO I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT IF YOU HATE ZUTARA OR KLANCE #IDGAF #FANDOM IS MEANT FOR FUN AND I LIKE MY PURPLE PAIRINGS #oh the yinyang of it all #anyways i still wont watch season 8 #no siree i value myself

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Personality traits: be ally and love wife

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I really had to read with my own two eyes multiple times since this post had multiple people add on to it, bringing it back to my dash again and again, that the drama from Tharn and Phaya's past life did not feel dramatic at all. And somehow that detracts from taking the drama of the present as seriously as the show is taking it. This story is based on Thai folklore? The Naga and Garuda are eternal enemies. The love between a Naga and a Garuda is an insult to the literal cosmic order. Chalothon who was only trying to preserve the natural order has been wronged by their love. The natural order is also referenced several times but especially when the priest was like keep Phaya and Chalothon away from each other, they're destined to be enemies. Not meeting the show halfway to accepting this as part of your lens as an audience is frankly...an interesting choice to make. The next bit is pure conjecture on account of me not being Thai but I'm trying to relate to what The Sign is likely trying to do from my own understanding of Asian folklore and the way we use those stories to build new stories. What is there to get out of this show other than the big fuck you to 'natural order' of things that must be because of the way that they are. Why can't a Naga and Garuda be in love? This must be a concept that people explore under the general lens of forbidden love in Thailand (pure conjecture but also like I don't know how it can't be true). We all have our poorly explained versions of Forbidden Love gone bad; Romeo and Juliet, Ram Leela, Devdas would be some heterosexual stories of Forbidden Love that kind of hand waves around the forbidden part a little bit that I'm familiar with. Devdas (the story I'm most familiar with of the one's stated) and its myriad adaptations is a story about the absolute ways we hold on to class even as it brings about our own downfall.

It's a great pick for a queer adaptation because the reasons why the lovers couldn't be together was so made up and really came down to ONE person (Devdas' mother) who just couldn't let go of class even though everyone else was literally begging for the two to just be together because let me tell you none of you have met a poor little meow meow on the scale of Devdas.

The Sign is bringing the forbidden love between a Naga and Garuda as a parallel of the forbidden love between two men. Homosexuality outside of the legal sphere really does come down to an ideological difference as to what is natural vs not. Homosexuality goes against a natural order of reproduction. And this is true. Two men cannot reproduce, two women cannot reproduce with each other.

The challenge isn't to prove that they can, it's to prove that reproduction isn't the centerpoint of human life, that we have transcended the need for our life to be dictated by this 'natural' order because on principal our societies just aren't built along the paradigm of 'survival of the fittest' where the benchmark of species fitness is its ability to reproduce.

Thai shows including things that have come out of Idol Factory (that produces The Sign) are often socially engaged with LGBT rights within Thailand. Now that gay marriage is legal or on its way to be, I assume a move in the direction of bringing same sex relationships up to the same societal respect as straight relationships would be a natural direction that future screenwriters will go.

The Sign is trying very hard to take the question of homosexuality right to the heart of Thai culture and tradition and talk about it from that lens [this is less conjecture and more paraphrasing what Saint has said about the show in interviews] And I know that you all are capable of meeting a story halfway in respecting its desire to set up the stakes through references of allegorical story telling since y'all have been doing it with Last Twilight and Le Petit Prince. So I don't know even know why I had to make this post but: tl;dr: The stakes of the love between Tharn and Phaya and the forbidden nature of it is set before you even see much of the show just from the fact that Tharn is a Naga and Phaya is a Garuda and as a member of the audience you have to accept that the love between Naga and Garuda is a deviant form of love in Thai culture.

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getting rizzed up by sunghoon’s baby shark character was in fact NOT on my to-do list today

#enhypen #baby shark #sunghoon #park sunghoon

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guys i think pit babe isn't his actual nickname, just babe, but pit babe is a nickname of the nickname since it's a play on like "phi babe" and the idea of a real pit babe (one of those scantily clad ladies that are everywhere in the fast and the furious)

like i think his name is babe, but everyone calls him pit babe because with thai pronunciation and honorifics it's a fucking pun

also because he's sexy like a real pit babe (hello compression shirt)

#i don't actually know a lot about thai naming conventions or honorifics as a disclaimer #but im saying it's true because i want to #pit babe #pit babe the series #pavel phoom

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hey can people please start making fanfic for twinkling watermelon because that show is my whole life right now but i’ve already watched all the tiktok edits and i crave content

#twinkling watermelon #i’m watermelon-deficient i swear #i need more yi chan #i need more cheong ah #i need a fic where the older brother time travels too #i need a reveal fic #just chapters on chapters of different ways han gyeol and eun yu figure out that theyre both time travelers #i need more eun ho (did i say that already?) #i absolutely need a fic where cheong ah beats tf out of her stepsister #look i know it’s het but PLEASE I BEG

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look maybe i like romance dramas because it is the only place where i see hetero romances where the guy is actually in the same league as the girl

i see way too many baddies in real life with an ugly ass man hanging on to them

#cdrama #kdrama #jdrama #romance drama #romance #LIKE SHE WILL BE WEARING A NICE DRESS WITH A PAIR OF HEELS #AND HE WILL BE WEARING A TSHIRT AND SHORTS #SHE COULD BE WEARING FULL GLAM MAKEUP #AND HE WONT EVEN TRIM HIS BEARD #LADIES FREE YOURSELF FROM THE SUFFERING #GET YOU A MAN WITH BASIC PERSONAL HYGIENE #GET YOU A MAN WITH A SKINCARE ROUTINE AND MAYBE A HAIRBRUSH

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this might be something weird as hell but hear me out

sometimes i feel like cdramas are so nice to watch because they are so censored that it's hard to put anything in that's really truly negative. bad guys are almost comical sometimes, and the characterization is usually pretty flat for all characters. good characters stay good and bad characters stay bad, and usually a lack of morally grey characters, with traitor characters generally being characterized in such a way that makes them stick out. asshole MLs are always assholes for a reason (not necessaily a good reason but a reason nontheless) and end up nice and puppy-like by the end.

there's a lack of anything that requires political knowledge or deep thinking because it's all just propaganda (cmon, these couples get married and have kids? getting married i can get behind but these FLs want KIDS? en esta economía? there are other examples but i cant think of them right now)

anyways everything is so washed away and sugarcoated or flattened that it doesn't really elicit a response like if you saw something darker.

of course this might be because i watch romance cdramas and who is putting dark political shit into romance dramas? but i feel like there's a real point here, but of course i could just be flat out wrong

tldr: i luv the escapism that cdramas give me

#cdramas #when i fly towards you #love at second sight #stay with me #hidden love #the love you give me

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yoh after jacking off all day and drinking himself into a stupor: god i hate this stupid guy who uses me as a servant to cook for him and have sex with him in exchange for living in his house. and he won’t even fuck me if it’s raining. i bet he wants his new coworker. ooh i’m so mad

segasaki: i love my husband 😇 working hard at my job so i can financially support him as he pursues his passion as an artist ☺️

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anyway imagine being that down bad for someone u apparently barely know that u literally told homeboy that u would take care of him for the rest of his life no worries so he can spend his days doing what he loves and then waiting 3 years to have him finally say yes and move in with you and you're happy and getting your needs met and seeing him everyday and having sex when u think he wants to and then my man thinks u hate him?

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I just love how Segasaki heard Yoh complaining about the laundry and didnt think of buying more sheets or a dryer no he thought we are going to fuck when it is sunny

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watching a cdrama….and they’re eating food….in a biology lab…

i’m a fuckibg art student and i know better than that

#like a foot and a half from what supposed to be chemicals #like no one on set knew about contamination???? #unrequited love #cdrama #unrequited love cdrama

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they need to give my girl zhang miao yi a different character type because she’s so great at her roles but her dramas blend together fr fr

at least, the two that i’ve seen she was a similar character with almost the exact same character arc and the exact same ending

don’t typecast my talented girl

#when i fly towards you #exclusive fairytale #zhang miao yi #su zai zai #xiao tu #like home girl really had the same thing happen to her in the same haircut #but damn is she lucky #like her love interests we’re cast as #zhou yi ran #and FUCKING #wen junhui #like omg girl can i live ur life

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why do the only chinese (mainland) bls that i know of have stepbrother pairings????? like lmfao????

the only two i know are Addicted/Heroin, and Stay With Me, but I'm not sure of any other chinese bls, but imagine if i'm forgetting one and that one also has a stepbrother plot

also: enemies to lovers

UPDATE they're the same story?? like the same author and almost the same plot, just with name changes and HELLA censoring to avoid the same fate that Addicted had, but Stay With Me is like a bromance fanfic of Addicted

also like a way healthier relationship

#addicted #addicted aka heroin #stay with me #cdramas

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i'm sorry, but if i was su yu and the hottest man i've ever met (wu bi) PUNCHED A GLASS BOTTLE CLEAN THROUGH and then WIPED THE FLOOR WITH THREE FULLY GROWN AND ARMED MEN i simply would've pinned him against the nearest wall and release all of my enemies-to-lovers tension through the best make out session of wu bi's life

#that fight choreo was literally so good #like mildly unrealistic but i can suspend disbelief because xu bin looked so hot doing it #stay with me #stay with me 2023 #xu bin #stay with me the series #cdrama #where's the fanfics i'm in need #not excited for the 'finding out we're step brothers' part of the show but i can cope #i love fight choreos and this one was *chef's kiss*

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cutie min quan quan (¼)

#the love you give me #i feel like i have said this before #but i am a goddam SUCKER for child characters #like obviously not a fan of how child actors get treated #and i really hope this kid grows up with all the support he needs #but within the realm of a tv show they're always the best characters!!! #i'm an absolute sucker i swear

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SCREAMING ABOUT A SCENE

FL needed to spend a certain amount of money to get a free bag, grabbed “chewing gum” from the counter to put it over the minimum, then she puts in the bag with other snacks

ML later finds it and opens it (with mouth, very important to know) to eat it and it’s not gum…it’s condoms, he’s startled, hides it in his bag

FL finds it later, then proceeds to have this convo:

FL (trying to tease him): actually, i want to ask. why did you keep it in your bag? you have plans tonight?

ML (god of rizz, apparently): you want to join?

#SCREECHING #HE IS SO DOWN BAD #THEY ARE NOT TOGETHER YET #put your head on my shoulder #situ mo #gu weiyi #cdrama #i love romance dramas lmfao