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if you suffer… i’ll suffer with you. if you’re in pain, i’ll be in pain too. let me cry in your stead.

LOVE IN THE AIR ⋮ EP13.

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This Week in BL

Nov 2022 Wk 2

Being a highly subjective assessment of one tiny corner of the interwebs. Organized by which ones (in each category) I’m enjoying the most.

Ongoing Series - Thai

Between Us (Sun iQIYI) 1 of 12 - It got hot and heavy way faster than expected. With DeanPharm the side couple, I just want more of them like I did with WinTeam in UWMA. But yeah, it’s VERY good, thank fuck. WATCH ALONG HERE. 

Big Dragon (Sat Gaga) 6 of 8 - How can this dumb little pulp be so good? Also P’Nine? I will heal your broken heart. The brother zone is rough, baby. The thing about this damn drama is all of the characters are honestly motivated and act in accordance with their personalities. I think that’s mostly why I can’t stop watching. Loved the scene with Yai and his ma-in-law-to-be. Also, nice stinger! That’s one way to come out. Look this was a REALLY engaging ep. 

My Only 12% (Fri iQIYI) 14fin - I really did not expect this show to end on this note. Ah Earth with the crying. I did expect the final episode to be family drama-llama, but this kind of drama didn’t work for me under the context of a BL. I do love the siblings. (There’s a part of me that wanted Prem’s character to be Team. This could work as Team’s back story.) All in all? I found it disappointing. Conclusion: This is a strong little BL romance (tailor made for SantaEarth) about holding onto first love and childhood, but it’s buried under waffling family drama and formless side characters so that it took a lot of digging to get to - still, RECOMMENDED. 8/10 

Ai Long Nhai (Mon iQIYI) 7 of 10 - Nothing continues to happen and exactly nothing will and yet I keep watching. Probably because the nothing keeps getting shirtless. 

Ghost Host, Ghost House (Weds YouTube) 6 of 8 - Cute bfs are cute but… NO SINGING. Adorbs but sad GL side plot AKA dead lesbians got a nod. 

Remember Me (Sun Gaga) 5 of 12 - JaFirst are just great on screen together, I am very invested in their couple but, yeah, no one else. The stuff with Name was really difficult to watch, but Title is a GREAT little actor. 

Love in the Air (Thurs iQIYI) 13fin - Ultimately? Sky needed a therapist not a stalker lover, but whatever Mame. DUMPSTER FIRE TRASH WATCH COMPLETED HERE. I gave it a very reluctant 7/10, recommended only if you know you like this kind of thing. Look you remember in high school drama class where they make you “envision a basket, and put all of your worry, bad mood, and anxiety into that basket, and leave it outside the door”? Well, in order to enjoy this show, you have to do that, only with your morals. Some people have bigger baskets than others. 

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

My Tooth Your Love (Taiwan Fri Viki) 6 of 12 - I do like a little jealousy from the dentist. Yet another installment in this week”s “please get that uke to a therapist” only this time (unlike LITA) our seme actually gives it an honest try. I might be completely and totally in love with the dentist. I adore how stern he gets, plus he has a very strong white knight tendencies. Also baby boi wanna-bartend with the big-ass crush is giving me life. 

Eternal Yesterday AKA Eien no Kino (Japan Thurs Gaga) 4 of 8 - Am I the only one who JUST realized the actor playing Koichi is Komiya Rio who played Tanaka in Takara & Amagi? I’m so slow. Look all Japanese BL (even the most fluffy nonsense like Kabe Koji) is a little bit emo and exists in a sideways state. It’s gonna go into uncomfortable and uncanny spaces. It’s what it does. This one, given its psychological horror elements, is even more uncanny, to the point of creepy. I’m not a big fan of creepy, and yet I like this show. Japanese zombie incubus? Yes please. Look, I’m utterly unable to back away from the pun, and so: I see seme stiffie can get a stiffie. Puns aside? This was a killer first-time sex scene for something relatively low heat. I’m reminded of Shin’s tongue. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, no one does thirst like Japan. Korea and Thailand can have a winsome yearn-off, and Taiwan is great a pining, but Japan? Japan brings the Thirst. 

Choco Milk Shake (Korea Strongberry Tues YT) 3-4 of 10 - I love this show so much. It made me tear up and then in the second part I was laughing my ass off, because the cat was trying to teach the dog how to stare properly. So funny. Then Pets being worried about their sick human, is so accurate. Is anything funnier than the idea of a cat in a service industry job? I really don’t want this to be sad. Please don’t be sad. In Strongberry we trust is my mantra!

Kabe Koji (Japan Mon Viki) 6 of 10 - I like it more and more as it goes on, but I still don’t think I actually, ya know, like it. 

It’s Airing But I’m Not Watching It

War of Y (Thai Gaga) 20 eps - it’s just all too much for me.

My Roommate (Thai YT) 32 eps of 2 minutes each + terrible production values? - I’m not bothering.

Fahlanruk (Thai Sun GaGa) 12 eps - I cut my losses at ep 5. DNF

To Sir With Love AKA Khun Chai 28 eps - dito

2 Moons 3 (Thai Mon ??) 10 eps - Possibly a future binge watch. Rumor is it’s banal.

SELF (Thai Thurs YT) - DNF

Love Bill  (Vietnam Sat YT) - Bah Vinh is back but I’m too distracted. Also there’s a lot of fund raising and stuff going on. I’ll wait and binge.

In Case You Missed It

Korean GL She Makes My Heart Flutter finished it’s run on YouTube. RECOMMENDED. Full review (not by me) here. Extremely cute, about a lesbian bar run by an aunt and her niece.  

I have no idea if any of these still work, but the spies reported in on ways to watch the Cherry Magic movie (2022) with Eng Subs: BiliBili | Website I liked it, not as much as the original, solid 8/10 from me. Again no kissing, these actors must be expensive. Still with Thailand bringing the high heat with such consummate casualness these days (licking ass and taking names) there really isn’t much of an excuse anymore for no kisses. Even Korea has buckled. 

Gossip

Kpop boy group OnlyOneOf has collectively signed up to be in idol-based BL, Bump Up Business (based on a webtoon of the same name). They’ve been auditioning for this since Libido IMHO. You can watch me chronicle their BL MV series in this post. It’s from Idol Romance who will do sad and can do good kisses (Wish You, Nobleman Ryu, Once Again, Kissable Lips, Poongduck 304, Tasty Florida, Tinted With You). More info here. 

HIStory 5 is coming! Office BL + time travel. “A cheerful and energetic senior student from 2000 travels to the future (2022), works as a deliveryman, and meets his first customer, an heir with a domineering personality.” Nancy Chen to direct (HIStory 4, Papa & Daddy).

Next Week Looks Like This:

Starting up: 

Nov 18: I Will Knock You (Thai Fri Gaga) A college kid & tutor confronts the leader of a gang who then turns out to be his next student. Bad boy/good boy + sunshine/grumpy, + younger seme pairing, bully romance. Adapted from korean_rabbit’s y-novel of the same name, directed by Champ (2gether).

Nov 19: GAP the series (Thai Sat YT) - 12 ep office set GL. WATCH IT! GL and this studio need our support. 

Nov 2022 still to come?

Nov 24: Happy Ending Romance (Korea Thurs Gaga) stars Karam (The Boss), Ha Jong Woo, and Leo (VIXX). Formerly Happy Ending Outside the Fence - thank fuck they changed the damn title.  

Nov 26: 609 Bedtime Story (Thai Sat WeTV) - another OhmFluke vehicle that’s rumored to be a good story. A one night stand leads to a series of mysterious premonitions and a possible parallel universe.

Nov ??: My School President (?? GMMTV YT) tester trailer here - it’s Love Sick + Korea & Japan’s influence.

This Week’s Return of the Shirt of Shame 

Work From Heart wasn’t enough? You had to put it on the prettiest boy in the world? (Ghost Host, Ghost House) 

This week’s best moments?

Oops indeed. 

This weeks earworm: MCND #mood

(last week)

Note: I’m off to France and then Australia, as ya do, so posting may be odd and sporadic and strangely timed. Don’t get excited, it’s work, I mostly get to see the insides of hotels. 

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THE ECLIPSE NOVEL SPOILER!!!

Dude, I don't know how you keep doing it but WatNamo is canon.

EXCUSE ME?!

How do you just drop this anonymously without any supporting evidence (aka snippets from the novel, screenshots, SOMETHING)?! You can't leave me hanging like this! I NEED SOMETHING!

I don't read the novels for these shows because I have learned the screenwriters of these shows are doing the Lord's work pulling anything resembling a plot from most of these novels (*cough* Big Dragon's novel *cough*), so when I read things about the novel the show is based on after I write a 4,000 word post about why Ken is the mole in KinnPorsche when his character didn't even exist in the novel or Mangkorn was resisting Cherry's advances because he considers Yai his someone in Big Dragon, I'm always proud of the show. Clearly, the show is written and depicted well if the audience is picking up the breadcrumbs being left.

However, WatNamo is GramBlack (Not Me) all over again! Apparently GramBlack were together in the novel, but in the show, they weren't. That means that some crumbs were placed in the show from the novel without the fulfilled outcome. GramBlack had that tension that the novel demonstrated but the show's plot changed, so their characters' tension was still present without an actual relationship being the reason for it. I saw that with WatNamo:

Everyone is gay until proven otherwise

They were constantly talking before class

It seemed like Namo was always staring at Wat from the back of the class

They teased each other the entire beach trip

They were partnered in Judo class

Namo sat next to Wat during the notebook discussion

Namo is either seen by Thua or Wat rarely any of the other boys, and we knew Thua and Kan were a pair

Namo knew about Wat's love of film even though he barely even spoke to Akk and Kan about it

When Wat wanted to take pictures, everyone else complained but Namo. He just smiled and posed.

Kan and Akk seemed like great friends with Wat as the outlier.

Wat was open to the idea of his friends being in love with guys, so it seemed this openness came from experience

Wat became head prefect and Namo became a prefect, so come on, that is perfect POWER COUPLE ENGERY!

The poster!

But instead, the show kept throwing this weird curve ball

GramBlack all over again.

Wow, I thought I was over this, but apparently I'll never be over it. Now adding WatNamo to the list. Thanks, Anonymous for clawing open a very specific wound in my soul.

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when hubby chokes you a little too hard so you have to make your neck brace fashion

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via beoncloud_th @ instagram | 12112022

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This Spotlight photoshoot was simply a fucking blessing for BabyFeat fandom, I swear

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when you accidentally say a bit too much…

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Hey friends. Do this:

This probably took this person 3 seconds to do but it immediately told me that they liked my story enough to come back and read it again and they liked it again the second time.

Your favorite writers Do Not Know that you think about their stories after you read them. I generally assume that my stories make people happy for the few minutes they’re reading and then they never think about it again. To know that that’s not the case and that someone has returned just makes my little heart swell with joy.

I needed this today. If you’re the person who left this comment (or if you’ve ever commented on any of my writing) I love you.

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Mile and Apo were chatting together behind the stage when a person of the security team asked for a photo. Not a photo of the three of them, only mileapo!

The result: ❤️

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for @agendratum 

KinnPorsche + text posts (pt.18/19)

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Who would Louis Tomlinson most like to play him in a biopic? (x)

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BAD BUDDY: YOUTUBE’S MOST REPLAYED MOMENTS

↳ episode 2

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”Does it mean you like me now?”

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Putter is absolutely not playing around with Yoshi. He is hardcore flirting and I love him for it. And Yoshi just has no idea how to handle this. He can't bring himself to believe he's being flirted with while Putter pushes every boundary he has trying to get something in return.

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It's just the way Tap is trying to figure out what's going with Ping while Ping wallows in desperate pining and guilt for that pining and guilt for each time he's hurt Tap and a deep love for him that he's struggling to express as friendship and it's just so good. Because Tap is falling (or has fallen) in love but Ping is too trapped in trying to be the Good Friend and Nothing More and Accept Namwan that he can't see how much Tap is clinging to him.

And that's how we end up here...

Bonus: Internal monologue

Oh, pining, my beloved.