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Clairebell Official Pilot

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aaaaaa IT'S FAIFAWINE DAY! i'm so excited :)))))

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gelboys cinematography go brrr

I don't have a way (or time tbh) to do this coherently but I did want to point out some of the visual aspects of gelboys that have invigorated my brain so far.

1. depth of field and visual texture

I loved how long the mall scene was and how it was shot to take maximum advantage of the space. in the first screencap below, the dialogue action is taking place all the way at the back, but because everything is more or less in the same field of focus (blah blah phone camera depth of field but i'm not getting into the technical nitty-gritty) the viewer can take in everything all at once, while also following the spots of color—baa's pink guitar case, bua's green sweater—that tell the eye exactly where to look. compare that to the second shot, which maintains a very similar framing: now the action has moved to the front, so the camera's focal point does naturally focus on fourmod and baa, but chia and bua are still in the same spot they were earlier, in the center of the frame, inescapable for both the viewer and fourmod. you get so much information from every single shot, and the way the action moves forward and backward in these spaces to create visual texture in this show is so pleasing to me.

2. ambient + diagetic nighttime lighting

I was SO happy about this. we always complain about how people in QL are always sleeping with the lights on but the gelboys team is out here showing us you can have it all! you can have a realistically dark room that utilizes natural sources of ambient lighting! in this scene, there's the various LED computer lights, the phone screen, the lava lamp, and the street lights coming in through the window. that overhead shot with the phone screen illuminating fourmod's face through the glass table is one of my favorites from the show so far.

3. montage of decorative elements

serves a few purposes: scene transitioning and shorthand exposition (fourmod suggested they all get gel nails for the performance so the implication is that these are the designs they chose), reinforcing the visual motif, and revealing the individuality of the characters. the bassist seems to be more minimalist compared to baa and fourmod, but even they have different decoration styles, with baa repping his favorite girl group, while fourmod goes for cute and hodgepodge (and changes his mind quite a bit—stickers and nails are good for the fickle-minded because nails grow out and stickers are generally easily removable).

4. dirty framing (with additional layers)

semi-related to the first point, but the use of dirty framing to show both context and conflict is so effective. back to the mall scene—fourmod seething while creeping on chian and bua via spotify playlist was a pretty classic use of this, but when he comes back a third time (these are unprecedented levels of downbadness, I'm afraid), the crowd action has surged to the front and grown even more chaotic. now, not only are there more people between fourmod and the object of his obsession, but this time he's behind the glass, and thus smaller in the frame—an even more isolated position.

also want to shout out my favorite dirty shot from ep 1; the scene is populated with students but the framing of bua and chian's faces in the foreground keeps the viewer grounded, and I especially love the second frame, where you can only see fourmod's eye.

oh! and these; the amount of contextual information the viewer gets here is so pleasing. the intense flirting is the centerpiece, but the framing and body movement also shows you baa's annoyance/displeasure one moment, followed by fourmod's other friends playing documentarian. the social aspect of how this is all unfolding—not only the use of social media, but the monitoring of said social media as well as real-life interactions—adds additional textual layers on top of all the visual layers in this show. it's so good I wanna cry.

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gelboys ep3 preview

idk if the english subs are missing for everyone so here's a quick summary based on the korean subs, for anyone who might be interested:

baa: how are things going between you and p'chian? fourmod: we decided not to define the relationship/put a label on things

(the dialogue in the scene with chian, bua, and the third guy was kinda insignificant but basically light flirting)

this is just exposition from baa(?): "the green means close friends, only the people you choose can see your stories"

baa: "be careful not to get (your feelings) hurt"

to me the show has definitely hinted at baa having feelings for fourmod (i mean with the way fourmod clung to him this ep... doing all the things chian was doing to flirt with him... my dude), so it's definitely going to result in some Sad Boy Club moments for baa :')

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#an accurate representation of me taking photos for all of my friends

GELBOYS สถานะกั๊กใจ — 2025, dir. Boss Kuno & Junior Naron

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When my nails get messy, I'll join the playlist.

—GELBOYS · สถานะกั๊กใจ · Episode 02

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Fourmod singing for hours in public when he decidedly can not sing, asking "what are we" five seconds after a first kiss, jerking it open-window style, taking about a hundred selfies at any given moment. Oh to have the unbridled confidence of a dumb gay teenager.

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GELBOYS ep 2 dir. Boss Kuno

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But I guess you gotta fight in order to get what you want.

—GELBOYS · สถานะกั๊กใจ · Episode 02

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gelboys is so freaking GOOD i can't stand it!!!!! my brain wants to take great big bites out of so many scenes fgfhdkhkdk

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Emi TikTok update 140225

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Thame outright telling mick Po does better work than him made me let out the biggest in laugh in what is one of the angstiest episode of the show

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beonnnie 🧡💜🦊🐰

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I’m enamored with ThamePo’s fan commentary because ThamePo depicts aspects of fan culture as problematic, but not fan culture as a whole. In fact, it parallels the fans’ behaviors with the issues of everyday personal relationships.

The fan reactions to Pepper and Gam are actually varied if you read through the messages that pop up on the screen, and in the press conference you see fans still making heart poses and happy just to see their idols. But a majority of the fan reactions, including the Baifern as the character stand-in, are possessive, objectifying, and dehumanizing, but we’ve seen plenty of interpersonal relationships in the show where this is the case, too. Po cannot fathom Earn’s reasoning for leaving him and, with the well-meaning support of Baifern, came to see himself as a pure victim, an object thrown away by a soulless bastard. Thame had constructed his self-image as an evil narcissistic villain to alleviate his own guilt about leaving his members behind. ThamePo depicts the desire to solely possess someone’s heart and attention as a problem that occurs because we’re human and hurting, and because it takes time to appreciate the actual human depths of others—Gam points out the issue of time needed for fan acceptance under Thame’s suggested plan.

People often use the language ‘parasocial’ to condemn this sort of fan behavior, (maybe because it sounds similar to parasite), but there are less possessive parasocial relationships fans can have to celebs, too. We see fan behaviors throughout the show that make no attempt to control. Look at the ThamePo band members diving into Insta to speculate about Pepper’s couple rings. They don’t do it to hold him back, just to learn more about someone they care about.

I love ThamePo’s fan commentary because it preserves nuance in a conversation that rarely makes room for it. We want easy villains. We want groups to hate. Focusing on the issues of a behavior while resisting the urge to demonize people for it!? While, in fact, finding methods to empathize with the pain that brought people to behave that way!? That’s a rare treat in media these days. Idols are people and so are fans: how absurd for that to be as radical of a statement as it feels currently.

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A fan was praising Joong for posting this picture

Because otherwise there would have been no pictures of Jes and Bible from today’s event. Joong responded by posting this

A true fudanshi