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[bengiyo]

2024 Recap: ✨A Summary✨

Post your most popular and/or favourite edit/gifset/analysis for each month (it’s okay to skip months!)

@troubled-mind and @my-rose-tinted-glasses brought this back, and @lurkingshan mentioned me in hers.

January:

most popular - Last Twilight Ep 12 (Finale) Stray Thoughts

favorites - An Apology to Ossan’s Love and The Novelist, and Goblin is One of the Best Shows Ever Made

Seems I decided to cope with Last Twilight’s disappointment by capping off three big catchups. I am still so glad that I went back to Ossan’s Love and The Novelist to watch them properly. I still think these shows get a bad reputation, and I’m curious to see how the Thai version lands with audiences. I feel like I could also say so much more about Goblin, because I’ve also been considering a rewatch.

February:

most popular - Quick Post about How Great It Is to Be a J-BL Fan

favorites - My first interaction with @happypotato48, Love for Love’s Sake Finale, Drama Shower Explainer, My Post About How Much I Love Dynamite

What a fun month! I made a new friend, and found a new favorite show! I was so correct about how much Japanse QL we were getting and how much we’ve gotten in the past year. Though I was disappointed in the end of Drama Shower, I’m still glad that MBS is making BL…and whatever Red Blue is (I want to watch it so bad). My love for Dynamite has only grown since I wrote that post. I need to see so much more Aungpao this year.

March:

most popular - Love is Better the Second Time Around Ep 2 Stray Thoughts

favorites - Perfect Propose Finale, Cherry Magic TH Finale, Cherry Magic Anime Finale

It really was unexpected that we got two good adaptations of Cherry Magic in the same year, both of which would supplant the original adaptation for me. I think the Thai live action might be the best one for viewers, but damn is the anime still my favorite. Perfect Propose also may have been short, but that show has stuck with me. I still think about Kai giving Hiro the first good sleep he’s had in forever.

April:

most popular - Threatening people to tag Unknown spoilers

favorites - A “violence” ask about I used to shout out Tadaima, Okaeri.

This month looks relatively quiet for me, but holy shit was Tadaima, Okaeri unexpected. I was not expecting one of my favorite shows of the year to be an omegaverse husbands becoming dads show.

May:

most popular - Asking other BL fans how often we’d seen a 69 in BL

favorites - My Post About Why I Don’t Like We Are, My Wandee Goodday Check In

Man, I really hoped that Wandee Goodday would be good. I’m still flabbergasted by how badly that show lost me. Oyei and Cher were so important to me. Pour one out for the homies.

June:

most popular and favorite - Love Sea: Tongrak is Kind of an Asshole, and I Like It

other favorites - My Love Mix Up TH: The Adaptation Changes to the Class Play

Becoming a fan of MAME was not something I ever expected of myself, and yet here we are. I’ve now enjoyed three of her shows in a row, and supported another adaptation of her work. I also am so sad that MLMU wasn’t something I could enjoy. I was so amped after Cherry Magic TH and had real hope that this could also be fantastic.

July:

most popular - I Hear the Sunspot Ep 5 Stray Thoughts

You can tell I was traveling this month. I was quiet.

August:

most popular - Ben’s Big BL Blurb

favorites - Knock Knock, Boys! review, Office Romance Meditation on The Trainee and Other Shows

There were too many episodes to catch up on after traveling, so I dropped Stray Thoughts. It was probably for the best, because it took up a lot of time, and it made me grumpy to write about shows that were in a slog. I’ve enjoyed writing more focused pieces since.

September:

most popular - Horniest Sex Scenes Ask

favorites - The Trainee Reflection on Adulthood, Happy of the End Review, I Hear the Sunspot Wasted Taichi As a Character

The Trainee was so solid that I wrote about it two months in a row! Unfortunately it coincided with two J-BL losses that I had to mark.

October:

most popular and favorite - Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo: We Are So Fucking Back

other favorites - An Apology to The Miracle of Teddy Bear, Love in the Big City Part 1: It’s Gay, Peaceful Property: There’s Nothing Noble About Being Poor

What an incredible month for me! I finished one of the best shows we never got to see properly in 2022, we got a fantastic adaptation of one of the best books I read this year, and Hwang Da Seul came back with an absolute banger.

November:

most popular - Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo reaction

favorites - Love in the Big City Part 2: The Weight of Homophobia, Making a Clown of Myself at the Beginning of Your Sky, Ben’s Big BL Blurb 2: Fall is Finally Here, Blue Canvas of Youthful Days: BL is So Good When The Characterization Holds

I feel like I must have had a lot of time to write this month. I still stand by what I said about Blue Canvas at this point, even if the finale threw a lot of this away. I also highlighted my Your Sky post as an example of how exciting the beginning of a new show can be before it veers off and loses steam. 

December:

most popular - Ben’s Big BL Blurb 3: Blue Canvas of Youthful Days Blew It, But I Still Recommend It

favorites - Random QL Superlatives 2024, Our Youth: “Don’t Do It At School”

I really love the end of the year posts as a time to reflect on everything we watched. What really stood out for me this year was how much I just let go. I’m glad I’ve watched less, and have stuck with things that compelled me in some way. Hilariously, I think it’s actually lowered my overall average, but my general mood is up because I’m not forcing myself to slog through shows. 

You can go here to find your top 10 posts of each month.

[decennia]

socorro sallow in lacrimosa

"It's hard to forget a place that gave you so much to remember."

In spite of having many houses in her name – the decadence and excess of being wealthy, a curse on any high society creature – none of them ever felt like home. No, that was Hogwarts, and in the warmth of Regulus' arms.

For no matter how hard she had tried to forge that same feeling with her new husband in that new home of theirs – the cold and unforgiving Rosier House, left to Evan after his father had passed – she had failed. There was no love there, there was no warmth. Just stone-faced statues to accompany her stone-faced echoing waltz through its halls, and the cruel commentaries of embittered paintings she demanded be covered for their silence.

She'd trade it all – every last cent, every last gilded chalice, every jewel, every brick that composed those uninviting walls – to return to her home. To return to Hogwarts, sheltered in safety from death and the repercussions of her decisions and the thunder of war that waged right outside her front door. To return to a time where Regulus was alive.

[wrenwritesometimes]

WiP Tag

Do This: List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on. This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets, whatever.

Is this late? Probably. Still posting it. *shrug*

Well, I primarily depend on the amazingly astounding @imnoaingeal/@aingealcethlenn to assign me things or ask for assistance - which I love to give, and am grateful to her eternally for giving me tasks to do! :3 And for tagging me in stuff like this  🤣

I do, however, like to drabble in stories I will probably never finish unless it was specifically asked for. Heh.

Besides the works of Aingeal’s that I aid with (list here), I have:

“Conference” This is just a little something that I needed to jot down before I let my strong feelings about Dean wanting to be a father smothered me in my sleep one day…

“Hold Your Breath” Interesting but I dunno if I wanna do anything with it or post it… it was just a blurb I did when I was feeling anxious and uncomfortable.

“What in the Hell?” A challenge, my prompt was “My friends said I couldn’t do it, so I had to prove them wrong.” So, you know it'll be good.

Cheesy, but “Love” It was heavily inspired by the song “Big Picture” by London Grammar. It's going to be a letter to Dean, using mostly the song lyrics… but I'm gonna be building a story around it. I like it.

“Photoshoot” Literally inspired by looking at behind the scenes of Sebastian Stan and then Chris Evans photoshoots… like, isn't that awkward? You just have your arms in unnatural positions? ew. no. This one is gonna have Sebastian and the Reader talking about Sebastian's ‘latest photoshoot’ and he'll bring up that the Reader (also an actress) should do one too!

This one Aingeal didn't mention, but we're both gonna be working on it after we actually get done with some of our PREVIOUS projects… It is untitled currently, but it's gonna be a whole Bucky/OC pre-fall saga, hopefully. x3

On the other hand, I have a Skyrim one that I'm thinking of posting on FF.net. But that is not of import. HAH.

@wordstothewisereaders, @idreamofhazel, don't remember if she's done this, but @percussiongirl2017