#‘oh whose that?’ - khun

[somnas-writes]

In the aftermath of his breakup, chay shuts down his WIK fan accounts and opens fan accounts dedicated to the Kpop groups he likes.

He puts a decorated photocard in his phone case (actually buys a clear one just for that)

Porsche buys him albums and merch so he can redecorate his room.

Kinn catches wind of this and tries to win his in-laws affection by buying tickets to see his favs live.

[absolutebl]

BLs with Strong Historical Elements

Costume dramas, historical BLs, and BLs with time travel or flashbacks to historical locations & times.

These are in order of my personal preference, best at the top.

I Feel You Linger in the Air

2023 Thailand

IFYLITA is an exquisite BL, from filming techniques to narrative framework (much like Until We Meet Again). It's about a gay man from our time who falls into the past, becomes a servant to a noble house, and falls in love with the heir. It turns out this has all happened several times before. Steeped in history and family drama it edges into lakorn (but not as much as To Sir With Love and with way less scenery chewing). This is an elegant and classy soulmates BL... from Thailand which normally doesn't even try for classy. The main couple (both as a pair and as individuals) were excellent, particularly Bright (Yai) whose eye-work acting style is a personal favorite of mine. Pity about the ending. Oh it wasn’t that sad but it wasn’t good either. This show could easily have earned a 10/10 from me except that it fumbled the… erm… balls in the final quarter. Argh. Whatever.

Nobleman Ryu's Wedding

2021 Korea - WeTV

A boy cross-dresses to take his runaway sister's place as a bride to a shy scholar, turns out they like being married. A historical setting allowed this BL to use some seriously old fashioned romance tropes (arranged marriage, evil step-sisters, Cinderfella) but also modern BL stylings like fake relationship & secret identity (drag) plus some cute gay panic. It reminded me of 12th Night more than anything else which just happens to be my favorite Shakespeare play. For all these reasons, I adored it.

(the ghat kiss!)

Tinted With You

2022 Korea - Viki

Fun stylish time travel meets portal fantasy with a likable cast, historical setting, and two actual kisses that mitigate the rough plot and issues around anachronisms.

Word of Honor

2021 China (censored) - Viki/YouTube?

I don’t rec Chinese stuff often, because I believe in censoring the censors, but this show is one of my favorites of the post 2016 censored bromances. It’s two murder-gay assassins (pining sunshine/tsundere), and they are so insanely gay for two boys who will never be allowed to kiss. Tropes include: wuxia, soulmates, paranormal, historical, and fantasy elements.

To Sir, With Love AKA Khun Chai

2022 Thailand - YouTube?

This is a true lakorn (basically Thai tellenovella or soap opera) with scenery chewing performances, especially from the mother characters. Gone With the Wind + Days of Our Lives but gay. That said? I loved it: A glorious central brother relationship (the best, made me cry), het romances, class divide + gay *gasp* main romance - oh my word, the campy drama of it all! Arranged marriage, rebellion, cut sleeves, over-the-top death with curses and regrets, beautiful if inaccurate costumes, secrets unraveling, cover ups, sparkle murder, sex herbs, coils within coils including snakes and murderous green metallic sequins (is anything gayer on this earth?). It’s a WILD ride but it does end happy for our gay boys. A man cries when he finds DEATH GLITTER. Come on! You haffa watch it. That said, like Manner of Death I struggle to rate something on a BL scale when it patently isn’t a BL. So I ended up giving this exactly what I gave that show, 7/10 I enjoyed it a whole lot, but not as a BL.

The Untamed (Special BL Edition)

2020 China (censored) - YouTube

Censored wuxia bromance, amorphous ending. Probubly the best known BL of its kind out of China and responsible for bring many fans to the BL side.

Our Skyy 2: Never Let Me Go

2023 Thailand - YouTube

I was nervous to watch this PondPhuwin vehicle but I liked it a lot! Doomed soulmates + paranormal time travel to fix the past. I’m happy for the outfits and the dancing (if not the singing). It’s not a bad premise and it’s nice to see GMMTV lean into its high production values for a change. I'd adore a full historical starring these two and this was definitely the best of the second series of Our Skyy. I don't think you have to have watched the original Never Let Me Go to enjoy this.

Legend of Long Yang: Rebirth

2017 China

Gaga

Whipping boy trope... literally, servant character takes the strap for the prince, who then makes him his bodyguard and lover when he becomes king. Low budget historical, comes off as kind of cosplay wuxia version of Irresistible Love, but we get (in the credits) an actual kiss, and they both live. So yay for small mercies.

The Director Who Buys Me Dinner

2023 Korea (historical flash backs)

iQIYI

A new employee at a film company encounters a director who claims to have lived 300 years and insists that they have to date (eat, hug & kiss) if baby doesn't want to die. It has a lot of Japanese elements, not the least of which are: an office setting, the fact that every character in this show is unhinged, and a killing of the gays. Featuring a gorgeous & stellar cast, TDWBMD should have utilized them less for melodrama and more for chemistry. This BL surprised me by going there with a lipstick mark AND an actually gay idol. But (you knew there was a but) while it's a unique twist on an office romance it is NOT a unique twist on the doomed red thread trope, resulting in it feeling less than the sum of its parts and ultimately unsatisfying. This might have also had to do with the fact that this was one of those KBLs where I felt how very short it was the whole time I was watching, like I was missing something constantly, in every episode. Worth watching for some but seriously flawed.

First Love Again

2022 Korea (historical flash backs) - Viki

A popular novelist who remembers his past lives meets his soulmate for the third time, only to find she has been reincarnated into the body of a man. This one started out a touch mean-spirited, but we eventually got a good kiss. The confession/rejection scene was justified and the reconciliation and ending was... fine. All in all, the pacing felt rushed and the romantic arc was underdeveloped. They go from like to love to boyfriends in a red hot minute. But that’s par for the course with Korea’s short form. If you don’t mind a heavy does of melodrama in your BL this one has a solid story with a strong concept that’s well acted and produced, making it a classic KBL with better than average chemistry but ultimately a touch forgettable.

Love in Spring AKA Spring of Crush

2022 Korea

This show was all over the place with uneven acting, narrative, and focus (sometimes it wanted to be a slapstick comedy, sometimes a depressing melodrama) which meant no one, actors or viewers, took anyone or anything seriously.... AND it’s a bromance. I was left wondering if SalHyung is now code for “they were roommates” in Kdrama historicals but otherwise largely apathetic and unimpressed. Korea, I now know you can do better. Do better.

Mermaid's Jade

2019 China (censored-esk) - Gaga

Kills the gay.

The Male Queen: Han Zi Gao

2016 China - Gaga

Kills the gay. Schrodinger's BL, both a BL and entirely not one at the same time.

Diary of Heong Yeong Dang

2014 Korea

Kills the Gay

I was gonna do a top 10 list, but there aren't enough by my metrics, so many end sadly.

This post at the behest of @verymuchof thank you for the idea!

Dated April 2023, includes only BLs that had finished their run by that date. Not responsible for cool costume flix that come after that. But you should check the comments to see if any have been added by others!

I might have missed a few that only have time historical elements since I don't always track those.

Also I would like to point out a decided lack of Japan on this list. My ninja yaoi consuming tiny past self is VERY upset about this void.

WHERE ARE MY GAY NINJAS??!!!

(source)

[negrowhat]

BL Things that Disappointed Me in 2024

I couldn't let this year end without telling y'all about the things that truly let me down this year. Things that brought down my viewing pleasure.

Dr. Plakao from Wandee Goodday. Specifically that he didn't really get some type of real storyline outside of helping Wandee with his troubles. I wanted to see more of his dating and romantic life. We finally got a taste of some Ace representation and we only got crumbs. I just wanted more of his romance with Blue. I did. I really did.

Third from Century of Love. WTF was he even there for? All he did was get attacked by San and then turned around and sheltered the man and helped him lie to his own friend. Did my boy even get a happy ending? I just felt like he was a waste of a good character.

RyuAtomZen from The Rebound. Because we all saw how the series was selling us on a poly situation between Ryu, Atom, and Zen. The chemistry between the three was great and it was clear that their "love triangle" wasn't even a triangle just 3 points in a circle. All the pieces were there. We saw Zen spend time with Ryu and Atom. We saw Atom spend time with Ryu and Zen. And we saw Ryu spend time with Atom and Zen. They practically all slept together throughout the series and Granny was ready to adopt Atom and Ryu. IT WAS RIGHT THERE and the poly relationship wouldn't have been the craziest thing to come from that series let's be fucking real. Let me move on because I'm ranting now lol.

ViMook from Love Sea. Oh they pissed me off and it was really because they dragged on whatever cat and mouse manipulation game ViMook had going on until the very end. There was plenty of time for them to do all that and move on to being actual girlfriends or at least dating before the series ended. Like I loved them together but their entire storyline was not the fucking vibe. Here's to hoping we get more of Chanya and Aya in 2025.

'Khun Dad' from SunsetxVibes. I'm not even going to get into how disappointed I was with the series overall (I don't have the time) but I will talk about how fucking YUCKY it was for Salin to CHOOSE to call Sun 'Khun Dad' throughout the series. This is the ONLY time I've ever been disgusted by a daddy kink because why in THE FUCK would you want to call your man 'Khun Dad'? It was without a doubt the WORST thing about that series. Gag-o-rama.

Tonkla from 4 Minutes. I was upset that he died. He was the only one whose death was not justifiable to me. There were worse people in that series who lived. He could've run away. He could've fled the country with Korn (or not). It was possible. I have strong feelings about Tongkla not surviving after everything he went through.

TattooAran and HopeSave from Jack and Joker. All I'm saying is that as long as those eps were we should've gotten more development with the 2 other side couples. HopeSave were an established couple and we didn't even get a kiss between them?? And why did they make TattooAran so fucking lowkey?? Why did we get played with MarkProm AGAIN??? A beautiful love story could've flowered between them because the material was all there and we got NOTHING. I'm pressed.

Not seeing Mick in the maid costume in Every You, Every Me. A maid costume was mentioned, even teased, so where the fuck was it? Why didn't I see Blue in the maid costume??? They could've given us a taste. Mick would look so amazing in a maid costume.

[yujeong]

Time was at a standstill. Vegas was holding his breath without noticing, and continued to hold it when he did - he was afraid of what would happen if he exhaled loudly enough to draw attention to himself. His gaze was shifting between Pete and the man who was standing before them in the doorway, blocking their entrance. Vegas had never seen him before, but even so, he recognized Pete in him enough to know who he was. A dangerous aura surrounded him. There was an edge to his presence that Vegas would only come across people of certain circles. He was a fighter. A muay khao. Pete's father. Shame coursed through Vegas' body, smearing his skin, settling in his lungs, rendering him speechless. I thought he was dead, he wanted to tell Pete if he could. He wanted to scream at him, I thought you killed him. Pete was the one who broke the stillness. As if awakened by something, he took a half-step back and made a motion with his arms, almost raising them to his chest, but not quite. In an instant, Pete reverted into the pet Vegas had been keeping at the safehouse, bound by handcuffs and afraid of his belt hitting flesh and drawing blood. A lump formed in Vegas' throat. "Have you stopped practicing? Your form is off." The uncanny similarities between Pete and his father appearance-wise didn't mean a thing when it came to their voices. Vegas shivered. Was this what Pete would sound like in a few decades? (Were these the condescending words he'd choose to spew? Was Pete going to embody his father? Was Vegas embodying his?) "What are you doing here?" Pete whispered. "They let me out for a few days, so I came here to collect some money. Imagine my surprise when I found out my offspring left the job someone found him worthy enough of doing to... do what exactly? Yaai didn't want to tell me." He crossed his arms, waiting for an answer. Vegas didn't know what he was allowed to say. If he was allowed to say anything at all. "It's none of your business." "I'd say it very much is my business, as well as yaai's business who was dependent on the money you were making being some rich asshole's human shield." A choked sound scratched Vegas' throat. He didn't like getting reminded of Pete being the main family's bodyguard, even though he stopped being one mere months ago. Especially like this. That was the first time Pete's father stopped looking at his son and turned his head to look at Vegas. For a moment, there seemed to be recognition in his eyes. Did he know who Vegas was? Did he care? A snort came out of his mouth. He leaned on the door. "Oh, I see how it is." He laughed, scratched his neck. "I never expected you to whore yourself out for money. Tell me, is it preferable to the path I carved out for you?" Vegas could sense the disgust in his voice. He could also see it on Pete's face. He was too astonished to share it, but not enough to be unable to speak. "Khun, there has been some misunderstanding-" "Don't bother. I can recognize a faggot when I see one." Pete's movements were too fast for Vegas to stop him. A direct jab to the nose; his father fell like a pack of cards, groaning like a wounded animal. Surprisingly, no blood - Pete held back. Vegas didn't know what to think about that. "That was a pathetic attack, even for you." "Get up." "We're not in the ring, son." Pete growled. Vegas could see his hands trembling as he was keeping them in the air, maintaining an offensive stance. "That never stopped you before." "You were too young to understand what I was doing back then. What I was preparing you for." Pete was silent. "The world isn't kind. It'll fuck you over one way or another." He got up, spat on the ground. "You still haven't learned a thing. You're too old to afford being naive." He turned around, and without sparing a look at Pete again, said: "Now get the fuck out of my house." (For @musictooth, whose posts about Pete's father have reignited my passion for this specific concept and for @wretchedamaranth, whose comments on my writing are always lovely and precious ❤️)

[ae-azile]

About 15k into Chapter 29 of Progression, so I figured I would share another scene as an apology for my tardiness. Definitely going to be a long chapter, unless I split it. Trying not to do that though.

The Updated and Still Complicated Family Group Chat

Khun: Arm and I are embarking for our trip tomorrow night! You know what that means!!!!!! 🪨🍃😈🥬🟫

Nalin: Weed brownie night?!?

Arm: Please tell me you didn't add my younger sisters to this group chat.

Khun: Well, I didn't add Preeda! She went to rehab! 😱 Mustn’t tempt her. But of course I added Nalin! If Macau and Chay can be in the group chat, then she can be too!

Nalin: Don't be sexist, Hia. 🙂

Vegas: Someone needs to watch my baby.

Pete: Why is she only your baby when you talk about her?

Vegas: Because she's mine.

Malai: Someone needs to watch my babies too. I want to join.

Hansa: I don't mind watching the girls.

Vegas: Is my baby included with these girls?

Hansa: Sure. 🙂

Vegas: I want six references, your resume, and a background check.

Hansa: By tonight?

Macau: Hia, she owns a flower arrangement and gardening shop. Chill.

Vegas: I am chill. And reasonable.

Pol: I can sit out and help with the girls too. 🙂

Vegas: You can also give me six references, a resume, and a background check. 🙂

Pete: It's literally Pol.

Vegas: I don't know him like you do.

Pete: Consider me his and Hansa’s first reference.

Khun: Consider me their second! 2️⃣🥈🕑

Porsche: I'm their fourth!

Chay: Hia, you skipped a number.

Porsche: He wouldn't have even noticed if you hadn't pointed it out, brat. 🙄

Chay: Sorry. I guess I will fill in the third spot, then.

Kim: I’ll fill the fifth.

Chay: Hia, switch spots with Kim so we can be next to each other.

Porsche: No. I went out of order and called fourth for a reason. It's mine. 😏

Macau: I’ll take the sixth spot so Chay can't grab it!

Porsche: Good thinking, Macau!

Kim: ?

Chay: 😤 🖕🏽

Vegas: Macau, just because you are close with Nalin doesn't mean you know her sister well enough to be her reference.

Arm: Define “close”.

0272781005: I’ll call second!

Kinn: Whose number is this?

Khun: I demand that you reveal yourself!!! Arm! Do a search and find out who this intruder is. 😡

Arm: It's a number provided from a text app.

Arm: The text came from the property.

Khun: PA?!?!?!?

0272781005: Nam. 🙂

Porsche: MA?!?!?!?

Chay: MA?!?!?!?

Khun: Everyone stop! It might be Pa playing a trick to test us! Play it cool!

Khun: Oh, silly Pa! You know Namphueng can't talk! She sits there and says and does nothing! Such a bore! 🥱

0272781005: If Korn enters chat, I will stab. 😌

Pol: 😳 That sounded like her.

0272781005: Hi, son!

Porsche: Ma?

Chay: Ma?

0272781005: I am adopting Pol soon. When I have answers. He's my future son. He already knows. I told him. Accept, thanks.

Porsche: Wow.

0272781005: He has no family! Sad for him! Sucky life. 😢

Pol: Wow.

Chay: Kim and I just got back from walking Koda and checked on Ma. Who gave her an ipad?

Arm: Not me.

Kinn: Not me.

Porsche: Not me.

Vegas: Not me.

Kim: Not me.

Chay: Kim, you told me you didn't in person. You didn't have to text it.

Kim: I just wanted to make sure Porsche knew.

Porsche: Aw, Kim. I feel so close to you recently. ❤️

Kinn: 🤨

Chay: 🤨

Pol: Not me!

Hansa: Not me.

Pete: Not me.

Malai: Not me, but Korn has infringed on her rights and she deserves communication with the outside world, despite the power he still holds over everyone.

0272781005: Friend. 🙂

Hansa: Malai, his sons are in this group.

Kim: We agree with her, it's fine.

Khun: I also agree that Namphueng should have all of the technology she wants! 😤

Khun: But I didn't give it to her either.

Arm: I am also in agreement that she should have a way to reach us, but also didn't give her the iPad.

Kinn: You sure? You have the most access to extra technology in the compound.

Khun: IF YOU ARE ACCUSING MY BOYFRIEND OF ANYTHING, I WILL RUIN YOU!!!!

Nalin: Fine. Preeda and I got it for her. She's our lesbian ma. 🥺

0272781005: Daughter!

Porsche: Ma, please. Nalin, while that was a nice gift, Chay and I should have been informed prior to her getting something like that. We have to be very careful around Korn.

Nalin: She promised to be careful with it! We downloaded some digital art apps! If Korn does happen to see her use it, Preeda plans on telling him that she downloaded the apps she uses for art so Nam can try new mediums!

Macau: They were being thoughtful. And they're right. Nam deserves to have a way to reach out to any of us, anytime she needs.

Nalin: 🥹 🩵

Macau: 🩵

Arm: 🤨

Chay: I think they're right, Hia. She deserves a way to reach out to us. She's gotten a lot better and she would be able to talk to Fern, Vegas, Pete, and Macau whenever she isn't at their house. It's time.

0272781005: I already made an email so I can make a YouTube account to subscribe to other lesbians. 🙂

Malai: As you should.

Porsche: Fine, Ma. You can keep the iPad. Just keep it hidden. And be RESPONSIBLE with it.

0272781005: I MADE AN EMAIL.

0272781005: BY MYSELF.

0272781005: 🖕🏻

Porsche: You found the middle finger emoji. Great.

0272781005:🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

0272781005: Glad it's settled. I will bring ipad to weed night. So I can watch YouTube while I'm high.

Porsche: Ma, I don't know if that's a good idea.

0272781005: That's because it's not just good. It's great. Bye. I will get ready now. Meet you in ArmKhun suite.

0272781005: 💃🏻

Khun: How did she add herself to the chat?

Nalin: Preeda probably snuck into your phone and added her. She is the one who programmed everyone’s numbers into the text app.

Hansa: Sounds like Preeda.

Preeda: Sure does. 🙂

Khun: PREEDA! I REMOVED YOU SO WE COULD TALK ABOUT WEED WITHOUT TEMPTING YOU!

Preeda: I never stopped weed.

Malai: Which we don't condone.

Arm: ⬆️ What she said.

Preeda: You hypocrites are literally all gathering at Vegas’s to get high tonight. 🖕🏻

Preeda: I'm joining.

Khun: But you're so young…

Preeda: If I am not invited, then I will go hang out with Korn. Willingly. All night. Just for fun.

Khun: Ew!

Preeda: Your choice. 🤷‍♀️ Bye. 💃

Vegas: Just invite her.

Macau: Yeah, I would prefer her giggling because of a weed brownie than having a self-inflicted all-nighter with Uncle Korn. 😳

[dribs-and-drabbles]

Dead Friend Forever ep 7

I LOVED this ep. Loved it.

This is so delicious. I'm trying to think how I would have reacted if I hadn't already known that Phee knew Non. Would I have remembered this fact when Phee was revealed at the end of ep 6? But WHY did Phee lie to the group?! This is so delicious. The mystery.

THEY'RE SO ADORABLE TOGETHER!

At the end of ep 6 I questioned whether Non's red bracelet was for Phee but now that I'm watching this beginning I'm reminded that in ep 2 I theorised that Phee was orange and...here Phee's in blue and Non's sat on the orange chair when they meet (with 'today will be a good day' on Non's shirt)???! Then Phee is in a rich orange and Non in deep blue in the next shot?!? I was so right!

(Oh that's Zo's parents house in Hidden Agenda!)

Oh they have matching bracelets!

(It hurts that they're so happy though)

Phee's dad is a policeman, yes? Yeah, yes yes yes. 👏🏽

Oh my god, Non's fucking t-shirts 🙈 'Moment' when they became boyfriends and now 'Positive Thinking' when Phee asks Non to move schools and Non needs time to consider it.

Wow, Non really does have three people after him - Phee, Jin, and I'm assuming the tutor. Boy's got the milkshake.

Oooo lies between Non and Phee. Non's not telling Phee about the money he owes, right? And he'll get it from the tutor by sleeping with him, and Phee will breakup with Non...

Oh those fateful words - 'I will never lie to you' - oh baby boy the demise of your relationship starts here.

Really?! A low battery and 'help me...' on his t-shirt when Non arrives tired at the house?!

I hate them. IhatethemIhatethemIhatethem. (Por/Tee/Top et al)

We still haven't found out what Non's medication is for, right? Is it for his heart maybe? (coming back to this at the end of the ep...maybe it's for his mind, some kind of mood stabilisers or antipsychotics or something...).

Non doesn't like being touched. I wonder if that's just Jin or by anyone (other than Phee I guess).

And now Non's shirt says 'create' as he's trying to be involved in the filming.

Oh no...no. NON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! Is he willingly kissing the tutor or is this an exchange for the money? Has something been lost in translation? Oh no no no. Did Non just cheat on Phee? Willingly?

Oh, Non is a player! How juicy! 🤓

Oh the tutor is Khun Keng! I need to go back to my notes from a past ep for where he was mentioned before. (-> Ah yes, he was the potential hallucination that Jin saw in the temple who Phee apparently didn't see in ep 4...incheresting!)

Oh Non. NonNonNon... I love you. You're so deliciously flawed. How can you lie to Phee like this? But also, it's delicious characterisation. Because now it's even more difficult to know whose 'side' Phee is on in the future. Is he getting revenge for Non or is he a victim of whoever the murderer is as well? DELICIOUS!

Ahhhh and that's Jin's 'rejection'. I bet he's going to be the one to reveal to Phee about Non and Khun Keng.

Oh, or it might be Top and Tee.

Whhhhat is Tee up to? 😒

Actually, how are all these people friends in the future?!? They're all horrible to each other as well.

And then there's this guy, Khun Keng, who in one breath says he wants to stop the scammers and 'save' the students...but then in the next will take advantage of a student to shut him up. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Brilliant.

Please. I hope they lock the door though.

Oh no. No! Noooooo!!

Yep. And Jin is the one to reveal it. Yep. Yep yep.

That's some serious doxxing. And Jin! Jin who was the least worst out of the group has now done the worst thing to Non (who, tbh, kinda brought it on himself but also is a victim of a TEACHER. IT'S SO MORALLY GREY I LOVE IT). (EDIT: running back here after re-watching the scene [due to comments in the notes] and there are two laptop screens! - one light [Jin's] and one dark [owner unknown]. So Jin may not have been the person to post it...but he must have shared the video for someone else to do it. TASTY)

FUCK'S SAKE NON. 'ALWAYS BE YOURSELF' WHEN YOU GET CAUGHT CHEATING. WITH. A. TEACHER?! 😂 *HOWLING*

Ahhhhhh it got GOOOOOOOOOD. I love how morally grey everyone is. And how it's even more unclear who the 'murderer' might be in the future....because Khun Keng is also in the running now since he got doxxed by Jin. IT'S BRILLIANT. 😁

Por and Tee: we're gonna fuck with Non so bad 😈😏👺

Non: don't worry boys, I'ma fuck things up all by myself 😜😭🤦🏽‍♀️

[stormyoceans]

what do u think is the purpose of porjai's character and specifically making her mork's ex

oh, this is such an interesting question!!!!

so i've been thinking about this all day, and i personally think phorjai’s character is gonna serve a few different functions in the story, which are:

1. provide insight into mork himself and his past. unlike day who is surrounded by people who have known him way before meeting mork (his mom, night, august, jee [film’s character], and even on [khun’s character]), phorjai is the only person linked to the mork who didn’t have day in his life. on a storytelling point of view, this is extremely useful because while communication is obviously essential in every kind of relationship, not always you can have a character be willing to reveal personal information about themselves to another. for example, in the trailer we see on being the one to tell mork what happened to day, because at that specific stage of their relationship mork will need to be able to understand day better, but day himself won’t be ready to open up to mork about it yet. hence the need of a third external character who can give at least some partial insight into the matter. when it comes to mork, phorjai is the only one able to do that.

2. play as day’s foil. in literature, a foil is a character whose purpose is to accentuate or draw attention to certain traits (both positive and negative) of another character, most often the protagonist. a foil offers insight into another character’s personality by opposition, and their different values and motivations often lead them to make different choices, highlighting a sort of “alternate” story for the viewers. not sure if i can explain myself, but it’s like.. in the trailer we have phorjai saying “speaking as your ex, im envious of day’s ability to make you smile.” this line alone speaks VOLUMES about mork’s relationship with phorjai vs mork’s relationship with day. it already tells us that mork is probably happier around day than he ever was while being with her, that day brings out the best of him and pushes him to grow, that their outcome is gonna be different (i.e. they won’t break up). maybe it’s not really nice to say, but phorjai is gonna show the viewers exactly why day is the right person for mork.

3. show that sometimes relationships end and it’s nobody’s fault. maybe im a bit naïve, but i’d like to think that phorjai isn’t in this story just to serve the male characters’ plotline. idk if she’s still hung up on mork, or if she just carries the heartbreak of their failed relationship, but i feel like their story is something that left a wound in her heart that hasn’t quite healed yet. i think her own personal journey is gonna be realizing that she doesn’t have to blame herself for how it ended, that sometimes you love someone and they're still very important to you, but you simply weren’t right for each other in that particular way and that’s okay. a failed relationship doesn't define your love life, you can move on and find real happiness with someone who fits you better (whether that's gonna be night or jee, we'll see).

[thisisevenharderthannamingablog]

Liveblogging notes for ep 2.

I see this is the "introduce supporting characters" episode. How fucking big is this place?! Everything is impractically high-tech. This is a weird, hyper-controlling harem environment they've got going -- and judging by what we heard in ep 1, that approach is not working. Porsche is having refreshingly normal reactions to all of this, so we are supposed to register the off-the-charts weirdness level.

Enter Chan, who presumably is paid enough to put up with all of this. "We don't like chaos" oh no do I have some bad news for you.

And this is Pete giving us the family tree. Aww, he's cute.

So wait a second. Between the actual guards and their support staff that's thirty people at least. Khun doesn't leave the house. Kim doesn't live there. Korn is ill, spends his time playing chess and doing crafts and presumably doesn't go out much. Kinn can't possibly get in that much trouble? There's having money to burn and there's literally burning it.

Porsche has decided to get fired and/or shot his first day at this job? Kind of enjoying how they are both "Thanks, I hate it" about this situation.

Kinn stressing that this particular hire was his dad's boneheaded decision. So these are Kinn's friends/peers from another family? (Is anyone at all in this show not gay?) With whom he gets along, unlike his cousins.

Obnoxious as Porsche been through this whole segment, I can't help but note that Kinn's eyes are glued to his ass in this shot, A+ acting choice there.

After trying non-stop all day, Porsche has successfully pushed a button. Yay! Everyone in the room is like "bro wtf was that????" which is honestly very normal of them.

I had no idea all of this stuff goes down in such a short time We aren't even 20 minutes into the episode?! Porsche is a menace.

There are STUDY SESSIONS. To be in the MAFIA. I am dying. Whose job is it to make the videos? Everybody around Porsche is taking all of this dead serious and he is wondering if he is being pranked.

Oh right, Porsche is a hand-to-hand guy. First gun. At least hanging out with a bunch of hyper-competitive jocks should feel more like his comfort zone?

Pete you legit sound brainwashed.

Enter Tankhun. This episode gets more and more unhinged. Porsche is busted again.

It appears Kinn has switched to coffee in this episode. Good idea. Has also found some chill from somewhere. Maybe because it looks like Porsche won't be in his hair for very long?

More intel, the first information that is at all sympathetic toward the family members: Khun has trauma from being kidnapped as a child, and Kinn is under just a teensy bit of pressure.

A "dress him up" bit, fun. Eye contact! Oh shit he's attractive.

The first half of the episode is fish out of water stuff, explains to the audience how the setting works and what we are intended to think about it (it's WEIRD). There's a tone shift leading into the party scene, though, which Porsche doesn't register but the audience does; Pete and Arm are genuinely trying to be helpful, and he is still being Like This. Supposed to show how much denial he's in about what he's gotten himself into? "Isekai'd character decides to pretend this is all a bad dream" is a common enough trope.

Assassin attack that is not what it seems? A test of defenses? Hmmm. Yes Kinn, he clearly is trying to get on your nerves and has managed to do so twice now.

More family to introduce. As annoying as Porsche has been, Kinn makes sure he doesn't get himself murdered. Damn these episodes are packed. How did they fit that many shifty looks around one table.

And here's Pete with more hinted backstory. And Porsche trying to be... conciliatory? Kinn being patient? Porsche makes terrible coffee? Bodyguard swap with Khun.

Drama between the older generation, I see. Interesting costume choices, the minor family being as a group less restrained and more colorful.

[feuqueerfire]

Midnight Museum Live Blogging

Last week of classes, have a billion things due, am also deep in the GeminiFourth trenches, but why not start this since it just finished

GMMTV YT

Ep 1 (Apr 5)

1-1

is that Aou? I can differentiate between Aou and Boom's faces but I can never remember whose name is which

pls not the moaning heard through the walls that turns to ? whispering and speaking

first the MM card had an animated map at the back and now someone with a glove picks it up?

1-2

oof rip not the answer he wanted to hear whether Dome remembered him. I saw a tiktok edit that was like what if it's like the Howl's Moving Castle thing, which I also haven't watched but know has to do with time travel

"Khun Dome" "You can drop the Khun" "Yes, Khun Dome"

Namtan :>

I wonder if Dome hears these noises at certain times/proemity to certain things like monsters

oh is this Zone 16?

wtf is that red eyed thing possessing Dome?

(Linguistics) Khathai refers to Dome as Nai - reminds me of Nobitinn using that for 2nd person pronoun with Gun as that in the beginning (My School President)

okay it's a bit scary, hopefully I won't get nightmares but it's certainly more supernaturally scary than the thrillers/horrors I've been watching recently, so maybe I'll be afraid rip

1-3

ooh ghosty little typewriter writing a story

pfft please the way the bride in the red dress ran away with Khatha T.T

oh, Lee

1-4

oh, the bride is Namtan's character?

Lee's character was also trapped in being the writer and reveling in the bride's pain? and he just faded away when the typewriter was stopped?

oooh June didn't know either that she was the bride, she just liked the dress and story. so I guess it's not just haunted items that find their way to the museum but without knowing, haunted people do too

also all this commotion seems to be unusual for the museum; Dome's doing?

I thought Khatha was gonna be more capable than he is thus far ngl he keeps getting captured or knocked out lol

That was pretty fun, even if the storytelling is erratic and chaotic so far. Also, very fun that the cameos are credited in the end (Lee and Aou for this ep) as well as Episode Title: The Bride In The Red Wedding Dress

Also, it's my first time watching something with Tor and Khatha looked really good with that gum... Also, I'm guessing he's centuries years old?

Ep 2 (Apr 5)

2-1

the blade cursed with animal sacrifice - Mike's the one who grabbed it right?

lmfao them carrying the corpse skeleton in a bridal carry

Winny wasn't there with them until now right?

ooh non-Petch twin beat up the snake and its blood soaked the dagger

lol I saw the unhinging-jaw monster twins on a tiktok

2-2

ew I do not want Foei and Piploy

Winny with a knife to the skull

snake monsters and frog monsters

2-3

What does Jib mean that Dome is different... was he not a good person before? Can't he remember?

2-4

lol Khatha and Dome moments just... gay

It (Winny) just taking a chunk out of one of the twins

sudden black eyes and commanding monsters from Dome

the healing properties of being in the museum for Khatha

oh there's some after-credits scene with the gathering of corpses and artifacts

Cameos: Mike, Winny, AJ, JJ

Title: The Poisonous-Animal Dagger

Ep 3 (Apr 5)

3-1

Khatha has lived for so long and has also come back from death

not these stalker photos

oh, so Khatha really did die for Dome right then? and came back again?

ah, so Khaha thinks we're dealing with reincarnation

oh the artifacts are gone?

lol this moth

oh, the moth infects Bright's character

Khatha has an immortality curse

Moths of memory kinda cool - so if it bites you, you get previous host's memories and if you eat it, you get previous host's memories

I kinda wish I hadn't seen those tiktoks of Midnight Museum cuz it was just all Bright being a stalker and breaking-and-entering lol - wonder what it would've been like if I hadn't known

lol unblurred knife - almost was like oh? but that's in fact Korean censoring

oof she still keeps polaroids

I was kinda hoping he'd already stab Zen

oh she does see him

3-2

oh moth blood gives him memories of their relationship

lol oh yeah I saw this clip of him looking so around (I thought he was jerking off) but so fun, I hadn't realized it came from moth blood

yaas wasn't expecting police criticism here "can't do anything because nothing serious has happened" "does someone have to die first for you people to do your job?"

oh crying Khatha

nooo don't go to his house D:

3-3

D: bro this is a nightmare, her ex is a creep stalker freak and her current bf is scary too

fuck Rin literally had her ex break into her house and be a freak -> get no help from the cops -> was raped by her bf -> is killed by aforementioned freak ex who then gets her memories by eating the moth

oh he bashed Zen's head in with the door

3-4

don't make me watch them be cute he killed her bro

oh his name is Moth?!

nooo resurrected monster Rin? poor girl :(((

oh I hope she kills him, gets her revenge

Zen's death wasn't painful or gruesome enough actually

why was her death so much brutal than his?

why is this Rin's ending idek what to make of it like yeah ig the moths made Moth that way but he still did in fact kill her, so even if he was a good guy before that (...questionable), Rin doesn't deserve to have to spend her afterlife with him

oh gross Bam gonna have to eat the moth

ohhh interesting, Dome has no memory - so maybe he really was a different person before the way Jib said

a missing corpse - oh Jib is fucking still going, the fucker

AouBoom photo? Boom cameo next ep?

oh lmfao Jib has vaporized and this magic ball has reached someone else

Credits: Bright, Pat, Joss

Title: Moths of Memory

I liked this ep when it focused on Moth being a creep and unstable because I think I just like the genre more than the speedy, shallow fantasy they're doing right now. However, I'm so tired of women just being brutalized by their bfs and ex-bfs in shows where that's not a main focus.

The writing is pretty shallow for Dome and Khatha like we're gonna learn more about their history and such but we still barely spend any time on them and I can't even complain because I do like the side stories more but that's a problem, why should the audience care about random small stories more than the main characters? Also, blagh CGI and visuals

Ep 4 (Apr 5)

4-1

AouBoom phone call 3 months before start of the show

oh, Boom's character was fucked from before

wait... Dome??? Boom is Dome? Dome is Boom's character?

Dome really just woke up as someone else?? and Khatha ran into him that day

oh so the people who live there also know that the old Dome was replaced by this new Dome - but what about Jib? How did he not realize?

Khatha and Dome have such gay vibes

who is the kid with the sphere artifact?

oh I saw Pawin in that preview for 1 second

4-2

the hazing here is so interesting, it really is going hard on the kids but also like appealing to girls

damn, did Auto really kill his friend

4-3

I was expecting Khatha to sneak in to get the artifact, not Dome

but I guess Dome is sort of alien or something or a messenger from a god since some galaxy thing was speaking to him

bruh ofc the artifact was picked up by a gloved hand and rolled to Atom and the people Atom killed are also waking up

4-4

the rock resurrected Jay

oh, Atom came to the museum to speak to them? Edit: on reddit on-air, they said he actually said "person inside the building" and they were saying Atom and Jay were actually part of a cult and we're assuming it's this cult

damn, this rock being passed around like a hot potato

Dome locking himself up since the rock is still in him

oh, we see how Khatha and Dome knew each other back in 1182 (Thai year, so probably a fewhundred years earlier in Gregorian)

Cameros: Indy, Java, Pawin, Boom. fun that we got to see 2 rookies, I don't know if I've seen them in other shows or not - okay according to MDL, this is Indy's first show and I'm not watching ABAAB where Indy has a role

Title: The Terrestrial Rock

Ep 5 (Apr 6)

5-1

Fah, hello :) Tu, hello :)

oh dang, Ing's husband's ex-wife is still haunting the apartment

Is Nisa gonna backstab Ing?

okayyy interesting side story

5-2

the piano teacher lady is Nisa right? maybe disguised? she's a menace fr lol

oh that jumpscare with the blanket got me

the husband is so useless and stupid lmfao

why is Nisa giving the magic salt to Ing and getting the family to be closer hmmm will she ruin it all soon? give her poison instead of magic salt? oh something with the neighbours instead?

5-3

lol did he mean to challenge the high priestess or whoever?

lol this auction... Idk how auctions work but these prices and the jumps seem so ??

I feel like Khatha is so bad at this like he kept getting his ass handed to him in fights even though I'd assume he'd be better and now he keeps fumbling repeatedly at the auction like ?? why did you buy that painting for 300M USD dumbass and not listen to Triphob at all

Dome looks like Katha's nong shai?

damn bruh why does priestess want the destruction and darkness

5-4

she's eating raw fish just like that?

oof so Nisa and the piano teacher are related to each other but not the same but are working together

surprise cannibalism

yes kill the father stab stab stab and then fuck each other up

ooh the evil ones are having fun with their protege

wtf where are they flying away? oh... the priestess? she's fucked in the head oh interesting okay so we're getting bit by bit more of the cult they that was mentioned in the end of the last ep

Khatha kneeling in front of Dome and putting the anklet on him - I don't think they're actual brothers but Triphob did say nong shai

ooh Nanon cameo next ep lmfao pls why are all these GMMTV male lead darlings playing such perverts

Cameos: Fah, Tu, Mook (oh, that's the piano teacher), Dao, Aon

Title: Salt

Dome being so meek sometimes is so boring like White was also new to things and not great at pretending to be Black but he was never so bland

Ep 6 (Apr 6)

6-1

Why are we learning about Christian creationism theology rn oof I should've suspected it after people said something about Christianity on the ep 10 on=air thread

oh i see Nanon's character is gonna be weird with the mannequins out of loneliness due to ableism

oh cult recruitment

oh, Antika thinks Dome is God and there's a guy in a cell?? or something who has met God?

oof, Nanon's character's monoloque is

oh, View

6-2

damn not us getting romance between Ton and Anne

bro Khatha and Dome aren't in love? fr?

oof Dome really not telling Khatha about Antika

6-3

Ton's gonna do something to the prostitute? D: omg Anne and Ton gonna take her leg or something?

Ton's lines about not allowing even God to do anything to Anne go so hard though

oh are they gonna try to get June's leg too omg

What's up with Ton's like game-like illusion on his face? What mystical being is he?

6-4

oh, is Ton talking to God when he says "even though I have to hurt your man" about Dome

oh, Ton's an artifact brought to life

oof, Ton became a mannequin again

Cameos: Nanon, View

Title: The Mannequin

Ep 7 (Apr 7)

7-1

oh a different non-Dome character who looks like Gun because "The Creator" likes the mold?

oh, his name's One

oh old Khatha met Dome-like person who was a witch?

7-2

old-Dome was named Chan?

Tay Tawan

I'm so bored, can they hurry up

would they actually kill of both Bam and Triphob in the span of 2 minutes, I doubt it

agh time travel back to the past why is this annoying

7-3

oh? Chan in that grey hoodie like the people in Antika's building - I wonder if that guy who said he'd met God was a follower of this Magician and was indeed talking about Chan

why do they keep stressing phi-nong so bad I'm rolling my eyes

so that's why Khatha has the staff, it's like the branch he used to use

7-4

old Khatha was the dumbest bitch alive and he's not gotten much smarter in the centuries since tbh

oh, this is the flames that Khatha saw in ep 2 or something in his visions

I can hardly feel a thing despite the tragedy and tears because it's due to such braindead stupid actions

Chan had cursed Khatha to immortality

as expected, Bam and Triphob aren't dead

oh, Nanon again? but he's not the mannequin anymore, he's The One?

no after-credits this time

Cameos: Tay Tawan, Guy (lmfao I didn't even recognize him)

Title: The Witch's Game

Ep 8 (Apr 7)

8-1

is that Tay's voice as God?

Eternity cult

December 20, 2012

I don't know these guys, though one of them looks kinda like Sky In Your Heart Mark

oh yeah 2012 end of the world

April 4 2023 calling Dec 21 2012 same guy. but current time in MM is March 2023

8-2

ah he's doing everything to bring this guy back and just witnessing him dying over and over again

yknow what is that gum that Khatha always eats

8-3

has Triphob been body-snatched orsomething

ah parallel universes

8-4

3 universes

bruh's in a mirror now? agh also why does he keep just bashing at the glass, can't he see June look back at him?

as expected, Triphob has been fucked with and he took away Dome's body

Cameos: Junior, Mark - oh yeah so it is Mark and also I think MarkJunior are a side ship in Cherry Magic or whatever

Title: The Payphone

Ep 9 (Apr 7)

9-1

oof missing teens

oh Tu's character isn't as brainwashed

lol Triphob telling Bam to give dating a shot to prove that he's the real Phob

oh so this is the devil and not god?

Bam's not dead lol too little fanfare

oof is miss girl Tu actually dead or will she be resurrected - lol as expected

9-3

oh Antika is Tay's granddaughter

9-4

oh all the children went to the moon? lol

no like what is the demon thing that materializes up every time she plays the piano?

oh, they're trying to bring back Chan but Dome isn't quite Chan

oh no way... Chan's body is actually that dark corpse thing

after-credits Dome's body wakes up

Title: The Hymns from Church

Ep 10 (Apr 7)

10-1

oh is the gum to not smoke?

so did destroying the corpse bring Chan back to life fr?

The One Nanon

10-2

why is there a moon-saving plot

it's just so weird how there's suchhh a romantic undercurrent to Katha and Dome's relationship like it doesn't feel sibling-like or platonic at all but with certain words they keep emphasizing phi-nong like what

whose voice is in the galaxy star thing? sounds like Tay somewhat but idk

oh Dome has taken over Nanon's The One body

10-3

feels like an easy fight to defeat Chan in the end

bro this death scene is so fucking gay

10-4

oh yeah I do feel the "they say we have choices but we actually have no choices" hard

girl 1943?

i don't get what Nanon The One's whole thing was but tbh he's fun so whatever ig

Bam forgot everything?

how tf did Tum go to a diff universe with 3 moons like 2 decades ago okay hold on let me not think about it

Boon Tay Tawan still alive and they're setting up a 2nd season but will it even happen/would I watch it

Title: The Magician's Embodiment

Overall:

I liked the first half with the artifacts and side stories more than the second half where they tried to do too much for a short runtime, not too much budget, and mediocre writing skills. I couldn't make myself care about Khatha or Dome and also it was funny how they kept emphasizing phi-nong with words but so romantic in action. I wish the fantasy and magic and parallel universes and time travel and cult and God and whatever else made more sense together.

Rating: 5.5/10

[shiroandblack]

Thank you so much @amethysttribble for the tag <3. So 10 favourite characters from 10 different media. I don't think I can give 10 different media, but I'll try.

Fëanor: he's one of my favourite characters. Even though he makes eyebrow raising decisions, I can understand why he makes them. He's just a very complicated person, someone whose both hurt and yet prideful. (Tolkien)

Fingolfin: bro is ambitious and not shy about it. His relationships with a lot of people are fascinating, we never really get how he feels about these things. He seems to genuinely want love but also holds a degree of resentment. (Tolkien)

Alicent Hightower: the show offered a more sympathetic perspective to her story, but I also wished they kept her agency from the books. In Fire & Blood, she is the ringleader of the Green Council and she's the one really pushing Aegon for the throne. That said, I love repressed catholic lesbian Alicent. (asoiaf/hotd)

Daemon Targaryen: I'm with grrm on this one. He's complicated, he never really does things solely for good or bad, selfish or selfless. His motives are a mix of both. Also, the way he goes down? Awesome. (asoiaf/hotd)

Zahard: I make fun of him a lot, calling him a jealous baby-killing incel, but he's so much more than that. Zahard is someone who started out as a bold, idealistic adventurer, but what is interesting about him is that he is very complacent to the idea of fate. From his young character, he strikes me as a "make your own fate" kind of person but he changes and it's implied an event happened. And we don't know what is it yet. (Tower of God)

Khun Aguero Agnis: bless this boy. He has ambitions, but no motivation (at least at first). His mentality of hiding his precious jewels (his loved ones) even though he might never see them again, is just fascinating. Also, his relationship with Maria. He has no regrets about helping her over his own full-blooded sister, but I think he regrets his sister's suicide because of it (Kiseia being his sworn enemy). Also his sheer fear and discomfort towards his father, despite having ambitions to overthrow him? Fascinating. (Tower of God)

Tsunade: Strong lady who can kickass. Naturally, I have issues with how women are written in Naruto but I like Tsunade. She ran away because of grief and being disenchanted with the Shinobi profession (absolutely valid), yes it was cowardly but it was also very human of her. (Naruto)

Jiang Cheng: he's a hot mess. His love and jealousy towards Wei Wuxian, exacerbated by his father's favouritism towards Wei Wuxian and his mother's unending dissatisfaction with him. There was genuine, brotherly love between him and Wei Wuxian but it was just not enough. (Mdzs)

Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, girlie's fun. But girlie also thinks she's smarter than she actually is and Jane Austen wasn't afraid to show that. Also her telling Jane "I fell in love with him after I saw his big ass house" and we don't know if she's joking or not. Anyways, I stan. (Pride and Prejudice)

Hotaru Imai: primary-Middle school girl will eat your food even if you're starving, but god forbid if anybody touches you. Touch her loved one and you're dead. She likes to invent, but she mostly uses her smarts to invent something that makes her daily life easier because she's lazy. What an icon. (Gakuen Alice)

So there's that! These are my 10 favourite characters! For this, I'm tagging @rhapsodyinviridescentgold @yellow-faerie @outofangband. I hope you guys don't mind, feel free to ignore as well <3

List ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media, and tag ten people!  

Thank you so much @himemiyaaah for the tag, I’m sorry I took forever to do this! We’re organizing these by piece of media

Celegorm: by god, if you look at his character for a little bit, there is so much going on with him! He’s friends with Orome, he has a magic angel dog, he’s super close with Curufin despite the age difference, he’s friendly with his cousins and he gets Finrod killed, he’s an elegant speaker, his followers commit the most abhorrent crime of the kinslayings, he’s assaults Luthien, he’s close with Aredhel, he’s a renowned hunter and failure as a military general. There’s so many layers and contradictions and I love him. (Silm)

Elwing: She is my baby girl, and once I write my ‘conversations between Elwing and Maglor’s Wife’ fic, it’s over for you bitches. She’s just… so resolute, and so sad, and so angry, and she turns into a BIRD and I don’t know what more you want from me. (Silm)

Curufin: Every time I write Curufin I black out and then pages upon pages of the most miserable words on the planet are recorded on screen, and I don’t know what that says about me (Silm)

 Percy de Rolo: this tragic white-haired anime boy with a gun has entranced me, mind body and soul. He really misses his family, you guys T_T (Critical Role, C1)

 Veth Brenatto: This woman is one of the most fascinating characters at the Critical Role table, and that she gets reduced to “Caleb’s mom” so often is fucking criminal, I LOVE her and want her to be happy and blow shit up (Critical Role, C2)

Hubert von Vestra: listen… I’m a sucker for the loyal (male) retainer to the driven at all costs, morally questionable (female) leader. And also they were platonic soulmates. Hubert is a spooky vampire who lives on devotion, and I fucking love him. (fe3h)

Catherine Morland: I recently remembered why Northanger Abbey is my favorite Austen book, she’s just a fucking hoot, I wish I could be her (Northanger Abbey)

Sanji: Sanji, sanji, sanji, WHAT am I to do with you? The most character of all time, so well written sometimes, so poorly written on others. He is forever and always my One Piece blorbo (One Piece)

Catelyn Stark: This woman… Need it be said how goddamn amazing Cat is? I’m not sure it does, my the unbridled tragedy of her watching lose her family one by one, how war steals her young son from her and she is forced to watch, rattling against the bars of the patriarchal cage, and she STILL has a higher on page kill count than Robb? She was already perfect and then she died and cam back a wraith bent on revenge, no one is doing it like her. (asoiaf)

Shimura Shinpachi: MY FUCKING SON! The most important Gintama character and also the most underrated, he’s just a sweet lad, doing his best!! He’s so good to Kagura, and so good to his sister, and so good his friends, and he just wants to be a samurai but also he’s a son of the new age, and he’s trying so hard and I LOVE HIM. (Gintama)

Again, can’t do 10 people, I can give you 5. @agroupofcrows, @aipilosse, @arofili, @shrikeseams, @shiroandblack, feel free to answer or ignore at your leisure!

[guzhufuren]

Favourite VegasPete Fics pt.1 (in alphabetical order) 

1. Boar Taint by @clandestinegardenias https://archiveofourown.org/works/39231786

“When a boar hasn’t been castrated–-do you know what castration is?” It doesn’t seem wise to admit to that either way, so Pete stays silent. “When a male hog is young, they tie a string around its balls. Tight.” Oh god. He’s actually going to explain it.  

2. It Won’t Hurt (Unless You Want It To)  https://archiveofourown.org/works/39551595  

Pete is dragged unwillingly into The Void by his best friend Porsche. While the man gets a tattoo Pete finds someone interesting and keeps coming back long after his best friend is done with his own art work. Piercer!Vegas 

3. Make you hungry (and then feed you) by @innerreadhead https://archiveofourown.org/works/40703805 

"Smack. Vegas’ fingers make a humiliating noise against swollen, wet flesh of Pete’s p*ssy. It hurts God it hurts.” Just some filthy sex-swap vegaspete p*rn to heal the world

4. Spilled Wine  https://archiveofourown.org/works/40078395 

All Pete saw as the man walked away was a red velvet shirt tugged into tight pants. The wearer seemed to identify as a red flag and was determined to let everyone know. Unfortunately for both him and Pete, red flags were Pete’s favourite kind. 

5.Thorns & Roses by @onstoryladders https://archiveofourown.org/series/3016779  

“C’mon, almost done. Be good for me now”. F*cking hell, he's doing it on purpose. Pete clenches his jaw and wills his erection away. Like that's ever worked when he's this horny.  A VegasPete Tattoo Parlor AU

6. Vegas' Unconventional Torture Methods https://archiveofourown.org/works/39939864  

Vegas desperately tries to convince himself and everyone around that yes, he is still torturing Pete, and no, he is definitely NOT falling for Pete, and YES, he's still the fearsome Vegas, he just happens to be stuck in this stupid safe house with his stupid high-maintenance prisoner. Maybe Pete isn't really the one getting tortured here. Poor Vegas won't even know what hit him... 

7. We collide when you let go by @ophelleia https://archiveofourown.org/works/39707841 

“Something funny?” Khun Vegas asks, putting on latex gloves. “This is so embarrassing for you.” There’s hesitation in Vegas’ stance, as if he wants to reach out to Pete and slam his head against the metal bar he is chained to. Maybe choke him. But alas, Vegas relents and lets Pete finish. “I’m actually really into this k*nky shit.”-- AU where Pete is an assasin sent to kill Vegas, who captures him.

8. When a monster is not a monster? (Oh, when you love it.)  https://archiveofourown.org/works/39762162 

Pete swallows painfully, when his hand twitches, waiting for the rattling sound of chains but there is only silence. He doesn’t know if he’s relieved or disappointed. To be honest, he isn’t holding a grudge against Vegas for catching and torturing him; it was something that the main family would do as well to someone who would try to infiltrate them. That’s how this business works, there is no place for traitors and moles. Pete knew what he was getting into when he went to find evidence against Vegas. He knew that he could be imprisoned, tortured and killed, fuck, he knew exactly what Vegas was capable of and he still went. But he hates Vegas for making him like it. It’s all his fault. He did something to Pete to make him like it so much. He shouldn’t have enjoyed it. It was wrong. 

9. Who Takes It Better  https://archiveofourown.org/works/40018665  

“So you want to try with Kinn, but you don’t know how!” “I know how, Pete. It’s been done to me so many times that I definitely can’t not know how to do it.” “Right. Me too,” Pete chuckles. “Maybe I should try. Maybe we both should.” Porsche nearly chokes on his beer. “What, like… together?!” “No, you idiot! You with Kinn and me with Vegas!” “Oh.” “Nah, you’re right,” Pete smirks. “I bet Kinn wouldn’t do it.” Pete and Porsche make a bet to see whose boyfriend can take c*ck better. That's it, that's the fic.

[live-from-flaturn]

Meme-sterpost

All my goofy memes, textpost edit collections, and videos in one convenient location!

Previously known as viva-yas-vegas

KinnPorsche: The Series

Traditional Memes:

Part 1 (I watched all of KP in one day and then made these around 4am)

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Jeff Satur Roast/CoconutGate Meme Dump (KP:WT Goodbye Memes)

Videos:

Kimhan Possible 

Mmmm Whatcha Chay 

Fruit on the Bottom (Chris Fleming sketch)

Suite Life of Porsche and Pete

Chay’s Face Journey (feat. a solitary orange Skittle)

If You're Into It (VegasPete)

Wuju Bakery (but it’s a KimChay coma dream)

Aspiring Popstar Younger Brother (:28)

Kim is Bad Boy

Meow Mix

No Strings on Me (KimChay)

Kim’s the Best Bitch

KinnPorsche as Vines 1

KinnPorsche as Vines 2

Porchay the Vampire Slayer Theme

What's New Scooby Don't?

Chaylor Moon Theme

Lucid/KP Reincarnation Trailer Edit

KinnPorsche: The Memesical

Loathing (KinnPorsche)

I Won't Say I'm in Love (KimChay)

Dead Girl Walking (VegasPete)

I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair (KimChay)

Textposts:

Part 1

Part 2

More Textposts

And Still More Textposts

Part Infinity

VegasPete Textposts

KimChay Textposts

KimChay Part 2: Electric Taser-oo

Tiny Meat Gang Lyrics

Bonus KimChay Textposts

KinnPorsche Textposts Again

KinnPorsche?? Again???

Oh Hey, Look! KinnPorsche! (the final textpost collection)

A Vegas Style Buffet (contributed by user: vegasandhishedgehog)

KP Giftpost (contributed by user: vegasandhishedgehog)

Kinn: The Porsche-ening

Whose KinnPorsche is it Anyway? (Party Quirks prompts)

KinnPorsche Whose Line: Pt. 2

KinnPorsche/Whose Line Finale

Oops... More KinnPorsche

Tea’s B-Day KimChay Memes

in honor of pride month

Rough Day? KinnPorsche Textposts

KP Onion Headlines (P1)

KP Onion Headlines (P2)

Misc:

RIP Khun Spikes

Ceci n’est pas une Gun

KimChay Twilight au Moodboard

Jeff's Maniacal Dance Skills

Love in the Air

Traditional Memes:

Part 1

Bottom Text Sky Memes (feat. the Luffy Cosplay)

Textposts:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Continued...

Special Episode

Gifs:

The Cursed Payu Pringle-Fingering

His Wiggles (feat. Boss)

Saifah’s Had Enough

Misc:

Recreation of Sky’s “What the Duck” shirt from Ep. 10 (you can buy this if you want, I have one)

‘Bad Boy’ Top Storage Unit

The Daddy Couch

Payu (All the wifies say I’m pretty fly for a bi guy)

Between Us

Textposts:

Part 1

Part 2

WinTeam Texposts

Tommentary with @a-thomas-named-tommy

(in which my cishet guy friend, Tommy, reacts to my bad explanations of various BL and GL shows)

Between Us (2022)/Until We Meet Again (2019)

Meow Ears Up (2022)

[scenariosbutmakeitgay]

Can I request a scenario where female reader seems to neglect khun AA without her realising it and made khun upset ? Thank you(灬º‿º灬)♡

sure you can, here it goes~~

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The 35th floor began one hell of a ride. 

You slouched as you approached the bed, yawning in exhaustion. It felt as if every muscle of your body screamed in overexertion, begging to rest. Having to live on constant alert to prevent your ticket from being stolen was one thing – barely sleeping because of the stress resulting from the duel between Bam and the ancient Slayer coming closer happened to be another hardship on its own. Trying to distract yourself, you started spending more time with your teammates. Idle chatter helped with temporarily forgetting about the upcoming battle.

As days passed, it became harder to find a distraction; Wangnan's antics could only do so much. One thing you had to admit was that said man turned out to be surprisingly capable of lifting your mood. At first, you were so invested in listening to his stories you didn't even notice when Khun started giving you weird looks. The more time you spent with Wangnan, the more evident his unusual behavior became.

"Your boyfriend is acting strange again," Wangnan pointed out during one of your conversations. 

You raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"He's staring at us. Like, all the time." The tone of his reply sounded as if you made him state the obvious. "Did you guys have a fight or something?"

You shook your head. You couldn't recall any instances of you two interacting recently, much less fighting.

Oh.

"I'll go talk to him."

Khun wore a curious expression as you approached him. 

"So you do remember I exist," he mocked. Not bothering to look at you, Khun focused on fixing his hair instead. "How kind of you."

You sighed. Khun had every right to be upset, but he didn't need to be so petty about it.

"Can we talk privately? There's an empty car next to this one," you asked, wishing to resolve the issue swiftly and hopefully without an audience.

Khun shrugged.

"You weren't so keen on talking earlier."

You learned 'swiftly' wouldn't apply to your situation. There was only no audience to wish for left.

"Khun, I'm sorry for neglecting you. It's just that all that stressing about Bam's fight got the better of me. I didn't mean to ignore you."

Khun stopped playing with his hair. His attention switched to your face, blue eyes coldly analyzing every micromovement of your muscles. It felt like you were an opponent whose weak points he was trying to discover.

After a minute of awkward silence, Khun smirked.

"I accept the apology." You sighed in relief. "But it's not complete yet."

You weren't sure what he meant, but Khun didn't let you ponder on that for too long.

"How about you show me how sorry you are in that empty car you mentioned?"

[myezblog]

The most stupid character in KP the series! (Random post.. read only if you have nothing else to do)

Choose your pick!

1. Kim (very quickly climbing to rank 1 on my list) - 

a) So, do you really expect a 17 yr old to have the same cunning as your mafia enemies who murder and kill (i mean even if he were from a terrorist organization, brainwashed, .. even then!!!)

b) you don’t even know that your dad suspects you of Sherlocking, you don’t know your own brother Tankhun knows about your Sherlocking (even his fishes do)

c) lol.. like you have zero idea about other people in the family. Somone wants to bet that Kim has no idea Macau and Chay are in the same school

d) How utterly dumb are you when you saw Porsche’s mother’s maiden name is same as your own family in ep 4, and here we are 3 episodes later in ep 7 you are wondering if chay’s mom was a mistress???? I mean .. NO!!!.. brain honey, brain.. use it

e) So much effort to get to Chay’s house.. when a 17 yr old could find your “Mystery” appartment in like a jiffy :P .. oh dear god!! you need to go home and take fundamental lessons on surviving mafia skills from Mr. Chang (sleuthing included)

d) do you know about the mole? Shouldn’t that be your priority?

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2. Kinn - lol.. i think god gave too much brains to one son, and then decided to balance it out with other two

a) Your dad knows, Your eldest brother knows, your eldest brothers’ fishes know.. BUT YOU have zero idea about what your youngest brother does.. oh !! Comeon

b) You are too simple-minded.. like too simple minded to really manage this business.. (you def. need Porsche’s cunning)

c) Doesn’t know his own bodyguard is simping over him.. when people on Mars can tell. Doesn’t know who is the mole after how many years?? :P .. 

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3. Korn

a) lol.. like what is the game here? You can’t make your own subordinate sit on the other side of the chess and then claim you won!

b) Even a non mafia Mr. Tawan can read your brain and acts.. so really, what is the game here?

c) Also, you need to watch korean dramas with your son. you badly need lessons on doing the awful rich dad of male lead character well.. bonus, spice it up with kimchi slap and all

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4. Kann

a) I mean, it is not even a question. With you, let’s ask where is even that iota of brain cell.. he he.. so incompetent that you get zero screen time!

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5. Job

a) Oh baby!!.. you are too protected and rusty now.. khun needs to swap you. You need to see the world

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6. Pete

i mean.. just pretend you are dumb so that we can get to VP arc very quickly

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7. Ken

if you are not a mole, then you are quite unaware of everything.. which ain’t good :P

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8. Big

like don’t you see Arm.. woo him.. he is single.. and HOT

why waste time over a mafia head who can get killed whenever :P .. and whose daddy will not allow you to have a future

I don’t get the obsession with one love.. there are so many good lips to taste.. get exploring :P

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The most intelligent, please, is Tankhun!! and then Porchay, then Vegas, then Arm

[anotherblblog]

KinnPorsche Episode 8 - liveblog blurbs

let’s get ready to see what upsets the prudes this week!

not them sleeping holding hands, ok otters

also, I thought the bed scene - black and white undies - would be after the pool scene

ahhh, what’s a Thai series without product placement, (answer: I Told Sunset About You) but from what I gather it was hard getting KP to air, so go on and sell that bread it’s delicious

lmao at Porsche crawling to the bed and more bread selling

mercy, they are just barely trying to be subtle

KinnPorsche pulls a Bad Buddy

oh hey, these people and the bar still exist ok, I’m liking Porsche going back to get advice from his friends “asides from being in the bed (and bathrooms, and hallways, and team meetings, the floor, and in a box, and with a fox)” Porsche: I only know how to be hot and great (presumably) at sex, what is a date?

totally incognito disguises

daw, at Kinn not letting Porsche not hold his hand* (but that also should have a chat afterwards)

a little afternoon tea date, ugh they are annoyingly cute  ok, this date was great and I’m glad we had the entire sequence with no bad stuff or people catching them, idc if this date is later used against them for plot reasons, for right now, it’s a perfectly cute lil bubble and I’m happy they had it

well it’s Kim in evil mode, so I guess here comes the other shoe getting ever closer to dropping

holy fuck, this Wat looks amazing, good on production for securing this place to shoot a scene

daw, Porsche’s first date

ok, we’ve seen them talking on the phone before? so whose phone did Porsche have? I guess bodyguards get a phone for their missions? also, now that they’ve made me think for a second, how does Kinn have a day off lmao, there’s like no chance, his dad doesn’t know where he is, oh yeah, they mentioned in the kidnapping episode, they have his tracked via his phone so are dad and co watching their movements on a dispatch board in HQ lol but I guess both Kinn and Khun have gone to Porsche’s friend’s bar so it’s not like they are /not/ allowed to go about and out but usually with security details so how did Kinn get a solo bodyguard day off approved? or did he bother 

oop, singing by the water, are we gonna get the pool fuck scene in this montage?

how is jumping in the pool the move here lmaooooooooooooooooo the splash sound hahahahaha whatever who cares, the kiss is hot

ok, so I’m guessing this is Tawan but we do get confirmation Kinn is hiring guys through an agency, so hopefully it’s above board

Apo looks stunning in this lighting, come through melanin

AND FUCKING L-O-L that Kim lives at a place called “The Mystery” he’s so fucking dramatic  ok this KimChay is hilarous the guard lmaooooo

wait, why does he have a wooden dildo the monk explanation makes it even funnier and adds no clarity

wow, so Porsche told Kinn directly, freaking amazing I instantly distrust Tawan sold Kinn/the family out but ok, noted whatever this Tawan plot is----- I’m like not loving it.... but it’s not awful?

[towerfandoms]

Would you consider doing a pt 2 to Hanahaki Disease where everyone finds out about the surgery? 😖😖

Of course you can! Thank you so much for requesting this. First part can be found here. I hope you enjoy!

Word count: 1.2k

CW/TW: nothing much, mentions of hospital and not being able to breath.

Genre: angst, not as bad as the last one though. a lot of Endorsi comforting the reader <3

Hanahaki Disease (2)

Y/n!” came a foreign voice startling you out of your pleasant thoughts. You stood there confused as you couldn’t pinpoint exactly whose voice it was, thought it was familiar.

You turned around, still with a smile on your lips.

“Hm?” you replied, taking in the sight of the person in front of you.

He had an angelic smile, velvety laugh, porcelain skin and piercing, bright blue eyes. He was the definition of perfection. You questioned to yourself if he was hand-carved by the Greek Gods themselves.

“Are you ok? I haven’t seen you in a couple of days?”

“I’m so sorry if this sounds rude but do we know each other?”

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Khun stood there still, in shock. For the first time the blue haired man was speechless. Whatever he was expecting after not talking to you normally for weeks certainly wasn’t this. And it wasn’t just the blank look on your face that irked him, it was also your tone. You were talking so formally and polite it made him feel disgusted.

It had been a couple of weeks since your confession. You two hadn’t spoken much bar an occasional greeting or discussing of plans. Though he wouldn’t admit it, he had missed you. A lot. Despite everything that’s happened, you two were best friends and it hurt not talking to you. But he had wanted to give you space. Now he almost regrets that.

“Is this some kind of joke?” he asked, anger masking his confusion and hurt though he knew the answer deep down. He knew it wasn’t. Khun was a perceptive person, so he could tell that you weren’t messing around.

“No? I just had surgery though so I guess i’m still a little out of it,” you replied almost breathlessly. Not only was he a work of art, he had a beautiful, almost velvety voice to match

“Surgery? Why didn’t you tell anyone? We’ve been worried sick about you for the past few days!”

You were gone for three days and nobody knew where you were. Sure you didn’t have to tell anyone but it’d be nice if you had even left a note.

Thinking back, why didn’t you tell anyone? You felt bad that your friends were worried about you. You hadn’t been yourself but you didn’t want to worry them anymore. You didn’t realize how long the operation would take.

“I’m sorry. I thought everyone was busy and didn’t want to worry them more,” came your sheepish reply.

“Y/n, we‘re your friends. You could’ve at least told us.” he scolded. Though his tone was harsh it wasn’t hard to see the lines of worry across his forehead.

It was really weird, you thought. You could remember everyone else quite clearly. Why couldn’t you remember him? He seemed so familiar too. And why did you even have the surgery in the first place? The answer was right there in the back of your brain but you couldn’t reach it.

Khun

Khun? What the hell was a Khun?

No, not what.

Who?

“Khun…?” you asked uncertainly.

You could almost see some of the tension roll off his shoulder.

“Yeah, that’s my name,” his tone was rather harsh but for some reason he was rather easy to read. You could tell how stressed he was.

Khun could also read you easily. He noticed your still confused look and sighed.

“I’m gonna call Endorsi, maybe she’ll know what’s up,” with that Khun sauntered off with the intention of finding your best friend and getting answers.

Almost immediately as he left the room Endorsi came running in. You could hear the man named Khun scoff and continue walking down the hallway, leaving you two alone.

“Don’t hate me but I was listening into your conversation and i just can’t help but worry,” she babbled breathlessly. “What’s wrong? Did you have surgery. Can you remember me? Please don’t tell me you’ve forgotten me. Otherwise I’ll have to slap it out of you,”

She was joking,,, or at least you hoped.

Without giving you time to respond she wrapped her arms around you and rested her forehead against your shoulder. You instinctively hugged her back.

“You didn’t actually forget me did you?” she mumbled sadly into your shoulder.

“What! No, of course not! How could I ever forget one of my closest friends.” you replied with the most certainty you could muster. It was true though. You could remember every little detail about her. She was rather hard to forget.

Upon hearing that Endorsis mood took a complete 180. “Yay, ok now can you please explain everything?”

“I can try but the truth is I don’t remember anything myself. I had a surgery for three days but now I don’t even remember what it was for. I think it was for lung disease.”

“Why didn’t you tell me? You can tell friends anything. We could’ve gone through this together. Man that must’ve been so scary having surgery alone,”

“No it wasn’t actually that bad. But the issue is I can’t remember that Khun man qnd he looks really sad about it. “

“Khun, sad? I doubt it,” she snorted. “This sounds really familiar though. There’s actually been a lot of cases lately where people had surgery for something in their lungs and forgetting about their loved ones when they wake up. I think it’s something in the anaesthetic.”

“Oh…” you trailed off unsure.

“Yeah, I think it was like Hananene illness or something.”

Hanahaki

You felt like you were in the hospital again. You could hear the nurses and doctors arguing throwing that cursed word around. You kept trying to take big gulps of air but it felt like you were drowning. It was so painful. Your lungs were bursting even though there was nothing in them.

Except those wretched blue flowers.

“Earth to y/n. Earth to y/n. You ok? You look like you just remembered a ghost.” Endorsis head was no longer on your shoulder, instead her arms were gripping them, lightly shaking you.

“It was Hanahaki disease,” you said a little too quickly.

“Oh yeah it was- Wait! Did you have Hanahaki disease?”

You nodded a bit ashamedly, looking to the side.

“And it was Khun who you were in love with, that’s why you’ve forgotten him,”she whispered softly with the sudden realization.

“I can’t remember a thing about him though. I could barely even recall his name,”

Endorsi looked at you with such sadness sadness in her eyes you were scared she was going to start crying.

“I’m so sorry. I should’ve been there for you. I should’ve known.”

You were taken aback by her strange kindness.

“Hey, it’s fine. Besides I’m alive and I’ve forgotten him so it doesn’t really matter now” you weren’t sure who you were trying to reassure.

“Still, I’m not sure how we’re going to tell him,”

“Tell who, what?” asked Shibisu, entering the room with Bam and Hatz.

Endorsi turned to you and gave you a look that said it was going to be a long night.

Silently you agreed.

A/n: sorry for leaving it off here but i did it for two reasons. one otheriwse it was gonna be a long ass story. and two, to see if people wanted a next part. literally one dm/ inbox message and i’ll do it cuz i really enjoy writing this. thank you! oh also if y’all wanna make it someone else x reader. or we could even do a little bit of khun secretly being in love and wants her back. possibilities are endless, lemme know !