#PureFolk

[negrowhat]

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Day 3: Side Dish that Should've Been the Main Course

PureFolk from My Gear and Your Gown. I couldn't even tell you wtf that series was actually about because it was a total snooze fest for me BUT PUREFOLK THO??? A treat. An actual treat. Pure was an unapologetic slutty bisexual man, slanging the D to anyone who asked. Girls and Boys were CLAMORING to get at that pint-sized playboy. And with the mentality of "Relationships are stupid" who would've thought he would fall so hard and so fast for our sweet boy Folk? And for someone who claimed to hate love he was so sweet on Folk. Like completely enamored, it was disgustingly cute.

I just love that Pure was open and honest with Folk, when he declared that he was no longer for the streets and only wanted to be with Folk. Pure even let Folk go through his phone! AND THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE??? I just enjoyed them and by the halfway point of the series I was skipping any scene that didn't have Pure or Folk in it. I needed a full-fleshed out series for them and not whatever tf the main plot was about.

Mark and Ou Wen from Love is Science? First of all, it's not a BL, but it should've been. It's not like the series was bad, I just didn't care about the main couple...at all. I tried. I did. Like super hard. The old couple was cute tho, but I was only invested in Mark and Ou Wen and Joanna (when her story intersected with theirs). Mark was such a hilarious character, the boy had me cackling with his antics. Ou Wen was our cool and suave elegant man who wore expensive suits and cared a great deal about love.

The series gave us Mark's bisexual awakening (which he handled very well). We got to see him fall head over heels in love after Ou Wen valiantly saved him from being beaten up by one of his fling's relatives (I think). They gave us Ou Wen's valid doubts about if Mark was serious about him, and his fears of being perceived negatively by the people around them. They gave us a surprise pregnancy and the struggles with deciding to abort or co-parent, glad we got the latter simply because they were such a fun trio. We even got Mark's coming out to his parents. They just had a superior storyline (and better chemistry). Also the eps were too long for such a minimal amount of Mark and Ou Wen.

[absolutebl]

forgive me if you've gotten this question before, but i'm watching love by chance for the first time and aepete are absolutely adorable. i love their height difference and even more so that it's pete that's taller than ae. do you know of any other bls with a reversed height difference like this (seme is shorter than uke, basically)? thank you!!

Shows where height difference is flipped 

Ooo, I haven't had this question before, but it's pretty rare and I can't recall many off the top of my head. (I am so glad you like AePete, they remain one of my favorite couples of all time.) 

Any places with a weak seme/uke is gonna just ignore mostly ignore height difference, so most Taiwanese stuff. The main couple in H4: the one doing the pursuing is shorter than the guy he is after, but it's not very seme uke, more semiuke... if you get what I mean. Mark is shorter the Ouwen in Love Is Science, but yeah, their dynamic is more confident gay + disaster bi himbo who becomes confident gay... or something. 

I LOVE THEM. 

I gotta make a BL cut of this damn show. 

erm, where was I? 

Pure is shorter than pretty much all his lovers in My Gear and Your Gown including Folk, of course. Au is petty darn tall for a Thai actor, and Fiat is short. 

I wouldn’t be surprised is Jeff is shorter than both Barcode (KinnPorsche) and Gameplay (Ingredients - no seme/uke tho). Speaking of, the guy Gameplay was paired with in that awful office romance last year that shall remain nameless (because I cannot remember the title), he was shorter than Game. 

FrankDrake whenever Drake is in the seme roll, so 2gether series. 

Dunk is def taller than Joon (Sky in My Mind).

Akk & Aye if you count Aye as the seme, which I am not sure I do. (The Eclipse)

Sea is a bit taller than Jimmy in Vice Versa.

SeaTin maybe? (Friend Forever) 

I Am Your King, but, yeah.... 

Mork is shorter than Tawan in My Ride, same crossing of the tracks as AePete, but no seme/uke. 

Probably about the same height: 

2gether, Bright might be slightly shorter than Win. 

Tay might also be slightly shorter than New (Dark Blue Kiss). 

And Singto shorter than Krist (SOTUS). 

Phuwin might actually be a bit taller than Pond at this juncture too (FUTS, NLMG). We’ve been watching him grow since My Tee. Speaking of, he’s certainly taller than Neo (did you forget they were once paired?), and I think Luis is also a bit taller than Neo (FUTS, Eclipse). 

Karn might be slightly shorter than Nut, but like MaxTul (Together with Me, Manner of Death) that’s just never been a thing with their dynamic. (Grey Rainbow, Dear Doctor)

Forgotten Plumbing, maybe too? Those two seemed about the same height, with Yoon maybe a little shorter. 

And a note,

Tinted with You, would we call the ACE boy the seme? Then it ranks too. 

[sparklyeyedhimbo]

Okay, I will make a post and try to tell yall what in the hell my gear and your gown is all about and why almost everyone and your aunt is playing a role I there

And why pure and folk are the best and only ship you need to root for in my gear and your gown are.

[distant-screaming]

Fiat my bestie <3333

[fantastic-fantasy]

THEY'RE EVERYTHING

[projectjasper]

they are so 👏 cute 👏 guys!! i cant!

[usertoxicyaoi]

What's your least favorite bl drama

hiii anon!!!! fjdkxos ive got LOADS. i'll just list some, most of these are quite old so idk how familiar u might be with them but yeah:

my dream. IYKYK. god. that was an AWFUL show. a COMPLETE WASTE of my time.

i also hated 2moons, despite watching 2moons2 JUST for forthbeam.

the entire takumi kun series APART from takumi kun 4. takumi kun 4 is MY BABY.

golden blood. THE ONLY saving grace was pitchbank, my darlings!!!!

color rush 2. hated it. HATED IT. the ONLY color rush that exists for me? is the 1st season of it. yeonwoo and yoohan are my darlings!!!!

apart from history 3: trapped and history 2: crossing the line, i honestly couldnt get into ANY of the other history shows. at all. trapped and CTL you will ALWAYS be famous!!

my tee (cause you're my boy). like. frankdrake were SO good but the whole show just fell SO FLAT.

dark blue and moonlight. jimmy and pinjun deserved SO MUCH BETTER.

my gear and your gown. oh my goddddd. purefolk were the only good thing about it.

sotus. i literally fell asleep. people find it groundbreaking. maybe it was at that time. but. i fell asleep.

[gunsatthaphan]

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[geekygirl24]

This Chapter is NSFW

[phukao]

pure looking at folk

[geminifourth]

it’s too bad that we are friends

[absolutebl]

So I was thinking about colorism in (thai) BL and the few actors who are slightly darker skinned and noticed that they all play the „seme“/„top“ role as far as I could think of. Which i guess is not that surprising, after all it’s also quite typical that female actresses tend to be lighter skinned then men (I don’t actually know that for Thai cinema, but for other countries, I assume it’s similar). Anyway, it got me thinking of you know of any shipped couples where it’s otherwise?

Hum. Not of the top of my head, it's not something I pay very close attention too, I'm afraid. But it is pretty traditional that the uke be smaller and paler.

Here's what I came up with:

Thailand

JimmySea (although they keep putting Sea in foundation that too light for him and makes him look ill)

KinnPorsche, and the other couples in that show too, I think.

PhatTai in La Pluie.

BbombJin from Nitiman.

SoloGui (maybe?) in Oxygen.

My Stand In, I think. But I also think that's intentional to show class differences.

Secret Crush On You, I actually think Billy might be naturally paler than Babe too (The Sign).

Siew Sum Noi.

TharnType.

Yearbook.

Your Sky.

Lots of Sides

PitchBank in Golden Blood.

RamKing in My Engineer.

PureFolk in My Gear Your Gown (Pure is also shorter = v rare).

InnSun from My Dear Looser.

SanAei in Your My Sky.

RainPayu from Oh My Sunshine Night. (Again I think this is in part to highlight a class difference.)

Japan

(origin yaoi also practiced colorism)

Minato, I think, is a little darker skinned than Shin, but that's the only one I can come up with right now.

Japan will mix this up by having the seme be blond(er) quite a bit of the time (Candy Color Paradox, Vending Machine, Cherry Magic, Docchi, Dining Table, Perfect Propose, Poison, Takara & Amagi, Takumi).

Again this is often done to showcase a class or cultural difference or mixed blood. Rich boys NEVER go out in the sun. Colorism is often associated with classism where to be darker skinned meant (GASP) manual labor (GASP) outside. Also, considering women, if you could afford to keep your daughter inside all the time doing nothing but preparing to be chattel in a land grab or military alliance, that meant you had all the wealth. Pale = leisure and waste.

[namtanlovesfilm]

purefolk + sabotaging each other

[distant-screaming]

Right so like... actually I'm obsessed with them

[gabrielokun]

[projectjasper]

i'm gonna do the last three episodes tomorrow morning (thank gods for the purefolk preview that did not interest me at all GJKDGJKFDGKLFDG)