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This Week in BL - The Sign is Slaying

Organized, in each category, with ones I'm enjoying most at the top. Happy new year, BLabies!

Jan 2024 Wk 2

Ongoing Series - Thai

The Sign (Sat YT) ep 8 of 12 - Tharn in Phaya’s too big clothing is the cutest thing in the world.

I gotta to say something about Babe's acting really quickly. I love the way he’s inhabiting the personality of his naga character with reptilian eye and body movements and (I don’t know how to put this) a certain reserved, elegant, slithering- ness. He's very good this new boy of ours. (He come from something physical like dance?)

I adored them doing the walk of shame and being teased.

ALSO I enjoyed the way they handled Tharn’s gender in the past with his costume (the pha chung hang is gender neutral but that green top is a kinda combo m+f) and pronouns et al.

Language corner:

They are using ancient pronouns. I *think* I heard: daow (3rd), khun/jao/tan (2nd), kaa (Ist) - all pronouns in use are gender neutral - to the best of my understanding.

Last Twilight (Fri YT) ep 10 of 12 - Ooo. Day comes out to fam. Also his maa legit took his phone away and said

“I don’t mind you being gay but you can’t date a poor.”

Still, these 2 do kind of make the best secret boyfriends ever.

Also I begin to love Night: “that’s my baby” indeed. You special ain’t ya?

For Him (Thurs iQIYI) ep 7 of 12 -  I’m starting to find this pretty boring at this juncture. Bummer, because for a while I was enjoying it.

Twins the series (Fri GaGa) ep 11 of 12 - The stuff with the spy on the team is super boring. I’m not wild about the side characters either. So most of this episode was a bust for me. I did like First’s ex. 

Pit Babe (Fri iQIYI) ep 9 of 14 - Charlie & Babe = honeymoon phase. Jeff & Kim = forgotten. Pete & Way = riddles wrapped in alphas but actually enigmas. Everyone else = gang bang phase…. Apparently. Trash watch happening here.

Cooking Crush (Sun YT) ep 6 of 12 - Loved that this was a mutual kiss. (Also how comfortable are OffGunn kissing now? Babies!) I’ve moved from indifference to absolute loathing of the side couple tho.

Oddball LIES from the script = the gayest bridge in Bangkok isn’t lit up after 9pm.

Meanwhile, very important kicky kicky feet and Doc is a dork about flirting now that he’s all in. Looks like we get the official boyfriend ep next week.  

You and My Stars YT 2of 2(?) - Couldn’t find it. Not fussed. 

Time the series (Thai Gaga) ep 1 of 10 - Okay so there’s a gang and someone named Chris is killed and his boyfriend, actor Foam, is jumped back in time to save him? NO SINGING. Between Chris’s death and that time-slip there’s some kind of accidental murder, a pink pocket watch, Chris being alive again but also a different person, and a make out scene. Are you also confused? Actually, the real question is: Do we continue watching? Remember we (the collective BLorg) do not trust MFlow. 

My Universe (Sun iQIYI) ep 21 of 24 - The acting has been pretty terrible all along with this series, but this one is the worst. I just can’t. I may tune in for the last installment but this one is a DNF for me. 

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

Although I Love You and You AKA Sukiyanen Kedo Do Yaro ka (Japan Gaga) ep 1 of 10 - It’s utterly adorable. Very manga, but so far not grating on my nerves. They so cute! You know I adore a hyung romance. Add a v gay sauna scene and an OUT gay boy and just... YES. All the married breeder regulars being overly invested in their pretty cook’s queer drama queening, it's so good.

AND THEN a confession in the first episode? Japan sure loves to mess with the pacing of plots drops.

Also, how much do I want to eat every single piece  of food in this darn show? 

Sahara-sensei to Toki-kun (Japan Fri Gaga) ep 5 of 8 - Man I wish this were better I enjoyed this more. Sigh. I do LOVE the stepbrother sides. Of course I do. But how can this feature 2 of my favorite relationship types (age gap, stepbrothers) and not be my favorite BL airing? Japan, how do you ALWAYS do this to me? 

VIP Only (Taiwan Fri Gaga) ep 9 of 10 - I don’t know. I just wish this were better. Also shorter.

I really miss KBL right now.

It's done I Need to Catch up

What Did You Eat Yesterday Season 2 AKA Kinou Nani Tabeta? Season 2 (Japan Gaga) 10 eps - will binge when I have a spare day.

The Servant and the Young Master - from Veitnam so I assume it's on YouTube. I never even noticed. Anyone?

After Sundown - aired on Netflix Thailand. No word on inter release.

It's Airing But...

[INTERNATIONAL] Cherry Magic (Sat YouTube) ep 3 of 12 - yeah Japan put the smack down on our boys. Sadness. You can use a VPN if you like. Read all about it here.

Ossans Love Season 2 (Japan Gaga) - 5 years later, will anything have changed? This is Japan so… probubly not. I won't be watching this. I disliked Season one and actively hated the follow ups. No thank you.

Playboyy (Thurs Gaga) 14 eps - Dear Playboyy, it's not you, it’s me… I hate you. You’re about as deep (and as palatable) as a shot glass of cum. While I'm sure you’re someone’s kink, you're my weakest link. Goodbye. I DNFed this at ep 5. Frankly I'm impressed with myself for getting that far.

Night Dream (Sat YT) 6 eps - It’s a pain to track down and I really didn’t like the first episode so… DNF  

The Whisperer (Sun ????) 10 eps - Thai horror BL that ALSO involves cheating (what joy is mine). I don't think even the perfect single dimple can motivate me to watch. Word is... it's terrible.

7 Days Before Valentine (Weds WeTV) 10 eps - Giving me Luminous Solution vibes. I'm waiting to binge if safe.

Dead Friend Forever (Thai Sat iQIYI) - horror, meh, tell me if it's worth my time?

In Case You Missed it

All my year-end round ups:

TOP 10 BL Trends of 2023

Top 10 BL Secondary Pairs of 2023

2023 BLs Best Trope Execution Awards! TOP 10

BL 2023's Best:

Back Hugs Thailand & Elsewhere

Cute Bits of Domesticity

Boys Feeding Boys

BOOP!

Best Cuddles

Heads in Laps

Touching Head Touches

Thailand Put His Head on Your Shoulder

Put Your Head on My Shoulder (not Thailand)

BEST KISSES (not Thailand)

BEST KISSES FROM THAILAND

All the BLs Announced for 2023 that didn't happen

Next Week Looks Like This

More Coming Jan 2024

Beside You (Thai YouTube)

1/24 Love For Love's Sake (Korea Gaga)- based on the Manhwa ‘Love Supremacy Zone’ by Hwacha. A young man is dropped into a game based off a novel he loves. His mission is to make another player, YeoWoon happy. But then the game starts unfolding completely different from the novel.

Upcoming BLs for 2024 are listed here. This list is not kept updated, so please leave a comment if you know something new or RP with additions.

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS

Why are the oversized flappy flappy sleeves so adorable? (The Sign)

Pit Babe

Frankly 2024 is starting on a whimper... mostly from Babe.

(Last week)

[harrowedknight]

OC info and lore m’lord? Brave knight… please they’re both so handsome… I’d take Hancock in a knife fight for just one date fr…. Bleeding on the concrete outside kle0s shop rn….

Omg,,, thank u for the ask, I’ll take this as an opportunity to introduce all of my fellas since i have multiple saves/ocs for fallout 4. Right now they’re all in separate aus but I wanna connect them, I just haven’t decided who I want to be the sosu yet, if i even want one at all.

Starting with Ranger, my newest character. He’s the charismatic leader of the Minutemen. He likes making light of every situation, but he knows when to take things seriously. He just puts on a laidback attitude so he appears less intimidating. He’s trying very hard to make the commonwealth safer, but he has some doubts and insecurities about his position, which he bottles up and keeps to himself. He wants to be the person that everyone can rely on and look up to, even if that means putting his own problems aside to appear put-together and strong. He’s the one I draw Edward Deegan with, and I wanna do more with the two of them since I love me some eldritch horror vibes. I imagine Ranger and Edward go on relic hunts for Jack Cabot after their questline, getting into hijinks and fun spooky, horrifyingly traumatic adventures. Maybe kissing along the way. Who knows.

Knight on the other hand, is an anxious, paranoid little glorbo; and I say this while he stands at like 6’4”, he’s BIG, the tallest of all of my guys. He’s got severe PTSD and he really doesn’t like living in the apocalypse. He had a wife! They were in a queer platonic relationship; they got married for the benefits but they’re both gay. He’s devastated after losing her, since she was his best friend. He has a very hard time adjusting to the new commonwealth, he barely scrapes by, has to force himself to function because everything reminds him of war and suffering. He eventually stumbles into Goodneighbor, gets hooked on chems to distract himself from bad memories, meets Hancock one bad night and ends up getting drunk/rambling to the poor ghoul. They end up hitting it off despite the ridiculous introduction. Hancock manages to ground Knight, gives him a purpose again; helping good people, and hurting bad people. Knight travels the commonwealth doing odd jobs, trying to do what he can, even joins up with the Railroad to help out the Synths. Just trying to make up for all the time he’d lost, doing what he thinks would’ve made his best friend proud.

Now for Paladin. Yes, he is named Paladin, and yes, he WAS Paladin Paladin before being promoted to Sentinel. It’s probably obvious by now that I have a Dnd/medieval theme for my character’s names. Anyway, Paladin here is— of course— a part of the Brotherhood of Steel. I made him to be a big dickhead because I don’t play mean characters in video games enough. Unlike my other sosus he’s actually thriving in the apocalypse. Before being frozen he was very dissatisfied/disconnected with the ordinary life he was trying to live, he felt like a husk of himself and he couldn’t understand why. After waking up and being met with a destroyed world, his soldier mentality immediately kicked in again. He adapted fast, and when he learns about the Brotherhood and its US military-esc operations he quickly latches onto it. It’s familiar to him, and he excels at his duties. He rises through the ranks quickly, earning his place as Sentinel and developing a massive ego along the way. The Brotherhood makes him feel powerful, and that sort of becomes an addiction of sorts. He just wants more and more power, he wants to be respected; and if not respected, feared.

And as a bonus unrelated to fallout 4,

This is Monty, aka Montague. He’s a prewar ghoul living in the Canadian territories, or Little America as it’s referred to in the Fallout universe. He was a proud mountie back before Canada was annexed, kept his uniform in a locked safe for years. When the bombs fell and he was ghoulified, he pulled it out and dedicated himself to helping those who get lost in the nuclear winter. I’m still learning things about Fallout lore so idk how Canada is depicted after the bombs in canon, but the idea I had is that Monty lives in a massive, snowy wasteland which he’s learned to navigate with a lot of hard work and dedication. He earns caps by guiding people through the tundra, since few know how to avoid all the dangers it poses.

[kitswritingantics]

Pleeeeease newsies fantasy AU I beggggg

HEHEHAHAHAHAHH I'VE BEEN WAITING MY ENTIRE LIFE TO YAP ABOUT THIS

now just hear me out. think of like. super mario. evil king (pulitzer) has princess katherine locked away. prince jack (forced to marry her in like a month) has to go save her, don't wanna, blah blah blah. get's sent with his servant/partner in crime/best friend charlie (aka crutchie) and knight david. (they're gay. in case you can't tell. i'm a javid truther but i can also be a jatherine truther. jack has two hands.)

on the way the goobers find travelling minstrels (race and spot), bounty hunters/thieves (buttons, finch, and elmer. the guys ever), and all of them tag along to help them fight the king and his dragon (the dragon's probaby snyder now that i think really deeply about it. that's honestly so funny). also more homosexuality, elmer's down BAD for charlie who's an oblivious (and equally down bad) little loser.

you know the drill, fairy tales have happy endings, they save princess katherine and jack decides "hey! i don't wanna marry her!" and goes and kisses davey instead. davey sets up kath with his older sister sarah and they fall in love. charlie and elmer are really bashful and adorable i'm obsessed with them. also LESBIAN SPRACE. BECAUSE I CAN.

anyways there's my yap hope you enjoy!!! i might end up writing this later only time will tell!!

[kinokoshoujoart]

cora’s bad time hell simulation steps or how to play “sprite station for girl” “harvest moon ds cute” the wrong way

(all ways are wrong this game is Accursed)

ok so here’s what my disorganized “guide” to myself for harvest moon ds for girl (aka indecipherable notes i wrote to myself as i played and revised as i tested various things and restarted due to mistakes) looks like. at some point when i become a real gamer i will write a legible guide meant for eyes to look at but uhhh this is how i play this accursed game personally

i’m not sure if anything i wrote will make any sense since i wrote it as notes to myself so probably definitely use fogu and fc2 jonason wiki (may not work but some pages should be archived) instead

ALSO if you’ve never played or barely played the game it won’t make sense at all! hmds was my first harvest moon so i am used to various horrors!

my play style is probably not fun in general HOWEVER if you are a grinding hell goblin like me then it’s GREAT!!!! if not you may still find it amusing that the game gives you permission to play like this

(it’s a great background task game while doing like productive stuff but otherwise playing this way would probably be unbearable)

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anyway after that the days go a lot faster, you���ll get the island on summer 1, so on spring 30 i put all my money into million G tickets and sell 200 of em, do the 5x money thing, and save the rest. so when thomas comes the next day to sell you the 900 million G island you can just sell 180 tickets and do the 5x money thing again with like ~600 million G tickets left over. it takes up inventory but you’ll get the shelf in a few days. basically you just need to remember to order from the TV shopping every saturday and place orders with gotz and gray whenever they finish stuff.

random tips

after unlocking the fuckass hot spring sprites (the ones that require you to spend a total of 700 1 hour sessions in the hot springs) i usually grind grazing points— if you put your animals outside for 5 hours you get a “Love Point”, but if you interact with them after they earn that LP then the timer switches over and you can get another LP after 5 more hours. if you wear the time ring the whole time it’s 2.5 hours. i’m not very good at explaining this but basically if you’re super efficient you can get way more animal LP than you realistically should, which is great because the touch glove petting minigame is Bad!!!!

i usually wait on getting the rest of the purple sprites (the ones that require you to hire the purple team and ask for healing) until i’m totally done with the indigo team, cuz i wanna get HG’s purple heart event asap, but you can switch the order if you want

by summer y1 you’ll basically have a feel for everything. aside from Skye, Leia, HG and WP everyone can be married early-mid autumn if you want

if you want to Gay (in the japanese version only) keira is the quickest to marry. leia is the quickest to max affection but it’s impossible to get leia year 1 because the bottle you need to fish up can only be caught in spring. you have to wait until at least year 5 for WP and iirc year 6 for HG.

[merrysithmas]

Hi! What are your thoughts about the marriage of Paul and Linda? Just saw your tags))

Hi! I think Linda (a gem) and Paul were both queer, she 100% knew about his romance with John and was totally fine with it (as opposed to Yoko who sent John to conversation therapy - yep).

I think Paul more or less needed a beard or bestie to marry bc he was bi - he wasn't happy in a straight4straight style relationship where he had to be closeted or couldn't entirely be himself or trust his partner w that part of him (Jane Asher). He cheated on Jane constantly and loved having a partner who was never around (Jane had her own career and life). Hmmm. He didn't actually want to be with her and was a jerk.

But in the end because of Beatles Fame he had to marry ("what do you think I am a 26 yo queer never to marry?" lol yes Paul). His partner HAD to be a woman (1960s cishet hegemony) bc he HAD to marry a woman.

Finding chill single mom Linda must've been a godsend to him.

Linda was totally cool with Paul writing like 87 love songs for John and even sung back up on them and took part in absolutely hilarious music vids for them (see Coming Up). Paul loved that she was "already a woman" (umm gay) and had a kid when they met so he didn't need to prove himself to her or the public. He also comments a lot on how he loved that Linda didn't have to dress up femme and didn't care about fashion etc. She was her own person and didn't ascribe to any societal instruction on femininity. She was a free thinker, a motherless artist, a single parent, and unconventially beautiful (a Type?).

He got to have the fam he badly wanted but got to have a wife who was also his friend and respected his identity. He was essentially Julian's other dad, but couldn't fully embrace that role in public. He wanted to be a father and have a family - and the pain queer ppl go through makes me so mad.

Paul often speaks of he and Linda's relationship being "tumultuous" and not the picture ideal people make it out to be. I think they had a lot of issues and problems & even probably considered divorcing several times (or not marrying altogether aka the fight before their wedding night). But I think they lasted so long because Paul badly wanted to marry A FRIEND who wouldn't judge him or the things he wanted/needed out of life and marrying a queer open-hearted 60s hippie Linda was the perfect fit. She obviously wanted the same thing. They got each other, and when they had hard times they focused (as theyve said) on what they built together and their family over their individual issues.

His song for her, "Maybe I'm Amazed" is an ICONIC love song directed at a woman who saved him, who understands him, a free-spirited woman in a very narrowminded world that he never expected to find. It is a Thank You song.

I'm not saying his relationship with Linda was a "beard" situation but I'm also not saying it isn't IN THE SENSE THAT queer people (and bi ppl in this specific sense) at that time period had to be very selective in order to have a happy marriage in a very hostile cishet world. I think he loved her & she understood the kind of love he gave her and loved him in her way back.

I think Paul found someone who got that and they stuck together, contented with that safety. A home base, trusted.

To make an alliance like that with someone who generally wanted what was best for him and forged a family with him and had her own strong voice and opinions and presence? Someone who didn't mind being musically bereft but taking part in his musical life because Paul - and John - didn't want to replace one another with someone muscially talented? Someone who didn't take advantage of him, hurt him, or manipulate him, or use him or his $ for fame?

That's not easy and Maybe I'm Amazed wasn't lyin'.

[crehador]

Can I ask, if you have top favorite romantic couples (can be canon or non canon) of all time from any media? Why love them? Thx :D

ANON SORRY THIS ASK HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY INBOX FOR FIVE BILLION YEARS

this is such a fun thing to think about but my brain of course is just going "ichisama ichisama ichisama" nonstop, but now i will sit down and properly try to think of a top five (like the top 10 characters ask, i'll limit this to animanga and possibly group some together; i'm also limiting myself to ONLY icsm from hpmi, or this whole list would be hpmi lmao)

1. in first place of course it is ICHISAMA FOR LIFE

using this image yet again because well it's right there in my pinned and very convenient

i am a sucker for the dumb of ass kind of heart one falling for the bad boy with a heart of gold one, ESPECIALLY when they have the friends to enemies to lovers arc that ichisama does (ok the to lovers part is obviously hc only but hoo boy it is a strong hc)

what can i say about them really besides that i am writing a fic a day for them every day this year. i think that. says it all lol

2. gotta be koyanagi/kabakura wotakoi AND kashima/hori gsnk

while i'm not saying they are identical ships they definitely fall into the same bucket for me, and boy oh boy do i love that bucket

kashima and hori make me belligerently delighted, and koyanagi and kabakura make me a special sort of feral that i don't even know how to start in on

i really like narumi and hirotaka from wotakoi too, but there's something about koyanagi and kabakura that gets to me way more. the geek4geek dynamic is just impeccable with all four of them but the

[PUTTING THE CUT HERE BECAUSE WOTAKOI SPOILERS BELOW, ALSO TOKYO GHOUL SPOILERS FARTHER DOWN]

koyanagi/kabakura wedding just gave me a special sort of glee. i just don't think there's a single thing i don't love to pieces about them, their backstory ova only makes them better

3. saaaaaaya and yuusuke from neon sign amber (aka aokise knb)

obligatory shoutout to the boys of my FAVORITE BL OF ALL TIME ok so like as far as bl goes neon sign amber is really not the most unique thing, i would say. but that's what makes it so perfect to me

i feel like a lot of outstanding bl are great in ways that are 'atypical' for bl, like how saezuru is bl, sure, but also comes with a genuinely gripping gritty yakuza plot. and many others that are highly praised tend to be praised by people going "oh this is good because it's not like TYPICAL bl" which i have feelings about but let's not get into that here

neon sign amber is my favorite because it is very much a typical bl, it has a lot of the typical tropes (guy who's been historically straight but is "gay for you" for example)

i don't necessarily love any of those tropes, but i adore what neon sign amber does with them. it is practically a cookie cutter bl, but its characters (despite existing for only one volume of a manga) live in my heart forever. it takes that "gay for you" trope and doesn't gloss over the problems that could arise in a relationship like that, instead actually addressing them in a way i found satisfying

saya especially is one of my guys of all time, and given that they're kind of obviously aokise i'm lumping them in here too. mwah

4. idolish7 YUKIMOMO MY BELOVEDS (e banri)

thought about this one a lot because i feel like i normally like them in a... normal way, so do they really make the top five? but honestly i think they do

i love their stage gay married act and i love to think that's very much rooted in a foundation of they are actually fucking in love with each other. but just that would've made them a cute but not too memorable ship to me

THEIR BACKSTORY THOUGH. MY GOD. first of all baby momo looks literally just like tdd ichiro which is a. a lot. for me. lmao but anyway setting that aside

momo discovering revale at such a pivotal time in his life, being saved by them, becoming their fans, and then being the one to replace banri after THAT happened??? and then five years later feeling like he's running out of time with yuki and ad;slkfja;lkdsfj

i'm becoming incoherent just thinking about it. anyway i guess this is kind of an ot3 for me though i like it in very much a "we are a couple and we are, as a couple, dating banri" sort of thing (not because they wouldn't ever see banri as an equal partner but because imo banri has better things to do than get too involved in that lol)

5. this last one... is so tough... i think i'm giving it to VARIOUS RELATIONSHIPS IN TOKYO GHOUL

ok this is absolutely cheating and ultimately i think what i would have to say is kaneki and hide because like. eat my face to survive is peak romance to me, sorry. as if it's my fault

HOWEVER there are just so many relationships in tokyo ghoul that i'm absolutely obsessed with. amon/akira and nishio/kimi especially!! amon and akira are so so so delightful to me, in a way similar to roy and riza fma, and nishio and kimi are just. i mean. again. eat me to survive. peak romance

(and i swear i'm not a nishio stan because of voice actor bias, i have not watched tokyo ghoul yet because i have been repeatedly and sternly warned away from it... nishio is one of my manga favorites even without the asnm factor, but good fucking lord does the asnm factor tempt me to watch)

the writing in tokyo ghoul is genuinely just so good to me. the main plot is fantastic but what really makes it is the relationships between characters, both romantic and not

(also a fan of the one-sided tsukiyama/kaneki thing going on but strictly as a one-sided thing lol, tsukiyama get wrecked (said with affection))

so i think that is. more or less where my top five would be. though it's like. it's hard. and probably always changing. those are the first beloved ones to come to my though so they will go in this post and i will smack myself in the forehead and be like "I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT ______" as soon as i go to sleep probably

thank you for the ask!

[nowordsformylove]

jonesmith analysis ep 31-32, 1-10 (part 3)

its here :D

episode 31 aka the shortest episode ever but I had a lot of fun pulling stuff from this one :)

"girls make him break out in a rash" Davy & Mike sensing another fag:

this ep was just Mike torturing Davy heh

Peter: "you know, it's going to be tough to replace a man like Frankie. after all, where do you find a guy that can't sing, act, or surf?"

Mike: "you could go out for the part, Davy."

^ came for him out of no where

manhandling and dragging him around by the scruff of his neck. I love that Mike rolls his eyes in the first gif.

also I love when the guys scoop up Davy at the end and tie him to the volleyball poll (a compromising position for him to be in). Mike shouldve pressed his crotch against Davy when he grabbed him from behind 🙄😔

ep 32

love Mike aggressively manhandling him here, he goes for a full choke... I also think Mike being goofy during the radio show and Davy giggling at everything he says is so fucking cute.

SEASON 2

ep 1 not anything specific to jonesmith I’d say since Davy is kidnapped most of it. I do love Mike's line deliver on "David means business, baby"

also when theyre singing and it looks like Davy is yelling into his ear.

ep 2

using my one video per post early bc theres no way to convey this through a gif

this ep was a great jolenzmith ep as they quite literally say "we're all in this together"so I’d feel too bad cutting Micky out of the jonesmith analysis BUT I will include this frame bc its so cute and silly

ep 3

this scene where Mike tries to barge into the room like a knight in shining armor there to save Davy and Davy is just chillin.

^ my gif doesnt do his little voice break justice.

Mike touching Davy's arm here during the scene where theyre telling Davy not to marry this random girl and Davy's like no im not gunna.

their adorable shenanigans in the background pointed out here.

ep 4

Davy descibing Mike as "comfortable and familiar" cuteee.

damsel in distress bit

Davy straightening Mike's tie is so cute to me and the little hand pat after gahhhhh so soft "take it easy Mike, dont be nervous" I love them

ep 5

waist grab

ep 7

whatever he was doing here

Davy Jones 🤏👏 all ground up.

when they go back to Ella Mae's house and Davy's pants get caught on the nail so he calls out to Mike for help AND his cute little "hiya Mike" when everyone comes running outside. literally only acknowledging Mike in these scenes. I know, he only got two eyes.

ep 8 i love this ep all of the guys are super touchy with each other. I was determined to include every tiny little scene they were in physical contact but it was genuinely too much so i picked my faves (and its still a lot).

Davy's deathgrip on Mike's wasit, as he should.

Mike grabbing Davy when hes startled, role reversal.

kinda went crazy with gif making this ep 🙈 whatever. love is stored in the grabbing of each others arms.

ep 10 gay ass episode

finger sword fight. an analogy to a different type of "sword fighting"

Davy big smile Mike teeny little smile wahhhh. from HERE.

Mike draping his arm over Davy. I am in a coma from this scene

Davy resting his chin on Mike's shoulder AUUGGHHHHHH. + them being cute dorks.

[chidoroki]

Tokyo Revengers S3EP8

aka: super money bros

Inui slays in heels but are we gonna learn why he wears them? Of course there doesn’t need to be a reason if he just wants to look fancy and he likes to do so, but I feel there’s more to it.

HELLO? Random kiss from Koko outta nowhere?? What was that for!

Whomever this Akane is is really messing with Koko’s mind.

Ooohh, Inui’s sister. I have a hunch something happened to her and died if Koko is always stressing about earning money.

I wanna say their interactions are cute but I just know there’s gonna be heartbreak at the end of this ep.

“I will love you forever. When I grow up, please marry me!” Koko entering his Asta phase.

“I’ll protect you forever.” “Do you promise?” “Yeah. I promise.” And then something is about to go wrong..

Yup, horribly wrong like, RIGHT NOW! Goddamn, that fire happened quick.

Oh my god, Koko went in to rescue Akane but because the siblings look so similar he saved Inui instead.

Ah, so that’s how Inui got the mark on his face. I didn’t even notice it was missing earlier in the flashback. My bad.

Oh, and that’s why Koko is so driven to make money, to help treat Akane’s burns.

Koko really hustling to make all that cash. I wondered why this seemingly good boy who frequents the library turned into a punk.

That bouncer let him into some vip club? Doesn’t matter if Koko used a fake card, the boy still looks so young!

All that effort went to waste with Akane dying out of the blue.

Okay wait, the Haitani bros look real nice with their hair down like that though..

Two bros, crying on the battlefield, five feet about but they’re so gay.

Ah shit, Mucho is coming in to fight Inui instead.

Hang in there Chifuyu!

Damn, if Mucho slammed a dude into the ground and busted his spine, Inui better watch his back.. not that it matters as he’s getting thrown down on the ground anyways, good lord.

Hanma is way too excited to learn about all the crimes S-62 committed.

UMM Rindo?? What the fuck are we doing splits like that for? He’s obviously having too much fun during this fight.. and I'm very impressed.

So these two, by themselves, ruled over all over Roppongi, because of a victory in one fight where one dude eventually died.. wow. And again, they’re so young here!

Okay but Ran fighting with a baton is kinda cheap.

Angry and Hakkai gotta step up, stop arguing about their siblings and retaliate!

Little bro alliance let’s go!

[blamin8r]

This short comic was my comic project for my art class in my junior year, so it’s also from May 2022, and my teacher absolutely loved this comic. It was assigned to us to understand the concepts of comic creation. Creative panels, speech bubbles, spacing, action lines, and story. Originally, there were only 3 options for the project, which I can’t really remember, but an original story like this wasn’t allowed because of students who previously had chosen that and couldn’t think of any, so I spent every other class that day writing the script and the panel descriptions and I showed it to him, and he was impressed with out much work I put into it and allowed me to go ahead with it. The comic cover was my personal choice, but I saved creating that for last because I knew I’d get ahead of myself and probably not finish the actual comic in time otherwise.

Anyway, here’s the story of the comic. Zayn, Nitro, and Max are sitting on the couch in their apartment with their two kids, Zena and Angel. This takes place 13 years after the initial starting point of the Electric Blades comic. Pages 2-5 are about the actual first time that Zayn and Nitro met, which was 1 week before the initial start of Electric Blades (aka, move in day). Zayn won 10 fights in a row that night, but then nobody else wanted to go against him. He did this all without his power too, which makes it even more impressive because of his size. Nitro steps up to the ring, and they agree to fight powerless, and then the fight commences. I really wanted to do parts of the actual fight scene, but I wouldn’t have had enough time for that sadly, so I settled with the lead up to the fight and one panel that previews what happened during it. After the flashback, they get back to how Max met them, which is from their roommate at the time, Tobias. (The part of the story where Zayn and Nitro move out has changed since then).

I’m also gonna add that my high school art teacher is gay and married so that might also be part of why he liked this comic, which in and of itself was probably a risk for me to have drawn: gay poly relationship with two kids and also ass being said but censored. Not like my teacher would’ve cared, but the district might have. That’s why he’s cool.

[fuzziekins]

101 Dalmatians, the live action version. i remember loving it when i was a kid because Dalmatians and i love dogs, and with all the live action remakes Disney has made (the wave in remakes seem to have started with Cinderella but 101 Dalmatians was actually one of the first in the 90s i believe) so i decided to give it a rewatch this week because i could...also because i love Disney and wanted to watch a Disney movie (disclaimer: just because i do love Disney does not mean i agree with everything Disney has said/done, that i do not like all of their movies, and i am still mad at them for not giving us anywhere near enough gay).

It was definitely not as good as i remember it. Some parts i remembered clearer than others and some were funny. The animals in the barn going after Cruella, for one thing. And, as suspected, the puppies were a highlight. One of my favorite scenes was still after the puppies were born, they had been watching a scene from The Aristocats followed by Homeward Bound and then they were given their collars with their names. Not all were the same as the animated movie, and i'm not sure how many of the names from the original book were for the 15 puppies versus how many of the names were for the other puppies they found later. i think my favorite part about though, specifically, was how the spots on each individual Dalmatian can play a part in their names (the tail of Dipstick's tail being black, the spots around Jewel's neck resembling a necklace, for example, also similar to how Lucky's spots in the animated version on his back resemble a horseshoe) and that's what i always loved about Dalmatians; that no two spots on every dog are alike and that they're all so unique. The fact that they incorporated the video game into the movie and you could actually see some scenes and graphics from it definitely brought me back, i loved that game so much. And, obviously, Glenn Close was AMAZING. She gave everything she had into playing Cruella and made her completely believable. She sold every scene and was probably the closest thing we'd get to an embodiment of a real life Cruella DeVil. i wouldn't quite compare her to Angelina Jolie playing Maleficent because while both are classic, evil, and perhaps two of the worst (aka best) Disney villains in existence they are still very different. But as far as that statement goes, i was never a fan of the Maleficent movies (if one happens to be on i might put it on in the background but they'd be far from my first choices to actually watch) and while i'm not as much a fan of the live action 101 Dalmatians as i once was, credit where credit is due - these women portraying these villains are absolutely FABULOUS.

The rest of the cast of the movie was so meh to me. Roger and Anita were two completely different people and, while i believe the take of Anita working for Cruella and enjoyed the idea of Perdi being the inspiration for the spotted coat, i don't like the other changes. Especially the way in which the two of them met. Pongo pulling Roger on his bike desperate trying to look for/catch up to Anita and Perdita lasted WAY too long and it felt more like something directed at little kids where they could laugh at the dog pulling Roger and getting him hurt and into all other sorts of trouble (i mean, yeah, it's Disney so it is directed for kids but there were so many other things they could have done). While in the animated movie i don't believe it's explicitly stated how long they're together before they're married the meeting was far more enjoyable and cute. The live action movie felt like it went from 100 down to 5 so quickly; they started so angry at each other but as Roger's leaving he's all "but it's not because i like her" and that night it's not only revealed they basically made out after he saved her but he also wanted to marry her that day? That's not how it works (and not just because this is pre-Frozen with the whole "you can't marry someone you just met"). Not to mention Anita's pregnancy. That went completely over my head as a kid (understandably so) but watching it now i'm not sure what bothers me more. That they find out in the first month (which, in current times does make sense but should they even be announcing it?), or that it feels completely unnecessary. (Or maybe it's just my personal awkward feelings, i don't know.) i also wasn't a fan of Horace and Jasper. i'm not sure if it was the characters or the way they were written or just the actors playing them or maybe it was the chemistry between the two but...they were NOTHING like their animated counterparts. And the electrocution scene...ok yeah it's funny, they tried and failed to go over the electric fans and got their crotches shocked badly. But as an adult i could totally see that coming and it lasted for too long, taking the full humor out of it.

i have a LOT of feelings about Disney doing all these live action remakes. Some of them feel completely unnecessary (Jungle Book, Lion King, Lilo and Stitch, Robin Hood to name a few). Some of them turned out ok and are decent movies if you don't compare them to the animated movie (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin). The only movie i thoroughly enjoyed as a live action remake was The Little Mermaid (save for Scuttle's rap and Flounder's design primarily). As to where 101 Dalmatians sits on that list, for me at least, it's one of those movies that is easily pictured as a live action movie. It can be done and it makes sense. But did they do a good job of it? No. I almost wonder if, it had been remade now, how different it would be and if it'd be remotely more enjoyable. But it doesn't need to be nor do the animated movies keep needing to be rehashed into live action - especially when some of them are more computer animated to look realistic than ACTUAL live action. Even so, if we got 101 Dalmatians now we wouldn't have Glenn Close as Cruella. She, along with the actual Dalmatians, are the only saving graces of this movie.

wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

[dumuzithemessiah]

REAL Gods and Goddesses look NOTHING LIKE you humans AT ALL

Look at my profile pic THAT is me whom is a real GOD aka male yazata! Deities are feline like species that have small wings on their backs that work like extra arma and a Y shaped tail! And a crystal horn on our heads! Females are macho, burly, tough, and strong! Males are pretty, cute, magical, and beautiful!

Neither gender has giant human sized tits on their bodies that you sick disgusting whore fake witches on Tumblr seem to disgustingly think my kind has which we do not!

Contacting man made deities does not make them real! Real deities look nothing like humans! We aren’t ugly minded like you genocide spreading asshole humans who with your LIES and man made religions have caused zillions of innocent lived all over the Universe including advanced species which are species that most are above human level of intelligence have literally died because of humanity’s wicked evil ways!

Humans have no damn magic aka majic as it’s spelled correctly in Nibirian in them! Your candles do jack shit! No real god or goddess would ever comfort a human as humans proved to be nothing but enemies to my kind!

If I need to talk to my fam I use telepathy to speak with my kind and the only bad member is Ishtayr which the correct way to spell the evil fiend’s name! She caused lies to spread, genocides to happen, she literally forced me into a marriage when I already loved Marduk[[still do we got married later after I was rescued from her]] to HURT ME, TORTURED ME WITH FIRE, FLAMING SPIDERS TOO, LITERALLY RAPED ME because females can shapeshift a dick to breed same sexually as yazata can do, AND I NEVER LIKED FEMALES THAT WAY AS I, DUMUZI, AM GAY, SO YEAH 100% RAPE, SHE ALSO ATTACKED MY CHILDREN I HAD WITH MARDUK LIKE QUPIT AND YORUPIT!!

Any of you damn humans worshiping ISHTAYR DESERVE TO BE YELLED AT AND TOLD OFF OR DAMN WORSE AS ISHTAYR IS THE GREAT EVIL HERSELF FROM THE FIRST UNIVERSE THAT I FOUGHT AND DESTROYED BUT SACRIFICED TO SAVE EVERYONE ELSE!!!!

Only reason I got reborn is because I was put back together but I am the first god and the real Messiah which FYI means “Hero of Rainbows” not “Saviour of Humanity” as why would I save humanity when humanity is so selfish they think they can blow up the Kosmos with their constant spreading of evil energy which is caused by spreading lies and worshipping man made religions[[like Christianity and Islamism for major examples]]! Such beliefs caused the Helveon War to go on so long!!

The Helveon War was started by evil elves who betrayed the gods and goddesses and was continued by their human offspring because the evil elves bred with other homo species!

Elves may have a Nibirian body type but they are a species of human but with Nibirian gender standards so males are pretty, cute, beautiful, and magical while females are tough, burly, macho, and strong! Elves have all shades of red for hair including magical shades! Good elves still exist as they left with the Nibirians while evil elves darkened in skin tone like Rockman DASH aka Megaman Legends morality system working but in real life! Good elves have pale olive to light olive skin, all shades of green for eyes, and various shades of red for hair including magical shades like rose red like Edguar for example has going on for his natural hair colour!

Evil elves… there is only Earl and Aeva left of those and they are Ishtayr’s minions, lackeys, etc, whatever you call them… their hair is the colour of evil energy aka dark brownish red… they are cruel and evil and would kill an innocent animal like a puppy for no reason them sick pleasure of killing someone..

But you sick fucking humans who worship that disgusting false deity Ishtayr deserve to be hated as what she did is unforgivable and unacceptable…

I love Marduk[[pronounced Mar-duke]] not her and never will love my worst enemy… she has to be destroyed for the Universe and it’s heart and soul the Kosmos which exists in the center of the Universe and a universe cannot exist without a Kosmos…

Humans… you are threatening all mortal life in the Universe with your vile evil actions….. you will get what is coming to you on J-Day aka Judgement Day…

The truth is the truth and the truth doesn’t favour humanity’s evil ways period…

Humans spread hate, war, genocide, lies, murder, sexism, intolerance, homophobia, anti LGBT behaviour, etc, so why are you humans so surprised that the real deal deities wouldn’t side with you? We never would side with an evil prone species like you! We gods and goddesses work to maintain peace and order in the Universe and Multiverse!

Your species SPREAD NOTHING BUT CHAOS, DEATH, BLOODSHED, AND HATE!!

If you change your ways by J-Day you literally will die body and soul!! We aren’t gonna let you human destroy the Kosmos which would blow up the Universe thus KILL ALL MORTAL LIFE as MAGICAL BEINGS/MULTIDIMENSIONAL BEINGS CAN ESCAPE SUCH DESTRUCTION!!!

Based on that info and what evils humans have done throughout history - you should realise why we cannot let you get your vile way! The real gods and goddesses cannot allow humanity to kill everyone else for humanity’s selfish bullshit self entitled bratty evil hateful ways!!

You were never entitled to something that spreads evil energy…. no one is… something that spreads evil energy which no one is entitled to do the thing that spreads it….

Because it is a threat to all mortal life and what is a threat to all innocent life must be destroyed for all else to survive…

You humans caused all this chaos and hell to happen so don’t get mad at me for telling you humans the real truth….. instead you should be thinking on how you can redeem yourselves for maybe you could be allowed reincarnation… as being reincarnated is better than dying permanently body and soul…

That should be a fact very obvious to you humans as it would be “continued existence” even if in a new form…

I feel horrible enough because of how long the Helveon War has been going on… it’s somewhat close to half a million years…

Having to fight my worst enemy Ishtayr isn’t gonna be easy nor will having to give humanity “The Big E” as I call it… but I have to do what I have to do to save the Kosmos and Universe… even if it goes against what I normally stand for… I do look forward to being reunited with my family, the other gods and goddesses, and my demon friends….. which FYI real demons aren’t evil and many work hard to protect the peach and order of the Universe..

And I miss my artificial intelligence type friends like my lime and black net navi hedgehog Ashura or the robots too as AI life on Nibiru is so advanced they’re treated the same as any other advanced life on Nibiru…

Demons resemble anthropomorphic animals with manes and wear clothes and shoes… same with robots and net navis resembling anthropomorphic animals with clothes and shoes…. Net navis and robots have souls so they are alive…

I miss Marduk and my children most of all…

If you’ve been through what I’ve been through and humanity acting like assholes to you and bawed, harassed, insulted, and accused you of being fake because they’re ASSHURT their fake god doesn’t exist[[Yahweh Yehovah was an evil elf who manipulated others into killing innocent elf children and Jesus straight up rips off of tales around the middle east about me as I was the one trying to teach humans the truth back then in hopes to save humanity from their fate but humans were too hateful and violent and attacked me and Marduk electrocuted their king for attacking me like that when he found]] then you’d understand why I am angry with humanity!

IT’S NOT MY FAULT YOUR SPECIES WAS LIED TO FOR COUNTLESS GENERATIONS!

Taking your damn anger out on me is the biggest mistake you could’ve ever made! I’m the guy who has the final decision whether someone gets reincarnated or not! Even Ereshkigal and Nergael[[Nergael is female not male]] respects my authority on that!

Sumerians got a lot of things wrong[[quite a few misgendering, and wrong and sexist false depictions of us looking like their ugly asses but we look nothing like them in reality! So human being ugly ass human supremists as usual as hateful humans even today hatefully act like they’re above all life!]] and they wrote that shit thousands of years after most my kind left to deal with war going on between two planets so yeah we left for an actual reason as gods and goddesses work to keep peace and order in the Universe and Multiverse!

Suri, not suri[[Modern Nibiran for sorry]] but your species ain’t special, nor above all life, nor above any real deities, and your man made religions are just a bunch of lies made by bloodthirsty murderous scumbags who wanted anyone dead who didn’t think in their hateful murderous violent hivemind ways! You humans need to get that ugly blood covered pacifier out of your ugly mouth! Truth proves humanity to be nothing but a hateful evil group of bloodthirsty savages! All you humans use your intelligence for is messed up things!

Sin is a word from my planet’s language and it means “wisdom” not crime like you hateful chimpanzees claimed! You have no right to steal any word from Nibiru! Ehden as it is correctly spelled just means “wilderness” and it comes from Ancient Nibirian same with sin.

My name? Dumuzi means “Life” in Ancient Nibirian.

I highly suggest you try to redeem yourselves as I said! As on Judgement Day humanity is literally fucked as you fuck and try to destroy the Kosmos then the gods and goddesses kill all of you and give you the “Big E” you fiends deserve for all the hell, bloodshed, death, suffering, and sorrow, that you blood covered chimpanzees have caused!

Me being present on Earth already should tell you humans your days are numbered! I am only being harsh as it is necessary to be harsh as I am with this post!

[stedewards]

wip tag meme

tagged by @181230 and @ulfie-by-osmosis thanks for the tag bestie <3

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

okay so i opened quotev after a while for this and here's what i found!

my main wips (aka the ones i think about most / have most focus on)

the price of war: this is a riordanverse fic. to sum it up briefly, it's got an overpowered mc who passes out as much as hearthstone, and not a lot of happy stuff

shattered: this is literally just a feel-good fic about a bunch of queer friends and overcomplicated storylines. (it's set in marauders era - i will address this under the cut if for some reason u want to know about fandom stuff)

goldfish (aka heather): the lily rosier fic, no description needed bc she is world famous actually

demons: a marauders/pjoverse murder mystery

????: set in the star wars universe, it follows one of my ocs who's present in every fic i write and i view as a personification of the timeline. it's a bunch of angst and just super fun for me

trans gwen au: @ulfie-by-osmosis beloved, title says it all

fate and time: a mattfoggy fic inspired by the themes of the starless sea. i love mattfoggy sm they are gay ok goodnight

the ones i am not as focused on / other wips include the following. some of them have 0 written fic content

broken world: this is literally my mcu brainchild fic. it's mcu-universe compliant except aos was canon and my oc exists. she's desi btw and married to daisy and i love them

whatever it takes: to be honest, i forgot this existed. it's set in the shadowhunters universe and spans like. all the shit to be honest. it's a universe at this point

broken blades: it's set in the same multiverse as broken world is, but it's set in the fox x-men universe and follows a different oc. (for eye ra, her name is cas)

broken space: this is the timeline lady from ???? except make it mcu. yes there is a theme i am aware. yes the stories overlap. no they are incredibly different and quirky and unique

unbroken: this is my game of thrones fic! that takes place mainly in my head! it has three main ocs of mine. one is the timeline lady (re: ???? above) and struggles between keeping a promise to a dead friend and her present loyalties, one is hellbent on revenge for her brother's death, and the last is trying to escape the war

saving grace (title is under works): four best friends. chaos. absolutely no content available. hp era

oh my god we're all gonna die (title is under works): four best friends. chaos. absolutely no content available. pjo/hoo era

roses of summer: this is marauders again and loosely based off august by taylor swift

the lucky one: this is set in the mcu (mine maybe, maybe not) and it. doesn't really have a plot tbh; still a wip

i'm pretty sure i missed a bunch of fics but this is all my brain could come up with so YEAH

tags: @dishaashitposts and anyone else interested!

RE hp fics - i do not support jkr and the things she's said about the trans community. at the same time, i acknowledge that the harry potter books and universe have been so important in my personal life and i do not want to separate that. i have had fanfics before the onslaught of transphobia, and to be honest, i don't really need to sit and justify my writing of fics to strangers on the internet. a shit ton of these fics are purely for my personal enjoyment. they are my brainchildren. they make me happy. if u read this for whatever reason, i hope u have a lovely day and take care <3

[lizzie-is-here]

just got emotionally fucking annihilated by wakanda forever

but i also wanna talk about it! warning for spoilers and general rambling below 👇

ok, let’s start with parallels CAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY

first off, the comparison of shuri and killmonger 👀

it really does make sense, especially when you think ab how they both “go against” tradition, rejecting the standards. t’challa (rip ilysm) still wanted to please the elders, even if he had more progressive ideas (ie: sandals for his first day

also i’m so fucking glad they didn’t try to cgi chadwick in. it would’ve felt disrespectful and i think it was handled beautifully

her sparing namor the same way t’challa spared those he fought (saving zemo, helping bucky, trying to help killmonger)

the dialogue callbacks bro. fuckin “show him who you are,” had me sobbing. “vengeance is consuming us” babes, shuri, i’m crying.

her being angered by loss and snapping at nakia like t’challa snapped at zuri when he realized killmonger’s identity

also i absolutely love riri. i was a bit apprehensive going in, but i think they executed her well without just making her a replacement for tony. that being said, he would absolutely adore her

the parallel of her going too high and running out of oxygen and later turning it on namor in the same way mirrors tony’s suit frosting over and doing the same to stane 😭

the silent flashes of t’challa took my breath away. the silence really compounded just how empty and quiet their grief is.

seeing shuri try so hard in the opening and not even being able to say goodbye was so sad, and you can see her thoughts racing later on when she successfully synthesizes the heart-shaped herb. it’s a sort of “what if i’d thought of this earlier?” “who would still be alive?” “how could i have missed this?” sort of feeing

onto details!

the new black panther suit is stunning 🤩 the gold and silver details along with the dots that almost look like pearls, mirroring the ones she wears at the funerals? it shows that even if she is the leader of wakanda now, she’s still very young, still grieving her many losses

the tech and ai has really been amped up. shuri’s ai and her different interfaces looked amazing. also the ai (who i think is grio but i couldn’t tell) reminds me of jarvis. mainly in the orange blob department

the dora milaje looked stunning as ever, and seeing some new tech for them was exciting

THE VIBRANIUM THAT MELTED INTO THE CARS ALSKDKDKFKLDDK OBSESSED TONY WOULDVE LOVED THAT SHIT

talokan was gorgeous, even if it did violently trigger my thalassophobia

ummm everett and valentina being married (well, divorced) was a plot point i was not expecting. hope to see him in the thunderbolts tho he’s very slay

fucking 👏 t’challa 👏 junior 👏

i broke down right then and there

took me right out

i won’t lie the people of talokan gave me avatar vibes but i did like the touch of them having siren-like voices.

also namora was pretty so that’s a win

ok i get that it’s a movie. but realistically, i’d they’re fighting this massive underwater force, why not just call any other super powered avenger????

like for movie’s sake yeah it’s all fine but like if i were in the mcu living that shit i’d be like “let’s just call thor. have him like electrocute the water. or doctor strange. he did that cool water thing in endgame that had literally no purpose except to give him screen time. or wanda, we all know she ain’t really dead bffr”

AYO IS GENERAL NOW??? I LOVE OKOYE BUT THATS A SLAY

ALSO SHES GAY??????

I SAW THAT KISS AT THE END 👀👀👀👀

man i love m’baku so much. he’s just. ugh

ok in better terms, i think i like him so much because he is first presented as a chad, almost. he’s strong, a bit dumb, and leads the isolated tribe.

but then you interact w him and find out he’s incredibly emotionally empathetic and kind, and reaches out to shuri as a helping hand, a person to lean on.

i just really appreciate him okay 🥺😭

overall, stunning. 10/10, fifth time in a row that marvel’s made me cry at one of their movies.

aka black widow (bc yelena and the ending), shang-chi (bc gotdamn let me cry ab the chinese representation), no way home (cause duh), love and thunder (BC HE ADOPTED HER BITCH WHAT) and now this

stunning, showstopping, say what you will about marvel but damn they know how to make me cry

[marley-manson]

I'm only a fan in certain ways lol so this may have more of an emphasis on their relationship flaws and toxicity than another fan's list, but it's still shippy, and I aimed for a decent balance.

Ain't Love Grand: Hawk/BJ as the successful "couple" despite their surface differences paralleled/contrasted with two genuinely incompatible couples.

The Joker Is Wild: Trapper complex, top/bottom jokes, pigtail pulling perhaps, the fucked up weirdness that makes them compelling.

Peace on Us: The red party, aka BJ at his most supportive.

Period of Adjustment: Well it's my shippiest episode lol. BJ's insecurity about being Trapper's replacement paralleled to his insecurity about being replaceable to his family (ie how easily his daughter confused Radar for him) is nicely homoerotic, and I love the more toxic aspects of their relationship which this episode clearly focuses on.

Where There's a Will, There's a War: BJ fretting about Hawkeye, Hawkeye having difficulty coming up with something to leave BJ that symbolizes what BJ means to him, and the nicely homoerotic ending, ie BJ half wakes up and sees Hawkeye and says "remind me to give you a kiss in the morning" because he's been worried about him all day and he's glad to see him, but Hawkeye assumes he's dreaming about his wife and this assumption leads to his revelation about what to leave BJ in his will, prioritizing BJ's family. It's a disconnect between them that feels very homoerotic to me at this point in the story. BJ focusing solely on Hawkeye and Hawkeye mistaking it for his obsession with his wife and kid... good suff.

Oh How We Danced: Opening with a joke about Hawkeye standing in for Peg for BJ's anniversary, ending with someone else literally standing in for Peg while Hawkeye watches from the sidelines after giving him the most thoughtful anniversary present anyone's ever given anyone ever.

GFA: Their relationship is the most prominent with the final climactic goodbye, it's largely about their issues but in a way that's fun because again, I'm all about the flaws wrt shipping them. BJ doesn't want to admit he'll probably never see Hawkeye again, gets weird when he's drunk at the goodbye party and telling a joking story about cheating on his wife. Intriguing stuff. ETA whoops I missed that you also said discounting the last. Oh well, pretend Comrades in Arms is my choice here then I guess.

Hanky Panky: Because I feel like it serves as a good gay explanation for why BJ doesn't support Hawkeye emotionally very much if you want a nicer and homoerotic explanation for that, ie last time he was someone's shoulder to lean on he cheated on his wife. Plus a couple of gay jokes, and a neat parallel wrt BJ asking Donovan to open up to him and Hawkeye asking BJ to open up to him.

The Yalu Brick Road: Hawkeye makes a good joke comparing the North Korean who surrendered to an old girlfriend's sibling who tagged along with them and killed the mood, plus in general they've got a comfortable bickery married couple vibe here.

Rally Round the Flagg, Boys: BJ being a condescending dick about how he's so much more cool and rational than Hawkeye, and proving himself hypocritical by saving Hawkeye from an angry patient at the end more violently than necessary.

Bonus: The Grim Reaper for being the very first episode that made me start shipping them because it's one of BJ's first condescending dick episodes lol; Comrades in Arms for BJ fretting about Hawkeye; The Kids for Hawkeye's first sappy very loving look at BJ when he tells the story to the orphans... probably others where they seem happy and married-couple-esque together but I don't have a good memory for those.

Okay. BJ/Hawkeye fans only. This is a very serious research question which I will very much need an answer to fairly soon.

Ten best Hawkeye/BJ episodes. Give reasons for your choice. ("Welcome to Korea" does not count, I've watched that a lot and it's mostly BJ following Hawkeye around like a little lost duck.)

Seriously. Discounting the first and the last, "Welcome to Korea" and "Goodbye Farewell Amen", supposing you wanted to convince someone who wasn't a BJ/Hawkeye shipper that this is the ship, which 10 episodes would you want them to watch?

[absolutebl]

Remaking the HIStory Franchise

For @heretherebedork who likes to challenge me (off the back of this post.) More fantasy remakes of BLs! 

I took this as a double dare: Who would fix it? is my main challenge. Because MUCH of the HIStory franchise is in need of fixing. But also, who would make it worse? This time, I took Taiwan out of the remake running (this is their franchise) but I got to put Korea in! He he, that means I have WATCHA to play with. This’ll be fun. 

HIStory My Hero  

Who gets it? Korea’s Hwang Da Seul 

Body swap, friends to lovers, university set, soft, sweet low heat. No side dishes. No triggers. But then the original is also not quite BL and not particularly romantic. Girl dies and her consciousness transfers into in the body of the boy who (maybe) had a crush on her boyfriend. She has a week to make her old boyfriend fall in love with her new body. I'm not a fan of body swap but I think I want Korea to try it on for size. I’d hand this one off to Hwang Da Seul partly because she picks really GOOD actors, and that’s required for body swap to work. I don’t feel she has to reuse a pair for it, though, and I’d be fine if she wanted to age up the characters. 

Who’d fuck it up? GMMTV, they flipping can’t handle body swap, I wish they’d stop trying.

HIStory Stay Away From Me 

Who gets it? 02 Productions in Vietnam 

University nerd's dad marries actor idol's mom and moves the now stepbrothers in with each other. It's a cohabitation romance with the stepbrothers trope on a classic popular/nerd, sunshine/tsundere pairing. It’s a perfect vehicle for Vietnam. They would add more and better kisses for a superior ending, plus good domesticity, and give it a bit more length. Bah Vinh hasn’t played an idol character yet (right?) and I think he would be VERY good in that roll. 

Who’d fuck it up? Japan. I don’t know why they can’t handle celebrity romances but they REALLY can’t (see Given & Love Stage). 

HIStory Obsessed 

Who gets it? The MoD Triage people in Thailand 

Uke obsessed with seme to the point of losing himself and his identity dies after being rejected, and then has a chance to reboot his life. He decides to save himself by never falling in love. But destiny is a bitch, and this time the seme becomes obsessed with him. I think mad good things could be done with this story line if it were extended out bu Thailand. It’s fun and complex. So I’m giving it to Thailand’s premier fun and complex peeps. Go forth and multiply! 

Who’d mess it up the most? Cheewin and COPY definitely. I shudder to think. 

HIStory 2: Right or Wrong

Who gets it? Japan, the studio who did Old Fashion Cupcake 

It's a teacher/student power dynamic, tsundere/sunshine pairing, plus cohabitation with themes of self acceptance and family domesticity. It's a slow burn but high heat (and that heat is good). The uke is out gay, the seme is unapologetically bi. Japan already loves a teacher student age gap pairing and this is right in their wheelhouse. They won’t shy away from the implications and I want them to confront their own social issues and restrictions with regards to gay marriage... which they would. I like the original, but I think this would be a whole lot better, actually. 

Who’d mess it up the most? Korea probubly, they can’t handle questionable content dynamics, they get to scared, teacher/student + gay would probubly break them. Although there is a part of me that wants to see them try... and squirm.  

HIStory 2: Crossing the Line 

Who gets it? WATCHA in Korea 

This is sports romance (volleyball) with a good boy/bad boy pairing is my favorite of the franchise. There no clear seme/uke. There's great kisses but it's medium heat. The side dishes are the stepbrother trope but they’re very tame, and there’s no other triggers in this BL. I have to give it to the studio that doesn’t fuck up, WATCHA. 

Who’d mess this one up the most? Easy, MAME. 

HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count 

AKA HIStory 3 The BL That Shall Not Be Named

Who gets it? It has to go to GMMTV. 

I say that knowing the best thing about the original was the authenticity of the heat levels, so it should go to Cheewin or MAME, BUT they’d fuck up the characters, so... GMMTV gets it. Purely on the grounds that they would fix that ending. (They don’t do sad BL.) Also they have a deep actor pool to pull from for the cast, I’d like Aof to direct so it retains its depth. It doesn’t have to be high school, I’d bump this one up to university and hand it off to a really seasoned team. Also I think the seme character MUST stay himbo, so EathMix can’t take on this show. It’s gotta go to someone who can do physical and emotional comedy, that’s why I chose Tay. Could he be opposite Gun for this? That’d be fun. I’ve always wanted them to play off each other. 

Who’d mess this one up the most? Obviously Wabi Sabi, they keep creating sad things these days, they’d just dwell in that stupid ending forever. 

HIStory 3: Trapped 

Who gets it? Japan’s Life: Love on the Line team. 

Look, I have been wanting a yakuza BL from Japan forever. I dithered in a BIG way on this one. Despite the mafia theme, there are actually very few triggers and it's full consent and quite sweet for how much they throw in sexy. Lots of little domestic moments too. The ending needs to be resolved though and it needs higher production values but from someone who will not fart around too much with the story. I thought long and hard about Korea, but Strongberry already tried and I just don’t think they are ready. 

Who’d fuck it up? Most of Thailand, frankly. It’s a marker of my mistrust these days that I couldn’t face handing this one off to Wabi Sabi. Once upon a time I might have. Vietnam definitely can’t do the production levels required. 

HIStory 4: Close to You 

Who gets it? Cheewin and COPY A BANGKOK 

There’s nothing wrong with the leads in this office set romance, but the side couple are stepbrothers as a grumpy/sunshine pairing, including obsession, dubious consent that went to the dark side. They need correcting and Cheewin has been really trying to correct for queer rep lately, so you know what? Let’s see what COPY could do with a proper office set romance. I mean Cheewin did do Why R U? and Cutie Pie there’s hope. 

Who’d fuck it up? Star Hunter, can you imagine?

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