#but not in depth

[absolutebl]

So two of my friends agreed to watch THK with me for my birthday, and one of them was looking up stuff about the BL industry in Thailand, and he claimed that it mostly existed to appeal to a western audience. What say ye? I do remember in a couple of shows it was referred to as Thailand's "soft power", which made sense to me given that I knew virtually nothing about Thailand before watching those shows, and now I can read and write in Thai and actually plan on visiting Thailand at some point. But the notion that the main purpose of the BL industry is to function as a soft power never occurred to me. Is that what those shows were referring to?

I actually have a blog post I have been working on for a while about this. Short answer is I don't think it started out that way but it certainly is now. The tourist board is often involved with BL which is a sure sign its a soft power (last I checked tourism was 13-15 % of Thailands GDP - that's HUGE).

That's one of the reason BLs almost always go to the beach and often, these days, also go to the mountains.

I'll tag you if I ever get around to finishing that post.

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[m-aremagnum]

[s-aint-elmo]

pass it on!

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[kunosoura]

[dimonds456]

Hey, guys? Make peace with yellow teeth. I'm so serious right now.

[afraid-of-the-deep-sea]

What if black hole symbolism….

Anyways go white boy go

[opdrie]

[proxycrit]

DAY 27- NORTH LOMEI LABYRINTH ISLAND

I can’t believe Purah finally gave them more of the main quest (Purah’s defense is it’s hard to herd our heroes when they hold the collective brain cell of a bag of cats.)

This totk au is called familiar familiar! It’s a what if zelda doesnt go back in time and draws from elements in botw a lot more then from its source material. Flourish with me.

((Wanna support this work and look at my sketchbook at the same time? Check out my patreon!))

Bonus treat:

[infinite-archive]

[brainrotcharacters]

wade's undiagnosed ADHD (giggling everytime Logan stabs him) is only ever matched by Logan's undiagnosed autism (stabbing Wade with his claws when he's overstimulated)

[teaboot]

"Do audio books count as reading" is such a stupid fucking question, it's not even the right question

Like

"Does listening to text read aloud qualify as visually recognizing the individual characters of written language?"

No

"Does listening to text read out loud qualify as receiving the information contained within written language?"

Yes

"Does listening to text read aloud qualify as experiencing the arbitrarily determined level of suffering that I personally think someone should have to experience before they can add a piece of text to their resume, like a trophy for "best martyr" in a cabinet dedicated to calculating intellectual status?"

Go fuck yourself

[poobirdy]

bingqiu human/demon role reversal as requested by alliechickfics on twitter! for a modest donation to the listed organizations and individuals over at SVSSS Gotcha 4 Gaza, you too can get a prompt fulfilled in exchange.

[oldmannapping]

Jason Todd’s mother: Addict, single mother, raised the child of a violent henchman, died of an overdose

Jason Todd’s best friend: Recovered addict, single father, raising the child of an assassin, rescued from death by Red Hood

DC: yep. Wild.

DC: anyway!

DC: onto the next Red Hood storyline

DC: (incoherent shrieking)

[afraid-of-the-deep-sea]

Changeling Joel ft some old greats, based on this tweet