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Okay so just a couple things I wanna contribute here, and I'm putting a chunk of this response behind a cut to save folks the scrollage (especially mobile users).

TLDR: I disagree with some of the "trends" listed here, specifically the stuff about the remakes, Korea not knowing what sex and kissing are, and especially that BL is being overly influenced by "modern romance trends out of the west"; the latter two read a bit, hm, xenophobic to me ngl and spread a bit of misinformation about the media from countries like Thailand, Korea, and Japan. I also added some of sources from academics, journalists, and publishers as well. Also James Cameron is a weeb so jot that down.

So regarding Japanese IP stuff, I keep seeing people talk about how ~crazy~ Japanese copyright law is, but the general laws aren't that much different from international standards.

I'm not sure if I'm like, missing something here no one provided any sources to any case files or articles on the subject when the issue with Cherry Magic came up. Which, I can only assume since I don't have access to the contract, it wasn't a copyright issue it was a distribution issue. It's complicated, as distribution falls under copyright, but it's a subset, and typically in my direct experience, creators will sell their distribution rights or share them with their publisher (or studio) so the company can handle actual distribution negotiations.

It's very typical to only have distribution rights in select countries for adapted works (which are why VPNS are a big thing). Gmmtv more than likely, only had distribution rights for Thailand, not other countries which is why their youtube broadcast got got. That's not Japan - y'all realize this is like an entire country right?? - being assholes. It's one copyright holder - SquareEnix who publishes Cherry Magic - asserting their rights b/c gmmtv was stealing money from their - and the authors - pockets.

Now like, Nintendo is highly protective over their copyright but no more so than Disney (source 02) or Taylor Swift.

Remakes like Cherry Magic aren't even new for Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc, even for gmmtv. Their series, F4 is a remake of insanely popular Japanese manga Boys Over Flowers, which does have clips of the episodes on youtube with no issue. Boys Over Flowers has also been remade by Taiwan, Korea, China, Indonesia, China (again), and India.

It's not just the rights to remake the media, usually the IP owners also get a slice of the capital as well. Japan, China, Korea and lots of other Asian countries have been cross exchanging for decades with their television and films.

The series Mr. Queen (2020), a popular Korean drama (that's very queer until the ending, but the original story is also even more queer) is an adaption of a Chinese show called Go Princess Go (2015) based on a novel of the same name, is one example, another is My Absolute Boyfriend (2019) a kdrama based on a Japanese manga of the same name.

Also, while I'm only familiar with American contracting for IP rights (and no I'm not a lawyer I've just seen and been in the room for a lot of these contract negotiations), it's entirely possible gmmtv has optioned many 90s manga.

Optioning is just the set up, its the handshake agreement between two parties "yes I would like to make a thing out of your thing" and that's it. Lots of stuff gets optioned with no announcement b/c optioning isn't a promise or an agreement it'll go into production.

Kate Mckean, one of the best agents imo in publishing, breaks down optioning really well in her article What "Optioned" Means.

So I would argue this isn't really a "trend" so much as normal film making? This stuff happens all the time, it's picking up in BL because of the rise in popularity making it monetarily valuable, but I wouldn't argue it's at all special or a new trend since this is baked into general cultural exchanges in media of which is longstanding between all these countries. Like there's already pre-established history here of this happening for decades so it's not really a "trend" nor "new".

Okay so like, I'm not gonna front I find it a bit xenophobic to say "Korea figured out boys can kiss" this is something I've seen a lot in BL fandom discussion. That Korea "doesn't know what sex is" or similar takes and I just, y'all are talking about an entire country of people here.

I find it trips a bit into a historic trend of desexualizing Asian Men in the west (<- article by Andrew Kung about the desexualization of Asian men in the west, and his exploration of sexuality, identity and discrimination).

Which, I know we're all watching BL which includes nothing but Asian men, and yet.

Like, yes porn is "technically" illegal in Korea but Koreans still know what porn is. They still watch it. In fact it's difficult even for the government to enforce those laws, as detailed in this article by Business Insider:

""It's like shoveling snow in a blizzard," Nuri Cop Moon Tae-Hwa told Hyung-Jin Kim of The Huffington Post." (source)

The existence and debate around porn in Korea is also a complex one, with a lot of historical context. This article talks a bit about Korean feminists and porn. I also find this line of thinking discounts real world politics that effects how media is made and reflected. Like activist groups fighting for discrimination protections currently in Korea.

Like, we know this to be true in American and European cinema but it stops being true for non-white media? That's weird ain't it?

Also like, manwha is really fucking explicit. Korea absolutely knows what boy kissing, sex, and queer narratives are.

Multiple kdramas or films like Hometown Cha Cha Cha, Out of Breath, Schoolgirl Detectives, and Love Alarm, all feature queer characters, narratives and romances. They may not be "BL" - tho I would argue Schoolgirl Detectives and Out of Breath toe into GL tho Out of Breath is more of an romance film for adults - but if we count Love is Science as an honorary BL b/c of Mark and Ouwen then idk why we can't count at least Out of Breath.

Beyond that tho, like whether we count these series or not, to say that Korea doesn't know queer narratives or what boy kissing is b/c one singular sub-genre of romance wasn't delivering (which is an opinion not media analysis) is discounting all the other work being done in Korea by film makers.

Painter by Night is one of the most erotic and sexual comics I've ever read (beautifully drawn as well). Semantic Error also has sex in the comic, and there's a slew of porn comics that exist in Korea and are available to read right now.

I get that a majority of Korean BL isn't sexy, but for a long while a majority of het kdramas in the mainstream weren't either. Hometown Cha Cha Cha only has a post sex scene that's hilariously chaste.

But now? Somebody a 2022 kdrama thriller had explicit sex scenes (multiple of them!), My Name, Old Boy, Squid Game all also come to mind. Has Korea been chaste in the past? Yes and no, for mainstream stuff absolutely because the mainstream will almost always play it safe for capital value, but Old Boy came out in 2013 and has nudity and explicit sex.

I just want people to realize that by making definitive statements "Korea doesn't know what boy kissing/sex is" you're distilling an entire country of people down to 1) a singular genre of media and a niche one at that 2) ignoring cultural context and history that influences said media and 3) being moderately condescending and xenophobic.

It's misinformation and it's frustrating to see this repeated over and over by numerous people in fandom.

Lastly, the "modern romance trends out of the west" with omegaverse used as an example. I'm a good 99% positive Pit Babe was not at all inspired by Teen Wolf or Supernatural.

While omegaverse originated in the west - specifically via Supernatural - it's been popular in Japan and China for almost a decade, if not longer. The earliest omegaverse manga I can think of is Pendulum: Juujin Omegaverse by Hana Hasumi which was released in 2015, almost a decade ago.

There's countless popular omegaverse manga too, and the dynamics only moderately resemble the ones we're familiar with in the west. Juujin is part omegaverse and part furry/beastmen - the alphas are all beastmen the omegas are humans - while something like Ookami-kun Is Not Scary only slightly resembles omegaverse dynamics as a hybrid series - since beastmen are really popular in Japan in part b/c of historical mythology (you see the combination of romantic Beastmen and Japanese culture & folklore in Mamoru Hosoda's work The Boy and the Beast and Wolf Children).

I mean Megumi & Tsugumi (2018) is so popular they're an official English edition published by VIZ's imprint SuBlime and that's a straight up omegaverse story.

So if Pit Babe was influenced by anything, it certainly wasn't the west it was Japan, Korea and China.

I take contention with this line of thinking, because it centers the west way to much. Like mafia settings, why is that considered a "western" trope?

Korea alone in the last 3 years has had The Ballerina, Believer 2, My Name, Bloodhounds, Bad and Crazy, to name a few, and this isn't even getting into the cinema history of popular crime dramas many of which make up a huge chunk of Don Lee's career like The Gangster, the Cop and the Devil, or Unstoppable.

When I saw the trailer for Red Peafowl I didn't see influence from the west, I saw influence from Hong Kong.

The trailer took more inspiration from Jet Li (The Enforcer, Fist of Legend) and Donnie Yen (Flash Point, Raging Fire, Kung Fu Jungle) films than anything I've seen recently here in America. Which makes more sense, the filmmakers working now in Thailand, Korea, Japan, etc would have grown up watching those now crime action masterpieces and are now making their own work today.

So I disagree that BL has become all the influenced by "modern romance trends out of the west" I think that does a huge disservice to these individual countries who have their own histories of cinema and influence and cultural exchange. Like, do I believe American film making has had an influence over Japanese or Korean film making? Yes, absolutely - Train to Busan is a good example of this - however, the opposite is also true.

Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, the Wachowski sisters, George Lucas and James Cameron have all been influenced by Japanese film making, especially the works of Akira Kurosawa, Satoshi Kon, and Mamoru Oshii. Like, dios mio James Cameron is a damn weeb y'all.

John Wick's entire gun-fu sub-genre is heavily influenced by classic Hong Kong action films and the works of Bruce Lee. Legend of Korra, The Boondocks, Voltron, Young Justice, My Adventures with Superman are all obviously inspired by Japanese anime but animated by a Korean animation studio (Studio Mir). Beyond that, the rise in adult animated dramas like Castlevania, Critical Role Vox Machina, and Invincible to name a few are very clearly taking inspiration from anime in terms of style.

So yes there's totally cross cultural exchange going on, that's been true as far back as 1952 with Astro Boy who's design was inspired by Walt Disney's work on Bambi.

But do I think BL is following specific trends set by the west? No. At least not to the degree of an entire trend, because the influences I'm seeing in BL currently aren't from the west (by which we really mean American/UK don't we?) but by other Asian countries.

For example, The Sign is taking clear inspiration from Chinese & Korean costume dramas, especially Chinese ones like Ashes of Love, Fairy and Devil, White Snake (and it's many adaptions), & Guardian.

Sidenote: curious where all the femme gay chars in BL in 2023 are? Genuinely asking, I can't think of any that are very recent. I see femme gay characters more often in films than in TV shows like Marry My Dead Body (2022, Taiwanese) and Tokyo Godfathers (2003, Japanese). But for BL I'm coming up blank.

I'm also not sure what you mean by "messy gay" there's been loads of novels, comics, film and tv shows with messy gays like Shinji Ikari is the messiest bisexual put to screen. But I'm not sure what's the qualifier for "messy gay" here. Are we thinking Only Friends? B/c the only messy gay in that show is Boston, Playboyy features actual messy gay men but it's also one of the queerest BL around right now.

Again, I only take contention with this point because it centers the west and our supposed individual importance way to much. It removes the existence of history these countries have which are rich, varied, and nuanced. BL doesn't exist in a vacuum you can trace the development of Korean BL to the development of Korean het dramas almost to a T.

You can also trace their development to the queer history of each country and how Thailand interacts culturally with China, Japan, Korea, etc and vice versa. It also ignores the history of these countries influencing American cinema as well. The exchange doesn't only go one way.

Overall it feels like we're separating BL into this completely separate category of film making and acting as though we, westerners, are the target audience for any of it. Which we're not. We're a second or third tier audience, Thai studios are probably way more focused on targeting Japanese and Korean audiences than American. It feels as though we're not viewing these countries with a nuance lens, where they aren't just static producers of a singular piece of content people consume rather than a fully fledged individual country we should be engaging with.

TOP 10 BL Trends of 2023

This is just me with my analysis hat on. 

1. 2023 = the year EVERYONE went outside their lanes

Everything went topsy-turvy this year in BL. 

For example, Korea gave us agonized yearning and outright queerness (The 8th Sense, The New Employee) while Japan served up soft office workers and tender family (Our Dining Table). 

The BL world went askew for a while, especially in the spring of 2023. 

Not that we still didn’t still get Korea’s soft angsty bubbles or Japan’s “what are you doing and why does it hurt?” kink-fests. But there were quite a few BLs that made us chronic watchers sit up in confusion and wonder if Korea was dabbling in Taiwan’s territory or Japan in Thailand’s. Then they fudged the kisses and we were like… okay, back in familiar territory. 

In contrast, Thailand stayed course-correcting for the damage they’ve done in the past with tropes (2022) and self referential meta criticism (2021), but also almost aggressively returned to their BL roots after last year’s series of shockers. Certainly, they are reexamining those roots, transplanting some, aerating others. But they really went back to classic Thai university and high school BL and pulps in a big way in 2023. 

Taiwan is always difficult to gage because they produce so few but they seem to have stuck with what they do best with no deviation while producing more this year than they have in ages. I’m happy for that, why change a good thing? But there is a tiny part of me that really wants them to hit it out of the part with a quality piece soon. For me, We Best Love still reigns supreme, but I would really like the HIStory franchise to give us that level but longer - like a happy version of Your Name Engraved Herein. I think Taiwan has the chops to give us something as good as The 8th Sense or Old Fashion Cupcake but in their style, and I would like to see them exercise their talent for good rather than just profit. 

I know, what a very odd thing for me to say. But if any BL is going to break into the mainstream American market, I genuinely think it’s most likely come from Taiwan. 

Vietnam and the Philippines are falling behind, in general. They just didn’t bring out very many shows in 2023, and what the brought out tended to fub the endings. This is forgivable in Japan (because of their style and quality) but not what watchers want in the lower production value propositions. In other words, if you do a pulp, you can’t mess up the ending (by romance standards). that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. 

2. The Office Romance Dominated

After years of Thailand serving us an endless (and slightly bland) buffet of university (and a few high school) BLs, this year Korea was basically like…

Ofiice. We like the Office. It’s cheap to film we can use grown up actors, acting (mostly) their actual age. 

And yeah… it totally worked. 

To be fair, Japan has always given us office live action yaoi from the beginning (they had the source material) but this year everyone else, including Thailand, seriously started playing in this setting. 

3. Boys Danced with Boys

The darling @heretherebedork​ was a big fan of this one, and I rather like it myself. Prior to this boys dancing together was very very rare in BL, but this year we got way more than our fair share. It was lovely. 

Never Let me Go

My School President 

Bed Friend 

The Day I Loved You 

Step by Step

Be Mine Superstar

Tie the Not 

Dangerous Romance

I think there were a few more. These are the ones I remembered to write down. 

4. Getting (even more) Meta With Tropes 

BL has been getting more and more meta over the past few years but this year they really focused in on tropes specifically. Calling out their own biggest and most favorite tropes in a massive way, especially Thailand and especially GMMTV. 

Like they tunneled in on damaging tropes with Bad Buddy and the like over the past 2 years, and now they are just having fun with us. 

I mean they just started the dancing trope and already they are calling it out? That’s like rapid-fire regurgitated meta there, GMMTV. 

5. Cameos are the norm now 

Taiwan has always loved cameos but in the past the other countries have been show and steady with only one or two a year. (Unless Japan does a parody.) 

This year Korea got in on the game.

Korea rarely starts trends but they do adopt smaller and lesser known existing ones and make them super popular. 

This year they did that with cameo couple appearances, even borrowing a few of Thailand’s pairs (TutorYim and MaxNat traveled north). They did it so much I stopped tracking. Love Class 2, Why R U?, and Jun & Jun were the heaviest hitters. 

Taiwan, of course, came back swinging. Kiseki was the gum-ball machine of pair cameos. (In Taiwan mafia = gay.) 

6. We are entering the cross pollination age

The number of remakes picked up or started this year was startling, not just countries revisiting their own content (Thailand, Japan) but countries revisiting OTHER countries stuff.

Lemme explain…

Korea has started remaking Thai content (Why R U?) alongside cameo'ing Thai pairs.

Thailand is doing Korean IP (My Dear Gagster Oppa) and has 2 Chinese ones slated for next year. 

GMMTV acquired a lot of Japanese IP (Cherry Magic, Ossen, and My Love Mix Up) - and then had problems distributing it. 

This is probably the most surprising trend for me. Especially the Japanese stuff. I would have thought these properties well outside of Thailand’s price range (even GMMTV’s) not to mention Japan’s legendary IP issues (I swear I typed this pout before the pulled TayNew’s excellent Cherry Magic). 

Also why not option some of the older popular manga instead? Bet that’s much cheeper. (I did see a NEW Thai translation of Finder into Thai, which is 90s yaoi, so I have my fingers crossed on that front.)

I shouldn’t be too surprised. 

Thailand is running out of y-novel content. Their publication industry is just not robust enough (I was just talking to a friend about this at length recently). But I didn’t think they had the funds to option, especially from Japan. 

Perhaps the option deals are for peanuts?

7. Korea got cheeky

I’m not sure quite how else to put this. 

After finally figuring out boys can kiss, Korea started to do not just higher heat but playful higher heat, with more aggressive word play and linguistic innuendo, like they are entering their racy rom-com teenage years (Why R U? Love Class 2 and Jun & Jun in particular.) 

I guess: Welcome to your BL teens, Korea? 

It’s cute of them. I am very much enjoying it. 

And now that comedy is warming them up, we get to see them play with actual queer burgeoning physicality in shows like The 8th Sense. 

It’s nice. I like seeing Korea stretch its wings. They still stick to their bubble, but that bubble seems to be expanding. 

8. The Amnesia Trope is back

And I, for one, would prefer to forget about it. 

9. BL got trendy 

I’m not quite sure how to articulate this category but basically we started seeing a lot of “modern” romance trends out of the west (like a/b/o) show up in our BL. Not a ton and sometimes quite small, but there has a been a steady rise of things like: no seme/uke, femme gay, out gay, condom use, messy gay. 

We also got an increasing range of sub genre frameworks (like mafia, office setting) that’s moved BL pretty firmly (even in Thailand) out of school and into the workplace, whether actual working is involved or not. 

It’s not to the point where it feels like we get more non-school BL than school BL (if I include all countries in this assessment).

Japan, in classic Japanese fashion, quietly started moving in the opposite direction. It’s what they do. 

10. The Vampires are coming 

This is an announcement trend, which I don’t usually report on but it’s so CLEAR. 

So last year we had a spate of announcements of possible Omegaverse (2 from China, 1 from Japan, 1 from Thailand - the only one that’s happened). 

This year we got 5 Vampire (or vampire-esk) Thai BLs announced including one from GMMTV. 

Whether all 5 will actually get made is unlikely, but having had (basically) none prior to this (Kissable Lips), I’m pretty confident that we will get at least 2 of them. And I wouldn’t be surprised if at least one other country made one as well. (Side eyes Taiwan with interest.) 

Final thoughts

It feels like we are also seeing a decline in BL (both by quantity and quality) from Vietnam and the Philippines. As you all know, I don’t track or really watch either of these two very closely. But it feels like, now, no one else is either. 

I think we have likely seen the BL heyday already in both places and their industries are now on the decline. 

We might be witnessing a thinning in the players in the BL field. 

FYI we had approximately 

136 BLs in 2023

Previous Years

2022: 117

2021: 95

2020: 62

2019: 40

2018: 30 

2017: 44 (China’s last gasp)

2016: 27

2015: 17 (50% micro)

2014: 17 (50% micro)

And that’s it! Let me know in the comments if you’ve spotted any additional trends you want to call out.

Last year, 2022′s trend report

2021′s Trend report

Last Year’s Stats & Predictions

(source) 

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Hey @taylorswift @taylornation just wanna tell you that Indonesian Swifties love you so much.

This is some of us doing a fun walk in Jakarta. Sunday morning, in Jakarta’s main road. It’s car free day time.

We sang the songs from lover with shiny smile on our faces.

International Swifties doing the best we can to promote Lover. @taylorswift

(Credits to TSwift_ID on Twitter)

[stillgeekingout]

part 2~

I finally actually read all of pride and prejudice, it was great everyone was right lol. also I made character playlists for it for sara’s bday but I also just like them

speaking of playlists. ingrid and I went back to working on our narrative playlist project and we are now hopelessly invested in it lol. all of the playlists are done as of last week but more things to come. also I put together a box of props based on the characters for ingrid’s bday but also for me (are you sensing a theme lmao)

I wrote a song!!! I have always wanted to and never succeeded but I did do it and I think it’s good. I probably won’t ever do anything with it but it exists. maybe in 30 years I’ll write another one. or maybe sooner if we do our OLS thing

we went to a couple of Musical Mondays at a theatre near us and sang in their open mic competitions (and didn’t win but it was fun)

I thought last year was concert year but this was truly concert year. concerts I saw this year: lucius w/ingrid & my mom which was CRAZY good and we were super close and then they came into the crowd and stood right in front of us, aly & aj with ingrid, muna in atlanta which was my first time going to a concert alone (it was still fun but I prefer not going alone), twice in atlanta with shannen and ingrid, black midi with ingrid/sara/sara’s dad lol, and tessa violet w ingrid and the people we made friends with in the crowd (this one was also really small and cool). we started listening to chappell roan like the week she was in orlando and it was already sold out rip. also darren came to orlando but I didn’t go to that either bc it was his christmas show and I don’t care

I lost my beloved yellow water bottle in an airport :’(

I feel like I didn’t really go feral over any tv/movies this year? we watched not dead yet and taskmaster but idk there weren’t any new-to-me shows that I got super into. I was underwhelmed by barbie…. nimona was good and I’m glad it exists but it didn’t Hit Me the way I think it hit other people

one of my parasocial relationships got to the point where even I was like ok this needs to stop

on the flip side my other parasocial relationship is going great on bluesky lmao 

my sister was in indonesia the whole year! :o I miss her a lot! in september we were the depression bros

I saw snow for the first time!! we went on a roadtrip to virginia and north carolina to see friends

got addicted to fb marketplace and got 2 new armchairs (and the infusion tea couch)

ingrid and I took spanish in the fall but the teacher was bad so I didn’t learn very much spanish

our roommate stayed for a second year, she is chill

shannen moved farther away :( but we still got to hang out

we did 2 friend group powerpoint parties

I guess I can’t not say it…. the eras tour took over my entire social media feed which first gave me fomo and then it was fine and then annoying but it did make me start talking to hannah and now we are friends outside of ingrid :)

also this was My Year for taylor’s versions, speak now and 1989 are The Ones (even tho I don’t prefer the new versions)

ingrid and shannen FINALLY finished corey & sherlock. and I read it and it was fun despite also being A Time because it fell during my depression month rip

rory was born!! the first baby in my Vicinity in a looong time

obligatory bullet point for muna bc I love them… I’m still not a podcast person but I listened to so much gayotic this year. yeehaw silk is my roman empire

saved it for the end: my goal in 2023 was to write a lot of my rough draft and I did it! we went to see manatees, we went to st augustine multiple times, I read seasons of real florida & braiding sweetgrass (until I had to return it to the library lol) and I researched weaving and made a connection through an infodump match blog and drew an insanely detailed castle map… working on this book is occasionally stressful but mostly it’s just fun!

did a lot of writing in the beginning of the year and then stagnated for a while and then I was looking for a distraction from work hell and rainbow convinced me to do nanowrimo on a whim and I completed it!

I was in a writing group with someone I used to rp with on forums when I was like 13. WILD

anyway 2023 was a lot but a lot of good things happened too. I hope this year to stress less about work and just focus on what I can control, like my house and my book etc. my mom keeps saying “ready for what’s in store in 2024” so I made up a mcelroy year title for her which is “20 what’s in store: the adventure awaits”. personally idk if I want an adventure this year so I’m sticking with fungalore hearing my wish to get a lot of writing done. if you made it this far I hope you have a year of human connection, restful sleep, and good snacks. peace and love <3

I was gonna be like "would you believe it's my 10th one of these" but apparently tumblr has a CHARACTER LIMIT now????? why would they nerf me on the year I decided not to worry about how long it was

anyway I guess I'm splitting this in 2 so reflections on 2023 part one~

let's start with work bc then I want to be done with it: I spent all year doing trainings (& 2 conferences) and researching and preparing to apply for an advisor position if it ever opened up. it did open up in spring, I applied and did not get it, the new advisor was not good and got fired, I applied again having done much more training and still did not get it, I applied for a different advisor position trying to triumphantly leave my office and did not get that either. so now I’m still in my same position working under the person who beat me for the job but this time with a bunch of extra responsibility that I gave myself trying to prep to be promoted. lol. if I sound very bitter it’s because I am :)))) 

all that being said, I do still mostly like my job from day to day. and I still want to do advising, probably. if they’ll ever hire me for it

related to work but less bitter: I had mostly good relationships with my coworkers. one of them was pregnant for a lot of the year and just had her baby last week and I’m very excited to meet her (we went to her baby shower despite all her friends being Very Christian lol it was a time) (this coworker is uhhhh A Lot but it’s complicated lol). I got to be on the hiring committee for another coworker which was a cool experience and also she is very nice. got closer with another coworker who I previously had kind of a tenuous relationship with (and now she works fully remote so it doesn’t even matter) (jk)

another thing I did in my quest to Be Hireable was basically take over supervising the student leaders (work study students) at work. shoutout to esteban, isa, aar and sheri lol

I have inherited my mother’s trait of getting attached to problem children. there are several students who are a recurring Thorn In My Side but also I’m rooting for them

last work thing that is only tangentially a work thing: I became the advisor for GSA at my campus and now I have a bunch of queer college students under my wing. a few of us walked in pride which was my first time being in the parade and it was wild. also we had an event for trans awareness week and I am proud of them for coming up with it :)) more exciting things to come this year. feels good to have a little corner where I can provide support in the face of so many attacks from the FL govt

let’s get the other big bad thing out of the way! my mental health was shit lol. I briefly was doing virtual appointments with a therapist in the spring but it mostly just made me feel weird and untherapizable. (as in, I didn’t feel like I was getting much out of it but I think part of that was that it was zoom calls from my car on my phone during lunch breaks) although it did lead to me leaving my phone outside of the bedroom at night and putting timers on my apps which I think have been net positives even if they haven’t made as much of a difference as I hoped. 

the aforementioned job stress was a huge part of it, the application process lasted like 2 months and then they left me on the hook after the interview for Multiple Weeks which was. a bad time.

another part of it was I was alone a lot on weekends and I’m not very good at using my time off to do fun and nice things when I’m by myself, usually I end up just stewing in my brains. I did try to get in the habit of occasionally going to these nice gardens near us so maybe I will do that more this year also.

also health related: got my first mammogram this year. it was uncomfortable but fine. also got my first pap smear which was QUITE PAINFUL AND UNPLEASANT but I did survive it

also tangentially health related: I tried a few times throughout the year to do yoga. for a lil bit I was doing it with some coworkers after work once a week. some of it I did with some people from the carry on discord. it was very intermittent but better than nothing at all!

last health thing: my dad’s siblings had an Exceptionally Shitty Summer. one of his sisters died, another of his sisters had an extreme staph infection and was in the hospital for weeks, and one of his brothers had a mini stroke and possibly also a heart attack? the latter two are doing okay now but it was rough for a minute there

ENOUGH BAD STUFF I turned 30 this year! three full decades on this earth

Ingrid got her work authorization and a job and later in the year her green card!

I paid off my car (and also my car is having a lot of minor problems but that’s just… having a car)

I made a few financial mistakes (messed up our taxes, accidentally got a best buy credit card) but they are hopefully still fixable and overall we still saved money by the end of the year. we tried to keep a budget for a while but it was hard to keep up with. we also tried to join a credit union but their customer service was really weird

made a halfhearted attempt at local politics (went to a few protests, one city planning thing, and one socialist alternative meeting)

stay tuned for part 2 since tumblr hates me apparently

[thesevenpalmtrees]

we fancy you taylor @taylorswift 💗

we roamed the streets on Car Free Day in Jakarta to promote Lover! Indonesia really miss you, please come play for us again 🇮🇩✨

[taylorscheeseburger]

So. My friend was at Westlife concert. She went with her father and tell me days later. Again and again, since the past year, I always tell my friend if Taylor go to our country once again, we’ll go. I always tell her, “If Taylor come here again, we definitely should see her,” and she always said, “Let’s go. I'm always in.”

She’s the first person who’s able to go to concert, unlike any of my friends before. And also, she’s into Taylor. So, why not? Cause I don’t think my father will go to any concert with me. And her father is ok to do so.

I’m not a concert person, and TBH, I've never been. It would be a marvelous feeling if Tay just come, even if I didn’t get my parent’s permission. Feeling excited, yet unsure at the same time.

[comebackbehereswift]

hi Taylor, there’s no way that you’re reading this (bc why would you be lurking me of all people?) but if, by some exquisite happenstance, I wanted to tell you something.

I’m very lucky to be from London and therefore be able to attend your shows. Over the past few years in the fandom, I have encountered many kind and dedicated fans, who aren’t as lucky as I am. These are some of the main countries I have seen fans from, that I would like you to consider touring in or near on the ts7 tour!!

India 🇮🇳 (home of literally hundreds of thousands of swifties, including my best friend @iwatchedallofitfade )

Turkey 🇹🇷 (this is one I see ALL the time)

Indonesia 🇮🇩(I have a lot of friends from here, but I wanted to shout out the amazing @ranalovesswift specifically)

Germany 🇩🇪 (there are so many German swifties who missed out on the rep tour)

The Netherlands 🇳🇱 (a lot of Dutch swifties travelled to London, but i think it would be super special if they could see you again in their home country)

Mexico 🇲🇽 (the Mexican swifties are absolute angels and they always travel so far for you but it would make me so happy if they could see you in Mexico this time)

Brazil 🇧🇷 (the Brazilian fandom is absolutely ENORMOUS)

Israel 🇮🇱+ Palestine 🇵🇸(this is one I see tons. for such a tiny country, they have an enormous fan base. My friends @taytayswiftsfam @singitswiftie @lironheartstaylor are from Israel and @layaswiftie is from Palestine)

Belgium 🇧🇪 (there are a ton of Belgian swifties and they are all so kind)

France 🇫🇷 (the French fandom is also pretty big, and I think a Paris show would be really fitting for this era)

Italy 🇮🇹 (I’ve heard this country mentioned so many times too, and all the italian fans I have encountered have been so sweet)

South Africa 🇿🇦 (I’ve seen some South African swifties travel all the way to the U.K. and us just to see you live. They’re so dedicated)

These are only a few that I’ve heard a lot, there are so many more fans around Asia, Europe, Central and South America and Africa that would love to see you live and I hope that this tour will be accessible to as many people as possible.

I understand that venues and production are super expensive and this may not be at all possible. That’s completely understandable. I just wanted to request that you check whether it is possible, cause I would love if my friends could see you this time around❤️

[dutubetrend-blog]

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[usertaylorswift]

hello, miss taylor alison swift!

it’s me, your gal...sita // 21 years old // almost graduate from my bachelor // from indonesia // and forever dork and clumsy. i’m travelling away from indonesia to melbourne just to see your show which happens to be my first international concert ever and i am so happy and pleasure that you happen to be the first singer for my first big experience in concerts. i’ve been your fan since 2009 and ever since i listened to love story for the first time, i went to the music store to buy your album which happened to be Fearless (for asian edition) and that moment too...i listened to the whole album and decided to be your biggest STAN for the rest of my life.

i’m thankful for everything you shared throughout your albums and never in my doubts that i wouldn’t like it. i ABSOLUTELY love and adore and fall in love with your album always. there are no better words on how you always relate to my personal life especially when it comes to relationship. i always listen to your songs in every single moods i have each day and i never ever ever EVER NOT sing along with them.

and since it’s gonna be my first big concert ever and so happy that you happen to be the FIRST (i mean you’re forever & always the first for me, taylor *sticking my tongue out*), i am definitely gonna sing at the top of my lungs when i’m at your show. i cannot wait to experience your SLAY performance, your b-stage moments (hellooooo, i wish you’ll sing my faves either “the moment i knew”, “i know places” --> SING IT WITH ACOUSTIC PLEASEEEEEE????, “mary’s song”, or the rest of the fearless’ songs that haven’t been sung haha), and i get to enjoy and be happy to see you for the first time :’)).

so, i’ll be with my family in melbourne and my seats are six seats so i think i’ll just write them all and my family is also my representation too haha. my seat is section L1 7, row E, seats 57-52. and i wish i am lucky enough to get picked and of course...i will be forever enchanted to meet you and i will be forever crying and SHOOKETH meeting you, so pardon my frozenness, taylor lol.

i love you so much, thank you for being a part of my life <3

[vagishamishrablog]

Miss Grand International 2019 All Set To Kick Off!

Miss Grand International 2019 will be the 7th edition of the Miss Grand International pageant, which is scheduled to take place on October 25th, 2019 at the Caracas Polyhedron Arena located in the city of Caracas, Venezuela.

This is the first time that the Miss Grand International pageant is being held in Latin America. At the end of the event, the reigning Miss Grand International, Clara Sosa of Paraguay will crown her successor.

Schedule

As per the official schedule, the Official Portrait Photoshoot will take place between October 9th, 2019 to October 10th, 2019, which shall be followed by the Gala Welcome Dinner scheduled on October 11th, 2019. The much-awaited National Costume Presentation is scheduled for October 14th, 2019 followed by the decisive and crucial Interview Day on October 15th, 2019. Thereafter, the Swimsuit Competition is slated to take place on October 19th, 2019, followed by the Preliminary Gala on October 23rd, 2019. After all the important levels of competition, the world will witness the grand finale on October 25th, 2019.

Contestants

Now let us have a look at the contestants vying for the Miss Grand International 2019 crown!

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Albania- Xhensila Shaba

Argentina

Armenia- Lily Sargsyan

Australia- Taylor Marlene Curry

Belarus- Karina Kiseleva

Bolivia- Natalia Carolina Paz Rojas

Brazil- Marjorie Marcelle

Cambodia- Det Sreyneat

Chile- Francisca Lavandero

Colombia- Genesis Andrea Quintero Perez

Costa Rica- Brenda Castro Madrigal

Cuba- Elaine Gonzalez

Czech Republic- Maria Boichenko

Dominican Republic- Stephanie Bustamante

Ecuador- Mara Topic Verduga

Egypt- Esraa Abdelmonem Elbelasi

El Salvador- Olga Ortiz

France- Cassandra De Sousa

Germany- Lalaine Desiree Mahler

Haiti- Josee Isabelle Riche

India- Shivani Jadhav

Indonesia- Sarlin Delee Jones

Ireland- Sudawan Kumdee

Italy- Mirea Sorrentino

Japan- Adeline Minatoy

Korea

Kosovo- Arlinda Prenaj

Laos- Malailak Kettavong

Latvia- Jekatrina Aleksejeva

Lebanon

Mcau- Chi Ian Loi

Malaysia- Mel Dequanne Abar

Mauritius- Shanone Savatheama

Mexico- Marla Malo

Myanmar- Hmwe Thet

Nepal- Nisha Pathak

Paraguay- Milena Rodriguez

Peru- Camila Escribens

Portugal- Laura Gameiro

Puerto Rico

Reunion Islands- Laetita Hoareau Boyer

Russia- Kamilla Khusainova

Sierra Leone

South Africa- Belinade Bella Schreuder

Spain- Ainara de Santamarcada

Thailand- Coco Arayaha Suparuk

Ukraine- Viktoriia Myronova

USA

Venezuela- Valentina Figuerm

Vietnam- Nguyen Ha Kieu Loan

  Road To Miss Grand International 2019 – Schedule, Contestants and News! Miss Grand International 2019 All Set To Kick Off! Miss Grand International 2019 will be the 7th edition of the Miss Grand International pageant, which is scheduled to take place on October 25th, 2019 at the Caracas Polyhedron Arena located in the city of Caracas, Venezuela.

[spcomp6441blog]

Module 7: Case Study Notes

Article 1: NSW suggests facial recognition could replace opal cards in ‘not too distant future’

Transport minister, Andrew Constance: board trains using only their faces

Make transport easier and faster

Similar to Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology, where shoppers are facially scanned & cameras track items they took & charge their accounts

Opposition: -> pose risk to privacy

Data collected -> tremendous value to owner

Possibilities of future technology are endless:

Identity verification to be integrated with biometric recognition -> enable “next level authorisation & access”

Article 2: Facial recognition is about to end your privacy. How do you feel about that?

Alibaba’s new FlyZoo Hotel in Huangzhou:

Check-in: facial scan

Lift: camera recognises your face & takes you to right floor

Face scan opens you room

Taylor Swift: facial recognition to detect stalkers

New Delhi: facial recognition in finding 3000 missing children

With benefits: scope for abuse -> threat: technology fast outspacing minimal regulation

Government could follow anyone anywhere -> mass surveillance

China: Skynet, can scan its 1.3billion citizens within 1second with accuracy rate 99.8%

Australia’s own mass surveillance program: Identity Matching Services Bill 2018 (IMSB)

Create searchable hub “Capability”, through federal & state photo database (passports, driving licences)

Could be used for more than law enforcements: near real time tracking -> “community safety”

Sydney firm “iOmniscient”: Smart City packages & supplying technology to industries (law & order, oil & gas, healthcare and retail)

Clients in 50 countries

Chinese Army, airports in Indonesia, Korean DMZ & Sydney’s Northwest Rail Link

Turns faces into zeros & ones, break it up into many components (e.g. distance between eyes, nose, face & mouth) -> recognise faces 5x the distance of anyone else in the industry

Article 3: Australians accept government surveillance, for now

Telecommunications & Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance & Access) Act 2018: allows government agencies to access encrypted messages (i.e. those sent over WhatsApp)

2 factors influenced acceptance of surveillance

1. Is surveillance needed?

2. Do I trust the government?

Facial recognition used to identify suspects, often multiple records of images of people who are close match to suspect -> result in high error rate -> risk that innocent people are accused of criminality & wrongdoing

Threat of repurposing:  information collected for one purpose is used for another

i.e. concerns insurance companies could access & use My Health Record -> government amending legislation to prevent this

If surveillance continues to increase -> people may hide themselves

VPNs: virtual private networks -> to prevent government from collecting your online metadata

Article 4:

‘The Capability’ – “to quickly identify a person of interest to help keep the community safe”

2 parts to The Capability:

1. Face Verification Service (FVS): one-to-one image-based match of a person’s photo against a government record (i.e. passport)

2. Face Identification Service (FIS): one-to-many image match of an unknown person (i.e. suspected criminal) against multiple government records to help establish their identity

Research shows ethnic minorities & women are misidentifies at higher rates than rest of population

The Capability doesn’t provide real -time surveillance of public spaces

ACT & Victoria objected The Capability -> violates their local privacy & human rights laws

[dearloverswift13-blog]

Halo @taylorswift 👋 i'm welcome for everything about TS7, i'm readyyy listen to new music by you, 3 Days To Go!! 4.26!! By the way, it's my first time ever made this Tumblr Account. Bcz, i don't want Miss about the TS7 Theories, Prediction, Countdown. UGHH that's so funny, isn't? Okey, it's enough Taylor, Selamat Malam 🌃, hope you read this letter and soon going to my Country, Indonesia 🇲🇨 💗 Terima Kasih

[katanyaruthstephanie]

Mendadak Missqueen Untuk Mereka

“Now if we had the power To bring our neighbors home from war They would have never missed a Christmas No more ribbons on their door And when you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want...”

Gue yakin sih semua sudah hafal dengan lirik di atas. Yup, Waiting On The World To Change yang dinyayikan oleh mantan terindah John Mayer. Seperti yang kita sama-sama tahu bahwa ayang John akan menggelar tur Asia-nya, dan Jakarta kecipratan pula. Tiketnya pun dibanderol paling murah 1,3 juta tanpa ada presale, ludes dalam hitungan menit. Hitungan menit, fellas! Harga yang 1,6 juta saja, yang festival alias berdiri cepat sekali ludesnya. 1,6 juta macam beli bala-bala pake cabe rawit di depan Indomaret, my love!

Tidak. Tulisan kali ini gue tidak akan menulis tentang John Mayer saja. TIDAK! Cukup sudah kenangan-kenangan lagu-lagunya menjadi teman setia saya saat menyelesaikan skripsi dulu. Cukup sudah ia menjadi penghantar tidur saya ketika saya patah hati akan menghadapi esok hari. Cukup sudah-- oke cukup! Tulisan ini saya tulis untuk menjawab pertanyaan yang nongol mendadak di salah satu media sosial saya, yakni “Konser siapa sih yang mau banget lo saksikan di negara lo sendiri, sampe gak peduliin berapa harganya?!”

Wah, Mbak Mas! Saya bisa buat essay kalau menjawab pertanyaan itu. Tapi karena Nteph-nya mau senang-senang dulu nulisnya, gratis pula kan biasanya dibayar, baiklah gue akan memberikan 3 musisi yang mau banget gue tonton di Indonesia ini, negara gue. Kalau kalian kira akan ada Queen atau The Beatles di sini, GILA KALI YE LO?! Iya sih gue suka Rami Malek Freddie Mercury, suaranya yang akan abadi dan karya-karyanya yang gak perlu gue sebutin lagi. Gue juga suka sama Lennon, who doesn’t, by the way? Ah gue yakin, di sana mereka lagi duet sambil main catur bareng Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, eh terdengar pula teriakan Chester Bennington ~

Jadi siapa saja mereka para musisi dunia yang mau banget gue nikmati, hingga gue rela mendadak missqueen (bisa kan baca kata satu ini? Kalau enggak, main lo gak jauh), tanpa mandang harga tiketnya.

3.  Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter

Lo ngakunya suka musik, tapi lo gak tahu musisi satu ini? Hmm, gue angkat tangan deh ya. 

Beyoncé itu hadir pertama kali saat gue masih Sekolah Dasar. Ia datang dengan trionya. Pasti kita tahu kan, Destiny’s Child. Gue kecil aja udah sok-sokan nyanyi “I'm a survivor (what), I'm not gon' give up (what). I'm not gon' stop (what), I'm gon' work harder (what)”. MTV sering banget muter lagu satu itu, sebelum berangkat sekolah gue nonton v-klip itu dulu, sampe Nyokap harus teriak untuk nyuruh gue cepetan ke sekolah. Yup, dari para Destiny’s Child personel yang gue suka banget yaa sama Beyoncé. Suaranya itu lho, ya Lord Voldermort! Kayaknya gue bertahun-tahun les vokal gak akan bisa memiliki suara se-power macam istrinya Jay-Z ini.

Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, sampai sekarang macam Taylor Swift dan Adele, ya mereka juga memiliki hits dan ciri khas masing-masing. Tapi to be honest banget nih, gue masih mikir-mikir untuk nonton (dan melihat HTM-nya) jika mereka konser di sini juga. (Oh iya lupa, gue udah pernah nonton TayTay sih, VIP pula pas itu. Iya, gue sombong. Kenapa, gak boleh? Sini, tunjukin UU-nya!)

Untuk Beyoncé? Gue rela side job-an sambil ngambil dari tabungan untuk nonton Diva dunia satu ini. Gue mau ‘duet’ sama dia, nyanyi If I Were A Boy, Love On Top, Listen, Crazy In Love, Single Ladies, dan Halo.

Mas Mbak, gue karaokean pun TAK PERNAH TERLEWATKAN lagu-lagu dari  Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter. Hingga di kamar mandi pun, suara gue yang yeah bagus pun tidak ini kerap menyanyikan “Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see. Come on baby it's you. You're the one that gives your all. You're the one I can always call. When I need to make everything stop. Finally you put my love on top!!”

Gapapa. Nyanyi aja. Gak ada yang larang.

2. Arctic Monkeys

Yaelah, sok indie lo Tep! Sok iye selera lo suka AM! Mending ngerti lagu-lagunya AM?!

Ya Tuhan, sabarkan diriku dalam menerima segala cercaan ini. Hamba ini hanya menyukai lagu-lagunya AM dibandingkan apa itu band yang nyanyiin Fix You, iya itu. Hamba hanya lebih senang memandang dan menikmati suara Alex Turner dibandingkan siapa itu yang lagi pacaran sama Anastasia Steele Dakota Johnson, atau suaminya model VS, Behati Prinsloo. Duh, lupa saya..

Gue memang bukan Alexa Chung sih (YA IYA LAH ELO RUTH STEPHANIE, NYING!), tapi suka banget mandangin wajah nan polos nan nakal ala Alex Turner, ditambah pas dia lagi nyanyi bareng sama 3 temannya.

Siapa emang Tep emang teman-temannya?

Matt Helders, Jamie Cook, ama Nick O'Malley. YAHAMPUN, bgst!

Kepikiran pas Alex dkk ngebawain R U Mine, Arabella, Do I Wanna Know,  Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?, Mardy Bum, Snap Out Of It, Four Out of Five.... Habis jingkrak-jingkrak itu pasti! Gak kebayang pas Alex ada di depan mata, macam gue nonton James Bay beberapa bulan lalu.

Dulu gue pernah bilang kalau JM akan datang ke Jakarta, gue yakin juga kalau Arctic Monkeys juga akan datang ke Jakarta, Mbak Mas! Tunggu saja.

Trust me!

1. IMAGINE DRAGONS

Tak ada hari tanpa mendengarkan lagu-lagu dari mereka, my love! Ini beneran gue nulisnya sambil nahan air mata.

Dari mulai Radioactive (you know what, gue masang lagu ini untuk hape Nyokap, lho. Terus dia suka aja gitu. Hahai, emang Nyokap gue itu, gAhOOl bEut dECh!), On Top Of The World, Demons, It’s Time, Bleeding Out, Shots, Monster, Walking The Wire, Believer, I Bet My Life, Thunder, Natural, Bad Liar, Pollaroid, Who We Are, dan masih banyak lagi... Dalam satu perjalanan (Tangerang-Kuningan) gue pernah dengerin 1 album ID, habis, gue ulang lagi.. UIang lagi.

Mereka memang sudah berkali-kali mengisi soundtrack untuk film-film ternama. Tanpa gue cari pun, gue yakin banget bahwa itu suaranya Dan Reynolds! 

Gue rela untuk Imagine Dragons menguras tabungan untuk band asal Nevada, US ini. Gue rela bawa makanan mie goreng atau telor ceplok campur tempe tahu terong aja untuk mereka. Hampir semua lagunya gue hafal, ditambah perfomance mereka yang pasti tidak akan mengecewakan. Gue yakin banget pasti... pecah pake banget ditambah “We want more!!” berkali-kali akan terucap! Hah, gak bisa bayangin kalau Imagine Dragons gelar konser di GBK misalnya. What a dream for me, guys!!

Yups, sekian tulisan kali ini. Semoga menjawab pertanyaan.

Hah, apa?!

Oh, gue nonton John Mayer atau enggak?

Menurut kalian, gue nonton gak, ke ICE gak 5 April nanti?

Ya lihat aja. Ada tempat duduk samping JM, di situ ada gue ~

(Anjay!! Mantap sekali!!)

Tapi saya mendadak missqueen nih. 

Missqueen... miss queen, still. Thank God.

Jakarta Selatan,

Ruth Stephanie