#koojin

[doublel27]

I’m still thinking about Daou Pittya’s live last night where he roasted fans and his current mission to get people to stop using the terms koojin and fanservice.

And thinking about how Pond and Phuwin admitted they hang out a lot but they don’t post any of it because they don’t want their actual relationship outside of work to be called fanservice.

And thinking about the interview BillyBabe gave recently where they reiterated that they don’t engage in fanservice and they can’t make anyone believe anything about their relationship anyway.

And about old videos of Earth during early ATOTS era asking MCs not to use the term koojin about him and Mix.

And about YinWar, BossNouel and MaxTul always having been very honest that they are friends who work together. Never obscuring that fact.

And about Tay Tawan loudly saying that OffGunTayNew all kiss each other all the time since Gun showed up and the realties of their friendship are none of your business.

And about Krist loudly saying he’s allowed to have friends.

Because none of these pairs intend to stop acting with their current partner (aside from MaxTul because Tul has left the industry entirely.) They’re not protesting being paired with another person for multiple projects. They are protesting the commodification, the telling a person who they are with know actual knowledge, and frankly homophobic/toxic masculinity drenched idea that for a man to show care to another man they either have to have a deep romantic relationship or they’re faking it all for the money, even the stuff with no branding attached.

And half the stuff that gets filed away as evidence that two men in a pair or are dating or that everything is definitely fanservice and is entirely manufactured are things that are completely normal in female friendships:

Looking at a person when they speak

Knowing someone’s likes and dislikes

Thoughtful gifts

Saying you love them/care

Acts of service

Physical affection

Sometimes being jealous of a friend’s relationship with other friends

Hanging out outside of work

And yeah, some of them may be just coworkers that they grit their teeth and work with and fake it til they make it. But some pairs out there have a genuine relationship, however they label it. And however it’s labeled is none of your business.

As a fan, you have no right to tell them how to act, whether it’s to call out fanservice and demand they stop or to tell them they can’t have other friends. Both are toxic extremes and treating a person like an object you can control.

There’s a longer essay on this, that I plan to finish soon, but this is where my brain keeps cycling through.

Bottom line, listen to these men when they speak. Trust their agency. I hope they keep clapping back at everyone.

[thomaskong]

Day 194027493145 no kapookpiploy series. Morale is low, we are running out of sustenance. Survival of this winter is unknown

[reigen-small-naturals]

a company so sexist they forget that they are a business that needs to make money episode 47

[clairedaring]

Spare Me Your Mercy is less a "Sammon series" than it is a "Wo+Lux series"

So I came across this Reddit post where OP explains how they're unable to enjoy the ongoing "Sammon series" aka SMYM and Petrichor.

And it just doesn't make sense to me how people keep categorising SMYM as a Sammon series when she didn't even do the screenwriting on this one, at most she's consulted for professional and specialised knowledge. Meanwhile Petrichor is based on the novel "Rust in the Rain" (หยดฝนกลิ่นสนิม) by SixTeenSeven but it's a Sammon series because she wrote the script for Petrichor with five other screenwriters.

I don't know but for me I'd find it more appropriate to compare Spare Me Your Mercy to series like To Sir With Love, Century of Love, Laws of Attraction or even Kahon Maha Ratuek which are directed by Wo & written by Lux.

Spare Me Your Mercy has already deviated itself by being an adaptation of two volumes of Euthanasia by Sammon rather than being a close-to-novel adaptation of one Sammon novel like MOD and Triage. Perhaps it having similar characteristics (rural settings, cops, doctors, thriller, crime, mystery, investigation) is enough for some to brand it a "Sammon series" but it's not the case for me.

Absolutely no idea where I'm going with this but I'm just really frustrated at people calling it a "Sammon series" when all the "underdeveloped", "rushing" sentiments are due to the major condensing of a large body of source material rather than a weak story (I have my tiny qualms with the novels as well, don't get me wrong but that's a story for another day. Great books though, could do with better translations).

Like you don't compare a Ma-Deaw Chookiat Sakveerakul work and a Wo Worawit work just because they have source material from the same author. That is not to mention that production company aka producers can have large influence over a story (especially its ending) and thus politics of producing a series for a BL koojin can also affect quality of a work.

Condensing stories wise aside, I do think Spare Me Your Mercy is doing a great job on sparking the debates on euthanasia with fair amount of scenes spent on Kan & Tew talking about their clashing views on this topic. If Lux and Wo's sole goal in making this series is to showcase a crime investigation series with two main characters having clashing views on euthanasia, I think they're doing well.

It's surely debatable whether the main characters' romance is convincing or not (This discourse I will I leave this to the non-readers who are getting to know KanTew throught the series and not reader audience like myself). Characterisation wise, I would say they're the exact same as the novels, with the lacking aspect being a lack of runtime to flesh out and develop the serial killings/the investigation/the development of characters' relationship.

I'm probably getting beside the point but perhaps if you want to watch a good suspense lakorn from screenwriter Lux about a cop investigating serial killings with his lover being a prime suspect, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND Kahon Maha Ratuek กาหลมหรทึก (2018) (engsub grey watch here)

No idea what my original point was in writing this since I'm not a stan of any of the mentioned creators (Wo, Lux, Sammon...) so I'm not writing this as a defense for anyone... I just prefer that critical comparisons be made with understanding of context and acknowledgement to different creative teams of respective series instead of crediting/attributing everything to one popular name in BL-sphere and using that to make quick judgements of a series.

[airenyah]

throwback to that one time like a year ago when i was telling my cousin about my bachelor thesis and since i was analyzing the eng translation of thai pronouns/honorifics/polite particles where i used various thdramas as my source which i also mentioned to my cousin and he started asking questions about thdrama bc he hadn't been aware that thailand was big on making series and i told him about the product placement that was sponsoring shows left and right and then i laughed about the fact that oishi green tea basically carries the entire thdrama industry on its back and my cousin got even more curious and googled oishi green tea and google showed oishi ads with offgun and brightwin and possible other actor pairs which had my cousin go "????" and "why are they always in pairs on those ads? can't they advertise it alone??"

.....and so then i had to explain bl and the concept of koojins to my 30+ year old male cousin. totally not awkward at all lmao

[reigen-small-naturals]

it's my duty to point out that it stars Niky from a gg QRRA and that just a couple of months ago she was imagining what her GL koojin would be and like, did she know about this casting already and was just fucking with us? 😭

FRT Entertainment announced their new GL series ‘Shades’

The official teaser will be out November 21st.

[hanchan12]

Eh bjug, ni mrka knp pd bka bju smua btw gk pd tkt msk angin ap y. scr kan d'sno (jpg) dngin bngitzzz ❄😨😨😵😵 Tpi gpp de, pge" gni itung" cci mta pke yg sger" n hot 💖😻😻🙈🙈😄😁 #togetherwithme #kornknock #tul_pakorn #maxiiin_ #koojin #athituthaithejourney #maxtul #hot #sexy #couple #honeymoon #beautiful #place

[ddaengjo]

father and son

[flawlessminho]

Chan: What if we all inverted our initials? Chang Ban.

Jisung: Jan Hisung!

Seungmin: Sim Keungmin!

Minho: Mee Linho!

Jeongin: Jang Yeongin!

Changbin: Cheo Sangbin!

Felix: Fee Lelix!

Woojin: Wim Koojin!

Hyunjin: Hwang Hyunj- this is a stupid game.

[kazoo-the-demjin]

Koojin

Imma do this because I’m fucking bored.

What’s your url?

Now take away any and all numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0), take away the letters F, Z, M, Q, L, H, B, T, P, E, A, Y, S, B, D, and X, take away all dashes (-),

What’s your new fucked up version of your url?

crustycreature

crucrur

[isaloveskz]

Felix: what if we inverted the first letter of our names?

Felix: Fee Lelix

Jisung: Jan Hisung

Chan: Cang Bhan

Woojin: Wim Koojin

Minho: Mee Linho

Changbin: Ceo Shangbin

Seungmin: Sim Keungmin

Jeongin: Jang Yeongin

Hyunjin: Hwang H-

Hyunjin:

Hyunjin: you know what, this game is stupid. You all sound drunk...

[skz-probably]

woojin : what if we inverted our initials? like wim koojin

chan : chang ban

felix : fee lelix hehe

changbin : cheo sangbin

jisung : jan hisung oo

minho : mee linho ohmygod-

jeongin : jang yeongin

seungmin : sim keungmin haha

hyunjin : hwang hyun-

hyunjin :

hyunjin : this is a stupid game anyway

[withsubsplease]

Imagine my delightful surprise when I opened up my IG on this holiday morning and found my favorite #koojin had an event together. It’s true, this was supposed to be all about the gems but seeing them together is such a rare treat, I could less what they’re doing or who they’re wearing. #MarioMaurer #Taew_Natapohn #MarioTaew

[reigen-small-naturals]

btw. if you care.

[clairedaring]

just a rant about bl series and fanservice

while i agree that humans can't "queerbait", i don't see how the "dating"/"coming out" jokes made on aprils fool day are funny or harmless at all. there's already so much stigma against thai bl series, especially with the excessive koojin fanservice accompanied to promote their works, i feel like these 'harmless" jokes and fanservice only reinforce this stereotype esp with those actors who can’t act..

funnily enough, on the same day bright rapheephong was answering an interview today about his new series and he was asked about starring in bl series and i love how he reiterate AGAIN the point that he's an actor first and foremost so the works he choose are just dependent on the genres, plots, stories that interest or challenge him, doesn't want to limit himself to just bl series or differentiate between bl/non bl actor.

idk i just wish thai bl industry had enough faith that sometimes strong script and great performances can carry a series without reliance on the pseudo dating koojin fanservice... i mean i love seeing my fave actors having their cute little friendly moments too but i've literally never seen the excessive pseudo dating act go well for these koojins and their delulu sao y fans 🥲

[ao3feed-namkook]

yellow flicker beat

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2MCJl4G

by koojin

He pulls himself closer to her. He doesn’t need to say it, but he knows she understands — you are my only comfort.

Jungkook doesn't know quite why he's being painfully teleported to the middle of the woods, or why he finds comfort in a girl that says she's been lying to him. He doesn't quite know why a handful of strange men can heal what he didn't know was broken, or why he loves who he barely knows.

Words: 3697, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M, Multi

Characters: Jeon Jungkook, Kim Taehyung | V, Park Jimin (BTS), Kim Namjoon | RM, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Min Yoongi | Suga, Kim Seokjin | Jin, Original Characters, Original Female Character(s)

Relationships: Jeon Jungkook/Everyone, Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung | V, Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin, Jeon Jungkook/Min Yoongi | Suga, Jeon Jungkook/Kim Seokjin | Jin, Jeon Jungkook/Kim Namjoon | RM, Jeon Jungkook/Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Jeon Jungkook/Jung Hoseok/Kim Namjoon/Kim Seokjin/Kim Taehyung/Min Yoongi/Park Jimin, Jeon Jungkook & Jung Hoseok & Kim Namjoon & Kim Seokjin & Kim Taehyung & Min Yoongi & Park Jimin

Additional Tags: Vampire Jeon Jungkook, Vampire Kim Taehyung | V, Vampire Park Jimin (BTS), Siren Park Jimin (BTS), Vampire Kim Namjoon | RM, Witch Min Yoongi | Suga, Vampire Min Yoongi | Suga, Vampire Kim Seokjin | Jin, Fairy Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Cute Jeon Jungkook, Jeon Jungkook-centric, Jeon Jungkook Is a Sweetheart, Kim Taehyung | V Is a Sweetheart, Park Jimin (BTS) Is a Sweetheart, Kim Namjoon | RM is a Sweetheart, Minor Kim Namjoon | RM/Kim Seokjin | Jin, Sweet Kim Namjoon | RM, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope Is a Sweetheart, Grumpy Min Yoongi | Suga, Kim Seokjin | Jin Is a Good Hyung, Sweet Kim Seokjin | Jin

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2MCJl4G