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[renatosicoob]

[renatohonorioo]

[kit-teung]

EVRYONE DON'T MOVE THERE'S FINALLY A BUTCHFEMME THAI GL SERIES COMING

[pharawee]

God, you're warm. Can I stay like this for a little longer?

[clairedaring]

In another episode of english subs clarification for Gelboys EP 5

Here's the subtitles for the voice message that Fourmod sent Chian

Here's a more accurate translation:

Chian: Should we go get our nails done tomorrow? Lol...

Fourmod: I can't do my nails with you from now on 😊

Fourmod Voice Message: Hey. I just wanna say that... I have a faen (boyfriend/girlfriend/partner) already. I'm telling you like we had previously agreed upon. From now on, I can't go do my nails with you.

Chian Voice Message: That's good. Cute.

So after two years of being in an unofficial no status relationship with Chian, Fourmod has decided to break it off just as Chian is about to ask him to become official boyfriends.

[gunsatthaphan]

also currently losing it over MDL listing Shakespeare as the creator of THK ksldjnf 😭

[tortibomb]

me next 🙋🏻‍♀️

Mond Tanutchai as Nakan in My Golden Blood | Ep 2

[pricetrait]

┃there she goes

Meet Marciela Martín de León, a 19-year-old freshman at Britchester University studying fine art. To her peers, she's the picture-perfect prodigy—polished, talented, and effortlessly ahead of her class. But what they don't know is that her she has a singular, adorable secret.

[harocat]

Look I’m not going to go out of my way to go to bat for Dafeng on webbed sites because I’m sure it has plenty of defenders, but the amount of people that are mad that the show is a comedy because they expected it to be a ‘serious wuxia’ is wild.

The trailers never once hid that it was a comedy.

This is the first trailer. There is a dance number ten seconds into it. The other trailers are like this too.

If comedy wuxia isn’t your bag obviously that’s fine, but acting like you were tricked is nuts when it was… marketed as exactly that.

[zhouxiangs]

BOOM THARATORN as Warich in PERFECT 10 LINERS (2024) | Episode 10

[pigglepiephi]

Takara finally said Taishin’s name and I cried!

I wondered here if part of the reason Takara had never said Taishin’s name, even in his own POV, was because he was too scared about what using it meant. After opening up about how much his feelings scared him, and being reassured by Taishin that he wanted to be with Takara and he wanted him to tell him everything, Takara finally freed himself of the anxiety he’d been carrying and said ‘Taishin’ out loud for the first time! He opened himself up fully to loving Taishin totally and without fear.

Urgh, that moment got me right in the feels 💕

I know using first names holds a lot of weight culturally but it always felt like not using Taishin’s was another way Takara was restraining himself… until now!

[renatosicoob]

[hyog-blog]

Can we just talk a little about this unholy unity of Li Lun and Zhuo Yichen? Just look at him :D Why does he look so hot)) And those bare arms, in a show where everyone is so deliberately clothed in multi-layers (apart from demons who are veeeery bad, hence, they can show their sexiness as much as they want).

Anyway, that's it, that's all I have to say XD

And while we're on this bad-demons-look-so-good topic, let's throw in a few of them sizzling hot baddies to the mix. Because no one pulls the bad demon look quite like Zhao Yuanzhou's Inner Demon :3

And I enjoyed the whole dark!Wen Xiao sequence a little too much :D

[dramadramallama]

not really analyzing much, just making a few notes of the things that stood out to me in the first 4 eps of light shop. i haven't read the webtoon so it's more like i'm blindly pointing at things like a child hahaha

NAMES

All (?) the names called out when the teacher does attendance in the first episode have a (direct) translation (to something positive.) I noticed because 1. some of them are really unusual, and 2. they ALL are words, like no one's just named Ji-soo or something in this class lol:

Ip-sae (입새) - entrance/beginning

Nu-ri (누리) - (old fashioned) world/universe

Ha-neul (하늘) - sky/heaven

Gi-ppeum (기쁨) - joy

Eu-tteum (으뜸) - fundamental/basic (possibly: "the first")

Ga-eul (가을) - fall/autumn

Chuk-bok (축복) - wishing happiness/blessed

Bo-bae (보배) - treasure/priceless

Mi-rae (미래) - future

Do-dam (도담) - (possibly from 도담하다) be bold/stand out/accomplished (?)

Haet-sal (햇살) - sunlight

Now you're gonna say, well Hyun-ju (who keeps going to the light shop as an errand for her mom) is also in that class! She's seemingly the only one with a "normal" sounding name. Out of curiosity I did search hers, and interestingly, I found a few meanings too: 1. address of residence, 2. water used in ancestral rites (!) 3. stay in the present, live life (!!)

Side note: Haet-sal is also the name of the Detective's (unborn?) child. He chooses the name himself out of the ones his wife wrote down. It could be a coincidence, except most of the first names she pre-selected are the exact names of the students in that class.

I can't read all of them, but there are a few I recognize: Gi-ppeum, Ha-neul, Chuk-bok, Eu-tteum, Bo-bae... (there's also Sa-rang "love", or Haeng-bok "happiness" in the list)

HYUN-JU AND HER MOM

We're not shown Hyun-ju unconscious in the hospital, like all the other main players who are trying/failing to find a way out (the will to live/the will to move on)... But she clearly also is at the threshold between life and death. Maybe she is living, but able to unknowingly go between worlds?

The light shop seems to be the doorway to "home" or maybe "heaven" (as evidenced by Mr Twisty Legs, who keeps trying to "reach" the shop, and when he does get there, he doesn't cross the threshold and loops back to his solitary karaoke session in the dark rainy alleyway.

Dead or alive, Hyun-ju is basically invisible. She hangs out with her friends but she is not interacted with. It's really fun, if you go back and watch the scenes, no one directly talks to her, looks at her, or touches her. When she speaks, she's not acknowledged by the three friends. It's really clever: something's off, but it can be attributed to the girls being chaotic, not purposefully ignoring her. Eu-tteum is the only one who, barely awake, at the frontier between dream and reality, finally "sees" her. It's directly after that event that she sees the other ghost/spirit, whose body is missing (and whom the Detective is still looking for)

Hyun-ju's mom is revealed to be the body being embalmed. Her spirit (soul?) has a conversation with the Funeral Director and when she asks, "am I alone?" she surprisingly sounds relieved when he replies that she is. Is she relieved her daughter is not with her (meaning not dead yet?) She also cries and is worried about being left in the dark, which parallels painfully with the fact that she keeps seeking light, apparently asking her daughter to get her light bulbs over and over. The Funeral Director reassures her that she'll go to a place where it's very bright (=the Light Shop being very allegorical here)

Hyun-ju and her mom also live on the 8th floor of that apartment building, while the Intensive Care Unit is also on the 8th floor at the hospital. Bus Stop Guy also lives on the 8th floor of Hyun-ju's apartment building.

BUT... maybe Hyun-ju is the one keeping her mom from passing on, stubbornly buying her light bulbs that bring no light, and inevitably end up in the trash. Or is she helping...? Has she been dead ever since she was little (she still has that necklace she had as a kid, with her info on it in case she gets lost) and has been waiting for her mom all this time? The Shop Keeper even emphasizes that he sees her as a small child, unwrapping the candy for her.

When offered, Hyun-ju always picks the yellow (=light/sun) candies. The whole show feels like a giant allegory about Light and Dark, Life and Death.

SYMBOLISM/FOLKLORE

I don't know much, but I do remember that a common horror trope in Asian legends/stories is that ghosts can be recognized because they "clap with the back of their hands". I immediately thought of that when they show the Lady in White's weird hands (the inside of her hands is actually the back of it. The nails are all wrong, I FLINCHED) She's strangely interested in whether people are "alone" or "together", and who "knows" each other. She also needs to be invited inside explicitly to step into Bus Stop Guy's house, like creatures in a lot of folk tales.

The Shop Keeper never welcomes his customers inside... but greets them by asking a question: "how did you get there/what brings you here/how can I help?" The lights in his shop are not to be touched.

The Detective has a defective lamp on his desk, and cannot seem to light up his lighter anymore. He also sees people/things he shouldn't. The Nurse says "if you see people who are on the border of life and death, doesn't that mean you are too?" which obviously, he is now, since we see him in a hospital bed in the ICU. Maybe his wife and child are waiting for him to wake up...?

Lots of imagery with mirrors, which are common symbols for doorways, a limit between two worlds.

I know it's not, but New Tenant's outfit is also very reminiscent of a hospital gown (first image). When she settles in the new house, she puts away her shoes and does not seem to notice the bright red heels (the same ones the Very Tall Extremely Scary Woman wears, indicating she is inside the house with her).

The song my guy Mr Twisted Legs sings (badly) to give himself courage is the same one the Nurse makes her patients listen to (and the same one she was listening to when she was in a coma herself, "wandering aimlessly," "almost giving up" before she found her way back to the living). The characters on life support can all interact with each other in the alleyway, but are also completely isolated from each other: New Tenant does not hear Twisted Legs' cries over her own, and vice versa, even when they cry out for the same thing, "to get out of there."

They all share the same space in the ICU, but are locked in their own world. Do their collective consciousness populate that "other" world, mixing up elements of their life and memories?

Clearly, the theme of the deceased, unable pass on peacefully, who remain behind (due to something unresolved?) is prevalent. Does it create--not ghosts exactly--but an energy, an entity embodying the "regret," the "mourning [of] something they lost"?

Now, what I find interesting is: what does "I want to leave, I want to go home" mean for each of them? To peacefully pass on, accept death, move on, and forget? Or does it mean to fight, to find the will to live, thanks to those who wish us well? Is the Light (shop) the way back to life, or the way to the after-life? Or both?

[pharawee]

Are you thinking about me now?

[dekaydk]

New K-QL: FC Soldout

On a whim I started watching. Mostly comedic so far, setting up the story of a once-promising football team whose sponsor went bankrupt, leading to a loss of players and team ability.

They're bought by an entertainment group whose idea is to make the players all be marketable for their looks.

The first ten seconds we get the main character…

…right before he gets the news that the team's in trouble. In a flashback we see that he didn't, um, take the news well. Drunk, he wanders into a cinema to watch a movie about a football player and emerges as a fan of the actor. Quite a fan.

A couple of his teammates, discussing the team's issues.

Later, when the new entertainment CEO arrives to introduce himself, he's arrogant and doesn't make friends. But he brings along his new, more attractive players-to-be and of course one of them is the actor form the football player movie.

Live reaction from our main character:

Well, the dude is tall, dark and handsome. Very tall.

The other players-to-be:

Almost everybody in both the actual players group and the new group seems to be a bit of a lovable loser or in some kind of career slump explaining why they're in this situation, and seems to be part of why the CEO thinks he can make it happen.

The first episode ends on a locker room scene where the two groups are together in uniform for the first time. Something suggests that this show will not be short of pulchitude on parade.

I'm putting this on my "comedy QL to watch" list.