#shared + spotted in thai (mostly) ql

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Troye Sivan's Got Me Started and its shared locations in Thai queer media

Bed Friend and Chains of Heart (location)

Gemini and Fourth's เขินให้หน่อย (You're Blushing?) (location)

Even Sun

KinnPorsche (location)

Edit: Truly embarassing of me not to recognise this building

Never Let Me Go and 3 Will Be Free (location)

[dribs-and-drabbles]

This is potentially another Thai house we need to track 😏

As seen first in Golden Blood:

And soon to be seen in Be Mine. Superstar:

@poetry-protest-pornography @absolutebl @pose4photoml @colourme-feral

[respectthepetty]

Your post about being happy that there are so many queer media to watch nowadays, even the bad ones is just spot on. I live in a homophobic country and I'm still in the closet at 25. so imagine growing up, discovering yourself, being so afraid and then have all the queer content you find end with the characters dying, being laughed at, or reduced to harmful stereotypes. because what did that mean for silly young closeted me?

But now?

Now I'm thriving, i get to experience queer love, queer joy, even queer dumbassery lmao. These reminders, despite still feeling stuck, constantly show me how other queer people are moving forward and living their lives—and it's beautiful, even the trashy ones (which always are the most fun to watch)

So thank you for your post. It’s a reminder that our stories matter, no matter how imperfect!

Anon, although I live in the United States, I have always lived in a super conservative county where the town clerk refuses to issue marriage licenses to queer couples (and sometimes people of color depending on the day). We have billboards coming into town telling everyone they are going to hell and compared to all my friends in bigger cities who had to wait for the COVID vaccine, I got mine in 2020 when they were mostly only available to medical staff because the medical staff at our hospital refused to get it because Trump told them not to or some shit, so the local pharmacy begged anyone to get the shot before they expired. For a long time, my town refused to let cable or internet companies come in because then we would be exposed to sinful media.

But I ain't moving!

So although I haven't lived your experience, I feel ya.

Which is why I love all the discourse about QLs. If someone loves a show, I want to see why. If someone hates a show, I want to hear all about it. Because for so long, I had NOTHING! I was looking at the bible in Catholic school like . . . "Judas, you could've just told Jesus you wanted him instead of doing all this" *sign of the cross* and we all know how that ended for both of them.

Now, I'm trying to figure out where to find the time to watch all that is being offered to me! I can be picky now! I can dislike a show without feeling like ALL queer content will be taken away from me. I can get characters giving hand jobs, rim jobs, and blow jobs without having to pay-for-view at 1 am praying that the volume stays low.

I have watched some of the worst imaginable queer content, and I have watched queer porn with a plot which has smacked, and not just literally *wink*. I have watched so many queers be buried in ways that people cannot even begin to fathom. I have seen more than my fair share of queer media, and I can say without a doubt that these BLs are giving us some of the best variety of queers I have ever seen, and regardless if they are true to the queer experience (Dinosaur Love, I'm looking at your wild ass), two men holding hands is really fucking queer to these homophobes regardless of the plot. Two men cuddling in bed is super queer to these homophobes regardless of how aligned it is with the queer experience. Two women kissing is giving a homophobe a heart attack right now!

Century of Love had homophobic crew members. Those people got a paycheck for filming a BL while tweeting homophobic comments. Homophobia doesn't magically go away because we have queer content, which is a truth you and I know, but it gives me tiny pleasure knowing that 1) the show is airing on a popular-ish Thai channel in a prime-time slot, and 2) homophobes had to film two men kissing, multiple times. If we can't beat (the fuck out of) them, at least we made them feel super uncomfortable for even a teeny tiny bit.

And that's the other half of this - Not only do we get to consume all of this, but others are being exposed to it. These shows are airing in their countries ON TV. These actors are being shown in ads on TV and doing spreads for magazines. So while my town has billboards telling us to seek Jesus or perish in the fires of hell, Apo and Mile are eating Lay's on a billboard somewhere in Thailand.

Because this isn't just about the queers watching but about the homophobes and even the in-betweens witnessing it.

Give me all the trashy series (Dinosaur Love, still looking at you)! Give me the series that have absolutely no plot except two boys holding hands. GIVE ME EVERYTHING! Because no matter what I get, I guarantee it is pissing off some grandpappy somewhere, and that's really the queer experience; pissing people off for not only existing, but having the audacity to thrive despite it all.

So thrive, QL Land, THRIVE!

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Intro Post

Writing and sharing about my appreciation for QLs (mostly BLs tbh). Tryna corral my lil' tumblr essays here. I've loved the the art of non-fiction since I was a kiddo, and here's my little queer spot to play around with it, poetic musings as often as organized essays.

Please, feel welcome to reach out, add on, and share your thoughts or corrections. I can be snarky, pretentious, and talk out of my ass sometimes when I have big feels, and I don't speak any languages except English fluently, but I do my best to seek out relevant research, remain culturally sensitive, listen to others, and own and fix any mistakes. Sometimes I write things and disagree with myself later. Sometimes I write criticisms that are as much about other people's takes as they are about my own tendencies.

The goal is to spread the various kinds of queer love for all kinds of Queer Love shows, respecting the histories and people behind them. It takes many hearts and many perspectives to make that happen. Also, rambling in the tags is a love language <3

List is below the cut.

Gonna organize these based on show chronology, I guess, with a general/cross-series section at the bottom:

SOTUS: SOTUS Review: Engineering the Bridge to BL

SOTUS S: Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11

He's Coming to Me: He's Coming to Me Is a Comedy...Unless

Dark Blue Kiss: "Love Has No Form": The Accessible Queer Semiotics of DBK

ATOTS: The Theme of Flight

Secret Crush On You: A Brief Note on DCOMs and Seng!

Our Skyy: Bad Buddy x ATOTS: Men's Gay Experiences in Conversation with Bi/Pan Experiences

Only Friends (my beloved): The Pink Political-Economy of Thailand in Only Friends

Thai BL's Parliamentary Tragedy

OFDO Trailer Confirming Some of My OF Theories

Cherry Magic Thailand: My Favorite Tay Tawan Performance

The Trainee: Being Good at Work: Full Series Review

The On1y One: The On1y One and the Queer History of *Poetic Cinema*

Emancipation: Open Endings in Queer Romance

Choosing the Moon of a Second Season

The On1y One Loves School

Peaceful Property: Ride Is Just an Anonymous Delivery Driver

Episode 4: Scams, Fakes, Performances, and Belief

PhoomVicha and Fleeting Queer Gestures

The PhoomVicha Storyline is Relevant: Queer Marxist Alienation in PP

Bly Manor and PP: The Horror of Domestic Labor Rights

Some Thai Occult Info Regarding Aunt Phom

Bromance in Peaceful Property

A Quick Language Note on Pangpang's Name

Kidnap Kidnap and the Why? of Fluff

Smells Like Green Spirit: A Throwback to the New Queer Cinema

Love in the Big City: Taking Effeminate Clowning Seriously

Spare Me Your Mercy: The Parallels of Rural Queer Acceptance and Rural Death Acceptance

All About Love From Beginning to End

Ticket to Heaven: The Queer History of Saint Bartholomew

Aof motifs in the trailer

General The #strongfemalecharacter Performance Style of Mix Sahaphap

I will never be over the kind of queer representation we get in Thai BL

Only 10 Years of Gay-Focused Happy Ending Romance Shows Trending

Aof Noppharnach's Pervasive HIV symbolism

Openings with Aof Noppharnach

A Friendly Note to the BL Fandom

BL Made By and For Women

[chickenstrangers]

#5QLS tag

tagged by @waitmyturtles 🥰

When you get this, list 5 songs from the Asian QL shows that you actually listen to. 🎶They do not have to be custom-made for the series. 🎶Non-western tracks only. Let's support Asian music and languages! 🎶Feel free to tag anyone who may be interested in participating. 🎶Add #5qls tag to your post for others to find the new favourites!

1. Tilly Birds - เพื่อนเล่นไม่เล่นเพื่อน (Just Being Friendly) - My School President, Cutie Pie, Cupid's Last Wish

This is the song that started me on Thai music and I'm so happy for it. It's still probably my favorite song on this list. I love the original version, the MSP cover, NuNew's singing, but I especially love evil!Tilly Birds in Cupid's Last Wish when its the prelude to them getting lost.

2. NuNew and/or Zee - ใจรัก (LOVE) - Cutie Pie

Zee and NuNew both have amazing covers of this song (Zee's version) and with Just Being Friendly, this was I think the second song on my playlist. The actual scene in the show is one of the most excruciating scenes that I could barely sit through from second-hand embarrassment, and then Kuea sings it the next episode which is honestly kind of rubbing salt in the wound. But the song itself I love.

3. Dark Blue Kiss Opening Theme

I couldn't find a normal version of it without linking an episode, but this is genuinely my favorite opening sequence to a show, and it is one of the only ones that I will watch every time, even if I accidentally come upon it when trying to find a specific scene. Okay, I may be more obsessed with the video than the song itself, but the song definitely sets the tone. This opening is a roller coaster, starts dramatic, gets super cheesy, makes me laugh, but every time Kao comes on screen and a single tear rolls down his cheek I am instantly on the verge of tears.

4. Mix and Earth - ไม่ไกลหัวใจ (Closer) - Cupid's Last Wish

Though DBK has the best intro video, this is probably my favorite opening song to a show. Gets you in the mood for a fun lighthearted road trip to reverse a body swap. Honorary mention to their ATOTS Our Sky 2 song which I could not stop listening to and watching when it came out. I think the lyrics really capture the theme of the special. Yes I am putting 2 songs on this list spot.

5. ฟัง – SIN feat.โอม Cocktail - My School President

There's a lot of songs from MSP that could be on the list, but other than Just Being Friendly (which I am counting as a general BL song given how often it shows up) this is probably my most listened to song on the soundtrack.

6. Phai Phongsathon - คนบ้านเดียวกัน - Laws of Attraction

I was really trying to stick to 5ish main songs but then I remembered @recentadultburnout post about this song which appeared last episode and I have been listening to it a lot since then!

I have mostly kept to songs I haven't seen other people mention in their posts, so here's a quick list of my favorite songs that have already been discussed but that I second (not comprehensive):

Gunsmile - Pass (from Love Sick)

Wetter - Who (from The Eighth Sense)

Tilly Birds - I'm Not Boring, You're Just Bored (from Only Friends)

Anonymouz - 夜行性 (from Jack O' Frost)

Ayumu Imazu - Sunshower (from Eternal Yesterday)

CITI - Today (from You Make Me Dance)

And lastly, two of my favorite songs that barely fit because I don't think they were in any shows, but they were covered at the MSP concert, so I am counting them:

sorry for adding a million songs but hey why not talk about more music this is my post. tagging (if you want, no pressure, feel free to ignore) @recentadultburnout @distant-screaming (I love both your recs; I listened to MILLI for a week straight after a soundwin post haha) @ranchthoughts @dudeyuri @shannankle @miscellar @kattahj and anyone else who wants to share!

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PARALLELS BETWEEN MAN SUANG'S PILOT TRAILER AND PEACEFUL PROPERTY (2024) AND YES, IT IS A SHARED LOCATION

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Shared + spotted in: 4 Minutes, Sunset x Vibes

IRL: Mano Town Studio, 1087/133 Phetchaburi Rd, Makkasan, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Credit: https://shorturl.at/EmJZd

[colourme-feral]

Your Sky is truly selling itself to me as A Uni QL through its use of locations that have been used in many older QLs, including ones set in universities.

School

Also seen in Hidden Agenda, The Warp Effect, Between Us, Big Dragon, Vice Versa, the Hidden Agenda pilot trailer, Cutie Pie 2 You and The Promise (location)

Also seen in My Secret Love, The Player, Theory of Love: Special Episode, Hidden Agenda Pilot Trailer and Vice Versa (location)

2. Park

Also seen in We Are, Vice Versa (location)

3. Shopping centre

Also seen in Me and Thee's pilot trailer (location)

4. Home

Also seen in The Player, Close Friend Season 2, I Promised You the Moon and 3 Will Be Free

5. Airport (ok, there are only 2 airports in Bangkok, but still)

Also seen in Vice Versa (location)

6. These bad bitches bridges

Also seen in Our Skyy x Dark Blue Kiss (location)

Of course THE bridge that is most often seen in QLs would appear. Also seen in Absolute Zero + official teaser #1, Cutie Pie, Boyband, Enchante, Even Sun, Gen Y, I Promised You the Moon, KinnPorsche, Moments of Love, My Ride, Our Skyy x SOTUS, The Rebound, SOTUS, SOTUS S, Tonhon Chonlatee, 2 Moons 3: The Ambassador, Moments of Love, The Rebound, Pluto the Series, You Made My Day (location)

I got three bridges in 1 shot!!! 🌉🌉🌉 Two bridges in the foreground. It's hard to tell, but they run parallel to each other. Also seen in The Rebound (location) And one bridge in the background Also seen in A Boss and a Babe, Big Dragon, Cooking Crush, KinnPorsche, Love in the Air, Not Me, Pit Babe (location)

Bonus: Rooftops (in general)

Bonus: The beach (another general one)

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The less glamorous siblings of the cable stayed bridges of the Chao Phraya River as seen in Thai qls, specifically in Bangkok and slightly north of Bangkok.

(I have left out bridges that have not made any appearances thus far)

Nonthaburi Bridge (in Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi Provinces) My Ride, Siew Sum Noi

Maha Chesadabodindranusorn Bridge (in Nonthaburi Province) The Luminous Solution, Not Me, Enigma, Be Mine Superstar

Krung Thon Bridge Absolute Zero, My Dear Gangster Oppa, You and My Stars, Moments of Love

Memorial Bridge Low Frequency Pilot Trailer, 'Cause You're My Boy / My Tee, Last Twilight

Phra Pok Klao Bridge (and Chao Phraya Sky Park) Low Frequency Pilot Trailer, 'Cause You're My Boy / My Tee, Last Twilight, Cherry Magic Thailand

Taksin Bridge (King Taksin the Great Bridge) Our Skyy x Dark Blue Kiss

Rama III Bridge and Krungthep Bridge (all appearances have included both bridges together) KinnPorsche, Cutie Pie, He's Coming to Me, Tell the World I Love You

References:

@absolutebl's BL Visual Trope Du Jour: Boys on bridges post

@virtualtadpole's The Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok post

5 cable-stayed bridges that cross the Chao Phraya River

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Shared + spotted in: My Stand-In, House of Stars and Playboyy (Also the upcoming SunsetxVibes)

IRL: The Black Kingdom, VJ7J+V58 Bangkok, Thailand

As spotted by @blmpff!

Credit: https://www.instagram.com/sunsetxvibestheseries/reels/

Credit: https://www.trip.com/hotels/bangkok-hotel-detail-104366421/the-black-kingdom/

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Shared + spotted in: Spare Me Your Mercy and Bed Friend (as establishing shot only but how often will I get a shared location in Lampang!!!)

IRL: Nakhon Lampang (aka Nakhon Lampang Railway Station), Sop Tui, Mueang Lampang District, Lampang 52100, Thailand

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Shared + spotted in: Every you, Every Me, City of Stars, Battle of the Writers and its official trailer

IRL: SYNHUB Digi-Tech Community, 96 Moo1, KlongNueng, KlongLuang, Pathum Thani, Thailand 12120

IRL: KUSTO cafe (on the first floor of the building)

Credit, credit

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Shared + spotted in: Sunset x Vibes, Gen Y, Big Dragon The Movie Official Pilot Trailer and Love Senior Official Pilot Trailer

IRL: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, 126/1 ซ. วิภาวดิรังสิต2 แยก 6 แขวง รัชดาภิเษก Din Daeng, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Shared location pointed out by @my-rose-tinted-glasses

Credit: https://en.utcc.ac.th/

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Shared + spotted in: Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto / Love is Better the Second Time Around and Jack o' Frost

As pointed out by @blmpff

IRL: Chuo-Ohashi Bridge as seen from Shinkawa Park (Sumidagawa Terrace), 1 Chome-32 Shinkawa, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0033, Japan

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Me @ The Next Prince official trailer: Ok, I see you, shared location 😏

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Shared + spotted in: The Rebound and Your Sky (as establishing shots, but I'll take it!)

IRL: Rama IX Bridge and Thotsamarachan Bridge (aka King Rama X Bridge), Chalerm Maha Nakhon Expy, Bang Phong Phang, Yan Nawa, Bangkok 10120, Thailand

Thanks to @virtualtadpole's sharp eyes catching their debut appearance in The Rebound!

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