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huellitaa · 9 months ago

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bee's record player: march edition. 🎀𓂃 ࣪˖

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 !! notice !! ♡

surpriseee <3 wanted to try and add a little of my personal influence to my girlblog since music is literally my entire life & thought it might be funny to show u all what makes up the chaotic glittery mess that is my brain (and because there are almost 1000 of you beautiful people following me whatt?? thank you😭). i've allllways wanted to do smth like this too so, here u go !! 🩷💗

(+ this is a way for me to rant about my interests without being annoying to my friends / moots 😭. to anybody who has listened to me rant or cry or scream or whatever over music ily guys mwa)

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 NEW ARRIVALS

goddess, laufey

♡ released march 6th, 2024

♡ single

♡ running time: 4 minutes 28 seconds

eternal sunshine, ariana grande

♡ released march 8th, 2024

♡ full album / LP

♡ best songs: supernatural, the boy is mine, we can't be friends (wait for your love), intro (end of the world)

♡ running time: 35 minutes 33 seconds

unheard, hozier

♡ released march 22nd, 2024

♡ extended play / EP

♡ best songs: too sweet (i adore this song.)

♡ running time: 13 minutes 59 seconds

super real me, illit

♡ released march 25th, 2024

♡ extended play / EP, debut! ♡

♡ best songs: magnetic, midnight fiction

♡ running time: 9 minutes 36 seconds

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 BEE'S TRACKS: TOP 10

♡ 10. my world, illit

girly girl song!! i've been obsessed with illit's whole super real me album, their debut is soo good oh my gosh. its criminally short but i seem to have listened to it a lot !! 😭

♡ 9. we can't be friends (wait for your love), ariana grande

i have SO MUCH to say about this song but it resonates with me so much in so many different ways and i just. oh my god. ariana i love u so much

♡ 8. we got so much, le sserafim

k so i initially didn't really like this song but... it's grown on me. a lot. since it first came out. um. it's pretty simple honestly and it's just really girly girl it makes me feel like a school girl i love it

♡ 7. this is what makes us girls, lana del rey

girlblogger anthem!! okay confession i did not get into this song until LAST MONTH. i know. it's terrible and i am ashamed i am so sorry. but i have formed such a strong emotional attachment to this song its crazy i adore it

♡ 6. imperfect for you, ariana grande

exposing myself pt.3 i was in a really big depressive slump for like one half or more of this month actually and this song helped me so much i can't 😭 i love you ari

♡ 5. the boy is mine, ariana grande

(are you noticing a pattern here yet) um another ariana grande song no lol um idk what ur talking about haha 🥰 this song is so twerkable im sorry i wasnt a fan at first but im obsessed i need to stop

♡ 4. smart, le sserafim

no words. once again wasn't a huge fan originally but oh my god im obsessed w it now. afrobeat type of songs are, will, and always be top tier and i will die on this hill. (i've been SO OBSESSED with le sserafim lately but i think thats fairly obvious here😭)

♡ 3. eternal sunshine, ariana grande

i adore this song oh my god. its become one of my favs of all time since it came out. this was on loop for HOURS when i first heard it and its such a comfort song for me. it shows her growth so beautifully and there's so much about it i just absolutely adore like i could write a whole essay on this song and still wouldnt be able to express how much i love it

♡ 2. magnetic, illit

illit was bound to pop up here again this month tbh ok so me and my bsf were listening to this on loop the entire time at school a little after it came out like we were sitting in the front row of our class and were still watching the magnetic mv under the desk on her phone. so in love with this song it makes me so happy n feel so cute i ahh <3

♡ 1. supernatural, ariana grande

SUPERNATURAL IS THE SONG EVER. first day it came out i listened to the album and this was on loop constantly for the next week or more. it's made it up to my top 10 fav songs of all time ever and i listen to A LOT of music. this song is my life<333

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 ALBUMS

♡ 1. eternal sunshine, ariana grande

fairly self explanatory. i love u ari. there was soo much ari this month bc ive been a diehard ari stan since i was 8 and have never looked back. since yes and released in january i have been ecstatic about ag7 releasing in march after 4 YEARS of no ari so this was MONUMENTAL for me 😭😭 THE DROUGHT IS OVER ARIANATORS RISE 🩷🩷🩷

♡ 2. super real me, illit

so basically the day this album came out my best friend was spamming me about them and i only listened to them like 2 days after cuz she was annoying me about it and OH MY GOD. i listened to them and then proceeded to loop the whole album for the next 72 hours 💗 and for a debut as well is amazing ily illit girlies

♡ 3. with you-th, twice

so i wasn't much of a fan at first bc they just sounded really similar and bland to me but its grown on me a lot since it came out and i've been listening to it so much throughout the entirety of march. its just so oddly comforting in a way and feels like a hug in music form (+ rush and bloom are the best songs argue with the wall)

♡ 4. easy, le sserafim

self explanatory. i'm obsessed with le sserafim at the moment and this album is everything to me. ass shaking album 10/10

♡ 5. k-12, melanie martinez

i have been revisiting one of my fav albums of all time this month and its as amazing as always. this has been my favourite album of all time since it came out and i will never ever get over k12 🩷 10000/10!!!! <3

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 ARTISTS

♡ TOMORROW X TOGETHER

♡ TWICE

♡ LANA DEL REY

♡ LE SSERAFIM

♡ ARIANA GRANDE

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 SPECIAL MENTIONS

♡ happy 1 year to portals by melanie martinez! oh my god this album helped me through all of 2023 and i went to see her on tour in london for my birthday last november and it was surreal. she's amazing. i adore her and this album (i have it on vinyl hehe) and love it SOO MUCH 💖

♡ expect ordinary things by ariana grande to be high high on my top 10 next month its been on loop for days now im obsessed

♡ there's going to be a LOT in next month's issue seeing as 2 of my all time favs are coming back next month, so prepare for that! so excited ahh <3 (one has already released at the time of writing this. prepare urselves.)

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 EDITOR'S NOTE

this was SO FUN oh my gosh. i am 100% making this a regular thing~ lmk if it was entertaining, improvements needed, artists / albums you'd like me to keep up with etc, or just general comments, ideas, reviews and so on. thank you so much for reading, this was so fun! look forward to next month 💗🫶💖

lots of love 💘

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feuqueerfire · 2 years ago

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April 2023 Movies/Shows Wrap-Up

A little monthly (spoilery!) wrap-up of all the shows, movies, and shorts I’ve watched or am watching in April 2023, general thoughts, and ranking of them all.

Recommendation of the month: Dirty Laundry was fun!

Ranking

The Merciless

Kiss Me Again: Pete-Kao cut (rewatch) = Dirty Laundry

Midnight Museum

Average Rating: 6.125/10 [lowest for the year so far :< hopefully better next month]

MDL Updates - Added to Watchlist:

A section because I’m curious about how many shows I decide to add to my Watch List a month and also the ratio of watching them:adding them.

Midnight Museum

I Go to School Not by Bus (2015): There’s this one tiktok I liked a while ago and haha yeah

Bed Friend

Unintentional Love Story

The Eighth Sense

To Watch List At Start Of Month: 56

To Watch List At End Of Month: 57 [Currently: Our Skyy 2, Bed Friend]

Removed from To Watch List:

None

Watching On-Air

Our Skyy 2

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Apr 19, 2023 - ONGOING

Watch Via: GMMTV YT (free)

Watch Dates: Apr 22 - ONGOING, 2023

Never Let Me Go: It was cute and fun and I'm happy to have seen Nueng and Palm one more time. Goodbye, Palm and Nueng. [6.5/10]

Star In My Mind: In Ep 1, they were soo cute and I liked scheming Daonuea. Ep 2 is boring rip. Also glad that Nuea initiates or reciprocates Kluen’s advances often enough it’s an uncomfortable dynamic otherwise. [5.5/10]

tags: our skyy 2, never let me go, gmmtv 2023, star in my mind

Also Appears In: Our Skyy 2 Live Blogging

Completely Watched

The Merciless (2017) - non-queer

Country: South Korea

Release Dates: May 17, 2017

Watch Via: Netflix, so :>

Watch Dates: Apr 1, 2023

Rating: 6.5/10

Overall Impression: I do like going into shows and movies knowing very little, so every twist was fun for me; none of it blew my mind but I was still surprised nearly every time because I wasn't trying to predict the twists or anything. Im Siwan is just really good at these sorts of roles I guess, his situation, dynamic with the other male lead, and ending had similarities to Strangers From Hell for sure (or I should say it the other way around because this came first). I wish so much of the movie wasn't in such darkness though, I can't fucking see rip. I wasn't that into the bromance aspect but did like how intertwined they were and how willing to trust the other and how that trust got betrayed.

Also Appears In: The Merciless Live Blogging

My School President non-rewatching rewatch because I'm watching the reaction by ReactionsByJavi. I've been obsessed with FourthGemini recently and am excited for OurSkyyxMSP and just want more of them (23.5 when?). I might watch some FourthGemini interviews and stuff too, who knows, but I've been following translation accounts for them and they've been so funny in their events this early April lol.

I watched all 12 eps reactions by ReactionsByJavi and 2, 3 + parts of 1, 12 by ธีร์สนุกสนาน [T sanuksanan]. I'm gonna raise my rating to 7.5 because I really liked this show :> and my favourite ep is 3. April 4: Gotta update rating in liveblogging, monthly wrap-up, 2023 masterlist, my spreadsheet, MDL, whew.

Midnight Museum - non-BL

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Mar 6, 2023 - Apr 4, 2023

Watch Via: GMMTV YT (free)

Watch Dates: Apr 5 - 7, 2023

Rating: 5.5/10

Overall Impression: I liked the first half with the artifacts and side stories more than the second half where they tried to do too much for a short runtime, not too much budget, and mediocre writing skills. I couldn't make myself care about Khatha or Dome and also it was funny how they kept emphasizing phi-nong with words but so romantic in action. I wish the fantasy and magic and parallel universes and time travel and cult and God and whatever else made more sense together.

tags: midnight museum

Also Appears In: Midnight Museum Live Blogging

Agh, I have barely been watching anything this month.

I think after focusing on less romantic shows the first few months of the year, I’m just craving some regular old familiar cheesy low-stakes BL but I also don’t really wanna start a new show (and Bed Friend seems a little too stressful). Wasn’t sure what I wanted to even rewatch, so I rewatched Gifted S1 via ReactionsWithJavi reactions and on April 16, watched ep 9-11 of Love In The Air SkyPai story.

Can’t wait for Our Skyy to start so that I can at least have that to fulfill my romance BLs but with familiar characters but also not rewatch a whole show; wanted something new with the familiar and Our Skyy really is made for that.

Kiss Me Again: Pete-Kao cut

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Jun 19, 2018 - Aug 9, 2018

Watch Via: GMMTV YT (free)

Watch Dates: Apr 18, 2023

Rating: 6/10 [I’m not changing it from before]

Overall Impression: continuing on my can’t-watch-anything-new-that-i-have-high-hopes-for. I’ve been kinda craving like a very typical school BL that doesn’t have much going on outside of the ship dynamic and this delivers. Repressed and insane Pete who does stupid shit like get together with Mint again bc he thinks he’s jealous of Kao and then crash Kao and Sun’s dinner is so funny. Also the background music in this is jarring. Pete’s father continues to be great.

Rewatched Moonlight Chicken Heart/LiMing scenes via ReactionswithJavi and ahhh I love them so bad like T.T

Dirty Laundry

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Jan 18, 2023 - Feb 2, 2023

Watch Via: GMMTV YT (free)

Watch Dates: Apr 25 - 28, 2023

Rating: 6/10

Overall Impression: Personally worth watching just to see the plethora of the gendered terms used with Night in drag/pretending to be kathoey (esp with Momey). Also liked the ending with “but who’s gonna direct?” [look into the camera] [screen with Directed by Jojo’s name] This was really fun and kept my attention well. I’ve seen people say that the humour didn’t work for them but it did for me. Also fun to see actors like Nanon, Film, Pond in these roles.

tags: dirty laundry

Rewatched SOTUS eps 9-13 and the second half of 15 lol I think I’m just maybe in a typical uni BL mood. rewatching is so fun though, I get to lament that there were so many girls in this engineering friend group and even a lesbian unlike these days where there are 0 to 1 female friends. Also, I didn’t know the Thai honorifics as much when I watched this over a year ago but now Kongpob being like “Then you can drop the formality of khun and phom and change to Phi and nong instead” and Arthit being like “That’s totally up to me. You got a problem with that?” ahhh it’s so alskdjak younger pursuer/seme/top/1/whatever my beloved

Started watching Bed Friend rip should’ve done earlier or waited 2 days but it is what it is.

Wonder how much I’ll get to watch shows now that I’m gonna have a 9-5 for the next 4 months oof

Worked on GeminiFourth April Roundup this month, will try to do it for next month too

#tracking #general bl #midnight museum #dirty laundry

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tortoisesshells · 4 years ago

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“I don’t know why these radio messages started, either.” Park Hae-Young asks the real questions - Signal eps 3&4.

Spare thoughts from last time: Kim Gye-Chul’s rage at the DNA evidence coming in a minute too late, Kim Yoon-Jung’s mother’s grief that her daughter’s murder will never be prosecuted for that crime - as the series wears on, and Park Hae-Young & Lee Jae-Han deal with the consequences of changing the past, the idea that there’s some things that can’t be changed, or disappointments that are inevitable, feels even harsher. Still, it asks the question: what does assuage that raging grief? Is it that the guilty need to be punished for their crimes - and if so, to what end? It’s not something that the show has a good answer for, especially with Kim Yoon-Jung’s murder, though the later corruption cases I think are a different story?

Also, I totally missed that Cha Soo-Hyun thought Kim Yoon-Jung’s murderer might have been responsible for Lee Jae-Han’s disappearance in 2000.

no, Netflix, I will never skip the opening credits. stop asking me about it & stop automatically doing it for me.

Park Hae-Young reacts pretty appropriately to the timeline changing in front of him, I must say - and, as a little over the top as it seems at first, I’m glad the timeline changes have a tell - that when something changes in the past, there’s a breeze rustling through the cold case files’ paperwork.

I nearly titled this recap section for the South Gyeonggi case “It’s all that bastard cop’s fault,” because it completely took me by surprise the first time through, and writing this as a US American in the middle of 2020, Lee Jae-Han’s conduct through the investigation in 1989 doesn’t feel admirable; moreso than the Kim Yoon-Jung kidnapping, this case has serious police problems in both 1989 and the 2015 cold-case investigation. While Park telling Lee, via walkie-talkie, where the next victim would be found meant that Lee could stop the killer and save Hwang Min-Joo, it also meant that Lee would chase down the suspect but apprehend the wrong man, Choi Young-Shin, - who other officers would beat in the course of interrogation, and (accidentally) kill. One life saved, another ruined. The officer in charge of Choi’s interrogation blames Lee for this, naturally. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

TRANSMISSION! (#4 for Park, #2 for Lee) Lee tells Park he caught the killer, but Park, looking at the evidence from 2015, knows that Choi is the wrong man and is going to be killed by the police AND that the timeline of the murders has changed - the next murder is not in a few days, but due to happen right then. If Lee really is in 1989, then shouldn’t Lee be able to stop either of these two events?

Lee cannot, in fact, stop either of these events.

Meanwhile, in 1989, Park and Cha Soo-Hyun try to piece together the case from the remaining files and re-interview witnesses, which most are reluctant to do; Park is perturbed by his new-found ability to change the past, and not necessarily for the better - the police killed Choi when he survived in the initial timeline, even if Hwang Min-Joo and her unborn child were saved from the serial killer - and asks Cha what she would do, if she received a message from the past, or could send one. Cha, whose personal cold case hasn’t been spelled out yet in narrative (but I think the pieces are there, by this point), replies that he’s being ridiculous, but she’d ask to look after someone she cared about. Park, still troubled, asks what if it changes things for the worse. Cha only replied that it’s better to try, and she’d regret doing nothing. Good thing that’s just a hypothetical, huh?

it’s this willingness to gamble that, ultimately, changes Lee’s fate, of course - when it’s Cha who tells Lee from 2015 that he shouldn’t go to Seonil Mental Hospital, Lee actually listened. Kind of.

but this is at the heart of the narrative, isn’t it? that the state of affairs in the present with the cold cases is untenable, unbearable even: isn’t it better to try to change rather than just accept what is out of fear?

Cha flashes back to the last time she saw Lee, August 3rd 2000, and his last living words to her: “When it’s all over, we can talk then.”

THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN THE FLASHBACK IN EP. 1. perhaps significant? (recap here)

Meanwhile, in 1989, rookie beat-cop Lee continues to try to flirt with Kim Won-Kyung, by giving her a stun-gun and telling her to be careful with the killer on the loose. Thankfully, she’s into it.

Both Lee and Park realize the killer WAS on the bus simultaneously, but before Park can really do anything with that information, the killer strikes again, after a 26-year absence - the victim, Jeong Kyung-Soon, was a bus porter on the route the killer stalked. Hmmm, thinks Park, but alas: the higher-ups in the department, Ahn and Kim, don’t allow them to investigate her murder as part of the cold case.

For some reasons, the Gyeonggi detectives recognize Cha, but I don’t recall a case where she would have been in contact with them? At any road, she apparently “hasn’t changed a bit.”

Park, incensed at not being able to do anything about Jeong Kyung-Soon’s murder, takes what the Gyeonggi detectives tell him to heart: this death is on them for re-opening the serial murders case.

TRANSMISSION! (#5 for Park, #3 for Lee) - Lee’s been locked up in 1989 for knowing too much about the murders, but the radio’s nearby enough for him to hear Park’s transmission, warning him that the next victim will be Kim Won-Kyung, found at 9:30 the next day.

I think this is the first time we’ve got explicit confirmation that, for Lee, the transmissions aren’t always at 11:23, as they are for Park (which he noted, this episode). The clock is past midnight in 1989.

There’s a breeze. I’m still not sure what changed, but I’m pretty positive that it’s the time at which Kim Won-Kyung was discovered dead?

[ep. 4]

Lee Chun-Goo, the bus driver from 1989, is definitely Jeong Kyung-Soon’s killer, but Park puts it together - he’s covering for his son, Jin-Hyung. For Park, he thinks Lee Chun-Goo had “no choice but to lie”? For the sake of his son, but Park also seems to think that Lee Chun-Goo’s actions are despicable.

Lee Jin-Hyung tries to kill Cha by strangling her. Who knew this would turn out to be foreshadowing?

TRANSMISSION (#6 for Park, #4 for Lee) - Lee couldn’t save Kim Won-Kyung, despite knowing where and when she would die (in part because he was in police lockup until he broke out [which honestly ... shouldn’t he have faced some backlash??] and because Lee Chun-Goo misdirected him to save his son from being apprehended) and isn’t taking it well - asks Park who the killer is so he can stop them by killing them. Narratively, we’re supposed to at least ... sympathize? with his frustration, since we’ve seen Lee Chun-Goo lie to the police and destroy any chance of arresting his son, all the while saying it’s not his son’s fault he’s murdered nine women. That, and it’s Lee’s grief that’s pushing him, I think - his own sense of inadequacy compounded by the loss of someone he cared about on his watch. Park, for his part, at least tells Lee murdering Lee Jin-Hyung is a criminal act.

Lee Jae-Han describes Kim Won-Kyung as “an ordinary, diligent person” in the conversation with Park, and honestly, that’s stuck with me.

Lee initially says that Park’s reaction to the case is different than his own, because Park is at a distance, only seeing photos of crime scenes and brief victim bios, where Lee’s in the middle of it and knew at least one of these women while they were alive. Which is ... hmm. Funny. All Park has of Lee is a voice at the other end of the line and his personnel file, and by the end of the series, Park describes Lee as one of his closest friends.

the track plays after this conversation, I think for the first time? “For Those Who Are Left Behind” on the OST, or “THE ETHEREAL SYNTH TRACK THAT MAKES ME BUY THE PREMISE” as I described it in my liveblog diatribes @ a dear friend.

ah. It’s sometime after Oct. 22, 2015, in the present.

the taser that Lee have Kim Won-Kyung turns out to be the decisive evidence. this doesn’t make anyone feel any better.

Meanwhile, in the past, Lee’s figured out who the killer is and, believing he’ll never be able to convict Lee Jin-Kyung, decides to cut out the middleman of arrest and trial by jury, going after the killer with his service revolver which ... narratively, I think we’re supposed to approve of, given he’s been stonewalled at every angle in 1989? But Park was right, before. Lee chases Lee Jin-Kyung through a construction zone to the rooftops, where the two scuffle before Lee gets the better of Jin-Kyung, and before Lee Chun-Goo comes to defend his son, swearing he’ll lie to cover for his son until the end. Lee responds that leaves him no choice, and goes after Jin-Kyung again, only for the latter to fall off the edge of the building, breaking his back.

In the present, Park frames Lee’s actions as ... almost admirable; in the past, Lee’s conduct makes him think he should resign. Confronting Lee Chun-Goo, the latter asks what was the point of re-opening the case?

Cha tries to counsel Park on the case, thinking that this is his first murder case and dead body, which is always unsettling; Park, flashing back to his brother’s suicide, replies it’s not his first body and flips her concern back on her in a kind of unsettling way.

Cha, for her part, flashes back to her first body (or rather, the aftermath, presumably at some point in 1995?), and sees herself as a rookie, crying on the stairs at the station to avoid the notice of her co-workers. Naturally, this is where Lee finds her, and somewhat awkwardly asks if she’s eaten. When she replies in the negative, he realizes all he’s holding is two liters of OJ and cigarettes, so somewhat awkwardly gives her a liter of OJ. He ... tries, one suspects.

his pep-talk, though, is kind and kindly meant: that everyone cries, even the “beastly detectives” in the bullpen, and that everyone finds their own way of coping - but she’s going to have to find her own method, because the job has to be done. If they’re taking it hard, he reasons, think how hard it is for the families. Cha said nearly the same thing to Park at some point this episode, I swear.

Park goes to see Kim Won-Kyung’s aunt in 2015, trying to put the case to rest (and his mind at ease, regarding Lee Jae-Han’s actions in the past), setting up a flashback to how Kim Won-Kyung and Lee Jae-Han initially met in 1989: Lee, as a patrolman, refusing to be bribed out of a parking ticket while Kim Won-Kyung looked on. There’s ... a lot of meet-cutes for such a dark show? The aunt tells Park that she went to see Lee after everything, to thank him for trying to get justice for her niece, and to pass along the gift Kim Won-kyung had bought Lee to thank him for the stun-gun: movie tickets. Spotting the letter of resignation on Lee’s table, she tells him that her niece thought very highly of him, and that he always chose to do the right thing.

TRANSMISSION! (#7 for Park, #5 for Lee) a short one: Lee too broken up over the case to do much more than ask where the evidence to convict the killer is, and Park ends in the agonizing position of having to tell him that the evidence isn’t usable in his time (without DNA evidence) - but promises him that it was his actions that led to the case being solved: it was the stun-gun that Lee have Kim Won-Kyung, that she used on the killer, that closed the case.

is this ... actually comforting? I wonder - why didn’t Lee resign here, originally, without the transmissions? Was it just the aunt’s words? Are we supposed to understand that it was Park, too, that kept Lee from quitting and pursuing some other life?

Lee goes to the cinema alone.

Stray thoughts from 3&4: OUCH. This case is hard, because I do think it shows Lee Jae-Han at his worst, but also because it seems to ask a kind of terrifying question. What if he had saved Kim Won-Kyung? He probably wouldn’t have resigned, but you can’t imagine he’d be the same person - so much of his baggage about solving cases seems to come from this case, his first. (and where would that leave Cha, if he was in love with someone else?) I ... almost can’t imagine the narrative would play out the same.

The question of why solve cold cases comes up several times here - sometimes, as when Lee Chun-Goo asks, we’re meant to find the question frivolous and victim-blamey; but the question is still there: what does solving a cold case mean, when the families have already buried their dead? What’s closure?

the next episode is Cha’s rookie flashback, and I am ready.

#polkaknox watches signal (2016)#polkaknox talks

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