#the rebound ep 12

[themundanedumpling]

yay!! they won! look at them having their own sweet moment while others are celebrating

[hughungrybear]

Sorry, of all the impossible things that could only happen in a BL, this is one of the most unbelievable I had seen this year. 😑

You tell me that these two can act like this is the middle of a goddamned game without getting called "foul" by the referees for delaying??? Seriously?

[riacte]

#but i have to point out:#it's the leader + most trusted advisor / anxious girlfailure + the annoying freak she's somehow attached to vibes#← ria riacte these tags are Extremely expected of you the CEO of falseren rom / platonic / friends / everything. /pos#anyway. yippeee

i KNEW IT!! i KNEW there was a FUCKING reason i was like.... hey... why are laios and marcille kinda... wait why am i getting invested... i was literally here for the yuri i religiously looked through the farcille tag... bros... why am i here again.... i feel a bit weird about the ship but im also kinda weirdly into it but not really but i'll take some of it... me will be me again i guess. i fucking guess.

😭😭😭 great god. oh fuck. im kind of seeing it tbh. im always weak for the pretty blond woman who's chronically anxious but competent and the. dense lil freak autistic swag dog guy. king + beloved advisor. girlboss and girlfailure at the same time. fuck. oh fuck the au is gonna smash into me like a train ain't it oh no-

so hey guys i finished dungeon meshi yesterday and i'm still thinking about it

[absolutebl]

This Week in BL - In Which None of You Should be Surprised by a MAJOR Upset in the Standings

Sorry this is so late. I had a pretty epic series of delays landing me at NRT for like 18 hours or something ridiculous. To be fair there are much worse airports to be stranded at.

Organized, in each category, with ones I'm enjoying most at the top.

June 2024 Week 4

Ongoing Series - Thai

The Rebound (Weds Gaga) ep 1 of 12 - Fuck all ya'all if you thought I had taste. MeenPing are topping this damn list because... have you any idea how LONG I have been waiting for a real sports centered BL starring at least one boy who actually played the flipping sport? My whole damn life. You ready for me to go into euphoric splooges all over your screens? I don't think you are. SUFFER! And now some splooging:

It’s off to a great start. Thank you, Rebound, for being exactly what I wanted. By which I mean Meen has his shirt off literally in the first two minutes of the show. Also it’s a bit of a childhood sweethearts reunion romance. There’s nothing wrong with this beginning. Fantastic. For a change, I even enjoy the intro music. Golf is directing MeenPing this time, so maybe something magical will happen. Frank is aging so pretty!!! How nice for all of us. Even the bb play is good. It’s a proper sports BL. I’m so damn happy right now. 

Wandee Goodday (Sat YT) ep 9 of 12 - I’m so tired of Ter, but everything else was lovely. Also they are SUCH boyfriends. 

Sunset X Vibes (Sat iQIYI) ep 3 of 12 - They are so cute in these roles. I don’t know why, I just like their vibe better here than in the previous show. (And I really enjoyed Big Dragon at the start.) This show is a lot more classic romance and kind of pat because of that. I do hope the ingénue character gets some kind of additional development and talent. But even if it stays mundane, these two have the chemistry to carry it. So I suspect I’ll keep enjoying it regardless. I am mildly intrigued by the spice of the PNR element, so I hope they run with that a bit more. I suspect they will have to, to extend the plot for 12 eps.

My Stand-In (Fri iQIYI) ep 10 of 12 - Ah Ming... famous last words. This one just makes me sigh a lot and whimper sadly. I don’t know where they’re going with this plot or how they’re gonna resolve it. Joe finally being the asshole Ming deserves is a lot of fun though (double entendre intended). I’m scared but it did make me cry... a lot. (That's fine, I'm a sap.)  

Imma say this because no one else has. Wardrobe is unilaterally terrible in this show. I mean Thailand is notoriously bad in general but this show, nash.

We Are Cute (Weds iQIYI) ep 13 of 16 - They are so fucking adorable. And so flirty! Also a crying kiss? My favorite! Chain’s little moment of "Cupid shoot thyself" was epic. ("Physician heal thyself" but for the BL world?) Honestly, I could watch a whole show about these two...

The Trainee (Sun YouTube) ep 1 of 12 - How does Gun still look like he’s just out of high school? Madness. Does the set for the print shop that he’s working in at the beginning remind anybody else of Mork’s dad’s place in ‘Cause He’s My Boy? I swear GMMTV has about 3 sets they rotate through.

To be brutally honest, I was not looking forward to the show at all. No idea why. OffGun aren’t my most favorite OG pair, but I respect them for their longevity, optics, acting shops, and enduring brand. Maybe I just needed more of a gap from Cooking Crush?

Whatever, I was absolutely riveted by this first episode. I’m enjoying The Trainee a lot. Like, a lot a lot.

My Love Mix-Up Th (Fri YT) ep 4 of 12 - This version did the "clear up of the inciting miscommunication" in such a sweet achey way. Frankly that "ache of first love" really plays to G4's strengths as a pair. This was a good ep and I’m now starting to enjoy this one for its own sake and get some distance from the JBL version. It's just there is A LOT of good stuff coming out of Thailand right now.

Love Sea (Sun iQIYI) ep 3 of 10 - I was inspired to write a Shakespearean style sonnet in this week's trash watch. Mame seems to believe that no character can have depth without suffering. And I found this episode both boring and rushed at the same time. Trash watch here. (This week's trash watch also VERY delayed.)

Knock Knock Boys (Thurs Gaga) ep 6 of 12 - It’s eminently missable... so I missed it this week in order to get this weekly update out. Next week will be a two in one. 

Only Boo! (Sun YT) ep 12fin - Okay, that’s it, I guess?

Summary:

An idol romance about a sunshine boy who dances good and wants to be a star and a reserved food stand vendor. Other side of the tracks, grumpy/sunshine pair who fall in love but, of course, to be an idol baby boy can't date. It wasn’t particularly bad, it wasn’t particularly good either. 7/10

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

I Hear the Sunspot AKA Hidamari ga Kikoeru (Japan Weds Gaga) Ep 1 of 10 - A new series adaptation of beloved yaoi I Hear the Sunspot (first adaptation was feature film Silhouette of Your Voice 2017).

I expected the soundscapes in this one to be fantastic, but I didn’t expect the filming to be something special too. But it really is. I’m not gonna lie, I'm nervous about this show because I love the manga and was disappointed by the film, but we were off to a really good start. First names already? So cute. I love them.

Takara's Treasure AKA Takara No Vidro (Japan Mon Gaga) ep 1 of 10 - Shy awkward Taishin goes to a Tokyo university in order to reunite with Takara, a stranger who consoled him over the loss of a parrot the year prior. He finally gets a chance to express his gratitude but is given the cold shoulder. (My thoughts this weekend's round up)

I can't believe Japan is holding it down for the non Thai BL. I mean to say.... JAPAN!!! What alt reality are we living in? It being Japan, I'm scared of the ending.

It's airing but...

Blue Boys is still going on and I'm still enjoying it (despite the cheating) but I don't know when it drops or where it's going, so I will report in at the end. When they tell me it's ended.

The Last Time (Thai Fri YT?) - Convoluted story of loss and possible reincarnation or something. Can't find it.

OMG Vampire (Thai Sun ???) 10 eps - I've put the search on hold for and y'all can let me know if it's worth tracking down once it ends?

In case you missed it

The Time of Fever AKA Unintentional Love Story 2 (Korea movie) trailer released to Korean theaters 5/25. HoTae & DongHee, side couple from Unintentional Love Story are back! Same actors, same character names. I love them. Devastated this hasn't had international distribution. I demand you tell me the moment you find it!

Next Week Looks Like This:

NO IMG - we half way through this week already - sorry.

Upcoming BLs for 2024 are listed here. This list is not kept updated, so please leave a comment if you know something new or RP with additions.

July Releases to Come

7/5 This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans (Thai iQIYI) - trailer here, The PittBabe team behind a new restaurant set BL full of hidden agendas and starring my new favorites SailubPon. Delightful!

7/10 Century of Love (Thai Gaga) 10 eps - trailer here, DaouOffroad are back, this time as fated mates in a quasi historical paranormal moment. San has spent many lifetimes waiting for his lost beloved, to reincarnate from her death a century ago. But if he fails to find her within this century's time window, he will succumb to a tragic death. And this time she's a boy. Very much Director Who Buys Me Dinner meets First Love Again, hopefully better than both. I love this pair and think they can handle the premise, it's whether the storytelling is up to the challenge. I'm curious to see but I have reservations.

7/26 4 Minutes (Thai Netflix or iQIYI?) - Great is a university student from Faculty of Business and the son of a wealthy business owner. Out of the blue, he gains the supernatural power to see four minutes into the future.

7/29 Battle of the Writers (Thai ????) - trailer here, TutorYim return and while I adore them, I really hope this is better than Middleman's Love. Won't be hard. However: that premise! Ugh. Something something authors fighting - save me. Why don't writers understand that nothing is more boring than writers?

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS

Defining @heretherebedork 's favorite endearment of "tiny idiot."

I love him. I also love what a class act they both were about this turn down. Thailand shows Korea how to handle a love triangle by NOT HAVING ONE.

Both We Are.

We stand a lap sit on this blog, but I think this is my first lap spin! I adored it! (Sunset X Vibes)

It's fun to watch them follow the original narrative but with these cute little Thai twists. Sometimes these are shifted for language reasons, sometimes for cultural, and sometimes I think just to draw a clear distinction from the JBL. I'm not mad about any of it. (My Love Mix Up)

Not just for you, honey. Truer words were never spoken. Yak is the biggest green flag ever to walk BL's verdant earth.

Linguistic corner!

I love this way of putting the translation. Usually, in Thai, the phrase used means "he's my happiness" (sounds like: kwamsook). To use sabai is different. Sabai more ubiquitous (sabai is one of the most commonly used phrases in Thailand) but also so different from the usual phrase we hear in ThBL at this moment. Thus, this execution is special, particularly from a doctor. I'm not quite sure how to put it but sabai can also be translated as feeling well, as in, not ill. So there is a way of looking at Wandee saying Yak is both his peace of mind and good for his health and well being.

(Last week)

Streaming services are listed by how I (usually) watch, which is with a USA based IP, and often offset by a day because time zones are a pain.

The tag BLigade: @doorajar @solitaryandwandering @my-rose-tinted-glasses @babymbbatinygirl @babymbbatinygirl @isisanna-blog @mmastertheone @pickletrip @aliceisathome @urikawa-miyuki @tokillamonger @sunflower-positiiivity @rocketturtle4 @blglplus @anythinggoesintheshire @everlightly @renafire @mestizashinrin @bl-bam-beyond @small-dark-and-delicious @saezurumurmurs

Sigh, Tumblr in it's infinite wisdom doesn't like too many tags.

There's these tricks, remember.

[aliceisathome]

Caught up with and finished The Rebound and is it just me that thinks it might have originally been 13 eps and they cut it to 12?

In the last 20 mins of ep 12 you had the team losing the final, Zen signing the contract for the Phuket team (not shown), Zen leaving (not shown), Q coming back for no apparent reason except for a few flashbacks (and why was he there watching Ryu being manhandled to the airport anyway?), a 3 month time skip (not shown), First and Prince getting together (not shown), the club being saved and Coach getting his job back (why? how? not shown). AND Zen returning (did he break the contract? what happened?).

It marred what was a solid Thai sports BL with actors who can actually play the sport.

Anyway the cast was decent - I do love a bit of MeenPing and my, hasn't Frank been working out?. Plus, along with the rest of the audience, I now want Coach Ton (Chin Chinawut) in a grown up BL pls.

[yellowhollyhock]

How do I say this in the safest way possible? I think out of all the 87 turtles, Mikey wants a girl the most

at first I read this as 'wants to be a girl most' and I was like 87? not 03 or 12?? Not Miss Donna Tello?

anyway

Interesting, I think I can see where you're coming from here. He does seem the quickest to develop crushes. I liked @pumpkinpie59's comment that his crush on Buffy is due to him missing Kala feeling like she's not around or he can't reach her, kind of like a little rebound crush? But even before he met Kala I can see what you mean by this I think

Leonardo is very head over heels for Lotus, reads as a more intense crush than Michelangelo's on Kala to me, but I do also think that in a general sense, Mikey develops crushes more easily.

Raphael is bi and polyamorous; same as with Leonardo, he doesn't seem to easily develop casual crushes. He's also a lot more shy about his feelings towards Mona and Genghis compared to Leonardo with Lotus, or Michelangelo with Kala or even his small crush on Buffy

Donatello wants a girl the least. I think he (she?) maybe wants a boy. Idk 87 Donatello I don't ship with anyone canon to his show, but personally I don't really see him as aro either. But out of all of them he is the most likely ace/aro/maybe both, since he doesn't show any interest in any kind of partner for 10 seasons. But then he's also a teenager, he could've just not met anyone he happens to be interested in. Either way, definitely the least wanting out of the three of them (he's also the one who doesn't eat the pizza with the love potion on it in that one ep, which doesn't mean anything but the topic does bring this to mind).

Back to Michelangelo. I think it makes sense he's, hmm I guess I'd say, the most alloromantic of the group? I see Leonardo and Donatello both demiromantic, Raphael just more shy/picky. Also gray aroace Raph in a lovely three way qpr. Idk I think there's lots of fun valid ways to interpret all of this, and during the show they're also teenagers so y'know, it's more than likely they aren't sure themselves yet.

but yeah I think I get what you mean

[watchthisqqq]

The rebound Ep 11/12

I hate the trope of potentially kissing someone when they are sleeping. It’s used so often too. I would freak out so badly if someone did that to me. Not cool bro. Please let this trope die.

Such lol at talking at full volume to your secret boyfriend next to someone sleeping expecting them not wake up/hear you.

Lol at them freaking out at being 4 points behind in the beginning. 4 points is nothing in basketball.

The dad’s not dead????

Why wouldn’t you tell your boyfriend privately that you are moving away??? Also telling him right before a game? I’d be sooooo pissed.

Haha Having a couples fight in the middle of your very important basketball game pfffffff Did they call a time out I’m so confused. The shippers going absolutely wild such lol

I wish they had introduced the high stakes earlier. It would have made the games more tense if the consequence was Zen leaving if they loose.

I know the ending was obvious that zen was not going to leave but man I would have respected the show if that had been the ending. Making a long-distance relationship work.

They didn’t even give Atom an ending. Could have at least shown him crying about Zen leaving.

Ooooooh myyyy goood the grandma having headphone on cause she knows what’s happening upstairs. Smiling from ear to ear. The best grandma ever. Oh my god.

What a fucking ending. I laughed so hard.

[themundanedumpling]

"there is nothing more important than the future i have chosen for you" OKAY WORST MOTHER OF THE YEAR

[hughungrybear]

I just want to punch Ryu's mum sooo bad 🤬

Again, if you think you cannot help but be a cunt to your future kids, DON'T HAVE ONE.

[sstudiess]

I decided to torture myself and read my old journals. This is what I found and here is the wrapped:

Iconic/cringefail quotes from my old journals:

Dec 2015

"There are some things man can't change and on that list the top spot is reserved for the never ending chatter of kids."

April 2016

"i want to be a wanderer who travels in search of Justin Bieber songs and Hollywood movies"

Sept 2016

"Now I will tell you the biggest tragedy of my life. I've decided to not get into the 'gf and bf' stuff before I join NASA so I'm in a kind of dilemma."

Jan 2017

"My love life is as bad as ever but I'm looking forward to this year because according to the horoscope, my love life is gonna be amazing!"

"Now, I think that the whole school is going to know that I and xxxxx are gonna have a secret rendezvous!"

"She said that I would've aroused doubt in her mind by saying that cause nobody says I hate you to someone in private!"

March 2017

"...And the fact that life has nothing romantic to offer me, makes me more into these books! Reading people's stories when my own love story is at mortal peril!"

"What she gets after giving her best shot is almost equal to what I get after doing almost nothing at all!"

Jan 2018

"Speaking of fictional boyfriends, I'm totally over xxxx now."

Feb 2018

"I am not the chosen one nor I'm half-angel but I do have a shitty life"

"If i were in America, people would make fun of me still, but not in this way"

"I am too creative to handle my thoughts for sure."

"I know this world is big and full of possibilities but just for once, i want this world to be small for me, i want just one possibility."

"I said my love life was a square but then she said it was a triangle. I didn't agree, so we ended up calling it an 'angle', or rather, a traingle with no base."

March 2018

"I am scared for the future, for everything that is gonna come after this one year. All i have right now is a mantra 'padh le beta, 12 hai' "

"We need to find a rebound crush for me."

May 2018

"I've been binge watching thirteen reasons why. I am on the 6th ep of season 2. I kinda like that show. It was soo depressing, it helped me forget my depression"

August 2020

"I have never been this lonely, but i have never been this happy either. I needed this more than i can ever admit"

"I know I'm capable of being loved, of loving again, so I will root for that hope."

"Being a popular author is a dream only a few people get to live. Rest others are forced to live a life of oblivion, their books and creations tucked into darkness." 

Oct 2020

"It seems as if I have forced myself to stay within these walls"

Jan 2021

"Why do I hold my thoughts like Atlas holding up the weight of the entire world? I do not feel like I'm crumbling from the weight but there's this haze of heavy thoughts upon me that I cannot seem to lift."

"I have been building this world of thoughts and words. These thoughts in the form of books, movies, songs, they belong to someone else. All they do for me is dampen the intensity of the ones that actually belong to me."

"It's waiting, the spirit in me, she will burst me open with exhilaration when she thinks the time is right. She is fickle, she needs beauty, she needs a constant change of scenery."

"This will be your fall, you are Icarus, dying to touch the sky so much, you are dying to die. No no, you do not want to die. You are just agitated, angry, your defiance is performative. You're just bored out of your wits." 

"I should not want it, I am aware, but due to reasons completely irrational, i will be forgoing my last two braincells in favour of the straited muscles (the heart)."

"I JUST FOUND OUT LADY ADA LOVELACE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE ICONIC LORD BYRON. Hence for reasons completely irrational, i will be passing away."

"Hope is a dangerous game to play with yourself."

"My love for him is an ocean with unfathomable depths. He is a swimming pool. If he jumps, he will drown in my intensity. If i jump, I will hit my head. We both will die. Death is romantic, say the poets of old. Well, not this one, this death will be humiliating."

"We are academics, we explore the world through books, always living on the sidelines, we do not participate. We live in the past. We love art, yet we fail to make any. We love the world, we want to change it but we never try. We will never be heard except one day, sorting through dusty books, another lover will find us in pages, but we will never be able to create any real change. We deal with the mind, sometimes the heart, with the art we create. We cannot touch the tangible, our realm is the intangible and that is where we come alive. The problem however, is that we will never be remembered. John Keats was right when he said his name was written in water. Isn't everyone else's too? Ours specifically, is written on the waves. We do not create an effect, we are only felt. But I believe there are some who change the world like a Tsunami does. Shakespeare, remember? What did he do for the world? Nothing. He just wrote plays."

"I believe in love as the driving force that makes this ugly and unbearable world tolerable and meaningful." 

"You cannot nullify love just like you cannot nullify the existence of God." 

Feb 2021

"Valentine's day is a capitalist holiday. Even if it wasn't, there is no reason for celebrating it." 

"I am going for the crazy poet/scholar look these days so it hurts when i have to cut or comb my hair."

"We carry our home in our hearts. I do too, because if I didn't, I'd be homeless." 

April 2021

The Generation Z are a faithless and purposeless generation. We believe in equality, we have opinions- a lot of them but we don't have ideologies to follow or governments to overthrow. We have a fire in us that burns bright, but with no purpose, it seems to me that we're getting wasted." 

"I got a cousin baby brother! I'll admit, I did not like him much in the beginning, he looked like a shriveled potato but after they washed him up, I saw in the pictures that he looks like me!"

"Realism, pessimism, optimism- they're all words. We're all three and neither."

"Majority of the content in my journal includes me pining over a guy I dated for a month."

May 2021

"It's like looking at your scars years later, you see a fair patch of skin, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't make you feel the past pain, but it fills you with a sense of awe and wonder at your body, at its strength and its resilience." 

"I have learned the unbearable art of silencing the voice in my head. It is boring without it." 

July 2021 

"I didn't get any gifts and I was barred from buying more books" (on 20th b'day)

Jan 2022

" I have 99 problems and 110 of them would be solved if I lived alone in a small cottage on top of a hill."

"When it comes to the Romantics, I think I'm like John Keats. The sad but joyful/optimistic bastard that coughed blood and died. In all seriousness, I don't think I'm any more special or unique than this particular sad twink. It's a bummer really, because I actually aspire to be like Lord Byron. The bisexual disaster, obnoxiously charming and smart asshole that you want to punch in the face but then are too enamored by. Byron, the accidental hero, the adventurer and the rebel. That's who I want to be….. but Byron is Byron, I am not him. I am not mentally ill enough to pull off that sort of charisma." 

"I can exist and others too and we all can be the main characters. Existence isn't a competition. Not everything is." 

"I have always been single in my entire life of 21 years except for a month. I have been happy in my entire life of 21 years except for a month." 

"I made up things, I wanted a story. I look for a story everywhere- that's what we do." 

[absolutebl]

This Week in BL - The Summer Games BLgin.

Organized, in each category, with ones I'm enjoying most at the top. Those Greeks did have that reputation for naked dudes rolling around together so I'm declaring it...

BL OLYMPICS!

I'll be passing out metals in various sporting events, as part of the weekly updates through mid August, just for funzies.

July 2024 Week 4

Ongoing Series - Thai

The Rebound (Weds Gaga) eps 9-10 of 12 - I guess mass murder is nothing next to having to raise funds for your basketball club. There were a lot of water sports in these eps (no not that kind). I’m not complaining. The street BB playoffs were fun. Frank is GOOD. I didn’t know he played. They aren’t using doubles for this. Meanwhile, it’s a bummer this one can’t be a poly romance. 

Winner!

Gold in Handball

for that shower scene in ep 9 (also... ya know, DUNK TANKS)

Balls in hands of all types.

Briefly must chat about that intro/outro music. It's like Thai autotuned Stray Kids. Which means I kinda adore it.

Century of Love (Weds Gaga) eps 5-6 of 10 - I guess he’s had a long time to learn how to fight really really well. This is a fun show. It does occasionally feel like a bunch of gay boys playing dress up. I LIKE P’Third a lot. I hope he doesn’t turn out to be an actual baddie. I’m finding the music a little intrusive in these episodes. I love the deconstructed suits look, and the velvet blazer. Very 90s. The confessions scene was very cute. It’s a good thing Vee is so easy-going, because the last few months of his life have been truly insane. And now he’s queen of the castle? Still working his convenience store job?

I honestly thought we'd just get kisses halfway through not a full on sex scene. But it was very sweet and tender. Appreciated, boys, thanks. However it’s never a good sign when the sex scene is it at the halfway point, it just means there’s gonna be a lot of trauma to come.

(I gotta say every time Daou smiles he actually looks his age.) 

This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans (Fri iQIYI) ep 4 of 8 - I like them now. I mean as a pair of characters. I wasn’t really sold on the main couple until this episode, and now I’m interested (yes I am shallow). The boy with the glasses is definitely sus. I’m quite drunk, thus I have to say Sailub is the hottest thing on my screen right now. Metas's taste in interior design sucks. OK, that physical therapy session was sexy. I wasn’t sold at first, but now I love this side couple too.

Argh. SailubPon kiss so well. Also COUNTER LIFT!!!! 

Silver in Weightlifting

Sunset X Vibes (Sat iQIYI) ep 7 of 12 - I’m the one who always says this stuff, but this pair might be the best at relationship heat. Let me try to explain. They are good at putting on screen the kind of NRE, want to bone, just really into each other physically and also connected and loving. It’s the way their bodies always arch towards each other. They’re very comfortable in each other’s space in a way that’s really rare to see out of Any BL country but Taiwan. I think they might be my favorite couple currently active. I don’t know how to put it except that

it looks like they want each other,

it looks like they like each other,

it looks like they’re into each other,

and it looks like they GET each other.

It’s nice to see on screen. The plots/stories/narratives that they're given aren’t doing them any favors, but man they’re a good pair. Meanwhile, was I screaming the whole time don’t rip the sample of the custom piece? Yes I was. But it was still sexy.

Sam getting discovered was fun! Yo is gonna burn his arse good.

My Love Mix-Up Th (Fri YT) ep 8 of 12 - Okay! Officially boyfriends. I almost like the friendship btw Atom and Mudmee better than the romances. But they all so cute. 

The Trainee (Sun YouTube) ep 4 of 12 - I hate the gf intern so much. I think she is past redemption now - time for death. What is it they say about ADs? they do all the work, for none of the credit but all of the blame.

Knock Knock Boys (Thurs Gaga) ep 10 of 12 - I guess Peak’s dad really is that awful. Jane is the beard? Got it. The show got suddenly quite sweet and complex. Where did that come from? Meanwhile ,Almond + Latte + sex education is awesome. Great trope we rarely get in BL. 

Love Sea (Sun iQIYI) ep 7 of 10 - Look, what’s really annoying me is that I am neither upset nor pleased with the show. I like to be driven one way or the other by Meme. Trash watch here. (delayed this week, I can't face it)

I Saw You in My Dream (Weds Gaga) ep 1-2 of 12 - Out the gate I don’t like it. I don’t really like the teasing thing and the acting is poor. That said, neck kisses in the very first episode do make me happy. So I’m gonna keep watching. As for ep 2, I like the sides, and we have gay brothers trope activated. I also like the paranormal element, it adds some much-needed tension, but it is still a little slow (typical of a pulp).

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

I Hear the Sunspot AKA Hidamari ga Kikoeru (Japan Weds Gaga) ep 6 of 10 - I like our poor lost puppy slowly figuring out what’s going on. It’s so elegantly done. Also, the the boy begs his quiet seme to SAY something, you know he’s gonna DO something instead. 

I could have done wihtout the pan around the head kiss. We over that, 8 years ago.

Takara's Treasure AKA Takara No Vidro (Japan Mon Gaga) ep 4 of 10 - Why don’t I like this show? I had to think about it quite a bit. It’s the power differential. I never enjoy it when the character with less power is the one doing the pursuing, it comes off as too desperate or something. In this case he is: from the country, poor, and younger, It just makes Takara’s dismissive attitude and snobbery unpleasant to watch. Also, you know me, =/= obsessive stalker behavior. 

It's airing but...

Bad Guy (Korea YT) - yeah, erm, no thank you.

4 Minutes (Thai Netflix/Grey) ep... - Great, a rich boy studying business at uni, suddenly gains the supernatural power to see four minutes into the future. I try to catch up next week.

I have a source, but I simply didn’t have time to watch it. So sorry. Too much traveling too much BL to keep up with. A perfect conflation of conflicting priorities.

Meet You at the Blossom (China) - it's your funeral (or, more likely, one of the main characters'). You can argue but... statistics. You know my feelings on this matter. MY BLOG, remember?

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In case you missed it

The Time of Fever AKA Unintentional Love Story 2 (Korea movie) trailer IS COMING IN SEPTEMBER!!!!

Next Week Looks Like This:

Upcoming BLs for 2024 are listed here. This list is not kept updated, so please leave a comment if you know something new or RP with additions.

Coming Up Next!

7/29 Battle of the Writers (Thai ????) - trailer here, TutorYim return, and while I adore them, I really hope this is better than Middleman's Love. Won't be hard. However: the premise? Ugh. Something something authors fighting - save me. Why don't writers understand that nothing is more boring than writers?

8/4 Sugar Dog Life (Japan Sun ????) 10 eps - OMG a uni student who looks too young and a... COP. GAH. The subversion and kink of it all. Please Gaga pick this one up? They made it for US.

8/7 Cosmetic Playlover (Japan Weds ????) 8 eps - office romance around the makeup counter featuring a younger seme and sex by blackmail. I am intrigued. DFTUJ (don't fuck this up, Japan).

8/8 Monster Next Door (Thai Thurs WeTV ) 12 eps - I am so DAMN excited to see Big finally lead a BL. I can't even with this, one of my most anticipated of this year. He's a great kisser ya'll, he's kissed a lot of boys as second lead. I can't WAIT.

8/12 First Note Of Love (Taiwan Mon Gaga) 12 eps - About a singer with stage fright and his timid fan stars Charles (H4 the puppy one) and Michael Chang (the youngster in My Tooth Your Love), plus side couple featuring a Thai actor Jame (Koh in Gen Y) and Liu Min Ting (of Guardian fame). What a damn tean. I can't wait. With thier powers combined!

8/16 The Last Time (Thai Fri YT) ? eps - Convoluted story of loss and possible reincarnation or something.

8/22 The Paradise of Thorns (Thai movie) theater release - Jeff Satur is back but this does not look like a BL (the gay lover's death is the inciting event). More in Goodbye Mother vein. Looks dark and dramatic. He opposite and extremely well known actor Toey Pongsakorn who has never done gay before.

Addicted Heroin (Thailand adaptation) is also supposed to release this month. GIVE IT TOO MEEEEEE. I don't care about anything else but August back on my screen. It's been almost a decade since he did BL.

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS

This week's adventures in caption "out of" and "off" are not the same thing. This is an uncomfortable thought.

I'm so tired I'm seeing double. This is all you get.

(Last week)

Streaming services are listed by how I (usually) watch, which is with a USA based IP, and often offset by a day because time zones are a pain.

The tag BLigade: @doorajar @solitaryandwandering @my-rose-tinted-glasses @babymbbatinygirl @babymbbatinygirl @isisanna-blog @mmastertheone @pickletrip @aliceisathome @urikawa-miyuki @tokillamonger @sunflower-positiiivity @rocketturtle4 @blglplus @anythinggoesintheshire @everlightly @renafire @mestizashinrin @bl-bam-beyond @small-dark-and-delicious @saezurumurmurs

Sigh, Tumblr in it's infinite wisdom doesn't like too many tags.

Sports in Play (the jokes write themselves) )

Boxing

Breaking

(That's Not) Cricket

Diving (yes, for that)

Fencing (yes, with those)

Handball (exactly what it says, no, read the word.. again)

Rhythmic Gymnastics (obvs)

Squash (snicker)

Surfing

Swimming

Trampoline

Weightlifting

Wrestling

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I posted 5,448 times in 2022

That's 4,713 more posts than 2021!

207 posts created (4%)

5,241 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@chatonnoir

@nothing-particularly-exciting

@gentil-minou

@ladyofthenoodle

@passionfruitbowls

I tagged 2,836 of my posts in 2022

Only 48% of my posts had no tags

#ml spoilers - 241 posts

#adrien agreste - 216 posts

#ladynoir - 204 posts

#spy x family - 175 posts

#lisays - 173 posts

#ml season 4 - 129 posts

#chat noir - 96 posts

#ml season 5 - 92 posts

#spy x family manga - 91 posts

#love square - 75 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#they sent the showrunner death threats over their ship which was very blatantly meant to be a rebound and nothing else and lasted maybe 3 ep

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

it's a straight up miracle that ml is a coherent and enjoyable show despite jeremy zag doing his level best to literally blow it up to smithereens in every possible aspect with his incompetence and ego. i want to say i'm astounded that morons on here and twitter are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to pin the blame on thomas instead of jeremy, but this is honestly par for the course with the collective brain worms disease that infects social media and especially the saltier and whinier parts of this fandom. also it's painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that a good 75% of the drama that thomas "caused" on twitter with snark about chronology/releases/writing/censorship/abruptly shortened story arcs was him having to cover up for jeremy's idiocy and greed to keep himself from being fired from his own show, but then again expecting a functioning brain cell is too much from most of you i guess.

574 notes - Posted March 28, 2022

#4

adrien at the end of penalteam: now that's what you call a CAT-HAS-TROPHY!!!

594 notes - Posted February 12, 2022

#3

literally everything about this episode was so perfect but the fact that they even recreated my favorite blink-and-you-miss it detail

and made it BETTER by including the guy's legs dangling from the ceiling in the same shot... i will never not be obsessed with this series

821 notes - Posted June 25, 2022

#2

saw a post earlier today saying that twilight's real name might be james, since anya was subject 007 and bond (and bondman) is bond and that would complete the set of references, and i'm pretty sure endo said yor's name is short for "yolanda," which i googled just now and one of the first examples of notable people on the wikipedia page was

i think there might be something to this theory

839 notes - Posted June 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

ladybug refuses to dm chat noir as civilians for the longest time and she claims it's for identity and security reasons but actually it's because she subconsciously knows that if they can text outside their suits she would send him six hundred cat pics a day all captioned "this u"

4,893 notes - Posted March 27, 2022

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CBiBank Research Department: The European Union's expenditure on environmental protection has experienced a 24% increase over a span of four years.

By Fion Leonardo

The European Union has seen a 24% increase in expenditure on environmental protection (EP) from 2018 to 2022, with investments in 2022 alone reaching 69 billion euros ($77.47 billion), according to the European statistics office, Eurostat, on Wednesday.

There was a dip in EP investments in 2020, corresponding with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and a reduction in economic investments, but a rebound was observed from 2021 onwards, Eurostat noted.

In the year 2022, a significant portion of the EP investments were channeled towards wastewater treatment and waste management services, making up 44% and 25.7% of the total investments respectively. These were followed by investments in air protection (10.5%), and protection against radiation, environmental R&D, and other EP activities (7.8%), as stated by Eurostat. Nevertheless, the investments dedicated to biodiversity and landscape protection represented only 4.4% of the total.

On July 12, the European Parliament passed a contentious law aimed at fostering biodiversity protection and nature restoration activities. Currently, negotiations are underway among EU lawmakers and member countries to finalize the text before the EU Parliament elections in 2024.

In terms of corporate investments in EP, they constituted about 65% of the total expenditures in 2022, approximately 44 billion euros, marking a 22% increase since 2018, Eurostat reported. The general government and non-profit institutions serving households made up the remaining 35%, growing 21% over four years.

Eurostat pointed out the variations in investment sources across Member States, as some countries predominantly depend on the government for EP services, while others leverage market-based approaches to some extent.

Eurostat commented, "Given that a large amount of EP investments are related to waste and wastewater management services, the variations observed may be due to the different organization of the provision of such services across countries."

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The earnings of ACN have been increasing at an average yearly rate of 12%, which is lower than the IT industry’s average annual earnings growth of 23.3%. According to Simply Wall St., a Financial website, the revenues of Accenture have also been rising at an average yearly rate of 10.2%. The company has a return on equity of 28% and net margins of 11.3%. At press time, ACN stock price was $327.74 with an intraday minor gain of 1.23% Trading above the major EMAs, showing positivity on the charts. Moreover, the intraday trading volume of ACN is 1.733 Million higher than the 10-day aggregate volume of 1.522 Million. ACN stock has been on a strong upward trend from $240 on March 15th,2023 after the announcement of the earnings report on March 23rd, 2023. The stock soared from the low of $240 and reached a yearly high and an all-time high of $328 by June 16, 2023. Thereafter, the bulls faced a strong resistance near $328 which stopped the upward move and the Accenture stock price dropped to form a support near $296 which is also the 38.20% Fibo level.  On July 12th, 2023, Accenture announced dividends of amount $1.12, a profit booking was observed and the price descended towards 23.60% Fibo level. However, the price took a rebound and reversed and rose. On September 28th, the next earnings reports will be released. The forecasted EPS estimate is 2.648, and the revenue estimate is 16.059 Billion. In the last three months, nobody sold its ACN shareholding in the IT company. Moreover, The Vanguard Group, Inc. is the top shareholder and owns 9.23% of the company and owns $19.1 Billion worth of shares with a total count of 58,249,484 and the Blackrock, Inc. is the second top shareholder and owns 7.56% of the company and owns 15.6 Billion worth of shares with a total count of 47,666,915. Technical Analysis of ACN Stock Price in 1-D Timeframe Source: ACN.1D.NYSE by TradingView The price action for ACN stock showed that during the bulls’ run, the price increased by making streaks of break of structures by higher high swings and low swings. Moreover, to ascend upwards, Fibonacci levels of 78.60%, 50.00%, and 38.20% helped the price to sustain and the price followed trendline support effectively and rose with momentum to $328. Moreover, observing the charts, the resistance was high at $328 price dropped significantly and formed support around the Fibonacci 23.60% and 38.20% levels around the price of $305, and from this level, the price rebounded and rose. There is a possibility for the ACN price to head toward the next resistance level of $330 and $342 and if boosted it can even skyrocket more.  Conversely, if the price breaks below the $320 major support level, it might decline toward $312. At the time of publishing, Accenture Plc. (NYSE: ACN) is trading above the 20, and 50 EMA’s. RSI is around 68 in bullish territory. A bullish crossover is noticed in the MACD oscillator. Summary The ACN stock price has risen above $320 to regain bullish momentum and if sustains then might potentially shatter the annual high of $328. Technical parameters also support the rise and increase in bullish momentum. Accenture Plc (NYSE: ACN) stock prices are bullish on the 1-D time frame. Also, positive and buying sentiments are oriented by the traders and investors.  Technical Levels Support levels: The nearest support levels for ACN stock price are $227 and $221. Resistance levels: The nearest resistance levels for the Accenture stock price are $235 and $246. In this article, the views and opinions stated by the author, or any people named are for informational purposes only, and they don’t establish the Investment, Financial, or any other advice. Trading or investing in cryptocurrency assets comes with a risk of Financial loss. Source

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U.S. shares closed combined on Wednesday following robust quarterly outcomes from Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL) that kicked off an enormous tech earnings bonanza this week. Traders had been additionally hit with a recent wave of concern in regards to the health of regional banks.The S&P 500 (^GSPC) closed down 0.39% as First Republic Financial institution’s (FRC) inventory sank on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Common (^DJI) dipped 0.68%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) was up 0.47%, paring earlier features after tech giants Microsoft and Alphabet each reported better-than-expected earnings and income for the newest quarter after the shut on Tuesday.Authorities bonds had been up. The yield on the 10-year notice ticked as much as 3.44%, whereas rate-sensitive two-year notice yield rose barely to three.93%.Microsoft rallied greater than 7% after the software program large reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that surpassed estimates on Tuesday, indicating rising power in its AI and cloud companies. Microsoft earned $2.45 a share, on income of $52.9 billion, in comparison with a revenue of $2.22 a share, on $49.4 billion for a similar interval a yr in the past.Microsoft's potential acquisition of Activision Blizzard (ATVI), nevertheless, suffered a setback Wednesday morning, as UK regulators blocked the deal over competitors fears. Activision inventory was down about 12%.Alphabet’s first-quarter earnings confirmed a 2% rise in search revenues, far beneath the corresponding quarters from the final two years. In the meantime, installations of the Bing app have quadrupled after it was augmented by AI. Shares had been down Wednesday afternoon.Meta (META) earnings are up subsequent after the bell on Wednesday, whereas Amazon (AMZN) studies Thursday.Tech shares have fueled the equities rally thus far this yr, however some analysts count on the sector might come underneath promoting strain because it loses steam. Traders stay involved that expectations for earnings progress will probably be weaker, prompting some market strategists to anticipate a pullback that has thus far not but materialized.Story continuesFILE - The Microsoft brand is pictured outdoors the headquarters in Paris, Jan. 8, 2021. (AP Picture/Thibault Camus, File)On the monetary providers entrance, PacWest Bancorp ​​(PACW) reported earnings after Tuesday's shut that topped EPS estimates. Its inventory ended Wednesday up 7%.That wasn't sufficient to make up for the continued fallout from First Republic Financial institution’s (FRC) larger-than-expected drop in deposits when it reported earnings on Monday. The financial institution is contemplating asset gross sales, Bloomberg reported, following Silicon Valley Financial institution’s collapse and subsequent turmoil within the sector.First Republic prolonged its rout and sank almost 30% Wednesday following a CNBC report that mentioned advisors shored up potential consumers of recent inventory as a part of its rescue plan.First Republic’s drastic transfer to the draw back on Tuesday dragged down the KBW Regional Banking Index, which fell to its lowest degree since November 2020.Visa (V) reported earnings that beat top- and bottom-line expectations for its newest quarter on Tuesday that confirmed continued post-pandemic rebound in worldwide journey.Elsewhere, mortgage purposes to buy a house climbed for the second time over the previous three weeks, signaling stabilization within the housing market, in accordance with the Mortgage Bankers Affiliation weekly survey. Different knowledge out on Wednesday confirmed that US item for consumption orders obtained a bounce in March from new contracts for passenger planes, however enterprise funding dropped once more for the month.Individually, Boeing (BA) missed Wall Road estimates as soon as once more for its first quarter. Boeing earned $1.27 a share on a income of $17.9 billion, in comparison with a revenue of $2.75 on $14 billion in gross sales for a similar interval a yr in the past.

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