#twm the series

[blmpff]

awww Korn and Fai reunion 7 years later

Together With Me (2017)

The Outing (2024)

[the-torchwood-archive]

From TWM #21, Shrouded Part One.

I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that Shrouded is the fandom's favourite comic series. Not only is it a twist on the events of canon as we know them, but it was the first foray into Torchwood writing for our boy Gareth David-Lloyd!

Part one has been floating around tumblr for a while now so maybe you've already seen this one. Keep your eyes peeled for part two in the next few days!

[ask-the-author-oneshot]

// I’m thinking of doing a OneShot Swap au, Here’s the swaps I already have:

* Prophetbot and Prototype

* Silver and Kip

* Alula and Calamus

* Ling and Plight

Most if not all meta-aware charactes (I.e. Prototype and TWM) will keep their memories of the other routes, but will try their best to fulfill their roles.

But I have a problem: indecisiveness. I don’t know who to swap. So here’s my solution. I will make a series of polls with the options I and the other people I sent asks to have considered. I will wait for those two to respond then do it. After I will continue this RP.

[waitmyturtles]

Turtles Catches Up With Old GMMTV: Make It Right (Season 2) Edition

TW: suicidal ideation, suicide attempt

[What’s going on here? After joining Tumblr and discovering Thai BLs through KinnPorsche in 2022, I began watching GMMTV’s new offerings -- and realized that I had a lot of history to catch up on, to appreciate the more recent works that I was delving into. From tropes to BL frameworks, what we’re watching now hails from somewhere, and I’m learning about Thai BL's history through what I’m calling the Old GMMTV Challenge (OGMMTVC). Starting with recommendations from @absolutebl on their post regarding how GMMTV is correcting for its mistakes with its shows today, I’ve made an expansive list to get me through a condensed history of essential/classic/significant Thai BLs produced by GMMTV and many other BL studios. My watchlist, pasted below, lists what I’ve watched and what’s upcoming, along with the reviews I’ve written so far. I’ve covered Love Sick, SOTUS, Make It Right (season 1), and Together With Me so far, and today I offer my thoughts on Make It Right, season 2.]

Alright! Like I mentioned last week in my analysis of Together With Me, this review of Make It Right, season 2, is out of order chronologically from my watchlist (pasted below), as I mixed up the air dates of TwM and MIR2 -- MIR2 aired before Together With Me. I do have some quick thoughts on what I saw in TwM that may have been inspired by MIR2 -- we’ll get to that later in this post.

I’ve been noodling a lot on how I want to frame out my thoughts on this gorgeous second season of Make It Right -- and to focus in general on why this series hasn’t gotten the kind of historical love that I think it ABSOLUTELY deserves. Separately and recently, I’ve been feeling very wiggly and bummed out about what’s happening in BL fandom by way of episodes of Step By Step being edited to remove meta commentary about shipping culture and the BL industry -- and it made me wonder whether there are points to be made about shipping culture regarding MIR and its historical significance. The absolutely wonderful @miscellar​ has noted for me that MIR gave rise at least to Thai teenage actors participating in this culture for the first time. (Thank you for all the conversations, @miscellar​!)

The whole Step By Step debacle last week got me heated. But I think, after VERY helpful and calming conversations with @bengiyo​ and @lurkingshan​ (THANK YOU, MY DEAR FRIENDS!), that the general historical regard for MIR is not directly related to a criticism of whole-scale shipping culture per se. (I’ll save all this shipping criticism for another post and another day, very much informed in part by this incredible post by @absolutebl​ from last year.)

Despite all of this, I think there’s something here about the ways that the majority BL fandom accept the complications of queer life, and depictions of queer joy and emotional equity, that I want to pick apart later in this post.

Before I do that: let me offer some critical thoughts on the second season as a way of addressing pitfalls that may have held MIR2 back in the historical reminiscence of respect and/or nostalgia that other shows, like Love Sick and SOTUS, have around them. Thanks to @lurkingshan​ for talking this through in part with me. 

1) After reading more about MIR on Tumblr and Reddit, it really seems to me like the number one reason why people haven’t glommed more onto MIR/MIR2 is because of the youth of the actors and the heat of the show’s few intimate scenes -- which, as I wrote in my post on the first season, is interesting to me, because teenagers have sex in real life. At least for me, the youth of the actors did not make me uncomfortable, and in conversations with @bengiyo​, it was amazing to me to see queer love BEING ENJOYED by young men -- and in @bengiyo​‘s paraphrased words, to see those young men not suffer in their societies and families because of that queer love. (Let me also reference Perth Nakhun’s recent video about the BL industry and his joy about acceptance in shows.)

2) @lurkingshan​, I agree with you that there are MANY editing fumbles in this second season, particularly related to how sex was portrayed between classmates Lukmo and Yok (Yok, who very strongly defended his out sexuality to his mother in the first season). New Siwaj and his side couples, man. Rodtang and Nine still confound me. But I agree with @lurkingshan​ when she stated to me that the weirdly filmed and edited sex scenes -- which, I think, were likely included as a way to hew closely to MIR’s canon novel, but that is ONLY a guess -- undermined Yok’s actual very emotional, VERY beautifully acted journey in realizing that a bisexual Lukmo was falling in love with him (Yok), a very out and gay young man. Sex scenes that included mortars and pestles (yep), weird pacing, food metaphors...it didn’t seem to work, and undermined Mo and Yok’s emotional journey. But I really don’t know if I’m missing something by way, again, of cultural reference back to the canon novel. 

The other major editing fumble that @lurkingshan​ and I both noted is that interspersed in Frame’s tending to Book after a major emotional disaster for Book, is that Frame seems to have gotten a tattoo of their names that he then gets removed -- but we never saw him get the tattoo in the first place, and the reason why he gets it removed isn’t consistent with the ending of the series.

Many of you know New Siwaj better than me (A Boss and a Babe just ended, and I heard there were thoughts about the ending), and I’m going to get to know him more later in my watchlist. I know he likes to throw in all this side couple action without always tying knots eloquently. I’d say again (sorry @bengiyo​!) that the RodtangNine ship was unnecessary, and that while Mo and Yok were fine -- that Yok’s trust journey to Mo was really the most compelling part of the ship, and that was about it.

All of what I’ve just stated can, and has, definitely held MIR/MIR2 back in the historical regard, like I said earlier.

BUT.

I will make a VERY STRONG ARGUMENT, as I did for the first season, that it is ABSOLUTELY WORTH watching through that stuff to get to the gold of the second season. Overall, this second season gutted me. 

While I’ve mentioned New Siwaj as a director and screenwriter throughout both of my MIR posts, I haven’t talked enough about Cheewin Thanamin, New’s collaborator on both seasons of MIR. I posted a lot during my late-night blogs about how Cheewin and his character in the show, Christina, were an ABSOLUTE WONDER in this second season. This is Cheewin/Christina comforting Yok after Yok worries about Lukmo’s investment in their relationship:

Imagine watching this after Love Sick and SOTUS -- two shows that did not address being gay. And then we have Christina/Cheewin going right to the heart of it in MIR.

I bring up Cheewin not only because his Christina was a wonder, but because he directed the much more recent Bed Friend -- and, as I noted in my post-watch flip-out after finishing MIR2 -- that I saw a LOT of MIR2 in Bed Friend and vice versa.

Not to spoil anything, but not only do the two main ships, TeeFuse and FrameBook, have happy endings -- but they have emotionally complicated journeys to get to those endings during the second season. 

As @absolutebl​ has noted often, the second season of MIR is even more chaotic than the first. (If I’m doing a Bed Friend comparison here, I’ll think of episodes four/five/six, where Uea’s trauma seems to just pile up, and us viewers are like -- how the HELL are they gonna get out of this.)

Tee and Fuse are confirmed in love, but Fuse does NOT leave his girlfriend, Jean. Frame and Book are confirmed as a couple, but Book is held back by an unrevealed insecurity, that turns out to be related to a sex tape he was unwittingly filmed in by an ex-boyfriend -- and then the video is released to the audience of his high school classmates.

Fucking chaos. My dear man, Fuse -- bro should have DEFINITELY LEFT JEAN earlier in the series, because Jean was DEFINITELY TWO-TIMING HIM with a dude she was calling HER BROTHER, that Fuse had NEVER MET in the course of their relationship (?!). 

And, poor, sweet, patient Tee. Tee, being courted by dudes all around him. Tee who, after FINALLY being able to be with Fuse, after Fuse FINALLY comes to his senses -- Tee holds himself back, and gives himself the space to recognize what’s happening between him and Fuse. He sees what’s happening with his mom and her new boyfriend, and how the new boyfriend’s behavior might be a little concerning -- but that the boyfriend decides to ultimately hold himself responsible for his own behavior to make Tee’s mom happy and stable. And after all of that -- SEEING how his mom’s boyfriend will stabilize himself, SEEING how Fuse stabilizes himself -- Tee finally dives in with Fuse with love and commitment. GORGEOUS.

FrameBook. MY GUYS. Frame, head over HEELS in love with Book. Book, SWEET Book, holding back with secrets about his past. We learn that Book is very bisexual, having had a boyfriend in the past who filmed their sex. Book, questioning himself as a “good person” in the case the video got leaked, and Frame confirming with conviction that he would be at Book’s side if anything ever happened. The video gets leaked, and Book loses it. Frame is by his side as much as Book will allow it, with Book pushing Frame away constantly, to the point of a suicide attempt that Frame saves Book from. 

These are stories of unintended trauma. Uea’s life story in Bed Friend was one of unintended trauma. What New and Cheewin are showing us in MIR2 are the stories of trauma that arise from these young men -- these LOVELY, well-intentioned, queer young men -- FINDING THEMSELVES in a society that is DESIGNED by paradigms to be INFORMED by toxic masculinity, internalized and externalized homophobia, cishet societal prioritizations, and much more working against them.  

Fuse doesn’t leave Jean literally because he feels bad for her. Because society TELLS HIM he SHOULD feel bad for a girl who, what? Pretends to like him? Book is driven to a suicide attempt because a same-sex sex tape could bring down the careers of his demanding and absent parents, and could condemn him at school. Christina comforts Yok as Yok waits for Lukmo to get over his ex-girlfriend, with Christina saying to Yok, “Lukmo is not like us, Yok.”

This second season focused on how the bigger aspects of bigger society could have potentially held the guys back. Even after Tee and Fuse are very much a couple, they overhear homophobic comments in a cafe, and Fuse needs to pull Tee back. Fuse no longer has any reason to hold back his love for Tee, and he’s certainly not going to let social homophobia stop him, after the mistakes he went through with Jean. 

I didn’t realize what was happening by way of comparing Bed Friend to MIR2 until the last two episodes of MIR2. Remember that the last two episodes of Bed Friend were just joyful. (I mean, Pran’s dad gets his, and Uea’s mom freaks out, but whatever -- they ended in the right places for Uea and King.) (And, yachts.)

For me, the last two episodes of MIR2 slowed everything down into a burst of joy, like Bed Friend. The boys went to the beach. Cheewin took them to the water before he took Uea and King there in Bed Friend.

Book survived. He’s beyond thankful for Frame’s interventions and loyalty. 

Fuse has the most gorgeous confession to Tee.

They become boyfriends. Two months go by. Frame and Book are asked to model same-sex wedding photos (had we seen that yet in a Thai BL, in 2017?) And then Frame proposes -- like, actually proposes!

Besides that proposal, there were so many other moments, as I blogged about, in the last episode that really moved me, and again, took me back to Bed Friend. I’ll repeat myself from that last blog post and from earlier in this post:

I think what New and Cheewin did was VERY intentional in including stories of trauma. Make It Right was meant to show journeys to queer joy and emotional equity on behalf of young queer men -- young queer men JUST LIKE New and Cheewin themselves at the time they made MIR.

As I wrote in my final Bed Friend review, there were folks on the Bed Friend tag that wondered if Bed Friend needed the last two episodes. I strongly argue that the series ABSOLUTELY needed those episodes, to show the LOVE and JOY that had grown between Uea and King after everything they had gone through -- that queer men DESERVE JOY, even if, AND ESPECIALLY IF, they’ve gone through journeys of trauma at the hands of microsystemic and macrosystemic society that generally condemns queerness, and does not celebrate it.

Make It Right and Bed Friend showed that our boys can fight, win, and be happy. THEY CAN DO IT. THEY WILL NOT LET SOCIETY HOLD THEM BACK. 

Goddamn. We got two proposals in MIR2 and in Bed Friend, in a country that has not legalized same-sex marriage.

Both MIR/MIR2 and Bed Friend were marketed as high heat shows (thanks to @lurkingshan​ for this link!). Especially with Bed Friend, I think myself and other viewers were thrown with the subsequent trauma-informed storylines.

But I think that was Cheewin being fucking REAL. He was real about both his shows.

As compared to Love Sick and SOTUS -- MIR2 was complicated! It WAS chaotic. The dudes WERE young. Fuse was complicated vis à vis Jean. In real life, Ohm and Toey’s ship ended when Toey and his girlfriend were bullied by BL fans. That shit’s messed the fuck up.

I can absolutely understand why MIR/MIR2 doesn’t live in the history books as a must-watch, the way that folks have nostalgia for Love Sick or even SOTUS. MIR/MIR2 are not at all linear stories. (Not to say that Love Sick was linear -- but it treated its characters much more lightly.)

Cheewin gave us stories of how complicated queer joy is in the face of the social impediments that the queer community -- in this case, queer young men -- face. That brutality can be hard to deal with. It’s not fluffy. These are not fluffy storylines. Book WAS DEVASTATED by every single implication of his unwitting sex tape being released. Frame’s heart and patience WERE hurt by Book pushing him away. Tee’s patience WAS tested, time and time and time again. In real life, the OhmToey ship ended BECAUSE fans demanded a fluffy false reality to that ship continuing. Both on-screen and off, MIR carried complicated baggage.

I argue that for fans of BL, that Make It Right/Make It Right 2 are must-watches, because of that complicated nature. When Together With Me airs after Make It Right, we get streamlined down again -- ONE major couple, one focus, and guaranteed high heat, with only light (and sometimes toxic) side couples.

Make It Right instead lifts viewers into the complicated soup, and that’s where I like to live in my favorite dramas. I like trauma-informed storylines, because if a show is successful at unwinding them, the payoff is usually SO much more satisfying.

But trauma also hews to reality. If I see my beloved characters struggling AUTHENTICALLY? As a person, as a mom, as an ally, I’m all that more connected to what I’m watching. Because I know that trauma for young queer men, in REAL life, is VERY REAL, within the paradigms of homophobia and other societal guardrails that implicitly inform how we all behave vis à vis each other.

Make It Right, as I wrote in my review of the first season, was ultimately about young queer men making their lives RIGHT FOR THEMSELVES. Subsequently, Bad Buddy did it for its boys. Bed Friend did it for its boys.

Make It Right did it first. Make It Right, in its two seasons, took us through very detailed journeys that got our boys to their right places, in a most beautiful, sophisticated, and emotional way. 

I’m thankful that New and Cheewin took us on these journeys. Whatever biases we may hold against the series -- question those biases. Go on this journey with these characters, and celebrate young queer love, because it’s absolutely worth celebrating. 

[Oh man -- I’m a little wiped! Not only did MIR2 totally gut me, but I decided to take on Step By Step to join the protest against extreme BL fandom (lol), so I’m a little behind on starting SOTUS S. But that’s up next. And I know I’m also going to be taken for a spin over the course of the next two weeks with Our Skyy 2 x Bad Buddy/ATOTS, so expect a few delays from me on this project with those detours as well.

Talking to @bengiyo and @lurkingshan about Make It Right/Make It Right 2 was an UTTER pleasure. THANK YOU AGAIN, FRIENDS. I so appreciate you both taking the time to unwind with me.

Here’s the watchlist as it currently stands. One quick update: after @manogirl​​ suggested watching Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey 1 and 2 for its BL cuts/OffGun exposure, I’ve decided to add it to the list. @manogirl​​, you were totally right about my adding a ship focus with MaxTul/Together With Me before, so I’m following your lead again with OffGun. THANK YOU for your thoughts! (And thank GAWD those cuts are short!)

As ever, I’ll always take recommendations and thoughts from the fam!

1) Love Sick and Love Sick 2 (2014 and 2015) (review here) 2) SOTUS (2016) (review here) 3) Make It Right (2016) (review here) 4) Make It Right 2 (2017)   5) Together With Me (2017) (review here) 6) SOTUS S/Our Skyy x SOTUS (2017-2018) (watching) 7) Love By Chance (2018) 8) Kiss Me Again: PeteKao cuts (2018) 9) He’s Coming To Me (2019) 10) Dark Blue Kiss (2019) 11) TharnType (2019) 12) Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey (BL cuts) (2016 and 2017) (I’m watching this out of order just to get familiar with OffGun before Theory of Love -- will likely not review) 13) Theory of Love (2019) 14) Dew the Movie (2019) (not an official part of the OGMMTVC watchlist, but I want to watch this in chronological order with everything else) 15) Until We Meet Again (2019-2020) 16) 2gether (2020) 17) Still 2gether (2020) 18) I Told Sunset About You (2020) 19) Manner of Death (2020-2021) (not a true BL, but a MaxTul queer/gay romance set within a genre-based show that likely influenced Not Me and KinnPorsche) 20) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) (review here) 21) I Promised You the Moon (2021) 22) Not Me (2021-2022) 23) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) (thesis here) 24) KinnPorsche (2022) (tag here) 25) The Eclipse (2022) (tag here) 26) My School President (2022-2023) 27) Moonlight Chicken (2023) (tag here)]

[farolero-posting]

Wahoo! I'm glad you liked it!!! This warms my heart.

At some point I also wanted to make single chapter fics with TWM and each of the Solstice trio but at the time I was more hopeful that I would write a Different Multichapterwd Fic that would achieve the same purpose. I may still try something though. Eventually.

Hey, just wanted to ask.. Any lore focused Oneshot fanfics recommendations?

Hmmm what would count as lore focused? Posting this in case others have fic recs

[spiritmander13]

Whattup.

So I am currently focused on writing Chapter 4 of the 'Silver Suffers With Morning Sickness' revamped fanfic, but I realized that I should get back to my other projects soon enough, notably two: Cancer: The Stars And The Disease (The fic jam-packed full of Candle angst) and The World's Magnet (The Superpower Dystopian AU that I'm currently deciding on if it should be extended to other object shows).

I already know what I want to write for Cancer: The Stars And The Disease, the Lit Fuse chapter (Lit Fuse is a rarepair I came up with just for this fanfic). And while I may have an outline for some chapters of TWM, such as a Paintbrush chapter, a chapter around a completely different place in TWM's world, and a Trophy chapter relating to family hierarchy, I... also have other ideas in mind since it's more-so a collection of one-shots loosely connected in the same world.

I'm currently writing the Paintbrush chapter (and by currently, I mean probably after finishing SSWMSR Chapter 4 and C:TSATD Chapter 3) but I wanted to ask anybody following me...

Read the fanfic here!

[petrichoraline]

For the series game! can I ask Between Us and Manner of Death?

🏊‍♂️Between Us🏊‍♂️

Favourite character: for the longest time it was Bee but since he got a bit wet kitten near the end, it might be Tul now

Funniest character: i don't remember laughing much with this show but Tul stirring shit was appreciated..Win too

Best-looking character: ohh this show made me get Boun's appeal phew..also though i wouldn't consider Waan traditionally handsome, he brought so much charisma to the table i couldn't look away

3 favourite ships: WaanTul, WinTeam, BeePrince

Least favourite character: Prince's manager maybe? BeePrince's arc was kind of meh so the drama that came with those scenes just annoyed me more than anything

Least favourite ship: out of the four other couples, not counting parents, ig PhruekManow

Reason why I watch it: at some point the dash motivated me cause i had missed out on 4 episodes..the editing is just not it, yknow, the episodes were long and i was dreading the pointless parts.. i wanted to see WinTeam happy but for most of the show i was there for the other couples, at one point it was BeePrince, then WaanTul and i had fun with the PhruekManow crumbs; the chemistry between WinTeam (not sexual only, overall) is also a factor

Why I started watching it: there was sm hype from the fandom and so many gifs from the first two episodes lol; i hadn't/still haven't seen UWMA and thought it'd be fun to see how this one plays out for smne with nearly no context

🕵️‍♂️Manner of Death🕵️‍♂️

Favourite character: it's maybe either That or the inspector

Funniest character: again, i don't remember laughing much (i was so stressed out) but That was so cute and i found his behaviour funny..Tan was also ridiculous

Best-looking character: Inspector M babyy

3 favourite ships: TanBun, ThatSorn, Inspector M and me Dr. Oat (i'm waiting impatiently)

Least favourite character: gee, pick any of the villains and you'd prolly be correct

Least favourite ship: Tan and the kitchen..just leave it to the hottie doctor babes

Reason why I watch it: the mystery and TanBun's chemistry (and their effortless slip into a relationship lol the murder stuff just delayed the inevitable it seems)

Why I started watching it: everyone knew this show and the mystery genre is right up my alley..also MaxTul, i think i had seen twm at that point and wanted more of them

[latestnewsbysportstiger]

BGMI Multiverse Series 2024 Teams

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The ten-day tournament will be played in two stages, semifinals and finals. While the semifinal will be played from 8 to 12 January, the final will begin from 13th January and will be played until 17 January.

What is the prize pool for the BGMI Multiverse Series 2024?

The 24 teams will play for the prize pool of INR 10 Lakh. The further bifurcation of the prize money is yet not confirmed.

What are the teams competing in the BGMI Multiverse Series 2024?

Group A: Team Soul, Global Esports, Team Destro, Revenant Esports, Team Omega, WSB Gaming, Gujarat Tigers, Genxfm Esports.

Group B: Reckoning Esports, Team Tamilas, Team Zero, Big Brother, Chemin Esports, Aslaa Esports, Orangutan, Medal Esports

Group C: Team XSpark, Team 8Bit, Hydra Esports, Wingod Esports, TWM Gaming, Godlike Esports, Blind Esports, Entity Esports.

What is the format for the BGMI Multiverse Series 2024?

Semifinals - 8th to 12th January:

The semifinals will see 24 teams play across two BGMI maps, Erangel and Miramar for six days.

Match 1 - Erangel - Group A & B

Match 2: Miramar - Group A & C

Match 3: Erangel - Group B & C

Match 4: Erangel - Group A & B

Match 5: Miramar - Group A & C

Match 6: Erangel - Group B & C

Finals - 13th to 17th January:

Out of the 24 invited teams, only 16 will make it to the finals. The five-day-long finals will see teams play three maps from BGMI, Erangel, Miramar and Sanhok.

[georgiaejlittlemablog]

Ealing Comedies Part 1

From 1947 to 1957, Ealing Productions created a series of comedy films. They were considered to reflect post-war Britain, were ranked among the greatest British films, and are acclaimed internationally.

The films included:

Hue and Cry (1947). Considered a thriller for children, Hue and Cry was shot almost entirely on location. It paints a vivid picture of post-war London as the damage of WW2 is still visible in the backdrop. A group of boys called the 'Blood and Thunder Boys' enjoy reading 'British boys' Magazine'. Their leader, Joe Kirby, realises that a group of thieves are executing their robberies by copying the content of the magazine. After a long investigation, they realise that the authors work is being altered after publication, providing instructions to the thieves. Kirby's boss, Nightingale, is the mastermind behind the scheme. There is pandemonium as a fight breaks out between the city boys and the criminals which ends when Nightingale falls through the floor of a bombed multi-story building.

Another Shore (1948). Gulliver Sheils, an Irish revenue commissioner, has recently left his job due to recieving a small pension. He formulates a plan to sit in St Stephen's Green waiting for a wealthy elderly person to fall down so he can help them and be rewarded with enough money to retire to Rarotonga. He does this every day except Sunday, when he sits on the beach and dreams about Rarotonga. This is where he meets Jennifer, who falls for him because he is the first man to ignore her. He eventually realises that Grafton Street is a better location for his plan so he goes and sits on the courtroom steps, acquiring a performing dog so he isn't shooed away. Eventually, a man Sheils met earlier in the film visits the Courthouse, bemoaning the loss of his wife due to her running away with his chauffeur. They plan to go to the South Seas together but, on their way to the boat, their car crashes on Grafton street. Gulliver stays with Jennifer and Jennifer's friend takes his place on the trip. They marry and Gulliver returns to his job.

A Run For Your Money (1949). Two coal miners from 'Hafoduwchbenceubwllymarchogcoch' (a fictional town filmed in Nant-y-Moel and directly translating to  'Shed over the cess-pit of the red knight') win £100 and tickets to a Wales Vs England rugby match in England. When they get there, they are separated when Dai is picked up by an attractive con-woman called Jo after she overheard them talking about their prize money. Twm meets with a harpist and singer Huw and they go on a pub crawl whilst looking for Dai, eventually giving up and getting to the rugby match as it ends. Meanwhile, Jo and her accomplice Barney have been trying to get Dai's money. Eventually Jo succeeds and a chase ensues, resulting in Dai getting back his money but being told to hand it back by a police officer, which he does to avoid trouble. However, as Dai and Twm's train is leaving, Jo throw's his money back to him, Dai having won her over in the time they spent together.

Whisky Galore! (1949) is based on the true story of the running aground of the SS Politician. The weather was so poor in Barra that filming overran by 5 weeks. The 80 crew lived with locals during production, resulting in more authentic accents and the enlisting of a Scottish body double for one of the dancing scenes where a local's feet were filmed. Todday, a fictional town, was not affected by rationing until their whisky runs out, which leaves the town demoralised. Macroon, an old shopkeeper, has two daughters, Peggy and Catriona. The former is being courted by Sergeant Odd who is on leave from the army and the latter is engaged to George Campbell, a school teacher with an overbearing mother. When the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground, the townspeople rally to rescue the crew and as much of the 50,000 cases of whiskey as they can. Campbell escapes his room, helps in the rescue, and consumes some whisky (after previously being teetotal) which gives him the courage to tell off his mother. Captain Waggett, a stuffy English commander, and Mr Farquharson, a customs and excise officer, try to confiscate the whiskey but the locals have hidden it diligently, including in Waggett's other boats, resulting in Waggett being recalled to the mainland and the locals coming out triumphant.

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). The film is a flashback framed in Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini's memoirs, which he is writing as he is about to be hanged. Louis is the product of an elopement between an Italian opera singer and the daughter of the 7th Duke of Chalfont. After his mother dies being denied a burial in Chalfont Castle, his childhood friend rejects his proposal, and Ascoyne D'Ascoyne causes him to lose his job, he vows to kill Ascoyne D'Ascoyne and the 7 people before him in line to Dukedom. He arranges a fatal boating accident, puts paraffin instead of petrol in a photographers darkroom, poisons after-dinner port, shoots down a hot air balloon, and puts a bomb in a jar of caviar, all while climbing the social ladder and deciding the widow of his second victim should be his Duchess. One heir conveniently decides to go down with his ship and one dies from shock upon learning he's become the duke, meaning Louis doesn't have to kill him. He is now the Duke. Ironically, Louis is tried and found guilty of a murder he never even considered: the murder of the husband of his childhood best friend. Sibella, the childhood best friend, reveals that her husband's suicide note and his wife's death would allow them to marry. She provides it to the police and Louis goes free, only to realise that he has left his memoirs in his cell, resulting in the police gaining his full confession for the other murders he committed. Alec Guinness played all of the members of the Ascoyne family. Costume, make-up, and the actor's ability to differentiate were very important. The film was based on 'Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal' but was altered to to being too dark at parts and sensitivity to antisemitism after WW2 (the main character being Italian instead of Jewish so as not to perpetuate negative stereotypes).

Passport To Pimlico (1949). After WW2, an unexploded bomb detonates in Miramont Gardens, Pimlico, revealing an abundance of treasure and manuscripts that, after being considered by Professor Hatton-Jones reveal that Edward 4th had given the land to the Duke of Burgundy in 1477 and, as it had never been revoked, Pimlico was still a part of Burgundy and the British government has no authority. As this means that they aren't subject to rationing, the area quickly fills with black marketers, which results in the British government surrounding the area with barbed wire. The Burgundians respond by stopping and underground train and asking for passports, only allowing those who can present them passage. The British government cut off power, food, and water but sympathetic Londoners provide aid by throwing parcels over the barbed wire fence. The government is under pressure to resolve the situation and agree's that the treasure will be considered a loan from the Burgundians to pay back. For the film, outdoor shots were not shot in Pimlico. Instead, they were shot on a large WW2 bombsite south of Lambeth Road. After filming, the site was returned to it's bomb-damaged state so the locals could still claim war damage compensation.

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just did a massive japan haul. yall are getting scans of japanese editions of transference, twms, ht, ehao (all w their obis!!!!) standard single of got nuffin AND i kid you fucking not, maybe one of the rarest spoon items i’ve ever come across: a SEALED elektra release japanese edition complete w obi of a series of sneaks. it fucking exists and i bought it. what the fuck !!!!

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Paolillo:" Servirebbe una riforma dello Statuto, in Serie A 20 squadre sono una follia"

Ernesto Paolillo è intervenuto a Maracanà su TWM Radio e ha parlato delle possibile riforme nel calcio italiano, con particolare riferimento al numero di squadre nel massimo campionato:”Servirebbe una riforma dello statuto della Lega. Oggi c’è uno statuto che permette a un gruppetto di società che investono meno e contano meno delle grandi di guidare una Lega che finisce per essere provinciale e…

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I uploaded another part to The Long Dark series! I finally made it to TWM for the first time. If anyone has any advice since I'm still a beginnner I'd love to learn ❤️

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Hey Pikachu (or do you prefer chaos?)

Unpopular BL opinions: MaxTul

Personally, I like them as far as the fmv edits are concerned. It's not so much that I don't like their shows, which I've only watched (and heard of) TWM and MOD, but that I don't understand the hype people have over them or their shows. you could say it's the same with OffGun for me. I like them as actors and as a pair and while the writing of these shows isn't special it's serviceable. I don't follow actors IRL. I don't care enough, nor is it any of my business. I got into both these shows after watching the fmvs and the comments about them being the best and the shows being amazing (it might just have to do with the time ig) but like, yeah they are good but really all they are is better than most others. If you get what I'm saying. I'd love to have seen them in something with a little more budget so I could judge better but now that Tul has retired I don't think I will.

I don't get this 'Kings of Chemistry' status they have and hold coz lbr 2022 gave us so much. And maybe my opinion of them is colored by those shows. Just a little bit.

Gimme a moment to bask in the glory of being called Pikachu (I'm good with chaos too tbh I love it all)

So the MaxTul shows I watched were Manner of Death and Together with Me. The latter I didn't finish because it was awful. Lol sorry to the fans but the show was boring and poorly made I think I only made it 2 episodes. Manner of Death had an interesting story but was so sloooooooooooow and the direction was awful and the editing was bad and the acting was hella mid. The show needed a better director, and a better budget and it woulda been a better show. The story was 100% there.

I think that's my biggest issue with Max and Tul is they're pretty mid actors to me? I think Tul is a better actor, so it woulda been cool to see him in a series against a better actor than Max (who's like, very average imo). I think they earned the Kings of Chemistry b/c during their era there was a lot of bad or mid chemistry with super chaste or outright dead fish kissing.

I'll hand it to Max and Tul, they can kiss. They def give it their all. They go for broke. But their body of work is from an era that's really rough quality wise and I think a lot of ppl forgive the lack of quality of a show b/c they specifically like the actors of said show. T

I've said before I don't vibe with a lot of GMMTV's shows b/c to be frank, they low-key suck lol they're low budget, and have sound issues, and acting issues, and lighting issues, and editing issues the list goes on and on. They purposely set a majority of them in university to cut down on costs and their stories tend to be boring (to me!!!). hey're the salt-less potato salad of BL shows imo

They rely on the audience's parasocial relationships with their "acting pairs" to carry the show like let's be real, Ohm and Nanon could star in the most basic, poorly produced university BL GMMTV's ever done and fans would still flock to it b/c they wanna see Ohm and Nanon acting together again especially as a couple.

I don't vibe with that personally, I don't give a fuck about acting pairs which is why I shall forever push Apo and Bible in a series together b/c they have amazing chemistry together and they're both solid actors. They would be dope as like rival assassins with contrasting methods who fall in love after being forced to work together (like Hobbs and Shaw but Thai and Gay)!!!

(sidenote not hating on anyone who does like a specific acting pair y'all live your life, live your truth, I support you)

Anyway Max and Tul are like, okay I think both are kinda mid actors in the two series I saw them in both of which I didn't really vibe with but they can smooch so kudos to them hope Tul enjoys retirement legit

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From TWM #9, Harm's Way Part Two.

Full text is under the cut. This was a quick transcription so please let me know if you find any mistakes.

The hospital was busy. Crowded, in fact. But Rhys barely noticed. He walked up to the reception desk in A&E in a daze, although he could still feel his guts churning.

‘I’m here for Gwen Cooper,’ he said, his mouth dry as paper. ‘She’s my fiancée. I had a call…’

He left the words to die, allowing the haunted look in his eyes convince the pretty girl behind the triage desk. Without a word, the girl cast her eyes down at her VDU and began to rattle the keyboard.

‘Room seven,’ she said, without a smile. There wasn’t much to smile about in a city centre casualty department on Saturday night, ‘Through the double doors, straight on, then left. Next set of doors. You can’t miss it. Ask if you do.’

‘Thanks,’ Rhys threaded his way through the sick and injured as they milled around the waiting area coffee machine.  Rhys passed a miserable looking man sitting up on a gurney in the corner, nursing a hand wrapped in a blood-stained tea towel. His wife was standing nearby, nagging him about being more careful when using a bread knife – and what was he thinking, using it to open a cereal box anyway? Judging by the look on the man’s face as he glared at the woman, he was already thinking about another good use for a bread knife.

Rhys found room seven and went in. There was a bad and a low chair and a strong antiseptic smell. In the bed was a woman, with dark hair pulled back from a face as white as the pillow. Plastic tubes ran from the woman’s nose to a series of bottles and instruments, and an intravenous drip was connected to her arm. It took him a few moments to realize that the pale, injured person in the bed was his fiancée.

Gwen’s eyes were closed, her face slack, no sign of life. Until now, Rhys had never properly thought of the word ‘deathly’ before.

‘Gwen?’ he whispered.

No response, not even a flicker of an eyelid. Oh, God.

He sat down, slowly, in the chair. It was far too low, but it brought his eyes level with her face. In profile she looked even less like the Gwen he knew. White-faced, still, lifeless.

On the far side of the bed, a machine clicked and whirred with a doleful rhythm. For a long while there was no other sound in the room, or even the hospital beyond. No other sound in the whole world, until a footstep alerted Rhys to the fact that there was someone in the doorway.

‘She’s gonna be ok,’ said Captain Jack Harkness. He came into the room, tall, athletic, healthy. He even managed to make that old RAF greatcoat look good. And in that instant, Rhys hated him more than he had ever hated any other human being in his life.

‘Ok?’ Rhys spat the letters out one by one, his face twisted into a derisive sneer, ‘What do you mean ok? Look at her!’ Rhys was on his feet now, fully intending to lash out, but then his legs seem to give way and he slumped back down into the low chair, his voice cracking, ‘Look at her, look what you’ve done to her you stupid…’

Jack put his hand on Rhys' shoulder, ‘I said she’s going to be okay. I promise.’

‘How can you know that?’ Rhys said thickly. His face was in his hands, ‘She’s in a bloody hospital bed for Christ’s sake.’

They both looked at each other then. She hadn’t moved throughout the exchange, hadn’t acknowledged their presence in any way whatsoever. The machines continued their steady hiss and beep.

Rhys looked up at Jack with red eyes, ‘What happened? Just tell me what the hell happened.’

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Owen was driving at breakneck speed.

‘Have you still got a death wish or something?’ asked Ianto, clinging onto the passenger seat arm rests as Owen swung the Torchwood SUV into another wild turn. The vehicle rocked on its suspension as it scrambled over the uneven ground.

‘Life wish,’ Owen corrected him, stamping on the footbrake and spinning the wheel. The SUV skidded on its own axis and then surged forward, ‘Saving lives is what I want to do, and I can’t afford to go slow.’

Ianto closed his eyes as the SUV came to a hard stop in the middle of a building site. This was going to be a supermarket, but right now it was little more than a big expanse of dirt, foundation trenches and large plastic components for the sewers. There were a couple of pieces of heavy plant machinery here and there, but apart from that the place was dead.

Above them the early evening clouds promised rain. Lots of it.

‘You’re in the right place,’ said Toshiko, who was back in the Hub, her voice coming clear over Ianto’s communications link. He thanked her and passed the message on to Owen, who wasn’t wearing his own earpiece because half his face was covered by a huge surgical dressing. The exposed skin of his lips and cheek were raw and swollen and his left eye was barely open.

Ianto grabbed his arm before he opened the car door, ‘ Owen, you don’t have to prove anything to me.’

‘I know that,’ Owen snapped as he got out. He was hurting, but Ianto knew there was more to it than a fractured cheek bone. He had insisted on patching himself up before leaving the Hub, despite the protestations of his collogues.

Toshiko’s voice came through Ianto’s comms again, ‘You’re close to the Rift disturbance now. You should be able to locate the exact spot from there.’

‘Ok,’ Ianto said, activating his PDA. As he waited for the device to decipher the readings, he asked Toshiko for news about Gwen.

‘She’s stable, that’s all the hospital would tell Jack,’ came the reply, ‘He’s there now, deflecting questions from the police.’

Ianto’s PDA chirruped as it picked up a chronon flare, ‘ Rift activity,’ he reported automatically, ‘This way Doctor Harper…’

Owen followed him across the building site, drawing his gun. Ianto glanced back at him and Owen shrugged. Guns hadn’t had much of an effect so far but he felt better with one in his hand.

They climbed over a pile of rubble and stopped short. Lying in the middle of the ground was a long, amber crust about the size and shape of a coffin. It looked exactly like what it actually was: a giant chrysalis.

‘Empty,’ grunted Owen, circling cautiously.

‘No life signs at all,’ reported Ianto, checking the PDA sensor.

‘You can say that again,’ Owen looked down at the ground. Laying at his feet was the body of a man in a hi-vis jacket caked in mug, and a hard hat split open to reveal a mass of congealed hair and brain matter.

‘Oh no,’ said Ianto.

There were other bodies laying around, half hidden in the dirt, looking like bundles of rags left out in the rain. One of them had been decapitated.

‘Builders must have found the chrysalis,’ Owen said, ‘Poor bastards never stood a chance.’

Ianto nodded and touched his earpiece, ‘Tosh? We’ve found it all right. It’s another chrysalis, identical to the first. But this one’s already open.’

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‘The first one came down in a back garden in Pontcanna,’ said Jack, ‘We took it to the Hub for analysis and identified it as some sort of alien chrysalis.’

Rhys watched him carefully. Jack was leaning back against the far wall, striped by the light from the street lamps outside, sneaking in through the Venetian blinds. He wasn’t smiling and his eyes were the colour of storm clouds. The words severe weather warning leapt into Rhy’s mind.

‘It wasn’t long before it opened. What came out was…hostile.’

Rhys looked back at Gwen. She was still unconscious. He was beginning to worry that it was a coma or something. ‘It escaped…’ he heard Jack say, ‘Injuring Owen, Ianto and Gwen in the process.’

‘But not you,’ Rhys said without looking up, his voice full of ice-cold anger.

‘Believe me, if I could swap places with her, I would.’

Rhys stood up, ‘I knew this was going to happen. I bloody knew it! I said to her only this morning, I said: you’re going to get hurt, Gwen. You’re going to get hurt or killed running around after Captain Jack Harkness and Torchwood, and chasing bloody space aliens!’

He yelled he last bit, just as a nurse walked in to check on Gwen. She glanced at Jack, excused herself with a self-conscious smile, and went about her business fixing a fresh saline bag to the IV drip. The two men watched her in thunderous silence. Rhys wanted to ask her if Gwen was going to be alright, but didn’t trust himself to speak properly now. There was a great big, spiky ball of emotion swelling up inside his throat. Eventually the nurse went out, and Rhys turned on Jack again, ‘So what happens now?’

‘The doctors said she’s suffering from a concussion,’ Jack said, ‘X-rays showed a hairline fracture of the skull. There are some cracked ribs too,’ He sighed, ‘To be honest, it could have been worse.’

‘Worse?’

‘She could have been killed!’ Now, suddenly, Jack had lost his cool as well, as if his calm demeanor of a few moments ago had been little more than a thin mask covering his real emotions. His voice shook slightly as he repeated, almost hoarsely, ‘She could have been killed.’

But for Rhys that just made things worse. He glared at Jack, ‘Do you think I don’t know that? Do you think I don’t wish it was you lying there?’ He jabbed a finger at the silent, unmoving figure in the bed.

Two more nurses came in then, both looking straight at Jack. One of them was the nurse who’d just been in, and clearly she had gone to fetch a friend. The friend’s eyes roved Jack up and down in expert appraisal. Jack smiled at them both, but the nurses knew they had just walked into an argument, ‘Listen, you boys,’ said the first nurse, ‘It’s not going to do this young lady any good to hear you two arguing over her, is it?’

‘We’re not – ‘ both men began, and then stopped abruptly, neither one wanting to look as if they were doing just that.

‘I’m not in love with her,’ Jack said quietly, at exactly the same time as Rhys said, ‘She’s my fiancée.’

The nurse sighed, ‘ Why don’t you both go outside and cool off a bit?’

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‘Is she going to be ok?’ Rhys asked as they were ushered into the corridor.

‘She’s hurt and she needs time to heal. She’s in the best possible place, honestly,’ the nurse smiled at him, ‘Go and get a cup of tea or something. We’ll let you know as soon as she wakes up.’

Rhys nodded dumbly, all the fight gone out of him now. Eventually he became aware of Jack taking a call on his earpiece.

‘Tosh? What gives?’

‘Owen and Ianto have found a second chrysalis.’

‘Damn.’

‘And it’s open.’

‘Damn!’

‘There are already fatalities, Jack…’

‘Damn!’ Jack took a deep breath, ‘Ok, we’ve gotta find it before it kills again. We stopped the first one so we can stop this one.’

‘How?’

‘I’ll think of something. Get them to pick me up from the hospital.’

‘Ok. How’s Gwen?’

‘Just the same. Rhys is with her now.’

‘That’s good.’

‘Yeah,’ Jack closed the call and turned back to Rhys, ‘I’ve got to go.’

‘I heard. Chasing aliens.’

‘Someone’s got to do it.’

It was said without a hint of irony, and Rhys was too tired and worried to care. But something made him ask, ‘How did you stop it, in the end? The thing that got Gwen?’

He wanted to hear how Jack and the team had made the beast pay for what it had done, but Jack simply shook his head, ‘We didn’t stop it, not really. The alien was looking for the exit when I crawled out of the autopsy room. But the Hub’s a sealed environment designed to stop hostile extraterrestrial forces from escaping into the real world. So the thing wasn’t exactly happy. It was flinging itself around, smashing into walls, wrecking the place.’

‘Sounds like some kind of wild animal,’ Rhys was almost relieved, as if Gwen’s condition could be excused as an accident of nature, rather than a deliberate attack by an intelligent force.

‘I’m not so sure,’ Jack frowned, ‘I looked into its eyes at one point. It was looking right back at me. And it knew. It knew I was gonna try to stop it.’

Rhys swallowed, feeling a bilious mix of fear and rage churning in his stomach, ‘So…?’

‘Ianto had an idea – a one shot chance at stopping it in its tracks for good. He said the creature was a predator, and naturally armoured, but there’s always a week spot. He reckoned every time it opened its mouth, there was a soft unprotected part of the palate that was exposed. A bullet through that would pass, relatively unobstructed, straight into the brain. It was a kill shot, but one requiring absolute precision in difficult circumstances. The target would be exposed for only a second as the creature roared, and then it would be right on top of you. If you hadn’t got it by then, you’d be dead meat yourself.’

Rhys reguarded Jack with genuine respect, ‘And you did it?’

Jack laughed, ‘Are you kidding? Hey, I’m good – but I’m not that good.’

‘So…?’

‘Luckily Tosh had a better idea; we lured the alien to the Rift manipulator and she hot-wired a small, highly localised time field. Slowed down a discrete pocket of time surrounding the creature. Now it’s still alive – just moving real slow. Tosh says the effect won’t last long, though. When the time-field snaps, back in line with everything else, the creature will just carry on doing exactly what it was in the middle of. Before then we have to find a way to stop it permanently.’

‘Well you’ve got another chance to find a way now, haven’t you? If there’s another one on the loose.’

‘Yeah, maybe. But how many people is it gonna kill before we find it?’ Jack’s earpiece bleeped, ‘ They’re here. I’ve gotta go.”

Rhys nodded, ‘I’ll stay here with Gwen. I want to be the first thing she sees when she wakes up,’ he held out his hand, ‘Good luck.’

Jack saluted with his fingertips and then left without another word.

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‘We’ve got a fix, somewhere in Grangetown,’ said Ianto as Jack climbed into the SUV. It had clouded over and rain was in its way.

Owen tooled the car out of the hospital grounds and accelerated westbound onto Eastern Avenue.

‘It’s heading for the city,’ Ianto said, studying the flat screen in front of him. The light gave his face a soft blue pallor. The bruise on his forehead looked purple and sore.

‘Mouth shot, huh?’ said Jack.

Ianto looked at him, ‘It was only an idea.’

‘Not one of your best, Ianto,’ commented Owen.

‘At the moment it’s all we’ve got,’ Jack opened the cylinder on his old Webley revolver, checked it was fully loaded, then snapped it shut. He turned around to look at Ianto, ‘When we catch up with this guy, you can be the one to ask it to open wide for me, ok?’

Ianto raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

‘Police report on a traffic pile up near the Taff Embankment on Penarth Road,’ Owen announced. His earpiece was not jammed into his good ear and tuned to the police network.

‘So take a detour.’

‘You don’t understand. The thing that caused the pile up – cops are calling it some kind of nine-foot monster. First car hit it square on and bounced off. Then it wrecked the other vehicles and threw a lorry into the river.’

Jack’s face hardened, ‘Step on it.’

In the Hub, deep beneath Roald Dahl Plass, Toshiko took a moment to admire her handiwork. By using the Rift manipulator to bend the laws of physics, Toshiko had slowed time down in a bubble around the alien. It was a peculiar effect, the beast had paused like a snapshot suspended in mid-air. But, unlike the image on a TV screen, if you watched it carefully, you could still see the alien moving, as slowly – or as quickly – as the hour hand on a watch.

‘Bullet time,’ Ianto had said. He’s still been clutching the big Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle, ‘Why don’t we shoot it now?’

‘Because as soon as the bullet enters the protracted tachyon field it’ll slow right down as well,’ Tosh had told him, ‘And besides, it’s mouth is closed.’

The sound of police sirens filled the Hub, relayed via the comms link in the SUV as it sped towards the city centre. Soon Jack’s voice had also crackled through the air, and Tosh heard him loud and clear as he made his way into the growing chaos, ‘Get these people out of the way! This is Torchwood! We’re dealing with the situation now.’

Toshiko shook her head. Were they? As usual they seemed to be reacting to events rather than controlling them. She had just realized a whole branch of theoretical physics at a moments notice, and there wasn’t even time to appreciate it. But Torchwood never paused, not even for thought. Everything they did was fast, reactive, and above all secret. This was the 21st Century. Everything was changing and  they had to be ready.

‘Tosh, are you getting me?’ Jack’s voice snapped Toshiko out of her reverie. ‘I hear you Jack. Go ahead.’

‘We’re closing in on the second alien. It’s having some kinda tantrum in the city centre. We’ll stay online and keep you informed. See if you can come up with anything that can help.

‘Like a bloody big gun,’ suggested Owen, crackling over the speakers.

Tosh touched her earpiece, ‘Jack, I don’t know if it’s any use, but –‘

‘There it is!’ She heard Jack’s voice cutting across her. The speakers made his voice crackle and distort, ‘Hang a left. Whoa! It’s on top of that bus! Hey, it’s grown. Man, that’s one big guy…’

Toshiko almost screamed in frustration. She couldn’t see a thing. With one hand she was trying to punch up CCTV images from the city centre on her monitors, but it was murderously slow business.

‘How could it get that big?’ asked Ianto.

‘Will it ever stop growing?’ Owen pitched in, ‘I mean, are we talking a Godzilla scenario, or what?’

Tosh began to feel the cold dread building up inside her. She felt totally cut off from the events, helpless as she listened to them. What could she do? The slo-mo monster in the time bubble wasn’t going to wait forever. And neither was its twin, the thing that was already carving a bloody path through central Cardiff.

‘It’s tearing cars in half with its bare hands,’ she heard Ianto’s voice, ‘There are armed police, but they can’t do any good.’

‘I’m gonna find their commanding officer,’ Jack said, ‘We’ve got the pull them back, right out of harm’s way.’

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Toshiko heard a crash, like a car accident, and them more shouting. Shots were fired. There were screams. Impatiently she rapped at her earpiece with her fingers, ‘Jack?’

‘Busy now, Tosh,’ came the reply. A pause, then the sound of more shots. Men shouting. Jack’s voice snapping out orders, presumably to the police. It sounded like he was reporting from a war zone. Suddenly there was silence. Then: ‘Ok, Toshiko. What have you got for me? Make it good.’

‘I’ve been looking at the chrysalis, Jack. I’ve compared the markings we found on the first one with the images of the second.’

‘Tosh, we’ve got a hostile alien tearing lumps out of Central Square. People are dying. What’s the bottom line?’

Before Toshiko could say another word, she heard a terrific crash over the speakers and yet more screaming. Machine gun fire rattled out into the night. She swiveled in her seat as CCTV images from the centre of town finally rolled into life on her screens. Those that were working showed the swirling blue lights of emergency vehicles, silhouettes running, some of them armed. There was no sign of the SUV.

One of the cameras caught a glimpse of the alien: brutish, part-simian and part-scorpion, trampling vehicles underfoot. Heavy rain and the low resolution image made it difficult to see any details, and the creature disappeared in a flash down a side street.

‘Jack? Can you hear me? Owen? Ianto? Is anyone receiving me?’

Nothing but static. The connection was dead. Everything was slipping out of her control. What could she do?

She switched one of the screens onto the BBC News channel. A local correspondent was reporting from Cardiff city centre, huddled in a raincoat, police cars behind them, ‘…something loose in the city centre, extremely hostile. A police spokesman refused to be drawn on the exact nature of the emergency, but we do know that the EVAC Cardiff response team is currently holding an emergency meeting in City Hall. The city centre has been sealed off and the police are flooding the area with armed response units. Residents are advised to stay…’

His final words were drowned out by the roar of a huge explosion, an orange fireball erupting in the background. Pieces of debris sped towards the screen in a blue and then, abruptly, the image disappeared as the camera went offline.

Toshiko sat back, stunned. No Jack. Nothing from Ianto or Owen. Gwen unconscious in hospital. A hostile alien causing chaos in the city, and another one right behind her, poised to rip her to shreds the moment time began to flow freely once again.

What could she do all by herself?

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Milano: Dal 6 giugno al 10 settembre Estate di Base

Milano: Dal 6 giugno al 10 settembre Estate di Base. Dal 6 giugno al 10 settembre a BASE Milano, l’ESTATE DI BASE animerà il quartiere Tortona e la città con cinque festival tematici e cinquanta giorni di programmazione. DI BASE…Sbagliamo, stoniamo, rompiamo, scappiamo, finiamo: cinque verbi per altrettanti festival con oltre 70 eventi complessivamente, che coinvolgeranno circa 120 artisti e protagonisti, tra concerti, spettacoli di danza, cinema e cortometraggi, mostre, talk e tanti party musicali dedicati agli errori, alle voci fuori dal coro, alle nuove generazioni, ai viaggi, alla malinconia. Ciascuno potrà fare dell’ESTATE DI BASE l’esperienza che vorrà: una festa irriverente, la scoperta di una nuova disciplina artistica, di un talk o di un podcast, o magari solo un aperitivo in cortile o in terrazza. Un palinsesto plurale, per temi, format e partner: Inclusione, Diversità, Equità e Accessibilità, le parole chiave del programma pubblico annuale di BASE, tornano in una inedita veste estiva attraverso formati e collaborazioni speciali. Da non perdere: la mostra e le attività di Queer Pandemia (22 giugno – 2 luglio), iniziativa promossa in collaborazione con Associazione Culturale TWM Factory ed Edizioni Tlon, che celebra la nascita e la diffusione di sempre più numerose identità e pratiche queer; i quindici anni di REALPOLITIK (23 giugno – 2 luglio), la grande mostra prodotta da Cesura, BASE Milano e Contemporary Cluster, composta dai ritratti caricaturali degli attuali politici italiani; la Scuola Decoloniale proposta in collaborazione con Twiza Fest di Milano Mediterranea; i Silence Party, in cui sperimentare forme di comunicazione diversa e risate (silenziose) in terrazza; l’incontro con voci inedite della narrativa che approdano in BASE in collaborazione con Accento, la nuova casa editrice di Alessandro Cattelan e Matteo B Bianchi; i Chora Talks con storie, domande, dibattiti assieme ai protagonisti dei nostri podcast preferiti – si parte da “Ricomincio da 33”, una serie che parla del Napoli e di Napoli e di cosa hanno significato questi 33 anni di attesa per la città; gli spettacoli di Carlo Colla e Figli, le Fuckup Nights Milan, e tanto altro ancora. Dal 6 giugno al 10 settembre a BASE Milano, l’ESTATE DI BASE animerà il quartiere Tortona e la città con cinque festival tematici e cinquanta giorni di programmazione. DI BASE…Sbagliamo, stoniamo, rompiamo, scappiamo, finiamo: cinque verbi per altrettanti festival con oltre 70 eventi complessivamente, che coinvolgeranno circa 120 artisti e protagonisti, tra concerti, spettacoli di danza, cinema e cortometraggi, mostre, talk e tanti party musicali dedicati agli errori, alle voci fuori dal coro, alle nuove generazioni, ai viaggi, alla malinconia. Ciascuno potrà fare dell’ESTATE DI BASE l’esperienza che vorrà: una festa irriverente, la scoperta di una nuova disciplina artistica, di un talk o di un podcast, o magari solo un aperitivo in cortile o in terrazza. Un palinsesto plurale, per temi, format e partner: Inclusione, Diversità, Equità e Accessibilità, le parole chiave del programma pubblico annuale di BASE, tornano in una inedita veste estiva attraverso formati e collaborazioni speciali. Da non perdere: la mostra e le attività di Queer Pandemia (22 giugno – 2 luglio), iniziativa promossa in collaborazione con Associazione Culturale TWM Factory ed Edizioni Tlon, che celebra la nascita e la diffusione di sempre più numerose identità e pratiche queer; i quindici anni di REALPOLITIK (23 giugno – 2 luglio), la grande mostra prodotta da Cesura, BASE Milano e Contemporary Cluster, composta dai ritratti caricaturali degli attuali politici italiani; la Scuola Decoloniale proposta in collaborazione con Twiza Fest di Milano Mediterranea; i Silence Party, in cui sperimentare forme di comunicazione diversa e risate (silenziose) in terrazza; l’incontro con voci inedite della narrativa che approdano in BASE in collaborazione con Accento, la nuova casa editrice di Alessandro Cattelan e Matteo B Bianchi; i Chora Talks con storie, domande, dibattiti assieme ai protagonisti dei nostri podcast preferiti – si parte da “Ricomincio da 33”, una serie che parla del Napoli e di Napoli e di cosa hanno significato questi 33 anni di attesa per la città; gli spettacoli di Carlo Colla e Figli, le Fuckup Nights Milan, e tanto altro ancora.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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Couple of quick updates on the Old GMMTV Challenge!

1) I’m writing up my analysis of Together With Me, and I have WAY more thoughts than I expected. Review dropping Monday!

2) I made a chronological boo-boo in my watchlist, which I’ll explain on Monday -- I switched TwM and Make It Right 2 unintentionally. So I’m catching up on MIR2 as much as I can this weekend to get as much comparative material as possible for my TwM review.

But that being said, one thing I’d like to fact-check is the following:

I’m trying to figure out exactly where the PeteKao scenes from Kiss The Series and Kiss Me Again fall. I’m going to be watching the three PeteKao cuts from the GMMTV YT channel, but.... should I watch them altogether as one package? Or should I try to piece them together chronologically, from 2016 (Kiss The Series) through 2018 (Kiss Me Again)? I feel like I’m making this too complicated, and should just watch them all in one go -- but wondering if fam has opinions on this.

3) Speaking of opinions...

Part of my review of TwM talks about the context of what else was airing and had aired at the time of TwM’s airing. That’s kind of why I wanted to construct the watchlist (pasted below) the way that it is -- to get context from what I previously watched.

So I was digging through MDL to see what else was airing in 2017, and.... SOTUS S came up.

I had previously vowed to NOT watched SOTUS S because I feel like I’m still recovering from Krist’s acting in SOTUS. BUT:

I’m wondering if I need to a) get over myself, and b) watch SOTUS S specifically for the point of watching an early-ish BL that deals with an ongoing relationship, as opposed to a new relationship blossoming. 

MIR2, at least in the early episodes, does NOT go there (yet), because of dang Jean and Fuse. Was SOTUS S the first big Thai BL that dealt with an ongoing, maturing relationship?

I’m having an ongoing conversation with @bengiyo and friends about the popularity of shows that depict growing relationships vs. brand-new love, and -- I think/wonder if including this theme on my list might be important. (Especially because I love this theme so damn much in What Did You Eat Yesterday?/Kinou Nani Tabeta.)

Thoughts on SOTUS S -- would love them if you have ‘em, family!

AS ALWAYS: THANKS FOR YOUR INPUT!

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Watchlist!

1) Love Sick and Love Sick 2 (2014 and 2015) (review here) 2) SOTUS (2016) (review here) 3) Make It Right (2016) (review here) 4) Make It Right 2 (2017) 5) Together With Me (2017) 6) Love By Chance (2018) 7) Kiss Me Again: PeteKao cuts (2018) 8) He’s Coming To Me (2019) 9) Dark Blue Kiss (2019) 10) TharnType (2019) 11) Theory of Love (2019) 12) Dew the Movie (2019) (not an official part of the OGMMTVC watchlist, but I want to watch this in chronological order with everything else) 13) Until We Meet Again (2019-2020) 14) 2gether (2020) 15) Still 2gether (2020) 16) I Told Sunset About You (2020) 17) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) (review here) 18) I Promised You the Moon (2021) 19) Not Me (2021-2022) 20) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) (thesis here) 21) KinnPorsche (2022) (tag here) 22) The Eclipse (2022) (tag here) 23) My School President (2022-2023)