#talistheintrovert

[talistheintrovert]

the male loneliness crisis vs invisible labour

[cuteasdeath]

The internet continues to take things too far.

Celebrities aren't your friends, but why does that give people license to overstep?

[thamepo]

MJ YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE ME

WHO ELSE WILL PUT WORD OF HONOR ON MY DASH IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2023?!?

WHO, I SAY!!

^^^me and you, clown to clown communicating on the dash

clown to clown communication 😂😂😂 that’s very us indeed akdkksksks

hi dear!! in my defense, i’m still considering the possibility of leaving, haven’t really decided yet.

but i will keep in mind that i’m not allowed to leave you. that’s a very strong argument! akdkskdks ❤️💙

[sunshinechay]

👬+👀+🚫

👬 favourite side pairing

WaanTul owns my whole ass. I was gone for them so fast it’s insane, but also it’s Yacht so why am I really that surprised lol. Recently though MetheeThanthai from Laws of Attraction had me by the throat as well.

What can I say? Give me one rich (not required) boy with low self esteem and pair him up with the one who thinks that he hung the moon and I’m a sucker

Other honourable mentions include: TeeYuki (I will die mad about the fact that they cut out their subplot), InkPa (the best thing about the series. PERIOD but also I have unpopular opinions about BBS so let’s just leave it at that), NuerSyn (when will MML come out and give me TutorYim as leads?), DanYok (because DanYok okay), KimChay (*insert cry gif here*) and many others lol

👀 what do you think of love triangles in BLs?

I feel much the same as I do about love triangles in het dramas. If done properly, it can provide insight into all of the characters involved and further their growth. That being said, the LI who gets chosen in the end much make logical sense for the leads progress. Though there is a part of me that always goes, why not both?

A good recent example I think is from La Pluie. The Patts x Saengtai x Lomfon triangle worked for what it was trying to do. It gave us a greater understanding of all the characters and helped each in the end. It is an example of a love triangle that also has a clear “winner” right from the beginning so take of that what you will.

All that being said, love triangles are another thing on my list of “hard to pull off, easy to fuck up” so I’m always very weary of them when they come up because it’s hard to tell if it’s going to work for the story or not.

🚫 what trope do you hate and why?

Not to sound like a broken record but SINGING!!!!! When the show is actually about music and musicians (like My School President or something similar) then okay, the singing and the instruments makes sense and I am okay with it, but I genuinely really hate when the characters just randomly pick up instruments or start singing (I already have my most hated scene in OF and it’s literally Ray doing karaoke. Khaotung can sing and I love his singing, but please don’t! I can’t take it anymore!)

BL ask meme

[sugarbabywenkexing]

buffy summers for the character bingo 👀

So many things happen to my girl and I would like them to just. stop happening. She's 16 years old and she doesn't want to die!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

[a-sunset-outside-my-window]

tumblr is making a MISTAKE.

@staff should watch this

[delicatebluebirdruins]

Ethan was dead and gone, the grave was empty but a tangilble place to visit and feel.

So why did she feel like there was three of them in this house? The third setting at the table and the sort mumble of a voice soothing Rose when she got restless and fussy. The warmth at her back during cold mornings in bed... she had decided this was less painful then after the Baker's house where she was the same. Repeating cycles and behaviours, trying to protect Ethan from herself and the others here, the extra place settings for those who were there. Weren't they?, The feelings of others being in the house people talking in distant rooms was enough to drive her mad but she couldn't let herself fall apart again. It was what lead Eveline to finding and luring Ethan to the Bakers. She couldn't protect Ethan in the end but she can do so now and yet the feelings of being crowded persisted.

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

While I love the potential of a romance, Shawn and Gus are strictly healthy friendship/queerplatonic

If anything, Shawn would convince Gus to get married for a case and then they would just forget to ever divorce

[vivalasthedas]

calling desperaux the irene adler of psych is both so accurate and also has made me not normal for the last few hours since hearing it.

[talistheintrovert]

i'm a very serious video essayist 🙏

[larsthefishoil]

As I'm actively reflecting on the new hbomberguy video, but more specifically James Somerton, certain things are clicking into place with resounding clarity.

I've watched Somerton's videos for years. At first I thought he was kinda overly dramatic, and had outdated stances on how little lgbtq+ was seen in modern day. He always seemed to talk like we are still living in the danger of the 80s with staight/cis people's apathy and hatred. In truth the phobias have just shifted in how they present and things have genuinely improved in a sense.

But the thing that is actually getting to me rn is the misogyny thing. I think he actually injected really shitty thoughts into my brain that I absorbed like a fucking kitchen sponge. He's protectiveness over queer people but specifically gay men from "prevented white women" actually got to me. For over a year, I was walking around occasionally thinking about how "women are sneaking BL manga into their bedrooms and grotesquely drooling."- im not citing someone theres quoteation marks cause its a dumb thought. But i thought this because that's how bad Somerton made it seem.

But the thing that got me out of that head space was this video by talistheintrovert.

https://youtube.com/@talistheintrovert?si=vmpEa_TPP2UE9eQk - here's the link to her homepage on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/08pCrSBw5EY?si=bECaT_xC16IfN5TI - vid about Good Omens

https://youtu.be/zzSlRZhS_qY?si=unQzSbCQUaTqhSbv - Heartstopper vs. Only Friends

sorry for the ugly link I'm on mobile.

I forget their pronouns so I'm using they/them but I might be wrong. I watched a lot of their videos all at once, so a lot of their ideas interlinked between videos to connect points. But they frequently talked about how straight and queer people interact with queer media and the complexities that unfold. Their underlying message was always that an individual's sexuality doesn't matter when interacting with media when it comes to gatekeeping who gets to appreciate queer content. Still most people consuming are queer people, but straight cis people also benefit and that's okay, it's great even.

Talistheintrovert shooed away icky feelings of straight women fetishizing queer men, which was a fear I got from James Somerton!

Idk this is a long post, but hbomberguy's ending soliloquy about trying to find happiness kinda reminds me of the many countless queer YouTube channels- big and small. Most of us aren't clawing for the position of top dog and like Somerton and seem a lot happier dispit of everything going on nowadays.

Anyways, stay safe, be accepting, and cite your sources or else hbomberguy will have to crawl out of whatever hole he hides in for the better part of each year and make a five hour long video about you :/

[destroy-some-evil]

So... I'm watching Until We Meet Again while waiting for more episodes of The Sign (because I need more reincarnated soulmates please and thank you).

And I can tell the narrative says this:

But my theory presupposes that maybe:

Look I get it - the narrative really wants us to buy that Korn is the "strong silent" type and Dean, as his reincarnation, is similar in attitude but a way better Dom because he learned from his past life and became better at caring for his loved ones. Meanwhile, Intouch was the "adorable cinnamon bun" in the past who couldn't cook and occasionally pushed Korn's boundaries, and now as Pharm, who can cook (character development!), is basically the perfect sub to Dean's Dom (yes, I read @lutawolf's post about the soft D/s moments in the series and clicked subscribe -what off it). I get that's the story they are showing. Also, I like the story it's been fun to watch and I'm looking forward to the last two episodes.

But - but what if

Korn who basically was forced to be the strong silent type because he was the eldest and not allowed to be soft with how his dad raised him. He just wanted read literature volume 4 or what ever but circumstances and society expected different of him. I don't know there is something sweet to think that in his next life he gets to be that soft boy who likes cooking. Who still takes care of those around but he doesn't have to force himself to be the visibly strong one all the time. Both Korn and Pharm were both the ones who were initially afraid of what it meant to love this person in front of them.

Meanwhile, Intouch, who just wanted to care for Korn, makes that the core of who he is in his next life. He's not as carefree as he once was, but he still loves to be in the water. (All In's suggestions for vacations related to water. The beach vacation they took and the raft one they never got to do.) He still loves teasing his boyfriend and he still makes it his life goal to make him happy. Also, he can now at least follow directions for cooking but it's not something expected of him. And on a more serious note, he's more able to protect Pharm than Intouch was able to protect Korn. Korn probably would have never allowed Intouch to protect him because he had to be the one in charge; even if, maybe, he didn't want to be. Also, both Intouch and Dean are the ones who see their other half and go, "yes, that's him. He's the one I'm going be with for the rest of my life." No hesitation, just plans for how he's going put a ring on it. (I also have a headcannon that Dean was the one to suggest the red thread faculty tours. His fellow classmates tease that Dean's thread is already picked out for Pharm. And in the past Intouch is the one to tie the red thread on Korn.)

I also get that visually the show wanted to associate that Intouch and Pharm look similar and that Korn and Dean look similar because that makes it easy.

But you know what stupid romantic is this post about the Japanese legend that you have the face of the person you loved the most in your previous life (okay so the post applying that legend to Avatar the Last Airbender but it's still stupid romantic).

Apply that to these two and tell me it's not sweet and romantic to think that they get reborn into the same families they were originally in and that they are surrounded by people who loved them in both their lives and now those people have grown and learned to support them AND they have the face of the person who they loved most in their past life.

Yes, I'm late to the party (I only found found out about how to get easy access to Thai BLs in October 2023 - thank you @talistheintrovert) but I have thoughts. Also this was fun.

[h4ppyfr066y]

Shout out to @the-conversation-pod for their 50th episode! I found their podcast when I watched a @talistheintrovert video a few month back when I was procrastinating on doing HW.

Since I started listening to the Conversation podcast past spring, it’s introduced me to this fabulous world of Asian queer QLs. As a queer asian american, it’s been such a joy to discover this new world and find so many fun shows to watch.

Here’s to the next 50 episodes!🎉🎉

[bethanyactually]

I was tagged by @selfishjean 💗 to share six recent non-selfies.

Low-key no-pressure tagging six folks from my recent activity: @whatevenisthiscrap - @shoes-that-cut-eyes-that-burn - @talistheintrovert - @medusasstory - @spirantization - @sesamestreep and anyone else who’d like to do this.

(fun fact: I took four of these in the presence of @pepperf, two of them at @annerbhp's house)

[sparklyeyedhimbo]

shuffle your on repeat playlist and let people decide what song they like best

my beloved @zhouxiangs and @silverraes tagged me in this hilarious game hahasjdhkasd. Enjoy my very ateez heavy on repeat playlist.

and since when can you do more then 10 options in a poll

i am tagging @bunnakit @petrichoraline @talistheintrovert @haunted-by-sweaters @porschesbabydaddy

[overthinkthis]

QL Fic Rec Fest Week 6 - Great character portrayal

For this one I have to rec my favourite Beyond Evil fic (by @talistheintrovert). The thing with this fic is that it doesn't just get Lee Dongsik and Han Juwon right, but it shows the perspective from all the side characters as well and every single one of them feels so on point!

we wait and we wait ('til one of us caves) (52600 words) by theinvisibledisaster Chapters: 14/? Fandom: 괴물 | Beyond Evil (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Han Joo Won/Lee Dong Sik (Beyond Evil) Characters: Han Joo Won (Beyond Evil), Lee Dong Sik (Beyond Evil), Manyang Residents (Beyond Evil), Oh Ji Hwa, Yoo Jae Yi, Kwon Hyuk (Beyond Evil), Oh Ji Hoon, Han Ki Hwan Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, (mostly), Missing Scene, Alternative Perspective, juwon and dongsik are hopelessly in love, everybody else realises it at different paces, (as do they), a smattering of missing scenes from the show, Post-Canon, Domestic, Hurt/Comfort, they finally get to rest, Fluff and Angst Summary: They were arguing about something. He's sure they were. They were arguing about something, but Juwon can't put his finger on whatever it was. Largely because his fingers are otherwise occupied tangling themselves into Dongsik's hair as he tries to pull him somehow even closer, like he can kiss the man close enough to fuse their bodies. Dongsik isn't helping matters, what with the way his arms have banded around Juwon's waist, and he's not sure which of them is leading but eventually Dongsik's back hits a wall and there's an audible sigh of relief as he tightens his hold on Juwon, hand creeping up his spine to nudge him yet closer. They were arguing about something, Juwon remembers.   Han Juwon and Lee Dongsik are in love with each other, this much is obvious. But who realises first? (ft. everybody's POV)