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Oh, my eyes! It's like looking directly into the sun! [x]

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anyone on here watching the boyfriend? cause the tiktok and twitter fans that are calling dai a red flag /player are insufferable. all this over some risky photos. him hooking up with alan in the past. using dating apps. and talking to the other guys in the house when this is in fact A DATING SHOW… like his is a 22 yr old who is hot and single, what did people expect? also shun is not a baby that needs coddling. yes he has been hurt, but dai is not some big bad villain who’s forcing shun to like him. also we’ve only seen 3 eps, ppl need to chill the fuck out, acting like they know everything.

also the sl*t shaming is crazy… ppls reactions to dai is also giving biphobia but i digress…

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the “why is it taking so long?” from drake rly takes on new meaning now, like apparently it was taking so damn long bc kendrick was conjuring a master plan from pure spite involving a full album and the most sadistic drop schedule anyone’s ever seen

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decided to go on a rewatch binge of titans and i remember why i finished the show with many complaints and grievances. one of many being that the hbo writes could have really made jason todd an interesting and complex antagonist or anti-hero. one that not only questions the ideologies of batman and the titans, but also challenging them. but instead they just turned him into a bratty, annoying and drugged up red hood, that lacks any depth beyond his extremely traumatic past. and for that i will never forgive them.

he was just a puppet on a string for the whole show. batman fufulling his own fantasies and needs by dragging him into the robin persona. dick and the titans disregarding him and using him as a pawn. and then whatever bs crane was on. all of this could have been great tv if they actually gaf. like the first time i watched titans i expected at least some character development after everything that went down in season 2 but nooo. we got season 3 instead

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That moment when you realize that Tae Myung-Ha was the system. He glitched because he couldn’t accept Yeowoon’s love and then began the sabotaging of his own opportunities. He deleted himself from the story as he had in real life. Heartbreaking.

How trippy that Yeowoon was created from Myung-Ha’s own traumas, fears, and desires. It really was a story about learning to love yourself from start to finish.

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Whose magical power is it really? You’re so good at using it.

CHERRY MAGIC 30 ยังซิง (2023) dir. X Nuttapong Mongkolsawas

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It's black history month, so here's a few black wlw from history!

Stormé Delavarie, activist involed in the Stonewall Riots (1920 - 2014)

Josephine Baker, performer, civil rights activist and World War 2 spy (1906 - 1975)

Audre Lorde, writer and activist (1934 - 1992)

Gladys Bentley, singer and performer (1907 - 1960)

Bessie Smith, blues singer (1894 - 1937)

Lorraine Hansberry, author and playwright (1930 - 1965)

Black lesbians and bisexual women are and always have been absolutely instrumental to the LGBTQ community, and we owe them so much.

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The literal message of Love for Love's Sake is that letting people love and support you can be the best way to show someone how much you love them and that you cannot make people happy by loving them without letting them be there for you as well.

Love yourself and let yourself be loved because if the only way you know how to love is by giving and never receiving you will hurt yourself and the people who love you.

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2024 Thai BL landscape is wild, the Omegaverse show is pulling off a stronger and more consistent narrative than the p’Aof story exploring blindness and queerness.

The Sign is an absolute wild card that will either leave us depressed or exultant and Cherry Magic Th might be (brace yourself) better than the original.

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Last Twilight Episode 12

A month ago, I never could have predicted that I’d be sitting here trying to assemble some thoughts to explain how on earth this show went so badly off the rails. I am truly taken aback by where this story landed, and I advise anyone who wants to think of it fondly to just pretend it ended at episode 9, and even skip the finale if you haven’t watched yet. Before I get into it, let me just start with a word of praise for the cast, who did a great job with their performances and kept this show afloat when the writing fell apart. And boy, did it fall apart.

In my view, this narrative had three main threads it was addressing: 1) Day’s journey to accepting his disability; 2) unresolved family trauma; and 3) Mhok and Day’s romance. And in the end, it failed on all three of them. I am going to dig into this and I am not feeling particularly nice, so if this is going to hurt your feelings I suggest you stop reading now. 

Day’s Journey

Just…wow. We have been afraid of this turn the entire time and trying to hold out hope that the show would not go there, but here we are. I started laughing out loud when we got to the end of part 3 and Mhon’s phone went off with an alert for a new eye donor, and then just stared incredulously at my screen as we time skipped AGAIN to a Day whose vision had been restored for years (last week I joked to @bengiyo and @waitmyturtles that once a drama starts using time skips it becomes addictive and they never stop, and—welp!). What was this entire show for? Why did we spend twelve episodes with Day grieving his vision loss, learning how to cope, and finally accepting his blindness only to completely undercut it at the end? The first part of the finale was so much about how he was thriving—finding a new career for himself and becoming self-sufficient and growing so much on his own—only to give us an ending that implied he could not actually have his happily ever after without his vision restored. 

And this is in fact the message they sent by coupling the return of his vision with the return of he and Mhok’s relationship, and giving us a happy ending rooted in his contentment at having his sight back. They even went back to the Last Twilight mountain to completely tarnish the thematic resonance of the original scene. Calling back to the beautiful memory of Day “seeing” the sunset and experiencing “a moment so good that you feel like you can live there forever” as he accepted his disability with this scene of him seeing the real sunset with his restored vision was so hurtful to me that I actually got angry. Day didn’t need his vision back to get a happy ending, and I absolutely hate what this communicates about disabled people’s capacity to live happy and fulfilling lives. This show has created many writing sins but this is the most unforgivable to me.

Family Trauma

The show began dropping the ball on this one a few weeks ago, but this finale put the nail in the coffin. We spent most of this episode at Porjai and Night’s wedding, an event that might have felt meaningful if the show had let us see any of their romance. I’m grateful to Mark Pakin and Namtan Tipnaree for their beauty and charisma because it’s the only thing that made me care about those scenes at all. Rather than actually being about them, however, this wedding was used primarily as a clunky vehicle to deliver heavy-handed messages about “second chances” to encourage Day to get back together with Mhok (more on that in the next section). 

I did enjoy the brief nods in this episode to the brothers continuing to have newfound harmony in their relationship, but where the show really lost me was in their attempt to bring Night and Day’s dad back into the mix and imply some sort of resolution between him and Mhon. Mhon, a woman whose perspective on their split we never actually saw, whose motivation for her choices and behavior toward her sons were completely elided by the narrative, who was forgiven and made peace with offscreen during a time skip. I was never given the chance to understand her or what this relationship meant to her in the first place, so why would I care about these scenes with her making her peace with this man? I continue to be so confused about where this show chose to spend its time, and why someone with Aof’s track record on developing strong and narratively important familial relationships dropped the ball so much with her. 

The Romance

Okay, let’s get into it, and remember what I said about not reading if this is going to hurt your feelings! My criteria for considering a romance successful is I have to believe the relationship is mutual, beneficial to both of the pair, and that the couple is prepared to weather future challenges. Last Twilight’s romance fails on all three fronts, and it all comes down to the total imbalance in the relationship that persisted right through the final scenes.

This entire narrative has been Mhok bending to Day’s will, giving Day what he needs, forgiving him for everything, and letting him make all the decisions about the relationship, and the finale was regrettably more of the same. In episode 11, Mhok made a mistake when he lied to Day about turning down the job in Hawaii. But he made that mistake out of grief and fear, and Day didn’t care—he unfeelingly rejected him and his pain and ended their relationship without a second thought. That was potentially forgivable as a momentary lapse borne out of instinctual hurt, and could have been repairable had Day reconsidered soon after and extended Mhok some grace. But in this episode, we find out Day blocked Mhok and refused to communicate with him again after that night, and has left Mhok completely in the cold for three years after he failed to be perfect one (1) time.

And this episode? Was on Day’s side in this conflict. Mhok is the one to return and start pursuing Day again. Mhok is the one to broach the topic of their breakup. Mhok is the one to thank Day for breaking his heart and tell him he did nothing wrong (y’all, I almost threw something at the screen). Mhok’s grief and trauma go completely unaddressed in this finale until they try to play the Rung card for one last moment of sentiment. Day cries to his mother about how he just doesn’t know if he can forgive Mhok. And in the end, Mhok makes the grand gesture, missing his flight to go to Day and stay in Thailand with him despite the successful life he has built in Hawaii.

The cognitive dissonance I felt watching this play out was extreme. I rarely see a writer misunderstand their own characters and relationship conflict so thoroughly. In order to believe in this romance we needed to see Day finally show some empathy for Mhok, take responsibility for his own mistakes, and be the one to make an effort this time. We needed to believe that Day has the capacity to be a supportive partner to Mhok even when he’s struggling. But Day didn’t demonstrate any of that, and so I simply don’t believe in this relationship. I don’t believe Mhok can trust Day not to abandon him again when some other major life event intervenes and Mhok is less than perfect. And that’s a shame, because the show really almost had something here with these two. 

And that’s all I got. What a disappointment this show turned out to be. If you need me, I will just be over here in my little corner imagining the Night and Porjai romcom that we never got and pretending the rest of this show ended several weeks ago.

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Episode 15: The End of Fate My Demon (2023 - 2024), dir. Kim Jang Han

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SM’S GREED AND HAND IN CAPITALISM HAS NO END BECAUSE WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THEY RELEASED A WEBTOON ABOUT RIIZE AND THEIR JOURNEY THUS FAR AND ARE PAINTING A PICTURE OF THEIR STRUGGLES OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS AS BEING SEUNGHAN’S FAULT!? FUCK FUCK FUCK. WHY CAN’T HE CATCH A BREAK, HE HAS BEEN HARRASED, BULLIED, HAD PRIVATE INFO LEAKED, BETRAYED AND RIDUCULED. LIKE LEAVE THAT POOR BOY ALONE, HE’S BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH. LET HIM LIVE HIS DREAM OF PERFORMING ON STAGE AND BEING AN ARTIST

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Episode 13: The Past, the Original Sin My Demon (2023 - 2024), dir. Kim Jang Han

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Awwwwww

Malewife

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Song Kang as Jeong Gu-won Kim Yoo Jung as Do Do-hee My Demon (2023 - 2024), dir. Kim Jang Han