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I love the range of reactions for the LOLFanFest mascots.

EarthMix - Instant regret at being one of the original couples to have to design a dedicated character back when there was no plans on going full Japan and turning them into real things, their poor misshapen creation.

BounPrem - Been hanging with their mascot for a while now, prob already on first name basis with the actor inside. Regrets giving it a stalk of broccoli to hold as it hits the other children with it 🥦

PondPhuwin - Aren’t you glad we gave you working legs? (cue affronted Joong noise from down the hall)

ForceBook - Book: FINALLY!!!! Get the wedding invites, he and Polcasan will wed in June!

JoongDunk - He’s small but good, say anything bad about the baby sunflower and Joong will throw hands on Twitter.

JimmySea - Weeks of hanging out with the thing and Jimmy still looks at it like it’s making him question all of his life choices that led him to GMMtv instead of running an ER 😂

FirstKhao (not pictured) - Someone remind them it’s not really a cat, stop petting it.

GeminiFourth - He’s a little bastard but he’s our little bastard, also keep him and Avocean away from Samrauy.

WinnySatang - After weeks Winny still looks like he wants to kick it and Satang looks like he never wants to let it go.

PerthSanta - So tall because it has to hold the most rock and roll style, also to pick on Wesley.

WilliamEst (not pictured) - It looks like a boiled egg and they know it.

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My theory? This - this right here is the moment Sorn became addicted.

He was attracted before, of course, but this was the moment that got him hooked. The moment where he felt something he's never felt with others before or since, and only experiences with Jun.

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I love the “Steve has good parents, they’re just not on camera.”

Steve’s dad walks in on Eddie and Steve making out, both shirtless. Eddie freaks the fuck out and Steve just sheepishly smiles at his father.

“I know I told you not to lock your door, but I take that back because I don’t want to see that again.”

“Thanks Dad!”

“Use protection!”

…

He walks into a house full of random children. The kids and Steve’s dad are just staring at each other.

“You’re paying to feed these kids, right?”

“No, you are.”

“Well shit.”

“Language, there are children!”

“Do I get to know these children who I have financially adopted?”

…

Hopper, who is over at the Harrington house to speak to Steve. Mr Harrington walks in to see the chief of police sitting on his couch. He sees Steve in the kitchen and quickly makes his way over.

“Steve! What is the chief of police doing here?”

“He’s a family friend.”

“What family?” Mr Harrington snaps back, gesturing at himself.

“He’s my friend?”

“I don’t see a world where you randomly become friends with the chief of police”

“I got caught with drugs?”

“Then why isn’t he arresting you?” Mr Harrington points to Steve’s cuff-less wrists.

“Can’t tell you?”

“Why?”

“I signed an NDA?”

“Steve, why the fuck would you do that? I’m a lawyer, you don’t just sign NDAs at a whim.”

“To be completely fair, I was concussed every time or they used a friend to threaten me.”

“It shouldn’t stand up in court then. Who did you sign it for?”

“The US government.”

“Fuck.”

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When friendship turns into love, you suddenly realize something’s wrong. You don’t know when it started and you don’t know when it’ll end. A relationship like that. I try to hide my feelings for him but I know it’d be over the moment I let my guard down.

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"heartbroken over pete?"

"or are you still secretly in love with him?"

I am calling it now. Kim having a crush on Kenta and driving him places only for Kenta to brood over Pete - yeah, I can see the little frustration or jealousy coming from you, Kim. Please give me lots of it. Also - is that their arms touching in the first scene!?

And that little kiss, we have seen Kenta holding back people from getting hit, lol, and getting pushed around by Tony but I don't think anyone has ever pinned him down only to kiss him like this.

And bonus - Kenta staring at Kim as if he cannot make out why he is here or figuring stuff like that. I can see the gears in his head turning and turning.

I love how they characterized Kim as the fierce and badass personality who isn't afraid of anything and then there's Kenta who has been afraid his whole life in fear of being less, messing up and trying to be good for his adoptive father.

Also, I like how Kim can literally call out Kenta's bullshit on his face and then show him the mirror that he needs to move on and be happy and the obvious stuff, the kissing.. *cough* *cough*

If these are the scenes from the trailer only, I can only imagine what it would be in the series. They better give me more than these! 🤧

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Neo Trai as Tonkla & Mond Tanutchai as Nakan

My Golden Blood (2025) Ep. 4

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Don’t think that you’re an obstacle in my life. You aren’t. Because of you, my life can move forward.

THAMEPO. EP 13: I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER

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This is like a textbook illustration of introverts vs. extraverts.

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Thank for P10L for giving us these friendships. Thank you for never forgetting the importance of friendships, and for not letting the relationships fade away in favor of romance.

We should all be as in love with our friends as these guys are

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He is the daddiest babygirl to have ever existed fr.

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Thai Names & BL

Why SO Weird (to Westerners)

You’re looking for information on the Thai chue len.

We might say “nickname” but the actual translation is “play name.” And it’s what an anthropologist might call a “use name.” So this is the name you go by IRL, not necessarily your legal name.

First I should say that this is a lot more common than westerns realize, even in our own past. Many Roman women, for example, we know operated under what amounts to a chue len. And it was probubly quite common among the lower classes in Ancient Egypt and Greece, too. But since the poor and females are chronically understudied there isn’t a ton of data (or written records, for that matter).

The chue len has to do in part with the history of names in Thailand, and the fact that until relatively recently most people only had a given name and a chue len, and then when government regulations went into effect mandating a last names it quickly became really complicated.

You can read a great article on Thai naming conventions here. It’s fun to learn about. I highly recommend it. And I am going to assume you did read it and now talk only about the bits left out and odd. 

The bit most BL watchers ask me about is answered in this statement: 

“Many Thai nicknames are derived from English words. They may be English sounding names (such as ‘Anna’) or more obscure words that are chosen for their meaning, e.g. Book (symbolising intelligence), Bank (symbolising wealth).”

However, like most English words used in Thai, they aren’t pronounced the way we would pronounce them. (Hell when have you ever heard an American pronounce something like a Brit, anyway?) 

One amusing example is “bur” which is Thai for “phone number.” It’s our word, but they made it… better. You can watch Dean ask for Pharm’s digits using just this one word (in the scene where he drops him off for the first time in UWMA). 

What the article doesn’t say about chue len is that sometimes they are chosen for fun/silly as a baby name (like fatty) and then changed by the person themselves at any point in their life. 

You can opt to change your chue len whenever you want, since it’s not a legal name. Also its not uncommon to have different ones with different groups (so one for friends, another for family, one for the public if you’re a celebrity, another for your lover). 

Daonuea (literally starnorth AKA Polaris or the Northstar) in Star in My Mind does this, he uses two: Nuea with friends, Dao with intimates.

I hope you can see how in a language where you use your OWN NAME for the I pronoun regularly, this is VERY easy to do?

Also, the article doesn’t say that a chue len can also be based on a popular band/idol/actor at the time of birth. I understand from my Thai bestie that Golf/Gulf was one of these for a while back in the 90s? I think.

Anyway, I also found Thai names odd to start, now I barely notice or register. Partly because what we read in English captions often doesn’t really sound like what’s being said.

For example, both Tine & Type sound the same to me, like Tyyyyee.

Also I amuse myself with wondering how they got that name. Like if a baby is named Bbomb - erm, did they blow out their diaper all the time? Probubly not because that’s very English culture specific, but I’m still amused. Was War a really violent child? Are all those Flukes happy accidents? Why is Gameplay called Gameplay? Was he a big gamer who chose it for himself? Or did his parents get together because of an in-game romance?

It’s fun to think about the reason, because there usually is one. 

There’s another naming convention the article doesn’t really talk about, which is all the chue lens amongst siblings often either rhyme (e.g. Win & Lin in Cupid’s Last Wish) or start with the same letter. Thai BL Kpop idol Bambam of GOT7 talks about this (he and his sibs all have B names). And also, hilariously, the fact that he actually doesn’t know his own brother’s given name because they have always just used the chue len with each other so he never had to learn it.

Some actors will take and go by (at least for a time) a more western sounding name (Phoom –> Pavel) but you’ll hear their Thai friends using their Thai name or a different chue len (much like some Korean idols). Others will go by a Thai name for in country work (Stewart –> Perth). 

There is an episode of 2022′s Safe House where GMMTV actors all talk about their use names and where they come from and their siblings names etc… but no one ever translated it and I’m a dumbass who didn’t save that ep to link, sorry.

Here on Tumblr we tend to tag actors by their chue len + given name, partly because many actors choose that as their social media handles on IG etc… 

Finally, you can watch Perth talk about some of this here on his YT channel.

from a question from @doorajar​ 

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Wim is gonna spend the rest of his life jump-scaring Jin and enjoying every second of it, I can see it now

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i'm absolutely obsessed with all of them and the deafening loudness of their mostly silent judgment. while thame just has a very polite cartoon question mark bobbing over his head

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Big fan of their dynamic so far

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if you’re 26 and older, reblog.

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Sometimes in old Scooby-Doo episodes there really *was* a horrifying monster or ancient curse or shambling undead creature and I feel like we just don't talk about that