squeakygeeky - Tumblr blog

[squeakygeeky]

The thing about Two Worlds is it's not a love triangle, it's more of a cursed pentagon where two people are dead already.

[squeakygeeky]

Our entire help center has randomly winked out of existence, so I guess I'll just hang out on tumblr for a minute.

[squeakygeeky]

My friend's son is growing into a tiny Guatemalan copy of Billkin and 2/3 people surveyed agree with me.

[squeakygeeky]

Today's food truck at the apartment is one that came to my office before, so I feel like I'm being followed but as long as it's by adobo I don't mind

[squeakygeeky]

Looks like things are so dire with the production company behind My Ride and The Whisperer (K10/Fix Entertainment) that My Ride's author Pat Rangsimant officially distanced himself from any of the company's potential mismanagement and/or contractual breaches. The rights for the My Ride sequel remain with him (I vaguely remember there was talks of filming the sequel).

Here's the full tweet (auto-)translated into English:

Announcement Repeated Once Again As the author of the novel "My Ride", I, Pat, would like to clarify that I have no involvement and no knowledge regarding the case where K10 Global Content company did not fulfill the hiring contract, merchandise sales contract, and any other contracts. My latest encounter with K10 Global was during the closing ceremony of the "My Ride" show at Show DC, and it was only on stage. After that, there was no further communication. Furthermore, the issue of the rights to produce the series "My Ride" Season 2 has never been discussed before. Therefore, if there are sponsors, investors, or any production houses who have discussed this matter with the aforementioned company, please be informed that the production company has never negotiated this matter with me, and the rights to the novel remain with me. This is to inform everyone. Rangsimant

Yikes.

So basically what he's saying is that he has no involvement or even awareness of any of the company's potential mismanagement but there must be some pretty serious rumours floating around for him to address things so directly.

Do I even want to watch The Whisperer finale at this point? 🤨

[squeakygeeky]

I think I need to tell my downstairs neighbor he should wash his towel again...

[squeakygeeky]

In an extremely PNW turn of events my apartment building is apparently renting parking lot space to random food trucks so I guess my cooking plans are on hold and I'm walking across the courtyard to the taco truck tonight.

[squeakygeeky]

Anti Reset failed to meaningfully engage with anything that actually makes the robot boyfriend concept interesting, threw in an unusally long Random Separation (my beloathed), and tried to Make A Thing about cells being replaced every 7 years, when in fact there are cell types that do not normally get replaced. Do you know what they include?

YOUR BRAIN CELLS.

I can't figure out where the finale of Anti Reset is going to go, but I'm sure I'll be unsatisfied no matter what. Like, this show is super cute but you can't but a sci-fi premise in front of my eyeballs and expect me not to think too much about it.

Because here's the thing: they've set up the whole Problem of this show to be the fact that Chu Yi Ping *doesn't* own his boyfriend, which means neither of them have any real control over whether Ever 9 has to leave and whether he gets reset. It's interesting in context of current concerns over subscription-based models and licensing vs. owning, but Ever 9 is clearly sentient, so the fact that the happy ending might be that he gets to belong to Chu Yi Ping forever is not great actually.

From a non-romance perspective, no matter what happens to Ever 9 there's still all the other models out there and we're just...not supposed to worry about what they're being used for. We only have one episode left, there's no time for a robot uprising.

[squeakygeeky]

"unless there's some ancient evil at work here I'm not sure what it could be' is not really the kind of answer I was hoping to get back from the dev team.

[squeakygeeky]

I can't figure out where the finale of Anti Reset is going to go, but I'm sure I'll be unsatisfied no matter what. Like, this show is super cute but you can't but a sci-fi premise in front of my eyeballs and expect me not to think too much about it.

Because here's the thing: they've set up the whole Problem of this show to be the fact that Chu Yi Ping *doesn't* own his boyfriend, which means neither of them have any real control over whether Ever 9 has to leave and whether he gets reset. It's interesting in context of current concerns over subscription-based models and licensing vs. owning, but Ever 9 is clearly sentient, so the fact that the happy ending might be that he gets to belong to Chu Yi Ping forever is not great actually.

From a non-romance perspective, no matter what happens to Ever 9 there's still all the other models out there and we're just...not supposed to worry about what they're being used for. We only have one episode left, there's no time for a robot uprising.

[squeakygeeky]

Fuck my stupid baka life what the FUCK

(Photos by nininam_ from the Mystery Box Concert)

[squeakygeeky]

[squeakygeeky]

Yoon Phusanu my beloved never disappoints and has indeed hired a gaggle of lawyers to go up against Y.Entertainment.

You can watch his whole press conference (with English subs) here.

It includes highlights such as:

Yoon would like to be fairly compensated because he has to provide for his family. His family are seven cats. He's brought pictures.

He's now officially gone freelance and Y.Ent are no longer allowed to use his name.

Yoon hasn't been paid in a very long time, even though he's tried to negotiate and reach an agreement. He's tired of having to run after his money.

He's "only" owed about 100.000 baht (~2.555€ / 2772$ / £2,192) but Yoon's lawyer states that this is a systematic problem and lots of actors in Series Y (Thai BL) aren't fairly compensated. Several actors have reached out to him personally. He also says that he doesn't put blame on the companies because Series Y is a very competitive field. Still, young actors should be careful about who they work with and stand up for themselves if they aren't treated fairly.

They're showing pictures of Yoon's cats again. Yoon has to provide for them, after all:

Yoon doesn't have acting work lined up right now but he's actively looking for new projects and is in talks to join a new agency.

I'm not sure if this only affects Yoon or the other actors who are owed money by Y.Ent as well but apparently the cut-off date for payment was 11 March. He was offered money after that date but didn't take it because he already knew that he wanted to terminate the contract. Apparently, he had been with Y.Ent for over 4 years and the contract was supposed to be a six year contract (I'm not too sure about this one since the subs are terrible and so is my Thai lmao). Because he's been with them for so long, the whole thing pretty much blindsided him.

Yoon's mother is supportive of him acting in Y Series.

Many other Thai BL actors have talked to Yoon about being treated unfairly and he wants to spread awareness about that.

Apparently, Y.Ent never stated a reason for not paying him. They only told him that he'd be paid at a later date.

Yoon's lawyer says that he has every right to sue but for now he only wants to negotiate. He again urges young actors to thoroughly check who they're working with.

Yoon is asked if this disagreement will cause him problems with other companies down the line but he says that he doesn't believe it will negatively affect him as he's trying to solve the issue peacefully.

Yoon's lawyer again says that actors should read their contracts very carefully. Some contracts don't give the actors any rights but only duties. They might then have to hire a laywer to be able to break contract.

Yoon then says that sometimes he wasn't sent the script before filming and when arrived on set all he'd be given was an old brief that he'd already read. He was then asked (by other crew etc) if he'd practiced his lines which of course he couldn't. This embarrassed him.

The lawyer also adds that there is often a discrepancy between the number of episodes in a series and queues for a shoot. I'm guessing that he means that the actors won't realise that they actually have to work more hours for less money (since compensation seems to be based on episodes rather than hours worked?). This is very difficult to renegotiate and almost no actor in their 20s can afford to settle this in court.

This isn't the first time Yoon has spoken up against the mistreatment of himself and other Thai BL actors in the industry and I'm so glad he has the means to stand up for himself when so many other actors obviously can't.

Fans are so quick to blame bad shows and weird behind-the-scenes stuff on the actors themselves when in reality it's so often due to mismanagement and mistreatment. Imagine not even having a script on shooting day (yes, I'm aware this is common practice in soap entertainment but these are rookie actors without the experience and support that seasoned soap actors have - also in this case it seems to have surprised even the crew on set). No wonder things were akward in Unforgotten Night. Do you really think actors who don't have a script get to practice and negotiate their intimate scenes together?

And judging by what Tor Atagorn has spoken up about recently (and many other actors have alluded to in the past) this is only the very tip of the iceberg, with young and inexperienced actors deliberately trapped in contracts that they have no way of getting out of on their own.

Yoon's lawyer urged young actors to be more aware of who they're working for in order to better protect themselves. In a similar vein, BL watchers should ideally be more aware of whose shows they're watching and what companies have a shady track record.

If nothing else, do it for the cats! These actors have children they need to provide for, after all!

[squeakygeeky]

23.5 Ep 1 | The Sun and The Earth

[squeakygeeky]

Hello, I switched to intermediate listening class tonight and outed myself as a BL fan due to my reaction at being asked whether I was familiar with 'series y' and my teacher immediately used the words 'soft power' and I lost it, how are all of you?

[squeakygeeky]

My mother watching ManSuang: The lead actor looked so familiar, I tried looking up the names in case there was anything else I'd seen him in, but I guess not.

Me: You have definitely never seen him in anything else.

[squeakygeeky]