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Season 2 is coming!!!!!

At 25:00 in Akasaka

isn’t just a Japanese BL drama—it’s a BL drama about actors making a BL drama based on a very popular manga, adapted from a very popular manga about BL actors making a BL drama based on a very popular manga.

It's also ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Prince Khanin's stunning wardrobe. THE NEXT PRINCE (2025)

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The Next Prince 2025, Ep. 8 // The Princess Bride 1987

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Just don't have anywhere else to post this but...

The kid working at my local 7-11 is the most adorable person straight out of a Thai BL (most likely he's Thai, Lao or Vietnamese if he's local) gorgeous tan skin, as cute as can be with the most adorable accent!!

I wish him all the happiness in the world 🥰

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My unpopular Reset theory?

It’s a coma dream

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I LOVE LOVE a good quiet melancholy, super angst-y Japanese BL and Depth of Feild is definitely scratching that itch!!

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Saw a clip of Daou saying he never says anything fake—“If I said I love him [Offroad], I meant it.” First time I’d seen that translated, and it really got me thinking.

How much context are we missing as international fans? So many behind-the-scenes clips, livestreams, interviews, fanmeet moments never gets fully translated. We’re often working with fragments. No wonder people default to thinking everything is just “fan service.”

And yeah, some of it is fan service. But I also think we’re missing a lot of real, sincere moments because we never get the full picture. There's a difference between hearing someone say “I love him” and understanding how they said it—what led up to it, their tone, their relationship, the cultural nuance behind those words. That all gets lost if there’s no translation or if we’re only seeing tiny clips out of context.

Honestly, we’re forming opinions based on like 30–40% of the puzzle pieces. Sometimes less. It’s like trying to guess a whole relationship from a few Instagram captions and some GIFs.

And I think a lot of international fans—especially from Western fandom spaces—bring in this lens of skepticism. We’re so used to queerbaiting and performative allyship that when two actors are affectionate or openly caring, we immediately assume it’s fake or marketing. But what if sometimes it’s just… real? What if they meant it, and we just didn’t understand because we were never given all the information?

“We listen and we don’t understand” is a meme in the bl and kpop world, but it’s also the reality of being an international fan a lot of the time.

Anyway. Just thinking about how quick we are to call things fan service when maybe, if we had more context, we’d recognize something honest instead.

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Keen is joining Kim Jy Hyun in my bad bitches pantheon. That man just slapped a Muay Thai champion AND THEN JUMPED HIS BONES with enough sass and angry horniness to fill a stadium.

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Sometimes, you can tell a show knows exactly what it's doing.

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So glad someone else clocked this!

Are they sharing sets with the abo show? Is this subtle advertising for the abo show? Is it a coincidence?

I need to know!

Which set designer was in charge of doing this hmmm?

This isn’t even the show abt ABO

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the way Armin opens up for the kiss is going to haunt me actually. he's so lost in the tension and the wanting that he doesn't even register that Thada is asleep for a second. just absurdly, scorchingly hot tbh.

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I'm just saying it would be a tragedy to lose this ridiculous chemistry after just ten episodes of a single show

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Can’t believe Zee’s naked ass is sponsored by the Thai government

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utsukushii kare | s1 ep.06

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Forced to Live Like a Northern European in a Subtropical Climate - White People Refuse to Adapt

The other night, my daughter and her friends had a lot to talk about, so they went to an Arabic coffee shop here in North Carolina. Why? Because it was open late. It follows Arabic cultural rhythms: slower evenings, real social time after dark, coffee served when people actually want to be awake and outside when it's hot.

It got me thinking: in places where heat is a constant—the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America—people have designed their lives around the climate. They rest in the hottest part of the day, go out after sundown, eat dinner late, and treat the afternoon sun like something to work with, not against.

Here in the southern U.S., though? We’re still living by the clock of northern Europe. Wake up early, run errands at noon, host outdoor events in July like it’s mild and breezy instead of soul-meltingly humid. This schedule came from ancestors used to misty mornings and short summers—people who saw “hot” as a novelty, not a reality.

And rather than adapting to the actual climate, we just blast the A/C and carry on like it makes sense.

It’s not that people don’t adjust personally—we do. But our systems don’t. Schools still have recess when the pavement’s radiating heat. Work schedules stay fixed no matter how brutal the sun gets. Entire cities keep pretending it’s business as usual while everyone wilts.

Meanwhile, in places where the heat has always been part of daily life, the culture adapted generations ago. There’s no moral panic over a midday nap. No guilt over pushing dinner to 9 p.m. No pressure to prove you can “power through” a 98-degree afternoon.

It’s not laziness—it’s intelligence. It’s recognizing that the world doesn’t need to bend to our calendar. We can bend with it.

So maybe instead of clinging to European schedules and pretending the sun isn’t trying to cook us, we could look around and ask: What actually works here?

Because this land is hot. It always has been. And pretending we live somewhere else isn’t resilience. It’s just denial.