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kpop idols as things said in the servers i'm in

junkyu: i’m a 10 outta 10

jihoon: if i have a kid, i’m naming him 11 so he’ll be better than you

haruto: is the kid gonna go 1234567, you make me feel like 11?

hyunsuk: omg that’d be a perfect confession tho-

wooyoung: happy valentines day, bestie!

yeosang: happy valentines day i hope you cherish this capitalist holiday and raid shops that have their excess chocolate they couldn't sell on sale the next day

niki: i fell on my ankle but who cares “it’s like a polaroid love” cures all pain

jake: are you okay ???

yeonjun: literally sobbing while cutting onions. i don’t remember them being this spicy

soobin: depends on what kind of onions you were cutting

yeonjun: big onions

hyuka: maybe the sciency chemicals in the onions were too much that they made you full on bawl

yeonjun: i deadass had to go get taehyun’s goggles to cut onions

yeonjun: i was a scientist chopping onions

sunghoon, texting: JACK

sunghoon: SHOOT I MEAN JAKE

jake: IM JACK JAKE WHATEVER YOU WANT

jake: but you can also call me yours

i.n: should i be concerned about back problems at my age?

chan: honey my back was 60 when i was 16 it's all good

jisung: look at this fetus pic of haechan-hyung!

jeno: he looks so annoying i love it

haechan: ???

renjun: i wanna drop kick him

mark: hey! be nice!

renjun: he looks so annoyingly cute … i wanna drop kick him

jaemin: and that’s on how to be affectionate

s.coups: give me your hand in marriage right now

jeonghan: i want a diamond ring

s.coups: not worth the investment, i’ll get you a lab grown diamond instead

minghao: you mean like the ones made outta human bones and stuff?

jeonghan: say what now?

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WangXian royality AU 💙❤️

Collab with @/prettyweiyings on Twitter for omegaxian week! Link to their fic in comments!

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NATTY MAPS photoshoot behind

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by far the best part of grocery shopping is the little babies. i was carefully selecting mushrooms when i felt upon me a piercing gaze and looked up to see a very chubby and very red-cheeked baby staring intently at me from a grocery cart with a slightly furrowed brow, hand clutching an apple for dear life. i wiggled a mushroom at her and she gasped and kept staring. i turned back to the mushrooms and heard a shriek. i turned around and the baby stared in anticipation. i wiggled another mushroom and she shrieked again in delight. she looked down at the apple in her hand, considering it for a moment. fair-minded as she was, she decided it would only be right to wiggle produce at me in return, and she held up the apple and shook it with all her might. i think i could live forever now

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BLs with Strong Historical Elements

Costume dramas, historical BLs, and BLs with time travel or flashbacks to historical locations & times.

These are in order of my personal preference, best at the top.

I Feel You Linger in the Air

2023 Thailand

IFYLITA is an exquisite BL, from filming techniques to narrative framework (much like Until We Meet Again). It's about a gay man from our time who falls into the past, becomes a servant to a noble house, and falls in love with the heir. It turns out this has all happened several times before. Steeped in history and family drama it edges into lakorn (but not as much as To Sir With Love and with way less scenery chewing). This is an elegant and classy soulmates BL... from Thailand which normally doesn't even try for classy. The main couple (both as a pair and as individuals) were excellent, particularly Bright (Yai) whose eye-work acting style is a personal favorite of mine. Pity about the ending. Oh it wasn’t that sad but it wasn’t good either. This show could easily have earned a 10/10 from me except that it fumbled the… erm… balls in the final quarter. Argh. Whatever.

Nobleman Ryu's Wedding

2021 Korea - WeTV

A boy cross-dresses to take his runaway sister's place as a bride to a shy scholar, turns out they like being married. A historical setting allowed this BL to use some seriously old fashioned romance tropes (arranged marriage, evil step-sisters, Cinderfella) but also modern BL stylings like fake relationship & secret identity (drag) plus some cute gay panic. It reminded me of 12th Night more than anything else which just happens to be my favorite Shakespeare play. For all these reasons, I adored it.

(the ghat kiss!)

Tinted With You

2022 Korea - Viki

Fun stylish time travel meets portal fantasy with a likable cast, historical setting, and two actual kisses that mitigate the rough plot and issues around anachronisms.

Word of Honor

2021 China (censored) - Viki/YouTube?

I don’t rec Chinese stuff often, because I believe in censoring the censors, but this show is one of my favorites of the post 2016 censored bromances. It’s two murder-gay assassins (pining sunshine/tsundere), and they are so insanely gay for two boys who will never be allowed to kiss. Tropes include: wuxia, soulmates, paranormal, historical, and fantasy elements.

To Sir, With Love AKA Khun Chai

2022 Thailand - YouTube?

This is a true lakorn (basically Thai tellenovella or soap opera) with scenery chewing performances, especially from the mother characters. Gone With the Wind + Days of Our Lives but gay. That said? I loved it: A glorious central brother relationship (the best, made me cry), het romances, class divide + gay *gasp* main romance - oh my word, the campy drama of it all! Arranged marriage, rebellion, cut sleeves, over-the-top death with curses and regrets, beautiful if inaccurate costumes, secrets unraveling, cover ups, sparkle murder, sex herbs, coils within coils including snakes and murderous green metallic sequins (is anything gayer on this earth?). It’s a WILD ride but it does end happy for our gay boys. A man cries when he finds DEATH GLITTER. Come on! You haffa watch it. That said, like Manner of Death I struggle to rate something on a BL scale when it patently isn’t a BL. So I ended up giving this exactly what I gave that show, 7/10 I enjoyed it a whole lot, but not as a BL.

The Untamed (Special BL Edition)

2020 China (censored) - YouTube

Censored wuxia bromance, amorphous ending. Probubly the best known BL of its kind out of China and responsible for bring many fans to the BL side.

Our Skyy 2: Never Let Me Go

2023 Thailand - YouTube

I was nervous to watch this PondPhuwin vehicle but I liked it a lot! Doomed soulmates + paranormal time travel to fix the past. I’m happy for the outfits and the dancing (if not the singing). It’s not a bad premise and it’s nice to see GMMTV lean into its high production values for a change. I'd adore a full historical starring these two and this was definitely the best of the second series of Our Skyy. I don't think you have to have watched the original Never Let Me Go to enjoy this.

Legend of Long Yang: Rebirth

2017 China

Gaga

Whipping boy trope... literally, servant character takes the strap for the prince, who then makes him his bodyguard and lover when he becomes king. Low budget historical, comes off as kind of cosplay wuxia version of Irresistible Love, but we get (in the credits) an actual kiss, and they both live. So yay for small mercies.

The Director Who Buys Me Dinner

2023 Korea (historical flash backs)

iQIYI

A new employee at a film company encounters a director who claims to have lived 300 years and insists that they have to date (eat, hug & kiss) if baby doesn't want to die. It has a lot of Japanese elements, not the least of which are: an office setting, the fact that every character in this show is unhinged, and a killing of the gays. Featuring a gorgeous & stellar cast, TDWBMD should have utilized them less for melodrama and more for chemistry. This BL surprised me by going there with a lipstick mark AND an actually gay idol. But (you knew there was a but) while it's a unique twist on an office romance it is NOT a unique twist on the doomed red thread trope, resulting in it feeling less than the sum of its parts and ultimately unsatisfying. This might have also had to do with the fact that this was one of those KBLs where I felt how very short it was the whole time I was watching, like I was missing something constantly, in every episode. Worth watching for some but seriously flawed.

First Love Again

2022 Korea (historical flash backs) - Viki

A popular novelist who remembers his past lives meets his soulmate for the third time, only to find she has been reincarnated into the body of a man. This one started out a touch mean-spirited, but we eventually got a good kiss. The confession/rejection scene was justified and the reconciliation and ending was... fine. All in all, the pacing felt rushed and the romantic arc was underdeveloped. They go from like to love to boyfriends in a red hot minute. But that’s par for the course with Korea’s short form. If you don’t mind a heavy does of melodrama in your BL this one has a solid story with a strong concept that’s well acted and produced, making it a classic KBL with better than average chemistry but ultimately a touch forgettable.

Love in Spring AKA Spring of Crush

2022 Korea

This show was all over the place with uneven acting, narrative, and focus (sometimes it wanted to be a slapstick comedy, sometimes a depressing melodrama) which meant no one, actors or viewers, took anyone or anything seriously.... AND it’s a bromance. I was left wondering if SalHyung is now code for “they were roommates” in Kdrama historicals but otherwise largely apathetic and unimpressed. Korea, I now know you can do better. Do better.

Mermaid's Jade

2019 China (censored-esk) - Gaga

Kills the gay.

The Male Queen: Han Zi Gao

2016 China - Gaga

Kills the gay. Schrodinger's BL, both a BL and entirely not one at the same time.

Diary of Heong Yeong Dang

2014 Korea

Kills the Gay

I was gonna do a top 10 list, but there aren't enough by my metrics, so many end sadly.

This post at the behest of @verymuchof thank you for the idea!

Dated April 2023, includes only BLs that had finished their run by that date. Not responsible for cool costume flix that come after that. But you should check the comments to see if any have been added by others!

I might have missed a few that only have time historical elements since I don't always track those.

Also I would like to point out a decided lack of Japan on this list. My ninja yaoi consuming tiny past self is VERY upset about this void.

WHERE ARE MY GAY NINJAS??!!!

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build jakapan icons

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i miss the ✨horrified ‘til dawn✨ squad..

(+lil bit vegaspete)

i cant believe my first vegaspete attempt is a shitpost

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Reblog if you're bisexual and sleepy

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Everyone needs to wash their face n go to bed

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Bruce: Who was it?

Dick: Who was what B?

Robin!Jason: yeah, what are you talking about?

Bruce: Which of you stole Green Lantern's ring? He won't shut up about it and specifically mentioned a "batbrat," [he pauses and turns to glare straight at Hal for the phrasing] so who was it?

Jason: Why would either of us take it? Maybe something scared him and it fell off. Probably saw a pencil or something.

Hal, in the background: HEY!

Dick: Yeah, honestly, if I had the same weakness as a Scantron test I'd be scared easily too. That's just sad.

Bruce, Trying So Hard not to laugh: If you confess and give it back I'll take you both out for pizza and ice cream.

Hal: WHAT?!

[Dick and Jason share a look and shrug]

Jason, holding up his hand and showing the ring on his finger: I did it, N distracted him for me.

Bruce: Well done. Excellent teamwork. I'm proud of you both.

Hal: Excuse me?! You're encouraging this?!

Bruce: of course? They're practicing practical skills and utilizing teamwork efficiently to do it. You're the one who needs to work on awareness. If you can't pay attention to the immediate space around you enough to prevent a 13 year old from stealing the source of your power, you're the one with a problem here.

Bruce: Robin, give him back his ring and both of you gather your things. I'm thinking a pizza with all the fixings sounds great right now.

Dick: Extra pepperoni?

Bruce: Absolutely.

D & J: Sweet!!

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back at it again at Krispy Kreme 💯

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Seventeen “Attacca” Carat/Vernon ver scans. please like/reblog if you save, more here

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Seventeen 98/99-line as Pokémon trainers with 4 Pokémon's:

Seungkwan:

Lillipup: I thought of his dog Coco and decided that even as a Pokémon trainer Seungkwan needs a little dog companion with him!

Munchlax: I remember Mays Munchlax from the anime and how funny and happy it was all the time and how much it loved to eat. Which I think suits Seungkwan perfectly and I also thought this Pokémon represented newly debuted Seungkwan a lot since before Pledis and everyone else thought that Seungkwan had to go on diets and not eat as much he had cubby cheeks and just looking at Munchlax makes me think of newly debuted Seungkwan and how both of them would be an amazing team together!

Meloetta: okay I told myself I wouldn't give any of the members a legendary or mythical Pokémon but I decided to scrap that idea when it came to Seungkwan tbh! He deserves a mythical Pokémon that sings and sometimes dances around since he can be just as mythical on stage like this Pokémon is in battle/in normal life💕

Dragonite: This is a pseudo legendary meaning it's incredibly strong and pretty "rare" in a sense! I thought it fitted perfectly since Seungkwan is a strong person with a nice feature like Dragonute since this Pokémon looks really nice and cute! And it just felt right knowing Seungkwan powervocals but nice features🥰

Vernon:

Squirtle: it took me such a long time to figure out Vernons team but once I remembered that Ash had a Squirtle in the anime that wore some really cool looking sun glasses before it joined his team I thought it would fit perfectly with Vernon! Like both him and Squirtle vibbing together and wearing cool sunglasses together!

Gligar: heres another Pokémon Aah had that had a lovable but goofy personality that still would fit perfectly with Vernon! Like I feel like Vernon and Gligar has similar personalities making them fit together perfectly and just working perfectly in synch with each other!

Gengar: I had to give Vernon a cool and strong Pokémbolo since he has a cool and strong stage presence most of the time!

Yanmega: this Pokémon felt right! There is something about Yanmega that screams Vernon to me, not sure if it's because we know that Vernons taste in clothes and other things varies and sometimes might look "weird" to most but actually isn't. Like I feel like a lot of people look at Yanmega as a weird Pokémon but Vernon would probably see the best of the Pokémon and really work well together!

Chan:

Alolan Meowth: this Pokémon's personality just screams Chan to me😅 like it fits so well and I can just see it in front of me both of them being a bit sassy to everyone else, like they would work perfectly together!

Ribombee: this was chosen solely based on the cute side Chan shows a lot when being around his members and carats.

Garchomp: this is another pseudo legendary who is incredibly strong and so hard to beat when you are batteling Champion Cynthia! and since Chan is a triple threat and amazing in so many genres it felt completely right to give him a Pokémon which so many people playing Pokémon has a hard time beating etc.

Leafeon: okay this is my favorite Pokémon and I couldn't help myself to give him my favorite😅 but he still deserves a Pokémon that can be serene and graceful since his other Pokémon showcases other parts of his personality/stage presence etc. so Leafeon still fits him perfectly!

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ok so...how about nct dick sizes? what are your thoughts?

Another important section of the census, indeed.

Large

Jungwoo - His penis absorbs the energy of all penises in the surrounding area so it is ever-expanding.

Johnny - 21 inches. Has to roll it up and keep it in a special pouch inside his pants when not in use.

Sunghchan - So big it has it's own centre of gravity

Yuta - Monster cock. Like 5 different ones. So you have your choice of dragon, werewolf, unicorn, Jörmungandr, or goblin (it was on sale).

Doyoung - Big. Perfect length, perfect girth. But you will never see it.

Lucas - It's big so he taped it to his leg but he regrets that because he knows it's going to hurt when he eventually has to rip the tape off so he is avoiding it. Has to pee down the inside of his leg in the meantime.

Hendery - Long and thin and prehensile like a tail

Jeno - He doesn't have a penis he has a small arm with a closed fist in place of a penis. It's about 7 inches in length but if he opens the fist he gains some more length.

Average

Taeil - Exactly the size of a microphone (but a small-ish microphone. With glitter)

Taeyong - Average size but it's ribbed for your pleasure

Ten - Average size but it's barbed for your displeasure

Xiaojun - It's average which is good because any other way he would have died of embarrassment.

Renjun, Haechan, Jaemin - All 5 inches. Renjun's is naturally that size, Haechan wanted to feel closer to him so he had his modelled after Renjun's and Jaemin felt left out so he did the same.

Small

Kun - Intentionally stopped growing at 4 inches because it's the most practical size.

Jaehyun - Started off big but it's shrivelled and shrunk due to dehydration because of the chronic weeping.

Yangyang - The perfect size for the most budget friendly, banana flavoured condoms imaginable

Shotaro - No length, only girth. Flat and wide like a hamburger. Tastes like barbecue.

Chenle - Pocket rocket. But it's opposable. Like a thumb.

None of the Above

Winwin - Is smooth like a Ken doll

Mark - Had it removed, along with his nipples, to remain pure and free of temptation.

Jisung - Is a never nude. He has jean shorts permanently affixed to his body.

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seokjin’s speech for their song of the year award